The pro-Freedom Right will defeat the anti-Liberty Left. That's why the leftist enemies of freedom and civil rights are such that it makes it impossible for them to win. And while it would be a disaster if they were to befall the planet, it would still be hard to be positive.
00:01:32.660Hello, America, and welcome to Wednesday.
00:01:35.780I read an article by Dee Parker yesterday, and it was the case for optimism.
00:01:42.760Ten reasons why the pro-freedom right will defeat the anti-liberty left.
00:01:47.540And I started reading it, and I realized, oh my gosh, this is very, very true.
00:01:54.160And we're winning, but it's hard to see it because there's this constant stream of gloom and doom from all sides.
00:02:02.440And we need to start looking at the things that are absolutely true that show that we are indeed winning and are on the winning side of history.
00:03:34.760Insurance discounts, roadside assistance program, members only credit card, travel benefits, phone plans, dental plans, auto plans, all of that stuff.
00:03:42.360But also, they are on the front lines fighting for the things that you fight for.
00:04:20.900The leftist enemies of freedom and civil rights are such that it makes it impossible for them to win.
00:04:27.460And while it would be a disaster if they were to befall the planet, it would be still hard to be positive.
00:04:34.440It is still hard to be positive when it's a steady diet of doom and gloom every day.
00:04:39.240Every day brings yet another attack on freedom and progress from people falsely labeling themselves as liberals.
00:04:47.800Many of these reasons for optimism of the pro-freedom right are because they are directly contrasted with the negative characteristics of the anti-liberty left.
00:08:02.480For instance, Chomsky was just on MSNBC a couple of days ago, and he said, people who refuse to accept vaccines, I think the right response for them is to not force them, but rather to insist that they be isolated.
00:08:20.920If people decide I am willing to be a danger to the community by refusing to vaccinate, they should say then, well, I also have the decency to isolate myself.
00:08:39.440It should be understood, and we should try to get it to be understood if it really reaches a point where they are severely endangering people, then, of course, you have to do something about it.
00:11:12.780Have you checked what you're paying for meat?
00:11:14.620Have you checked what you're paying for gas?
00:11:17.020Have you noticed how expensive almost everything is?
00:11:20.340Did you know that this Thanksgiving, the meal that you put down, the traditional Thanksgiving meal here in America, will cost you more than it ever has in the history of our country?
00:13:54.820Last Sunday, she said there is a plan to get unvaccinated essential workers, education and counseling so they will feel comfortable getting vaccinated.
00:15:35.120By the way, the FDA has approved one of the vaccines for kids.
00:15:40.120So I guarantee you the collective right of your kid and you to be the parent of your kid and decide what goes into his body and what doesn't go into their body.
00:15:51.160You're going to lose that right if you're not standing up.
00:15:54.620By the way, Terry McAuliffe, he doesn't mind.
00:15:59.040You as a parent don't have a right to raise or teach your kids or question what your kids are learning in school.
00:16:05.800Number seven is economic liberty has always worked and societal slavery of socialism has never worked.
00:16:14.860You know, they said the model is China.
00:16:16.940Have you seen what's happening in China lately?
00:16:20.480Number eight, we're productive in society.
00:16:23.420Those who believe in the Bill of Rights, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
00:16:28.360We generally are productive in society.
00:20:05.440The reason why we feel outnumbered is because these 8% to 10% of Americans gravitate to culture, movies, art, newspapers, radio, not radio, but television, the cultural things that affect all of us.
00:20:27.340The national socialist media, the government indoctrination centers, the education.
00:20:34.520That's why this 8% to 10% can influence more than sometimes we can.
00:20:42.440And they seem more powerful than they really are.
00:20:45.200However, 25% were conservatives of the pro-freedom right, with the middle classified as liberals, politically disengaged, or moderates.
00:20:56.360So, it is 8% trying to sway the rest using cultural norms.
00:25:10.380They looked into the entire life cycle of an electric vehicle and its emissions from mining the metals to making the batteries to producing the electricity to power them.
00:25:21.400The study found that when electric vehicles are charged with coal powered electricity, they are actually worse for the environment than gas powered vehicles.
00:25:32.520And yet the Democrats are dragging America toward electric cars that they think will run on solar and wind power.
00:25:39.180Both have major issues of their own and they are fast tracking us to disaster.
00:25:46.280Tonight, I want to show you exactly what they're doing, what they're planning and how going green is the biggest scam in history.
00:26:16.280Now, as we're sitting here and we're trying to rebuild a media based on the principles that our founders saw real, true freedom of the press and another almost quasi branch of the government, one that is part of the checks and balances.
00:26:37.500I have been reading and rereading a speech from 1961 from John F.
00:26:43.680Kennedy, he gave it at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, and he gave it to the American Newspapers Publishers Association.
00:26:51.920He was really upset because the the coverage of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, you know, wasn't real happy towards him.
00:27:03.940And so he came to the press and he asked them for two things, the need for greater public information and the need for far greater official secrecy.
00:27:15.380Now, I would hope that both of those things would run almost offensive to all of us still today.
00:28:22.960To hear a president give any kind of recommendation to the press back then when we had an informed populace, it went against the grain of everybody.
00:28:38.000The press still prided itself in at least the appearance of neutrality and journalistic ethics, which are long gone.
00:28:44.600The idea of the press concerning itself with the goals of a president was still a repugnant idea.
00:28:53.760So he padded this speech with continuous assurances that this was a request and by no means an order from the president.
00:29:03.000He reminded the press that the press is the only industry, the only industry that is specifically referenced in the Constitution for protection.
00:29:15.040There is nothing else that is protected by the Bill of Rights as a business other than the press.
00:29:23.060The free flow of news, discussion, debate were so clearly necessary to a free republic, the founders explicitly protected it in the First Amendment.
00:29:35.940And the press, the press knew that the president knew you speak to a free press or a free people with words even insinuating government interference in the free flow of information.
00:29:48.660And you would be over, at least back in 1961.
00:29:53.940But he was confident in his request, but cautious like a president who knew his job demanded the consent of the governed.
00:30:03.300And that is the biggest thing that I have taken away from this.
00:30:06.440When you listen to his speech, he knew better.
00:30:13.580He gently reminded them of the sharks and muckrakers that they were.
00:30:17.940But he spoke to the press with respect because of their role in informing the populace.
00:30:25.000Which is a prerequisite for a functioning republic and freedom.
00:30:30.280In a letter to Richard Price, Thomas Jefferson wrote, whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
00:30:36.920That whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set things to rights.
00:30:43.900Is that the is that the that was the message of Kennedy speech?
00:30:48.680That's the message of Thomas Jefferson.
00:30:50.860Is that the message of this administration or really any administration?
00:30:56.320Do they believe that things are so far off that we should listen to the people because the people will set things right?
00:31:06.540Or are they doing everything to shut the people down and tell the people you can't fix this?
00:31:17.040In the end of his speech, Kennedy really reflects almost almost exactly the sentiments and words of Thomas Jefferson.
00:31:27.320I am not asking your newspapers to support an administration, but I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people.
00:32:33.140Here's Kennedy saying this is a freedom that everyone has and no republic will survive without it.
00:32:41.020It's the people's best judgment, not his.
00:32:45.160Back then, the president still believed in the American people.
00:32:49.400He believed that given all of the information, the American people would make the right choices and the government would follow the people.
00:32:57.620This is completely different than today.
00:33:01.400Because today, they don't believe in you.
00:33:07.920They believe the press's job is not to let the facts lay where they are, just state the facts and let the people decide.
00:33:18.160Instead, our leaders are saying this today.
00:33:22.600Do you think you need to do a better job at messaging and going forward?
00:33:27.160How do you sell this if ultimately you have to buy it?
00:33:29.700Well, I think you all could do a better job of selling it, to be very frank with you.
00:33:57.140Supply chain problems could be solved more quickly if affluent Americans would stop buying things they don't need or often don't really want.
00:34:05.480I don't know the last time I bought things that I didn't really want.
00:34:08.660Instead of questioning the Biden administration, they are they're not asking about the cargo ships, the unions, the talk workers.
00:34:27.520Vox said affluent consumers need to abandon their Christmas gift owners orders and the thoughtless buying that they do to prioritize saving the environment.
00:38:33.600The fact that Kennedy spoke with so much attentiveness to our rights and freedoms was as much a reflection of the American people at the time as it was a respect for the institutions.
00:38:46.080He knew he needed the consent to govern.
00:38:50.440We let our politicians get away with everything.
00:39:18.960When you're sitting there in the front office of the mechanic shop reading the estimate for how much it's going to take to fix your car and trying all your tears with the money that you're about to give them, there are three words that are going to come to mind.
00:42:27.380Asra Nomani, she is, I'm a big fan of her.
00:42:34.700She's the vice president for strategy and investigations at Parents Defending Education.
00:42:39.800She's also the editor of the Indoctrination Database and FOIA work.
00:42:44.840She is the co-founder of Coalition for TJ, a group of parents and community members in Virginia.
00:42:51.840She also is a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, the co-director of the Pearl Project with Daniel Pearl, and co-founder of the Muslim Reform Movement.
00:43:02.440This woman is a little busy and has a ton of courage and I think a lot left over for others if you'd like to get some.
00:43:13.160She is with us in just about a minute to tell us the latest on the school board war, some good news.
00:43:20.260Also, the tracking of diversity and equity consultants.
00:43:24.680This, we began to figure out once the feds got involved.
00:46:44.720We don't accept this kind of nonsense.
00:46:46.940And so what we were able to do last week was, you know, earlier we established really clearly that the attorney general had a conflict of interest with his son-in-law running a company that profits off of school board decisions, a company called Panorama Education.
00:47:03.500And then with this great work that our mom-in-chief at Parents Defending Education did, she sent Freedom of Information Act requests to every single member of the National School Board Association's Board of Directors.
00:47:19.740And they are all school board officials.
00:47:23.200So they're, as you know, their emails are open to public scrutiny.
00:47:28.720And so in those emails, we got evidence that the School Board Association interim director, Chip Slavin, acknowledged that he'd been in talks with the White House for, quote, several weeks before he issued the letter asking for intervention from the Justice Department.
00:47:48.580And voila, you've got this, you know, this completely cooked up campaign then against parents.
00:48:12.000So she was the co-signer on this letter calling for help from the White House.
00:48:18.700And Ms. Garcia's name, and she is the president of the National School Board Association.
00:48:26.960And so conveniently, she was named by the education secretary, as we know, a political appointee in the Biden administration, to this much coveted role, you know, that now has oversight over school assessments and does a report card every year.
00:48:44.720And again, bringing it back to the money, the industry that has emerged over the last several years, particularly of this thing called education technology, hinges its work on assessments.
00:49:03.720And they cook the books many times, like it's very, very, you know, dubious.
00:49:11.800Some of their evidence base, it's really not evidence based, but it's very important that we look at, understand that these government appointments help private industry and in some cases, not for profits that are actually working for profit.
00:49:30.440Got another headline for you, Glenn, because I know you love breaking news.
00:49:35.400Chip Slavin, the, I was just up late last night investigating this, but Chip Slavin, the interim president for the National School Board Association, he is actually, has been an advisor to an education technology company.
00:49:53.400And that company, and that company has, its founder is the chair of the commission that Garcia was appointed to.
00:50:14.920You, I can see your mind working, connecting the dots and understanding exactly what I just told you.
00:50:21.060So, so, yeah, it's incestuous and it's everything, it's just traditional, like gumshoe reporting that we have to do on this.
00:50:29.100And we have to remember always that school system that has your child walking through its doors is part of an industry.
00:50:37.840Like we have to always put now incorporated, you know, behind every, like it's Fairfax County Public Schools Incorporated.
00:50:46.940It really is, it's, it's really disgusting that they hide behind these are public schools and we hate corporations.
00:50:55.500Because as we saw with Common Core, a lot of the goals that are being set now by these corporations in the guise of helping students is just to make better workers for those corporations.
00:51:13.320Yeah, better workers and then also build a market, right?
00:51:21.740So, this is the rest of the story that I definitely want to make sure that you, we get time to talk about.
00:51:29.180So, so for the last four months, I've filed 200 plus FOIAs with the public school systems in America.
00:51:38.680And we created something that we've called the Consultant Report Card.
00:51:43.220And the last time I was on, I promised your listeners that I'm going to give them a top 10 list of companies to look for in their school district.
00:51:52.700Go to defendinged.org and look for the Consultant Report Card.
00:51:57.380And one of the first blogs that we've got, their blog post is the list of the top 10.
00:52:03.120But, but then beyond that, we've identified 200 plus companies and consultants that have raised over $20 million in contracts that we've documented.
00:52:16.940And, and you know, Glenn, this is just tip of the iceberg.
00:52:26.060And so right now we just dropped a piece in Real Clear Education that I want everyone to look at.
00:52:32.120Like go to my Twitter thread and I'll, I'll, I'll tag you on it also.
00:52:35.700But everyone needs to know, like this company Panorama Education as an example, they are using something called social and emotional learning to data mine your kids and psychologically profile them.
00:52:51.840And we have an example in our column today that I co-wrote with my colleague Erica Sanzi where you can see to nine students in Portland Public Schools in one particular school that one boy said that he was gay.
00:53:06.840Like, do I need to know, like, do I need to know that information?
00:53:16.740So I know now, and you know now, all you got to do is Google Portland Public Schools and Panorama Screener survey results.
00:53:24.860And you will know how many parents self-identify as questioning, as non-binary, as transgender, and then heterosexual since, you know, they count too.
00:53:36.900And this is all being done by the school district?
00:53:42.120So what is happening is the school district, this big enterprise, is outsourcing to these contractors like Panorama Education this work.
00:53:51.820And what we found in Fairfax County, Virginia, is that they are able to bypass all these privacy laws that are put in place to protect our young people by, you will not believe this, they put into the contract that Panorama Education officials are deemed school officials.
00:54:15.280And that's how they get access to the information.
00:54:18.160Let me go back to the school board association, the national school board association.
00:54:22.860We have Pennsylvania, Missouri, and Ohio now dropping out and saying we don't want anything to do with the national school board association because of the letter.
00:54:35.420Now with the news, not only of the letter, but the collusion with the White House and the money that is being made, and I think it was a letter to protect that money to the attorney general.
00:54:56.100Why aren't more state school board associations pulling out of the national school board association?
00:55:07.600So these are the ones that have pulled out, as you said, but our number now is at 21 states out of 50, right, that have distanced themselves and reprimanded the national school board association for their letter.
00:55:22.420So this is like, why wouldn't, why wouldn't they, why wouldn't they pull out though?
00:55:27.320Why would they, why are they just saying, Hey, this is about, what do they get from the national school board association?
00:55:33.140Yeah, you know, Glenn, it's the same machine, right, that Washington trade groups pull on state organizations or, or as you know, like we do this in industry, we do it in public, public office, like this is our public roles, like this is why the teachers union has such power, right?
00:55:54.640As a national, like they claim to represent the state and this, these are, I pulled the 990 on the national school board association.
00:56:04.360It's a multimillion dollar, uh, nonprofit, quote unquote, nonprofit.
00:56:09.660Um, and they, you know, they get, they, this, they just tell these, uh, these, uh, local folks, as you know, oh, we're going to represent you in Washington.
00:56:20.260We're going to get, um, you know, you know what they do, like they get their, their, the language and the appropriation language.
00:56:26.080They get money funneled to the States with whatever, you know, shenanigans they're trying to pull in DC.
00:56:32.020They claim that they can do it better.
00:56:34.140I have to tell you, I, uh, if you are a, uh, parent, you should go to your local school board and demand that they send the message to the state school board.
00:56:46.520You don't want anything to do with the national school board association.
00:56:52.040You now have two people, uh, that you can point to directly, uh, that are part of this incestuous, uh, I don't even a cabal, uh, that is his silencing parents and, uh, mining our children.
00:57:10.140You've got to get away from the national school board association.
00:57:14.880And no matter if they, you really think that they're doing things, they must be taught a lesson.
00:57:20.520And that lesson will only be taught when they lose everything.
00:57:28.320Nikki, um, our president put it really well yesterday when we were just chatting and she said, you know, they need a house cleaning and that house cleaning.
00:57:35.660It's only going to happen when the states revolt, basically.
00:57:40.020And they say that we will not participate in this war that you have launched against the very people in our communities that we were elected to represent.
00:58:08.060You know, Glenn, I have a 19 year old and I just thank the heavens that I don't have to take that decision that the parents of these young kids are having to navigate right now.
00:58:20.580Um, we have really failed our society and on this public health message.
00:58:25.840We, we, turning it into edicts and directives and, you know, much, much, um, much like the, this, you know, top down on school boards, you know, and trying to silence us as parents.
00:58:38.760Um, and so just, uh, what we encourage is please everyone, whatever position you have, advocate, you know, just you are the voices of your children.
00:58:49.980And whatever conclusion you come to from that place of reason and love that you have as a parent, please like overcome any fears that you have and look at, watch the videos of school board meetings.
00:59:04.320It was, you know, yesterday we spent the night all watching Loudoun County and it, and I, I don't want to drop that bomb in the last seconds of our conversation, but, but it's all indicative that like, it just takes one parent, you know, in every situation, one parent encourages contagious.
00:59:20.600Thank you so much, uh, Ezra, I appreciate it.
01:01:34.320So there is a problem with one of the 12 year olds, uh, Maddie.
01:01:39.720She got a clinical trial for COVID-19.
01:01:44.260Uh, the parents thought they were doing the right thing.
01:01:46.680Maddie, previously healthy, energetic, full of life.
01:01:50.060Within 24 hours of her second dose was reduced to crippling, screaming induced pain that landed her in the emergency room where she described feeling like someone was ripping her heart out through her neck.
01:02:02.320This according to her parents over the next several months, the nightmare continued during which Maddie was hospitalized several times and suffered numerous systematic injuries or systemic injuries, uh, requiring a tube through her nose that carries her food and medicine and a wheelchair.
01:02:19.480They document, the parents documented all of this, uh, the, uh, principal, uh, investigator for Pfizer at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, uh, where the vaccine clinical trial was occurring and Maddie was treated and admitted.
01:02:32.700They first tried to treat Maddie as a mental patient saying that this was all in her head.
01:02:38.960Then they claimed that whatever it was, was unrelated to the vaccine.
01:02:43.700Uh, when that argument failed, Pfizer listed this traumatic adverse event, uh, as functional abdominal pain when reporting it to the FDA.
01:02:53.980There are, uh, there, there was a, a real effort to cover this up by the FDA.
01:03:02.800I'm not saying that the FDA is evil and there's no reason to get this and it's a dangerous drug.
01:03:10.840I'm just saying we have to be careful.
01:03:14.160It is our children we're talking about, not us and not those of us who are older and are most likely to die from COVID.
01:06:29.360I mean, they want gas prices to be through the roof.
01:06:34.340That way, they can get you to buy an electric car.
01:06:37.040The problem with electric cars is if you're getting your energy through fossil fuels, a.k.a. coal, you're doing more damage to the planet than you are having a gasoline engine-powered car.
01:06:54.880And if it's not coal, it's likely going to be natural gas, which is also a fossil fuel, as some people might know.
01:07:02.020And they are cutting down on natural gas as well.
01:07:05.920They want to make sure that we stop with natural gas.
01:07:08.600That is one of the reasons why your fuel for your home to keep it warm.
01:07:15.280It's already snowing in some parts of the country, so you're already starting to see this.
01:07:19.420But your energy price to keep your heat going this winter is going to be anywhere from 50% to 80% higher than it was last year.
01:07:32.620So it doesn't, I mean, look, this is the climate agenda.
01:07:37.520It is the new normal that they talk about.
01:07:40.200You're not going back unless these things are stopped.
01:07:44.300I want to show you what they're doing tonight, what they're planning, and how going green is the biggest scam in American history.
01:07:51.980Tonight, Build Back Better Bankrupt, how Biden's climate agenda is going to financially ruin you.
01:07:59.160I want more alliteration in this title.
01:09:35.040Yeah, like Kyrie Irving was the bravest guy on the planet when he was basically recommending that the NBA shut down over the George Floyd protests.
01:10:10.220So anyway, yesterday he comes out and says, dear Nike, stop modern day slavery now.
01:10:17.800Then he challenged Nike founder Philip Knight, LeBron James, and Michael Jordan's brand to visit these slave labor camps, and you'll see it with your own eyes.
01:10:30.900He tweeted a pair of shoes covered in fake blood with the words, slave labor and hypocrite Nike.
01:11:45.680I think it's a small percentage of people who believe this nonsense, who want.
01:11:49.420And what did the professor say the other day, that scientific rigor was just an artifact of the white-run society?
01:12:01.680And it's like, no one actually believes that, right?
01:12:05.740I mean, there may be five people in academia who think that only white people actually are smart enough to participate in scientific rigor.
01:12:21.140I think, like, when it comes to the CRT stuff, when it comes to the gender craziness, when it comes to acting like we should ban and punish teams for criticizing Chinese death camps.
01:12:38.380Like, 99%, 95%, I don't know what it is.
01:12:44.180The American people inherently know that that's terrible.
01:12:47.520And you made the point earlier of when people see the side-by-side, they start to choose correctly.
01:12:56.380When one side is, let's punish dad for complaining at a school board meeting because his daughter was raped by someone in a skirt in the girl's restroom.
01:13:12.100I mean, that is just like, this stuff is so far and you hate to see the need for examples like this.
01:13:18.560But when people see these examples, they can't help but choose correctly, I think.
01:13:23.020Well, so what's going to happen with McAuliffe?
01:13:24.960Because, you know, he not only is tied right directly into all of the stuff of the school board, he's tied now into the statement that I don't think Virginians took very well with Barack Obama over the weekend.
01:13:37.880You know, that this is, you know, rape is just hype.
01:13:40.820It's nonsensical to talk about that, really?
01:13:43.160Yeah, that's a fake culture war battle, or is it really?
01:13:56.680People keep calling it a purple state.
01:13:58.380Occasionally, Republicans get close in these races, but it's been a while here.
01:14:02.380And, you know, this is a plus 10 Biden state.
01:14:05.240And if you view it through that prism, you should see McAuliffe, who's already been governor of the state, right, should win this by 10 or 12, right?
01:14:17.080But every poll is showing that this is basically a toss up at this point.
01:14:21.400Now, at the end of the day, you're in a state that is blue, just like we were in a state in California that is blue.
01:14:29.340And while it looked like Elder had a chance there maybe a few weeks before the election and it was kind of close, there was never a, I don't think a, it never got over 20% on predicted to win that race.
01:14:42.320Here, this is a, I think this is a, this is a closer one.
01:14:45.640If McAuliffe wins this race by two, this is a terrifying outcome for Democrats.
01:14:52.300And I think one of the things you talk about trying to stop this multi-trillion dollar spending bill, there's a lot of ways you can try to do it.
01:15:00.600You can call your congressman, man, sure, that's a great idea.
01:15:03.480But if there's any way you can participate in helping make Terry McAuliffe a loser in this race, you want to stop that bill, you will terrify Democrats if McAuliffe loses that race.
01:15:15.500Well, they didn't, it didn't last time.
01:15:19.380I mean, the last time when we had the Tea Party movement, that didn't really terrify the Democrats.
01:15:24.440I mean, you had the biggest wave election you've ever seen.
01:15:27.260Now, they had, they had already pushed through their big proposals there at that time.
01:15:33.760And that was part of the reason it was the biggest wave election we'd ever seen.
01:15:36.580But you had all those local elections the year before, just like this, that went away from the Democrats and the Democrats didn't flinch.
01:15:45.520And look, I think they will try, there still will be a lot of them.
01:15:48.800They also had 60 senators for that race.
01:15:51.660They didn't need, this is like, they have no margin for error here.
01:15:56.580And already you have multiple senators who don't want to go along with this.
01:16:00.660I mean, I think both Sinema and Manchin realize they're, they're putting themselves in danger if they, if they go ahead with this before this, this bill cannot pass.
01:16:10.420It can't pass because so many things that are required for, you know, the great reset are in this bill.
01:16:20.760And it just can't pass, just cannot pass.
01:16:24.640And if you, if you want to hear, I mentioned the daily, if you want to hear how desperate they want this, listen to the coverage from the New York Times about this bill.
01:16:34.140This is the greatest thing of all time.
01:16:35.660In fact, the only thing that might make it bad is that they've cut it.
01:16:40.480And the fact that they cut it to 1.5 might be the problem.
01:16:43.480And I haven't actually cut it to 1.5 yet, but it's something between 1.5 and 2 looks like the out, the last number, which means nothing because all of these, all they've done is do accounting tricks to get this to be $1.75 trillion.
01:23:11.580So when you're driving down the road, you know, sometimes I think to myself, man, I wish that check engine light would come on, you know, spend so long.
01:25:03.280Um, so tell me about the, uh, the Euro trash, because as I'm, as I'm looking at Europe, I have seen Europeans say, oh my gosh, America has gone crazy.
01:25:16.360Uh, and we're becoming so much like Europe.
01:27:37.600That's a perfect example of, of a European mindset where, when you, when you think about innovation and technology, the top 30 technological company, tech companies in the world, one is European, Spotify, and the rest are not.
01:27:55.380Why do Europeans come here to start their companies?
01:27:58.380Tons of our biggest companies are, are started by immigrants or children of immigrants here.
01:28:02.920Or it's because of things like this, taxing people's unrealized profits would, um, undermine the risk-taking venture and undermines investment.
01:28:13.360And it's exactly the sorts of things they do in Europe.
01:28:15.700I mean, every country is a little different, but that's, that's the mindset over there and we're bringing it over here.
01:28:19.660But they're not, but they don't tax unrealized gains, do they?
01:28:23.880I mean, I, I've never heard of that before.
01:28:48.340So have you ever, have you ever seen a president or really, really anyone do what Biden did when he went over to Europe and tried to get the Europeans.
01:28:58.400Americans to agree on a baseline corporate tax.
01:29:04.360So no one would be stealing corporations from, from each other.
01:29:14.640I mean, you know, a lot of people talk about one world government and sometimes it's down a little bit nutty, but I have to say when you have the United States trying to create a worldwide tax system, um, to, to, to stop competition, which is what that does.
01:29:29.220I just can't think of any American president that's done that.
01:29:32.740That would have been something that would lose you the election immediately.
01:29:36.200I mean, I just think I just, I can't, there's nothing I can even compare it to.
01:29:41.280I think one of the worst things that we have seen, um, and, and Afghanistan didn't help us on any front.
01:29:48.660I mean, we have now lost the, the moral center of the United States.
01:29:55.920I mean, and a lot of people had been convinced that, you know, America wasn't moral and, and in many ways we haven't been for quite some time.
01:30:03.800Uh, but we at least would go into Afghanistan and we would, uh, help our allies.
01:30:11.680We would help women and children, et cetera, et cetera.
01:30:14.680Um, we don't have that moral high ground anymore for our military where I don't think we're trusted anymore.
01:30:21.560And the other thing that is horrible is people used to view this country as a land of opportunity.
01:30:28.320Now they view us as a, a racist state.
01:30:33.800Um, yeah, they do, but still people stream to our borders to come in because it's just not true.
01:30:40.840And, you know, by any, again, quantifiable measure, and I go into this pretty deeply in the book, we are far less racist and more tolerant than any place.
01:30:49.700In my neighborhood, for instance, I live among people who would be killing themselves in many other situations and live peacefully here to send their kids to the same schools, et cetera.
01:30:58.500Um, but it is true that people think of us that way, um, wrongly.
01:31:02.980Show me, I believe that show me how they're more, uh, we're more tolerant than Europe because that's not what you hear ever.
01:31:12.260Well, let's talk about immigration then, you know, legal immigration, not, not illegal immigration, but think about assimilation in Europe.
01:31:19.400There are places in outside of Paris, outside of Berlin and elsewhere where there are basically ghettos, generational ghettos of high unemployment.
01:31:28.120I don't mean, you know, 10%, I mean, 35, 40%, um, that where people don't speak the language of the country, where they don't accept the customs and the ideals of the country.
01:31:38.760Uh, you know, people say diversity is our strength here.
01:31:42.240I mean, what's our strength here is that we have a diverse types of people who accept the same foundational ideas about living together or they used to, um, in Europe, you don't have any of that.
01:31:52.280These countries can't assimilate any group in a healthy way.
01:31:55.980And we do it all the time when, when we do it, right.
01:32:11.280There are, they have grudges that go back a thousand years.
01:32:13.780It's not as easy for them to accept other people.
01:32:17.120It is for us, but you know, I'll give you one quick, uh, poll number in France, 27% of people say they wouldn't want to live next to someone who wasn't like them, race, religion, whatever.
01:32:44.260Talk to David Arsani of National Review.
01:32:46.940David, one of the things I think is fascinating, and it's totally against the narrative that we hear from the media, is we need to be more enlightened like, uh, like Europe is.
01:32:58.120And one of the big issues they talk about is abortion.
01:33:00.620Like we, why don't we have women's rights like they do in Europe?
01:33:03.560Why don't we have abortion that anyone can get at any time?
01:33:14.020Europe, one of the better things they do better than us actually is have stricter abortion laws.
01:33:19.040But, you know, it's complicated because I don't think there really is a pro-life movement in Europe.
01:33:23.720So they sort of settled on a more moderate stance organically.
01:33:27.160There are very few religious people in Europe, and that's a big problem.
01:33:30.500Um, so there isn't that movement, but they are, there are a few things they do better.
01:33:35.640They have less homicides, um, you know, in urban areas and things like that because of our gun culture, which obviously I approve of in some ways, the murder part, but the gun ownership part.
01:33:46.380Um, and abortion and social policy, um, but some of their social policies, I mean, they do not value life in the same way we do.
01:33:56.600So why, so, so why do they, why are their laws more restrictive than, uh, than ours?
01:34:05.520Is it just from experience, the genocide that has happened in Europe over and over?
01:34:13.020Again, I wouldn't say their, their laws are stricter than ours in many places, not in some places, but let's say New York, but they're not, you know, they're still very liberal.
01:34:22.120They would be considered liberal by any stretch for us, I think.
01:34:24.980So I just think it's because there's, they, they moderate, I think the pro-life movement drives the progressive left to more extreme and extreme places, just this pushback.
01:34:36.120Now, you know, it used to be a, what was it?
01:34:38.340Safe and legal, um, and a rare safe and legal.
01:35:40.56091% of Finnish people are, you know, have a, have a, have a positive view of their government.
01:35:49.820So you can't have that here because we are diverse and we live in different sorts of places and we do different sorts of things and we have different cultural backgrounds.
01:35:56.960But in Scandinavia, people are, are more, more client there.
01:36:36.340It can't work when you have a truly diverse nation.
01:36:39.500David, there's this thing that Bernie Sanders and the left has done forever, which is like, oh, why don't we just have the healthcare of Sweden or Denmark or Finland, um, and apply it that way.
01:36:48.420And I think a little bit of that actually creeped into the right when it came to the COVID stuff, which was basically, they just said, well, why don't we just do all the things that Sweden is doing?
01:36:56.880Um, I mean, is there anything we can learn from these countries that seemingly have some things that they do correctly that we could bring here?
01:37:13.220And again, um, I wrote, started writing this book before COVID the COVID thing.
01:37:18.360It actually scared, scared me quite a bit in the way that we had politicians and bureaucracies, especially bureaucracies, just unilaterally running the country.
01:37:28.160The bureaucracies run the country and in Europe, bureaucracies are huge and multi-layered in ways that we can't even imagine.
01:37:35.120And, uh, you know, listen, the bureau, Donald Trump was elected.
01:37:38.060The bureaucracy decided they didn't want him to be president and, you know, and they undermine them every, every step of the way.
01:37:43.360The CDC decides it's going to run the country, um, during COVID.
01:37:46.800But these are scary things because it's not a democratic process, but it's not, certainly not a liberal in a good sense process.
01:37:53.760David, you said that you mentioned that Europeans are compliant.
01:37:57.600What are, were you surprised at the COVID reaction of the people in the United States and how much of this people kind of just went along with?
01:38:06.880It was, it was really scary that, uh, that a governor in Virginia could shut down the churches and people would be like, okay, I mean, I just don't even, I don't understand how that can happen here.
01:38:16.540And how are we, how are you feeling today?
01:38:19.480Are you more optimistic than you were a year ago?
01:38:44.640That's another thing, you know, Europeans think we're selfish, but we give around, and you know this, of course, seven times as much per capita as European.
01:38:53.660Senior writer at National Review, his new book is called Euro Trash, Why America Has to, Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent.
01:39:02.000That in and of itself is sad and frightening that Europe is dying, but it is, it's true.
01:59:25.020Because of all the racist voting laws that were occurring there.
01:59:28.920A nonsensical policy that they basically have admitted they were just running from the controversy, and they didn't believe this was a sensible move.
01:59:55.760So, they've proved it, basically, because now this commissioner, Manfred, who's the guy who's responsible for this, has to bounce back and forth between the two states who are most centrally talked about in the voting rights controversy, Georgia and Texas,
02:00:10.860and then has to give out the trophy in one of these two places where he will be mercilessly booed for his stance, especially in Atlanta, where, you know, again, obviously, half the fans there that go to these games are not conservative even.
02:00:28.740The workers aren't necessarily conservative, although the Braves did, at the time, call out the league and say, this is ridiculous.
02:00:37.120I mean, you're just pulling this out of our city because we didn't pass the law even, agree with it or not.
02:00:49.080And now they have to go to a place where not only do they have to deal with the voting rights thing, but a team that has the tomahawk chop in the audience.