When the dust has settled and President Trump has been confirmed as the next president of the United States, there's still a lot to unpack. In this episode, I'm joined by Randal Finnerty, the Prudentialist, to discuss the drama surrounding Trump's latest Cabinet picks, and why every mass managerial state eventually tries to exterminate its own population at scale.
00:22:20.320Well, again, I think that one of the most and oldest negotiating tactics that's known
00:22:27.020is that you always you start with an ask that is way beyond the likelihood of them saying
00:22:33.100yes, which makes the likelihood of your second ask being more inclined to be picked.
00:22:38.120And I mean, I think that he still has, like you said, Todd Blanche there.
00:22:41.320He hasn't lowered his rhetoric on any of his other picks.
00:22:46.160This is the only one that we've seen to withdraw.
00:22:48.180And the fact that he still thinks that everyone else has a strong chance.
00:22:51.740I mean, he hasn't, you know, it's not like RFK Jr.
00:22:54.480has announced that he's going to withdraw.
00:22:56.780I think that there's probably some sort of strategy in mind here.
00:23:00.340And I think that, you know, this news is still fresh.
00:23:02.580So things can play out in the next couple of weeks.
00:23:04.680And this can age like milk or this can age like wine.
00:23:06.840But I think that it's important for us to sort of wait back and see what's happening here,
00:23:10.580because I think that the likelihood of someone like RFK getting in,
00:23:15.100that may come with actual Democratic support,
00:23:16.920because as soon as he was announced, you had senators like Cory Booker
00:23:20.540and other Democrats on the Hill, you know, support the idea that we should work on making
00:23:26.260Americans healthier, that we do need to look at industrial farming and pharmaceutical companies
00:23:30.900and additives, which, I mean, it's not like RFK is great on a lot of issues,
00:23:34.400except for the ones that matter, like making Americans healthier.
00:23:37.340You know, he was very progressive in his campaign.
00:23:40.020But I think that, you know, there's some strategy that's being played here for what he wants to do.
00:23:43.760And I think that his camp trying to be realistic says, well,
00:23:48.180Attorney General may have some places or some limitations in mind,
00:23:52.500but I think that there's probably something of a strategy on the foreground here.
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00:24:25.380Yeah, you have to remember that there are other picks like Tulsi Gabbard,
00:24:34.860which sent people in, you know, they were just as apoplectic about that selection.
00:24:40.000So there's a possibility that Gates was always meant to be kind of this foil that would initially open up,
00:24:47.160you know, the possibility of other slightly less controversial candidates sailing through
00:24:53.440because they've already kind of spent their ammunition on crushing somebody like Gates out of the box.
00:24:59.260Now, interestingly, a lot of people were speculating, and I was among them,
00:25:03.220of whether this means that you move Gates into another position.
00:25:07.300Obviously, he did win his House seat, but he's already made it clear that he is not going to return to the Congress.
00:25:13.080So he will not be resuming his place there.
00:25:17.320A lot of people have speculated he possibly would get put into Rubio's seat because Marco Rubio will be moving from the Senate to the State Department.
00:25:26.600And so that means that DeSantis has the option of naming his replacement to the senatorial seat in Florida.
00:25:33.500But I imagine if he's vacating the House seat, then it seems unlikely that that would be the case.
00:26:58.900I think he's only, what, in his early 40s.
00:27:01.240Like, his political career, for all intents and purposes, is young.
00:27:04.040And the momentum for the Republican Party, or at least the Trump wing of the Republican Party, seems to have a future.
00:27:10.000I think that it's important for us to remember that there really are two Republican parties that right now you have the MAGA wing, and then you virtually have everybody else.
00:27:17.980And we already saw how that played out with the 2024 primary season when it came to all the presidential candidates.
00:27:22.880Virtually every never-Trumper or Trump skeptic went for DeSantis or Nikki Haley or virtually any other candidate.
00:27:29.000And then, you know, everyone else was either on Team Trump.
00:27:31.240And Republicans did not do nearly as well down-ballot as Trump did, obviously, as the election results show us.
00:27:37.720So I think that, you know, the future, I think, is still, there's a lot of open doors for Matt Gates.
00:27:43.040And whether he becomes a lobbyist or he pursues another elected or appointed official position in this administration or something within Florida politics, he's not going away anytime soon whatsoever.
00:27:53.700And I think the fact that we have a roster and that Trump has picked people that have been loyal to him or have garnered a sense of appeal of bipartisanship with these individuals like Tulsi Gabbard or RFK Jr., that you are getting sort of a, listen, there are clearly huge structural problems that are wrong with the United States government.
00:28:16.380The question just becomes whether or not his campaign staff has the political will to shake up norms, because as we saw in 2020 and as we saw in 2016 and the first administration, that there was a lot of things keeping him from actually doing any significant damage to the administrative state, anything like that.
00:28:33.760And I think that anyone who is willing to even remotely wield the law like Democrats do is going to terrify them regardless.
00:28:41.400And so, I mean, let's not kid ourselves.
00:28:43.760I mean, Elon Musk, of all people, decided to play the same sort of strategy that Democrats do, bus people, offer incentives to register to vote, things that Republicans don't traditionally do with their get-out-the-vote efforts.
00:28:56.820And so, and that had huge, huge impact.
00:28:59.560Otherwise, we probably wouldn't have seen Trump win this election the way that he had done in the margin that he had had.
00:29:04.000And so, I think that they kind of have a ballgame to play here, but at the same time, these things really do have to go.
00:29:11.280And I think that now it's a question of what is the most realistic way to make that happen.
00:29:15.940What do you think about this Florida focus?
00:29:19.860A lot of people suggested this was kind of the main selling point for DeSantis, along with all of Trump's legal troubles, was this idea that DeSantis had this power base in Florida.
00:29:31.900He had built this very competent structure there, a lot of connections.
00:29:35.880And, you know, all of these things are true.
00:29:37.360I think he deserves credit for this, but the idea was he could take that political machine into Washington, D.C., right?
00:29:44.500Like, he wouldn't have to do what Trump did.
00:29:46.560He wouldn't have to source all of these picks from inside the swamp.
00:29:50.040He could take these competent people who are attached to his administration in Florida and transplant them into D.C.
00:29:57.900This is something that our Republican politicians basically never do, and one of the many reasons that all of these administrations are already captured by the time they get in there.
00:30:09.400But Trump seems to have basically just taken that page from the playbook.
00:30:12.660He said, all right, well, actually, I'm going to do that.
00:30:15.560I'm just going to lift a lot of these people directly out.
00:30:17.760Now, obviously, the Trump camp and the DeSantis camp inside of Florida is itself a split, so I'm not saying that these are one for one, every one of the picks that DeSantis would have brought in for sure.
00:30:28.420But ultimately, a lot of these people are connected.
00:30:31.340You know, his Susie Wills is someone who was connected with the DeSantis campaign, though there are rumors that ultimately there was some bad blood there at the end.
00:30:41.380But, you know, Pam Bondi, these are people who have kind of worked with, you know, brushed up with a lot of these.
00:30:46.940You saw, obviously, that Trump and guys like Elon were pushing for Rick Scott early on to be the head of the Senate.
00:30:56.460And so it really does feel like the idea was basically just take all of this infrastructure, this political infrastructure from Florida, and just install it into Washington, D.C. when you move in.
00:31:07.480Yeah, and I think one of the things to consider with all of this sort of, I know that a lot of people like to joke that it's like a Florida-occupied government with respects to all of Trump's campaign, or his picks for his incoming administration this coming January.
00:31:22.860I think that one of the differences is that, you know, you could, with DeSantis, if he wanted to be president, as we saw with that, the man is an excellent administrator, not a great campaigner, and the people that he had working for him were awful.
00:31:35.960And if DeSantis were the pick, I'm sorry, you know, never-Trumpers, that he would have lost this election to an even less likable, less electable woman than Trump did when he beat Hillary Clinton.
00:31:46.520Yeah, can you imagine the negative charisma of DeSantis and Kamala Harris in a debate, just like that?
00:31:54.780It would be so bad that even DeSantis would have gone on the Call Her Daddy podcast.
00:32:03.240Like, as soon as he had dropped out from the presidential race, he was doing all those videos, doing all the legal work, and explaining why, you know, this government's actions were unconstitutional.
00:32:11.660I was like, well, where the hell was that guy for, like, the eight months that you were running for office?
00:32:15.580So, but I mean, also, you know, Trump moved from New York to Florida.
00:32:20.200And since then, with his Mar-a-Locker resort, you know, we get to have a second, quote-unquote, Camelot.
00:32:25.940You know, we had that with sort of Kennedy, and we had this sort of palace intrigue of the Kennedy White House, this mythos.
00:32:31.680A lot of that, of course, is media, you know, astroturfed and such.
00:32:35.360But, I mean, with respects to Trump, like, you actually do have this tropical resort palace in which people go to in and out.
00:32:44.340And there is real palace intrigue that has it there.
00:32:46.940But also that Trump has been in politics and has been involved with the business world, the politics world, the international community for decades, long before DeSantis had rose to any sort of political prominence.
00:32:57.700And to see, you know, Trump just working out of sort of his own little Camp David down in the Florida, you know, down in the Keys is kind of entertaining to watch.
00:33:08.700But also at the same time that Trump has a team, Trump has people that he can trust.
00:33:12.200And, I mean, the one flaw that I think we did see out of his first term was is that, you know, a little too much flattery can sometimes get the worst people involved who will stab you in the back.
00:33:22.900But I think that, as Trump has said on this campaign trail and as he has reiterated, he kind of has a better grasp of understanding of how Washington works.
00:33:32.240And the people that are around him are not only just veteran Florida politicians or people involved in Florida politics, but also that know what it means to win and deal with the national, you know, political scene, but also how to deal with Washington.
00:33:45.920Whereas I think DeSantis, while being a very talented administrator, is not going to put you in the best position to transition from, say, oh, you know, here's how we do things down in Florida versus, well, now you have to talk about people in Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, not to mention Capitol Hill.
00:34:02.420Yeah, ultimately, I hope that this is not a sign of a poor planning, but simply a hiccup or perhaps even a strategic move.
00:34:14.280I think ultimately there are still a number of strong picks.
00:34:19.140I think that they're, like you said, that the upside is that there is a lot of loyalists around him, a lot of people from outside of Washington.
00:34:28.080There's a network that he controls entirely inside, you know, this new White House administration that's going to be coming in.
00:34:37.200And I do hope that that is going to be critical.
00:34:40.200I hope that that does allow him to do the things he'd like to do.
00:34:43.600But, you know, I need to see some deportations, man.
00:34:48.100And if you're going to make something like this happen, you really need to have, you know, a steely-eyed will.
00:34:53.660You need to be able to throw off what people think about you.
00:34:56.820You need to be willing to hurt the political actors who are not going to get on board.
00:35:03.680They need to feel the political pain for their betrayal.
00:35:08.240This needs to be a very real thing that you're willing to get into.
00:35:11.180And so, like I said, my only concern was that a kind of knuckling under on Gates would indicate a wider interest in simply kind of taking the easy road and going back to Trump 1.0.
00:35:25.120And if we just get Trump 1.0, is it better than Kamala Harris?
00:35:53.440And I encourage people to support him to the extent to which he is getting all of that done.
00:35:59.420But ultimately, this is a reprieve and a time for building, a time for you to be able to organize, to make things better in your area, and get set up for a time in which you perhaps don't have someone in the White House who, at the very least, is not maliciously trying to destroy what you have built.
00:36:17.280That is, unfortunately, I think, the way that you have to view this moment, not because you want to be cynical, not because you want to be blackpilled, but because you want to be prepared.
00:36:25.880Like, the point is, you cannot have what we want unless you are building a virtuous community in which you are part.
00:36:33.740And if you are just pushing that responsibility to the side and saying, well, I voted and it's time to grill, then you kind of failed this, right?
00:36:41.260Like, so I hope Trump does what he said he's going to do.
00:36:53.380Yeah, and I think that the biggest thing that you pointed out there was that desire to grill now that he won.
00:36:59.080Republicans, in a large extent, their voter base have often treated elections as political release valves, and to a large extent, they are and even still are to this day, even though we've, you know, the messaging has been clear for your lifetime and my lifetime that every election is the most important election of our lifetimes.
00:37:15.360You have to vote like your life depended on it.
00:37:16.860And I mean, even even Elon Musk earlier today, making it very real or earlier this campaign season, which is saying that this is the last election if Trump doesn't get in.
00:37:24.920Well, I mean, again, I mean, you have to be putting the pressure on them.
00:37:28.700And I mean, even with the millions of people on his voter rolls and people who've received campaign texts, if he were to get even 1% or even 0.1% of a return to pressure those people to call their senators and to call their congressmen, they could probably get a lot done with respects to their agenda.
00:37:46.640Because nothing pisses off a senator or congressman more than having their office filled with phone calls and letters for things that are really against what they wish to do for business as usual on Washington.
00:37:56.400Not that I'm a big advocate and a believer as a democracy enjoyer or anything like that, but I do know that, you know, pressure, pressure works and the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
00:38:04.440And that with respects to Matt Gaetz, I mean, is he explained earlier on Charlie Kirk show that everything that had been going on about him, you know, he knew that the Senate would delay out of these ethics investigations, out of these salacious allegations that are against him.
00:38:21.080And I imagine that he probably didn't want to put his family through that and that he has no desire to, you know, put any extra hamper on Trump's momentum that he's got going for him for any other of his picks.
00:38:34.420Because if, you know, Matt Gaetz having his own long history in Washington and being a firebrand and making a lot of enemies is going to put an uphill battle, I imagine a lot more energy and a lot more momentum is either going to have to be incurred and spent either to get recess appointments or to actually get people like, you know, RFK Jr.
00:38:53.460or whoever else that Trump decides to go forward with and pick as actual cabinet positions for the Senate's advice and consent role in the Constitution.
00:39:02.180So I think that, you know, some of this seems to be very deliberate and a lot of this understands that, listen, we only have so much political capital, so much goodwill that we can expend before getting into office in January of 2025.
00:39:14.560Let's try and use it as politically savvy as possible and let's be wise about it.
00:39:19.740That way we can actually push the bigger battles that we want to do, like deportations or, you know, trying to gut, you know, the administrative state.
00:39:28.100So the other topic that we wanted to touch on today is the push now for euthanasia in the United Kingdom.
00:39:37.880The Economist has done a big story, a front page story about why it's important for the United Kingdom to embrace euthanasia.
00:39:48.120Hilariously, they say that it's critical that this liberty be granted, this fundamental liberty to die be granted to the people of the United Kingdom.
00:39:59.620I find that hilarious because the United Kingdom is currently a place where you cannot disagree with the government over immigration online lest you go to jail.
00:40:09.280So it's kind of funny that they don't have the fundamental liberty to say, actually, I don't want to be invaded or replaced, but they do have the fundamental liberty to die, which is just an amazing thing.
00:40:22.900Because, of course, we've seen the terrible response that this has had in Canada, the way that the government has already used this.
00:40:30.820You know, we're always reassured when these kind of policies enter that they'll be carefully vetted, that there'll be experts involved, that, you know, everything will be very by the books.
00:40:43.940We know how we love our proceduralism to safeguard us.
00:40:47.360But we've already seen that all of the scary things that we predicted, the slippery slope that just would never happen in Canada, started pretty much right away.
00:40:57.400They were killing mentally ill people, they were killing people with depression, they were killing homeless people, they were even killing young people who were just sad.
00:41:07.020You know, this is something that has already happened on a regular basis with Canadian health care.
00:41:12.340And it's amazing that people can look at this model and see the way that it's already being abused in a place like Canada and say, yeah, I really want to get me some of this.
00:41:22.580Yeah, and I think that there are several things to consider here.
00:41:28.160I mean, one, I think that the euthanasia push is in large part, as people like, you know, the libertarian think tank writer Megan McArdle had pointed out several years ago,
00:41:38.280that one of the biggest things that depresses fertility, of course, is, you know, lavish welfare and pension systems that actually decreases your dependency on having a large family to help take care of you.
00:41:52.860And it puts you more on the dependency of the nation state and the systems that are going to provide welfare and pensions and housing and medical care and the rest.
00:42:01.580So why bother about having a family? But also that, you know, a lot of European states and America itself outside of immigration has seen its, you know, TFR and its fertility rate crater.
00:42:13.320I mean, well below replacement levels. I mean, there are numerous nations inside of Europe and the European community.
00:42:19.860I mean, outside of Britain. I mean, Italy is one of the oldest countries in terms of, you know, how many people are above a certain age of 65 per capita.
00:42:28.300And so the logic of keeping the machine, the welfare system, the pension system has been propagated on we must have more workers in order to provide people to come in and add to that tax base so we can pay for the pensioners.
00:42:44.580You know, 50, 60 years ago, the idea of Social Security made sense when there were about four to five workers per one pensioner on Social Security.
00:42:52.900That made sense. But when now it's almost the inverse of that, and that becomes the significant problem.
00:42:59.020And of course, it does not help that all the people that get brought into these countries anyways, both the United States, both in Britain and various parts of the EU, they're all, you know, they're all net negatives with regards to how they provide and pay into the systems.
00:43:13.840The only, you know, net taxpayers in America outside of Asians and whites is, actually, that's just it, really.
00:43:21.120The rest, more or less, in there are a drain on those sort of public services and public infrastructure with taxpayer money.
00:43:27.340So this is the system literally cannibalizing its own citizens for the purposes of saying, you know, blood for the, you know, the subsidies gods, blood for the Gibbs god, we must continue this system.
00:43:40.580Because otherwise, we are going to watch it collapse underneath our feet.
00:43:44.520And I have been alive long enough to have been told by numerous politicians, I mean, hell, even Jack Kemp talked about it, about the future insolvency of Social Security, that I would not be surprised if something like that came to the United States in one day or in certain parts of the, in blue states, to say the least.
00:43:59.940But it illustrates that this is the managerial system cannibalizing its own, because these things have to continue.
00:44:07.140But as I had said earlier today on Twitter, euthanasia in an age of open borders is just another form of industrial culling of the native population.
00:44:17.440You want to talk about the Great Replacement? That's fine. That's great.
00:44:20.380But also keep in mind that what's going to accelerate that is a medicalized form of tyranny that says, well, the medical security state now says that if you're feeling sad, if you're getting a little too old, or you don't want to wait in line for that hip replacement, how about we just off you instead?
00:44:36.760And as we've already seen with the Canadian experiment play out only in the short couple of years it's been around for us, that it doesn't matter if you're a homeless vet, it doesn't matter that you are doing well for yourself, or even people who said, oh, I'm just going to off myself because I'm getting evicted and it's too hard of a struggle.
00:44:53.300The same thing is going to happen in Britain, and this is already on top of the fact that they are pushing for an exorbitant inheritance tax to punish farmers who are land rich but cash poor, and basically just simply to say, with all this other rhetoric, that the English countryside is not diverse enough.
00:45:11.760And if we can break up the land reform, we will incorporate South Africa style expropriation, and if you feel bad about it, well, we can offer you a nice little suicide pod for 25 cents a use.
00:45:25.300Yeah, there's so much to respond there to, so I guess I'll start with this.
00:45:31.040I want to write a larger article about this probably, but just the managerial mindset and its relentless drive towards this kind of industrial scale population elimination seems inevitable.
00:45:47.980This seems to be part of the way that the managerial state forms, right, that these mass bureaucracies and their relentless need for social programming, they try to control every aspect of everything from life to death.
00:46:12.360Do you remember everyone laughing at Sarah Palin when she said that government health care would inevitably lead to death panels?
00:46:18.500And here we are with exactly that prediction coming true on a regular basis.
00:46:24.820There is this scenario where as soon as the state gets enough involvement in health care and it's setting up the system, like you said, that is pushing it towards possible insolvency.
00:46:35.920The solution is to import as many people from outside of your country as possible and inevitably eliminate a large amount of your base population, your native population.
00:47:49.580I like going to the different museums and seeing the sites.
00:47:53.420But honestly, the nicest part of those trips really was getting out to the countryside and experiencing British culture because there are British people there and it's still allowed to exist.
00:48:04.300Well, it turns out that's not OK anymore.
00:48:06.180And they need a project of decoolicization like we really are in a full on Soviet style scenario where we've got to get rid of these farmers.
00:48:15.420You know, there's too many native British people who own farms.
00:48:27.480And as you say, this all feels like, you know, as you're calling the population with the euthanasia.
00:48:33.420If they've made it too hard for your family to have a home anymore, housing prices are exploding because so many immigrants have been moving in.
00:49:06.980And again, we talk you can talk about any form of this economic system in terms of the welfare state and talk about, you know, neoliberalism, offshoring, open borders, open trade, whatever is, is that we are now coming to the culmination of what that looks like.
00:49:21.960And when certain populations get too old and obviously the system is borderline insolvent or very much is insolvent and that there's no real way to balance the books because you have the short term political problem of, well, we can raise the age of retirement.
00:49:35.640And then, of course, people who are near the age of retirement are going to get out and protest and it's not very popular with a lot of lobbyists.
00:49:42.140I mean, the same thing with like Medicare and Medicaid spending in the United States.
00:49:44.760People really get upset when you talk about maybe raising the age of eligibility for it or changing who's allowed to be on it and vice versa.
00:49:51.400Or you can deal with the long term problem of insolvency and hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people who are going to have no form of assistance whatsoever.
00:50:00.320And, of course, these things are sort of being put to themselves as part of this greater culture of anti-life.
00:50:12.200And it does not matter whose blood is going to be fueling the engine that makes it run.
00:50:18.140Because in this instance, like you had mentioned, there are three big caveats into all of this.
00:50:22.140I mean, the first one, of course, is just the rampant antinatalism.
00:50:24.320I mean, the biggest election issue the Democrats ran on for this last election and in 2022 and since Roe v. Wade has been preserving the right for you to kill your child.
00:50:38.280And as all the data indicates, over 90% of that procedure is elective.
00:50:43.060It is the choice that they make to murder their children.
00:50:45.480On top of this, we've noticed that with the Kamala Harris campaign, the only times that white people were ever shown in Democratic campaign ads were either, A, about abortion, or, B, making sure that you had access to your pornography.
00:50:57.960You were here to waste your life away and just to be a good, productive citizen for the tax base so we can subsidize the old people but also the new people that are coming in.
00:51:06.540And it doesn't matter that what they make a month on entitlements are going to be more than what you make in a month in your actual full-time job.
00:51:13.580And then, of course, you have this push for euthanasia, this push for, you know, let us just kill the elderly, those who are probably still capable of contributing to society or at the very least still holding a role as a patriarchal or matriarchal figure in their family line.
00:51:29.700And, of course, you know, we've taken away the cultural necessity of taking care of our own, and instead we have made everyone an interchangeable, deracinated unit that says it is totally okay to pull the plug on grandma off.
00:51:43.760It means that you can charge your phone for a few minutes just because that's the only outlet that's available in the hospital room.
00:51:48.740And this system, again, has made it very clear that if you have kids, don't have very many because of the environment, don't have children at all, and if anything, if you do get pregnant, you should abort them and you should waste your seed on pornography.
00:51:59.820And if you get too old, well, the family is going to make the decision and really push you whether you like it or not for you to, you know, take the pills, take the IV solution or whatever so that you can slip this mortal coil.
00:52:11.800We have desacralized family, desacralized life, and we have instead said as a system, and what we're now seeing in Britain is that, well, not only are we going to replace you, but we are going to kill the ones that you hold dear, whether by taxation, expropriation, or by a biomedical security state.
00:52:28.040Yeah, again, it's just stunning how bad the UK has gotten.
00:52:33.700Just, you know, have a lot of friends over there now, and I feel bad.
00:52:38.200It's a beautiful country, and it's terrible to see it go the way it's going just across the board.
00:52:44.180And this is just the latest in a long string of terrible decisions and abuses that are being visited upon the British people by their government, who just seems dead set on destroying that country as rapidly as possible.
00:53:00.160All right, guys, we're going to move over to the questions of the people.
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00:54:02.800Yeah, I know we've been doing – we had our series of schizo philosophy Fridays.
00:54:09.500We moved to our rank punditry, so I'm glad you're continuing the philosophy over there.
00:54:15.280Let's go ahead and pick up our questions here.
00:54:18.960Political Thirstworm says, I've only ever voted for Trump.
00:54:22.080They don't follow his mandates at their cost because I simply will never vote for a Republican.
00:54:27.780Yeah, I think that's a very popular sentiment at this point.
00:54:30.920The Republican Party is pretty much hostile to the interests of the American people as much as the Democratic Party is.
00:54:38.180For a lot of people, Trump is the reason that they're being motivated to involve themselves in Republican politics.
00:54:45.800And without kind of that MAGA movement, there's not a whole lot of energy in the Republican court.
00:54:52.760So the hope is that momentum from Trump will continue to change the Republican Party more than the Republican Party can kind of stymie the advances of Trump's agenda.
00:56:19.920I'm just saying give the man time, encourage him, you know, push him in the right direction, but always do that while being on side.
00:56:27.100I think that that really is something that people need to keep in mind.
00:56:31.340Again, you can't put all of your stock in Trump, but I don't think it's a little early to ultimately be throwing in these black pills as well.
00:56:38.500Yeah, we can only find out when he's actually in office and what kind of insanity is coming in.
00:56:44.720Literally, we are only, what, two weeks since the election itself.
00:56:49.660I mean, there's still so much time between here and when he takes the oath of office for us to really find out anything and what his administration does in its first 100 days.
00:56:58.860But, again, all the palace intrigue and all of the knife fighting between, you know, establishment Republicans, Trumpists, new right people, whoever, whatever camps that you want to call with or identify, you know, we really need to be looking at this in the same way that the paleocons, the neocons duked it out in the midst of Reagan's election in 1980.
00:57:18.760That's the closest political parallel we have to this, and I think that there are enough people who have the money and the means to realize that you can't afford that decades-long worth of containment again.
00:57:30.940But at the same time, you know, I am happily prepared to be wrong on that.
00:57:35.520I've said before the election, I'll say it after, trust not in princes and the sons of men in whom there is no salvation.
00:57:41.360At the very least, Trump has bought yourself maybe four more years to prepare for God knows what comes after him.
00:57:51.460The Gates replacement theory, was it a fate to get the next woman up?
00:57:58.240Are his closet skeletons fake or real?
00:58:02.960Yeah, again, it's hard to know, you know, to what level the allegations are true.
00:58:08.040Obviously, allegations of sexual impropriety are thrown around constantly.
00:58:12.240They basically throw it at every male Republican or Republican appointee, including to the Supreme Court and everything else.
00:58:20.580Even when those people end up not even being that much of a Republican or a right winger, they still pull these same tactics over and over again.
00:58:27.480Again, it's difficult because you don't want to completely dismiss.
00:58:30.960You do want people who are, you know, have a certain level of moral, you know, upstandness.
00:58:36.820But at the same time, you know, these allegations come down on everybody.
00:58:40.800So you don't want to ignore things that are true, but they do them so often.
00:58:45.060They cry wolf so often that it's almost impossible to know, you know, to what extent something like this is real.
00:58:50.940Also says DeSantis on Call Her Daddy pod.
00:59:04.280I think Robert's other point, though, about just I not not you can call me whatever.
00:59:09.540I'm just noticing a series of patterns here.
00:59:11.800I'm noticing, as Steve Saylor might say, that a lot of Donald Trump's female picks for political appointments, whether it be the Supreme Court or otherwise, have not been particularly.
00:59:29.700Andrew Guller says off topic question.
00:59:32.020Andrew Klavan keeps talking about the social imaginary, but never defines it.
00:59:37.120Any insight on what he's talking about?
00:59:39.260He says it comes from French existentialists.
00:59:42.720I got to say, I've read some French existentialists, but I can't immediately place that.
00:59:48.320You have any familiarity with that term?
00:59:50.940I've always heard that the social imaginary was the shared understanding of a society, that the French existentialists kind of pulled it from sort of Ernest Renan's questions of what is a what is a nation?
01:00:04.160There's a mutual understanding that there's a mutual understanding that every citizen has of its values, institutions, language, history, laws, religions, and things like that.
01:00:14.240It's just a common group identity that everyone sort of shares in their mind of what they conceive the state to be and how is it reflected in their worldview and how do they identify with it?
01:00:27.060I haven't read a lot of French existentialists.
01:00:30.020I've read a lot of French postmodernists, but I think that's more or less what the social imaginary is.
01:00:35.700Yeah, that's what I would assume it would be just from the phrase, but I don't have enough knowledge beforehand to really speak on it in any depth.
01:00:46.340I mean, if that is the concept, then yeah, that obviously exists to an extent you could unpack that, but I don't want to go on at length about it if neither of us are just familiar ultimately.
01:00:56.780But thank you so for the question there, Andrew Creeper Weirdo says the left loves life, a negative life.
01:01:08.640And then John Morton says exit booths for Gammons on every street corner.
01:01:14.060Where they can sit down and watch something Gammons liked back in BBC's 1991 adaptation of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and just drift away.
01:01:26.680But unfortunately, that also seems to be an not insignificant part of the plan when it comes to kind of the current United Kingdom.
01:01:36.340But again, I pray for that country. I hope things are, you know, turn out better, have a lot of friends there now and want to see you guys win and succeed.
01:01:45.900But I got to say, you know, if we ever fix things over here, it might be time to head over and do a little bit of liberation of the UK.
01:01:55.140Solve our own problems first, I suppose.
01:01:57.020Yeah, let's leave the let's let's lead ourselves as the example of trying to fix our own stuff before we try and make anything worse.
01:02:05.820I mean, the American cultural exports of wokeness to the United Kingdom and other countries has been a disaster for their own conservative movements, because it's like the Colombian exchange.
01:02:15.020You and I have a native immunological response to this, whereas, you know, talking about like, you know, non-binary people and the Ibram X.
01:02:24.600Kendi style of racism has been just a mimetic smallpox that has been released on the old world.
01:02:31.280And if we are going to succeed in helping our European friends, we have to come up with an antidote to successfully kill it.
01:02:39.060Yeah, the the the the British have taken to the whiskey of wokeness in the like a Cherokee who's never tasted the firewater.
01:02:47.660Yeah, it's a it's a hilarious analogy.
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