00:00:01.000A revolution is happening in the country.
00:00:03.000Some might call it the Cold Revolution.
00:00:05.000We dive through a history of revolutions in the world and how it applies today, inspired by Tucker Carlson's phenomenal monologue.
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00:01:30.000I was watching Tucker Carlson's monologue last evening, and I have to say, it's one of the best monologues that I've ever seen him do.
00:01:39.000And that is a very high bar because his monologue every night is one of the most thoughtful, intelligent, and wise pieces of television out there.
00:01:52.000And so Tucker makes the argument, and we're going to play the clip here in just a second, that the current revolution that we are living through, which we are living through a revolution, is unlike anything that Americans are used to.
00:02:07.000Instead of living through a revolution that is the workers or the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, it's the powerful versus the workers.
00:02:22.000This revolution that we are living through, and make no mistake, we are living through a revolution.
00:02:27.000It hasn't hit critical mass yet, but if you look carefully and closely, it's there.
00:02:34.000But this particular moment, which is around the idea of social justice and racial justice, is actually been engineered by people with a very specific agenda.
00:04:13.000At the University of Pennsylvania, it's about $196,000 a year.
00:04:17.000At Brown University in Providence, it's $204,000.
00:04:21.000So Tucker is making the argument that real change, if you're talking about economic change, has been superficial.
00:04:27.000There's another clip, but I'll just summarize it because we don't have it, which is this.
00:04:30.000Tucker made a small, short, not small, but a short remark that actually deserves deep and thorough exploration and explanation.
00:04:41.000He said, what makes this current revolution different is that it's the rich, the elite, and the powerful that are trying to pummel the people that have nothing.
00:04:50.000So when you study the history of revolutions, the ones that we know best, they are typically ones that are bottom-up.
00:04:59.000The French Revolution, for example, inspired by Robespierre, the Jacobins, against the French monarchy, the idea of a guillotine, the idea of mob justice.
00:05:13.000In fact, the Jacobins were so insistent on trying to revolutionize the world around them, they actually recreated time.
00:05:22.000They went to a 10-day-a-week calendar, and they started over at year zero.
00:05:27.000That's how committed they were at revolutionizing the status quo of the world around them.
00:05:34.000They were heavily inspired by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who, of course, valued the primitive over the civilized, the infant over the adult, and was a harsh critic of the beginning stages of the Enlightenment and Western culture.
00:05:53.000The Russian Revolution, of course, led by Vladimir Lenin against the Romanov dynasty, who were running Russia for many generations prior.
00:06:04.000Vladimir Lenin was a trained Marxist, actually was in prison in Germany, and as one of the tactical moves to end World War I, was released from that prison, and Germany was put on a train to Russia as a way to try to weaken the Eastern Front and revolutionize and bring this communist Marxist idea, which, by the way, was never really tried up until the Russian Revolution into practice.
00:06:35.000The idea of challenging the industrial class was the Russian Revolution.
00:06:41.000Now, by no means am I praising these revolutionary efforts, but they had a common through line.
00:06:48.000A vocal charismatic leader embracing a flawed and immoral people-centered ideology was able to build up massive support for a very specific goal.
00:07:03.000How about the Chinese Revolution, led by Mao Zedong, otherwise known as the Great Leap Forward?
00:07:10.000Post-World War II, China was a large, heavily populated, poor country with massive inequality.
00:07:17.000Mao Zedong, almost through a military coup, took power and enacted some of the most aggressive, and still to this day, China lives under most of these efforts, whether it be the implementation of the Red Guard, the Little Red Book, the Mao Code of Ethics.
00:07:37.000It was almost the complete and total destruction of Chinese culture prior to Mao Zedong.
00:08:03.000Fidel Castro, a communist-trained Soviet military leader, saw massive inequality in Cuba, saw an opportunity after a very, very bitter conflict, took power in Cuba.
00:08:25.000Now, of course, the American Revolution was also bottom-up.
00:08:28.000But what made the American Revolution completely and totally different than the Cuban, the Chinese, the Russian, and the French was that the American founders, when they wrote the Declaration of Independence, they're not asking for a takeover of a pre-existing government.
00:08:41.000They wanted separation to create their own.
00:08:55.000But still, the American founders in the American Revolution were believers in bottom-up change.
00:09:05.000We are going to get the people convinced of our policies, of our ideas, of our philosophy, and we'll be able to be hopefully successful from that point.
00:09:14.000And not every revolution works, by the way.
00:09:16.000There's plenty of revolutions that are failures.
00:09:19.000But the most famous revolutions, for better and most times for worse, are ones where powerful people are the ones that are being challenged, not the ones that are doing the challenging.
00:09:34.000And this distinction is really, really important because what Tucker highlights here in just a couple sentences, and I'm going to build this out into a much broader thesis, is that what we are living through right now is a piece of political feeder.
00:09:52.000This very well could have been developed in a form of a political laboratory against the American people.
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00:12:14.000It was a nine-minute monologue that, quite honestly, I could just expand upon what he's saying because I agree with all of it in a nine-part lecture series.
00:12:24.000But this part in particular is absolutely brilliant.
00:12:55.000So every story needs a hero and a villain.
00:12:58.000In this case, the villain is the carpenter, the electrician, the muscular class.
00:13:05.000You know, the guy that doesn't own a lot, but goes to church and raises his family, does things the right way, but might not be adequately woke enough and definitely does not have the right political ideology.
00:13:16.000The hero, in this case, is a combination of the benevolent trillionaire and the ever-angry, ungrateful, motivated social justice warrior activist that's been traded on a college campus to go revolutionize the country.
00:13:32.000So as we analyze the American, Cuban, Chinese, Russian, and French revolution, they all have a through line.
00:13:39.000There was a breaking point where the working class or the greater population said, enough, we want a change.
00:14:03.000Edmund Burke, the father of American conservatism, would be a critic of many of these revolutions.
00:14:09.000He understood the American Revolution.
00:14:10.000He was a harsh critic of the French Revolution.
00:14:14.000Whereas Thomas Paine was pro-American Revolution, also pro-French Revolution.
00:14:19.000He thought it was time for massive upheaval.
00:14:22.000It's very interesting to read the dynamics between Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke, different podcasts, different radio show for a different time.
00:14:30.000But what's happening here right now in our country, and Tucker touched on this, but then he moved on, is this revolution in America, the revolution that has now taken over Coca-Cola, where they are teaching all of their employees, quote, all white people are racist, that to be white means to be arrogant, oppressive, and divisive.
00:14:54.000And I'm quoting directly from the racial sensitivity training put on by Robin D'Angelo at Coca-Cola.
00:15:01.000This revolution is a preemptive revolution.
00:15:06.000This revolution reminds me of what the Central Intelligence Agency did in Iran.
00:15:15.000You see, this revolution is a domestic equivalent of what our intelligence agencies have been doing all across the world the last couple decades.
00:15:25.000Now, we've gone into great detail on our podcast.
00:15:27.000I encourage all of you to check it out because there's a lot of content we put on our podcast feed that we do not always talk on our radio show or our live stream about what happened in Iran in the 1970s, I think.
00:15:41.000In the Iranian Revolution, where our own CIA denied it at the time, but our CIA was involved in a coup displacing a democratically elected leader by the, I always butcher the pronunciation, Musagde or Musagde to reinstitute an unpopular leader, the Shah, who came from the traditional Persian bloodline,
00:16:07.000which then led to believe it's called the White Revolution.
00:16:14.000But the then pro-Ayatollah revolution, the Islamic Revolution that then turned Iran from what's traditionally a secular Persian empire to an Islamic theocratic dictatorship.
00:16:26.000The point is that the Central Intelligence Agency was behind all of this.
00:16:32.000The will of the Iranian people was thwarted for an internationalist goal and aim.
00:16:37.000It ended up in total chaos, and you got something worse.
00:16:41.000This is very similar to what we're living through right now in our country, where very powerful people that have played war games across the planet are now saying they don't want America to go a certain direction.
00:16:54.000We've been exploring this idea of how certain revolutions are different.
00:17:00.000And what we are living through in our country right now is a quiet woke revolution that has been engineered and is being orchestrated by the very same people that are proponents of the great reset, private property, abolition, the Davos crew.
00:17:18.000And what's very interesting about what we are living through in our country, whether it be the proliferation of critical race theory, the idea that math is racist, which is something that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is funding directly, the idea that math is racist, is that this is categorically different than almost every other revolution, successful revolution in human history.
00:17:46.000The most famous, of course, being French, Russian, Chinese, Cuban, and American Revolution, which were bottom-up revolutions.
00:17:52.000One of them I support, the other ones I do not.
00:17:55.000Because four out of five, the French, Russian, Chinese, and Cuban revolution, it's not around a separation against tyranny.
00:18:03.000It was about a takeover of a current power structure and a disintegration of whatever traditions might have come before them.
00:18:16.000This is about the powerful trying to destroy the weak.
00:18:20.000Now, this moment we're living through right now is partly because of President Trump, because of how effective he was, because of how he exposed the other side.
00:18:29.000It's also largely because of college ideology, the college campuses that have taken over the rest of the country.
00:18:36.000What happens on college campuses and not stay on college campuses?
00:18:40.000They go to corporate boardrooms, they go to the halls of Congress.
00:18:42.000College ideology has been exported to every major power center in the country.
00:18:49.000And so I was drawing the comparison between what was happening in Iran at the planning of the Central Intelligence Agency of America with the British intelligence agencies, where the will of the people was thwarted for a specific geopolitical aim.
00:19:06.000We can look also at Nicaragua very similarly, Vietnam.
00:19:12.000The idea of the rich and the powerful trying to influence a certain government is not new to our foreign policy history.
00:19:24.000But what is new is it happening here and happening so quickly.
00:19:28.000This entire moment that we're living through can be summarized as this.
00:19:34.000The powerful and the elite are afraid that their plunder is coming to an end.
00:19:42.000So they are mobilizing shock troops on their behalf to preempt the uprising.
00:19:50.000This is why the corporations are so heavily funding critical race theory, woke ideology like Coca-Cola.
00:20:00.000It's not because they actually believe it.
00:20:02.000It's also partly because the corporations want to create a distraction away from their unethical practices, their relationship with China.
00:20:12.000But in addition to that, the ruling class is perpetually anxious that if they do not preempt the next revolution, if they are not involved in it on the right side of it, they will get devoured.
00:20:29.000And so, in anticipation that the people are going to rise up and demand equal access to tech companies, demand that China no longer makes our critical manufacturing components, to demand that vitamin C is no longer made in Wuhan, but maybe made in West Virginia, the elites decided to get ahead of it.
00:20:52.000Create a hero-villain dynamic, as Tucker Carlson wonderfully said, where the villain is anyone that works with their hands in the muscular class, that didn't go to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, or Stanford, that lives in the middle part of the country, might own a firearm or two, goes to church once a week.
00:21:21.000The hero is the people that run our communication class and the trillionaire class partnering together to push forward this sinister ideology.
00:21:32.000This is a top-down revolt, not a bottom-up revolt.
00:21:38.000The only place that this has happened in recent history is when our own government, the CIA, goes into other countries and tries to displace the will of their people.
00:21:52.000Now, but there are two things about revolutions that I believe the experts, and I use that word in quotations, know, but they're afraid to admit.
00:22:05.000Number one, revolutions are very hard to control.
00:22:11.000Revolutions can easily get out of hand.
00:22:16.000What the trillionaire class does not realize, what the academic elites do not realize, is that this pent-up anger and frustration that they are now not just allowing to occur, but they are subsidizing it.
00:22:35.000They are supporting it will come for them eventually.
00:22:40.000As soon as you double and triple down on this sort of revolutionary fervor, there is no don't eat me card that you can play.
00:22:51.000They will come for everyone, including their own.
00:22:54.000And we're already seeing that in the Andrew Cuomo story in New York.
00:22:57.000Andrew Cuomo is a white man, older, and is in the way of some of the more woke people like Letitia James taking power.
00:23:08.000Andrew Cuomo would be protected in a traditional anti-Trump, anti-conservative political environment.
00:23:13.000But now that this revolution is underway, it's time for them to start putting points on the board.
00:23:20.000And points on the board means not just removing Republicans, but also removing anyone that might represent an ideology what they would call whiteness.
00:23:29.000I want to play another clip from Tucker Carlson where he touches on this specifically in regards to colleges.
00:23:34.000Let's play one of the ones we haven't played yet.
00:23:36.000But wait a second, you ask, says the Democratic donor.
00:23:39.000If the Honduran immigrants get into Colombia, who's going to work at the chicken plants?
00:23:45.000We nominate the children of New York Times editors.
00:23:48.000Now, New York Times editors might not like this arrangement very much.
00:23:52.000They may incite revolution at work, but at the same time, they are fanatically intent on sending their own kids to Yale, and they will do absolutely anything to get them into Yale.
00:24:01.000They definitely don't want their kids working at chicken plants.
00:24:07.000So Tucker, in the second part of his monologue, started to get somewhat sardonic and sarcastic, saying, okay, if you really want the revolution, then let's make a new rule saying that only people that have never gone to college can go to Princeton, Yale, Harvard.
00:24:20.000Basically, Tucker was playing out in what would seem to be an extreme result of the revolution, what is actually a logical conclusion, what's going to happen.
00:24:28.000And what Tucker is saying, and he's exactly right, is that the people that are designing, finance, subsidizing, and supporting this current moment in America, they don't actually believe what they are saying.
00:24:38.000They're acting as if this is a war game of something they're doing in Nicaragua or Iran.
00:24:43.000They don't actually want this current movement to come to their doorstep.
00:24:47.000For example, the New York Times opinion editor that is publishing story after story about how white people are racist, white privilege is everywhere.
00:24:57.000They themselves are going to do everything they can that their son or daughter gets into Yale and Harvard.
00:25:05.000And who cares if I have to do something like cut a corner, write a letter, or call in a favor?
00:25:10.000I'm going to use whatever I can to get that done for me.
00:25:13.000So what Tucker is basically saying, and he's exactly right, is that the powerful people that are now vocally and financially putting their resources behind this idea that America is racist, bigoted, homophobic, and is in need of a massive revolution, they themselves will pay a price.
00:26:46.000Well, this is very important because what we are living through right now is going to be looked at by historians, and we don't know how this actually is going to play out, as an uncertain, turbulent, and chaotic moment.
00:27:02.000But my hypothesis is that I believe that this will hurt the left and the Democrats far more than it will hurt conservatives.
00:27:15.000This failed attempt to play a war game in America using corporations and the institutions and the academy and the civil service and the media together to almost act as if we are a third world country where they can get a certain charismatic leader into power just because we pull the right instruments, the right strings of power.
00:27:35.000And I think that will almost give conservatives and Republicans an opportunity to win elections, not just a little bit, but a lot.
00:27:41.000And I think Democrats are going to have to explain and defend an indefensible ideology that is not rooted in reason, but rooted in outrage.
00:27:49.000That's not rooted in logic, but is rooted in chaos.
00:27:53.000The sooner we pinpoint this and we explain it, that you are being manipulated.
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00:29:25.000My French Revolution history is passable, but it is not fluent.
00:29:31.000It's not as up-to-date as it should be.
00:29:33.000French Revolution actually ended up in Napoleon taking power because there was such chaos.
00:29:37.000And that's what you get, by the way, when you have a revolution.
00:29:40.000Eventually, a dictator or an autocrat will take power because you are not able to design a sustainable system of government around perpetual outrage.
00:29:48.000That's why the American founding landing the plane metaphorically before planes existed without crashing it and actually building a functioning government is incredible.
00:30:05.000It's happened other times around the world.
00:30:07.000But the fact that America revolted, won, and then built something new and exceptional can only be explained by the founding fathers' brilliance, their understanding of biblical texts, and the Enlightenment.
00:31:09.000But not to mention what happened after that, because of the chaos, then Napoleon took power and tried to take over all of Europe, was unsuccessful because he tried to go into Russia and eventually went into exile.
00:31:23.000But do you know what happened to Robespierre?
00:31:53.000The next day, which is after something, Robespierre and 21 of his supporters were sent to the guillotine.
00:31:58.000The executioner tore off the bandage covering his jaw, causing him to cry out in agony before falling.
00:32:05.000The falling blade silenced him forever.
00:32:07.000According to witnesses, the crowd cheered 15 minutes at his demise.
00:32:11.000He had been shot in the jaw when he was arrested.
00:32:13.000So he went from the hero to the villain.
00:32:18.000The current powerful versus the weak revolution happening in America, they are taking a major risk.
00:32:24.000And they're taking this risk because they are afraid the alternative of doing nothing would result in them having less power and less money and less control.
00:32:34.000But it is more likely than not that the puppet master revolutionaries, the digital industrial oligarchy, that this is going to, I don't like this term because it's overused, but it's perfect here.
00:33:26.000The rest of the country will not be with them.
00:33:29.000And if the things play out the way I believe they will, they will be a permanent, angry, small sector of American society on the coasts, and we will win and not just win a little bit, but win big.
00:33:43.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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