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Speaker 1 (00:15):
A lot of them, fundamental printles of Widow Last and
an individual lots. This is the show. Oh right, everybody,
welcome to yourn Book Show on this Tuesday, November twenty fifth.

(00:41):
It's two days to Thanksgiving. I hope everybody's ready, and
hopefully you've done your traveling so you don't get caught
up in the travel craziness of the days just before
and just after Thanksgiving. And hopefully you have friends family
you're going to hang out with in finelish thanks give

(01:01):
it in Thanksgiving and have a great time, have a
great time. So yeah, we'll talk more about Thanksgiving on Thanksgiving,
because there will be a show on Thanksgiving. It'll be
a little earlier, I think at an hour earlier in
the day, maybe at one pm East Coast time, so
we can finish it up in time for a Thanksgiving

(01:24):
dinner and get out there and do the Thanksgiving stuff.
But there will be a show. All right, let's I guess,
let's jump into let's jump into the show. Let's jump
into our the news for today, Tuesday, November twenty fifth.

(01:46):
All right, so you know, once in a while, once
in a while, Trump does something did you think is good?
And it turns out that what he does is suggestive
of something good, is suggestive of what could be good.

(02:08):
But he can't really do anything really good. It's just
not in his nature because of the politics and because
of the kind of influencers that play upon him. So,
for example, yesterday Donald Trump signed an executive order that

(02:30):
took a step towards Notice the language took a step
towards designating parts of a step towards parts of the
Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terror organization. Now, if implemented,

(02:52):
this would impose you know, broad travel economic restrictions and
allow for I mean, basically with the clay them wasn't
as an enemy of the United States, and that has
massive implications. I mean, think about it. The Muslim Brotherhood
is the fountain head, the mother organization, the parod organization

(03:14):
of pretty much every Islamic terrorist organization out there hamas
it used to be the Muslim Brotherhood of Palestine RISMAL.
She cooperates very closely with the Muslim Motherhood in Lebanon.
The Muslim Brotherhood ultimately is behind the Islamic Jihad, a

(03:35):
Kaida Isis and so on. Indeed, one of the steps
that George Bush should have taken after nine eleven. One
of the first steps he should have taken is to
designate the Muslim Brotherhood as an enemy of the United States.
And what that would have done is also made it
possible to look at chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood within

(03:56):
the United States and declared them as part of the enemy.
Would have made it possible for without violating free speech,
because the enemy does not have free speech, you know,
restricting who came into the country. It would have been
no way to restrict immigration of Islamists. It would have
been no way to restrict the preaching of certain imams

(04:21):
and certain mosques, the hatred of the West, hatred of America,
all in the name of the Muslim Brotherhood agenda. It
would have given the tools to actually confront the enemy,
the enemy not being a particular group al Qaida, the
enemy being Islamism. But of course you couldn't do that

(04:43):
because Islam is a religion of peace, and God forbid
you tie Islam to anything around nine to eleven. So
Trump has taken a step towards doing this, but notice
that it's a step. He hasn't actually designated them yet.
Mainly he's designated uh you know, he hasn't designated to

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But even that partial step only applies to certain limited
numbers of Muslim Brotherhood groups in Egypt, in Lebanon, and
in Jordan. Jordan because they support Ramas, Lebanon because they Supportsala,
and Egypt because basically the Moslim Brotherhood is opposed to

(05:33):
Egypt's rulers CCI continue to govern Egypt and CECI is
an ally of the United States and therefore an enemy
of the enemy, is they enemy? So what is lacking here?
Lacking is a principled condemnation of Islamism. Lacking is an
is a identification of them Muslim Brotherhood's role not just

(05:55):
in those three countries but broadly as the umbrella organization
for so much bringing Islamism into the West and so
much of the terrorism that comes with it. Lacking, lacking
in particular is actually going after the Muslim Brotherhood where

(06:19):
they are strongest, going after the Muslim Brotherhood where they
are the most influential, Going after the Muslim Brotherhood where
they have the money to impact everything else. Egypt, Lebanon,
Jordan barely you know, starts the process of going after

(06:45):
the Muslim brother In a note, why not just do
a global thing. Why not just do a global definition
of Muslim brotherhoods as foreign terror organizations wherever they may be,
wherever they may be, anywhere in the world. Why not
do that? Who would that upset? Where is the Muslim

(07:09):
Brotherhood's strongest Where does some of the Muslim Brotherhood gets
most of it support, both political and financial from? Who
would be upset if Trump actually went after the Muslim
Brotherhood as a whole. Yeah, some of you get it. Well,

(07:33):
you could start with Kata suddenly, Kata is the beginning.
And on this issue, I have to say I fear
saying this. It's it's it's it's you know, it's Why
are some to say this? And I don't know what's
going on? But the reality is that some of the
best posts on this particular thing were made by Laura Luma.

(08:02):
This is what she wrote, and it's good. Trump actually
didn't designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. He created
a seventy five day review process to consider designating chapters
of the Muslim Brotherhood, and whoever drafted the executive order
for the president did a terrant job because he didn't
even include the two most important chapters of the Muslim

(08:23):
Brotherhood being caught her and Turkey, Turkey other one who
he loves and who had a great relationship with we
had in the White House, who he joked around with,
She continues, Everyone with a brain knows Kato funds the

(08:44):
Muslim Brotherhood. Another one in Turkey claims to be the
leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. Yet they are protected because
the Katari's lobby their buddies in the White House to
protect them from the Executive Order. As from the Executive order,
and of course Trump loves He's one of those theocrets
he likes. Anyone who's even the slightest counter terrorism knowledge

(09:08):
knows that the most problematic chapters and the Muslim Motherhood
are Kata and Turkey. Terrorists are terrorists. You can't say, oh,
this chapter is okay and this one isn't. The Sami
Jihad is Sami Jihad, and all the branches of Muslim
Brotherhood make it clear Jihad is our way. It's literally
their motto. The Mother Brotherhood is already banned in Egypt
and Jordan. It's a big deal, that's right. The Executive

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Order is nothing more than gaslighting. The language makes it
very clear. She goes on and on and on going
after citing the Executive Order and going on right and yeah, well,

(09:50):
some like Sebastian Goka are drooling over this history has
been made just a moment ago in the presence of
the National Security Council colleague who helped author of the
executive Order, President Trump designated multiple chapters three the Muslim
Brotherhood as terrorist organizations, including Egyptian branch. Remember that is

(10:11):
the branch that is already illegal, which is the propagator
of modern jihadism. Al Kaieda isis and Ramas included. All
that true, but already illegal in Egypt. And yeah, the
Muslim Motherhood was founded in Egypt in the nineteen twenties
by Hassan Elbana b A n n A. Hassan Albana

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was the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood and it really
was a primarily Egyptian phenomena for a long time. In
the nineteen sixties, the most prominent advocate of Muslim brotherhoods,
the most prominent intellectual of the Muslim Brotherhood was a
guy named Said who had spent some time in the
US and developed a passionate hatred of the United States,

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which animated much of his writing. He went to a
church dance in the US and saw God forbid women
and men dancing together, and that flipped him out, and
he writes about it repeatedly. In the nineteen sixties, Al Naso,
the dictator of Egypt hum Side could in one of

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the many attempts to purge the Muslim Brotherhood from Egypt,
but the Muslim Motherhood remained strong. It was a spinoff
from the Muslim Brotherhood that was responsible for the killing
of Saddat in the early nineteen eighties eighty one, I think,
and that wasn't just because of primarily because he had

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signed a peace treaty with Israel. Musn't brother who generally
didn't care that much about Israel. It was because you
were secular. It was because they viewed him as secularizing
Egypt and moving Egypt towards a secular country, and they
killed him for that. Since then, they've been banned and
appeased and went. During the Arab Spring, if you remember

(12:09):
the Arab Spring of the early twenty teens, there was
a free election in Egypt with a Muslim brotherhood gott
to participate, and guess what happened. They won and he
actually had a Muslim Motherhood president of Egypt for a
couple of a few years, and then egypt and public
realized maybe we don't like this Muslim Brotherhood guy, and

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there was a coup and the military took over. And
since then Ceci, who was the head of the military
at the time, has become the ruler of Egypt. But yes,
but of course it was a mod splintered. The part
of the globalization in the Muslim Brotherhood was that in
the nineteen sixties and seventies, in addition hanging some of

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the Muslim Brotherhood, the rest were kicked out of Egypt
and they went primarily to Saudi Arabia where they they
taught in the schools in Saudi Arabia at the universities
at the Madrasas. Indeed said Koup's brother was a teacher
in Saudi Arabia, and he was the teacher or one

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of the teachers of a young Osama bin Ladin when
asamb Bin Ladin was studying at university in Saudi Arabia
before he went to Afghanistan, and he inspired Osambi Ladin
and many other Egyptians to any other Saudis to adopt
the Muslim Brotherhood ideology, and from there it has just
sped and sped and spread through educational institutions. The Saudis

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were very, very instrumental in spreading Muslim Brotherhood ideologies, primarily
in the eighties and nineties and early two thousands. They
until they decided they wanted to, I don't know, become
more westernized and kick the Muslim Brotherhood out. And guess
where the Muslim Brotherhood went when they got kicked out
of Saudi Arabia and they couldn't go to Egypt and

(13:57):
where they have their sen tell, where they have their
main preachers, where they have their own radio shows, where
they are intellectually, you know, assented headquartered. Katta Kutta is
the promoter of Muslim Brotherhood. And of course we know

(14:22):
that Trump is you know, has A has another bromance.
He loves these romances with the sheikhs of sheikhs of
of Katta, Right, I mean, there's no way Trump is
going to seriously confront him. Was the brotherhood because Katta
is the financier and the intellectual hub of the Muslim Motherhood.

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And they gave him a Boeing seven forty seven plated
with gold he's not gonna he's not gonna go after
the people who gave him a Boeing seven four seven
plated with gold. I mean, that just is not gonna happen.
You got to get your priorities straight. So the whole thing,
even when you think, oh, Trump did something good, he

(15:07):
doesn't a Muslim brotherhood as a terrorist organization, and you go, uh,
maybe not, maybe that's not what happened. It's the weakest
designation you could have. It has no relevance given that
it does not apply to Koto and of course Tooki.
It's basically theater. It's political theater. It's to appease certain

(15:31):
elements within the United States and maybe even within his base.
But it doesn't do anything because, I mean, the Trump
family has real investments in Kato and Saudi Arabia and
and and many other and Turkey and and they want
to be nice and friendly with the Turks. They don't
want to go into come in conflict with the Tooks
of the Katawi's and uh, of course, don't forget Kata

(15:53):
spends a huge amount of money in the United States
lobbying and uh uh you know, engaging with UH administration
officials it's just it's just this administration is not going
to go against kata and and designating was the other
wood properly because it is impossible for them, just impossible. Yep.

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Indid you know Katari's have recently asked the Trumpet administration
to release a senior Muslim Brotherhood terrorists from Egypt. So
they want the Trumpet administration to put pressure on the
Egyptians to release a Senia And I'm sure they'll do that.
I'm sure they'll do that because Trump's relationship with Egypt
and trumps relationship with oh put it this way, translation,

(16:54):
with Katcha is much more important than national security considerations,
much more important than the safety and security of the
American public, much more important than defeating terrorism in the world.
His primary. I mean, he's got a relationship with Katarr,
with Turkey, and with these people. He's not gonna he's

(17:15):
not gonna risk that in order to reduce terrorism for us.
Not the kind of person that Trump is, in spite
of the fact that sometimes you guys want to believe
he is. Anyway, I tried, I really tried to give
you a story where I could say Trump did the

(17:36):
right thing. Uh, And I couldn't. I couldn't not because
I couldn't emotionally or integrity wise. I couldn't because he
didn't do the right thing. He chickened out. He could
have done the right thing, He was close to doing
the right thing, and he chickened out because his priorities

(17:56):
are completely, completely, unequivocally upside down, upside down. It's not
America First. There is no American First agenda here at all,
zero results, nada. You get more America First here on
this show, on the Iran Book Show. The true, the true, real,

(18:22):
unequivocally real America First agenda is right here on the
Iron Book Show. Not Nick Foyntes, not Donald Trump, not
any of these guys. We here really care about America
and advocate for policies that are good for America, like
I don't know, going after real terrorists, supporting our allies,

(18:43):
and going after our enemies like capitalism, freedom, free speech.
I mean real issues, issues that actually are America First
issues like the right you know, the government limiting the
government to protection of individual rights, life, liberty, property, pursuit
of happiness. That is an American First agenda. Maybe one

(19:07):
day we'll have two to three million people following following us.
We will see, we will see, all right, let's see. Yeah,
an update on what is happening with Ukraine. So you know,
we talked about the Ukraine peace steal and over the
weekend Witcuff and Rubio and the Driscoll who is the

(19:32):
Secretary of the Army, not Secretary of Defense of War,
but of the Army. We're in Geneva negotiating with the Ukrainians.
They've trimmed the eighteen pot plan to nineteen plot and
now they've sent the Secretary of the Army, this guy Driscoll.
Not sure where his qualifications, but I said this. I

(19:55):
mean he went to school with JD. Evans. They both
went to Yo Yo law School around the same time.
But I'm not sure what you know. And he served
in the military inns. You know, he's a smart guy.
But he is now seems to be very involved in
some of these negotiations. Anyway, he was sent today or
Monday yesterday to Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi in the uae

(20:19):
UH to basically negotiate underhalf of the Trump administration with
the Russians. So Ukrainians and Geneva. I'd rather go to
Geneva than Abudwi Ukrainians in Geneva, and then abu w
with the Russians, and uh, you know there's some question
about you know, what can be achieved and and and

(20:42):
you know with with the Russians, it really is hard
to tell. Uh, I don't anything that you give the Ukrainians,
and it sounds like they gave them quite a few
things in in Geneva, the Russians going to bok At.
The Russians want everything or nothing, and the plan proposed,

(21:02):
the twenty eight point plan was everything pretty much, and
the Russians still weren't one hundred percent happy with it.
So I just don't think there is a deal there
on the table. I just don't think there's a deal
on the table. I will say that there are many

(21:25):
people within the Republican House and Senate that are so
horrified by Trump's position in Ukraine, that really view this
as a betrayal, and view this as America backtracking from
any kind of principle, from any kind of legitimate position

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that it has, or any kind of leadership position it
has in the world. There really seems to be horror
among many Republicans. Again, both in the Senate in the House,
some even threatening to over this. You know, at least
a number of Republican Congressmen I think are not going

(22:07):
to run for reelection in twenty twenty six. I think
you're going to see them kind of accepting the fact
that the probably that the caucus generally Republicans will probably lose,
that the majority will shift to Democrats. The Democrats will
spend their term mainly going after Trump and trying to
impeach him. Why spend ten years two years in the

(22:29):
House basically doing nothing and begin a minority. Many of
them are just pissed off at Trump administration for a
variety of different things, including this Ukraine stuff. And it
sounds like a lot of them are just not going
to run. They're just gonna, you know, let somebody, some
other Republican run. A lot of them, I'm safe Republican districts.
It's not an issue of flipping. But why bother being

(22:52):
a congressman if you're going to be in the minority,
can't get anything done, And when you are in the majority,
you're not getting anything done because Trump has a crazy
agena that is not consistent with your own. So, for example,
Representative Don Bacon from Nebraska, appalled by the Trump administration's
proposed peace plan to and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He

(23:16):
called it Witkuff's Ukrainian surrender plan, which is exactly what
it is. And so a lot of angst among Republicans
who know something about from policy, who care about American
from policy, who care about American's influence. They think it's

(23:36):
a good thing, not an evil bad thing, and are
horrified by kind of Trump's complete and out of capitulation
to putin every single opportunity that he has, he completely
and utterly capitulates to putin. Neo Khans, says Don Bacon

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is in a democratic district in the Asca, all right,
more or the movies are not to run, right and
where you might get beaten anyway by a Democrat, might
as well retire now. But we will see. I mean
rumors are and the only rumors that I have no insight,
that a lot of Republicans, a lot of Republicans in

(24:20):
the House are thinking about retiring before the twenty twenty
sixth election. And we will see. It won't be announced
for a while now, probably in the new year, but
we will see if that comes comes true, something interesting
happened last week with regard to China. For only maybe

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they're only the second time in American history, in the
history of Chinese and American relations, Chinese premiere called the
US President. Almost every conversation between China and America in
the past has been at the initiative of an American president,
not just Trump, but this goes way back. And yet

(25:12):
last week she called Trump. And the idea is, you know,
the call was about tariffs or trade or whatever, but
you know, an analysis of what was actually discussed on
the call shows the no, she was trying to send

(25:32):
a clear message, a clear message to America and really
to its ally Japan. I mean, China is in a
massive dispute right now. I think we talked about this
yesterday with Japan about Taiwan. The new Japanese Premiere, the

(25:53):
Iron Lady as she's sometimes called, has basically in a
address to Congress this is taka Takaichi, Takaichi. Basically in
her address to parliament, Japanese Parliament mentioned the fact that
Japan would definitely consider intervening if China invaded Taiwan. And

(26:19):
this is after she it just means to China and
had would appear to be a pretty pleasant conversation with
she and had a good meetings over there. But she
mentioned this about a week and a half a week ago,
so Ago and China just blew a stack. As I
told you, they boy cut it it traveled to Japan.
They went into this whole nationalistic for they're not buying

(26:42):
seafood from Japan and threatening the Japanese and japan while
trying to appease the Chinese refuses to back down from
its statement. Indeed, yesterday, as I think I mentioned, the
Japanese have actually said that they were moving missiles close

(27:04):
to Taiwan. There are there's a series of islands off
the coast of Taiwan, kind of between Taiwan and Japan.
If you look at a map, you can see them
very close to Taiwan, but by the Chinese, but Japanese territory,
and that China kind of has a claim on China

(27:25):
would kind of thinks that those belong to it. And indeed,
Takei said that when she visited China that the Chinese,
the Chinese have often explicitly told her that more than
that Okinawa where there is a massive US Navy base,

(27:45):
Okinawa is merely lent to Japan temporarily, and that the
Chinese were one they want that back, together with the
Senkaku Islands. So it turns out that China has some
territory claims against Japan, and Japan views an invasion of

(28:08):
Taiwan an expression of those territory claims and a belief
that if they can get away with invading Taiwan and
taking Taiwan, they will next try to take the Japanese
islands and maybe Okinawa, and indeed beyond that, remember that
China has a lot of just the fireball, you know,

(28:33):
gripes against the Japanese because of the way the Japanese
treated them in World War two. Japanese wire like the
Nazis of World War two, and so you know, she
views this or the Chinese might want retribution what happened

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in World War two.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
So I'm just checking out something here one second. All right,
not sure what that is, Okay.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
So Japan has real warries, just like Europe has worries
about Ukraine. Russia taking Ukraine and then wanting parts of Poland,
certainly a stone in Lithuania and Latvia, the Baltics, maybe
parts of Finland. No doubt that Russia would not stop
at Ukraine if it could get away with it, And

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Japan is worried about China having the same intentions. Taiwan
is step one, the islands are step two, Okinawa step three.
And just like China's doing with Taiwan, which says jets
over the airspace, assuming it's their own airspace, they're now

(30:06):
doing this with Japanese airspace. So on Monday yesterday, fighter
jets with the japan Defense Forces were scrambled to intercept
the Chinese high altitude surveillance drone that it passed over
Japanese airspace between Taiwan and Japanese islands. So you were

(30:32):
seeing a real escalation. Anyway, what does this have to
do with the phone call. Well, during this phone call,
she wanted to paint a picture for Trump, wanted to
pick the picture of you know, we were allies in
World War Two, and he says part of the post

(30:58):
World War two reality has to be Taiwan becoming part
of China. He says something like jointly that that America
and China must jointly maintain the World War two victory,

(31:18):
the fruits of victory. And to do that, the fruits
of victory against fascism and militarism, which is a reference
to Japan. And part of that is Taiwan. That's the
World War two victory that he's talking about. So, you know,

(31:47):
emphasis the Trump that quote, Taiwan's return to China is
an important component of the post war international order. So
China's basically telling the Americans, rain in the Japanese, Rain
in the Japanese. They've gone off track. Taiwan is oles.

(32:11):
It's just a matter of when not if we take it.
We don't expect you to intervene. Don't let the Japanese
get in the middle of this, keep them out of this.
She calls Trump for the first time ever to tell
Trump get the Japanese to back off. Now he doesn't

(32:33):
say it. This is kind of Chinese roundabout ism, right,
but that's his intent. That is his intent. And of course,
and you know who knows. Now Trump of course maybe

(32:55):
played that he didn't get it. I had a very
good telephone call with presidents, she writes. We discussed many topics,
including Ukraine, Russia, fence, and all soybeans and other farm products,
et cetera. Notice, Taiwan and Japan not mentioned, we have
done a good and very important deal for our great farmers,
and it will only get better. Relationship with China is

(33:16):
extremely strong. This call was a follow up to a
highly successful meeting in South Korea. Since then, there's been
significant progress. Da da da da da da da da
da you call, and then he says, to that end, present,
she invited me to visit Beijing in April, which I
accepted and I reciprocated where he will be my guest

(33:36):
for state visiting the United States later in the year.
We agree that it is important to keate that that
we communicate often, which I look forward to doing so. Again,
Trump gushing over another bromance with another dictator of China,
ignoring the whole Taiwan Japan situation, ignoring what it means

(33:58):
to the Japanese, and UH gushing over farming and stuff
like that, and of course as part of that, you know,
saying how wonderful it's going to be to go visit China,
invite visiting China, of course, UH sanctioning the regime then
inviting the Chinese over here. For all of you people

(34:20):
who thought Trump was gonna be tough on China, who
thought that tough. Trump is a wimp with dictatorships. A wimp,
I mean, other than maybe the case can be made
for Israel, China's sham, Trump's small posse is just horrific

(34:44):
and pro dictators So yes, that was the meaning. Of course.
Trump immediately called or a day later called Japanese Prime
minister once a name, Japanese minister, you know, express support

(35:11):
for her, but not clear what he exactly said and
did he tell her to back off a little bit?
Did he tell her to moderate? Did he tell her
to tone it down because he's got a good relationship
going on with she and he doesn't want to distract that.
What exactly what exactly did Trump tell, you know, tell

(35:33):
the Japanese Prime minister? Did he do what she wanted
him to do? Takiyachi herself said President Trump mentioned that
he and I extremely good friends and that I should
call him anytime. But of course she has an incentive
to say that. She's not going to say Trump is
pressuring me to back off. She would never do that,

(36:01):
all right, add key to uh another one of the
dictators who have a friendly, positive, wonderful relationship with Trump.
Uh Oh mom, Donny mom, Donny Mom, Donny, Mom Donny.

(36:24):
So I'm Donny is now appointing people for his uh
you know, uh cabinet or whatever you call it. When
a mayor his his people who will actually act on
his behalf when he becomes mayor on the first of January.
I think he becomes mayor. You know, a lot of people,
of course in New York and politics and the Republican

(36:45):
side of politics are jocking for position. He announced earlier today,
I guess or yesterday announced yesterday that he was appointing
the first. One of the first appointments he made was
a first deputy team mayor. And here he chose a
guy named Dean Fullyhan now for land is a Democrat progressive.

(37:11):
But what makes him from Mondannie's perspective, I guess a
good choice is, where's mon? Donnie is thirty four with
no experience. This Dean guy is seventy four years old,
has been around the block for a long time, was
a deputy mayor to Bill de Blasio, and was budget

(37:31):
director for Bill Deblasio before that. So this is somebody
who knows all the ins and outs of New York
City Hall. So you know, again trying to say, yeah,
I know I'm young. I know I'm an experience, but
I'm bringing in somebody more experienced. His chief of staff
is La biz god Church, and of course she's been

(37:58):
around him and she's somebody who managed this campaign, and
she will continue his chief of staff. She's aligned intellectually
ideologically with him completely. She will run she will run
his life for the next few years. She's also a
member of the Democratic Socialist of America. And you know

(38:21):
she and what's his name? Fullingham's and appointment were announced together.
As you know, Fullingham is like a throw to I
guess Democrats generally, although he's pretty progressive and he served
under the Blasio of all mass she is to indicate, no,
I'm keeping my Democratic Socialist credentials. He did keep Jessica Tasha,

(38:44):
as I told you, who is the police commissioner? Who
is That's a that's a good one. That's one that
that is going to be good. So I think Mam
Donnie is going to try to play it both ways,
appear as an adult, but not give up on his

(39:06):
progressive agenda. I hate to call it progressive because it's
anti progressive, like it's anti progress agenda. And even as
anti progress agenda is a mixture of really really dumb
stuff like rent control and good stuff like really reducing
regulations on new building codes. Now we'll see if the

(39:28):
latter actually gets passed. But he ran on that. He's
also appointed a bunch of Jews, you know, the token Jews,
to his four hundred member mayoral transition committee. I don't know.
I mean, God, can you imagine appointing four hundred people
to your transition committee different committees? I guess, I mean,

(39:53):
is it that complicate? Four hundred people? It seems bizillre Anyway,
he's got a rabbi, he's got the all kind of
the leftist Jews who voted for him, All the leftist Jews,
some of whom are real anti Zionists who hate Israel
a part of this. So you know, he can he

(40:14):
can point to his token Jews and saying, yeah, see,
I got some Jews, not a problem. By the way,
Adams has a seven hundred member transition team seventeen committees,
so I guess this is how it's done. And Adams

(40:37):
has sixteen rabbis on his transition team. I don't think
that Mamdani has that many rabbis. I think Adams is
beating him on the token Jew thing, on the Rabbi
thing on see I love my Jews, see I appointed
some Anyway, we will follow up I'm down, and see

(41:00):
what he actually does as compared to the rhetoric and
everything else, everything else, all right, I mean, the stories
about deportation continue to be horrific, continue to be just ridiculous.
I mean, based on the latest data I guess that's

(41:23):
out there, ICE is not really focused on arresting criminals,
certainly not violent criminals, and need only five percent of
people detained by ICE have had violent criminal convictions. Three

(41:44):
quarters have no criminal convictions at all, and most quote
criminals had immigration, traffic or vice offenses. You know these
are not, to quote Trump, the worst of the worst.
I mean, Trump just is lying about the worst of

(42:06):
the worst. And you know they're mostly targeting people with
no criminal record that I here illegally. Many of them
are people that they're redetaining who are complying with the
law and attending they court hearings, and the nitpicking to

(42:27):
find ways to get them out of the country. Clearly,
the deputations scheme has nothing to do with crime, has
nothing to do with criminals. Has nothing to do with
getting rid of gangs and everything to do. We're fulfilling
some ambiguous promise about getting rid of all the illegal

(42:47):
immigrants and a general hostility, you know, towards immigrants, generally
towards people don't look like you. I mean, you know.
Here's an example a Maryland, a mother from Vietnam right

(43:11):
was deported. She's a mother of four. She left Vietnam
as a child. She has been in the United States legally.
You know, she has been routine check ins with immigration
officials in Baltimore, doing them routinely. And she does have

(43:36):
a theft conviction from decades ago, decades ago, not yesterday,
decades ago in Virginia. So the trumped administration has assended
her legal status and basically deported her to Vietnam, a
place she hasn't been to since she was a little child,

(43:58):
while her children in the United States. No husband's still
in the US, children are still in the US, I mean,
ripping families apart. What is the goal? What is the purpose?
I can imagine if anybody who's ever caught stealing is

(44:20):
deported from the US, including citizens. Imagine if you deported
from the US people who stole whose ancestors fought in
the Civil War, Heritage Americans. I wonder if any of
them steal. Do you think any heritage Americans steal? Do
you think that ever happens. No Heritage Americans would never steal.

(44:40):
They have the right skin color, they don't. Those people
don't steal. It really is I mean, I don't know
how you guys are not just horrifically offended by the
fact that this is our government doing this in our name.

(45:01):
I'll give you another example. You have people who escaped
Iran Christians in this case, who escaped persecution in Iran,
people who have converted to Christianity in Iran and considered apostates,
and I persecuted in Iran. Anyway, here's an example of

(45:23):
a guy named Majid who fled you on for the
US in October twenty twenty four after repeated detentions in
Iran torture and he was involved in the women's protests
against the job wearing the scoffs. And he was also

(45:43):
a convert to Christianity. You know, he came here probably
illegally trying but trying to get asylum as a political prison.
You'd think you would think that given the talk about

(46:04):
the importents of Christianity, and we need to say Christians
around the world, and we got to protect Christians around
the world, and I Ranian Christian being persecuted for Christianity
would be a top of the administration's list of people
to give asylum to see. But he's not a white
South African. Only white South Africans are getting an easy

(46:27):
path to asylum if you're brown, even if you're Christian.
Uh huh uh uh, I mean by that standard, Latin
Americans all Christian you can't can do that, can do that.
So we lament the plight of Christians in all these countries,
but then we let them rot anyway. Majid has been

(46:50):
put on a plane and sent to Nicoagua. In Nicouagua,
he was basically routed through Venezuela to Turkey, with the
idea of from Turkey he would be sent back to Iran.
In Turkey, he managed to flee and he is now

(47:12):
right now hiding in Istanbul, convinced that if he goes
back to Iran he will be imprisoned, tortured, may be killed.
Trumpet Invertatian doesn't get we're not We're not a place
that accepts people just who are fleeing authoritarian regimes. We're

(47:37):
not a place that respects freedom. Forget what's written on
the Statue of Liberty. That's old hat. We haven't been
nan in a long time. We're certainly not going to
start up with that again. I mean, there are the
stories of our Uranian Christians who live in the United

(48:02):
States and have been sent back to Iran, and who
knows what they fate in Iran is going to be.
It's it's just unbelievable just to disrespect, disregard for human life,

(48:23):
for individual rights that this administration's immigration policy has. It's
just I mean, when he said we're gonna round them
out and depote them, all right, we all kind of
believe him, and I thought he was serious. But when
you actually see and one of the reasons I didn't

(48:44):
vote for him, it wouldn't didn't support voting for him.
But once you see what it actually looks like and
how evil it is, should have made even a bigger
deal out of it than before. Let's say, okay to me,
last we had eight another eight topic. You're getting a
lot of news from me, A lot of news. Something

(49:08):
new on x Twitter, if you are on AX, if
you're on Twitter, I don't know how many of you are.
But now when you click on somebody's profile, you can
actually see where they are tweeting from. Right, So you're
cleaning a profile and it tells you this guy Whoho's

(49:29):
tweeting from Washington, DC that I clicked on. If I
click on my profile, it says I'm tweeting from Puerto Rico.
So everybody knows where I'm tweeting from, right, where I'm
tweeting from. Well, this is a new feature. We didn't
know where people were tweeting from. And it has been

(49:50):
a real revelation over the weekend, a real revelation over
the weekend. Many of the accounts that support Mega, for example,
and you know, promote Mega and repeat Mega stuff over
and over and over again and spaed Mega are based

(50:13):
in places like Bangaladesh. They have very American sounding names,
but they're based in Bangaladesh, or in you know, the
Middle East, and or in all kinds of god forsaken
countries around the world. And these are accounts that have

(50:36):
hundreds of thousands of people following them, and they again
make it appear and We're talking about tens of thousands
of accounts. They make it appear like Mega or any
of these things are much bigger than they really are.
Or for example, many of the accounts that have been

(51:00):
especially pro Muslim Brotherhood, pro Rahmas, pro resistance, por Palestinians,
who many of whom made it sound like they were
in Gaza, made it sound like they were real Palestinians.
It turns out that many of these accounts are from Qatar, Turkey, Yemen,

(51:22):
Pakistan and other places around the world. Didjikin says on
the Chatty says BBC quoted a journalist as an eyewitness
in Gaza. It turns out he was tweeting from Poland.
And now you can see this. This is one of

(51:44):
the really good innovations of Twitter recently that you can
actually see it, you can actually find it, and you
can click on their profile and you can see exactly
what they're from, and you can see all the fake
accounts that are out there, and there are a lot

(52:07):
of them. There are a lot of them. So it
turns out that a lot of the amplification of certain
viewpoints of certain perspectives basically psychop operations misinformation by probably
accounts that are guided by Russian sources, Katari sources, Chinese sources,

(52:33):
who knows, but that it aimed at basically creating fake news,
disinformation and creating uh what do you call it? Just
conflict within the United States and appearing to the world
is if Suddain viewpoints are much more popular than they

(52:54):
really are than they really are and Twitter has been
particularly hood by this. But you know, now you can
actually check an accounts, you can check and you can
see and you can people can point out look, you know,
look at what's happening, Look at how bad it is. Yeah,

(53:24):
all right, so it's important to point out and you
can now check these things on a regular basis. You
can check to see if any particular account that you
see tweeting, you can see where they come from. I
finally or almost finally on AI, there's going to be

(53:47):
a lot of people opposed to AI. AI is going
to be a massive disrupt tour of jobs. It's a
It's one of those technologies that really disrupt any economy
for the better, without any question. But they disrupt, they

(54:08):
cause real angst among people, and they create real uncertainty
challenges for people who are not sure about what their
futures is and what it's going to be. And you
typically think about ludites when it comes to these new
technologies as belonging on the left, labor unions who you know,

(54:29):
like a like, like at the American ports, who don't
want robots and mechanization, or you know, I'm sure there
are many people out there at Amazon, if Amazon was unionized,
who are fighting the automization of their warehouses. But the

(54:51):
reality is AI is going to be a massive economic
disruptor and it's going to force people to change shops.
And it is a disruptive because it is a massive
increase in actual productivity. It is more efficient in some
cases at least than human beings. And the left freaks

(55:15):
out about technology like this, But what we forget is
that so does the right. The right is really afraid
of new technology. The right is very much dedicated to stagnation.
They don't want to go forward, if anything, they want

(55:37):
to go backwards Middle Ages. We'll get to that in
a minute now. Trump, to his credit, has basically eliminated
most regulations on AI with the idea of building the largest,
most powerful, most innovative AI ecosystem in the world, and

(55:59):
he's got a AI zat the White House who has
a cler economic incentive to build out AI and dominate
AI space and go all in on AI. And indeed,
AI right now is driving the Trump economy more than
anything else. Everything else he's doing, I would argue, is
trying to slow down the economy. But AI is the

(56:21):
one thing that is growing in. But the reality is
that MAGA doesn't like AI. If you listen to Stephen Bannon,
who is like the article of MAGA, he hates AI.
Bannon said this is this is kind of funny, but

(56:43):
this is what he said. I mean, you can laugh
along with me. He said, I'm a capitalist. Really, that's
about as much bullshit as I. It's like, you know
Mamdani saying I'm a capitalist. Oil's Mattoavan saying I'm a
capital Anyway, Manna says I'm a capitalist. This is not capitalism.

(57:05):
This is corporatism and crony capitalism. He said that AI
is likely the most dangerous technology in the history of mankind.
He is horrified by things like self driving cause and

(57:33):
he says, you have more restrictions of starting a nail
salon in Capitol Hill or to have your hair braided,
than you do, than you have on the most dangerous
technologies in human history. Now maybe that's true, but then
what we should do is eliminate the restrictions of starting
a nail salon and braiding hair. H History will know

(58:03):
us for this, he said, even more than the age
of Trump. The Mega base will be known for this.
So we've got to get it right. That is, for
AI and for killing AI. And this is widespread among
Maga you know. Again, Trump has David Sachs at the

(58:26):
White House arguing four AI. But the Maga crowd, the
real Maga crowd, who is really diabolically anti capitalism. You know.
Part of what they thrive on is fear and AI
is a wonderful vehicle for fear mongering. He again writes,

(58:46):
AI is probably probably the greatest crisis we face as
a species right now, but it isn't being addressed with
any urgency at all. This one is from mad Walsh.
This is daily why I'm at Welsh We're just sleepwalking
into our dystopian future. Taker Cousin in October released a

(59:09):
nearly two hour podcast to critically looked at the rise
of AI, comparing it to the cult and discussed how
AI could lead to the AI could lead to the
mark of the beast, The mark of the beast. Senator
Josh Hawley and Missouri Republican and Marshall Blackburne, a Republican

(59:32):
from Tennessee, have emerged as prominent elected officials. This is
for our news article sounding alarm about AI introducing legislation
to strict AI's use in critical decisions affecting Americans' lives.
No AI in loan approval, No AI in medical diagnosis?
Why exactly do you not want it in medical diagnosis?

(59:55):
Are you worried for the jobs of radiologists? What exactly
is the problem? I mean, how many lives could they
I save if it got better at radiology than doctors? Really?
Hardy argues that without aggressive intervention, AI will concentrate power
in the hands of a few tech companies while dissubmitting

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the working class. So typical Marxist arguments, right, concentration of wealth.
The wealthy will dominate, the will take over everything. They
will own everything, they will have everything, and the poor
working class will have nothing. It's all about the tech
pros versus the working class. If ever, there was a

(01:00:37):
you know, basically a Marxist argument. This is it, and
the rate is completely embracing it. The technology is advancing
without regulation. This is from Bannon, who claims he's a
capitalist that would hurt working people. Many of where she

(01:00:57):
points out are Trump supporters. So yeah, I mean, it's
going to be interesting to see how this evolves, how Trump,
where the Trump goes with Maga, Where the Trump goes
with his tech bro supporters. They have the money, so

(01:01:18):
he's likely to go with them. But who knows something
AI does that's bad and suddenly everything could shift. There's
a lot of talk Bannon and Maga about transhumanism, transhumanism.
It's the war against humanity, and AI is leading the

(01:01:38):
charge for transhumanism. Transhumanism is just a word to reflect
the attempt to use science to better human beings, to
make us better, smarter, stronger, live longer. That's what transhumanism is.
They're really scared of it, really discovered scared of it.

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I mean, who knows what monsters these tech bros are
going to create? What Frankenstein's We're going to get out
of the combination of AI, biotech and all this other stuff,
scary stuff. Long term, they say the AI is going
to be in charge.

Speaker 2 (01:02:22):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:02:22):
Of course, sadly, Elon Musk fuels all of this, fuels
all of this within his doomsday scenarios. All right, anyway,
this is where we are, so we have a united
front against AI. It'll be interesting to see what it

(01:02:47):
leads to. Bannon has taken this on as a major issue.
He is he is taking us to the base, is
speaking about it every opportunity. He believes that AI will
do so much damage to the workie class that that

(01:03:07):
will fracture MAGA and cost the Republicans the twenty twenty
six and twenty twenty eight election. It's good that they
now have a scapegoat for losing those elections. God forbid
that they would actually look in the mirror and say, oh,
it's us with the reason we're losing the election. No,
it's AI AI, all right. Final word, final story, not Wood,

(01:03:32):
final story. This is an essay there was published published
today today or yesterday on Free Press, written by Stephen
Pinker and Marion two P t U p Y and

(01:03:55):
I just want to highlight this essay. I mean, I'm
trying to bring you some good intellectual stuff. Yesterday we
got Golden Wood. Today we get Stephen Picko, marian to be.
Who knows we'll get tomb but good stuff. People are fighting.
We're not alone in the fight against the monsters. We're
not alone in the fight against the mid age middle

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ageism of the right would yesterday did a good job
fighting against kind of heritage Americans. The idea that America
is a people jeans, skin color or anything like that.
It is a creed. It is a set of ideas.
Today we're going to talk about the idea that modernity

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is a problem and that what we really should be
striving towards is a return. How did Michael Knowles put
it to twelve twenty? The title of this piece is
the Golden Asian of humanity question mark. We're living in it.

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Modernity is more meaningful and marvel than medieval Christendom, and
I like that. They bring in morality. They don't quite
know how to deal with the morality question. But they're
on the right path. Put it that way, on the
right path. They don't have the right answer. They need Iman,
they desperately need Iran. But anyway, here's how the essay begins.

(01:05:31):
I'll read you some sections out of it. This is
also a link to the new book I've told you
about Christianity Versus the West that I am writing with
Don Watkins. It's linked to a lot of the kind
of things that I want to be working on in
the next few years. I think I'm going to launch
like three different types of you on book shows, beyond

(01:05:55):
if you Will, Beyond the News, So either of these
will come at the end of it, you show. There'll
be elements of these every you know, maybe every show
we'll see or like the shows on Saturday will not
be newsed that w one of these three and the
three topics I really want to focus your on book
shows that are not news on but are also integrated

(01:06:15):
into the news. Three topics capitalism, so just more positives
about capitalism. We talk a lot about the attacks and capitalism,
but we need the positives. We need what is capitalism,
what is it about? What's its success, what is it done,
what's it achieved? Where are examples of it? What's the history?

(01:06:38):
So we'll start integrating more and more of those kind
of things that often do with my lectures into what
we do here on thern book show. That's one second,
what is the West? And here you could add the
evil of Christianity. So planning on talking a lot more
about the values of the West, the positives of the West,

(01:07:04):
and how Christianity is completely incompatible with those. Just we
could do a lot of shows just on that, right,
just different aspects of the West and the relationship with Christianity,
from art to economics, to politics, to technology, to attitude
towards sex and marriage, and a whole bunch of stuff abortion,
lots of them. And then finally, and maybe most importantly,

(01:07:30):
I want to do a series of shows on the
search for meaning. This idea that you can only find
meaning outside of you, you can only find meaning in
Christianity or in some force greater than yourself. I want
to talk about what it means to meaning or in
other words, that purpose in your own life and how
you do that in a secular, rational, reason based way.

(01:07:55):
So this is our twenty twenty sixth plan. Is the
really emphasized these three topics, Capitalism, the West, those are
related and meaning. Finding meaning, Meaning in a sense will
be the new rules for life. Rules for life. And

(01:08:17):
in this battle, people like Stephen Pinker is definitely an ally,
particularly when it comes to the West and even for meaning. Right,
so he writes, would we be better off living in
the Middle Ages? Astonishingly influential voices, and the American intellectual
right now seem to think so. Rather than affirming the

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Enlightenment ideals that inspired this country's founding reason rights markets,
liberal democracy, and short states separation, they're longing for, of
all things, rule from the throne and the altar. Last
month at Yale, the influential political blogger Curtis Yavin, in

(01:09:03):
a debate against Free Press contributor Jeb Rubinfeld, argued that
America ought to quote end the democratic experiment and established
a monarchy. Yavin has noted that Donald Trump is quote
biologically suited unquote to be America's monarch. Now, the idea

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of my time sound extreme, but they have been influential. JD.
Vance describes Yavin as a friend and has cited his work,
and Yavin is part of a family of movements known
as the Dark Enlightenment, techno authoritarianism, and neo reaction that
reject the entire family of Enlightenment values. Note I would

(01:09:49):
just add that Yavin is incredibly influential Silicon value right now.
He's one of the figures that people brought up in
my debate about Christianity, and they view in with great respect,
monarchy with great respect. And he's influential on people like
Andreessen and others. You know, Peter Teo and others are

(01:10:14):
a great admirers of the depth of Curtis Jovin's thinking.
I mean, unbelievably shallow and infantile. But we'll probably talk
about that. I might might have nicos On to talk
about that. Meanwhile, Pinka continues writing, Pinka and Uh, Pinka
and Marion continue Meanwhile, theocracy is making a comeback in

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movements known as theo Conservatism, Christian nationalism, and national conservatism.
The National Conservatism Statement of Principles, for example, declares that
where a Christian majority exists, public life should be rooted
in Christianity and its moral vision, which should be honored
by the state and other institutions, but public and private.

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You see a statement like that, by the way, and
you wonder why anti Semitism is coming back. It's right there.
The list of signatories is a look book of influential conservatives,
including Charlie Cook, Peter Teel, Trumpet, administration insider Is Michael
and Anton and Russell Vote Vote, as well as our

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fellow Free Press contributors Christopher Ruffo and ron Rod Dreheer.
The latter a friend of the Vice President, has said
elsewhere that the West will not quote recover until and
unless we become re enchanted and seek a form of
Christianity and indeed of Judaism that is more mystical, that

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valorizes this direct perception of the Holy Spirit, of holiness
and of transcendence. These are your modern conservatives, more mystical.
And they say these ideas are not idle philosophical renumerations,
as they infiltrate the brain trust of the mega movement.

(01:12:02):
They may to justify Donald Trump's vandalism of enlightened innovations.
And you know, they go on quite a bit here.
You know, they critique another article that was published in
The Free Pass, which I will also a critique in
a future show. We'll cover that in a future show.
But they go on and then they spend a whole

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section of this essay. Right, knowledge is more meaningful than
ignorance and superstition. And notice, knowledge is more meaningful if
you're gonna search for meaning, if you're gonna look for meaning,

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if you're gonna aspire to meaning in your life. What
you want is knowledge, not ignorance and superstition. And they
critique here the idea of getting morality from old texts,

(01:13:09):
from bizarre historical stories, from stories about snakes and Garden
of Edens and Adam and Eve, and for written fruits
and commandments handed down and mount Sinai to Moses. This
is where you know virgin births. There's another one, resurrections,
divine providence, miracles. This is the social morality. I mean

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that should be a joke. And I think they then
try to establish that you can have a secular morality,
a reason based morality. They don't do a good of
a job, as i Ran does in that, but they
at least trying. They're making an effort. Sadly, you know,
they adopt much of the altruism of Christianity. The next

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section in the essay is called pre modern Christendom was
not moral but barbaric. Yay, they write in contest to
enlightenments exaltation of universal well being, the morality of Holy
Scriptures was dubious at best. The God of the Old
Testament prescribes the death penalty for blasphemy, adultery, homosexuality, idolatory

(01:14:19):
disobedience and working on the sabbath will finding nothing particularly
wrong were slavery, rape, torture, mutilation, and genocide. Indeed, as
I've often said in the show, God commanded these were
lights to commit all these against their enemies. Whatever humane
advances we might attribute to Jesus, his followers did not

(01:14:41):
adopt them for an awfully long time. For some fourteen
hundred years that separated Constantine's embrace of Christianity in the
early fourth century to the rise of the Enlightenment in
the eighteenth most Christians remained untroubled by slavery, the persecution
of heretics, the brutal colonial conquests. I mean. According to

(01:15:09):
historian Matthew White, he estimates that forty seven million people
have been killed over religious beliefs by Christianity, not counting Islam.
The Crusades in Holy Land, for instance, killed three million,
their Bigensian Crusade a million. The Huguenot was this is
a Catholic French killing Protestant French two to four million

(01:15:33):
to the four million, And of course, the Thirty Year
War triggered by the Reformation seven and a half million people,
when the population was much more smaller barbarism was not
was also carried out at smaller scales. Before the Enlightenment,
the standard judicial method for fact finding and punishment was torture.

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Hundreds of non lethal crimes were punished by by death.
Acutions carried out in public with public entertainment were engineered
to be protracted and as painful as possible, including breaking
on the wheel, burning at the stake, impalement, disembemberment, and disembowerment.
Disembowment is the worst of all of this. These orgies

(01:16:20):
of sadism did not took civilians from killing each other
in large numbers homicide rates. This is good. Homicide rates
in fourteenth century European countries averaged around forty per one
hundred thousand per year. Today's rates are close that are
one per hundred thousand. That's a huge achievement. And of course,

(01:16:47):
health and prosperity, he says, healthless prosperity are more meaningful.
I love the way that he uses meaningful meaning searching
for meaning Well, health does prosperity are more meaningful than starvation?
A squad. Westerners have been complaining about how wealth causes
mal decline for millennia. Few of the complaints have reflected

(01:17:10):
on how complainers have reflected on how it was wealth
that gave them the luxury to complain about that wealth.
They contemporaries who died in childbirth, ohose lives were raked
by hunger, pain and disease were not as lucky. The
vanquishing of early death propelled not by prayer but knowledge.

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Maybe humanity's greatest moral triumph. I mean, he goes through
the life expectancy numbers, child mortality numbers, all of that,
which is just amazing, right. I mean, in eighteen hundred,
European life expectancy was thirty three. Today it's seventy nine.
Before the turn of the twentieth century, a third to
half of European children died before their fifth birthday. Today

(01:17:57):
it's three ten of one. I mean, in those days,
children who survived faced oftenhood, hunger, parasites, workhouses, and beatings.
Famines killed huge numbers of population as this disease a malaria, tuberculsis, smallpox, cholera.

(01:18:24):
It's human ingenuity, largely in the form of vaccines and sanitation,
has decimated ancient scrooges, including measles, malaria, polia. You know,
rebella and others. Basically, two diseases, smallpox and wind or pest,
have been wiped off the face of the earth because
of vaccination. And finally, he says, you know, they talk

(01:18:48):
about anti Semitism and how pre modern Christianity was anti Semitic,
and then modernity is not a ruin. And he says
that the twenty first century, with all his woes, is
a better time to be alive than any time before.
Extreme poverty, child child and maternity, mortality, illiteracy, tyranny, violent crime,
and war des so lower than in any previous century.

(01:19:11):
The wealth that the THEO conservatives finds so course of funds,
the education and leisure that allows individuals to contemplate meaning, right,
I mean, how are you going to contemplate meaning when
you're a subsistent farmer, whether that meaning be found in work, family, community, nature, science, sport, arts,
and yes, religion. Another gift of modernity is that people

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are not burned alive for their beliefs, but allowed to
hold whatever ones they find meaningful. There's another it's you know, so,
I mean this is all amazing, right. It's sometimes claimed
that for all these opportunities, people today are suffering from
a new crisis of meaning. Here again, we shouldn't confuse

(01:19:58):
nostalgia with facts illiterate. This is great right. Illiterate Medieval
peasants left us with no records of how meaningful they
thought their lives were. As the historian Eleanor Jenger points out,
they themselves thought they were living in a time of decline.
They were rebelling constantly. Every generation believes that it stands

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amid ruins of a better error. Nostalgics have fallen for
this illusion, weaving a fantasy of civilization of decline from
endenic bliss. All available evidence. All available evidence shows the opposite.
The early stages of our civilization were stained by ignorance, superstition,
sick and cruelty, grinding poverty, and early death. From those

(01:20:52):
rude beginnings, the airs of the Enlightenment deployed knowledge and
sympathy to claw increments of progress from indifferent universe. Wise
people should cherish these accomplishments and ensure that we don't
squander them based on figments from make believe Golden Age.

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All right, two thumbs up, three cheers to Peter Stephen Piker.
I mean almost three cheers. I mean that is great.
We need much more of that. Whatever error's mistakes that
are made in that essay a trivial as compared to
the truth that he is illuminating and the shared enemy

(01:21:35):
that we have, which is the Middle Aged. You know,
the people who crave for the Middle Ages, who strive
from Middle Ages, who have a Middle Ages mentality. So
good for Stephen Piker. We need more allies like that,
and we'll be doing more of this talking about the past.
We'll do more history. We're going to do more celebrating

(01:21:58):
successes of the present and successes of capitalism more broadly.
But I really want to give you a sense at
least my audience knows how awful the past was and
knows how good they have it today. It's way too
depressing to listen to the news and think that is
essentially what life is today. But that's not essentially what

(01:22:18):
life is today. Screw Trump, screw all these people. The
reality is that you have a pretty good life. Now.
There are people trying to make it worse, and we
should fight them. But if we only focus on the
fact that they're trying to make it worse, we lose.
We lose. You know, a connection to how good our

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(01:25:36):
are sixty five dollars short of out two hour goal,
and you should think beyond that because we're going to go.
Given the number of questions, probably answer the third hour.
So let's try and get beyond that, but certainly sixty five.
David says, fifty dollars. Thank you, David. What is your
opinion on modern economist Yiannis Violl Fuckus and Tyler Count

(01:25:57):
Would you recommend reading their work? No? And yes so
Jannis Fuckers is not worth reading. He's he's a hack.
He is a neo Marxian Marxist. He's a you know,
bad economist, very very very left wing, very very Marxist,

(01:26:18):
and just just not not worth engaging with because I
don't think his work is worth anything. I've tried to
debate him, he refuses to debate me. Another Tyler Cowen
is good. He's not objective, is good. He's not loz
A fit capitalism one hundred percent good, but he's good.
He's often got original thoughts. He often approaches economics in

(01:26:42):
an interesting way. He's he's a clear thinker and uh, generally,
I encourage you to read Tyler Cowen, follow his stuff,
subscribe to his podcast, and is his blog. I mean
Tyler heavily influenced by Austin economics, but doesn't consider himself
an our stand He's more eclectic, but certainly a free marketer,

(01:27:03):
even if not one hundred percent les Fai capitalism. So yes,
Tyler Cowen, definitely. David also asked so Rich to see
the chickens coming home to roost with Trump supporters trying
to distance themselves from neo Nazis, people like Nole Ferguson,
Victor Davis Hanson, Ben Shapiro, Richard Hannania. Yes, I think

(01:27:24):
that's absolutely right. You know, Richard Trani is the best
of them, because I think he's been very critical of
Trump even before all this. But absolutely I gave a
ranch yesterday about this, and and and you know, the
national Conservatives, the the Joo Brazzonis who basically set set
the stage for the anti Semites, set the stage for

(01:27:47):
the Nick four Inhasis and the Tucker Carsons through the
nationalistic conservative views and the emphasis on religion and the
emphasis on nationalism. In abbitable consequence of that was anti Semitism.
And they made it possible. And now they're complaining about it. Now,
they're horrified by it, now they're upset about it. And

(01:28:10):
Trump is the carrier. Trump makes it all possible. Trump
opens the barnyard, baronyard door wide open for the worst
of the worst, and has been doing so since his
first term, and I will return to Charlottesville because Charlotteville
was one of the first places where he gave them

(01:28:31):
a wink and a nod. I mean, he did it
also when he came down the escalator in twenty fifteen
and started slamming Hispanic judges and calling Hispanic immigrants into
the United States rapists, so elevating that kind of racist
language and articulating that that was what Trump did, and

(01:28:55):
he basically created massive space on the right for the worst,
you know, racist, anti Semitic, fascist types. He made it
all possible, and he's been making it possible since since
he came on the political scene, and it's one of

(01:29:18):
the things that makes him as bad as he really is.
But yes, chickens have come home to roost, and a
lot of these people supported Trump, who supported the ideas
that are making these anti semites possible. They're now in
fam mode. They're now struggling to large extent. It's their fault. Also, David,

(01:29:43):
how is Japan able to avoid higher inflation? The debt
is now two and a half times GDP and the
new PM is issuing new debt for hundreds of billions.
I think it's basically because they are very cautious about
monetizing that debt. They have not been aggressive about turning

(01:30:05):
that debt into money in the hands of consumers. And
even then, when money flows to people, the Japanese tend
to take that money and put it into government debt.
So there's like this constant flow, and it doesn't go
into consumption, it doesn't go into driving prices up. It

(01:30:32):
basically guarantees stagnation because instead of the money flowing into
investments and into increased productivity, which would increase incomes, which
would increase the well being of people, and therefore they'd
feel more comfortable about spending more, it goes back into
government debt as a major form of Japanese public savings.

(01:31:00):
That just feeds stagnation. There's no investment, there's no growth,
there's no real GDP growth or any kind of real growth.
And they keep doing this, They keep stimulating the economy
with that, but that just you're sucking money out of

(01:31:20):
the economy with one hand, taking on the debt, and
you're spending that money. It has no impact, it does nothing,
and you keep the spinning around and look, for whatever reason,
the Japanese public believes that they will get their money back,
that Japan will find a way without inflation, because it

(01:31:41):
hasn't inflated today, I mean without inflation, without monetary inflation,
without price inflation, sorry, because it hasn't today. They will
find a way to repay that debt without that. Now
how they'll do that, nobody knows. And this current Prime
minister is just as bad as the previous In terms
of this, Andrew rand said it's always important for an

(01:32:10):
artist to know what feelings motivate him. That suggests that
in choosing a career, the selfish guiding question should be
what do I like to do? And then check if
it's rational? Is that the essential process? Yeah? I think
that's right. What am I passionate about? What I love?
Doing what I like? And then is it rational? Is

(01:32:32):
this career value creating? Should I feel good about it? No?
It turns out I really get passionate when I cheat
people out of their money. That's not good, it's not productive.
That'll lead to a destructive life. Yeah, I shouldn't do that.
I need to question my feelings. I should go see
an analyst, a therapist. So you've got to you start with, Yeah,

(01:32:53):
what gets you excited, what's passionate? Assuming you're healthy, and
then and assuming you generally a rational person, and then
ask the question is this rational? Is it right? How
does it fit into my moral values? Is it consistent
with those values? Is it consistent with how I think
human life should be lived philosophically, intellectually? Right? Andrew? Also,

(01:33:20):
I think it's important for objectives to integrate the independence
of rationality, not just the morality of rationality, but the
individualism involved. A collectivists may not know that he can
think on his own know this how Yeah? I mean, look,
independence is one of the main one of the seven

(01:33:41):
virtues and objectivism And what does independence mean in objectivism
not living in a desert island. Absolutely not. It means
it really means thinking for yourself. And what is thinking

(01:34:03):
for yourself mean? It just means being rational. Nobody could
be rational for you. Nobody can think for you. So
what independence really mean is think, don't be swayed by
other people, don't go with the crowd. Think, make knowledge
your own, make decisions based on your own mind, your

(01:34:25):
own reason, your own rationality. That's essentially you know what
independence means, you have a mind, use it. And of
course only you can use it. Nobody else can use it.
It's not part of a network. It's alone. It can

(01:34:47):
get information from other people and other sources like books,
but it can't think for you. Nobody can think for you.
Nobody can actually do the calculation, the integration, the induction,
the thinking part, the logic. Nobody can do that for you.
Zero to Chicken, Thank you from Norway, Hion. I got

(01:35:13):
a bone to pick with you objectivists. It has to
do with regulations. Afaik objectivists, I don't know who those are.
Seem to be one hundred percent against regulations. However, it
doesn't make sense to me. I think that's mainly your problem.
I think this is a part two. In a free society,

(01:35:36):
should my naghbor be allowed to run a small nuclear
pop plant from the garage? Does it not need to
be objective regulation measured in risk? Such agulation seem a
necessary form of self defense. So I mean, if you
want to, you can call it regulation if you want.
But regulation is typically preemptive. Now, in a world of

(01:35:59):
completely safe nuclear pop plants, why is it a problem
now if there is some knowledge that nuclear pop plants
might be unsafe, they might emit radiation. You know, they
might blow up, which is, by the way, not really
the case, but let's assume that was the case. Then
you have every right if if your neighbor is building

(01:36:23):
a nuclear pop plant, to call the police and say, look,
you know, what he's doing is very risky. I fear
that it's going to infringe on my rights. And then
the police, and maybe this is some division of the
police which is in charge of safety, would inspect the

(01:36:45):
nuclear pop plant that your neighbor has and make sure
that it's of the type and the kind that does
not that is not unsafe, that does not pose a
risk to you. But notice here that the violation of
rights here. You only have a right to stop your
neighbor from doing something if there is an objective risk

(01:37:10):
that you can identify that his activity is imposing on you.
And here the very fact that he's building a nuclap
pop plant. We have enough knowledge about the risks involved
in nuclear pop plants that we identify that as a
real risk to me. And they fall into my property
and they fall, yeah, I want somebody to inspect it.
I want something to review it. It's not that he

(01:37:33):
needs a permit that if he's building something like this, I,
as his neighbor, I have the right to make sure
that it doesn't pose a threat to me. But I
have to have some indication. I have to know that
there's construction going on over there and it seems to
involve materials that are not kosher, not okay. So, for example,

(01:37:56):
you don't need building permits. But if I'm walking down
the street and I see a building and there's a crane,
and a crane is like really tilted and it looks
like it might fall, I would call up the relevent
Policing Agency and say, there's a risk to the public here,
there's a risk to other people's property. Come and inspect
it and see. So the crane would not need a permit,

(01:38:23):
a preemptive approval, but if it exhibited risky behavior, it
would need to be inspected. So you'd have to have
a reasonable suspicion of risk to allow somebody to inspect

(01:38:43):
your neighbor's crane, your neighbor's nuclear power plant, your neighbors,
whatever it happens to be. Paul, how can you expect
to convince the American people of the evil of Trump's policies?
Have you ever tried to convince and some alleged objectivists
of this evil. I'm not trying, right, We're not trying

(01:39:07):
to convince the American people of Trump's evil. We're trying
to get people to think about, you know, what is
going on in their lives and in the world, and
maybe to get a few of them to go, oh,

(01:39:27):
you know, yeah, what he's saying about Trump kind of
seems right. I've voted for him, but he's doing this
horrible stuff. What is this guy? You know, where's this
coming from? How come he saw it before I did?
Or why is this analysis so interesting? And then get
them to you know, listen to more and then read
a book and read irand and I mean, we're not

(01:39:48):
talking about a mass movement here. I have no I mean,
I have no illusions about reaching millions of people and
changing them and starting I mean, that's just not going
to happen. What we're talking about is individuals, maybe dozens,
maybe maybe hundreds, who are you know, curious about what

(01:40:10):
we say about Trump and and and therefore shift their
position or inquire or search more and look, the people
who are exposed objectivism thoroughly and then become passionate supporters

(01:40:31):
of Trump and the defenders of Trump and what I
called apologist for Trump. Okay, they've had their chance, they've
been exposed objectives and they didn't, you know, and something's
something's wrong. They're in my view in their analysis. But
my goal is not them. I don't care about them,
and I don't care about people who are always going
to be committed to Trump. I care about the people

(01:40:52):
who are willing to think and are willing to be
challenged and are willing to change their mind. And I'm
willing to investigate and seek deeper truths, seek philosophical knowledge
about what is going on in the world. David says,

(01:41:16):
any thoughts on Victor Fankel search for Meaning through logo Therapy.
I read Victor Frankel a long long time ago. I
probably need to read him again because if I'm going
to do something on meaning, that seems to be such
an important book in the God. I wasn't particularly positive

(01:41:39):
about whatever I read back then. I can't remember the details,
but it wasn't about finding meaning in a rational, positive sense.
And of course the context of Victor Fankel is in
a concentration camp, and it's not clear you can find
meaning in a concentration camp. It's not clear you should

(01:41:59):
find meaning then, I mean it bails down to life
and the value of life, and it's not clear that
you can find value to life in a concentration camp,
but maybe the hope that in the future you will
find right, It's it's very existentialistic. Yeah, it's it's Cameu
and Sautro and life sucks generally and you've got to

(01:42:21):
you've gotta And I get it if you're in a
concentration camp. But I think we need to look elsewhere
if we really want meaning. And I'll be talking more
about that over time. All right, we are thirty six

(01:42:43):
dollars short of our goal for the second hour, and
it'd be good to get into the third hour. So
anybody have additional questions, jump in. Franco says, having purpose
in life creates meaning. I think that's right, that's fundamentally right.
Bet you need to be clear about not any purpose.

(01:43:07):
So I would rephrase that as saying having a rational purpose,
a purpose that helps build self esteem, that creates meaning,
That is what creates meaning. So I think that the
rational and the self esteem need to be there. Nomberive Randroid,

(01:43:36):
thank you for the sticker, and Andrew, I think the
two of you basically put us over the second hour target,
so I appreciate that. Normadif r Android also did another
sticker earlier, so thank you for that, and so did
a vial esque and who else who else did stickers?
Roland thank you, and Jeff Banister thank you, so thank

(01:43:59):
you guys for the sticker, and I think we got
us all started with Catherine uh and with Kate dem
To Demeter, thank you guys for the stickers, and and
there's another one from x I Exit one two Fight four.
All right, Andrew, Andrew, will you please spend some time

(01:44:24):
arguing form morality of pride contra Christian doctrine. I did
a host show on this in My Rules for Life,
and I certainly will do a host showing it in
the future as I discuss meaning, Christianity, the West, all
of those things. So I think the fine meaning you

(01:44:45):
have to pride and and and pride is something the
Christianity denounces. It's a sin. I think I did a
show on the Christian deadly sins. Pride is the idea
that once you strive from all perfection, once you strive
to be good, once you strive to be virtuous. In
other words, once it strive to be rational, one should

(01:45:11):
try to be rational in all aspects of one's life.
It is something to be proud of. It is that
you take your character seriously, that you take morality seriously,
and it is a massive build of self esteem. I

(01:45:34):
am rational, I take my life seriously. I'm going to
be a good guy. I am a good guy. Versus Christianity,
where pride is a sin, because how do you think
you can be good? How do you think you deserve

(01:45:56):
self esteem? How do you think you can be morally
pro victim or achieve morality? Christianity looks down on it
because it's selfish, because it's self confident, because it's a
reflection and a prerequisite for self esteem. And Christianity doesn't

(01:46:17):
want you to have self esteem. It wants you to grovel,
It wants you on your knees. It wants you to
recognize that you are a sinful, low, meaningless nothing in
the universe, and that everything is God. They might not

(01:46:41):
say it that way, particularly not the I don't know
some Protestant preachers, but that's what Christianity really means. It's
a it's a it's a it's a religion for your knees,
not for standing up tall. Now you know it changes
over time, so you know it's it's about guilts of

(01:47:06):
original sin, it's about shame of sex and your own body.
It's it's about it's about it's the opposite of pride.
Stop about it. Taking your life seriously, taking e life seriously,
your self interested. Stop doing that, says Christianity. The only
purpose of your life is to serve God, serve your
neighbor by that serving God, Andrew, I know it's painful

(01:47:32):
to pay attention to politics sometimes, but a rational, self interested,
responsible individual should still do it, correct, I mean, yeah,
up to a point, not too much. Don't obsess. You've
got to know what's going on in the world, and
when the time comes, you might have to act on
that knowledge, like in elections, but generally, don't spend too

(01:47:52):
much time on it. Certainly, don't obsess about it and
don't get it. Let it get to you. Focus on
your life and living it and making the most of it.
Lincoln Immigration crime is a classic power law example. Most
of the crime from a small percentage of top offenders.

(01:48:14):
This is true for most crime. Yeah, most crime is
done by a very small number of people, and if
you could if you could identify those people and ultimately
convict and try and convict and imprison those people, crime plummets.
And when incarceration rates go up in the United States,
when the police is serious about catching criminals and the

(01:48:35):
justice system is serious about putting them away, crime declines.
Crime declines, Andrew. If conspiracy theories spend half the time
of half the amount of energy and time that they
spend trying to uncover lies on seeking truth, they'd be
a lot they'd be a lot more knowledge in the world,

(01:48:57):
and they'd be a lot less scared. Yes, yes, they
They fear comes from the lack of knowledge. They fear
comes from the world being unintelligible to them, mischievous forces
out there. The more knowledge you have, the more understandable
the world becomes, the less afraid you are of it,

(01:49:21):
daniel says recently, the vorst mother of two with Danielle
with four and a half bitcoin and one hundred and
seven k in cash, what advice would you have for
her portfolio or ways to think about her portfolio? God,
I mean I would sell the bitcoin a four and

(01:49:42):
a half bitcoins that's a lot of money. I mean
that's uh, it was more. It was four hundred and
fifty thousand dollars not doing long ago. It's a little
bit less than that right now. But yeah, I would
sell the bitcoins, you know, opportunistically if you want to
sell them out a one, so sell them over time,
you know, hopefully bitcoin goes up, so you can sell
it while it goes up, and then take take the cash.

(01:50:09):
And I would take the cash and keep, like I
don't know, a few months worth of expenses on hand
right in cash and the rest together with what you
get from the bitcoin. Diversify. But if this is all

(01:50:30):
your assets, then definitely don't have it all in bitcoin.
I mean you've got to diversify, and diversify extensively, you know,
diversify both in US and across the globe. The more
risk averse you are, the more worried you are, the

(01:50:50):
more put into bonds and the less into stocks. But
generally a mixture of stocks and bonds and a glow
in a global portfolio. And do it with very low risk,
low sorry, low expenses index funds. And I should note
that nothing of what I said should count as investment advice.

(01:51:12):
It's just, you know, my opinions. I have to watch
the sec all right. Danielle also says is it too
late to buy into the Argentina stock market? I don't
think so. I mean, a lot of the success of
me lay is priced. But I think there's a lot
of upside still if he actually executes on everything, and

(01:51:33):
then if he gets to your elected in two years,
so I think there's definitely upside. All Right, We've got
somebody who knows exactly when the next rally point in
bitcoin is going to be. Don't follow his advice because
nobody knows. Anybody who claims to know that is in

(01:51:55):
my view not to offend anybody delusional. You can't know
these things. If you could predict the markets, you would
be a trillionaire, not a billionaire, a trillionaire. If you
could tie markets, you would be a trillionaire. Andrew, thanks
for sparking righteous indignation and covering the story about Maga

(01:52:16):
versus tech bos, the d MOLA month, the demonization of
the tech bots who are the modern athless as a
deeply serious injustice. Yeah. Absolutely, And unfortunately they're bad ideas
and they play into this. But yeah, they're the good
guys and ultimately the ones building modern society and advancing

(01:52:41):
us and pulling us forward in spite of ourselves. Uh so, yeah,
thought criminal once. Tips for objective soul building that you're
going to have to wait until shows where I discussed
that I would refer you to my Rules for Life series.

(01:53:02):
You can get like twenty two, the twenty two shows
that I did on Rules for Life, and they have
a lot of tips of soul building. I'man soul building
basically is integrating your values, creating a value hierarchy, making
sure all your values are consistent with your moral values,

(01:53:22):
understanding your moral values and integrating them into every aspect
of your life, and making sure all your other values
are integrated with them. So it's a constant progress process
of learning and integrating and introspecting what are my values?
What do I care about? What's gonna what is good
for me? And that's how you build the soul. And

(01:53:45):
most of that is about characters. So most of that
is about moral values. Why am I honest? What is
the value of honesty? What? Why should I pursue honesty?
What's good about it? Integrity? You know, should I be courageous.
What does courage even mean? How do I do that
in the world in which we live? Why is it rational?

(01:54:05):
Those are the kind of questions you have to constantly
ask yourself and constantly think about, solve and constantly keep
coming back to it and integrating it into your other
valueses other values. Daniel in London, is London's still worth visiting?
Or did Islam is spoiler? Oh no, It's definitely worth visiting. God,

(01:54:28):
don't let the fearmongerers out there destroy your capacity to
enjoy the good in life. London is a beautiful, magnificent,
amazing city. There's certain areas of London you shouldn't go to.
They're not hard to identify. But there's so much good
in London. It's such a beautiful city. There's so much

(01:54:49):
interesting stuff that neighborhoods that are different is to vibe
and place. There's so much arts and music and great
restaurants and all of that. Don't go to the Muslim
parts of town. So the fact that this Muslim immigration
into Europe should not capital n should not discourage you

(01:55:12):
from going to Europe. That's ridiculous. I mean, the Muslims
are still a small minority in Europe, and Europe has
much to offer. You think about your life, stop living
in fear, and don't listen to the film Mongerers, the

(01:55:33):
stupid fearmongerers who would have you stay at home under
your blanket reading the Bible instead of living your life
out there in the world. Lincoln. The nineteen fifties obsession
the Right has is based on a false view of
the past, but is understandable if one was ignorant about economics.

(01:55:54):
Twelve twenty conservatism really shows the Right as anti Western civilization.
I think the fifties is the same thing. You don't
need to know economics. You just need to know a
little bit about history to see that it's complete nonsense.
And you have to have a lack of deep lack
of appreciation for the world you live in and the

(01:56:14):
values you have. We all know houses are smaller. You
didn't have iPhone, you didn't have the Internet, you didn't
have Netflix, you didn't have really color TV, you didn't
have any of this stuff. It's all all of that
is really cool. And you had Jim Crow laws in
the South, and women were treated like sn class citizens,

(01:56:36):
and I mean it was awful and gaze, had hide
and were often beaten and sometimes in prison. And if
you said the F word on stage, you were you
spent the night in jail or worse. There's so many
ways that life today is better than the fifties, and

(01:56:59):
it doesn't take economics to know that. Jason two pot
question sixteen minutes Inside Montana's fight to block sale of
federally owned land eleven twenty five mountains are themselves as
stuarts of the land, not owners Montanas. Montanas themselves as

(01:57:23):
stuarts of the land, not owners. Left and right, cowboy
and green, what's going on today with my I don't know,
with my mouse huh? Right, left and right, cowboys and

(01:57:44):
green econs unite to stop any sale, fearing a slippy
slope and loss of heritage. No one asks how povetization
could would work. Yeah, I mean this is the sense
in which I said the environment is something both left
and right, you know, really a passionate about and are
willing to sacrifice private property easily for. And they all

(01:58:04):
left and right have this idea of somehow the land
being sacred, the land being godlike and not being allowed
to touch it, and private property being a violation of
the land, because the land, because you can't own land.
God didn't give you the garden of Eden to own.
He gave you the garden of Eden to take care
of uh Suneric something like that. Fantastic You'll be doing

(01:58:32):
shows and capitalism, Christian mysticism and meaning absolutely is there
Christian non mysticism. I think it's all Christian mysticism. Linda,
looking forward to the new additions to the show. Thank you, Linda. Well,
we started today with Pinker h s Saku Fan. After
interviewing you the other day, Stitch and Adam said that

(01:58:55):
Andrew Jackson's abolition of the Second Bank of the United
States contributed greatly to a depression in eighteen thirty seven.
Can you comment in this is he right? Thanks? I
don't know. I mean, I doubt it, but I don't remember.
I don't know the history well enough, and I don't
know the depression of eighteen thirty seven well enough to
have an opinion. You might look at the work of

(01:59:21):
Sulgent and White. They have kind of banking history going
back to that era. I just don't remember. So no,
I don't know. Unlikely put it that way. When you
get to my five dollars question below. I'm just pointing

(01:59:41):
out how right you are on cultural trends and thoughts.
You might find it interesting if you want to comment
on it. Maybe there's better sources.

Speaker 2 (01:59:52):
Okay, what is this? What's Jason referring to? I know
what he's referring to. I don't understand Jason.

Speaker 1 (02:00:02):
All right, Andrew? Is there selfishness in being kind to others?
I realize to be exact one would need context, but
I mean being kind as a default rule. Yes, absolutely,
it's selfish. You you live in a benevolent world. You

(02:00:23):
live in a world of where other people of value
to you. You want to live in a world of
smiles and benevolence across the board. And one of the
ways you create that kind of world is you model
that behavior. You behave in that way, You treat other
people that way, and that contributes to making a world

(02:00:44):
that is benevolent, friendly, kind, nice, unless you have reason
to stop it, and yes, you have beason not to
do it. So absolutely it's a part of selfishness to
extend that other people of value to you. Saq you
Fan eleven, I'm a hunter. If I own property, should

(02:01:08):
I be able to shoot any wild game that comes
onto my property or do other people who want to
conserve wildlife have the right to stop me? What should
be the law be. It's your property. You have a
right to kill any wildlife that comes onto your property.
If other people value wildlife, then they can buy property
and fence in that wildlife onto their property. This happens

(02:01:31):
in Africa. The best way to preserve elephants, the best
way to to preserve lions, and I think rhinocerousas is
to privatize them. Privatize the privatize them by you know,
making the elephant part of your private property, making the
animals who live on your land yours, and now you

(02:01:53):
have an incentive to keep them or to issue hunting
licenses to people who want to hunt them. But you
need more of them to be able to benefit from
the hunting licenses, so you make sure that hunting is
restricted and so on. But yes, absolutely you have every
right to You have avery ability or have every right
to do that. If the animals on your private property,

(02:02:16):
now again those who want to preserve it can buy
the property from you, can try to convince you not
to hunt them, can establish a animal preserve on their land,
can set up a big national park privately owned where
these animals can roam. But once it's on your property,

(02:02:37):
animals don't have rights. You definitely have a right to
kill them. Whether it's moral, whether it's healthy, whether it's good,
it is a different question, but it's certainly politically permissible. Lincoln,
why do you think art and music have been on
a gradual decline in quality over the past decades. I

(02:03:01):
get mal decay plays a factor, but with painting falling
off one hundred years ago, some other factors exist. Yeah. Philosophy.
Einman describes this process in the Romantic Manifesto. I mean,
if painting, for example, reflects and artist's deep metaphysical value
judgments and his way of seeing the world, he recreates

(02:03:27):
the way he sees the world. Then as his epistemology decline,
as he's convinced the world that he sees doesn't really
exist in that form, as the world becomes more disintegrated
in his mind, that is reflected in his painting. When
the world lee loses all meaning, then his painting lose

(02:03:50):
all meanings. So it's a general decline of philosophy. It's
philosophical ideas that are embraced by artists as they decline,
their arts declines with it. Now that deserves a whole show.
We'll do that at some point. I think if you
go watch my lecture on modern arts, I cover some

(02:04:13):
of that there. Lincoln, something like eighty percent of all
crime happens from people with three or more prior arrests.
This is why three strikes laws were so effective. Yeah,
I'm not surprised, and I don't object to three strikes.
If the strikes are really real crimes, not I don't know,
possession of majuana or something like that, but real, particularly

(02:04:37):
violent crimes, then throw away the keys. Are you okay
with UBI? Under some context, in the context of getting
rid of the every other aspect of the welfare state
and with the idea of a transition towards no welfare
at all, Yes, this is universe of basic income. So

(02:04:58):
it would have to be that it app places every
single other welfare program that exists at the federal, state,
local level, and that it is ultimately a way to
long term phase out welfare completely. That's the context. Lincoln

(02:05:22):
Musk could be a real life John Gult if he
wasn't such a Duma and Trump supporter, Well Duma Trump supporter,
just manifestations of a subjectivism that is part of a
lun Musk's soul, that's part of who he is, part
of philosophy he's integrated into his life. Sadly, he's too

(02:05:43):
emotional and he's too subjectivist. Right, Lincoln says, I recommend
all colleague students do a summer in Europe. So much
history to explore, and you can stay in cheap hostels
and get a three month Amtrak pass for under six
hundred dollars. Totally worth the money, and by the way,
you probably almost suddenly will not get killed by any Islamist. Yes, absolutely,

(02:06:09):
I agree with Lincoln. Why three months, spend a year,
Spend a year in Europe before you even go to college.
Go take her back back and go back track through Europe.
You can take the trains, you can stay hostels. You know,
there's so much to see in Europe, it's unbelievable. Be

(02:06:30):
a unique life experience, and you'll want to keep going
back because there's so much more to see and there's
so much fun to be had. And the idea that
you would let fear of I don't know, some Muslim
stop you. I mean, don't go to Kata, don't go
to Iran. You know most of you don't go to

(02:06:51):
Saudi Arabia or even to Dubai. I don't think, but
you could. A lot of people go to Dubai and
they're perfectly safe. But Europe, give me a break. All right, guys,
thank you to all the super chatters really really really appreciated.
Thank you to all you listeners. Don't forget to subscribe.

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(02:07:33):
like to make a point about the psychological evil in
the Christian Effect on human nrvous system. It says to
feel pain, fear, and shame in response to selfish acts.
Yes so it It basically encourages you to feel shame
and guilt from being selfish, which then discourages you from

(02:07:56):
being selfish, and and and and and make you make
you live in a constant state of fear and shame,
and you can never develop self esteem as a consequence,
and it's unbelievably destructive psychologically. Absolutely. Again, we'll talk more
about that when we talk about Christianity and it's disasters,

(02:08:18):
disasters impact on the West. All right, thanks everybody. I
will see you tomorrow tomorrow's show. What's tomorrow's showtime? It's
going to be it'll be later. I have some meeting
at two o'clock Eastern time, so it'll be a three

(02:08:39):
o'clock Eastern time three o'clock Eastern time, and it'll be
a little shorter. I think we won't be able to
go over two hours, but so I will see you
tomorrow three pm Eastern time. Have a great rest of
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