Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - October 14, 2023


THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 17 — Hamas-Loving Lefties? Colonialism = Great? RFK Hurting Trump?


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On this week's episode of Thought Crime: What a Week, the boys discuss the recent attack on Israeli civilians by Hamas in the Mideast, the "Black Lives Matter" movement, and RFK's impact on the 2020 Democratic primary race.

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00:00:00.000 Ladies and gentlemen, it's time once again for this week's episode of Thought Crime.
00:00:04.860 Tonight, myself, Charlie Kirk, and the boys talk about the BLM connection between Hamas and the left,
00:00:13.000 colonialism, cringe or based, and we debate, big debate here, RFK and his effect on the 2024 race.
00:00:22.160 Is this a shakeup? Does it help Trump or hurt Trump?
00:00:24.820 All this in our head as we prepare to commit thought crime.
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00:00:49.560 All right, everybody. Welcome. Thought Crime. What a week.
00:00:54.460 We are not in our usual location. We're here in sunny South Florida.
00:00:58.020 We're here with Blake. Blake, say hi. Hello.
00:01:00.000 We have Tyler, who is in studio. Tyler, say hello.
00:01:04.200 Holding down the fort here for you, Charlie.
00:01:07.440 That's great. I love the Noble Gold Investments hat.
00:01:10.200 And then we have Jack Posobiec as well.
00:01:12.960 Jack, what a week.
00:01:13.840 Yo, what a week.
00:01:15.540 Charlie, not much going on.
00:01:16.960 Like, I'm not really sure what we're going to talk about, to be honest.
00:01:19.200 It's been kind of quiet.
00:01:20.020 Like, you're watching the baseball playoffs, man.
00:01:22.600 Who you're rooting for.
00:01:23.820 Billy's doing all right.
00:01:24.820 You know, I'm liking that.
00:01:27.860 D-backs. 1.00
00:01:28.340 Yeah, wait.
00:01:29.500 You know, Tyler, where are the Diamondbacks in?
00:01:33.500 Are they still in contention?
00:01:34.840 That's how little I care about baseball.
00:01:36.260 Producer Andrew will be happy to know that the Diamondbacks are going to sweep L.A. tonight.
00:01:41.660 Guys, I wasn't serious about that.
00:01:42.800 Oh, wow.
00:01:43.240 So the Diamondbacks...
00:01:43.920 Oh, here we are.
00:01:46.040 So, wait.
00:01:46.740 So...
00:01:47.920 He's got to deal with it now.
00:01:51.320 We're talking about baseball.
00:01:52.160 And they are going to get swept really bad.
00:01:56.580 That's the Dodgers experience.
00:01:58.500 You win 110 games, and then you get swept.
00:02:03.760 So, in other news, Jack, you're kind of our foreign correspondent.
00:02:08.760 Sorry, I'm hearing myself back.
00:02:10.000 That's the only way it can work, I guess.
00:02:11.140 So, when I'm talking or when you're talking, Blake, I'm going to take this thing out.
00:02:13.980 It's all right.
00:02:14.320 Or else Jack won't be able to hear you.
00:02:16.020 Jack, walk us through what has been happening in the Middle East.
00:02:19.240 Israel, walk us through it.
00:02:20.900 Well, Charlie, it's been amazing.
00:02:22.620 And the reason that I bring up the baseball situation is because...
00:02:25.160 So, people know my family's from Philly.
00:02:26.800 And so, it's like in the family chat, we've got this chat where they're giving us,
00:02:31.300 oh, here's the play-by-play of whatever game is going on.
00:02:35.340 Like, oh, somebody got a hit, somebody got it out, et cetera, et cetera.
00:02:38.160 And then every single other channel on my phone, my telegram, my signal,
00:02:43.780 various other apps that I use that I'd rather not talk about on air,
00:02:47.140 I'm just getting full-on war atrocities, complete insanity that's going on in Israel 0.97
00:02:54.640 on the back of this attack, this insane terrorist attack from Hamas 0.69
00:03:00.720 on civilians living in southern Israel on these farming settlements,
00:03:07.500 these remote farming settlements known as kibitzes.
00:03:10.560 And then also this music festival, this rave that was going on right outside of Hamas
00:03:16.760 where hundreds of people were now being told were completely shot down, cut down,
00:03:22.820 murdered entire families, villages, torn apart.
00:03:25.060 And it's just amazing watching this sort of play out.
00:03:29.980 You know, these are the type of, Charlie, these are the types of killings that,
00:03:33.780 you know, and there was an IDF soldier who said the same thing,
00:03:36.340 that we read about in a historic textbook from the Bronze Age,
00:03:41.620 you know, the slaughtering of an entire village by one group.
00:03:45.440 This is not the kind of stuff, it's very Old Testament, I'll put it that way,
00:03:49.420 it's very Old Testament.
00:03:50.500 And it's happening, of course, in the very land of the Bible itself.
00:03:56.640 I think a lot of people didn't think this would be something that could happen in our modern age.
00:04:01.600 And a lot of those people are called liberals
00:04:03.240 because they don't understand that human nature does not change.
00:04:07.820 And so we find ourselves in this situation.
00:04:09.800 But what's even crazier is that, you know, initially we thought,
00:04:14.380 well, certainly everyone will condemn this.
00:04:16.520 Horrible, though it's so gruesome, these images.
00:04:19.180 And then we had groups here in Washington, D.C., in Chicago, in Dearborn, Michigan,
00:04:26.700 come out and not only start holding rallies that are pro-Hamas,
00:04:31.220 like we saw in Dearborn, Michigan recently,
00:04:33.280 but we've even seen one organization, they're called Black Lives Matter,
00:04:38.780 release statements in full endorsement.
00:04:43.360 Some saying, now some saying we back the Palestinian people,
00:04:46.680 but there was one out of Chicago that actually posted essentially a meme that said,
00:04:53.060 I stand with Palestine and showed this image of a paraglider.
00:04:57.940 The reason being is that paragliders and paratroopers were used to land in this rave
00:05:05.460 and start slaughtering people. 0.77
00:05:07.480 So, I mean, this is, people have compared it to Israel's 9-11.
00:05:11.220 I think that's accurate.
00:05:12.460 I mean, it's not, it is not 9-11, but it is like 9-11 for them.
00:05:16.840 I mean, 10-7 might be the new thing we have to say,
00:05:19.700 but they're just straight up supporting a terrorist attack.
00:05:24.900 There's no other way about this.
00:05:26.200 I mean, this is full-on barbarism.
00:05:28.220 And what's interesting for us is that, Carly, in 2020,
00:05:32.940 if you said BLM is a terrorist organization, you would have been fired,
00:05:38.080 you would have lost your job, you would have been canceled,
00:05:40.860 you would have been kicked out of the military,
00:05:42.380 whatever you were part of, you were done.
00:05:44.900 Your children would be kicked out of school,
00:05:47.200 probably taken from you and given off to some other family.
00:05:49.720 But no, no, turns out that BLM, they were terrorists all along.
00:05:54.260 Who knew?
00:05:54.880 Who knew?
00:05:55.300 You know, it's always the ones you at least expect.
00:05:57.360 Yeah, and Jack, you and I led on this as the Israeli atrocities were being reported.
00:06:02.360 We said, watch closely.
00:06:03.460 BLM and Hamas are going to use similar messaging. 0.97
00:06:06.540 Blake, this is something we're exploring on our show.
00:06:08.560 Introduce our audience to Franz Fanon.
00:06:11.180 Did I say that right?
00:06:12.360 I'll just say Fanon because I'm American,
00:06:14.760 so I don't need to worry about the correct way to pronounce it.
00:06:16.680 So, yeah, walk us.
00:06:17.920 Who is this tricky little philosopher?
00:06:20.320 So, Franz Fanon.
00:06:22.500 Whatever.
00:06:22.900 I wish it was Franz Ferdinand, like the group, or the dead Archduke.
00:06:26.900 Anyway, Franz Fanon, he is this Afro-Caribbean left-wing intellectual.
00:06:31.660 He's written a lot of some of those foundational texts that even, you know,
00:06:36.560 the right will often overplay how much leftists actually read some of these works.
00:06:39.780 But this is a guy who's read.
00:06:40.780 He wrote a book called The Wretched of the Earth.
00:06:43.800 It's probably his most famous one.
00:06:45.340 And the opening chapter of that book, The Wretched of the Earth,
00:06:48.960 is called On Violence.
00:06:50.520 And this is the opening line of On Violence.
00:06:55.080 National liberation, national reawakening,
00:06:58.140 restoration of the nation to the people or commonwealth.
00:07:01.400 Whatever the name used, whatever the latest expression,
00:07:05.100 decolonization is always a violent event. 0.99
00:07:09.380 A few lines later, it is the, quite simply,
00:07:12.600 the substitution of one species of mankind by another. 0.61
00:07:16.880 And it goes on like this for 60 pages.
00:07:19.660 And he's describing how the act of colonization is dehumanizing.
00:07:23.980 It reduces the colonized person to a status that is less than human. 0.99
00:07:27.980 And the way you reclaim your humanity, he writes,
00:07:31.060 is to just violently destroy the colonizer.
00:07:34.420 He really relishes in this.
00:07:36.020 And we see people explicitly citing this guy on Twitter,
00:07:40.660 on other social media platforms,
00:07:42.480 saying, yes, this is what he means.
00:07:46.200 Decolonization means not just expelling the colonizer,
00:07:49.280 and that is what they regard all the Israelis as, as colonizers,
00:07:52.160 but it is specifically to do these horrible atrocities, 1.00
00:07:56.180 to decapitate children, to rape women, 1.00
00:07:59.340 to torture the elderly, to take their cell phones, 1.00
00:08:02.540 call their family members, and say,
00:08:04.180 hey, check out your Facebook page.
00:08:05.800 And then when they log in,
00:08:07.180 they see an uploaded video of their loved one being tortured to death,
00:08:10.560 and they cackle about it.
00:08:12.680 This is, people are just saying,
00:08:13.820 yeah, what did you think we meant when we said,
00:08:15.960 you know, decolonize Palestine?
00:08:17.860 This is what we meant.
00:08:20.180 This is a serious academic thinker in certain circles?
00:08:23.780 Yes, this would be,
00:08:25.260 I believe I saw that this guy's works
00:08:27.120 are in the curriculum of Washington State.
00:08:30.340 Wow.
00:08:31.020 As one of those, you know.
00:08:32.680 Pullman, Washington.
00:08:33.900 Yeah.
00:08:34.080 Yeah.
00:08:35.000 And just all sorts of this is,
00:08:37.200 this is a core text of the radical left.
00:08:41.320 This is the sort of thing that they will read and cite to one another.
00:08:44.180 And it's almost like they're shrugging and looking at us,
00:08:46.440 and like, you didn't think we were serious?
00:08:48.200 You thought we were joking the whole time?
00:08:50.020 You thought this was a metaphor?
00:08:51.460 And it's, no, it is very much not a metaphor.
00:08:55.040 And, you know, they're going to put out posters
00:08:57.780 that celebrate paratroopers who go in to kill civilians.
00:09:00.540 It'd be like if they, you know, put out a poster that was like,
00:09:04.000 we stand with Germany,
00:09:05.140 and it has like a train that they would send to one of the camps.
00:09:08.500 Yeah, so, Tyler, I don't know if you'll hear me or not.
00:09:12.940 Tyler, what has been your take on the reaction to the Israel atrocities
00:09:19.480 from the media, from the left, and from the right?
00:09:23.380 Because it seems as if it's creating a lot of chatter
00:09:25.680 amongst the American right and even causing some division.
00:09:29.500 I actually think that the Israel issue is uniting everybody
00:09:35.640 more than anything else.
00:09:37.660 You know, we have the speaker's race.
00:09:39.820 So, you know, you've got, it's like a really odd thing.
00:09:44.240 This is just my perspective right now.
00:09:46.460 I've seen more commentary about bring Trump back
00:09:49.640 after what's happened in Israel than anything else, right?
00:09:53.060 So, you've got this scenario that's playing out
00:09:56.760 where it's like, well, you know, Trump's going to be your guy.
00:10:00.600 And this is not just for Trump and about Trump
00:10:03.680 and Trump connected to Israel,
00:10:05.100 but the Israel issue is now pushing more Trump,
00:10:07.500 like more pro-Trumpism amongst the people who are undecided.
00:10:10.480 And then the undecideds now are realizing like,
00:10:14.140 hey, we don't want to walk into 2024 with people
00:10:16.080 who are like not on the same page with Trump.
00:10:18.860 And by the way, we don't want to mess around
00:10:21.320 with people who are more interested in the Ukraine war
00:10:25.280 than protecting Israel.
00:10:27.880 And so I think that that's starting to be the conversation
00:10:29.760 that's playing out.
00:10:30.500 And I'm seeing actually amongst activists
00:10:32.860 and people who are close to members of Congress
00:10:35.540 and people who are close to other legislators
00:10:37.640 and politicians that are in our states,
00:10:39.920 they're saying, hey, we need people
00:10:41.540 who are absolutely locked in on priorities at this point.
00:10:45.200 And the priority isn't having squabbles 1.00
00:10:47.820 in a stupid presidential primary 1.00
00:10:51.120 where the frontrunner is up 50 points. 1.00
00:10:54.400 And by the way, it'd be really nice to have a speaker
00:10:56.020 that was lockstep with the president.
00:10:58.420 And, you know, can you totally trust
00:11:00.120 that the next guy is going to be,
00:11:03.720 and by the way, is the next guy going to be
00:11:05.940 focused on the right priorities,
00:11:08.000 which are, you know, Republican-centered priorities,
00:11:10.600 putting America first priorities.
00:11:12.340 And that doesn't really include the Ukrainian war
00:11:15.540 at this point.
00:11:16.880 So, you know, that's a good thing, I think, for the party
00:11:20.320 because I think it's actually consolidating more.
00:11:21.980 I think you're going to see Trump's numbers
00:11:23.160 actually continue to go up.
00:11:25.080 And I think that's part of the reason
00:11:26.360 why you're seeing Jim Jordan get such a good look.
00:11:28.380 I mean, it'd be so competitive.
00:11:30.240 I don't think a couple years ago
00:11:31.540 anyone would have ever thought
00:11:32.540 that Jim Jordan even had a shot at becoming speaker.
00:11:35.160 And now, look, he's like right in the mix here
00:11:38.520 against Scalise to take over the speakership.
00:11:43.480 And I think that that's all tied together as one.
00:11:47.780 Jack.
00:11:48.380 You know, what's so disturbing to, I think,
00:11:54.200 a lot of people and to me in general.
00:11:56.220 So when I saw Hamas doing this
00:12:00.860 and I saw the immediate response by these leftists
00:12:03.080 talking about decolonization,
00:12:06.840 and it was amazing because I think
00:12:09.040 we're going to talk about it in a minute here,
00:12:10.220 but when they specifically talked about,
00:12:12.780 you know, it was Christopher Columbus, right?
00:12:15.080 It was Christopher Columbus Day this Monday.
00:12:18.520 And I said, well, look,
00:12:21.820 this is the exact same type of narrative,
00:12:24.720 the rhetoric, the phrasing that they use specifically
00:12:27.320 to talk about white people in the United States.
00:12:30.320 And they say, you are a colonizer.
00:12:32.880 Now, that word didn't originally come from left versus right in the U.S.
00:12:38.780 I've never heard that in the liberal conservative debates
00:12:41.620 during the Trump, or excuse me, during the Bush years, right?
00:12:44.560 This really came up during the Obama years.
00:12:46.600 This came up during the rise of the first,
00:12:49.820 sort of the first Ferguson moment,
00:12:51.420 the first BLM movement in 2014, 2015.
00:12:54.960 And then suddenly with the rise of calling people,
00:13:00.320 of calling out white supremacy, white supremacy, white supremacy,
00:13:02.200 and we've all seen those New York Times charts,
00:13:04.320 then sudden where these phrases were not discussed at all
00:13:08.180 prior to the Obama presidency,
00:13:10.200 and then suddenly have this massive hockey stick curve
00:13:12.760 to the right,
00:13:14.760 that instead they started calling people colonizers.
00:13:19.620 And rhetoric and linguistics and linguistic warfare
00:13:22.820 or something that I wrote a whole book on it.
00:13:24.640 I'd look at this, it's called 4D warfare.
00:13:27.480 And so I noticed this term being employed
00:13:29.900 not only by the left in this country,
00:13:33.280 the intersectionalitists,
00:13:34.540 intersectionalitists, if that's a word,
00:13:36.860 and then also by Hamas,
00:13:40.800 essentially over in Israel.
00:13:42.900 And then we know we can see this,
00:13:44.500 because if you go, all right,
00:13:45.440 I'll give you an example, right?
00:13:46.800 If I'm at,
00:13:47.700 if I'm going to speak somewhere on a college,
00:13:49.460 or Charlie, if you're going to speak when you go out,
00:13:51.100 you'll see this, that when Antifa shows up,
00:13:55.340 you'll notice that within that crowd of leftists,
00:13:57.880 you'll see trans flags,
00:13:59.420 you'll see Antifa, the black and red,
00:14:01.560 but then you'll also see some Palestinian flags,
00:14:04.960 you'll see Hamas supporters,
00:14:06.780 and you'll say, wait a minute,
00:14:08.320 what does this have to do with this?
00:14:10.060 These are totally separate things.
00:14:11.360 You'll see BLM flags.
00:14:12.600 This is where the intersectionality
00:14:15.880 meets the radicalization,
00:14:17.540 because at the end of the day, 1.00
00:14:19.260 it's all about just kill all the white people, right? 1.00
00:14:22.560 Kill whitey. 1.00
00:14:23.480 So this idea that, 1.00
00:14:25.320 oh, we can have some reason debate with them,
00:14:27.940 and we can defeat them with appeals to reason,
00:14:31.080 and we're going to beat them with facts and logic, right?
00:14:33.920 Yeah, they don't care.
00:14:34.960 They just hate you, 1.00
00:14:35.680 and they want to kill you, 1.00
00:14:36.480 and they've been radicalized to do so. 0.92
00:14:38.600 And so when people are shocked
00:14:40.720 that they're cosigning all of this stuff
00:14:43.000 that's going on in Israel,
00:14:47.040 I say, they've been doing this all along.
00:14:49.660 You guys called us crazy for talking about this.
00:14:52.820 You guys called us insane for calling it out,
00:14:55.120 and this has been the right's worldview now for a decade,
00:14:59.640 because we've told you this was coming.
00:15:02.080 You all just called us conspiracy theorists
00:15:04.200 for accurately noticing and assessing the situation.
00:15:07.400 Well, and Jack, this is the, I think,
00:15:12.600 where Republicans have an opportunity at this point
00:15:16.400 to talk more about how corporatism
00:15:18.940 and these corporations really created this monster.
00:15:23.060 And if we don't make that transition,
00:15:25.480 where it's, hey, all that money you gave to support BLM,
00:15:30.060 which seemed like a really nice thing to do at the time,
00:15:35.180 and then they immediately turned around, burned down cities.
00:15:38.640 Now they're seeing the long-term impacts of that.
00:15:41.320 I mean, they're not funding a pro-black narrative.
00:15:46.300 They're funding, again, like you said, 0.98
00:15:48.620 an anti-white, eliminate people, 0.99
00:15:52.640 eliminate Jews narrative. 1.00
00:15:55.300 This is crazy stuff. 0.99
00:15:59.960 No, it's completely insane.
00:16:01.880 It's completely insane.
00:16:02.580 And there was this story, you know, earlier this week about,
00:16:06.360 and people questioned, there was skepticism,
00:16:08.940 this decapitation of babies, beheading of babies.
00:16:12.440 People said it happened.
00:16:13.540 People said it didn't happen.
00:16:14.560 People said that maybe it happened, but it wasn't,
00:16:17.080 you know, et cetera, et cetera.
00:16:18.820 So, but the real interesting point of this
00:16:21.240 was that no one on the left seemed to have a real big problem
00:16:25.540 with whether or not babies were decapitated
00:16:27.580 decapitated as long as they were Jewish babies, 0.98
00:16:30.460 as long as they were colonizer babies.
00:16:32.920 And I think that, that by and large,
00:16:34.480 most people on the left look at this situation 0.86
00:16:37.240 and they just see brown people fighting white people.
00:16:40.520 So they take the side of the brown people, right? 0.92
00:16:42.640 They're not actually going in and deciphering all the knowledge.
00:16:46.420 And then, yeah, the, you know,
00:16:47.500 Mia Khalifa will come up and show,
00:16:49.140 well, she shows a lot,
00:16:50.460 but she'll come up and she'll post some graph or whatever,
00:16:54.880 but she doesn't actually understand any of these things.
00:16:57.440 She just wants to come.
00:16:58.360 By the way, Mia Khalifa,
00:16:59.380 who was a fatwa issued against her 0.78
00:17:01.080 because she did hardcore porn while wearing a hijab. 1.00
00:17:03.820 Now, suddenly she's going to come in 0.99
00:17:05.280 and act like she's all pro-Islam, excuse me. 1.00
00:17:07.180 No, I don't think so.
00:17:08.160 No, she's trying to get back in the good graces.
00:17:10.260 But what you really see here is a mass support
00:17:15.580 for violence, for expulsion, for ethnic cleansing,
00:17:20.540 for genocide.
00:17:21.640 It's completely insane.
00:17:24.520 And yet, and I'll throw this out there as well,
00:17:27.180 that I haven't actually seen the ADL,
00:17:30.800 Jonathan Greenblatt, say a single word
00:17:33.320 about the fact that BLM has come out in full support,
00:17:36.900 not just to the Palestine, right?
00:17:38.180 Or like the Palestinian people, Palestine's not real, 1.00
00:17:42.380 but Hamas and Hamas attacks.
00:17:44.960 The ADL who goes after all of us on a regular basis
00:17:48.240 can't find a single problem with someone
00:17:50.580 who's like actually supporting the deaths of Jewish families.
00:17:54.500 Just want to point that out there.
00:17:56.920 Well, Mia Khalifa is a perfect example 0.75
00:17:59.580 of the tables turning on hipster racism.
00:18:05.480 You know, you brought up Kill YD.
00:18:07.300 You remember the, what was it, Tommy Boy?
00:18:10.320 It was a Tommy Boy where Chris Farley
00:18:15.820 gets the Kill YD, the Kill YD scene.
00:18:18.100 Anyways, all that came from like the hipster racism, 0.91
00:18:19.860 which was that goofy appropriation of white people 0.98
00:18:24.260 pretending to be black. 0.95
00:18:25.440 And, you know, that's where kind of like
00:18:27.440 a lot of this stuff actually started,
00:18:30.300 even amongst white people about the white guilt
00:18:32.800 and then turning into white guilt.
00:18:34.540 Mia Khalifa is actually the opposite.
00:18:35.960 She's participating in hipster racism, 0.99
00:18:38.940 you know, appropriating, you know,
00:18:41.820 you know, American and white culture.
00:18:45.280 And then, you know, the guilt of what she's done
00:18:49.880 and doing the exact same thing,
00:18:51.540 just on the opposite side.
00:18:53.240 And the result though is, is that people are dying.
00:18:56.580 And this is insane stuff.
00:18:58.880 And literally there's nobody calling it out at all
00:19:02.300 in the media on the left
00:19:03.340 and anything like that at all. 0.99
00:19:04.980 And it's like literally you have a porn star 0.92
00:19:06.580 appropriating this stuff.
00:19:09.240 It's, it's really tells you
00:19:11.100 where the state of the country is at right now.
00:19:13.700 So, so Blake, talk more about decolonization
00:19:16.040 and then also is colonization good?
00:19:19.580 That, that'll be a big, that's a good topic.
00:19:21.800 Yeah.
00:19:22.000 So the decolonization thing, you know,
00:19:24.440 this is the, actually the root,
00:19:26.320 we could actually play number 22 here.
00:19:28.780 Call for it.
00:19:29.420 Let's play 22. 0.98
00:19:33.340 So they're saying there,
00:19:57.260 settler, settler, you will learn.
00:19:59.080 By the millions will return.
00:20:00.500 And that's actually been sort of the central sticking point
00:20:04.380 of like Israel-Palestine conflict
00:20:06.260 for the entire history of it.
00:20:08.000 We will return.
00:20:09.280 That slogan they use,
00:20:10.740 from the river to the sea,
00:20:12.160 which is from the Jordan River
00:20:13.280 to the Mediterranean Sea.
00:20:14.700 That's the elimination of Israel 0.99
00:20:16.060 is what they're saying. 0.81
00:20:16.640 It is the elimination of Israel. 0.96
00:20:17.020 That's not an exaggeration.
00:20:18.300 Or at least when they say,
00:20:20.100 you'll sometimes hear them say the right of return.
00:20:22.280 And what that essentially is,
00:20:23.180 is it's a demand for at minimum,
00:20:24.940 like an open border with Palestine,
00:20:26.680 which is they all have the right to move back
00:20:28.460 into the rest of Israel proper. 0.55
00:20:31.700 And that is the idea of decolonization to them, 0.88
00:20:34.480 that to remove any of the Jewish portions of Israel
00:20:37.860 from being the Jewish portions of it.
00:20:40.420 And especially in the past,
00:20:42.680 that was really big,
00:20:43.280 because if they did that,
00:20:44.060 they would outnumber them.
00:20:44.880 At this point,
00:20:45.340 that would no longer be the case.
00:20:46.720 And so that introduces a different dynamic,
00:20:48.820 where sometimes you'll even see
00:20:49.960 very pro-Israel people say,
00:20:51.800 like the solution to this
00:20:52.800 is they should just forcibly annex Gaza 0.98
00:20:55.420 and the West Strip,
00:20:56.620 and the West Bank,
00:20:58.460 and say,
00:20:59.720 you know,
00:21:00.160 you guys are all in our country now,
00:21:01.940 and we're still the majority deal with it.
00:21:03.980 It's a very strange thing.
00:21:05.720 But that actually might be
00:21:06.820 what the best outcome is,
00:21:07.660 because if we want to talk about colonialism,
00:21:09.780 like what is the best thing
00:21:10.820 to have happened to
00:21:12.040 the Eastern Mediterranean
00:21:13.480 in the last thousand years?
00:21:16.200 It's the fact that now
00:21:17.400 there is a Jewish majority country there
00:21:20.460 that has made it a first-world place to live.
00:21:22.920 Was this area of the world
00:21:24.900 ever that nice to live in before then?
00:21:26.880 Not really since the Romans
00:21:28.000 bulldozed it 2,000 years ago.
00:21:29.940 It was war.
00:21:30.820 It was often war-torn.
00:21:32.340 It was backwards.
00:21:33.480 It was like a desert place.
00:21:34.660 It was certainly not prosperous.
00:21:36.400 And now it's the exact difference.
00:21:38.660 It's one of the richest countries in the world.
00:21:40.240 It's a huge agricultural producer.
00:21:42.260 It has industry.
00:21:44.020 It has a high-tech industry.
00:21:45.620 And the portions of the Near East
00:21:48.080 that are not owned by Israel
00:21:49.920 are basically terrible.
00:21:51.100 And probably the single best thing
00:21:52.340 that could happen
00:21:52.860 is if they actually were running
00:21:54.360 the West Bank and Gaza
00:21:55.900 to the same extent
00:21:56.620 they're running everywhere else.
00:21:57.040 Isn't it the root of
00:21:58.400 the defense of civilization
00:22:00.300 which was made possible
00:22:01.360 thanks to colonialism,
00:22:02.780 this idea that
00:22:03.700 some ideas are better than others
00:22:07.080 and some form of civilization
00:22:08.500 is more preferable for humanity?
00:22:11.480 And they don't like that.
00:22:12.740 They believe,
00:22:13.580 and they don't even believe it,
00:22:14.600 what they say they believe
00:22:15.920 is this fake egalitarianism
00:22:18.600 that all cultures are equal.
00:22:20.380 Who are you to say
00:22:21.300 that Western society
00:22:22.820 is better than Huma?
00:22:24.920 Exactly.
00:22:25.520 It really is.
00:22:26.560 And I think a lot of it
00:22:27.520 is ultimately rooted in envy.
00:22:29.720 It's very traumatic
00:22:30.520 if you're in a culture
00:22:32.080 to look around and say
00:22:33.340 we're starving half the time,
00:22:36.760 we've not created any,
00:22:38.580 we're poor,
00:22:39.840 we've not created any art
00:22:41.200 that other people aspire to,
00:22:42.600 and then other cultures
00:22:44.040 are just throwing it out constantly.
00:22:46.380 Like, even if you're a European, 0.91
00:22:48.080 you look at what's accomplished
00:22:48.940 in a country like England
00:22:50.040 and you're just filled
00:22:51.080 with seething envy
00:22:52.440 at what they've done.
00:22:53.500 They launched
00:22:54.480 the Industrial Revolution
00:22:55.460 and you could be like,
00:22:56.160 oh, well, they're just,
00:22:57.120 you know,
00:22:57.300 they're only worried about money
00:22:58.220 except they also write
00:22:59.460 the best books
00:23:00.600 and they've produced
00:23:01.600 many of the best painters.
00:23:03.040 That's right.
00:23:03.500 They just dominate like crazy.
00:23:05.980 And this causes
00:23:07.080 so much seething resentment
00:23:08.420 and often the way
00:23:09.800 this manifests is
00:23:10.860 the only way they can cope
00:23:12.020 is they just want to smash
00:23:13.220 at all the pieces.
00:23:14.900 You know,
00:23:15.140 after they decolonized
00:23:17.380 parts of Africa,
00:23:18.320 in Kenya, for example,
00:23:19.260 there were these kind of estates
00:23:20.880 that the Europeans had in Kenya 0.94
00:23:22.200 and they didn't just
00:23:23.560 take them over.
00:23:24.800 They actually sent in bulldozers
00:23:27.340 and they destroyed
00:23:28.440 what was already there.
00:23:30.080 And the reasoning was
00:23:31.180 that these were estates,
00:23:32.540 you know,
00:23:32.680 for just a handful of Englishmen
00:23:33.860 and we're going to let
00:23:34.540 thousands of Kenyans survive
00:23:36.360 and, you know,
00:23:37.120 make these rich plantations
00:23:38.540 there and such.
00:23:39.680 But instead,
00:23:40.580 often they just fell into ruins
00:23:42.000 after they did that.
00:23:43.320 And that's often what
00:23:44.280 decolonization looks like
00:23:45.600 in practice. 0.96
00:23:46.280 It's kill a ton of people, 0.99
00:23:47.860 destroy, 1.00
00:23:48.540 burn everything down, 0.96
00:23:49.860 you know,
00:23:50.780 plunder the wine cellar
00:23:51.840 and drink all of it
00:23:52.540 even though that's not
00:23:53.220 allowed in Islam.
00:23:54.540 And then you look around
00:23:55.720 afterwards and you're like,
00:23:56.500 well, we did it.
00:23:57.340 You're smiling over
00:23:58.360 a smoldering ruin.
00:24:00.300 Kind of like what we saw
00:24:01.100 in Baltimore and Minneapolis,
00:24:02.480 doesn't it?
00:24:03.780 So,
00:24:04.180 Tyler or Jack,
00:24:06.900 whichever one wants to take it.
00:24:10.060 Colonization.
00:24:11.340 Sorry,
00:24:11.700 I was hearing somebody talk
00:24:12.640 to some news report
00:24:13.560 in my ear.
00:24:14.040 It's very strange.
00:24:15.800 Yeah,
00:24:16.380 someone's on the side
00:24:17.380 of the street or something.
00:24:19.180 Jack or Tyler,
00:24:20.060 just start talking.
00:24:22.140 Well,
00:24:22.480 you know,
00:24:23.380 I think
00:24:23.700 one of the most interesting
00:24:25.900 parts of this debate
00:24:26.880 is,
00:24:28.780 you know,
00:24:29.140 and I think
00:24:29.680 this is really
00:24:30.180 going to expose it
00:24:31.180 in Europe
00:24:31.800 and I think
00:24:32.200 this is where
00:24:32.540 you're going to see
00:24:33.020 the,
00:24:34.340 and again,
00:24:35.460 I don't know,
00:24:36.120 Jack,
00:24:36.360 if you want to go
00:24:36.760 down this road at all
00:24:37.620 and talk about this,
00:24:39.020 but I think
00:24:40.440 that rhetoric
00:24:41.580 that they're using
00:24:43.260 in Israel,
00:24:44.780 you know,
00:24:45.640 a lot of Europeans
00:24:46.380 start going,
00:24:46.860 wait a minute,
00:24:47.820 you're taking over
00:24:48.600 our country
00:24:49.240 and there's a lot,
00:24:50.960 Islam is taking over 1.00
00:24:51.980 our country
00:24:52.600 and so
00:24:53.140 if you believe that,
00:24:54.720 then you need to get out
00:24:55.940 of our country
00:24:57.060 in Europe
00:24:57.460 and,
00:24:58.720 you know,
00:24:58.860 we're seeing
00:24:59.380 this wave,
00:25:00.320 you know,
00:25:00.500 particularly in the
00:25:01.320 northern parts of Europe
00:25:02.600 that have been just like,
00:25:03.920 kind of just like,
00:25:04.560 oh,
00:25:04.800 you're welcome to come here
00:25:05.860 and now they're going,
00:25:07.620 wait a minute,
00:25:08.060 in Norway and Sweden
00:25:09.160 and other places,
00:25:10.640 now they're starting
00:25:11.060 to get really uncomfortable
00:25:11.800 because it looks like 0.98
00:25:13.700 Muslims are going to be 1.00
00:25:15.260 the, 0.99
00:25:16.640 that's going to be
00:25:17.280 the number one religion
00:25:18.080 very quickly
00:25:18.860 in many of those countries
00:25:20.940 and so it's like
00:25:21.800 if it,
00:25:22.100 if it,
00:25:22.780 if it makes sense,
00:25:24.700 if that argument
00:25:25.740 makes sense
00:25:26.440 for Palestinians
00:25:27.140 and Israel,
00:25:28.100 what is the argument
00:25:29.180 in Europe?
00:25:33.940 Jack?
00:25:36.500 Well,
00:25:36.980 and of course,
00:25:37.580 you know,
00:25:37.880 you look at all this,
00:25:39.040 right,
00:25:39.680 so,
00:25:40.120 and you can say
00:25:40.980 this writ large,
00:25:41.720 so this is,
00:25:42.380 it's communism
00:25:43.160 but it's also,
00:25:44.200 which is sort of morphed
00:25:45.580 into a sort of
00:25:46.360 third worldism
00:25:47.320 from a historic perspective,
00:25:49.020 I think we really need
00:25:49.960 to point out
00:25:50.380 that what we're dealing
00:25:51.420 with here
00:25:51.980 in all of this
00:25:52.760 is just the detritus
00:25:54.180 of the breakup
00:25:54.960 of the Soviet Union,
00:25:56.440 so the PLO
00:25:58.320 was set up
00:25:59.640 originally
00:26:00.100 by the KGB,
00:26:01.340 I mean,
00:26:01.500 this is pretty well known,
00:26:03.240 the first leaders
00:26:04.060 of the Palestinian,
00:26:05.660 was it the National Congress
00:26:06.860 or whatever they tried
00:26:07.640 to say,
00:26:08.480 they were basically
00:26:09.320 picked directly
00:26:10.600 by Moscow,
00:26:11.420 this is back
00:26:11.940 in the 1960s,
00:26:13.020 and this was part
00:26:13.820 of that whole process
00:26:14.980 of you sort of had
00:26:15.700 like the US-backed group,
00:26:17.560 the Western-backed groups,
00:26:18.620 and it's Cold War era stuff,
00:26:19.980 it's all Cold War era stuff,
00:26:21.120 right,
00:26:21.240 that's the way to put it,
00:26:21.880 so these groups
00:26:23.400 and then Hamas,
00:26:24.360 which is sort of
00:26:24.740 like the successor
00:26:25.420 organization to the PLO,
00:26:27.580 all have these
00:26:28.920 proto-Soviet connections
00:26:31.520 because of the way
00:26:32.420 they were founded,
00:26:33.020 there's Ojalon
00:26:34.340 down in Kurdistan
00:26:36.020 with the Kurds
00:26:36.680 is the exact same way,
00:26:37.800 what do you call it,
00:26:38.620 like democratic,
00:26:39.960 you know,
00:26:40.600 inter-socialism
00:26:41.680 or something,
00:26:43.060 there's basically
00:26:44.140 there's a reason
00:26:44.720 that you see
00:26:45.160 all these groups
00:26:45.940 flying their sort of,
00:26:47.840 you know,
00:26:48.060 third world nationalist flag
00:26:49.900 along with the hammer
00:26:51.440 and sickle
00:26:52.180 and then they stand
00:26:53.040 in solidarity
00:26:53.560 with all the other
00:26:54.700 Marxist groups
00:26:56.060 like BLM,
00:26:57.200 which they perfectly said
00:26:58.380 are a Marxist group
00:27:00.460 and so,
00:27:02.360 and you get obviously
00:27:03.240 this mix of Islam
00:27:04.400 is kind of in there as well,
00:27:05.920 but,
00:27:06.460 you know,
00:27:06.660 when they're chanting
00:27:08.120 Allah Akbar,
00:27:09.360 they're not actually praying
00:27:11.160 when they're saying that,
00:27:12.200 they just know
00:27:12.780 that's something
00:27:13.220 that you say 0.97
00:27:13.880 when you kill somebody
00:27:14.960 and I think 0.63
00:27:16.160 that most Americans
00:27:16.960 were probably right
00:27:17.820 about that
00:27:18.380 at the end of,
00:27:20.060 at the end of 9-11,
00:27:23.780 when 9-11 happened
00:27:24.420 and so,
00:27:25.800 when you're trying
00:27:26.680 to actually have
00:27:27.740 a serious conversation
00:27:29.140 about any of this,
00:27:30.160 you run into this problem
00:27:31.960 where you're just,
00:27:32.660 you're starting
00:27:33.260 to take these people seriously
00:27:34.520 and starting to take
00:27:35.600 the ideology seriously,
00:27:36.580 but it's not
00:27:37.180 and Blake is 100% right
00:27:38.480 and,
00:27:39.760 and,
00:27:40.200 you know,
00:27:40.660 you know,
00:27:41.000 right down the date
00:27:41.660 because you're not
00:27:42.120 going to hear me
00:27:42.420 say that often,
00:27:42.960 but Blake's 100% right,
00:27:44.680 that these guys,
00:27:46.060 it's all envy,
00:27:46.940 it's envy,
00:27:47.820 it's greed,
00:27:48.860 it's jealousy
00:27:49.700 and,
00:27:50.800 and then ultimately
00:27:51.740 compounds
00:27:52.980 with the other
00:27:54.260 and as Charlie,
00:27:55.080 you know,
00:27:55.380 this is sinful,
00:27:56.180 this is part playing
00:27:57.220 on our sinful nature
00:27:58.440 and there's a reason
00:28:00.020 that we have
00:28:00.660 two commandments
00:28:02.200 against what?
00:28:03.940 Against covetousness,
00:28:05.600 right?
00:28:05.880 Two commandments
00:28:06.600 about this
00:28:07.240 because it was that strong
00:28:09.200 that covetousness
00:28:10.380 was so bad
00:28:11.580 for the human spirit
00:28:13.320 and human nature
00:28:14.060 that we have
00:28:14.540 two commandments
00:28:15.400 specifically about
00:28:16.360 different types
00:28:17.120 of covetousness,
00:28:18.240 one on,
00:28:19.380 one on goods,
00:28:21.380 one on women's spouses
00:28:23.420 that if you come up
00:28:26.700 with some sort
00:28:27.360 of ideology,
00:28:28.440 some sort of rationalization
00:28:29.860 or justification
00:28:30.820 to turn envy
00:28:32.660 into a political movement,
00:28:34.240 it will always
00:28:35.320 turn out this way
00:28:36.240 and it's always
00:28:37.160 going to turn out
00:28:38.000 this way,
00:28:38.580 it always has
00:28:39.400 turned out this way,
00:28:40.440 whether it's Rwanda,
00:28:41.800 whether it's
00:28:42.840 the Palestinians,
00:28:44.580 whether it's Russia,
00:28:45.940 whether it's China,
00:28:47.000 whether it's France,
00:28:48.680 again and again
00:28:49.820 and again,
00:28:50.580 this will play out
00:28:51.540 if you feed
00:28:52.900 into these negative emotions
00:28:54.860 and when I,
00:28:57.980 I guess what I'm trying
00:28:59.900 to say is that
00:29:00.660 you can make
00:29:02.700 a lot of money
00:29:03.300 running around
00:29:04.600 and walking people
00:29:06.040 through all this stuff,
00:29:06.760 but at the end of the day,
00:29:07.280 you're just going
00:29:07.640 to come back
00:29:07.940 to what Blake said.
00:29:08.800 So let's continue
00:29:09.480 this kind of colonization talk.
00:29:11.060 Blake,
00:29:11.320 some of them will say
00:29:11.840 but it displaces
00:29:12.680 native tribes
00:29:13.380 and it destroys
00:29:14.000 their original culture.
00:29:16.180 How would you respond
00:29:17.120 to that, Blake?
00:29:18.060 Well, first of all,
00:29:19.040 not being colonized
00:29:20.100 also is constant displacement,
00:29:21.840 constant warfare.
00:29:22.660 Like, humanity is,
00:29:24.220 you know,
00:29:24.420 before modern civilization,
00:29:26.620 humanity is like
00:29:27.500 almost a Hobbesian state
00:29:28.680 of war of all against all
00:29:29.900 or at least
00:29:30.280 war of my group
00:29:32.420 against your group.
00:29:33.260 It's not a very fun way
00:29:35.180 to live for a lot of people.
00:29:36.320 It certainly is devoid
00:29:38.180 of a lot of the things
00:29:39.080 we take for granted today.
00:29:40.820 You know,
00:29:40.940 a thing you said
00:29:41.420 on Twitter the other day
00:29:42.340 is that, you know,
00:29:43.160 overall colonization
00:29:44.340 has been a net positive
00:29:45.680 to the world.
00:29:46.560 I've got the tweet
00:29:47.640 in front of me.
00:29:48.720 Colonizers brought 0.94
00:29:49.520 superior values,
00:29:51.120 institutions,
00:29:52.180 philosophy,
00:29:53.120 technology,
00:29:54.240 and norms
00:29:55.000 to the rest of the world.
00:29:56.760 Colonialism brought order 1.00
00:29:57.860 to a world of chaos
00:29:58.700 and it dragged
00:29:59.200 a world of darkness
00:30:00.220 into the light.
00:30:01.920 And is that true
00:30:02.960 in every single case?
00:30:04.320 Absolutely not.
00:30:05.100 There are certainly
00:30:06.140 a lot of wars,
00:30:07.200 certainly a lot of atrocities
00:30:08.300 associated with colonialism.
00:30:10.540 But, you know,
00:30:11.460 the end result is
00:30:12.360 like if you live
00:30:13.440 in a country
00:30:13.980 that was part
00:30:14.480 of the British Empire,
00:30:15.780 you're better now.
00:30:16.680 You are better now.
00:30:17.520 I mean, so I'll give you
00:30:18.240 an example.
00:30:18.700 I mean, if you go
00:30:19.060 through the Caribbean,
00:30:19.820 the Caribbean's
00:30:20.280 a really interesting
00:30:20.940 test case, right?
00:30:22.140 The wealthiest islands,
00:30:24.100 because they're basically
00:30:24.920 very similar cultures,
00:30:26.120 not all of them.
00:30:26.960 The wealthiest islands
00:30:28.060 are by far the ones
00:30:29.660 that embraced
00:30:30.700 British colonialism, right?
00:30:32.140 Like Grand Cayman,
00:30:34.040 Turks and Caicos, 0.98
00:30:34.980 the ones that are
00:30:35.520 the poorest,
00:30:36.760 like Haiti, for example,
00:30:38.340 which had, you know,
00:30:39.400 French-type roots
00:30:40.140 and they kicked them out,
00:30:41.180 didn't do too well, actually.
00:30:43.120 You know, and yeah,
00:30:43.780 Haiti, I mean,
00:30:44.600 you can understand
00:30:45.340 how Haiti came about the way
00:30:46.440 because Haiti was
00:30:47.220 a very grim slave colony.
00:30:49.180 No, I'm not defending
00:30:50.380 what was their prior,
00:30:51.360 but they're the poorest
00:30:52.960 by far nation
00:30:54.660 in the Caribbean.
00:30:55.200 The most fatal thing
00:30:56.220 they did is they launched
00:30:57.480 their slave revolution,
00:30:58.820 which succeeded.
00:30:59.640 Which was a moral thing
00:31:00.420 to do.
00:31:00.800 Very moral and understandable.
00:31:02.860 But then after that,
00:31:03.820 what their second leader did,
00:31:06.040 Dessalines,
00:31:06.740 I believe was his name, 0.99
00:31:07.940 he killed all the white people 0.99
00:31:09.960 on the island. 0.99
00:31:10.860 After they'd won,
00:31:11.860 they basically did
00:31:12.760 gruesome massacres.
00:31:14.000 Wait, so that's not
00:31:14.420 insignificant.
00:31:15.340 So let's actually
00:31:15.840 talk about Haiti.
00:31:16.700 So Haiti embraced
00:31:17.820 decolonization 0.97
00:31:18.780 as that Franz lunatic 0.99
00:31:20.380 would have written it. 0.73
00:31:21.360 How did it work out
00:31:22.160 for Haiti?
00:31:22.580 Well, they have been
00:31:24.100 the world's poorest country.
00:31:26.000 Like one of the poorest countries,
00:31:27.040 yes.
00:31:27.180 Pretty much the world's
00:31:27.720 poorest country ever since.
00:31:29.000 But the slaves overthrew
00:31:30.580 the masters.
00:31:31.560 It's so bad
00:31:33.660 at this point.
00:31:34.940 It's so bad
00:31:35.800 at this point
00:31:36.420 that you can't even do
00:31:37.980 the agriculture
00:31:39.260 that once made 0.58
00:31:40.140 Haiti prosperous
00:31:41.520 as a slave colony, 0.89
00:31:42.560 unfortunately.
00:31:43.180 But they can't even
00:31:43.840 imitate that as a free country
00:31:45.040 because the topsoil
00:31:46.680 has eroded away
00:31:47.440 so badly.
00:31:49.220 And, you know,
00:31:50.300 now it's...
00:31:50.640 So is it fair to say
00:31:51.500 that Haiti is a test case 1.00
00:31:52.880 in decolonization
00:31:54.060 the same way
00:31:54.620 that South Africa
00:31:55.260 is a test case
00:31:56.000 in critical race theory
00:31:57.360 like as an ideology
00:31:58.720 of your government?
00:31:59.760 Meaning like
00:32:00.200 we now know
00:32:00.820 what happens
00:32:01.340 if you try to decolonize.
00:32:02.560 It certainly shows
00:32:03.500 that if you go
00:32:04.180 maximum decolonization,
00:32:05.980 you're probably not going
00:32:06.780 to get the best outcome.
00:32:07.960 Whereas, yeah,
00:32:08.440 as you say,
00:32:09.120 states that lean into it.
00:32:10.860 Or another great example
00:32:11.840 to be honest
00:32:12.440 is let's take a look
00:32:13.940 at China.
00:32:14.840 Hong Kong is a British colony
00:32:16.540 up until the end
00:32:17.720 of the 20th century.
00:32:18.620 And what is the richest
00:32:19.820 part of China
00:32:20.520 in the People's Republic?
00:32:22.540 It's Hong Kong
00:32:23.220 because Hong Kong
00:32:24.380 has the strongest legacy
00:32:25.780 of a colonial institution
00:32:26.940 compared to
00:32:27.660 everywhere else in China
00:32:29.000 which, you know,
00:32:30.760 is under the People's Republic
00:32:31.900 practicing Marxism
00:32:33.000 or, you know,
00:32:34.260 was under this, like,
00:32:35.140 imperial regime
00:32:36.140 that they had before that.
00:32:38.240 And, you know,
00:32:38.760 Singapore,
00:32:39.680 also a British colony,
00:32:40.740 also amazingly successful
00:32:42.100 relative even to the rest
00:32:43.660 of Southeast Asia.
00:32:44.940 Yeah, but finish your thought
00:32:46.340 then.
00:32:47.080 India was a British colony.
00:32:48.380 India was a British colony
00:32:49.360 and, you know,
00:32:50.080 again, this is a good example.
00:32:51.100 It's not always good.
00:32:51.880 There were major wars
00:32:53.000 in India
00:32:53.420 that the British
00:32:54.040 had to go through
00:32:54.780 to establish themselves
00:32:56.060 but it grows enormously.
00:32:58.400 And then here's
00:32:58.820 the really telling thing
00:32:59.660 is after they become
00:33:00.660 independent,
00:33:01.640 they react against
00:33:03.040 much of this.
00:33:03.740 They embrace a lot
00:33:04.340 of Soviet economic theory
00:33:05.640 and India's very stagnant
00:33:07.960 for decades
00:33:08.980 before they kind of learn,
00:33:11.480 you know,
00:33:12.000 those guys had a point
00:33:12.960 and they embrace
00:33:13.820 a lot of more
00:33:15.000 free market norms,
00:33:16.160 stuff that we would regard
00:33:17.080 as more overall
00:33:18.320 Western
00:33:18.640 and then they're finally
00:33:19.580 growing to reach
00:33:20.840 the potential
00:33:21.380 that everyone knew
00:33:22.140 they had a century ago
00:33:23.360 but they had kind of
00:33:24.720 a lost half century
00:33:25.720 in between those times.
00:33:27.840 So I want to zero in
00:33:29.360 on just one element
00:33:30.240 of this
00:33:30.600 that you mentioned.
00:33:32.320 The inheritance
00:33:33.000 of colonization
00:33:33.940 can be common law,
00:33:35.540 the respect
00:33:36.100 of private property.
00:33:37.460 We know
00:33:38.140 that if you have that
00:33:39.300 as an inheritance,
00:33:40.420 your country
00:33:41.060 will be far better off 0.91
00:33:42.180 than witch doctors 0.97
00:33:43.540 in Haiti.
00:33:44.560 For sure,
00:33:44.980 for sure.
00:33:45.480 You get laws,
00:33:47.280 institutions.
00:33:48.080 I mean,
00:33:48.880 often colonialism,
00:33:51.300 you know,
00:33:51.940 them setting up
00:33:52.940 a native parliament
00:33:53.880 to run the government
00:33:54.640 on the way out
00:33:55.160 is the first time
00:33:55.720 they have a democratic
00:33:56.980 government of any sort.
00:33:58.940 And all of these,
00:34:01.040 so many things
00:34:01.900 that we would take
00:34:02.620 as granted,
00:34:03.400 constitutional rights,
00:34:04.640 freedom of speech,
00:34:05.360 a lot of these
00:34:06.820 are just inherently
00:34:08.040 a Western legacy
00:34:08.960 which we learned
00:34:10.440 at a grave price.
00:34:12.140 It was very difficult
00:34:12.840 for us to learn
00:34:14.420 these lessons ourselves.
00:34:15.980 And to an extent,
00:34:17.480 places that got colonized,
00:34:18.680 even if it was traumatic,
00:34:19.940 were essentially
00:34:20.380 given an opportunity
00:34:21.440 to be brought up
00:34:22.740 to Europe's level
00:34:24.300 far faster
00:34:25.240 than Europe itself
00:34:26.160 was able to get
00:34:26.820 to that point initially.
00:34:28.700 And places that lean
00:34:29.860 into that legacy
00:34:30.660 do very well.
00:34:32.460 Places that actively
00:34:33.580 reject that legacy
00:34:34.640 wherever they are
00:34:36.440 don't do as well.
00:34:38.180 And, you know,
00:34:38.560 what's one of the most
00:34:39.400 Westernized countries
00:34:40.540 in Asia?
00:34:41.360 It's Japan 0.65
00:34:41.880 because they actively
00:34:44.240 decided to embrace it
00:34:45.300 after, you know,
00:34:46.020 the United States
00:34:46.600 opened up Japan.
00:34:47.560 They almost go insane
00:34:49.040 trying to imitate us.
00:34:49.900 They start dressing
00:34:50.780 the same way we do,
00:34:51.900 like it's magical.
00:34:53.820 They copy, you know,
00:34:56.060 the uniforms
00:34:56.660 that their soldiers wear,
00:34:57.760 they copy from Europeans 1.00
00:34:59.700 because they're just like,
00:35:00.440 there's something,
00:35:01.240 they have something.
00:35:02.300 And the result is
00:35:02.980 they grow enormously
00:35:03.940 after World War II.
00:35:05.360 They copy us even more.
00:35:06.440 They get a Western-style
00:35:07.480 parliamentary government.
00:35:08.940 Which is great.
00:35:09.480 You should copy Western ideas.
00:35:11.000 Copy us.
00:35:11.660 The West is the best.
00:35:13.320 Jack, your thoughts on this.
00:35:14.460 West is the best.
00:35:15.280 We should be
00:35:15.920 not just clear,
00:35:18.420 but unapologetic.
00:35:19.740 We should be proud.
00:35:20.740 We should have,
00:35:21.320 honestly,
00:35:22.180 these countries
00:35:22.660 should be thanking us
00:35:23.660 that we brought them
00:35:24.700 the work of Blackstone
00:35:26.580 and the breakthroughs
00:35:28.000 of the Western tradition.
00:35:29.200 That is an outgrowth
00:35:30.120 of the biblical canon.
00:35:32.540 They progressed a lot more
00:35:33.780 than the scalping
00:35:35.440 and earth worship
00:35:36.540 of the Navajo Indians.
00:35:40.100 Yeah, Cortez did nothing wrong.
00:35:43.060 This idea
00:35:44.300 that we could have let
00:35:45.460 the child sacrifices continue
00:35:47.900 that were being practiced
00:35:49.460 not just throughout Mesoamerica
00:35:51.340 and South America,
00:35:52.360 but also all the way up
00:35:54.460 as far north
00:35:55.400 as right across
00:35:56.940 the Mississippi River
00:35:58.220 from St. Louis
00:36:00.120 there's these ancient
00:36:03.580 Indian burial grounds
00:36:04.860 where people have gone in
00:36:05.720 and looked at these things
00:36:06.680 where they're filled
00:36:08.180 with the bodies
00:36:09.120 of teenage girls,
00:36:10.920 with the bodies
00:36:11.740 of young children.
00:36:13.260 People believed
00:36:14.080 that they were being done
00:36:15.340 to produce
00:36:16.080 greater agriculture,
00:36:18.080 greater yield.
00:36:19.340 You know,
00:36:19.540 then we're all told,
00:36:20.500 but oh, no, no, no.
00:36:21.560 See, Squanto taught
00:36:22.560 the Indians farm,
00:36:24.260 or excuse me,
00:36:24.880 Squanto taught
00:36:25.520 the pilgrims farming.
00:36:27.280 So that's what they taught.
00:36:28.320 Yeah, except they leave out
00:36:29.120 the fact that Squanto
00:36:30.320 learned all that
00:36:31.780 from Europeans
00:36:32.580 because he had actually
00:36:33.700 lived in Europe
00:36:34.480 before he came back
00:36:35.500 to the United States.
00:36:38.480 It's completely insane
00:36:39.800 what was going on
00:36:40.500 in many of these cultures.
00:36:42.100 And one thing,
00:36:42.740 by the way,
00:36:43.080 just as an anecdote,
00:36:44.320 which I think is hilarious,
00:36:45.980 is,
00:36:46.900 and Blake,
00:36:47.340 I think you'd appreciate this
00:36:48.160 because it lines up
00:36:48.800 with what you're saying,
00:36:49.520 is I started this meme,
00:36:51.780 I don't even know
00:36:52.320 how you call it,
00:36:53.020 but I started this whole meme
00:36:54.080 about whether or not
00:36:56.680 your ancestors
00:36:57.380 developed wheels
00:36:58.400 in their country
00:36:59.260 because we made this meme
00:37:01.340 of Columbus
00:37:01.840 getting to the United States,
00:37:03.060 or getting to,
00:37:03.720 you know,
00:37:03.920 the new world,
00:37:04.520 I should say,
00:37:05.180 getting to the new world
00:37:06.060 and him saying,
00:37:07.920 wait a minute,
00:37:08.500 you've been here for how long?
00:37:10.080 Where are your wheels?
00:37:11.500 Where is your bronze?
00:37:12.700 Where are your ships?
00:37:13.600 Where are your roads?
00:37:15.040 And then it's amazing
00:37:16.420 because so many people,
00:37:18.900 liberals,
00:37:19.400 and even some conservatives too, 1.00
00:37:21.180 will go back to that completely idiotic book 1.00
00:37:24.720 from the 1990s 1.00
00:37:25.960 called Guns, Germs, and Steel
00:37:28.340 and try to use all of these types
00:37:31.180 of like legalistic
00:37:32.900 and mental arguments
00:37:36.060 to get out of the fact
00:37:37.280 that these civilizations
00:37:38.680 were not able to develop wheels independently,
00:37:42.180 that they were pulling things around
00:37:45.280 for thousands and thousands of years
00:37:47.740 and essentially Columbus and Cortez
00:37:50.900 and the other explorers.
00:37:53.020 They encountered a Stone Age group of people,
00:37:57.600 a Stone Age people
00:37:58.540 when they arrived on the American shores,
00:38:01.580 a group of people
00:38:02.380 that responded thusly in many cases,
00:38:05.640 by the way,
00:38:06.900 and basically it's as simple as this.
00:38:10.000 So the meme ends up like this.
00:38:11.440 I will not sit here
00:38:12.880 and be lectured to
00:38:14.440 by the descendants of wheel-less people.
00:38:16.880 Okay, so,
00:38:19.880 and I love that.
00:38:21.420 And it's also more evolution,
00:38:22.700 not just a technological one, Blake.
00:38:24.000 Let me contribute
00:38:25.500 one kind of thought on this biblically.
00:38:28.940 I said this on the show.
00:38:29.800 So there's a lot of talks about,
00:38:30.880 you know, 0.99
00:38:31.100 Hamas coming and raping the women. 0.99
00:38:33.060 Blake, you know history better 1.00
00:38:34.100 than anybody that I know.
00:38:35.540 Raping of women 1.00
00:38:36.340 was normative in the ancient world
00:38:38.260 and even up until recently, correct?
00:38:40.660 I mean,
00:38:41.740 it's pretty natural,
00:38:43.180 I would say.
00:38:43.740 In war time.
00:38:44.860 You know,
00:38:45.120 if you want to get an example
00:38:46.100 of what maybe all, like,
00:38:47.640 Stone Age people are like, 1.00
00:38:48.800 you could look at, you know,
00:38:50.500 some of the Indian tribes in America,
00:38:51.900 like the Comanches.
00:38:52.640 So the Comanches were this tribe 0.82
00:38:54.200 on the plains
00:38:54.920 and they would launch raids
00:38:56.800 into Texas,
00:38:57.620 into Mexico
00:38:58.120 and what do they do?
00:39:00.400 They go for captives
00:39:01.440 and unfortunately,
00:39:02.200 what do they do
00:39:02.600 if they take women as captives? 0.99
00:39:04.700 They're raped immediately 0.99
00:39:06.340 and they're taken back 0.83
00:39:07.520 and that is basically
00:39:08.740 what happens to them after that
00:39:10.460 and they would also, like,
00:39:11.660 torture them, you know, 0.96
00:39:12.320 they would burn them with hot coals. 0.97
00:39:13.560 Like, what is, you know,
00:39:14.360 the most basic primal thing
00:39:15.620 humans kind of like to do?
00:39:16.600 They kind of like to inflict
00:39:17.620 suffering on people
00:39:18.600 and it is a long process
00:39:20.600 of moral evolution
00:39:21.440 to overcome that
00:39:22.340 and this is a moral evolution
00:39:25.140 that thankfully,
00:39:26.220 you know,
00:39:26.500 under the influence
00:39:27.100 of things like Christianity,
00:39:28.360 the West began to go through.
00:39:30.140 I was telling you,
00:39:31.080 you know,
00:39:31.580 500 years ago,
00:39:33.040 the code of the Holy Roman Empire,
00:39:35.000 Charles V,
00:39:35.820 has the death penalty for rape
00:39:37.340 and this applies to soldiers
00:39:38.460 in wartime as well.
00:39:39.780 Not always perfectly administered
00:39:41.320 but that is the law.
00:39:42.740 400 years ago,
00:39:43.640 the Swedish military
00:39:44.600 under Gustavus Adolphus,
00:39:46.480 death penalty 0.96
00:39:47.460 if you commit rape. 0.99
00:39:48.480 As a victorious soldier 0.93
00:39:49.680 in the king's army,
00:39:50.740 if you do this, 0.97
00:39:51.360 you will be shot. 0.92
00:39:52.500 Napoleon, 1.00
00:39:53.120 he goes to Egypt
00:39:53.900 and he puts out a statement
00:39:54.900 to his men.
00:39:55.520 He says,
00:39:56.280 everywhere in the world, 0.85
00:39:57.360 a man who commits rape 0.91
00:39:58.280 is regarded as a monster 0.95
00:39:59.340 and if you do that
00:40:00.220 here in Egypt, 1.00
00:40:01.300 I will shoot you. 1.00
00:40:02.500 The Union military, 0.99
00:40:03.580 during the Civil War,
00:40:04.840 we hang men
00:40:06.100 who are convicted of rape. 1.00
00:40:07.340 Dozens of them.
00:40:08.380 We do it during World War II.
00:40:10.760 You know,
00:40:11.320 I think World War II
00:40:12.320 would be considered a time
00:40:13.260 that's pretty intense
00:40:14.300 where we're,
00:40:14.960 you know,
00:40:15.460 willing to go all out
00:40:16.580 for victory
00:40:17.180 and yet we still say,
00:40:18.280 that is not acceptable
00:40:19.320 to behavior to do in our army. 1.00
00:40:20.940 We will hang you 1.00
00:40:21.600 if you do that. 1.00
00:40:22.560 And then,
00:40:23.120 now we go to Hamas, 0.98
00:40:24.700 which is,
00:40:25.060 this is civilization
00:40:26.040 versus barbarism.
00:40:27.320 Yes.
00:40:27.500 They are certainly more,
00:40:28.420 they have more technology,
00:40:29.860 more modernism,
00:40:30.780 more access to modern,
00:40:32.180 more in the world.
00:40:32.260 They have Wi-Fi,
00:40:32.920 they have smartphones.
00:40:33.400 They have Wi-Fi.
00:40:34.440 They have access
00:40:35.440 to the full gamut
00:40:36.480 of, you know,
00:40:37.660 moral texts,
00:40:38.480 moral lessons,
00:40:39.120 anything you want.
00:40:40.420 They live better than,
00:40:42.060 you know,
00:40:42.500 they live better than
00:40:43.320 a lot of, like,
00:40:44.260 millionaires lived
00:40:45.220 200 years ago
00:40:46.260 and yet,
00:40:47.240 they still embrace atrocities 1.00
00:40:49.620 like raping women 1.00
00:40:50.980 and this outburst 1.00
00:40:51.800 of savage violence
00:40:52.700 and it's because
00:40:53.340 they are rejecting
00:40:54.620 the moral lessons
00:40:56.440 that come with,
00:40:57.560 you know,
00:40:58.000 with civilization.
00:40:59.480 It is not just a,
00:41:00.300 it's when they say
00:41:01.040 they want to decolonize,
00:41:02.440 they mean decolonize
00:41:03.300 morally too
00:41:03.940 and one of the,
00:41:04.980 you know,
00:41:05.260 moral takeaways
00:41:06.200 of the West
00:41:08.140 that we have spread
00:41:08.800 to the rest of the world
00:41:09.460 is, yeah,
00:41:09.980 you can't just
00:41:10.940 rape people 0.99
00:41:12.140 because you 1.00
00:41:13.240 invaded their house.
00:41:14.680 You can't just
00:41:15.580 enslave a defeated enemy.
00:41:17.320 That's another thing
00:41:17.820 we spread to the world,
00:41:18.680 the abolition of slavery.
00:41:19.980 The West did not invent slavery 0.96
00:41:21.420 but we did end slavery.
00:41:23.780 And so,
00:41:24.340 let's talk about
00:41:25.360 kind of rape and war 1.00
00:41:27.180 because that was normative
00:41:28.420 until the Bible came along.
00:41:29.660 There's a very obscure
00:41:31.340 but unbelievably important
00:41:33.080 and applicable law
00:41:34.200 in Deuteronomy
00:41:34.940 where it says at war
00:41:37.380 if you come across
00:41:38.940 a female that you want, 1.00
00:41:40.580 you're not allowed
00:41:41.080 to touch her, 0.99
00:41:42.020 you cannot rape her, 0.99
00:41:43.500 if you want to keep her 1.00
00:41:44.400 as a wife,
00:41:44.960 you can bring her back home,
00:41:47.040 she has to mourn
00:41:48.000 her family for 30 days
00:41:49.900 and then you may only
00:41:51.780 touch her
00:41:52.440 if you marry her.
00:41:54.500 That's a massive
00:41:55.680 moral achievement
00:41:56.560 when you think about it.
00:41:57.400 It's certainly,
00:41:58.340 it's vastly more moral
00:41:59.600 than what Hamas 0.80
00:42:00.980 is practicing.
00:42:01.720 Well, no,
00:42:01.980 but you think about it,
00:42:02.620 I mean,
00:42:02.820 you have rape and murder
00:42:04.200 to this day
00:42:05.300 and it's a law
00:42:06.460 that they say
00:42:06.940 is from God
00:42:07.660 that the only way
00:42:09.740 you're allowed
00:42:10.300 to be with that woman
00:42:11.180 is by marriage
00:42:12.060 after 30 days
00:42:13.040 and honestly,
00:42:13.760 think about it,
00:42:14.240 it's like that woman 1.00
00:42:14.760 becomes less attractive
00:42:15.640 after she's been crying
00:42:16.540 in your house
00:42:16.940 for 30 days.
00:42:18.060 You must really want her
00:42:19.300 at that point.
00:42:19.720 It really is
00:42:20.320 one of the most important things
00:42:21.660 about the Judeo-Christian heritage
00:42:23.360 which is almost,
00:42:24.480 you know,
00:42:24.620 basically every human civilization
00:42:26.020 has a moral code
00:42:27.320 for members
00:42:28.080 of its own tribe.
00:42:29.200 Like, yeah,
00:42:29.580 definitely in,
00:42:31.640 even in, you know,
00:42:32.280 Hamas' society, 0.94
00:42:33.180 yeah, 1.00
00:42:33.340 if you rape another, 1.00
00:42:34.440 you know, 1.00
00:42:34.660 Palestinian in your society, 1.00
00:42:36.440 they'll probably kill you 1.00
00:42:37.580 and they might kill her too, 1.00
00:42:39.420 honor killings, 1.00
00:42:39.920 all of that nasty stuff.
00:42:41.140 But, you know,
00:42:41.920 they have very strict moral codes
00:42:43.180 within their tribe
00:42:43.840 but it's often
00:42:44.440 anyone outside the tribe
00:42:45.660 has no moral worth whatsoever.
00:42:47.340 You can do anything
00:42:48.100 you want to them
00:42:48.900 especially in one time.
00:42:50.120 When this was for non-Jewish women 0.98
00:42:51.120 in Deuteronomy 21,
00:42:52.400 that's the point.
00:42:53.080 And an important legacy
00:42:53.620 of, you know,
00:42:54.420 of Judeo-Christian morality
00:42:55.580 is the idea that actually
00:42:56.700 all people have
00:42:58.220 some kind of moral worth.
00:42:59.300 Yes, you must love
00:42:59.780 the stranger, it says.
00:43:01.300 Yes, that's exactly right.
00:43:02.540 And that is a hugely
00:43:03.480 important thing
00:43:04.260 and it is a gift of,
00:43:06.020 you know,
00:43:06.640 a gift of Christianity
00:43:07.420 to the world
00:43:08.320 that the West
00:43:09.360 spread that norm
00:43:10.580 to more places.
00:43:11.880 And the fact that
00:43:12.960 people don't know this
00:43:14.220 or don't acknowledge it
00:43:15.040 is really just proof
00:43:17.100 of how strong
00:43:17.900 that moral evolution was
00:43:20.600 that now we just
00:43:21.240 take it for granted.
00:43:21.780 Oh, of course,
00:43:22.740 everyone would do that.
00:43:23.640 But as we saw
00:43:24.380 this last weekend,
00:43:25.360 not everyone does that.
00:43:26.660 No, not at all.
00:43:27.220 In fact,
00:43:27.720 left to their own devices,
00:43:29.080 these people become
00:43:30.060 absolute unrestrained 0.67
00:43:31.740 savage animals.
00:43:33.780 So, Jack,
00:43:34.380 before we move on
00:43:35.140 to the next topic,
00:43:36.020 any closing thoughts
00:43:36.840 on the colonialist
00:43:37.900 or colonization?
00:43:39.980 Because with Columbus Day
00:43:41.720 and all of this,
00:43:42.820 you know,
00:43:43.060 we are told
00:43:43.760 that the indigenous people
00:43:45.180 were nothing
00:43:45.640 but these wonderful,
00:43:46.860 peace-loving people
00:43:47.740 never displaced
00:43:49.000 until the white man
00:43:50.060 came along.
00:43:51.180 Final thoughts on this, Jack.
00:43:53.000 Yeah, here's a final thought.
00:43:54.360 Miscuzi,
00:43:55.560 the child sacrifice
00:43:56.800 will stop.
00:43:58.160 We're so sorry.
00:43:59.160 Oh, no,
00:43:59.940 the far right are here.
00:44:01.360 They're stopping us
00:44:02.140 from sacrificing the babies.
00:44:04.300 Keep in mind, by the way,
00:44:05.020 just like on a factual note,
00:44:08.480 all of the other tribes 0.99
00:44:10.940 around the Aztecs
00:44:12.400 joined up with Cortes
00:44:14.640 to destroy the Aztecs, 0.91
00:44:17.180 all the Mexican tribes 0.99
00:44:18.020 outside of there,
00:44:19.160 the Mesoamerican tribes,
00:44:20.300 because the Aztecs
00:44:22.020 were forcing them
00:44:23.180 to give over their children
00:44:25.360 for sacrifice
00:44:26.760 to their pagan gods.
00:44:28.780 I'm sorry,
00:44:29.540 we're not doing this anymore.
00:44:31.600 No more child sacrifice,
00:44:33.640 no more baby killing.
00:44:34.860 This is one of the first things,
00:44:36.780 the first influences
00:44:37.540 you see out of the Old Testament
00:44:39.540 when God first starts
00:44:41.860 to make himself known
00:44:42.920 throughout the entire world,
00:44:45.280 which then, by the way,
00:44:46.500 of course,
00:44:47.140 is reflected in the story
00:44:48.840 of Christ,
00:44:50.320 where we see
00:44:51.200 God ends child sacrifice
00:44:53.360 by submitting
00:44:55.220 to have his own child
00:44:57.600 sacrificed for everyone else.
00:45:00.160 If you do not understand
00:45:01.760 that this is one of the central themes
00:45:03.360 of the Bible,
00:45:04.060 then I suggest you have not read
00:45:05.220 the actual book.
00:45:07.180 That's exactly right.
00:45:08.360 And child sacrifice
00:45:09.660 was normative and abundant.
00:45:11.540 In fact,
00:45:11.980 there are many laws
00:45:13.380 in the book of Leviticus
00:45:15.000 that talk about Molech,
00:45:16.840 which was the god
00:45:17.480 of child sacrifice.
00:45:18.100 And all these, like,
00:45:19.120 egghead intellectuals
00:45:19.960 in the 1800s
00:45:20.620 would be like,
00:45:20.900 this is obviously made up,
00:45:22.160 this is just war propaganda,
00:45:23.120 and then we excavated Carthage,
00:45:24.980 and they're like...
00:45:25.680 No, tell us about that.
00:45:26.520 That's not as obvious to me,
00:45:27.560 so what do you mean?
00:45:28.040 So I think Topher
00:45:28.840 is the name
00:45:29.380 for what they supposedly end up,
00:45:31.700 like these kind of
00:45:32.300 child graveyards.
00:45:33.420 And so in Carthage,
00:45:36.000 of course,
00:45:36.300 like even,
00:45:36.840 not even just Jewish writings,
00:45:38.380 there's even Roman writings
00:45:39.400 that are like Carthage...
00:45:40.180 Did they eat babies? 0.99
00:45:41.020 Was that right?
00:45:41.400 I don't think it was eating,
00:45:42.400 but not to my knowledge anyway.
00:45:44.120 But, you know,
00:45:44.600 the Romans,
00:45:45.200 they fight Carthage,
00:45:46.060 which is a Phoenician city,
00:45:47.020 so it's actually
00:45:47.560 the same culture group
00:45:48.860 as like the Canaanites.
00:45:50.840 And they always say,
00:45:52.260 like, the Carthaginians,
00:45:53.360 they sacrifice babies to Baal. 0.97
00:45:56.300 And a lot of people
00:45:57.620 just assumed, you know,
00:45:58.580 Rome fought these horrible wars
00:46:00.280 with Carthage,
00:46:01.020 three Punic wars.
00:46:02.100 They probably just made that up,
00:46:03.580 exaggerated this war propaganda
00:46:04.760 to justify conquering Carthage.
00:46:07.660 And people just assumed this
00:46:09.740 for hundreds of years.
00:46:11.240 And then we've been
00:46:11.900 excavating Carthage,
00:46:13.420 and they have found
00:46:14.660 these, like,
00:46:15.940 these child graveyards.
00:46:17.240 And one of the things about it
00:46:18.480 is another theory was,
00:46:19.880 well, maybe they, you know,
00:46:20.880 they just sacrificed infants
00:46:22.480 that were going to die anyway.
00:46:23.800 And so you take a sickly infant
00:46:25.400 and you say,
00:46:25.980 this is to Baal.
00:46:27.500 No, there are healthy infants
00:46:29.300 that are being sacrificed to Baal. 0.68
00:46:31.320 So they are deliberately
00:46:32.140 taking children who could live,
00:46:34.240 and they are sacrificing them
00:46:36.160 to a god.
00:46:37.680 Why they would do that?
00:46:39.260 We can only imagine
00:46:40.220 horrifying reasons to do it,
00:46:41.700 but it seems it was,
00:46:42.660 it was not propaganda.
00:46:44.360 It's amazing when you think about it.
00:46:46.480 There's, off the top of my head,
00:46:47.720 at least five major
00:46:49.280 ancient civilizations,
00:46:51.120 many of whom had never
00:46:52.080 had any contact with each other,
00:46:53.400 that all had institutional
00:46:55.860 public practices
00:46:56.920 of sacrificing children
00:46:58.020 on other sides of the world.
00:46:59.620 The Mayans,
00:47:00.600 the Aztecs,
00:47:01.460 the Egyptians,
00:47:03.020 Indus River Valley.
00:47:04.920 It's, again,
00:47:05.860 it's something we take for granted
00:47:07.200 that, oh, wait, you know,
00:47:08.800 children's lives
00:47:09.480 should be protected.
00:47:10.160 The innocent's lives
00:47:10.900 should be protected.
00:47:11.600 We should look out
00:47:12.360 for people who are helpless.
00:47:14.880 We should care for people
00:47:16.440 who have less than us.
00:47:17.440 And that's not
00:47:18.000 a natural human impulse at all.
00:47:19.840 No, it is taught.
00:47:21.580 It is, it is,
00:47:22.540 it is environmental.
00:47:23.740 I believe it's given to us
00:47:24.780 by God
00:47:25.900 to make the world
00:47:27.060 a better place,
00:47:28.220 a more moral place.
00:47:29.760 Okay,
00:47:30.060 and we're going to involve
00:47:30.940 Tyler here
00:47:31.460 because the next topic
00:47:32.780 is going to be great.
00:47:33.460 Sorry, Jack.
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00:48:51.620 So Tyler,
00:48:52.760 I'm going to kind of
00:48:53.760 call on you here
00:48:54.640 because this has been
00:48:56.100 a fun kind of debate
00:48:57.380 within our chat.
00:48:59.000 Blake, myself,
00:49:00.100 and Jack
00:49:00.600 have had
00:49:01.260 very strong opinions
00:49:02.640 that RFK Jr.
00:49:04.680 running as an independent
00:49:05.960 will hurt Trump
00:49:07.180 more than Biden.
00:49:08.220 A couple weeks ago
00:49:09.260 you disagreed.
00:49:10.440 Do you still have
00:49:11.060 that opinion, Tyler?
00:49:12.060 And please,
00:49:12.600 walk us through all of it.
00:49:13.440 You're the political strategist here.
00:49:15.160 The floor is yours.
00:49:16.340 RFK is officially running
00:49:17.440 as an independent.
00:49:18.240 Well, nobody knows
00:49:19.400 what could happen with this.
00:49:20.600 So first off,
00:49:22.420 you know,
00:49:23.040 the takes,
00:49:23.880 the hot takes
00:49:24.420 could be totally wrong
00:49:25.220 on either side
00:49:25.920 because this is,
00:49:27.000 we're entering into
00:49:27.760 new territory
00:49:28.460 with an incumbent
00:49:30.540 president
00:49:31.420 who nobody likes,
00:49:32.880 no one even thinks
00:49:33.440 he's going to make it
00:49:34.060 to the presidency
00:49:34.680 next year
00:49:35.400 and to the race.
00:49:38.340 And then we have Trump
00:49:39.120 who is,
00:49:39.780 you know,
00:49:40.660 right in line
00:49:41.320 with national polling
00:49:42.420 and negatives
00:49:42.960 and everything else.
00:49:43.700 And so,
00:49:44.540 enter RFK.
00:49:45.660 And so I,
00:49:46.540 I'll tell you,
00:49:47.640 this is my take
00:49:48.500 and we can start this off
00:49:50.400 and have a discussion
00:49:51.400 about it,
00:49:52.040 but there is concern,
00:49:54.240 legitimate concern
00:49:55.000 that RFK
00:49:56.160 could swing
00:49:56.900 the votes
00:49:58.680 either way.
00:49:59.540 And I think
00:50:00.340 everybody's kind of
00:50:01.300 frozen right now
00:50:02.240 on both sides
00:50:02.940 because you're not
00:50:03.500 really seeing
00:50:04.240 a for or against
00:50:05.760 because when you know
00:50:07.100 that the Democrats
00:50:08.100 like really expose
00:50:08.940 themselves,
00:50:09.360 if they really thought
00:50:10.400 that RFK
00:50:11.760 was going to be
00:50:12.260 helpful to them,
00:50:13.260 they would be
00:50:13.880 promoting him
00:50:14.420 like crazy.
00:50:15.680 They're not doing that.
00:50:16.800 They hate him.
00:50:17.620 They're angry with him.
00:50:18.760 They're not providing
00:50:19.280 data to him.
00:50:20.540 He told them to go
00:50:21.140 F themselves.
00:50:21.980 And so,
00:50:22.820 you know,
00:50:23.060 that's where they're at.
00:50:24.520 And so I believe
00:50:25.960 that RFK
00:50:27.080 has a greater
00:50:29.260 likelihood of
00:50:30.100 pulling from
00:50:30.880 the Democrat base,
00:50:32.420 particularly in
00:50:33.120 specific states
00:50:33.960 on the East Coast
00:50:35.320 and in other places
00:50:36.100 that really matter
00:50:36.880 where he's more popular
00:50:38.520 and the family brand
00:50:39.680 is more popular
00:50:40.340 than he does
00:50:41.260 of hurting Trump.
00:50:42.560 Other people disagree,
00:50:43.900 but I just don't see
00:50:45.080 where you have
00:50:46.800 any kind of
00:50:47.820 interest at all
00:50:49.160 from moderate Republicans
00:50:50.780 in supporting
00:50:51.740 RFK.
00:50:52.820 Now,
00:50:53.560 with that being said,
00:50:54.600 we're seeing
00:50:55.300 some really nefarious
00:50:56.700 characters come out
00:50:57.780 and try to prop up
00:50:58.960 RFK.
00:50:59.700 I think it's really
00:51:00.680 early on.
00:51:01.420 They're just angry
00:51:01.980 because their candidate
00:51:02.920 is performing so poorly
00:51:04.940 against Trump
00:51:05.680 and they're going to
00:51:06.060 come around like we
00:51:06.880 saw in 2016
00:51:07.800 when people were doing
00:51:09.420 this with guys
00:51:10.520 like Kasich
00:51:11.140 and with Evan McMullen
00:51:13.200 and other people
00:51:13.980 that were popping up.
00:51:15.200 But that's just
00:51:16.140 my take,
00:51:17.160 which is right now,
00:51:18.200 I feel pretty good
00:51:19.620 about having someone
00:51:20.560 come from the left
00:51:21.760 to help split
00:51:22.980 the left's vote.
00:51:25.200 And we just saw
00:51:26.220 a new poll come out
00:51:26.860 here in Arizona.
00:51:27.640 A good example of this
00:51:28.500 is Kyrsten Sinema.
00:51:30.240 Carrie Lake just announced 0.97
00:51:31.260 she is way ahead
00:51:33.480 in the polls
00:51:34.080 of the other person
00:51:36.320 that's in the race
00:51:36.800 here in Arizona,
00:51:37.560 Mark Lamb.
00:51:39.280 Kyrsten Sinema
00:51:40.020 is not loved
00:51:40.780 by the Democrat base,
00:51:42.500 but she pulls
00:51:43.380 more moderates.
00:51:44.740 And even with polling
00:51:45.620 a good amount
00:51:46.860 of Republicans
00:51:47.480 away from Carrie Lake
00:51:48.580 even a little bit more
00:51:50.460 so,
00:51:50.960 there's going to be
00:51:52.020 a significant portion
00:51:53.260 of Democrats
00:51:53.720 who are always going
00:51:54.460 to vote for Kyrsten Sinema.
00:51:56.180 And so that gives us
00:51:56.880 a real advantage
00:51:57.800 when we talk about
00:51:59.180 the battle
00:52:00.480 of throwing everything
00:52:01.500 cattywampus
00:52:02.060 for the Democrats
00:52:02.600 and how they're chasing ballots,
00:52:04.420 how they're looking
00:52:05.020 at the numbers
00:52:05.580 in specific precincts
00:52:06.920 in a state like Arizona
00:52:08.020 because it really comes
00:52:08.620 down to three states.
00:52:10.100 So we can kind of
00:52:11.180 have that debate
00:52:11.780 and that conversation.
00:52:12.820 But I know
00:52:14.140 you guys disagree.
00:52:15.240 Jack disagrees.
00:52:17.480 I disagree.
00:52:19.460 Jack,
00:52:19.760 why do you disagree
00:52:20.540 with Tyler's
00:52:21.440 substantive analysis there?
00:52:24.920 So,
00:52:25.700 look,
00:52:26.820 it's,
00:52:27.080 it's,
00:52:27.840 and I admittedly
00:52:29.540 you're talking about
00:52:30.380 the specifics
00:52:31.580 of a couple
00:52:33.040 of different states.
00:52:34.160 Where I'm really looking
00:52:34.980 at is the Rust Belt.
00:52:36.180 This has been
00:52:36.760 my focus
00:52:37.940 since 2016
00:52:39.340 and even prior
00:52:40.860 to then,
00:52:41.480 just understanding
00:52:42.260 the types of,
00:52:43.660 the types of voters
00:52:44.820 that Donald Trump
00:52:45.820 or a Republican,
00:52:47.900 but I mean,
00:52:48.220 I think it's pretty clear
00:52:49.120 Trump's going to win
00:52:49.580 the primary,
00:52:50.500 at this point
00:52:51.280 could flip
00:52:52.220 in order to produce
00:52:53.720 states that could slide
00:52:55.560 from the blue column
00:52:57.000 into the red column.
00:52:58.600 And there's only
00:52:59.360 a few parts of the country
00:53:00.400 where you can do this.
00:53:01.600 And the Rust Belt,
00:53:02.780 as we saw in 2016,
00:53:04.300 proved decisive,
00:53:05.820 proved absolutely decisive.
00:53:07.340 So those types
00:53:08.960 of voters
00:53:09.520 are these
00:53:10.900 working class
00:53:11.940 blue collar
00:53:13.600 in many cases,
00:53:15.360 not necessarily
00:53:17.160 super socially
00:53:18.440 conservative,
00:53:20.440 but are very much
00:53:21.940 pro-worker
00:53:22.780 and pro,
00:53:24.620 you know,
00:53:24.880 pro-USA,
00:53:25.800 America first,
00:53:26.500 I guess is probably
00:53:27.000 the best way to put it.
00:53:28.080 So that's Pennsylvania,
00:53:29.820 Michigan,
00:53:30.700 Wisconsin.
00:53:31.920 Well,
00:53:32.380 unfortunately,
00:53:33.360 the way politics works
00:53:34.420 is that there are lanes.
00:53:35.840 So there are lanes
00:53:36.620 to those voters.
00:53:37.740 Chris Christie tried
00:53:38.520 to get those voters.
00:53:39.440 That was supposed
00:53:40.120 to be a huge appeal
00:53:41.000 of Chris Christie
00:53:41.640 when he ran
00:53:42.260 the few times
00:53:43.360 that he ran.
00:53:43.800 And of course,
00:53:44.180 I mean ran
00:53:44.760 in the political sense,
00:53:46.360 not in the actual
00:53:47.040 physical sense of running
00:53:47.940 because Chris Christie
00:53:48.620 can't do that.
00:53:50.240 No, it's not possible.
00:53:52.380 And so
00:53:53.340 when I look
00:53:54.760 at those states,
00:53:55.900 I say,
00:53:56.440 well,
00:53:56.580 Trump can really
00:53:57.980 clean up there
00:53:59.120 in a way
00:54:00.160 that no other Republican can.
00:54:01.760 You're certainly
00:54:02.140 not going to be able
00:54:02.720 to win those states
00:54:03.580 by calling for war
00:54:05.140 with Iran,
00:54:06.020 by calling for
00:54:06.600 war with Syria,
00:54:07.480 boots on the ground.
00:54:08.260 It's just not something
00:54:09.500 that these voters
00:54:10.740 go for.
00:54:11.540 And in the same way
00:54:12.560 as we've seen
00:54:13.280 that those voters
00:54:14.540 are not interested
00:54:15.640 in federal bans
00:54:16.720 or even state bans
00:54:17.660 on abortion.
00:54:18.240 In fact,
00:54:18.920 Michigan just enshrined
00:54:19.880 abortion in their 0.53
00:54:20.740 constitution.
00:54:21.760 That being said,
00:54:23.680 if you take a guy
00:54:24.800 like RFK,
00:54:26.380 he appeals
00:54:27.560 to those types
00:54:28.740 of moderates
00:54:29.600 and independents
00:54:30.660 that Trump
00:54:31.460 would need
00:54:32.280 to win over
00:54:33.220 in order
00:54:33.680 to flip
00:54:34.080 those states.
00:54:35.040 Would it be
00:54:35.460 all of them?
00:54:36.200 No,
00:54:36.480 of course not.
00:54:37.420 Would he flip
00:54:38.020 rock-ribbed,
00:54:39.740 thought-crime
00:54:40.560 listening,
00:54:41.240 Trump supporters?
00:54:42.100 No,
00:54:42.340 of course not.
00:54:43.300 But could he flip
00:54:45.320 enough people
00:54:45.880 in the middle
00:54:46.580 to swing
00:54:47.400 those states
00:54:48.180 to Biden?
00:54:48.880 I think that he
00:54:49.360 absolutely could,
00:54:50.300 and I think
00:54:50.660 that's exactly
00:54:51.260 how you will
00:54:51.740 see this play out
00:54:52.580 if,
00:54:53.420 by the way,
00:54:54.040 he's able
00:54:54.640 to get on the ballot
00:54:55.520 in all these states.
00:54:56.460 My other question
00:54:57.820 in all of this
00:54:58.540 is how much
00:54:59.500 or what size
00:55:01.760 house did the
00:55:02.560 DNC promise
00:55:03.780 to Cornel West
00:55:04.780 to get him
00:55:05.540 to drop out
00:55:06.100 of the Green
00:55:06.460 Party primary
00:55:07.180 because the Green
00:55:09.120 Party was going
00:55:09.620 to get him
00:55:09.940 on the ballot,
00:55:10.500 but him running
00:55:10.920 as independent,
00:55:11.660 I just don't see
00:55:12.440 him actually being
00:55:13.000 on the ballot
00:55:13.400 in these states
00:55:13.840 now.
00:55:14.900 So what is it?
00:55:15.760 How many bedrooms?
00:55:17.220 Well,
00:55:17.540 can I just interject
00:55:18.380 here to just say
00:55:19.380 it's really difficult
00:55:20.220 to get on the ballot
00:55:20.980 as an independent?
00:55:23.140 One sec,
00:55:23.720 Tyler's talking.
00:55:24.400 Yeah.
00:55:24.940 All right,
00:55:25.400 Blake,
00:55:25.820 take it away.
00:55:26.780 So I think
00:55:28.700 I also agree
00:55:30.200 that RFK running
00:55:31.100 is going to be
00:55:32.120 bad for Trump,
00:55:33.240 but I don't know
00:55:33.700 if it's that he appeals
00:55:34.500 to moderates.
00:55:35.500 I think the image
00:55:36.860 in my head,
00:55:37.420 the kind of
00:55:37.900 I'm with you on this.
00:55:38.840 Who is a person
00:55:39.420 who's going to vote for him?
00:55:40.360 I think what it's actually
00:55:41.280 going to be is
00:55:42.380 what's like the biggest event
00:55:44.640 of the last five years.
00:55:45.540 It's COVID
00:55:45.880 and then also like
00:55:46.740 the subsequent post-COVID thing,
00:55:48.600 vaccine mandates,
00:55:49.580 all of that.
00:55:50.220 There's just a ton
00:55:50.960 of people who
00:55:51.560 this is just a huge event
00:55:52.840 in their political lives
00:55:54.100 and there are people
00:55:55.620 who are just still outraged
00:55:57.740 about the vaccines,
00:55:58.980 the vaccine mandates,
00:56:00.140 whether those vaccines
00:56:01.040 cause people to die, 0.92
00:56:02.160 get injured and so on.
00:56:03.540 And I think there's still
00:56:05.220 going to be a good kernel
00:56:06.640 of many thousands
00:56:07.800 of people
00:56:08.380 who are,
00:56:09.480 for lack of a better term,
00:56:10.260 they're like COVID
00:56:10.920 single issue voters.
00:56:12.360 Not so much
00:56:13.300 like on COVID itself,
00:56:14.820 but they're angry
00:56:16.120 at Trump that Trump
00:56:17.260 promoted the vaccines,
00:56:20.840 did Operation Warp Speed,
00:56:22.380 all of that.
00:56:23.100 And they just think
00:56:23.800 Trump has burned
00:56:25.080 the bridge with me forever
00:56:26.080 because of that one thing.
00:56:27.520 And I need to go
00:56:28.460 with someone
00:56:28.920 whose COVID credentials
00:56:30.460 are totally impeccable.
00:56:32.220 And normally,
00:56:33.180 I would think
00:56:33.640 this would sort of fade away
00:56:34.700 and it might,
00:56:35.260 it might still fade away
00:56:36.160 in the next year
00:56:36.840 and a half or so.
00:56:38.120 But these people
00:56:38.760 have kind of coalesced
00:56:39.700 into these groups.
00:56:40.460 They're on a lot
00:56:40.840 of telegram channels together
00:56:42.120 that have their own
00:56:44.240 sort of political environment.
00:56:46.060 And I can just see
00:56:46.880 these sort of eccentric
00:56:49.340 COVID obsessives
00:56:50.960 being not a large voter block,
00:56:53.480 but they're one
00:56:54.520 of those marginal voter blocks
00:56:55.740 that make the difference
00:56:56.440 in whether you win or not.
00:56:57.460 And if he just gets
00:56:58.440 even, you know,
00:56:59.960 300,000,
00:57:00.860 500,000 of those voters,
00:57:02.220 that could be
00:57:02.860 what costs him
00:57:03.820 the state
00:57:04.300 that would have gotten him 0.52
00:57:05.060 to 270.
00:57:05.640 Yeah, here's my take on this.
00:57:07.140 And I just know this
00:57:07.760 from the audience
00:57:08.400 because in our audience,
00:57:09.420 there's some huge RFK fans still.
00:57:11.240 In fact, a lot of people
00:57:11.800 that say they're going to vote
00:57:12.440 for RFK over Trump.
00:57:13.840 And that's a real thing.
00:57:15.340 I'd say probably 10%.
00:57:16.760 One out of 10
00:57:17.760 would have that sentiment.
00:57:19.200 And maybe that will decrease
00:57:19.940 as we get closer
00:57:20.680 and people realize
00:57:21.380 that RFK is a flaming liberal.
00:57:23.080 But it's low trust, high trust.
00:57:25.040 That's how I try to divide things.
00:57:26.300 And that Donald Trump
00:57:27.180 is running a low trust campaign,
00:57:28.920 meaning we can't trust
00:57:29.680 our institutions.
00:57:30.520 They're lying to us.
00:57:31.500 They're rigged against us.
00:57:32.260 They want to put me in prison.
00:57:33.820 And Joe Biden is going to run
00:57:35.720 a high trust campaign, right?
00:57:37.440 Institutions are actually working.
00:57:39.020 We can't give me power
00:57:40.260 because the other guys
00:57:41.240 are going to disassemble
00:57:42.680 our institutions.
00:57:43.380 So 2024 will be about
00:57:44.240 a lot of things.
00:57:45.040 One of the dynamics will be,
00:57:46.720 are you a low trust
00:57:47.400 or high trust voter, right?
00:57:48.780 Republicans used to be
00:57:49.500 a high trust coalition
00:57:50.580 back in the 90s
00:57:51.500 and early 2000s.
00:57:52.520 You know, intel agencies are good.
00:57:54.340 The Democrats want to disassemble.
00:57:55.980 And it's really been
00:57:56.780 an inversion of high trust,
00:57:57.780 low trust.
00:57:58.300 RFK is the most
00:57:59.600 low trust candidate, right?
00:58:01.100 He believes that the intel agencies
00:58:02.400 killed his uncle.
00:58:03.080 I happen to agree, right?
00:58:04.260 He has all very strong opinions
00:58:06.020 on vaccines and medical freedom.
00:58:07.400 And, I mean, Blake,
00:58:09.000 would you agree
00:58:09.620 that the medical freedom crowd,
00:58:13.080 that they're not
00:58:14.200 Joe Biden voters ever, right?
00:58:15.860 I mean, they would have been
00:58:16.980 maybe mad at Trump
00:58:17.940 over a vaccine or whatever
00:58:19.200 and then yielded towards RFK.
00:58:21.340 Would you agree with that, Blake?
00:58:22.120 I think that that's
00:58:23.060 the situation we're looking at.
00:58:24.620 And especially,
00:58:25.280 I would also say,
00:58:26.280 because, actually,
00:58:27.880 because they're low trust voters,
00:58:29.340 that can also make them, 0.82
00:58:30.780 I think, relatively immune
00:58:32.260 to more strategic voting.
00:58:34.780 So I think there's a lot of people,
00:58:36.400 you know, a lot of us,
00:58:37.200 you know, a lot of people
00:58:37.880 make the calculation,
00:58:38.720 you know, who can I vote for
00:58:39.960 who will have the best chance
00:58:41.240 to win even if I have
00:58:42.340 differences with them
00:58:43.200 and they're better
00:58:43.680 than the alternative.
00:58:44.760 But people who are lower trust,
00:58:47.600 they're more likely to think
00:58:48.440 the election's rigged anyway.
00:58:49.920 They're more likely to think,
00:58:51.120 well, even if I vote this way,
00:58:52.760 you know, the deep state
00:58:53.360 will sabotage it or something.
00:58:54.860 I'm just going to vote
00:58:55.460 for who I have the strongest
00:58:56.420 gut feeling for.
00:58:58.320 And that's going to be
00:58:59.680 a lot of people
00:59:00.040 who like to vote for RFK.
00:59:01.260 Tyler, final thoughts here
00:59:02.260 because we've got to wrap.
00:59:02.860 Well, I mean, I would say this.
00:59:04.760 So in response to that,
00:59:06.220 so I totally agree
00:59:08.180 that you always have breakage,
00:59:10.100 what they call breakage.
00:59:11.060 So people who are going to vote
00:59:12.360 for the other party
00:59:13.060 because they don't like your candidate.
00:59:14.780 There's always a subgroup
00:59:15.960 that feels that way.
00:59:17.400 What Democrats have figured out
00:59:18.280 a long time ago
00:59:18.920 is that that number
00:59:19.800 typically just kind of
00:59:22.200 hovers around
00:59:23.400 seven to nine percent
00:59:24.900 of the electorate.
00:59:26.260 And so I think
00:59:27.180 what you're going to see happen
00:59:28.300 this election,
00:59:29.680 if you have RFK in the ballot,
00:59:30.840 that Republicans who typically
00:59:32.640 that want to divorce themselves
00:59:35.980 from Trump,
00:59:36.580 that typically will be like,
00:59:37.920 oh, I'll vote for Biden, right?
00:59:39.600 Like the Republicans
00:59:40.440 for Biden camp.
00:59:41.840 Again, that turned out to be
00:59:43.960 probably right around
00:59:45.120 the ballpark,
00:59:45.900 about five, six percent
00:59:46.820 of the rest were libertarians
00:59:47.840 that voted for
00:59:48.600 the libertarian candidate.
00:59:50.080 Those people will vote
00:59:51.300 for RFK.
00:59:52.860 But you're not going to
00:59:54.220 you're not going to see
00:59:55.640 a dramatic increase
00:59:57.180 from that number.
00:59:57.880 But it benefits us
00:59:59.760 because those numbers
01:00:00.480 don't go to Biden.
01:00:01.620 And then the
01:00:02.380 the alternate situation
01:00:04.900 as well.
01:00:05.480 Are there more
01:00:06.320 is there more breakage
01:00:07.480 that are going to
01:00:08.320 abandon the Democrat Party
01:00:10.620 and vote for RFK
01:00:11.760 instead of Trump?
01:00:12.900 And I actually think
01:00:13.680 that you're going to see
01:00:14.280 a larger number of Democrats
01:00:15.760 that are more willing
01:00:16.380 to do that
01:00:17.000 instead of voting for Trump
01:00:18.380 because what we said,
01:00:19.520 the low trust,
01:00:20.400 high trust thing,
01:00:21.560 they're actually going to
01:00:23.120 trust an independent candidate
01:00:24.700 to be OK with it.
01:00:25.480 High independent numbers
01:00:26.260 exist in states like Arizona.
01:00:28.160 Georgia,
01:00:29.120 you're seeing higher numbers
01:00:30.120 of that with younger people
01:00:31.100 moving into Georgia.
01:00:32.580 And so I actually think
01:00:33.360 the ultimate result is
01:00:34.380 is like at the end of the day,
01:00:35.520 your breakage isn't going
01:00:36.540 to increase.
01:00:37.260 It's just going to go
01:00:38.040 somewhere else
01:00:38.680 and it's better for it
01:00:39.600 to go to RFK
01:00:40.480 than it is to go
01:00:41.480 to the other side.
01:00:42.840 And at the end of the day,
01:00:43.840 that just comes down to,
01:00:44.840 again,
01:00:45.260 you're going to end up
01:00:45.980 in the same pool
01:00:46.620 where a poll just came out
01:00:48.440 actually yesterday,
01:00:49.640 I think,
01:00:50.240 looking at this
01:00:51.160 that showed,
01:00:52.480 oh, with RFK in the race,
01:00:54.080 it actually,
01:00:54.720 I think it was Wisconsin,
01:00:55.980 it doesn't change anything.
01:00:57.100 It's still like
01:00:57.800 a 50-50 competitive state.
01:00:59.620 And so ultimately,
01:01:00.100 it's going to come down
01:01:00.820 to how many ballots,
01:01:01.880 how many low propensity ballots
01:01:03.200 for Democrats and Republicans
01:01:04.660 can they get in the box
01:01:05.580 for Biden or Trump?
01:01:07.520 Because RFK is not going
01:01:08.520 to win that battle.
01:01:09.980 So, you know,
01:01:10.640 and they're probably going
01:01:11.640 to wash each other out
01:01:12.640 for the most part
01:01:13.240 because both sides
01:01:14.300 have very similar numbers
01:01:15.720 of breakage.
01:01:16.780 It's just how it's always
01:01:17.740 worked in most of these states.
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