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00:09:35.820you shouldn't be bragging about how you're just basically stealing things from a guy.
00:09:40.580It's not going to play well in the polls.
00:09:43.880But walk me through what actually happened from the legal standpoint yesterday in that ruling.
00:09:49.360OK, so basically the Court of Appeals in New York reduced the size of the required appeal bond from $454 million to $175 million
00:10:01.000and lifted some of the other restrictions on Trump that Judge Angeron had put in place at the trial court level.
00:10:07.000What that means effectively is that Trump goes from being in jeopardy of, you know, not being able to provide sufficient cash right away to even be able to appeal the case or, you know, somehow having to do a fire sale of assets really quickly.
00:10:23.440Either way, what you have is, you know, what you had was a very punitive appeal bond.
00:10:29.260And where an appeal bond, the basic idea of appeal bond is if you lose a civil judgment at the trial level, you have the right to appeal it.
00:10:35.760But the court can impose a bond upon you to ensure that you'll end up paying the judgment after you appeal.
00:10:40.400And they're not supposed to be punitive.
00:10:44.180And I think that's why, you know, Judge Angeron, you know, issued obviously this absurd $450 million judgment and then said that Trump had to put the entire amount up as a bond.
00:10:54.400So I think the Court of Appeals found that unfairly punitive and reduced the size of it.
00:10:58.840And I think ultimately Trump's going to be able to make bond without too much of an issue now.
00:11:02.460So making the bond, and of course, he delivers this statement yesterday, oh, it's your collateral cash.
00:11:09.220Walk us through, does he have to pay the full $175 or is that just put up as collateral or is a portion of that put up as collateral for the bond?
00:11:18.120So he will need to put up, you know, he'll put up a certain amount of cash.
00:11:33.100The big problem was that appeal bonds are sort of unique.
00:11:36.240They're not like other normal loans where you can put up real estate as collateral.
00:11:39.500Appeal bonds, these companies, one, they don't deal in $500 million amounts generally.
00:11:43.540It's very rare that a judge will impose an appeal bond of that size.
00:11:46.860And then second, they want the collateral to be very liquid securities if it's going to be securities.
00:11:54.360Illiquid assets like real estate, they're just not in the business of, you know,
00:11:58.080valuing those assets and then selling them, especially because, you know, appeals often lose.
00:12:03.420And so it's very, it's very common that a person who ends up buying an appeal bond will have to satisfy the judgment.
00:12:10.200And so that's a big part of the reason why they want liquid securities in the first place.
00:12:13.540You know, just shares of stock that could easily be traded.
00:12:15.420So essentially, they're thinking, we want to make sure this guy can actually pay should he lose the appeal because the preponderance of them are, or the majority of them are, you know, are typically losers on appeal.
00:12:34.380But if he loses his appeal, does it go back up to the full amount of $454?
00:12:40.200Yeah, if he doesn't, if he doesn't actually win any reduction in the size of the judgment on the merits, then yes, he would still be on the hook for $454 million.
00:12:48.240And, you know, the New York and Letitia James would be able to satisfy part of that with the appeal bond, right?
00:12:55.280They'd be able to take that $175 right off the top.
00:12:58.820And then, and then they'd still be able to pursue President Trump for the rest of the judgment by seizing his other assets.
00:13:10.720Because a lot of the other cases, people have said, well, with the exception of Alvin Bragg, which I want to talk about to you in the next segment, that, you know, a lot of these cases are being delayed.
00:13:23.120But the appeals decision will take some time.
00:13:26.820Yeah, I don't actually know what the schedule is.
00:13:29.360I haven't looked at the full briefing schedule.
00:13:31.320So I don't know when the appeal, when there's a briefing is due and when the oral arguments are, but you can expect that this will take a few months at least.
00:13:37.780And so, I mean, if it's a normal, slow appeal, it could take even up to a year.
00:13:42.500But being able to post this appeal bond means that Trump will be able to appeal and have it heard and wait to not have to pay the $450 million now.
00:13:54.220He'll be able to have all his issues heard.
00:13:56.200And I think, you know, many people think, I mean, obviously, if the court does the right thing, this will get tossed.
00:14:01.520But you can't you can't bet on the court doing the right thing.
00:14:03.840So at least it's good for President Trump that he'll be able to delay this.
00:14:08.120So why do you say the court should toss it?
00:14:09.560Why do you say that would be the right thing?
00:14:11.700Oh, well, I mean, it's a fraud case with no victims and where everybody understands that the assets are hard to evaluate and hard to put a proper value on.
00:14:22.840There was a great New York Times article.
00:14:24.100I don't know if you saw it where they said, you know, Letitia James might be able to start seizing Trump's assets, though it's difficult to value them.
00:14:30.120Well, it turns out the entire premise of Letitia James's case was I saw the headline.
00:14:42.580Yeah, because the whole premise of their case is that we can value your real estate assets and they're way less than what you said they were.
00:15:37.700You can see it on your screen right now.
00:15:39.040That's a that's a billion dollar property right there.
00:15:41.640And they said, you know, Trump essentially they get the theory of the case is Trump defrauded these new very sophisticated New York banks like Deutsche by saying by getting loans to buy the old post office building where the Trump Hotel was.
00:15:56.260And he cheated Deutsche out of it despite repaying the loan.
00:15:59.620And and I mean, you can't explain it without starting to laugh and realize how ridiculous it is.
00:16:05.100But that's the thing about this case, because it didn't need to go to a jury trial under New York law.
00:16:10.520All it needed was Letitia James and Judge Ingeron.
00:16:13.100Letitia James to bring the case and Judge Ingeron to find Trump liable.
00:16:16.260And all of a sudden, you know, the state of New York has put a half a million dollar judgment on Trump's head.
00:16:28.740And that's why I say that the court appeals obviously should reverse this.
00:16:31.760And it's it's another thing, too, where, of course, this is going to have going to have repercussions for anybody else who's got one.
00:16:42.660I mean, I'm sure there's other, you know, real estate developers who are currently in in process with, you know, different claims or potential, you know, potential issues in New York.
00:16:53.020Not just the city, but the entire state for the appeals.
00:16:56.120And so, you know, now people are going to have to wonder, is this same standard going to apply to everyone who's seeking a business loan?
00:17:03.180Right. And I mean, any real estate developer, any anybody who has assets in New York and then makes a deal with a New York bank to borrow money using those assets as collateral.
00:17:13.240On the basis of what was done by Letitia James, it's clear that the state of New York feels it's perfectly reasonable to sit.
00:17:22.160Even if you paid off all your loans, nobody was victimized and you were, you know, just valuing your assets as, you know, aggressively.
00:17:29.240But within the realm of reasonableness, you could just have all your money taken away.
00:17:33.140You could just have all your assets stolen and stripped from you.
00:17:35.340And so I don't I think it's going to have a real impact on people actually doing business in New York.
00:17:38.740And that's maybe the only positive thing that comes out of this.
00:17:41.560And to me, it just I said yesterday on the show, it's state sponsored theft.
00:17:46.700It just looks like state sponsored theft.
00:17:48.760We're going to coming up on a quick break here.
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00:19:56.720Will Chamberlain is our guest from the Article 3 Project, where he works with Mike Davis.
00:20:02.980Will, we also got news out of New York yesterday where it wasn't about a ruling being struck down.
00:20:10.260In fact, it was about something moving forward, and that being this trial, a criminal trial with Alvin Bragg, whereby in President Trump will now become the first president, or I guess former president now, to stand criminal trial in the United States.
00:20:29.340Now, surely, if this is the first time completely unprecedented that a former president would stand trial, surely the crime must be just absolutely horrific.
00:20:39.840It must be something that's just so atrocious that everyone can call it out for what it is, public opinion.
00:20:46.880Of course, I'm sure swinging to the DA on this one.
00:20:49.700Tell us, Will, what was this horrific crime that President Trump committed, whereby we've had to throw all 250 years, almost 250 years, of American history out the window and put this dastardly man on trial?
00:21:04.760A falsification of business records that nobody ever viewed, which is a unique crime in the history of New York law.
00:21:14.960Normally, whenever you see a falsification of business records cases, the common theme is that there is some reliance being expected of another person.
00:21:24.580It's being used to defraud, where, you know, somebody who's, you know, somebody who's, say, buying your company is looking at your books, and you falsify the things in your books to get them to purchase your company fraudulently.
00:21:38.900Basically, Donald Trump is being prosecuted for being the victim of Michael Avenatti's blackmail, kind of another bizarre feature of this case.
00:21:45.600He is, you know, there really is no meaningful crime here, and that's just on the substantive level.
00:21:54.260Procedurally, this should have been time-barred by the statute of limitations, because there's no external felony that this was in service of.
00:22:02.000And, you know, there were some theories that maybe Alvin Bragg would try and say, oh, well, this was, you know, in service of tax fraud or in service of a campaign finance reform violation, because somehow, you know, the giving money to Stormy Daniels was a campaign donation.
00:22:17.100I mean, all these theories were very silly, but Alvin Bragg just skirted by them by saying, oh, we don't have to specify what felony this was in service of.
00:22:23.100And that allowed him to then, or that gave him what he thought was the permission to charge a felony in this case, which extended the statute of limitations six years, which was necessary because the actions and questions happened in 2017, and he didn't bring the case until 2023.
00:22:36.860If it was a misdemeanor, as it should, it would have been time-barred because there's a three-year statute of limitations.
00:22:42.540And what we're all talking about here, what this is all centered around, is this series of payments that went to Michael Cohen and allegedly, because it is still alleged,
00:22:51.400allegedly then went to Stormy Daniels for the purposes of essentially having her not come out publicly with this story that she and Michael Avenatti were sharing,
00:23:03.620which, by the way, she did also come out publicly, eventually, I'd say, with Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes.
00:23:10.880Yeah, and they're basically saying, again, they're prosecuting him for being the victim of what seems to be a pretty clear blackmail scheme.
00:23:17.860And, I mean, Michael Avenatti actually is currently sitting in jail for attempting to blackmail Nike.
00:23:22.580So it's, you know, a very interesting way in which our system is currently working that you're seeing this type of prosecution.
00:23:30.960Now, that's it. It's serious because it's coming up in April.
00:23:34.900It's in New York. It could be a terrible jury pool, not as bad as D.C. was going to be.
00:23:39.360But, you know, it's still, you know, Manhattan is not a great jury pool for President Trump.
00:23:43.420And it's remarkable that it's gotten this far. This case should have been dismissed.
00:23:48.000It was legally insufficient to bring in the first instance, very, very obviously.
00:23:52.340And yet it wasn't dismissed. So one has to vote.
00:23:55.820Well, and actually, I would I would throw out that, in fact, it was passed over a couple of times.
00:24:01.660First, by the Southern District of New York, which, by the way, no fan of Donald Trump or conservatives or Republicans.
00:24:09.420I mean, this is probably the most aggressive district in the entire nation.
00:24:13.640They're going after Steve Bannon. They're going after James O'Keefe.
00:24:16.380They're going after a number of people in the Southern District.
00:24:19.060They passed on this one because they said this thing was a lemon.
00:24:21.700And even Alvin Bragg himself originally passed on it before essentially it became close to the election.
00:24:29.000And it looked as though Donald Trump was going to run again.
00:24:32.340Yeah. And I think a big part of it is because, remember, it's just, you know, Donald Trump isn't the guy sitting there accounting for everything in the business records and describing how it's going to be reported.
00:24:40.600And the person who is whose testimony apparently is necessarily to link Donald Trump to the actual specific writings is Michael Cohen, who is maybe the most dishonest lawyer in of our generation.
00:24:55.460This is the guy who went out and started talking all this stuff about Donald Trump and breaching every single client confidence he could have had.
00:25:03.900I mean, and, you know, he's he's trying to say, oh, I'm coming clean now as a lawyer.
00:25:07.760It's just absolutely repugnant to see somebody say, oh, I'm going to come clean by airing my client's confidences in public, every single one of them and, you know, calling him all sorts of bad names.
00:25:18.100It's absolutely shameful and massive violation of legal ethics.
00:25:20.920The guy's been disbarred. He's already been, I think, prosecuted for perjury.
00:25:25.900And I think SDNY thought better of the idea of bringing any sort of case where the necessary piece of evidence was going to be testimony from this convicted perjurer.
00:25:37.760And so this this was the reason that even Alvin Bragg a couple of weeks ago pumped the brakes on this whole thing and said, I want a 30 day, at least a 30 day delay because SDNY spent an entire year sitting on something like 73000 documents that they had conducted in the federal investigation into all of this.
00:25:57.260The first fight at the Apple first time around when Michael Avenatti and Stormy Daniels started making their rounds and even the SDNY passes on this thing.
00:26:06.080And so Alvin Bragg goes, look, I need some time to go through this stuff.
00:26:09.460But Judge Juan Mershon, proceeding forward after only a 30 day trial, do you think that is something that is that is quick or is that something that's that's reasonable and average in your in your view?
00:26:24.500I mean, I don't know. I haven't. It looks like the documents may have been mostly duplicative, which wouldn't be surprising.
00:26:30.100Right. Like if if the New York's been conducting its own investigation and subpoenaing documents for three or four years now and then, you know, they finally got a dump of documents from SDNY.
00:26:39.740Well, SDNY would have been looking at much of the same documents.
00:26:41.740So I've seen reporting that there wasn't actually much new or interesting in what SDNY turned over.
00:26:49.460But I and I think that ultimately the 30 days was about giving the Trump team the apparent ability to at least review some of these documents, although obviously the number would have been unreviewable in 30 days.
00:27:00.760That said, I think I think the real indication that Judge Mershon is not a fan of Donald Trump is the fact that this case is going to trial again.
00:27:07.840It's similar to the civil case in that the underlying theory doesn't make any sense.
00:27:12.160It's not it shouldn't be seen as criminal behavior.
00:27:14.560I mean, again, I remember there was a liberal law professor who said this is a unique case in New York jurisprudence as the first falsification of business record case where there was no intent to defraud and no and no idea that anybody would be anybody would be relying on the business records in question.
00:27:31.620So one has to suspect that the reason this case is being brought forward is the same reason that the civil case went the way it did is that they want to punish Donald Trump.
00:27:40.720And in all this, all this has the air of LaVrenti Beria.
00:27:43.940This is all find me the man and I'll find you the crime.
00:27:46.260It's like New York has decided that Beria was a role model to emulate, you know, something, something, something about how communists are really bad.
00:27:55.120Do you have a book on that coming out?
00:27:57.580Yeah, I you know, I was thinking about writing a book.
00:28:02.460And then Joshua Lysak said, hey, Jack, you should you should, you know, work together with me and we should write a book about how communists are bad.
00:28:10.580And we're currently sitting at like number 33 on Amazon, which you actually helped us behind the scenes a little bit.
00:28:18.120And we've got Joshua coming up next on this.
00:28:20.240But I guess what I would say is and one of the things that we bear out in the book is that, you know, when people look at the news and they scratch their heads and say, gosh, this is this is unbelievable.
00:28:29.780Like, I can't believe this is happening.
00:28:39.000It's routine if your analysis is that these people have fully embraced communism, which is the ideology of placing envy and destruction of your opponents ahead of, well, everything else.
00:28:52.060They're not they're not motivated by wanting to better their own station, better their own or I should say at least their own communities.
00:28:58.940They certainly better their own station, which is James has become very wealthy after entering public life.
00:29:26.980Yeah, no, it's it's it's generally like the worst instance of lawfare that anybody anybody can remember.
00:29:33.940I mean, the combination of all these civil cases and then four criminal indictments in four different jurisdictions in four months of a leading presidential candidate.
00:29:43.280It's it's it's been obvious from the beginning.
00:29:45.320And, you know, I remember being a lot more worried that, oh, well, you know, people, I guess, will take this seriously.
00:29:49.820And, you know, Donald Trump will sink in the polls because of all this.
00:29:52.600But I I was definitely wrong about that.
00:29:54.800I think I think a lot of the bulk of the American people have figured out that this is absolute nonsense, that they're just trying to take their opponent off the ballot.
00:30:02.760And I'm like, I will be very, very white pilled if if he manages to win the general, you know, because tell me about it.
00:30:12.220It's the biggest white pill right now is looking at the polls on this.
00:31:03.520You know, we have an incredible thing.
00:31:04.900We're always talking about the fake news and the bad.
00:31:07.200But we have guys and these are the guys who should be getting Pulisic.
00:31:11.960All right, Jack Pesopic live here, Human Events Daily.
00:31:15.260Now, we're going to bring Joshua Lysak on, the co-author of the new book, which is currently sitting at number 33 on Amazon All Books, Unhumans, The Secret History of Communist Revolutions and How to Crush Them.
00:31:28.600And Joshua, one of the theses of the book, perhaps the main thesis of the book, is that we are currently experiencing what we detail in the book,
00:31:38.200something that we call the Communist Revolution 2.0, which is an irregular communist revolution.
00:31:44.840And one of the things that you would find in an irregular communist revolution, and everyone needs to preorder this right now to understand what's happening,
00:31:52.980is that you might see systems become subverted.
00:31:56.900You might see complex systems be deteriorating.
00:32:01.080And you might sit down and say that all of this was actually not being done because of the unintended consequences of, you know, good minded liberals and and progressives that, in fact, it was actually deliberate and had been deliberate all along.
00:32:19.720Walk me through the theory of the case.
00:32:25.220So the case that we make in the book is that the communist revolution that's currently taking place in the United States and in the Western world more generally is different from those revolutions that have came before.
00:32:39.360The revolutions that have come before have been bloody.
00:32:44.420There have been thousands of participants in these mobs.
00:32:47.220Mobs, they're very obvious, and there is a vocal figurehead who's waving their fists, carrying a red flag, for example, and it's visceral, it's real world.
00:33:00.560It used to be that armies would fight on battlefields, but now armies fight quietly, often through proxies or through other means such as cyber attacks, such as industrial sabotage, that way they can get away with it.
00:33:15.380It's a more sneaky way to, frankly, defeat the enemy without fighting them directly, especially if the enemy has superior firepower.
00:33:25.760And this leaves the otherwise military advantageous powers at a disadvantage.
00:33:32.540Now, what we point out in the book is that the socio-political context of our world has changed also for uprisings.
00:33:39.880And therefore, the communist revolution we're experiencing now is a low-intensity revolutionary war.
00:33:47.500It takes place, just as Will Chamberlain was saying prior to you, in domains like lawfare, where an individual like former President Trump is targeted for a micro-revolution,
00:33:59.420where all the forces of unhumanity and anti-civilization are rising up against him personally, rather than, let's say, all right-wing billionaires, for example, which would create a backlash.
00:34:15.220It would create a true backlash because it was an obvious, almost an open warfare.
00:34:19.640But the micro-revolutions can take place in a bit of a sneakier context.
00:34:25.760Now, we can talk about how this ties into what we're witnessing today with this Baltimore Bridge collapse.
00:34:31.000When a communist revolution has seen any measure of success, the new top dogs, the new shot callers who have made that revolution be successful, what do they do?
00:34:42.620They begin what John Robb calls the hollowing out of all institutions.
00:34:48.420Think the oligarchs who became in charge in post-revolutionary Russia, first under Lenin and then under Stalin.
00:34:57.660After seizing the means of productions, they then kept a nice lion's share of it for themselves.
00:35:03.220And what we've been seeing in the United States since the 1960s is a cultural revolution, a cultural revolution, communist revolution 2.0, in which those who have gone on the long march through the institutions have now begun enriching themselves.
00:35:18.640And the price of that is a decline in the standard of living and the quality of life for everyone, particularly those most vulnerable, the have-nots, the so-called oppressed classes that the revolutionaries said that they were fighting for in the first place.
00:35:35.040It's always the poor, the working poor, the underclass who stand to lose the most from those who promise them the most to gain.
00:35:43.860And so this idea of what you're describing, the coalition of the fringes, the putting of the purposefully substandard in terms of talent, substandard in terms of quality, substandard in terms of skill in positions of power will, of course, make them far more loyal to the regime.
00:36:13.860I can't think of anyone more perfect than this than Pete Buttigieg.
00:36:18.740Pete Buttigieg is like the poster child of someone who clearly, from everything we know, from a very young age, looked out at the system, saw the inverted hierarchy of values that have been placed, and decided to gamify it and essentially taper his own or tailor his own resume to fit all of these things.
00:36:42.280And so here we have this guy who is our current secretary of transportation, and his qualifications include, number one, that he said that he enjoyed trains when he was younger, and that he, if I remember correctly, said that he and his husband, Chasten, got engaged at an airport.
00:36:59.080So those are his qualifications for secretary of transportation.
00:37:02.260But his real qualification, Joshua, that you're outlining, is his loyalty.
00:37:11.040Many on social media this week have pointed out that DEI, formerly known as diversity, equity, and inclusion, now ought to be known as didn't earn it.
00:37:21.940Now, this doesn't really make any sense without the frame of reference for a communist revolution 2.0, a cultural revolution, but a low-intensity revolutionary war.
00:37:34.620Because in the book, we lay out how communist revolutions unfold.
00:37:40.160And one of the things that they always do is replace competent, smart people with incompetent, let's say, uneducated, meaning they, not that they're uneducated, it's that they don't know anything about what it is that they're going to be in charge of.
00:37:59.160But they were the ones who were loyal.
00:38:00.800And so former Mayor Buttigieg, being a gay man, he finds himself in the alleged oppressed class in the United States.
00:38:14.220So we went from Marxism, where it was all about socioeconomic oppressed versus oppressor.
00:38:19.660Now we've moved to a new frame of reference, which is cultural Marxism, which is those groups in a culture that can claim to be participants in the oppressed class, or they can claim to be members of that oppressed class, get the benefit of that oppression, strange as that sounds.
00:38:42.300And so when we look at why are so many incompetent people being placed in positions of great power and authority, it's because they're, quote unquote, oppressed.
00:38:53.880And when we look at other revolutions, be it at the communist revolution in Russia, or particularly in China, when the farms were collectivized in communist China, peasants were placed in charge of managing vast tracts of land.
00:39:18.140What we see in the United States is a low-intensity version of a communist revolution taking place, where it's not necessarily all of the farms that are being seized.
00:39:34.140It's specific cities that are being seized by the minions of DEI.
00:39:39.140And they're placing those who didn't earn that responsibility in those places of power.
00:39:45.240And the result is exactly what we see.
00:39:48.020And sometimes what something is is exactly what it looks like.
00:39:50.980Something you said there, I am going to be thinking about for the rest of the day, the benefit of their oppression, to benefit from oppression.
00:40:02.500Because real oppression, of course, is nothing to benefit from.
00:40:08.680Real oppression is something that makes you fear for your life on a regular basis.
00:40:13.880Real oppression is something that prevents you from, oh, I don't know, applying for higher education.
00:40:20.140Something that would apply to you for when dealing with the police would cause you to not be able to achieve promotions based on your skill set, whether you're when you're in the corporate world or in the military.
00:40:37.000And so the idea that you could benefit from oppression seems like a complete contradiction in terms.
00:40:47.440But given what we are in now, which is essentially a reverse government, where the government exists to, as Scott Adams has said, the government exists to misgovern us.
00:40:59.180That's exactly the situation we find ourselves in.
00:41:01.800Joshua Lysick, co-author of Unhumans, is our guest.
00:41:10.700I'm always listening to Human Events with Jack Posobiec.
00:41:13.960All right, Jack Posobiec back live here, Human Events Daily.
00:41:17.180Now, Joshua, we're putting together this book, The Unhumans, The Secret History of Communist Revolutions and How to Crush Them.
00:41:26.020And so people will push back on us and they'll say, well, hold on.
00:41:30.820There have been other industrial accidents in the past.
00:41:33.740There have been plenty of times where this has happened.
00:41:35.940And specifically, Don Lemon, I guess, recently said to Elon Musk, he said, well, just because your surgeon might be a person of color, plenty of white doctors commit medical accidents and medical malpractice obviously is a huge issue in the United States.
00:41:52.520And so does that mean that directly this will this will lead to more problems?
00:41:59.480And how can you say that when there are problems already?
00:42:01.800So, you know, apply that then to to this system or other systems in the past.
00:42:06.920How can you say that just because there's accidents, that's an issue?
00:42:10.000Yes, it often has to do with who the accident happens to and who it was that was responsible for the accident taking place.
00:42:20.120So think about the oppressed versus oppressor frame.
00:42:24.520And that that is the most useful frame to understand the times as we live, as well as to predict what's going to happen next and how best to respond to it.
00:42:33.500So in this cultural Marxist context, there are groups that are seen as those who have more and those who have less.
00:42:41.240That's the oppressor versus oppressed.
00:42:42.760That's classical Marxism applied to the modern world, to intersectionality, to critical race and gender theory and so on and so forth.
00:42:50.280And therefore, the white Christian, heterosexual, competent male of means, that is the designated oppressor.
00:42:59.580Whether or not they're actually oppressed is another story.
00:43:02.140You don't have to actually be oppressed in order to be a beneficiary of that class because you can say people like me were once oppressed 30, 40 years ago.
00:43:12.540And therefore, all of that which they suffered now accounts to me.
00:43:18.340And so I have a suffering credit to cash in and white males have to pay for it.
00:43:23.080And so it's seen that, well, of course, more individuals who are not competent, capable white heterosexual males should be in charge of things.
00:43:32.260Well, even if they're not as competent, that doesn't matter.
00:43:36.700And so the left will use things like fairness, equality, equity.
00:43:40.600I'll tie in real quick that you mentioned China before.
00:43:44.380This is exactly what happened in Mao's China prior to the Great Leap Forward where they said, okay, someone who's the foreman of a factory must be – they are a class trader, so we have to get rid of them.
00:43:56.440And we have to take the janitors and the lowest level assembly workers, and we're going to put them in charge of the factory because they deserve to be in charge of the factory.
00:44:12.520And the way to understand if you're talking to a communist, someone who is advancing the interests of anti-civilization, frankly, whether they call themselves a communist, a socialist, a progressive, or even none of those labels, is do they use manipulative language like that?
00:45:37.960The fact that the factory breaks down, the bridge collapses, airplanes fall out of the sky, or any other issue that happens.
00:45:47.600If it is an advancement of a utopian vision where the alleged oppressed, the have-nots, begin to wield great power over their former oppressors, that is victory.
00:46:02.100That is victory, regardless of the quality or the outcome.
00:46:05.800Right now, there's a Gamergate 2.0 issue in our popular culture in the United States where there are certain development studios who are talking about how important it is that gamers play video games that portray white males in a negative stereotype and non-white, non-males in a positive stereotype.
00:46:27.520And if you don't play those games, you're a piece of flaming hot garbage as a human being.
00:46:32.380And people react to that, and they say, well, you should play those games.
00:46:39.920And there's one owner of one game studio who is praising the fact, and she celebrated the fact that none of the characters in a video game are white men, and that this is a great victory for her worldview in gaming.
00:46:58.280That is the peasants being put in charge of the farms to plan the agriculture, which, of course, results in famine.
00:47:06.340Is anybody going to play that woman's game?
00:47:07.440Actually, the one that it reminds me of as well is in the HBO series Chernobyl, they depict that the secretary for Belarusia is a former shoe factory worker who has now become the party secretary of the entire region of Belarus.
00:48:11.800There are people, organizations, mostly through decentralized networks now in the United States, who are redefining the vision that was lost, that can-do attitude of the Industrial Revolution and into the space age that has unfortunately been lost in the past couple of generations.
00:48:29.960But they're not in charge of institutions.
00:48:31.840They're having to go off and do their own thing.
00:48:34.140Meanwhile, the institutions are hollowed out.
00:48:36.660And any money and funding that can be extracted will be extracted by the forces of anti-civilization.