The Auron MacIntyre Show - Looting the Treasury ｜ 9⧸26⧸23

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00:00:30.160 Hey everybody, how's it going? Thanks for joining me this afternoon.

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00:00:36.000 So, I'm doing another one of those news roundup streams.

00:00:39.240 People seemed to enjoy that last time, so we're going to try that again.

00:00:42.820 Now, today, I want to talk a little bit about the war in Ukraine.

00:00:47.200 I've kind of made this joke a number of times.

00:00:50.520 Every time a new spending bill comes up, we discover another couple billion dollars to ship over to Ukraine at any given moment.

00:00:59.520 That we're kind of in the looting the treasury phase of the empire.

00:01:02.860 I want to talk a little more about that as we've discovered the United States is funding even more of the Ukrainian government and the nation of Ukraine than we thought before.

00:01:12.240 I also want to talk to you a little bit about the Canadian parliament standing up and cheering on a guy who fought on the Nazi side in World War II.

00:01:21.720 I want to talk to you a little bit about the epidemic of immigration in New York and some of the response that is happening there.

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00:02:41.960 All right, guys, I want to go ahead and play this clip from 60 Minutes for you real quick,

00:02:47.640 talking about what they found about our current situation in Ukraine,

00:02:51.280 and then we'll talk about this for a second.

00:02:53.020 American taxpayers are financing more than just weapons.

00:02:58.140 We discovered the U.S. government's buying seeds and fertilizer for Ukrainian farmers

00:03:03.340 and covering the salaries of Ukraine's first responders, all 57,000 of them.

00:03:11.340 That includes the team that trains this rescue dog named Joy

00:03:15.780 to comb through the wreckage of Russian strikes looking for survivors.

00:03:22.180 And the U.S. also funds the divers,

00:03:25.100 who we saw clearing unexploded ammunition from the country's rivers

00:03:29.580 to make them safe again for swimming and fishing.

00:03:33.900 Russia's invasion shrank Ukraine's economy by about a third.

00:03:38.240 We were surprised to find that to keep it afloat,

00:03:40.900 the U.S. government is subsidizing small businesses.

00:03:45.120 So I think a lot of people are already well aware about the just massive amount of money

00:03:50.340 that is being sent to Ukraine.

00:03:52.440 Now, obviously, the United States has, at least at this point, avoided a hot war with Russia,

00:03:58.460 though it does seem like our government would be in some ways OK with provoking that.

00:04:03.900 They're really doing everything they can.

00:04:06.040 Now, to be clear, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine is terrible in a lot of ways.

00:04:11.480 Obviously, there's a massive amount of loss of life here.

00:04:15.680 A lot of families are devastated,

00:04:17.900 and a lot of people understandably oppose Vladimir Putin's aggression here.

00:04:23.180 I think that it's kind of safe to say that he's doing some bad things here.

00:04:28.520 I think that's pretty obvious.

00:04:30.140 But the question, of course, is, is this the United States problem?

00:04:33.460 Like, is this something the United States should be provoking a nuclear war over?

00:04:38.360 Is this, you know, Russia is not some third-rate country.

00:04:41.780 It is not some small little group of terrorists in the Middle East.

00:04:45.840 This is a massive country that has a huge arsenal, that has world-ending technology.

00:04:52.600 Is this really something that we need to be getting involved in?

00:04:55.920 There's a separate question of whether something is wrong or people shouldn't be doing it

00:05:01.140 or whether there's a morally reprehensible part of this as opposed to is it the United States duty to then go and intervene in every way possible?

00:05:10.500 And I think a lot of people will also point out on the other side that NATO has more or less boxed Russia into this situation.

00:05:17.940 The constant decision to expand NATO has kind of put Putin up against the wall here.

00:05:24.180 I understand people who make that argument.

00:05:26.780 Again, I think it's a difficult thing because a lot of people have a hard time understanding that other nations would have their idea of kind of how foreign policy should be run.

00:05:37.560 That's the nice thing about having a global empire, right?

00:05:39.760 You can kind of dictate to everybody, at least you think you can dictate to everybody, how they're going to run their nation, how they're going to operate things.

00:05:47.620 But it turns out that's not always the case, that especially these larger, more competent forces do have a certain sphere of influence that they're going to kind of project.

00:05:58.680 Whether you think these empires should have that or not, right?

00:06:01.320 Whether you think America is the only nation or the coalition of nations around America and NATO are the only people who should have a prerogative on that or whether you think that other nations will naturally project that, other empires will project that.

00:06:14.360 That's something that's kind of up for debate.

00:06:16.380 But the question then becomes, again, do we have to step in in every one of these situations?

00:06:21.600 Regardless, I don't think there's really an appetite for an active war in the United States.

00:06:25.940 But despite that fact, it seems like we're doing everything short of getting involved in that war, right?

00:06:31.820 We've sent all kinds of ammunition.

00:06:33.480 We've sent all kinds of military aid.

00:06:35.820 It seems like we've got advisors over there.

00:06:37.620 I'm sure we do at this point, to be clear.

00:06:40.260 Like, it seems like we're doing everything that we kind of do in places like Vietnam and other places before we step into a hot war.

00:06:47.480 We're putting ourselves into a situation where something like that could develop.

00:06:51.260 But whether you want to speculate on whether the United States is trying to provoke a war or whether it's trying to kind of entice certain types of behaviors, what's undeniably true is that we are sending massive amounts of money.

00:07:05.080 We're depleting our own military stockpiles of ammunition.

00:07:07.520 We're sending all kinds of aid over to the Ukraine.

00:07:10.760 And we've known this for a long time.

00:07:12.660 We've known that it went beyond just the military aspect.

00:07:16.300 We're not just sending bullets or even medical aid or that kind of thing.

00:07:21.280 But we've been propping up the country.

00:07:23.100 We've known that the United States has been funding the bureaucracy of Ukraine for a long time, that we're paying the pensions of Ukrainian bureaucrats over there for a very long time.

00:07:33.560 And on top of that, now, with this 60 Minutes report, we also learn that we are funding small business development.

00:07:42.020 We're buying seeds and we're funding farmers.

00:07:45.360 We're backing them up.

00:07:46.500 We're paying all the first responders.

00:07:48.960 Now, I mean, I guess some of this, you could say, is related to the war effort, right?

00:07:52.200 They're digging people out of, you know, rubble from Russian attacks, that kind of thing.

00:07:57.000 I guess that makes sense to some degree, but you're basically funding all of the nurses, all of the paramedics, all of the firefighters across the country.

00:08:07.900 Basically, the United States is just taking all of its tax dollars and is just dumping them directly into the Ukraine.

00:08:14.700 And again, it seems, you know, people are starting to notice this pattern.

00:08:17.940 As soon as we wrap up one 20-year conflict in Afghanistan, you know, where we've poured billions and billions and billions of dollars through defense contractors and everything else,

00:08:30.300 we suddenly find a new place where we need to put another, you know, 100, 200, whatever billion dollars into these kind of programs.

00:08:39.580 Very convenient that we kind of always have to be engaged in this kind of foreign aid or this direct military intervention, depending on the scenario.

00:08:48.260 We always seem to have to get involved in something that allows our leaders to functionally loot the treasury.

00:08:55.360 And this is a big problem for the right in particular, because the right wants to talk about fiscal responsibility, right?

00:09:04.020 They want to talk about how we need to limit government programs and we need to have small government and we need to avoid government spending.

00:09:11.360 And look, there are areas where that's absolutely true, right?

00:09:14.320 There are certainly a massive amount of our money is funneled through these programs as a patronage network for the Democrats for the left, right?

00:09:25.340 It's paying off all these woke people.

00:09:27.060 It's paying off all these people who are Democratic voters.

00:09:29.880 It's funneling money from red states, from Americans who probably would be voting for, you know, the Republicans and instead sending that money to the Democratic donor base.

00:09:42.220 But Republicans are just as susceptible to this kind of spending, right?

00:09:47.260 For the most part, you've got guys like Mike Pence out there saying, no, how many more tanks can I get to Ukraine?

00:09:53.420 How much more can I send them?

00:09:55.460 You know, we'll fund them forever, anything they ever need, right?

00:09:58.360 And so this is the kind of big government spending that the Republicans will get involved in.

00:10:04.640 And this is the interesting dynamic between the left and the right.

00:10:07.540 The left will directly do patronage to their voters, right?

00:10:12.180 They will send money into the neighborhoods that they think are going to vote for them.

00:10:17.300 Oh, this neighborhood is disadvantaged.

00:10:20.060 It also happens to be all Democratic voters.

00:10:21.760 Oh, well, I guess we'll go ahead and open a bunch of community centers here and hire a bunch of people to study things.

00:10:28.400 And we'll open up all kinds of avenues to employ people in this area.

00:10:34.200 They do direct patronage.

00:10:35.880 The people who vote for them get money.

00:10:38.000 They get jobs.

00:10:39.380 Oh, you work in academia?

00:10:41.140 Well, surprise, surprise.

00:10:42.200 Ninety five percent of academia votes Democrat.

00:10:44.440 Guess why?

00:10:45.240 Because those are the ones who are going to make sure that they get research funding.

00:10:47.740 Those are the ones that are going to expand higher education.

00:10:49.860 Those are the ones that are going to hire more teachers who also vote for the Democrats.

00:10:53.720 They're going to make it easier for trial lawyers that also vote for the Democrats. 0.69

00:10:58.380 So you get this direct patronage relationship with average people on the left.

00:11:03.560 On the right, the GOP seems happy to spend money.

00:11:08.000 It's not that they're not for spending money, right?

00:11:10.200 They're not really for small government.

00:11:13.180 They're more than happy to spend tax dollars.

00:11:15.300 But the tax dollars need to go to different things.

00:11:17.480 They need to go to, you know, these kind of foreign wars.

00:11:21.160 They need to go to these kind of military industrial complex, you know, type type spending jobs.

00:11:29.080 And those things don't really actually happen mostly in red districts.

00:11:33.500 Some of them do.

00:11:34.700 You know, sometimes there is a defense contractor or sometimes, you know, there is a, you know,

00:11:39.420 a military operation or something that is based in a red state or in a red area.

00:11:44.420 And so some people are benefiting from that.

00:11:47.780 But as with the left directly funnels their patronage into neighborhoods, average people who would vote for them, who will who they get represented.

00:11:56.740 They have a very direct patronage relationship with their voter base.

00:12:01.120 The right does not.

00:12:02.320 The right funnels money.

00:12:03.860 It still takes large amounts of money.

00:12:05.900 It still loots the treasury.

00:12:07.160 It just spends it on things that are outside the United States.

00:12:10.980 And I think that's what a lot of people are really taking issue with here, right?

00:12:14.780 They see this money going to Ukraine.

00:12:16.780 Hey, we're out there funding Ukrainian businesses.

00:12:19.420 Oh, well, wouldn't it be nice if my business was getting funded?

00:12:23.240 Would it be nice if I could start a business with the funding from the GOP?

00:12:27.720 Wouldn't it be nice if my farm was getting backed up by this?

00:12:31.260 Would it be nice if my neighborhood could hire more for first responders or that, you know, the nurses and the paramedics and people living in my neighborhood could more easily afford a home because they're being subsidized.

00:12:41.840 We're spending this money, right?

00:12:43.580 So if we're going to spend this money, why not spend it on people in the United States?

00:12:47.500 Why not take it directly to specifically if you want to do the patronage thing?

00:12:52.100 If you actually want to do good politics, why not take it directly to the neighborhoods where this would be spent and people would vote Republican?

00:13:00.680 Why not better the schools?

00:13:02.040 Why not make the businesses flourish?

00:13:04.420 Why not make the housing more affordable?

00:13:06.800 Why not make it so that people can have families, have kids?

00:13:10.120 Why not make it so that more people can get involved in something like paramedics or being first responders in the neighborhoods where they work?

00:13:17.440 Why don't they fund that kind of stuff in red areas? 0.77

00:13:21.080 And the answer seems to be, well, we'd rather ship it overseas.

00:13:24.600 And that's the real problem.

00:13:25.880 I think that's the problem that a lot of conservatives are starting to feel.

00:13:29.280 They see that no matter how much small government they vote for, the money goes out the door either way.

00:13:35.560 We just keep printing this money.

00:13:37.360 We just keep borrowing.

00:13:39.220 We just keep going out devaluing the dollar, blowing all of this money, hurting the readiness of our own military forces.

00:13:47.920 We're willing to spend so much money to secure Ukraine's borders, but we're not willing to secure our own borders.

00:13:53.620 It just becomes clear that the money is going to get spent either way, right?

00:13:57.980 And the question is just, is it going to get spent on us?

00:14:01.020 And that's not a good thing, right?

00:14:02.620 This is a dangerous place to be for a country where you don't care about your fiscal policy, where it is just a spending bonanza no matter what, where you're just going to blow out the spending in all situations.

00:14:14.120 That is a dangerous place for your country to be.

00:14:17.360 But that's kind of the problem, right, is where we're at.

00:14:19.480 It's because everyone's coming to the conclusion, okay, well, no, this is going to happen no matter what.

00:14:23.520 So if this is going to happen no matter what, I might as well win.

00:14:26.740 I might as well benefit.

00:14:27.660 If we're going to loot the treasury, I might as well secure the bag for me and mine, right?

00:14:32.700 And so a lot of people are looking at this situation and saying, okay, how can I at least get my portion of this?

00:14:40.800 If we're going to run this down, if we're going to print all the money, if we're going to borrow to oblivion anyway, then at least let my neighborhood benefit.

00:14:48.160 At least let my people in my area benefit from what's going on rather than watching all the money get, you know, shoveled into either foreign spending or war spending or then get looped back into, say, Democrat neighborhoods, you know, funding that kind of stuff.

00:15:05.020 Why can't we have positive projects that are going to benefit red neighborhoods, red America that are going to better their lives?

00:15:13.800 And again, it's not a good place to be.

00:15:15.400 It's a dangerous place to be.

00:15:16.460 You don't want to be in this scenario where you're just spending money no matter what, where you're willing to go ahead and put yourself out there.

00:15:24.520 But if you're going to loot the treasury, if we've decided to do this anyway, then why don't we at least benefit from it?

00:15:31.840 I think that's the question that a lot of people are asking.

00:15:33.960 It gets harder and harder to watch people pour over the border, to have all this spending going on in Democratic neighborhoods, to ship all this money overseas, but then still watch quality of life in America decline, still watch all of these costs spiral out of control in America.

00:15:50.840 And, of course, inflation is the number one attack on responsible people, right?

00:15:55.500 And I think it's pretty clear for a lot of people that red states are generally people who are more responsible with their money.

00:16:02.440 They're more likely to not be on government assistance.

00:16:05.180 They're more likely to be working hard, taking extra jobs, putting money away.

00:16:09.980 And if the government is dedicated to an inflationary policy, if they're going to destroy the dollar at every opportunity, then that's just hurting people who are responsible. 0.97

00:16:18.860 Are you paying down debt like a sucker? 0.83

00:16:20.980 Are you are you, you know, squirreling money away at every opportunity? 0.99

00:16:25.460 Are you saving money?

00:16:26.740 Because guess what?

00:16:27.600 That money is going to be worth way less because we went ahead and devalued it so we could spend more.

00:16:33.620 So really, what is the value of doing this?

00:16:35.880 Oh, well, not much.

00:16:37.080 You know, we've ensured that your your responsible behavior is not going to pay off in the long run, but there's really nothing you can do about it except defect.

00:16:47.380 Right. Just find a way to secure those sweet payoffs, which is why it's hard for people to get angry a lot of times about stuff like the proposed, you know, Biden paying off the student loans.

00:16:58.960 Like, yeah, it's it's certainly a payoff to his patronage network, but he's just securing money for people who vote for him, you know, which is just something that the right is not willing to do.

00:17:11.460 And since we since both parties are completely unwilling to show any restraint in their time in office, just in different directions, more and more people are asking, OK, but why don't I benefit from that?

00:17:22.960 So speaking of spending a lot more money, let me go ahead and bring this up real quick.

00:17:29.080 So I've done a couple of videos here on kind of the immigration crisis.

00:17:33.340 I think at this point, we're all pretty aware of the fact that immigration is out of control in the United States.

00:17:41.360 However, the New York City is getting hit harder than it's ever been hit before.

00:17:46.720 And all of a sudden sudden people are starting to realize in New York City that this is a huge problem.

00:17:51.860 Right. The New York mayor, Eric Adams, he had a sanctuary city in New York.

00:17:57.160 He said, oh, yeah, no, we care deeply about all these migrants and, you know, no, no human being is illegal and all this stuff.

00:18:03.740 But all of a sudden kind of the fall out of that is hitting New York and they're having serious problems.

00:18:10.180 So recently here, we learned that over a billion dollars is going to be spent on hotels to house illegal immigrants in just the next in the next few years. 0.99

00:18:20.240 Of course, that's a massive thing. Right. That's a giant budget outlay for the city of New York.

00:18:27.100 That's a huge imposition on their infrastructure. And this is obviously going to have a big impact on them.

00:18:34.180 But again, there's the amazing thing about this, like the thing you really need to grasp through all this is even though like New York is now starting to see this problem,

00:18:43.760 you're starting to have protests about illegal immigrants coming in.

00:18:47.360 You're starting to see the issues as many of these immigrants have to be housed in these hotels. 1.00

00:18:52.420 Massive amount of money that could be spent doing all kinds of really important things for New York are instead spent on illegal immigrants. 1.00

00:18:58.920 And again, we can kind of feel this this feeling of looting the Treasury.

00:19:03.480 We don't care about the citizens that are already in New York.

00:19:06.540 We don't care about people who are already Americans. 0.99

00:19:09.220 We don't care about people who are struggling in the United States.

00:19:12.900 The far more important thing is to spend massive amounts of money facilitating the importation of people who are not supposed to be here and making sure that they have a comfortable situation or sending all that money to a foreign country to fund the retirements of bureaucrats there and and

00:19:29.900 stimulate their economy to stimulate their economy and make sure that they have enough, you know, farm equipment or equipment or whatever.

00:19:35.540 But like the one thing we can't do is spend American tax dollars on Americans.

00:19:40.720 The one thing we can't do with an American military is defend an American border, right?

00:19:45.160 Like the one thing America is not allowed to do is is protect itself and prefer itself.

00:19:52.540 And that's why America doesn't feel like a nation for a lot of people.

00:19:56.340 It feels like a tax farm for a global empire, right?

00:19:59.580 You can spend money on illegal immigrants. 1.00

00:20:01.740 You can spend money on foreign nations, but you can't spend money on bettering the lives of the American people.

00:20:07.340 You can send the American military's ammunition overseas to go, you know, defend Ukraine.

00:20:13.080 You can defend Ukrainian borders.

00:20:14.580 You can deploy American military all over the world anywhere except the place where America is currently being invaded.

00:20:22.540 And that seems to be true of all Western nations, that Western nations are just not.

00:20:26.720 They can send their militaries anywhere else except the one place that American military and other militaries were designed to defend in the first place.

00:20:34.760 The whole point of having a military is to secure your borders.

00:20:37.680 That's what a military's first job is, is to make sure that your country is protected from foreign threats, to make sure that your borders are not being violated.

00:20:46.880 That is like job one of any military, but we're not allowed to do it.

00:20:50.720 And on top of that, we're spending over a billion dollars in places like New York to house people who have basically been shipped in on purpose.

00:20:57.560 But the amazing thing is that none of this will change the Democratic voting pattern, right?

00:21:04.280 All of these people in New York are still going to vote Democrat.

00:21:07.220 All of them are still going to go ahead and secure the Democratic majority.

00:21:11.840 And the Democrats are going to continue to do open borders.

00:21:15.860 So they're actively going to support a party that is facilitating the very problem that they are complaining about that is destroying their city.

00:21:23.080 But they don't care.

00:21:24.620 But they don't care.

00:21:25.340 Because guess what?

00:21:26.320 With New Yorkers at the end of the day, liberals at the end of the day, what's far more important to them than the well-being of their country is being able to call their opponents a race.

00:21:37.660 That's really it.

00:21:38.760 They just hate red America.

00:21:41.780 They just hate Republicans.

00:21:44.080 They just hate conservatives.

00:21:45.740 And it's way more important to be able to turn around and point at those people and say, you're intolerant. 0.91

00:21:51.520 You're a bigot. 0.98

00:21:52.500 You know, you're hateful. 0.56

00:21:53.800 Than it is to actually think about the well-being of the cities they live in, the country they live in.

00:21:59.020 They'd rather be able to declare someone a conspirator, an agent of Putin, than notice the fact that their own cities are falling apart due to the very policies they support.

00:22:09.540 So even though their direct experience, I know, so there's a big controversy with a lot of Republicans or a lot of people on the right where, you know, DeSantis and Greg Abbott are sending these people deeper into the country.

00:22:20.780 And it's it's riling up Democrats because they have to deal with the illegal immigrants. 0.99

00:22:25.340 They're not just concentrated in Texas and Florida anymore.

00:22:28.400 On one hand, people are like, oh, well, great that these you know, that these that these liberals are getting what they deserve.

00:22:35.600 They're getting what they should expect from illegal immigration. 0.88

00:22:39.060 They're actually having to feel the consequences of their actions.

00:22:41.860 And that's true.

00:22:42.660 They are right.

00:22:43.320 Like you do see them send the military to clean out Martha's Vineyard. 0.99

00:22:47.200 And you do see Eric Adams, who's been talking about the importance of sanctuary cities for forever, start to complain about the migrants there.

00:22:54.240 Like you do see the hypocrisy. 0.66

00:22:56.520 But does the hypocrisy actually change anything?

00:22:59.620 And the answer seems to be, unfortunately, no.

00:23:01.700 So at some level, there is some utility in kind of sending these people to New York or sending these people to different places and forcing the hand of Democrats.

00:23:12.220 Like I can see the PR utility of this.

00:23:15.420 But on the other hand, at the end of the day, these people are not changing their mind.

00:23:19.040 Right.

00:23:19.240 They might feel the effects.

00:23:21.320 And finally, they might actually have to deal with some of the consequences.

00:23:25.480 But they're still going to continue to vote the same way.

00:23:27.800 They're still going to support the same people.

00:23:29.220 Sorry, but New York City is not going red because they realize that this is out of control.

00:23:34.500 Now, maybe you'll get a Rudy Giuliani if things get bad enough.

00:23:37.860 Right.

00:23:38.440 Eventually, maybe there will be some changes, but they never laugh because really, these people are spiritually blue.

00:23:45.780 They're spiritually left whenever whenever for a moment, the consequence of their actions fade for a little while.

00:23:52.540 They're going to go back to this to this understanding of the world.

00:23:56.880 And so even though I think it's kind of hilarious, the schadenfreude of watching these people deal with the illegal immigrants, I'm somebody who lives in Florida. 1.00

00:24:04.180 I live in Florida my whole most of my life.

00:24:06.620 I've had to deal with this kind of thing my whole life.

00:24:09.200 So this is not new and it's kind of funny to watch all these states that ignored this problem and mocked this problem and didn't care about this problem or were counting on this problem, you know, to impact red states and kind of destroy the voting base there.

00:24:24.960 It's fun to watch them kind of suffer a little bit from this.

00:24:28.960 It's perversely fun to watch them suffer from this.

00:24:31.620 But really, at the end of the day, they're not going to change their voting pattern.

00:24:35.100 And that's something that people need to realize, though.

00:24:37.320 I think, again, there is there is some political utility enforcing the point.

00:24:42.380 I think eventually some of the stuff does coalesce into people observing some of the problems with what they've been supporting.

00:24:48.900 All right. So another thing that happened here recently, which I think is kind of perversely hilarious, is the Canadian Parliament stood up and they cheered a guy who actually fought as part of a Nazi unit in World War Two.

00:25:07.280 So Justin Trudeau, you know, they're cheering Zelensky, they're cheering the Ukrainian war effort.

00:25:14.680 And, you know, Russia is now bad. 0.98

00:25:16.220 Russia is the bad guy, you know, which, funny enough, is something that, you know, the right was saying for a very long time and the left hated. 0.97

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00:25:57.900 Is a good guy, right?

00:25:58.880 Just by definition.

00:25:59.820 If Russia is the bad guy, then historically anybody who struggled against Russia is a good guy. 0.96

00:26:04.940 They only forgot, like, a serious problem with that as they were applauding this guy who served and fought against Russia in World War II.

00:26:12.600 Many of those units were German units.

00:26:15.220 He literally fought in an SS unit.

00:26:19.460 And it was very funny because a lot of these liberal outlets, like, they realized what happened.

00:26:26.940 They realized what was going on.

00:26:29.480 But they kind of needed to cover their tracks, so they tried to downplay it, like Politico here.

00:26:34.420 They deleted the original tweet because they got hit with this community note from Twitter.

00:26:39.980 They said, Nazi-linked veteran.

00:26:42.020 Nazi-linked is what they tried to use to kind of downplay it.

00:26:46.180 And multiple outlets did this.

00:26:48.340 It wasn't just political.

00:26:49.040 I think I saw ABC or NBC had the same headline.

00:26:52.400 But, no, this guy wasn't just Nazi-linked.

00:26:54.700 Like, he was in an SS unit.

00:26:56.660 Like, he was part of, you know, this unit.

00:27:00.020 You can see him in the uniform.

00:27:01.740 There are pictures of him, like, in the Nazi uniform.

00:27:05.020 So, like, this guy was fighting on that side in World War II.

00:27:09.000 And so there's been some interesting things that have come out about this.

00:27:12.360 First, you have to ask, like, how do these people not think about this, right?

00:27:18.140 Like, how are the Canadians so blinded by this?

00:27:22.260 How are these progressives so blinded by this that they didn't understand how this was going to look when they actually did it?

00:27:28.340 Where they really just, like, ah, you fought against the Russians. 0.62

00:27:30.980 Hooray.

00:27:31.400 And they just never thought one step ahead of, like, but who was fighting against the Russians in Eastern Europe in World War II?

00:27:37.260 You know, it just didn't occur to them, right?

00:27:40.480 So that's kind of fascinating that they had that kind of short-sightedness.

00:27:45.000 Now, there's another part of this, too, that I think is worth talking about.

00:27:48.620 A lot of people like to think of World War II as super black and right, even American conservatives, of course.

00:27:54.520 And they don't think about the fact that, like, yes, Nazi Germany was terrible.

00:27:58.820 But, like, also so was Soviet Russia.

00:28:01.580 Like, they don't think about the fact that there are two evil countries over here, at least, in World War II.

00:28:09.360 And so the fact that a lot of people in places like Ukraine, like Romania, like some of these other countries, you know, decided to pick up arms and fight against Stalin didn't mean that they were devotees of necessarily this ideology.

00:28:28.480 Like, just because someone happened to say, well, Stalin is killing people in my homeland, he's doing terrible things, I don't want him to control my homeland, and therefore I'm going to join whatever force I can to fight against it.

00:28:41.940 Especially when they're a young person, right?

00:28:43.880 You're, like, 18, 19, someone's doing something terrible to your country, you know.

00:28:48.100 And so that doesn't mean, like, everybody was ideologically aligned just because they happened to want to fight somebody who was, you know, doing terrible things to their homeland.

00:28:58.180 Again, I'm not excusing this guy's behavior one way or another.

00:29:01.440 I don't really know his personal story all the way through.

00:29:04.440 So, you know, I don't know what beliefs he held or anything like this.

00:29:08.080 But it's just that there was a moment where a lot of people were like, ah, see, the progressive Canadians are the real Nazis.

00:29:14.980 I think that's the wrong tack to take with this, right?

00:29:17.620 This is a complicated situation.

00:29:20.260 And so I think just having this kind of really black and white, no, you know, low resolution understanding of what somebody in that scenario would have kind of felt and what kind of situation they'd be in is a little short-sighted.

00:29:36.160 That said, I think the part to really take away with this is how much the left doesn't actually care about this.

00:29:43.040 The kind of really interesting dynamic of this is that the left has really made, you know, Canada and the United States and many other countries have basically engaged in a project of denazification.

00:29:54.380 That's how they've run their countries.

00:29:56.800 And so even though all of the people who are opposed to them aren't Nazis, even though they aren't, you know, national socialists from Germany or something, that's still how they treat them, right?

00:30:07.940 You've seen Joe Biden directly use this language behind the presidential seal.

00:30:13.280 Oh, my opponents are semi-fascist, whatever that means.

00:30:16.760 He's just calling you a fascist, right?

00:30:18.520 Like he did that in front of a blood red, you know, background, you know, so guys like Joe Biden use that language. 0.89

00:30:24.860 The left is constantly talking about how, oh, it's okay to punch a Nazi. 0.93

00:30:27.860 Oh, all these people are fascists or proto-fascists.

00:30:31.220 Justin Trudeau uses that language, too, when he was talking about the truckers and other protesters and opponents, that they embrace this ideology.

00:30:37.720 The left have this constant, you know, cartoonish idea that there's this undercurrent, this specter of neo-fascism sitting somewhere below all of their countries.

00:30:47.720 And that if in any moment progressives don't have total control of the United States or Canada or wherever, then all of this will surge back and it'll suddenly conquer the country.

00:30:57.180 Right. That's a pipe dream. It's not even close. Right.

00:30:59.540 But they really do believe this. I want to be clear.

00:31:02.000 I know this sounds nuts.

00:31:03.480 I know if you're on the right or you're a conservative and you're like, they can't really believe this.

00:31:08.440 Right. They watch the left, you know, debank these people, imprison these people, cancel these people, make sure they can't get jobs.

00:31:15.160 Clearly, they can't actually believe that people are really, you know, seriously devoted to this ideology somewhere.

00:31:23.420 The left have all the control. The right have basically no control.

00:31:26.660 They can't really believe that this is like resurgence somewhere, but they really do.

00:31:31.080 I've talked to these people, guys. I've looked them in the eyes. Trust me, they are true believers.

00:31:35.540 OK, they really think that this is just sitting below the surface.

00:31:39.360 But at the same time, when somebody who is actually part of a Nazi unit is stood up in front of them, they'll cheer for that guy.

00:31:50.020 As long as he fought the current enemy, the current bad thing, which is Vladimir Putin, even though Vladimir Putin and Russia are like not connected to this at all.

00:32:00.900 Right. They're still going to pretend like it's the same thing, that this is the new fascism now.

00:32:05.620 Like, right. And so this guy who is actually fighting on behalf of a fascist force or a national socialist force, we can parse the details.

00:32:13.880 But anyway, someone who's actually involved in the ideology that they pretend to be scared of, you know, or at least fighting for the forces that they pretend to be scared of.

00:32:23.780 So they they'll clap for this person. So the question is, did they really ever care about this?

00:32:29.460 Were they ever really worried about this? And I think the answer is yes and no.

00:32:33.580 Like they really do believe that this ideology is bubbling somewhere, but it's really only a stand in for what they actually hate, which is just kind of conservative Americans, people who are opposed to the globalist regime, who are opposed to kind of this rapid progressivism.

00:32:50.140 And that's the real that's the real stand in. That's what it really stands for.

00:32:54.800 And so that's what they're actually against. If it's convenient to cheer for a guy who happened to fought on the side that they pretend they hate.

00:33:01.800 Well, that's not a problem because the current thing is the most important thing.

00:33:05.740 All history kind of begins whenever they want it to. That's kind of the beautiful thing about them controlling history. Right.

00:33:12.640 They just kind of mash it all together. They pick the pieces out that they like or they don't like.

00:33:16.720 And then they just go ahead and rearrange it and vomit it back into people who don't know anything about history.

00:33:22.820 And then they end up with this. You know, that's why they can end up cheering for this guy and think that that somehow is connected to their current opposition of, quote unquote, fascism, because they don't even understand what that word means.

00:33:34.320 They don't even they don't even connect the ideas.

00:33:36.740 They understand the differences and they don't want to. It's not about the differences.

00:33:40.640 They don't actually want to understand the nuance. They want to stand the history.

00:33:44.000 They don't understand the political, you know, theories or connections or anything.

00:33:47.740 It's not about knowledge. It's about hatred. Right.

00:33:50.120 They just want to have something a bludgeon to beat their opponents with.

00:33:54.020 And that's really what this is all about.

00:33:56.780 All right. So I want to go ahead and bring up one more thing here, which might be a little more controversial with some conservatives.

00:34:05.320 But I think it's important to get to. So a recent poll came out.

00:34:10.640 And that recent poll was talking about the Electoral College. Right.

00:34:16.460 We got Frank Luntz. Now. There's a lot you could say about Frank Luntz.

00:34:21.220 OK, and you can a lot you can say about the methodology of of polling.

00:34:28.740 I think polling has proven itself to be very unreliable here recently.

00:34:34.500 That's a lesson that even the Republicans seem to have forgotten.

00:34:37.980 Trump was supposed to have like no chance of getting elected.

00:34:41.420 The polls were all wildly against him, you know, and then he got elected.

00:34:45.860 And then the second time he was also supposed to have no chance.

00:34:49.180 And obviously it came down to a very tight election.

00:34:53.720 We can get to the details of that, I guess.

00:34:56.420 But the point is that, you know, that polling is not always reliable.

00:35:01.180 And a lot of these polls are meant just to push an agenda.

00:35:05.940 Right. The polling is there to drive an agenda, not to measure and reflect the actual kind of state of the political body.

00:35:14.140 So I want to go into all this.

00:35:16.120 But, you know, before we talk about this, I want to say all of that because I'm somebody who wrote stories when I was a journalist about polls.

00:35:21.640 I would look at the methodology of polls. 0.81

00:35:23.620 They were trash a lot of times.

00:35:25.460 However, this one is presenting a very, very large scope. 0.97

00:35:30.940 It's not just five points one way or another.

00:35:33.320 It's not within the margin of error.

00:35:34.980 It's by a large percentage.

00:35:36.500 And so I want to talk about this a little bit.

00:35:38.040 So Frank Luntz, you know, brings up this poll and it says 65 percent of Americans want presidential elections to be cited by a nationwide popular vote.

00:35:45.760 So 33 percent want to keep the Electoral College.

00:35:50.480 And I wanted to explain to people kind of what's going on here, because a lot of conservatives love to say we're a republic.

00:36:00.660 We're a public.

00:36:01.680 We're not a democracy.

00:36:03.000 Right.

00:36:03.180 Any one time someone says it's a republic, no, we're a constitute or we're a democracy.

00:36:07.880 They say, no, we're a constitutional republic.

00:36:09.980 I used to do this all the time.

00:36:11.500 So I totally get it.

00:36:12.540 I understand the motivation.

00:36:14.000 And of course, at some point, that was true.

00:36:17.620 Right.

00:36:17.840 At some point, we were a constitutional republic.

00:36:21.140 But, you know, the old, you know, Benjamin Franklin, you know, what kind of country do we have?

00:36:26.820 Oh, it's a republic if you can keep it.

00:36:28.440 That turned out to be pretty apt, because here's the truth, guys.

00:36:31.380 We couldn't keep it.

00:36:32.480 OK, we have not been a constitutional republic for a long time.

00:36:35.940 So I wrote a little thread kind of telling people about this.

00:36:39.380 But I'm just saying, look, conservatives love to say that, you know, we're not a democracy.

00:36:43.420 We're a constitutional republic.

00:36:45.060 But that's just not true.

00:36:46.520 And it gets less true by the day.

00:36:48.500 When the will of people is your legitimating mechanism, mass democracy will slowly consume everything.

00:36:54.440 And that's really true.

00:36:56.000 A lot of people look at our current situation.

00:36:58.980 And they like to pretend that our government now is just the same as kind of it's always been.

00:37:05.580 That, oh, well, we created a constitutional republic and we just stayed a constitutional republic the whole time.

00:37:11.560 We're still a constitutional republic.

00:37:13.540 Nothing has changed.

00:37:14.740 But I don't think that's true.

00:37:15.840 And I think that that's difficult for conservatives to hear.

00:37:19.660 But I think it's really important because the problem is not just that we aren't a constitutional republic, but it's that I think conservatives have onboarded many of the assumptions of mass democracy.

00:37:32.580 They've assumed many of the things about mass democracy are true, and they've kind of imported that into their understanding of what a constitutional republic should be and what the American identity should be.

00:37:45.260 And because of that, that's kind of warped their understanding of what a difference even could be.

00:37:50.740 Because if you ask most conservatives, okay, what's the difference between a democracy and a constitutional republic?

00:37:56.120 And they're like, oh, well, we're not a democracy because it's not just the popular opinion, right?

00:38:03.240 It's not just direct democracy.

00:38:05.840 We have representatives.

00:38:07.580 We have people between us and the actual lawmaking process.

00:38:11.820 So their idea is basically the only form of democracy is direct democracy where you step in and every single human votes, and then the majority of that is the winner, and that's what the law is.

00:38:25.880 But basically, almost nothing has been a direct democracy like that.

00:38:29.680 There have been very few one-to-one, every citizen votes, and the majority of the vote is hands down the win.

00:38:38.080 Across history, that has been basically a non-existent.

00:38:41.280 It's only existed in very, very small, maybe a city-state at most can do this.

00:38:46.080 Anything larger has never been able to have a direct democracy.

00:38:50.140 So under that definition, all democracies basically were constitutional republics.

00:38:54.600 But I think that's a bad way to understand it because I don't really think that explains what's going on.

00:38:59.720 So what most people don't understand about constitutional republics and democracies, they don't understand,

00:39:07.980 is like once you embrace the kind of the idea of mass democracy, once you've taken on board the legitimating arguments of mass democracy,

00:39:17.400 you're always going to move further and further towards kind of that popular will, that mass democracy,

00:39:24.920 and farther away from a constitutional republic.

00:39:28.800 So, for instance, the dialectical energy is always towards the removal of restrictions and the expansion of benefits, right?

00:39:39.440 So if you look at a situation where you're debating something,

00:39:44.260 it's always easier to tear down the restrictions and give away free stuff or give away rights or give away benefits.

00:39:51.980 That's always where your political energy is going to be because the people who support the way things are already there, right?

00:39:59.260 So like if you want to drive a wedge, if you want to create disagreement,

00:40:02.940 if you want to take an opportunity to rule in a place where like you have a democracy,

00:40:08.680 where you have a voting mechanism, then the political energy will always be kind of in this direction, right?

00:40:16.680 I say here in the thread, you know, the dialectical energy always moves in the direction of removing restrictions and expanding benefits.

00:40:22.800 There's always a political incentive to expand the franchise and remove barriers to the popular will.

00:40:28.540 Like once you have embraced the idea that the people know best and popular will is what actually legitimates action,

00:40:34.900 then you're never going to have a situation where you move closer to restriction.

00:40:39.760 You never have a situation where you take away benefits or rights or privileges or anything.

00:40:45.880 You're only going to get more political energy by moving towards those things, never wait for them.

00:40:51.800 So for instance, right now, conservatives believe that allowing illegal immigrants to vote or getting rid of the electoral college is a crazy idea, right?

00:41:04.640 It's a crazy proposal.

00:41:05.980 They're like, oh, you can't, can't do that.

00:41:07.760 That'll destroy the country.

00:41:09.640 But they don't really have an argument against it because they've already bought into the logic of mass democracy, right?

00:41:16.760 They say they don't like that stuff because it's new and it's different, but they don't ever really put forward a substantive argument as to why you can't do those things because they've kind of already embraced a lot of the logic behind them.

00:41:30.560 So the U.S. has like vastly increased its franchise throughout the years, right?

00:41:37.260 And on top of that, they've also done things like remove the distinction between the Senate and the House of Representatives by enacting, you know, the direct election of senators.

00:41:49.020 We've also changed the way that the electoral process works for presidents by putting in, you know, the idea of these presidential primaries.

00:41:58.120 And so what used to be distinct bodies of government, distinct branches of government that were selected in very different ways are more and more selected exactly the same way through popular will.

00:42:10.680 Gaetano Mosca talked about this and he said, this is why the United States became an oligarchy.

00:42:14.820 Because he said, you know, the thing about separation of powers that we like, you know, Baron Montesquieu came up with the idea of separation of powers or he was a big proponent of it.

00:42:24.940 And he's somebody that the founders really thought about as somebody that Madison really thought about when he was shaping the Constitution.

00:42:31.280 And what Montesquieu was talking about when talking about separation of powers, we just think, oh, you break it up into three branches and then the power of the government isn't unified in one place.

00:42:39.100 And that's what limits the power of government.

00:42:40.420 But actually, and this is something that Gaetano Mosca talked about, people who understand Montesquieu that way misunderstand the point.

00:42:49.100 They think that Montesquieu is just saying, oh, well, if you break it into three branches as if three is the magic number, then you'll stop government from, like, becoming tyrannical.

00:42:58.460 But that's not what he was saying.

00:43:00.420 It's not about three or five or seven branches.

00:43:02.880 There's not something magic about the tripod of American politics, you know, breaking it into three parts.

00:43:09.980 What's important, the key thing about divided government that tends to limit tyranny is that it represents different social forces.

00:43:19.260 It represents different spheres of influence in society.

00:43:22.880 So for Gaetano Mosca and for Montesquieu, the different branches are supposed to represent different types of political forces.

00:43:31.840 So the church, the aristocracy, the monarchy, the people, the merchant class, the military, they're all represented in these different divided parts of government.

00:43:44.880 And because these different social forces have different collective understandings of the good, they have different collective ideas about what will benefit them, they have different incentives, the government never becomes tyrannical in one direction because they're always working against this, you know, each other, right?

00:44:04.120 And this is what they talked about in Federalist 51, right?

00:44:07.440 This is what Madison was trying to talk about when he said that, you know, these different opposing forces will gridlock the government and keep it from becoming tyrannical.

00:44:15.780 But the problem is that we kind of melted those divisions, right?

00:44:20.860 Because America doesn't really have a central church.

00:44:23.580 We don't have, like, a Catholic church and a pope.

00:44:25.900 And because America is military, is subservient to the civilian sphere, we've always had a civilian control of America.

00:44:34.120 Or of the military in America.

00:44:36.840 And because we got rid of the aristocratic notion for the most part in America, we got rid of the class system and we don't have a monarch, then we kind of melted down all that stuff, right?

00:44:47.060 Even the more aristocratic elements like the Senate, like the Senate being selected by the state legislatures, like the parties selecting presidential candidates rather than a democratic process.

00:45:00.660 Those elements were melted down, too, because the voice of the people, the voice of the people, popular will, the voice of the people, right?

00:45:06.580 All of that ended up getting melted down into one thing.

00:45:11.220 And so now popular will is the only thing that legitimates the Congress, right?

00:45:16.700 Both House and Senate, the president, and increasingly even the Supreme Court.

00:45:22.940 You now see the Democrats trying to dismantle the Supreme Court because they can't directly control it democratically, right?

00:45:28.020 And, of course, this also means the Electoral College because the Electoral College is another one of these barriers to the popular will.

00:45:34.580 And so all of these things are being melted down and they're being put under the same force of popular will.

00:45:39.380 And the great thing about the popular will is the Democrats are very good at controlling it, right?

00:45:43.500 They control all of the consensus-making apparatus in the United States.

00:45:47.100 They control the universities.

00:45:48.440 They control the public schools.

00:45:50.460 They control, you know, media, news media.

00:45:53.800 They control print media.

00:45:55.040 They control television programs, movies, music.

00:45:58.100 They control all of these cultural elements that influence public opinion.

00:46:02.180 So if public opinion is the only thing that decides anything in our government and the Democrats control all of the outlets that manipulate public opinion, they can control all of the government.

00:46:13.580 And this is why Moscow said America turned into an oligarchy because this is the only thing that now matters for all of our different forms of government.

00:46:21.600 And the problem is that largely conservatives agree with this idea, right?

00:46:25.440 The conservatives aren't arguing to roll back the franchise from anybody, right?

00:46:29.900 They're not arguing to return senators to, you know, the selection of senators to state legislatures.

00:46:37.300 They're not looking to devolve any of this power back to these other spheres of society.

00:46:44.560 And because of that, there is no really opposing force to the popular will, which is controlled by the Democrats.

00:46:51.100 And so you have this problem where these institutions like the Electoral College are going to fall because really Republicans don't have a good argument against it.

00:47:00.920 Yeah, they can just say, we don't want to lose elections, right?

00:47:03.820 We could because of the currently the Electoral College favors us.

00:47:08.080 And so, yeah, we don't want California and New York to like run the country.

00:47:12.620 But really, outside of that, they don't have a good argument because they agree with all of the mechanisms that the left is purporting.

00:47:20.780 They're holding those up.

00:47:22.080 They also think that those are value.

00:47:23.660 Same thing is going to happen with illegal immigrants voting.

00:47:27.160 No, I don't think they're actually just going to pass a bill where illegal immigrants can vote.

00:47:31.000 But what they're going to do is eventually they'll get amnesty because the Republicans are squishy and they're going to give up on this, especially when there's a vast, you know, when you have tens of millions and millions of tens of millions of people in the country illegally who have been here for decades, who have been part of the country for decades.

00:47:49.740 Eventually, they're going to wear these people down and they're going to give in on this.

00:47:52.600 Right.

00:47:52.740 And when they do, these people are going to get the franchise immediately.

00:47:55.680 And as soon as they get the franchise, basically, you've just legalized illegal immigrant voting.

00:48:00.420 Yeah, you had to go.

00:48:01.480 There's some extra steps.

00:48:02.460 But functionally, you just did, you know, you did the same thing.

00:48:05.960 Right.

00:48:06.640 And the problem is that really, again, conservatives don't have an argument against this, because if conservatives aren't willing to say deport all of these illegal immigrants, the only thing they have left to do is assimilate these people. 0.98

00:48:18.700 And by definition, for conservatives, political participation is assimilation, right?

00:48:23.880 Like popular government in the United States is their idea of like civic nationalism.

00:48:29.180 And so if you're going to push this, the only thing they can really do is extend these voting rights to these people.

00:48:35.080 And so eventually, like democracy will just eat all of these limiting institutions because it has to.

00:48:42.000 Right.

00:48:42.520 Because even in the conservative ideology, it has to.

00:48:45.600 And this is a real problem for conservatives because they don't their ideology of like what makes somebody an American and what defines the American experience is directly counter to their current interests and their current goals.

00:49:00.500 And so like they don't have any way to really argue against this.

00:49:03.900 Most conservatives who would quickly snap back, oh, well, this is a constitutional republic would be totally opposed to moving the United States back towards a constitutional republic in the first place.

00:49:15.240 What they're really talking about is democracy.

00:49:18.060 What they usually just support is democracy.

00:49:21.300 And so when there are all these calls about saying, well, you know, all this stuff is an attack on our democracy.

00:49:26.900 It works because, well, really, at the end of the day, conservatives agree that that's kind of the situation we're in and they support all the tenets of it.

00:49:35.520 And so you end up in a really bad situation for many conservatives.

00:49:39.860 All right, guys, we've got some some super chats stacking up here.

00:49:44.460 So let's go to those real quick.

00:49:46.660 Let's see.

00:49:47.940 Mint 20 here for ten dollars.

00:49:50.000 Thank you very much.

00:49:50.740 Thanks for covering something other than the brand situation.

00:49:53.980 It's so tiring.

00:49:54.920 Listen to people defend this degenerate.

00:49:56.760 Sure, he shouldn't be canceled, but there's other news to people.

00:49:59.840 I mean, yeah, and I already talked about the Russell Brand situation.

00:50:03.180 I feel like I've kind of already said my piece on this. 0.98

00:50:05.040 Look, Russell Brand, he seems a little bit like a sex pest, right? 0.94

00:50:10.740 Like he seems like the kind of guy who would go around.

00:50:13.140 I don't know what the validity of these charges are, and I don't think that anyone should anybody should have bring any kind of consequences to this guy because that because these charges are anonymous and they don't have any kind of legal backing or anything.

00:50:27.660 There's been no proceedings for any of this.

00:50:29.400 So I don't think he should be canceled.

00:50:30.980 I don't think he should be silenced.

00:50:32.300 I think that to the extent to which he kind of is making good points about the war in Ukraine or big pharma, he should be supported.

00:50:41.000 But at the end of the day, he's not a conservative.

00:50:42.680 He's not on your side.

00:50:43.860 He doesn't seem like the kind of guy who you want to put your reputation on the line to defend.

00:50:48.540 You can say he shouldn't be censored without like going to the wall for him.

00:50:52.160 I think that's a pretty reasonable balance to strike.

00:50:55.260 KJ here for 199.

00:50:57.480 Starting to think that the R's are the real globalists. 1.00

00:51:00.380 They certainly are globalists.

00:51:02.440 I think the real problem is that just all of our current elites are globalists.

00:51:08.000 The very idea of nationalism terrifies them.

00:51:11.300 The fact that Trump said, I'm a nationalist, the fact that MAGA was kind of openly nationalist, that was terrifying to them, which is weird because when you run a country, but you're against the idea of countries, that's interesting.

00:51:26.200 Why is that true of both sides of our political divide?

00:51:30.800 It's not great, but here we are.

00:51:34.160 I really need to get this down.

00:51:36.980 Make sure my Latin better.

00:51:38.260 In hoc, signo, Vincis, for 10 pounds.

00:51:40.880 Thank you very much, sir.

00:51:42.180 Appreciate your donation there.

00:51:44.020 Let's see.

00:51:45.940 Farm a soul for $20.

00:51:47.840 Regarding New York City, I live nearby.

00:51:49.740 Parents from the Bronx, 20 years ago, if a tragedy happened there, I would feel terrible.

00:51:56.360 Now, a shrug.

00:51:57.660 Might as well be a foreign country. 1.00

00:51:59.300 I think many feel the same way about blue cities.

00:52:01.900 Yeah.

00:52:02.260 I mean, so there's this tension I have, right?

00:52:04.500 Because on one hand, you want to say, well, these people voted for this.

00:52:08.360 This is the natural consequences of what they supported.

00:52:10.920 They're just kind of getting what they deserve.

00:52:12.780 It's terrible what's happening.

00:52:14.080 But, you know, consequences of what you went for.

00:52:17.640 On the other hand, I don't really think that, you know, the popular will is always correct.

00:52:23.740 And I think there is, you know, a lot of these people are misled about what's going to happen.

00:52:28.840 I just feel bad because it's like, I don't, I don't, I'm not always up for this.

00:52:33.240 Like, well, we should just leave people to the consequences, leave people to their own devices.

00:52:36.840 I think in some ways it just means that the people in New York aren't really capable of self-government, it seems, right?

00:52:44.800 Like, progressives are not very good at self-governance.

00:52:47.400 They will vote to destroy their own civilization.

00:52:51.020 And as long as it's attached to our civilization, that's a problem.

00:52:54.000 So, you know, I'm for, you know, separating, you know, so that we don't have to feel the consequences of blue cities. 0.59

00:53:01.560 Well, I don't want to give them all cities, but the consequences of kind of blue voting or for just, you know, saying, okay, if you move to these certain zones, you just can't be trusted to run your own policy.

00:53:12.840 You just need to revoke home rule from a place like New York City because they just don't seem capable of not destroying their own place where they live.

00:53:24.240 Let's see.

00:53:26.000 Once again, here for five pounds.

00:53:27.400 Appreciate it, sir.

00:53:27.960 Hello, sir.

00:53:28.860 Did you see a load of dentists and engineers enriching a small Italian island base money?

00:53:34.400 Yeah, I mean, if you guys haven't seen, there's an island next to Italy there or it's an Italian island where just large amounts of African migrants are coming in.

00:53:44.740 It seems like there's not basically any restriction kind of what's going on there.

00:53:49.860 I know many European nations have run into this problem and there just doesn't seem to be any kind of will.

00:53:54.960 Well, even in Italy, where they elected somebody who was supposed to be scary and far right, there doesn't seem to be really any willingness to kind of stop what's happening there, even by people who are supposed to be right wing.

00:54:06.920 Excuse me.

00:54:07.480 Let me get some water here real quick.

00:54:08.620 And so, you know, so that seems to be the case is, unfortunately, even people who are campaigning as right wing, who the left are pushing as scary and far right, don't have kind of the wherewithal to stop this invasion, which is bad news.

00:54:28.160 Because, like, that's what we're hoping for in America, right, that we elect somebody super based and they kind of stop this immigration. 0.97

00:54:36.520 You know, I mean, to be fair, Trump did seem to do that, you know, sorry, did seem to do that to some extent.

00:54:44.840 You know, the amount of immigration did drop, he did take, though it was not enough, it was not sufficient, we didn't get the big beautiful wall we were promised, it wasn't finished.

00:54:55.920 He did take steps that were meaningful that did reduce immigration.

00:54:59.520 So there is a blueprint, there are directions you could take in America.

00:55:02.800 Hopefully we don't end up in the situation like Italy did, but people are pouring across the border right now, so it doesn't seem to be changing anytime soon.

00:55:12.280 Scott Lemons here for $5, thank you very much.

00:55:15.480 McIntyre Sulla 2028 campaign donation.

00:55:18.600 I appreciate that.

00:55:19.880 Better than the prescriptions, right?

00:55:22.180 So who knows, the left seems more than happy to push that kind of thing.

00:55:25.720 So, but yeah, you will eventually, you know, who knows, who knows where they'll go with that, that's all I'll say.

00:55:33.880 And then, Johan Richardson for $20, please insert your sponsors, allow you to clearly introduce their promotional content.

00:55:42.080 Seamless tradition stabs are deceptive, I'd say, beneath your dignity for your content.

00:55:46.860 I guess, man, I don't know.

00:55:49.120 I think people are pretty used to people just, you know, having that kind of stuff in there.

00:55:54.700 People have to pay the bills.

00:55:56.740 Sorry, the lights don't turn themselves on.

00:55:58.940 I think people are allowed to go ahead and make a little bit of money.

00:56:02.940 Conquest theory here for $9.99.

00:56:06.720 Changing societal norms and the destruction of tradition all undermine the fabric that was once bound our nation together.

00:56:13.320 Now democracy itself has become a virtue, which won't end well for the U.S.

00:56:20.100 Yes, sir.

00:56:20.740 I think that's an excellent point.

00:56:21.880 So in theory, right, if you're a proponent of democracy or the popular will, if you think that's a good thing, in theory at least, the best usage of it would not be for the goal of democracy.

00:56:36.580 It would not be for the virtue of democracy.

00:56:39.800 Democracy would be valuable because it would allow the virtue of the people to be reflected, which is why I think our founders were pretty clear about the fact that our system would only work for virtuous people, right?

00:56:52.960 If you have a virtuous people who is capable of self-government, who can impose these limitations on themselves, then that will be reflected in their voting, will be reflected in the democratic aspects of their country.

00:57:05.580 Though, again, remember, the founding fathers only made one half of one third of our actual system really democratic.

00:57:14.820 The Senate was selected by the state legislatures.

00:57:18.000 The president was selected by Electoral College.

00:57:22.080 There wasn't a lot of direct democracy in our Constitution and our original idea of what the United States would be.

00:57:28.360 But what democracy there was would have reflected the virtue of the people.

00:57:33.680 But now democracy itself has become the virtue.

00:57:36.460 Just there's a participation is the only thing because we can't really ask virtue of the people anymore because we've destroyed our traditions.

00:57:44.740 We've destroyed our connection to the past.

00:57:47.280 We've destroyed our religion, these kind of things.

00:57:49.380 And so there's no longer any kind of this natural virtue that would kind of arise and be reflected in this democratic process.

00:57:58.760 So now we just turn the democracy itself into virtue.

00:58:01.640 I think that's a really good point.

00:58:03.760 All right, guys.

00:58:04.680 So go ahead.

00:58:05.660 Let's go ahead and wrap this up.

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00:58:29.760 I'm going to have the good old boys here on Thursday, guys.

00:58:32.860 I think you're going to have a really good time with that discussion.

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The Auron MacIntyre Show - September 26, 2023

Looting the Treasury ｜ 9⧸26⧸23

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