Joe Biden's State of the Union speech included a gaffe that will forever change the way we think about the state of our country. In this episode, Oren talks about the moment when Biden accidentally said, "Would you like us to decriminalize the border crossings?"
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00:03:31.720All right, so like I said, the big standout moment from Biden's speech, his State of the Union address, was the moment where he messed up Lichen Reilly's name.
00:03:43.440He was talking about the border situation.
00:04:30.100It is an absolute fulfillment of what the left wants for this country.
00:04:34.720And so Joe Biden was attempting to defend his border policy.
00:04:37.760He was spinning it, talking about how the Republicans had turned down his critical border bill, the one he needed to go ahead and secure the border.
00:04:46.620Of course, Biden doesn't need anything to secure the border.
00:04:49.440He already has the political mandate necessary.
00:04:51.880He already has, in fact, the laws on the books to do so.
00:04:57.020He went ahead and rescinded the executive orders that were in place by Trump to go ahead and make sure the border was more secure.
00:05:02.720He went out of his way to make sure that we have a completely open border.
00:05:07.820But he, of course, needs to get up and lie about this.
00:05:10.460And so while he's doing so, Marjorie Taylor Greene goes ahead and yells at Joe Biden, you need to go ahead and say Lincoln Riley's name because she's been murdered by an illegal immigrant that was let through due to your policies.
00:05:23.220And Joe Biden has no real answer to that.
00:06:05.860We don't talk about how any human is illegal, even if they're a murderer, even if they're alleged to have killed this woman, caved her head in.
00:07:08.980And look, when I spoke about the difference between.
00:07:11.940Biden squinting like he's staring into the sun, barely keep his eyes open, barely knows where he is.
00:07:18.140But the one thing he has been coached on before he walks into this interview is that he needs to hit this mark, right?
00:07:24.140He needs to go in and apologize for his use of the word illegal.
00:07:28.620Now, remember, in the theory, according to the Constitution, the way that people understand power in the United States, the way that even conservatives today pretend that power in the United States works.
00:07:39.580Joe Biden is supposed to be the most powerful person in the world, the leader of the United States, the most powerful country in the world, the largest economy, the most powerful military, the most terrifying force that the globe has ever seen.
00:07:53.520And Joe Biden is supposed to be the chief executive at the head of this.
00:07:57.860And yet Joe Biden has to apologize for calling a murderer an illegal.
00:08:05.600He has to apologize for the one true thing he has said.
00:08:10.520That this person is an illegal and that people who are murdered by illegals, it's terrible because those people shouldn't be here.
00:08:17.980The people committing those crimes should not be in the country.
00:08:20.480And yet he has to get up and apologize for that.
00:08:23.960He has to go ahead and grovel before all of these people.
00:08:27.320And this is how you know who's actually in charge of the United States.
00:11:23.040Nothing to do with the communities that are destroyed.
00:11:25.800Nothing to do with the lives that are shattered.
00:11:27.660The thing that matters is the identity, the identifying, the dignity of the person, the identification they want to go by.
00:11:37.180That person, the murderer, that's the one that we care about the most.
00:11:40.180But then he gets into the second part of this.
00:11:42.760Trump and me, one of the things I talked about in the border was the way he talks about vermin, the way he talks about these people polluting the blood.
00:11:51.240I talked about what I'm not going to do, what I won't do.
00:11:54.020I'm not going to treat any of these people with disrespect.
00:14:15.160That you deserve to have your neighborhoods destroyed.
00:14:18.500And if one of your children is killed, if your daughter has her head caved in, well, you just, you deserve that.
00:14:25.000Because at the end of the day, you're probably a white Christian male.
00:14:28.880And that is the worst person that has ever existed on the planet.
00:14:32.740So whatever happens to your family, that's fine.
00:14:35.560That's just the price of freedom, right?
00:14:37.720Jon Stewart told us, now that he's back at The Daily Show, right, that dirty subways and needles and people getting murdered and mugged, that's just the cost of freedom.
00:14:50.340That's the cost of living in a modern city.
00:15:48.220And so this has been going on for a long time.
00:15:51.780And one of the places that people have been flown in from is Haiti.
00:15:55.240We also have plenty of footage of Haitian immigrants coming in at the southern border as well.
00:16:01.140So we know there's a lot of people who are trying to cross in here from Haiti.
00:16:05.160And that's pretty understandable because Haiti has been a really terrible place for a very long time.
00:16:10.740Donald Trump referred to Haiti as a shithole country.
00:16:14.120And a lot of celebrities got really angry.
00:16:17.120They started wearing shirts about how Haiti was always great.
00:16:20.380Bill Maher and, you know, all these other celebrities started wearing, Conan O'Brien started wearing t-shirts about how great Haiti was, making posts about it.
00:17:20.660Because Haiti is pretty much always in a terrible situation.
00:17:24.760But recently, it's gotten even more out of control because the criminal gangs have completely locked out their government.
00:17:31.480There's just no way that the government can exert any real influence inside of Haiti.
00:17:36.400By the way, this is what actual anarchy looks like for the people who, you know, the angry libertarians who jump into my mentions on Twitter and on YouTube.
00:17:46.260This is what actual anarchy looks like.
00:19:53.400We have no way to understand what's going on with them.
00:19:56.620And so if these people who are literally cannibals running the country, murdering people, and eating them want to enter the United States because they figure they're done with Haiti, there's nothing we can do about that.
00:20:07.520We really have no way to stop them at this point.
00:20:09.560In fact, the Biden administration will probably fly them in.
00:20:12.320And when they inevitably murder someone in your country, you'll be called a racist for opposing it.
00:20:18.020I'm going to get a little bit more into the situation in Haiti and why we are so defenseless against the dangers of illegal immigration.
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00:21:39.660So like I said, Haiti is out of control.
00:21:42.140Now, obviously, this is a foreign country.
00:21:44.000I'm not going to spend a ton of time analyzing all of the problems there because, honestly, my primary interest is what is happening in the United States.
00:21:51.940Haiti has been a disaster for basically its entire history.
00:21:56.800It's been a disaster for a very long time, and it's still a disaster now.
00:22:01.020It really just cycles through these waves of horrific crime and violence.
00:22:05.280It's to the point now where most NGOs that are supposed to go in and help in war-torn areas that are supposed to provide safety or food or all these other supplies, clean water, have basically blackballed Haiti.
00:22:34.080In fact, the United States is evacuating many members from its embassy because they're not sure if they can secure everybody's safety.
00:22:42.580Again, that's how terrible things are in Haiti.
00:22:46.060And yet, we have no real way to stop anyone, including violent gang members who are currently controlling that country and eating people, if they want to come into the United States.
00:22:59.040In fact, we have programs that specifically could fly them in.
00:23:02.000And in many of these situations, we have no vetting at all.
00:23:06.660Now, the man who caved in the head of Lake and Riley, was he a criminal in his home country?
00:24:15.780And if the borders are open and I know I'm just not going to get stopped no matter what, even if I have a criminal background, I'm certainly heading this direction.
00:24:24.640In fact, many of the countries that are on the way in these immigration trails from South America only let people into the country if they promise to leave heading towards America.
00:24:35.800As long as their country is only used as a pass through and these people aren't going to end up in their country, they're willing to let them go through.
00:24:42.540Because at the end of the day, they know, even many of these Central American countries that are in much worse shape than we are, they know that having lots of foreigners come into your country and live there from countries that are still worse off than yours is bad for your country.
00:24:56.320And even though they can't stop every one of these people, if they can at least move them through and get them to head to the United States instead of stopping in, say, Panama, then it's worth it to them to go ahead and let them pass through.
00:25:07.340And so this is something that everyone knows. Everyone knows that this is bad for their country.
00:25:13.820But the United States pretends like it's not. We pretend like it's not a big deal.
00:25:18.680And so we're incredibly vulnerable when places like Haiti have a crisis.
00:25:23.580Now, is everyone fleeing Haiti like a warlord cannibal? Of course not. Of course there are good people there. Of course that's the case.
00:25:30.260However, at some point, we have to take ownership of countries. At some point, we have to reflect on the fact that countries end up in different positions for a reason.
00:25:41.120And yes, those positions can be economic. And yes, they could be interfered with by other great powers.
00:25:48.200But at the end of the day, if your country is constantly violent and constantly engulfed in war and criminal gangs, rape, murder, drugs are everywhere.
00:25:59.420Maybe it's your fault. Like not you, the individual, perhaps. Like maybe you're a good person.
00:26:05.940But maybe the people in the country at some point are actually responsible for the kind of country they get.
00:26:12.900As Joseph de Maistre said, every country gets the government they deserve.
00:26:17.660Every nation gets the government they deserve.
00:26:20.440That's as true of us in America, unfortunately, as we see the terrible government we have, as it is for Haiti.
00:26:26.320And at some point, you have to acknowledge that just like the people of America actually built America, not illegal immigrants, at some point you have to acknowledge that the people of Haiti built Haiti.
00:26:37.240And that simply changing the geographic location of people doesn't magically change their outlook on things, doesn't magically change their culture, doesn't magically change their abilities, doesn't magically change their preferences, their morality, their religion.
00:26:58.360Some people can come into the United States and assimilate and become valuable members of this country.
00:27:04.320But it's certainly not available to everyone.
00:27:06.580And if you move the entire population or large chunks of a population of a country that is in a very bad situation into your country, they will change the situation in your country.
00:28:03.360They should receive every benefit automatically.
00:28:06.780And by the way, once they get here, they're probably better, right?
00:28:08.940We have to hear this from people all this time.
00:28:10.640They try to come up with insane statistics pretending that illegal immigrants are actually just harder workers and far less criminal than people in the United States.
00:28:20.760We have to suffer that ridiculous notion all the time.
00:28:23.700Oh, and by the way, if you notice that when they come here, their values might be slightly different than yours because they just came from a country like Haiti.
00:28:46.100Because you notice that maybe your country should belong to you and your family and your community.
00:28:56.080That the civilization that was built by your forefathers should belong to their posterity.
00:29:03.600And the civilization you helped to build should belong to your posterity.
00:29:08.320Just like it says in the Constitution, that crazy notion that what you're building your country for is not for random people from everywhere across the world, but for your descendants.
00:29:21.120That civilization is actually a great chain of being that links you to your past, to your ancestors, to your traditions, to your way of life and your culture.
00:29:32.820And that simply bringing a large amount of people in, even if they happen to be nice people, many of them, will not maintain that.
00:29:41.560And the people who aren't nice, who often get over and kill people like Lincoln Riley, will destroy your country.
00:30:26.660And that means that young, talented, innovative people are trying to break out, break free.
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00:31:18.680So like I said, I want to talk a little bit about why we're so vulnerable to this idea.
00:31:24.300Why is America, I mean, many Western countries, sadly, this notion has infected everyone.
00:31:29.820The propositional nation, the ideological nation is now forced, weirdly, only on Western countries.
00:31:36.580It's only like the UK and Australia and the United States for some reason.
00:31:40.260Very strange. Every other country is one that is bound by its traditions and its peoples and it's in its organic development of the nation.
00:31:48.880But only only these Western countries happen to be completely propositional and ideological and creedal in nature.
00:31:55.140But this story about America has made it very vulnerable to the kinds of things that Joe Biden is trying to do to it.
00:32:03.540You see, we live in an ideological age.
00:32:06.540Communism, fascism, classical liberalism, progressivism, democracy and capitalism.
00:32:11.860We fight over these terms all the time, even though many of these ideologies are already dead.
00:32:16.700And some of the others have become completely meaningless.
00:32:19.400The words just don't make any sense anymore.
00:32:50.200That's that's tough for a lot of people to we all want to believe that really it's just a few bad apples.
00:32:55.540It's just a few few guys that led the whole nation astray.
00:32:59.000It's, again, very weird that like, you know, mustache man, you know, Hitler was able to to make this whole country care about what he cared about.
00:33:10.300But that actually means all of Germany is a fault.
00:33:13.180But any country like Haiti or something, that's only the fault of like a few criminal gangs.
00:33:18.020For some reason, Haitians aren't liable for what happens in Haiti.
00:33:21.720But all of Germany is eternally liable for what happened in Germany over the course of, you know, 10 years or so.
00:33:28.180The problem is that the founders understood that the Constitution didn't make the United States what it was.
00:33:37.800They knew that it was the people that made the United States what it was, which is why they explicitly stated the Constitution could only be governed by a certain type of people.
00:33:45.580As we are very fond of quoting, Adams said that it's for a moral and religious people and it can't really be governed.
00:33:54.640The founders knew this, but for somehow we even as conservatives forgot this.
00:33:58.880We pretend that the Constitution is just this magical wand that you wave over any random assortment of people and it turns them into Americans.
00:34:08.480Every people, every nation in the classical sense of the word has a way of being that's natural to that group,
00:34:14.540which is reflected in how they order their society.
00:34:17.980When the nation is small and the population is homogenous, few people need that way of being described to them because the order is organic and specific to that group of people.
00:34:27.700But nations always tend to grow and as nations grow and society scales up, they need a method to communicate their way of being to newcomers or outsiders.
00:35:14.220They should really have a decision about whether this happens at all.
00:35:17.940And if it does happen, it needs to happen in very small amounts.
00:35:21.960You have to be very thoughtful about how you do it.
00:35:24.360You need to break up ethnic ghettos when they come in to make sure that they don't, you know, go ahead and concentrate, that they protect themselves from assimilation.
00:35:34.780You need to go ahead and spread the population out so that people actually become American instead of being able to maintain a foreign culture inside your borders.
00:35:44.180You need to be very careful about who you bring in.
00:35:46.640You need to be very thoughtful about how compatible they are with your society.
00:35:50.400Because the more outsiders you take on and the faster you need to assimilate them, the less likely you are to be able to organically communicate your way of being to them.
00:36:02.260And this is kind of where we get ideology because ideology is a way to abstract the form of the nation's way of being.
00:36:10.060It's not as good as the real thing, but if you need to assimilate a lot of people very fast, it's kind of the best tool for the job.
00:36:17.520It's not really what you want, but again, there's just, it's just true that in the life of most nations, they need to go ahead and do this at some point.
00:36:25.080And that's why you end up with ideology for the most part.
00:36:29.220Now, the problem with ideology is that it's artificial, unlike the way of being that develops in relation to a particular people with a specific culture and their set of needs.
00:36:39.080Ideology is a tool to conform a random assortment of people to a rigid structure.
00:36:44.960And if the people being assimilated are relatively similar, well, then it can work, right?
00:36:49.200There's not that far of a distance between them and what you're trying to assimilate them to.
00:36:53.800And so a light application of ideology might actually bring them into alignment with what you're trying to do.
00:37:00.440But the wider the circle of assimilation gets, the more abstracted from reality the ideology has to become until it really bears very little resemblance to the way people live their lives.
00:37:12.800When we conform people to an ideology, we necessarily make them less human, forcing their way of being into an artificial mold that distorts or completely destroys the natural order.
00:37:24.800And the more universal an ideology attempts to be, the more inhuman it becomes.
00:37:30.400We stretch human organization well beyond its natural limits with globe-spanning empires.
00:37:36.680And these empires can only be governed by ideology.
00:37:40.120These ideologies have become so disconnected from actual human well-being that they damage the people that they rule over.
00:37:47.000The entire globe was never meant to be ruled in one way and to share one culture way of being.
00:37:52.500When we try to force these artificial ideologies onto real human beings who they were never really meant to govern, that's when tragedy strikes.
00:38:02.140Not everybody was meant to be an American.
00:38:57.340We don't have to conquer everybody who isn't like us.
00:39:00.420But we do have to stop bringing people in here and pretending that we can do it en masse with no thoughtful way to transition them into Americans.
00:39:08.620And believe that it's all just going to work together because we sprinkled the Constitution on top of it.
00:39:13.580And this is why we spend all of our time in America, you know, in our politics, screaming past each other.
00:39:21.660Everyone is battling for ideological control.
00:39:24.580No one is thinking about what's good for a specific people, the people of this nation, the United States.
00:39:29.800For the left, it's even really blasphemy to think of America as a specific people.
00:39:35.800Progressives treat nationalism as a synonym for racism, which we all know is like the worst sin that any human has ever committed.
00:39:42.460And we're terrified to even define what the word nation means.
00:39:47.160The only thing left to do is argue about abstract ideology.
00:40:27.620We treat this as some kind of an entirely toxic subject that completely ends a conversation if a leftist throws it at people.
00:40:34.800It just tells you where we're at right now.
00:40:36.660I mean, one of the instigating factors in this is the frustrating cycle that Democrat of the Democratic mechanism, which encourages coalitions of ethnic blocs to organize under ideological banners.
00:40:48.620In some country, the racial politics are more explicit.
00:40:51.040But in the United States, coalitions tend to be formed around a strange mix of class, religion, ethnicity and regional identity.
00:40:58.440So ideology becomes the only glue that's abstract enough to hold these parties together.
00:41:08.420And so the only thing that can really go ahead and hold your voting coalition together is this really zoomed out, really abstract ideology.
00:41:16.660Power is won by dividing and doling out spoils because there's no incentive to think about the rule for the whole.
00:41:23.180You're not thinking about what's good for everyone, what's good for my country, what's good for us as a nation.
00:41:28.940The only thing you can think about is how do I get my block of voters into power?
00:41:33.160How can I secure more benefits for them?
00:41:35.340How can I put the ideology that benefits us the most into place?
00:41:38.980Not the ideas that benefit the whole country, but just my block of voters.
00:41:43.800Another factor driving our ideological obsession is the empire.
00:41:47.080The United States can't exist as a people if we have to scale our civilization up to the size of global hegemony.
00:41:53.960Our economic and social system relies on our ability to influence trade and diplomacy across the globe at a moment's notice.
00:42:02.160Losing a political battle domestically means losing control of the entire global engine of commerce and culture.
00:42:10.960And that's why Democrats are treating Donald Trump as an existential crisis.
00:42:15.100They understand what's really at stake.
00:42:17.840Each election stops being a conversation about what's best for the people of the United States and becomes a battle over which ideology will literally rule the world.
00:42:28.240Now, you may think democracy can work in smaller bites or you think that a constitutional republic does work at a smaller level.
00:42:36.020Maybe it does, but it certainly can't work at this level.
00:42:38.940If there's one thing that's for sure, as long as we keep everything abstract, as long as we're fighting over what ideology is literally going to rule the world, then the questions of what's good for America simply will never be addressed.
00:42:51.580The problems our nation faces are great, and we can't solve them by arguing over the threadbare remnants of an abstract and outdated set of ideologies.
00:43:00.540If we're going to address the problems before us, we have to ask what's good for our families and our neighbors, not what's good for our preferred system of global governance.
00:43:10.080Americans just can't think about what's good for our nation until we can think of ourselves as a specific people, whether particular history, culture, and way of being.
00:43:19.860And I don't know if the United States is ever going to enter any kind of true ethnogenesis.
00:43:24.180I don't know if it's ever going to exist as one unified whole in that way.
00:43:28.180But at the very least, we could be a set of different nations or ethnicities that live inside one area, one empire, be it a smaller one, hopefully one that really is only caring about the borders of what we think of as the contiguous United States, the continental United States.
00:43:48.540And in that case, we could actually think about our relationships to each other.
00:43:52.680What do the different communities, due to our history and the way that we've interacted, actually owe to each other?
00:43:59.400And in that way, we could actually start to understand each other, and we might be able to form a real civic culture, something that could actually bind us together again.
00:44:07.320But that can never happen when our borders are open, when our entire population is constantly changing.
00:44:13.540We can't just pretend that we can let in tens of millions of people into this country.
00:44:19.020I mean, we're looking at possibly 8 to 10 million people just under Joe Biden.
00:44:22.860That's multiple red states worth of people coming into the United States.
00:44:27.760Almost all of them probably going to vote Democrat for a couple generations.
00:44:33.580You can't pretend like you're going to have a country that's actually negotiating, actually working out its problems, becoming one people, figuring out what's best for them.
00:44:42.300When you have that kind of constant turmoil, that constant shift in demographics, culture, and everything else.
00:44:48.880And, of course, not to speak of all the dangers that could be involved with, again, importing that large amount of people.
00:44:55.120We have to start taking this seriously.
00:44:57.080We're just never going to solve this problem if we don't close our borders and allow us to think of ourselves as one nation, one people, who we could actually work towards the betterment of, rather than a bunch of different factions fighting over ideology.
00:45:13.460Because as long as we're just fighting over what ideology is going to rule the global American empire, we're just never going to focus on us.