Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lysak, co-author of Unhumans and Bulletproof, join host Jack to talk about what it's like to live in a world where the far-left is still trying to subvert all of the goodness that we see around us.
00:03:43.840They're still plying away and attempting to subvert all of the goodness that they see around them.
00:03:52.680And so, today, I thought something that could be a little bit of fun as people get ready for their Thanksgiving meal, and maybe they are watching this while they're preparing, maybe if you eat early, you're sitting down already, maybe we could talk a little bit about what Thanksgiving with the Unhumans is all like.
00:04:42.100And then, of course, we saw an increase in dread that the second attempt failed there at West Palm Beach.
00:04:54.280We've seen people cut off family members, beloved family members, over no good reason whatsoever related to the election.
00:05:01.980We've seen an increase in accusations in violent rhetoric targeting Trump supporters and Trump voters.
00:05:10.300And given that Team Kamala and Team Unhumanity, as we like to call them, have lost, they are unhappy and their bitterness has increased, as has the hysteria.
00:05:24.420And so, the unhumanity that the far left has tended to do over the last quarter millennia, in which they deprive good, normal, innocent people of rights to property, rights to liberty, and rights to life, they are rather unhappy.
00:05:43.920They are no longer in a position where they're able to do that through the executive branch.
00:05:48.540And so, they're going to go kicking and screaming into any tactic they can, and that is unhumaning you, if you are a family member, if you are a friend, if you are close to them.
00:06:00.040And that means that they are going to deprive you of your dignity as a human being, in whatever way they can.
00:06:09.920And one of those may be to cut you off and blame you for everything and take extreme measures.
00:06:16.080So, let's, yeah, I know we've got about a minute now until the break, but let's, as we go through this, I want to help people.
00:06:25.260And I want to help people who may be dealing with someone of these, one of these subversives in their household, one of these subversives at the table.
00:06:32.080We should provide people with some tips and some strategies for having Thanksgiving with the unhumans.
00:06:40.080And so, Jack and Joshua are here to help you navigate this thorny landscape.
00:06:47.200We were victorious this year, but we should be magnanimous in our victory.
00:06:52.220We should offer those who lost a seat at the table.
00:10:43.620But, I guess, in Spain, I guess you could say it's the unhuman gazpacho, certainly, if we have your unhuman stroganoff, if it's out of Russia.
00:10:55.880But, that would be a little bit for Thanksgiving.
00:11:00.060We have the Bolshevik Beats and the Bolshevik Beats.
00:11:03.500Eat your beats, you'll be a very strong communist.
00:13:33.960This is what they do has become just a total catchphrase all over the internet.
00:13:39.060And, so, you know, just thank you, really, from the bottom of my heart.
00:13:43.300Thank you for supporting this work and for taking it to levels far beyond what we ever dreamed.
00:13:52.080I mean, Joshua, could you have ever imagined when we first started talking about this that it would be as successful as it was?
00:13:59.440I did not anticipate this, no, because when we began, the anticipation was, this is a historical non-fiction book about communist revolutions over the past 250 years.
00:14:15.840Now, it's relevant to both of our audiences, certainly.
00:14:18.500But, in the context of a presidential election year, all the culture war issues that are going on, it doesn't seem obvious that it would fit.
00:14:26.800But, when we were doing the research, we found something interesting, didn't we, Jack, that tied it all together and made it the most consequential book of the year, didn't we?
00:14:37.440I mean, and that's what it was, and it really has been, it feels weird saying it, right?
00:14:45.500It feels a little weird saying it, but, yeah, it really was the most consequential conservative, or, it's not even conservative, but just a book about what it is that we're all living through.
00:14:55.540And, I think there's something, I mean, you can't take it out of the context of the Trump movement, the fact that, of course, J.D. Vance, who is now the vice president-elect, was one of the blurbs on the back of it, which, by the way, they went after him like crazy for, and happy to report that J.D. never once gave it a second of thought.
00:15:18.080And, in fact, I received no message from his team whatsoever about ever, you know, saying, hey, can you guys, you know, take my name off there?
00:15:34.080But, you know, just really caught the zeitgeist at, I think, the perfect time where, and we saw this reflected in the election results, that people were just kind of sick.
00:15:46.360And, Joshua, I know you and I are both affectionate devotees of the morning sip, the simultaneous sip with Scott Adams, and he always talks about, you know, people have said, too far, too far.
00:16:04.140And, you know, you and I putting out this book, and actually, the one word that I heard so much in response when people read the book that I hadn't expected, that was surprising to me,
00:16:52.940That's why, likely, the book took off, is because in doing the research, we found that there is a template for far-left subversion of a society.
00:17:03.360It's been used for more than 250 years in country after country, France, China, Russia, Spain, Central and South America, Africa, Southern Africa, even as recently as South Africa in the 1990s.
00:17:19.360And, of course, here in the United States, where the economic doctrine associated with the Communist Manifesto, Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, was mutated into a cultural, intersectional force that we like to call cultural Marxism.
00:17:38.240And the hypothesis that the book ends with is that the United States, for almost three-quarters of a century, has been enduring an irregular communist revolution.
00:17:51.080And that provided an entirely new urgency to the presidential election.
00:17:59.240And we had, and we heard, lines directly from the book being quoted on the campaign trail.
00:18:15.960And I'm telling you, I had people in, like, Scranton, Pennsylvania, Lackawanna, PA, Greeley, PA, up in the north, past the Poconos, come up to me and they said,
00:18:24.560Yeah, we need to come out and vote for Trump or we're going to be...
00:18:27.580And not just comments, they said they would say Marxist.
00:18:29.700They would use the word, we are going to go Marxist.
00:18:32.600And, of course, President Trump himself started using the phrase over and over that we are going Marxist.
00:18:38.800And I think that what we did with this book was shift the conversation so far, right, shift the window so far that we could actually open up discussion about what was really going on in the country.
00:21:26.440This is legitimate feelings of fear of you and a feeling that you might not be someone they could trust.
00:21:33.320If this thing goes way south, autocracies go south real fast and things get ugly and people get asked to do things and turn people in and point people out and turn on them.
00:21:47.900And if you're voting affirmatively, gleefully for this, people might, I don't know, may not feel so confident in you anymore.
00:21:59.920That's real and you kind of have to live with it.
00:22:02.240So, if you think that you can vote for what people see as their destruction and then demand that they still are cool with you and kiki with you and have Thanksgiving with you,
00:22:13.180like, I think you're kind of missing the point of what people are upset about.
00:22:42.040Well, that being said, though, is it weird or is it exactly what you would expect?
00:22:48.640Joshua, can we apply the unhumans filter to everything joy and weave just said there?
00:22:55.320Yes, taking it all as literal declarations, everything that she said would happen, happened after Biden-Harris were elected,
00:23:06.780where people were turning on family members and reporting one another and betraying and there were secret lists, so on and so forth.
00:23:14.480There would have been political prisoners over the past four years.
00:23:19.140Everything that is the unhumans playbook, they accuse normal, everyday, center-right conservative people of doing and then calling it right-wing extremism.
00:23:32.480And one of the reasons they do this, they project and accuse.
00:23:38.860Of course, it's right out of the Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, where if you accuse other people of doing what it is that you're doing, then they are stuck defending themselves.
00:23:49.300So all the attention is on them and them having to prove, no, no, no, I'm really not an extremist.
00:24:01.860That's the sort of, that's the expectation.
00:24:04.160So if you pull a J.D. Vance and just don't play that game, shrug it off, no comment.
00:24:09.260Or what I've been doing with my social circle of liberals online, when they post three novel-length comments to my Facebook wall, I simply reply, betterhelp.com.
00:32:20.720Chairman Mao will be bringing Mao's Iron Rice Bowl of nothing.
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00:34:16.540Joshua Lysak, co-author of Unhumans and another book, which I want to mention in a minute here.
00:34:22.540You were in the middle of telling us all about, so you walked through and unpacked the psychology of a leftist.
00:34:31.700And the fact that they actually tend to get more triggered when they are faced with someone who's being polite and happy and fun.
00:34:41.280You know, maybe, by the way, you could even prepare a little one of, everyone should do this, by the way, for leftists out there and say, look, I'm very sorry that you lost.
00:34:51.060And I'm very sorry that you're not going to be living under communism, but we're going to do something for you.
00:34:56.720So I want to give you a little taste of what it would be like if communism had won and just hand them an empty bowl and say, there you go.
00:35:20.380You know, we like to we like to joke that your typical liberal here in America, they're NPR Americans, meaning they they listen to national public radio, NPR, which, of course, takes federal federal money, despite their insistence that they don't.
00:35:36.700And so people who believe whatever they're told by their mainstream media news sources, they do, in fact, believe that very bad, very scary, very unsafe people are calling all the shots now and that we are teetering into a totalitarian dictatorship and there's nothing they can do about it.
00:35:56.140So imagine that that almost childish understanding of reality that that that worldview possesses, the filter of reality that that worldview is.
00:36:07.840Now, imagine you have this image, very scary, very bad people.
00:36:13.420Now, imagine you over Thanksgiving, over the Thanksgiving meal or any other time, really, you come along and imagine you have all these facts and studies and data and statistics and department this and Elon Musk this.
00:36:25.380And Vivek Ramaswamy that and Hegseth and Vance and you go through all of these different characters.
00:36:31.740As I understand the vibe of that, the vibe is the very bad, very scary people have all the facts on their side.
00:37:16.920I'm sure over time you've seen how people can soften it up, warm up, and of their own volition, go from TDS, Trump derangement syndrome, to, you know, did you see this?
00:37:30.540I just saw this amazing thing that this guy did.
00:37:32.700Like, Trump, wow, I guess that's cool.
00:37:35.500And they won't come out and say, I was wrong, because, again, in the social shaming frame, they can't admit to being wrong emotionally, but they have to, almost like a cat, think of, and I believe this is why, metaphorically, liberals tend to be like the cat, the cat ladies, right?
00:37:52.740It's because they almost have the countenance of a cat, where it comes around when it feels safe.
00:38:05.980And so you have this ability to kind of sit there and say, look, it's like, I know we're not going to, because you have to understand, all right, for a lot of these people, especially millennials, but also a lot of Gen Xers, Gen Xers had the biggest swing, but there's a lot of Gen Xers that have not swung.
00:38:21.160And they thought for the last 15 years that Barack Obama was the coolest person in the world, that they were the smart ones, that they were the cool ones, that they were the best and the brightest.
00:38:41.500I read the New York Times cover to cover every day, and I only listen to NPR when I'm in my car.
00:38:45.760And to them, that's what being well-informed is, which what they don't realize is, of course, that they are living in a bubble.
00:38:53.680They were the ones in the echo chamber, and those people just found out, they just found out that they're not the majority anymore, that they are, in fact, the minority.
00:39:03.620And so you'll get, there's that book, When Prophecy Fails, that describes a lot of what they're going through right now.
00:39:11.580And, you know, it's sort of like, now, typically, with Joy Reid, you'll get doubling down.