00:00:11.000We'll address the latest conspiracy theories to emerge online.
00:00:14.000Plus, we address the gathering of the most brilliant members of our voted out political class, our now resigned political class, who gathered over the weekend in Tucker Carlson's cabin in Maine, where he wore flannel like a man of the people who's worth tens of millions of dollars.
00:00:28.000Plus, it's high time I talk about common good conservatism.
00:00:36.000This weird embrace of radical Islam, right?
00:00:38.000Tucker Carlson traveling to every Muslim country he can find and talking about the magic of Sharia law, or Candace Owens apologizing to Muslims all over the world for the evils and predations of the United States and all the rest.
00:00:48.000Now, I mean, this is obviously tied to the Horseshoe Right's deep desire to shift the focus to wait for it, always the Udin, always focusing on the Jews.
00:00:58.000The Horseshoe Right has joined the left on economics and they've joined the radical Muslims on Jews and it all fits beautifully together.
00:01:03.000So, in the aftermath of 60,000 Muslims invading Ceuta, which is a Spanish city on the coast of Africa, again, so you have a story that involves only, only a socialist government in Spain that is Christian oriented in history and Muslims.
00:01:22.000Somehow they came up with the Jews as the causative factor here.
00:01:26.000The situation, again, was created purely by the factors of Islamic migration and invasion, the insane open borders, multiculturalism, and anti Westernism of Pedro Sanchez, the prime minister of Spain.
00:01:37.000And somehow, both the horseshoe right and the left found a way to blame.
00:01:46.000Apparently, other than telling people to stop saying stupid things and being successful at this, what can't they do?
00:01:52.000So, Thomas Massey, who again has decided that the Jews are his bugaboo, after losing his Kentucky seat by focusing specifically and only on the Jews in a district with 500 Jews, he put out a tweet saying, Don't fall for the fake Fox GOP outrage over Souta.
00:02:07.000Two weeks ago, the House passed a bill that green lighted the transfer of Spanish territory to Morocco.
00:02:12.000Every Republican except for me voted for it, but now they are acting shocked at the invasion.
00:02:15.000Well, no, actually, these were notes on what the committee was talking about.
00:02:20.000This was not what was in the approved text of the bill.
00:02:23.000In any case, the idea that somehow the GOP, the neocon GOP was responsible for a Moroccan invasion of a Spanish city because in an obscure bill, the committee had notes.
00:03:53.000The world knows what is happening and exactly who is behind it.
00:03:57.000So because the Moroccan flag, like a century ago, something like that, had the Star of David, which was the Star of Solomon, which was a symbol that was recognized in both the Islamic and the Jewish world and really became sort of an exclusive Jewish symbol in the 19th century.
00:04:15.000Because of the symbol, that means that when Muslims invade a Christian territory, it was the Jews because it was on the flag.
00:04:22.000I hate to imagine what Candace Owens thinks happened.
00:04:25.000In like Hindu India, hundreds of years ago.
00:04:28.000Did the Nazis take a time machine to emblazon all the swastikas on the artwork?
00:04:32.000So now, when India does something in Pakistan, is it actually the Nazis who did it?
00:04:38.000Meanwhile, Anna Kasparian, who appears to have fallen off the conspiracy tree and hit every branch on the way down, she put out a tweet People are finally waking up, replying to, I was fairly reasonable toward Israel, but this Morocco thing makes it clear Israel has become an enemy of the West.
00:05:33.000The meritocracy, and this means, by the way, that because the meritocracy is bad, the people who are the most successful in the United States must be torn to the ground.
00:05:43.000That's true everywhere from tech CEOs to real estate CEOs.
00:05:46.000And if Jews are disproportionately present in positions of finance or, or education, this means the Jews must have rigged the system, right?
00:07:42.000So they're sitting there at the table.
00:07:43.000Marjorie Taylor Greene sitting down there next to Tucker Carlson at the far end.
00:07:47.000Tucker looking like Al Pacino in The Devil's Advocate.
00:07:51.000And then you have Thomas Massey, who is sitting there looking free of the congressional life because he's basically given up on life, except for his quixotic presidential run, which he will certainly make in the next few months.
00:08:05.000Joe Kent is at the end of the table, also.
00:08:08.000That would be the counterterrorism guy who was basically cut out of all informational loops because everyone knew he was a nut job inside the administration.
00:08:16.000Again, what a blazing collection of just geniuses at this table.
00:08:19.000These are the people who are going to quarterback the revivification of the American dream.
00:08:24.000So Marjorie Taylor Greene put out on X.
00:08:27.000We said no more foreign wars and we meant it and supported Donald Trump because he made that promise, but he's betrayed us all.
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00:09:18.000Again, remember, I'm just going to remind you that the leaders of this movement are people who literally think that Gestapo is called Gaspacho.
00:09:26.000I mean, I understand that they may be planning the invasion of Poland at that table, but Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:09:34.000These are the kinds of leaders you need.
00:09:37.000Not only do we have the D.C. jail, which is the D.C. gulag, but now we have Nancy Pelosi's Gaspacho police spying on members of Congress, spying on the legislative work that we do, spying on our staff,
00:09:50.000and spying on American citizens that want to come talk to their representatives.
00:10:01.000Joe Kent also, I mean, he was in counterterrorism.
00:10:03.000I mean, he did vote for Bernie Sanders, but then later he wasn't.
00:10:06.000And I mean, sure, he said that he would testify as a witness for Tyler Robinson in the trial for the murder of Charlie Kirk, and that he might make statements about a foreign nexus that he has no information about.
00:10:27.000Obviously, people with great central American principles, people who really care about things like demon attacks, and also AIPAC, and also Jews, and also AIPAC, and also demons.
00:11:38.000So, would all those people who have been saying this, when will they start calling out Tucker Carlson and his friends?
00:11:48.000I mean, like the vice president should probably start calling out people like Tucker Carlson and his friends.
00:11:52.000I mean, I think that the vice president would like for the Republicans to do well in the midterms, and I think he would like to be president in 2028.
00:11:58.000So now might be a good time to start calling out people who are openly threatening to destroy the Republican Party, attacking President Trump every single day, ripping the Republicans before the midterms, ripping into the administration daily, and talking about founding a third party.
00:12:33.000It might be nice to spare just a thought, just one single solitary thought occasionally for the destructive people who actually would love for the Democrats to win in 2026.
00:13:02.000There's an actual really interesting and vital debate for U.S. conservatism.
00:13:06.000Should American conservatism stand for individual rights and free markets and checks and balances and, yes, social institutions that are powerful outside the government, like churches and families?
00:13:16.000Or should American conservatism take a hard turn into a government that is extraordinarily powerful, designed to impose a vision of the good life from above?
00:13:28.000Without reference to individual rights or free markets or private property or any of that stuff.
00:13:32.000That is the real question when we are talking about traditional conservatism versus common good conservatism.
00:14:00.000That is not what we're talking about here.
00:14:02.000First off, conservatives do not and should not believe as a rule in utilitarianism as a rule for what the government ought to do.
00:14:09.000Conservatives believe generally in either a sort of natural law or deontological framework.
00:14:15.000Okay, natural law is the idea that there are discoverable rules for life, that they are discernible from the workings of the world itself.
00:14:22.000So, for example, a good example of a sort of natural law ideology would say that sex ought to be reserved for marriage and procreation because sex produces children.
00:14:32.000That has nothing to do with the highest good for the greatest number.
00:14:35.000That's just a reality about the world.
00:14:39.000Deontology, which is a fancy word, just means rule based ethics.
00:14:43.000There are rules that we ought to follow.
00:14:45.000And there are a bunch of forms of deontology.
00:14:48.000You can have a Kantian based deontology where he tries to establish, without reference to God, a set of rules.
00:14:52.000But religious people very often are deontological thinkers, meaning God said to do a thing, therefore it's right and good to do the thing.
00:15:01.000Conservatives generally don't do utilitarian ethics predominantly.
00:15:05.000It's presumably utilitarian to murder all infants with Down syndrome, the elderly and the infirm.
00:15:10.000If you're quote unquote doing the best for the best number, you get rid of all the people who are inconvenient.
00:15:15.000No conservative or a decent person, by the way, would say that that is acceptable logic, of course.
00:15:19.000So when we're talking about common good conservatism, what are we actually talking about?
00:15:24.000Well, typically, people who are talking about common good in this way are saying common as opposed to individual.
00:15:32.000They want to have an argument about good, but that really is not the argument.
00:15:34.000The argument is common versus individual.
00:15:37.000These people call themselves more specifically post liberals.
00:15:40.000They argue that the failure of our social institutions in the West, like church and family, the reason that happened is because of individualism and individual rights.
00:15:49.000That individual rights, the focus on what we are allowed to do without the government forcing us to do it, turns us into atomized fragments who are destined to conflict with one another.
00:15:59.000Their idea is that individual rights are inherently relativistic because we all have different priorities and rights can be abused.
00:16:05.000So, therefore, what we need is a common good crammed down by the government.
00:16:09.000Individual rights should be put to the side because individualism automatically fragments, atomizes, and people end up doing bad things to each other, and you end up with anarchy, basically.
00:16:17.000So you need a common good that is enforced at the top by the government.
00:16:20.000Now, this is a radical simplification of the founding idea of individual rights.
00:16:27.000It suggests that what individual rights are really about is you being able to do a bunch of terrible things.
00:16:31.000And this is how they talk about individual rights, right?
00:16:34.000Like the post-liberals will say that they're against individual rights because do you really have a right, a moral right, to access pornography.
00:16:59.000The question is what government should be allowed to do.
00:17:01.000So they think that terrible things can only be prevented by the government and terrible things that harm the common good must be prevented.
00:17:09.000Therefore, We should curb individual rights.
00:17:15.000And this is why the post liberals, openly, by the way, again, this is not an empty accusation.
00:17:19.000They openly hate the American founding.
00:17:22.000The post liberals hate the Constitution.
00:17:24.000They want something fundamentally un American, a tyranny from above that crams down their version of virtue on everybody else.
00:17:32.000Now, again, maybe I agree with some of their versions of virtue, but what they really want is an overarching government that forces down their version of what they call the common good.
00:17:39.000One of the authors who's a big sort of founder of this kind of thing is a guy named Patrick Deneen.
00:17:44.000He wrote a book called Why Liberalism Failed.
00:17:47.000And he says that the American founders erred in, quote, not foreseeing that their atomistic philosophy would act as a solvent on our civic institutions.
00:17:53.000So, for example, he opposes capitalism.
00:17:56.000He believes that individual rights are bad.
00:18:04.000Here's Patrick Deneen talking about the American founding.
00:18:08.000When I say liberal, I mean the political philosophy of liberalism that has a kind of inaugurated in the kind of social contract tradition of late 17th century.
00:18:18.00018th century Britain and gets imported to the United States.
00:18:22.000It's articulated by our founding fathers.
00:18:25.000And then it's further developed from its kind of classical liberal origins into its progressive liberal form.
00:18:33.000And what makes it, in some ways, continuous, even though today we think of classical liberalism, what we call conservative, and progressive liberalism, progressivism, as opposites, its core similarity is the ideal of being liberated from any kind of unchosen.
00:18:50.000Sense of self, any unchosen inheritance, any unchosen form of identity.
00:18:55.000It's a kind of idealized form of autonomy that's pictured or imagined in the fictional imaginary state of nature.
00:19:04.000And you could say that our entire political, social, economic, cultural order is organized around the creation of this radically autonomous, liberated self.
00:19:14.000Okay, so as I'll explain in a second, there's a radical oversimplification of the intellectual legacy of the founders, like a radical oversimplification and a direct attempt to conflate things.
00:19:24.000So, these people argue, post liberals, they argue that what government really should be is a club to bash enemies and a cement to rebuild social institutions.
00:19:32.000So, for example, there's an author named Terry Schilling.
00:19:34.000He argues in First Things, which is a post liberal publication that's heavily rooted in Catholic thought, that, quote, a new conservatism is being born, one less interested in managing our nation's decline than in using political power to promote virtue, public morality, and the common good.
00:19:47.000Conservatives need to overcome their fear of governing the nation that elected them.
00:19:51.000Now, he uses language of elections there, but let's be clear.
00:19:56.000In this vision, the common good does not have to be linked with democracy, right?
00:19:59.000Democracy is about your individual right to vote, but they don't believe in individual rights per se.
00:20:04.000So if democracy cuts against the common good, then the common good should override the democracy.
00:20:09.000So in 2019, in First Things, again, which is a journal largely about this sort of stuff, a series of authors, including Deneen, spelled out an attack they titled Against the Dead Consensus.
00:20:18.000And here's what they wrote in Against the Dead Consensus We oppose the soulless society of individual affluence.
00:20:25.000Our society must not prioritize the needs of the childless, the healthy, and the intellectual competitive.
00:20:30.000We want a country that works for the workers.
00:20:33.000The Republican Party has for too long held investors and job creators above workers and citizens, dismissing vast swathes of Americans as takers unworthy of its time.
00:20:41.000We believe in the potential of a political movement that heeds the cries of the working class as much as the demands of capital.
00:20:46.000Americans take more pride in their identity as workers than their identity as consumers.
00:20:50.000Economic and welfare policy should prioritize work over consumption.
00:20:54.000If that sounds like left-wing talk, like it could come out of the mouth of people on the left, that's because it could.
00:21:00.000Trusting an elite caste to determine which groups ought to benefit at the expense of other groups is directly against a rights-based society.
00:21:20.000No one has the right to remove that labor from you for the good of the collective without just compensation.
00:21:25.000The success of free markets rests precisely on the fact that it does reflect basic truths about human nature that we have a desire to create and to acquire and to own and to control the environment around us.
00:21:36.000The common good governance here is a utopian scheme that would have been very familiar to Plato in the Republic.
00:21:42.000The idea that you have to have a government that is tutelary in nature.
00:21:45.000And sits as a heavy hand on everyone by suggesting that it is the job of the economic system to pursue quote unquote the common good.
00:21:56.000These common good conservatives are committing a pretty serious category error.
00:22:00.000Basically, they are saying that the way to promote the common good is through economic systems.
00:22:04.000That economic systems are about promoting the common good.
00:22:16.000Economic systems create prosperity if they work.
00:22:21.000That is what economic systems are designed to do.
00:22:24.000Economics is the study of the distribution of goods and resources, particularly when it comes to scarcity, which is a common feature of human life.
00:22:33.000That's what economic systems are about.
00:22:36.000Trying to go to economic systems to explain why people are good or bad is like trying to use a hammer as a scissors, it is not the same thing.
00:22:44.000Spiritual and cultural systems that work create functional families, economic systems that work create prosperity.
00:23:38.000But they also recognized a government powerful enough to cram down its version of virtue would be a government powerful enough to destroy virtue.
00:23:47.000When the founders talked about natural rights, they were talking about what could more logically be called immunities, assertions against government power.
00:23:55.000That is the argument that government should not have the power to do a thing.
00:23:59.000It's a limitation on government power, not a moral assertion that your abuse of the limitation is somehow good.
00:24:04.000So, for example, I believe in free speech.
00:24:07.000That means I don't think the government should have the power to restrict your speech.
00:24:09.000That does not mean I think it's a good idea if you use the N word.
00:24:13.000Okay, now what post liberals say is that you cannot defend individual rights without arguing that it is morally good for people to say the N word or to be sexually profligate or to never give charity again.
00:24:45.000Because if the common good post liberals win, then we're just having a competition in this country over which side gets to invade your life.
00:24:52.000And I'll agree, I'm sure, more with the common good conservatives about the principles they are trying to pursue.
00:24:57.000But if government gets bigger and stronger, no checks and balances, we will sometimes lose.
00:25:03.000And the entire premise of the Constitution is that even when you lose, you have rights that can't be destroyed by the power of government.
00:25:09.000Well, if that premise disappears, What you get on the one side is a call for a mobocracy on the left.
00:25:15.000That's why they want to get rid of the Senate and the judiciary.
00:25:18.000And calls for fascistic tyranny on the right, like true calls.
00:25:20.000But there are people out there, like, say, Jack Posobiak, who literally calls for Francisco Franco in the United States.
00:25:53.000That's a battle that's been happening in Europe for a very long time between a left that wishes to dominate you and a right that wishes to dominate you.
00:25:58.000It has a long and vicious and hideous history in Europe.
00:26:01.000The founders would have hated this, hated it.
00:26:04.000That's the thing traditional conservatives are actually trying to conserve.
00:26:08.000You know, those old fashioned but somehow weirdly new ideas like individual rights and free markets and checks and balances.
00:26:13.000And yes, social virtue that can flourish.
00:26:16.000In a system where people do their religious duty.
00:26:19.000If the traditional conservatives lose, America loses, no matter who wins next.
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