Ep. 1895 - President Trump's Fiery WEF Speech Explained in 5 Minutes
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Trump delivers a speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and a famous actress tells a harrowing account of seeing lynchings as a kid in the past, and then turns from the future back to the past.
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President Trump has arrived in Davos to tell the globalists of the World Economic Forum
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The sworn enemy of the liberal transnational elite from both the public and the private
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sectors shows up and they all just have to listen to him because he is the most powerful
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Actually, we're pulling clips live and we will also get into the plans of the World Economic
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Wef darling Yuval Harari proclaims that AI will soon take over everything, including religion.
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And then turning from the future back to the past, a famous actress joins The View to tell
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the harrowing account of seeing lynchings as a kid in Ohio.
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There's just one little problem with her story.
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President Trump is promising to bring back insane asylum.
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That was when he took over the presser at the White House yesterday.
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That may be more explosive even than what happened at the World Economic Forum.
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My producers are hurriedly, hastily pulling the clips as President Trump speaks.
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But yesterday, we got a little preview of what Trump was going to say from his deputy,
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Howard Lutnick, who showed up and told the globalists this.
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Globalization has failed the West and the United States of America.
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It is what the WEF has stood for, which is export, offshore, far shore, find the cheapest
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labor in the world, and the world is a better place for it.
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You can see all of the other panelists from the WEF here just looking at him.
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You can see the one guy in the middle, he's just looking with defeat.
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And then the bemusement, they don't know what to make of it.
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I think there's a misconception for some people who see this shadowy gathering in Davos, Switzerland,
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and they think it's these radical leftists, these communist agitators who are trying to destroy the world.
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In a way, they kind of are, but they're not really radicals.
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In the sense that the people you're seeing in Minneapolis who are punching cops and wearing black masks and calling for revolution,
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The kind of people who meet in Davos are, I hate to use vulgarity or profanity,
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but it's called for because this is a precise technical term.
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I don't really know the etymology of that term, but they're the kind of liberals who are elite,
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who sip champagne, who don't throw punches in the streets.
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They're the kind of liberals who have institutional power in the private and the public sectors.
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That's something specific to WEF, is that it's a meeting of business leaders and government leaders
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who do want to bring about a left-wing form of governance throughout the world.
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It's a more elite, bourgeois, even insidious kind of liberalism.
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And so when Letnick comes out and he says, globalization has failed America,
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He's going back to the liberal ideology that says from now on, nations are not going to matter as much.
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We're going to be governed by these supranational, international institutions
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like the United Nations or the IMF or the World Economic Forum.
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And borders, therefore, are not going to matter so much.
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And so we're going to get a lot of mass migration.
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And we're going to get global trade that is not even established by sovereign nations,
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but is regulated by these international institutions.
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And we're just going to, we're all going to be kind of one world.
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And yeah, you're going to lose your sovereignty.
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And yeah, you're going to lose your traditions and your way of life
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The Republicans and the Democrats agreed with this in the 90s.
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And so when Letnick says globalization's failed, he says, look, the American worker was left behind.
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We don't even know what it means to be an American anymore on the 250th anniversary of our country.
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So what we are rejecting is not merely leftism.
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We are rejecting the prevailing ideology that animates things like the World Economic Forum.
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No, there's one more because I want to get Trump's entrance here.
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So before we get to what Trump says, just have a sense beyond policies regarding trade and immigration, whatever.
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What is the broader, deeper vision of the World Economic Forum?
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Yuval Harari helped to contribute to Klaus Schwab's book, Klaus Schwab, who was the head of the World Economic Forum.
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Yuval Harari is sort of the court intellectual of the World Economic Forum.
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And he came out and he told everyone that as we look into the future, the future is going to be run by AI.
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Anything involving language, up to and including the Bible, religion is going to be taken over by AI.
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As far as putting words in order is concerned, AI already thinks better than many of us.
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Therefore, anything made of words will be taken over by AI.
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If laws are made of words, then AI will take over the legal system.
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If books are just combinations of words, then AI will take over books.
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If religion is built from words, if religion is built from words, then AI will take over religion.
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This is particularly true of religions based on books, like Islam, Christianity, or Judaism.
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Judaism calls itself the religion of the book, and it grants ultimate authority, not to humans, but to words in books.
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Humans have authority in Judaism, not because of our experiences, but only because we learn words in books.
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Now, no human can read and remember all the words in all the Jewish books, but AI can easily do that.
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This guy could not make himself seem more villainous if he tried.
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I've thought this about Yuval Harari for a while.
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He's going to be this figure who seems to herald the end times, and he leans into it.
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And he's not totally wrong about the influence of AI.
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In one way or another, AI has crept into everyone's life, and we even cooperate with it a lot.
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First of all, he says, Jews refer to themselves as the religion of the book, the people of the book.
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The Jews did not originate this phrase, the people of the book.
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Do you know where the people of the book comes from?
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To refer to Christians and Jews and try to make Islam seem like it's part of that.
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But people of the book is a Muslim term that then later Jews and some Protestants have reappropriated, or appropriated, I suppose, appropriated for the first time.
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But when you get down to it, we would not say, forget about Islam.
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Judaism and Christianity are not fundamentally or not essentially religions of the book.
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It is true, since the destruction of the second temple in 70 AD, Jews gather and conduct their religious services in the synagogue.
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But previously, that was a religion of temple sacrifice.
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Christianity, crucially, is a religion of sacrifice.
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The centerpiece of the holy liturgy is the holy sacrifice of the mass, the blessed sacrament.
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Christ in the holy Eucharist, body, blood, soul, and divinity.
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I don't mean to diminish in any way the importance of the book.
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But John Paul II beautifully, I think, corrected this idea that we are the religion of the book.
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When he said, no, no, no, we are the religion of the word of God.
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And so we have holy scripture, inerrant, authored by God.
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But the center point here is the word himself, the word which becomes flesh and dwells among us.
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And when you realize that, Yuval Harari's statement is all the more jarring.
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Because he says anything that involves language, that is to say anything that involves words,
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But if the religion that animates our civilization is the religion of the word,
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in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God,
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then what he's saying is AI is going to conquer God.
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I'm not sure if he, he's a smart guy, so he might be aware that that is what he's saying.
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Even if he's not, even if this is inadvertent, perhaps then it's all the more jarring.
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And I think that's what a lot of these liberal, humanist, materialist, atheists, globalists, this is thatists, believe.
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This is the culmination, not just of a few years or a few decades,
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this is the culmination of centuries of liberal thought.
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And AI is going to be their God, and they're going to worship it.
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Just like in the Old Testament, we see pagans worshiping dumb idols,
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not to worship these dumb idols lest we become dumb ourselves.
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Which is why all of these fancy elites who went to very good schools,
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and they have lots of money, and they have fancy jobs.
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It's why even guys like Yuval Harari, who's probably got a very high IQ,
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And it's why you need a guy like Trump to barge in there and tell them.
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First thing he does is says a special hello to all of his enemies in the audience.
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And to address so many respected business leaders, so many friends, a few enemies.
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I've come to this year's World Economic Forum with truly phenomenal news from America.
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But there are some people in that audience who are avowed enemies of his.
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And so does Trump tailor his message to the Davos audience?
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Does he try to just win friends and influence people by flattering their liberal sensibilities?
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You know, maybe avoiding the rougher edges of Trumpism.
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Working on areas of commonality where we all agree and putting that some of that stuff that.
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No, he leans into the Trumpiest Trump edges here.
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The areas where they're most likely to disagree.
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The things that in many ways are least relevant to them.
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And he leans into claims of the stolen election in 2020.
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That is how little a care in the world he gives.
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That is how much he wants to ram it down their throats.
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That he's the boss and they're going to listen.
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It's a war that should have never started and it wouldn't have started if the 2020 U.S. presidential election weren't rigged.
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People will soon be prosecuted for what they did.
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One, I love that he doesn't back off of the observation.
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That at the very least, I think most reasonable people would have to agree.
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In some way, the 2020 election where all the election rules were changed in some cases unconstitutionally as in Pennsylvania.
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In some way, at the very least, we would say it was rigged.
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One might say it was like really, really rigged.
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But I love that he's not backing off this and I love that he's saying it at Davos.
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This is the kind of claim that is most likely to offend there.
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It seems, it offends their sensibilities that these processes of liberalism and democracy are perfect and beyond question.
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He goes and he says, nah, the Democrats, the people who were talking to you last year, yeah, they stole the election from me.
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Yeah, you know, your friend Joe Biden and his cronies.
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But don't worry, he got his comeuppance and now I'm back here and you're going to listen to me.
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But the second reason I really like this comment, he's promising concrete action.
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He says, yeah, people are going to be prosecuted for that.
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And lest one think, oh, this is just some bluster.
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He's, you know, talking beyond the sail or something.
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He says, I might be breaking news when I say that.
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We say, wait, is this just an ordinary DOJ investigation into some crooked county clerks or something?
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Or you remember one part of the claims made about the 2020 election?
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Is it somehow related to the Hugo Chavez regime in Venezuela?
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And then we've just arrested Nicolas Maduro, the successor to Chavez, dictator of Venezuela.
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Is, is he suggesting that there is some, I don't know.
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The World Economic Forum is about the world and the world order.
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He was already alluding to that a little bit when he was talking about the 2020 election.
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He says, had I remained in office, there would be no Ukraine war.
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But there is one territorial concern that is outstanding.
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And that is the fact that the United States wants Greenland.
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Trump in particular wants to acquire Greenland.
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This has been U.S. policy since the 19th century.
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The State Department has wanted to acquire Greenland.
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We've tried to buy it multiple times over the years.
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We probably won't get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force.
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All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland, where we already had it as a trustee,
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but respectfully returned it back to Denmark not long ago after we defeated the Germans, the Japanese, the Italians, and others in World War II.
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We were a powerful force then, but we are a much more powerful force now after I rebuilt the military in my first term and continue to do so today.
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There is this fear that the U.S., and I've joked about this on air, said, you know, we're going to send Don Rumsfeld in an F-35, light up nuke.
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You know, we'll be greeted as liberators in Greenland by the Eskimos.
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And Trump has left open that possibility, but I don't think anyone, no serious person, seriously thought he was going to do that.
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He's getting a lot of pushback from the Europeans, and sometimes it's good to get pushback from Europeans, but you don't want it to be excessive or needless.
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And so he says, no, no, look, guys, I'm not going to do a Maduro.
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I'm not going to go in and, you know, kidnap the Eskimo leader of Greenland.
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I'm not going to go take out Hamlet or Hamlet's successor.
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I'm not going to pull a Claudius and kill the king of Denmark.
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I think a lot of people are hearing for the first time.
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We have controlled Greenland before, as in the Second World War.
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During the Second World War, Denmark gets overrun by Hitler.
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And so at that point, Greenland is owned by an occupied country.
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He doesn't even just use the shorthand that we typically use for winning World War II, which is, we defeated the Nazis.
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He says we defeated Germany, not just the Nazis, not just the political party, the Nazi party.
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He goes, we defeated Germany, the country, and Japan, the country.
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People forget that Italy was even in World War II because the Italians, they don't take war very seriously.
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Not since Octavian have they taken war all that seriously.
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We'll be a-drinking and a-smoking under the bridge.
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He's speaking to delegates from Germany and Japan and Italy.
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And when he comes out and he says, hey, we are the World War champ.
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Everyone in this room, everybody in Davos right now has something in common.
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You were either defeated or saved by the United States.
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That's the one thing all you guys have in common from everywhere around the world.
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This kind of rhetoric, and it's subtle and it's going to go over most people's heads.
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This kind of rhetoric is very specific and very effective.
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And in the example that comes right before he deploys this rhetoric, he says we're a beneficent global hegemon.
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We were very nice and gave it back to you after we saved you and as we still protect you today.
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Remember that time you got overrun by your enemies and we had to bail you out?
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Just like we are your military protectors today?
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And we occupied Greenland because you needed us to, because you all need us to, because we protect the world order.
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You need us to again, because hostilities are ramping up.
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History moves on, and sometimes balance is a power shift.
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We're in one of these moments where people are preparing for war.
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We hope there isn't war, but we're preparing for war.
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And guys, I'm not threatening you, king of Denmark, with F-35s, but let's get real.
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We could take it if we wanted in three minutes.
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Really, you know, Trump, he's known for his rhetorical bombast, but I think at this point, as he's dominated American politics for 10 years, I think we have to admit he's a pretty smart guy, and he's pretty good at politics.
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And part of the advantage of the bombast is that it sometimes distracts from very particular, very effective rhetoric that is conveying, wittingly or unwittingly, is conveying very serious ideas, and this is one of them.
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Okay, now I want to get back to religion, as the liberals of the World Economic Forum say that AI is about to take over religion, because Elon Musk, an ally of President Trump, has a beautiful observation he's just made about religion and human behavior.
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Elon Musk has gone viral for an interview with Lex Friedman, in which Elon, who is quite
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prolific, we would say, when it comes to procreation.
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Lots of baby mamas, baby's mama, sort of like attorneys general.
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But he knows a lot about sex, let's put it that way.
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And he made this delightful observation about sex.
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Massive amount of thinking, like truly stupendous amount of thinking has gone into sex without
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procreation, without procreation, which is actually quite a silly action in the absence
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But I mean, this is a lot of computation has gone into, how can I do more of that with
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But in any case, I love this clip because Elon, in his genius IQ, with his immense intellectual
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curiosity, with all of his successes, has discovered something that wise people have
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always known, that nobody seems to know today, which is that sex is for procreation.
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It's not that it can't be involved in other things.
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It's not that it can't produce other consequences.
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He's discovered what Norm MacDonald hit on in a very, very funny bit.
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He goes, yeah, you know, the thing about sex is that it's a filthy, shameful thing that's
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And I remember he did that bit, I don't know, it was five, ten years ago, and it shocks the
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He may have done it in San Francisco, of all places.
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Let's say everybody's sterile, as we all kind of are intentionally sterile today, for the
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I don't want to lead you into, you know, appealing to prurient interest and to impure
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But just if you can, if you can make it not a lusty thing, you just think of it's kind
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And so, if it's not for procreation, what's it for?
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Just, just feeling good, getting a fleeting titillation, producing some kind of endorphin
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Is that, that's what, it's just pure self-indulgence.
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And we can abstract this beyond sex, which is, when you use things for what they're
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for, the world makes sense and you are generally happy.
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When we use things in ways that they're not for or that are contrary to their purpose, we're
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You know, it just doesn't, it doesn't really make sense.
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We, we should take this, uh, sex matters a lot because it's so essential to human nature.
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But we should take this just generally throughout society.
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Nations are for, uh, protecting its peoples for the common good of their peoples.
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So when a nation undermines the common good of its people, opens up its border, lets crime
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Our nations in the West have become absurd because they're not doing what they're for.
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When education systems make people dumber, the education system becomes absurd.
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When religious institutions turn away from religious truth and they just try to mollify
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people or embrace the spirit of the age or something, they become ridiculous.
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So with Elon, he's, he's totally right about sex.
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It would be good though if he took it further because, and I, I offer this fraternal observation,
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uh, with due humility and with great admiration for Elon.
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I'm, I'm a great admirer of his, but when it comes to procreation, he has this problem,
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which is, he, you know, he's got a lot of babies, mama, and he's not married and he
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Not, um, not just cause I'm like morally scolding or something like that, or trying to be holier
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than thou, but just because that's what sex is for too.
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If sex is for procreation, for the begetting of children, well, that can't be the end of
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Because once, once the children come out, come out of the womb, there's still, there's
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So that's why we say that, that, uh, sex is for the procreation of children, but marriage
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is for the procreation and the education of children for raising kids through their whole
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lives, the kids that you're begetting as the object of sex, uh, those kids do best in a
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marriage, but it goes without saying between a man and a woman.
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And so you, and the marriage provides that best environment for the kids when it's for
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So I would say one can just take it further and one should take it further.
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He's one of the few people in, in a really prominent public life who's recognizing it
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He's, he's helping to lead the way and how glorious would it be for our public life if,
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if he kept going, man, maybe took religion quite seriously later too.
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Now, speaking of procreation, excellent news coming out of the white house.
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Actually, I should say out of the Naval Observatory, excellent news on multiple fronts.
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I did not pick this comment today because my derelict, lazy producers didn't send them
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But first, they've picked this comment from DK Outdoors.
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When life gives you lemons, you must prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.
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When lemons turn up in Minneapolis, you need to arrest them because they're collaborating
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Again, statement from the Naval Observatory yesterday, seal of the Vice President of the
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United States, we're very excited to share the news that Usha is pregnant with our fourth
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Usha and the baby are doing well, and we're all looking forward to welcoming him in July.
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And that goes on, during this exciting and hectic time, we're particularly grateful for
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the military doctors who take excellent care of our family and for the staff members who
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do so much to ensure that we can serve the country while enjoying a wonderful life with
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Please join me in a round of applause for the Vances.
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I'm falling a little bit behind J.D. right now.
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I think I got a sweet little Lisa and I, you know, maybe we got to hurry things up.
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I think it was Fulton Sheen, the first televangelist who happened to be a Catholic bishop, who said
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that three is the ideal minimum of children for a family.
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You know, these days, a lot of people don't have kids.
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A lot of people can't have kids for various environmental reasons or because they waited
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You know, infertility is a very difficult thing.
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The vice president punching above the ideal minimum.
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If it were just the vice president's good news, you say attaboy and move on.
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But this is politically significant because we are mimetic creatures.
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Because going all the way back to Aristotle, we recognize we're the social creature.
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What we do affects the people that are around us.
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That is why this kind of libertarian view, whether it's the left libertarians or the right
00:38:00.720
libertarians even, when they say, well, how does what I do affect you?
00:38:04.260
How does my doing drugs or redefining marriage or killing my baby, how does that affect you?
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Why do you care so much about, why does it affect you?
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Because I'm a human living in society because I'm a political creature, as are you.
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Because to quote Kamala Harris, we didn't fall out of a coconut tree.
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So anyway, we mimic each other, not merely in our behavior, in our modes of speech.
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That's just part of what is of the essence of humanity.
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The example I often go back to, people want the Rolex watch, 99 times out of 100, they
00:38:47.520
want the Rolex watch, not because they know anything about horology, not because they know
00:38:54.440
anything about the materials that go into the watch, certainly not because it tells better
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time, doesn't tell better time than a $15 Timex or Casio.
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They want the Rolex watch because you want the Rolex watch.
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They want the Rolex watch or the Chanel bag or the Ferragamo shoes or the whatever, you know,
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So they want these things, not because of something about the thing themselves usually,
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but because people that they admire want them too.
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And so what does this have to do with JD's new kid?
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My friends in New York, by and large, they don't really have kids.
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My friends in Tennessee, they have a lot of kids.
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And because they, I've even spoken to people about this, they start to feel a pressure.
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My friends in New York, they think you're weird if you have a bunch of kids.
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They think you have more than two kids, maybe more than one kid.
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Whereas here, especially if you're, you know, I'm in the more traditional Catholic scene,
00:40:14.840
but there's a lot of people of a lot of religious backgrounds who have a lot of kids in Tennessee.
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If you don't have a bunch of kids, now you're the weirdo.
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Our mimetic desire is fueled in different ways, in different places.
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And having a young vice president and second lady who have, by modern standards, a big family,
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and are having a kid in the White House and Naval Observatory, that's good.
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I don't know how modest or how great that will be, but we need this.
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This is what the Republicans had right in the 90s when they impeached Bill Clinton.
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And now it's to some degree a moot point because our culture is degraded so much,
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But it matters what our leaders do because we're going to emulate them,
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You look around now, before the Trump era, you go to a young Republican convention.
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People are wearing Brooks Brothers striped ties.
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So let's make sure that our leaders are popping out a lot of kids and exemplifying good behavior.
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The actress Pam Greer, I don't really know what she's been in, but she's an actress, fairly well-known actress.
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She said when she was a kid, her mother would tell her to turn away
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so she wouldn't have to see the lynched black people in the trees of Ohio.
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You faced a lot of racism growing up in Columbus, Ohio.
00:42:08.000
Well, the military wouldn't allow black families to live on the base, so you had to live in an apartment.
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And sometimes we would go from tree shade to shade to get back to the apartment, my brother and I, my mom, with bags.
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And my mom would go, don't look, don't look, don't look.
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And they have a memorial for it now where you can see where people were and left.
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And it triggers me today to see that a voice can be silenced.
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And if a white family supported a black, they're going to get burned down or killed or lynched as well.
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Now, if you don't, some of you know the facts about this, which is why you're probably laughing.
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But if you don't know the facts, you look around, you hear the audience, oh, oh, my goodness.
00:43:15.360
And then you look around and you see Whoopi Goldberg, who, I get a kick out of Whoopi Goldberg, but, you know, she doesn't know anything.
00:43:28.140
And then they turn to the chick who's the fake conservative on The View.
00:43:31.540
She used to work for Trump a thousand years ago, Alyssa Farah, I think.
00:43:37.400
Anyway, she's the fake conservative on The View.
00:43:43.440
So I was driving as a child and my mother would say, look away.
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It's not that there were never lynchings in America.
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There were like millions of lynchings in America.
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But still, pretty gruesome, I suspect, if you saw lynching.
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Largest mass lynching in American history was actually, oddly enough, of Italians in Louisiana.
00:44:20.320
Do you know when the last lynching in Ohio was?
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And so this lady, I don't know, she looks pretty good for her age.
00:44:39.140
In order for her to have seen a lynching in Ohio, when do you start to remember stuff?
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Let's say this woman has distinct memories from when she was four years old.
00:45:02.860
No, I think she's 70 or something, or in her 70s.
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So that's almost 50 years too young to have even had the possibility.
00:45:15.260
And even 1911, that was very, very late stage of the lynching phenomenon.
00:45:20.200
I mean, there are modern lynchings where there's a ton of gang violence and stuff, people just executing people and shooting them all over in left-wing run cities throughout America.
00:45:31.240
But the lynching, like specifically racial, hanging from a tree, that, why, does she believe this?
00:45:44.860
And one thing I will tell you, as a young man, I was an actor.
00:45:50.440
And I actually have now quite changed views on even the morality of acting, now that I'm a little deeper into philosophy and theology.
00:46:02.460
The one thing I can promise you, though, having spent a lot of time around actors, and especially actresses, is that they're completely insane.
00:46:16.800
Because, to quote Wynne Hanman, one of the great acting teachers, assistant to Sandy Meisner in the 50s, trained many of the great actors that are around today, you have to be a gullible fool to be an actor.
00:46:26.540
Because to be an actor, you have to live truthfully in imaginary circumstances.
00:46:31.640
You have to, you know, hold the blaster laser gun on the spaceship and really believe it and really live truthfully on planet Zebulon 5.
00:46:43.540
This is a kind of a self-induced psychosis because the culture has said it's a racist country and blacks are being lynched all the time.
00:46:55.420
I mean, actually, part of acting training is creating memories for yourself that can inform your performance of the role, at least according to certain techniques of acting.
00:47:13.580
It's, it, these people are living truthfully, but it's in imaginary circumstances.
00:47:17.320
And I think that accounts for a lot of the social problems we have.
00:47:19.920
And so, one great corrective to that is that President Trump has just announced he's going to bring back mental asylum.
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Signed an executive order to bring back mental institutions and insane asylums.
00:47:43.700
Hate to build those suckers, but, but you got to get the people off the streets.
00:47:50.660
This is one of those things he's probably not going to get a lot of credit for if it comes to pass, if there's not too much obstruction.
00:47:56.600
He probably won't get a lot of credit for it, but it could be really important.
00:48:01.640
He goes, look, we got to bring back the mental institutions, okay?
00:48:07.960
But they're bad places because mental illness is bad.
00:48:14.060
Some of that, I think, probably has a spiritual basis.
00:48:16.620
Some of it might just be purely physical, but it's bad.
00:48:25.800
But the question that I have is, what's the alternative?
00:48:30.660
And you hear this, and Trump says, I'm going to bring back insane asylum and mental institutions.
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Why did we get rid of the mental institutions in the first place?
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It's a very particular reason in the 50s and 60s.
00:48:52.320
And the idea was, you take all these crazy people who are, in many cases, dangerous to
00:48:58.260
the community or dangerous to themselves, and in any case, can't live on their own.
00:49:02.500
And you take these crazy people, you ply them with pills, and they get a little bit better.
00:49:13.020
The problem is, for virtually every person that you see on the street, every bum, every
00:49:23.580
Or they have other mental problems and spiritual problems, like addictions and all.
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But in any case, the psychological remedies haven't worked.
00:49:36.700
You have people setting women on fire in subway cars in New York.
00:49:41.280
You have people going, you see this a lot, actually, on trains.
00:49:43.360
You have people stabbing Irina Zarutska on the train.
00:49:49.320
You have repeat offenders arrested 40, 50, 60, 70 times.
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Just waiting, a powder keg, waiting to go off to harm innocent people.
00:50:02.320
Because in some cases, maybe they haven't committed a crime yet, or they've gotten out.
00:50:06.200
So you don't want to put them in jail preemptively for a crime they haven't yet committed.
00:50:09.740
But you can predict pretty well that they're going to commit.
00:50:13.260
The alternative in our liberal society is, hands off, never mind.
00:50:19.040
Hopefully, the cold will finally just get them, and they'll die of exposure.
00:50:24.580
Worst case, they set some grannies on fire on the subway.
00:50:32.560
That's the response from the left and the right.
00:50:39.680
They have a right to commit obscene acts in the streets.
00:50:45.240
Beheading people in the street is the cry of the unheard, of the oppressed, or whatever.
00:50:49.080
But even those guys on the right sometimes will say, yeah, not my problem.
00:50:56.640
But it's a retreat from society, which is contrary to our nature as social creatures
00:51:01.060
who are inclined naturally to live in order in society.
00:51:06.100
The proper solution, the caring solution that we ought to be able to agree upon on the left
00:51:12.020
and the right is you got to take care of these people who can't take care of themselves.
00:51:41.580
Then you have to follow me so that I get a higher follower count than Ben and Matt.
00:51:48.780
You have to check out for two months free on all annual plans.
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I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.
00:53:12.100
Vader Britain never rests in the hands of the great light.
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How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield?
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Circling to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.