Joe Biden has been charged with a crime for something he should have been charged for years, but no one in the United States has ever seen him in handcuffs before. Is it because he's senile, incompetent, or has Alzheimer s?
00:11:59.180And so to see people sort of just sort of shrug this off as in, well, we already knew this or that this is to no one's surprise is, I mean, really concerning because obviously the party doesn't care.
00:12:14.500But historically, there have been multiple instances where we've sort of had people who are, for lack of a better word, somewhat invalid holding office when they probably are non compost mentis in the first place, whether that be.
00:12:27.300And of course, some of this is pre 25th Amendment, obviously, you know, we can take a look at Woodrow Wilson, for example, who had a stroke into his second term.
00:12:35.560And clearly, his wife basically was running the White House.
00:12:38.100And so really, the first female president has already been achieved in America to some extent in the same way that, you know, we had FDR and having some issues there with respects to his health and other problems that presidents have had that they've kept under wraps.
00:12:51.600So many people have speculated Reagan as well.
00:12:53.480Well, Reagan has had a definitely more obvious example, I think, in some of his speech and his attitudes towards the end of his second term.
00:13:00.220And of course, you know, President Kennedy, while not definitely had his mental faculties about him, had certain medical issues as well.
00:13:06.480So, I mean, there's some tradition for this, not to say that that's a great excuse, but even the way the language that you're using, right, he was installed, he was put in, there was a quote unquote fortified election.
00:13:17.960It does illustrate that we are long past any sort of questions about constitutional crises, because it seems that America at this point in time, when encountering a constitutional crisis, would rather sweep it under the rug and watch football the next Sunday than address the fact that there are serious governmental issues at stake.
00:13:36.040And I mean, again, it raises the important question about the behemoth of our administrative and bureaucratized systems of government, especially in the executive branch, where people just do their job and keep things afloat and manage it.
00:13:49.720And for a guy who has probably a small boardroom of maybe 20 neurons left that are trying to make decisions, quote unquote, as the president of the United States, it is somewhat impressive.
00:14:00.300I have to give like the deep state credit here, which I know it's crazy I'm saying that, right?
00:14:05.360But like you're basically fighting two or three wars abroad and you're trying to keep things afloat at home while rewarding your friends and punishing your enemies,
00:14:14.000all while with like a really nice flex showing off that you can run a basically a mentally, you know, absent minded man.
00:14:23.360I'm trying really hard not to say anything to me and basically run the country like that's impressive.
00:14:28.900And that's a huge behemoth that whoever wants to take over due to regime change has to come to terms with.
00:14:34.880That's what you're up against. And that's something to keep in mind.
00:14:37.240The other thing that the report had that was particularly interesting was about, of course, there was the issue of a ghost writer who had helped write the memoirs Promise Me, Dad, and Promises to Keep.
00:14:49.600Zwanitzer is his last name. That's how they refer to him at all.
00:14:53.060So, you know, he had given interviews with the Justice Department, but the interviews that contained any sort of potential aspects of classified information,
00:15:01.600those audio interviews with the president of the United States or with Joe Biden were deleted.
00:15:05.860And then he had asked when investigators asked him if he had deleted the recordings because of the special counsel's investigation.
00:15:12.340Zwanitzer had replied. He was aware that there was an investigation when he deleted the recordings and continued, quote,
00:15:17.840I am not going to say how much was this as a percentage of it was my motivation, end quote.
00:15:23.600So that's crazy because he basically just said, I'm not explaining further.
00:15:29.240You know, I'm not going to go any further into that.
00:15:31.240But yes, because of the investigation, I probably did that again.
00:15:34.660So, yeah, and he's not being charged with anything.
00:16:29.480Like, you know, the drive shaft is falling out like the, you know, like like the gearbox is shot like that.
00:16:36.060Like I have serious problems with this car.
00:16:38.020Like, obviously, the issue is not a tune up.
00:16:40.920And they're just like, but have you considered filling it with a better type of gasoline?
00:16:45.860Like, like every time I have these conversations, they act like there's just some small procedural issue.
00:16:53.020Like, you know, if we just got to win a few primaries, man, primary a few guys and make sure that you go ahead and, you know, we maybe we pass one law, one bill.
00:17:03.000You know, we've got to we've got to swap out a couple of guys over at the State Department.
00:17:07.700It's like I just I just stare at them and I look at what's going on and I just how I understand, like there's a level of investment in the system.
00:17:16.940And if you've been working in the system for decades and your entire life has been about telling people that you're just one election away or, you know, one piece of legislation away or a little bit, a little bit of, you know, shoelace, pull yourself up by your bootstraps away from from solving this whole problem.
00:17:34.480I get that, like, at some point saying the whole system has failed and it's on fire and we're we're in serious trouble, like has some kind of repercussions for like what you've been doing for the last 20 or 30 years.
00:17:45.680But come on, man, like who's buying this at this point?
00:17:50.240Oh, I mean, if the Nevada primary was any example, apparently like 80 some percent of the voters there are buying this and saying that it's a totally OK thing.
00:17:58.700I mean, not that I'm a democracy respecter or democracy appreciator in these parts.
00:18:04.300But it does indicate that most people don't care.
00:18:07.420I mean, I think this is the very sort of serious realization that most people need to come to is that unless it's perfect, you know, unless I think the reason why the left loves that meme and why does it why does this affect you personally or how does it affect you personally?
00:18:20.920It's an application to them because these things don't bother them because they're in the right client class.
00:18:25.960They do not care that things are being ran allegedly by someone who has no memory whatsoever, because for them, it doesn't matter.
00:18:35.800And the people that vote for him have no long term memory of nation or person.
00:18:39.200They just need to maintain the system of political patronage that there is.
00:18:42.720And so far, the administrative state and the federal government are making a really good job of making sure that that still happens.
00:18:48.500And so, yeah, maybe it's the fact that we have this dynamic where someone has to say they're not surprised and someone feels like they're taking crazy pills.
00:18:55.980But the crazy pill aspect of it is that the country is still running as effectively that it is.
00:19:01.480And that should speak to the robust system of the American government and all the more reason why it would be great for those Project 2025 guys to take the reins instead, these crazy people.
00:19:11.140But at the end of it all, you're looking at, again, a lack of mental acuity and faculties by the president of the United States, to the surprise of no one.
00:19:23.200A really great insurance card right in his pocket.
00:19:26.600And that insurance card is the vice president of the United States.
00:19:30.120And there is no one to really primary challenge him.
00:19:32.900I mean, there's no one really running against him.
00:19:34.260There's like what, Marian Williamson and Dean Phillips and many states have already canceled their primaries anyway.
00:19:39.580If they wanted to get rid of him, I mean, the convention would be the way to do it for the 2024 election.
00:19:45.760But that seems very late in terms of legal paperwork on how to do that.
00:19:52.420But again, that was the playbook in 2020.
00:19:55.120And if everything's going to repeat itself right down to the same teams who are in the Super Bowl, then, yeah, like let's have a repeat where the Democrats just need Joe Biden's corporeal form crossing the finish line once again.
00:20:07.740It does not matter that he can't remember the year that his son died.
00:20:11.180It doesn't remember that he can't remember the church he got the rosary from.
00:20:14.780It doesn't matter that the president of Egypt is now all of a sudden the president of Mexico.
00:20:20.320The things that this administration is going to accomplish regardless of, they'll just keep pumping him full of drugs, uppers and whatever to keep it going.
00:20:27.520And the sad state of affairs is that you can say that the emperor has no clothes, but the rest of the crowd doesn't even care.
00:20:33.620So let's talk about that press conference real quick, but more importantly, what it means.
00:20:38.780I mean, the press conference is is basically a joke.
00:20:42.360He mixes up the names of world leaders.
00:20:44.440He goes ahead and he's going to prove, oh, how dare they say that I've forgotten these things about my son?
00:20:50.620How could they possibly say that I've forgotten that, you know, when my son died or how he died or all these things?
00:20:55.940Obviously, I remember all of these things and I remember them so well that I remember I got this rosary from and then he just moves on.
00:21:04.680Like, obviously, this this press conference is a complete disaster.
00:21:08.700It kind of proves everything it's intended not to prove.
00:21:11.920Yeah, this is a man who's been talking about how he was speaking to dead world leaders for the last few weeks.
00:21:16.560Obviously, after you have this kind of report coming out, the worst possible thing you could do is step onto a stage and immediately show that everything in the report is correct.
00:21:27.600And so there's only two options here, right?
00:21:30.520There are well, possibly three, but there are two main options.
00:21:34.080Your options are one, they wanted to get rid of him and the whole point was to put this the show on to force him out there to make a clip.
00:21:42.900This has to be done so they have a plausible reason to take him out without being mean or anything.
00:21:51.000He kept Orange Man bad out of the office, but obviously it's time for him to ride off into sunset or to, as you pointed out, we now have media reports that they had this report for a week.
00:22:03.720They thought this was a good look for him.
00:22:06.140They had a week to prepare for it coming out and they actually put him out there on purpose because they thought that this was the best way to rebut what was going on.
00:22:17.040And people are really just that inept at this point.
00:22:20.080Or the third thing is they just don't care.
00:22:22.520They think they're so powerful that none of this can possibly affect them.
00:22:25.620I saw a lot of people jumping on the first one.
00:22:27.680They said there's no way Joe Biden could possibly be put back on the ticket after this.
00:22:32.320This is a significant enough disaster where we need to start speculating.
00:31:33.680But like, as a lot of lefty irony bros like to say, yikes, it's not a good look for you, bro.
00:31:40.240And it did not help that Biden's attempt to act sad, whether it was with over the rosary and couldn't even say, you know, where the rosary was from, our lady of.
00:31:52.760And then he like, you know, pauses out the confusion, the, you know, anger that he's got.
00:31:58.600I mean, anyone who has seen someone get older and get worse in their mental faculties, that anger is usually due to confusion.
00:32:11.020And none of this is what's being said.
00:32:13.380Again, nothing new under the sun here.
00:32:15.480But it's just if they get rid of him, maybe after they carry things over in 2020 and then some weird shenanigans happens where he dies.
00:32:23.920But it looks like Kamala Harris is still on the ticket for vice president.
00:32:28.060I mean, we won't, we won't, we won't find out until the convention, right?
00:32:31.160And so I guess any postulation or speculation you and I have, I mean, we might have to wait until the DNC convention this year, which is in Chicago.
00:33:07.800Americans are used to a very orderly procession of kind of media calls and things that lead you up to the point where the president is formally nominated.
00:33:18.900A lot of people get very, you know, antsy whenever people try to look into what are the procedures, whether there be nomination or, you know, the actual, you know, the actual presidential election itself and its confirmation with electors.
00:33:33.860Obviously, we see what happened with the attempt to look at alternative slates of electors and everything that they're attempting to scream at people about with that.
00:33:40.820So it would be interesting if they, you know, with their focus on the need for proceduralism and all of that, it would be very strange for them to wait until the convention bypassing all of that stuff.
00:33:52.580I mean, again, I guess they can just say, well, we do whatever we want.
00:33:56.480And, you know, you'll just follow this.
00:33:58.880But it would seem if you're going to make this move, if you feel like this is the move to make, it feels like you would make it before the convention.
00:34:04.980You wouldn't wait till the convention itself once all of the all the procedure that's supposed to kind of insulate the democratic process has already passed to make that move.
00:34:14.500However, this isn't the only thing I want to talk to you about.
00:34:17.440Another thing I want to talk to you about, of course, was the interview we've had Tucker Carlson in Russia.
00:34:24.100A number of people had spotted him in Russia.
00:34:26.520They were speculating on this interview with Vladimir Putin.
00:34:29.060It's not the first time that Tucker has attempted to interview Vladimir Putin.
00:34:32.800According to Tucker, that that interview was quashed previously by the American government due to a number of things, including spying on his own text messages by intelligence services.
00:34:43.020This time he was able to go ahead and get that done, and he dropped it first on his on his Nunes Network's website and then onto Twitter.
00:35:11.200What was interesting, I think, most about this interview was that contrast you were talking about.
00:35:17.420Joe Biden can barely remember where he is.
00:35:19.680He doesn't remember when he was president.
00:35:21.280He doesn't know the names of world leaders.
00:35:23.900Vladimir Putin starts the whole interview with 30 or 40 minutes of Russian history, which is kind of interesting because I started listening to a podcast about some of the Russian revolution that started with some of that interest, some of that history.
00:35:36.860So I was familiar with that in the way that I hadn't been previously.
00:35:39.920But he started with this long explanation of Russian history as to why he felt that there was some kind of reason that Russia had claimed to portions of the Ukraine.
00:35:51.080And Tucker Carlson obviously is just like, oh, man, Americans are they're not going to listen to all this.
00:35:56.060Like this isn't going to make sense to them.
00:35:58.300He's almost trying to hustle him along during this whole thing.
00:36:01.620And I had a hard time, you know, you know, I'm thinking to myself like, yeah, Putin, you probably would have had a better time making some kind of analogy to a Marvel movie.
00:36:09.700Like this is like the time that that Thor battled.
00:36:12.600But this is that that's why we have a claim on Ukraine.
00:36:16.460That probably would have meant more to most Americans, unfortunately, than than a long history of, you know, your possible claims to your Ukrainian territory.
00:36:24.700Well, I mean, that's what the Ukrainians in the NATO Twitter account have done.
00:36:29.340I mean, they've made every pop culture comparison that they can and throughout the stake of this entire conflict in order to get things going out towards their specific propaganda machine.
00:36:40.540And I mean, this is something that President Putin had made a point saying that, you know, America really is the master of propaganda, which is inevitably true, I think, to a large extent.
00:36:51.380I mean, Americanized Internet trends and English is the lingua franca of the Internet world.
00:36:58.780I mean, a mutual friend of ours, Pontius Caracal.
00:37:02.380But when he's, you know, in the middle of downtown and he sees someone that looks just like him as a South African, as a poor, and all of a sudden he is speaking in perfect Americanized English over the phone.
00:37:13.340That's an impressive amount of cultural hegemony.
00:37:15.820And so, I mean, yeah, for us, we're used to everyone sort of catering to our needs.
00:37:19.760We need to have things broken down to us people living in the imperial heartland on what on earth is actually going on.
00:37:27.920And explain it to me like I'm someone who's like a really big Marvel, you know, fan like that.
00:37:41.640And you laugh at that, but it does illustrate that America does have what, and forgive me for invoking this name, but you know what the great leftist writer Gore Vidal said, you know, that America is sort of the United States of amnesia.
00:37:57.780We have a limited sense of our own history and to a large extent a limited sense of our own youth as a nation.
00:38:04.540So I think maybe that's why so many people were blown by that, because who's the last time a statesman or someone trying to run for president would speak like this?
00:38:14.240The last time I can think of anybody was the 1992 election.
00:38:21.660All of the chats with Ross Perot, you know, saying, here's how we're going to fix the country.
00:38:42.380And so it really does indicate, yeah, there's this huge cultural divide.
00:38:45.660I mean, we have movies about products, Warren, I mean, movies about Flaming Hot Cheetos and Air Jordans.
00:38:51.740And I think of those as movies that help, quote unquote, Americanize the new population of immigrants that are here.
00:38:57.020Because remember, you live in an economic zone, not a country.
00:38:59.900So you have to learn the history of the product and the history of the sports star and not Daniel Boone or Johnny Appleseed or Paul Bunyan or any actual mythical or real hero of the United States' history.
00:39:10.520And so I think that's why everyone in the West has been praising, you know, witnessing a president give an interview like this where he spends 40 minutes discussing a historical narrative for his people.
00:39:23.280And remember, once you base things in history, once you tell a narrative, once you tell a story like that, you're giving credence to your claim.
00:39:30.300It makes excellent narrative spending.
00:39:31.840It makes for an excellent bit of propaganda.
00:39:33.460And, you know, I had to laugh when, you know, he was saying that Poland was complicit with, you know, the Reich in World War II, because I'm currently going through Sean McMeek and Stalin's war.
00:39:46.060I have the whole book series going through, breaking it down chapter by chapter if people are interested.
00:39:51.200And it's just like, wait a second, you know, the Soviet Union is not peachy keen, squeaky clean here.
00:39:57.180Like, excuse me, sir, but it allowed you to see sort of the Russian post-war mythology and the post-Soviet mythology that followed.
00:40:05.260And I think that's why so many commentators and pundits have been so taken away by this, because, you know, we don't have anyone in the West that is willing to sit down and defend their stakes or their identity based on history.
00:40:18.780I mean, outside of the American right, who cares about history, that cares about nation and people and where that location is physically located.
00:40:28.700You know, I think that's why it had such a big impact on people.
00:40:32.340Just just to to kind of drop people into the 10th circle of hell here.
00:40:36.760When I when I when I taught, I taught I taught some some bad schools.
00:40:43.240And when I taught history, you know, we had these games that were kind of like Jeopardy games and you have the kids do them and you throw a fun one in on Friday or something just to keep the kids interested.
00:40:53.940So they'll pay attention to what you're doing.
00:40:56.380And, you know, they can't do the history ones.
00:40:58.400If you do one on like Christmas, they don't know anything about like, you know, the story of Christmas.
00:41:02.960They can't tell you about Bethlehem or anything in there.
00:41:08.100But if you do company logos, they love it and they know every single one.
00:41:13.060They're they're they absolutely lose their minds and go.
00:41:16.180So that that is the amount of common culture you have tying most of America together at this point.
00:41:22.760However, yeah, I think you're right that it was very interesting that a lot of people would have would have looked at this and been very confused as to why they felt this was a legitimate argument.
00:41:33.060I saw a lot of people just like, oh, a history lesson.
00:41:35.460Like, how is this as if there was like they just don't understand what nation state you know, that a nation state and a kingdom and how territories used to be understood and and peoples and how these things used to cross many of these borders.
00:41:47.980And that all of these borders that have been erected in the last 50 or 60 years are not new, but are not necessarily binding.
00:41:55.780A lot of people don't consider them binding.
00:41:57.500But what did you think about kind of Putin's argument there?
00:42:01.260I mean, basically, his his two pronged argument was, look, there are these color revolutions and you're trying to get NATO onto our doorstep and we didn't want, you know, we don't want that here.
00:42:13.700And then the other kind of prong of this was the historical argument of why we feel we have a claim or our our our culture and our people kind of extend to this area.
00:42:25.800Do you think that because Tucker's response was basically, OK, well, why didn't you make this argument years ago?
00:42:31.220It feels like you're making this now, but you didn't lay this case out significantly previously.
00:42:36.560What do you think about kind of that exchange?
00:42:40.460Yeah, the two pronged argument, one, the historical narrative and then the sort of argument that you would hear from someone like John Jay Mearsheimer, that there has been increasing encroachment closer and closer towards former Russian buffer states or Russian sphere of influence.
00:42:57.880To me, it reminds me so much of some extent, like American foreign policy, I guess, and to some extent, Russia's as well as like frozen and like the turn of the night turn of the 20th century, where we're still talking about things like Mackinder and Speakman and like the world island theory and the great game between like, you know, the U.S. versus Russia or the United Kingdom versus Russia and Great Britain and what we're going to do about it, despite the fact that
00:43:27.880the tools of the tools of empire have drastically changed. But we're still speaking in those terms and we're still looking at the world that way, which I think is one really interesting, considering the rhetoric that Putin was using.
00:43:39.440But two, I mean, the history stuff, I'm not sure who that was for, other than to sell the story to fact checkers and to which I know the BBC has already done and has laid out its issues with Putin's claims.
00:43:54.180But again, you know, he's sitting down and giving them a sort of civilizational, ethnically nationalist minded narrative about the people and who we are and that, you know, the Americans don't particularly understand that this is a region and a people and a country and a civilization.
00:44:13.120Very Samuel P. Huntington, mind you, that, you know, we've been around since like the turn of the 8th century and we're not going away.
00:44:24.040And here we are and we have claims to this part of the world.
00:44:27.080And I know that there are counter arguments and there's history to claim the whole Kivian Rus thing being a whole different, you know, Ukrainians existing as well, although he views that as fiction.
00:44:36.380And it was just, I'm not too sure what to make of it other than to say that historiography makes for a great narrative.
00:44:45.680It makes for a great political formula to sell to both your own people at home, but more specifically abroad, because you're this interview, Russians are going to watch it.
00:44:56.240Sure. But that interview is in English.
00:44:58.200I mean, yes, it's translated on his side and I'm sure Putin knows English, but he's speaking Russian as a flax and he's doing what he needs to do to sell a narrative to people like you and I, to sell a narrative to the mainstream press and to the public.
00:45:11.520But this far into the war, I think Tucker's question, well, why not use that sooner?
00:45:17.380And Putin says, well, it wouldn't have mattered.
00:45:21.940I mean, the Biden administration isn't going to change its mind on Russia.
00:45:24.400But, oh, the Victorian Newland is still has like a huge axe to grind and wants to kill hundreds of thousands of more Slavs to get her victory to have to happen.
00:45:32.760So it does raise the question of like, what was the point of this?
00:45:37.080But again, it sets forth the political narrative, because while American propaganda is stronger, Russian propaganda is real.
00:45:48.040You know, you laugh at Facebook memes or whatever.
00:45:49.720But Russia does well in areas in which like the regime, the United States government has to like now take care of or sweep under the rug like, oh, great.
00:45:58.680Now they're trying to talk to the quote unquote far right maggot extremists like it feeds in to the progressive feedback loop where it'll probably hurt, you know, to some extent our own costs is potentially more than anything else.
00:46:11.000But I don't know where else to go with that, to be honest with you, Oren.
00:46:16.140Another thing that he did that I found interesting was he focused a lot on a denazification storyline.
00:46:22.560He said, oh, well, we have to go into Ukraine to prevent these neo-Nazis.
00:46:27.640If we, you know, we stand against this.
00:46:29.960And so we have a duty, you know, to go in there and disrupt any any attempts to revivify, you know, this this Nazi ideology.
00:46:39.420And so that's the reason that we kind of have this this cause a spell to go in there and interrupt and take it take a strong hand into that nation in time.
00:46:48.920I found that interesting because that's exactly what our government says, you know, Biden calling his opponents semi-fascist.
00:46:56.860This is, you know, Paul Gottfried, of course, has the anti-fascism, you know, and explaining how this is basically the crusade that that rules the United States at this point.
00:47:07.480And this is the ideological justification for this.
00:47:10.700What do you think about the universality that, you know, you've got Vladimir Putin and you've got Joe Biden and they've got the same legitimizing ideology as to why they need the power to constantly interrupt, you know, whether they be other countries or the people of their own country.
00:47:27.100We have to purge, you know, the denazification.
00:47:30.480You know, it's as Tucker pointed out, this is, you know, 80 years later or more.
00:47:34.380Like, what's why is this still what is this?
00:47:39.280Why is this something that that even somebody like Putin would reach for when he says, oh, of course, I have a reason to go in Ukraine.
00:47:45.320I mean, at least there's, I guess, actual neo-Nazis there.
00:47:47.500Well, on the surface, yeah, there is a lot of similarities.
00:47:52.280You know, you have what they would call the Great Patriotic War.
00:47:54.820We refer to that generation who fought in the war as the greatest generation.
00:47:58.220And that, you know, we both have huge post-war narratives and mythologies about how that war was fought and why we got involved.
00:48:07.780And that despite the fact that, you know, we think that we only fought a war against Germany,
00:48:12.460we were also the biggest reason why the United States was the biggest reason to invest, fund, support, subsidize the Soviet Union.
00:48:20.440Even the reason why Stalin became so powerful in the first place with respects to modernization and the money that we had.
00:48:26.340Plus, FDR's admin was full of communists.
00:48:29.240And that's an unfortunate tragedy of our history.
00:48:32.380So, I mean, on one hand, they are very different.
00:48:34.720I mean, throughout that entire narrative, there was no condemnation of Bolshevism.
00:48:41.100I mean, Putin does have, I mean, there was, let me correct myself.
00:48:43.940He does have issues with Bolsheviks in there.
00:48:45.540It did sound like there was almost personal animosity.
00:48:49.240But, I mean, even during the World War II narrative, the Soviet Union did nothing wrong,
00:48:54.020despite things like the Katya massacre, where, you know, 20,000 some odd Poles were just executed outright by Stalin, you know, on Stalin's order.
00:49:04.120And, you know, again, it's why people need to read the books Stalin's War by Sean McMeek, and it's so good.
00:49:09.760But, I mean, like, our post-war mythologies are very different to where, to a large extent,
00:49:14.880even though there are actual neo-Nazis in Ukraine, you know, de-Nazification or, you know,
00:49:20.480trying to stomp out these nationalist movements, as he had called it, nationalism, neo-Nazism, fascism.
00:49:27.000To some extent, I think it's also just viewed as this blanket term of just, like, anti-Russian or anti-Russian state
00:49:34.220in that perspective in the same way that, you know, we would call nationalism or, like, white supremacy in America
00:49:39.500just, like, anti-American, despite the fact that there's really nothing American about this regime anymore.
00:49:45.600And so, I mean, on the surface level, there's some comparisons,
00:49:48.560but I thought it was particularly interesting to hear an argument that, like, we see fascism,
00:49:53.820we see this as a threat to our existence.
00:49:55.380And, I mean, let's be very clear, I mean, fascism did almost destroy the Soviet Union during World War II.
00:50:03.100That has to leave a huge civilizational scar on the people,
00:50:07.860and it serves probably as a great narrative tool and framing to justify this sort of attack.
00:50:13.500You know, political formulas sell you the justification for state action,
00:50:17.080to, you know, rip from our elite theorists that we love to cite and read so much.
00:50:21.400So, I mean, it does illustrate that they have their own way to do it.
00:50:25.160But, yeah, sure, Hitler's been dead for 80 years, but as, ironically, Curtis Yarvin pointed out,
00:50:30.600we're still ruled by the guy because we're still afraid of him.
00:50:34.140The West and the East isn't haunted by Marx or anyone like that.