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Speaker 1 (00:02):
A lot of the fundamental bristles of widow Lael interest
and an individual loss. This is the show. Oh right,
everybody walk up here on Brook Show on this Monday,

(00:25):
December fifteenth. Uh my god, what a bloody weekend. I mean,
just horrific story after story after story. Uh, you know,
starting with the death of two American soldiers in Syria,
uh three three injured, and then and then the Bondi

(00:46):
and uh you know Brown of course Brown first, and
then the Bondi beach and then and then the Robliner,
the death of Robina. I mean, just a who horrific,
horrific weekend. Uh, you know, it's just it's just I

(01:10):
guess it happens, you know once in a while. You
just it's just uh, it's just non NonStop. Yeah, just
just horrifying. So so uh, let's let's talk about let's
talk about some of this and and uh, you know

(01:31):
see what's uh, what's going on. We'll start with the
worst of them, uh, in terms of the just a
number of casualties and just the horror of the whole thing,
and the one that's in many respects the easiest to understand, uh,
and that is that is the Bondy Beach massacre murder.

(01:53):
I don't know how you want to call it, uh,
but from what one can tell is on Sunday morning,
Sunday morning, there was a gathering of I guess the
local Jewish community at Bundy Beach to celebrate the first
the first day of Hanuka. Hanukah, the Jewish holiday, one

(02:18):
of the more probably the most secu yeah, probably the
most secular of the Jewish holidays. And they were gathered
the beach, families with kids, parents, grandparents, the whole array.
And at about six point thirty in the evening, a

(02:44):
car pulled up. Two figures dressed in black shirts emerged.
They were carrying long bow guns and a number of
other weapons, and they just they went up on a
kind of a little a bridge, kind of walking bridge,
and from that vantage point could look right down onto

(03:09):
this Hanuko party and they just started firing. These were
these are the kind of guns that are a single shot,
so they kept having to fire, you know, fire, crank fire.
But you know, I saw some video of them firing.
These guys looked like they practiced. It looked like they

(03:29):
were well trained. I mean, their ability to fire rapidly
from again like that was quite horrifying. So this was
not This was not a couple of guys who had
no idea how to use a weapon. They definitely had
They knew how to use that weapon. They kept on

(03:51):
firing for about ten minutes, killing as of now, I
think sixteen people, including a ten year old good and
including the local rabbi, including a Holocaust survivor in eighty seven,
I think your old Holocaust survivor, and you know the

(04:12):
Supposedly the police showed up at some point and started
shooting at them, but they only had handguns pistols, and
they kept their distance for some reason, and they weren't
very effective. Now they're varying stories about this, so I
don't know. I'm sure there'll be inquiry about this. Some
people said the son of the police were hiding because

(04:34):
they were afraid, and others said they you know, they
were there, but they were firing, and the firing was
ineffective because they they kept their distance and their pistols
just they can't compete with long guns. Finally, one of
the one of the shooters, came down off the bridge

(04:57):
and you can see video of this, and starts a
approaching a line of cars parked day and I guess
across the street is where this party is starting to
move directly towards them, where he could have done unbelievable damage.
And it passes by a guy who was just who
was there, uh jumped him and you can see the

(05:20):
video of this, and it's it's it's quite amazing. This
guy kind of you know, comes in from between two
part cars and just leaps on the guy from behind,
uh and and wrestles with him and takes the gun
away from him. The guy who wrestled him was identified
later as his name is Ahmed El Ahmed, a Syrian

(05:42):
I guess immigrant to to Sydney. So the shooters were Muslim,
and the savior probably saved quite a few lives the
police again we're not seen anywhere, but uh but uh,
you know, he probably saved quite a bit of lives
by tackling this guy and and uh and and getting

(06:05):
the gun from him. I think he was injured. The
other guy had shot at him and he was injured
through the altercation. But I think he's doing uh, he
is doing okay. And uh, I mean there was at
least one policewoman who was shot on a bull ofoo

(06:26):
Vest and uh you know. Anyway, ultimately one of the
gunmen was killed, the other one was injured, and uh
And was taken into custody. Both of them their father
and a son. They are both from what I understand,
they're both Pakistanis Pakistanis in the car or in the surrounding.

(06:53):
There were two unexploded bombs. Uh So the damage they
wanted to inflict was even greater than what they did.
There was so a couple of ISIS flags found in
the vehicle. Indeed, the younger of the two, the Sun,
had been investigated by Australian authorities as far back as

(07:18):
twenty nineteen for his connection to possible possible ISIS ISIS connection,
possible ISIS connections. Clearly they were tall getting Jews. Clearly,

(07:40):
this is an act of terrorism in Australia, actually the
largest mass shooting in Australia in thirty years. But this
is clearly an attempt, you know, to kill Jews. You
can only imagine what would have happened if they had
some automatic weapons, if they if they had an M

(08:02):
sixteen or fifteen, and you know, the intensity of the
shooting would have been far greater and the number of
casualties would be far greater. They did have. The father
did have six weapons registered to his name. Interesting given
that the son had been investigated for uh, you know,

(08:24):
for affiliation with ISIS. Now you can interpret this in
a number of different ways. I see already somebody saying
this is a consequence of open immigration. No it's not.
This is a direct consequence of the ongoing weakness of
the West in facing an enemy and ignoring its murderous

(08:49):
inclinations and refusing to do anything about it. This is
not just a random couple of immigrants. These are particular
immigrants with a particular ideology that we are at war with.
They know they're at war with us. We just choose
to bury a head in the sand over and over

(09:11):
and over again and pretend there's no there there. This
is easily preventable. This is easily prevented, not by building
walls and closing the borders and being you know, dominated
by fear and hatred, but by going out there, finding

(09:33):
the bastards and eliminating them, or arresting them, or kicking
them out of the old country. There is no mystery
here about who these people are. There's no mystery about
who these people are this is us are not about Gaza.
I mean, it's as if there were no terrorist attacks

(09:55):
against Europeans, against Jews before this, before Gaza. I mean
that is in the West. That is bizarre. This has
nothing to do with Gaza. This has everything to do
with any Islamist offense against the West, against Jews in particular,
that has been going on at least since nineteen seventy

(10:16):
nine and has accelerated with nine to eleven and since
nine to eleven. This is not about Israel. This is
about the West. This is about Sharia. This is about
a jihadi ideology that is set on destroying the West
and dominating the West and cowering the West. Exactly what

(10:36):
they want is for you to build walls. They want
to destroy what makes the West the West. They want
you to be afraid, they want you to cow they
want you to build bunkers and hide. And what the
what the Western leaders do? Oh, they've responded with grief
and condolences and sympathy and horror, and this is just

(11:01):
is just ridicous. This is just awful. I mean, it's
just like like after Charlie Hebdo twenty fifteen, which if
I remember, right, Charlie, hebdo was not about Gaza, couldn't
have been anyway, Charlie, hebdo. Everybody went out jes sweet Charlie.
They went out in the streets. And what did they do?
What did they do after they demonstrated, millions of French

(11:22):
people demonstrating the streets with jesu jes we Charlie, And
what did they actually do? The French government, the French authorities,
the French public. Nothing, bubkus zero nudda and repeated terrorist
the text. After that, what did they do then? Nothing?
Zero nudder. I mean, I wish all these world leaders

(11:49):
would not send condolences because the blood is on their hands.
The blood is on the hands of the President of
the United States. The blood is on the hands of
the Prime Minister of England and the Prime Minister of Ireland,
and the primary and the president of France and Germany
and so on. They have continued to tolerate Islamists in

(12:10):
our mists. They've continued to resist doing anything about this threat.
They've continued to appease, appeas and appeas and appeas to
the Hardiests within their mist. The blood here is on
the hands of the Prime Minister of Australia who has
been repeatedly, repeatedly warned about the Islamist threat within Australia

(12:33):
towards Jews and towards Australians. In all these countries, Islamists,
the Muslim Brotherhood or Iranian BacT Islamists, whatever variety they have,
are coddled by the authorities. They are tolerated. They are

(12:55):
you know, massive understanding is given to them. They're allowed
to shut down the centers of every major Western city
and declare, declare to the world that they will globalize
the need to Father. Well, yesterday the inter Fada was globalized.

(13:15):
You have a mayor of New York City who believes
in globalizing need to Father. I'm sure he will send
his condolences to the families in Sydney. But the blood
is on his hands. The blood is on every human
being who went out into the streets to talk about
globalizing the inter Fada mindlessly without thinking about or maybe

(13:36):
with thinking about what inter Fada actually means. I mean,
it is truly despicable for global leaders just to pretend
and just to go on as if nothing happened. Yes,
they will send their condolences, Yes they will cry, Yes,

(13:56):
they will shed fake tears, but will they actually do anything,
will they finally declare war in Islamism. It turns out
none of this was particularly you know, surprising, right the
police have been you know, I've known about the Sun

(14:22):
and his connection to ISIS, but they didn't believe he
posed an immediate threat. Oh, I mean connection to ISIS,
but you don't pose a threat. I mean connection to
ISIS should be grounds for you know, interrogation, maybe deportation,

(14:44):
maybe active monitoring. I mean basically, connection to ISIS is
connection to the enemy. But you have to declare the enemy,
you actually actually go to war with an enem until
the West, until the West decides to take this seriously,

(15:07):
this threat seriously, which they should have done post nine
to eleven or even before that, but certainly post nine
to eleven and actually declare this ideology and enemy. Declare
anybody who supports this ideology an enemy. Anybody will with

(15:28):
connection to ISIS is committing treason and should be tried
for treason. It turns out that both the son and
the father were radicalized. Where would they be radicalized? Shockingly,

(15:50):
in a mosque the Islamic Center in Sydney, the Al Murad,
the Islamic Center in Sydney. So you've got a bastion
of the enemy in the midst of your city, and
you think there won't be consequences. You think a committed

(16:13):
death cult who is committed to killing the West, is
committed to killing Jews, is not going to become violent.
You don't have to ban every mosque. Again, a little
bit of differentiation people, a little bit of thinking thinking,

(16:36):
I know it's hard. You have to ban the radical mosques,
the ones supported by the Muslim Brotherhood in the Iranian regime,
the one that actually preach Islamism, jihadism. There are plenty
of mosques that are just regular religious institutions that have

(17:00):
nothing to do with violence. But there are many mosques
all over the West that can be easily identified as
places where they are training, they're radicalizing, they are teaching
the worst type of ideology, the worst hateful type of ideology.

(17:24):
And should those be closed, yes, should those preachers be deported, yes,
they are representative of the enemy. No, But everybody would
rather just hunker down, build walls, let's pretend it doesn't exist,

(17:46):
or let's just build walls and not let them in.
As if they can't come in in other ways, as
if they can't commit terrorism with that coming in legally.
I mean, how much did the war between Israel and

(18:07):
Gods to help Israel? Not much? Not much. I mean
I've been saying it since nine to eleven. I've been
saying it for twenty five years, and sadly nobody is listening.

(18:27):
You want to stop this, it's easy. Take out the
people who fund it, take out the people who promote it,
take out the people who make this possible. Not that
many of them. It's Iran and probably kata those are

(18:50):
the two countries they fund it all. You know, Make
sure you know Pakistan or the Trumpet administration is selling
weapons to the pakistanis the pakistanis the Trump's best friends.
They nominated him for a Nobel Peace Prize. How about
making it a condition, a condition for getting anything from

(19:13):
the United States that they shut down all the terrorist
training camps that they have there. There's some rumors that
these guys went to Pakistani and got trained on weapons.
I don't know if that's true or not, but how
about just shutting down the terrorist camps in Pakistan which
are funded. I bet you I guarantee you that the

(19:37):
funding is coming in from Katsa and from Iran. The
solution is to destroy the enemy. Now you think you
can build walls and not have them come in, they

(19:57):
will find a way in. Not in the numbers they
come in now, but they will find a way in.
They'll find a way to hijack the airplanes. They'll find
a way to, you know, to bring them down into
your cities. Again. You can cower in fear if you want,
but all that will do is in bold than the enemy.

(20:19):
All that'll do is make the enemy stronger. Iwan has
ballistic missiles and one day will develop nukes, and you
don't care because you don't want war. You just want
a war. Well, the war w war won't prevent protect
you from those nukes like Qatari's. Katari's are best friends

(20:43):
with America. They come into America legally, they don't they
don't come i legally, and Republicans love the Qataris. According
to Israeli media, Is reported the Mosel notified the Australia
Australia's intelligence services about the Iranian regime backed terror infrastructure

(21:06):
in the country that was planning to carry out attacks
on Jewish targets a month ago. Again, this is an
Uranian regime backed terror infrastructure. This is not random, This
is all stayed backed. Now it is true that the
Australian authorities took a part much of that infrastructure in

(21:26):
the last few weeks. And then the question is how
did these two guys sneak in or were they connected
to their infrastructure or related to something else. Truly tragic,
truly horrific. But nobody wants to learn the lesson. Nobody

(21:52):
wants to identify the enemy. Everybody's too cowardly. The right
wants to build walls. The left wants to just say,
oh no, this is like a criminal offense. You know,
we can't do anything about it. You know, shit happens,
And neither the right nor the left actually wants to

(22:14):
take the simple action There wouldn't take that much time,
wouldn't take that much effort, wouldn't cost that much money
to basically stop this once in for all. Again, I've
been advocating for this since nine to eleven, really well
before nine to eleven, and nothing, nothing, nothing, all right,

(22:40):
you know, sad? Yeah no, And here's part of the problem.
Before the Bondy incident, there was an incident in Syria
in which two American soldiers were killed, three were injured.
Number of Syrian security forces whore killed as well or

(23:02):
one was. I thought Trump took you know, all our
troops out of Syria, you know, six years ago. I
thought he was committed to getting all the troops home
from Syria and from York. I'll just note you can
add that to one of the many mini lies that

(23:25):
Donald Trump. Donald Trump tells, But we have about a
thousand troops in Syria, a thousand soldiers in Syria trying
to clean up the mess that is isis. It's taking
us a long time. We've been doing this for over
ten years because we don't want to overdo it and

(23:47):
we want to be nice, and you know, we have
to be really really careful and who we shoot and
when we shoot and why we shoot. So you know,
our soldiers are in harms way on a mission that
they can never win given what they're doing. You know,

(24:07):
kill one here, kill one there, take one out there,
take one out there, but not deal with the fundamental
problem at all. Curious where ISIS gets its money to
run its operations in Syria? What does it get its
money in Syria and uh and Iraq to run operations.

(24:34):
And then it turns out that the guy who killed
the the Syrian who killed the two Israeli two American
soldiers actually worked for the Syrian Security Forces. Now supposedly,
supposedly you know who knows. He was identified just a
few days ago as a risk factor. He was identified

(24:57):
as having extremist ideas maybe still being affiliated with ISS
and it was about to be fired from his position
in the Syrian Security Forces. Indeed, this was Friday, was
his last day, and he took the opportunity in his
last day to kill a couple of Americans to ambush them.

(25:22):
And this, of course, in the context of a regime
in Syria that is being pampered by the Trump administration.
A Syrian leader who has been invited to the White
House and being given the royal treatment in the White House,
who was a member of al Qaeda Antavisis in his past,

(25:42):
who has supposedly reformed and is now I don't know
what he is. He's certainly not a you know, he's
pretending to love the West, but his roots, his ideological roots,
and his ideological commitment is clearly to the Islamist cause.
His number one supporter is the Turkish government, a Turkish goverment,

(26:08):
again committed to an Islamist cause. And yet what do
we do about any of that? What do we do
about any of that? Nothing? We coddle him, we support him,
We put pressure on Israel to appease him. Here's a
regime that is thoroughly infiltrated by ISIS and al Qaida

(26:34):
and other Islamists of various types, with the leader that
is playing moderate, just like, just like the leaders of
Kata play the moderates while they undermine the West in
a variety of different means, by funding terrorism, by funding
our universities to teach the evils of the West, by

(26:58):
funding you know, groups that go out there and create
create havoc online in our social media. Yeah, I mean,
the more we caught all Islamic state like people, the
more we caught all isis like people, the more we
caught all Islamists. Don't be surprised if there's more terrorist attacks,

(27:27):
the more we appease the Kataris, don't be surprised. The
more terrorist attacks, the more we resist actually taking out
the regimi Iran, which is responsible for much of this,
The more terrorist attacks there will be. We had an opportunity,

(27:48):
Israel had an opportunity to take them out and trump
rain them in. They will only get bolder and bolder
attacks on the West. They will only get bolder on
their attacks. And and look right now, one of the
best ways to attack the West and get away with it,

(28:09):
the way with it in the sense of getting some
sympathy is to attack Jews. Attack Jews puts fear in
Western countries anyway, because it's in the West. But nobody
likes the Jews that much right now anyway, So what
the hell? I did want to make this point on

(28:30):
the Bondi Beach story, which I've made in the past,
but I think it's important to make again what this
terrorist attack exemplifies, What the weakness of the of the

(28:50):
West exemplifies, what the general hatred of Jews in the
West right now exemplifies makes real is the need for
the state of Israel and its particular form of immigration.

(29:18):
It is true that in a perfect world, in a
world where the West stood up against its enemies and
destroyed them, in a world where anti Semitism was a
relic of a distant past and gone from the world,
there would be no need for the state of Israel.
I would have no problem with open borders in Israel. Indeed,

(29:39):
why have a state called Israel. Jews would just live
wherever they would lived wherever they wanted, in whatever country
they wanted, wherever in the world, as normal people. Every
country would be a normal country. But we do not
live in that world. We live in a world of

(29:59):
Jew hate. I don't even care how you define youe.
I have no particular definition in mind people that Antisemites
define as Jews that you Jews are. As long as
anti Semitism is as rife as it is today, as

(30:21):
long as it's everywhere, as long as Jews can just
be killed in this you know, celebrating Hanuka on a
beach in Australia, there needs to be at least one
political entity in the world that is dedicated itself to

(30:45):
being a safe haven for them. That's the purpose of Israel.
That's why I was created, It's why it exists, why
it should continue to exist, and why it should always
have a position of Jews can come here freely. Indeed,
you'll see, you know, growing immigration to Israel by Jews

(31:06):
from Europe, where anti Semitism is going through the roof
from places like Australia, where it just became very real.
Remember this attack, it was not unusual in the sense
that synagogues who attacked in Brisbane, other Jewish events have
been attacked in Australia. This was not completely out of
the blue. This is just a much worse form. But

(31:34):
you know, the justification for the existence of Israel, and
the justification for its particular immigration policy, has to do
with the fact that people, including its neighbors, one to
destroy the people that it is a safe harbor for.

(31:55):
I mean, people always tweet me, should Israel open immigration
to Muslims? Well, of course not. It needs to stay
a Jewish state for only one reason, not because I
think there's any kind of importance to being a Jewish
state or any kind of ethnocentric bullshit, but because it
needs to be a safe haven from anti Semitism, and

(32:18):
because and because every single one of its neighbors and
Muslims from all over the world have dedicated themselves to
killing Jews and destroying Israel. You know, people compare that
to immigration to the United States. The United States was
not created to preserve a people that were being killed

(32:41):
and slaughtered elsewhere, and nobody wants. Really, no immigrant wants
I mean maybe a few handful to destroy America. I mean,
the Mexicans are not coming over the bordher or the Guatemalans,
or the Salvadorians or the Venezuelans are not coming across

(33:03):
the boat to destroy America. It's not their purpose, it's
not what they want. I mean, yes, there's some gang members,
kill them, get them out. I don't care. Yes, there
you know, they might be some Muslim terrorists coming across
the boat, Capture them, send them back, or put them
in jail forever. But really, how can you compare the

(33:31):
two countries. I mean again, when people can pay immigration
to American immigration to Israel, it just shows they cannot think.
They cannot think. Thinking requires more than coming up with
label slogans. Open immigration, if it must be open to everybody, everywhere,

(33:53):
all the time, in every country, No, it mustn't. It
doesn't necessarily. Context matters, situation matters. State of the world
is Oh, put it this way, the state of people
on Twitter is very very very depressing, very depressing. All right.

(34:21):
Two events that at least for now, are not related
to the Islamist threat to the west on Saturday. On Saturday,
there was a shooting at Brown University. I guess during

(34:41):
a exam prep session in the Engineering building, a unidentified
person walked into the classroom and started shooting. Two students
were killed. A number of others were injured and made
it into the hospital. The two students that killed were

(35:05):
Mukhammad Aziz Umbuzokhov, who was a student from Uzbekistan in
Central Asia. The other was the head of the Young
Republicans in the Young Republicans at at Brown University, Ela Kook. Indeed,

(35:35):
there's some conspiracy theories going around saying that she was
the target of the attack. The whole point was to
kill her as a leftist, killing the head of the
Republican you know whatever. Nobody knows exactly what the motivation was.
Nobody knows who did it, why he was doing it.

(35:56):
At some point yesterday supposedly a person of interest was
taken into custody an army an army vette who was
a student in Brown, a young, a young man. But
it turned out that he is not the suspect anymore

(36:16):
and he was released. Well yet today at this point
there is no suspect. They do know, they do not
know who did it. They don't know why he did it.
H You know, the people in the campus of Brown
University are concerned because the killer is still loose, which

(36:41):
is rare in events like this. They usually caught pretty quickly.
So you know, that's where we have Providence public schools
have been I have canceled extracurricular activities. People are kind
of hunkering down. It turns out the Uzbek student who

(37:10):
was killed, you know, his dream was to be a surgeon.
He was quite a brilliant kid.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
It is.

Speaker 1 (37:19):
It is truly sad, you know, this young woman, ell
a Cook, you know, just just horrific, just just life
snuffed out for no particular reason. Right. It seems like

(37:43):
nobody got a good look at him, and and the
the video footage the eight hundred campus on campus, uh
didn't get a good good look at him. You know.
My guess is I'll find him. They could take a while.
And then the fourth kind of horrific, uh bloody events
of the weekend was that it turned out that Rob Bliner,

(38:06):
the actor and director, and his wife were mooted with
a knife knife attack. It appears they were moted by
their son. Their son who had a drug problem and
who was I guess homeless for a while, but you know,

(38:30):
I don't know the details. And you know it really
it sounds like a horrible, miserable thing. But Rob Bliner
and his wife, you know, just stabbed to death. He
was seventy eight, I think, and you know, an amazing
and amazing career, A real leftist without any question, ideologically

(38:56):
clearly of the left wing, but yet quite an amazing artist.
You know, I remember Rob Ryan f from from All
in the Family, the TV series in the nineteen seventies.
We played the leftist right. He played the leftist you know,

(39:17):
opposite Archie Bunker, kind of I guess, you know, a
mega guy before his time. I mean, Archie Bunker would
finish a mega perfectly today.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
What did you what was this was an I'm just.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
Who did I'm trying to sorry, I'm just looking up something.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
Uh uh, what's then?

Speaker 1 (39:58):
Let's see right now. Directed a lot of pretty amazing films.
The Princess Bride, Princess Bride. You know, I don't know
who doesn't like The Princess Bride. This is spinal Tap

(40:19):
in nineteen eighty four, stand by Me, a real classic
about a teacher, when Harry met Sally Misery, which is,
you know, super intense movie. A Few Good Men was

(40:39):
actually really good. Let's see the Wolf on Wall Street,
Sleepless in Seattle. Looking for other movies that he directed,
I mean there's a bunch of them, but a lot
of them, I don't know. Those are the ones I
really know, those are the ones that are the famous ones.

(41:00):
Looking at these others, yeah, nothing really comes to mind. Okay,
so those are the movies. Those are pretty amazing. I mean,
so he had quite a career. As I said, he
was quite a leftist and very very anti Trump. And
as you would expect, Trump had the perfect response. Two,

(41:26):
rob Bin is a death. I mean the extent to
which Trump is a I don't know, a despicable human being.
It's just it's just hard to phantom, just hard to
phantom how ugly of a soul this man has, and
that he's been put in a position where he exposes

(41:50):
his soul to all of us on a regular basis
and people cheer, people cheering, responsor, this is what Donald
Trump wrote. A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood.
Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling but once very talented
movie director and comedy stuff has passed away together with

(42:13):
his wife Michelle, reportedly due to the anger he caused
others through his massive, unyielding and incurable affliction with a
mind crippling disease known as Trump derangement syndrome, something referred
to as TDS. He was known to driven people crazy

(42:33):
by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with
his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump administration
surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness and with the
golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before.
May Robin Michelle rist in peace. I mean talk about disgusting. Yes,

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Trump didn't say that. He posted that. He posted that
on truth whatever he calls it. It's being reposted all
over Twitter. Basically, Robina died of Trump. You agent syndrome.
It's just unthinkable that this man is our president. It's

(43:24):
just crazy. It's just crazy. And that's some out there,
some out there I won't mention who consider him one
of the greatest presidents in American history, if not the greatest.
I mean, it's just it really is sick and disgusting.
I mean, talk about narcissism. He can't even you know,

(43:48):
just take a tragedy and just it's about him. It's
about you know, how the guy treated him and how
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So that is that. That was a horrible, bloody weekend.
Beyond that, more bad news coming out of Hong Kong.
Jimmy Lay. Jimmy Lay is one of the great entrepreneurs
of the twentieth century. Jimmy Lay is a man who
came to Hong Kong with nothing, nothing but the show

(45:15):
in his back, literally nothing. As a teenager. He came alone.
He worked as a worker in the textile industry in
the in the in Hong Kong, in the sweatshops of
Hong Kong. He saved money and he bought one of
those factories, and he became an incredibly successful businessman, ultimately

(45:41):
selling his business holdings in the textile industry and investing
the money in the media industry I think was called Apple.
His media industry focused on Hong Kong being a free

(46:02):
country and spent much of the ink on criticizing the
communist Chinese regime, the authoritarianism of the Chinese, and then
the Chinese attempt and successful attemp ultimately to take over
Hong Kong. He supported the anti government demonstrations that engulfed

(46:27):
Hong Kong in twenty nineteen, and he really did represent
even though he was, you know, at the time seventy,
well into his seventies, he represented this movement, those Primlia
movement of young people opposing China's ever growing infringement on

(46:49):
the island. When China took over the island and you
taking advantage of COVID when the world was distracted, not
that the world would have done anything anyway, took over
the island. They arrested Jimmy Lai, and I think it
was Friday probably that he was finally found guilty by

(47:15):
the court in Hong Kong, found guilty of violating the
national security kind of the national security laws that the
China had imposed on the island. And he will probably

(47:35):
be sentenced to life in prison, life in prison. So
this is, you know, horrific news. Ah, you know, Taiwan
has condemned it. We'll see if any other country is
condemned it. But Taiwan has condemned it. Uh it is.
It has said that the vote undermines the Hong Kong
government's efforts to paint a better picture of the city.

(48:00):
To quote them, no amount of storytelling could cover up
the fact that it suppresses freedom of speech and persecutes
democratic activists. The Chief Executive of Hong Kong, the in
effect the governor. The Chinese governor of Hong Kong said

(48:21):
after the verdict that Jimmy Lay had used Apple Daily,
which was the publication, to create social conflict and incite
hatred against China and Hong Kong. His actions were shameful
and intentions malicious, and you know they are happy with
the verdict of the court. So again, one of the

(48:45):
great entrepreneurs, he was a billionaire, one of the great entrepreneurs,
one of the great figures in Hong Kong's fight for
freedom for liberty. Found guilty of violating the Chinese security laws.
Will be spending the rest of his life, probably in jail.
He's seventy eight. I think he's seventy eight, seventy eight

(49:09):
years old right now. Yesterday in Chile, the Chileans had
the final round of the elections. The election was between
a Catholic conservative, you know, right wing figure by the

(49:38):
name of Cass, Jose Antonio Cass, and a communist I
mean not just not because I'm calling him names communists,
but no, he was the representative of the Communist party.
Cast won by you know, you consider it a landslide,

(49:58):
fifty nine to forty one fifty one. Chile is the
last an additional country to join. Kind of the spread
of right leaning politicians, there was a huge swing to
the left over the last say eight years. Chile went left.

(50:19):
About eight years ago, Columbia went left. Bolivia, of course
has been left wing for twenty years. Brazil went left
with Lula, and of course a Gentina before me, lay
was left and really South America's dominated by left wing parties.
And then over the last few months we've seen a

(50:42):
turn to the right. Now, in the case of we
saw Bolivia, after twenty years of socialism, reject the socialist
and voter center right figure. In Ecuador, a center right
candidate was re elected, and now Chile joins that with
with with Caste. That cast is not Jose Milai. Cast

(51:06):
is not have Emila, sorry, have emil cast is not
a free market guy. Cast is a populist, religious conservative. Uh.
He didn't run on this because I mean, this is
like the third election he's run, and in the past
he's always lost, and you know, the first time you ran,

(51:29):
he lost by a big margin. So he changed. This
is his campaign tactics. But the reality is that he
this guy is massively anti abortion, anti gay rights. Uh,
very very very Catholic and for the imposition kind of
of of Catholic ideology as part of his governing, as

(51:52):
part of the as part of governing you know. The uh.
He also you know, he does not necessarily does not
believe in free markets. He's not a socialist, but he's
a he's a he's a statist, very much a statist.
He is also the reason he won. And what he

(52:12):
really ran on was not again free markets. What he
ran on was low and oder what he land what
he ran on was anti immigration, clean up the gangs.
Chile has seen over the last few years, an increase
in gang activity, it's seen an increase in drug smuggling,

(52:33):
it's seen an increase in crime. And he ran on,
you know, I am going to clean the place up.
I'm gonna get tough on criminals. I'm going to shut
down the border. I guess there's quite a bit of
illegal immigration from Venezuela coming in and including some I

(52:54):
guess Colombia and Venezuelan gangs. So this is the issue
people care about, right, People care about immigration, gangs and crime,
and or at least they seem to. And he leveraged
that to win. I mean, there was in the previous
round there was actually a free market guy, Johannes Kaiser,

(53:19):
who was a real, you know, a free market Melay
type candidate, not quite with the crazy charisma of Melay,
but a free market guy who really stands for freedom.
But he came in fourth place. He landed up. He

(53:40):
and another central right candidate together one twenty six percent
of the vote in the first round. They both endorsed
cast So if you add their votes to what he
Casted got in the first round, that is basically his
margin of victory. So you know this cast the cast

(54:02):
guy is a fan of Perone, not Peron, sorry of Pinochet.
He is a he's not a good guy. He's not
a he's not a good guy. He's not on the
side of a freedom. But I guess you know, he's
better than a communist, and that's how Chilean's voted. It's

(54:24):
sad that somebody who stood for fem markets and liberty
didn't get didn't do better in in this election, and
was not in a position to beat the communist. So
Latin America is tunning right right wing, which will make
certainly make Trump happy. It's the kind of right wing

(54:45):
Trump is a statist right wing, not a freedom loving
right wing. But socialism is dying, at least for now
in Latin America. I think you'll see the left wing
president of Colombia defeat in the next election. The big question,
mark whiz, is whether Lula can be defeated in Brazil,

(55:08):
whether the anti Luda forces can put together you can
find a candidate who can rise up against them. And
then ultimately, can anything be done about the left in Mexico.
I mean, the left just dominates Mexico. They've taken over
the country. They dominate the legislature, they dominate the presidency.

(55:29):
Cannot change anytime in the future. But at least Argentina, now, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador,
all you know, in the right of center, and hopefully
Colombia will join them. And the big prize, of course
is Brazil if they can defeat Lula. All right, let's see, Yeah,

(55:55):
that's that was the last story. Oh Animal Farm, God
so animal of course a short book, small book. I
read it when I was a teenager. By of course,
the author's name escapes me, which is ridiculous because it's

(56:16):
right there. It's not like I don't know it. By
Oil right, Jojo Owell. It was written in nineteen forty five,
so interestingly it was written after Anthem, after Anthem. And

(56:37):
there appears that there is a new movie out, a
new movie of Animal Farm with very fancy you know, animation.
And there's a trailer for the movie, And if you
watch the trailer of the movie, you will discover then,

(56:59):
rather than and Animal Farm being a critique of tautalitarianism
of communism of Soviet Russia, the new Animal Farm, as
adopted by these filmmakers, is now a movie that is,

(57:24):
you know, teaching us about the dangers of capitalism and
corporate corruption. So Napoleon, who is the Joseph Stalin character
in the book, is rewritten to be sympathetic, and Pinkington,

(57:47):
who in the book represents the US in Britain, is
written rewritten as an evil billionaire. Can you imagine what
you know? Once Iran's It works going to the public domain,

(58:09):
can you imagine what you know people will do with
her books, her ideas. It really is scary if this
they can do this a simple book like nineteen eighty
four and like Animal Farm. Of course, let's wait for

(58:32):
the remake of nineteen eighty four, right, can you imagine
what that'll be like? All right? That is I think
let's see I had one of the Yeah, we'll save
that for another time. All right. That is the news
for Monday, December fifteenth. I want to remind you guys

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that tonight we've got another show. I'd be hosting Vincent Geloso,
who is an economist, an economist at I think he's
a Judge Mason University, is an assistant professor of economics
at Jude Mason University. Yes, he's a free market economist.
He came to my attention that when Trump imposed tariffs

(59:22):
on Canada originally and was all becoming Canada fifty first
state and all this, Vincent went online and said Canada's
response should be to lower taris in the United States,
lower taris in the United States. I thought that was brilliant.

(59:43):
It was exactly what I was saying. Not very many
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You know who benefited during that period. You know what
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Thank you, thank you, thank you. All right, let's start.
Let's see I always go with the largest amount of
money contributed, so let's start with Rob eighty Australian dollars.
Robb is in Australia. He says, people who live in
Bondi tend to be successful, optimistic and ambitious. I love

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taking my young son there to enjoy the atmosphere and
uplifting sense of life. Those two animals were not worthy
of such a place. I feel deeply sad about it
about it all. Yeah, I mean I completely get it.
And yes, I mean Bondi Beach is one of the
most famous beaches in the world. I mean, Sydney is

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truly one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
Bondi Beach is the main beach, or the most famous
beach in Sydney, I think. And yes, the homes, the
condos that lie in the street that is borders the beach,
you know, is a wealthy place. It's a place of

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successful people. Actually gave a talk not far from there
in somebody's home and actually the local head of the
Jewish organization there. In twenty twenty four, Nicos was with me.
The two of us each gave a talk at this
guy's house. A few people from the Jewish community came.
I hope that none of the people who were there

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were the victims, but I don't know. But it was
a beautiful home overlooking overlooking the ocean in Sydney, again,
a beautiful city. And Australia's always I've always thought of
Australia as a you know, very similar to the United States,
very much like the United States, a kind of a

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can do spirit and sense of life. And it's really
tragic to see, but not surprising given what's been happening
over the last few years, and given that the the
extent to which this leftist government in Australia has been
constantly appeasing Islamists within Australia and the Islamists in Gaza.

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I mean, remember this government recognized the Palestinian state as
a reward for hamas you know, for October seventh. And
if you reward terrorists for the kind of brutality, barbarism
or October seventh, it shouldn't shock you that that same
barbarism shows up on your shores on your shows. I

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thank you, Rob, really appreciate the support. And yes, I
mean the sad thing is the walking along Bondi Beaches
is not quite going to be the same. Is not
quite going to be the same. Anthony also from Australia,
also eighty eighty Australian dollars. Thank you. The analysis of

(01:13:57):
the Bondi Beach attack is spawn on why is the
worst so afrate identify the enemy? Nobody dares to mention
the real cause, let alone, let go then go after them.
I'm left feeling totally empty. I mean, this is the reality.
I mean. After nine eleven, remember Jeorge Bush declat to
won terrorism, not an Islamic terrorism, not an Islamism, not

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an Islamic extremism or fascism or Islami totalitarianism or anything
with the wood Islam in it. Declator won terrorism and
then declared that Islam was a religion of peace. A
month after nine to eleven, the Ramadan was celebrated in

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the White House. In the White House, and it's it's
just it was despicable. Then it's despicable. Look back at
it and you can understand everything that's happened, since that

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massively emboldens the enemy, massively emboldens it. It's cowardly. It's
cowardly because if you name the enemy, you actually have
to do something about him. If you name the enemy,
it suddenly becomes clear that you have many dealings with

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that enemy. In suddenly, post nine to eleven, Saudi Arabia
was the home of much of Islamic fundamentalism, of the
Islamist movement, and nobody wanted to acknowledge that Iran jumps
up as the number one What do you do about Iran? Well,
if you don't name the enemy, you don't have to
do anything about ivon. But if you do name an enemy,

(01:15:50):
you actually have to do something about them. And of course,
if you name the enemy, you're naming a religion. And
for religious people that is very scary. And for secular
people who being taught, being raised on the idea that

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all cultures are the same, all ideas are equal, everything
is the same, it's you know, it's really really hard
for them then to say no, no, this set of ideas,

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this culture, this interpretation of this religion is fundamentally evil.
They just can't bring themselves to do it. It goes against
their beliefs. And add to that again the cowardice, because
if they named it, they would have to act on it.

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When you name something this is the enemy, well what
are you going to do about it? If you name
something like terror, then you can do pretty much anything
you want. You can go after Sadam Hussein, even though
he had no no relation to nine to eleven. He
was in nothing, nobody. There's no connection between him and
and the kind of terrorism and the kind of threat

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that America and the West faced. You can ignore Iran,
you can ignore Qata today. I mean, if you name
you know, Islamism, and you say, the number one organization
preaching Islamism outside of Iran is the Muslim Brotherhood, And
you say, where's the Muslim Brotherhood based? Who funds the

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Muslim Brotherhood, who allows them, who echoes them and provides
them with a megaphone? Was the Katari's? Oh well, then
I have to do something about Kata. But Kata, just
if you're Donald Trump, Kota just gave me this gift
of a big get plane, and Kata are our friends,
and Kata gives us this and they give us that.
We can't go after Kata so it clashed with other

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personal values you might have as a politician. But look,
since nine to eleven, the politicians of the West have
done nothing but fail us, fail us consistently and systematically.
If you name Islamism as the enemy, then now you
can go shut down certain mosques. Now you can kick
out certain preachers. Now you can put people into jails.

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But then you're infringing on their religious freedom. Yeah, if
they're advocating for killing people, then their religious freedom ends
at that advocacy. It's not just theoretical. They're literally advocating
for killing people, then it's time they go to jail.
But for that, you have to be willing to declare

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an enemy. But that would require then that would necessitate action.
Action that is scary, scary. And by the way, the
people who are doing least about this, I mean, and

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put it in another way, in that they do nothing
about this. There's no difference here between the left and
the right. George Bush is from the right, Donald Trump
is from the right. They've done nothing, nothing, zero, zilch, nada.

(01:19:30):
So you know, it's just it's this isn't a problem
of left and right. This is a problem Western leaders
throughout overall all of them. Kve dempter, thank you, thank
you for the sticker. All right, let's keep going with

(01:19:51):
the fifty dollars questions giving how rich this is, Michael,
giving how rich and cushy our lives up? I find
out how to believe the West will tolerate centration camps
and mass starvation. I suppose that people are mindless and
hateful enough it could happen. But that would be quite
an achievement. Well, I wouldn't call it an achievement, but yeah,

(01:20:12):
I mean, I don't see any problem of tolerating that.
I mean, the reality is that people already angry and
pissed off, and they already tolerate you know, ICE agents
walking around the streets with heavy equipment and bulletproof vests
and faces covered up, you know, arresting US citizens, arresting

(01:20:37):
not even arresting because they don't, you know, being violent
against US citizens and non US citizens, just just in
horrific ways, hardworking people. Now there's a rumor that they're
going to change it, and ICE is only going to
have to criminals. I believe it when I see it.
But right now they're harassing peoples in the streets of

(01:20:58):
America and almost nobody are you saying anything. I mean,
it's not popular, but it's also not being demonstrated against.
In mass it's being tolerated. So given the response to ICE,
I wouldn't be surprised if twenty years for now the

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at the Iron Brook Showright, Andrew. A feature of a
nihilist is secondhandedness. He relies on others' focus. He's terrified
of knowing his mind as alone. If he can't focus

(01:22:43):
by parasitism, he has a choice destroy himself for face
reality alone. The latter is a first step towards the good. Yeah,
facing the world reality alone is the first step towards
the good. But how many people have the courage to
do that, particularly if they're nihilists or have already been nihilists.

(01:23:06):
The second handedness is entrenched in them. But that is
the first step. But yes, feature of nihilism is definitely
second handedness, because you can't live without some values. But
you don't have any personal values, so you just go
after what people tell you is a value. That's what
you pursue. Thank you, Andrew, It's incredibly generous, okay, Jacob.

(01:23:33):
In nineteen eighty six, the Childhood Vaccine Manufactures not yet bankrupt,
not yet bankrupt because of a vaccine injury lawsuits begged
fed government for liability immunity. Since then, three x more
vaccines added to child schedule four point five billion in
conversation since eighty six. Yeah, I mean that's right. I

(01:23:54):
mean there's a number of problems here. One is amazing
the childhood vaccines have increased like that because they have
saved the lives and saved from pain and illness and
misery hundreds of millions of children. So thank you to
the drug manufacturers from manufacturing those vaccines. They're incredibly safe.

(01:24:17):
There's some of the safest medications anybody takes anyway, anybody
takes anyway. I mean, it was just this massive study
looking back at COVID vaccines. It was pretty amazing. This
is a study that looked at tens of millions of
people in Europe who gotten the COVID vaccine, and not

(01:24:37):
only did it find that all caused mortality didn't go
up as everybody expected, as all the conspiracy theories expected,
but all caused montality actually went down. That somehow the
COVID vaccines helped shield people from other diseases. You know.

(01:24:57):
Another example of that, by the way, is the fact
that there is Now I've seen a couple of studies
now that have come out and say the shingos vaccine,
the shingos vaccine, which you should all get if you're
over fifty, the shingos vaccine is now corlated with and

(01:25:18):
again we don't understand the cause of mechanisms. I'm not
going to say it's caused, but it's corelated with a
significant decline in dementia. So if you get a shingos vaccine,
dementia goes down, the probability that you'll get dementia goes down,
at least it seems that way. That's amazing. So yay
for the shingos vaccine. I got the shingles vaccine, so

(01:25:43):
vaccine is amazing. So I don't know. Now there is
an issue in the United States. The issue in the
United States is we live in a litigious society. We
live in a place where people can sue for almost anything,
where you reason award ridiculous penalties on those lawsuits, where

(01:26:05):
there is no standard. It used to be before the
early the late sixties, early seventies that the standard was
you had to be negligent. Now you don't even have
to be negligent. All you have to prove is harm
and suddenly somebody owes you something, which is a ridiculous standard.
So it's wrong to give many factures a liability immunity,

(01:26:30):
but it is. But it is also wrong to have
a liability system unmoored from any kind of standards and
from reality. So what we need is liability law reform,
massive libility law reform. Nobody's talking about that. It's too complicated,
it's too abstract, but it is a major problem in America.

(01:26:56):
It's a major way in which we suppress economic growth.
It's a major restriction on innovation and on businesses more broadly,
and it needs to be filmed. There's a great book
that was written in the nineties I think by Peter

(01:27:17):
Hubert called Liability highly recommended, excellent book. But yeah, I
mean there shouldn't be There shouldn't be lib believing unity.
And at the same time one can hold that they
shouldn't be liability immunity and still recognize that vaccines are
one of the great human inventions and and and you know,

(01:27:37):
vaccines are saving hundreds of millions of lives, not just lives,
but life and pain and stuffing. I had all the
childhood diseases. So I got them all and it was
not pleasant at all. It was how and and some

(01:27:57):
of them could easily get complicated. I mean, you're seeing
you're seeing measles breaking out now what it was in Carolinas.
I saw there's a whole area in the Carolinas that
is being quarantined because of measles outbreak. It's horrible. Charsbat says.
My dislike of Trump goes to eleven. Yes, that is

(01:28:20):
a tribute to Rhina and that movie is name just
lookd my mind. But I mentioned it earlier where the
band puts the volume up to eleven. Kay, dempt any
advice or resources you have for dealing with a narcissist
in personal life. My sister is trying to divorce an

(01:28:41):
arsist husband, but he's making a life hell in the process.
I want to help, but I don't know how. Spinal tap,
Thank you spinal tap. Look, no, I don't really have
any resources. I would say, you just have to an
arcist wants attention, so you just have to cut them off.

(01:29:03):
You just have to minimize contact, give them no attention
because they feed off of the attention and they use
that to trying to manipulate you. You've got to just
to the extent that you can just cut them off
as much as you can and be tough. Toughness and

(01:29:25):
minimal contact I think is the way to do it.
But I'm not an expert, SIVI the not a psychologist,
and I don't know Joseph food for thought, the natural
born requirement for the highest office goes against the spirit
of the United States as a country when anyone could

(01:29:46):
come and make it. Yeah, I think that's probably true,
but it is in the constitution and it's going to
be very hard to change. All Right, we got a
bunch of five ten two, five ten dollar questions. All right,
let's start with emo. Does the Netflix big bid make

(01:30:09):
sense for Netflix shareholders? The market seems quite skeptical. Well,
I mean, who am I to question the market? The
market skepticism could be based on a number of things.
It could be based on the fact that mergers often
fail to produce the kind of results that I expected.
That is, the synergies never materialize, there is a clash

(01:30:33):
of corporate cultures. It's also possible that regulators might impose
conditions on the merged entity that will make it very
difficult for that merged entity to be profitable. I don't know.
A separation of HBO Max from Netflix, some restrictions on

(01:30:53):
how the studios released air movies. I don't know. It'll
be interesting to see, you know, I think any generally,
generally an emerging acquisition when a buyer announced the purchase
of When company A announced the purchase of company B,

(01:31:13):
the shares of Company A typically go down. Company B
go up to the purchase close to the purchase price
the company is will need to pay, but the buyers
shares usually go down because in most cases, not all cases,
but in most cases, expectation is that the merger will
not be successful or actually destroy value versus increase value.

(01:31:38):
That's from bitter experience in mergers and acquisitions in the past.
Now again, it depends on the type of merger, It
depends on markets, estimation of the qualities of the CEO,
the qualities of the of the synergies, if they're real.
If they're how how real and how wishful thinking are
they tom One result of the excellent March twenty twenty

(01:32:03):
five seminar in London is that I got motivated to
write historical novel Wow with a heroic theme. Stay tuned, excellent,
That is fun to hear. I'm excellent. I like numbers.
Was Trump right to try to band Muslim immigration. No,

(01:32:25):
and he did it in such a pathetic, ridiculous way
that it was stupid. The way he did it was stupid.
So the whole band of Muslim immigration was virtue signaling
because he he didn't ban Muslims. He banned Muslims for
a few countries, and those other countries didn't have real
government who couldn't protest. You know, most of an overwhelming

(01:32:50):
majority of the terrorists at nine to eleven was Saudis,
Saudi Arabia. Muslims were not banned, if I remember right,
puck Stani Muslims were not banned. You know, right now
it's not clear and I don't I don't know if
Syrian Muslims right now a banned or not. But it

(01:33:12):
was all political, you know, smoking mirrors. H Is it
legitimate to ban Muslims as you go to war with Islamism? Sure,
but you have to declare war otherwise there's no basis
for which the band Muslim immigration. You have to name
them an enemy. You have to name the enemy, and

(01:33:37):
then you can ban them, but Trump won't name the enemy,
and he can. He doesn't even ban them. It's just
it's just a joke. I mean, it's just a joke
to appease you guys and and make you think that
he is on your side. And is it really, you know,
opposed to this enemy. I nam, how can we id

(01:33:59):
ISIS without checking social media? Well, I think you should
check social media. You don't check social media on their
phones when they come in. Hopefully, the NSA is tracking
everything ISIS does. It's tracking social media generally, it's screening
who is and who is participating in the different social

(01:34:21):
media ISIS stuff, and is warning people in terms of
preventing them from coming into the country. This is done,
who regulates done all the time. I also think that
if you're a Muslim, you should expect to be screened
one hundred times more than everybody else. So I am
fine with requiring for Muslims when they come into the

(01:34:42):
United States a complete screening of their social media. I
just don't think it should be a generalized immigration policy
because what they're looking for is not whether you participate
in a chat with ISIS. They'd probably let you in
if you did what they're looking for is did you
criticize Trump? And that would be the basis of kicking
you out. They don't care about isis. They care about

(01:35:04):
Trump's ego. So yeah, screen the hell out of Muslims.
I have no problem with that. Really ramp up screening
of Muslims domestically and as they come into the country.
All right, John with his usual obnoxious question. If the
solution is military, then how come Hungary in Poland don't
have Islamic terror? Are they air forces bombing Saudi Arabia?

(01:35:28):
Are they what are they doing? You've asked this question before.
Again John repeats his questions. Not because John doesn't ask
questions in order to get an answer. You asked questions
as gotcha, gotcha? Are the reason Hungary and Poland of
free of Islamic of free of Islamic terrorism is because

(01:35:52):
they don't accept Muslim immigrants into them as one feature,
as one feature of the imigration policy. But uh, the reason?
But if everybody didn't do that, if all of Europe
banned Muslim immigration and they did nothing else, then Islamists

(01:36:14):
would still attack Europe. They'd find other ways to attack Europe.
They'd find ways to sneak in, they'd pretend not to
be Muslim, they'd fly airplanes into it, they'd bomb the place.
They still not might not attack Poland and Hungry because
nobody really cares that much about Poland and Hungry, particularly Hungry,
which is a second third rate European country. Poland is

(01:36:34):
not rising countries. So maybe in the future people will
care about Poland. I mean, what are you going to
get more bang for the buck out of attacking attacking
Warsaw or attacking Paris or London. And there's no competition
really right And by the way, there are other countries

(01:36:56):
in Europe would be my guess where there's no know,
there's been no Islamic terrorism. Croatia. There's no Islamic terrorism
in Croatia as far as I can tell. I mean,
maybe somebody can correct me. And Croatia borders a Muslim country,
has Muslims in Croatia and yet no Islamic terrorism there. Indeed,

(01:37:20):
there are a number of countries in Europe than a Muslim.
Albania is a Muslim country, dominant majority Muslim Kosovo and
Bosnia Bosnia dominantly Muslim country, and yet you don't hear

(01:37:41):
much about terrorism coming from those countries, right, And indeed,
is Bosnia part of the EU now, I mean at
some point if Bosnia is not good, if Bosnian is
not part of the EU, at some point when it
becomes part of the EU, they'll be able to migrate

(01:38:03):
to Poland amazing, huh. And Poland won't be able to
stop at de Wi part of the sen jen zomes,
So you can hide and Hungry in Poland if you want.
I mean, even if Hungry and Poland are just not
significant enough. It's not immigration that causes terrorism. It's ideology

(01:38:26):
that causes terrorism. And as long as the ideology is
allowed to spread and grow around the world, then maybe
they won't kill you in Europe. Maybe that wait for
Europeans to travel somewhere overseas and not kill them there.
And of course, you know, as I said, there are
plenty of Muslims in Europe already. If the ideology is

(01:38:49):
allowed to spread, then they'll just travel within Europe where
they're no restrictions when you travel within Europe and commit
terrorism there. So this whole notion, and look, anybody who
wants to live in Hungry is welcome to live in Hungary.
It's a you know, it's a pretty poor place and
a very unfree place. So yes, they don't have Muslims yay,

(01:39:11):
but nothing else much going for them. Poland is a
little bit better and certainly growing economically and doing well.
And Poland is also very anti Russia, which is good
for them, and they're building up a military, so good
for Poland. But Poland, you know, I Poland would benefit

(01:39:36):
from having more immigration, not less. It's got a lack
of talent. It would go even fast. Lincoln with a
Patriot Act tsa pointless Middle East wars for democracy instead
of stopping terrorism in post nine to eleven. Did we
not get what he wanted? Well, not fully, but certainly

(01:39:56):
some you know, our lives, our life gets harassed. We're
harassed in our life. Have there been any terrorist detections
in Switzerland. I'm curious anybody know of Islamic terrorist detects
in Switzerland. And yet Switzerland has a pretty large Islamic population.

(01:40:18):
I mean, I know, because you know, i'd being too
like in Geneva, Like if you go to a hotel
in Geneva. I mean, there's a there's a lot of
Arabs and Muslims in Switzerland. But I don't remember any
Islamic terrorist attack in Switzerland, So I don't know. Maybe
it's not only related to whether you allow Muslims in

(01:40:40):
or out. Maybe you know who knows, but the fact
that ideas shape history, and idea shaped the world. Let's
ignore ideas, we don't care about ideas. Let's just build
walls and hunk it down, and if we bury our
head deep enough in the sand, they'll go away. The
threat will just go away. I don't think they're all

(01:41:06):
armed in Switzerland. I don't think people people don't open
carry in Switzerland. You don't. I don't think they're concealed
carries in Switzerland. They have a gun in their home.
In Switzerland took a lot of Albinians from Kosovo. Professor
Kruckin says, they are they are not very problematic as

(01:41:29):
far as Muslims go. Yeah, I know, but I thought
it's Muslims that are the problem, not Muslims for somebody.
But no, there were a lot of Arabs as compared
to Kasovoians. There's a lot of Arabs in Switzerland, and
there's been a lot of immigration into Switzerland from Arab countries. Again,

(01:41:50):
I know this because I've traveled there, and I've seen it,
and yet I don't think there's any Islamic terrorism in Switzerland.
I don't know why. Interesting Phil three five seven two.
Those who refuse to name the enemy are these as
Islamic mystic violence, a mental sub humans who refused to

(01:42:10):
recognize we are at war. It was declared fifty years
ago by the Muslim Brotherhood. Well, I mean yes, it
was the claud I mean Muslim Brotherhood was created in
nineteen twenty eight, so it's almost one hundred years. We
can celebrate. In a couple of years, we can celebrate
the creation of the Muslim Brotherhood by Hassan Elbana, who

(01:42:32):
was the creedor of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in
nineteen twenty eight. Lincoln, the more I learned about Christianity,
the angry I get They stopped progress for a thousand years.
Imagine what a Quintus could have been without religion. Yeah,
imagine all the other geniuses that lived during the thousand
years who couldn't express their genius because of Christianity, Lincoln,

(01:42:57):
all Trump has had to do was let Israel overthrow
the Iranians, support Ukraine and not be an idiotic on tariffs,
and I would support him, but he's too dumb. Well
I don't know if dumb is the right word, but
he's too something. Yeap Lincoln. For years, I refuse to
watch The Princess Bride when I was a kid because
I thought it was a girls movie. Luckily, my mom

(01:43:20):
made me watch it and I loved it. Yeah, it's
a fun movie. It really is, all right, Michael does
Trump feely has nothing to lose with the mean tweeting.
I think the Republicans will get destroyed the midterms. Well,
see it's how to tell it. Logic depends on the
economy and how the economy does between now and the midterms.

(01:43:42):
But I don't think he controlled himself. I think he's
just a nasty human being, and I don't think he
has any self discipline and can control himself. He also declared,
I think this morning that the United States has gained
eighteen trillion dollars literally eighteen trillion dollars from tariff's were

(01:44:03):
being in about thirty billion dollars from tariff's total a month,
So that's three hundred and something billion. He said, eighteen trillion.
I assume he's talking about all the investments companies and
countries promised to make eighteen trillions. So he just he
can't help himself. He makes stuff up, and he's nasty

(01:44:25):
and a liah, and he just can't control the lies.
He just says stuff that's again evidently false, and it
doesn't register with him. Michael, Part one, Do there are
remnants of the dark Ages confine itself to the digital world.
All the hate and racism isn't often said to everyone

(01:44:47):
anyone's face, only anonymously online. People are miserable and frustrated
engage in anonymous hate speech online to let up steam.
But they don't want twelve to twenty in real life.
I mean maybe, but you know, there's plenty of anti
semitism in real life. There are plenty of people who

(01:45:07):
go out there and join, you know, globalizing into fodder
demonstrations that very one might be. You know, there are
plenty of anti Semitic conferences and events where they go
and in real life do it. And it's just amount
of time before what happens online transfer into the real world. Now,

(01:45:29):
of course, they don't want twelve twenty in real life
in the sense that they don't want to lose the
technology and the wealth and all that that they have.
And even Michael Knows said, oh, twelve twenty, but just
the culture of twelve twenty. But of course the culture
of twenty twenty precludes the technology of the twenty fifth century.

(01:45:49):
But they made that. They don't want to think about it, Jeff.
The wall between Gouza and Egypt seems to be doing
the job they want keeping the Palestinians out. Why do
the Arabs support a right of return? They want to
be rid of them, Yeah, I mean they want to
be rid of them. They want Israel to handle them,

(01:46:10):
and they want to destroy Israel, and the right of
return is a way to destroy Israel. So basically, you know,
there are lots of Palestinians in Lebanon. They could have assimilated,
could have allowed to be assimilated into Lebanese society. They're
not that, you know. They're all Arabs, and they speak
the same language, they have a similar culture, and yet
the Lebanese have refused to let them to assimilate. They

(01:46:31):
still live in refugee camps. They're still treated as refugees,
seventy something years after the fact. No other refugees in
the world are treated that way. Certainly after that generation,
you're not treated as refugee anymore. It's gone, it's done,
it's finished, to get on with life. And the Arab
States want to perpetuate Palestinian refugee status because they because

(01:46:55):
they it's not even if they don't want them, they
want to use them as a card against Israel, and
the rest of the world lets them. Michael, is pity
just another form of abuse? Is it a form of abuse?
To pity somebody is to abuse somebody. I mean there's

(01:47:17):
a sense in which that's right. It's also the person
doing the pitying. There's an abuse there, because I mean,
why should you pity people? It's a very kind of
altruistic emotion driven by altruism. I'd have to think about
that one. I'm not sure, Michael Christian, What is your
opinion on near death experiences people claiming they could see

(01:47:41):
their own body from above, stuff like that. Yeah, I mean,
the mind is near death. Maybe certain parts are shutting down,
chemicals are coming out, and just like when you're in drugs,
you experience certain things. It means absolutely nothing, zero zilch,
not a anymore than what you experienced other under drugs.

(01:48:03):
Means something. It's your brain going a little haywire, and
maybe part of that shutting down manifests and a bright
light appearing before you in your brain. Not really a
bright light, but that's part of the shutting down. So

(01:48:24):
I don't make anything of them. I think they're just
again the brain closing up, closing shop, and creating certain
hallucinations as a consequence. Lincoln, I'll be making lots of
progress on my novel over the next month. I'll have
updates in January. Exciting. Good luck Roland. I have several

(01:48:47):
Muslim coworkers. Haven't heard of any terrorist attacks in the country.
Roland is in Switzerland, so yeah, I guess Switzerland and
Poland and Hungry. What are they have in common? I
don't know. I don't know, so John can keep asking
me about Poland and Hungry and it's nonsensical. Belarus, well,

(01:49:13):
they probably don't and they have some Muslims. There are
lots of countries I've never had tourist attacks, and so
I'll don't have Muslims in them. All right. Thank you guys,
really really appreciate the support. Thank you to all the
stick up providers. Thank you to all the super check providers.
Really appreciate it. Don't forget. Tonight at seven pm East

(01:49:35):
Coast time, join us and for our interview with an
economists Femrket Economics crucial to all of us. It'll be
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