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00:04:51.000You know, over the weekend, I was thinking about what are the major stories happening right now in America?
00:04:57.000What are the things that we're going to have to explore with our audience together?
00:05:01.000Now, if you would have told me five days ago, I would be leading our Monday morning program talking about Cuba or anything Cuban, I thought I would be talking about the Cuban sandwich I had in the Denver International Airport, which was actually very delicious.
00:05:16.000I don't know if anyone, it's one of the most underrated lunch items.
00:05:46.000People from Miami, Florida are not going to Havana.
00:05:49.000People from Havana are always trying to go to Miami, Florida.
00:05:52.000In Cuba, they have banned the use of civilian ownership of boats because they are afraid that citizens will flee.
00:05:59.000They do not allow citizens to travel to America for extended periods of time.
00:06:04.000If they travel to America, they almost always keep a family member back in Cuba to almost metaphorically hold them hostage to try to have them come back to Cuba.
00:06:14.000So I didn't really anticipate much coverage around Cuba.
00:06:18.000And then yesterday I started to see video after video of the Cuban people, surprisingly and literally out of nowhere, start to rise up against the totalitarian regime that has been controlling the Cuban people.
00:06:39.000It's an island nation of about 11.3 million people.
00:06:42.000In 1902, Cuba officially was given their independence after the Spanish-American War and three and a half years of American rule.
00:06:52.000If you want to read some very interesting war commentary, go read Teddy Roosevelt and the Roughnecks in Cuba in the late 1890s.
00:07:03.000Just terrific, terrific military commentary written by the people on the front lines there.
00:07:09.000Cuba was given independence or they gained independence in 1902.
00:07:13.000What followed was a quasi-dictatorship until the 26th of July movement happened in July in 1953.
00:07:27.000In 1953, Fidel and Raul Castro partnered with the anti-gay activist Che Guevara, and they staged a revolution, a successful revolution.
00:07:43.000Now, the preconditions for that revolution were hyperinflation, food shortages, famine, the inability for people to move up, and they capitalized on that sort of those economic conditions, the deterioration of the middle class in Cuba, to seize power.
00:08:02.000Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, and Raul formed a new communist style of government.
00:08:13.000This was not like the Russian Revolution where it was, you blinked, you went away for 10 days in the hills and you came back.
00:08:19.000Next thing you know, Vladimir Lenin's in charge.
00:08:22.000The Russian Revolution was quick and it was bloody, but completely different than the long March Cuban Revolution.
00:08:33.000From there, Fidel Castro decided to pledge his allegiance to Moscow, to the international communist ambitions and aims.
00:08:41.000All of a sudden, weaponry, technology, and resources flowed into Cuba from the Soviet Union.
00:08:48.000This is what created the Cuban Missile Crisis.
00:08:51.000This is what spurred on the Bay of Pigs.
00:08:54.000And throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Cuba became the closest thing to Soviet presence in America that we could think of.
00:09:05.00090 miles off the coast of Florida, we had a Soviet proxy state near us.
00:09:10.000In the 70s and 80s, it became more and more clear that the beautiful nation of Cuba was being dominated and controlled by the totalitarian dictatorship of the Castros.
00:09:23.000What happened is the people of Cuba remained permanently poor and the Castros got infinitely wealthy and rich.
00:09:31.000See, I go back into these archives in my head.
00:09:34.000I believe Barbara Walters went and interviewed Fidel Castro in the 1990s.
00:09:38.000And that is one of the most interesting interviews you'll ever see into the life, into the language, and into the philosophy of a third world dictator.
00:09:48.000So all of the Cuban Revolution happened in July of 1953.
00:09:53.000So what makes Cuba different than America?
00:09:55.000Cuba does not have a constitutional style government like we do.
00:09:59.000Their government does not exist to protect natural rights.
00:10:03.000Freedom of speech and assembly is not something that's protected by the Cuban government.
00:10:15.000You are allowed, if the government gives you a license, to own a restaurant, but you're not allowed to own more than one restaurant because that wouldn't be fair.
00:10:25.000That means the best restaurateurs, that means the best entrepreneurs have to limit themselves to just a single restaurant.
00:10:33.000And if that restaurant gets too popular, you might be forced to limit your hours.
00:10:37.000Now, the Chinese coronavirus has been raging throughout the world over the last year and a half, potentially even longer than that.
00:10:46.000And countries that were already on economic fragile footing are now going to experience revolutionary type energy from their citizens.
00:10:57.000And we're seeing this actually happen right now in South Africa.
00:11:00.000We're seeing this happen in a lot of countries that are now right on the edge of upheaval.
00:11:07.000You can only lock down your citizens so long and restrict production and inflate your currency before normal people start to rise up.
00:11:17.000So I want to play you some tape here of the Cuban people walking through the streets, yelling and screaming, saying that they want liberty and they want freedom.
00:11:41.000That is just a nine-second clip right there of the Cuban people saying liberty in Spanish.
00:11:47.000I wish many Americans wanted liberty as bad as the Cuban people do.
00:11:57.000I wish that the upper middle class white liberals in Malibu, San Francisco, in Brooklyn, I wish they wanted liberty and they desired it as much as the Cuban people do.
00:12:13.000Now, the Cubans, as they come to America, become the most conservative.
00:12:18.000They become the most family-centered people in the entire country.
00:12:22.000There's a reason why the Biden administration, they want a million Hondurans and El Salvadorians to come to America, but they don't like it when all of a sudden Cubans come to America.
00:12:32.000It's interesting that they say they're for open borders, which of course we oppose.
00:12:37.000But if you dare say, well, why don't we put, why not another 10,000 Cubans coming to Florida?
00:13:00.000Instead, they would much rather have people that are desiring this promise of a utopia for free stuff and don't quite understand the real life totalitarian implications of these sort of ideas.
00:13:14.000And in the next segment, I'm going to dive into why this is happening in Cuba, the implications it has for us in America, and how this could be a canary in the coal mine, a precursor, or a tremor of things to come as normal people start to rise up against authoritarianism.
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00:15:53.000NBC News says, we are no longer afraid.
00:15:56.000Thousands of Cubans protest against the government.
00:16:00.000Thousands of Cubans took to the streets on Sunday in an unusual protest in which civilians shouted slogans against the communist government, such as, we want freedom, and we are no longer afraid.
00:16:11.000The demonstrations came at a time when Cuba faced the worst economic crisis since the fall of the Soviet Union.
00:16:17.000And an increase in repression against political opponents and a strained health system during the critical stage of the pandemic.
00:16:26.000So is this just a momentary flash in the pan, or is this a sign of more things to come?
00:16:33.000Now, one of the reasons this is happening, and actually the leader of Cuba, this dictator by the name of Miguel Diaz-Canal, who has succeeded the legacy of the Castros, he blames American blockades for the reason this is happening.
00:17:00.000Now, they use that as a, let's say, a straw man argument.
00:17:07.000But it's not completely untrue because one of the reasons that we have put sanctions on Cuba is to try to have this desired revolutionary effect.
00:17:16.000The reason that we put sanctions is to punish them for their behavior.
00:17:20.000Now, I've gone back and forth on Cuban sanctions.
00:17:22.000I wrote a piece for Town Hall in 2014 calling for the repealing of all sanctions.
00:17:28.000Now, I did that because I believed in neoliberal idealism.
00:17:34.000There is a pattern in economics that is generally true, but not always true.
00:17:41.000It was taught to me as if it was a law of economics.
00:17:44.000And the great Milton Friedman used to say this, but I hate to say, and I wish Milton Friedman was here to defend himself, because he'd probably do a better job of defending a position that is wrong than I could even do asserting a position that is right.
00:17:57.000One of the most gifted communicators and one of the best presenters of ideas, I think, in American history.
00:18:04.000Where Milton Friedman convinced me back in 2013, 14, and 15 that the more you trade with a nation, the more they will embrace the ideas of private property, freedom of association, freedom of speech, and constitutional-style government.
00:18:21.000Milton Friedman had me believing that if we traded with China enough, eventually China is going to start acting like the people of Cincinnati.
00:18:31.000Now, that's generally true, by the way.
00:18:50.000It's also not true with every other country in the world.
00:18:55.000For example, it's not true with every Middle Eastern country.
00:19:00.000Trade can be helpful to try to break down authoritarianism.
00:19:06.000But if you have a clever enough ruling class with the nation that you're trading with, they will use whatever economic advantage they have to only make their ruling class more powerful, like China has, and they'll use that against you.
00:19:22.000So for Cuba, there has been people that have been saying if we trade with them, it's going to make them more Western.
00:19:30.000It's going to make them more likely to want to embrace American ideas and values.
00:19:38.000I remember walking through the Miami airport a couple years ago because there was a lift on the travel embargo to Havana, and I saw on an American Airlines departure, I saw Havana.
00:19:59.000The idealist in me said, oh, this is wonderful.
00:20:03.000We're all going to live in John Lennon's world.
00:20:05.000No more war, nothing but peace running through the meadows.
00:20:08.000We're going to have flowers in our hair and we're all going to just love each other.
00:20:12.000Then the other side of me said, oh my goodness, why would the dictators of Cuba want that?
00:20:18.000They might want that because they want the cheap flow of goods so that they could keep their broken and evil totalitarian experiment going longer.
00:20:28.000The prediction I'm going to make is that the tremors are only going to increase.
00:20:33.000Middle-class revolutions are just starting across the world.
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00:21:47.000Distrust of the ruling class, large amounts of time cooped up at home, this downward plunder of taking from the next generation to try to protect older people.
00:21:59.000And we're going to talk a lot about that throughout the week, actually, because that's what's happening here: this downward plunder of taking from students and young people's livelihoods, their futures, to try to protect people that do not have as much time on the clock.
00:22:16.000And that is an upside-down, some would argue, immoral view of utilitarian ethics, which we reject here on this program.
00:22:31.000And so what happens is when you have all these prerequisites put in place, even the globalist central planners are not going to be able to predict and control what happens next.
00:22:44.000What's happening right now in Cuba is the same sort of conditions that Fidel Castro was able to take advantage of in 1953 to seize power in July of 1953.
00:22:58.000In fact, we are two weeks away from the anniversary of Fidel Castro seizing power away from Batista.
00:23:07.000Now, many American socialists and authoritarians, they are big fans of Cuba and Castro-style communism.
00:23:18.000I want to play some tape here of Bernie Sanders, but before I do that, I think it's a mistake just to label Cuba as communist and socialist.
00:23:29.000I think it gets too into economic terms.
00:23:32.000Instead, we have to take a minute or two and explain why is it that the economic principle of socialism will always end up in authoritarianism.
00:23:45.000Why is it that the promise of egalitarianism, the abolishing of hierarchies and private property, and I will reinforce the example.
00:23:55.000Some people would say it's somewhat of a silly example, but it's one that applies.
00:24:02.000With a certain amount of seats, you can only serve food within a certain amount of hours because they don't want to have you be too successful because then you might hurt the other restaurant down the street.
00:24:13.000Now, I want you to imagine how that would play out in America.
00:24:16.000Instead of having Jimmy Johns, there would be one Jimmy John.
00:24:19.000So what it does is it, by definition, restricts ambition, efficiency, risk-taking, and any form of drive for success.
00:24:29.000If you can only have one restaurant, why wake up as early?
00:24:36.000Why not just serve mediocre food, which is exactly what ends up happening, by the way?
00:24:42.000The reason why socialism or the confiscation of private property, I think socialism, to be perfectly honest, is an overused term in the conservative movement.
00:25:02.000A true socialist is someone who puts ideology first and is willing to destroy anything in their path.
00:25:09.000In fact, I'm going to say something rather controversial.
00:25:11.000At times, I would rather have a pure Bolshevik socialist than an unbelievably corrupt operator who just wants to enrich themselves and their family.
00:25:22.000And the reason being is because I can at least predict what the socialist is going to do.
00:25:28.000At least they have a core set of ideas.
00:25:30.000Or someone who is inherently incredibly corrupt, they will use the levers of power to try to do things that are so unpredictably treacherous that that's an existential threat to our way of life.
00:25:45.000But the reason why socialism and the reason why communism does not end up like the John Lennon song of no more peace and everyone running in the meadows, it's really interesting.
00:25:56.000I was just recently in Burlington, Vermont, speaking at my friend Pastor Todd Callahan's church, great church.
00:26:03.000We went out to eat at some restaurant.
00:26:05.000By the way, if you want to see kind of the nuttiest group of humanity, go to Burlington, Vermont.
00:27:47.000It's the re-infantilization of America.
00:27:51.000As Rousseau would say, he prefers the infant over the adult, the primitive over the civilized, the adulterous over the loyal spouse.
00:27:59.000And so I looked at this mural and I realized that's what they want.
00:28:02.000And by the way, just so you know, Burlington, Vermont is where Bernie Sanders was mayor while he did this interview I'm about to play for you.
00:28:10.000And so I think some of these revolutionaries actually believe that they are going to enter into this new Garden of Eden.
00:28:18.000Now, those of us that know the Bible and we know what that actually is and what it says, it is evil to think that you can usher in anything close to the utopia that God originally granted us.
00:28:32.000In fact, it will end in the tyranny of a small group of people oppressing your rights and your freedoms.
00:28:39.000So why does it always end in that, though?
00:28:42.000Why is the arc of the promise of the new Garden of Eden, the promise of utopia?
00:28:49.000Which, by the way, just so you know, the root of the word utopia means nowhere.
00:28:54.000Utopia was a term coined by Thomas Moore, and he wrote this idea of utopia meaning nowhere.
00:29:06.000It's because human nature, deep down, especially for the sociopaths, which is 10% of all human beings, and by the way, almost all sociopaths end up in prison, just so you know, that jail is basically a home for sociopaths.
00:29:20.000Not every person in jail is a sociopath, but one out of 10 people are going to believe that they can do whatever they want to do, whenever they want to do it.
00:29:28.000But there is a urge, especially amongst the sociopaths, to dominate you.
00:29:33.000So once you create a system where the power is up for grabs for dominating, that is exactly what's going to happen.
00:29:41.000So once you create a framework of government that can do anything, then eventually you're going to have a Napoleon, a Lenin, a Stalin, a Castro, a Mao, a Mugabe, a Pol Pat, a Mussolini, a Guevara, a Chavez.
00:30:05.000And I could keep going, by the way, that will use that power for their own means, their own trappings, and their own luxury.
00:30:15.000Bernie Sanders, as he was mayor of Burlington, Vermont, as they were trying to usher in the new Garden of Eden, let's play cut, let's go through all of them.
00:30:35.000Siri is explaining why the Cuban people didn't rise up and help the U.S. overthrow Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
00:30:41.000He educated the kids, gave them the health care, totally transformed the society.
00:30:45.000So he was saying, and I know that was really short, that they have good health care, and why would they want to try to transform the society?
00:31:49.000And when dictatorships, whether it is the Chinese or the Cubans, do something good, you acknowledge that.
00:31:57.000And then cut nine, Sanders on how everyone who thought Castro is a bad guy, but just because Reagan thinks Castro is a bad guy, doesn't mean that people of their own country think that way.
00:32:06.000This is back when he was Burlington, Vermont.
00:32:50.000You see, Sanders wants to bring back the Garden of Eden.
00:32:54.000And little does he know, we can never reusher heaven on earth here, but we can get very close to hell.
00:33:02.000Just visit to Havana and get a little taste of that.
00:33:05.000There's something brewing right now in America.
00:33:09.000When I talked with Tucker Carlson on his Fox Nation show, I said there are geologically, to use a metaphor, some people said the election of Donald Trump was an earthquake.
00:33:20.000I think that we're living through a tremor phase right now.
00:33:25.000I think that we are living through the shock before the actual earthquake.
00:33:30.000The people in charge are doing everything imaginable to try to provoke a massive countermove to their legacy and the power that they have over us.
00:33:49.000What's happening in Cuba is going to start spreading across the world.
00:33:53.000You cannot manufacture hyperinflation, attack a nation's values, destroy the health care system, and expect people to take it much longer.
00:34:04.000What I'm seeing in Cuba gives me hope, and I just wish that some liberals in America wanted liberty and freedom as much as the people in Havana, Cuba.
00:34:15.000And I'm talking about the people right now in Martha's Vineyard.
00:34:19.000What we are living through, and Cuba is the canary in the coal mine.
00:34:25.000It is a sign of things to come of people saying, I'm not going to take it any longer.
00:34:31.000My currency is worth less 10% now than it was last year.
00:35:08.000I really want to get him on my podcast because I think he's amazing.
00:35:10.000But his book in the 1990s blew up the social scientist world because he dared talk about IQ, like the one thing you're not allowed to talk about.
00:35:19.000And what Charles Murray argued, which was totally true and everyone ignored his actual argument, is that once we get away from the muscular economy and we get into the cognitive economy and we start rewarding how well you can run technology, we are going to create an economic caste system.
00:35:37.000And once you create that economic caste system, you are going to have a permanent economic elite that are uninterested.
00:35:45.000They have no desire to live amongst the unwashed in society.
00:35:51.000In fact, they're going to wage a preemptive war against you.
00:35:54.000And so we have to do everything we possibly can to cheer on the freedom fighters here in Cuba.
00:35:59.000It's going to make the American ruling class nervous and the international ruling class nervous.
00:36:05.000The more people take to the streets and demand their freedom and liberty back, that is something that the masters of the universe, the mandatory vaccination crowd, the social media oligarchs, the technology worshipers, they don't really know how to micromanage that.
00:36:23.000And when you start seeing it happen in Cuba, it can happen anywhere.
00:36:28.000When you start seeing it happen in Havana where the price of getting in the streets is right now, let me tell you what's happening, and this will not be covered in the Western press.
00:36:36.000There were people that were walking through the streets yesterday that are in prison today.
00:36:41.000There were people that were walking the streets yesterday that are paying some sort of price.
00:36:46.000Now, Cuba does not have the rule of law like we do, so they're just going to conveniently disappear into the mountains in Cuba.
00:36:53.000We are living through the beginning stages of normal people and middle-class Americans and of all across the world start to take their power back.
00:37:04.000And I am happy to report in the most unusual place imaginable that I think we're seeing the fault lines and the beginning stages of the evil Castro regime come to the end.
00:37:18.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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