Declaring TOTAL Victory Over Academic Agent ｜ 12⧸20⧸23
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Summary
In this episode, I declare victory in the long-running bet between myself and Academic Agent, and declare that the wokeness of the left will not be put away, despite the overwhelming amount of evidence pointing to the opposite.
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Now today, we have an incredibly important episode.
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Because today, I'm declaring my total victory over my friend, Academic Agent.
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Now in case you didn't know, Academic Agent and I have a running bet.
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I bet that the regime would continue to accelerate into wokeness.
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That they would be unable to control themselves.
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That they are true believers who are dedicated to their cause.
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And more importantly, that the mechanics of wokeness require this continued acceleration
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That they would drop the facade of democratic elections.
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This would be the way that the woke continue to accelerate.
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Academic Agent believes that the woke will be put away.
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That the regime is, at the end of the day, cold and calculating.
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That they value power more than their woke ideology.
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That woke ideology is simply a tool of the powerful and the connected.
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they just go ahead and bring out the next ideology.
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And obviously, we can see that there are all of these issues with wokeness
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Because you're not elevating people based on the competency.
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You're elevating them based on the color of their skin.
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You have the problem of inter-tribal warfare among different parts of the left.
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You have all kinds of conflicts cropping up due to wokeness.
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The simple fact that the universities can no longer function.
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And no longer a good ideology for them to advance.
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And they need to go ahead and switch to something else.
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But I think there's been a series of victories that have just shown
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That the left is going to continue to accelerate.
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Continue to break the things that made America and the wider Western project work
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And that I can declare total victory in Cigar Slam.
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Now, to be clear, academic agent has changed the terms of this deal many times.
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But I think early on, he knew that his bet was not that great.
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And then, you know, there was no date about when this was going to happen.
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And slowly but surely, he pushed the date further and further out.
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I think at this point, he's saying it's 2025 or something
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But I think that the evidence is so overwhelming that it's time for me to declare victory.
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And I think the final nail in this cough is, of course, the news that came out yesterday
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that Colorado has removed Donald Trump from their ballot.
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The Supreme Court has said that it is okay to remove Donald Trump from their ballot
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If you were the regime, you would never do this.
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This is the way to make it clear to people that democracy is not real, that it's all fake,
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that it's all controlled, that elections will not be legitimate.
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That's a suicidal move for people who understand that they need to control things with soft power.
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I want to look at some of the other evidence that I had lined up against academic agent.
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Before we do all of that, let's go ahead and hear about ISI.
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Universities today aren't just neglecting real education.
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America was made for an educated and engaged citizenry.
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The Intercollegiate Studies Institute is here to help.
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ISI offers programs and opportunities for conservative students across the country.
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ISI understands that conservatives and right-of-center students feel isolated on college campuses
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and that you're often fighting for your own reputation, dignity, and future.
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Through ISI, you can learn about what Russell Kirk called the permanent things,
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the philosophical and political teachings that shaped and made Western civilization great.
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ISI offers many opportunities to jumpstart your career.
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They have fellowships at some of the nation's top conservative publications like National Review,
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The American Conservative, and The College Thinker.
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If you're a graduate student, ISI offers funding opportunities to sponsor the next great generation of college professors.
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Through ISI, you can work with conservative thinkers who are making a difference.
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Thinkers like Chris Ruffo, who currently has an ISI researcher helping him with his book.
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But perhaps most importantly, ISI offers college students a community of people that can help them grow.
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If you're a college student, ISI can help you start a student organization or student newspaper
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or meet other like-minded students at their various conferences and events.
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ISI is here to educate the next generation of great Americans.
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So I want to get a couple things out of the way.
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First, when we talk about this bet, I want to make it clear.
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I am not happy that the things that are happening are happening.
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This is us having fun with a terrible situation.
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But obviously, the events that are occurring in America right now are horrific.
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This is fire that they are playing with that puts the Constitution into an incredible crisis,
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that puts the government into crisis, that ratchets up polarity on all political sides.
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They are playing Radio Rwanda over these movies that I'm going to show you in a second.
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And so I want to be very clear that while we're having fun with this for the second,
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But if Rome is going to be on fire and you can't do anything about it,
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I made an accurate prediction because I could see what was going on with these people.
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And this is more about the accuracy of that prediction than being happy about any given event
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we're going to be talking about, because I'm certainly not happy about any of the evidence
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I'm about to present to you that the woke is not going away.
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So this is more about talking about the accuracy of that prediction, why it was accurate,
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and what evidence I think is critical to look at when we're looking at the wokeness
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The second thing I want to explain is that I think that academic agent is correct.
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His theory about the woke being put away would be correct if the people in charge were the kind
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of cunning, cold, overminds that he thinks they are.
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If they really were as in control of themselves, they had that level of self-control that he
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believes that they do, they would do exactly what he suggested.
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So I'm not saying the academic agent is wrong about the prescription for what the powerful
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I just think he misunderstands the nature of those currently in power.
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And more importantly, the nature of the zeitgeist, the way in which they are subject to their
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See, academic agent and I agree about 90% about the way that politics work.
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We both agree with the Italian elite theorists that the elites drive most of public opinion
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that they drive most of politics, that democracy, that popular sovereignty is not really a thing
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And so the thing, if you want to understand the moves in politics, is not to look at the
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understanding of the average person or the opinion of the average person, but to look
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The only difference we have is not this general political analysis about the mechanisms of power,
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but about this small disagreement about the way that our current set of elites understand
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The academic agent believes them to be cold and calculating guys who are in control of
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what's happening as where I believe that they are a degraded form of elite and that more
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importantly, they have drank their own Kool-Aid.
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The story they are telling is no longer a convenient political formula that they're just telling
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people, a noble lie that they're telling people so that they can retain power.
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Instead, I believe that it is something that they have fully invested in and that they
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So I have more of a Gatano Mosca or even Curtis Yarvin understanding of elites as where academic
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agent has more of a Wilfredo Pareto's understanding of the purpose of the elites and their current
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So that's kind of the battle where we're in some ways rehashing a debate that's been in
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You know, Gatano Mosca and the Fredo Pareto disagreed about this.
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And then Sam Francis and Paul Godfrey disagreed about this.
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And I'm more with Mosca and Godfrey and academic agent is more with Pareto and guys like Sam
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And so I think that that that split, the fundamental split inside a discipline of political analysis
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that we mostly agree on is where this battle lies.
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So there's been many reasons over the years, over the year or so that this bet has existed.
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There was, of course, the fact that after a trans shooter murdered children, the regime
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sided with the trans community and not the Christians that were murdered.
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That was a huge point that what was was not going away, even in the middle of a massive
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The way that the federal government has gone after Donald Trump, they have indicted him
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That was another, I think, key point that they have accelerated what they're doing.
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And that their prosecution of Trump makes it clear that they are willing to mess with
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They're not careful about anything, about the critical parts of the illusion of democracy.
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All of these are, I think, I think steps towards showing that academic agents position is just
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However, there was a series of events that have occurred over the last week that I think
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I think it's been clear that he's been wrong for a long time.
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However, I think in the last week, there's just been incontrovertible evidence that he
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So it all started with this movie that came out on Netflix.
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I have not seen it, but I have seen the clips from it.
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And in this movie called Leave the World Behind, it kind of there's a there's a monologue in
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And one of the characters, it's two black characters laying in bed.
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And one of them says, remember, this is a this is like a post-apocalyptic thing.
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So they're talking about survival in the post-apocalypse.
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And one of the characters says, if the world falls apart, trust should not be doled out
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Now, we're used to, I think, at this point, unfortunately, a large amount of anti-white
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I think it's very clear that that is a message that is being pushed.
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I think that the media is interested in radio Rwanda stuff.
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But it's also part of their divisive nature that they want to create this split inside
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kind of the polity and increase, ratchet up this tension.
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But it, you know, it's become more and more blatant.
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The fact that they're just directly saying in large, you know, mainstream popular entertainment,
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this isn't just like fringe, weird movies or, you know, things that college kids are
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This is stuff that's getting, you know, mainstream front page splash advertisements at places
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Now, you think that this would be obviously a win for me, right?
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You would say, OK, well, you believe that the woke is accelerating, that it won't be put
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And Netflix is throwing out blatant anti-wave propaganda in their entertainment like this.
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But no, says Academic Agent, who goes by Roland Ratt on Twitter.
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He says, I expect this to be one of the last films in the woke cycle.
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I expect, excuse me, I expect no new woke movies produced in 2023 itself released next
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year to be made if they are or McIntyre will likely win the cigar used to be a box of cigars
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Now, I want to say he said the exact same thing about kind of a split that would happen
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I feel like there's already a definitive L when it turned out the pro-Palestinian side
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But it's great because as soon as he said this, you know, I just went down there.
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I was like, oh, buddy, if that's the best, if that's the bet, if that's the bet, then you
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Like, this is so it's so clear that I have won if you're if you're going to make a mistake
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like this, when he when he sets a goal like this, it's so obvious that I'm going to win.
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I knew that this was going to be something that he would just end up destroying himself.
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But there's no way that this would be the correct prediction.
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So this was December 9th when he made this prediction.
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And lo and behold, what did we see just a few days later?
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All right, let me show you this trailer and play a little bit of this trailer.
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So like a week later, barely a week later, we get this trailer.
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This trailer is for a movie called the American Society of Magical Negroes.
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I immediately went and searched to see if it was a parody.
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I would not be surprised if like, you know, someone like slipped in undercover and somehow
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However, let me go ahead and play you just a little bit.
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Watching you walk through a room full of white people is the most painful thing I've ever seen.
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There's a recruiting class starting right now and we've got to get you in it.
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Welcome to the American Society of Magical Negroes.
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Okay, so watching him walk through a room of white people is the most painful thing this
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That's just the first couple seconds of this movie.
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But for people who want to like, not like white people, it's that seems like that that that
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seems to be that seems to be the premise of the movie.
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What's the most dangerous animal on the planet?
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What's the most dangerous animal on the planet?
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What's the most dangerous animal on the planet?
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I want to remind you, this is five days after Academic Agent Betts that we're done with
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Five days later, white people, the most dangerous thing on the planet.
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White people feeling uncomfortable precedes a lot of bad stuff for us.
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That's why we fight white discomfort every day.
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Because the happier they are, the safer we are.
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So the purpose of this movie is apparently that there's like a magical Harry Potter.
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There's like a Hogwarts where they teach black people to make white people happy so white
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people don't become uncomfortable and then become dangerous.
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We're five days away from Academic Agent making the bet that we're, this is it.
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There's no way that they're going to release more mainstream movies.
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You know, we're not going to get 20, 24 movies that time.
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I was hoping there was a station right next to him.
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It's like being a secret agent with none of the danger.
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So his job is basically like go around and like make white people happy so they're not
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You know, we knew what the goal was that, you know, if you have this new movie, if you
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have any more movies that come out, you know, this is peak wokeness.
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It's not going to get any worse than that, right?
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There's no way that events could accelerate even further.
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There's no way that there could be another major shakeup that could be even any.
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I mean, how could we need any evidence beyond that?
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I mean, how could the regime make it any more clear that the woke isn't going away?
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So Colorado Supreme Court rules that Trump is disqualified from the state's ballot over
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The Colorado Supreme Court overturned a lower court's ruling on Tuesday and said that the
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former president, Donald Trump, was disqualified from appearing on the state's ballot over his
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However, the court allowed time for the former president to file an appeal by staying the
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So I told people for a long time, I warned people about this, that the language being
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Before the events of January 6th, you had never heard anyone in the media talk about an
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There had been no talk about insurrections being planned.
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No one had ever been accused of an insurrection, planning an insurrection.
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Maybe they'd say treason, but no one ever used the word insurrection.
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The fact that everyone in the media, from the New York Times to MSNBC to CNN, all suddenly
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Washington Post, they all suddenly had the exact same term for what happened in January
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Not a riot, not a protest, not even like, oh, violence or something like that.
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And they warned everybody that the 14th Amendment was their goal, that that had been chosen for
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a very particular reason, that they wanted to exploit a constitutional provision.
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Now, for those who are unfamiliar, the 14th Amendment was passed after the Civil War.
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And the 14th Amendment is one of the most abused pieces of constitutional language that we
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OK, this is up there with, like, the Commerce Clause for just creating infinite amount of
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In fact, it's beyond the Commerce Clause at this point for creating an infinite amount
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So the way that the 14th Amendment works is that they said, you know, there's the equal
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And that the extension of that phrase, equal protection under the law in the 14th Amendment
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OK, it's been wildly abused by the Supreme Court to basically turn a large amount of
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The government has infinite power when it comes to making sure that the law is applied
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And so it vastly increased the power of the government just in that phrase.
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It also defines what a citizen is, and this is where you get birth or this is where you
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This is where you get kind of the anchor baby phenomenon.
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Now, the 14th Amendment was very clearly designed for a very specific reason.
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It's post the Civil War, and it's trying to explain why black Americans who were born as
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slaves are actually citizens for the United States for the purpose of things like elections.
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They wanted to make sure that states that were trying to figure out whether former slaves
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were technically Americans and citizens, that it made it clear what constituted an American
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And so that part of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment is there to make it clear who is an American.
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American, and that's kind of the idea of why that existed.
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That has been exploited by illegal immigration.
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Anybody who gets onto American soil and is born here is automatically an American citizen
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So the 14th Amendment has been exploited in a lot of ways.
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The 14th Amendment basically says whatever the court wants it to say, which is true of the
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Sorry, conservatives, that the Democrats, right or wrong, or Democrats, for better or
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for worse, are right about the living nature of a Constitution, but we can get into that
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So this is a very exploited provision in the Constitution, a very exploited amendment.
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However, Section 3 is the part that they are hitting on.
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No person shall be a senator or a representative in Congress or an elector of the president
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or vice president, so part of the Electoral College, or hold any office, civil or military
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under the United States or any other state who, having previously taken an oath as a member
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of Congress or as an officer of the United States or as a member of any state legislature
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or as an executive or judicial officer of any state to support the Constitution of the
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United States, shall be engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same.
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Shouldn't it be enough to just lock him up, right?
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You just lock him up and then he can't run for president.
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Actually, no, because in the Constitution, there are only three provisions.
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There are only three requirements for what the president needs to be to run.
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You need to be, you need to have been a natural born citizen.
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You can't be an immigrant and you have to, you have to have been a resident for 14 years.
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So you can't like move to Germany, live there until you're 34, move here at 35 and then
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You could be a serial killer and run for president.
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There is no requirement when it comes to legality.
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So all of their attempts to go ahead and indict Trump, all of their attempts to arrest him,
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all their attempts to convict him, they wouldn't actually keep him from running for
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However, the one thing that could is the one other requirement that was added through the
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14th Amendment, which is the restriction on those who have participated in insurrection
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And since Trump was sworn in as president and took the oath of office, he qualifies under
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There's only one problem, however, that's not real because Trump has never been charged
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He's been charged with all kinds of other things.
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He's been charged with all kinds of other crimes, all other, all kinds of violations, but
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he has never been charged with insurrection, which means it doesn't fall under the 14th
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However, despite the fact that he has never been charged with the crime that triggers the
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14th Amendment, Colorado just kind of ignored that and decided to try to remove him from
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There's a lot of there's a lot of skullduggery and shenanigans that have gone on in the past
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27 minutes, and I'm here to set the record straight.
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Look, I think it's clear to everyone that you have been completely destroyed.
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Trump has been removed from the ballot already in one state.
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How can you possibly tell me the woke is is getting put away?
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I mean, OK, am I able to share my screen for a second?
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I need to clear up a couple of legalities about the actual bet itself.
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Because if we go back to the original bet, 14th of May, 2023, Aaron says, happy to put
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I mean, in my mind, it was a single pad drawn 1926 from you to me.
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Or if you win, I can get I can ship you one of my special Cubans, which I know is difficult
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But let me just read the original bet a second.
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Now, I just want everybody here to check the date.
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So by my calculations, you're declaring victory a whole year early, even more than a year,
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I'm just trying to save you the indignity of having to go through another year of this.
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I said in exactly two years from now, if woke is obviously intensified by then, you win.
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If we're living through a UK general election in which both parties are trying to anti-woke
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each other, which they are, by the way, the Conservatives and Labour in this country are now both anti-immigration
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And then I put an asterisk there, and I'm saying, if it's an obviously non-woke dem president, that also counts.
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And I'm trying to think of who an obviously non-woke, like, I mean...
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I don't think there is such a figure that exists right now.
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Yeah, even RFK is woke, even though he's like, you know...
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RFK is kind of anti-regime, but he's not anti...
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Like, I saw a story the other day that The Rock had...
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You know, the actual wrestler The Rock, Dwayne Johnson, had gone to the Pentagon
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and was meeting about a possible presidential run, let's pretend The Rock comes out, but
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I mean, if The Rock became the president instead of Trump, it would still be a notch, you know?
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Well, then we're literally in the idiocracy, right?
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The bet is not over whether the future world isn't...
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I mean, we're going to go into the idiocracy no matter who wins, right?
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Is it obviously going to be put away by the 14th of May?
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Now, I have a number of data points, Aaron, because you've just had 27 minutes in which
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you ran your mouth in front of these great fans here, these great American fans of yours,
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And I've got some data points to show you that 2023 actually was an anti-woke hurricane, okay?
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Did you make a slideshow while I was doing this?
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But, you know, well, I couldn't bring a chair, but I brought a slide.
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This is my intellectual version of the steel chair.
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And I'll note that I haven't put any UK-centric points like that.
00:31:57.500
That's important because I do think, I will say, I do think there's a divergence here.
00:32:01.180
I think America, our elites are way more insane, which makes sense because we are the ground zero for this.
00:32:09.140
So I think you might win in the UK and I might win in America, but we'll have to see.
00:32:20.860
And I don't think this can be overlooked versus 2016 or 2020, right?
00:32:27.040
But Trump, in some current polls by Harris, is eight points up on Biden.
00:32:33.960
Even in the most regime-friendly polls, Trump is still winning, right, by three or four points.
00:32:40.960
This is a very different ballpark from the days where, do you remember for a long time,
00:32:47.800
Trump had about 33% of core base support, but then he struggled with the independents
00:32:55.540
And now Trump comfortably is ahead of Biden in all the head-to-heads, apart from in one poll
00:33:03.600
where they, for some reason, put Nikki Haley on the ballot and Nikki Haley was like 50-50
00:33:09.720
But if you have a look at the 538 poll of polls, it's very clear that Trump is well ahead
00:33:18.260
of Biden, and this puts the whole election in a different ballpark because it not only means that Trump is the kind of favorite of the Republicans
00:33:31.960
or this base of kind of hardcore MAGA heads, he is actually the favorite to win the election.
00:33:42.480
Now, I think we have to, when we're looking at polls, we have to bring up two things.
00:33:46.480
I do think you're right that there's some interesting things happening with polls, but two things, two caveats we need to look at here.
00:33:51.500
First, you have to remember how inaccurate the polling was leading up to Trump's original win, right?
00:33:58.160
He was given a, Hillary Clinton was given a 97% chance to win going into the election.
00:34:07.560
And so if you're looking at the comparison between the two polls, that cannot be a reliable comparison by definition
00:34:15.820
And what you're assuming is that the polling was fine then and the polling is now good,
00:34:22.600
But they're uncomparable because the data was wrong, it was completely bunk.
00:34:26.260
But, you see, back then, the polls, I'm not saying the polls were rigged,
00:34:32.820
but the pollsters, you know, you can listen to Richard Barris or people like that about this,
00:34:38.700
the pollsters deliberately waited to, you know, they kind of rigged their samples a little bit
00:34:47.240
to almost kind of, you know, manufacture the results
00:34:53.180
because the polling itself was a form of persuasion.
00:34:57.820
We saw this in 2020, we saw it in 2016, and it was a way of helping the Democrats win.
00:35:04.280
In this election, either they've changed the way they do polling,
00:35:09.260
or Trump is so overwhelmingly in front in the actual polls that they have no choice but to show this.
00:35:17.360
Either way, the messaging we're getting from the regime and all its arms,
00:35:21.900
538 is not like a MAGA, like a MAGA-friendly publication or anything.
00:35:26.720
The media are telling us Trump is going to win, right?
00:35:30.640
So I'm just saying the messaging is very different going into this election than it has been before.
00:35:35.480
The other thing is that if you think of, you know, some people would say DeSantis, Haley, Christie,
00:35:45.740
all these clowns are on the Republican ballot in the primaries.
00:35:51.220
You know, you've had this whole clown show of the primaries going on.
00:35:54.560
Trump is just refusing to appear on any of them, which is the correct move.
00:36:02.320
If you have a look at the 538 poll of polls, the Trump versus DeSantis head-to-head,
00:36:08.960
or Trump versus Haley, it actually, like, the graph is so wide now that it looks like a crocodile's jaws.
00:36:16.560
If you, like, the actual graph looks like a crocodile opening its mouth.
00:36:22.460
So I'm just saying that the actual weight of public opinion does matter because it strips.
00:36:35.260
No, well, I mean, even in elite theory, the elites have to think about where a population is, right?
00:36:43.320
They can't just, you know, they can't just completely be at odds.
00:36:47.780
I mean, let's imagine for a second, okay, that the regime wanted to become, I don't know, full-on Hitlerian, right, tomorrow.
00:37:01.020
The population wouldn't brook that, and neither would it brook going full Stalin tomorrow, okay?
00:37:06.600
I.e., an elite has to weigh up what it can get away with.
00:37:13.380
This is an often missed point in elite theory, I think.
00:37:19.300
They have to consider, you know, and they then have to start making deals and trading off.
00:37:29.920
Right, I mean, and that's why up until fairly recently, in fact, still, every...
00:37:36.600
American president has to at least pretend to be Christian, right?
00:37:43.500
Yeah, I mean, and you even see this in other countries, right?
00:37:46.240
You see it in other countries, like an example I would give to people is in Turkey.
00:37:51.120
If you look at Erdogan, right, recently there have been huge crowds protesting against Israel in Turkey, okay?
00:38:00.840
And Erdogan, he just gets on the mic and he kind of cheers along with them,
00:38:04.860
even though it's clear from his actual actions, he has no, like, you know,
00:38:11.460
he's not actually going to do anything about what's happening in Israel at all.
00:38:16.960
But, you know, for the good of his own regime in Turkey,
00:38:21.340
he has to play along with where the weight of public opinion is, right?
00:38:27.440
Second thing is that I think much of the regime media, I'm talking New York Times,
00:38:36.120
I'm not talking, like, there are the crazies, like there's MSNBC, Maddow, you know, The Guardian.
00:38:45.140
You know, you've got your, like, left-wing publications, right?
00:38:48.380
But there are other media outlets which are more...
00:38:53.780
They like to present themselves as being the adults in the room.
00:38:57.800
And CNN and the New York Times are still kind of, you know...
00:39:03.380
I mean, it's hard to say it with a straight face,
00:39:06.280
but they still like to think of themselves as being serious kind of bellwethers for polite opinion.
00:39:13.780
And I have noticed that all year they've basically been prepping for a Trump presidency.
00:39:19.800
By which I mean that Brandon, that is, Joe Biden, has lost his plot armour.
00:39:25.720
You know, there was a moment, and I don't know when it happened,
00:39:28.440
maybe back in January or February, where it's like, right, the press are going to...
00:39:37.980
They're not going to protect them from, like, Hunter Biden stuff or economy stuff or, you know...
00:39:46.000
And so what I'm saying is, is that on CNN or in the New York Times,
00:39:51.040
you now regularly see articles that are critical of Brandon.
00:39:56.860
And I'm also not seeing in those publications the same degree of Trump derangement syndrome.
00:40:11.660
Washington Post had the, like, prepare for the Trump dictatorship thing.
00:40:17.320
They have a whole series of Trump derangement syndrome
00:40:20.760
talking about how he's going to jail his enemies
00:40:23.080
and basically do everything they are going to do.
00:40:25.500
Washington Post, though, is that a serious publication?
00:40:43.120
there will be articles there that basically voice concern
00:40:57.860
Colorado has just put a rocket fuel under Trump's base
00:41:05.220
I.e. their narrative is that this is going to backfire.
00:41:12.700
They've not really been up for the indictments.
00:41:53.460
But we should have the say, and not the courts.
00:42:13.420
who came together after a long and brutal civil war
00:42:49.920
She's directly calling for the end of democracy
00:43:13.560
them backing away from Trump derangement system.
00:43:46.700
And I would say that there's a much bigger contingent
00:44:59.600
They can see that this is going to cause trouble.
00:49:27.300
but it's just something for people to bear in mind
00:49:31.840
it could be that you're winning a battle in one place,
00:49:35.940
or that you're nowhere in somewhere in another place.
00:49:38.840
Let's work down our list here because otherwise we'll,
00:49:45.180
Vivek and Elon Musk smashing over to him with a sledgehammer.
00:50:02.980
And they're hiring him basically begging the American public to start
00:50:16.760
is that evidence that the left is putting the woke away or is it just
00:50:20.520
evidence that the right is finally winning a battle?
00:50:23.920
I would say it's capturing the castle of bud light because bud light,
00:50:29.080
trying to capture and virtue signal to the woke,
00:50:32.120
basically hiring kid rock and hanging out with Donna white.
00:50:39.860
It's mega signaling if you want to put it that way.
00:50:42.160
So in a way it doesn't really matter that I'm behind the Bush hasn't
00:50:46.500
You were never going to put them out of business,
00:50:49.120
you've kind of forced them to start begging you instead of begging the
00:50:56.120
Disney had one of their worst box office years in recent history to the
00:51:04.880
a couple of days before he was feeding with Elon Musk the other day,
00:51:11.100
Iger literally made a statement saying that the product is a bit,
00:51:16.920
people don't want to see these political movies.
00:51:18.800
So he wants to move the Disney product away from politics.
00:51:49.680
the biggest asset management firm in the world said,
00:52:07.460
there's a lot of lawfare against BlackRock who are being sued around the
00:52:16.420
is now saying we're going to start regulating this ESG business and take it
00:52:21.640
Like it's not fair that these firms have so much power,
00:52:32.120
they work together and cause I'm going to agree with you on seven.
00:52:34.780
but I want to bring something up on five and six.
00:52:37.540
the thing with five and six is you're right that these statements have been
00:52:41.180
but we have both talked about the way that the ratchet works,
00:52:45.720
That they lock in their gains and then they move forward.
00:52:51.680
and some of these investment firms are publicly going to make these
00:52:59.840
But all of that wokeness is still going to be there.
00:53:03.740
they're not going to push things further for a moment,
00:53:05.820
but they're going to lock in all of those gains,
00:53:11.420
all of the things that had been foisted on the public.
00:53:15.140
They're still going to be doing trans kids stuff.
00:53:21.320
racial replacement on all these race swaps and stuff on their movies.
00:53:26.720
They're just going to stop giving as much lip service while they lock those
00:53:32.480
And then they're going to accelerate the minute that they think that the coast
00:53:37.420
I feel like that the right and you and everybody basically overestimate the
00:53:45.280
extent to which the BLM push was a win for the left because BLM has left
00:53:54.780
They may have claimed a couple of statues and stuck a few George Floyd's here
00:54:14.180
2023 saw a massive purging of DEI executives and departments basically across the
00:54:25.400
to the point where diversity gurus were struggling to be hired.
00:54:30.040
And I think it's like a 75% decrease in DEI stuff.
00:54:36.720
These were all promises that these companies made in the hysteria of BLM.
00:54:46.760
They've all turned their back on all these things because they've seen the backlash.
00:54:53.740
Like it's one thing to virtue signal when the economy is going well,
00:55:01.980
people can see things heading in the wrong direction.
00:55:06.880
are struggling to make money in this environment.
00:55:15.820
only 8 billion as opposed to like 50 billion or something,
00:55:31.340
Seventh one is the white boys back in the military ads are on very important.
00:55:40.840
they started spitting in the eye of people who can actually fight wars.
00:55:48.880
roll in the next foreign project with the current recruits they have.
00:55:57.760
it's pointless quoting stats of recruitment for the year when these DEI people were still in.
00:56:07.720
So it's next year's recruitment numbers are going to need to look at not this year's.
00:56:21.820
me and my friend Pharaoh review all of the Christmas ads.
00:56:32.080
There was a lot of what I would call fresh Prince messaging,
00:56:55.220
works in this kind of horrible little office in London.
00:57:04.740
he points to his watch because she's a little bit late for work.
00:57:08.280
And she basically has like these voodoo fantasies at home where she dreams about killing him.
00:57:33.480
And then she's on her way back home from work one day.
00:57:46.120
literally George Harrison singing about how we're all the same.
00:57:57.260
As she sits down with her boss and tries to befriend him.
00:58:05.520
And the whole messaging is maybe the black woman shouldn't have been like,
00:58:11.140
she's been a bit hasty in her hatred and resentment.
00:58:26.400
He probably has power over her because of structural inequalities,
00:58:30.280
but they just decided to tell us to not kill each other this time.
00:58:37.120
I feel like they're playing that radio Rwanda of like,
00:58:56.160
I think they're locking in most of that and they're just dialing back the,
00:58:59.460
the most egregious and violent thing they're saying.
00:59:06.340
but we'll have to agree to disagree on that one.
00:59:09.780
You just put nine up there so I could win this one.
00:59:23.000
Claudine Gay is under intense pressure and she was given the backing of the
00:59:31.160
It doesn't matter what sport you watch or what field you're in.
00:59:49.680
all of these university presidents came under pressure because they refuse to,
00:59:56.020
pro Palestinian or anti Israel protests on their campuses.
01:00:04.140
who should have been protected under the previous understanding of wokeness was canceled.
01:00:11.860
that's because she was not part of the DEI structure.
01:00:19.040
And even though she had all of these plagiarism accusations that people like Chris Ruffo were bringing to light,
01:00:26.240
Harvard doubled down on her and remove and refuse to remove her.
01:00:34.440
and it's very clear that certain people still have plot armor,
01:00:41.280
that is a very interesting development inside the left.
01:01:04.880
white liberal women who used to be defended by it.
01:01:14.240
I feel like this is a spiteful reading of the situation.
01:01:36.340
Do you believe that president gay is still in charge of Harvard?
01:01:45.580
She will eventually move on to something else or she'll quietly be phased
01:01:49.500
but it will not be a capitulation to this thing.
01:01:54.080
but I think most university presidents are going to turn around like that.
01:02:05.740
it took them like two months to get rid of the executives in charge of bud light.
01:02:16.240
keep your targets on president gay and she'll be gone.
01:02:22.540
I'm sure Chris appreciates that vote of confidence.
01:02:28.860
the 10th one is that the economist just a week ago has declared that anti-woke activists are winning the culture war in America.
01:02:42.540
And what's really interesting is some of the stats they lay on here because they basically quote some kind of left-wing cope about anti-woke groups.
01:02:57.320
but I just want to go down to the broader election,
01:03:01.620
broader education policy is yielding to similar pressure.
01:03:07.380
44 states have introduced bills or taken other steps to restrict CRT since January of 2021.
01:03:18.380
Conservative activists may have lost most of the school board battles,
01:03:23.620
And there are many other little victories they mentioned along the way in this article.
01:03:28.180
So I'm just saying that it's important to recognize that the war isn't won overnight.
01:03:36.600
great work is being done and it just takes a little bit of time,
01:03:43.720
And of course the empire is going to want to strike back a little bit in the meantime,
01:04:18.560
like they've stayed their judgment until January,
01:04:26.620
Trump will actually stay on the ballot in circumstances X,
01:04:34.420
And I trust Viva Fry because he's an actual lawyer.
01:04:39.060
So I want to go ahead and take a look at a development that has occurred while we were preparing for this.
01:04:52.600
who I think most people are probably familiar with.
01:05:06.560
remove a candidate from a ballot in a federal election is some laughed clean out of court,
01:05:16.080
It's intended to trigger a cascade to normalize this for other blue purple and purple stage states,
01:05:22.520
which is why it isn't enough to merely overturn.
01:05:25.980
They need consequences such as disbarment or yes,
01:05:28.300
even prosecution of the prosecutors must be imposed.
01:05:35.660
they stayed their own decision to wait for the Supreme court to respond.
01:05:39.520
So obviously there's some questions for in their minds there as to whether even the Supreme court would allow them to attempt to use the 14th amendment in this way.
01:05:49.140
I think that razor fist ends up being proven correct because right after he posts this,
01:06:01.180
we get this announcement that the California Lieutenant governor has urged the secretary of state to explore the legal options to remove the former president from California's primary ballot here.
01:06:14.140
And we can see that there's a formal request by the,
01:06:19.680
Lieutenant governor of California to seek any and all means,
01:06:25.960
So it's clear that there is now a virtue signaling cascade that's going to occur across all blue states to attempt to remove Trump from the ballot.
01:06:37.540
and I think ultimately it probably won't be successful,
01:06:41.780
because of the kind of conservative Supreme court at the moment.
01:06:49.380
If every blue state attempts to remove Trump from the ballot,
01:06:53.240
that is going to put things to a fever pitch that,
01:07:05.720
but even the attempt has to be an insane acceleration of political tensions in the
01:08:02.660
I still think that there is a clear and definitive case that you should just throw in the towel
01:08:16.240
need the embarrassment of another year of devastating defeats at the hands of my predictions,
01:08:46.460
Thanks to academic agent for coming in on the unexpected appearance.
01:08:51.060
But I think we can all agree that I clearly devastated him.
01:09:10.300
So let me go ahead and start to work my way through here.
01:09:19.500
I still firmly believe that the cigar is mine or cigars.
01:09:24.260
there's some unspecified number of cigars in question that were discussed.
01:09:30.500
even though he said multiples still a point of contention,
01:09:36.640
but I will allow him to continue his attempts to secure the cigar here.
01:09:44.520
The Colorado court has essentially guaranteed two things.
01:09:47.640
the reelection of Donald Trump and that America will be in a hot,
01:09:51.420
I'm not going to say that just because of YouTube before the end of 2025,
01:10:02.820
I would say that Trump was already in a position to win before we got here.
01:10:19.080
then you really are in a true constitutional crisis.
01:10:24.680
will the Supreme court save the left from kind of their own devices.
01:10:35.360
So it's because conservative forces managed to save them from kind of their own,
01:10:45.760
This is the problem is academic agent keeps missing.
01:10:48.520
He keeps mixing in any conservative victory as evidence for his side that the elites are putting the woke away.
01:10:54.560
That's not how that was not the nature of the bet.
01:10:56.940
The bet was that the left would intentionally dial this back,
01:11:01.860
that those in power would intentionally step away from the craziness.
01:11:06.520
And so I don't think he can just bring up every victory by Chris Ruffo or every victory handed down.
01:11:13.040
that's evidence that the left is putting the woke way.
01:11:17.420
You have to show evidence that the left is intentionally.
01:11:40.480
creeper weirdo here says my argument is the left is too petty.
01:11:59.380
even though it will not bring about the finest cigar.
01:12:04.640
juice bugalow says as a hoppy and the de facto end to the farce of democracy is making me,
01:12:19.740
They've done that with racism and equality and all of these things.
01:12:35.220
I think a couple of years ago now about talking about why democracy was already dead.
01:12:39.880
In which I already predicted a lot of this stuff.
01:12:42.500
So if you'd like to see those predictions come true,
01:12:50.240
you cannot just put the woke away any more than you can just turn a jihad in jihadi into an atheist.
01:13:13.540
Tiny Rick says the most dangerous animal on the planet.
01:13:25.440
definitely an interesting way for them to address white people in that video.
01:13:35.160
he says also Hulk Hogan is running in for prez.
01:13:41.880
glow in the dark says here comes a with the chair.
01:13:45.220
absolutely had that live commentary as he broke through in to make his case.
01:13:50.920
binary surfer once again says one of three things will stop Trump.
01:13:56.220
which I don't think will happen to unprecedented fortification.
01:14:16.960
Trump is blocked from running in kind of the Republican primary,
01:14:19.840
but I don't think that that's going to end up working for them.
01:14:26.300
precocious heretic says if the work of professor Ed,
01:14:30.900
Wouldn't it seem that the woke won't go away for generations for deeply ingrained
01:14:39.520
Leninism has layered it in and that it's going to continue to be the case
01:14:43.860
that they're going to continue to inherit those beliefs and that
01:14:49.100
I think a lot of what AA is hoping for is like the retrenchment of the ratchet
01:14:55.620
he's going to win on where things continue to be woke,
01:14:58.220
but they're not pushing the language and advancing as fast.
01:15:06.340
I think he's going to try to count that as a win.
01:15:16.880
which country in the West do you think is the most screwed at the
01:15:26.820
I think that the United States is kind of ground zero for a lot of
01:15:31.720
this stuff because it is the core of the empire.
01:15:35.600
because of that has the most pushback because there is a real
01:15:38.980
opposition inherently built into the United States.
01:15:45.240
on half of the United States from the beginning,
01:15:49.860
And so the United States has the most pushback,
01:16:05.420
but Canada's entire identity is just not being America.
01:16:11.700
I know there are some based Canadians out there.
01:16:18.380
the Canadian political identity is one of just being a more progressive
01:16:33.940
I proposed that should be raised to a cigar box.
01:16:40.940
I am more than happy to go ahead and officially,
01:16:46.860
academic agent like to put his cigars where his mouth is,
01:17:02.440
count you not the chickens that hatch that haven't yet hatched be waywards as
01:17:23.020
but it seems like he's determined to battle on even in the wake of these
01:17:33.260
Tom says probably a silly question is free speech.
01:17:44.100
it seems it's a tool your enemies can use to attack you.
01:17:49.820
the most important thing to understand here is what does free speech mean?
01:17:57.560
free speech means being able to say whatever you want,
01:18:01.040
Obviously that has never existed in the United States.
01:18:05.080
there were blasphemy laws in the United States.
01:18:09.420
after the first amendment was written on what people can say or do.
01:18:17.540
things like pornography or other things that have been qualified as speech under our current,
01:18:23.480
understanding of free speech laws clearly were never the intentions of the founding fathers.
01:18:32.140
I don't think it's in line with any of the things that actually are intended by free speech.
01:18:36.780
Now what free speech actually probably meant was the ability to oppose,
01:18:54.140
to just say anything you want at all times for any reason.
01:19:03.600
there's a lot of questions wrapped into that first.
01:19:05.720
We're kind of probably assuming that there would still be,
01:19:09.940
that there would still be democracy in this scenario,
01:19:17.960
then does the free speech even necessarily matter?
01:19:21.400
If you go back and look at the histories of a guy like,
01:19:39.300
And one of them is arguing for whether or not you should kind of have free speech,
01:19:54.660
then free speech isn't really a problem because you're not worried about whether or not
01:19:58.680
it's actually going to like wreck your ability to maintain power.
01:20:06.720
then free speech is more of a danger to your regime.
01:20:10.760
any wise regime that is confident in its ability is going to allow a certain amount of rhetorical
01:20:16.000
freedom because that's a pressure release valve.
01:20:18.980
One of the ways you know that our current regime is actually in serious trouble is they're
01:20:23.520
trying to crack down on what has been ostensibly this freedom of speech in the United States,
01:20:41.540
It's going to depend on the political situation.
01:21:20.480
I don't think that academic agent has no points,
01:21:22.680
but I think it's clear that at the end of the day,
01:21:30.840
do someone to skip that question just for the interest of keeping the
01:22:00.300
that is now an actual debate happening on the right.
01:22:03.360
If you can believe it or not in the year of our Lord,
01:22:12.600
singing their national anthem in a job now at sporting events.
01:22:25.120
what would it take to break the front enemy distinction alliance between woke Western
01:22:35.820
So a couple of things to remember about this conflict.
01:22:38.500
I think if the United States was in the position that say Europe was in there,
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there'd be a very different dynamic and you are seeing parts of the left realize that,
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they they've kind of put themselves in this position specifically after the events in Israel,
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Islam had transformed that Muslim immigration had transformed their nations suddenly notice
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the minute that those people were chanting from the river to the sea.
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I think they already have seen how would that friend enemy distinction break up?
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can it crack up and that split occur in the left?
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with kind of the rhetoric that the left has already advanced.
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I think one group might just win and one group might just lose.
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You might cheer off a large amount of people from the left who don't agree with the advancing
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so support in many of those European countries,
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but I don't know if the left can actually kind of extract itself from that problem.
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other Westerners have when they assess whether the left will break up over this is they think
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that there's an ideological conflict between conservative Muslims and progressive liberals.
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Like they don't have the same values in that case.
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advocating for trans kids does not have an ideological alignment,
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naturally with a Muslim who prefers Sharia law.
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the thing that they share is the desire to dismantle the European and Christian nations that they are
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their alliance was never based on ideological conformity.
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And that's what forms the friend enemy distinction.
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What breaks the friend enemy distinction when they're,
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we might have gotten to that point and that breakup might come,
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what are your recommendation conditions to fight the woke?
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Can we ever escape this living hell conservatives while making minor wins don't seem capable of forcing
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academic agent has referenced Chris Ruffo's wins multiple times during this.
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I think that Ruffo is certainly running an experiment on whether or not,
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people like Curtis Yarvin disagree with him on that.
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but I think that Chris is doing the Lord's work.
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I think that he absolutely should run this experiment and I hope for his victory at the
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I think that localism matters that you have a much better case.
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And I think you have a much better chance of winning in that way,
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than you do looking for these large national victories,
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You do see people like Ruffo having some luck there.
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and then Jeb Reggie says the woke can't be put away because the woke is always being put
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away and brought into the public simultaneously.
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Wokeness is what offends the public sensibility,
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I do think the ability of them to wield it strategically has lost.
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So I do agree that the woke will never be put away permanently because it's key to their
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but I think they're losing the ability to even put it away strategically to advance their
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he would say that the woke would never be put away forever.
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He's simply saying that we'll be strategically put away for a time.
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And our argument is whether or not they have the ability to do that,
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great to have academic agent burst through and do the run in to bring his steel chair of
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I still think that foreign victory is imminent.
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is not ready to concede this obvious victory yet.
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And so I will continue to have to humiliate him in this ongoing battle.
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