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00:02:14.000There are the rising, we'll call them the Young Turks because it ties in, of the DSA.
00:02:22.000And now there are news reports that the establishment Dems are about to dump $15 million into trying to unseat these people.0.70
00:02:29.000There is a story that broke on NBC about a paid influencer campaign that was behind Haley Stevens trying to take out El Sayed.
00:02:38.000You even saw the same electioneering that was used against President Trump in 2020 and 2024.
00:02:44.000Possibly, we can't prove it yet, but it certainly has all the earmarks and hallmarks of the electioneering campaign where they stuff drop boxes and they release their votes late, especially in the black precincts, to beat El Sayed.0.70
00:02:59.000Nevertheless, we know that the establishment was not.0.83
00:03:03.000Super ready to cozy up with their radicals.
00:03:06.000And last night when I was on Jesse Waters, I made a point and I got tons of feedback on it, which leads me to believe that probably I'm going to have to bring in Blake as the resident historian.
00:03:17.000We're going to have to do an actual multi part series on this.
00:03:24.000I am of the belief that in the United States of America, the conservative party, the conservative movement, are the inheritors, the believers, the transmitters of the ideals of the American Revolution.
00:03:36.000Which is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
00:03:38.000Now, originally, that was life, liberty, and property.
00:04:56.000I believe he might have been Scottish.
00:04:57.000Either way, he was from the Mother England area.
00:05:01.000The point is, he basically became one of the most famous political philosophers in the world because he was a strong critic of the French Revolution and the ideas that undergirded that movement and led to the Bloody Terror.
00:05:14.000I made this other point, and I remember Charlie making this from time to time.
00:05:18.000Robespierre was one of the leaders, the main figures in the French Revolution.
00:06:32.000What would you say to the moderates in your party?
00:06:35.000I would say to the moderates in our party, you need to figure out how to actually offer something new to voters that isn't just the same message that you gave them in 2024.
00:06:44.000Increasingly, the reason why the establishment of our party is being defeated over and over and over again is because they don't have the right values that are aligned with not the Democratic base, but the American people.
00:06:58.000Maybe David Hogg is a radical because he's angry he's not getting better reception.
00:07:26.000He's the same Hassan Piker, by the way, who said that America deserved 9 11, that Rick Scott should be murdered, that capitalist blood should spill the streets.0.99
00:08:00.000I'm 100% closer to the prison abolitionist perspective than the average American's framework on this issue.
00:08:07.000Because, oh my God, you guys literally fantasize about the violent crimes that.
00:08:12.000Someone might have committed, and you fantasize further about how you need to create an equal vengeance structure.0.80
00:08:23.000Americans sometimes literally feel like they want to be the rapist murderers.0.94
00:08:31.000Okay, so that's Hassan Piker saying he's pro abolishing prisons because Americans have a fetishize or fantasize about becoming either a rapist themselves or getting raped.0.99
00:08:44.000That we deserve this because we're fantasizing about crime.
00:08:48.000I mean, it makes sense you would say that because if you really want to get at the heart of why the left loves abolishing prisons, normal people want prisons because they can imagine themselves being a victim of crime and they sympathize with the victim of crime.
00:09:00.000The left, they sympathize with the criminal and they can easily imagine themselves doing the same things.
00:09:04.000And so they wouldn't want to go to prison.
00:09:07.000Well, and I also think it's because somebody like Hassan Piker, who was born in America, yes, but then raised in Turkey, harbors a deep disdain for the American people.
00:09:48.000So, one of the reasons I think this is really interesting, Blake, is because we're starting to see the contours of this movement from Politico, the DSA movement.
00:09:58.000As results continue to come in in Michigan's hotly contested Senate race, again, that was El Sayed versus Haley Stevens, a class divide is emerging.
00:10:07.000El Sayed is performing best in places with higher incomes and education levels, while Stevens is doing better in more working class areas.
00:10:16.000So, this all made me think of something that you brought up.
00:10:19.000And by the way, we could throw that graphic up if we have it.
00:10:23.000You mentioned this term on our Thought Crime show of lower elites.
00:10:28.000Well, so it's like it says that he's doing best with people who have higher incomes, higher education levels, and that often it might pop into your head, oh, this is really rich people who are running it.
00:11:23.000There was a great article in the New Yorker about Subaru socialists, they call them.
00:11:28.000And Those people are objectively actually middle class.
00:11:30.000They probably, if you know, two people making 70K each, that's higher than the American median average, but they'll often feel like they're not getting ahead, especially if they grew up making even more, in a household making even more.
00:11:43.000And so these are the people who are the absolute shock troops of the Democratic Party.
00:11:46.000Like, perfect way to predict a Democrat voter is someone who has a graduate degree or a PhD making between $30,000 and $60,000 a year.
00:11:55.000That's not a person who's in outright poverty.
00:11:57.000That is not a person who is starving, but it is a person who feels super frustrated about their life.
00:12:02.000And They're smart enough to feel tons of complicated resentment about it.
00:14:12.000Now everyone moves to New York, to Austin, to the Bay Area, to DC.
00:14:17.000And there's not as many jobs, there's not as much ability to be an elite in America.
00:14:22.000Plus, you have the internet, which is making it easier for you to feel like you're behind because someone you see on the internet is getting ahead of you.0.70
00:14:31.000All social anxiety for young women is based on comparing themselves to other women.0.69
00:14:58.000So when we think about who is supporting this movement, the rise of the DSA, it is twofold.
00:15:04.000It's the rise of the, it's the resentment of the lower elites, the white, typically educated lower elites that are smart enough to work the system and smart enough to have very complicated resentment structures.0.65
00:15:16.000And think of another type that you're getting people who are, think about like El Said types, a lot of immigrants.0.97
00:15:28.000Yes, he was, again, born in America, this pesky birthright citizenship that President Trump, by the way, is trying once again to get rid of.
00:15:36.000But he was raised in many ways in Egypt.
00:15:39.000He spent his summers, he was summering in Egypt.
00:15:44.000Their parents might have been far more elite in their home country than they are in America.
00:15:49.000Lots of room to have resentment about that.
00:15:51.000Resentment that you're in this other country rather than running your homeland.
00:15:55.000There are so many ways to build up a giant ball of anger and resentment and then say, well, actually, I'm angry because the system is rigged against me.
00:16:03.000And this is the bifurcated American body politic.
00:16:09.000The conservative movement embraces free markets, property ownership, the rule of law, equality before the law, and liberty.
00:16:19.000The radical left embraces the Bolshevik spirit, the French revolutionary spirit of equity, equality, of murderousness, of seizing the means of production,
00:16:33.000taking from you if they don't think you're doing it right.0.96
00:16:37.000And that ultimately is being powered by the lower elites, the highly educated, not so accomplished, resentful elites, and then powered by a mountain of new immigrants and their children that we brought in because I don't know why.0.99
00:16:55.000So I don't know what the last year of your life has brought you, but for me, I can tell you it has been a season of monumental change, change where my family lives, change.1.00
00:17:07.000How we're doing basic things in our life.
00:17:09.000And I will tell you, it has made me appreciate the need to make sure your family's protected should something happen.
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00:18:24.000Todd Nettleton with the Voice of the Martyrs, host of the Voice of the Martyrs radio for 20 years, has traveled the world, interviewed hundreds and hundreds of Christians who've been persecuted in the name of Jesus.
00:18:37.000Now he's inviting you to come along and meet bold believers whose faith will inspire you to a deeper walk with Christ.
00:18:43.000This is grab your passport and come along on a 40 day journey.
00:18:47.000And if you're curious what I'm reading, this is his book, When Faith is Forbidden 40 Days on the Front Lines with Persecuted Christians.
00:18:56.000It says, We'll meet brothers and sisters who refuse to deny Christ despite being beaten, imprisoned, or even killed for their faith.
00:19:06.000When faith is forbidden, we'll introduce you to a Chinese Christian woman who called six months in prison a wonderful time.
00:19:14.000We'll go through armed checkpoints to meet an Iraqi pastor praising God just eight days after an assassin's bullet ripped through his flesh.
00:19:22.000And we'll sit down for a cup of tea with others from our Christian family in Iran, Eritrea, Turkey, Jordan, and other nations.
00:19:29.000Each stop on this 40 day journey will provide inspiration and encouragement through the story of a persecuted believer.
00:19:35.000You'll also find space for reflection and suggested prayers as you grow to understand the realities of living under persecution.
00:19:46.000Obviously, this is really important to us because I believe Charlie was a Christian martyr and I believe he's a modern day founding father.
00:19:54.000I believe that any sort of praise for the life that he lived and we got to see it behind the scenes is warranted.
00:20:00.000He was a man of incredible integrity and awesome, powerful, courageous faith.
00:20:06.000And so I have told the team that I want one of the things that we constantly bring up on this show to be paying attention to Christians, whether it's in Nigeria.
00:20:17.000Whether it's in Iran, which we're going to talk about with Todd once we get the tech issue worked out, that we focus on their stories because that is one of our mandates as Christians to remember the persecuted church.
00:20:29.000And so I hope that once we get him on, we are going to be able to inspire you to continue thinking about these things, to continue praying for your brothers and sisters around the world that are living their faith boldly and loudly despite incredible, incredible persecution.
00:20:47.000We saw sort of the first intimations of what anti Christian repression in the U.S. could look like, which is for health reasons, you can't assemble with other believers.
00:20:56.000We saw the Biden administration start sending these FBI guys to.0.90
00:21:00.000Lurk in Catholic masses because that's a sinister thing.
00:21:02.000And that was all bad, very bad, and un American.0.98
00:21:06.000Yet at the same time, we should remember we have it very easy in the United States compared to a lot of places.0.83
00:21:12.000There are a lot of countries and a lot of Islamic countries converting to Christianity legally in the statute book carries the death penalty.
00:21:19.000In a lot of countries, if it is rumored that you are a Christian or that you are sympathetic to Christians, whatever the law says, you can face mob violence.
00:21:28.000You can face vigilante justice from people.0.54
00:21:31.000That is the reality in huge chunks of Pakistan.0.87
00:21:34.000A lot of Iran, a lot, certainly a lot of Africa, you can be kidnapped, you can be enslaved, you can be tortured because you are a Christian.1.00
00:21:43.000Yeah, well, and the other aspect of this is that we're importing this into our country.0.99
00:21:49.000While we're waiting for Todd and the tech, this is Ro Khanna talking about how great El Sayed is.1.00
00:21:55.000Don't worry about the fact he's a Muslim.
00:21:57.000Think about how American it is that this Muslim boy could rise up.0.95
00:22:10.000Where else can you have a son of immigrants, a Muslim American, Abdul, and you have Michigan electing him in a primary?
00:22:19.000That should say, wow, America is extraordinary that we're overcoming barriers of race and religion, and that this country, unlike a lot of other countries, you can be of different backgrounds and the people will still give you a chance.0.92
00:22:32.000You know, don't, and you know, the demonization of him attacking him on that is about the dumbest political strategy.
00:22:40.000I couldn't disagree with Rokhana more, but it doesn't surprise me because that's Rokhana.0.99
00:22:46.000Islam coming into the country is a terrible development because it is incompatible with Western values, with Christendom.1.00
00:22:54.000And we are inheritors of the Western tradition, which is Christendom.1.00
00:22:58.000And so when we bring this Trojan horse in, they've told us what they plan to do.
00:23:03.000And we talked about this with Nate Friedman yesterday.0.77
00:23:25.000And maybe just start with your book, why you wrote it, and what people need to know about it.
00:23:35.000Well, I've had the privilege for the last 28 years of serving at Voice of the Martyrs and traveling all over the world to sit down with persecuted Christians and hear their stories and ask them questions.
00:23:45.000And Inevitably, when I get back, I begin to share some of those stories, and I'll have somebody in my Sunday school class or in my Bible study group who says, Hey, I want to go on a trip with you.
00:23:56.000And that I can't always take people to some of the places where Voice of the Martyrs is working, but you can come through the pages of this book.
00:24:04.000And so, what I've done here is collected 40 of the most powerful stories that I've heard from persecuted Christians.
00:24:11.000And the book is written sort of as a travelogue.
00:24:15.000We're going to go on a 40 day journey together, and every day we're going to sit down with a persecuted Christian, we're going to hear their story of faithfulness under trial and suffering.
00:24:24.000And my promise to you is when we get back from this trip on day 41, your faith is going to look different because when you hang out with persecuted Christians, when you hear their stories, you can't help but be inspired.
00:26:22.000So, as the war has started and as the fighting has gone on, Iranian Christians are seen as being sympathetic at best and traitors at worst.
00:26:34.000To the enemy, to the people who are attacking.
00:26:39.000We know of Christians who have been arrested.
00:26:40.000We know of Christians who have been interrogated, taken to jail, even beaten, even tortured during this time because they are seen as allies of America, allies of Israel, as opposed to being loyal citizens of Iran.0.73
00:26:57.000You know, I know one of the things that you guys do, we've only got 40 seconds in this segment, but you send Bibles all over the world.0.65
00:27:47.000In fact, they beat him on the bottoms of his feet, which for those of us at Voice of the Martyrs, harkens back to our founder, Richard Wormbrand, also beaten on the bottoms of his feet by the communists in Romania.
00:28:37.000I hope this is encouraging you, even as terrible as it is, that there are people willing to stand on their faith in the most trying and terrible situations.
00:29:08.000And that has been the case for the last several years the fastest growing church in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
00:29:15.000I like to say the full name of the country when I say that.
00:29:18.000And, you know, one of the interesting things about that is well, the natural question well, what's driving that?
00:29:24.000What is driving that is the Islamic government of Iran because since 1979, the Islamic Revolution, the mullahs took over the government and their promise to the Iranian people was we are going to run our country according to Islamic principles.
00:29:40.000If the Quran tells us to do it, that's exactly what we're going to do.
00:29:44.000And we're now, you know, 40 plus years later and the economy's in shambles.0.79
00:29:50.000Iran has one of the highest drug addiction rates in the world.0.95
00:29:53.000The people see the corruption in the government and they say, well, if If this is what it looks like after you follow Islamic principles, we don't want to follow Islamic principles.
00:30:02.000We want to do something different.0.98
00:30:04.000And so that's part of the reason the gospel is spreading so quickly.
00:30:09.000I've actually had Iranian Christians tell me the greatest Christian missionary in the history of Iran was the Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of the Islamic revolution.
00:30:27.000Um, that I mean, first, the fact that it's the fastest growing Christian church, I'm assuming per capita, but I don't know, maybe raw numbers.
00:30:38.000Are there reliable ways we can see this in practice?
00:30:42.000Like, how do we reach that conclusion?
00:30:45.000Because it's a closed country, of course.
00:30:47.000It is a closed country, and so it is difficult.
00:30:49.000And many of these Christians are isolated, they are getting the gospel through social media, they're getting the gospel through satellite television.
00:30:58.000Necessarily gathering with other believers.
00:31:01.000But several years ago, I believe it was a Dutch company that actually did a survey, a very broad survey of the Iranian population.
00:31:09.000And they came up with some of these numbers that are, like you say, they're startling how much the church has grown, how many Iranians say that they're Christians now.
00:31:18.000One of the other things that that is meaning inside Iran is so many people are disaffected with Islam that oftentimes if a person comes to faith, They don't necessarily face the first line of persecution from their family,0.68
00:31:33.000which is typical in the Muslim world.0.95
00:31:35.000Your first line of persecution is going to be your dad, your big brother, somebody who comes and says, Hey, we're a Muslim family.1.00
00:31:42.000If you say you're not a Muslim, you're not part of us anymore.
00:31:45.000In Iran, so many people have rejected Islam and so many people are dissatisfied with Islam that oftentimes the family will be like, Oh, well, hey, if that works for you, great, that's fine.0.98
00:32:20.000You know, one of the things that they are is they are bold and they have grabbed a hold of Christ in such a real way that they cannot be talked out of it.
00:32:36.000And one of the stories I tell in my book is the story of a man who he said, as he started to tell me his story, he said, Now I want you to understand I'm a very competitive person.
00:32:45.000I said, Okay, well, you know, that's fine.
00:32:46.000And he said, No, no, no, I'm very competitive.
00:32:49.000He said, You know, when I was in the army, I wanted to be a martyr for Allah within the next 24 hours.
00:32:56.000He said, When I was a drug addict, I wanted to use more drugs than any of the other drug addicts were using because I wanted to be the best drug addict.
00:33:05.000And he said, You know, that addiction took him literally to the point of death and God rescued him.
00:33:11.000He had a miraculous, supernatural experience where he met Jesus Christ.
00:33:16.000Jesus Christ took away that addiction and healed him from that addiction.
00:33:20.000And then that competitive nature turned in a different direction because now he wants to be the best disciple that Jesus has ever had.
00:33:27.000And he wants to be the best evangelist.
00:33:29.000He wants to talk to every single person he meets about Jesus Christ.
00:33:33.000And, you know, I tell in the book, if you do that inside Iran, pretty soon you're going to be in a police station or you're going to be in a jail cell.
00:33:40.000And he even shared a story of leading someone to Christ inside the police station.
00:33:44.000And so he is determined to be the best disciple that Jesus has ever had.
00:34:06.000Were they inspired by his life in that way?
00:34:09.000You know, I haven't heard stories like that.0.78
00:34:12.000And I don't know how much, you know, there would be some Iranians that would certainly be in tune with international news.
00:34:17.000There would be some that were completely cut off.
00:34:19.000But I haven't heard those stories yet.
00:34:22.000Well, I would love for you to ask about them because my pastor friend was training missionaries in.
00:34:27.000Pakistan said they were like bold as lions right after Charlie was killed.
00:34:33.000And I hope that people in this audience and that loved Charlie and that followed the show, that followed Turning Point, that you would have a special place in your heart for martyrs and supporting Voice of the Martyrs and what they're doing.
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00:37:36.000Another reason why salary cap is ridiculous because it really doesn't, I mean, it can help you be better, but you should not institute a salary cap in baseball, it would ruin the game.
00:39:03.000But birthright citizenship is a constitutional right.
00:39:06.000But they're trying to work with what we have, which is, for example, if you are a foreign invader, you are not supposed to benefit from this.
00:39:14.000You know, invading foreign armies is a traditional exception, and foreign ambassadors is a traditional exception.
00:39:20.000So they're trying to work within the Supreme Court's ruling to get whatever give they can.
00:39:28.000Is they had four categories that they say, even after this ruling, they think they can still ban them.
00:39:32.000So, first, they say if either parent is an alien enemy, and they define this as any member of a designated foreign terrorist organization.
00:39:41.000And so, obviously, that classically means, say, Al Qaeda was an alien terrorist organization.
00:39:47.000But for example, if you're a member of, I believe, Hezbollah, we recognize that a lot of people are members of Hezbollah, Hamas, a lot of people are affiliated with Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood, we have a lot of foreign terrorist organizations, and the cartels.
00:39:58.000If you're working with a cartel, we've designated those.
00:40:01.000So, if you've worked with them, They're going to try to classify you as an enemy alien and they'll look for those connections there.
00:40:06.000So that's one of the things they're going after.
00:40:09.000They're also saying if you are a foreign government employee, which obviously means foreign ambassadors, but if you're a foreign national who works at their embassy, they're going to classify you as that.
00:40:19.000They also say if you're part of an international organization that has foreign organization immunities.
00:40:25.000So I think that's like employees of the United Nations, for example, who are from abroad have certain special privileges.
00:40:31.000NGOs that link up with the government.
00:41:54.000John Gannon is a 75-year-old businessman and lifelong Republican who supported President Trump in 2024.
00:42:01.000I wouldn't do that again, not after this fiasco.
00:42:04.000His fiance, 45-year-old Venezuelan immigrant Yasmin Suarez Regis, was detained by ICE at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston in late July.
00:43:05.000Let's hope he has like five children from his first wife or second wife.0.94
00:43:10.000And they are all thanking the good Lord in heaven that there is a thing called ICE and it picks up illegals and it gets them the heck out of this country.0.86
00:43:19.000And the other thing we have to correct, we have to correct air here.0.85
00:46:25.000So I actually have been texting with my senator friends.
00:46:30.000I have one senator tell me 50% chance, and another one tell me 25% chance likely.
00:46:36.000And the likely is so they're going to come back from their August recess, which is really like a six month or six week recess.
00:46:43.000And they're going to come back and they're going to basically work for two weeks and then they're going to take another break because the Senate is a joke.
00:46:50.000And they're going to try and pass it through reconciliation.
00:46:54.000And then they're going to have an issue with the birdbath, right?
00:51:11.000So I wish we had better news for you, but unfortunately, when you give a bunch of country club Republicans power, they want their Latin lovers and they want their vacations.
00:52:41.000I'm going to give you two premises of the question, and it's about public education.
00:52:45.000The first is public education, in my mind, is currently a monopoly since they get your money even if you don't send your kids to public schools.
00:52:55.000Secondly, the indoctrination and the failure of public schools is a common denominator that runs through pretty much every societal.
00:53:04.000Ill that we have so many of the topics that you guys discussed, a lot of it can go back to public education.
00:53:10.000So, you guys have had a lot of discussion about the education tax credits.
00:53:16.000So, my question is, what is the mechanism within that tax credits to have a negative financial consequences to starve public schools and teachers' unions such that we can start making major reforms to public education?
00:53:33.000Yeah, I've got a lot of thoughts, but did you want to go?
00:53:35.000Well, so I guess when you say it's always People generally do like their public schools, whether they should or not.
00:54:06.000And they steadily are getting more ideologically extreme, more entitled, more mentally unwell.
00:54:11.000A lot of very Bad people seem to go into this field.
00:54:15.000And the best case for these education tax credits is quite simple.
00:54:20.000How you raise your child is your decision to make.
00:54:23.000You should not be compelled to, as you say, to send them to a public school because that's the only option and you're forced to pay for it.
00:54:30.000You should have the option to have your tax dollars and you should be able to spend them how you like, which might be private school, might be homeschooling materials, might be some sort of hybrid model, some sort of school startup.
00:56:22.000But we should also have a fair amount of money.
00:56:23.000And they do worry about that loss of funding, but I mean, they have so much political power in any Democrat state, they can end up having to bring themselves additional funding.
00:56:31.000What they really feel here is, I think, the meta point, which is if a critical mass of people are opting in favor of private schools, homeschooling, using these vouchers essentially, that they realize, oh,
00:56:46.000I can take this money and get something better and it's free or cheaper, they'll break the dependency.
00:56:51.000They'll break the assumption that this is what people need.
00:56:55.000And then people could really dial back the public education.
00:56:58.000Well, in Arizona, and you made this point, they get the money anyway.
00:57:01.000Not in Arizona, and I think Texas and Florida are the same now.0.90
00:57:05.000If you pull your child out of public schools and you put them in a Christian private school, guess what?0.92
00:57:10.000You get $7,500 allotted to that private school.0.60
00:57:13.000So you're actually taking money out of the public school system in the state of Arizona, which is why they want to defeat it and why we're fighting back against it in Arizona.
00:57:20.000Let's get to the next question because I know we got a bunch piling up.
00:57:24.000The next question we got is Elizabeth.0.90
00:57:37.000My high school actually had a student exchange program with the Soviet Union.
00:57:43.000We actually had kids in Moscow when Chernobyl happened.
00:57:47.000They were collected up at like four in the morning from the KGB and put on a flight back to the United States.
00:57:54.000Like, I could tell you horror stories about the Soviet Union because everybody who came back was always horrified, like waxy toilet paper.
00:58:03.000Um, four hour wait at the one McDonald's, and it was a one week paycheck to like get a cheeseburger, which was like not even good meat in the Soviet Union.
00:58:12.000They couldn't say anything, like, they were always being guarded and watched by the KGB on these exchange programs.
00:58:19.000Uh, I don't know if you guys ever saw the movie, The Death of Stalin, I think really kind of epitomizes how bad it is.
00:58:37.000Chernobyl didn't happen just because there was a nuclear meltdown.
00:58:40.000Chernobyl happened because anybody who knew what was happening or how bad it was was never going to say anything because their family would have been disappeared.0.98
00:58:48.000Like, how do we get this through to Gen Z?
00:58:51.000That I am so sorry you can't afford a burrito right now, but there are no burritos in communism and we will get the burrito affordable.
00:59:19.000Bernie Sanders would run interference for them.
00:59:21.000Yeah, they would visit the Soviet Union and come back and be like, I've seen the future and it works and they have more freedom than we do.
00:59:28.000Well, and Tucker Carlson did that video talking about Moscow's grocery store.
00:59:33.000Well, so an interesting thing I will say is one reason it's tougher is we do see competing systems.
00:59:39.000And this is why we have an important responsibility to fix our own problems because.
00:59:43.000For example, people worry about China, and China is very authoritarian in a ton of ways.
00:59:49.000It's not a free country in so many ways.
00:59:52.000But what is different between them and the Soviet Union is they don't have that same obvious lack of prosperity that you'd go to the Soviet Union and everyone would be in a line.0.83
01:00:01.000You have to all show up before 7 a.m. on meat day at the supermarket or you're not going to get any meat and the meat will be bad.
01:00:07.000China has a very rapidly growing economy.
01:00:10.000They have a lot of technological success.
01:00:14.000And so people are able to look at that and go, oh, maybe there is something to their system.0.86
01:00:18.000Or they're able to look at, Another authoritarian country like Saudi Arabia or something, and they'll look at those countries and say, Yeah, Dubai, they're able to build things, and we struggle to build things, and they don't seem to have bums on the street.0.65
01:00:29.000And that's really what Tucker was showing when he went to, for example, that Russian supermarket, which was, oh, it seems like it's affordable.
01:00:36.000You go 15 minutes out of Moscow and it's a good accommodation.
01:00:41.000There's misleading things about it, but we do have to make sure we can fix these crises in the US because it is really the problems in the US that are making it so appealing to look for another system.
01:00:53.000It's a lot of it is resentment and anger driven, and they're not even really thinking what is socialism other than it's a word for I don't like what's going on and I want to blow everything up and burn it all down.
01:01:28.000Milton Friedman was in favor of limiting the supply of money and getting economists out of that and just increasing it by about 3% every year and telling the economists, stop doing anything else, balance your budget, stop printing money willy nilly, 3% every year,
01:02:16.000It will get better if we do a certain number of things long enough.0.99
01:02:20.000And the pitch we have to make to young people is get literate in economics because we have a lot of financial illiteracy in this country, especially with Gen Z.0.86
01:02:56.000So, Alger Hiss, he was a guy in the State Department, a pretty senior aide in the State Department, like was involved in a lot of key decisions.
01:03:03.000And then it was revealed, I believe it was Whitaker Chambers accused him of this and just pointed out, it's like, Alger, you were a communist in the 30s and, you know, you've never.
01:03:12.000Publicly disavowed this, you might still be a communist.
01:03:15.000I can't remember the exact thing he said.
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01:06:23.000And I will tell you, when I go to Texas, it's almost like the kids.
01:06:27.000Are so used to this brand of Texas being hard right that they want to rebel against it just because they don't understand that everybody has been moving to their state because it's a great place and their traditional values that they suddenly want to reject
01:07:46.000So I don't know exactly the underlying story here of this particular city council, but the town came out and just raged against them, and they still voted to pass this.
01:07:58.000And I believe that Texas now has the second most mosques, or is it the third?
01:08:02.000It's like New York, California, and Texas.1.00
01:08:38.000Of the century old houses, 1906, 1908, Nueces.
01:08:45.000Historical Landmark Commission was told it has zero power to stop it because of a 2019 state law, protects religious organizations from local historic review.
01:09:49.000I think one thing about Charlie is he was a busy guy, but I think one thing we have to emphasize is how Charlie was highly effective and efficient with his time.
01:10:00.000So, for example, we know he was really busy, yet Charlie was not a guy who was at the office at 9 p.m. every night, which is maybe your classic workaholic.
01:10:38.000She was very good about not, it's so easy to have more time.
01:10:41.000You think about the amount of time where you're just sort of wasting it in the margins between.
01:10:46.000So you pull out your phone and you're reading it, and that turns into a 15 minute thing, and you do that in the morning, you do it at lunch, and you do it after.
01:10:53.000Suddenly, that's 45 minutes to an hour.
01:11:43.000And I still have some very long friends that are Indian in different industries now and everything.
01:11:52.000But I just feel like I helped, you know, start bringing them in.
01:11:59.000And then cut to 20 years later, you know, I was let go because of the hostility of, you know, one of the reasons hostility towards, you know,
01:12:32.000I mean, you know, I, again, I consider it as individuals.
01:12:37.000You know, I'm not going to say the whole Indian community or anything like that because I do have some cherished friends that I still have.
01:13:01.000But I had already been, you know, shared with me that.
01:13:06.000You know, oh, well, you probably don't want to, you know, ruffle feathers within the contractors.
01:13:13.000And at that time, I was a manager with 20 something contractors offshore and, you know, who I really cared about and took care of, but mainly the ones that were here onshore,
01:13:29.000supposedly speaking for them and trying to maneuver contracts and everything here.
01:14:21.000Did you notice that Indians wanted to hire other Indians and that was pretty much what they were interested in, or were they open to hiring whites, blacks, Hispanics?
01:14:34.000When I left, our CIO was Indian, and we had many levels of our organization beginning to be populated by Indians.
01:15:22.000Change in my life, and it's been a struggle, but I know he still has me, and it's increased my faith.
01:15:33.000Well, God bless you on the micro level because God does have you, and God's got a plan, and that is true.0.97
01:15:41.000But on the macro level, we should not be importing hundreds of thousands of foreigners to come replace Americans in their place of work.0.99
01:15:50.000That is a breakdown of the social compact, that is a breakdown.0.97
01:15:55.000Of, I think, a government's responsibility to its own people.
01:16:00.000And they're putting the interest of corporations before the interests of the American people that vote for them.
01:16:07.000And so I am extraordinarily upset on your behalf that you've had to train your replacements and ultimately be replaced by them and shoved out of a job.
01:16:18.000And this is why there's so much passion about H 1Bs and these tech companies and these offshoring of American jobs, because by birth and by right, We should be given first opportunity to thrive in this country because you were born here.
01:17:00.000If you have zero regulations on anything, they'll just offshore everything.0.90
01:17:03.000They'll hollow out the industrial base in the Midwest.
01:17:07.000So I want an economy that, yeah, where capital is free to move, but we incentivize employers and businesses to keep their business here and to hire American.
01:17:17.000And I'm sorry this happened to you, but it's all too common and it breaks my heart for you.
01:17:38.000And I'm like, you're not down at this level.
01:17:42.000You're not having the daily calls and the hours and hours on offshore and onshore calls and having to keep them accountable for the product that they provide.
01:17:57.000I stagger at the thought of the amount of money that was wasted and lost because.
01:18:32.000People want a country, they want cities, they want churches, and yet they want companies that they feel they belong to.
01:18:43.000And the long term trend towards all of those things feeling alienating and often like hostile or indifferent to you is.
01:18:52.000A big driver of why I think a lot of people are feeling stressed out and unhappy.
01:18:57.000And even on the left, it's that a lot of this is manifesting that way, I think.
01:19:01.000Well, and I just want to, you know, your Christian faith is beautiful, and I commend you for that.
01:19:07.000And all of God's children are made in His image, and we should have a heart for them.
01:19:12.000But I just want to caution the Christians out there listening that if we are just sewing circle Christians, and I'm not accusing you of that, I just mean that there is this temptation as Christians to sort of sit back.
01:19:26.000And let bad things happen because we want to be nice to everybody.
01:19:29.000Well, no, this was an injustice that was done to you.
01:20:01.000I'm sorry this happened to you, but that's one of the reasons we do what we do is so that this country changes and that we stop getting walked over and taken as suckers because we've been suckers for a long time.
01:20:12.000And I don't want this to happen to anybody else.