Ep. 1079 - Out With The Old And In With The New Communist Regime
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In the wake of the death of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, many have been quick to compare him to former Vice President Joe Biden. But in many ways, he was a lot like the man we need right now.
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Yesterday, Mikhail Gorbachev, the final secretary general of the Soviet Union,
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the man who, with Ronald Reagan, brought about the peaceful end of the Cold War,
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died at the age of 91. Some of our younger listeners might not remember Gorbachev,
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might not even know who he was. Gorbachev was, at the time of his death, quite elderly,
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a prominent figure in politics since the 1970s, pretty much never had a job outside of government,
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president presided over the demise of a once powerful nation and empire. His policies
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hastened his empire's demise, and he was a fellow traveler with actual communists.
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Gorbachev was, in many ways, a lot like Joe Biden. But that is not really fair to Gorbachev,
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and I don't mean to speak ill of the dead, either Gorbachev or Biden. Gorbachev was,
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in many ways, a much better man than Joe Biden. Damning praise, I know. But he was,
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in many ways, a great man in his own right. Reagan needed him to end the Cold War,
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which occurred without a shot fired. And he was committed to a new course of reform for his
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empire. A new course summed up in two policies, glasnost and perestroika. Transparency in government
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and a fundamental restructuring of the political and economic order. That is probably the biggest
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difference of all between Biden and Gorbachev. The old top commie was far more willing to root
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out government corruption and give his people an increased say in politics and the economy than
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ring.com slash Knowles. Gorbachev died. Gorbachev, I think, is the man that we need right now. I would
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strongly support a Gorbachev in 2024. The policies we need right now, give me the Republican who will
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run on glasnost and perestroika. Because it is really disturbing, but 30 years after the fall of
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the Berlin Wall, the United States in many ways resembles our old vanquished foe, the Soviet
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Union. You've got this weak economy. You've got political corruption everywhere. You've got the
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police, the federal police force being used essentially as the private security and bullying
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team of the ruling party. There's essentially one ruling party in the country. You've got imperial
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possessions falling apart around the world. We're not in a great situation right now. We're not in a
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great situation at all. The difference is that Gorbachev was kind of lovable and Joe Biden is not
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really lovable. If Biden ever was lovable, which I never found him particularly charming, but a lot
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of people did. That's gone. I mean, good old back slapping Joe. I love you, kid. Come on now,
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Jack. Hey, come on. That guy's gone. Now he's just an angry, screaming old man who calls everyone a
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racist and says half the country is fascist. Unlike Gorbachev, who will probably best be remembered
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in terms of his actual appearances, video footage of him, will probably best be remembered after the
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fall of the Soviet Union for starring in a Pizza Hut commercial. It's an amazing commercial.
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Walking around Moscow and then he sits down in a Pizza Hut. I'll translate. It's Gorbachev.
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It is Gorbachev. Because of him, we have economic confusion. Because of him, we have opportunity.
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Because of him, we have political instability. Because of him, we have freedom. Complete chaos,
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hope, instability. Because of him, we have many things. Like Pizza Hut. And then they all agree,
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even the big critic. Hail to Gorbachev. Hail to Gorbachev. Hail to Gorbachev.
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This Pizza Hut commercial, more than any other symbol, sums up the fall of the Soviet Union.
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More than the fall of the Berlin Wall. The fact that you have the former Soviet leader starring
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in a commercial for this Western capitalist chain pizza franchise, sums it all up.
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And what it did sum up for the Russian people, even in all of the corruption and all of the
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craziness that surrounded the fall of the Berlin Wall, was economic opportunity. Okay,
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we're going to liberalize the markets. We're going to get the economy going again after decades of
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decline. And so Gorbachev has this complicated legacy. But it does remind us of something that's
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really important. You need economic growth. You need prosperity. Prosperity will paper over a lot
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of bad things. And because we don't have that prosperity now, because the economy in the United States
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is in such a bad shape, because we've got 40-year high inflation, because of all the problems in
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our economy, all of those long-simmering cultural tensions are bursting out into the open right now.
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And you've got the leader of our country, unlike the lovable, peaceable Gorbachev, you got the leader
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of our country, Joe Biden, coming out calling half the country fascist. And then just yesterday coming
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out and saying that we need to give up our guns, give up our Second Amendment rights. There's no way
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you'll ever fight the government. You're going to need an F-15 to fight the government, because we
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are going to, if we wanted to, we could put that boot on your neck so hard, you wouldn't know which
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end was up. The rights granted by the Second Amendment are not unlimited. They're not unlimited.
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Right now, you can't go out and buy an automatic weapon. You can't go out and buy a cannon.
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And for those brave right-wing Americans who say it's all about keeping America, keeping America's
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independent and safe, if you want to fight against the country, you need an F-15. You need something
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a little more than a gun. No, I'm not joking. Think about this. Think about the rationale we use,
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that's used to provide this, and who are they shooting at? Shooting at these guys behind me.
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So first of all, on his claims of fact, they're just not true. You couldn't get a cannon. Yes,
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you could. You can still, by the way. You can still buy a cannon. If you want to fight the
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government, if you wanted to fight the American government, you would need an F-15. You couldn't
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just have a gun. That's interesting. What does Afghanistan have to say about that? Because last time
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I checked, the goat herders in Afghanistan were able to fend off the Americans in a 20-year war
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with little more than black powder rifles. Afghanistan is the size of Texas.
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So no, I think you could. In this kind of doomsday scenario where the government turns tyrannical and
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starts attacking the American people, first of all, you don't think that some members of the US
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military are going to defect at that point. I don't think, most military service members I know
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are pretty patriotic people. I don't think they'd fire on their own citizens. Furthermore, you don't
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think that if a bunch of Afghani goat herders could defeat the United States in a 20-year war,
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that the American people ourselves could maybe push back a little against corruption and abuse?
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I think probably we could. I'm not convinced of that otherwise. But furthermore, Joe Biden saying
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this sort of thing amounts to a kind of a threat, right? This is on the heels of Biden calling half
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the country fascist, Biden calling half the country racist and saying that Donald Trump's a white
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nationalist and a racist and all these things. This is on the heels of Biden's DOJ classifying parents
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who don't want their kids to have their genitals lopped off in school as terrorists. This is on
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the heels of Biden sicking the FBI on his predecessor and chief political rival. This is on the heels of
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terrible economic growth. This is on the heels of weakness abroad. It's like it's 1989 all over again.
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But somehow the roles are reversed and we're living in the Soviet Union. And unfortunately,
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we don't have a good leader like Gorbachev running the show. It's like we've got, I don't know,
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Joe Biden makes Brezhnev look like a youthful and vigorous person, okay? It's like we've got all
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those old, decrepit, you know, weekend at Bernie's kind of Soviet leaders. That's who Biden's like.
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I don't want to besmirch Gorbachev's memory by comparing him to him. Even the libs are realizing
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this is just going too far. There's a CNN panel that just came out and said, hey, Biden,
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The term semi-fascist is not helpful. It's not befitting the office of president.
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Well, you can absolutely call out the dangers to our democracy, but it makes obviously perfect
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sense for someone like Senator Hassan because, look, in New Hampshire, 40, more than 40 percent
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of registered voters are independents, right? I mean, another, another, another 30 and change
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are Republicans. Democrats are the third category among registered, registered voters. So she needs
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to be able to reach out. And that language doesn't help her do that.
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And Ashley, you're being kind in terms of trying to parse and put what he said into a certain context.
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The takeaway from Republicans is that the president of the United States who campaigned
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on, won on, and was sworn in on a message of unity, lowering the temperature and bringing
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this country together, just called half of the country fascist.
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And you can parse it how you want, but that's the takeaway. And then Maggie Hassan was right.
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He painted the Republican Party as a bunch of fascists.
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This isn't a one-time thing. I mean, Biden has all the precision, you know, of a surgeon
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with a meat ax here. I mean, when, when, when Republicans wouldn't go along with his
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bill to federalize all elections, he said, well, you're either Jefferson Davis or Bull
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Connor. I mean, his natural instinct is to go to an extreme insult sort of, so you're
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It's almost the whole panel there. It's not even just like the one lone sort of fake conservative.
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It's almost the whole panel on CNN saying Biden is too far. He's divisive. He's angry.
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He's, he's speaking in such a way that doesn't befit the office of the president. This is CNN.
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Why? Why is CNN saying this? Is it because they all of a sudden they got a conscience? I doubt it.
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Is it because all of a sudden they're conservative? I doubt that too. I think they're, they're saying we
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need to correct course here because they realize that the people are turning on them. They're looking
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at the generic congressional ballot. They're looking at the reaction of the actual American people.
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And they're saying, yikes, we are losing them, folks. We need a little glass and
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You remember how for two and a half years, the big tech companies censored you anytime you
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questioned any of the lib authorities on COVID. They would censor you. They would de-platform you
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in some cases, kick you out of the public square. You, the ordinary American, also elected politicians,
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also even scientists in some cases. And then when the science, when the political realities all ended
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up justifying and validating all the things that we skeptics had said from the beginning, then big tech
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denied it. They said, no, nothing to see here. Move along, move along. We can't let them move along.
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What they did during COVID to censor us is one of the biggest political shifts I've ever seen in my
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life. We've got the receipts. Don't let them memory hole this thing. We got a video out on my
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YouTube channel. Make sure you go check it out. It is big tech's endless present. This is a COVID
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blacklist timeline, point by point by point. I know they're going to try to memory hole and delete all
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of the old clips and all of that evidence. Don't let them do it. Educate yourself, arm yourself with
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that knowledge. Don't let them do it again. The libs are going way, way too far. The California State
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Assembly has just passed a bill that seeks to establish California as a sanctuary for children
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seeking transgender medical treatment, as well as their pervert parents who want to put the kids
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through these kinds of genital mutilations and experimental hormone therapies. The legislation
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is called SB 107. The bill's author is Senator Scott Wiener. Because all nature is but art unknown to
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thee. Because that's just Providence kind of winking, I think. Just the kind of humorous order,
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even to this very fallen world, winking through Scott Wiener. If you've heard that name before,
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we've mentioned him on the show. Scott Wiener is that sexual degenerate who made it his mission,
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his crusade in the California legislature to soften the punishments for pederasts, for grown men who
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have sex with little boys. He said it was very unfair. There were unfair and unequal treatments for
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pederasts. And so Scott Wiener decided to take up their cause. And now in the least surprising turn
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of events in the news that you've ever seen, the man, the degenerate who wanted to soften the
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punishments for pederasty now wants a bunch of sexually confused kids to come to his state.
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Isn't that shocking? Never, never saw that one coming. Did you? Sick stuff. Only, you know,
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furthering the nickname for Los Angeles and San Francisco is Gomorrah, Sodom and Gomorrah by the
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sea. Really awful, awful stuff. Everyone involved in this, the senator, Scott Wiener, the parents,
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the doctors, these shaman witch doctor quacks who are lopping off the genitals of kids or pumping them
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full of hormones and puberty blockers to get them ready to start lopping off their genitals. All these
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people should be in prison. All of these people should be ostracized from society. There's no
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question about that. And I don't, I don't want to hear any state's rights argument for it either.
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Okay. There's the kind of squish position, which is, well, listen, if California wants to lop off
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the genitals of kids, that's their business. That's their right. That's, no, they don't have a right to
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do that. They don't. Scott Wiener doesn't have a right to do this. These quack doctors don't have a
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right to do this. The parents don't have a right to do this either. And we are not only justified,
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we actually have an obligation to say that. No. So you don't get to, you don't get to put little
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kids through all sorts of mutilations to make the little boy look more like a little girl.
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No one has the right to do that. There's no right from democracy. There's no right from the sexual
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revolution or anything else. When they're not chopping up the little kids, they are, they are
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killing the little kids and a lot of other people too. This, not just in California, but up in America's
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top hat, Canada. In Canada now, they are very heavily pushing assisted suicide.
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They use another euphemism. It's not just euthanasia, which was the euphemism for many
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years for assisted suicide. It means a good death, even though it's not a good death at all,
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because suicide is basically the worst kind of death you can imagine. But now they call it MAID,
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MAID, medical assistance in dying. And Canada in over the last six or so years has been really
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aggressive in pushing assisted suicide to the point that we're not just talking about a few
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marginal cases. Because I know even there are a number of conservatives sometimes who will say,
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well, look, if an old person has all sorts of terrible diseases and is going through an intense
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amount of pain, maybe in that rare case, it should be okay for that person to be able to kill himself.
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I don't think that's true, but I can see why some people might start to believe that.
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But the thing about assisted suicide is it cannot remain just a kind of fringe,
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one in a million kind of case. The moment that you legalize assisted suicide,
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assisted suicide is going to explode and it's going to become a huge percentage.
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of deaths every single year. This is what you're seeing in Canada.
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Only recently did Canada really start to legalize assisted suicide and start to peddle this stuff.
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Now, as of last year, over 3% of deaths in Canada are through suicide. I'm sorry,
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through assisted suicide. There are other suicides as well. Over 3%. That's a huge number.
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And it's only going to grow. And now the Canadians are going to push it on little kids. I'm not joking.
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There's a piece here. It's in the Ottawa Citizen on expanding medical assistance in dying to mature
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minors. So what they're saying is, no, we're not just going to kill any little kids.
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We're going to kill minors who can make their own decisions. Now, the thing about minors is they
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can't make their own decisions. That's why we have age of consent laws. That's why it is illegal for
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you right now, listening to this show, to sleep with a 16-year-old. You can't, if you're over,
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whatever, 19 or 20 or whatever, whatever the laws are in your state. If you're over, if you're not a kid
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anymore, it is illegal for you to sleep with someone who is a minor. Why is that? Because
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we have age of consent laws because we say that young people just are not fully in command of
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their faculties to make these kinds of important decisions. Now, the libs are trying to turn that
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on their head. They're saying, yes, it's true. A 16-year-old can't make a decision about whether
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or not to have a one-night stand. But a six-year-old can make the decision about whether to permanently
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destroy his or her genitals and sterilize themselves and give themselves all kinds of
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problems and osteoporosis and all kinds of persistent conditions for the rest of their lives
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because they do have autonomy. They do have agency. Obviously, they don't.
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Now, Canada is going to take it even further. They're going to say, hold my beer.
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Hold my labats. Hold my golden molson. Sorry. I'm just doing my Jordan Peterson impression.
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Not only are we going to let the children have a one-night stand. Is it becoming Irish? I don't
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know. Not only are we going to let the kids chop off their genitals, but we're going to let the
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kids kill themselves as well. Sorry. That's what they're saying now. That's insane. To clarify,
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Jordan Peterson is not saying that, but all the lunatics up in Canada are saying that.
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They are saying that. And this is the logical conclusion, of course.
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It was always the logical conclusion of all of this. Which kids do you think are going to be
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killed through assisted suicide? Do you think it's going to be just the happy, normal, well,
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no, it's going to be the disabled kids. What this is going to amount to is just another aspect of the
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system of eugenics that the libs have been pushing through abortion primarily. But now if they
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don't get them at the very beginning of their lives, they're going to get them shortly thereafter.
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And they're going to say, oh, you're disabled, you're sad, you're depressed. Okay, 12-year-old,
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well, you can make the mature and informed decision to kill yourself, and we're going to support you in
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that. Ghastly, ghastly stuff. There was a news story that came out yesterday that the largest child
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sacrifice in human history has just been excavated in Peru. It was not the Incas, but it was the
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civilization before the, I forget what they're called, the Chimayas or something. It was the
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civilization that the Incas conquered, and they found 450 child sacrifices around the age of 10
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or 12 in this altar pit. I thought, wow, that's pretty bad. But those guys don't have anything on
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modern Westerners. Not even close. We sacrifice 850,000 babies a year through abortion. It's not even
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clear. Even the Aztecs on their worst day didn't get that far. And now look at what we're doing in
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Canada. Even if you want to say, implausibly, I think, that babies aren't really babies. If a baby's
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in the womb, the baby's not really a human being or not really alive. That's a silly argument. But
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okay, now we're talking about kids who are like 8. We're talking about kids who are 12. And Canada
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is saying, in a really serious, sophisticated way, that Justin Trudeau, you know, smiley, really nice,
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happy way. Yes, we're going to let the disabled kids die. We're going to kill them. We're going to have
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doctors kill the disabled kids if they get a little sad sometimes. And that'll be better for
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everybody, don't you think? No, of course not. Of course not. We all know that this is evil.
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Okay? The left is for it because the left supports evil things. That's just what the left is. Even the
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very term left in politics comes out of the French Revolution. And it was the people who sat on the
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left of the National Assembly who were attacking the church. It's just an attack on God. When it really
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gets down to it, that's what leftism is. So we all know it's evil. The left is for it because the left
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supports evil things. And the right is just kind of impotent because the right can't really articulate
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the definition between good and evil. Some conservatives can, but the ones who have
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fallen into the squishiness of the you do you and well, who's to say what's good or bad, man? Or
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don't force me to do anything. Or I'm not going to impose my views on anybody, man, whatever.
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They adopt all of these kind of silly libertarian-ish platitudes. They can articulate what to do about
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this. The only language that the right has been able to use in recent decades is the language of
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autonomy, the language of choice. So they're going to say, well, if they oppose this at all, they're
00:24:10.420
going to say, well, it's wrong because the kids can't choose. The kids can't freely consent.
00:24:15.620
It's fine for adults to kill themselves, but it's wrong for kids because the kids can't freely
00:24:21.120
consent. That's not primarily what's wrong with it. The thing that's primarily wrong with it is that
00:24:26.540
it is always wrong to kill yourself. It's a grave, grave sin because you do not own your body. You
00:24:31.540
didn't bring yourself into this world. You have no right to bring yourself out of this world. Your
00:24:35.380
life is a gift to you from God. You are a steward of yourself and your body, and you have
00:24:40.540
responsibilities. You don't just get to do whatever the hell you want to do all the time.
00:24:46.220
You have duties and responsibilities to the moral order, which is real and which we in our country
00:24:53.320
are denying every bit as much. We talk about evil empires, the Soviet Union. It genuinely was an
00:25:01.240
evil empire. And we talk about evil empires like the Aztecs and all those people practicing human
00:25:05.900
sacrifice down there in Latin America. Well, I think the moderns ought to take a little look in the
00:25:11.380
mirror, okay? Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself because the stuff that we're delving
00:25:16.380
into right now, really, really wicked stuff would make the Aztecs blush.
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delivered. Speaking of bad things that everyone seems to agree upon, there is a new trailer that's
00:26:07.340
out on Netflix. And this one shook me. I got really shook. The trailer is for a show called
00:26:14.020
Athena. And the show depicts a civil war in which the Arabs and the Africans in France
00:26:20.940
overthrow the French. And this results in a kind of a civil war. Now, the trailer is in French. So I
00:26:28.600
will harness all of my, you know, Pepe Le Pew linguistic skills to translate it for you. Here's
00:26:34.720
the trailer. You see this guy who looks, I don't know, Arab or Algerian or something like
00:26:45.640
that. He's walking through the streets. There's violence all around him. He's walking, he's on a
00:26:56.100
mission. And then there's these words appearing on screen, but it's not fully there yet.
00:27:08.080
I greatly apologize for my poor French pronunciation there. But it's by Sophocles. And so the line
00:27:16.640
means when destiny strikes, when destiny strikes, no one can escape the misfortune. No mortal person
00:27:29.540
can escape the misfortune. And so what is this predicting? This is saying this is destiny. This
00:27:35.940
is fate. You are going to have a race war in France and it's going to cause the collapse of the government
00:27:41.220
in the society. And you're going to have a civil war, a war between the French on one side and the
00:27:47.080
Africans and the Arabs on the other side. And what's so interesting about this to me is that it's
00:27:52.620
one, it's being put out by Netflix. So this is a lib vision of society. And the libs have talked about
00:27:59.620
these kinds of racial politics and oppression narratives and overcoming and resistance and toppling
00:28:06.500
the powers that be for a very long time. And you've also heard this kind of dread on the right. So
00:28:12.880
that's from the left. On the right, you've heard a kind of dread, which is, gosh, if we keep this
00:28:16.100
stuff up, guys, we're going to have racial conflict and you're going to have this. And if we just flood
00:28:20.540
the country with migrants, but we don't assimilate any of them, then you're going to have a lot of
00:28:23.920
ethnic and racial conflict. And that could really lead to a lot of social instability. And what's so
00:28:28.400
amazing to me about the trailer is everyone agrees on it. Everyone seems to agree
00:28:35.480
that this kind of conflict is not only possible, but maybe likely. The line from Sophocles here is
00:28:42.540
that it's a destiny. It's inevitable that this is going to happen. The only difference here is that
00:28:47.700
the conservatives are saying this would be a bad thing. We dread this. We don't want to see this
00:28:51.560
kind of conflict. And the libs seem to think it would be a very good thing, something heroic,
00:28:56.180
something worth celebrating. This gets back to something I've cited a number of times on this show
00:29:01.420
recently. It's what Mike Anton calls the celebration parallax. When the libs say something
00:29:08.180
and then the conservatives repeat verbatim what the libs just said, the conservatives will be called
00:29:14.620
crazy conspiracy theorists. The libs are allowed to say it and celebrate it. But the moment the
00:29:19.760
conservatives repeat it in a way to perhaps criticize it or warn about it, they're called crazy.
00:29:25.600
They're just simply not allowed to say the very same thing that the libs are. If a conservative
00:29:31.520
made this show, and there have been some kind of far right, dystopian visions of these kinds of
00:29:38.740
conflicts. It's always written off as, this is fascist, the neo-Nazi, far right wing, horrible,
00:29:46.820
crazy, dystopian. But then the libs come out with the very same images. And they say, wow,
00:29:51.280
beautiful, yes, slay queen. This is great. This is very scary. It's very scary when pretty much
00:29:57.080
everyone in your society is predicting social collapse and racial conflict as inevitable.
00:30:05.680
Even if one side likes it and one side doesn't like it. That's very, very scary when something
00:30:11.320
seems so imminent that everyone sees it coming. Speaking of race wars, Judicial Watch has just sued
00:30:21.200
a school district over the Minneapolis public school teacher union contract that explicitly
00:30:27.040
discriminates against white people. I covered this probably a month ago on the show. This contract
00:30:32.200
where in Minneapolis, the teachers union signed on to say that if there are ever going to be cuts to
00:30:37.980
the teachers, the white people get cut first. It just establishes a racial hierarchy and it says we're
00:30:42.820
going to discriminate against whites even more than the schools already are doing. So Judicial Watch,
00:30:47.880
which is a conservative group, announced that they're suing on behalf of the Minneapolis taxpayer
00:30:52.880
over this union agreement. And what does this all mean for us? Normal people of all races,
00:31:03.520
of all backgrounds, and all geographies understand that it is wrong to take a class of people on the
00:31:11.660
basis of their race or ethnicity and say we're going to make you permanent second class citizens and
00:31:16.320
take away your jobs and we're going to discriminate against you. Everyone knows that. You don't need
00:31:21.440
to be a white person to be shocked and offended by this story. Every normal, decent person of every
00:31:28.060
single race understands that. The libs are just making a gamble here. They're saying if we run
00:31:35.660
anti-white, anti-male, anti-Christian, anti-tradition politics, anti-American in many cases, if we run on
00:31:47.380
that, we're going to be able to cobble together a coalition of enough angry radicals to win elections.
00:31:53.660
Might not even be a majority, but it could be a plurality and we're going to win these elections.
00:31:57.780
And what are the conservatives doing? Nothing. They're not addressing this. They have to address this.
00:32:03.000
Judicial watch has the right instinct here. The Republican Party needs to articulate why this
00:32:11.000
is wrong. They need to say there is anti-white discrimination in the Minneapolis public school
00:32:18.720
system and it's wrong. And it's wrong in theory and it's wrong in practice in this particular case.
00:32:27.520
Republicans and conservatives don't want to do that because we feel that it's, we've bought the
00:32:32.260
liberal line. We feel that it's racist somehow to say that you shouldn't discriminate against white
00:32:36.980
people. I don't know how that's possible, but the libs just convinced us of that because the libs say
00:32:40.900
you can't, you can't be racist against white people. So even when the conservatives and the
00:32:45.080
Republicans want to talk about the, the, how awful race discrimination in affirmative action is in
00:32:51.160
schools and hiring, they never talk about the white people because they just feel it's kind of
00:32:55.740
icky. Let's not talk about, they'll, they'll only talk about Asians. So it happens to be the case.
00:33:00.800
And this is a kind of unfortunate circumstance for the Asian people, but a happy circumstance for
00:33:06.260
those who want to fight against race discrimination called affirmative action, which is that you could
00:33:11.160
say, well, it's wrong to the Asian students that they're discriminated against in Harvard admissions.
00:33:15.340
Yeah, it is, but it's, it's, it's wrong for the white students too. Well, it's wrong when, forget
00:33:21.360
about the white people for a second, it doesn't matter when you discriminate against them, but the
00:33:24.200
poor Asian students. Yeah, it's wrong for the Asian students. It's wrong to be cruel and discriminatory
00:33:29.180
toward the Asian students. And it's wrong to be cruel and discriminatory toward black students or
00:33:33.400
Hispanic students or whatever. And it is wrong. It is just as wrong to be cruel and discriminatory
00:33:41.420
toward white people. Are we allowed to say that? I don't know. I know I can, I can hear people going
00:33:48.200
a little quiet when you, cause you're not, I don't know why you're not allowed to say that.
00:33:51.060
It seems so obvious and everyone gets it. Every normal person, sensible person gets it. The only
00:33:56.760
people that don't seem to get it are the Republican political consultants who want to run, run away from
00:34:00.940
this stuff. Okay. The reason that Republicans are doing well right now in spite of Republican
00:34:06.020
political consultants is that ordinary people across a whole wide range of demographics realize
00:34:12.240
that the Democrats have lost the plot here and they just want to hear people talk to them like
00:34:16.100
a normal person. That's why Donald Trump did so well too. He talked to people like a normal person
00:34:20.300
and he addressed political issues like a normal person and he wasn't totally politically correct
00:34:25.680
and he didn't parse all of his language all the time and he called a spade a spade. That's what we
00:34:29.120
got to do. Speaking of white people, I've got the most white people story in the world right now
00:34:34.000
and it's a very important day and even I, a swarthy American, really I identify with my white
00:34:41.560
brothers and sisters here, mostly white sisters, mostly teenage white girls. It's pumpkin spice latte
00:34:46.080
day. Yes, I know that many conservatives don't like the pumpkin spice latte. They don't like
00:34:51.860
Starbucks very much. I don't care. I love it. I love it. It is a delicious drink. It is nostalgic.
00:34:58.820
It is wonderful. It's a little too sweet. You got to bring the sugar down a little bit.
00:35:01.780
I look forward to it every single year. It's a sign of the times, the beginning of my favorite
00:35:07.680
season, autumn. It's wonderful. But I've got some bad news for the pumpkin spice latte aficionados
00:35:14.960
out there, all of the 17-year-old white girls who listen to this show. The price of the PSL has
00:35:20.380
increased dramatically. According to a report from CNN, the PSL will go up from $5.45. That is so
00:35:29.220
outrageous. That's what I'm paying for this thing? That is a crime. Never mind. $5.45 to $5.95.
00:35:38.480
That's a 4% increase. And I can't even blame Starbucks. Inflation is up year over year at
00:35:43.120
8.5%. So Starbucks only raised to 4%, not even 8.5%. I will never forgive Joe Biden for this.
00:35:53.140
It was one thing when he caused the war in Ukraine and flooded the country with illegal aliens and
00:36:00.260
destroyed the economy. And that was all bad and called us all fascists. I will never forgive him
00:36:06.600
for raising the price of the pumpkin spice latte. But this is a message from our elites, okay? Yes,
00:36:12.800
it's going to hurt the Democrats in the midterms because the economy is not doing well.
00:36:16.360
But this was a plan. You had Barack Obama in 2008 saying, we need fuel prices to go up. That's how
00:36:23.120
we're going to get on the green agenda. You have people who show up to Davos, who are part of the
00:36:27.640
kind of global cosmopolitan set, who say, well, we actually need certain prices to go up. That's
00:36:32.920
what's going to force people into a greener, more interconnected, less national, more globalist
00:36:38.000
kind of world. And they're getting exactly what they want.
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The time is upon us for another Backstage. It's happening tonight, 6 p.m. Central, 7 p.m. Eastern.
00:37:02.600
It's about time because there's more news than ever to discuss. If you've never seen Backstage
00:37:07.240
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All of these stories, the collapse of our political order, especially the collapse of
00:37:38.920
our economy, the 4% hike on the price of the pumpkin spice latte, all of that ties back
00:37:43.880
in to France. We were just talking about France and the imagined civil war that's about to break
00:37:50.560
out. Emmanuel Macron, the leader of France, just came out, and I think he spoke for the
00:37:57.080
entire Western elite when he said, you know what this is all about, guys? You want too much. You
00:38:03.840
desire too much. You've got it too good, and you've got to say goodbye to abundance.
00:38:09.820
What we are living through is a time of great upheaval. Firstly, because we are witnessing,
00:38:17.780
and not just since this summer, but over the past few years, the end of what we might have seen as
00:38:23.600
abundance. And for those who enjoyed it, it is also the end of a carefree time. Our freedom,
00:38:29.620
the liberty to which we have grown accustomed to in our lives, has a price, and sometimes when we
00:38:33.940
have to defend it, we have to make certain sacrifices as we fight to defend it.
00:38:38.200
It's the end of abundance, and that's what it is. That's what the message is from the elite.
00:38:45.080
And it reminds us, really, it's important to take those lessons from history, especially the fall
00:38:52.720
of the Soviet Union, and for many other empires too. While the economy is humming along,
00:39:01.060
you can paper over a lot of problems. When the economy stops, those problems leap to the fore.
00:39:08.720
This is why Irving Kristol, who's kind of the OG neocon. The OG neocons were actually pretty smart
00:39:15.660
and interesting. The term became really poisoned because the second generation neocons had a bunch
00:39:21.800
of stupid, terrible policies, and they all became never-Trumpers, and they're just like
00:39:24.980
gadflies in American politics. But the OG neocons, people like Irving Kristol, were really smart
00:39:30.680
people. And Irving Kristol made the point that conservatism, conservatism today, he was saying
00:39:37.440
this in the 60s and 70s, is religion, nationalism, and economic growth, which is super-based, to use
00:39:47.660
an anachronistic word there. That's not the kind of language we expect to hear from the neocons,
00:39:52.620
because the neo-neocons have really kind of changed and spoiled the whole thing. But religion,
00:39:57.940
totally agree. Nationalism, absolutely. And economic growth, that one's important too.
00:40:03.720
You do need some prosperity in order to keep the society humming along.
00:40:11.420
When you start taking away people's gas and oil, when you start taking away people's food,
00:40:17.920
when you start raising the price of the pumpkin spice latte, people start to become a little bit
00:40:23.860
impatient, and you get a little bit more chaos. Speaking of abundance, Meghan Markle is back in the
00:40:33.240
news, I'm sorry to say. Meghan Markle, the former Duchess of Sussex, married Prince Harry,
00:40:39.900
this American bioweapon that we probably built in a lab here. I wonder if Dr. Fauci built Meghan
00:40:45.000
Markle in a lab at the behest of the US government to destroy the British royal family, because that's
00:40:50.020
certainly what she's been doing. We sent her over there. Then they sent her back. They said,
00:40:54.820
no, we don't want her. You can take Harry too. We don't want him either. So Meghan Markle,
00:40:58.840
very, very unlikable public figure. Meghan Markle comes out and has just compared her
00:41:06.140
marrying into the royal family, her becoming an actual princess to Nelson Mandela being freed from
00:41:16.000
prison. Meghan Markle has a new podcast because every millennial has to have a podcast. It's a federal
00:41:21.940
law now, I think. Meghan Markle on her podcast claims that when she attended the Lion King in
00:41:28.120
London, a cast member pulled her aside and just said, I need you to know when you married into
00:41:34.280
this family, we rejoiced in the streets, the same we did when Mandela was freed from prison.
00:41:42.980
The grandson of Nelson Mandela, the South African leader, did not like this comment from Meghan Markle,
00:41:49.540
understandably so. What does this tell you? It tells you that the victim narrative, especially in
00:41:55.680
America, but throughout the Western world, but especially in America, is so, so powerful. I bet
00:42:02.640
she believes it. I bet Meghan Markle, one of the most privileged people on earth, actual royalty,
00:42:11.300
believes that she is a victim, like a political dissident being imprisoned for years.
00:42:17.980
That's it. And the narrative is very, very strong. And so we can either complain about it or we can
00:42:28.100
try to make it work in our favor. Okay, Donald Trump actually did this. Donald Trump did not
00:42:33.500
exactly take the high road in 2016. He was attacked for that. He said, Donald, you're just playing the
00:42:39.040
victim. You're just crying and complaining. You need to stop complaining, Donald. And what did Trump say?
00:42:44.340
He said, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to complain, complain, complain, complain, complain,
00:42:50.540
complain, complain. I'm going to whine, whine, whine, whine, whine until I win. And what Trump,
00:42:56.940
I don't know if this was conscious or just subconscious because the guy's got a good gut,
00:43:00.980
he was saying, I'm going to play American politics where it actually is. You're all going to play American
00:43:06.720
politics where the bow tie set in the think tanks over the fancy lunches wishes that it were. But me,
00:43:12.020
that's not what I'm going to do. I'm going to play American politics right where it lives.
00:43:16.360
I'm not going to present my case to the American people in a series of white papers.
00:43:20.380
When people ask Donald Trump, hey, what are you going to do as president? He goes,
00:43:23.160
you know what I want? I want great neighborhoods. I want there to be great neighborhoods. Okay,
00:43:27.640
that's what, that's going to be my job as president. And all the bow tie people and all the think tank
00:43:31.740
people said, oh my gosh, no, that's not what the for all of the federal government actually,
00:43:35.260
what we need to do is take that power out of Washington, DC and then send that back to the
00:43:39.340
states and the local government, ideally the county governments. And then, and you know what
00:43:42.580
the American people here, the sort of average voter here is, uh, what? Shut up, nerd. Shut up,
00:43:49.280
nerd. I hate my neighborhood. There's guns everywhere. There's drugs on the streets. There's
00:43:53.840
some bum defecating on my sidewalk. Yeah, I'm going to vote for the guy that gives me a good
00:43:57.680
neighborhood. Thank you very much. No, but actually you don't understand because of the principle
00:44:02.460
of federalism you have. No, no. And you know, Trump might understand that as well. I mean,
00:44:08.880
I'm, I'm pro federalism. I'm pro restoring a coherent political order, but we've got,
00:44:15.320
we got drugs everywhere. We've got the average life expectancy in the United States declining.
00:44:20.400
We got people chopping off the genitals of little kids. We've got crime going through the roof. So
00:44:26.040
forgive me if when we're campaigning and talking to real human beings with real problems and real
00:44:32.040
concerns, we take it out of the pie in the sky for a second and say, oh yeah, you see that problem,
00:44:37.200
that problem in your life. If you elect me, I'm going to do my very best to fix it.
00:44:41.200
That's what we got to do. Speaking of victims in their neighborhoods, there's a video just went
00:44:46.140
viral. It was actually captured on a ring doorbell cam of a guy, a 22 year old guy who tries to bust
00:44:55.500
into his ex-girlfriend's house and the ex-girlfriend's living with her family. Obviously they're pretty young
00:45:00.860
people. And she says, go away. You know, no, I'm not letting you in. And he, he won't take no for
00:45:05.860
an answer. And he just starts trying to, trying to bust down the door. Here's what happens.
00:45:18.660
He starts just trying to shoulder it and try to bust in through it.
00:45:25.480
And you hear the guy inside. He goes, I got a gun. Get out of here. It doesn't matter. He keeps trying
00:45:29.080
to bust in the door. And then the guy with the gun really had a gun. Shoots the guy. The guy goes
00:45:39.280
Your first reaction to this video will tell me everything I need to know about your political
00:45:44.460
views. This video, it's a sad video. I mean, you don't, you don't really see the guy die on camera
00:45:49.460
mercifully, but you see him. He gets shot. He kind of stammers off the camera.
00:45:55.140
If your first reaction to this video is, oh, that, that kid, that poor kid. Oh no. Can you,
00:46:00.400
this country, we have too many guns. Like that's so unnecessary that they didn't have to. If that's
00:46:04.780
your first reaction, then you're a lib. Then you're a leftist. Then your view of justice is just kind of
00:46:11.140
messed up. If your first take watching that video is, oh, sad that the house, that the owner of the
00:46:18.500
house had to do that, but he did what he had to do and he protected his daughter. Then your view of
00:46:22.360
justice and politics is going to be conservative and right-wing and correct. And that's it. And it,
00:46:30.080
it, it tells me a lot about American politics too, because it, on the way the camera is set up,
00:46:36.340
right, just by virtue of it being a doorbell, all you see is the guy who gets shot. So, so you say,
00:46:44.180
well, he must be the victim. He's not the victim. He's the perpetrator. What the hell was he going
00:46:48.940
to do to that poor girl? The girl in the house says, dad, I think he's going to kill me. What's
00:46:52.780
he going to give you? Could you imagine you're, you're, you're in a home. You're saying, I have a
00:46:57.020
gun. Go away. Stop trying to break into my home. And then the guy keeps coming in. I don't think
00:47:02.820
that guy's there to talk. I don't think that guy's there to have tea. I think that guy's there to do
00:47:06.120
bad, bad things. But the perspective here is everything is a lot of people are looking at that and
00:47:11.680
they're going to say, oh, that poor, he's the victim. They shouldn't, the, the dad should have
00:47:16.140
shot him in the leg or whatever, whatever nonsense that people who've never held a firearm in their
00:47:19.580
lives say, the dad should have fired a warning shot. You know, Joe Biden, he should have fired a
00:47:24.400
shotgun into the air. Yeah, that's a good idea, Joe. But that's the perspective. You don't, you
00:47:29.540
don't see, the camera's not on the father who's defending his home and his daughter. The camera's
00:47:34.320
not on the daughter. Who the hell knows what that guy has already done, had already done, or would have
00:47:38.560
done to that daughter. And that's it. And that, that perspective is so key. And a really important
00:47:45.600
rule for politics that I would strongly recommend is that we get a lot better about turning the
00:47:51.300
camera. Okay. When we, the libs always talk about how, you know, the poor victims of the war on drugs,
00:47:58.500
you know, the drug dealers, those poor victims. So it's so wrong that we lock up all the drug dealers
00:48:04.040
working for the Mexican cartels. That's so terrible, peddling poison to little kids.
00:48:08.340
What, what victims they are? They're not the victims, they're the perpetrators.
00:48:11.940
The victims are the people who die because some, some pill peddler, you know, gave them,
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gave them some drugs outside of their school. The victims are the family members of the poor kids
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who die. The victims are the American people where the average life expectancy goes down.
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You got to turn the camera, you got to turn the perspective a little bit.
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The, the issue with victim culture is not even that there are no such thing as victims.
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It's that the people who are pretending to be victims are usually the perpetrators in victim
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culture. And maybe if we paid a little more attention to the actual victims, we'd be a lot
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better off. It's kind of like cancel culture. The problem with cancel culture is not that we have
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standards and we say you can and can't say certain things. It's that in, in our current cancel culture,
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if, if you say the truth, you'll get canceled. And if you say false things, false things,
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you'll get promoted. That's actually what my, uh, kind of video essay on YouTube is about where we
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have all the receipts and we talk about the social media blacklist campaign that went on for two and
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a half years. That's the issue. The issue is not that we cancel people. It's that we cancel good
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things and promote bad things when really it should be the opposite. Now, you know, the rest of the show
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