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00:02:56.000And so I was driving through Highland Park and every other street lamp was, there was these massive advertisements put forward by the city of Highland Park or Dallas in concert with the Bush Center, which was George W. Bush's new book.
00:03:23.000Now, George W. Bush's new book is Out of Many One, which is obviously a play on the Latin phrase, E pluribus Unum.
00:03:32.000So George W. Bush is going on a media blitz recently to advocate that what America is missing in the time of a pandemic, massive moral decline, an overly aggressive Democrat Party and a very weak Republican Party, George W. Bush's new fixation, his new obsession, is that we are not bringing enough people into our country.
00:04:15.000And I thought to myself, first of all, why the overemphasis on this virtue signaling campaign of look how good of people we are because we want to open ourselves up to the rest of the planet.
00:04:31.000So I just got to thinking, I said, have we actually properly explained as conservatives, really explained what is immigration?
00:04:42.000What kind of immigration policy should we have?
00:04:45.000What immigration policies do the rest of the world have?
00:04:49.000And has America's immigration policy always been the same?
00:05:06.000Immigration is legally requesting entry into a country for a specific purpose.
00:05:14.000So on George W. Bush's website, it's thebushcenter.org, he has slide after slide and page after page focusing on what he calls immigration reform.
00:05:28.000And so he has a new book out, as I've mentioned, called The Out of Many One.
00:05:34.000And so when you go to his website, he has a couple quotes by him.
00:05:39.000And he says, quote, at its core, immigration is a sign of a confident and a successful nation.
00:05:48.000It says something about our country that people all around the world are willing to leave their homes and leave their families and risk everything to come to our country.
00:05:55.000Their talent and hard work and their love of freedom have helped us become the leader of the world.
00:07:55.000They never said a bad word about America.
00:07:57.000They kissed the ground when they came in.
00:08:00.000And here's what George W. Bush says: amid all the complications of policy, may we never forget that immigration is a blessing and a strength.
00:08:10.000So I'd love to ask George W. Bush, can you tell me the different fluctuations of immigration in American history?
00:08:18.000Largely considered the greatest decade in American history, in my opinion, is the 1950s.
00:08:24.000The 1950s was an era of peace and prosperity.
00:08:27.000How many people were we bringing into our country in 1950?
00:08:32.000Or how about 1947, right after World War II?
00:08:36.000So just to give you an idea, right now we are currently legally bringing in 1 million people into our country, 1 million new green card holders, and they are able to apply for citizenship after five years.
00:08:49.000Three if they're married to a U.S. citizen.
00:09:33.000And then it went down, obviously, because of the Great Depression and the war.
00:09:37.000But I would argue that the taking a moment to digest the big meal, to use the metaphor, was one of the reasons why we were able to have the ties that bound us together in the 1950s and that created the greatest generation.
00:09:50.000The greatest generation was a beneficiary of controlled immigration policies.
00:09:56.000America's greatness was large in part because we were able to slow down international immigration.
00:11:13.000And, you know, we're talking to people about what needs to be done.
00:11:18.000I mean, the Koch brothers, for example, I know that's a word that scares a lot of people on the left, but they're very much in favor of a rational immigration policy.
00:11:28.000And they're putting money behind it, and they're pushing hard.
00:11:31.000And so we're very much involved with what you said.
00:11:33.000Now, so that's George W. Bush talking about a coalition that's going to try to push amnesty, funded by Mark Zuckerberg, amongst many other groups.
00:11:50.000Aristotle, I believe, was the great, the great philosopher, not a knock at Plato, but Aristotle dealt with things you could measure.
00:11:58.000He was a scientist first and foremost.
00:12:01.000He founded an academy called the Lyceum.
00:12:05.000Aristotle famously said that the highest form of community is politics because it combines morality and sociability.
00:12:12.000And Dr. Larry Arn from Hillsdale has a terrific course on Aristotle.
00:12:16.000Aristotle dealt with eternal knowledge.
00:12:20.000Aristotle observed human behavior and made predictions on how things always will be.
00:12:26.000You know, someone asked me the other day, they said, Charlie, what is a conservative?
00:12:31.000I said, one attribute of a conservative is we know human nature, we know it's not going to change, and we don't say how things ought to be, we say how things are and we create public policy around that.
00:12:47.000Let me read Aristotle when it came to immigration.
00:12:52.000It is the habit of tyrants never to like anyone who has a spirit of dignity and independence.
00:12:56.000The tyrant claims a monopoly on such qualities for himself.
00:13:00.000He feels that anybody who asserts a rival dignity or acts of independence is threatening his own superiority and the despotic power of his tyranny.
00:13:10.000And he hates him accordingly as a subverter of his own authority.
00:13:14.000It is also the habit of tyrants to prefer the company of aliens to that of citizens at a table in his own society.
00:13:25.000Citizens, they feel, are enemies, but aliens will offer no opposition.
00:14:18.000And what does that do with our immigration policy?
00:14:21.000It's harder to face your fellow countrymen and solve problems.
00:14:24.000It's harder to go to rural Appalachia.
00:14:27.000It's harder for George W. Bush to go to Hubbard, Ohio.
00:14:30.000It's harder for George W. Bush to go to West Virginia and say, I screwed up.
00:14:34.000I sent your sons to wars that we shouldn't have fought.
00:14:37.000I signed trade deals that sent your factories overseas.
00:14:40.000And I let in 10 million people from across the planet that put your wages down.
00:14:44.000No, instead, it's a lot easier to say, let's go bring in people that are living in the third world because they will do what we tell them to do.
00:15:06.000George W. Bush doesn't want to face his fellow countrymen because he might actually have to explain to the great people of Middleton, Ohio or Aberdeen, South Dakota.
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00:18:55.000I say, oh, yeah, if only you were the first one to think that you conquered the natural world.
00:19:01.000Just ask how it went with Napoleon in Siberia or Alexander the Great in India or the National Socialist Workers' Party.
00:19:07.000If you think you're the first person ever to think that you could take dominion over the laws of nature and nature's God, I got a continent to sell you.
00:19:17.000Anyway, I just, I love these articles.
00:20:17.000The reason that you have this Dogecoin, when you start to see things that have no value get really valuable quickly, run to the hills and then go buy the hills because they'll be worth a lot because you could touch them.
00:20:32.000Consumer price index indicates growing inflation.
00:22:19.000The gasoline index continues to increase, rising 9.1% in March and accounting for nearly half of the seasonally adjusted increase in all items indexed.
00:22:26.000Well, here's a little news flash: people buy gasoline.
00:22:29.000So if that's getting more expensive, that's still a tax on the consumer.
00:22:33.000But also, do you know that if gasoline gets more expensive?
00:22:38.000U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, they say the gasoline index continues to increase, rising 9.1% in March and accounting for nearly half of the adjusted seasonal increase of all items indexed.
00:22:49.000Okay, so what's the significance of what when gas gets more expensive?
00:22:52.000Let's try to think a little bit analytically here.
00:22:58.000Because when you need your vegan smoothie from a grocery store, someone had to transport those items and those ingredients to a grocery store.
00:23:04.000And when it gets more expensive, the transport, your items, and your ingredients, everything gets more expensive.
00:23:10.000It's not a little thing when fuel, when transportation gets to be more pricey.
00:23:33.000A market analysis think market says, quote, inflation will probably pick up further and the numbers for the next few months may appear abnormally large as base effects from the 2020 lockdown skew the data.
00:23:45.000The article finishes by saying the Federal Reserve's revised mandate has indicated that they will let inflation run hot above its former 2% benchmark in lieu of focusing on their mandate of maximum employment.
00:24:55.000So when you're creating more dollars than creating more value, therefore the dollars will be worth less because the value is not correlated or compensating with the value that's being created.
00:26:32.000And the corporate oligarchs who George W. Bush represents, they want more immigration because it gives them an excuse to have lower wages and they don't actually have to pay American workers.
00:26:46.000Who else is behind this push for mass immigration?
00:26:50.000Well, George W. Bush has partnered with Mark Zuckerberg on this project.
00:26:56.000A former Republican president has partnered with Mark Zuckerberg.
00:27:00.000What does that tell you about George W. Bush?
00:27:05.000Because they would much rather hire someone from Bangladesh to go do the coding at Facebook than a graduate of Caltech or Arizona State University.
00:28:08.000Now, I'm not even getting into the fact some people say, well, Charlie, we educate all these people in our schools and then we send them back to their country.
00:28:16.000I actually think there's a very interesting point about this.
00:28:18.000Why did we let them into our schools in the first place?
00:28:20.000They pay full freight, therefore inflating the sticker price for all the rest of Americans when they actually want to go pay for a college degree.
00:28:27.000By the way, I'm a huge critic of college.
00:28:28.000I don't think we should send many people to college as it is.
00:28:31.000But let's say you're studying engineering.
00:28:33.000You study engineering at Northwestern.
00:28:38.000You go $100,000 into debt, and now you have to go compete against a foreign-born individual of which they were never involved in the promise of America, the contract, the cooperation.
00:28:52.000They were never a participant in the contract.
00:28:55.000But George W. Bush's argument is: we don't have any loyalty to our fellow countrymen.
00:29:00.000Who cares if these college graduates borrowed all this money?
00:29:03.000What matters is how many people we bring in.
00:29:06.000That will be the mark of how good a people we are.
00:29:12.000So are you making full use of your savings?
00:29:14.000Think of the times you've yearned for better returns.
00:29:17.000After real inflation, charges, and taxes, are you even making a profit with food, clothing, and rent all more than doubling over the last 10 years?
00:32:21.000And what's happened here, and I'll be really interested to see how long this can continue, is this intentional sabotage of one's business for a very distant political pursuit, which is we are going to intentionally alienate our audience.
00:32:44.000We are going to have a 58% drop in viewership for what?
00:32:50.000What constituency do you think you represent?
00:32:53.000When you have basically told the entire country, we hate you, we hate your values, and obey us, no one's going to watch.
00:33:00.000But the question is, how long is this going to be subsidized by the corporate oligarchs?
00:33:05.000Tyler Perry said something incredibly controversial.
00:33:08.000He said, I refuse to hate anyone because they're Mexican or because they're black or white.