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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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welcome to One Book Show on this Monday, November twenty,

(00:25):
twenty twenty fourth. Thanks for joining me and for another episode.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Of the One Book Show, where we're going to cover
the news day.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
It's been a while, four days without shows. I know
some of you are going through withdraw. Hopefully Michael's here.
He was wondering if there was going to be a
show today. He seemed a little.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Angsy asy, But yeah, a lot of news to cover.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
I was in Austin, Texas for a seminar four long days,
so I am exhausted. So we'll see, we'll see, we'll
see how it goes today. But we will become being
kind of the news. In the last few days, a
lot's been going on, so we'll run through a lot
of topics and we'll see. Uh, we'll see what kind

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or at least view that as as a virtue. All right, yeah, yeah, answers.
Eight topics, that's right, eight topics. That's not pretty quick,
just kind of update you because I know some of
you don't listen to the news, don't read newspapers, don't
watch television news. You get all your news from here.

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So some of this is just quick updates. Some of
it is more in depth. We will see. Let's start
with Ukraine. So last week it was revealed that.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Putin loving put In loving with Koff.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Witkoff, who is a god, real piece of work. As
somebody who met Putin and told Tucker Carlson earlier this year,
I like him. I thought he was straight up with me.
I don't regard him as a bad guy. This is Putin,

(02:29):
the guy who kills his opponents, poisons people, kills his
political poisons, have Russians falling out of windows constantly. This
is the guy kills journalists and has been engaged in
a war in Europe, first ground war, really major war
in Europe since World War Two. Since twenty fourteen, has

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been engaged in war with Ukraine. That putin the authoritarian
thought putin the dictator of Russia putin that putin Witcoff Bright,
you know, real estates another real estate developer. Bright, real

(03:13):
estate developer, says it does not regard him as a
bad guy. I'm curious. I'm just curious, just asking questions,
That's all I'm doing. I wonder who Witcoff considers a
bad guy. Who does Witcof consider.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
A bad guy? That would be interesting. Who doesn't he like?

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Probably people I like, and probably people I think are
good guys, would be my guess. Anyway, Witcoff and one
of the aids to President Putin spent some time in
Miami over the last few weeks and wrote up a
twenty eight point peace plan. A twenty eight point peace plan.
It basically gives Russia almost everything it wants. It gives

(04:00):
us all of the donbas. It gives them a cap
on the size of Ukrainian military. It gives them Ukraine
never joining NATO again. It gives them all the land
that they've occupied since twenty fourteen, It becomes Russian. Ukulin

(04:22):
gives it up. It gives them a great stagy ground
for the next assault sometime in the future in Ukraine.
It basically, you know, Russia gets everything except the only
thing that actually gave in this proposal was a very
ambiguous week unspecified security guarantee by the United States and Europe,

(04:49):
a security guarantee that, by the way, the United States
gave Ukraine. And it was in nineteen eighty four when
Ukraine gave up it's nuclear missiles. So we all know
what security guarantees are worth. So this is the planet
Widcoff and the Russian came up with twenty eight points.

(05:11):
Twenty eight points. Basically, it is a surrendered document for Ukraine.
And it was made public last week and presented to
the Ukrainians last week, and it was all done in

(05:31):
a very rushed, quick manner, and it was leaked very quickly.
And of course President Trump came out and said, oh,
I agree completely, this is great, and I demanded Zelensky
applied to this by thanks Evning basically as Zelensky freaked out,

(05:51):
basically went on the Ukrainian TV saying, this is a
tough decision we the Ukrainian people will have to make.
It's you know, this is our allies abandoning us. Basically,
Trump said, if you don't agree to this, we will
stop supporting you and and potentially release Russia from sanctions.

(06:13):
H So, you know, that was Friday, and Trump came
out with one of his two social social you know,
I don't know what you call it when you throw
up on paper anyway, and basically said, you know, blame

(06:39):
Ukraine for studying the war. Uh and and uh and
and when after the Ukrainians. I mean, he never says
and it's stunning. Historians will write about this, and they
will be shocked by the fact that Americans just rolled
and just went along with this. Trump never says a
bad word about Putin. Never williams Putin for the aggression,

(07:04):
never playing Putin for anything. Putin is the good guy
or in. Let's see, I've got Tucker Couson's quote. Tucker
Couson said, you know, when he was talking to Michael Knowles,
and Michael Knowles had a good chuckle about this. Didn't disagree.
I'm not moving to Russia. But Putin has been the
most effective leader in my lifetime. Effective. Russians are poor,

(07:28):
the country is, you know, staggeringly.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
In a horrible situation.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Over one point five million young Russians have been either
maimed or killed on a battlefield.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
What else has happened? Did I say Russia was poor?

Speaker 1 (07:50):
The stand of living has been declining, quality of life
is horrible.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
Poland is so much richer than Russia.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
Czech Republic is so much richer than USh on a
per capita basis effective effective at what at stealing from
his country? Put in his billions and billion, one hundreds
of billions, probably in a bank account in Switzerland. He

(08:20):
has been effective at one man rule. He's been effective
at destroying his country. He's been effective at killing its youth.
He's been effective at getting the most talented Russias to
leave the country.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
He's been effective.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
I mean, Tucka has to be the most dishonest, disgusting
commentator out there, because I mean he's doing for into
at Candice own. But yeah, but he was somethings a
while ago. He used to be something. So he says

(08:59):
I'm not gonna be Russia with Putin has been the
most effective leader in my lifetime. Why is he more
evil than Joe Biden? Maybe because he started one and
killed a lot of people and destroyed his own economy
and destroyed his own people. And then he says, I
can't even conceptualize that. Conceptualize is a big word for Tucker.
I don't know if you quite understand what said, understands

(09:20):
what that means.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
But I believe him when he.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Can't conceptual conceptualize that, because this one is so easy
that the only way you can't conceptualize it is if
you've created a massive lie with massive rationalizations to try
to prevent you from actually seeing right in front of
your face the truth. So Witcuff likes Putin. Tucker Couson

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like Putin, and and maybe Putin's biggest fan is Donald Trump.
And so Donald Trump, you know, blames Ukraine, blames everybody else,
lashes out of the Ukrainians. It's all their fault. Of course,
Putin has rebuffed him over and over and over and
over again, and once in a while he kind of

(10:12):
gets angry, and then he remembers that he really loves
Putin and they really have this romance going. And Putin
has nukes, and Putin's strong, and Putin runs a big country,
bigger than the United States. That has to count for something,
I mean, geographically bigger than the United States, and he
remembers that. Yeah, I mean his real friends of Putin
Kshi and and and that monster from from from North Korea,

(10:35):
and he remembers that, and I think guess he calms
down and he remembers the Zelenski short and doesn't wear suits,
and his country's pathetic, it's insignificant. And yeah, he's got
to take Putin's sight because Putin's but his butt. Putin's

(10:55):
his buddy. I mean, at the end of the day,
Trump loves strongmen. He loves strongmen. He loves people who win,
even if it's by cheating, as we saw with his
conversation with Odigan from Turkey. And he loves people who

(11:22):
want to use the state to to you know, to
pursue their agenda, as we saw with Mamdani. We'll talk
about that in a little bit. I mean the love
fest there. He he he loves a little Obego short.
I don't know, Authormitarians. He likes Thethitarians. And he has

(11:47):
no freedom free countries. Self defense means nothing to him.
It really means nothing to him. Strength that's all that matters. Strength.
I mean, he realized Ukraine can't be Russia. Certainly without

(12:07):
the US help. He doesn't want to help Ukraine because
Maggot doesn't really want to spend money on helping Ukraine,
So he doesn't want to help Ukraine. And he wants
a noble peace prize, and he likes Putin and he
would like Putin to succeed, but Putin's kind of not
going anywhere, not really succeeding. So he's going to help

(12:28):
Putin succeed and get a peace prize by securing some
kind of deal there. Anyway, just to give you a
sense of what's going on on the ground, the Russians
are gaining ground very very very slowly, huge casualties, you know,

(12:52):
every few months they.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
Move a little bit.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
But for them to gain the Donbas, which what Ukraine
is about to hand over to them if they follow
Trump's peace deal, it's going to take them years at
the current pace, and in a huge amount of bloodshed,
particularly Russian blood, and an economy that deteriorates further. So

(13:22):
Ukraine is not winning, and Ukraine doesn't have the capacity
to really beat the Russians back without much more Western aid,
which it's not getting and it's not going to get
it looks like, but Russia is not advancing very far,
and with a little bit more Western aid, Russian wouldn't advance.
Russia wouldn't advance at all. It would just be a

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VTRICI to go on for a long long time. And
to some extent, Ukraine knows that, and it's realizing that
they're in trouble and they might need a deal, and
they might have to compromise, and they might have to
give the Russians a lot in order just to breathe,
in order to get a little bit of a breathing space.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
But they also don't want to do it in.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Such a way that gives Russia the ability and the
ability to launch the war again in a few years
and this time sweep through Ukraine because Ukraine has a
smaller military and you will not defend them in the
United States will not be there, and I'll just just
dominate them completely.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
Ukraine can indeed defeat.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
The Russians if they got proper aid, but they're not
going to. It's just not going to happen under Trump.
And the Europeans are too poor. They're too poor. They're
two fragmented, the two indecisive, the too cowardly. Mainly they're
too poor to really provide Ukraine with kind of aid
it needs in order to win this. So Ukraine over

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the weekend, sent Zelenski and others went to I guess
it was Zuich Geneva, Geneva, I think, and they met
with Marko Rubio and an American delegation. Marko Rubio, who
was not at all involved in this twenty eight point plan,
had nothing to do with it.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
It was handed to him.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
I mean, this is what Trump does, he doesn't, I mean,
he keeps saying he has respect for Rubio, but only
because Rubio is a yes man, and all this interesting
stuff happens around Rubio, and then Rubio gets handed it
and Rio doesn't reject it, doesn't fight against it, doesn't
complain to Trump. He just rolls with it. And Rubio
is stuck negotiating this deal with the Ukrainians. So there

(15:47):
was a negotiation in Geneva this weekend. The twenty eighth
plan is now a twenty eight point plan, is now
a nineteen point plan. A lot of Ukrainian's points are
being included into the plan. The plan has changed significantly.

(16:09):
It's exactly where and how, But Ukraine wants if they're
going to get security guarantees. They want explicit security guaranties.
They're very clear and very explicit.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
They don't want to give up the land.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
And if they're going to, you know, they might make
it demilitarized, but they won't give it up completely. Generally,
they're not willing to give up any land. So whatever
this deal will be would be from their perspective, temporary
and da. Anyway, there's a draft now that's a nineteen
point plan that's much more aligned with.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
Ukrainian goals. And of course.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
Rubio is not talked to Trump, and because Rubio talked
to Trump, Trump.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Is not mellowed a little bit.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
Now he's a little bit more pro Ukraine and a
little bit more anti Russia. And said, it really depends
who puts who Trump is talking to. If he talks
a week, it's one thing. If he talks to Rubio,
it's another if he talks to JD. Vans or something else.
But the bottom line is there seems to be some
agreement coming together around this new plan, which is a

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version of the original plan, but a significantly changed version.
And of course Russia has already said, look, even the
twenty eight point plan, even though we get everything we want.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
We want to tinkle with it a little bit.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
It's like everything we want, a few things we want
to in addition, and now it's going to be trimmed
back to this eighteen nineteen points. And now the Russians
are not going to get anything close to what everything
they want. So again the Russia is going to turn
it down. And then Trump's gonna have to decide Who's
gonna blame. Is he gonna blame the Ukrainians are going
to blame the Russians. Who is going to bring for this?

(17:51):
So it's it's a it's a real it's a real challenge.
Nothing's gonna come of this, I don't think accept more
strife and more headaches. And Zelenski's coming to Washington supposedly
to meet with Trump to finalize the fine points, as

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if Trump knows what a fine point is or cares
about the fine points.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
But he's he'll come.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
We'll be able to hold his hand, maybe maybe half
the European leaders will come like last time, to hold
his hand and help him. Although I think he's figured
out how to deal with Trump. He compliments him, he
thanks him, he grovels, he kisses the ring and then
he he makes and then he makes his argument, which
is which is much easier. But even then they fight.

(18:40):
Trump just wants put him to win. He's wants Russia
to get what it wants. He just doesn't give one
iota about you know, Ukraine. He really doesn't care. He
wants to be able to say he cut a deal.
He wants to be able to say he got a

(19:02):
He gotta compromise, he got a peace deal, he got
a Nobel prize. He doesn't care about truth or justice,
who's right, or who should win, none of that.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
He likes Putin.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
He doesn't like lens Ki, and he wants a deal,
and he realizes the Poutin won't budge, and therefore he
has to compromise. He has to He has to sell
out the link Sky to Putin. That's it. This is
this is how thugs deal with the world. They deal

(19:40):
based on power of the other side and not based
on justice or truth or values. They don't values here
except force. Force is the only value Trump values.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
If you will, uh, anyway, we will see what happens.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
Is Zelenski's coming maybe and uh, I think Putin's gonna
say no, although maybe they'll have to meet again, and
Trump will have to gravel again, and and and and
for Putin to actually say, no, you know, be able
to do a flyover and a red carpet. Maybe he
didn't get a you know, a gun salute like like

(20:24):
the NBS from study. Maybe got got a full gun salute.
Maybe maybe that's what Putin is waiting for in order
to agree.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Uh, Putin is no rush.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
Putin unless he gets everything he wants, is afraid that
once the war's over, the Russian people will turn on
him and ask him what it was all for? What
did they gain from it? As long as the war's going,
he can muster the patriotism of the Russian people and

(20:55):
say he's the only guy who can see this through,
and he has a vision, and he he knows knows
what needs to be done, and he's channeling the Russian spirit.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
Once it was over, and all the.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
Widows and and and parents who lost their kids and
and injured soldiers coming back from the funds and just
soldiers coming back to the front with PTSD are going
to turn around and say, what was this for? What
do we achieve here? We're even poorer than we were before. Now,

(21:34):
why is this an American self interest to help Ukraine
or to care about this. I did a whole talk
about this a couple of years ago, so you can
find that online. But basically, Russia is a threat to
the United States. Russia is an enemy. It is you know,
funding our enemies. It is funding attacks and our allies.

(21:59):
It is is it has ambitions to become a global power,
starting with Europe and dominating Europe. That is not in
America's interests and the United States, the United States should

(22:21):
help hold back an enemy, hold back the bad guys.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
For pretty cheap cost.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
If puts in a text NATO an Article five is
implemented and the US abides by its treaty, which maybe
he won't, but if it does, that will cost within
months more than years of support for Ukraine. So if
you can cheaply, effectively and cheaply effect that, if you

(23:02):
could effectively and cheaply reduce the threat the Russia poses,
then why not do it? I mean, our debt is
so large, our government spends so much money. The money
we send Ukraine is trivial, and given that mostly we

(23:25):
send them weapons systems, and usually what we send them
as weapons systems that are dated, it doesn't actually cost
us much out of the treasury. These are bombs and
missiles that we would have to replace anyway. These are
weapons systems that are already dated that have to be
replaced and upgraded anyway. So instead of putting into some

(23:47):
trash heap, we give them to Ukrainians. Or right now
Trump is selling the Tornado, but we give them to Ukrainians.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
I mean, it seems like such.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
A good deal us committed actually going to war with Russia,
that it's a no brainer, just a no brainer to
support Russia, all right, talking about another country that the
United States supports.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
And people complain about it.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
And here the number, the amount of money involved is
so small it's pathetic that anybody even raises it, given
the you know, the size of the American budget and
how little we we give to Israel, even though I
am I've said for years, twenty something years, thirty years,

(24:40):
maybe that the United States stop giving money to Israel,
or is it just stop taking money from the United States.
Either way, it doesn't help Israel. It hurts it, and
it's hurting it right now. It's making a lot of
people turn against Israel. It's an excuse it's not a
real reason, it's an excuse. But fine, you know, Israel
doesn't need the money. But anyway, it's such a small

(25:03):
amount to pretend that it's about the debt the deficit,
it's such a joke.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
The deficit is.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
One point nine trillion dollars trillion trillion, and as well
gets what three a billion, one point nine trillion to
three billion, that's uh one percent of one point nine
trillion would be you know, nineteen billion, right, thirty one percent.

(25:36):
So this is zero point one percent of the deficit,
not of spending of the deficit. And this is what
people get excited about. And then I shouldn't call them
anti Semites because they don't get excited about all the
billions of dollars we spend on so many crappy, stupid,

(25:59):
crappy and stupid uh stuff in the United States. All right,
let's see, so listen to Israel. So Israel has a

(26:21):
few things out of Israel, both in terms of more
information about what happened on October seventh, but also a
few things Israel is doing isel you know, comas breaks
the cease fire periodically by by shooting or by approaching
the the yellow line which they're not supposed to cross.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
Israel retaliates.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
They also have made it very clear that they don't
have any attent to disarm. It's supposed to become a
clear that no country is willing to send their troops
to Gaza to try to force fully disarm Hamas. Nobody
is that suicidal. So this Trump peace plan is complete garbage.

(27:11):
It's useless. Nobody is going to actually do the work.
And they end only one military in the world can
do the work, is motivated to do, work, is incentivized
to do it, is willing to do it, and as
the capability of doing and that's Israel. So Israel has
over the last few years killed a major you know,

(27:34):
major commander within Hamas, one of the remaining commanders in
Hamas that they didn't kill before. Israel has also you know,
there's a there's a yellow line where Israel now in
the yellow area where Israel occupies about fifty few percent

(27:54):
of Gaza and the rest is in a sense Ramas occupied.
But in the area that Israel occupies, this Ramas stuck
uh and Israel is basically cleaning them out and killing them,
capturing them and killing them.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
So there's been a lot of activity around that.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
UH.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
But they have been.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
Bombing and and and killing senior people within Ramas. And
then over the weekend they did something they haven't done
in a while, and that is they bombed Bay Roots.
They killed Risabella's number two. I thought Tabi Tabai something
like that. Uh Isbela's top military commander. And basically Israel

(28:36):
is saying to Lebanon, if you won't disarm Risbelah in Lebanon,
we will. We will stop bombing you, and we will
stop bombing them. And there's gonna be collateral damage from Lebanese.
So if the Lebanese army doesn't go in and actually
start dismanding Krisbela, we will. UH. Israel, you know, signed

(29:01):
the cease fire deal with Lebanon and Krisbelah, but only
under the assumption that Lebanon would this band Krisbela or
disarm them at least and the opposite is happening. Risbela
is rebuilding tunnels, rebuilding storages of weapons systems UH, and
Israel is now hitting Lebanon basically daily. It's going to

(29:25):
increase the sautees, It's going to increase the amount of bombing significantly.
In the days to come, there's going to be a
lot more. Now it is possible that Krisbela will retaliate.
They still have a lot of a lot of missiles,
maybe tens of thousands of missiles still they have, uh,

(29:45):
they still have some launchers. They could start launching missiles
into northern Israel. They are worried because of what happened
last time. You remember the beeper is the killing of
the entire Grisbela leadership, almost the entire Isbela leadership, truction
of many of those missiles, you know, many of those launchers,
and is Al's basically incosion into South Ebine well as

(30:08):
well as threatening to do all of that again starting
next week next week. So uh, Asrael as doing what
they said they would do. We'll see what happens with
you on but just doing what they said they do.
They basically said.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
Look, we're gonna leave you alone.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
But every time you raise a hand against us, every
time you buy more weapons, you stock power, more missiles,
you threaten our troops in any way, we will we
will come down on you. And that's what they're doing.
They're doing in Gaza, they're doing it here, whereas in
the past is all. It's would would reduce these fires

(30:54):
and they would withdraw and they forget about it, and
then the other side would rearm and do everything, and
is always just ignore it all. It's not ignoring it now.
Now hopefully they can sustain this for a very long
time because they'll need to.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
But yeah, they are.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
Anyway, Israel's being diligent about not letting or Hamas get
re established, and they're taking him out where they need to.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
I don't know if you saw the bombing.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
They killed this guy, but very few, very little collateral damage,
which was pretty amazing. Again, it was it was, you know,
pinpoint accuracy. They knew exactly where he was. Analysts are
saying they're using AI facial recognition on drones to identify Chrisabella,

(31:52):
you know, leaders as they're moving around. They've got drones
all of the birout and you know, and then when
the time comes, they can just launch against any one
of them. So it's going to be interesting. It be
you see if as well. I response, if it retaliates,
I think it's all a out of war with Israel.

(32:12):
If it doesn't, then Israel would just keep on using
bombings to reduce the as well as capabilities until if
and until the Lebanese government decides to get serious about
trying to disarmbell itself. Oh, a few things about Israel.

(32:35):
So you know, now that there's relatively relative calm in Israel,
there's a lot of soul searching and about October seventh
and how it happened, at least at the military level,
you're not yet seeing at the political level.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
So there's still no commission, there's no.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
Organized you know, investigation into with the politicians, did.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
They have any pardon this faults in this.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
Politicians have no incentive to look at their own responsibility.
But the military, for example, put out a list the
other day, I think it was yesterday, November twenty third,
so yesterday, basically naming all the commanders. These are generals,

(33:24):
bigadier generals, you know, senior commanders within the Israeli Army
who are going to be dismissed or sanctioned or discharged
completely even from reserved duty. You know, it starts from
the former Chief of the Military Intelligence Directorate, the former
Chief of the Operations Directorate, the command of the Idea
of Southern Command, the chief of Military Intelligence Directorate, the

(33:49):
head of the Israeli Air Force, the Command in chief
of Israeli Navy.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
I mean, all of them have been named, sanctioned, and held.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
Responsible at least to some extent for what happened on
October seventh. So Israel is Israeli military taking accountability, figuring
out who is responsible, naming names, which is super important.

(34:21):
So that has happened. What other thing, you know, there's
again there's a lot of looking at how Hamas gathered intelligence,
how it knew where to attack and and and uh,
how did it how did it pull it all off
on October seventh? And it turns out that one of
the things that they were doing is that, you know,

(34:47):
they they basically been following social media of soldiers.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
And they learned a lot about.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
The soldiers, where they were, what they were doing, what
their routines were, but even about the weapons systems. Soldiers
would would take selfies and do videos, and in the tank,
around the tank, they knew, for example, that there's a
secret button in the tank which were impressed basically disables

(35:21):
the tank for a certain period. How do they have
this information, people asked, Well, beginning in twenty eighteen, you know,
about twenty twenty five, hundred Hamas operatives started following nearly
one hundred thousand IDF soldiers on social media, and these soldiers.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
Did not did not treat the information they had appropriately.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
By tracking the soldiers, Hamas pierced together the puzzle uptained
highly valuable in for me photos and videos, some of
them trivial from the bases outpost an Armored Corps training bases,
training videos of soldiers demonstrating treank procedures, and they built
an entire program based on this videos in terms of

(36:16):
what they could do, how they could deal with the tanks,
and how they could do with the advanced weapons. These
reallys that where they were, what their routines were, what
their routines.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
Were, when they could hit them the hardest.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
I mean how must even created fake accounts WhatsApp groups
to recruit people from elite IDEF combat units and then
gain access to those soldiers even when they didn't have
a public profile, so they got their names, so they

(36:56):
had information about where the cameras were placed and what
would the procedure was if an alarm went off and
all of this using this information, according to this report
that has come out, Hamas built maps, simulations and even
simulate tours. It putes the three D simulator software at

(37:17):
four one to one scale, and constructor simulators are bases
and outposts. The terrorists could put on virtual reality headsets
in Gaz and whohearsed the infiltration of each of the
IDs outposts. Hamas also built physical, real world models of
the Gaza boat outposts and trained inside them. Now as

(37:44):
any sense, knew that some of this was going on,
but they couldn't imagine how accurate they were. And of
course warnings from intelligence operatives and intelligence officers went unheard,
and they were not to and seriously by the political
levels and by senior Israeli military offices. I mean, think

(38:07):
about what a powerful tool this iPhone is. And every
soldier has one, and they're playing around, and they don't.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
Think there's a real threat. They don't think there's a
war going to happen.

Speaker 1 (38:18):
They're sitting at the base, they're board they're playing games,
they're doing videos, they're chatting with their go friends, they're
filming funny they're filming funny videos. They're showing off to
their go friends. Oh look at my tank, Look this button,
Look at what this button does. And senior commanders again

(38:39):
evade the real threat. They can't imagine Hamas will ever
do anything. This is from the Prime Minister Nataniell all
the way down. I mean, it was a there was
a a risk assessment at one point that the IDEAF
did maybe a year or two before October seventh, where

(39:02):
the number one risk facing Israel, the number one existential
risk that Israel faced, not Hamas, not Iran, not Isbela,
not Egypt, not Iran, climate.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
Change, climate change.

Speaker 1 (39:20):
So yeah, Haramas got all this information from gullible young
people who were just fooling around because they didn't take
the threat seriously, because their commanders didn't take this seriously,
because their political leaders didn't take the threat seriously, because
they were basically betrayed by all those more adults, more
senior people. Remember, these soldiers are kids, really nothing more

(39:43):
than kids. I these are gonna be uh, this is
gonna be uh. I'm just gonna it's gonna be quick.
On Yuan, just a couple of things on you Wan
that I'm gonna note. We'll get back to these because
they'll be in use for a while now. But Iran
is is in really big trouble. Its economy is in tatters.

(40:09):
It can now reconstitute the military that it had before
the Twelve Day War with Israel. And what's happening is
they're running out of water. I mean literally running out
of water. In some cities in Iran, you open the top,
nothing comes out. Decades are bad decisions, decades of evasion,

(40:31):
decades of focusing on building up a military at the
expense of.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
Water and food and.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
Basic needs for the Ranian people. Literally, if you look
at the water reservoirs in Iran with dams, the water
is almost it's almost empty. They really are facing the
possibility of mass of not having water. Truly shocking. Millions

(41:06):
tens of millions of people are threatened by no water,
and they know the money to solve the problem. Now
note Israel, for example, has so much water right now. Israel,
they used to be always wes is always used to
struggle with water when I was a kid.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
I mean you had to watch water. You couldn't use
X number water.

Speaker 1 (41:29):
Now there's so much water in Israel because of desalination
technology that Israel is refilling the Sea of Galilee, which
has gone down because people are using water upstream. It's
gone down in level, so they're not pumping from the
desalination plants from the Mediterranean water through the Sea of

(41:51):
Galilee and refilling it. Which is crazy stuff. But that's
the difference between and advance technologically advanced, relatively rich, free
country that has entrepreneurs that invested in improving its own
people's lives by leaving them free to innovate and produce.

(42:13):
The difference between that and a theocratic regime dedicated to
going after its enemies, building weapons and producing and creating
and building n a nothing and seeing its people you know,
poor and now now get thirsty. All right. Also in Iran,

(42:41):
there is a huge amount of pollution.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
There's a city shaha real where they.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
Are is so choked to a toxic dust that people
can hardly see ten steps ahead. Again, you know, they're
going after the regime for the neglect that left the
city in the emergency conditions citizens struggle to breathe. And
again the regimes sinking billions into nuclear weapons and into

(43:10):
missiles and into all this other stuff. This is the
kind of mixture, a real economic damage, the risk of
not having water pollution, but real pollution pollution that is
really everybody knows is harming people's lives. That is going

(43:31):
to turn people against this regime. I mean, you're already
seeing that wearing, you know, have covering for women is
not being enforced into Hran. The regime doesn't want a
fight right now, but it might get a fight not
over freedom, but over neglect, over just neglecting its population.

(43:54):
So the months to come I think are going to
be super important in terms of what happens anyone, and
I hope they're going to lead to lead to ultimately
a revolution, which I've been waiting for for a very
long time. All Right, m a lot of like five

(44:17):
ten dollars questions, put in some uh, twenty fifty dollars questions.
We need to get our goals. And uh, I'm tired tonight,
so a lot of five to ten dollar questions. We'll
have to go all night to get to the goals.
All right, Value for value, remember that.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
Mumdani.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
Did you guys see this meeting between the socialist Mundani
and uh and Trump? I mean wow. Mamdannie had actually
called Trumpet fascist and has repeated that since the meeting,
and yet they were like best buds. I mean, Trump

(45:04):
showed real respect for Mamdani. They agreed about their ffordability crisis. Right,
I mean this was supposed to be like a heavyweight fight. Nope,
it was a love fest. Trump said, I feel very

(45:24):
confident that he can do a very good job. I mean,
statists love each other. This is not an ideological confrontation.
It's not that they disagree about ideology. Trump has no ideology,
and to an extent, he believes in stuff for our government,

(45:45):
Mam Donnie doesn't. It's not in a position. No, they
disagree with immigration, I'm sure, but they don't disagree about
I'm sure they don't disgovere a rain control, about lowering
the cost of whatever. Filled in the blank. I mean
Trump would love to open a government run grocery store. Uh,

(46:09):
it really is. It is fascinating. Of course, Mega kind
of freaked out. They didn't know what to do. You know.
Some people kind of uh went with Trump because they
have to, because that's what Marga means.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
It means worshiping Trump, you know.

Speaker 1 (46:29):
And some of them said, oh, Trump was just being
soft on Mamdani because he didn't want to insult him,
he didn't want to humiliate him in public. Ye Others said,
oh no, it's just Trump, you know, being funny. This
is a sense of humor, this sense of humor. You know,

(46:54):
it's a lot of people just ignored it because they
don't know what to say. They don't know what to say. Remember,
Trump called Mom Dannia communist, lunatic not that long ago,
and that was repeated all over Mega and the right
wing media, and even during the press conference, they're really friendly.

(47:26):
Uh uh you know fo and just loved it. He
thought this just showed that it's also proper. They don't
believe anything that peddling, which is true. And uh yeah,

(47:46):
I mean it's it's like wow, it's it was fascinating
and I don't know, I mean, this is very uh,

(48:07):
it was very interesting to see, you know, how explicitly
Trump stands for nothing. Uh. He is quite happy to
embrace what Laura Luma calls a jihadist communist. She was horrified.
She was not happy with Trump at all, but she

(48:27):
also said she didn't condemn the president. She wasn't happy,
but she wasn't condemning the president. I don't know how
that fits. Yeah, I mean, it's uh, it's quite something.
It's quite something. Bannon was was critical or maybe you know,

(48:57):
and Bannon what Bannon really was saying, was this is
Trump playing forty chess. He wasn't critical. He's saying, Trump's
playing forty chess. And what Trump is doing is you're
gonna boost mmdanni and he will let him collapse and
then he'll say, see this is what happens to Marxist hotties. Anyway,

(49:21):
it was. It was quite something. I mean, the shaking
of hands, the smiling, it's the kind of treatment Trump
gives NBS putin she and he gave it to mom donny.
He elevated ma'm donny to that level. It's quite something.

(49:44):
It's quite something, but it's it says so much about
Trump and who he is and what he is, and
so much about his supporters that they didn't freak out
about this that this wasn't like okay, he's finished. It
just shows that the difference between Trump and Mumdanny don't exist.

(50:06):
Trump is, you know, economically basically no different than mumdonny.
He's just as socialist as Mumdonny is. In essential terms.
He's a statist. He wants come an intervention every way possible.
And it's just shocking. It's chucking, not chucking that mcdannie
and Trump get along. That's not surprising. Really. What's shocking

(50:30):
is people not seeing it for what it is. People
not you know, seeing that what this represents is the
extent to which Trump is a leftist.

Speaker 2 (50:45):
And how completely bankrupt the whole thing is.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
Jesse Waters at Fox said the chemistry between Trump and
mcdonnie was undeniable. Undeniable because it was there all right,
talk about Trump's leftist economics. You know, there's the host
the whole thing about Obamacare, and uh, the Dunkers shut

(51:09):
it down because they won the extension of Obamacare subsidies
for Obamacare. These are subsidies that were extended and expanded
during COVID, and the Democrats want to continue that.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
They want to continue that, and Republicans didn't.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
And you know that was supposed to what the shutdown
was about was about the extension of of ACA, and
Trump during the shutdowns said, oh, we should give them
money to the people. And a number of Senate Republicans
came out with with, uh, you know, health Sabian account

(51:50):
proposals that looked kind of good, and I was like, WHOA,
maybe something good will come of Trump administration on healthcare. Maybe, yeah,
foals as usual. The good stuff is like he does
at two am, and it disappears.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
By morning, it's gone.

Speaker 1 (52:10):
The White House is now saying that Trump is going
to pitch Obamacare extensions, not with limits, limits that will
then be expanded, because limits are in the future. The
limits expand in the future. But the President is gonna
make an announcement. It's gonna be some you know, nod
to HSA's. It's gonna be trivial and insignificant and meaning less.

(52:34):
But basically, you're gonna get an increase in the in
the Obamacare subsidies, just like the Democrats wanted.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
There will be some income you know.

Speaker 1 (52:47):
You'll be required to show some income, and there'll be
some some conditions placed in it to make it look
a little bit more republican. You know that they'll reducee
they'll reduce the cap for eligibility, but it will still
be high i seven hundred percent of the federal poverty line.
You'll still be eligible for Obamacare, for the for the

(53:08):
for the whole thing. So you know, they're talking about
an option for enroy lees who received part of their
tax credit in a tax advantage saving account if they
move down to a lower premium health plan. But it's
it's like, it's not a full endorsement. Scrap ACA, scrap

(53:30):
the whole thing and move to health saving accounts. So Trump,
this is this is Trump right, No, it can no freedom,
no liberty, no economic freedom principles, just appeasement. The Obamacare
is actually very popular, and it's very popular among Trump voters,

(53:51):
remember Trump voters and lower income categories who actually use Medicaid,
and they use Obamacare.

Speaker 2 (54:01):
And they don't want to lose it. So rather than propose.

Speaker 1 (54:07):
Something innovative, something that would really change healthcare, something that
would really help us and make healthcare cheap and better
and available to everybody, and rather than do that, which
was there was a little five minute window in which
it was being under consideration, He's basically going to go
to tinkering a little bit with the increase in subsidies

(54:28):
for Obamacare. Never might end Obamacare, that will Yeah, And
continuing in the same theme, right, remember doge, Remember it
wasn't that long ago, right, eight months ago? Remember all
the promise. Remember how some of you you, you, you, some
of you listening to the show were super excited about

(54:49):
dog and this was going to change the world and
they were literally going to cut spending and they were
going to shrink government, and they were going to change
America and it was going to be so cool and
mosca fus because this genius who is not going to
do this, and yeah, you all know that he was
doing that, he was going to do this, and many

(55:10):
of you, you know, uh, enthusiastically supported this. Well, now
I guess officially those just shut down. It doesn't exist anymore.
It still got eight months left in its charter which
was starting. You know, they had a chart at the beginning.
It's gone. Nobody works for those anymore. Shut down. Must

(55:33):
Elon Musk promised two trillion in saving overall. Probably the
amount of saving is probably if you take everything into account.
I don't know something about around zero. It was an
amateurist debacle that somebody predicted. Somebody I remember somebody explicitly

(55:57):
saying this was not work and they didn't know what
they were doing.

Speaker 2 (56:00):
I remember saying that.

Speaker 1 (56:01):
I remember saying that over and over and over again,
and people said nobody' said lun Musk, he's a genius.

Speaker 2 (56:07):
Nothing it, you know.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
Uh. They fired a lot of people that didn't change anything.
They stopped to fallon aid again. Phone aid is not
the problem, budgetary problem, that's not what's killing us. It's God,
it's a joke. It turned out to be a joke,
and it always was a joke, and you would think,

(56:38):
here's here's the frustration that I feel. Feel. I get
so many of these things right now. I get something's wrong.
I admit I get something's wrong. But I get so
many of these things right when other people do not.
Why don't I have two million followers? I don't know,

(56:58):
I mean't being right be rewarded.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
Not in the world in which we liver?

Speaker 1 (57:07):
Turns out all right. Last week there was a video
made with a number of Democratic senators basically doing this
video and basically saying making this statement of the military,
if you get illegal commands to do illegal things, you

(57:33):
should not do them right, disobey orders if the orders
are illegal, which is completely consistent with what the military holds.
I mean, it was suggesting that maybe some of Trump's
orders are illegal, which I think they are, but that's
all it was. Anyway, one of those So Trump went

(57:57):
into champterone. I don't have the truth social but he
called them traders, and he said they should be hung
they should be killed as traders. He just flew off.
I mean, he was just he went crazy as Trump does.
I mean, this guy's he's not he's unhinged. I'm sorry,

(58:19):
he's not only a five year old when he comes
to economics, but it's a five year old when he
comes to these kinds of things.

Speaker 2 (58:24):
He's just unhinged.

Speaker 1 (58:31):
And you know, basically they came out and said, you know,
you you you shouldn't follow it, as if they're illegal,
and again Trump called them the worst kind of names

(58:52):
and went into this complete insane diatripe. I mean, do
we literally have an unhinged president and we have a
president who has no respect for the Constitution and there's
no respect for the commitment of the military to that constitution. Now,

(59:13):
since then, he's posted something about, yes, the military, we
should follow the constitution or something like that, because I
get I guess he got a backlash from maybe some conservatives.
I don't know. Anyway, today, Pete he Saith, the Secretary
of War War I said that the military is going
to look into Senator Mark Kelly, who is of course

(59:35):
a U A was a part of the Navy and
is in reserves. Uh and uh to maybe bringing him
into the military and court martial him for this video
that he made, which I hope they do because then
it'll show how pathetic and ridiculous and no court of
law will they have a convict a Mark Kelly. But

(59:56):
you know claim they were seditious. This is completely insane. Anyway,
what this actually has done is elevated sends him Mark
Kelly and put him in the headlines. He might now
be the front runner for the Democratic nomination for president.

(01:00:22):
I mean, he has a good post today on Twitter.
You know, when I was twenty two years old, I
commissioned as an ensign in the United States Navy and
sworn oath to the Constitution. I upheld that oath through
flight school, multiple deployments in the USS midway thirty nine
combat missions in operation. There's a store test, pilot school,

(01:00:42):
four space shuttle flights at Nassau, and every day since
I retired, which I did after my wife Gabby was
shot in the head while serving a constituents in combat,
I had a miss out blow up next to my
jet and flew through anti aircraft fire to drop bombs
on enemy targets at NASA.

Speaker 2 (01:01:03):
Launched. I launched on a rocket, commanded.

Speaker 1 (01:01:07):
The Space Shadow, and was part of the recovery mission
that brought home the bodies of my astronaut classmates.

Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
Who died on Columbia.

Speaker 1 (01:01:14):
I did all this in service of this country that
I love and has given me so much.

Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
Now, if that is not a campaign speech, I.

Speaker 1 (01:01:24):
Don't know what is. Secretary hegsas tweet is the first
I've heard of this. I also saw the President's post
saying I should be arrested, hanged, and put to death.
If this is meant to intimidate me and other members
of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable,
it won't work.

Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
I've given too.

Speaker 1 (01:01:46):
Much of this country to be silenced by bullies who
care more about their own power than protecting the Constitution. Now,
I don't know what I think about Mark Kelly's views
about economics of fhon poll CEO pretty much anything.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:02:01):
But that is good, that's inspiring, that's correct, naming the constitution,
going after bullies.

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
The way he is.

Speaker 1 (01:02:13):
This is obviously a courageous individual who has you know,
served in the military, has flown, you know, it's flown,
flown a space shuttle into space. Pretty cool and it's
a cool guy. He should run for presidents. I think
he is. I think he's going to. I think I

(01:02:35):
think maybe Gavin Newsen will have his hands full in
twenty twenty eight on the Democratic side. Anyway, Pete Hegseth
and President Trump seemed to be elevating him to that point. Look,
Trump is doing everything they can to, you know, get
to position the military as his not assuming the constitution,

(01:02:59):
not assume the nation, but itserving Trump. They've replaced generals,
they have you know, they've made it very clear the
chain of command, the importance of command. They have disrespected
the Constitution.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
They don't care about the Constitution.

Speaker 1 (01:03:17):
They've clearly stated Trump has that the enemy is within.
I mean, what Trump is doing is positioning in the
military to do his bidding internally. Now, again, I don't
think Trump is the guy will actually take advantage of
all that, although who knows if he loses big in
the midterm, what Trump turns to in his final two years.

(01:03:40):
But Jadie vansers out there, others in the Republican Party
out there this power grab or the assertion of power
that Trump has taken on placing him above the law
and above the Constitution and above everything else, the autocrats

(01:04:02):
of the future, left or right are going to use this.
This this will be the presidency. That is the pivot.
I mean it started in the first term, but as
I told you, what happen this term, it's on steroids.
Here's another example here where the only the only part

(01:04:23):
of government that is pushing back against Trump is the
legal the court system. Anyway, as we know, Trump has
launched warfare on his opponents, among them James Comy and
what's the name of Latisia James who are being indicted
under very very very very very questionable circumstances clearly and

(01:04:49):
only because they went after Trump, no prosecutor would actually
prosecuting them. A prosecutor and I think in Virginia actually
left her position, resigned her position or because because she

(01:05:10):
couldn't bring charges against Camy and let you said, James, okay.
So Trump then appointed somebody to that position who would
bring those charges.

Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
You know, this is the Eastern District of Virginia.

Speaker 1 (01:05:32):
Uh. The prosecutor Lindsay Halligan, and a judge today, a
federal judge on Monday basically dismissed the criminal cases against
call Me and James concluding that the prosecutor who brought
the charges at President Trump's urging had been illegally appointed

(01:05:54):
by the Justice Department. Now this will be appealed in
this go on.

Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
But even before this, there were all kinds.

Speaker 1 (01:06:04):
Of irregularities about these cases. There was a grand jury,
and a grand jury was not shown the ultimate I guess,
uh what do you call it? Uh, you know, claim
against them? I mean it just it's just this this
has been a a amateuristic witch hunt. Is that true?

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
Amateuristic witch hunt?

Speaker 1 (01:06:29):
A White House spoken has said that the wording will
not be the final world of the matter. So they're
gonna go They're gonna appeal. Attorney General pan Bondi vowed
then in a different press confidence that the Justice Department
would pursue an immediate appeal.

Speaker 2 (01:06:44):
And and uh.

Speaker 1 (01:06:46):
We'll look into maybe bringing the cases again because the
cases are now being dismissed now because this is as
I said, this is just one facet of a just
an assault on these on these indictments. Uh so this
is what happened last week. Comee's loyal last week and
moving to get his case tossed out, seized on a

(01:07:08):
judge finding of a constellation of grand jury irregularities and
missteps by Halligan. This is the Attorney General.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
The Attorney H.

Speaker 1 (01:07:17):
James likewise has cited outrageous government condact preceding her indictment. Yeah,
I mean they're just because they won't get they can't
get the pros to indict them because the pros think
there's no case here. They're getting amateurs to indicte them,
and therefore it's an amateuristic case and it's it's a joke.
But that's the Trump administration, you know, just hammer away

(01:07:39):
at your opponents. The hell about the rule of law
and doing it properly and actually going after people who
are guilty. No, it's about going after Trump's enemies and
doing what Trump promised at the expense of justice, truth, constitution,
the rest of it. Finally, some good news. Uh, this

(01:08:04):
was great. So one of the best historians, according not
just according to me, but according to I think people
who are pretty good at this and experts on this
and who know the history. One of the best historians
of the American founding, of the of the of of
of early America is is Gordon Wood. Gordon Wood must

(01:08:26):
be in his eighties or nineties, now, golden Wood is
is is kind of the one of the one of
the real giants.

Speaker 3 (01:08:34):
Of American history, and Goldenwood had it not bad in
the Wall Street Journal last week that it's important for
me to point out to you because it's it's the
first time I've seen somebody other than me, if I.

Speaker 1 (01:08:52):
Can say so, standing up to the JD. Vansers and
the National Conservatives and the Chist Conservatives and all these
people and a variety of different Senators Josh Hawley and
the other senators which we've talked about on this show
who have claimed that America is not about ideas. America

(01:09:13):
is about a people, about a place, and that to
be an American is really about bloodline. It's about whether
your ancestors fought in some war one hundred and fifty
years ago or two hundred and fifty years ago. I
mean to me this right now, intellectually maybe the most

(01:09:34):
important battle in America today.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
What is America.

Speaker 1 (01:09:40):
We're coming up on the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
of this country tur and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration
of Independence July fourth, twenty twenty six. This is going
to be a year twenty twenty six, where what is
America should be the number one question that everybody asks,

(01:10:05):
and it's clear what the New Right thinks. It's your
skin color, with some exception to where grandfathering in some
blacks because yeah, we enslaved them and you know, they're
just part of the country. They've been here a long time.
And you know, some Mexicans, we conquered their land and
they were here, and maybe some Native Americans. This is
a white nation, we are told. And to be a

(01:10:30):
real American, what they're calling a heritage American, is to
be the the you know, offspring of people who fought
in the Great Wars, primarily the War of Independence and
the Civil War, and the Civil War doesn't matter which side.

(01:10:51):
That is what makes America? That was is America? We
are told, Well, this is the and I a coug
you to find this up bad and you know, read
it and share it and disseminate this because this is
going to be a big topic this year.

Speaker 2 (01:11:07):
I'm going to be talking about it a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:11:09):
What is America?

Speaker 2 (01:11:10):
We'll keep repeating it.

Speaker 1 (01:11:11):
I think a lot of people were talking about it
is It is an important issue. This is the title
of Gordon Wood's essay why America is a credo nation.
Credo means a creed, a set of ideas. The subtitle

(01:11:32):
says the distinguished historian says, the United States isn't like
other nations and never has been. There is no American
ethnicity to back up the state. I'm gonna read you
a little bit of this. It's long, and a lot

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of it is the history, and it's got some stuff
at seventeen seventy six and the founders and goes they
had with these questions. We have some anniversaries coming up
next year that may help us, he writes. We have,
of course, the two undred and fiftieth anniversary of the
Declaration of Independence. The same date is the bi centennial

(01:12:19):
of the deaths of two founders most responsible for that
great document, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. The Declaration is
vital to understanding who we are as Americans. There's been
some talk recently that we aren't and shouldn't be a

(01:12:40):
creed a nation, that beliefs in a creed are too permissive,
too weak a basis for citizenship, and we need to
realize that citizens with ancestors who go back several generations
have a stronger stake in the country than more recent immigrants.
I reject this position as passionately as I can. That's

(01:13:04):
a yeah, so happy to hear. Goodin would say that
we have seen blood and soil efforts before. In the
eighteen nineties were so so crisis over immigration. Some Americans
try to claim that because they had ancestors who fought
in the Revolution or came here on the Mayflower, they

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were more American than recent immigrants. My wife and I
recently gotten to know a couple who came from Romania
in the nineteen seventies and became American citizens in the
nineteen eighties. Although they speak with a slight accent, I
believe with all my heart that there is American as
someone whose ancestors came on the Mayflower. That is the

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beauty of America. I mean, think of that. By the
other people's claim, I Rand is not an American, I
would argue Iman is the American novelist. She wrote the
American novel. I think The fountain Head is the American novel.

(01:14:13):
She articulated, discovered the American philosophy. She was an American
through and through. She understood the founding of America. The
essence of America, the spirit of America better than ninety
nine point of Americans, including those Americans who came from

(01:14:37):
the meatflower, whose ancestors came from the meat flower. To
exclude her would be to a tray America. To understand
what America is. He goes on. Golden Wood says, the

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United States isn't a nation like other nations, and it
never has me. There is no American ethnicity to back
up the state, and there's no such distinctive ethnicity even
in seventeen seventy six when the US was created. Many
European countries Germany, for example, when nations before they became states.
Most European states were created out of a prior sense

(01:15:24):
of common ethnicity or language. Some of them, like the
Czech Republic, were created in the twentieth century and are
newer than the two hundred and forty nine year old US.
Yet all are Undergod by people that had a pre
existing sense of their own distinctiveness, their own nationhood.

Speaker 2 (01:15:41):
In the US, the process was reversed.

Speaker 1 (01:15:45):
Americans created a state before they were a nation, and
much of their American history has been an effort to
define that nationhood. All right, let me skip ahead here
and saying I mean, he basically says, look, even the

(01:16:08):
founders struggled with this, and he didn't know if this
project would work. And he says John Adams certainly had
doubts that America could be a real nation. In America
said there was nothing like the Patria of the Romans,
or the fatherland of the Dutch, or the patriot of
the French. All he saw in the US was an

(01:16:30):
appalling diversity of religious denominations and ethnicities. Right, we have
such a hotchpodge of people, he concluded, such an ominous
gatherum of English, Irish, German, Dutch, Swedes, French, et cetera,
that it is difficult to give a name to the
country characteristic of the people, because that's not what made

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it so. So he goes on, it was Lincoln, Abraham
Lincoln who decisively developed an insight that somebody by the

(01:17:11):
name of Ni I always had and clinched the case
for an importance, for the importance of the Revolution and
the Founders to all Americans. When Lincoln declared in eighteen
fifty eight all honor to Jefferson, he paid homage to
the founder who he knew could explain why the US
was one nation and should remain so. Half the American people,

(01:17:32):
Lincoln said, had no direct blood connection to the revolutionaries
of seventeen seventy six. German, Irish, French, Scandinavian citizens had
settled in America, finding themselves out equals in all things
they had. Quote that old Declaration of Independence, with its
small principles of equality to drawn. That principle applicable to
all men and all times, made all these different people

(01:17:57):
one with the founders. It's the idea of equality of rights,
he says, applicable to all men all times, made all
these different view one with the founders, as though they
were blood of blood and flesh of flesh of the
men who wrote the declaration. This emphasis, Gordon Wood writes.

Speaker 2 (01:18:16):
This emphasis on liberty and equality.

Speaker 1 (01:18:18):
Lincoln said, shifting images was quote the electric cord that
linked the hearts of patriotic and liberty loving men together.
That will link those patricharotic hearts as long as the
love of freedom. Remember that tongue exists in the minds
of men throughout the world. Lincoln found in Jefferson's Declaration

(01:18:41):
a solution to the great problem of American identity. How
the great variety of individuals in America, with all their
diverse ethnicities, races, and religions, could be brought together into
a single nation. As Lincoln grasped better than anyone ever has,
the Revolution and Declaration offered us a set of beliefs that,
through the generations, has supplied a bond that holds together

(01:19:03):
the most diverse nation history has ever known. Since the
whole world is in the US. Nothing but the ideals
coming out of the Revolution and their subsequent rich and
contentious history can turn such an assument of different individuals
into one people that the Declaration says we are.

Speaker 2 (01:19:26):
To be an.

Speaker 1 (01:19:26):
American is to be someone. Sorry, to be an American
is not to be someone, but to believe in something.
That is why we are at hearts a creed a nation.
That is why the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
the Declaration next year is so important. So I agree

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with wood Einman called the United States the first moral nation,
the first nation built on a moral principle, the principle
of individual rights. That's what America is, that is its creed.
All men are created equal in rights, but then that
they have those rights, and that the government's job is
to protect those rights.

Speaker 2 (01:20:09):
That is what America is.

Speaker 1 (01:20:12):
It's not genes, it's not blood, it's not soil, it's
not pretty landscape, it's not God. It's the rights of man.
It's the only nation, only nation founded on a mall principle,

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or the first one founded on them all principle. It
wasn't the only model nation. It was the only nation
founded on the all principle. Different, not exactly the same.

Speaker 2 (01:20:51):
So yeah, that is.

Speaker 1 (01:20:55):
That is the news for November twenty fourth. We will
keep coming back to this theme of what is America
during the year to come, celebrating that declaration independence, elevating it,
you know, and and and really this is the year
to make a big deal out of it. And this
is the year we need to have an impact. We
need we need to move this country. This country needs

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to move away from the destructive ideas that dominated today
and back to the principles on which he was founded.
All right, guys, that is the news on this What
is it November twenty fourth. It's a Monday that shows
all every day this week we'll see about Thanksgiving. Should

(01:21:41):
I do it showing Thanksgiving? Let me know if I
should do a show and Thanksgiving. I guess it depends
on you, right, So you know, showing Thanksgiving would be Yeah,
we could do a show just on Thanksgiving. We could
celebrate Thanksgiving on Thanksgiving. Somebody says LOWI says yes, okay,

(01:22:04):
let me know, maybe how about this. Put some money
on it, like a buck or two. So put a
bucker two with yes or no, and that way, if
you really want me to have a show, and you
put some money on it and a lot of yess,
they will do a show on Thursday on Thanksgaiving. You
will have to be early because there's Thanksgiving dinner and
all that stuff. But you guys can you guys can

(01:22:26):
bring the turkey and I'll talk and we'll do all
we'll talk about what we're thankful for. But yeah, put
put dollars next to the yess and we'll see what happens.
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I'm still short. I think nine people, nine people four? Oh,
we got a twenty dollar yes, and we've got a

(01:24:56):
couple of other yeses, five dollar yes and a two
dollars yes. All right, you guys are putting money to
the word yes. This. This is increasing the incentive and getting
as closer to today's goal. This is good. So what
are nice thought say? Yes, Patreon, I'm looking for nine
new now people switching from PayPal, but new Patreon subscribers

(01:25:20):
nine by the end of the year. So you've got
plenty of time.

Speaker 2 (01:25:23):
But do it now like this.

Speaker 1 (01:25:25):
This could be a Christmas gift to me, right, this
could be your Christmas gift to me. Sign up? Oh
to you? Sign up? On Patreon any level five dollars,
ten dollars, five hundred dollars would be better. Uh, ten
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your on book show and sign it all. Right, where
are we We're doing pretty well. We're thirty five, thirty

(01:26:12):
five dollars. Sorry, we're fifty dollars away from the target. No,
what we're talking about, thirty five dollars away from the
second hour target. We might go into the third hour today,
so you might consider it. Consider keep going. And by
the way, if you want me to do a show
on Thanksgiving, do a sticker sticker, sticker sticker, just say
on the sticker yes, So all you have to say

(01:26:34):
yes and do a stick You can do for ninety
nine cents, do it for one ninety nine, you do
for twenty dollars, one hundred dollars, five hundred dollars, whatever
you want. But but you know, the more the better,
I mean, the more people not the more money, the
more people, the more I will be convinced that it's
interest in me doing your show on Thanksgiving. Like right now,
they're only three people. Not very convincing. Ryan, you said

(01:26:58):
Europeans are too poor, they're not put militarily and if
they had any courage or self esteem they would confront
Russia directly. They have no mab backbone, and it is
disgusting and pathetic. I mean, all of that is true,
particularly given that the Russia is involved right now in
major sabotage attacks against for example, Polish railroads, airports all
over Europe, being harassed by drones. All of that is Russia,

(01:27:22):
There's no doubt. Everybody knows it, and yet Europeans are
doing nothing about it. All of these acts of war
by the Russian state, and at the very least they
should be arming the Ukrainians to the teeth. Now, the
problem is that, because of decades of neglect, European militaries

(01:27:44):
are not in good shape. They don't have the right equipment,
The equipment is not up to date, the soldiers are
not well trained and they're not ready for combat.

Speaker 2 (01:27:56):
And that is really the problem. Now, I agree with Ryan.

Speaker 1 (01:28:01):
Actually the deeper problem is that the cowards. The deeper
problem is that they're afraid. The deeper problem is they
have no mal backbone. That's a deeper problem. But even
if they didn't want to fight themselves, they could be
arming the Ukrainians so much more than they are right now,
and they could be devoting more resources to protecting themselves.

(01:28:24):
They need to. Russia will not stop with Ukraine. They
will not stop with Ukraine. Kevin, if I call correctly
you in a debate and you said that you would
love to be yelled at by Steve Jobs after the
other guy took a jab at his treatment of his employees,
why would you love being yelled at by him? I

(01:28:48):
would love to be yelled at by a genius. I
would love to have that kind of interaction with genius,
with somebody who really knows and is passionate. Mean you know,
I mean yelled at by Lennon Peacock. So that's good,
you learn from it. Somebody's upset by somebody think you
did something, things, that what you're doing is wrong, something.

(01:29:13):
Somebody cares enough to yell at you because they think.

Speaker 2 (01:29:20):
You could do better.

Speaker 1 (01:29:22):
That's a compliment, and you want to learn from somebody
like that. I mean, to just be in the presence
of Steve Jobs. I consider Steve Jobs one of the
I don't know, the greatest businessman in American history, suddenly
the most inspiring business leader in my lifetime. I consider

(01:29:50):
him like a symbol of what a business leader could be.
And I mean talk about models for young men. As
your model Steve Jobs, I mean, I think he's the
epitome of masculinity, of self esteem, of of leadership, of

(01:30:10):
you know, presence, somebody who failed repeatedly and then succeeded
big and inspired. Yeah, I mean, I consider I'm a
great human being. So you know, his private life is

(01:30:34):
not my business. I don't really care what are he
did in his private life. In his public life, he
is a great human being and a role model and
somebody we should and just to be in that, To
be in that in a room with Steve Jobs, Wow,
that would be cool. And they have him Kevin for you,
so he yelled at you. That's super cool. So I

(01:31:00):
I really.

Speaker 2 (01:31:00):
Really value people who are.

Speaker 1 (01:31:04):
Incredibly knowledgeable and I have a lot to learn from them,
and so I value that. So I don't have any
problem being yelled at by somebody who really has something,
who I admire and I have something to learn from.
Ryan says, your discussion with Stitch and Adams was one

(01:31:25):
of your best so far. You really had an impact
on their ideas and how they view morality. You could
tell that their beliefs were being challenged. Bravo, Thank you.
I mean, I don't know if I had an impact
on their ideas, you'd have to repeatedly confront them with that.
My guess is, next time I'm on they show, they're
back at square one. These ideas typically don't stick with people,

(01:31:47):
certainly not the first time they encountered them, and then
they have to do real work in order to properly
apply them and integrate them into the entirety of their knowledge.
But yeah, I thought it was a good conversation, respectful,
They ask good questions. They ask kind of, if you will,
typically quite typical questions. And yeah, I think it went well.

(01:32:08):
And I've seen an uptick since the show every day,
an uptick in subscribers. I think it's people coming over
from their show to subscribe, because I haven't done any
show since then, Maybe that's why.

Speaker 2 (01:32:22):
But yeah, it's it's great.

Speaker 1 (01:32:25):
It was great and they want to have me back,
so I'll be doing their show again. Oh I didn't
start with the fifty dollars ones, sorry, Ryan, Ryan says
for fifty Canadian the president brought peace to the region
for the first time in seven thousand years. Now that
the fighting has resumed, do you think he can do
it again? I am already saving up vacation on the

(01:32:48):
beautiful Gaza Reviea. I mean you exaggerating a little bit, Ryan,
I mean he said three thousand years, not seven. But yeah,
I mean, do you need to hear it from me
again about how pathetic Trump is and his declarations and
his claims and it's and all of that. But yeah,

(01:33:11):
I wouldn't count you know, I wouldn't count on that
those investments. If they're going to the gods of REVEREA
might as well might as well buy bitcoin or something.

Speaker 2 (01:33:30):
Jeffrey, all right, I saw you kept the star.

Speaker 1 (01:33:33):
So Jeffrey Miller at bar Miller had had a Michelin Star.
They got a Michelin Star last year in twenty twenty four,
and which was fantastic and they deserve it and I've
eaten it and it was phenomenal. But it's every year
you have to reown the star. It's not grandfather. You

(01:33:56):
have to rehown it every year, right, And I think
the first time you were in you is probably the toughest.
You know, have we kept at the standards and then
you start going maybe for the second start, but first
you have to renew the first star and you have
to keep that first time. It's not easy to keep
that first off, but.

Speaker 2 (01:34:20):
They kept it.

Speaker 1 (01:34:20):
So the other night last week on Tuesday, I think
there was a ceremony. I think it was in Philadelphia.
It covered missless stars for Philadelphia, Boston, New York, and
I think Chicago, and so a bunch of new restaurants
got stars, and yeah, Jeffrey's restaurant Bon Miller I got

(01:34:43):
to keep the star, which keeps momentum in terms of
people going there and income and just I think motivates
Jeffrey to be even more ambitious and go for for
two stars. Also noticed, Jeffrey, that your favorite sushi place
that you said, oh, we have to go next time,
we have to go to this place I think was

(01:35:04):
a shoe a counter, a shoe sushi shoe that had
two stars got their third star, which is massive to
get three stars it's massive. So my guess is the
price also went up by at least one hundred dollars
a person once you get that third star. So yeah,
we're going to a sushi shoe shooe or whatever it

(01:35:26):
is next time, for sure. But yeah, congratulations, it's terrific.
You deserve it. We had a great meal there recently
and we loved it. It was really really good. And
we'll be coming back. We will be coming back, no question,
by the way. I now, yeah, I mean we are.

(01:35:48):
Now let's see, we're not. Yeah, thirteen dollars away from
our second hour goal. So and we got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight nine, ten people who want me to do a

(01:36:08):
Thanksgiving show. But ten out of one hundred and forty
two watching, I don't know, it's not inspiring, guys, Like,
it's not even ten percent of the people listening right
now willing to put some dollars to have me do
a Thanksgiving show. So let's get a few more and
let's close that thirteen dollar gap. I've never been ntrigonometry.

(01:36:29):
If you guys can get me entrigonometry, that'd be huge.
I've been on Alex Friedman three times, but I've never
been entrigonometry. That would be really really massive drone REGUEV.
I am no fan of Trump, and here's the butt.
I am seeing the threat from Islamism as bigger and

(01:36:51):
more imminent than what Trump is doing to American democracy.
How do you see this in balance the two? Oh God,
I mean Islamism is how do I it's not a threat.

Speaker 2 (01:37:08):
I mean it's not a real threat.

Speaker 1 (01:37:11):
I mean the West could wipe out Islamism in a day,
you know, a little bit of a spine, and there's
no Islamism, and Islamism is zero threat, literally zero threat
in the United States. I mean China and RUSSI how

(01:37:33):
much bigger threats to the United States and Islamism is.
I mean they could do another nine to eleven, maybe
once every twenty years, but not much more than that.
So it's you know, our freedoms are being eroded every
single day by Trump, and our institutions are being eroded

(01:37:54):
and destroyed every single day by Trump. I don't know
if we'll ever recover from Trump in terms of institutions.
Can Islamists do that to us? To America, forget about Israel,
forget about Europe, To America, what is the.

Speaker 2 (01:38:11):
Threat Islamists can do to America?

Speaker 1 (01:38:14):
That Muslims generally are two percent of the population, Islamists
are less than one percent of the population, well less
than one percent of the population. What can they do
so and if they did, they're so small, they're so weak,

(01:38:37):
they're so pathetic.

Speaker 2 (01:38:42):
I don't I'm not afraid of them.

Speaker 1 (01:38:43):
I'm much more worried about the erosion of the connection
between the military and the constitution of America. Because they're powerful.
They could change my life, they could destroy this country.
So you're worried about Dearborn, Michigan and Deborn, Michigan. Is

(01:39:06):
one concentrated place. Is Dearborn, Michigan, Again, a conker America.
They happen to have a majority in Deebone and even
in Dearborn, not all the Muslims they are Islamists too many,
maybe a majority. But are they the threat to America?
You guys are pathetic if you think that's a threat
to America. I mean really pathetic. I mean it's so

(01:39:32):
easy to destroy that threat. And they can't do anything.
They cannot do anything. I mean, if you're in England,
or if you're in France, if you're in Germany. If
you're Sweden, I get it. Islamism should be what you
worry about. But if you're in Michigan. Even in Michigan

(01:39:52):
there's such a small minority it has no impact. And
if them people in Michigan ever got serious about crushing
the Islamists in Dearborn, they wouldn't survive for very long. Now.

(01:40:16):
Our university is a threat to America. Yes, professors at
the University of threat to America. Yes. And one of
the reasons Trump can get away with what he gets
away with is because of Katari money, and because of
the bad education, and because of our professors. If not
for all of that, Trump wouldn't exist. Trump is the creation.

(01:40:40):
He's the manifestation of what happens when you do what
you do to our universities. But the Islamism, if you
have just a little bit of self esteem, you realize
that they are no threat. Could they commit some terrorists
to X sure? Is that going to top all the US?
It's that going to change is our constitution? Is that

(01:41:01):
going to destroy the Supreme Court? Is that going to
change our way of life? None? Unless we let it,
Not unless we give in to them, not unless we
surrender and that's on nas. That's not on them, that's
on us. We surrender, so we might commit suicide. Ba

(01:41:22):
Islamism will never win.

Speaker 2 (01:41:25):
Not a threat at all at all.

Speaker 1 (01:41:29):
All right, AKA A kia, I don't know how to
pronounce that, A k I A n y two.

Speaker 2 (01:41:38):
Thank you, two hundred bucks, really really really appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (01:41:43):
Thank you. I think that that kind of tilts it
towards Thanksgiving show. I'll take that as part of the
Yes movement. So would be nice if, like we had
more individuals, even at the low numbers, low dollar amounts,
just so we could just I could say more intent
the people said yes. But I'll take two hundred is
to represent a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (01:42:04):
Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:42:06):
All right, Evan says, great show today, always anchored to
the true and the right in our unmoored times. Thank you,
Evan appreciated. Ian says, I think Trump trying to corrupt
the military is one of the most consequential things he
is doing all order, presumed, legal, et cetera. The other
thing is the corruption of judicial Justice Department, which he

(01:42:28):
has successfully in. Yeah, justice rounder is done, He's finished.
The military is still a work in progress. But look
he is systematically, systematically, and I think consciously undermining our
institutions and denigrating the constitution. That is his goal, or
at least the goal of some of the people around him,

(01:42:49):
who are may be more.

Speaker 2 (01:42:50):
Intelligent than him.

Speaker 1 (01:42:52):
That is the goal, that is the purpose. That's what
they're trying to do, and that's why they will be
the most destructive administration in American history if.

Speaker 2 (01:43:01):
They continue on the path we're on right now.

Speaker 1 (01:43:05):
Shasbat, I had no idea that the bodies of the
Columbia shuttle disaster were recovered. I'm shocked. I saw that
happen live. Yeah, I mean, whatever was left of them
was recovered. I can't try if I saw it live,
but I remember seeing the video. Whether it was a
replay a live I don't know, but yeah, that was horrible.

(01:43:27):
But yeah, suppose I'm sure they were recovered because he
said they were. I don't think you would lie about
something like that. Lourie, thank you twenty dollars for yes.
Thank you really appreciate that. Shasbat also says, this is
a quote from hand creaton could what could some bandit
take from me compared to the people who are supposed

(01:43:47):
to be my protectors.

Speaker 2 (01:43:50):
That is a great quote.

Speaker 1 (01:43:52):
That is a great quote, and absolutely right, absolutely right, all.

Speaker 2 (01:43:56):
Right, let me thank again. I came too for the
two hundred dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:44:01):
Thank you Vahab, Thank you Real Daniel Wellington, thank you, Flouda,
Nick mg DA MGD, Mindspan, Lincoln, Jeffney, Nick Allen, Lourie
laid back, petal pusher whatever that means. The thumb dum dum.

(01:44:24):
Let's see we have more stickers normative rand Roid, Joseph Keller.

Speaker 2 (01:44:31):
And Allan and.

Speaker 1 (01:44:37):
We've got Mary, Eleen and Adam and Steven and Darlene
and Raphael. Thank you guys, all the stickers, but keep
them coming, keep them coming. We've got forty three dollars
to make up to make our third hour goal. Okay,

(01:45:02):
like numbers, aren't Marklevin and Ben Shapiro's the real heroes
for trying to steer conservatives in a better non for
interest direction from within the movement.

Speaker 2 (01:45:13):
I mean, come on, heroes.

Speaker 1 (01:45:17):
So somebody just says what they think and has a
semi somewhat correct position and now they're heroes because everybody
else is such a scumbag. I mean they yeah, I
mean I have a lot of respect for Mark Levin
and Ben Shapiro not only for defending their position, but
also particularly Ben Shapiro using moral terms to do it,

(01:45:40):
and and and and strongly. So I'm all supportive of that,
But I don't you know, so now, if we're not Nazis,
we're heroes, or if we're trying to steer the Republican
Party away from being full on Nazis, we're heroes. I mean,
do we consider anybody who tries to prevent the Democratic

(01:46:00):
Party from becoming all out communists heroes? I just don't
think of there's heroes. I think they're better than obviously
the bad guys, and I like some of what they say,
But I also say this, God, and I'm gonna say this,
the only reason that the conservative movement and the Republican

(01:46:23):
Party has to be saved.

Speaker 2 (01:46:27):
Is because of people like Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro.
They're the ones who made this possible. They're the ones
who cave to Trump.

Speaker 1 (01:46:37):
They're the ones who have been watching as the Republican
Party has become a socialist, nationalist, a Christian political party.
They're the ones who've been watching and by their silence
endorsing as the party has moved away from any principle,

(01:47:01):
away from the Founding, away from the Declaration, away from
individual rights, away from what they claim their conception of
conservatism is, away from capitalism, which they claim to be
defenders of. They have seen it for years now, for years,
and they stay silent, silent, And now because Jews and

(01:47:26):
because anti Semitism is on their eyes and because Israel
is attacked, they've woken up. Good.

Speaker 2 (01:47:31):
I'm glad they've woken up.

Speaker 1 (01:47:33):
Good for them. But where the hell have they been?
Where the hell have they been for the last ten years.
I mean, it's disgusting what Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro
have done, the cover up that they have been engaged in,
in covering up the sins of Donald Trump. It's disgusting

(01:47:55):
how they have given their moral sanction to what the
Republican Party has become and to the activities, the anti capitalist,
anti American activities are President Trump and Candaida Trump. That
they have stayed silent, that they have not criticized Trump,

(01:48:15):
that they didn't go after him after so many disgusting, hubbable,
despicable things that he has done over the last ten years.

Speaker 2 (01:48:27):
And now they wake up.

Speaker 1 (01:48:29):
Now they suddenly remember that there's something to fight for,
that conservatism actually stands for something. They are the ones
that left the field open to Nick Fouantis by not
When when was the last time Ben Shapiro criticized the
National Conservatives or JD.

Speaker 2 (01:48:48):
Vance or Joam Marazzoni.

Speaker 1 (01:48:55):
As Mark Levin, when's the last time he criticized Josh
Hawley and JD. Van's When did they did they? Did
they make fun of the National Conservative movements conferences? Did
they rip into the speeches that claim that this country
is blood and soil? When the point is not anti semitism.

(01:49:24):
Anti Semitism is a symptom of the disease. The disease.

Speaker 2 (01:49:31):
Is mega.

Speaker 1 (01:49:32):
The disease is the negation of the Constitution. The diseases
everything that Trump represents. So their support of Trump, there's
silence over the shift towards Christian conservatism that this that
the Republican Party has taken. There's silence over the insanity,

(01:49:54):
the irrationality, the anti Americanism of MAGA. There's silence over Ice.
There's silence over the attack and the judiciary. Their silence
over the attack on the military. They silence over the
attack on capitalism, that this administration is engaging. There's silence
of Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro. That is what has

(01:50:17):
led us to this point. That has created Dick Foyenttis,
it has created Donald Trump, it has created Maga. They
didn't fight the fight when it needed to be fought.
They came very, very late, and now it might be
too late. Where were they when some of us stood

(01:50:39):
up against Trump? Where were they when some of us
stood for capitalism? They were unseen, unheard. They can really
raise their voice when they want to. And again, good
for them for going after Tucker and going after any points.

(01:51:01):
But you know what, whoever doesn't go after Tucker ny
points is so beneath contempt. I mean, there's such easy
targets Tucker, nick points. I mean, the fact that we
even talk about them is ridiculous. So, yeah, how big

(01:51:22):
of a deal is to go after Tucker nifrinis.

Speaker 2 (01:51:27):
Not big of a deal. The big deal is to
go after JD.

Speaker 1 (01:51:31):
Vans and Donald Trump and the National Conservatives, not about
their anti semitism. Anti Semitism isn't the issue. The issue
is the nature of the American right. The issue is
what does this country stand for? The issue is what
this country should stand for anti Semitism, again, just a symptom.

(01:51:58):
It's good that that at least woke them up. But
they've been sleeping for the last ten years, sleeping so
focused on the left they couldn't see that their own
so called allies were about to stab them in the
back and twist the blade. Because they were stabbing America
in the back and twisting the blade anyway, that's legitm

(01:52:25):
Me getting angry because, I mean, this is such low
hanging fruit. It's so easy to go off to Takhan
Coulson and this. We're going to give them a lot
of credit for this, Michael. When Republicans condemned socialism, what
they're looking at. What they're saying is look at this

(01:52:49):
more extreme version and how bad it is, So don't
mind us when we do a moderate version of it.

Speaker 2 (01:52:55):
Well, why moderate?

Speaker 1 (01:52:56):
There's a sense in which Republicans are doing just an
extreme version. As a socialist, I mean, I wonder if
socialists within the Democratic Party would be as audacious as
Trump has been in taking equity positions in American companies.

Speaker 2 (01:53:17):
I doubt it, Michael says.

Speaker 1 (01:53:22):
Jordan Peterson said people aren't after happiness, They're after not hurting.
Such a defeatist view of life. Yes, definitely, a view
of life that comes from a level in place. The
essence of life is suffering, the essence of life is hurting.
The essence of life is pain, very ebstential, very sotern
cameu and all you want is the relief of that,

(01:53:47):
and I get it. Jordan Peterson is a you know,
clinical psychiatrist. He deals with people who are in pain.
That's all he encounters. That all he deals with.

Speaker 2 (01:54:00):
That's his profession. He's extrapolating for his patients.

Speaker 1 (01:54:03):
The rest of mankind. That's pretty sad, uh eula. Why
don't you be in countries help Ukraine? Isn't in their
interest to do so? It should be, it isn't their interest.
But they're cowards. They don't have a backbone, they don't
they they're afraid to stand up to Russia.

Speaker 2 (01:54:22):
They're afraid. They're not very rich.

Speaker 1 (01:54:26):
They're in I mean the country like France is in
real financial trouble, Germany's economic trouble. All these countries are
in trouble. It's it's difficult for them, but they're mainly cowards.
Why as you have being poor an excuse us minus
forty trillion. Yeah, but we're still much much richer than them. However,

(01:54:48):
you look at it, even in net worth, even if
you take the debt into come, America is much richer
than Europe. And it's not an excuse, it's just a reality.
And in spite of being poor, they should stand up
because if they don't stand up and get Russia, they
will get poorer. So I'm all four, you have standing
up to Russia. I don't say they're poor as an excuse.

Speaker 2 (01:55:09):
I'm giving.

Speaker 1 (01:55:10):
It's an excuse they give, but they are poor. Even
though we're negative forty trillion, we're still we're still much
richer than Europeans, even on a net basis. All right,
what's this doing? Come on, Michael God, why is this

(01:55:36):
not working? Forrentis and others on the New Right often
start their monologues with as a white Christian man. It's
the same as the woke left prefacing every statement with
as a woman of color. Absolutely absolutely good call Michael's
it's identity politics politics all the way through the left

(01:55:56):
the right. They're all identitarian. They all care about race
and you know, ethnicity and sexuality, you know, and gender whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:56:06):
That's what they think. Defines you.

Speaker 1 (01:56:09):
They're all determinists, and they're all tribalists and racists, which
is the lowest form of barbarians. Primitives. They're all primitives.
Nick Foyentis is a primitive, tribal primitive.

Speaker 2 (01:56:27):
Michael.

Speaker 1 (01:56:28):
It's as if Tucker Karston is coaching Nick Foyenttis and
all the others on how to come across is less
explicitly evil in order to enter the mainstream conservative movement.

Speaker 2 (01:56:37):
Yes, and Tucker knows what he's doing and has done
it and is doing it.

Speaker 1 (01:56:42):
Note how he's not being repudiated even though he keeps
getting Nadia and Nadia and Nadia and crazier. Nobody wants
to exclude him from the conservative movement. It's quite stunning,
all right, Michael. Which is the best state in the
country to start a business or to do business in?
You know, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:57:02):
I think in terms of.

Speaker 1 (01:57:04):
Studying a business might be Florida. You can look it up,
just google it, because there are indexes. There's a think
tank that puts out an index of the economically freest
states in the country and the least regulated states in
the country. It also probably depends on the type of
business you're in. But I think it's Florida, but they

(01:57:27):
might be a state or two above Florida. Michael Trump
and Mamdanni in the Oval office, openly saying he agrees
with many of his policies. I see the left and
right merging around some form of socialist anti semitism. Yeah,
I mean, it's socialist fascist. It's all the same thing.

(01:57:49):
They share a certain anti semitism. They'll share a certain
level of the environment. You know, we'll see our religion
plays into this. We'll see our religion ultimately plays into it.
But I do think religion will playable. Michael, Fascists are socialists.

(01:58:09):
Traditional socialists and communists don't like. Oh fascist a socialist.
Traditional socialists and communists don't like. Well, it's the other
way around, fascism. I mean, if you think about the
first fascist as a movement was God, the guy in

(01:58:33):
Italy who was a socialist, who was a member of
the Socialists and Socialist.

Speaker 2 (01:58:43):
Party, and who.

Speaker 1 (01:58:47):
You know, realized Benito was Sellini. God, I can't can't
believe I couldn't come up with the name of Selini.
But anyway, when with Selini realized that he could use
the state to implement socialism or used the state to
implement the things he wanted to implement much better than
through the workers and a revolution and all that slow stuff,

(01:59:12):
and that the state was really really important for the
kind of collectivistic aims he wanted to achieve. So fascism
was a movement that came out of socialism as a
more as they believed a more effective way to achieve
the collectivistic ends that they had. Wyatt, didn't you used

(01:59:39):
to say Russia wasn't a threat to the US. Yeah,
I didn't think Russia was a threat to the United States.
And then there's a sension, which it's not. The real
threat is to Europe. But the fact is that the
United States is still a member of NATO. As long
as the United States is a member of NATO, Russia
is a threat to the United States. Right if the
United States left NATO, WHI I have argued it should,

(02:00:03):
then Russia stops being a threat as much to the
United States, and it's responsibility of Europe to take care
of them. But we're not.

Speaker 2 (02:00:12):
We are part of NATO.

Speaker 1 (02:00:13):
So any attack of Russia on Estonia demands the United
States deploy troops young men and women to the battlefields
of Estonia.

Speaker 2 (02:00:25):
I don't want to get there. Rather let the.

Speaker 1 (02:00:28):
Ukrainians, you know, bog them down, destroy as much of
the capability as possible, so we don't have to deploy
American troops to defending Estonia, which we have to do
by treaty. Michael says, has Peter Singer I ever mentioned
nine rand or objectivism? Would you debate him? I don't

(02:00:49):
think he ever has that I know of, But you know,
I'm not an expert on Peter Sing. Would I debate him? Yeah,
although I think that more qualified people debate him. I
would debate him. Yes. Peter Singer is a famous philosopher
altruistic explicitly the altruistic philosopher. Michael says, it's Potland embrasing capitalism.

(02:01:10):
Is their economy booming. The economy is doing well. They
liberalized their economy significantly in the nineties, and I have
kept it free since then, relatively free. So the economy
is relatively free, relatively liberal. They haven't really liberalized it

(02:01:34):
more since the nineties, unfortunately, otherwise they'd be even richer
and they'd be growing even faster. But for a while there,
for a while, they really did a lot of great
work liberalizing the economy. I think I lost a lot
of live watchers after that rant on Shapiro and and

(02:02:00):
Mark Levin. All Right, Blue Soul says he is vacationing
in Saigon, Vietnam.

Speaker 2 (02:02:07):
Cool.

Speaker 1 (02:02:08):
I'm curious what you think. Yeah, at some point write
us a little trip reports. I'm curious what it's like, Michael.
The young generation thinks nihilism is cool until it happens
to them. Yeah. I think that's generally true of nihilists.
They think it cool until their lives are destroyed by it.
And it's nihilists on the left, nihilists on the right.

(02:02:30):
We are dominated suddenly at the extremes by nihilists, Okay,
Sue Nrick something like that. The significance of the left
and right merging on anti Semitism is that it allows
us the watermanism in ways not possible with agreeing on environmentalism.
Dictators use an enemy to stay in power. Yes, and

(02:02:55):
you know it won't be enough to have the Jews
as an enemy. They'll also have to come up with
other enemies. But yes, I agree with you. I think
that's right. The jewses and the enemy is very powerful
as we've seen in centuries, past decades and centuries past.

Speaker 2 (02:03:17):
Adam G.

Speaker 1 (02:03:19):
Why do a lot of people think lowering the interest
rate will suddenly make everything more affordable? Are we at
risk for hyperinflation if rates keep dropping? I mean, I
think they'll make it more affordable because mortgage rates will
go down, business borrowing will go down. They hope rents

(02:03:40):
will go down because because landlords will be able to
build buildings that you know, with cheaper debt. You know,
lowering interest rates doesn't create inflation. It depends why interstates
are going down and how they're going down. So just

(02:04:02):
lowering interest rates in and of itself does not increase inflation.
So I don't think we're at risk of hyper inflation. No,
I'll say this, We're not at risk of hyper inflation
because the FED is not creating huge amounts of money
right now. It's just not hyper inflation. Hyper inflation I
don't know twenty thirty forty one hundred percent that requires

(02:04:26):
the printing presses to run pretty fast, or the electronic
money creation to happen really, really really fast, and I'm
not seeing that. I don't see that happening. So even
if interestates go down, I don't think inflation in and

(02:04:46):
of itself is going to go up a lot. Inflation
is high already. We're talking about price inflation, price increases.
Price is going up at about three percent. That is
because of whatever money printing is going on right now,
and the fact that that has never really stopped. And

(02:05:10):
some of the price increases might be result of tariffs.
But TAFs to only increase overall price rail level. They
only increase relative prices. But again, CPI only measures some prices.
Inflation numbers only measure some prices. No. In other words,
I don't think hyper inflations are risk because I don't
see anybody printing money like crazy.

Speaker 2 (02:05:34):
Lincoln, regime change in.

Speaker 1 (02:05:36):
Iran would be the greatest event in my lifetime, but
it seems unlikely given the regime has lasted a long time.
But it's deteriorating and the resentment of it is growing,
and the willingness to stand up against it is growing.
I would not be at all surprised if we saw
the regime fall in the next ten years, maybe even five.

(02:06:01):
Lincoln says, bonus super chat for twenty dollars. Thank you, Lincoln.
I noticed that many on that many on the right
that the ideal of masculinity is physical strength, which.

Speaker 2 (02:06:12):
I always found foolish.

Speaker 1 (02:06:14):
To them, the outer soldier is more man than jobs
da Vinci Edison. Yes, I think that's right, because they
don't see in olden times survival dependent on or it
seemed that survival dependent on physical ability. When war was

(02:06:36):
everywhere where, you were threatened by armies and robbers and.

Speaker 2 (02:06:43):
Gangs.

Speaker 1 (02:06:44):
Physical strength mattered, physical ability, your ability to fight mattered.
And you can still and people still look for that.
You can see that in all our heroes on TV
and in the movies. They're are fighters. But in the
modern world. I mean this has always been true, but
certainly in the modern world, it's not muscle that determines

(02:07:09):
your success. It's not muscle then you must use in
order to be achieve your goals, to achieve your aims,
or even to protect your family, or to or to
or to you know, uh, you know, provide for your family.
What you need is the brains. What you need is
self esteem. What you need is the ability to go

(02:07:32):
out there and shape the world. And that requires brains
and character. And you know, that is what true masculinity is.
It's the ability to use one's brains to to lead
and and and and move to change the physical world

(02:07:52):
out there, in providing for ourselves, in making our lives better.
That's what real masculinity. But that requires a shift from
thinking about survival and thriving as requiring thinking rather than
requiring muscle. U e. Sieve ninety seven. Thank you for

(02:08:19):
the stick. I really really appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (02:08:23):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:08:23):
We have now achieved our goal three our goal. Really
appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (02:08:26):
Guys, Nomadi rand Road.

Speaker 1 (02:08:29):
What's going on in Minnesota, a Somali community and Trump
removing TPS any truth allegation of money laundering.

Speaker 2 (02:08:36):
I mean, it looks like they did do some money laundering.

Speaker 1 (02:08:39):
It looks like money was funneled to L Schabab in Somalia,
which is a terrorist organization, I mean Islamish terrorist organization.

Speaker 2 (02:08:52):
How much money is not clear. There's a lot of
panic around this.

Speaker 1 (02:08:56):
How many Somalis were actually involved when you say Somali
can unity, how much how many of those? How much
was it? So you know, there's a lot of the
right is very focused on Somali community in Minneapolis because
of what's her name, the congresswoman who's from there, and

(02:09:17):
they want to use it at every opportunity.

Speaker 2 (02:09:20):
To discredit immigration. Remember they're eating cats.

Speaker 1 (02:09:24):
Those were some all these I think supposedly eating cats
in Ohio. So it's they're easy to you know, they're black,
they look different, and some of them and the Muslim
some of them are Islamist minority, but some of them are,
so it's easy to make them the you know, the
mascot of immigrants. So the right as an ascentive to

(02:09:51):
bring that out. There's also some tribalism in their recent
mayor election of Minnesota. I mean, some other communities pretty
big in Minnesota, They're pretty significant. Okay, Lincoln has a
full part question. Let's go through this. I often joke
with my parents and friends that we can tell Iran
has actually become a free country when there is a

(02:10:12):
Taylor Swift concert in Iran. Gen Z might find that
happening to be insane. But in nineteen ninety one, there
was a huge rock band headlined by Metallica that had
over a million people attend in nineteen ninety one. Where

(02:10:34):
I don't know where that was. You're not saying where
that was. If within two years of the Berlin Wall falling,
American rock bands oh this is in Berlin. Rock bands
with long hair and T shirts can perform in Moscow
to many young people.

Speaker 2 (02:10:51):
It's not insane to assume that even more.

Speaker 1 (02:10:53):
Popular American pop star like Taylor Swift could perform one
of her concerts with a job without a hit, job
free run. I agree absolutely.

Speaker 2 (02:11:01):
I think it is a good sign.

Speaker 1 (02:11:03):
It would be a sign of the Iranian regime falling.
Iran in the seventies and even Iranians in the eighties
followed quite a bit kind of pop music and rock
music from the West.

Speaker 2 (02:11:18):
I mean I went.

Speaker 1 (02:11:20):
I mean I like Chris de Burgh, who was a singer,
I think, an Irish singer in the eighties, and I
went to a concert of his in Orange County. He
came to Orange County a few years ago to sing,
and ninety five percent of the audience were Iranians who
used to listen to him in Iran in the nineteen eighties.

(02:11:41):
It was so bizarre. I really felt I was in
an alternative universe. Here was a rock concert, pop concert,
and my wife and I were there, and the whole
auditorium was filled with Iranians. All right, Murish here something
anders and any thoughts on Takichi's comment to protect Taiwan's

(02:12:07):
military against China and China's response to threaten her and
take it to the UN. Yeah, I talked about a
little bit last week. I was gonna add it, but
I had already eight topics. But yeah, I mean, Japan
is really standing up to China. It's said that it
would it would consider intervening if the Chinese went after Taiwan.

Speaker 2 (02:12:27):
And the Chinese flipped out over this.

Speaker 1 (02:12:29):
They they they're boycotting Japanese seafood, They're boycotting Japanese tourism.
The threatening the japan is taking into the UN. The
Japanese now, they just announced their movie missiles medium range
ground to air missiles to an island, a Japanese island

(02:12:49):
really really really really close to Taiwan, which would have
massive strategic importance if the Chinese tried to invade the Taiwan.
So good for she's standing up to Chinese. To China,
she I mean, Japan is like Europe. Japan to Taiwan
is like Europe is to Ukraine. And she realizes that

(02:13:12):
to avoid a war like Ukraine, the more signaling they do,
the more the more they commit to being on the
side of Taiwan.

Speaker 2 (02:13:22):
The more they're the more they're.

Speaker 1 (02:13:24):
Likely to avoid a Chinese invasion. So good for Takaichi.
All right, Lincoln says, Trump forty seven, Trump forty Five's
not so greatest hits. I'm not sure I understand that one. Sorry,
all right, let's see. All right, thank you guys for

(02:13:48):
all your support for the Thanksgiving show, so we'll probably
do that, Robert, thank you, Thank you guys. And then
this is, I think is the last question, Michael. From Michael.
Is individualism having difficulty coming into fashion because again because America,
Americans are more irrational and altruistic than ever before. Maybe maybe,

(02:14:15):
I mean I think certainly irrational maybe and probably altruistic
as well.

Speaker 2 (02:14:21):
I think they're unthinking. I think that's the key, more
than ever before.

Speaker 1 (02:14:25):
But there was also, you know, American history is interesting,
the periods where America we had religious revivals and they
somemost survived all that. And I think they survived because
they the American sist of life kept them going. I
think the individualism is having a particularly difficult time right
now because the sense of life that connected them to individualism,

(02:14:49):
that spirit that was American that somehow passed from generation
generation maybe diluted, but past in spite of the bad philosophy,
I think is really dying. As again, Lennapeakop said in
American Versus Americans suddenly was dying, was dying in the

(02:15:13):
two thousands and maybe is dead by now. I think
to say Trump selection represents that. So that's what's it's
the it's a making sense of life is just not there,
just not there. All right, guys, have a great rest
of your week. I will see you tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (02:15:33):
The rest of the week, we will have shows. I
will have a show on Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 (02:15:37):
I think you've convinced me, so we will have shows
all week and Saturday and Sunday. We're gonna go all
out this week.

Speaker 2 (02:15:45):
Thank you. You did really well.

Speaker 1 (02:15:46):
We made our goal for the third hour, so I
really really appreciate that. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Hopefully we'll do that every day this week to make
up for the fact that I didn't have shows, and
just to achieve our goals is always a good thing.

Speaker 2 (02:16:00):
Uh and uh, yeah, I will see you tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (02:16:04):
Probably I'm not your exist either two or three pm
East Coast time. Uh, let's see tomorrow is two pm
eas Coast time tomorrow. See then everybody bye.

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