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00:10:02.460He was over having breakfast this morning with the NATO leaders.
00:10:07.680And I have to tell you, this is the first time that because I, you know, I've I've I've said that I like a lot of the stuff that he does and a lot of the stuff he does.
00:10:18.920I don't like it's generally when he's talking that I don't like it.
00:10:24.060You know, today is the first day that I heard him do something that is really controversial.
00:10:31.500But I don't think any other president except maybe Reagan would have done and and come around the end of it and go.
00:10:53.040All the leaders are lined up at this long table.
00:10:55.300And there's press there, obviously, yeah, starts talking to he's he starts saying some truth about NATO.
00:11:03.240I want you to hear this next when we come back.
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00:13:12.840We have to we have to separate a couple of things on this speech that Donald Trump gave this morning or, you know, just a conversation with the NATO countries.
00:13:52.720Many countries owe us a tremendous amount of money for many years back where they're delinquent, as far as I'm concerned, because the United States has had to pay for them.
00:14:03.220So if you go back 10 or 20 years, you'll just add it all up.
00:14:06.160It's massive amounts of money is owed.
00:14:08.720The United States has paid and stepped up like nobody.
00:14:14.260This has gone on for decades, by the way.
00:14:15.940This has gone on for many presidents, but no other president brought it up like I bring it up.
00:14:20.560The good news is that the allies have started to invest more in.
00:14:25.780This is the secretary general of NATO responding to him, sitting right across the table from him.
00:24:55.580And that empowered the person who was just in their, you know, their barn tinkering to come up with something because they knew if they could copyright it, then they could make money off of it.
00:25:07.800And so people were motivated to to think out of the box and create something different and to put their time and their money in it because it could change their lives and could eventually change other people's lives.
00:25:31.820It was just settled in Bellevue, Washington.
00:25:35.360The Department of Justice and Second Amendment Foundation have reached a settlement in the lawsuit.
00:25:43.900SAF and Defense Distributed had filed a suit against the State Department under the Obama administration.
00:25:51.280Challenging a May 2013 attempt to control public speech as an export under the international traffic and arms regulations.
00:25:59.400So what this was is they were saying he is violating an arms agreement because he is putting things out on the Internet that can now go all around the world.
00:26:10.920And he's basically exporting arms under the terms of the settlement.
00:26:15.660The government has agreed to waive its prior restraint against the plaintiffs, allowing them to freely publish the 3D files and other information at issue.
00:26:26.180The government has also agreed to pay significant portion of plaintiff's attorney fees and return $10,000 in State Department registration dues paid by the defense distributed as a result of the prior restraint.
00:26:38.120Okay, so the big news isn't even I haven't even gotten to the big news yet.
00:26:42.740So the first thing that happened was now the genie is officially out of the bottle because now the now the government has lost a lawsuit and has settled this saying one.
00:26:57.600You can distribute the 3D schematics to print your own weapon.
00:27:03.980Cody, when he was here five or six years ago, said once that happens, the gun debate is over.
00:27:11.040Now, I think the gun debate has been over for a long time because of 3D printing.
00:27:15.400But now you can, without becoming a criminal, distribute the plans to print arms.
00:27:32.520Significantly, the government expressly acknowledges that non-automatic firearms up to a .50 caliber, including modern semi-auto sporting rifles, such as the popular AR-15 and similar firearms, quote, are not inherently military.
00:27:57.980Not only is this a First Amendment victory for free speech, it also is a devastating blow to the gun prohibition lobby.
00:28:06.480For years, anti-gun people have contended that modern semi-automatic fully sport utility rifles are so-called weapons of war.
00:28:16.720And with this settlement, the government has acknowledged that they are nothing of the sort.
00:28:21.560Under this settlement, the government will draft and pursue regulatory amendments that eliminate control for the technological information going across the Internet.
00:28:34.980They will transfer export jurisdiction to the Commerce Department, which does not impose prior restraint on public speech.
00:28:43.320And that will allow Defense Distributed and SAF to publish information about 3D technology.
00:28:53.280So the guy who, I still don't know if he's a good guy or a bad guy, has done something remarkable that makes it really almost impossible for guns to ever now go away.
00:29:15.960You can't talk about, well, I'm just, you just don't, you don't make them anymore.
00:29:21.880We're going to go after the manufacturer.
00:36:10.120They also used comedy and tried to make people, you know, to take people who were gay and show them nothing to be afraid of here.
00:36:24.720And there was nothing wrong with normalizing homosexuality.
00:36:28.680I mean, there's nothing wrong with showing if you're a homosexual, you're just like everybody else.
00:36:33.820But that was the linchpin because the other side was making it about gay marriage instead of saying the government doesn't have a place in anybody's marriage.
00:36:49.540We would have we would have so short circuited all of this crap about the First Amendment, not only speech, but First Amendment protection of religion.
00:36:59.560Had we said this has no place in government, no place you can go get married, you know, go marry a tree if you want to do what you want to do.
00:38:13.720Um, we just had or we just heard, uh, Donald Trump, uh, over with the NATO allies and he said, you know, you guys got to start paying your way.
00:38:22.360And why should we be defending Germany when you're taking all of your oil in Germany or your gas, uh, from Russia?
00:38:43.140Some of them are, uh, pretty well grounded in previous, you know, complaints from other administrations about, uh, you know, European allies and NATO not, not carrying the load.
00:38:56.140Um, I don't necessarily love the way he did this this morning.
00:38:59.620I think it'll play very well politically back here at home.
00:39:02.260Um, but there are ways to chastise allies, um, that, uh, I think are probably, uh, like, how would you have said that?
00:39:12.740I mean, I, I listened to him and, and, and it's the first time that I, you know, I, I like some of the stuff he does, some of the stuff I don't like.
00:39:21.280And it's usually when he's talking or tweeting that I don't like it this time.
00:39:25.860He was, he seemed well grounded, well founded and, um, and, and just spoke clearly and plainly.
00:39:33.120Um, yeah, it also seemed, and look, there are two ways to look at this on the merits of what he was actually saying.
00:39:39.780Um, um, I'm pretty much with him, right?
00:39:42.680Uh, I thought the pipeline deal was a bad deal.
00:39:45.520I don't, I don't think it was a bad deal because it was robbing us of sales that we couldn't make.
00:39:50.760We can't get natural gas in those volumes to Europe anyway.
00:39:54.200That's a bit of a red herring, but, um, the bad, it was a bad deal because, and Germany does have too many ties with, with Russia.
00:40:02.420Um, but the, the tone and tenor and the way he did it, refused to walk out on the blue carpet, the way he sort of belittled.
00:40:09.800An ally, um, the merits of his case are probably less important than the body language and the tone because so much of what he says, he says the EU is worse than, than NAFTA.
00:40:20.320He goes out, he says that NATO isn't worth it anymore, that these people are, are deadbeats.
00:40:25.100And that is sowing discord in the most successful military alliance in human history.
00:40:32.260And that seems to be the way that the tone and tenor of it seems to be pitched at that.
00:40:36.900By all means, I want, you know, you know, look, I mean, there is this sort of time-tested thing about how things go bad when Germany's defense budget goes up.
00:40:46.320But, um, but as a general proposition, by all means, I want these guys to spend more money on their defense budget.
00:40:52.380But this idea that somehow NATO, or that the EU even, you know, are designed to take advantage of America, which is something he says all the time, I just don't think is true.
00:41:02.420And the fact that he is much more willing to lavish praise on dictators, authoritarians, and, and essentially enemies of the United States, while throwing, you know, leaders of allied countries under the bus and ridiculing them, I think, like, I don't think there was a lot of Russia collusion.
00:41:20.160I think the Russia collusion story has always been sort of too cute by half, and I've never bought into it.
00:41:26.060But this stuff of sowing discord in the Western alliance, undermining the legitimacy of NATO, undermining of our relationships with our key allies, this is all music to Vladimir Putin's ears.
00:41:38.900And, you know, we should at least tread carefully, Europe was the source of, you know, instability and bloodshed, the likes of which no continent has matched, for half a millennia.
00:41:54.980And it was only with the bloodshed that they created in World War I and World War II, and then with the rise of the Soviet Union.
00:42:03.220And the only thing that has sort of kept that entire region a zone of peace is American will imposed through NATO.
00:42:11.340And, and the idea that somehow we can just, you know, willy nilly throw it away, based upon the fact that they're not paying enough dues, NATO doesn't work that way anyway.
00:42:23.460It just seems to me to be taking quite a flyer.
00:42:26.940But by all means, you know, you know, Bob Gates, you know, lots of these guys used to grill NATO and say, you need to pay up more, you need to pay more into your national defense.
00:42:35.100But, you know, let's not lose sight of the fact that this alliance, which won World War II and won the Cold War, has real value for the United States of America, and is not just simply simply a bunch of Euro weenies playing us for suckers.
00:42:49.380I would agree with that, but let me, let me slightly change gears here.
00:42:55.660I see what's happening in Brexit, and, and, and, and Russia is behind some of this with Brexit.
00:43:01.840They're just using, they're using people's, they're using what some people are feeling, and they are exploiting it for their own purposes.
00:43:13.440But it's real what people in Europe are feeling, and this nationalism, while it is really, really frightening, it is important to recognize it as something inherently human.
00:43:28.300I know you talk a lot about nationalism.
00:43:30.660But there is something to be said about being proud, and there's, there is a fine line between, hey, I'm proud of who we are, and, and nationalism.
00:44:07.780A little nationalism is essential for society to have a sense that this country is mine, there may be others like it, but this one is special to me.
00:44:16.780It gives you a sense of social solidarity, community, brotherhood, sisterhood, whatever you want to call it.
00:44:22.460It binds you together to your community, to the largest community, you know, that matters.
00:44:30.040And I think a country without a little nationalism would be a hot mess.
00:44:34.680But too much nationalism, it starts to go the other way, and way too much nationalism, it becomes lethal and poisonous.
00:44:43.320I don't think we're anywhere close to that yet.
00:44:46.260There are certainly some very toxic voices for nationalism out there, you know, under the rocks of Twitter and comment sections.
00:44:53.680But I just think you have to sort of take it carefully about what sort of rhetoric and what sort of movements you encourage.
00:45:03.340I think, look, I've been against the European Union.
00:45:06.040I've been against cosmopolitanism my entire professional life.
00:45:09.600I very much prefer, in the American context, talking about patriotism over nationalism, because patriotism is a body of ideas and creeds and customs that you can sort of identify.
00:45:22.660Nationalism is too close to populism to me, which basically just says whatever we the people want is right.
00:45:29.380But I understand there's some fuzziness in the definitions there, and nationalism and patriotism aren't at odds necessarily.
00:45:37.880I don't think you could—you have a hard time pulling patriotism and nationalism apart now, because we don't need our creeds.
00:45:49.980I mean, you make a really good point in your book about, you know, how these truths are not self-evident.
00:45:59.080Look, I mean, so the basic thesis of the book, or the basic setup for the book, is what I try to do is work on the terms of the sort of secular, modern, progressive, left, whatever you want to call it.
00:46:12.120Not the left-left, but just sort of like where the conversation is in America.
00:46:15.600I don't make appeals to the—I believe in God, but I don't say that God is responsible for all of these things that we have.
00:46:23.780I basically make the point that for 250,000 years, man's natural environment was grinding poverty, punctuated by an early death, usually from violence or some bow stewing disease.
00:46:38.260And if democracy, human rights, property rights, free speech, all of these things, if capitalism, if all of these things were natural, they would have showed up a little earlier in the evolutionary record.
00:46:53.160It turns out that we kind of—we stumbled into, in one sense, we fought for, in another sense, all of these amazing things that come together, which I call the miracle.
00:47:02.320They include things like the Enlightenment, but also all sorts of cultural and sort of almost tribal attachments to freedom and limited government that we stumbled into and honed over the last 300 years.
00:47:14.740They're the only thing that has ever delivered man out of poverty.
00:47:17.300They're the only thing that has ever sort of improved the lot of the average human being anywhere in the world.
00:47:23.820Aristocrats have done well for a couple thousand years, but the average human's lot has not improved until about 300 years ago.
00:47:30.600And these things are embedded in our culture, but they're embedded in our creeds and our ideas.
00:47:36.900And what we need to do is teach people to be grateful for them, to appreciate them.
00:47:42.220When you're grateful for something, you take care of it.
00:47:44.460You want to pass it on to the next generation.
00:47:46.580When you take it for granted, right, so the opposite of gratitude is taking stuff for granted, which breeds a sense of another opposite of gratitude, which is entitlement and resentment.
00:48:00.880And we teach vast numbers of people today that they're just simply owed to something, that all of the good things that we have in life, the fact that we don't die at the age of 30.
00:48:11.800You know, a hundred years ago, almost every single family in America had the experience of at least one child dying.
00:48:22.120You know, it used to be a common occurrence in this country.
00:48:25.360Calvin Coolidge's kid got a blister on his foot playing tennis on the White House tennis court and died a week later.
00:48:32.080That was normal, and there was nothing we could do about it.
00:48:34.900We take all of those sorts of things for granted, and instead we teach people that the history of this country is defined by our worst crimes rather than our greatest triumphs, and that if you don't like the world around you, it's because someone is screwing you.
00:48:52.580And that is a deeply poisonous thing, and it is the thing that I think is a sort of suicidal choice as a civilization.
00:49:02.680So we're seeing now the rise of democratic socialism, unlike I think we've ever seen before, maybe around the turn of the century it was like this.
00:49:14.760Um, and it is really coming from the youth.
00:49:20.640Uh, they are, because we haven't taught anything, they are wrapping their arms around it.
00:49:27.460As a guy who knows history, what is coming?
00:49:32.900Oh, well, I mean, clearly the living will envy the dead.
00:49:36.120No, look, I mean, I, I, it's, you're absolutely right, you know, and I do think it was more intense at the beginning of the 20th century, but in defense of those guys, at least it was kind of a new idea back then.
00:50:04.480Um, not the hundred million dead part, but like everybody living, you know, and sharing and kumbaya and we're going to, if we all work our hardest, we'll make this the best yearbook ever.
00:50:14.020I mean, that all sounded great back then.
00:50:16.340But, um, today, uh, I think part of the problem is that everyone forgets the rivers of blood that were created by, you know, socialism.
00:50:25.100And in fairness, you know, not all forms of socialism leads to Gulag or even to Venezuela.
00:50:41.460I mean, the democratic and democratic socialism has to do all of the heavy lifting because in pure socialism, you do get up, you either, you do end up with, uh, you know, mobs,
00:50:53.020looting stores or the Gulag or troops shooting people, you have to have other things that dilute and, and, and prevent the socialism from reaching its natural conclusion.
00:51:07.040And those things like constitutions and, and, and, and, and democratic checks and balances like Denmark, you can get some of that, but places like Denmark and Sweden really aren't socialist anymore because it didn't work for them either.
00:51:20.700Well, but they, they got better welfare states, but that's different, but they, but they also, um, are homogenized.
00:51:29.240I mean, it is up until recently, it was very, it was one tribe, everybody kind of looked alike.
00:51:36.320They all kind of agreed that we're all together.
00:51:38.420It's easy to keep something together like that.
00:51:41.380When you all think alike and you're all from the same culture, that culture brings you together.
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00:58:38.860Jonah Goldberg from National Review and also the author of a new book, Suicide of the West, which is an absolute must-read.
00:58:47.960You remind me, Jonah, I would like to ask you, I want to start putting together a library of books that are essential for, you know, the study of the Republic and to be able to know, you know, what built us.
00:59:15.620I think tariffs are an absolute nightmare.
00:59:18.580I think, you know, I know enough history to know that it was Smoot Hawley that really dragged us into the deep depression, and it doesn't usually work out well.
00:59:29.440A lot of people will say Donald Trump is using this as a tactic.
01:00:01.840One of the things that really bothers me, though, is the way big corporations and CEOs say they have nothing.
01:00:08.740They agree to these agreements with Chinese companies and Chinese government, and then they go whining about how they were forced to do it.
01:00:20.180But anyway, the intellectual property theft is a big deal.
01:00:23.000But whenever the conversation, including with friends of mine like Larry Kudlow, you know, and Stephen Moore, whenever the conversation is about China and trade, they can't defend the tariff stuff.
01:00:35.080So they immediately switch to the intellectual property theft stuff.
01:00:40.740Go talk to soybean farmers who, in the last, I don't know, 60 days, have seen the price of their crops drop by 20 percent.
01:00:49.780You know, margins in agriculture are pretty tight.
01:00:51.880And it would bother me less if there was some evidence that there are actual conversations going on between China and the United States to avoid this getting worse.
01:01:09.240I mean, what to say is Brady, the head of the Appropriations Committee, came out with a statement today saying there was no evidence that there are any of these conversations going on.
01:01:16.140And China keeps coming out with these statements saying we're willing to talk, but you need to give us a list of the things that you want done.
01:01:22.160And the Bush administration and the Trump administration won't do it.
01:01:25.660And ultimately, the problem with the tariff stuff is that it is really boiled down to just another example of picking winners and losers in the economy.
01:01:37.180And we tend to punish ourselves more than we punish other nations.
01:01:53.240But, you know, when Donald Trump talks about, you know, our trade deficit with these countries, he makes it sound as if we're – he literally says they're robbing us of billions of dollars.
01:02:11.920You can't spend those tokens any place other than Dave & Buster's.
01:02:15.960You can't spend U.S. dollars any place other than the United States of America.
01:02:21.360That's why almost any economist will tell you the opposite or the flip side of a trade deficit is an investment surplus because those dollars come back to America.
01:02:34.020That's why it's so maddening when Donald Trump talks about how these trade deficits are so terrible and then often in the same sentence or paragraph brags about all the foreign investment that's coming into America.
01:02:45.640Well, that foreign investment has to come into America because it's in dollars.
01:02:51.780You know, if – you know, a friend of mine, Tim Carney, first pointed this out.
01:02:54.960There was this great thing where the creator of the cronut, you know, this sort of croissant-donut hybrid thing, he was like, look, I want to give back to – you know, he got really rich.
01:03:05.860He says, I want to give back to the country that, you know, made me rich and made me success.
01:03:09.640And they've been so good to me, so I want to give back.
01:03:12.780And Tim goes, you don't have to give back anything.
01:04:07.480Peter Navarro doesn't, and I don't have a lot of respect for Peter Navarro.
01:04:10.920But most of these guys believe that the problem is the president has a very much a 1980s view about trade that might have made more sense in the 1980s when, you know, we were doing this stuff with Japan.
01:04:23.340But now he just sees it as the same problem, and supply chains don't work that way.
01:04:28.980Lots of products – you know, the ingredients to lots of products cross the U.S.-Mexican border like 20 times before the finished product because that's how supply chains work now.
01:04:43.160And we use a hell of a lot more steel than we make.
01:04:48.520And so when you put tariffs on foreign steel, you are taxing manufacturing companies to a far greater extent than you are rewarding people who work in the steel industry.
01:04:58.600You point out in your book, you say that capitalism – you know, everybody just assumes that it's pretty automatic.
01:05:08.440But it kind of goes back to the self-evident truths.
01:05:15.400So, you know, one of the things that – you know, I originally wanted to call the book The Tribe of Liberty, and this kind of gets back to your point about Sweden from earlier.
01:05:24.460Capitalism, to a serious extent, is a cultural phenomenon more than an economic phenomenon.
01:05:32.000It has embedded within it all sorts of cultural assumptions about how people should live, what the role of the family is, what the role of the individual is, about whether or not innovation is a good thing or a bad thing.
01:05:48.780And those institutions, those ideas, they emerge in England and Holland at a specific point in time, but they're not universal laws, and they don't just emerge automatically.
01:06:02.940If you put a bunch of uneducated humans in the raw on an island, they wouldn't start creating, you know, apps for Uber.
01:06:12.060They'd all grab spears and start killing each other, because that's our natural state.
01:06:16.640And so capitalism emerges out of this very English quirkiness that has a lot to do with Protestantism, it has a lot to do with Judeo-Christian tradition, and there's a lot to – well, there are a lot of contributing factors to it.
01:06:30.740It also has a lot to do with the fact that the nuclear family emerges in England for reasons that it didn't emerge almost anywhere else in the world.
01:06:38.740And so we sort of just assume that, you know, it does turn out that capitalism is exportable, and that markets are exportable, because they work.
01:06:50.020And so people see that it works, and they adjust them to their own societies.
01:06:53.920But it is not foreordained that we have to be capitalists.
01:06:57.020In fact, biologically, it's far more, you know, ordained that we should be socialists, because that's what tribes are, is a bunch of socialists.
01:07:04.240So how do you teach – how do you teach the youth that is not hearing a pro-capitalist message, except in everything they do and buy, but somehow or another they don't associate the apps and everything, all the freedoms that they have with capitalism?
01:07:26.700How do we get this to the next generation?
01:07:29.300Yeah, I actually don't think it's very hard to teach it.
01:07:32.320I mean, I could teach this kind of stuff in my sleep, and I know lots of other people who can.
01:07:37.860The problem is, it's not so much that we don't know how to teach it, it's that we don't know how to get the teachers to want to teach it.
01:07:44.400And we don't know how to get – you know, there's a reason why journalists, social workers, and teachers tend to – not uniformly, it's not an iron law – but they tend to be on the more liberal side.
01:07:56.100And it's a psychological orientation that says, if I could just get the truth out there, if I could just proselytize, I don't really care very much about getting rich, I want to do good things.
01:08:05.860Because it's not an evil orientation, that they go into certain professions.
01:08:14.380And certainly at the graduate level, the people who run the education schools and a lot of the graduate programs, they are committed to an ideology that is just very deeply hostile to liberal democratic capitalism.
01:08:28.240And this is not a newslash to anybody.
01:08:30.940And so if you make it out of that pipeline, and you go – and there's one thing that bothers me a lot, I talk to conservatives about this a lot, I'm very much in favor of school choice, right?
01:09:19.440It's not being taught anywhere or very few places.
01:09:21.460Real quick, Jonah, if I put you on a desert island and I said five books that you want to take with you so you don't lose the Western civilization, you can restart the civilization or at least understand it, what would they be?
01:09:48.760I think you've got to do the full Bible, right?
01:09:52.140I think you probably need, gosh, something from the sort of Catholic tradition, either from St. Aquinas or St. Augustine, but I'm maybe city god, city man.
01:10:05.180Then, again, if this is like the starter east for Western civilization, the wealth of nations, maybe the Federalist Papers, and then, of course, Suicide of the West.
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01:21:26.320You would almost certainly look at the European Convention on Human Rights.
01:21:30.240So, yes, why not take advantage of what there is elsewhere in the world?
01:21:37.500Well, I would say, Ruth, you know, one reason why not is because you are to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.
01:21:50.180When we're talking about constitutional law, we're meaning the Constitution of the United States.
01:21:56.940I don't know if you know this, we don't live in Europe or South Africa or Canada.
01:22:02.420We live here, and the Constitution you should be paying attention to would be ours.
01:22:08.900Yeah, the one here, the one that they've been sworn to protect and defend, that one.
01:22:15.880There's a reason our Constitution is the oldest in existence on the planet, because it works better than anything man has done in the history of politics,
01:22:30.620in the history of putting together a government.
01:22:33.280This is the one that has held everything together for, you know, how many civilizations have tried what we're doing?
01:22:40.180Over and over and over and over it failed.
01:22:43.240We had the 56 men with all the wisdom and drive in the same place, at the same time,
01:22:51.900some of the greatest men in the history of this planet got together and, you know, through, I believe, divine inspiration,
01:22:58.560came up with the best possible solution for any government ever.
01:23:02.000You know, I was, because I'm writing a book, comes out September 18th.
01:23:40.400So there is something more than just the documents themselves.
01:23:44.480It is the culture that those documents produced, you know what I mean?
01:23:50.920Or the culture that produced those documents is probably a better way of saying it.
01:23:57.120There was something different about the people here.
01:24:02.200And we have, we have, we are exceptional in the fact that we are the only ones that have ever been able to really do this.
01:24:14.960Everybody else had to come through all kinds of bloodshed and everything else.
01:24:20.140Because we're just now deciding whether or not we want to keep the culture, and we want to keep the Western way of life.
01:24:30.320How are we even having these conversations?
01:24:32.740How can we even have a conversation with Ruth Bader Ginsburg when she's talking about different constitutions, and we don't even know ours?
01:24:44.780We don't even know our Bill of Rights.
01:24:46.580How are we supposed to come up with something better if we don't even know what we have?
01:24:53.320And who should know better than a U.S. Supreme Court justice whose only job is to protect and defend the Constitution and decide on the constitutionality of laws?
01:25:47.960And they were, which is another, it's just more proof of how the progressives started out and why they started out disparaging the founders.
01:25:59.420Because you had to disparage everything that came from them.
01:26:01.920And they've done such a good job of that, that you, when somebody calls into question the legitimacy of the U.S. Constitution, people think, oh, yeah, that came from those rich, old white guys who own slaves.
01:26:17.860And so it's been such an effective job.
01:26:22.800People don't respect the founders anymore.
01:28:32.300And so people who don't know, well, wait a minute, that's because we haven't been doing what our founders have said we were supposed to do.
01:29:07.200And, you know, nobody's asking her, you know, her line continues to be when she's asked, what's what's the difference between democratic socialism and and socialism?
01:29:18.420Or what's the difference between those and just being a Democrat?
01:29:21.840And the only thing I've ever heard her explain is that, well, in a country that's the wealthiest and most prosperous in the world, there shouldn't be any poor.
01:33:39.680But after it went missing, a police officer working at the Lanier Middle School informed the school's assistant principal that girls sometimes like to hide things in their bras and panties.
01:33:52.000So that's why they they strip searched him.
01:33:54.600So then they loosened their bras, checked around the waistband of their panties and found no money.
01:34:02.520So can you how would how imagine livid as a parent would you be if this was your daughter?
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01:36:11.020So let me before we get back into Texas and and what it means in Texas to the rest of the country to have Texas a free state.
01:36:23.280Let me let me give you the first real casualty here.
01:36:26.700It seems in the trade war with China, it looks like it's Tesla.
01:36:31.080Tesla already having a problem with their, you know, with their manufacturing Tesla hit was hit with a a price tariff by the Chinese of 20 percent.
01:36:51.120They back their price down and they went up another 10 percent.
01:36:58.780And so there's nothing they can do now.
01:38:21.600If you think of tariffs as a tax, then you can understand that if you build things or make things in California, your taxes are so high.
01:38:32.560What do people do they move if your regulation and your taxes are high, you move to a place to where the regulation allows you to do business.
01:39:10.400They say that this is that we went back to the top of the list because of rising the rising tide of energy prices when oil, you know, oil is still the number one industry here.
01:39:22.080But it's not just oil that's doing really well in Texas.
01:39:25.860We actually had GDP growth in the fourth quarter last year of 5.2%.
01:40:24.800So Texas is home to 39 companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, including AT&T, ExxonMobil, Texas Instruments, and some of the biggest privately held companies, too, including HEB, Neiman Marcus, Hunt Oil.
01:40:40.220So they also say that we did really well in other categories of competitiveness.
01:40:48.720We were seventh in workforce, number one in infrastructure, number nine in technology and innovation, and access to capital.
01:44:39.340Yeah, there is so much that people give up, and they're just like, I just, you know, I just, I just love the weather, and I just love the weather.
01:44:49.080And I think that you just kind of give up after a while, you know.