A new analysis confirms something some have suspected for a long time: Libs hate conservatives way more than conservatives hate liberals. And a new analysis shows how much liberals want to kill their countrymen. We will get into the end of civilization.
00:02:38.200The morning tea comes to us by way of Jonathan Karl, the ABC reporter, who is speaking at the 92nd Street Y.
00:02:45.940And he gives us a little bit of insight into 2028 because he gives us insight into the way J.D. Vance was selected to be Trump's running mate in the first place in 2024.
00:02:58.500All this stuff is going on, and he's still going back and forth.
00:03:05.320He had basically decided J.D. Vance, like earlier that day, when he landed in Milwaukee, I was told point blank that it was like 80, 90 percent Marco Rubio.
00:03:20.320You had Rupert Murdoch, Lindsey Graham, and a whole group of Republicans allied with them pushing to say, you know, J.D. doesn't have the experience.
00:03:37.660J.D. doesn't win over any new voters for you.
00:03:39.800On the other side, you had Donald Trump Jr., Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, all making the case for J.D. Vance.
00:03:48.220And I actually called Tucker Carlson to ask about this.
00:03:52.440It had been reported by the New York Times that one of the arguments that Tucker Carlson had made was that if you pick somebody like Marco Rubio that the establishment likes, they're going to assassinate you.
00:04:23.620I don't always believe the establishment media, but I totally believe this play.
00:04:27.280There was a move to push a candidate like Rubio, and I think Rubio is great too, but Rubio more acceptable to the establishment of the Republican Party.
00:04:35.840And then there was a separate move being pushed by Don Jr. and Elon and Tucker to say, no, no, no, go for J.D. Vance.
00:04:45.500He's more where the Republican Party is going.
00:04:47.700He does, I think, win over some voters you don't necessarily get because he's from middle America, because he wrote Hillbilly Elegy, because he's got this amazing story where he came from nothing, very broken home to the heights of success.
00:05:00.180But he doesn't forget where he came from, and according to Jonathan Karl, I haven't talked to Tucker about this, but according to the reporting, Tucker says, you got to pick someone more like J.D., who the establishment hates, because if you pick someone the establishment likes, they'll assassinate you.
00:05:17.360And this is going to be shocking to a lot of people, and they're going to say, that's hysterical, and that's just fear-mongering.
00:05:24.640However, let's not forget that there were two occasions when people came pretty close to assassinating Trump last year.
00:05:31.880One occasion where, by all rights, the assassin should have succeeded and only failed because, implausibly, at the last minute, Trump turned his head a little bit, and so the bullet only grazed his ear.
00:05:43.620It would have blown out the back of his skull otherwise.
00:05:46.820And what we know for certain is that Trump picked J.D. Vance.
00:05:51.520And this kind of calculation is going to be really jarring to people who think back on the last, I don't know, 80 years of American politics and say, we've had relative peace.
00:06:01.200Yeah, there was a Cold War, but we won the Cold War.
00:06:03.400Then there was the post-Cold War hegemony, that wonderful halcyon period where we ruled the world basically unchallenged and were the cock of the walk, right?
00:06:13.860What we are seeing in this calculation, if it is, in fact, the case that Trump picked J.D. Vance in part to protect himself from being assassinated, is not some great aberration from politics.
00:06:25.740What we are seeing is a return to a more traditional kind of political calculation.
00:06:32.100Throughout the ages, kings have had servants taste their food before they ate because they knew that the threats against them were so high.
00:06:40.140We've had many American presidents assassinated.
00:06:43.240You think of, I don't know, Lincoln, McKinley.
00:06:47.800The list goes on and on of successful assassination attempts, and then there are unsuccessful assassination attempts.
00:06:55.260Teddy Roosevelt, after he was president.
00:06:58.120Ronald Reagan, while he was president.
00:07:02.280Kennedy was successfully assassinated.
00:07:04.660Donald Trump, while he was about to become president, after he was president.
00:07:07.500This is a return to traditional politics.
00:07:11.460And as the political order in the United States and elsewhere continues to fray, you should expect more of a return to this traditional kind of politics.
00:07:20.900You should expect more of these kind of maneuvers.
00:07:26.120You're seeing this broadly in our politics.
00:07:28.360A lot of what is called the new right, a lot of the avant-garde in the Republican Party that J.D. Vance has said to represent, is in many ways a return.
00:07:36.020A return, not just to what the Republican Party used to be, but a return to what politics normally is.
00:07:41.920What politics is under normal conditions.
00:07:45.220A lot of what is called the new right is a return from the kind of abstract procedural norms that have dominated politics to a greater focus on the substantive goods.
00:08:05.420Your job is to maintain this abstract liberal order and to tick up GDP in this way that is actually somewhat intangible and divorced from substantive goods.
00:08:14.900And Trump says, no, I want you to have good neighborhoods.
00:08:17.180And I want the criminals off the streets.
00:08:18.960And I want the illegal Venezuelans to stop pouring in.
00:08:25.320And I think it shows you how important J.D. Vance is as an individual, but also as a representative of something to Trump's second term.
00:08:38.520Trump's second term, because it's non-consecutive, being a little different than other presidential administrations.
00:08:45.320Trump, in picking Vance, was choosing a successor even before his second term had begun, which is why there probably will be a Republican primary in 2028.
00:09:17.880Ronald Reagan actually didn't weigh in in that primary until closer to the end.
00:09:21.540Here, I think you're seeing something closer.
00:09:23.280And so it's why it's no surprise that Trump has effectively already endorsed a ticket of J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio.
00:09:30.120Now, speaking of the political order fraying and speaking of murder, horrifying statistics coming out of the U.K.
00:09:38.160Anyway, this just reported on by Philip Wilkinson, actually, great, great economist, shows that the number of abortions in the U.K. is skyrocketing.
00:09:55.740And what's really weird about this is that conceptions are remaining basically the same.
00:10:03.020So you've got abortions going through the roof and conceptions staying just about the same.
00:10:24.380It's just that a greater portion of British babies who were conceived are being killed before they're born.
00:10:31.240And this would appear to be tied to a massive hike in energy prices around 2022, a massive hike in inflation over there, also in 2022.
00:10:42.160Inflation in 2022 hit the highest level in 41 years.
00:10:45.580And it's leading to a kind of death spiral because people are not really focusing on this.
00:10:50.940The immigration problem in the U.K. is like the immigration problem throughout all of Europe, which is the same thing as the immigration problem in America.
00:10:58.420It is being driven primarily by abortion.
00:11:03.480The argument for mass migration, beyond the moralistic arguments, oh, these poor people, you know, they want to come here for a better life.
00:11:11.740That's why people always wanted to come to the West for a better life.
00:11:17.280Because they say we're not having enough kids and we need to prop our economies up.
00:11:21.700And the only way to prop our economies up, which we have to do to prop up the welfare states that we all have to varying degrees, you especially see that in the U.K., the only way to do it is to import more foreigners.
00:11:31.960But as you import more foreigners, the social order continues to fray.
00:11:37.180And that creates some economic problems.
00:12:46.560This ties into the immigration problem, too.
00:12:49.800Because when you import a ton of people, in the case of the UK, a ton of people with a different religion, you further erode the religion of the country.
00:12:58.840So much so that the king of England, who is supposed to be the head of the Church of England, which at least in name continues to exist, he changed one of his kingly titles.
00:13:07.540He used to be Defensor Fidei, Defender of the Faith.
00:13:11.380King Charles has now changed it to Defender of Faiths, which leads to a kind of religious indifferentism, which tells you that religion doesn't really matter.
00:13:18.960You know, it might help you as a kind of personal preference.
00:13:21.740It might make you feel good, but it doesn't really mean anything.
00:13:35.820It leads to a civilizational death spiral.
00:13:38.500What we are seeing in the United Kingdom is a national suicide.
00:13:42.880Abortion, more than any other action, more than any other issue, represents killing a nation's future.
00:13:52.140Because you are literally killing the nation's future, because the nation's future literally is the next generation.
00:13:58.180And when you refuse to conceive the next generation, or even more gruesomely, when you do conceive the next generation and then kill it off through an intentional action, you are killing your own country.
00:14:09.020Which means that this is an existential crisis.
00:14:13.800And when I say this, I don't just mean the material problems that are compounded by immigration, that then sometimes lead to more abortion, which then leads to more immigration, which then leads to more material problems.
00:14:26.400And that's, yes, we need to try to fix all of that by curtailing migration, not just illegal immigration, but total immigration.
00:14:32.460And yes, we need to try to get people to have more kids, maybe through some government incentives.
00:14:36.160But what's at the heart of the problem?
00:14:37.640What is at the heart of the problem is the decline of religiosity.
00:14:41.600That is the reliable predictor of having more kids, which fixes all of the other problems.
00:14:47.420Which means, and this brings us right back to the new right, the shift from procedural norms to substantive goods in our focus.
00:14:54.180What is meant by the avant-garde of the conservatives and of the right?
00:14:58.820It means that religion is an existential public political problem.
00:22:05.160The question is, is immigration, mass migration, good for America today or bad for America?
00:22:12.240I think any honest look at it has to say, on the whole, mass migration, especially from these countries that are very different from the United States, where the people form ethnic and religious enclaves, that shred social solidarity, where people don't even speak English, where they don't believe what we believe, where they don't practice the habits that our country has cultivated, that that's bad.
00:22:34.560This is what is meant by the shift from merely procedural norms to substantive goods.
00:22:39.600Because you come out on the new right and you say, hey, I think all this migration is bad, whether it's technically legal or illegal.
00:22:46.580And you get the abstract ideologues who say, no, but you don't understand.
00:22:50.100There's a poem under the Statue of Liberty written by some communist that says that the poor huddled masses have to come to America.
00:22:57.420You say, all right, well, I don't remember, like, Alexander Hamilton writing that.
00:23:01.080I don't remember reading that in the Constitution or the Federalist Papers.
00:23:03.700It's fine that some socialist wrote a poem 100 years ago, but is it good or bad for us?
00:23:21.240Actually, we're living in a globalized world where we're all interchangeable automatons, and trade is the only good thing, and we need to just all be citizens of the world.
00:23:38.380This is the return from the abstractions and models of liberalism to a classical conception of politics, which says that politics is for something.
00:23:49.160Liberalism says that politics is for protecting the individual autonomy of people from the predations of the government.
00:23:59.640That's what they think politics is for, but that's not what politics is for.
00:24:02.320Politics, most basically, is how we all live together in community, and the purpose of politics is to advance the common good.
00:24:09.760The common good, not being the aggregate of private goods, you know, like I like cigars, and Johnny likes crystal meth, and so the common good is protecting cigars and crystal meth.
00:24:22.620No, that's not what the common good is.
00:24:24.220The common good is that good which is shared by all, which is not diminished when individuals participate in it.
00:24:31.200It's just the good of the common, and we do have something in common, namely we're all part of the same country.
00:24:38.460And therefore, law is not just what some legislator writes down through the sheer tyranny of his will, whatever he thinks, that must be acceptable and promoted by the sheer fact of the procedure by which the law was passed.
00:24:51.380No, the law is an ordinance of reason for the common good by him who has care of the community and promulgated.
00:25:04.320That's the big shift, and that's at the heart of a lot of the fissures that you're seeing right now in the Republican Party and on the right as the GOP tries to figure out what it's going to do after Trump.
00:25:13.120Are we going to return to the old, sterile liberalism that has led to the literal deaths or near deaths of our countries?
00:25:25.480Or are we going to get back to basics and get to a more classical conception of government and a more classical conception of politics and a more Christian conception of politics and say, no, it's actually about doing good stuff and opposing bad stuff.
00:25:47.240I remember there was a great debate in the 90s on Bill Buckley's firing line show where Bill Buckley, who these days is sometimes much maligned as being a defender of managed decline and liberalism, whatever.
00:26:00.360Bill Buckley was on the side of the debate that said, we need to drastically reduce all migration.
00:26:05.740And it was more liberal, centrist, even center left types who were saying, no, no, no, we need more migration.
00:26:37.200And then we need to get back to the courage to actually advance that good, even as they call us authoritarian or whatever, which is totally ridiculous.
00:26:44.920Okay, speaking of immigrants, the pro-immigration side in America is getting hoisted with its own petard.
00:26:52.180Even the New York Times is admitting it.
00:27:04.880Then we get to Christmas and New Year.
00:27:06.220It means your calendar is probably packed with hosting, shopping lists, endless to-dos.
00:27:10.940When life gets this hectic, sleep often takes a back seat.
00:27:13.700But that is exactly when you need it most.
00:27:16.060Quality rest is what keeps you energized for holiday prep, helps you stay patient with family, lets you enjoy the season instead of just surviving it.
00:32:09.220You know, I wonder if this problem is happening anywhere else in the world.
00:32:13.080Maybe we should call these hard-nosed New York Times journalists and see if they can find an extension of that story anywhere else.
00:32:24.300Because I really feel bad for the Mexicans in this case.
00:32:27.300You know, no citizens should be expected to tolerate an endless flow of foreigners coming into their country and screwing up their economy and fraying their social solidarity and not assimilating and speaking a different language and just totally taking over.
00:34:29.720Okay, I think it's bad probably everywhere.
00:34:31.460Speaking of Latin American foreigners, you know, there's a talk right now about whether or not we're going to go to war with Venezuela.
00:34:38.620Trump is just picking off all those drug boats and libs are freaking out about it.
00:34:43.020They're really upset that less fentanyl is getting into the country and from foreign terrorist organizations that are the cartels.
00:34:49.420But the fact that we have aircraft carriers and stuff off the coast of Venezuela suggests that maybe this isn't just about the drug runners.
00:34:58.020Maybe Trump is going to make good on a long-standing American threat to oust the dictator of Venezuela, who is socialist Nicolas Maduro.
00:35:07.900And I know a lot of people are hesitant for regime change.
00:35:13.240A lot of people are hesitant for America to meddle in the affairs of other countries and oust leaders and all that.
00:35:18.380And I, too, tend to be more on the side of restraint in foreign policy.
00:39:07.900But the idea that we should broadly have control over Latin America goes back to the early 19th century.
00:39:15.620That has been the operating policy of the United States for the vast majority of our history.
00:39:22.040And I do wonder if this kind of pivot is a third way to avoid the pitfalls of neocon interventionism and I think a utopian libertarian isolationism.
00:39:34.480Which is to say we are obviously going to be involved in international affairs.
00:39:37.980But we are going to be more directly in affairs that are closer to home.
00:39:42.380That more directly affect our interests.
00:39:44.540That return to a more classical conception of politics.
00:39:47.780If there's some lunatic communist who isn't making a ton of trouble but he's spouting off on the other side of the world, we pay a little less attention to it.
00:39:56.460If we have some socialist singing John Lennon who is right near our shores, who's sending drugs and terrorists into our country and who has a lot of oil that we could use, that we could put to better use.
00:40:06.780Then maybe we get a little more heavy handed closer to home.
00:40:10.060I'm not – I don't want to – I know Daily Beast is already writing the article.
00:40:13.140I'm not calling – I guess I'm literally calling to bomb Maduro but only for the song.
00:40:17.680I'm not saying we have to go to war in Venezuela.
00:40:20.520I'm not saying we need regime change in Venezuela.
00:40:22.900I am just pointing out as a matter of the political order, this might be a third way to reconcile disparate factions of the Republican Party.
00:40:32.840Between the heavy interventionism and the leave us alone isolationism.
00:40:37.500This might be a third way to say, hey, when communists are messing around in our affairs and they have a lot of nice tasty oil that could help bring down energy and prices and inflation and everything in America, well, maybe they better think twice before they start singing Imagine.
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00:41:23.520My favorite comment yesterday is from Captain Bipto, who says, your Mayflower Dawn bundle always being out of stock is anti-capitalist.
00:41:33.960Okay, first of all, I did not pick that comment.
00:41:36.400The producers picked that comment because I did not pick a comment today.
00:43:38.740Men are less likely to follow social trends.
00:43:41.480There are countless studies on this topic, including there was a major meta-analysis last year which showed that women are much more likely than men to conform to group norms.
00:43:50.600This is why there's a famous line from George Orwell's 1984.