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Speaker 1 (00:02):
A lot of them folded the metal of wo and
in individual ones. This is the show, all right, everybody,
welcome to here, one book show on this Friday. The

(00:24):
weekend is here, Friday, December twelfth, December twelfth. I just
I was just looking at the chat. And Andrew is
just on his first hundred dollars super Chat. Andrew spends
a lot of money on the super Chat, you know,
pretty much every day, and that was his first hundred dollars.

(00:45):
So thank you, Andrew. That's great. We'll get to it
as I'm pretty sure question number one when we get
to when we get to the super Chat questions. But
you guys should be inspired by Andrew and want to,
for completely first handed reasons want to match his level
of contribution. Thank you, Andrew. I appreciate it. All right,

(01:11):
Let's see what did I want to say Tomorrow? Tomorrow
we're going to do. You know, I said, we're going
to do three topics on Saturdays. We're going to do
a meaning Western civilization and capitalism. So tomorrow's the first capitalism,
So it'll be capitalism and immigration. We'll talk about capitalism
and immigration. Haven't talked about immigration in a long time.

(01:33):
I've gotten into a lot of trouble on Twitter because
of my stance at immigration. So another opportunity to clarify it,
but more importantly to integrate it without conception of capitalism.
Can you be pro capitalism and anti immigration? You know,
what is it we're advocating for as an ideal and

(01:55):
what is it ultimately that we're advocating for, as you know,
is practical policy in the world in which we live. H.
So it will be about capitalism in theory and and
of course in in in practice today. So we'll do
a show on capitalism and immigration. Uh, let's see Sunday.

(02:18):
There will be a members only show Sunday members only show.
Don't miss out on this, uh, And it'll be a
discussion of Iyeman's essay The Missing Link. The Missing Link,
which I think is is really a brilliant essay, as
all of our essays are, but this one really I

(02:38):
get a lot of questions that, you know, how people
can do this and why people the way they are,
and why can't we convince people? And you know, is
it evasion? Is it? This? Is it that? What's going on? Well,
we'll talk about that in this essay because it's it's
it's very very deep, very h and really a kind
of a foundational explanation for this date of the world

(03:00):
in which we live. It's called the Missing Link. And
and we'll talk about that on Sunday. So and then
next week we'll be back to our regular schedule. Uh
is next week Christmas? No, two weeks from now is Christmas?
So no, no Christmas break next week? All right, what else?

(03:24):
I think that's it. I think we can jump into
our news show. So okay, so let's start with I
thought we'd talked a little bit about the rise of
the populist rights in Europe. You know, we already know
they've risen, but where they are, what the status is today,
what the projections are into the future, and and what

(03:46):
is going on? And and this is for a couple
of reasons. One, it's like, it looks like the Econmors
magazine basically just dedicated half the magazine this week to
the Europe's populist right. But I think that is in
the context of and importantly in the context of the
an article coming out of Non Nautical. It comes out

(04:08):
of the National Security Strategy document that the Trump administration
put out that basically advocates for the United States two
help nudge Proud Europe into the direction of the populist right.
That is what they what what the document calls the

(04:29):
patriotic right, but what they mean is is the populist
right reform in England. Uh, you know, the a f
D in Germany. We know that because JD. Vance has
told us that he supports them, and and uh the
National Rally, Uh, Mariella Penn's party in France. These are

(04:49):
the big you know, the big parties. Uh. Of course
there's there are rising populist right parties in Spain and Portugal.
We have a populist right prime minister in Italy. We'll
talk about her, Maloney. So so it's already happened in Italy,
although whether she governs that way is is is questionable.

(05:12):
So anyway, this is this is going to be this,
so let's talk about that. So it's it's really influenced
by this NSS document about this. And of course there's
there's already a long standing populist right government in Hungary. Uh,
there's a populist right government in in Slovakia, and uh

(05:38):
you other you know, we've seen kind of go up
and down in places like the Netherlands and the rising
populist right political parties in Sweden, in Denmark, although and
of course in Poland the populist right political party governed
for many years and the President of Poland is from

(05:58):
their political party. So in much of Europe the power
of the populist right is significant already. And yet these
three major big economies in Europe. Fans in Germany, in
the EU, UK outside of the EU, but still part
of we think Europe. Although don't get offended Europeans that

(06:21):
the UK is part of you and UK don't get
offended that I think that you're part of Europe. But
you guys are, and so that is so those political parties,
those three that we talked about are the most significant.

(06:44):
So what's going on in Europe, I mean, what was
seeing in Europe? A really two phenomena that I think
to some extent. A related one is the failure of
the mixed economy. We've seen that all over the world.
We've seen that in the United States, We're seeing it everyway.

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The mixed economy is we know it, the massive welfare state,
the regulatory state. And in Europe this is particularly true
given that a lot of the regulations come down from Brussels,
imposed on national governments, from bureaucracy in in Brussels. But
the welfare state is local. But we're seeing welfare states

(07:28):
and we're seeing heavy, heavy regulations, and the result of
that is the result of that is stagnation. And one
of the things that welfare state does, and this is
only reinforced by stagnation, is what the welfare state and
the regulatory state, the mixed economy now the words, does

(07:49):
is that it increases pressure group politics. It turns everybody
against everybody. Everybody wants the lobby government for its piece
of a pie, a national budget. The more the state
involves itself in every aspect of life, the more if

(08:17):
you're gaining, I'm losing. The government has a pretty much
finite pie. The more we're going to fight over the
benefits that are being distributed, who gets taxed, how high
the taxes should be, what kind of taxes should they be,
And then once the revenue comes in, who gets the money,

(08:40):
Which warfare programs are good, which warfare programs are bad.
You know which groups need to be subsidized, which companies
us to be subsidized. And then you've got regulations in
company companies, you know, encouraging regulations that prohibit competition, new
companies trying to get rid of the publition and competition,
trying to to trying to innovate and compete. You've got

(09:03):
a company, you know, lobbying around merchants and acquisitions, and
lobbying around new industries, and lobbying about pretty much everything
government contracts, because the government. The more you make the
government powerful, the more you give it control over the economy,

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the more it affects people's lives, the more people are
going to be engaged in politics. And to that stagnation,
in other words, a pie that is not going or
that is going very slowly, and people who feel like
and feel legitimately to some extent, unlike the United States

(09:48):
and Europe, this is legitimate that aren't progressing, not getting better.
Economies that grow at one percent or less so in
Germany's case, actually shrink, real losses of jobs in historical
sectors like manufacturing in Germany, and what you get is

(10:12):
real existential angst and more of the lobbying, more of
the trying to get a piece of the pie, a
bigger piece of the pie, because the pie now is static,
maybe even shrinking, like in Germany. So once you destroy

(10:33):
the wealth creating engine, people become more desperate and people
are hustling just to exploit whatever they can from the
existing wealth creation that is happening. So it becomes more
difficult to find taxes revenue, it becomes more difficult to

(10:55):
figure out who to distribute it to. It becomes more
difficult to hand out all the favors that politicians want
to hand out because there's not enough money there. So
you get more and more claims against the rich. You
get more and more claims against those parts of the

(11:16):
country that seems to be doing okay, and and and
and need to be more exploited for the sake of
those parts of the country they're doing badly. So so
a big aspect of the rise of the populist right.
I think the biggest aspect is is stagnant economies. Stagnant economies,

(11:40):
stagnant mixed economies. And if for they're right for pressure groups,
those pressure groups become little tribes and everybody is hustling,
and everybody's desperate. And then if you add to that,
like throwing massive amount of fuel onto the fire, is

(12:04):
mass migration, large migration into these countries from feign cultures,
primarily many of whom are Muslim, which which is a
whole of course, other set of problems because Islam, Islam,
at least when taken seriously, is so hostile to the West,

(12:28):
at least taken seriously in today's context. I'm just I'm
just listening to a book on Andalasia, on on on
the on Spain, on the the Islamic conquest of Spain
and then the Christian conquest of you know, the reconquest
of Spain. Uh. And it's fascinating, It's it's really really

(12:50):
interesting that history. Another time, we'll we'll talk about that, Yeah,
you know, we'll talk about all of that, and and
how Islam has changed for a golden age of the
past to what it is today. But the reality is
particularly starting at twenty fifteen, but really before that, even

(13:13):
just migration within Europe, I mean, a big part of
Brexit was britg frustration not a Muslim immigrants, not an
immigrants that looked different than them. A big part of
it was frustration at Polish immigrants, immigrants in Eastern Europe,

(13:33):
who a lot of Brits felt were taking their jobs.
But the big Muslim migration at twenty fifteen during the
Syrian Civil War, and Angela Merkle's willingness to just open
up the doors and let everybody in, the willingness of

(13:53):
countries like Germany and Sweden at least in those days,
to fully subsidize these immigrants, that is, to give them
a check immediately upon arrival, and to give them housing
and to prioritize they're housing above housing for Germans created
an even biggest sense of zero sum. Now we've got

(14:17):
this pie, the pie is not growing, and now there
are more claimants on the pie, the more people who
want to peace, the more people in the warfare system
who are taking some of this revenue. Now this is
particularly affected Germany, it's some extent affected France. France has

(14:38):
kind of being boiling with this issue of migrants and
particularly Muslims for a long long time because they had
basically an open door policy for former colonies, and that
meant Algeria and other parts of Northern Africa. Many, many,
many Muslim migrants came into France for many years from

(14:59):
those countries and then from Africa, and of course then
you get waves of illegal migration. You know, desperate Africans
getting to the shores of North Africa and just going
on boats and crossing the Mediterranean and trying to get wherever.
They all want to go to Germany because Germany is

(15:19):
where you get a where you get a check. But
many of them, you know, are in Portugal and Spain
and in Italy and other countries as they make their
way to the Promised Land, which is Germany. So a

(15:39):
big migration that are people who look differently than you,
many of whom have a religion different than yours, and
some of whom and it might just be a very
small minority, but it doesn't matter. It's a vocal minority,
and it's and it's an active minority. It's an engaged minority.
A minority of room literally explicitly say to you, we

(16:04):
want to take over. We want to undermine everything you
stand for. We are opposed, we are opposed to Western civilization.
And this is what you get in England, but even
more so, I think in Germany and to some extent
in France, you get these migrants saying we want to

(16:24):
imposture real law, we want to be Islami into the country.
You get chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood. You get mosques
run by the Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim Brotherhood representing the kind
of the Islamist gie hottiest views of Islam. Now, I
think those people on minority within Muslim migrants into your

(16:48):
but it doesn't matter. They scare the Jesus out of people.
And what you see is that the existing political parties
have to end right, let's call them cent elephant center
right have no answer to the stagnation. They have no

(17:09):
answer to the desperation of people trying to grab on
to a pie that's not growing. They have no answer
on how to achieve economic growth. And then when confronted
with this issue of immigration, they don't know what to do,

(17:31):
and they don't know what to say, and they don't
know how to defend it. I mean Andelmrokel's defense was basically,
we were guilty of a holocaust, therefore we can't turn
people away, which is a pathetic response and nobody took
it seriously. In England you get Brexit, which happened before

(17:59):
the big influx of illegal immigrants, before people started really
worrying that much about Islam per se. It was much
more about just immigrants to other places. In Europe because
while England was part of Europe was part of the EU,
sorry part of the EU, then there was free migration
within Europe. So it was Eastern Europeans that were worried

(18:23):
about anyway. They got Braxit, thinking okay, now we won't
have these European migrants. What they got instead were migrants
from former British colonies, and this has been much worse
for their experience because these migrants tend to be black, brown,
they tend to come with different religions and different attitudes,

(18:44):
and now the issue of islam Is becoming has become
much more significant in England. So one of the in Britain,
one of the consequences Brexit is a completely different mix
of immigrants, which is making from an English perspective, from
a British perspective, it much much worse, much much more fear,

(19:07):
much much more fear for their identity, for their culture,
for their Western civilization. And in addition, if you remember
Brexit I said at the time a Brexit, I said,
this would be good if you know, on for Brexit,
if the British government uses it to do the right thing,

(19:32):
and the right thing was get rid of all the
regulations that were imposed by Brussels and establish free trade
relationships with all of the world, by the way, including Europe.
If you can't become a free trade island and deregulates,
you become an incredibly competitive place, an incredibly rich place.

(19:54):
And at the time there was an absolute conservative majority.
People in think tanks in the UK were telling me, oh, no,
these guys are free traders, free marketers. Exactly what you
said is going to happen. Brexit is going to turn
out to be amazing. Now, I was like, I'm skeptical.
I've seen conservatives, I know who these people are. Don't

(20:18):
strike me as free marketers at all. And indeed none
of that has happened. Britain has this as many regulations
now as it did under Brussels. Indeed, Brussels now is
deregulating and the UK has gone to labor and the
increasing regulations. Has the UK reduced to wefare state, No,

(20:39):
increased it as the UK moved towards more privatization. No
than our nationalizing industries. Has the UK established itself as
a free trade island and cut free trade deals with
the rest of the world. No, a little bit here
and there, but insignificant in comparison to the benefits of

(21:02):
free trade with Europe, which they had when they went
in the U. So by my calculation, Brexit was from
a purely economic perspective, but also I think from a
cultural perspective, Bexit was an unmitigated disaster, unmitigated failure. UK

(21:24):
would be dramatically better off today, significantly better off today,
significantly better off today if it had stayed with the EU.
The UK economy is a disaster. It's being a disaster
for years now. The Conservative supermajority that they have was wasted,

(21:46):
blown away, destroyed and allowed Labor to win the election.
Labor one because of the conservatives failures. The Conservatives are
to blame for Labour's win. The country is not a
leftist country. So the consequence of all this is there

(22:06):
are parties out there rising, and none of these parties.
It's truly as amazing shocking. I mean, in all of Europe.
This is true of all of Europe, every single one
of these countries. I really can't think of an exception.
If somebody knows one, let me know. All of these countries.

(22:26):
The new right that is rising to try to take
advantage of the bankruptcy of the status quo, the bankruptcy
of the mixed economy, the bankruptcy of the existing center left,
center right kind of the politics as they've always been

(22:47):
since World War Two. They have come to the conclusion
that they can't really do anything about the economy. The
people are not actually interested in I mean, they're interested
in a solution to it, but they're not willing to
hear the truth. I don't know if the far right

(23:08):
parties in Europe explicitly hold this view. It's my view,
which is to get growth going, you have to deregulate,
you have to shrink the welfare state, you have to
increase markets, you have to move towards more freedom in marketplaces.
The far right has decided that is a message people
are not interested in. It doesn't win you votes. So

(23:32):
all three of the big you know, populist Right Reform
AfD and god, what's their national rally in France have
all basically chosen to take a different path, to take
a Donald Trump path. It worked for Trump, why not
for them? That is, to embrace the mixed economy, to

(23:57):
embrace the welfare state, embrace the regulatory state, give some lips,
serverst a few things here and there, depending on which
crowd they're talking to. Maybe when they talk to business
leaders they say, oh, no, we want deregulation. But you know,
one of the things the National Rally is running on
is a wealth tax, a wealth tax on rich Frenchmen.

(24:22):
So they're running all three of these political parties are
running on a populous, mixed economy, keep the welfare state,
like the National Rally wants to a wealth tax, but
it also wants to lower the age of retirement. Do
away with mccollin's reforms. They've already been done away with
to the pension system, which will rational reforms, good reforms.

(24:46):
The German a FD has no free market. I mean
there's some element within the FD, there might be somewhat
free market, but the heart of the FD is not
in free markets, and the bulk of the party will
never pass free market reforms and of course form in Niger.
Faras again might have had some fe market ideas in
his youth, his youth being two three years ago, but

(25:08):
the political reality is now he's talking about nationalizing industries.
He's talking about a leftist economic agenda, a complete embrace
of a mixed economy that is just as bad, if
not worse. Then what the what the existing center left
and center right proposed. So what they've landed on as

(25:32):
an electoral strategy is Trump's strategy. Don't blame stagnation and
cultural decline and cultural malaise and pessimism and just people
feeling this existential angst, lack of meaning whatever. Don't blame
it on a mixed economy, don't blame it in a

(25:55):
welfare in regulatory state. No no, no, no. Blame stagnation
and cultural decline on the other. And they have a
perfect other. It's the immigrants. It's the fault of the immigrants,
and it's the EU. Although note the neither National Valley

(26:18):
no AfD is actually calling for their countries to leave
the EU, even though it's kind of in their DNA
to want that, because they know they know, they've seen Brexit,
they know it would be disaster economically, so they slam
the U. They complain about the U. They think the

(26:38):
EU is horpable. They want national pride, they want national integrity,
they want national independence. They just don't want to leave
the EU because they don't want the economic hood that
that would impose on them. And of course all problems,
all problems ultimately fall in immigrants. Now, granted, Europe has

(26:59):
a Muslim problem, not so much a Muslim problem, it
has an Islamist problem. But instead of identifying those Muslims
that are the problems, those Muslims that would use force
and and and they're clearly agitating against Western civilization, instead
of identifying the Muslim brotherhood and their affiliates as an

(27:22):
enemy and therefore dealing with them, that would take a
lot of intellectual work. That would you know, demand that
they are, the people who support them, be able to
differentiate between regular Muslims and Islamists. And that's too much heart,
that's too hot. They just lump all Muslims and really

(27:45):
all immigrants into one big pot. And all of these
pelical parties are basically running on an agenda of deportation,
massive deportation from their countries and you know, standing up
to Muslims and kicking them out, you know, you know,
particularly rounding up Muslims are kicking them out. In France.

(28:08):
It's trickier because the Muslim population is more entrenched into
French society. It would be very difficult to do that,
although they are you know, maybe you could do that
with the more recent immigrants. But again, Muslims have been
settling in France at least since the Algerian Civil War,
that goes back to the nineteen fifties. But of course

(28:29):
these were all French colonies, so many people actually immigrated
to France even before that, even before these colonies became independent. So,
you know, all the countries, France has the most entrenched
Arab and Muslim population. Of course, the more entrenched they are,
the more they become French, the more they've actually assimilated,

(28:52):
and the less of a threat, the less of a
problem they are. The problem in France is the more
recent immigration that have not assimilated because the French have
not allowed them to. And you know, we've talked about
the problems in England with you know, things like the
grooming gangs and things like, you know, not applying the

(29:14):
rule of law and having that double standards and all
of that. So and in Germany, I think you have
you have a similar problems. So the reality is that

(29:35):
these right wing political parties are primarily running an anti immigrant,
anti Islam platform and pro patriotism. They've all kind of again,
they're all pretty plain vanilla when it comes to economics.
They vary a little bit in terms of their attitude

(29:56):
towards Russia. Reform claims to be pro Ukraine, anti Russia,
but there are people within Reform that are clearly pro Russia.
The National Rally used to get a lot of money
from Russia from Putin was a supportive of the National Rally,
but they now claim they're pro Ukraine, but I don't
know if anybody really believes them. AfD is probably the

(30:20):
closest political party to Russia, and they would want to
stop supporting Ukraine, although even there, you know a lot
of that populace is supportive of Ukraine and anti Russia,
so they might shift. So, you know, these three political

(30:44):
parties setting themselves up to be successful. It's hard to
tell exactly when. There will be national elections in the
UK and in Germany in twenty twenty nine, so of
course a lot can change between now and then. That's
three and a half years from now, but there will

(31:05):
be national elections in France well before that. It is
very likely that Marilla Penn's political party National Rally wins
those elections and wins the presidency. Marilla Penn probably won't
run she's been banned from running. But Joe dan Badea,
who is her number two, who's young, charismatic, good looking,

(31:29):
I guess thirty years old. He will run in her
place if she does not run, and he, according to
all the polls, is likely to beat everybody. We are
heading towards an era of populist right wing leadership in
the major European countries, and you know, depending on depending

(31:57):
on how they govern, it's hard to tell how that
is actually going to play out. The reality is that
they have no answers to the actual existential problems the
UBI faces. They have no answers to the lack of entrepreneurship.
They have no answers to the lack of innovation. They
have no answers the lack of Unicorn startups. They have

(32:18):
no answers to the de industrialization, the coming of AI,
the robots. What is Germany going to do? They have
no answers to how to make their economies more flexible,
more dynamic. Nobody in Europe today is proposing dramatic loosening
of the labor laws that make European economy so so

(32:44):
slow to respond to changing technologies and changing realities. Europe
is stuck and none of these none of these populist
political parties on the right have an answer. Even when
it's come to immigration, what are they actually going to do?

(33:06):
Reality is that illegal immigration into Europe has already gone
down by fifty percent, with the exception of the UK,
in mainland Europe EU country, illegal immigration has been cut
significantly already. They'll deport thousands of illegal immrogments. How many,
There's only so much they can do in France, as

(33:27):
I told you, because so many of these people are
entrenched and many of them have illegal and it would
be very difficult given kind of the population's attitude, to
really do mass deportation. Thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands.

(33:47):
We're not going to get to the millions. Germany might
deport people, but can you really see Germany supporting the
up of massive numbers of people, putting them into camps
as they figure out how to deport them, There's going

(34:09):
to be a lot of backlash and resistance of that,
at least as long as this Muslim population in Europe
is not you know, fanatically violent. In UK, yeah, they'll
deport some. I mean Nondia Fras has some plans, but
nobody's really committed. None of these plans are really real.

(34:32):
I mean, the fact is, what has Maloney done that
is right, that is populist right. She's actually been pretty good.
She's basically governed from the center right. She hasn't withdrawn
Italy from the European Union, she hasn't gone off the
europe Neither one of these other parties will do that.

(34:56):
They're all going to fail because the fundamental problem is
not immigration. The fundamental problem is lack of freedom. None
of these parties or advocates for liberty, for freedom, or
for free speech for that matter. So you just get
a reshuffling of people. The rhetoric will become more abusive,

(35:19):
some immigrants will be deported, maybe a lot of immigrants
will be deported, and yet nothing in Europe will change. Yes,
Europeans will feel more comfortable because they'll walk around the
streets and they'll be more white people relatively speaking, But
the reality is all their populations are shrinking. Europeans are

(35:41):
dying off, not because of immigrants, but because Europeans are
not having babies and because their economies are not growing.
People are not making a lot of money. They're falling
further and further buying in terms of wealth, absolute wealth,
the capital wealth falling further and further behind the United States.

(36:03):
So they're poor, not having babies, not growing, no dynamism,
no excitement, no entrepreneurship, no innovation AI. I mean, we
talk about AI as a competition between the United States
and China, companies in the United States and companies in China.
Nobody's talking about Europe as anything in AI. Not data centers,

(36:27):
not programming, not startups, nothing. I mean, it's just not
part of this AI revolution that's going on. Europe is
dying not because of immigrants. Europe is dying because of Europeans.
Europe is dying because of the welfare state and the
regulatory state. And it's not dying because of the EU, because,

(36:53):
if anything, individual country policies are worse than the EU.
It's hard to believe. You can see that in the UK.
UK left the EU and how much deregulation did it do?
Almost nothing? How much of a reduction in the office
they did, they do almost nothing. How much of pro entrepreneurial,

(37:17):
pro innovation, pro growth policies did they put in place. Nothing?
So why would you believe that France left the EU,
or any country left AU, they would do any better
than the British. At least the EU gives you a
free trade zone and trade. I know this is not
popular these days, this is politically incorrect these days, but

(37:40):
trade isn't unmitigated good. Zero tariffs are unmitigated good. So
we're in bigger trouble. No less, Europe is in bigger trouble.
Now less, these right wing poppuss parties will not have

(38:01):
a solution, and Europe will still be in the same
place it is today. Maybe things will be a little
bit worse because maybe they'll engage in some nationalist policies
or some pan nationalist policies. Maybe they'll be pro Russia
and then for Russia's influence in Europe will grow, But
they'll make things worse. They're not going to make things better.

(38:25):
And then what who knows? Maybe then we get what
you'll call a classical liberal political force to rise. They
can actually offer solutions, actually propose economic growth. Maybe or

(38:47):
Europe dies a slow and pretty painful death. And by
the way, what's happening to Europe. They're just a few
years ahead of us in the United States. We are
stagnating badly, but we're hitting in that direction. A wealf
is state, a regulatory state are growing and not shrinking.

(39:08):
Some regulations are shrinking. Welfare is not shrinking at all.
Now now we were you know, just like Europe, We've
now increased dramatically subsidies to farmers. Your subsidized is farming
to an unbelievable extent. So yeah, europe is will shrink.

(39:32):
Everything is better materially, we live in a best of
times and yet and yet ideologically, philosophically, culturally, and economically,
we're planning the seeds for allowing destruction. And that's a fact.
You can hold two thoughts at one time. I know
it's hard. I know it's hard. You can hold that

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right now, life from a material perspective and for the
individual has never been better. You have more opportunities, your money.
You know, you can buy more things. You have more time,
more wealth, more health, to do more things. And at

(40:16):
the same time you can hold the thought that, yeah,
but because of the situation in philosophy, because of the
political deterioration, there is a lag. But ultimately that will
manifest itself in making things worse. That's why we fight
that's why we don't just say everything's great, Okay, let's

(40:38):
go home. Cool, all right, so we will keep following
what is going on in in Europe? All right, it's
shift topics, bak, shift to topics. We're gonna talk about it.

(41:00):
Andrew Tait. I haven't talked about Tait in a while.
Andrew Tait Is is uh. You know, a horrific, monstrous
human being, somebody who some bizarre reason the American right
and the right all over Europe loves and supports despite

(41:22):
of the fact that he made his money. He made
the bulk of his money, at least off of porn sites,
which I thought the right hated. I thought they were
they didn't like porn, but he made his money off
of porn sites. He has been accused in Britain, and
in and in uh Romania and potentially in the United

(41:43):
States of rape and uh and using force to exploit people,
forcing women to participate in pornography, all kinds of accusations.
He is if you listen to him, put aside any
vibells he might have committed or not committed. He is
a gross, disgusting, malevolent, a human being who hates women

(42:12):
and is dedicated to educating and to teaching young men
how to exploit, how to take advantage of women. He
is also a convert to Islam, which is another one
where you think the right would not like him, but

(42:34):
yet they do in spite of the fact that he
is converted to Islam. I think the conversion to Islam
has practical uses. I mean, Islam is a horrifically misogynistic religion.
It is a religion that treats women really, really badly.
It also allows you to have many wives and have
sex outside of marriage, and therefore it's perfect for him.

(42:58):
It's just a perfect religion for him. Women are second
class citizens. You know, if Christianity were still the Christianity
of a few hundred years ago, he wouldn't have had
to convert. But today, you know, women have equal rights
in the West. He needed a religious you know, facade,

(43:20):
excuse to justify his just horrific sexual behavior. Horrific sexual
behavior anyway. A few years ago, he and his brother
were arrested in Romania. They were arrested in Romania and
accused of you know, rape, of having sex with a
fifteen year old, a beating, you know, being violent with women,

(43:45):
cursing women into pornography. These are the things, you know.
This is a It always strikes me as funny that
the American rights seem so obsessed with pedophilia, and yet
they love Andrew Tait. You know, somebody who's being accused
of pedophilia. He was arrested, he was put in jail.

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He's been in and out of jail, kind of house
arrested in jail for a while, and then suddenly, in
you know, February of twenty twenty five, suddenly he is
on a plane, private plane, private jet, being wished off

(44:29):
to Florida. Now at the time I told you that
he is off to Florida because the Trump administration put
pressure on the Romanian government to release him. Because that
people I don't know, Donald Trump and the people in
the Donald Trump universe who are huge Andrew Tate fans,

(44:53):
big supporters of and rout in spite of the fact
that he is just this monster. And somebody says, illegals

(45:15):
have rights, question mark, not really. Parliament is sovereign, No,
the individual is sovereign. Parliament is there to protect the
rights of the individual, not to define them, not to
tell him what rights he has or hasn't not to
take them away, but to protect them. That's the role

(45:38):
of government only role of government. Your rights are not
defined by government. That's a left disposition. Your rights are
defined by your nature as a rational being. Illegals have
just as many individual rights. They might not have civil rights,
but they have every single individual right that you have.

(45:59):
There is no difference. You don't give up your rights
because you crossed the border. Anyway. Back to Tates. At
the time, I told you it was Trump, and now
there's been a major expose in the New York Times
that has basically gone through all the documents, talked to people, interviews,

(46:19):
you know, got texts and emails and the whole thing,
and has now established then indeed it was absolutely the
Trump administration. The propressure on the Romanians. The Romanian government
basically told Romanian prosecutors to let the Tate brothers go.

(46:40):
Romanian prosecutors flipped out. They were super angry. They had
worked in this case for years. They had a they
believed airtight case against them, and they were told forget it,

(47:02):
just let them go. And it came down from basically
the Prime Minister who believed that by doing this they
would get an inside in you know, they would get
favorite treatment by the Trump administration. Indeed, there were two
minutes two meetings held by a senior Trump advisor, Richard Grennell,

(47:27):
with the Romanian government officials, and at the end, after
the second meeting, Wood came down from the top to
release the Tates. In the meantime, there's USO plenty of
evidence that I mean, this public information, and then there's
additional information or private information that Trump's kids big fans

(47:51):
of Andrew Tate, Trump Junior is a big fan, is
being interviewed. His interview Tate also Baron. Supposedly Baron was
getting dating advice from the Tates, so Baron Trump was
viewed advocate for them. It was Baron that Trump Junior

(48:14):
claimed all the accusations were just you know, made up accusations,
and did everything they could to get the the Trump
administration to get them released. Now, some conservatives objected. Ron
de scientists was very upset that they landed up in

(48:36):
Florida and it was very against the release of the Tates.
Megan Kelly was horrified by it. Many some within the
conservative universe compared Tate to Jeffrey Epstein, which is an
apt comparison. But this is the thing. I mean, Trump

(48:59):
doesn't care and Mega doesn't care. Mega doesn't care about
the people who are raped, the sexual abuse. They don't
really care about child trafficking. It's that kind of internal
virtue signaling. What they care about is, Oh, the abuses

(49:23):
off on the left. Well, when they abuse us from
the right, like Tait or maybe even Trump, when they
accuse us. When they abuse us on the right, nobody cares.
Nobody in Maga kids, they gloss over it. They say

(49:47):
that acquisitions are made up. There's no basis for it. Nothing.
Now you know, now that the Tates are back, they're
in the US and I'm going back to Romania. Yeah,
they've been freed the US and British citizens. I don't
think they're going to Britain because Britain would probably arrest

(50:07):
them if they showed up there. They're staying in the US.
They are taking advantage of their fact that they are free.
They're just sitting around the country. They are partying with
Kanye West, not surprising at all. They are chatting with fans,
they are doing interviews, they are building, continuing to build

(50:29):
their brand. Oh, the one place they would go is Dubai, Dubai,
you know, yeah where in Dubai. Of course they're you know,
nobody's going to touch them as long as they don't
hurt the local women. Nobody's going to touch them as

(50:49):
long as they have money. Now, the Ranian case is
still moving forward, and you know, they will face charges
of human traffick and rape and then I don't know
if there's going to be extradition or temps at extradition
or anything like that. In the United States, Uh, you know, uh,

(51:12):
Anti trafficking and Department of Homeland Security have been investigating
the takes for years, but it's unlikely they get charged
under the Trump administration. Again, they're in with MAGA, they're
in with the Trump's kids, They're in with the administration,
which tells you something about the administration. But in four years,

(51:34):
who knows, who knows? I mean, this is just you know,
of course, Oh, I forgot to tell you. One of
their biggest fans, One of their biggest fans is h
is is Tucker Carlson Tucker cross and flew to Romania
and did an interview with Andrew Tate another softball interview.

(52:00):
Basically most of the interview was dedicated to hating on
the left, the left wings war and masculinity. And remember,
mister Tate is a porn operator. Don't know why I
called him mister Tate is a porn operator and as

(52:23):
an exploit of women. But Tucker Cousin just poo pooed
the accusations in Romania, made no big deal out of them.
You know, I didn't really care about it. He's just
been Tate is just being mistreated. Yeah, you know. Afterwards

(52:52):
stuck her challenged about the actual nature of what they're
being accused of it, Tucker says, it doesn't change my
view of that the Tates, whatever they pushed on behavior,
had a message worth hearing. What is the message? Men
are not men anymore because they don't rape women, because
they don't subjugate women, because they don't treat women like shit. Anyway,

(53:18):
There's no question that they interview that he did with
Taker Corusen basically you know, improved his image and expanded
his audience dramatically. Indeed, Charlie Cook was one of the
ones watched that interview and commented on understanding why Tate

(53:41):
was popular now. At least Charlie exprest discussed with with
Tate's pornographic business. But again, this whole idea of masculinity
being under siege. I mean, God, how are you going
to listen to somebody talk about masculinity who beats up women,

(54:04):
who rapes them, who hires them and potentially courses them
into working in his porn business. Are people in the
porn business the kind of people you want to get
advice on masculinity from. I mean, this is part of
the whole Nick Foentis and route, the whole craziness on

(54:26):
the right. Right now, Charlie Cook says he's sitting on
something that you're not allowed to say where there's a
lot of truth to it, is there? And do you
really want to promote a messenger with this kind of
character and who at the end of the day, this

(54:46):
is what he stands for. Yeah, I mean, look, this
is the new American right. To the extent that the
new American right is Tate Infuentes and Tucker Calson. It's

(55:07):
a despicable, disgusting right that nobody should support. Has no
place in civilized discussion debate. And yeah, I mean, even
if there's no alternative, you got to just walk away.
These people are disgusting. All right. Uh let's see all right. Uh,

(55:45):
let's move on to another disgusting human being. Uh, techer Calson.
It's a techer Calson is on a campaign right now
to just do everything he can to make Israel look horrible.
He's been on this campaign for long time, but it's
becoming more and more explicit, more and more explicit. And
it's just you know, he keeps saying, oh, you know,

(56:07):
people should stop obsessing about Israeli stuff, talking about Israel
all the time. But that's all he talks about. And
he lies. As I've told you, these people lie with
no shame straight up. Now it's not just a lie.
We'll get to that in a minute. But some of
it is a lie. Here's, for example, Tucker just lying basically.

(56:31):
I don't know if he's paid by Kato. Well we
know he is so neat. Some of his income comes
from the Katari government, and this is the kind of
propaganda the Katari goverment would like spread in the United States. Tucka,
no matter how much he gets paid by the Katari government,
is now a Katari and Muslim Brotherhood agent. He is

(56:51):
the spokesman in America for the worst elements of Islamism
when it comes to Israel. Hears what he has said
in a recent video. The idea that they've killed tens
of thousands, tens of thousands of women and children, non
combatants accidentally, is a lie. No, they murdered them. They

(57:17):
murdered them. It's just a fact. You can call it
whatever you want. Genocide, everyone's, everyone's all right. It's genocide. Okay,
it doesn't matter what you call it. That's murder. They're
killing people on purpose. Now, he says this, and he
says it's a fact. It's a fact. But he has

(57:40):
no evidence. He certainly has no proof. Indeed, there's plenty
of evidence to the exact contrary, exact contrary. He's lying
through his teeth or purposefully evading the existing evidence. First
of all, it's not tens of thousands of the seventy
thousand that have died a minority of children and non combatants,

(58:05):
a small minority. Seventy thousand includes everybody who died from
natural causes, includes all Khamas fighters, It includes men and teenagers.
It includes everybody who's died in the Gaza Strip, including
people who were killed by Hamas. The number of actual

(58:27):
women and children is the lowest as a percentage of
all the deaths is the lowest in urban warfare in
the history of mankind. So Tucker's just making this up
now on top of it, If you look at these
nu rules of engagement, if you look at Israel's dogged

(58:53):
attempts to not kill civilians, not kill non combatants. If
you look at the number of times Israel lets the
residents of a building know before they knock it down
in spite of the fact that some of the people
in the building a Kamas fighters, in order not to
kill civilians. To hold the kind of idea, the views

(59:15):
that Tucka has is to ignore reality. It's to ignore factors,
to ignore everything about this war. It's just to make
stuff up in order to promote propaganda, which is propaganda
fed to him by the Muslim Brotherhood, by the worst
Islamists out there. And why would he do it because

(59:39):
he's being paid. Because Tucka has reached the point where
he is just hateful of Western civilization. He's hateful of
everything that the West represents. He's hateful of modernity, he's
hateful of technology. I mean, he told us feudalism was

(01:00:00):
think what we have today feudalism. He's joined the medievalists,
and if you're gonna join the medievalist, Katta is not
a bad place to go. The very medievalist in Kotcha.
He is a reactionary medievalist. And you know in that sense,

(01:00:26):
culturally these Muslim countries are perfect. And you can see
that in another show he did look at this. So
he did a video where he compares Israel to Kacha
to Qatar, right, trying to convince Americans that Qatar should
be the US's friend, not Israel. Qatar is the real ally,

(01:00:48):
not Israel. Here's what Tuckas Carlton said, Kata doesn't have
drag queens story hours Israel does. Yeah, it's true. Israel
has a pretty pretty liberal leave it alone in other words,
perspective on LGBTQ plus stuff. It doesn't force people to

(01:01:12):
participa in drag queen story els. But drag queens, which
have long traditions in the military, in entertainment, Yeah, they
probably do have a drag queen's story la. The Katolis don't. Yeah,
you would be shot if you were a drag queen
in Katou. That's a sign conta is better than Israel. Obviously,

(01:01:34):
Kontas doesn't have abortion on demand. Israel does. There you go,
abortions as a primary right, a primary evil, so to
many states in the United States. I guess that's why
techer KOs is moving to Katau because many states, including
the state where he grew up, has abortion on demand

(01:01:57):
and Katas better. Katari is a socially conservative like Trump supporters.
Yeah right, Qatar has natural gas and benefits the United States.
Why does it benefit the United States? In the United
States have natural gas? United States doesn't need the importing
in the natural gas. Israel doesn't. Actually, Israel has enough

(01:02:22):
natural gas to supply all its needs and to export
natural gas to Europe for the next hundred years. So
it turns out Israel does have natural gas. So unsurprisingly,
techer Cousin is just frigging ignorant. He says, go visit

(01:02:42):
Katsa and see for yourself. Now, he has a little
story that I read online to give you a sense
of Tucker Cousin's socially conservative Kato in twenty sixteen. In
twenty sixteen, a Katari student studying in Ohio converted to Christianity.

(01:03:05):
Then he went back to kuts out to visit his
mother in Doha. She found a Bible in his bag.
She confronted him, learned that he had left Islam, which
is like the biggest sin you can commit, an islam apostasy,
and immediately called her brothers. They tortured this young man,

(01:03:25):
tied him up and imprisoned him in his own room.
Weeks later, he managed to get a message out to
a friend in Ohio. That friend reached out to me,
the guy who was writing this post, asking for help.
I called a Lebanese Christian friend who worked in Doha,
hoping he might know someone who could intervene. The moment

(01:03:45):
I started to explain the situation, he hung up the phone.
Months later, when I saw him again, I asked why.
His answer was simple. If the Katari authorities ever heard
a whisper of this conversation, he would have been fired
and deported immediately. This is the land of the free,
socially conservative, wonderful place the Tucka wants you to support.

(01:04:09):
This is not a natural ally. This is a country
dedicated to Islam, a country that ultimately hates Christianity, and
if you convert to Christianity you're probably dead. This is
a country that supports terrorism, Islamic terrorism against Christians, Europeans, Americans.

(01:04:36):
Israel as a free country is a country where you
can disagree with the government and people do all the time.
Is a country where Christians, Muslims, Jews live in peace
in side Israel and where their rights are protected for
the most part. For the most part, I say, because

(01:04:57):
no government anyway protects rights consistently, and for the most part,
because there's some discrimination against Arabs. I'm not going to
say there's none, but it's tiny in comparison to discrimination
you would get in kulture Israel. You can be an atheist.

(01:05:17):
Try being an atheist in culture in Israel. You can
be a Christian. You can be a Christian in culture
as long as you didn't convert to Christianity for Islam.
And you can be a Christian in culture up to
a point. You can never be a citizen, and they'll

(01:05:38):
always watch you, they'll always keep an eye on you.
I mean, this is really disgusting. Again, it's just terrific.
I mean, Katura is a bad, bad, bad place and
anti Western, anti American, anti civilizational place. It is the

(01:06:03):
negation of civilization. Israel is hated. It is hated by
people like Teka because it is the opposite. It is
the epitome of civilization. It is a Bastian a Western
civilization in the Middle East. It advances civilization now, not consistently,

(01:06:28):
not perfectly, all the caveats apply. Israel has lots and
lots and lots and lots of really bad problems, and
yet it is on the side of civilization. Qatar is
on the side of the uncivilized. It's the side of
the barbarians at the gates. Who do you think is
funding the mosques in Europe with the Muslim brotherhoods preach.

(01:06:51):
Who do you think is funding the push for Sharia
law in Europe? It's Katari money, much of it, not
all of it, much of it, So you're attacker Carlson.
All right, we talked about this yesterday. We talked about

(01:07:11):
the voting in Indiana not to a Jimmy manned state
and to basically keep things the way they are. You know,
Trump World has gone ballistic, They really have. They really
have gone crazy. You know, gone our state rights. The
federal government is going to impose its will on them.

(01:07:34):
Trump's supporters are really freaking out, even though a majority
of Republicans, not just majority of Sendates, is a majority
of Republicans voted against the redistricting. You know. Jd Vance
is out claiming that the Senate lead leader in Indiana
is a layah. Laura Ingram is out blaming all of

(01:07:55):
them for just being Mike Pence fans and they don't
understand what's good for the country. They just rather do
their own little thing. Stephen Bannon is out, you know,
coming up with all kinds of conspiracy theories about this
and what motivated these Indiana senators. Some Indiana senators are saying,

(01:08:17):
you know, the reason we voted against redistricting is because
of the mega tactics, because they try to twist our arms,
because we were threatened, because they attacked our families. One

(01:08:39):
of them said, this is an Indiana state senator who
voted for Trump three times. He said, you wouldn't change
minds by being mean, and the efforts were mean spirited
from the get go. If you were wanting to change minds,
you would probably try to explain why we should be
doing this in a positive way. That never happened. Yeah,

(01:09:00):
but you voted for mean president, You voted for guy
to run this country who is inherently, fundamentally in every
fiber of his body mean nasty. So why are you surprise?
Why are you surprised? You know, other Republicans and other

(01:09:27):
states are flipping out, Ken Paxton, Attorney General in Texas.
The state senators who opposed to redistricting betrayed our nation,
our voters, and our parties. They must all be kicked
out of office. Turning point, Ussay has already said that
they will be funding and supporting alternative candidates in primaries

(01:09:51):
when the senators up for re election. So Republican Party
is just completely flipped out on this. Yep. All right,
So just thought I give you an up quick update
on that. Let's see how we do insime. All right,

(01:10:14):
we don't have a lot of questions doing Okay, there
is we should at least make the first hour's first
hour goal, so another you know, forty bucks would be great,
to twenty dollars questions would be perfect. All right, I'll
just talk a little bit about this. We'll we keep
coming back to this issue because when it actually gets
augued in front of the Supreme Court and when there's

(01:10:35):
a decision coming for the Supreme Court. But you know,
the Supreme Court has agreed to take on the birthright
citizenship question. You know, the President is basically sign an
executive order eliminating birthright citizenship, and the argument is that
is executive voter to violates the fourteenth Amendment. And I

(01:10:55):
think it does, and I think a lot of people do.
But it's not clear Supreme Court is going to advocate
for that. They could have just let the lower court's
position hold, which is that it violated the fourteenth Amendment.
They could have just let it go. But no, they
took the case, which means that at least some judges
on the Swim Court who might believe that there's some

(01:11:20):
bases for restricting birthright citizenship. Now they have at least
three options. They probably have more, but I thought i'd
quickly describe three options that they could rule him. They
could rule and vote that this is a fourteenth Amendment
issue and Trump has violated it. I'm not sure what

(01:11:43):
the majority, how big the majority will be in such
a case. It could be five to four, six to three.
It's not going to be nine zero. I think there's
some judges Thomas, for example, who I think are eager
to argue that at least in the case of illegal immigrants,
the fourteen Amendment doesn't cover them. So that's one option.

(01:12:10):
They could just vote and it would be a minority
vote too, and then this will become a big cultural
battle and it'll be a big issues for Conservatives as
they nominate judges of the Supreme Court in the future.
It'll become like a Roar versus Way type thing, and
they will try to stack the quote with people who

(01:12:31):
believe that the fourteenth Amendment doesn't cover it. A second
option is that they rule that Trump's executive vote is fine.
I think that is very unlikely. I think that's very unlikely,

(01:12:53):
partially because the interpretation of the fourteen Amendment is covering
birth right transition for everybody is well established. A lot
of laws have already been written under that assumption, and
I don't think that they can accept the idea that
a president is just in a signature with a pen,

(01:13:14):
you know, interpret the Constitution one way or the other,
or rewrite accepted law one way or the other. There
is a good chance that there Republicans on the Court
will try to do something different. They'll try to say

(01:13:34):
that indeed, birthright citizenship does not apply to illegals. However,
that kind of interpretation birthright citizenship might not apply to illegals.
They might say, might not. But the decision on that
is not the president's, but the decision on that is Congresses.

(01:13:59):
And they would thought back to Congress to pass a
law restricting birthright citizenship, so they would make it a
legislative issue, and then it dies at least until one
political party has enough votes to be able to establish
it one way or the other. And then you know,
the existing laws, existing president just goes to I think

(01:14:22):
those are the three the three possibilities. There might be more.
Will get a court expert on here to talk about
it sometime in the next few months. But you know,
I really do think birthrights citizenship is threatened now by

(01:14:43):
an out and out rejection of it by the Court,
but by a willingness of the Court to accept a
legislation that treats different births differently. So Congress writing the
rules for this another reason why we don't want to
have sixty senators Republican senators. Now only would they institute

(01:15:07):
a nation and I'm bad on abortion, but they would
also then I think, destroy much of what is destroying
much of what is the birthright? Citizenship is accepted? All right,

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Let us start with Andrews hundred dollars Thank you. Andrew
Andrews's thoughts on this explanation of nihilism by Kantianism automatized
fear and hatred of reality due to lack of knowledge.
You want capacity to know reality by reason. Such results

(01:21:40):
from the undercutting of one's means of knowledge, consciousness because
it has identity. Yes, I think that ultimately, ultimately, a
major cause of nihilism is Kant. Kant is the philosopher
of nihilism. Once you cut your own mind from real

(01:22:04):
reality by necessity of cutting off your values from reality,
and you're cutting off the relationship with your your values
and your survival and your values and your happiness and
your values and are dictated by something called category competatives.
Your happiness, if it's to be achieved, it's to be

(01:22:25):
achieved through the realization of these category imperatives that are
somehow in your mind and somehow you know what they are,
but they're actually not there. The reality is they are
no category killing peratives. Whatever moral principles you must have,
whatever values, moral values you pursue, you're going to have

(01:22:49):
to discover them in by integrating the facts of reality.
You're gonna have to discover them by knowledge of reality.
But if you cannot know reality, you cannot discover values.
You cannot discover what's good for you. You cannot discover
what is necessary for your happiness. You cannot discover what's

(01:23:12):
necessary for success at living, and therefore values become meaningless.
The detached from reality, the detachment purpose. You keep looking
for the category it better has inside your mind, but
they're not there. The ones the society imposes on you,
the altruistic ones, the ones that can't supports are self destructive,

(01:23:37):
they're not fun, they're not good for you, they don't
further your life. You reject that. But where do you
find values? Well, not in reality, because you can't no reality.
Now answer that that as you say, the fact that

(01:23:59):
you detect from reality, and that philosophies, since content built
on that fact and have steered education away from knowledge
of reality, towards socialization, towards other people, and towards emotions,
you now grow up without the tools to be able

(01:24:23):
to achieve any kind of values because the chief values
you need reason to pursue anything, to be successful, and really,
really crucially to have any sense of self esteem. Self
esteem requires reason, self esteem requires values and achievement of
those values. So you are stuck without the ability to

(01:24:49):
achieve values, reliance in your emotions, therefore driven towards the
tribe and tribalism. That will only make you afraid and anger,
angry and hateful of other people and of reality itself.
And yeah, add to that that you've done a way
to find the values. Anyway, that's all a recipe for nihilism,

(01:25:13):
and it's exactly the outcome. So I agree. I agree
with you. You have to add to your analysis where
values come from and how does one discover values? And remember,
nihilism is the rejection of all values, and a wanton
destruction of values and con separates makes it impossible if

(01:25:35):
you discover values. Molten Splendor. Where does the music intro
to YBS come from? I can't remember. I think it
comes from a marketing from that I hired years ago,
who basically hired somebody to write the music and put
it together for me. I'm pretty sure that's where it

(01:25:57):
comes from. It's not from any particular song or anyarticularly musician.
It's just a marketing thing that somebody wrote for me,
and it was a marketing firm that I had. Mike,
I remember when we could travel to Canada and Mexico
without a passport. Yeah, not that long ago. When passports

(01:26:17):
were acquired. During the first Obama term, I predicted the
travel for US citizens would become more difficult overall. Absolutely,
and it's becoming more difficult. You now need this ETA
to go into Europe and to go to go to
Britain and to go and to go into Australia. Europe
is saying they're going to require Americans they're visas. And

(01:26:40):
then when you come back. As I described yesterday, the
border Patrol has a lot of power and they are
incentivized now to whorass you. Now, not if you're normal
white American, but if you you know, a little shaded
of gray, a little shade of brown, that might be

(01:27:00):
a sign that you emigrated to the country at some point.
They have every motivation given to them by the administration
to view you with suspicion and to you know, Harashi
I Carnivore. Let's get you ready for your Nicos interview

(01:27:23):
later this month. So so ta coopa list so to
you a coupleless so to you a couple of so
tier a couple is also good to see you stirring

(01:27:44):
the pot on Twitter lately. Keep up the good work
you want so to here a couples. I'm not gonna
say it ever again, Nicos is going to have to
manage with only having one name. If Pele could do it,
if Maradona could do it, If I don't know, I'm
sure there are others, then soakn Nicos. Nicos is just Nicos.

(01:28:07):
There's only one Nikos and in objectivism, and I don't
think that's gonna change, and he's just gonna have to
live with that. At least me Uran is not gonna
be not going to be saying his family name too
odd Michael left us believe, thank you, Iconnable left us
believe only labor creates wealth, then proceed to advocate wealth

(01:28:31):
be redistributed to those who don't labor. Uh, yeah, that's clever,
But it's not their fault that they don't laver labor
labor and there's enough wealth to keep them alive without laboring.
White labor labor should only be not by those who
really want to labor. People who don't want to labor
should be able to live without laboring, particularly if we

(01:28:52):
have robots and we have rich people that we can
take their money from. So yep, James. If we don't
want to have the nineteen thirties nineteen forties again, we
shouldn't repeat the nineteen twenties. Yes, we shouldn't repeat the

(01:29:13):
nineteen twenties. We will see ideologically it appears we're repeating
the nineteen twenties. Andrew, my religious psychological roots has my feeling,
me feeling bad for Fuenttis, knowing he has serious problems
and wanting to help him. Stop it, Andrew, you're supposed

(01:29:34):
to be a rational egoist. Now that's Andrew yelling at himself,
not me. But let me just say stop it, Andrew,
what the hell we've talked about this enough. Just stop it.
Altruism is evil. Caring for somebody like Fouenttis is evil.
It's destructive. It makes your life worse. And if you

(01:29:57):
actually cared for him, if you actually went out of
his wa to help your way to help him, that
would be unbelievably destructive to your life. So don't do it.
Do not do it. Don't even think of doing it,

(01:30:20):
because you're an egoist, like Numbers, how would intellectuals be
able to idea Islamists. Not hard. You can idea is
Slamish by their ideas, by by what they preach, by
what they say. They're not shy about advocating for it.
It's pretty easy. Certain mosques associated with Islamism. There are
plenty of experts in the field who can tell you

(01:30:42):
exactly who which mosques Islamist and which are not. Those
who advocate for sharia law, those who advocate for jihad,
those who advocate for, you know, for taking over Europe.
Not all mosques are like that, not all Muslims are
like that. They're all kinds of shades of Islams, just
like all kinds of change of Christianity. It's just that
Islam never never escaped the Middle Ages. It never got

(01:31:06):
out of its Dark Ages. Islam is still in its
Dark Ages. It had an enlightenment, you know, in the
ninth to twelfth and in Spain's case, fourteenth century, and
since then it's been in the Dark Ages. But there

(01:31:27):
are all kinds of splinter groups within Islam. They are
Sufis just want to meditate. They're very influenced by the Buddhism.
They just want to meditate. They're not un interested in
converting you and then interested in going to war with you.
And you know, there are others who absolutely they're dedicated
to bringing Sharia to world domination and they will kill

(01:31:49):
and destroy whomever they need to in order to achieve
their aim. And they're after you, and they want you,
and they tell you that they're not hiding it. So
it's not hard to differentiate. Kim. What to say to
co workers and others who say they don't celebrate Christmas
because it's a religious holiday, Tell them it's not a

(01:32:10):
religious holiday. It's a second in your view, it's not
a religious holiday. It's a secular holiday. And that's why
you celebrate it. And if you thought it was a
religious holiday, you wouldn't celebrate it. But Christmas trees, gifts, lights,
decorations have zero to do with religion. Jesus wasn't born

(01:32:33):
aunt a Christmas tree. This is not how Christians celebrated
It is both originally, this is mostly you know, this
is mostly pagan adaptation, and it's mostly a creation of
nineteenth century American capitalism and a marketing employee by Macy's
of all places, Lincoln. I hate that some toxic masculinity

(01:33:00):
since the Left has ruined the term, but Tate Fuentis
calls it masculinity is toxic, worse than LGBT stuff. Yeah,
although I wouldn't say that Fuentis is masculine. He strikes
me as anti masculine. I mean to me, other than
he hates women, but that that is not masculine. That
is not at all. And it's not like he lifts

(01:33:24):
weights like the Tate's due. It's not like he's got
women drooping all over him like with Tate. He said
nothing when it comes to female male Lincoln continues, I
don't like it when teenage guys nowadays act super effeminate,
but it's mostly harmless. They aren't gonna ever soult my

(01:33:46):
sister like Tate Wood. Yes, absolutely, Yeah, Molten splendid. Thanks
for having Gene Maroney on your show. She really helped
me with an issue I've struggled with uh with forever,
and gave me a great tip on how to work
on it. Excellent, excellent. I'm happy to have guests who

(01:34:08):
are helpful to your lives. That's what that's what they're
here for. By the way, on Monday, we're going to
have an economists, the free market economists a Canadian in
origin to talk about to talk about wealth creation in
the end of the nineteenth century, was did inequality go
up or down during that period? What does that even mean? Well,

(01:34:31):
els talk about trade and why when Trump came up
with the tariffs on Canada, did this economist tell Canada
that what they should do in response is lower the tariffs.
So it should be a fun conversation. So all of you,
all of you guys who like economics, definitely listening to
that show. AAM Is popularism a natural check on unresponsive elites? No,

(01:34:57):
because popularism is just another set of elites. It's almost
always driven by false ideology, by bad ideas, and it
just replaced one set of elites with a more ignorant
seat of elites. So I don't think it's a check
on anything. It's never produced anything positive. En mil Where

(01:35:22):
can I find data for the claim that casualties of
noncombatants are the lowest? I already tried, but it's hard
to find objective info on the topic. God, there's a
couple of British guys and there's actually a whole report
that was published that analyzed all the numbers and compared
its compared it to other combats, other combat The problem

(01:35:45):
is you're asking me like out of nowhere, I would
have to actually go and look and search and try
to find it. Let me do that on a future show.
I'll pull up the have to listen to the show.
But uh, I mean, I'm just gonna scan my scan
quickly if I can figure out who it is. Yeah,

(01:36:17):
let's see. Yeah, uh yeah, So I'm gonna have to
find it. And uh, it's not it's not obvious to me.

(01:36:38):
But there's a there's a think tank in in in
London that has done a lot of good stuff on this,
and I'm just I'm just scanning my uh Twitter feed
to see if I can find the guy because I
don't remember names, which it is hard for me when
I do research, because I remember that this guy wrote
something good on something, and then I can't find it.

(01:37:00):
The West Bike has taken a very different pathops, that's
not who I wanted. But anyway, I will get back
to you with the study in question. But I you know, yeah,
I'll get back to you. I don't think it's that

(01:37:21):
hard to figure out by the way. I mean, even
if you take the seventy thousand number, and you're divided
by the total population of Gaza, and if but to
seventy thousand, even the Gazans say that includes Ramas. So
take out I don't know, twenty five thirty thousand combatants,
and you've gotten now a number of about forty forty
five thousand. Divide back by two million population, take that ratio,

(01:37:43):
and then try to figure out how many how many
civilians Americans killed in Fallujah? I mean, I'm not even
talking about Second World War with the numbers are you know?
You can check on Dresden or you can check on anything,
but even in modern warfare, how much they killed in
Fallujah and muscle? And I think you can find that

(01:38:04):
out pretty easily. But somebody's done the work, so I will.
I will find it for you and let you know. Lincoln,
how does federalism work in an objective of society. I
have a natural tendency to be in favor of a
strong state rights, but stuff like abortion, economics, and drug
policy should be federal for example. Yeah, I mean the
federal government's responsibility is the protection of individual rights on

(01:38:26):
issues where it's clear cut what that means. That is
a federal issue, and states cannot violate rights when it's
clear cut and unequivocal. The states are there for the
optional stuff. So for example, sentencing, should a murderer get

(01:38:48):
life in prison or two times life in prison or
be executed? I think that's the state's rights. The states
can decide that. I don't think the federal government has
to decide that for them. It's not there's no app
there's no rights. I mean, the right is. The important
thing is that they're that they're punished. Exactly the level

(01:39:08):
of punishment should be left to the states. Certain issues
surrounding property rights, how they exactly define those property rights,
nuisance laws, you know, what is the decibel at which
noise becomes a violation of some of these property rights.
A lot of optional things like that is where states

(01:39:31):
would intervene. But on the big questions abortion, economic policy, drugs,
for speech that should be protected, you know, slavery that
should be protected by the federal government. Robert, have you officiated?

(01:39:54):
Have you officiated a wedding? And if so, what tips
would you offer a first time. I'll be officiating a
wedding tomorrow for the first time. I mean, I've officiated
it's several weddings. I can't remember how many, four at least,
you know. I think the main thing is role with

(01:40:14):
what they with, what their writing groom want. I mean,
it's their party. What do they want, how do they
want it done? You know, accommodate them. Uh, you know,
be a dignified. It's a it's a it's an important ceremony.
It should be treated with dignity. But you know, in

(01:40:36):
terms of what you say and all that, I think
that should all be uh, that should all be determined
at the end of the day by the bride and groom.
They should have full responsibility for what the ceremony is
going to be like. And although you know, at some
point you might want to at some point you might
want to standardize, uh, standardize them or give a number

(01:40:57):
of different options to people so they don't have to
write starting stuff from scratch. I have I think someone
in my computer all the stuff I've done in the past,
and you know, just just be up there, be friendly,
be dignified, and it should be a fun It should
be a fun event. I mean. The one thing I
hate about weddings is when they turn into duty bound.

(01:41:21):
We have to do this we have to do that.
You know, it should be fun. It should be. It
should be you know, the biting groom should be enjoying
themselves and not worried constantly about what is what. Take
the load off of them as much as you can
keep keep them on track. I mean, that's I think
that's all the advice I have. Just get up there

(01:41:42):
and do it. It's it's going to be fun and fine.
S Rose. It says ten to fifty long time non
live listeners, So I don't really get how super chests
work in practice. I'm a new mom, emotions positive and negative,
and I'm trying to think instead of feel good. My

(01:42:06):
son is of Jewish descent by my husband. My husband
doesn't identify that way, his family does. We have both
thought to just not tell us son about his genetic heritage,
because why tell him Iran? But his uncommon name is

(01:42:26):
one recognizable of Hebrew origin. I'm scared this rise of
anti Semitism, and I wonder if a when he should
know for his safety, any advice on how to do
this analysis My heart has is in my throat whenever
I think about it. But I'm trying. You are trying,

(01:42:46):
and that's good and yeah, you're doing good fifty out
of fifty value for value. Thank you really really appreciate that.
I think you're right. I don't think you should make
a deal out of it. But look, it's going to
come out. The existence of God is going to come up.
The existence are relatives that celebrate different holidays than maybe

(01:43:08):
his friends celebate is going to come up. The fact
that his friends might be Christian or whatever might come up. See,
you're not going to be able to ignore one religion.
You're going to have to come up with a strategy
and how to deal with it. And the strategy I
think best to deal with it is just straight up,

(01:43:29):
you know, be rational with your kid. This is when
they're a little older. Different people believe in different things.
We happen to think your parents, you'll have to decide
when you're grown up, or we happen to think that
they believe don't make any sense, and therefore we don't
celebrate those holidays that don't go to church or don't

(01:43:51):
do these things, and we don't believe in God because
that doesn't make any sense to us. And by the way,
some of these people who call themselves Jewish, it's not
just a religion, but it's a people. We don't really
care about belonging to groups, tribes, peoples, but some people do,
and these members of the family do, and they make

(01:44:12):
a big deal out of it. And you know, your name,
your family name. At some point you can tell him
your family name is an associated with that in reality though,
and I don't know if this is will relieve some
of your stress or not. In reality is not Jewish
because according to Jews, whether you're Jewish or not, that

(01:44:35):
comes from the mother. Now anti Semites don't care you
w all Jews, whether it's through the mother, through the father,
whether you reject your Judaism or not. So you know,
you tell him that this is the family name, and
he you know, some people might assume he's Jewish, and
he can tell them he is or isn't, based on
what he actually thinks. But don't don't ever let them

(01:44:59):
get to you. Don't ever let him get to you.
And deal with the with the hate or the or
you know, people saying bad things when it happens, deal
with it as rationally as a straightforwardly is as necessary
and of course appropriate to the to the age of
the kid. I mean don't flood him with abstract concepts,

(01:45:21):
you know, do stuff at whatever appropriate for his conceptual level,
depending on what age is in. I mean that I
think is the best advice. So so think it through.
But it's not something to worry about now, your new
mom enjoy you know, the the unbelievable hard work and

(01:45:43):
the lack of sleep that you're going to endure for
the next few months years. This is not an issue
that's going to come up anytime soon. There's no point
in addressing any of this before they start going to
school and engage with other people and actually have questions,
and they will come to you with questions before you

(01:46:03):
come up with and then just be prepared for rational
honest don't play games, don't make stuff up, honest, rational
conversations with your kids. But again, you've got years before
this is an issue. Stop worrying about it. There's nothing
to worry about. And yeah, by the way, congratulations and
I think a baby. Enjoy it, Celebrate it, you know,

(01:46:27):
just have fun with it and deal with the issue
when it comes up in four or five, ten, fifteen years. Right,
it'll probably come up in various ways at different ages,
all right, Molten spender. How do you balance private property
rights in an urban environment without governing intervention. I'm not

(01:46:48):
sure you do. You never balance private property rights. People
have private property rights. I have a right to my property. Now,
I can't do anything that violates your property right. Now,
how we define that government has. Goverment is responsible for
helping us understand what that means. So I can't blast

(01:47:08):
music from my on my property if it is disruptive
in your property. I can't pollute. I can't do stuff
on my property that pollutes your property. I can't chuck
my garbage in your backyard. You know. I can't run
my fence into your property. That's what goverment does. But

(01:47:33):
other than that, you don't have a right to a view.
You don't have a right to nice neighbors. You don't
have a right to not have a multifamily building next
to you or office building next to you. There's no zoning,
there's no none of that. People have property rights and

(01:47:54):
they can do what they wouldn't want with their property.
The way private property disputes get resolved as through the
court system, and the way we establish neighborhoods with some
cohesion and some is by having agreements between the different
owners of property on what cana cannot be done. But

(01:48:17):
that is done voluntarily through contract, not through government regulations.
Andrew good Lord having the intellectuals messed up man's concept
of masculinity. Do you think their rejection of differentiation between
man and women has led to the modern misogyny on
the right? Partially it was always there on the right,

(01:48:38):
but I think look, the rise of women in the workplace,
the decline of manual labor, the need for muscle for
man's survival, has placed men in a difficult situation where
they have to figure out what masculinity is. It used

(01:49:00):
to be simple, take out the sword and defend your
family against the invaders. Easy, But what is it now
when you don't Nobody needs your sword, They need your brain.
And you're not the only provider for the family. The
woman can provide just as well as you can, maybe
sometimes even better. So there really is an issue of

(01:49:26):
modernity of how do we how do we think about masculinity,
how do we conceptualize masculinity? And this and the left
just wipes it out. There's no difference between men and women,
so that wipes it out. And the right is reactionary.
The right is about the past, so it looks to
the past for answers. But the search for an answer,

(01:49:49):
the search for an explanation, is legitimate. The wondering, the
the the need for something, for a conception of masculinity
is necessary. So it's not out of nowhere. Okay, Jacob
did Well find new to European confidence to act in

(01:50:12):
the world and as certain values or was that something else?
Over emphasized colonial guilt. Well, it's a combination of a
lot of things. It's welfare, it's colonial guilt, but its
guilt over the world. Was World War One, World War Two,
the number of people who died, the horror that it created.
There's a lot of guilt built into European societies for

(01:50:36):
those wars, and a lot of the structure. The reason
for the EU has a lot to do with trying
to create mechanisms to avoid that ever happening again. Lincoln,
how does one overcome a mindset that opposes abortion? My

(01:50:56):
girlfriend and I have agreed to have abortion as an
option in case of unwanted pregnancy. However, I grew up
Catholic and had radical anti abortion viewpoint drilled into me
from a very young age. I'm worried that could affect
me if if my go friend gets an abortion. Well,

(01:51:17):
I mean, you have to prepare yourself for it. That is,
you have to think it through and you have to
recognize that reason rules all. That is, you might have
some negative emotions, you're going to you're going to have
to accept that and you're gonna have to you know,
fight through it in a sense of yes, I have
these negative emotions, but I don't I'm going to act

(01:51:38):
not on them. I'm going to act on my reason,
you know. And the more you prep for it, the
more you think about it in advance, the more you
work in convincing yourself that this is right, the less
of a problem it will be when, when, and if
it actually happens. Michael, A few people on Twitter told

(01:51:59):
me to go to a gas chamber. Is this First
Amendment protected speech? Yes, it's metaphorical. They didn't literally say
we're coming to get you and throw you into gas chamber.
Even that I think is probably protected. They literally have
to say we're coming to kill you. Beware. Even there,
unless there's some reason to believe that they would actually

(01:52:21):
do it, it's probably going to be protected. So there
has to be not just a threat, but a viable threat.
The other party has to be in a position to
actually do the threat, follow up on the threat. Thank you,
Michael Robert. Thanks. Yes, the wedding is going to be

(01:52:44):
great fun, second winning for both and they want it
substantially more irreverent than their first. Good good. You know,
I think people stress way overly plan and way overly
stress their weddings, and then they rarely been to a
wedding where people actually had fun, because I mean I

(01:53:05):
mean talking about the groom and the bride. Everybody else
is having fun, but they're worried about this and that
and this family member that family member, and did I
throw the thing on the right angle? And did we
do the thing on the chair? And when is this?
When do we kept the cake? And when do we
do this? And when we do that? Chill, chill, just relax.
It's a party to celebrate. Don't have to do anything,

(01:53:30):
all right, guys, I think I'm down to only three
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(01:53:54):
Missing Link, The Missing Link. All right bye, everybody, have
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