The Economic Freedom Fighters, or EFF, is a Marxist-Leninist political party in South Africa. They are the third largest party in the country, and their leader, Julius Malala, has been on a warpath to take over white-owned land and hand it over to the black majority.
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00:15:32.040I happen to believe that all men are created equal, and we are endowed with certain inalienable rights, dare I say, those rights that come from God, not from man.
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00:18:06.740Bitcoin and cryptocurrency expert Tika Tiwari from the Palm Beach Letter wrote about an announcement that would bring enormous amounts of money into Bitcoin.
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00:19:41.220That, I think, if you get, if you go, the Phragina, people will know what you mean, because they'll know what, I guess you have to also determine what side of the body it's on for some reason.
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00:23:15.700Well, yesterday, Rose McGowan, after it was found out that her good friend, who is she using those tweets to defend against, you know, Harvey Weinstein accusations,
00:23:28.400her friend was now accused of diddling an underage boy and, you know, pretty much paying him off $380,000.
00:24:29.240I mean, were you not just telling us that you had to believe the survivor?
00:24:34.580Yeah, it's interesting because when you have personal information about one of the two individuals involved in one of these situations, sometimes you judge it differently.
00:24:44.640Maybe the additional information you have causes you to pause and judge the situation not out of anger and moral outrage, but as factual information that you've received about a person, an individual.
00:24:58.240And, you know, hang on, it might also be that you don't even know the person, but you say, hey, there should be a process.
00:29:12.240And, you know, look, I think she's actually right in the aspect of there is a major difference between Chelsea Handler jokingly grabbing somebody in a photo and somebody who is actually assaulted, like from Harvey Weinstein.
00:29:33.140That doesn't mean that either one is a good idea, but there's clearly a difference.
00:29:37.640Do you know anybody in your life, I mean, we know comedians, do you know anybody in your life that can legitimately say, I can't even count the number of people I've grabbed by the genitals in a photograph?
00:29:50.160I happen to be watching an office episode the other day, and in the office episode, Dwight and Pam are trying to decipher whether Jim is attracted to the new office worker.
00:30:01.660And in this, in this debate where they're trying to figure it out, Dwight takes on the task of trying to assess after they're together.
00:31:02.900She said breasts, our genitals, are those exclusively male, you cisgender white pig?
00:31:09.580I'm just saying that I'm trying to come up with a circumstance.
00:31:12.100My point, however, is more, I guess, targeted at the idea that there is a difference, right?
00:31:18.720There's no way, there's no story I can tell you in which a justified end of like, oh, and then he took off his bathrobe and forced her into the shower.
00:31:28.140There's not like a, there's not a scenario.
00:31:30.760So there is a difference, and we've pointed this out many times on the show, that there is a major difference between what Al Franken did and what Harvey Weinstein did.
00:31:38.720And they shouldn't be lumped in as the exact same thing.
00:31:41.660I'm talking about the photo part of it.
00:32:08.100That doesn't mean that any of it's good.
00:32:09.880But, I mean, when you're talking about, like, Louis C.K. is much different than Harvey Weinstein.
00:32:14.200You know, I think Glenn Thrush, who was one of the reporters, is much different than anything that we saw from, you know, the worst of the worst.
00:32:22.220And, like, the idea that all of those are lumped in under this thing, me too, is a problem, I think, that society has not figured out how to deal with yet.
00:32:31.380And so there's an element there where you could say, okay, well, what she's saying has some merit.
00:32:38.820However, Chelsea Handler is not a fair arbiter.
00:32:41.740And she's just defending this person because she likes him.
00:32:44.360I think we all recognize that the reason she's coming up with these wonderful excuses on these things is because she likes Al Franken.
00:32:50.420And if it was a conservative doing the exact same thing, she'd be on Twitter saying how horrible they were and they are all mass rapists and they should all go to prison.
00:34:22.000I mean, you know, the office is a good example that, you know, Packer who comes in all the time and is like talking about how he's having sex while he's women on the road.
00:34:29.560And he's always groping people and making inappropriate jokes.
00:37:50.860Washington Times published an interesting op-ed a few days ago.
00:37:54.100It's a list of conditions, criteria, that in author L. Todd Wood's words would be used to destroy society.
00:38:02.680He said, quote, if I want to destroy an enemy society and I had a long-term focus, I wanted to do it, you know, stealth and effectively, I would make the society destroy itself and I'd take away the ability for it to defend itself.
00:38:20.660Step one, I would destroy the religious ideals that brought the country together and held it together, allowing it to thrive and be exceptional.
00:38:28.760In short, I would destroy, in the West, Christianity.
00:38:31.660Two, I would destroy the family, the fabric of society.
00:38:35.840I would tear apart the nuclear family that produced stable children, future contributors to the nation's wealth and power.
00:38:42.400A society that does not reproduce is a dying society.
00:38:46.480Three, I would promote the concept of toxic masculinity and extremist feminism.
00:38:51.780What better way to make a society less masculine, less able to field a strong military?
00:38:56.740In short, I would feminize the male population, making it less effective in battle.
00:39:02.520Four, I would destroy the education system.
00:39:05.040I'd plant Marxist professors throughout the university system, teaching new generations nothing about American history, but filling their heads full of communist nonsense and propaganda.
00:39:16.120They would know nothing of Washington, Lincoln or Jefferson, but they would know of Malcolm X and Lenin.
00:39:24.500What better way and what better method of dividing and conquering than to foster a race war, filling minorities' heads full of lies of police brutality and developing a culture of hate towards law enforcement?
00:39:38.980Six, I would corrupt the federal government.
00:39:41.000I'd fill the intelligence and security services with traitors to the nation's founding.
00:39:46.400When any political figure arose that threatened my diabolical agenda, I would use these corrupt agencies to target and frame any rising star who loved America, even if he was a duly elected president of the United States.
00:39:57.380Seven, I would take away the population's means to defend itself, meaning I would take away their guns.
00:40:04.740The fear of an armed population would stop any invasion.
00:40:10.400Eight, I would destroy self-reliance and ingenuity by making over half of the population dependent on the government, unable to take care of themselves.
00:40:20.040Nine, I would use big tech to completely remove any viewpoint or ideas that were associated with the old America.
00:40:31.240I'd work with tyrannical powers all over the world to develop Internet censorship to eventually prevent any opposing views to be heard by anyone.
00:40:41.880Ten, I would corrupt the nation's leadership with money, finding those who would sell out their country for pieces of silver.
00:40:47.520I'd make sure that they were strategically placed in powerful positions on all sides.
00:40:52.080I'd shell out money through the legislature to make sure no laws were passed to oppose my agenda.
00:40:56.820Eleven, I would promote the disrespect of the nation's symbols.
00:41:02.600Yes, I would have people kneel during the national anthem.
00:41:05.000I would burn the flag, tear down statues of the nation's history.
00:41:08.460I would make sure people hate the very fabric of the nation that gave them such wealth and power.
00:41:14.180Twelve, I would find a straw man or a straw country who was also a malicious adversary to America,
00:41:21.820though much less powerful, and I would focus all the negative energy and recriminations towards this straw man country.
00:41:28.620In this manner, the targeted nation would be ignorant of my true intentions.
00:41:33.620He warns in his article, everything I've just written is happening right now in front of our eyes.
00:43:25.720Yeah, Freedom's Forge, and we'll get into it a little while, Freedom's Forge is just a tremendous, tremendous history book that I think everybody should have.
00:43:42.780If you were from, you know, India, you see Gandhi completely different, not Gandhi, Churchill completely differently than those in the West do.
00:43:51.960Yeah, I think that's probably true, especially today.
00:43:55.980I would say less so during the wartime period when you saw that there was a lot of respect, including by Gandhi, for Churchill for his defiant stand against the Nazis and his ability to really rally Britain,
00:44:13.140which a lot of Indians thought, hey, you know, Britain, it's on the decline, it's losing its credibility around the world, it's an imperialist power.
00:44:24.180And they were, I think, quite shocked and surprised with the way in which Churchill was able to rally the British people and then basically rally the free world to fight against Nazism.
00:44:34.520But you're right, today, a lot of the focus is on Churchill, you know, as a white supremacist, as supposedly the guy who triggered the Great Bengal Famine during the course of the war in 43-44.
00:44:54.140I think what you come to realize about the Great Bengal Famine is it was a concatenation of bad circumstances, the loss of Burma, which had been India's main source for rice imports,
00:45:09.600and a lot of mishandling on the ground by the British bureaucracy, the civil service bureaucracy basically failed to deal with the problem that for 30 years they had been assuring Indians they could deal with.
00:45:23.280I mean, it's big government in action, Glenn, and they failed utterly until Churchill appointed Archibald Wavell as viceroy,
00:45:34.100and he managed to turn the situation around with Churchill's encouragement.
00:45:38.460So, you know, Churchill, if I may speak on this subject, people talk about the similarities between Churchill and Donald Trump,
00:45:45.780and I don't think sometimes that's a bit overblown, but Churchill had his own version of tweets,
00:45:51.380which was his outbursts, especially in front of the War Council, in which he would denounce India for bothering him about the food shipments
00:46:04.380and about the need to divert food supplies to India when they were needed for the armed forces,
00:46:12.380and he was capable of saying some quite shocking things.
00:46:16.220And so, just as people focus on Trump's Twitter feed and think that that's a clue to understanding his mind and his policies,
00:46:26.140there's been a tendency to look at Churchill's kind of irritated outbursts.
00:54:09.660Yeah, I think there's a lot of truth to that.
00:54:13.000And what we come to realize is when you really study the history of intellectuals, right?
00:54:19.360And that would be an interesting book, wouldn't it?
00:54:21.500Intellectuals through history, particularly in the modern age.
00:54:24.120And what you come to realize is that contrary to their own self-image, they don't tend to be really supporters of liberty and freedom.
00:54:34.360You look at the role that, for example, German academics played during the Nazi period, when they basically closed ranks with the government,
00:54:44.140expelled their Jewish colleagues, and signed petitions lining up in support of the Third Reich.
00:54:53.360During the 1930s, you had a similar group, think, on the far left, supporting communists and fellow traveler organizations signing petitions,
00:55:05.060which got them into trouble in the 1950s.
00:55:07.260And then in the 1950s, when there were attacks on dissent and scrutiny from government about the curricula that was being used in classes,
00:55:23.600in sociology, and in the social sciences generally, in literature,
00:55:30.180where the universities, with a few exceptions, basically went along with the attacks.
00:55:36.380When Bertrand Russell, for example, the British philosopher, was denied entry into the country because of his atheism,
00:55:47.480there were some academics who stood up for his right to speak, even if they disagreed, like Sidney Hook,
00:55:52.940and there were others who did not, many others who didn't.
00:55:55.840And I think what we're seeing right now is that the radicalization, the long march through the institutions,
00:56:02.360remember that line from the 1960s, has really come into its own in the American Academy,
00:56:09.240in the humanities, in the liberal arts, and in the social sciences.
00:56:14.280And what they've done is to create a kind of, I'm going to use this term, intellectual gulag,
00:56:19.860in the sense that if you don't adhere to the party line, if you even waver from it or express doubt about the wisdom of having such a party line,
00:56:31.020then punishment is meted out to you, not beatings and attacks, unless, of course, you're Charles Murray,
00:56:38.280but with being silenced and being denied tenure and coming under attack.
00:56:44.060The difference, of course, Glenn, and the irony is that this is all being done,
00:56:48.360not as a result of government pressure being put to bear on institutions,
00:56:52.320as was the case, you know, with the universities in Nazi Germany or universities during the so-called Red Scare.
00:56:59.500This is pressure coming from within, from administrators and radicals.
00:57:04.080If you look at Nazi Germany, though, a lot of that was internal pressure as well, not just from the government.
00:57:11.140I mean, especially when it comes to science, the, you know, the doctors and the nurses were...
00:57:16.560That's right, which I've written about, as you know, written about in my Idea of Decline book,
00:57:20.480about the influence of race science and eugenics, all done, of course, in the interest of progressive...
00:58:40.200Well, I will tell you, I, I, with you, unlike you, I share a great optimism about where the American experiment is headed long term.
00:58:50.160I think we're in a very unhealthy place right now.
00:58:53.760But these have happened in American history.
00:58:56.680You know, we had a, we had a, had a moment like this in 1860.
00:59:01.960By the way, that is not to say that I think we're on the verge of a 1860, 1861 type of national catastrophe.
00:59:10.520But I think that the aspect of division that's taken place here, a division which really is going to be very difficult for us to resolve with kind of the normal politics and the way in which these issues have been resolved in the past.
00:59:27.960You know, we had terrible divisions during the McCarthy period.
00:59:31.520You know, people were routinely accusing Truman and his band of advisors of being traitors, of being basically the tools of Moscow.
01:00:33.480I think social media in the end has been a tremendous benefit.
01:00:38.460And I think it will be a very powerful and constructive tool.
01:00:42.260But what it has, what has happened in the short term, and this is what happened with the printing press, you know, in the 16th century, is that it's become a means by which every kook and every angry person now is able to express themselves in more and more violent and more and more extreme terms.
01:01:01.900And I think what we've reached is a kind of cycle of verbal violence in our media, not just the social media, but the mainstream media.
01:01:10.480Turn on CNN and look and see what happens there or MSNBC.
01:01:14.760And I think we have a president right now who, unlike other politicians, doesn't try to avoid conflict and, you know, and veers towards compromise at every turn.
01:01:27.900And I think that's one of the reasons why he was sent to Washington by the voters, was that they said, look, you are going to be our bull in the China shop because there's a lot of crockery there that badly needs breaking.
01:01:41.040And we're in the we're washing the breakage and the reaction of those whose livelihoods, whose careers, whose worldviews were built on that old, decaying Washington establishment.
01:01:54.820And I think there's going to be a fight to the finish here, Glenn.
01:01:58.080So I don't think it's I don't think I don't think that Trump won't quit.
01:02:02.400I don't think Mueller and the political establishment are going to quit.
01:02:06.100I think they're too committed into this.
01:02:08.600And it's going to be a fight as to which to the end when which one edifice or the other collapses.
01:02:14.300I think the Washington establishment is the one that's going to be the loser in all this.
01:02:19.240And I think that we are going to come out a lot stronger with a renewal of the American experiment as a result of it.
01:02:28.480But it's going to be it's going to be an ugly process.
01:02:32.000So how do you when you have people now on both sides that are so angry, so they feel like they've been squashed, not listened to the other side isn't listening.
01:03:37.000And it and it leads to that sense of of of division, which feels more or less more or less permanent, which I don't think is the case.
01:03:44.400But it's been heightened by the way in which the media now has become a means by which to whip it, to whip up this kind of frenzy in this kind of hysteria, social media included, of course.
01:03:55.000But I think that I think the worries on both sides are very real.
01:03:58.340You know, you look at the 20 somethings, right, who have signed on to socialism, their minds having been infected with the idea that socialism, even communism, is a viable alternative to capitalism or even a superior alternative to capitalism, because they don't know the history.
01:04:14.220They don't know the reality of countries like Cuba, Venezuela, Cambodia in the past and the Soviet Union in the in the cold in the Cold War days under Lenin and Stalin and others.
01:04:27.320But what drives them is a deep anxiety about where their future lies.
01:04:33.180You know, when you have an entire generation, Glenn, who are saddled with, you know, five figure student debt coming out of school and who have that millstone around their necks, which they can't escape and in which their earning power in real terms is reduced in order to to to serve that,
01:04:53.520who have a feeling that the degrees to which they were convinced by their advisers and by universities that they needed to get in conflict resolution or sociology or international relations is actually not going to get them very far anywhere to solve the problems of where they want to go in the life that they want.
01:05:13.820They're going to look to government to solve that problem. And then you look at the people who supported Trump and who still do in the sense that they were abandoned.
01:05:21.620Trump calls him the forgotten man. Right. Borrowing a term from our friend, Amity Schlaes, that the forgotten man of the 1930s is now the forgotten communities in America's heartland in the 19 in the 1990s and the 2000s.
01:05:35.800And for them, what they see is just as you were saying is an America that they grew up with, America whose promise was part of the way in which those communities live together and were able to find solidarity, being pulled apart, being denigrated, being attacked from the opening moments of the NFL game to the way in which immigrants and illegal immigrants from stream across the border.
01:06:05.700And are considered by one political party is more of that their lives, more valuable and their their welfare, more important than those of their fellow Americans.
01:06:15.280And you are you are definitely having a setting up a situation, a formula for some really serious social and political conflict.
01:06:26.140And that's kind of where we're stuck right now. Not forever. This is where we are now.
01:06:30.600You know, you know, better than most. The one thing we haven't injected into this is real fear like a war.
01:06:39.580I mean, you know, you wonder how anyone could believe that aliens were attacking, you know, when Orson Welles did War of the Worlds.
01:06:47.860It wasn't that the medium was it wasn't just that the medium was new.
01:06:52.180They were used to hearing all about this foreign enemy that was going to be invading and the fear lived.
01:07:01.920They were living it daily. Plus, you add into that any kind of economic collapse.
01:07:08.040We don't have the infrastructure anymore. I mean, the the personal infrastructure anymore to be the people that we were that our grandparents were.
01:07:17.860Now, we face some enormous challenges, Glenn. And I've been talking about this.
01:07:23.080You know, the Freedom's Forge is a book which is now really beginning to grab the attention of policymakers at the Pentagon and elsewhere.
01:07:31.820And two weeks ago, in fact, I was at a meeting at the National Defense University organized by the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment,
01:07:41.840which is the one that looks that's the office that looks ahead what's coming up on the horizon.
01:07:46.240And the discussion was, would the United States be able to mobilize in the event of a protracted conflict with a near peer competitor?
01:07:54.300And they brought me there to talk about it. Freedom's Forge has become very much sort of one of the one of the key texts for discussing these issues about mobilization at the Pentagon,
01:08:04.540also with the White House. And it's very gratifying to see that happen and know that your words can have an impact, you know, on where policy is going.
01:08:14.480But what I stress to them, as I said, look, from the point of view of mobilization, we've got two issues.
01:08:19.480One is on the technical and industrial side. And there's a there's a host of reasons why this is going to become a challenge.
01:08:26.480There's, you know, our traditional defense industrial base has decayed. There's no doubt about that.
01:08:31.760We're going to have to look in World War Two. We had the industrial base that was necessary and sufficient to mobilize.
01:08:38.560Today, we're going to have to have a global supply chain and look to our allies to help that with the new technologies that under that underpin weapon systems of the future.
01:08:47.820Under AI and quantum technology and 3D printing and robotics, that we're going to have this is a whole different way of thinking about what an industrial base is.
01:08:59.100We'll have to look at commercial companies. But Glenn, the other thing that I stress to them was the real obstacle we're going to face is not in the industrial economic areas, in the cultural area.
01:09:09.620In World War Two, when Bill Newton, as I described in my book, went to meet his fellow colleagues in the auto industry and their suppliers and said, we need to help build planes, to build parts for planes, to build tanks.
01:09:25.120They said, Bill, we'll do it. Our country calls and we'll answer.
01:09:28.860I don't think we have that kind of response from our leading industrial and economic powers today, especially in Silicon Valley.
01:09:36.300If you look at what Google did with 3,000 employees protesting Google's contract to work with the Pentagon on Project Maven and saying, we don't want to go in that way.
01:09:49.740And then on the other side, you've got Google building in China an AI research center hiring Chinese research scientists who are developing AI.
01:10:00.940They're going to be using for their military. We have a problem.
01:10:55.100Well, I think we should really talk about this and get your audience involved with this, too.
01:10:59.480Because we are facing a high-tech STEM crisis, you know, science, technology, engineering, and math crisis, that is really going to affect how we're able to handle national security issues in the next decade.
01:11:12.200And this is something that needs to be addressed now.
01:11:15.440The Pentagon is getting its mind around it, but we need to get the American public behind it.
01:11:19.940I've been talking about a Manhattan project for this very thing.
01:49:16.760And so what it does is it looks at what your parameters are, what you're looking for, and then it scans thousands of resumes that are all over the Internet.
01:49:25.220Then it goes and it finds those people and says, you know what, this job fits you.