The deal between Israel and Hamas is done, and now what's next for the Middle East peace process? Simone and I talk about the deal, why it was a good deal, and what it means for the future of peace in the region.
00:00:14.480Like, when I see blue sky turning against an issue, I'm like, okay, like, this is really culturally over at this point.
00:00:20.660The environmentalist grift, everybody sort of forgot about that.
00:00:23.740Like, I haven't heard much environmentalist rhetoric.
00:00:25.900Well, I mean, the fact that even Greta Thunberg has switched from the environment to Gaza is, I think, indicative of the scales really tipping and people just having dropped it.
00:00:41.720Yeah, I mean, global poverty could be a thing again.
00:00:45.620Are they going to make global poverty a thing again?
00:00:47.460Well, not, no, no, no, not global poverty, an end to capitalism.
00:01:36.520And he used a lot of tools that we talked about, like the swinging being like, oh, you know, the Riviera and Gaza and like, you know, saying, oh, I don't care.
00:01:45.080We'll cut an aid to the region and stuff like that.
00:01:47.340Because you have to be willing to have a negotiating position to get to an outcome, right?
00:01:52.580You can't go in and be like, OK, I'm going to come to the most middle ground possible because then both sides choose extreme positions.
00:02:00.440So when each side thinks they're on the other side's side, you could have a more actual negotiation.
00:02:05.240And I put out here, it's not just like Republicans who are saying that the Biden-Harris administration was doing basically nothing to end the war.
00:02:13.900Even the terrorists themselves thought that.
00:02:16.620Here is a hostage who was released talking about what the Hamas thought of Trump.
00:02:53.740More food, treated me better, you know, stopped cursing me, stopped spitting me, spitting on me.
00:02:58.980But we'll talk about a lot of leftists who seem genuinely upset that the war is over.
00:03:03.660I want to talk about what is next for Israel and the Jews.
00:03:07.740And for those who don't think that this was downstream of Trump, here's an AI.
00:03:12.120So I tried to ask the question in like an unbiased way.
00:03:14.200Like, was this really all Trump like Trump keeps claiming?
00:03:19.140And the AI said, high contingency on Trump, his quote unquote insistence and willingness to exert U.S. leverage, e.g. arms to Israel sanctions on Iran and direct engagement were credited with breaking the stalemate.
00:03:30.480Critics prior Biden administration argue Biden had similar tools, but chose not to use them aggressively, perhaps due to domestic politics or differing priorities.
00:03:38.260Trump's personal style, building on relationships from his first term, Abraham Accords, and treating leaders like Erdogan as allies.
00:03:54.240But Erdogan, as we'll learn, actually has a very friendly relationship with Trump, using words like one tough cookie to describe him.
00:04:01.820There was a very endearing, but like, he's actually bringing it all to a negotiation term.
00:04:07.560And he was really key in pressuring Hamas to accept the deal.
00:04:13.320Because keep in mind, from the position of Hamas and the Israeli hardliners, neither of them wants it.
00:04:18.180The reason why Hamas doesn't want this is because they use this to stay in power.
00:04:21.500Like, one of the key goals of the deal for everyone, because the Egyptians are staying there and building military, there is the deconstruction of Hamas.
00:05:03.600I was just thinking, too, about how Israel and Gaza can be seen as kind of an allegory to AI and people who think that AI cannot exist safely.
00:05:53.240The gist being is that if a group is solely dedicated and its continued existence is solely dedicated on the destruction of another group, you can't save both of those groups.
00:06:15.360You have to change the nature of one group, like genetically edit it to be a herbivore.
00:06:20.960Right, yeah, but that doesn't mean necessarily remove all the people of the region, but we'll talk about that in just a second.
00:06:26.360I'd also note here that everyone's like, oh, Trump's so mad about losing the Nobel Peace Prize.
00:06:31.120But the reality is no sane person thought he was going to win that prize.
00:06:36.060But I don't know if you've seen what the outcome was of that, but the woman who did win the prize dedicated it to Trump.
00:06:43.460Yeah, the Venezuelan, what is it, dissident leader.
00:06:46.480Yeah, and the fact that she immediately did that and then said Trump has been key to my work in Venezuela indicates that she's probably going to give a pro-Trump speech at the U.N.
00:06:58.760We'll see how hard she goes pro-Trump, but it doesn't look good for them.
00:07:02.800It makes them look incredibly petty when they're like...
00:07:04.880Yeah, that they gave Obama a Nobel Peace Prize merely for becoming president and Trump.
00:07:10.180They literally said, oh, well, we only give peace prizes to people who have a long-term dedication to this.
00:08:44.960They are for 20 hostages releasing 2,000 hostages, okay?
00:08:52.240That's 100 hostages for every one hostage they're getting back, right?
00:08:57.100And some of these hostages that they're releasing were involved in the October 7th attacks that killed thousands of Israelis, right?
00:09:04.660And that's goal was the eradication of the Jewish people.
00:09:07.240Like, that is quite a thing to let them go after they lived in fairly cush conditions in Israel for the past two years while the Israelis were being graped and tortured, right?
00:09:17.500Like, and we know this, by the way, because the ones that have been released have been like, yeah.
00:09:21.260And we also know from internal Hamas documents that grape was so common that we have extensive records of it, but only two instances where it turned out that two of the people were graping the male hostages and were executed for it.
00:09:34.200But it shows something that they thought that that was an okay thing to do, given what Hamas thinks about gayness.
00:09:41.040So it must have been incredibly normalized with the females if they thought they could do it with the males as well, which I think is very, you know.
00:09:48.320And Israel will say, and I just want to note this before I go further, so just people understand why I'm saying this is a good thing.
00:11:13.340That they're obviously going to cease to be relevant as a power.
00:11:17.700And not only that, but we're increasingly seeing in Europe right now, and this is something that I've always talked about with my snake and the scorpion parable that I often tell to news crews.
00:11:31.220I don't think I've ever told them on this channel.
00:11:32.880And I came up with a German reporter who is at our house.
00:11:37.220And I said, okay, so you've got a bunch of immigrants coming into Germany right now, right?
00:11:59.020And she's like, yes, that's also true.
00:12:00.660And I was like, okay, what are the relative birth rates of each of those four groups?
00:12:05.880And she's like, oh, yeah, the Muslims that adopt German culture that acculturate to the urban monoculture end up with a, like, 0.5 fertility rate.
00:12:15.840The ones that don't and stay very hostile to Germany and want to institute Sharia law, they have a birth rate of, like, three or four.
00:12:21.140The Germans who want to get rid of all the Muslims, they have a birth rate of three or four.
00:12:24.940The ones who don't have a birth rate of, like, 0.5.
00:12:27.720And I'm like, so here I am an outsider.
00:12:30.900The snake says, I'm going to kill you, scorpions.
00:12:56.880And I'm like, but you don't have any kids.
00:13:00.200And all of this venom is going to eventually kill you.
00:13:02.920So you are structurally responsible for fewer deaths if you separate them now instead of waiting for the snakes and the scorpions to decide how they're separated on their own.
00:13:17.200Or what they really will decide is which one of them is going to survive.
00:13:21.060Now, what I'll point out is when the panda dies, in this analogy.
00:13:27.700But what I'm saying is Europe's political sentiment towards the people of Gaza is going to be significantly less charitable is the word I'm looking for here.
00:13:43.000You know, now that the Israeli troops are withdrawing, they can get back to, you know, marrying nine-year-olds and throwing gay people off roofs.
00:13:51.600A note here, these are not stereotypes, okay?
00:13:55.000These are things that literally happen, as we pointed out in our episode recently when Pakistan banned child marriage.
00:14:02.060It's like official, tied to the government, Islamic court declared this Islamophobic.
00:14:06.500So, like, this isn't me saying this stuff about this culture.
00:14:09.720If you ask, you know, Muslims, like actual Muslims from these countries, like, do you think that, you know, being gay should get you stoned?
00:14:19.000They'll be like, it's like asking, am I a Muslim?
00:14:21.600I believe what the freaking Quran says, right?
00:14:30.100There was an article in forward.com that said, we can't hear you, Sorhan, read one New York headline this week.
00:14:39.440Pro-Hamas crowd goes quiet on Trump's Gaza peace deal.
00:14:43.200And then a quote from the article said, it seems awfully curious that the people who have made Gazans a central political cause do not seem all that relieved that there's at least a temporary cessation of violence.
00:14:55.000Why aren't there widespread celebrations across Western cities and college campuses today, the article asks.
00:15:00.160The Post wasn't alone in voicing this question.
00:15:02.760A spokesman for the Republican Jewish Coalition posted on X, the silence from the ceasefire now crowd is shameful and deafening.
00:15:09.520Others went so far as to imply that the protesters had been lying and never actually wanted a ceasefire, which I think is true.
00:15:15.940They wanted the eradication of the Jewish people, I think, was ultimately what they wanted, and they're not getting that now.
00:15:20.820I don't recall, I mean, there probably were calls for a ceasefire, but yeah, all I recall was basically Israel bad, Zionism bad.
00:15:43.820Right, but I mean, I was just listening to a super long podcast of people discussing Zionists versus non-Zionists and leftists in Israel versus leftist Jews in the United States and sort of all of their various stances.
00:15:57.660And one, there was no explicit end point or outcome that was discussed as being optimal.
00:16:04.040But two, it was just sort of discussed that, like, the very concept of Israel is bad.
00:16:11.080Right, because they support colonization, right?
00:16:14.680Like, Israel is one instance in which a native population took back their land from the colonizers, and they're showing that that's not actually what they want, if that group is in any way deviant from the urban monoculture or has any sort of unique values or identity.
00:16:31.480Because that's what Israel really represents, which is a group of dispossessed people taking back their land from colonial imperialist forces.
00:16:49.340What are your thoughts on what the anti-Hamas people, because as the article here, and I'll finish it, because what they really wanted wasn't freedom or security for Palestinians.
00:18:18.420An especially hostile threat to Jews, as he said that if elected, he would put Israeli head of state Benjamin Yehanyahu in jail if he sat in New York City.
00:18:28.900Mandani is so toxic to most voters that senior members of their own party, like Representative Chuck Schooner and Haken Jeffries, have yet to endorse him.
00:18:37.780But this is what they were talking about.
00:18:40.460You know, they were talking about globalizing the infata just weeks ago.
00:18:44.540This is what they were talking about at the college campuses, and now they're not celebrating because they have lost the motivation to do that.
00:18:52.800And I think a lot of—and I really hope the Jews who didn't understand that this was about the eradication of the Jews have woken up to this now, and that they're not like, oh, they just want to end the war.
00:19:05.260Because if they just wanted to end the war, they would be celebrating now, right?
00:19:11.060And by the way, we've been playing this in other videos.
00:19:12.780If people wonder why the urban monoculture wants to eradicate the Jews, there's a very easy reason.
00:19:16.800It believes that all differences between groups—because it says there's no genetic differences between groups.
00:19:21.780Because it says there's no cultural differences between groups.
00:19:24.020Because, like, if I point to, say, one cultural group earning less money than another cultural group, and I'm like, well, you know, maybe culture has something to do with this,
00:19:33.640that implies that the group could work to improve themselves, right?
00:19:38.260So they have to deny that that is a potential reason for group differences.
00:19:42.860Well, if you remove genetics and culture as reasons for differential group outcomes, then the only reason left is one group is cheating.
00:19:50.300Like, they are manipulating the system to their advantage.
00:19:52.980And if you look globally, it is very obvious that Jews out-compete other groups in many areas, whether it is their position, the number of them in Congress, the number of them in the Senate, the number of them in the Supreme Court.
00:20:05.340It boils down to a classic issue of internal versus external locus of control.
00:20:09.960And it kind of—to me, it doesn't really matter if another group is cheating or favoring their own kind or genetically superior or practicing cultural things that give them a strategic advantage.
00:20:21.700All that we can do is look at what they're doing, what we could potentially replicate ourselves if we want to be where they are and do something about it.
00:20:30.600But I think that a lot of people just have that external locus of control and nothing can be done to change it.
00:20:35.120Simone, I understand what you're saying, but I think you are not catching the and therefore.
00:20:41.880The and therefore is—the internal locus of control is a part of this.
00:20:47.060It's not healthy, it's different from how we see things, but it's not actually relevant to this exact point.
00:20:52.600This exact point is something that the urban monoculture must push because it is key to their ideology.
00:20:58.420If you look at our video where we talk about the aesthetics of the urban monoculture and how it came to be, I think we called it the religion of the urban monoculture.
00:21:05.140Basically, it presumes that what is true is what would be most moral if it was true.
00:21:12.420They don't take this position because of an external locus of control.
00:21:15.760They take this position because of that belief.
00:21:18.440It would be more ethical if all human differences—humans actually were not different in any conceivable way.
00:22:31.780You know, like, you are allowed to favor people who you know are culturally similar to you when—
00:22:37.600I mean, not by the urban monocultural rules, but the urban monocultural hates the Jews, right?
00:22:41.420But within all sane cultural groups, like a Mormon is going to have an easier time vetting a Mormon than they're going to have vetting a non-Mormon, right?
00:22:50.260They know who to call up within the church.
00:22:52.240They know who to call up within the system.
00:22:53.480They know how to catch things really quickly that are signs that this person may be bad for the job, right?
00:23:25.100I can introduce you to these very high-profile people.
00:23:28.340Hey, if you converted, I would be able to help you here, here, and here.
00:23:33.000Hey, there's this really cool secret group, but you've got to become a Catholic first, which is a little different than the way the Jews, because you can't just become a Jew.
00:23:40.300So I will say, I don't see it as nefarious at all.
00:23:42.800And I point out that this is even done publicly with that big group, like the Federalist Society, which is basically the Federalist Society.
00:23:48.680They're the ones who help get Catholic lawyers, Catholic conservative lawyers, disproportionately in positions.
00:23:53.060This is why, like, the Catholics are hugely overrepresented on the Supreme Court.
00:24:37.960If you are hiring, you know, like, say, an equally qualified Catholic or an equally qualified Jew, and you're Catholic or Jew or Mormon, right?
00:24:43.580You know, you're not actually hurting because of the way you're exercising nepotism.
00:24:46.740But if you hire a far unqualified one, well, then you are hurting through the nepotism that you're practicing.
00:24:52.000But I thought, I want to talk a little bit about what actually happened in the region, because I think it's interesting.
00:24:55.620Oh, before I go further, no, because I actually find this really fascinating.
00:26:58.400Some of them may try to go on, like, a war crime thing and be like, oh, they should.
00:27:02.240But I think if that wasn't working when the quote-unquote genocide was actually happening, and I'll point out here, as I mentioned in another episode, if you are unaware of this, there is literally another—if we count this as a genocide, there is this year another genocide going on that is literally twice as large.
00:27:19.800And these people aren't talking about it.
00:27:24.280Like, in an ideal world, they will shift their focus to a large genocide that is taking place.
00:27:29.400But the problem is, is the large genocide that is taking place, if you haven't heard about it, is literally Arabs killing Black Africans for being Black Africans.
00:27:44.380And when they kill them, the slur they use is slaves, or translates to slaves.
00:27:49.120Yeah, to be fair, someone was explaining in the comments in the video where we discussed that in greater length, was that, like, linguistically, the first exposure to people of dark skin was only in the context of slaves.
00:28:02.600So, it sort of became synonymous, because it was just like, everyone I know who looks like that is a slave, therefore.
00:28:10.200Yeah, the N-word became synonymous with Black people in the United States, and we didn't—we don't still do that.
00:28:15.500We were introduced to Black people largely as slaves as a culture, and we don't still do that.
00:28:21.980So, I don't think that that's a great excuse for why they are doing this.
00:28:26.120They're basically calling them their culture's version of the N-word as they mass-execute them, hang them, and burn them.
00:28:30.840But the thing is, is that the left cannot admit that the Arabs who they have been glorifying for so long—and we point out in that video, even, like, on Al Jazeera, they have pundits saying,
00:28:43.120well, Palestinian blood matters more than African blood.
00:28:46.280They're saying it's special, it's of higher quality, right?
00:28:48.420Yeah, there are many sins, but even our sins, our sins, our sins, our sins are empty.
00:28:56.700The world is all so happy that he sees Gaza.
00:28:59.480Of course, I tell you, in Sudan, there's a disaster, and there's a prison, more than what happened in Palestine, in these two years.
00:29:08.220No one's feeling, no one's talking about them, no one's talking about them.
00:29:10.720We're seeing people in the churches in every city.
00:29:14.620Like, this is a normal thought within the region, which is an incredibly racist region, as we've pointed out, where they—you know, I put on a video of them killing a black kid for being black.
00:29:24.500You know, like, this is not unheard of in these regions because of the amount of racism that is common within these regions against black.
00:29:34.080It's not just, like, they're anti-gay, they're also anti-black.
00:29:35.740But the question is, like, what do they do next, right?
00:29:37.860Like, and sorry, the reason I mention this is somebody can be like, well, you can care about one genocide and not—yeah, but the fact that you mentioned this one 20 times, and this one that's twice as big, not once, shows that, like, why couldn't you bring yourself to care about this genocide?
00:29:51.140But so what I want to point out with all of this is I think that a part of the left has become just blatantly anti-Semitic, and I think that it's going to become more normal, and I wouldn't be surprised if we begin to see some leftists just identifying as anti-Semites.
00:30:13.200Yeah, I mean, I—that's my biggest prediction is that they aren't going to drop the Israel-Gaza narrative.
00:30:19.000They're just going to keep focusing on Zionism is bad and Israel as a Jewish state should not exist.
00:30:27.320Well, okay, so look at what this does for the left.
00:30:28.980So they're not going to have this in the next election cycle.
00:30:31.280It's, like, an issue they can talk about because, you know, Trump saved Gaza.
00:30:35.400So they don't have this in the next election cycle.
00:30:37.500They don't have the trans stuff anymore.
00:30:49.780And all the Blue Sky users are all mad about this, but, like, even they are like, you can say anti-trans stuff.
00:30:54.560We're not going to kick him off for it.
00:30:56.100And so, like, when I see Blue Sky turning against an issue, I'm like, okay, like, this is really culturally over at this point.
00:31:04.080The environmentalist grift, everybody sort of forgot about that.
00:31:07.160Like, I haven't heard much environmentalist rhetoric.
00:31:09.340Well, I mean, the fact that even Greta Thunberg has switched from the environment to Gaza is, I think, indicative of the scales really tipping and people just having dropped it.
00:31:20.920Yeah, I mean, global poverty could be a thing again.
00:31:25.280Are they going to make global poverty a thing again?
00:31:34.120With Zorha Mondami making such an impressive rise as the New York mayoral candidate, I think that's really a sign of the new trending item, which is that capitalism is bad.
00:31:58.580I think that they accept that AI is going to eliminate jobs.
00:32:02.160And when I hear people, for example, like Bernie Sanders, talk about what needs to happen because AI is going to eliminate jobs, it's not we have to take out AI.
00:33:04.320And also that allows them to continue to be anti-Semitic because a lot of the most famous wealthy capitalists are also Jewish.
00:33:16.120So the thing is, is that the new right, like when I talk about the current right, the problem with why I don't think capitalism bad is going to work that well for them is very skeptical of capitalism.
00:33:25.660I, you know, look at, look at the leading figures in the new right, right?
00:33:29.860You know, you've got people like Curtis Yarvin, fan of the show, been on the show.
00:33:36.980We had an episode this weekend for our Patreon fans where we went deeper on this, where I argue that I'm not, as, as like a staunch historic pro-capitalist, I am not sure that capitalism works in the face of AI systems.
00:33:49.340Like I'm, I am not sure that capitalism can continue to function as it has historically, right?
00:33:57.820Yeah, but there's a difference between, I don't know if this economic system is sustainable.
00:34:02.740We need to rethink these things fundamentally and eat the rich.
00:34:46.160So if you read Greta Thornburg's, because I, for a long time have been very confused in attempting to model and understand how leftists support a group like, you know, like they think that they have much more in common with the Gazans than the blacks who are being killed in Africa.
00:35:23.080And the best answer I can come to when I read her stuff is it's, we'll say like, well, it's the global colonialist project sort of thing that they talk about.
00:35:34.940They'll use words like colonialist or whatever to talk about some sort of like a globalized system that needs to be undone, which is also sometimes talked about under the term patriarchy or is talked about under like they've moved from using the term patriarchy to using the term like global colonialists or something, you know.
00:35:54.300And they're basically this sort of conspiracy theory around the idea that there are sort of societal forces working together to create this larger architecture that is like inherently oppressive and is upstream of all of the environmental problems that we have.
00:36:14.280All of the systematic inequality that we have, all of the everything that we have, right?
00:36:20.240So I think fighting the system is where they're moving next, which is interesting because it's not dissimilar to what our faction of the right sees ourself as doing.
00:36:31.420Is fighting the, what we see as a colonialist system, i.e. the system of the urban monoculture, the system represented by the, the, you know, progress pride flag, as we call it the colonizer flag.
00:36:42.680Buddy, have you finished your learning exercises?
00:37:02.120So I think that they're moving to this, like, wider conspiracy theory, fight the power narrative, which is not bad, but it's also very similar to what we're doing, as I pointed out there.
00:37:11.360And I think it's, it, the difference is that we are fighting, like, a real power that, like, actually has institutional power, and they are fighting something that was sort of invented, almost like a religion in the halls of academia.
00:37:22.640I think what they're going to become in this way is more dedicated to the religion of the left, rather than actual areas of concern.
00:37:31.240Esoteric monks counting angels on the heads of pins.
00:37:38.900I think it's going to be about actively trying to socialize various aspects of government in a way that is detrimental and that's going to increase our burn and our acceleration toward the tipping point of dependency ratio cascades, whereby we have more people who are net drains on the state than contributors, which is only going to accelerate our progress toward monarchy.
00:37:59.640So I think, ultimately, in the end, this peace between Israel and Gaza is going to be the accelerant that drives us even more quickly toward Curtis Yarvin's monarchy.
00:38:14.820I was going to talk about the specifics of the peace plan, which I think is interesting.
00:38:18.840Basically, well, I'll just briefly talk about it.
00:38:20.700So how this happened was Trump worked really hard with Erdogan to put pressure and then worked to get Iran to put pressure on Hamas to accept the deal because they, again, it's enormous that he got them to do this.
00:39:01.420And Israel is continuing some cleanup operations like destroying tunnels.
00:39:05.200Hamas is going to see their primary job here, as many of their supporters did, is sharing fake videos of Israel attacking after the – they were older videos after the ceasefire.
00:39:16.100But they're going to do everything they can to try to antagonize Israel into some sort of large-scale response or even small-scale responses.
00:39:31.140Like Israel benefits from not having this escalate.
00:39:36.400The people of Gaza benefit from not having this escalate.
00:39:38.800The only group that really wants this to escalate again is Hamas.
00:39:43.280And the problem is, is that Hamas has lost a lot of their backing because Iran got their teeth kicked in pretty severely.
00:39:51.940Hezbollah got their teeth kicked in pretty severely.
00:39:55.120The people who would have funded them and would have seen this as a good thing just don't have the money or motivation to go ahead with this anymore.
00:40:01.820And so the whole situation has been sort of bled dry to an extent, and there's not a lot of chance.
00:40:08.840They just didn't get what they wanted out of it, right?
00:40:10.740Like nobody who funded this to begin with, other than the killings of Jews, did they get what they wanted.
00:40:18.500And so I just don't understand why anyone would think that it would reignite, right?
00:40:24.640They're going to get enough people to reignite this.
00:40:29.140Well, also one of the reasons it started, it wasn't as bad as it was, is Israel had become incredibly complacent about that wall and that border.
00:40:38.920And that allowed for, you know, if they shot down all the gliders on day one, if they had shot down everybody who was running over on day one, this wouldn't have happened, right?
00:40:47.880And so if they increase the security there, which I am certain they're going to, and are much more vigilant about it, you don't get anyone running over.
00:40:55.860They just get shot the moment they cross the wall, and that's it.
00:40:59.140And it's possible to make a much more secure wall than they had.
00:41:02.340That was, if you look at pictures of the old wall, it just was not that secure.
00:41:05.720And I just don't see that happening again.
00:42:17.920Well, I think it's something that you can deduce from looking at his actions.
00:42:21.740So a lot of people think the reason he wants to end the Russia-Ukraine war is because he's pro-Russia.
00:42:26.840But you see that when Putin doesn't play ball with him, he'll go on long screeds.
00:42:33.020He'll say stuff about Putin that Biden and Harris would never say about Putin.
00:42:39.040Well, you can see the same thing in his domestic policy as well.
00:42:41.840When people die really sad, really unfair deaths, it hits him with a grief bone.
00:42:47.640And I think that's also just so notable is that he has ended as many wars and conflicts as he has and that he really cares in a way that I think most politicians and statesmen would consider to be deeply unprofessional, which is kind of sick.
00:43:05.600And it's funny because this is – you talked about how one of your politician family members had talked about the frustrating thing about being a politician being that both the good things about you and the bad things about you that people say aren't even accurate.
00:43:18.020And I think one of the good things about Trump that no one says is a good thing about him is the fact that he does actually deeply care about human suffering.
00:43:27.240People do say it when they spend time with him.
00:43:28.860Even, like, progressives who hate him say it.
00:43:32.220They – I've heard it as, like, it's almost, like, a childish hatred of seeing, like, kids dying and stuff and just being, like, I have to stop this.
00:43:41.400And you see it in his frustration with Putin.
00:43:43.480Like, when Putin, you know, didn't make the deal happen.
00:44:03.200And pretty much every statesman and politician has somehow, like, trained themselves to kind of abstract themselves from it in a way that Trump just never did.
00:44:12.300Because I think he never really saw himself as that kind of person.
00:44:14.940He never saw himself as, like, these are pieces on my chessboard.
00:44:23.140Because I think maybe a lot of it comes down to his insecurity.
00:44:25.740You know, these are all people who like me and have opinions about me.
00:44:28.100And he models people differently as someone from the media, as someone who cares about the feelings of other people because those depend – those determine his validation.
00:44:37.260I disagree because when he cares about people dying in Russia and Ukraine, the interesting thing is that he seems to care about people dying on both sides.
00:44:44.340But my point is perhaps this is a result of him being a media figure and media figures needing to model people's feelings more than, like, abstract, like, physics modeling, which I think is more what statesmen look at and politicians look at.
00:45:00.300It's more like, where are the numbers, where are the headwinds, where are the tailwinds, whereas if you are a media mogul, and even if you're a real estate mogul, both of these domains of his, a lot of it really has to do more with sentiment than with tailwinds and headwinds and logistical geopolitical forces.
00:45:19.000Anyway, though, thank you for this very interesting conversation.
00:45:22.240Have a great day, and it's a good day for the world, and it's going to be very interesting to see where the progressive movement goes after this, because I just don't know.
00:46:30.640I was surprised to see the number of people who on today's episode about Chinese social media censorship chimed in to talk about Friday's Minecraft cult episode.
00:46:43.740Yeah, they were like, well, I couldn't watch it because it's too dark, but also, that's useful information.
00:46:51.580But also, I didn't want to watch it because I come here for just perennatalist stuff, and I don't know why so many people wanted to comment on last Friday's episode on Monday.
00:47:01.160Because I think we talked about it, and we were talking about why the numbers were so low.
00:47:03.900So, we were very confused by the low numbers on the – it's because our fans aren't true crime fanatics like myself.
00:47:38.080I always invite people over, and I have the dad joke of, we got some beers for people who want to drink and some Coors Light for people who don't.