6-7-25 The Weekend Hour 1: Western Civilization – And American Society – In Decay

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
To night.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA director talk.

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Show host Michael Brown. Brownie, no, Brownie, You're doing a
heck of a job the Weekend with Michael Brown live
from Denver, Colorado.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
You've tuned into the Weekend with Michael Brown. Really glad
to have you joining the program today. Lots of talk about,
lots to go through. Let me kind of give you
a little bit of a picture of kind of where
I want to go today. So we've had some uh
not well maybe riots, little mini riots in Los Angeles
and earlier last weekend, and then kind of a theme

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throughout the entire week on my weekday program was kind
of the devolution and the denigration of Western civilization and
in particular, kind of the devolution and denigration of American
society in particular. So I want to go through kind
of what happened in Los Angeles as an example and

(00:54):
give you kind of a timeline of how what what
we're witnessing today or what we witnessed yesterday. I guess
in LA really goes back almost eight years ago. We've
just kind of forgotten about it, but that arc of
that eight years shows us kind of where we are,
and then I want to tell you a story, and
and well, we'll kind of start out in London for

(01:17):
the story, because a lot of Europe is really turning
into Look, I don't get me wrong, I love Europe.
In fact, we're debating whether or not to go with
our daughter on a trip to London in a few months.
I love London because it's just a well I love
the old London. The new London. Eh, it's okay, but

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great Indian food and great museums and lots to do
and and if you're willing to get out into the countryside,
it's it's it's it's an amazing place. But when you
look closely, a lot of the major cities in Europe,
including a lot of major cities in the United States,
are starting to look like third world countries. I would

(02:02):
challenge you to do this. I do this in Denver
a lot, and it drives my family nuts, it drives
my friend's nuts. But you know, I drive everybody nuts
who cares. But in Denver. I'll give you an example yesterday.
And maybe it is not a fair example. Nonetheless, I
think it's a good example of how we have misprioritized

(02:24):
our spending we have deferred maintenance on all sorts of things.
We don't remember the broken windows theory. When Rudy Giuliani
became Mayor of New York, he really enveloped and adopted
the broken windows theory, which essentially is, if you fail
to take care of the little things, they will grow
into all sorts of big things. So if somebody breaks

(02:47):
a window, say in a retail store, you know, on
Fifth Avenue of all places. Somebody throws a rock through
a window on Fifth Avenue, and you don't immediately fix
that window. Maybe you board it up with some plywood,
or maybe it just cracks and you leave a cracked whatever,
whatever you do, you don't immediately take care of that

(03:08):
little problem. That sends a signal to every other thug
that walks down Fifth Avenue that hey, you know, hey,
they they broke the window and it's uh, it's Gucci
or it's you know, Louis Vuton. Well what instead of
just we saw somebody tried, well let's try and so

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now they throw a brick and they break the window,
or they decide, well let's just go in. And now
you got a you know, a flash mob going in
and they're stealing everything and running out of the store,
and nobody does anything, and that grows larger and larger
and larger. Or people start throwing trash out, litter bugs,
and pretty soon the streets become littered dirty. And when

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you look at homelessness, for example, now set us whatever
you may think about homeless people, whether it's their fault
or not their fault, whether it's because of drugs or
crime or anything else. Nonetheless, what they do when they
set up those encampments is they deteriorate that neighborhood or
that business district. And if you don't take care of

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that by moving them, putting them in shelters, putting them
in institutions, putting them in rehab putting them in mental
health hospitals, whatever it is. But because we no longer
do that, they destroy neighborhoods, they destroy central business districts,
they destroy wherever they go. And that's the broken windows.
You don't take care of the little things, that gets
bigger and bigger and bigger. Picking on New York for

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a moment. Now, I know that New York is. You know,
it's an old city and it's a large city. But
if you ever drive around in New York you'll find potholes.
You'll and when you look at the overpasses, as you
drive under the overpasses, you'll see that the metals become
rusted and old and dirt, and sometimes if you look closely,
there are wooden beams trying to hold things up. And

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in Colorado yesterday Ice seventy, which is a major thoroughfare,
Interstate seventy that goes clear across the country, but is
a major thoroughfare through Denver and onto Salt Lake City
and again onto Los Angeles. You'll find that yesterday in
doing some construction, there are potholes everywhere, and they're trying

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to repair a bridge, and the contractor, you know, shuts
down for the day, which drives me nuts, you know,
because some places they work, you know, twenty four hours
a day, seven days a week to try to speed
things up. That's one good thing they actually do in
Europe on the auto bonds, but here we don't do it.
So the contractor leads, we've been having a lot of
rain and it develops a gigantic pothole, I mean the

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kind of pothole that you're going to lose a car in.
So they have to shut down the interstate. Now, contractors
not paying attention. Contractors. You know, it's like everything else.
You know, I ordered some material. I'm having some railing
redone on my deck, and the contractor ordered some material
from you know, a maybe maybe a depot place, and

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he comes yesterday after delivered to check it and the
order is wrong. Little things. It's just like nothing works
the way it's supposed to. I got a phone call
yesterday from a collection agency they were trying to collect.
Of course, at some point I realize I'm spending much
more time than this is worth. They're trying to collect

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thirty six dollars from me, and it involved a medical company.
So I'm trying to find out what it is. Well,
you know, tell me what the invoice is, tell me
who the company is. But they wanted me to give
They wanted me to give all of my personal identification
information before they would tell me anything. I said, well,
you called me. He said, you must have my you know,
my my personal identification information because you called me. So

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we went round and ran. I finally got the name
of the company, so I called the company. I got
rid of the collection agency. I called the company and
said you're trying to collect a bill from three years ago.
Three years and I'm thinking, first and as a lawyer,
I'm thinking, as a statute of limitations passed on this,

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but why do you wait three years to try to
collect thirty six dollars from me? So I'm going round
and around with this poor customer service representative. She finally
digs into the archives, finds a bill from three years ago,
and it turns out that an insurance company, a health
insurance company that I had with I Heart which we
no longer have, had turned down to claim on something.

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But nobody ever told me. Now I've now spent almost
forty five minutes arguing about thirty six dollars. I finally
reached the point where I realized it's not worth my time.
I said, can I just pay you? Because I'm thinking
I'm going to screw the collection agency and pay the
medicals advice company directly. Pay them their thirty six dollars,
which does not include any interest. So you know, the

(08:00):
collection agency had you know they were going to get ten, twenty,
thirty percent or whatever. So I'm going to screw them
and just pay them directly. Now, I decided at some
point it's not worth my time. Here's my thirty six dollars.
Hang up, go on, forget about it. I don't really
think I owed it, but it wasn't worth my time.
But it's little things, little thing, and I know it's

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true in your life, just little things that aren't working.
And then I speaking of Denver, so I drive around
Denver and the streets are filthy. There's homeless everywhere. And
I know it's true. In La it's true. In Houston,
it's true, in Dallas, it's true, in Chicago, it's true.
Wherever you go. We're not taking care of the little things.
And that's the sign of the demise. So when we

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get back, I want to go to Los Angeles for
something that happened yesterday. That is another kind of example
of this devolution of Western civilization. It's the weekend with
Michael Brown. You know, if you want to send me
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(09:02):
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go back. This is a little over eight years ago.

(09:24):
This is February fourteenth, Valentine's Day, twenty seventeen, MSNBC. The
mayor at the time is Garcetti. The mayor of Los
Angeles is Garcetti, and he's on MSNBC talking about immigrations
and customs enforcement raids that Trump is trying to implement.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
Now, the Mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, mister Mayer,
great to have you with us, Thanks so much for
being here. Obviously you have raised some alarms. Others have
alarms about these raids. As you know, well, President Obama
deported more people than any press president of the twentieth century,
more than two and a half million, not including last year.
Those stats aren't fully in yet. How are these deportations

(10:07):
over the last few days of the Trump administration different
from what President Obama did throughout his administration.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Now, whether you want to buy the premise or not
about being about Obama being the deporter in chief, I
don't care. We can argue those stats all day long.
But oh, Obama deported people, and now Trump's president, and
Trump's going to deport people. So tell us, former Mayor
Garcetti eight years ago, what do you think of this.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
Part of the problem is exactly that it's not clear.
We're not getting transparency and as much information as we need. Initially,
when people said there was over one hundred people in
southern California that were brought in, that was denied until
later on they admitted it was one hundred and sixty
one people. And while I got some initial briefings from
ICE officials, it's unclear how they're targeting people and whether

(10:56):
there's any new policies. We don't want the grandmother who
forgot to pay the parking ticket, separated from her family,
going back to a country she may not even know.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
You know, I heard a story. We don't want grandma
who has a parking ticket going back to a country
that she may not even know. Now, I know that
some young women can be grandmother's I kind of get that,
but I'll give you a kind of a compare and
contrast story out of Florida. A woman who has been
here for almost thirty years. She looked, I mean, she

(11:30):
could be a grandmother right, because of the photos I've
seen of her, she looks to be at least fifty,
maybe fifty five years old, so she conceived Italy could
be a grandmother. She's been here almost three decades, no
work permit, she's here illegally, she's never taken the time

(11:51):
in almost three decades to learn to speak English, and
she's being deported. Am I supposed to be upset about this?
So well, shocker, I'm not. You've been Remember how Obama
used to talk about we want to bring them out
of the shadows. Well, we're bringing you out of the

(12:11):
shadows and sending you home. Now, if she's been here
for three decades, and let's assume that she is at
least fifty years old, that means she was twenty years
old when she came from another country. Now she may
not remember, She may not you know, that country may
have changed in those three decades that she's been in

(12:33):
this country. But I'm frankly sick and tired of people
who have been here for thirty forty fifty years, haven't
learned English, haven't done anything in terms of trying to
assimilate into this country. Go home, which is what Trump's doing,
and quite frankly, I don't have a problem with it.
But remember this is from eight years ago.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
There was a range of course, there's dangerous criminals and
we want those off the street.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Do you really do you you really want them off
the street because there's a dangerous criminal that we Finally,
I disagree with this, but we've convinced Al Salvador to
let abrego out of that prison and brought him back
here to face federal murder, child and human trafficking charges

(13:21):
I think, and a bunch of other charges too. So
I would say, do you really want to matter you're
or not.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
But if somebody was driving without a license and they're
the primary bread winner for their family, let's.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Wait a minute. If you're here illegally and you have
a driver's license, which is the whole problem with states
giving driver's licenses to illegal aliens because that opens a
whole range of things for them to do, and you're working,
how are you doing that? If I drive without a license,
if I just refuse to renew my driver's license and

(13:53):
then I get pulled over, well I'm going to get
charged with driving without a license. I probably will not
be able to get a license for a while, and
you know it, it could end. And if I cause
a wreck because I don't know how to drive. I mean,
it's the these these problems have all sorts of tentacles
that just extend out that nobody ever thinks about. If

(14:15):
you don't know how to drive in this country, you
don't know how to read English, you don't understand what
our driving and traffic rules are. What the hell are
you doing with the driver's license? And you're here here illegally? Anyway,
I want you out make them a citizen.

Speaker 4 (14:30):
Let's find a way for them to be here legally
rather than disrupting the social.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
The Wait, wait a minute, Let's find a way for
them to become a citizen. Huh. Well, guess what, Garcetti,
I know he, I know he's the longer the mayor.
But guess what. The Immigration and Naturalization Act offers a
way for them to become a citizen. They just can't
come here illegally and then try to do it. You

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need to start your application, or you need to get
a green card, you need to do whatever. But there
already is a way to become a legal US.

Speaker 4 (15:03):
Citizen fabric in a city that a third of our
GDP comes from contributions of our great immigrant community.

Speaker 3 (15:09):
But do you believe or have evidence, mister Mayor, that
what you're describing there is what's happening. Do you not
believe Secretary Kelly when he says we're going after criminal
elements and not the grandmother with a parking ticket.

Speaker 4 (15:19):
I know for a fact from the briefing I received
from ICE that there were people who had no other
violation besides being here unlawfully. In other words, they came
over without documentation. But some of them were caught up
wrong place, wrong time. They're going after somebody.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
They just happened to get caught. Huh oh, Well, if
you're here illegally, you are here illegally.

Speaker 4 (15:42):
Somebody else was in the apartment and they got taken up. Also,
there's a wide range of what those criminal penalties were.
And yes, I do know for a fact, for instance,
that some of them were driving without a license. Well,
California now gives licenses to everybody.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
If that was a see, rest your honor. This is
years ago. California just gives driver's license to anybody. Yeah,
you're you're a member of the Chinese Communist Party and
you're you know, twenty eight years old, and the ccpiece
enjoy into lax and somehow you or somehow you cross
the border. Yeah, just get a driver's license, start establishing

(16:18):
your identity. And then when the time comes to attack us, well,
you know you're.

Speaker 4 (16:23):
Here for a five year old, you know, charge that
seems to be not the people we should be targeting.
I'd like to see our resources targeted towards those people
who are violent and serious criminals, not folks who are
contributing members of this economy and our community.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
Always making excuses. So when you import this vast, rapidly
reproducing underclass of third world people who are likely to
vote for whoever gonna you know, will take money from
Americans and give it to them, that's integral. That is
necessary to Democrat political strategy. In fact, that is their

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political strategy. So consequently, when you're deporting illegal aliens, it
becomes unacceptable from the liberals slash Marxist point of view,
as they made clear yesterday. In the Democrats stronghold of
Los Angeles. Violence erupted in downtown Los Angeles Friday. Is
Angry leftists surrounded and eventually began to vandalize an ice

(17:24):
facility and attack officers following a step up and raids
and detention of illegal aliens by the Federal Agency, Immigrations
and Customs Enforcement agents were filmed rating different locations and
escorting detained illegals into vans as leftist shouted obscenities through
projectiles and in some cases even attempted to intervene. It

(17:47):
didn't go well. I'll explain next. Text the word micro Michael.
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Speaker 1 (18:05):
Talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, No, Brownie, you're doing
a heck of a job the weekend with Michael Brown.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
Hey, so we came with Michael Brown. Glad to have
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So let's go back to Los Angeles for a moment.
So you know, we we we know LA is a
Democrat stronghold, and that's that's just the way it is.

(18:33):
It may change, but I'll not hold my breath until
it does. But we had all this violence erupting downtown
La yesterday and it didn't go well for some of
the protesters. Courtesy of kt LA their skyfive chopper report.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
This is when we started seeing some sort of smoke
to help try and keep those people from the gate. Here. Okay,
so here we are. We're in the middle of the street. Here,
see's one person trying to stand right in front.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
Now here's what I find hilarious. Now, we've just gone
through the period when we had the Tieneman Square anniversary
and we had the lone Chinese guy, remember him standing
in front of the tanks. Why don't what these people
think that that's what they're standing You know, that guy
standing in front of the tanks in Timan Square was

(19:25):
trying to stop the tyranny of the Chinese Communist Party
and the slaughter of people in Hong Kong and throughout China.
I don't know what these people think they're doing. But
you know when they try to block the highways and
or they try to stop you know, traffic on freeways
in major cities, well, that's kind of what they're doing here.

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These ice vans are making a corner, they're making a
left turn, and all these yahoo's are out running in
front of them. Now, I'm not advocating this, but when
you're in the middle of the street and traffic's moving
and you run out in front of the car, the

(20:09):
laws of physics say that if they don't see you
and the car hits you the weight that the vehicle
is probably going to cause some bodily injury. Yep, you're
going to break some bones, might have your head slammed
down on the pavement, and you you could die. I
don't want to say I don't care, but maybe I

(20:30):
want to say I don't care. Would that be?

Speaker 1 (20:33):
Is that too harsh in front of this suv here?
But he's kind of Hell, it's just such a dangerous
situation here, It's not.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
Yes, it's a dangerous situation. But if I were the reporter,
I would also This is why I'm not a reporter.
It's such a dangerous situation and it's such a dumb ass,
stupid situation too. Now, if just if imagine you're in
that in that van. Now you're armed, and you're not

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the only person in the van. You've got some detainees
in the back. They're probably in shackles. You've got somebody
in the back of the van also. But if you stop,
what's the crowd going to do? Well? As we've learned
from whether it's Rodney King or anybody else, at some
point they're going to start surrounding the vans because you've

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now accomplished your mission stopping the flow of the vans.
And the cops know, the Ice agents know that that's
going to turn into a dangerous situation for them.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
And right in front of this suv here, but he's
gonna it's just such a dangerous situation here, and it's
really not going to do him any good to be
standing there and possibly get it ran over by agents.
So here they are. They're on Ninth Street. Now, crowd
is running alongside with these vehicles, and I'm pretty much

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guarantee that this suv is not going to stop. Someone
throwing whoa, and.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
There it is. He trips. The van just stops in time.
Now on with this because of the angle of the helicopter.
But at least it appears that even if I were
to be looking down from the other direction, the van
stopped in time. But still at least the front bumper

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is up to the guy's waist. HM. The laws of
evolution are taking place.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
Dumbasses, Hey, wipe out here. Okay, so we saw some
eggs being thrown at the vehicle. Now he was just oh,
partly ran over by the suv. Ye. Oh, it looks
like it looks like a bicycle was also struck in
the crosswalk.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
Here.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
Just a dangerous situation. It doesn't uh, not really going
to prevent them from leaving. But now we have a
whole other situation here.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
Now, to the surprise of nobody. The mayor of Los Angeles,
Karen Bass, remember her when she got off the plane
after all the wildfires, and the reporter from the BBC
or some outlet was asking her, you know, do you
have anything to say? And she just stood there staring.
I mean she could she could have expressed some concern.
She didn't have anything to say about that. But you

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shouldn't be surprised that here she sided with the criminals
and the foreign invaders against her own country. She proclaimed
literally that Ice agents so terror in her community, worse
even than a rhetoric. She also reportedly attempted to block

(23:44):
the Los Angeles Police Department from intervening when ICE called
for backup. Hey, LAPD, we need some help here. We
got a bunch of idiots running around and we're just
trying to enforce the law. We're trying to do our job.
Could you come and help us by doing your job?
And she tried to stop the LAPD from helping. Now

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too bad that she can't be arrested for impeding federal
law enforcement. You know collect David Horrada, the president of
the SEIU union in California, who was now the governor
of California. Gavin Newsom has predictably taken heretu's side against
the ICE agents attempting to defend the United States from
the largest foreign invasion in human history, demonstrating once again

(24:30):
that these Marxists do not merely lie, but they tell
the diametric opposite of the truth. Because Newsom characterizes the
president of the Service Employee International Union as a patriot,
you're a patriot the meet he's doing their part by

(24:51):
describing the rioters. You can't make this up. Remember the
summer of George Floyd mostly peaceful. Well, here Newsom describes
the riot as largely peaceful. So we've gone from mostly
peaceful to largely peaceful, which is more I'm not quite sure.
Can somebody explain to me, is mostly peaceful less than

(25:13):
largely peaceful? Those are shades of the establishment backed Black
Lives Matter riots. Now, in the end, we know that
these people are always going to fall back on lawless violence.
They are the enemies not just of America, but these

(25:35):
are the enemies of civilization in general. And that's my
point about what's going on in Los Angeles. This is
an example of the degradation of Western civilization. You know,
what's Ice doing. You may not like some of their tactics.

(25:55):
You know, as I've told you before, I used to
represent comps, not back when I was practicing law, and
I've represented cops on you know, I've represented them in
their labor negotiations, and I've been on the other side
of their labor negotiations too. But I understand that whether
you like some of the tactics or not. And I
don't like all the tactics tactics the cops use, but

(26:18):
I do know the bottom line is this, They're simply
trying to enforce the law. They're simply trying to do
their job. And those who would try to prevent them
from doing their job, not through lawful means, through litigation
or through you know, going to your city council or
talking to your mayor, your governor and trying to get
things changed. Your policies change. But when you try to

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change what they do by rioting and stopping them from
what they do, you then also become the criminal. And
when we back the criminals against those who enforced the law,
that's a degradation of society. That's a broken window. What
we saw in Los Angeles is a broken window. And

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that broken window is spreading much larger and further than
we can imagine. So let's let's let's remember all these
examples that I've given so far in the program, the
giant potholes, the trashy streets, the deteriorating infrastructure, everything that
makes us look like and sometimes act like a third

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world country. And then let's take all of that and
let's start running into the future and see what it
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demise of Western civilization next. Hey, welcome back to the

(28:15):
Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to have you with me.
I appreciate you tuning in. Let's start down this little
story I want to tell you today. How is it
that you know I told my local audience either yesterday
or day before that, you know, we all know the
story of the frog in the pot of boiling water,

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and we've all been taught that. You know, the frog
gets in the you know, kind of the lukewarm bath water,
and everything feels really good, and then the enemies of
the frog begin to turn the heat up, and before
the frog knows it, the frog's in boiling water and
we're destroyed. I forget where I read this, but what

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is myth busters or somebody actually tested that theory and
it's not true. And you know it wouldn't be true
for you too, as long as you had a method,
a mechanism by which to escape. If you were in
a bathtub and the water was just perfect, or in

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a swimming pool and the water's just perfect. Yet the
water starts to gradually get warmer and warmer and warmer.
There will reach a point where your body will say
to your brain, hey, stupid, this is getting hot. Get
the hell out of the water. And you will at
some point get out of the water, unless, of course
you're stupid ass drunk. You're going to get out of

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the water before it boils and burns you and kills you.
And these myth busters, and I don't mean literally the
myth busters, but whoever it was that did this experiment
show that indeed, the frog will start trying to climb
out of the pot and eventually we'll get, you know,
get their legs. So I mean, there's enough water over
the top, and we'll get out of the water. I

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think we'll do the same thing. But we have to
recognize that the water temperature is beginning to rise. So
it's London, it's in morning time. The years twenty thirty
five years away from now. You wake up your drenched
in sweat, your heart's hammering heat. No, because the thermostats

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that you use to control the heat died six days ago. Instead,
it's the silence, strained, brittle, waiting to snap, just dead silence.
There's no power, no phones. You didn't charge your iPhone.
It's dead. Your neighbor's generator once a down lifeline is

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a charred husk from last night's maull a tough cocktail ambush.
You sneak through and kind of peek through the battered
curtains every street light. There's a new flag waving Community
Defense Force, and it's written in kind of broken English,

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but in pure Arabicon polish. From the depths of the
tower blocks a sharp crack of gunfire, then a woman's screams, electrified, unfiltered.
You don't recognize the voice. Boots thundering your stairwell, and
then there's silence, but your phone does finally chirp. It's
some sort of emergency PSA. We're all in this together,

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but the fiber optic cut has frozen any live feet again. Downstairs,
someone has scrawled in crimson you lost. You don't know
whether it's blood or rust. You really don't need to
know what it is. The shops they're all ghosts, bareshells,
shattered windows. You've got two cans of beings left. You

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don't know what's going to come next. So you take
a deep breath, You try not to panic, you don't cry.
You do what everybody in a feral city now knows.
You stay hidden, you don't move, you don't trust anybody.
But how did it get to that point? And how
worse is it going to get? A feral city? I
think our cities in this in Western civilization, are becoming feral.

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There's collapsing trust, there's fracture policing, rising militias, of population
split into hostile tribal enclaves, civil war theory combined with
escalating sabotage, migrant crime, data, elite denial. All that paints
a credible picture of a looming collapse. Modern urban life

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depends on fragile, undefended infrastructure. You think about how undefended
our infrastructure is today. Imagine thirty, you know, five, ten
fifty years from now, and imagine how we see cyber attacks.
Look at what's going on in Ukraine and Russia. Right now,

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the the destruction of those bombers, not by missiles but
by drones. And you know how fragile urban life is.
I mean, the least little hint of oh my gosh,
you know we might have a blizzard coming, or you
know there's a hurricane coming, or on the west coast,
you know you got wildfire. Everybody runs the grocery store,

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and what they buy, they buy up all the bottle
of water in the toilet paper. Everybody wants to drink
and poop, I guess. But then we're starting to recognize
that there's a there's an erase, an erasing of our culture,
mass displacement, nuclear insecurity, those are not future risks, those

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are present dangers. And the old order is unraveling. And
the old order is unraveling because the multiculturalism that we've
been fed is falling apart in some parts of the world,
not so much in our country right now. But that
depends on whether or not we can continue down the
new path we're going down. But we have been suffering

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through economic decay and there's a growing what I would
call an expectation gap that's driving Western societies through the
brink of revolution. That's not a scene from some sort
of post apocalyptic film. That's grim pulp novel. Snapshots of what.

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David Betts, a professor of war at King's College, London,
now Warrens could be our future in an essay just
published in a military strategy magazine. That's the Military Strategy
Magazine if you want to look it up. Now, that's
not his first warning. Two years ago he released another

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largely overlooked essay titled Civil War Comes to the West.
When he wrote that essay, he called out the hubris
of European elites and he kind of compared Western civilization
to a garden that was surrounded by this jungle and
argued that view is dangerously false. He traced civil war

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causes to structural decline, multiculturalism, a collapse of social trust,
what he cites as a deep erosion of social capital,
an elite elitist cowardice that was unable to successfully integrate
or govern. Don't you sometimes see now, I know we're

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kind of in the middle of this and in the
United States right now, you know the big beautiful bill
for example, is it going to pass? Not pass? Can
they really govern? And can they really successfully integrate and govern?
And do what needs to be done to turn this
economy around. Owned we'll go back to Betts for a moment.
He warned that digital echo chambers actually magnify identity, political divisions,

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and magnify living expectation gaps, rising costs, diagnant wages, de industrialization,
all the things that Trump, for example, is trying to
turn around. Right now, you think Trump doesn't understand this.
In fact, I sometimes wonder if Trump hasn't read these things,
hasn't read these essays. And he warned that these echo

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chambers fuel a volatile mix. What happens with that mix,
we'll talk about that next. It's the Beekim with Michael Brown.
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