The Jay Weber Podcast #0001 4-7-26

Jay discounts the left's War Whining and dismantles their foolish 'Stolen Lands' narrative.

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Good Day and welcome to the inaugural Jay Weber Podcast.
Thanks so much for listening. Thank you listeners for waiting
around three months to let me get a taste of
retirement after a thirty eight year career in morning radio,
and yes it's awesome. Also, thank you for all of
the kind words and wishes that have continued to flow
my way since I ended the daily radio show in December.
It does my heart good to know that I'm being

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missed after having been a part of so many of
your weekday mornings for so long. So thank you for that.
All sorts of thank yous to people who were loyal
listeners to the radio show and are now finding the
podcast venture going out of your way to find this
thank you. Coming up. We have a lot to talk
about today, including a few thoughts on our important spring
election in Wisconsin, and go out and vote, vote Vote.

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I haven't voted yet, so I have to do that
after I get the podcast taped an online here. Also,
we'll talk about how President Trump has the end game
set up for a very short and hugely successful Iran
war here, and how sick it is that so many
people in this country are so angry that we're winning it.
It's just sick to see so many people invested in
failure just because they hate the guy who is making

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the decisions here. But I mean, this should just be
beyond irksome to any red blood in America. And how
the left is responding to this war. We'll talk about
the great jobs numbers last week and how the Iran
war is actually boosting America's economy even as a cripples
Irans all starts. The stuff to talk about in one
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As I've given more thought to what this podcast is
going to be over the last few weeks, I have
come to the conclusion that it's going to be content.
Content content. In this era of nearly endless media and
podcast options, I think it's more important than ever to
cut out the nonsense, cut out the time wasters, and
get to the content. I'm convinced that one reason the
longtime radio shows of Mark Belling and myself on WISN

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and Milwaukee we're constantly dominating the ratings is because neither
of us talked much about our personal lives and with
rare exception, we didn't spend much time prattling out about
nothing as we came in and out of breaks. I
have more time to listen to talk radio and podcasts
now that I'm less busy, and I keep thinking to
myself as I listen, get to the content, dive into
a topic, stop wasting time. I don't care what you

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and your wife did last night, etc. I'm an impatient man,
I always have been. We live in an impatient world.
Come on, let's go. So this is what I want
this podcast to be, heavy on content, no time wasters,
and I envision it as me spending just as much
time on a topic as I feel as necessary that day.
If it's ten minutes, it's ten minutes. If it's two minutes,
it's two minutes. I see myself getting to maybe six

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to ten topics in any given podcast, rather than spending
a huge amount of time on just two or three. Ironically,
today might be the exception, because they have a lot
to say on Iran and the patently foolish narratives that
suggest we're losing that war, and I also want to
spend some time debunking the screamingly foolish Stolen Lands narrative
that today's America hating and white hating leftists are so

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invest in. But this is basically what I envisioned the
podcast to be. Content content, content, So let's get to it.
Today is spring election day, of course, with the most
important race on the ballot in Wisconsin being the Supreme
Court race. It's discouraging to believe the prevailing narrative out there,
which is uber leftist Chris Taylor is probably going to

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beat judicial conservative Maria Lazar and easily. But I wouldn't
automatically buy into that narrative, and I'd be sure to
go out and vote for Lazarre today because my friend's
truth be told. This has not been a high interest election.
And we can cite all sorts of lower turnout elections
that didn't go the way the so called experts had
planned because they got the turnout models wrong. I could

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see this being that sort of election. Yeah, the national
activist left made sure that they swamped Chris Taylor with
all sorts of money, and yeah, Maria Lazar was outspent
some like nine to one. But one thing that all
of this leftist money failed to do was bring any
real special attention to this race. I mean outside of
the normal political circles, I have sensed very little interest.

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I haven't sensed that the average Joe or Jane Wisconsin
I cares much about this race or even knew it
was coming. That could work till Azar's advantage today if
the committed Conservatives and Republicans at least turn out to
vote and scores of the younger and more fickle left
wingers don't. I'm not predicting that, but I am saying,
don't assume it's a done deal, and do go out
and vote, because it'll really be a terrible shame if

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someone as socialist and leftist as Chris Taylor gets a
place on the Wisconsin Supreme Court for at least ten
years and takes this court, which already leans to the left,
and turns it into a five to two liberal majority.
I mean that outcome would mean that it would take years,
years and several of the Supreme Court races in order
for us on the right to even have a chance
of regaining control. It's also unfortunate that most voters didn't

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see the one single debate that these two women held.
Chris Taylor and her team would only agree to a
single debate and right before the election, after many people
had early voted because they knew Taylor cannot hide the crazy.
And I'm not trying to be funny here. Chris Taylor
is such a wild eyed left wing activist. She is
well known as the most radical and nutty left wing
Democrat when she served in the legislature and sat on

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the Dane County Court. Even her fellow Democrats in the
Legislature would admit that Taylor has spent her entire public
life out on the absolute fringes of the American left. Meanwhile,
Maria Lazarre has spent her professional career as a lawyer
and a judge. Who should we want on the Wisconsin
Supreme Court? Lawyers and judges, not political activists. Chris Taylor's

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a political activist. The Lazaar has a judicial temperament that
whackjob Taylor doesn't have. One of the greatest ironies of
this campaign was to watch Taylor's crowd in the state
Democrat Party try to portray Lazar as some sort of
extreme agenda driven mega nazi when it's their candidate whose
track record just screams extreme activist as a lawmaker and

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as a Dane County Judge Chris Taylor has opposed all
sorts of common sense legislation like voter ID. For example,
she opposes it like Marcy's Law on Victims' rights. Who
would oppose Marcy's Law? And of course she opposes any
reasonable restriction on abortion. Folks, If Chris Taylor wins this
race today, we'll have yet another member of the Wisconsin

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Supreme Court who thinks there should be zero restrictions on abortion.
Chris Taylor actually worked for Planned Parenthood at one point
and has always supported abortions right up until the moment
of birth, right up until the moment of birth, as in,
if your due date is tomorrow and that's a fully
formed human being in your belly, we'd better scramble its
brains and suck it out of there today so we

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can pretend we aren't committing murder. Chris Taylor is that
extreme unabortion, and sadly, since so few voters actually pay
attention and therefore don't know what sort of ghoul they'll
be putting on the Supreme Court, that is the most
likely outcome today. So please get out and vote and
vote if you haven't already done so. There are also
some interesting mayoral and local races on the Wisconsin ballot obviously,

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but because this is a podcast that's meant to be
more national and broader based, I won't get into that.
I will, however, spend a few minutes on Governor Tony
Evers proving that he's a radical leftist, even if he
pretends to be more moderate than most of the people
the top the Wisconsin Democrat Party. This really is a
party of socialists and high taxers America haters. Now. Governor

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Evers proved it again on Friday when he vetoed several
pieces of common sense legislation and doubled down on his
idiotic four hundred year tax increase. Even Politico left wing
Politico did a PolitiFact a fact check on it, even
there admitting, Yep, Tony Evers has implemented a four hundred
year tax increase on the Wisconsin Night the people of Wisconsin.

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Anyone with a brain should have known that Tony Evers
was never really serious when he talked about tax relief
a few months ago. I've never met at Wisconsin Democrat
that's ever ever been in favor of lower taxes and
allowing workers to keep more of the hard earned paycheck.
Tony Evers has been no different, But he made several
moves on Friday, just before the Easter weekend and when
no one was looking that should just be abhorrent to

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any working wisconsinate. First, he vetoed a bill that would
have ended his insane four hundred year tax increases related
to school funding. Then he turned his back on hard
working wisconsinates again when he vetoed two different bills that
would have ended taxes on tips and overtime income folks.
It's worth noting that both of those bills. Both of

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those bills passed through the legislative chamber on bipartisan votes.
Some Democrats joined with the Republican majorities and voted in
favor of helping Wisconsin workers by eliminating the state income
tax on overtime and tips, and Evers went against the majority,
evil dipwad Evers went against the wishes of the majority
of Wisconsinates and a clear majority in the legislature and

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killed off the idea. And this was after he spent
a year pretending he wanted to end the income tax
on over time and tips. He's been a year pretending
that he would sign this bill. Tony Evers himself included
a measure to eliminate the state income tax on overtime
in tips in his last budget proposal. The bulk of
the legislature agreed, they passed the bills to do it,

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only to have Evers veto his own proposal and prove
he's just a lying leftist. I mean, what a jackass.
There's absolutely no excuse for this veto, given that the
state under Republican budgets has been running at multi billion
dollar surpluses for years. It's been years and years now
that the state of Wisconsin has been overtaxing its constituents
and running a huge surplus. Most wisconsinates probably don't even know.

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We've been running a two to three billion dollar surplus
every year in every budget for a decade at least,
and Governor Evers has rejected every single effort that has
been made to lower taxes and or return that surplus
to the taxpayers it was unnecessarily taken from Evers's been
an embarrassment as a governor, and the Wisconsin Democrat Party

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has moved so radically to the left that he is
considered a moderate. He's considered a moderate. Wisconsin voters have
no idea what's coming if they're dumb enough to elect
another Democrat governor to follow Evers, because those that are
running to replace them are all radical into the left
of him. If one of these open socialists like Francesca

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Hong or Sarah Rodriguez or Kilderoys gets into office, this
state is in serious, serious trouble. If you look at
the stats, Wisconsin has actually held its population and even
gained a little over the last several years, while the
other liberal states around US have bled population. Just look
at the statistics Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan. They've all seen noticeable

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population declines as the pseudosocialists running those states drive workers
and drive companies out of their states. They're driving them
out with radical policies and higher and higher taxes and
energy bills. Wisconsin has bucked that trend because with Republicans
have remained in charge of the legislature. This is how
we bucked the trend. Republicans remained in charge of the

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legislature during the Tony Evers' tenure as governor, and they've
managed to block his calls for billion dollar tax increases
and have managed to keep his worst instincts in check.
That's why we're better off than Minnesota, Michigan, and Illinois.
Tiffany's a Wisconsin farmer, common sense congressman. He'd be great
governor for this state after Tony Evers, especially if the

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game playing that the Democrats have engaged in leads to
their party retaking one or both chambers of the legislature again.
Every single one of the Democrats who's running for governor
would at best be an Evers clone in which they
pretend to be worried about lowering taxes and helping out
working wisconsinates only to keep screwing you. And at worst,
one of those candidates would finally give up all pretense

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that today's Democrats care about working people or their own
constituencies at all. I mean, I guarantee you that Francesca
hag and calder Roy's would gleefully use their gubernatorial powers
to sc over the working class harder and harder every year,
and they giggle as they did it. David Crowley and
Mendela Barnes would too, but they'd continue to talk out
of both sides of their mouth. In fact, one of

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the most ludicrous claims of the last week or so
is Mendela Barnes's claim that he's angry about a proposed
rate hike by we Energies. Oh, Mendela was all pretend
angry about this last week. My god, it's terrible that
we Energies is asking for a fourteen percent hike on
residential customers between now and twenty twenty eight. By god,
Governor Mandela Barnes won't stand for it, folks. Mendela Barnes

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was Lieutenant governor for years as the Evers and Biden
administrations caused major price hikes due to their idiotic green
energy policies and Biden's run away inflation. I mean going look, look,
seek out the hard facts. Wisconsin's electric rates have gone
up six times since the year two thousand, six times
before that they were quite flat. Our energy bills have

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gone up six times with Joe Biden and the White
House and Tony Evers and Mendela Barnes in the governor's mansions.
To believe that Mandela and Francesca and the rest of
these this gaggle of idiots is angry that your electric
bills keep going up. I mean, come on, no one's
that stupid, are they? I guess we'll find out and fall.
Moving on, I'm convinced that one of the reasons my

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radio show is so successful is that I was willing
to tell the truth and call more honest balls and
strikes than most other talking heads. Both sides of the
aisle tend to feature pundits and so called analysts who
only ever spelt their party's line and or their special
interest talking points. I've always been more interested in what's
the truth, and sometimes it upset the listeners of my
radio show. But there are certain things that I think

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haven't been stated over the last several weeks that the
average American, certainly the average citizen, voting resident, average person,
should know about. Over the last few months, I haven't
been hearing many people simply telling the truth uncertain things
like the birthright citizenship arguments in front of the Supreme Court.
Those were really interesting and I'm glad they occurred, you know.

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And when the Trump team decided to push this issue
and find a way to put this in front of
the Supreme Court, I cheered it. I said, Trump isn't
likely to be successful here, but it's great that we
finally have a court taking up this question. He's not
likely to be successful, just given the legal history of
the issue and how that constitutional amendment has written, you

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have a modern Supreme court here that isn't likely to
overturn our long standing view of birthright citizenship in this country. Nonetheless,
I said, I was happy to see the Trump team
press this question and basically demand that a Supreme Court finally, finally,
finally examine this question more honestly, and I think this
court will happily. There's no better court to examine this

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question and either set or change precedent than I believe
this court. Trump's team wouldn't be pressing to get an
answer to this question by a left wing Supreme Court,
would they If it was full of left wing activist
judges who make rules based on their ideology. This would
be the wrong time to try to have a serious
Supreme Court decision on birthright citizenship. On this court, Conservatives

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have a six to three majority, and at least five
of those six Conservatives really seem to want to interpret
the Constitution correctly, regardless of the political consequences. That's the
sort of court we should want. Chief Justice John Roberts
is a hack and illegal weenie, but the other five
Conservatives are proving that They want to get the ruling
right based on the Constitution, and they don't care whether

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any given ruling pleases the President or the right side
of the aisle. For all the leftist bashing of this
Supreme Court, the conservatives on it have proven to be
independent jurists who are not delivering the decisions that the
political right or the Trump team wants. This is likely
to be the case when it comes to the birthright citizenship.
I expect a seven to two or even an eight
to one decision here when it comes to the main

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question of protecting our system of birthright citizenship. I also
would expect that the individual justices will all want to
right their own opinions and descents in order to spell
out where they believe that line is when it comes
to this question who should be eligible for birthright citizenship
who is not. If anything, I'd expect a ruling that
perhaps limits the free for all sort of birthright citizenship

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that the courts in the legal system have come to
interpret the fourth the thirteenth, and fourteenth Amendments to mean.
But no, the Supreme Court's not going to end birthright citizenship,
So don't get all invested in that outcome. Don't be
overly angry if it doesn't happen. Another thing the right
wing pundits aren't being honest about. In truth, a president
has no authority to federalize elections, and that's a good thing.

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We wouldn't have wanted to see Barack Obama or Joe
Biden decide on a whim that, Okay, the president's making
up the rules for our elections now, so we shouldn't
want to see it when Trump or a Republican is
in office and says he's doing it. The states have
the clear authority to run their elections the way that
they see fit, with Congress having the authority to put
federal rules in place for federal elections, a president has

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no authority to declare we have national voter i D now,
for example, or mail in ballots are now, or you
know whatever else Trump was claiming to be the case
the other day. And so truth be told, the president's
recent declarations and instructions related to elections won't survive the
court challenge. It took about fifteen seconds for Josh Call
and Tony Evers to join the nation's Democrat leaders and

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declaring Trump's overreach will not stand. Then I hate to
agree with them, but it won't. Someone on the right
needs to tell you the truth on some of these things,
so I do. No president has the constitutional authority to
tinker and tamper with election laws as Trump is doing now.
Congress could create laws related to how the Postal Service
handles ballots and the name of secure federal elections, but

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even there, the Constitution gives the individual states virtually all
the power when it comes to deciding how they are
going to hold those elections, count those ballots, accept those ballots, etc.
Here's something else that I'd highlight for you related to
the March jobs report. In the overall economy, no one
in either the accomplice or right wing media seems to
be telling you just how outstanding those March employment number

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really are and how they prove the Trump team has
been able to reduce the federal workforce by nearly two
hundred thousand workers, or twelve percent, without harming the larger
employment picture. Remember this whole notion. If Elon Musk and
Donald Trump actually reduced the size of our federal workforce,
we're going to slide into a recession or a depression,
and there's going to be stagflation. Is anyone emphasizing that

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in about a year, the Trump team has reduced the
size of federal employment by twelve percent. Fantastic, the negative
effects all they're being seen, No, they're.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
Not, folks.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
When George Bush was president, we had about two point
three million federal workers. When Obama left office, it was
closer to two point seven million. When Biden left office,
it was three million. The Biden leftists and Obama leftists too,
ballooned the federal workforce to just over three million people.
That's insane. When Trump took over, and he and Elon

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Musk promised a more dramatic reduction in the federal works
than we've seen so far. But when you consider that
the trajectory of government jobs, especially at the federal level,
only ever seems to go up, reducing the federal workforce
by twelve percent is already a significant win, huge win
for President Trump and the American people. And Trump and
his team have three more years to work on it.

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Trump's new twenty twenty seven budget includes further budget cuts
and non military programs apparently, and that means more federal
downsizing if Congress agrees. Now, ask yourself, have you or
anyone you've talked to even noticed that two hundred thousand
federal workers are quote missing. The Wall Street Journal editors say,
it's shocking how little these workers have been missed by

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the public. No, it's not not, if we're being honest.
If we're being honest, most of us have no idea
what most of our federal workers do, and we wouldn't
miss them if they were gone. Department of Homeland Security, Immigration, FBI, etc. Yeah,
we would all notice that. Federal law enforcers and prosecutors,
Sure they be missed, they do an important job. They'd

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be visibly absent. But the two thirds of the federal
workforce that simply represents the massive bureaucracy, it's not surprising
that cutting the administrative fat by twelve percent hasn't even
been noticed by the average American. No, so let's talk
Iran for a few minutes, because never in the history

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of global warfare has there ever been a military victory
this lopside, in this complete with virtually no loss of
life or equipment on one side as they completely devastate
the enemy. I mean never in the known history of
our planets so far as I know, have we seen
one military wipe out the entire leadership regime of the
other side within days, and then go on to systematically

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eliminate the second and third tiers respectively, as the next
wave of enemy leaders steps up. I mean to the
point that the enemy is so rattled that no one
wants to lead that losing army in that losing country.
The military and strategic operations of this war have gone
nearly flawlessly, my friend, and yet we still have the
American left and their accomplished media members insisting that this

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is going badly. President Trump's team is losing this war.
I'm stealing this from a poster on X because I
like it so much. It takes a special kind of
hyperpartisan delusion to watch ninety five percent of the Iranian
regime and their military get vaporized within a week, then
turn around and claim America and Israel are losing this.
That about sums it up.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
I've been chuckling at all the false and desperate narratives
the Democrats and their activists left have been churning out
over the last two weeks or so on this, But
you know, behind the laughter, we should at least realize
how terrible and reckless it is for today's Democrat leaders
not to stand up for their troops and their country
in a time of war. Forget the left wing activists

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for a moment. Their lunatics separate them out from the
actual elected Democrat leaders in this country who are supposed
to be more responsible. It's just shameful to see nearly
every single Democrat leader and rank and file member of
the party immediately leap to use this is another major
opportunity to trash and bash President Trump and trash in
bass the United States. It's beyond pathetic and for the

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younger listeners in the audience. No, Democrats didn't use to
act this way. No, because past generations of Democrats still
loved the country, They supported the military, They wanted the
best for the American people. Past generations of Democrats actually
supported our military and our troops in a time of war.
Past generations of Democrats actually supported the military defense of

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this country. It just proves again that today's Democrats, including
most of their leadership and rank and file, are America
haters at their core. Now to mimic Michelle Obama, they've
never been proud of their country and they hope to
change it into something that they can be proud of,
meaning socialist, something dictatorial, something completely Unamerican. But one of

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the false narratives that we're seeing is Trump and Hegsith
went into this blind and never considered that Iran and
its allies could close the strait of hormone and create
chaos and the global markets and the energy market bull PLoP.
They didn't think about that. But the second part of
it is also false. They haven't created chaos and the
energy market, they've created ripples. Sure, chaos.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
No.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
Of course the President was advised about this possibility, and
of course he decided it was worth the risk. They
knew oil prices would spike temporarily. But here's an important fact.
Only twenty percent of the oil exports out of the
Persian Gulf are transported via that route. Listen to what
I said. Only twenty percent of the oil coming out
of the Persian Gulf goes through there, not twenty percent

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of our global oil exports totally overall, So losing that
waterway isn't a catastrophe. And the prices since the attack
prove it. Yeah, gas has gone up to about four
dollars a gallon. Now it's up about a dollar forty
dollars fifty more than it was, but it was higher
than four dollars under Joe Biden. At times it briefly

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was over five dollars under Joe Biden. Bottom line, to
have launched a military effort this devastatingly effective and to
eliminate virtually all threats from the globe's most belligerent actor
over the last forty or fifty years, and have the
net effective that be over here in the US, have
the net effect be gas prices are about a dollar
forty a gallon more than they were and will only

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remain so temporarily. I mean, have you considered how extraordinary
that is. Iran's evil Mullahs are gone, the worst threats
to the West and the globe are gone, and our
part of the sacrifice is temporarily higher gas prices. I mean,
come on, that's a massive win. Let's step back a minute.
I mean, I can't get over this. Bottom line. The

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Trump team in the unit US military launched a major
effort to eliminate a forty year global threat, and the
net effect for most of US is gas prices went
up about a dollar forty or fifty per gallon, and
they'll stay there for a while. Imagine this. I mean,
no one seems to be putting it in these stark terms,
but if pass wars took sacrifice in shortages and shared

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responsibilities to the American public, Trump and BB Netanyahuo's effort
to eradicate the Iranian threat once and for all has
taken no sacrifice to the American people. Aside from slightly
higher gas prices. That is amazing, by every measure, amazing.
Iran's evil mullas are gone, the worst threats to the

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West and the globe are gone, and the American sacrifices
temporarily higher gas prices. That's a massive win. And we
don't know how this is ultimately going to play out,
but it's idiotic to say that. We've got to have
virtually every Democrat and left wing grassroots leader trying to
spin this as a loss and a terrible thing. Meanwhile,
President Trump's endgame has now been set with his prime

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time speech last week, I mean, he made it clear.
He laid out the clear gains we've made, the limited
gains that he wants to see, and how he and NETANYAO,
who have done the difficult work of virtually eliminating a
fifty year threat to the Western world, and on a
very short timeline. The president seems to make it clear
that he has no interest in trying to orchestrate a
regime change over there or nation build. And this is

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another part of this farce. Both the left and the
right in this country seem to agree that one of
the major lessons of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars was
that nation building is fruitless, especially in that part of
the world. But it's an expensive and pointless waste of time.
It's one thing to take out the threat that faces
America in the West. It's something else to occupy that
defeated nation until you choose a new government for it,

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try to build a stable democracy there that the people
may or may not want or follow. Again, young people
to the young people in the audience. We've spent decades
now on both the left and the right concluding that
nation building in the Middle East is a losing venture
and that going in militarily to deal with the direct
threats to the West and then leaving is the better model.
And when a Republican president has been in the White House,

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in particular, today's democrats in the American left have insisted
that nation building is stupid, it's a failure, it's dumb.
The Bush administration actually had a growing democracy in place
in Iraq when they left office, and Nancy Pelosiary read
Barack Obama got into office and decided, by God, the
Republicans are not going to get credit for winning the
Iraq War and leaving it a better place. George Bush

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is not going to go down in history as someone
who started a democracy in the Middle East. So they
immediately worked to undermine that effort once they get into office.
I mean, at least since about two thousand and two.
Over the past twenty three years or so, American Democrats
have been against nation building, and so are Trump and
today's Republican leaders. By the way, they agree, Well, that

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presents a problem, then, doesn't it. The Democrats and rabid
Trump haters can't ever ever agree with something Trump is doing,
and so we find them wallowing in the hypocrisy yet again,
to the point that brilliantly and eliminating a fifty year
global threat with only minimal global disturbance is a bad thing,
terrible thing. Now suddenly this war is a failure of
Trump doesn't nation build? What you cannot overstate or enumerate

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the level of hypocrisy going on here. Suddenly now because
it's Trump, this entire effort is going to be a
failure unless he brings about regime change and freese the
Iranian people from that dictatorship wrong. The cleanest victory here
would still be the Trump team doing what they feel
they need to do over there and then get out,
eliminate the Iranian threat, and get out. This is clearly

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the President's plan. The likelihood of American boots on the
ground over there is even less likely now a few
weeks into this war. Israel and America have already accomplished
nearly all of their military goals from the air. There's
already no need to send in ground troops. If we
aren't going for regime change, we don't need troops inserted
over there on the ground. Last week, Trump said the

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core strategic objects are nearing completion, and they are. Meanwhile,
our militaries keep delivering the devastating hits. I mean, we're
still routinely getting reports of fifty senior Iranians military leaders
wiped out here in this attack, or twenty extremist thugs
eliminated there in that attack. The Israeli intelligence operations have
been incredibly impressive when it comes to identifying targets, and

(30:12):
this country's political and military leadership and nearly all their
arsenal dangerous weaponry has been eliminated. This country's military leaders,
political leaders, almost their entire arsenal of truly dangerous weaponry
has been eliminated. Iran has no navy anymore. It was
at the bottom of the sea just a few days
after the bombing started. Iran effectively has no air force anymore. Etc.

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The victory here has been so overwhelming that the America
haters really really had to try to make the downing
of two US planes last week into a big deal
and a terrible turning point of the war. Oh, this
is a big blow to the Trump war effort. What
are you talking about. It's two planes and their pilots
were successfully rescued. If you cheered the downing of those

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two planes and are voting against a Western victory, you
really are a sick and twisted individual and your Trump
ebola has eaten out your entire brain pan. And so
far we've only talked about the overwhelming military victory here
that Trump and BB have orchestrated. You know, the other
major win we've manufactured isn't even being talked about. And
that's the economic victory in terms of boosting our economy

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while destroying Iran's to the point that they're going to
have to spend decades rebuilding it and won't have much
time or treasure to use to plot against us in
the West. This is another significant part of this that
very few people are even talking about. On Friday, to
its credit, the Wall Street Journal ran an article that
makes it clear, you know, aside from the higher gas
and diesel prices, the Iran war has given the US

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economy a global boost. President Trump is now ensured that
we're a major energy exporter and will remain so for
some time. As the Wall Street Journal editors put it,
President Trump didn't attack Iran to help the US economy
at the expense of its allies.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Less.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
That's more and more what's happened, or less more or
less what's happened, They say, Despite high gas prices, the
US economy is holding up. The US became a major
energy superpower through serendipity and policy. They talk about the
shale revolution, vastly increasing domestic oil and gas production, and
then the federal and state policy is changing to construct
the liquefied natural gas facilities that made our export of possible.

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They say, in the process, oil and gas became key
contributors to US economic growth and prestige. The US earns
more from exports of liquid natural gas than from corn
and soybeans. That surprised me. The US now earns more
from exports of natural gas than we do for corn
and soybeans.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
They say. Fossil fuels are foundational to Trump's vision, not
just of domestic prosperity, but international clout. When the US
forces captured Venezuelan and strong man Nicholas Maduro, the Wall
Street Journal editors say the benefit was two fold. The
regime that had challenged US hegemony in the Western Hemisphere
was pacified, and the US gained a de facto control
of a major source of oil down there. Trump's already

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used that to control and restrict cargo oil cargo to
Cuba in the hopes that they will change leadership there.
They note that the European Union depended on Russia for
forty five percent of its natural gas imports before this
all started. Forty five percent Russia weaponized that dependence obviously
and withheld supplies after the invasion of Ukraine in twenty

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twenty two, so at enormous cost, Europe has actually pivoted
now to US alternatives. The US now supplies fifty seven
percent of the European Union's liquid national gas exports. President
Trump knows that oil and energy equal global political clout,
and he's used that knowledge to his advantage and to

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our benefit over both of his administrations. Now, in the
Obama era, I used to talk routinely about how Barack
was blowing this. Obama and his team were too dim
and foolish to understand this. President Obama had every opportunity
to boost this nation's economy and boost this nation's standing
in security globally using energy, and he refused to do it.

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Trump understands the geopolitical clout that controlling and manipulating the
energy market springs, and he's using it to try to finally,
finally end or lessen some of the biggest threats to
the US and the Western world over the last sixty years.
We haven't had a president since Reagan who really understood this,
and we haven't had a president since Reagan who wasn't

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too timid to take on these foreign threats and really
deal with them directly. It's all been a weak diplomacy, capitulation, capitulation,
bomban ask and aspirin factory, take out a terrorist here.
They haven't really dealt Our presidents since Reagan haven't really

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dealt directly with these global enemies in the Middle East,
are the or in our own hemisphere. Not that Trump
and his team will get any credit for it, of course,
nor will most Americans and Westerners ever understand how thoroughly
Trump and Netanya whose actions have screwed up the Iranian economy.
You know, just a few days ago, the acting Iranian

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president apparently admitted that their economy is going to collapse
in a few more weeks if there isn't a cease
fire soon. Well, if the air campaign alone cannot trigger
an uprising among the Iranian people, a complete collapse of
their economy sure could. A New York Post editorial says
that the second front of this conflict is the economic warfare,
and on that front, they say Iran has already lost.

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I agree with that Iran isn't getting its oil to market.
The regime basically turned off Iran's Internet. This means no
business is being conducted that way. That apparently has really
harmed their economy. The value of Iran's currency is in
a dramatic downward spiral. Iranian inflation is said to be
somewhere between forty and sixty percent, and it was high

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before this war started. So even after the military portion
of this effort to neutralize the Iranian threat is over
and President President Trump has brought our troops home, this
economic threat could be devastating for Iran. This is being
described as a looming economic catastrophe for them, and if

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our actions bring about an economic collapse in that country,
then there's a more genuine chance of regime change in Iran,
isn't there? And if not, well, at least Iran's next
batch of brutal mullas won't be a global and regional threat.
It would take some time, probably decades, for them to
build themselves up into the sort of threat that they

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have been for forty or fifty years. And just like
Cuba and Venezuela and Russia, Iran should be I mean,
Iran should be a prosperous and stable nation. Venezuela and
Cuba should also be given all of their natural gifts,
there their natural resources. Instead, these countries have been destroyed

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by evil idiots and their regimes whom the citizens of
those countries haven't had the power or the will to overthrow.
But what comes next in Iran is really on them. Now.
Trump and his team have already won this and they're
certainly giving the people of Iran and Venezuela and maybe
soon Cuba. They're giving them an opening to make changes

(37:23):
and rescue their countries from those brutal regimes and dictators.
But what comes next is really on them. I want
to spend some time here talking about the sheer idiocy
of the stolen lands narrative that the left loves so much.
Out of the many, many foolish and false narratives and

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memes that today's left uses, this one might be the dumbest,
and that of course is saying something, you know, the
basic claim, the basic wine America exists on stolen lands.
We the people, at least we the white people, built
this great nation on land stolen from the Native Americans,
and such a nation therefore cannot be great. This is

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an even earlier version of the claim that due to
the American's original sin. This never was and never can be,
a great nation, a moral nation, a worthy nation. Of course,
the black activists and grievance mongers for years have wanted
to claim that slavery is America's original sin. But the
woke leftists of today and the grievous mangers amongst the
Native American tribes claim this is the original sin. You

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stole our land. You're a moral, terrible people. And there
are so many good points to make and so many
ways to refute this that it's hard to know where
to start. But let's start with this simple truth. The
states and the country were founded by a wave of
settlers and conquerors. Yes, but the land was not stolen.
Bottom line. We fought over which group of people was
going to occupy and control each of these different parts

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of the continent, and the Native American tribes lost. Bottom line,
the land wasn't stolen. At the very least. Our ancestors
on both sides fought over it, and regardless of whether
you think it was fortunate or unfortunate, the European settler
and foreign invaders won out. They won most of the
battles and certainly won the war. The second reality that
needs to be bottom lined here is this, there's also

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no way we're going back. We can't unring the bell,
we can't reverse history, and so the entire whiny effort
to argue over this is pointless, genuinely pointless, especially in
the context in which the America haters and the leftists
want to argue these things. I mean, winding aside, what
do they want us to do about it?

Speaker 1 (39:25):
Now?

Speaker 2 (39:26):
Have anyone who isn't Native American withdraw, get onto ships
and airplanes and depart turn the land back over to
the tribes into nature. I mean, it's idiotic. They want
to pay reparations to the ancestors of those natives who
were wrong, maybe they'd say today. I mean that's both
idiotic and also already being done in the form of
the numerous government and aid programs that we have had

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for Native American tribes over the years. Another bottom line,
nothing can be done about it now. The leftists just
keep up the wine in an attempt to claim moral
superiority over the rest of us, and they don't have that.
But it's patently silly to reach back somewhere between one
hundred and fifty and four hundred years and insist that
history be undone or that we living in this era

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even owe something because of that history. I know that
the idea of reparations and eternal guilt to something that
today's America hating lunatics put a large amount of stock in.
It's moronic. Their sole purpose is to pretend to be
morally superior as they claim yet another victim status. But
that's really just scratching the surface, because in order to
believe and invest in the Stolen Lands idiocy, you genuinely

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need to ignore the history of this content, this country,
and really world history. You need to invent good guys
and bad guys in black and white absolutes to try
to make your case and cling to this silliness. I mean,
you really do. One strong fallacy that the Left needs
to invest in is this idea that you know, until
white colonizers showed up, the continent was filled with peace loving,

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enlightened tribes whose leaders and people really only wanted to
live off the land and live in harmony. In order
to be stupid enough to buy into the Stolen Lands myth,
you really really need to buy into the premise that
Native Americans were the superior group of people morally and
ethically and emotionally until the colonizers came along. This was
a continent of peace loving people until Europeans colonized it.

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It certainly was not before European settlers. This was a
continent of at least thirty some larger tribes that would
rather routinely go to battle with each other and fight
over which tribe controlled which lands, often showing great brutality
while doing it. In fact, I'm certain that this is
the least examined part of American history. It's one that's
just rife for exploration by current and future historians. Basically,

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it's a crime that American historians have had so little
interest in investigating and cataloging the prehistory of the United
States on this continent. After all, every one of these
tribes seems to have a rather rich and detailed oral
and written history of their own handed down through the generations.
And you know, unlike America's European or Melting Pot generations,
these tribes and their elders have taken special pains to

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reteach their histories to each new generation of Indian Native
American children on their reservations. It seems like a wealth
of great history just ready to be discovered and retold
to the masses. This would be a great project for
Ken Burns or National Geographic tell Us, the unknown histories
of America's great and lesser tribes. Wouldn't that be fantastic?

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It just makes you wonder why we don't, Why we
haven't in all these years. I can only think of
one reason, But that reason seems to be rather obvious,
because the true histories of their tribes and those that
they deem to be their great leaders, is as complicated
and as murky and as messy as the true histories
of any people, including white Americans European settlers. And in

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this era, we know, in this spot where we are
today along the arc of human history, in the arc
of Western nations, we know our historians are nearly all liberals,
and they don't want to be the ones to destroy
the purity myth of the Native American tribes that they
hold so dear. And don't get me wrong saying that
there's some dark past when it comes to the Native
American tribes, or that there's some reason they deserve to

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have their land taken from them. I'm just saying the
histories of those tribes are going to include the same
sorts of heroes and villains and flawed characters and people
that are larger American and European histories include. I guarantee
you the leftist myth relies heavily on every Indian chief
and every tribe being wise and moral and just and trustworthy.

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No one envisions sitting Bowl as a wife beater or
crazy Horse as a pedophile rapist. Were they? I don't know,
and I'm not trying to be controversial or make wild claims.
I'm simply stating the truth. Today's left insists George Washington
and Thomas Jefferson cannot be considered great men because they
own slaves. Right, Today's left wants to insist that the

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sorts of character flaws that all humans have had throughout
the course of world history need to cancel out any
good they ever did or any greatness they ever achieved.
And that's just simplistic and ridiculous. The truth is that
throughout the course of human history, all sorts of flawed
men have done great things and terrible things. Today's leftists
are working hard. They're coming through the personal lives of

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every white American leader who died hundreds of years ago,
one hundred, two hundred, four hundred years ago. But do
you really think the Native American chiefs and tribes were
flawless mythical in their purity and wisdom? Come on, you know? Instead,
today's historians of all races lionized the Native American leaders
as great people and wise chiefs and great warriors. There

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wasn't a dud among them. By the way, they never
tell the story of Chief horse Enemah, who led his
tribe to destruction. You never hear that all great and
wise chiefs, all great and wise chiefs and great warriors.
But wait, how can America's tribes have been led by
great warriors if they were all peaceful, wonderful people. In
one breath we're told that Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull

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and Geronimo and Tacumsa and Red Cloud and potiac Oh
all great warriors. In the next breath were told that
there was no strife on the continent the white men arrived. Well,
which is it? How can these men be great warriors
for their tribes if they were never at war? Isn't
it long overdue that we hear what sorts of battles
they survived, and what sort of great deeds they performed

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on the battlefield to earn those reputations before the Europeans
ever arrived. Why not do a neat Geo series or
a ken Burns series on great and Native American warriors
and really tell those stories. It would prove that the
Native Americans weren't such peaceful people, right, wouldn't it It would?
In order to do those series, you'd have to admit

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that the Choctaw and the Chickasaw were often warring over territory,
and that the Sioux and the Pawnee, and the Apache
and the Crow could be downright brutal, just brutal, inhumane
to each other when they wanted to be. You'd have
to admit that the Native tribes warred over lands and
territory long before white settlers ever arrived. And you'd have
to admit that Indian raids on other tribes often meant

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killing all the men and boys and women were routinely
taking children and women back to their camps as slaves.
You'd have to admit Native American tribes had slaves too.
Then you'd have to admit that all those European settlers
came from a technologically advanced part of the world for
that time anyway, and the reason that the Native Americans
lost their lands was really because they were simply outnumbered

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and beaten by superior technology. This is basically the case
in any war that's ever been fought. The side with
the bigger army and the better weaponry normally wins. America
wasn't stolen from the Indians. We fought over it. They lost,
and that's the bottom line. But the history of the
colonization of America and the battles, the raids, the wars
that were flought during that time are really complicated and interesting.

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Native American raids butchered settlers, the settlers in the US
army butchered natives. Brutalities were done on both sides and
all sides. Alliance has constantly changed, and the history is
really messy.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
You know.

Speaker 2 (46:55):
No one ever mentions that as Americans pushed west and south,
as they pushed out of the original boundaries of the
Thirteen States. No one ever mentions that most of the
Indian tribes made alliances with the British and the French.
The tribal leaders took up sides and went to war
alongside the British and the French forces against the settlers. Well,
the British and the French lost the Great Wars for

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control of America, didn't they? Virtually every Native American tribe
chose to align themselves with our European enemies. And so
when those enemies lost, what should we have expected to
happen to the tribes and their leaders who fought and
lost with the British and the French. Should they have
just gotten a free pass, had their lands returned to them?
The old clichet as to the victors go the spoils.

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But in any war, the victors decide what comes next.
The victors decide how brutal they're going to be over
the vanquished, or how benevolent they're going to be over
the vanquished. They decide what comes next. And yes, the
story of how the Native Americans lost their land is
a terrible one when viewed in any moral or decent
or fair scale, it is. Yeah, the army and several

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US presidents chose to treat them unfairly and unjustly, even brutally.
After the combat portions of the territorial wars were over, Yeah,
some of those that were conquered were treated terribly, just terribly,
no excuses. I'm not making any excuses or trying to
whitewash history. I'm only pointing out that there was nothing
unique or terrible or particularly brutal about the way this

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continent was colonized or how the West was won. Within
the context of global history, it's actually pretty routine. There
are conquerors and there are the conquered, and truth be told,
we in this country seem to care way, way, way
more than any other culture about reliving this stuff and
continuing to care about those who were conquered. It's one
hundred and fifty to two hundred years later, and the

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leftists and the grievance mongers in this country still want
to rehash and rehash and revisit and rehash all of
the injustices that some segments of our society have suffered
over generations. Worse yet, they only want to do it
because they've learned that there's power in being the victim.
And even worse yet, their ideas on who's the victim

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are situational. They change greatly based on the political argument
that the trying to make in the moment. It's all
foolishness it's all noise and grievance, and it's tiresome. And anyone,
I mean, anyone who really buys into the Stolen Lands
myth is an idiot. You're a special kind of idiot
if you're going to ignore all of human history, all
of American history, all of human nature, and whine about

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stolen land and insists that two hundred years later you're
owed something for it, or you know that because of
what happened two hundred or four hundred years ago, we
cannot be a moral better nation. Now, of course we can,
and of course we ought. We'll talk again on Friday.

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