July 4, 2025 • 39 mins
America stands as the greatest nation in history because it protects individual rights over majority rule and offers unparalleled geographic advantages. This Independence Day podcast explores why all Americans, regardless of background, should recognize how fortunate they are to live in a country founded on these principles.
• America wasn't designed to be a democracy but a republic that protects individual rights against majority tyranny
• Prison life reveals extreme tribalism that mirrors current societal divisions threatening American exceptionalism
• Our geographic advantages include temperate climate, fertile land, and navigable waterways unmatched worldwide
• Black Americans descend from the "luckiest half-million black people in history" who ended up in a nation that eventually protected their rights
• Latino Americans and Native Americans likewise benefit from living in a system that, despite historical injustices, offers unparalleled opportunity
• Returning to tribalism and identity politics threatens the exceptional American formula that has created unprecedented prosperity
• We must stop judging people by ancestry, appearance, or group identity and return to protecting individual rights
Let's enjoy Independence Day by celebrating the fact that we live in the greatest country in history by any objective measure, and just revel in it without aggravation or rage in our lives.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good morning and happy 4th of July.
Happy birthday America.
Happy birthday to us all whoare lucky enough to live here.
And that is going to be thetheme of my podcast today why
America truly is the greatestplace to live in history and why
each and every one of us hereare lucky to be here.
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And I'm going to come at it froma very unusual perspective,
since one of the things thatmakes me you know I'm going to
be I'm not going to be falselymodest.
I'm going to tell you one ofthe things that I think makes me
special, which is the sheerlevel of weird shit I've gone
through in my life and all thetrials and tribulations I've
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overcome and all the experiencesI've had since I've essentially
lived my life on my own almostfrom birth, given the incredibly
abusive background I come from.
I know I sound happy comingfrom that, which is really weird
.
Another little thing I'm kindof happy about somehow I came
out of it optimistic despite allof it, and I'm not going to
recount my own sad story becauseyou know, the truth of the
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matter is I went to prison andprison is I'm going to come at
this from the perspective ofhaving been exposed to the
lowest elements of the biggestwhiners in society.
If you think about it I'll getto explaining what that means in
a minute as a result of my ownpoor actions poor actions and if
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I start to describe mybackground and it'll start to
sound like I'm trying to set upa predicate for why I did what I
did, and I'd never like to dothat.
In fact, I refuse to do thatbecause millions of other people
went through exactly what Iwent through and didn't do what
I did.
So it's not an excuse, andthat's the problem with you know
, I had to go through this and Ihad to go through that.
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And I, you know, dah, dah, dah,dah, dah.
You know, if, if you're goingto be a stoic and I adopted
stoicism as the centralphilosophy of my life while I
was in prison um, I, you know.
Again, I just to explain thatpeople, all of us, as human
beings, need a track to run on.
I don't care how smart you are,how smart you think you are or
how good you think you are,whatever the adjective you want
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to use.
We just aren't born with theinherent knowledge of what to do
in every situation, and that'swhat philosophy is about, and
that's what religion is about.
And because I am an agnosticand I describe myself as
agnostic, by the way, for thoseof you who are new joining me
for the first time Also, by theway, for those of you joining
for the first time, if you wantto check out my overall guiding
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philosophy and the movement I'mtrying to begin, which is called
Antipolitism.
The system of Antipolitism,which is a republic by
merit-based lottery, I know thatin one sentence lays a lot of
open ground.
So if you want to read themanifesto of anti-politism,
please pick it up on Amazon.
It's called A Radical Reset,the same exact title as this
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podcast, a Radical Reset by me,herbie K Herbie, spelled with a
Y, on Amazon in Kindle,paperback and hardcover, and you
can read all about what makesantipolitism antipolitism.
Okay, although I'm going to tellyou in all honesty, I'm about
to revise the manifesto tosimplify the qualifications of
who is eligible for the draft,so to speak.
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Not the draft into the military, the draft into Congress.
I know, weird concept, but itconverts ambition to duty and
that's the key Ambitionconverted to duty, ambition.
You know, people think greed isa bad thing.
I don't think greed hasanything.
Greed is just a word.
We put on trying to do things inour own self-interest, and our
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own self-interest is a goodthing because it creates
activity that benefits otherseven as we pursue our own
self-interest.
So if we go to the grocerystore and we buy, we decide
today is the day that we'regoing to, you know, pop for a
prime rib and spend $100 on aslab of meat.
Well, you know, there's thebutcher that cut it, there's the
packing house that packed itand there's the farmer or the
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rancher that raised it andthere's the feedlot that fed it
out.
Everyone benefits by thattransaction of someone buying
that slab of meat.
And that's why I don't reallylike to dwell on greed, because
every time you acquire, as partof what we call greed, you
benefit everybody that createdit, whatever it is you acquired.
So your very action of whatsome people would perceive as
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selfishness is actually agreater act of charity in the
sense that, then, giving yourmoney away because it creates
productive activity and all thepeople involved in the chain
that goes into that product orservice that you wanted to buy.
If you were Jeff Bezos and youwanted to buy a lavish yacht and
throw a ridiculous wedding andspend all those millions and
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millions, tens of hundreds ofmillions of dollars on your own
wedding, great, everybody thatworked there, everybody who
built that yacht, everybody, Imean think it through people.
You know, when you hear thingslike the socialist saying there
should be no billionaires, yetthat's another word for
billionaire's employer, you know.
And taking money away from youremployer does not make more,
better paid employees.
That's the, that's the fallacyof socialism.
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But anyway, that's one of thefallacies of socialism.
Back on track.
So I went to prison and inprison I and I'm counted number
one, a very segregated society,segregated by the inmates, not
by the prison staff, and theywere.
And the groups that were inprison were broken down like
this there were the white guyswho called themselves the Woods,
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which is short for Pecker Woods.
I do not know why they chosePecker Woods.
The whites were run by theAryan Brotherhood and the
skinheads, which are essentiallyone of the same thing who, by
the way, a lot of them belong tothis religion called Asatru,
which I had never heard of untilI went to prison.
It's like reviving the oldViking bullshit.
It is Well.
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No, I shouldn't say that.
It's reviving Viking mythology,which was beautiful, and
turning it into racist bullshit.
That's Asatru, but anyway theywear little Thor hammers.
They don't even know anythingabout what they're talking about
, but it's like all ignorance,it manifests itself in glorious
ways.
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So there's the whites, thenthere are the blacks, and the
blacks identify as kinfolk,which I completely understood
that name right away and itdidn't seem bad to me.
In fact, when I was in prison,while I was white, I rolled
kinfolk and I did that becausethe whites run by the Aryan
brothers are anti-Semites andbeing a Jew, which I do not hide
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and I refuse to, I don't try to.
I can pass, but I don't try topass.
I don't look particularlyJewish quote unquote.
I don't have a big nose and myeyes are blue and my hair leads
me to a story.
I'm going to share one of mystories with you.
I just popped into my head.
So when I got married for thefirst time, I married a.
I married a.
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Well, both times I marriedgirls who weren't Jewish and
both times I married girls whowere Scandinavian, and I'm not
sure what that tells you.
But there you go.
I guess I like Scandinavianwomen, although my second wife
was a brunette, not a blonde.
My first wife was a blonde.
Her name was Kim and I marriedher.
I met her in the Navy.
I'm not going to go into thewhole story of how I met her,
but we had a lot of fun and Iwas very young when I married
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her.
But I was also not entirelyestranged, but pretty much
estranged, from my parents.
But I still talked to them andof course I was going to let
them know that I was gettingmarried.
I wasn't inviting them to thewedding, mind you.
I was, when I say parents, myfather I had no contact with
ever and my mother died when shewas 50 and I was 28, 29, 29,
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1986.
No, 29.
Yeah, 29.
Anyway, but we had a very butanyway, my mother was funny.
People are complicated.
She had her good parts and herbad parts.
The bad parts I'm not going togo into today.
The good parts is what thisstory is about in a funny sort
of way.
So I call up my mother and Itell her I'm marrying, I'm
getting married.
She has no idea I'm even datingseriously at this point.
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And I'm in.
Where I am is I'm at theNational Security Agency at Fort
Meade in Baltimore, maryland.
I was a Russian linguist and Iworked at the National Security
Agency with the top secret,alpha Clarence.
And that is what makes me sointeresting.
Just to share, because I'vebeen at the top and I've been at
the bottom in many differentareas.
And this is when I was at thetop of the intelligence area,
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because at the time I was a veryhighly rated Russian linguist.
I have a talent for foreignlanguages and there are a lot of
guys well, not a lot, but thereare a number of people that may
be trained to speak Russian andamong all of those, my Russian
was the best and I graduatedfirst in my class from Russian
school, which was at the DefenseLanguage Institute, monterey,
california, where I attended a47-week immersion course in
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Russian, taught by nativeRussians, and voila, I spoke
Russian.
So today I think they try toteach it more as a vocational
skill and differently.
I don't really understand that,but in those days they taught
immersion Russian.
It was great.
I still speak Russian, I stillhave Russian friends.
So I'm out in the NSA and mymother is back in Arizona, in
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Nogales, Arizona which meanswalnuts, in case you're curious
what Nogales means and it's thelargest crossing point in the
world of produce between twocountries, the United States and
Mexico and Yadier, and theywere there because of the
produce industry.
And so I call my mother up andI tell her what's going on.
And she said her first questionto me is is she Jewish?
And I said no, and I heard thephone drop.
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Now you remember, this isbefore, way before cell phones.
This is 1970, I'm going to say1978, or yeah, it's 1978, I
think 77 or 78, that I got let'ssee how old was I.
It's 1978.
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So, no cell phones.
You know, it's the old phone onthe cord and the kitchen phone
on the wall.
That's what she was talking on.
I could tell, because they hadthe really long cord you could
walk around the house, drag onthe cord.
No one remembers these cords,but they were.
You would play with them.
I kind of missed the phone cord.
It was fun to play with.
Anyway, long story short, shedrops, I hear it drop, she picks
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it up and then she's breathinglike this and I said what's
wrong?
And she said oh my God, oh myGod, your grandfather is rolling
in his grave and you know howcan you do this?
And yada, yada, yada, so on andso forth.
And my answer was mom, and itcame down to this.
No one in our family has everdone this before.
How could you intermarry?
How could you marry a Gentilegirl?
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It isn't so much as a prejudice, so much as Jews, you know.
Birds of a feather generallytry to flock together.
So this is what it came down to.
And she was freaking out and Isaid to her I said, mom, no way
that I'm the first one in ourfamily to ever marry a shiksa.
By the way, shiksa is theJewish slash Yiddish word for a
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girl who is not Jewish.
If it's a boy, it's a sheikah.
It's just the masculine andfeminine form of the same word,
but the female form is shiksa.
So I said to her I'm not thefirst guy in our family to ever
marry a shiksa, I'm sure of it,or ever get involved with a
shiksa or a sheikh.
It's someone or a bloodline.
She said how can you say thatyour grandfather's rolling in
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his grave?
Blah, blah, blah.
She goes through the soulspeech.
And I said to her look, mom,jews are Semitic people, true or
false?
And she said well, true, ofcourse.
And I said Arabs or Semiticpeople, true or false?
And she said true, what are youtrying to get at?
I said in fact, everyone wholives in that northern part of
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Africa are Semites.
Is that that's true?
And she said yes, that's true.
And I said so.
You know what I'm talking about.
You know swarthy, curly hair,dark eyes, large noses.
You know Jews and Arabs lookessentially the same, especially
the ones that have never leftthe Middle East.
So there are two kinds of Jews.
By the way, guys, just todigress again, there are
Sephardic and Ashkenazic.
Sephardic are the Jews thatnever left Israel.
Ashkenazic are the ones thatemigrated into other countries
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and then came back later.
I'm Ashkenazic, so I come fromRussia, my family.
So I said to her, I said, ma, soyou know, like Jesus couldn't
have looked like the pictures inthe, you know, with the blue
eyes and the long blonde, theywould have drowned.
That baby Jesus had to looklike, basically, yasser Arafat.
You know, for those of you, Iand I don't mean that to be
insulting, and just MiddleEastern people would not follow
a guy that looked like he justwalked out of the Roman Empire.
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I'm sorry, just not going tohappen.
So, anywho, digressing from mydigressing from my digressing
and now returning to the story,which is digression from the
theme of the show and I'll getback to it, I promise.
Finishing the story, I said, mom, I hate to break this to you,
but I'm six foot three, I've gotblue eyes.
My hair is sandy blonde.
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It's absolutely white today,but it used to be sandy blonde
with a little red mixed in.
I burned in the summer.
I said, mom, I hate to breakthis to you, but somebody was
stupping a Russian somewhere.
Now, stupping is the Yiddishword for screwing.
Okay, so you get the drift.
The point is, you know whoamong us are pure?
I don't know why I even toldthis story.
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So, anyway, back to.
So I'm Jewish, I don't hide it,I'm proud of it, yada, yada,
yada.
So I rolled with the kinfolk,the next group on the yard.
We're back to the main story ofthe yard, which was a digression
from where.
Well, actually it's part of themain theme of what I'm talking
about today.
There were the Paisas, whichare the foreign national Latinos
.
Okay, then they're not uscitizens, they speak generally
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Spanish only.
Then there are the Chicanos.
Now you would think that theChicanos and the Paisas, if you
weren't really up on this.
You know why are they in twoseparate groups?
Because they hate each other.
Why did.
They hate each other For thesame reason that Mexican
American males, latin Americanmales, voted heavily for Donald
Trump, as opposed to what peoplewho don't understand the issue
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thought, that they would allvote Democratic.
And the answer is, when theybecome American, they speak
English primarily.
A lot of the Chicanos don'tspeak Spanish at all.
What they mostly speak isSpanglish and the Paisas view
that as positively outrageousand they just hate each other
over it.
I mean, I'm simplifying a muchmore complicated cultural story,
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mind you, but in the mostsimple sense, it really comes
down to how they speak Spanish,and Chicanos, and me too, I
speak Spanglish.
You know, when I get stuck on aword, english will come out.
But sometimes, believe it ornot, I don't know about you guys
any of you speak more than twolanguages.
Do you ever find yourselfspeaking another foreign
language and then you get stuckon a word and it comes out as
another foreign language becauseyour brain is in foreign
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language mode?
I can't tell you how many timesI have spoken Russian while I'm
speaking Spanish or Spanish.
When I'm speaking Italian, orItalian or French, when I'm
speaking Spanish, it just comesout in other languages that I
speak, even German words comeout.
It's just weird, my brain getsinto foreign language mode.
Anyway, I'm just curious.
If that happens to you, you cancomment, send me a note.
If it does, I'm just curious.
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If this is, I don't know.
I'm always curious in how otherpeople think.
I think we all pretty muchthink the same and we just think
we're special.
So anyway, they hate each otherand break down into two groups.
And then there are the chiefs,which are the Native Americans,
who are very interesting, veryquiet and I would use the word
stoic people.
You know they are, they'requiet, they take their time,
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they don't act impulsively.
I'm speaking, this is a broadgenerality.
I kind of like being around thechiefs.
I find them calming.
And who else was left?
The chiefs?
The Paisans, that was it.
Okay.
There were very few AsianAmericans.
So there were Asian Americans.
There were generally rolledChicano.
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The reason they didn't rollwith the whites is because the
Aryan brothers are such racistNazi bastards really I have
nothing good to say about them.
So anyway, when you're amongthese groups in prison and when
you were, I got involved inteaching reentry classes because
of the corrections officersrecognized that I was educated
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and yada, yada, yada, you get toknow these groups really,
really well and because I rolledblack, I got you know, kinfolk,
I got to know them very welland at that ladder of the
socioeconomic scale, you'reamong the biggest whiners in our
society, the biggest crybabies,the biggest parasites.
These are people who do notunderstand that they have to do
for themselves, because they'reraised literally on the street
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and they simply take, and sotheir only question is what are
you going to do for me?
It doesn't occur to them thatthey would do it for themselves.
Now, I'm not saying these arebad people.
I'm saying these are productsof being raised on the street.
That's what I'm saying.
But I'm saying that it is themost extreme and therefore
representative version ofAmerica's divisions that are
taking place right now, becauseit's also tribal.
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Okay, it's very, very tribal.
Tribalism is a reverted state.
You know, civilization overcametribalism.
But the difference between acivilization and a tribe is that
in a civilization, people mixand there are written and
structured systems andinstitutions that control our
worst behaviors.
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You know what goes on behindclosed doors.
It would terrify all of us.
We all know that.
We all have secrets we wereraised with and we think we're
alone and unique in it and we'renot.
It's a sad, sad story.
Perversion is a norm, I think,but anyway, having said that,
what Civilizations does is itputs a veneer and a structure
over all of that, so thathumanity can progress.
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Okay, I'm being simplistic andthis is a longer discussion for
more than a podcast, but I'm youknow.
As you know, I don't speak froma prepared text, so this is all
occurring to me as I'm speakingon a general theme.
So, just, I hope, I hope youfind this sort of thing
interesting and let's just gowith it.
So, anyway, when you get lowerand lower in the economic ladder
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or, as currently happens inAmerica, it just occurs to me,
higher and lower in the economicladder, or, as currently
happens in america's, justoccurs to me, higher and higher
in the college educated.
What we're doing as a societyis we're retribalizing, and so I
was basically involved in theworst part of the
retribalization.
Wokeism is nothing more than themodern representation of
tribalism.
Okay, and you know, when youstart subgrouping people into
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areas that they cannot breakfrom and their primary
allegiance is to theirsubgrouping, that's a tribe,
that's not a civilization.
Now, you can call it a tribe,you can call it a cult.
In American parlance, modernvernacular it's these are
synonymous terms.
Okay, so I got to hear thewhines and you know what was
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wrong.
And the point is, I'm not goingto go through all the complaints
one by one, but one of thethings I told all of these
people, one of the things that Itold the Chicanos and the
kinfolk in particular, and theNative Americans, is how lucky
they were to be conquered bywhite Europeans in America.
And I know that this is goingto be an incendiary statement,
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but I'm telling you right now,and I'm going to make the case,
and this is why America.
This all links to why Americais great.
Let's start with why America isgreat and then I'll finish with
why these so-called aggrievedminority groups of America are
the luckiest people in the worldperiod In history.
They're the luckiest people.
They just don't recognize it.
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First of all, what makes Americagreat is not that we're a
democracy.
We were never meant to be ademocracy.
We were meant to be a republic,which is a completely different
animal, and we have destroyedthe republic in favor of the
democracy, which is really whatanti-politism is all about is
restoring the republic, but indoing that, we somehow taught
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people I'm not sure where thiscame from.
I remember being taught this asa kid that democracy it still
is.
It's a word that's democracy.
Say for democracy, we have tohave a democracy.
Democracy inevitably descendsinto mob rule, which is what's
going on now.
Hold on, I've got to take a sipand wet my whistle.
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So much better Iced tea on the4th of July.
What could be better Sun tea,as a matter of fact, in sunny
arizona, where I am anyway?
Um, so we're not at the moment,we weren't.
That's not what makes americaspecial, is the point I'm making
.
And and the majority rules.
Majority rules everywhere.
You know, it doesn't matter ifit's a dictatorship.
Majority rules in russia rightnow.
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The majority of the russianpeople love putin, and the day
they don't love putin, they'llthrow them out.
It won't be through an election, it might be through a coup,
but still it's a reflection ofwhat the majority wants.
A coup leader never leads acoup unless he or she it's
always a he unless he thinksthat the people are behind him
in his delusions.
Whether it's true or it's falseis another story.
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But when Hugo Chavez took overVenezuela before he completely
ruined it, he was a very popularchoice and he was overthrowing
a very unpopular government, andyou know that was a reflection
of the majority at the time,even though the majority was
backing a dictator.
Now, today, it's completelyreversed, as socialism always
fails, but anyway.
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So back to the United States.
That's not what makes usspecial.
Majority rule doesn't make usspecial.
Part of what makes us specialis our luck.
Okay, so the first thing isAmerica is the luckiest country
in history because of ourgeography.
We have phenomenal geography.
We're in a perfectly temperatezone from north to south.
Maine gets cold, but not ascold as Siberia.
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Florida gets hot, but not ashot as the equator, and in the
middle it's mostly temperate,gentle as the equator, and in
the middle are mostly temperate,gentle changes of seasons.
And the American Midwest is thelargest fertile growing area in
the world, and not to mentionthe San Joaquin Valley of
California, which might even bebigger now that I think about it
, the American Midwest, and thenrunning down the middle of the
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country, with tributarieseverywhere, is the Mississippi
River, and what makes itremarkable is that it's
navigable its entire route, asare almost all of its
tributaries, and so that linkscities.
And then from that we weresmart enough to build canal
systems and so on and so forth.
And, to make a long story short,we're the geographically
luckiest country in the world,but that's not what makes
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America unique in history.
What makes America unique, whatmakes us special, which is what
the reason is that all of usshould be thrilled that we live
here.
First of all, we're also luckybecause we're in such a
geographically perfect place.
There's nothing like the UnitedStates geographically in the
world and never, never,underestimate geographics.
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One of the reasons Mexico, forexample, is not as prosperous as
the United States is they haveshit geography.
All their cities are isolated,there's nothing that links them
and it's.
The terrain is terrible.
So you know it's one, you knowit has beautiful, beautiful
parts, but there's nothing.
Anyway, I don't want to get intogeography.
What am I doing?
So let's say what makes Americaspecial is the protection of
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the rights of the minority orthe individual over the rights
of the majority.
That's what makes Americaspecial, and that we have
elevated that to a nearreligious status that we're
trying to destroy.
And we need to restore thatreligious status and the
sacredness of the originalconstitution as written by the
founders of the United States,with a couple of small
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write-outs of the particularlyracist and misogynistic parts,
which is not what I'm talkingabout, but the rest of it is
magnificent.
And, by the way, the so-calledracist and misogynistic parts
were simply from perceptions ofthe time these people lived in,
and even the slavery.
You know what?
I'm not going to go down thatrat hole.
I almost went down that rathole, but I'm not going down
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that rat hole.
Let me stay on subject.
So here we go In America.
What makes you special is youcan be the biggest nutcase in
the world, stand in the middleof the street, say anything you
want out loud, short ofthreatening the life of somebody
.
That of it's not allowed, um,because no society would
tolerate that.
You know anyway, um, unlike anyother place in the world, in
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england today, right at thisvery at this very moment, our,
our parent cult, a countryculturally um, is going through
a period of where they'reliterally putting people in jail
for um speech.
What they, what they havedefined this is hate speech or
whatever they're calling it.
That could never happen inAmerica unless we tribalize it,
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and that's what I want to speakabout today.
So here's what I told.
I want to talk to all of you inwrapping up today's podcast.
I want to talk to all of youbitchers and moaners, or people
who buy into the narrative thatthere are aggrieved minorities
that we have somehow oppressedand ruined in the United States,
we being the white Europeanswho conquered the continent,
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which, in fact, is what we did,we can call it whatever we want,
but basically Europeans cameacross and we conquered the
continent.
Now, as a result of conqueringthe continent, a lot of minority
groups were brought in and, inthe short term, abused.
Slaves number one there wereapproximately a half a million
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slaves imported into the UnitedStates from Africa at the time.
Just for you to know, therewere about 11 million slaves
were exported from Africa intothe New World during the period
of slavery in the WesternHemisphere from Africa.
And of those approximately 11million slaves, 10.5 million
went to the islands in SouthAmerica and a half a million
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went to the United States.
All the slaves at the time,their descendants are the
American blacks today, liberallymixed with a lot of white blood
too, because, over the years,race is mixed, which is why I
think, by the way, in a couplehundred years, if we could come
back in time, the whole world isgoing to be basically brown
with slightly almond eyes.
I think we're going to screweach other into the absence of
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racial differences over a veryshort period of time, given the
speed of technology.
But anyway, I digress.
So coming back to the point isthat so about a half a million
African and slavery ended.
The importation of slaveryended in 1965, obviously, but
the importation of slaves endedin 1938 because of malaria.
Frankly, they, as many peoplewere dying on the ships is under
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the decks of the ships, fromthe malaria that that, uh, white
Europeans had no resistance toand they were dropping dead left
and right and one thing led toanother and they stopped the
importation of slaves in 1838.
So, anyway, all the black peoplethat are descendants of slaves
today are descendants of thatoriginal half a million people
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and they have nothing to bitchabout, because those are the
luckiest half a million blackpeople in the goddamn history of
the world.
And let me explain to you why.
And if it isn't obvious by now,let me lay out the case.
You know, sometimes what's upis down and down is up, and
that's why, in stoicism, weembrace challenge and difficulty
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and consequence as necessaryparts of life to really achieve
a life of value and worth yourdescendants, my black friends,
my black American friends.
Yes, it was a bad thing to beslaves, by the way, all sold
into slavery by other blackpeople, no such thing as a white
slaver.
In Africa itself there werewhite slavers quote unquote
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around the boats.
But again, I'm going down thatrat hole.
Yes, they lived lives thatweren't the greatest.
Yes, they lived lives thatweren't the greatest.
Yes, they lived lives thatweren't going to, but they were
going to be slaves in Africa, myfriends.
They could have been Africanslaves or they could have been
American slaves.
These were black people, tribesthat were rounded up by other
tribes, then brought to thecoast of Africa and sold to
whites on ships that then sailedthem to the new world.
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That's how it worked.
That was the entire system.
That's how every black ended upin slavery.
So had they not been sold intoslavery to white slavers, they
would have been kept as blackslaves, and black slaves exist
to this day in Africa.
There's nothing unusual aboutthis, but those slaves the half
a million that ended up in thein the United States are the
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luckiest black people in thehistory of the world to date,
because they ended up in acountry that, once they were
freed, their right as anindividual began.
And yes, it was imperfect, andyes, there was Jim Crow, and yes
, there was all kinds of stuff,but in the end, you today,
living here now, listening to myvoice, are so unbelievably
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lucky.
And I used to tell this to theinmates in prison and when I'd
explain it to them, most of themgot it.
And you know it's a funny thing, when you talk to people on
their own level and you're nottalking down and you're not
being pedantic and you're nottreating them like children,
like so often progressives dowith black people, I think
that's insulting.
And you tell them the truth.
Shut the fuck up.
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You're the luckiest blackpeople in the history of the
world and you tell them whatYou're in America.
Would you rather go back toAfrica?
And if the answer is no, thenshut the fuck up.
And would you rather go live inEurope?
And if the answer is no, thenshut the fuck up.
If you'd rather go and liveanywhere else in the world than
here, my black American friends,if the answer is no, then shut
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the fuck up and enjoy thecountry you're living in,
because we, as America, protectyour rights as an individual
today.
Stop living in the past.
The past is prologue.
The present and the future okay, the present is all that exists
and the future will take careof itself if you learn to live
in the present and stop whining,okay, and recognize how lucky
you are.
Let's now move along to Latinos.
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In America, latinos fall intotwo groups, and I know this,
living in the desert southwestand being bilingual and living
most of my life in Arizona,which, except for the fate of
history, could have easily beenMexico.
So, having said that, I have adeep understanding and I have
many, many.
I'm not saying this in that,you know, I have a Latino friend
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, I have lots of Latino friends.
If you went into my Facebook,into my ex-account, you'd find
that shit.
I don't know what thepercentage is, but maybe half
are Latino, and the reason forthat is that I live in Arizona
and I love it here and I lovethe culture and I love Mexican
culture in particular, and Ilived in Mexico on and off for a
period of years and I had ahome in Mexico, and so I really
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understand the culture.
But here's the thing, dudes,they fall into two groups.
There are the Mexican-Americanswho came here the hard way, the
right way, the green card way.
Their families came here, theymade a life.
They're Americans first andforemost.
They voted for Donald Trump.
I hate to tell you, but that'strue.
Those Latinos will agree withme when I say you are the
luckiest motherfucker.
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Good thing Mexico got its asskicked.
Good thing America threw outGeneral Santa Ana and then made
the deal to basically buy forpeanuts the rest of the United
States Good thing.
Good thing Texas joined theUnited States.
Good thing you're here.
Would you rather live in Mexico?
Anyone want to go back?
And the answer to that I don'thave to ask them this, because
they know it.
This is why they voted forDonald Trump and they understand
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that.
America is a country where youspeak English.
Now, to those of you who arelistening to me, whose English
kind of suck and you think thatwe should be a bilingual nation
bullshit.
Bilingualism is a recipe fordisaster.
Ask the Canadians.
Okay, that's all I have to say.
It doesn't work.
America is an English-speakingcountry and for those of you who
embrace that and learn to speakEnglish you soon will be you
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will learn that you know onceyou adopt the language of the
culture and adopt the culture asyour own at home, for example,
I'm very Jewish at home, but inpublic I play the game with
everybody.
It's not a game.
I'm part of the Americanculture.
I'm an American Jew, not aJewish American.
You're an American black,you're an American Latino.
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And the Native Americans?
I hate coming to that group ofso-called oppressed minorities.
You know that for those crazyactivists, I hate to tell you
this, guys, but Native Americanswere Stone Age people who were
preying on each other formillennia, not years, millennia.
Every single tribe was on land.
That it took from another tribe, that took from another tribe
before that.
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That it took from another tribebefore that.
It was a history of slaughter.
They hadn't even invented thewheel.
The horseback Native I'm goingto stop calling them Native, I'm
just going to call them theIndians.
It's a generic term.
We all know what I'm talkingabout.
Horseback warfare.
The Comanches adopted itsuccessfully, but they didn't
have horses until the Spaniardscame and they were the only
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Indian tribe that learned how touse horses correctly.
The rest would ride theirhorses into battle, dismount and
fight from the ground, which isjust insane.
But the Comanches learned tofight from the saddle, so to
speak, or lack of saddle.
But the phenomenal horsemen.
Anyway, long story short, youwere going to be conquered, guys
.
If it wasn't by the Spaniardsor by us, it was going to be,
sooner or later, the Ottomans.
I mean, one way or another, theNative American tribes, the
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Indian tribes of the Americancontinent, north to south, were
going to be conquered becausethey were all Stone Age people,
and that is the story of history.
So who would you rather beconquered by?
Okay, the Spaniards or theEnglish?
And I got news for you theEnglish were the better
conquering power, number one.
They were Protestants.
So there was no church bullshit, no missionaries, no, y'all
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have to be Catholic nonsense.
Yeah, they tried to convert theNative Americans and other
groups, but you could always sayno.
And then, of course, there'sthe American religion, which is
Mormonism need to embrace nomatter what minority group we
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may belong to or what sexualsubgroup.
How women thought they wereoppressed is beyond me.
But, okay, I mean, ladies, areyou really happy you're
abandoning traditional values?
I mean, I'm not a woman, Idon't know, but I have daughters
and I know the baby itch startsto itch all by itself.
You don't have to teach themhow it just happens.
And suppressing that cannotpossibly lead to happiness, and
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the reason the traditionalfamily sets up the way it does
and it has for 10,000 years, isbecause it works, and it works
to the benefit of everyone,including everyone's happiness.
And the reason the UnitedStates exists, thank God, is the
recognition of the rights ofthe individual over the majority
, and we need to remindourselves of that and restore a
system of government that doesthat, reinforces that in the
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institutions, that protects that, and we do that best by taking
the ambition out of power andreplacing it with duty, which is
what anti-politism is all about.
But America, with or without it, has been the greatest country
in history and if we don't ruinit and we continue to protect
the rights of the individualover the rights of the majority,
we will continue to be theguiding light onto the future.
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But we've got to pull our headsout of our asses, beginning with
this return to tribalism.
We have to stop identifying aswhat color the melatonin is or
how much melatonin we have inour skin.
Not melatonin, it's melanin.
Melatonin is what puts you tosleep.
What a maroon.
Anyway, that's me I'm talkingabout, not you.
Yeah, let's stop judging bymelanin and let's stop judging
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by eye shape and let's stopjudging by where our
great-grandparents came from orwhat deprivations they went
through.
Mine went through pogroms andshtetls in Russia.
I don't think Russia owes merestitution.
Grow up and be thrilled andcount yourself lucky.
No matter what group you belongto, you are in the greatest
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place at the greatest time inhistory, and if we don't screw
it up and we don't destroyourselves through this inane
return to tribalism, our futureis so bright we'll have to wear
shades, and that's the messagefor today.
My friends, enjoy your 4th ofJuly, enjoy the fireworks.
I don't know about you, but mylittle puppy, pepper, who
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suffers from anxiety to beginwith, is going to get.
Puppy Pepper, who suffers fromanxiety to begin with, is going
to get a double dose of CBD,which I use to calm her and
works quite well todayBacon-flavored CBD for pets.
If those of you who have dogsand cats who suffer from anxiety
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, there's a tip for you and soit's all natural.
It doesn't hurt them.
As long as you're in a statewhere you you know you can buy
CBD, what else are they going tosay?
Oh, you know, have a picnic.
What we're going to do herewhere I'm living, we're all
buying pizzas and doing a groupthing.
It's going to be fun.
Enjoy your 4th of July, enjoyyour day.
God bless America.
Let's not worry if we'reDemocrats or Republicans or
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libertarians, let's not worry ifwe're progressive or
conservative.
Let's just celebrate the factthat we live in the greatest
country in history by anyobjective reason or factor, and
just revel in it and bathe inthe glory of it and enjoy just
one day without aggravation orrage in our lives.
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Just enjoy the moment, live inthe moment and have a wonderful
day.
God bless you, god bless yourfamily, god bless America, and
I'll talk to you on Monday.
Good morning and happy 4th of July.
Happy birthday America.
Happy birthday to us all whoare lucky enough to live here.
And that is going to be thetheme of my podcast today why
America truly is the greatestplace to live in history and why
each and every one of us hereare lucky to be here.
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And I'm going to come at it froma very unusual perspective,
since one of the things thatmakes me you know I'm going to
be I'm not going to be falselymodest.
I'm going to tell you one ofthe things that I think makes me
special, which is the sheerlevel of weird shit I've gone
through in my life and all thetrials and tribulations I've
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overcome and all the experiencesI've had since I've essentially
lived my life on my own almostfrom birth, given the incredibly
abusive background I come from.
I know I sound happy comingfrom that, which is really weird
.
Another little thing I'm kindof happy about somehow I came
out of it optimistic despite allof it, and I'm not going to
recount my own sad story becauseyou know, the truth of the
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matter is I went to prison andprison is I'm going to come at
this from the perspective ofhaving been exposed to the
lowest elements of the biggestwhiners in society.
If you think about it I'll getto explaining what that means in
a minute as a result of my ownpoor actions poor actions and if
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I start to describe mybackground and it'll start to
sound like I'm trying to set upa predicate for why I did what I
did, and I'd never like to dothat.
In fact, I refuse to do thatbecause millions of other people
went through exactly what Iwent through and didn't do what
I did.
So it's not an excuse, andthat's the problem with you know
, I had to go through this and Ihad to go through that.
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And I, you know, dah, dah, dah,dah, dah.
You know, if, if you're goingto be a stoic and I adopted
stoicism as the centralphilosophy of my life while I
was in prison um, I, you know.
Again, I just to explain thatpeople, all of us, as human
beings, need a track to run on.
I don't care how smart you are,how smart you think you are or
how good you think you are,whatever the adjective you want
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to use.
We just aren't born with theinherent knowledge of what to do
in every situation, and that'swhat philosophy is about, and
that's what religion is about.
And because I am an agnosticand I describe myself as
agnostic, by the way, for thoseof you who are new joining me
for the first time Also, by theway, for those of you joining
for the first time, if you wantto check out my overall guiding
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philosophy and the movement I'mtrying to begin, which is called
Antipolitism.
The system of Antipolitism,which is a republic by
merit-based lottery, I know thatin one sentence lays a lot of
open ground.
So if you want to read themanifesto of anti-politism,
please pick it up on Amazon.
It's called A Radical Reset,the same exact title as this
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podcast, a Radical Reset by me,herbie K Herbie, spelled with a
Y, on Amazon in Kindle,paperback and hardcover, and you
can read all about what makesantipolitism antipolitism.
Okay, although I'm going to tellyou in all honesty, I'm about
to revise the manifesto tosimplify the qualifications of
who is eligible for the draft,so to speak.
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Not the draft into the military, the draft into Congress.
I know, weird concept, but itconverts ambition to duty and
that's the key Ambitionconverted to duty, ambition.
You know, people think greed isa bad thing.
I don't think greed hasanything.
Greed is just a word.
We put on trying to do things inour own self-interest, and our
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own self-interest is a goodthing because it creates
activity that benefits otherseven as we pursue our own
self-interest.
So if we go to the grocerystore and we buy, we decide
today is the day that we'regoing to, you know, pop for a
prime rib and spend $100 on aslab of meat.
Well, you know, there's thebutcher that cut it, there's the
packing house that packed itand there's the farmer or the
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rancher that raised it andthere's the feedlot that fed it
out.
Everyone benefits by thattransaction of someone buying
that slab of meat.
And that's why I don't reallylike to dwell on greed, because
every time you acquire, as partof what we call greed, you
benefit everybody that createdit, whatever it is you acquired.
So your very action of whatsome people would perceive as
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selfishness is actually agreater act of charity in the
sense that, then, giving yourmoney away because it creates
productive activity and all thepeople involved in the chain
that goes into that product orservice that you wanted to buy.
If you were Jeff Bezos and youwanted to buy a lavish yacht and
throw a ridiculous wedding andspend all those millions and
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millions, tens of hundreds ofmillions of dollars on your own
wedding, great, everybody thatworked there, everybody who
built that yacht, everybody, Imean think it through people.
You know, when you hear thingslike the socialist saying there
should be no billionaires, yetthat's another word for
billionaire's employer, you know.
And taking money away from youremployer does not make more,
better paid employees.
That's the, that's the fallacyof socialism.
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But anyway, that's one of thefallacies of socialism.
Back on track.
So I went to prison and inprison I and I'm counted number
one, a very segregated society,segregated by the inmates, not
by the prison staff, and theywere.
And the groups that were inprison were broken down like
this there were the white guyswho called themselves the Woods,
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which is short for Pecker Woods.
I do not know why they chosePecker Woods.
The whites were run by theAryan Brotherhood and the
skinheads, which are essentiallyone of the same thing who, by
the way, a lot of them belong tothis religion called Asatru,
which I had never heard of untilI went to prison.
It's like reviving the oldViking bullshit.
It is Well.
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No, I shouldn't say that.
It's reviving Viking mythology,which was beautiful, and
turning it into racist bullshit.
That's Asatru, but anyway theywear little Thor hammers.
They don't even know anythingabout what they're talking about
, but it's like all ignorance,it manifests itself in glorious
ways.
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So there's the whites, thenthere are the blacks, and the
blacks identify as kinfolk,which I completely understood
that name right away and itdidn't seem bad to me.
In fact, when I was in prison,while I was white, I rolled
kinfolk and I did that becausethe whites run by the Aryan
brothers are anti-Semites andbeing a Jew, which I do not hide
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and I refuse to, I don't try to.
I can pass, but I don't try topass.
I don't look particularlyJewish quote unquote.
I don't have a big nose and myeyes are blue and my hair leads
me to a story.
I'm going to share one of mystories with you.
I just popped into my head.
So when I got married for thefirst time, I married a.
I married a.
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Well, both times I marriedgirls who weren't Jewish and
both times I married girls whowere Scandinavian, and I'm not
sure what that tells you.
But there you go.
I guess I like Scandinavianwomen, although my second wife
was a brunette, not a blonde.
My first wife was a blonde.
Her name was Kim and I marriedher.
I met her in the Navy.
I'm not going to go into thewhole story of how I met her,
but we had a lot of fun and Iwas very young when I married
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her.
But I was also not entirelyestranged, but pretty much
estranged, from my parents.
But I still talked to them andof course I was going to let
them know that I was gettingmarried.
I wasn't inviting them to thewedding, mind you.
I was, when I say parents, myfather I had no contact with
ever and my mother died when shewas 50 and I was 28, 29, 29,
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1986.
No, 29.
Yeah, 29.
Anyway, but we had a very butanyway, my mother was funny.
People are complicated.
She had her good parts and herbad parts.
The bad parts I'm not going togo into today.
The good parts is what thisstory is about in a funny sort
of way.
So I call up my mother and Itell her I'm marrying, I'm
getting married.
She has no idea I'm even datingseriously at this point.
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And I'm in.
Where I am is I'm at theNational Security Agency at Fort
Meade in Baltimore, maryland.
I was a Russian linguist and Iworked at the National Security
Agency with the top secret,alpha Clarence.
And that is what makes me sointeresting.
Just to share, because I'vebeen at the top and I've been at
the bottom in many differentareas.
And this is when I was at thetop of the intelligence area,
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because at the time I was a veryhighly rated Russian linguist.
I have a talent for foreignlanguages and there are a lot of
guys well, not a lot, but thereare a number of people that may
be trained to speak Russian andamong all of those, my Russian
was the best and I graduatedfirst in my class from Russian
school, which was at the DefenseLanguage Institute, monterey,
california, where I attended a47-week immersion course in
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Russian, taught by nativeRussians, and voila, I spoke
Russian.
So today I think they try toteach it more as a vocational
skill and differently.
I don't really understand that,but in those days they taught
immersion Russian.
It was great.
I still speak Russian, I stillhave Russian friends.
So I'm out in the NSA and mymother is back in Arizona, in
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Nogales, Arizona which meanswalnuts, in case you're curious
what Nogales means and it's thelargest crossing point in the
world of produce between twocountries, the United States and
Mexico and Yadier, and theywere there because of the
produce industry.
And so I call my mother up andI tell her what's going on.
And she said her first questionto me is is she Jewish?
And I said no, and I heard thephone drop.
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Now you remember, this isbefore, way before cell phones.
This is 1970, I'm going to say1978, or yeah, it's 1978, I
think 77 or 78, that I got let'ssee how old was I.
It's 1978.
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So, no cell phones.
You know, it's the old phone onthe cord and the kitchen phone
on the wall.
That's what she was talking on.
I could tell, because they hadthe really long cord you could
walk around the house, drag onthe cord.
No one remembers these cords,but they were.
You would play with them.
I kind of missed the phone cord.
It was fun to play with.
Anyway, long story short, shedrops, I hear it drop, she picks
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it up and then she's breathinglike this and I said what's
wrong?
And she said oh my God, oh myGod, your grandfather is rolling
in his grave and you know howcan you do this?
And yada, yada, yada, so on andso forth.
And my answer was mom, and itcame down to this.
No one in our family has everdone this before.
How could you intermarry?
How could you marry a Gentilegirl?
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It isn't so much as a prejudice, so much as Jews, you know.
Birds of a feather generallytry to flock together.
So this is what it came down to.
And she was freaking out and Isaid to her I said, mom, no way
that I'm the first one in ourfamily to ever marry a shiksa.
By the way, shiksa is theJewish slash Yiddish word for a
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girl who is not Jewish.
If it's a boy, it's a sheikah.
It's just the masculine andfeminine form of the same word,
but the female form is shiksa.
So I said to her I'm not thefirst guy in our family to ever
marry a shiksa, I'm sure of it,or ever get involved with a
shiksa or a sheikh.
It's someone or a bloodline.
She said how can you say thatyour grandfather's rolling in
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his grave?
Blah, blah, blah.
She goes through the soulspeech.
And I said to her look, mom,jews are Semitic people, true or
false?
And she said well, true, ofcourse.
And I said Arabs or Semiticpeople, true or false?
And she said true, what are youtrying to get at?
I said in fact, everyone wholives in that northern part of
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Africa are Semites.
Is that that's true?
And she said yes, that's true.
And I said so.
You know what I'm talking about.
You know swarthy, curly hair,dark eyes, large noses.
You know Jews and Arabs lookessentially the same, especially
the ones that have never leftthe Middle East.
So there are two kinds of Jews.
By the way, guys, just todigress again, there are
Sephardic and Ashkenazic.
Sephardic are the Jews thatnever left Israel.
Ashkenazic are the ones thatemigrated into other countries
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and then came back later.
I'm Ashkenazic, so I come fromRussia, my family.
So I said to her, I said, ma, soyou know, like Jesus couldn't
have looked like the pictures inthe, you know, with the blue
eyes and the long blonde, theywould have drowned.
That baby Jesus had to looklike, basically, yasser Arafat.
You know, for those of you, Iand I don't mean that to be
insulting, and just MiddleEastern people would not follow
a guy that looked like he justwalked out of the Roman Empire.
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I'm sorry, just not going tohappen.
So, anywho, digressing from mydigressing from my digressing
and now returning to the story,which is digression from the
theme of the show and I'll getback to it, I promise.
Finishing the story, I said, mom, I hate to break this to you,
but I'm six foot three, I've gotblue eyes.
My hair is sandy blonde.
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It's absolutely white today,but it used to be sandy blonde
with a little red mixed in.
I burned in the summer.
I said, mom, I hate to breakthis to you, but somebody was
stupping a Russian somewhere.
Now, stupping is the Yiddishword for screwing.
Okay, so you get the drift.
The point is, you know whoamong us are pure?
I don't know why I even toldthis story.
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So, anyway, back to.
So I'm Jewish, I don't hide it,I'm proud of it, yada, yada,
yada.
So I rolled with the kinfolk,the next group on the yard.
We're back to the main story ofthe yard, which was a digression
from where.
Well, actually it's part of themain theme of what I'm talking
about today.
There were the Paisas, whichare the foreign national Latinos
.
Okay, then they're not uscitizens, they speak generally
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Spanish only.
Then there are the Chicanos.
Now you would think that theChicanos and the Paisas, if you
weren't really up on this.
You know why are they in twoseparate groups?
Because they hate each other.
Why did.
They hate each other For thesame reason that Mexican
American males, latin Americanmales, voted heavily for Donald
Trump, as opposed to what peoplewho don't understand the issue
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thought, that they would allvote Democratic.
And the answer is, when theybecome American, they speak
English primarily.
A lot of the Chicanos don'tspeak Spanish at all.
What they mostly speak isSpanglish and the Paisas view
that as positively outrageousand they just hate each other
over it.
I mean, I'm simplifying a muchmore complicated cultural story,
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mind you, but in the mostsimple sense, it really comes
down to how they speak Spanish,and Chicanos, and me too, I
speak Spanglish.
You know, when I get stuck on aword, english will come out.
But sometimes, believe it ornot, I don't know about you guys
any of you speak more than twolanguages.
Do you ever find yourselfspeaking another foreign
language and then you get stuckon a word and it comes out as
another foreign language becauseyour brain is in foreign
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language mode?
I can't tell you how many timesI have spoken Russian while I'm
speaking Spanish or Spanish.
When I'm speaking Italian, orItalian or French, when I'm
speaking Spanish, it just comesout in other languages that I
speak, even German words comeout.
It's just weird, my brain getsinto foreign language mode.
Anyway, I'm just curious.
If that happens to you, you cancomment, send me a note.
If it does, I'm just curious.
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If this is, I don't know.
I'm always curious in how otherpeople think.
I think we all pretty muchthink the same and we just think
we're special.
So anyway, they hate each otherand break down into two groups.
And then there are the chiefs,which are the Native Americans,
who are very interesting, veryquiet and I would use the word
stoic people.
You know they are, they'requiet, they take their time,
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they don't act impulsively.
I'm speaking, this is a broadgenerality.
I kind of like being around thechiefs.
I find them calming.
And who else was left?
The chiefs?
The Paisans, that was it.
Okay.
There were very few AsianAmericans.
So there were Asian Americans.
There were generally rolledChicano.
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The reason they didn't rollwith the whites is because the
Aryan brothers are such racistNazi bastards really I have
nothing good to say about them.
So anyway, when you're amongthese groups in prison and when
you were, I got involved inteaching reentry classes because
of the corrections officersrecognized that I was educated
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and yada, yada, yada, you get toknow these groups really,
really well and because I rolledblack, I got you know, kinfolk,
I got to know them very welland at that ladder of the
socioeconomic scale, you'reamong the biggest whiners in our
society, the biggest crybabies,the biggest parasites.
These are people who do notunderstand that they have to do
for themselves, because they'reraised literally on the street
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and they simply take, and sotheir only question is what are
you going to do for me?
It doesn't occur to them thatthey would do it for themselves.
Now, I'm not saying these arebad people.
I'm saying these are productsof being raised on the street.
That's what I'm saying.
But I'm saying that it is themost extreme and therefore
representative version ofAmerica's divisions that are
taking place right now, becauseit's also tribal.
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Okay, it's very, very tribal.
Tribalism is a reverted state.
You know, civilization overcametribalism.
But the difference between acivilization and a tribe is that
in a civilization, people mixand there are written and
structured systems andinstitutions that control our
worst behaviors.
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You know what goes on behindclosed doors.
It would terrify all of us.
We all know that.
We all have secrets we wereraised with and we think we're
alone and unique in it and we'renot.
It's a sad, sad story.
Perversion is a norm, I think,but anyway, having said that,
what Civilizations does is itputs a veneer and a structure
over all of that, so thathumanity can progress.
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Okay, I'm being simplistic andthis is a longer discussion for
more than a podcast, but I'm youknow.
As you know, I don't speak froma prepared text, so this is all
occurring to me as I'm speakingon a general theme.
So, just, I hope, I hope youfind this sort of thing
interesting and let's just gowith it.
So, anyway, when you get lowerand lower in the economic ladder
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or, as currently happens inAmerica, it just occurs to me,
higher and lower in the economicladder, or, as currently
happens in america's, justoccurs to me, higher and higher
in the college educated.
What we're doing as a societyis we're retribalizing, and so I
was basically involved in theworst part of the
retribalization.
Wokeism is nothing more than themodern representation of
tribalism.
Okay, and you know, when youstart subgrouping people into
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areas that they cannot breakfrom and their primary
allegiance is to theirsubgrouping, that's a tribe,
that's not a civilization.
Now, you can call it a tribe,you can call it a cult.
In American parlance, modernvernacular it's these are
synonymous terms.
Okay, so I got to hear thewhines and you know what was
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wrong.
And the point is, I'm not goingto go through all the complaints
one by one, but one of thethings I told all of these
people, one of the things that Itold the Chicanos and the
kinfolk in particular, and theNative Americans, is how lucky
they were to be conquered bywhite Europeans in America.
And I know that this is goingto be an incendiary statement,
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but I'm telling you right now,and I'm going to make the case,
and this is why America.
This all links to why Americais great.
Let's start with why America isgreat and then I'll finish with
why these so-called aggrievedminority groups of America are
the luckiest people in the worldperiod In history.
They're the luckiest people.
They just don't recognize it.
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First of all, what makes Americagreat is not that we're a
democracy.
We were never meant to be ademocracy.
We were meant to be a republic,which is a completely different
animal, and we have destroyedthe republic in favor of the
democracy, which is really whatanti-politism is all about is
restoring the republic, but indoing that, we somehow taught
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people I'm not sure where thiscame from.
I remember being taught this asa kid that democracy it still
is.
It's a word that's democracy.
Say for democracy, we have tohave a democracy.
Democracy inevitably descendsinto mob rule, which is what's
going on now.
Hold on, I've got to take a sipand wet my whistle.
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So much better Iced tea on the4th of July.
What could be better Sun tea,as a matter of fact, in sunny
arizona, where I am anyway?
Um, so we're not at the moment,we weren't.
That's not what makes americaspecial, is the point I'm making
.
And and the majority rules.
Majority rules everywhere.
You know, it doesn't matter ifit's a dictatorship.
Majority rules in russia rightnow.
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The majority of the russianpeople love putin, and the day
they don't love putin, they'llthrow them out.
It won't be through an election, it might be through a coup,
but still it's a reflection ofwhat the majority wants.
A coup leader never leads acoup unless he or she it's
always a he unless he thinksthat the people are behind him
in his delusions.
Whether it's true or it's falseis another story.
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But when Hugo Chavez took overVenezuela before he completely
ruined it, he was a very popularchoice and he was overthrowing
a very unpopular government, andyou know that was a reflection
of the majority at the time,even though the majority was
backing a dictator.
Now, today, it's completelyreversed, as socialism always
fails, but anyway.
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So back to the United States.
That's not what makes usspecial.
Majority rule doesn't make usspecial.
Part of what makes us specialis our luck.
Okay, so the first thing isAmerica is the luckiest country
in history because of ourgeography.
We have phenomenal geography.
We're in a perfectly temperatezone from north to south.
Maine gets cold, but not ascold as Siberia.
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Florida gets hot, but not ashot as the equator, and in the
middle it's mostly temperate,gentle as the equator, and in
the middle are mostly temperate,gentle changes of seasons.
And the American Midwest is thelargest fertile growing area in
the world, and not to mentionthe San Joaquin Valley of
California, which might even bebigger now that I think about it
, the American Midwest, and thenrunning down the middle of the
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country, with tributarieseverywhere, is the Mississippi
River, and what makes itremarkable is that it's
navigable its entire route, asare almost all of its
tributaries, and so that linkscities.
And then from that we weresmart enough to build canal
systems and so on and so forth.
And, to make a long story short,we're the geographically
luckiest country in the world,but that's not what makes
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America unique in history.
What makes America unique, whatmakes us special, which is what
the reason is that all of usshould be thrilled that we live
here.
First of all, we're also luckybecause we're in such a
geographically perfect place.
There's nothing like the UnitedStates geographically in the
world and never, never,underestimate geographics.
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One of the reasons Mexico, forexample, is not as prosperous as
the United States is they haveshit geography.
All their cities are isolated,there's nothing that links them
and it's.
The terrain is terrible.
So you know it's one, you knowit has beautiful, beautiful
parts, but there's nothing.
Anyway, I don't want to get intogeography.
What am I doing?
So let's say what makes Americaspecial is the protection of
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the rights of the minority orthe individual over the rights
of the majority.
That's what makes Americaspecial, and that we have
elevated that to a nearreligious status that we're
trying to destroy.
And we need to restore thatreligious status and the
sacredness of the originalconstitution as written by the
founders of the United States,with a couple of small
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write-outs of the particularlyracist and misogynistic parts,
which is not what I'm talkingabout, but the rest of it is
magnificent.
And, by the way, the so-calledracist and misogynistic parts
were simply from perceptions ofthe time these people lived in,
and even the slavery.
You know what?
I'm not going to go down thatrat hole.
I almost went down that rathole, but I'm not going down
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that rat hole.
Let me stay on subject.
So here we go In America.
What makes you special is youcan be the biggest nutcase in
the world, stand in the middleof the street, say anything you
want out loud, short ofthreatening the life of somebody
.
That of it's not allowed, um,because no society would
tolerate that.
You know anyway, um, unlike anyother place in the world, in
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england today, right at thisvery at this very moment, our,
our parent cult, a countryculturally um, is going through
a period of where they'reliterally putting people in jail
for um speech.
What they, what they havedefined this is hate speech or
whatever they're calling it.
That could never happen inAmerica unless we tribalize it,
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and that's what I want to speakabout today.
So here's what I told.
I want to talk to all of you inwrapping up today's podcast.
I want to talk to all of youbitchers and moaners, or people
who buy into the narrative thatthere are aggrieved minorities
that we have somehow oppressedand ruined in the United States,
we being the white Europeanswho conquered the continent,
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which, in fact, is what we did,we can call it whatever we want,
but basically Europeans cameacross and we conquered the
continent.
Now, as a result of conqueringthe continent, a lot of minority
groups were brought in and, inthe short term, abused.
Slaves number one there wereapproximately a half a million
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slaves imported into the UnitedStates from Africa at the time.
Just for you to know, therewere about 11 million slaves
were exported from Africa intothe New World during the period
of slavery in the WesternHemisphere from Africa.
And of those approximately 11million slaves, 10.5 million
went to the islands in SouthAmerica and a half a million
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went to the United States.
All the slaves at the time,their descendants are the
American blacks today, liberallymixed with a lot of white blood
too, because, over the years,race is mixed, which is why I
think, by the way, in a couplehundred years, if we could come
back in time, the whole world isgoing to be basically brown
with slightly almond eyes.
I think we're going to screweach other into the absence of
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racial differences over a veryshort period of time, given the
speed of technology.
But anyway, I digress.
So coming back to the point isthat so about a half a million
African and slavery ended.
The importation of slaveryended in 1965, obviously, but
the importation of slaves endedin 1938 because of malaria.
Frankly, they, as many peoplewere dying on the ships is under
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the decks of the ships, fromthe malaria that that, uh, white
Europeans had no resistance toand they were dropping dead left
and right and one thing led toanother and they stopped the
importation of slaves in 1838.
So, anyway, all the black peoplethat are descendants of slaves
today are descendants of thatoriginal half a million people
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and they have nothing to bitchabout, because those are the
luckiest half a million blackpeople in the goddamn history of
the world.
And let me explain to you why.
And if it isn't obvious by now,let me lay out the case.
You know, sometimes what's upis down and down is up, and
that's why, in stoicism, weembrace challenge and difficulty
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and consequence as necessaryparts of life to really achieve
a life of value and worth yourdescendants, my black friends,
my black American friends.
Yes, it was a bad thing to beslaves, by the way, all sold
into slavery by other blackpeople, no such thing as a white
slaver.
In Africa itself there werewhite slavers quote unquote
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around the boats.
But again, I'm going down thatrat hole.
Yes, they lived lives thatweren't the greatest.
Yes, they lived lives thatweren't the greatest.
Yes, they lived lives thatweren't going to, but they were
going to be slaves in Africa, myfriends.
They could have been Africanslaves or they could have been
American slaves.
These were black people, tribesthat were rounded up by other
tribes, then brought to thecoast of Africa and sold to
whites on ships that then sailedthem to the new world.
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That's how it worked.
That was the entire system.
That's how every black ended upin slavery.
So had they not been sold intoslavery to white slavers, they
would have been kept as blackslaves, and black slaves exist
to this day in Africa.
There's nothing unusual aboutthis, but those slaves the half
a million that ended up in thein the United States are the
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luckiest black people in thehistory of the world to date,
because they ended up in acountry that, once they were
freed, their right as anindividual began.
And yes, it was imperfect, andyes, there was Jim Crow, and yes
, there was all kinds of stuff,but in the end, you today,
living here now, listening to myvoice, are so unbelievably
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lucky.
And I used to tell this to theinmates in prison and when I'd
explain it to them, most of themgot it.
And you know it's a funny thing, when you talk to people on
their own level and you're nottalking down and you're not
being pedantic and you're nottreating them like children,
like so often progressives dowith black people, I think
that's insulting.
And you tell them the truth.
Shut the fuck up.
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You're the luckiest blackpeople in the history of the
world and you tell them whatYou're in America.
Would you rather go back toAfrica?
And if the answer is no, thenshut the fuck up.
And would you rather go live inEurope?
And if the answer is no, thenshut the fuck up.
If you'd rather go and liveanywhere else in the world than
here, my black American friends,if the answer is no, then shut
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the fuck up and enjoy thecountry you're living in,
because we, as America, protectyour rights as an individual
today.
Stop living in the past.
The past is prologue.
The present and the future okay, the present is all that exists
and the future will take careof itself if you learn to live
in the present and stop whining,okay, and recognize how lucky
you are.
Let's now move along to Latinos.
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In America, latinos fall intotwo groups, and I know this,
living in the desert southwestand being bilingual and living
most of my life in Arizona,which, except for the fate of
history, could have easily beenMexico.
So, having said that, I have adeep understanding and I have
many, many.
I'm not saying this in that,you know, I have a Latino friend
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, I have lots of Latino friends.
If you went into my Facebook,into my ex-account, you'd find
that shit.
I don't know what thepercentage is, but maybe half
are Latino, and the reason forthat is that I live in Arizona
and I love it here and I lovethe culture and I love Mexican
culture in particular, and Ilived in Mexico on and off for a
period of years and I had ahome in Mexico, and so I really
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understand the culture.
But here's the thing, dudes,they fall into two groups.
There are the Mexican-Americanswho came here the hard way, the
right way, the green card way.
Their families came here, theymade a life.
They're Americans first andforemost.
They voted for Donald Trump.
I hate to tell you, but that'strue.
Those Latinos will agree withme when I say you are the
luckiest motherfucker.
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Good thing Mexico got its asskicked.
Good thing America threw outGeneral Santa Ana and then made
the deal to basically buy forpeanuts the rest of the United
States Good thing.
Good thing Texas joined theUnited States.
Good thing you're here.
Would you rather live in Mexico?
Anyone want to go back?
And the answer to that I don'thave to ask them this, because
they know it.
This is why they voted forDonald Trump and they understand
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that.
America is a country where youspeak English.
Now, to those of you who arelistening to me, whose English
kind of suck and you think thatwe should be a bilingual nation
bullshit.
Bilingualism is a recipe fordisaster.
Ask the Canadians.
Okay, that's all I have to say.
It doesn't work.
America is an English-speakingcountry and for those of you who
embrace that and learn to speakEnglish you soon will be you
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will learn that you know onceyou adopt the language of the
culture and adopt the culture asyour own at home, for example,
I'm very Jewish at home, but inpublic I play the game with
everybody.
It's not a game.
I'm part of the Americanculture.
I'm an American Jew, not aJewish American.
You're an American black,you're an American Latino.
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And the Native Americans?
I hate coming to that group ofso-called oppressed minorities.
You know that for those crazyactivists, I hate to tell you
this, guys, but Native Americanswere Stone Age people who were
preying on each other formillennia, not years, millennia.
Every single tribe was on land.
That it took from another tribe, that took from another tribe
before that.
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That it took from another tribebefore that.
It was a history of slaughter.
They hadn't even invented thewheel.
The horseback Native I'm goingto stop calling them Native, I'm
just going to call them theIndians.
It's a generic term.
We all know what I'm talkingabout.
Horseback warfare.
The Comanches adopted itsuccessfully, but they didn't
have horses until the Spaniardscame and they were the only
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Indian tribe that learned how touse horses correctly.
The rest would ride theirhorses into battle, dismount and
fight from the ground, which isjust insane.
But the Comanches learned tofight from the saddle, so to
speak, or lack of saddle.
But the phenomenal horsemen.
Anyway, long story short, youwere going to be conquered, guys
.
If it wasn't by the Spaniardsor by us, it was going to be,
sooner or later, the Ottomans.
I mean, one way or another, theNative American tribes, the
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Indian tribes of the Americancontinent, north to south, were
going to be conquered becausethey were all Stone Age people,
and that is the story of history.
So who would you rather beconquered by?
Okay, the Spaniards or theEnglish?
And I got news for you theEnglish were the better
conquering power, number one.
They were Protestants.
So there was no church bullshit, no missionaries, no, y'all
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have to be Catholic nonsense.
Yeah, they tried to convert theNative Americans and other
groups, but you could always sayno.
And then, of course, there'sthe American religion, which is
Mormonism need to embrace nomatter what minority group we
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may belong to or what sexualsubgroup.
How women thought they wereoppressed is beyond me.
But, okay, I mean, ladies, areyou really happy you're
abandoning traditional values?
I mean, I'm not a woman, Idon't know, but I have daughters
and I know the baby itch startsto itch all by itself.
You don't have to teach themhow it just happens.
And suppressing that cannotpossibly lead to happiness, and
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the reason the traditionalfamily sets up the way it does
and it has for 10,000 years, isbecause it works, and it works
to the benefit of everyone,including everyone's happiness.
And the reason the UnitedStates exists, thank God, is the
recognition of the rights ofthe individual over the majority
, and we need to remindourselves of that and restore a
system of government that doesthat, reinforces that in the
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institutions, that protects that, and we do that best by taking
the ambition out of power andreplacing it with duty, which is
what anti-politism is all about.
But America, with or without it, has been the greatest country
in history and if we don't ruinit and we continue to protect
the rights of the individualover the rights of the majority,
we will continue to be theguiding light onto the future.
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But we've got to pull our headsout of our asses, beginning with
this return to tribalism.
We have to stop identifying aswhat color the melatonin is or
how much melatonin we have inour skin.
Not melatonin, it's melanin.
Melatonin is what puts you tosleep.
What a maroon.
Anyway, that's me I'm talkingabout, not you.
Yeah, let's stop judging bymelanin and let's stop judging
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by eye shape and let's stopjudging by where our
great-grandparents came from orwhat deprivations they went
through.
Mine went through pogroms andshtetls in Russia.
I don't think Russia owes merestitution.
Grow up and be thrilled andcount yourself lucky.
No matter what group you belongto, you are in the greatest
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place at the greatest time inhistory, and if we don't screw
it up and we don't destroyourselves through this inane
return to tribalism, our futureis so bright we'll have to wear
shades, and that's the messagefor today.
My friends, enjoy your 4th ofJuly, enjoy the fireworks.
I don't know about you, but mylittle puppy, pepper, who
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suffers from anxiety to beginwith, is going to get.
Puppy Pepper, who suffers fromanxiety to begin with, is going
to get a double dose of CBD,which I use to calm her and
works quite well todayBacon-flavored CBD for pets.
If those of you who have dogsand cats who suffer from anxiety
(35:47):
, there's a tip for you and soit's all natural.
It doesn't hurt them.
As long as you're in a statewhere you you know you can buy
CBD, what else are they going tosay?
Oh, you know, have a picnic.
What we're going to do herewhere I'm living, we're all
buying pizzas and doing a groupthing.
It's going to be fun.
Enjoy your 4th of July, enjoyyour day.
God bless America.
Let's not worry if we'reDemocrats or Republicans or
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libertarians, let's not worry ifwe're progressive or
conservative.
Let's just celebrate the factthat we live in the greatest
country in history by anyobjective reason or factor, and
just revel in it and bathe inthe glory of it and enjoy just
one day without aggravation orrage in our lives.
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Just enjoy the moment, live inthe moment and have a wonderful
day.
God bless you, god bless yourfamily, god bless America, and
I'll talk to you on Monday.
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