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0:56

trouble, as every Democrat knows at this

0:58

point, in the current polling average from

1:00

RealClearPolitics. Donald Trump is currently leading in

1:02

every swing state. Donald Trump is

1:05

currently leading in the national poll averages. Joe

1:07

Biden is wildly underperforming. Donald Trump is in

1:09

the best polling position he has ever been

1:11

in, including during the 2016 race

1:13

that he actually won. And now Democrats are

1:16

turning on all the alarms. And that means

1:18

they're calling back in Barack Obama, as well

1:20

as Bill Clinton, apparently. Both Obama and Clinton

1:22

have decided that they are now going to

1:24

get involved in the Biden campaign. Now, the

1:27

problem is that that actually is a conflict

1:29

within the Democratic Party. Bill Clinton did not

1:31

govern the way that Barack Obama governed. They

1:33

governed actually quite disparately. So

1:36

Bill Clinton started off as a wild lefty.

1:38

If you look at his governance in 1993,

1:41

1994, when he was pushing Hillarycare, he governed too far

1:43

to the left. And then he got clocked in the

1:46

1994 congressional elections. And

1:48

then he swiveled back to the center. And that's when

1:50

you got welfare reform. That's when you got balanced budgets.

1:52

That's when you got moderate third wave Bill Clinton, who

1:54

ended up being a pretty popular president, despite the

1:56

Monica Lewinsky scandal by the time that he left office.

2:00

On the other hand, Barack Obama took

2:02

precisely the reverse trajectory. He started off

2:04

as a moderate. He ran in 2008

2:07

as a slightly left-leaning Republican.

2:10

He suggested, for example, that he was against

2:12

same-sex marriage. He talked a lot about American

2:14

opportunity, about how he, in his

2:16

very personage, was the embodiment of the American dream,

2:18

how anyone could get ahead, how there

2:20

were no red states, no blue slits, no slig and no other slits.

2:24

And then, by 2012, he had swiveled radically

2:26

to the left. After he passed Obamacare in

2:28

his first few years, just like Hillary Care

2:30

was attempted in 1993-1994, when

2:32

Barack Obama passed Obamacare and the American public

2:35

didn't like it and clocked him in the

2:37

2010 election, instead of swiveling back to the

2:39

center the way that Bill Clinton did, he

2:41

instead swiveled hard to his left. He

2:44

got nothing done of major significance between 2010 and

2:46

2016. There were no major acts

2:48

that he was able to pass between 2010 and

2:50

2016, as opposed to Bill

2:53

Clinton, who actually cut deals with Republicans,

2:55

came to some sort of conciliation with

2:57

people he hated, like Newt Gingrich. Bill

3:00

Clinton swiveled back to where the American public

3:02

wanted him to be. He got the message.

3:05

Barack Obama did not. Both of them

3:07

won re-election. Bill Clinton won re-election on the strength

3:09

of swiveling back to the center, and

3:12

Barack Obama won re-election on the basis

3:14

of fragmenting the American body politic and

3:16

then attempting to cobble together a coalition

3:18

of supposed victims, plus white liberal women,

3:20

in order to defeat a milquetoast Republican

3:22

candidate in Mitt Romney. So these

3:24

are two very different strategies. When you say that

3:26

Bill Clinton and Barack Obama are now in Joe

3:28

Biden's ear, the question is, which one Joe

3:31

Biden is going to follow? If Joe Biden were

3:33

to follow the strategy of Bill Clinton, he would

3:36

swivel back to the center. He

3:38

would, for example, be stronger on foreign

3:40

policy with regard to Israel, with regard

3:42

to Russia. He would, for example,

3:44

stop talking about transing the children. He

3:46

would, for example, close

3:49

the border. He would take a bunch of

3:51

actions that are right within the immediate domain

3:53

of his presidency, and he would start

3:55

to swivel to the center, and he'd go after moderates and

3:57

independents. If, however, he were to

3:59

follow... Barack Obama, he would double down on the

4:02

far left crazy, and he would continue to

4:04

cater to the most radical members of his

4:06

base. Now,

4:08

one thing that has happened in the Democratic Party

4:10

is obviously Bill Clinton is no longer viewed with

4:12

the same sort of magic with which he was

4:15

once viewed. If you go back to the mid-2000s,

4:17

Bill Clinton was the model Democrat. Bill

4:19

Clinton was the guy they all looked up to because he was the last Democratic

4:21

president. But then Barack Obama

4:24

came along, and his star power just outweighed

4:26

Clinton's by miles. Suddenly, Barack

4:28

Obama was the model Democratic president, a

4:30

historically amazing figure despite the fact that

4:32

he had a historically bad presidency. Bill

4:35

Clinton was relegated to second-tier status.

4:38

And so it seems quite likely that Joe Biden, despite the

4:40

fact that Joe Biden is much more like Bill Clinton in

4:43

terms of his own personal political inclinations,

4:45

he tends to follow wherever the wind

4:47

blows, whereas Barack Obama is a true

4:50

believer left-wing Democrat. Because

4:53

Joe Biden believes in the magic of Barack Obama,

4:55

after all, it was Barack Obama who made him

4:57

president by making him vice president, because

4:59

of that, it is very likely that Joe

5:01

Biden is going to follow Barack Obama down

5:04

that primrose path. There's only one problem.

5:06

Everybody who has tried to replicate the Barack

5:08

Obama model loses. Barack

5:10

Obama is one of one. Bill Clinton is not

5:13

one of one. Bill Clinton is a fairly traditional

5:15

Democratic-Southern politician who is capable of shifting and moving

5:17

his policies based on what the American people wanted.

5:21

Barack Obama was a uniquely charismatic figure with

5:23

a unique draw for specific segments of the

5:25

voting population. That is not replicable. Bill Clinton

5:27

is replicable. So

5:29

in other words, if Joe Biden follows Barack Obama, he's a

5:31

fool. If he follows Bill Clinton, that would be quite smart.

5:33

If he follows James Carville, that would be smart. If

5:37

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5:40

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to the New York Times, however, Barack Obama is

6:46

now in Joe Biden's ear all the time. Quote,

6:48

as the election approaches, President Biden is making regular

6:50

calls to former President Barack Obama to catch up

6:52

on the race or to talk about family. But

6:55

Mr. Obama is making calls of his own to

6:57

Jeff Resents, the White House Chief of

6:59

Staff, and to top aides of the Biden campaign to

7:01

strategize and relay advice. So it's not even, by the

7:03

way, that Barack Obama is calling Joe Biden and getting

7:05

Biden to shift strategy. Barack Obama is

7:07

actively taking control of Joe Biden's campaign.

7:10

This is the problem when you take all of Barack Obama's old

7:12

staffers and then you just dump them into the new administration

7:15

for term three of the Obama administration.

7:18

Barack Obama, by the way, at one point, actually said this is what he

7:20

wanted. Barack Obama literally went on national

7:22

TV and when asked if he would ever

7:24

consider running again, if there had been no

7:26

constitutional provision against it, he said, well, I'd

7:28

love best just to basically run a presidency

7:30

without actually being president. Well, the easiest way

7:32

to do that is to staff up the

7:34

Biden administration with all your friends and family

7:36

members and then call them up behind the

7:38

scenes and tell them exactly what to do.

7:40

Apparently, that is exactly what Barack Obama is

7:42

doing right now. Barack Obama is the most

7:44

dangerous political figure in American politics of my

7:46

lifetime because he was able to masquerade as

7:48

a moderate unifier while actually being a deeply

7:50

divisive, racially divisive figure by

7:52

2012. As

7:55

the New York Times says, this level of engagement illustrates Mr.

7:57

Obama's support for Mr. Biden, but also what one of his

7:59

The senior aides characterized as Mr. Obama's grave concern

8:02

that Biden could lose to former President Trump. The

8:04

aide, who has not authorized to speak publicly, said that Obama has

8:06

always been worried about Biden's loss. And so

8:09

the aide added he is prepared to eke it out

8:11

alongside his former vice president in an election that could

8:13

gum down to slim margins and a handful of states.

8:17

Perhaps for the first time, according to the New York

8:19

Times, the two are on the same page about Biden's future

8:21

and a sign of things to come there to appear together

8:24

with former President Bill Clinton and a major fundraiser for the

8:26

Biden campaign at Radio City Music Hall in New York on

8:28

Thursday. Now, again, who

8:31

Biden appears with is really not particularly

8:33

important. Political popularity is

8:35

non-transferable. If Donald Trump

8:38

stands next to an unpopular Republican

8:40

in a particular state, it does not mean that

8:42

that unpopular Republican is now going to win because

8:45

Trump's popularity is not automatically transferable to that unpopular

8:47

Republican. If Barack Obama stands next to Joe Biden,

8:49

it's not like black voters are suddenly going to

8:51

go, oh my God, no, I love Joe Biden.

8:54

That's not the way any of that works. So

8:56

the question again is which strategy Joe Biden is

8:58

going to follow, the Barack Obama strategy or

9:01

the Bill Clinton strategy? Karine Jean-Pierre yesterday

9:03

was asked about Obama and Clinton

9:05

campaigning with Biden and how much

9:07

weakness that shows, which of course is obvious. If

9:09

you have to find the last two Democratic presidents to

9:11

campaign alongside you and hold up your

9:13

arms like Moses in the battle with Amalelk,

9:16

then you got a problem on your hands. Joe

9:19

Biden is not capable of winning this election on his own. He's got

9:21

to call in the other guys who, by the way, are still younger

9:23

than he is. It's

9:25

crazy. Bill Clinton left office in 2000 and he

9:27

is still younger than Joe Biden. President

9:31

Obama and President Clinton strongly

9:34

support President Biden's leadership and

9:36

obviously his agenda. All

9:39

three have agreed

9:41

overwhelmingly on the issues that this president has

9:43

been fighting for for the past three

9:45

years. I mean, they may agree

9:47

on the issues, but they certainly do not agree when it

9:49

comes to their various approaches. And that

9:51

is the problem. So

9:54

again, Joe Biden has that choice. Does he pander to his radical

9:56

wing or does he move toward his moderate wing? He

9:58

continues to evidence that he wishes to win. to pander to

10:00

his radical wing, which is a very,

10:02

very bad decision. So for example, this was two days ago. He's

10:06

giving a speech, and the pro-Kamas protesters are doing

10:08

what they usually do. They show up at his speeches and

10:10

start screaming at him in bat-bleep, loony

10:12

voices about how he needs to support Hamas

10:14

and stop Israel from finishing off Hamas in

10:16

the Gaza Strip. And instead of Joe

10:18

Biden either ignoring them or saying, you're

10:21

immature and you don't know what you're talking about, which

10:23

is true, instead he starts to pander to them,

10:25

which again, this is the sign of a campaign

10:28

in full-scale desperation because

10:30

these, quote-unquote, young progressive voters are incredibly low propensity

10:32

voters. Many of them will not show up to

10:34

vote. And when you decide that you're going

10:36

to reach out to those people at the expense of

10:38

the broad swath of the American public that supports

10:40

Israel as opposed to protesters like this, you

10:43

are making a category error. This is very

10:45

foolish, but here's Joe Biden doing it. Just

10:48

think back before the ACA. A

10:51

patient with a heart disease, diabetes, or

10:53

a child with asthma couldn't get coverage.

10:55

Why? Because the insurance company considered those

10:58

in preexisting condition, allowed them

11:00

to deny coverage. Everybody

11:06

deserves health care. Everybody

11:10

deserves health care in Gaza. There

11:17

are some crazies now they're being ushered out of the rooms, they scream

11:19

like crazy people. Be patient

11:21

with them. Shrieking like banshees. Be

11:25

patient with them. They

11:27

have a point. We need to get a lot

11:29

more care in those boxes. They

11:33

have a point, and then you get the progressive base

11:35

cheering him. We need to get a lot more care

11:37

in Gaza. Again, why is he elevating that issue? By

11:40

every poll, Americans actually,

11:43

they have feelings about what's going on between Israel and Gaza. But

11:45

by virtually every poll, this is not even remotely a top priority

11:47

for Americans. It's not like for Democrats, it's not a top priority.

11:49

For independents, it's not a top priority. For

11:51

Republicans, it's not a top priority. This

11:54

is a foreign conflict that involves zero American troops. It

11:57

involves less American military and financial involvement. than

12:00

what's going on in Ukraine right now. But Biden

12:02

has elevated that issue specifically in order

12:04

to appeal to the progressive base, which

12:07

is a dumb political move because the progressive base

12:09

does not like him. Many of them are not

12:11

going to show up to vote anyway, plus they're

12:13

crazy and it's morally wrong. How

12:15

crazy is the progressive base? Well, the crazy progressive

12:17

base story of the day comes courtesy of Vanderbilt

12:20

University. I do have to point out

12:22

here that there is something unique that is going on on the

12:24

progressive left. The issue of what's

12:26

going on with the Palestinians in Hamas has

12:29

become the issue. I mentioned before the

12:31

total insanity and the danger to the West in

12:33

the quote-unquote queers for Palestine movement, the far left

12:35

that is in favor of a

12:38

genocidal terror group in the Hamas that

12:41

seeks to wipe every Jew off the planet,

12:43

has committed vast acts of sexual abuse, kills

12:45

gay people, and wishes to impose Sharia law.

12:49

And you say to yourself as a rational person,

12:51

why would they do that? That supposedly disagrees with

12:53

all of their sentiments. And the reason they do

12:55

this is because they literally hate the entire Western

12:57

system. And so they are allied with anyone else

12:59

who hates the Western system. It is an alliance

13:01

of convenience. It is an alliance of ideological convenience.

13:04

Anyone who hates the Western systems, Western

13:07

meritocracies, Western traditional values, anybody who hates

13:09

those things, they are in favor of.

13:12

And the worse those people are, the more they are in favor of

13:14

those people. And

13:17

this is why what's going on between Israel and Gaza, between

13:19

Israel and Hamas more specifically, why that has become

13:22

such a litmus test for the far left. Because

13:25

they are willing to tolerate literally the worst

13:27

people on the planet. They're willing to back

13:29

and support literally the worst people on the

13:31

planet who would kill them if they had

13:33

a chance. They're willing to support those people

13:35

because it shows fealty, it's skin in the

13:37

game. It seems crazy, but the

13:39

crazier it is, the more fealty you are showing

13:41

to the movement that wishes to destroy the West. If

13:45

you are truly in favor of a mission to destroy the West,

13:47

and you believe Western values are really bad, and you believe America

13:49

is really bad and a very serious force on the world stage,

13:52

then the reason that you're allied with specifically these people

13:54

is because they are the worst. Not in spite of

13:56

the fact they're the worst, because they are the worst.

14:00

For a lot of these folks, it's like joining a cult. You

14:02

have to do the craziest thing possible to show fealty to the

14:04

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14:06

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these people over at Vanderbilt University, a

16:23

bunch of undergrad students whose parents should be ashamed of

16:25

themselves. They've done a horrible job parenting. And yes, blame

16:27

the parents. You're talking about 18, 19, 20 year old

16:30

people who are

16:32

complete dolts, who have no moral sense whatsoever.

16:35

Well, a wave of undergrad students rushed

16:37

Kirkland Hall, which is where the Vanderbilt Chancellor's

16:39

Office located, according to Susie Weiss writing for

16:41

the Free Press. And they began a sit-in,

16:44

a response to the college administration shutting down a

16:46

student government vote over whether the school should divest

16:48

funds from Israel, which

16:50

again, the school should not divest funds from Israel. It's

16:53

always amazing to me that all these people are calling

16:55

for divestment from Israel, but not from say Iran, or

16:58

say from Russia over the Ukraine war, or from

17:00

China, which is currently engaged in the persecution of

17:02

a million Uyghurs. And I don't care

17:05

about any of that, because again, all

17:07

of those states happen to be anti-American. They care

17:09

about the state that's pro-America. In

17:12

any case, these protesters stick around for 25 and a

17:14

half hours, and

17:16

then police started removing and arresting some of the students

17:18

for trespass. So

17:20

the craziest moment here comes

17:22

courtesy of one of these students

17:24

who literally called 911. Why

17:27

did the student call 911? Because a

17:29

friend of the student who was part of the

17:31

sit-in had to change her tampon. I'm

17:34

not kidding. Specifically, she was

17:36

quote, being denied the right to change her

17:39

tampon that has been in for multiple hours,

17:41

which leads to an increased risk of toxic

17:43

shock syndrome. And

17:45

the 911 operator was like, ma'am, do you

17:47

have an emergency? And the

17:49

student said they wanted medical assistance, and the 911

17:53

operator was like, well, I mean, do you need

17:55

an ambulance? And the student is

17:57

like, well, no, we don't need an ambulance. We need a tampon.

18:02

So you went to a protest and you

18:04

didn't bring a pad. You brought a tampon,

18:06

and now this is a 911 call because

18:08

you're all fragile snowflake morons with perverse senses

18:10

of morality. And somehow, the First

18:12

Amendment owes you a tampon because you were too stupid

18:15

to bring a replacement. In

18:17

another one of the videos, one of the protesters

18:19

approaches the police and the administrator, demanding to know

18:21

what will happen to her friend should she leave

18:23

the sit-in to change the tampon in question. And

18:26

the officers say that she won't be arrested if

18:28

she leaves the building. But

18:30

this protester is like, but then will she be arrested? However,

18:33

she doesn't feel safe here as this protester. I

18:36

was like, I need to know there's someone

18:38

here who's going to go into like toxic houses. And

18:40

we will take care of her. We're going to escort

18:42

them out to the other house. Okay, hold on, hold

18:44

on. She leaves the building, and then what happens? If

18:46

we leave the building, right, let's take her back to

18:48

where we need to go. And that's all I can

18:50

tell you right now, right? Get through this room. I

18:52

need to know what is going to happen when she

18:54

leaves the building. She's not going to be arrested

18:57

if she leaves her building. So

18:59

we will not be arrested if she leaves the

19:01

building. No, you think that no, you're not going

19:03

to be arrested if she leaves the building, right?

19:06

If you want to go back and get the...

19:08

I don't know. If I will always tell you,

19:10

I don't know. Okay, who's the house? Can we

19:12

call? So who knows? Well, I

19:15

don't know. I don't know yet. All

19:17

I know is... All I

19:19

know is... All I know is if

19:21

we have somebody in a medical situation, let's get them the

19:23

medical attention they need. Let's get her to her room, right?

19:25

And I'm telling you, when you go out the room, you're

19:27

not going to be arrested for leaving the building. She's

19:30

going to be arrested if you have said there's

19:32

nothing for her. All you said

19:34

is... They're yelling at this

19:36

guy for no reason. That's not what I

19:38

said. No, that's not what I said. You

19:41

didn't say she could stay in her room, though. These

19:46

caloring, pathetic administrators and

19:48

the cops who are standing there, the rental cops

19:50

who are standing there, they should arrest these people

19:52

for trespass. Now, they're violating the rules of Vanderbilt,

19:54

and instead they're catering to them. And this is

19:56

the entire older generation of Democrats right now. They

19:58

have decided to cater. the whims

20:00

of a group of childish idiots.

20:03

This is what they've decided to do. Joe Biden is

20:05

doing this at the presidential level. College administrators are doing

20:07

this at the college level. A bunch of weak-minded

20:11

adults are being led

20:13

by another bunch of weak-minded adults who happen

20:15

to also be young people who believe whatever

20:17

they see on TikTok. Joe

20:20

Biden, remember, was supposed to be the adults in the room. The people at Vandy are

20:22

supposed to be the adults in the room. Where are the adults in the room? Why

20:25

don't you be an adult for a damned change? But

20:28

instead, you're going to cater to these people in the hopes

20:30

of winning their votes. That is the way a country dies. It

20:33

really is quite pathetic. So again, Joe

20:35

Biden has a choice. He could be the adult in the room. Again,

20:38

to go back to the Bill Clinton vs. Barack Obama

20:40

model, in 1992, Bill Clinton is running for president. And

20:43

there is a speaker

20:46

named Sister Soldier, and Sister Soldier says

20:48

some truly racist things about white people.

20:50

And Bill Clinton, running for president, has

20:52

what they call a Sister Soldier moment.

20:56

It's literally named after this moment when he calls

20:58

out what she is doing, and it says she

21:00

is being racist. And this was considered an act

21:02

of bravery because he was saying that, yes, it

21:04

is possible for a black radical to actually be

21:06

racist against white people, and you shouldn't use the

21:08

kind of language she's using. And it's a big

21:10

win for him in the Democratic primaries and in the

21:12

general election in 1992. No

21:14

Democrat will do that now. Now they would all

21:17

cater to Sister Soldier. Now they would

21:19

decide that Sister Soldier is right, that

21:21

actually she has some important things to say, as Joe Biden

21:23

says. Or maybe

21:26

we have to send some administrators down to massage their

21:28

shoulders the way they did at Vanderbilt University. When you

21:30

cater to crazy people, you end up with a crazier

21:32

country. And

21:34

I hope in electoral laws, you deserve to

21:37

lose if you decide to cater to the

21:39

crazy that's drawn to every side of the

21:41

political aisle. All the American people want is

21:43

some semblance of normalcy. That's all they want.

21:45

They're begging for it. We're begging for it.

21:47

Some semblance of just being an adult with

21:49

a normal set of values. That would be

21:51

amazing from anyone at any time. And instead,

21:54

we have just decided that we're going to elevate

21:56

crazy on pretty much every side of the political

21:58

aisle. And it's totally wild. It's insane. We're

22:00

tearing ourselves apart by elevating crazy. Now,

22:04

I think there's a reason why we are elevating crazy

22:06

to this extent in the end. And I think the

22:08

real reason why we're elevating crazy across the aisle is

22:10

because we don't have a centralizing set of values. It

22:13

used to be that the older generation would say to the

22:15

younger generation, guys, you're morons. You don't know what you're talking

22:17

about. Let me give you some time-tested wisdom. As

22:19

Thomas Sowell has talked about in the realm of economics,

22:21

but it's true across all branches of knowledge, there are

22:23

a few ways that you gather data that is useful

22:25

in your life. Way

22:29

one is you do controlled studies. But

22:31

even controlled studies are not going to be as good

22:34

as time-tested wisdom used over the course

22:36

of centuries. This is why it is

22:38

very important to transmit culture and rules

22:40

and values to your kids. This is

22:42

why religion has traditionally been an extremely

22:45

useful preserve of actually maintaining cultural and

22:47

systemic health. Because

22:49

when I teach my kids the rules and

22:51

I say that God says you should do X, Y,

22:53

and Z, I'm not just saying that God says you should do X,

22:55

Y, and Z because I read the Bible this morning. I'm

22:58

saying that God says do X, Y, and Z

23:00

because I have a transmitted history of

23:02

cultural utility that is thousands of years long, that

23:05

these rules have worked over the course of thousands

23:08

of years, and I'm transmitting it to you. And

23:10

the proof of the godliness of the rules on

23:13

a utilitarian level is that they work. The

23:16

rules are useful, and thus

23:18

it's pretty good proof that if God said them, he

23:20

was right. And even on a utilitarian

23:22

level, if God didn't say them, he was still right

23:24

is sort of the idea. But

23:27

as religion has declined, as people are afraid, as

23:29

parents are afraid of inculcating values in their kids,

23:31

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now that's been to 989898. Now, there are some critiques that

24:38

have been made of classical liberalism

24:41

along these lines. And those critiques are somewhat

24:43

well founded. There's

24:45

a lot of people, conservatives, who are out

24:47

there saying that classical liberalism,

24:49

which suggests freedom of speech, freedom

24:51

of religion, all these sorts of

24:53

ideas, that the problem with that is that

24:56

it can lead quickly to moral relativism if

24:58

there is no centralizing, coherent set of values

25:00

we all share. That's true. Liberalism can lead

25:02

to moral relativism. The idea, let a thousand

25:04

flowers bloom, is fine as long

25:06

as the flowers are within a certain set of

25:09

parameters. If you are

25:11

basically saying that all views are equivalent, and that is

25:13

why liberalism is important, that's wrong. Not all views are

25:15

the same, and not all views are good. There

25:17

are certainly very many bad views. The rationale

25:19

for liberalism is as a restriction on

25:22

tyrants. That's what liberalism is for. Liberalism is

25:24

a response to people who would shut down

25:27

valuable speech. That's what liberalism is for. But

25:30

the roots of classical liberalism lie in a shared

25:32

tradition of virtue. That's

25:34

true for any set of freedoms. Any

25:36

set of freedoms has to exist within a set

25:38

of broader rules. Think

25:40

about any game that you're playing. If

25:43

you're playing chess, you have the freedom to make any move that is

25:45

within the rules on the board. If

25:47

you just upturn the chess board, that

25:50

is not liberalism anymore. Now what you

25:52

have done is you have taken the freedoms, and

25:54

you have extended them into a realm that defeats the freedoms

25:56

and destroys the freedoms. There has to be a shared set

25:58

of rules and parameters in In order for any of

26:00

this to uphold. Well, what

26:02

has happened in our culture is that religion

26:05

and religious values, Judeo-Christian, biblical values, these used

26:07

to be the shared basis for our culture.

26:09

And then we could share a lot of

26:11

freedom within those broad parameters. But as Judeo-Christian,

26:14

values have devolved. As they've fallen apart, as fewer

26:17

people go to church, as fewer people go to

26:19

synagogue, as fewer people go to a church or

26:21

synagogue that actually teaches the Bible. And there are

26:23

still people who are going to church or synagogue, and those

26:25

synagogues and churches are just teaching the church of Karl Marx

26:27

or the church of John Dewey or the church of FDR,

26:29

the church of Barack Obama, the church of Joe Biden. As

26:32

that has happened, religion

26:34

has declined. And as that happens, you let

26:36

in the crazies. Because once there's no shared

26:38

set of parameters, then any conspiracy

26:40

theory at all gets through the door. I

26:43

was thinking about this a lot this week in the

26:45

context of what's going on with just – it seems

26:48

like every conspiracy theory is now being given a hearing.

26:51

The only reason that conspiracy theories end

26:53

up gaining a lot of traction is

26:55

when there is institutional distrust, and that

26:57

institutional distrust has certainly been earned by,

26:59

for example, the legacy media or

27:02

the scientific community, which promotes absolute lies on

27:04

a fairly regular basis because they have a

27:06

set of values and narratives that override the

27:08

facts. And when you have the

27:11

entire scientific community declaring, for example, that

27:13

boys can be girls and girls can be boys, obviously

27:15

institutional distrust is going to set in. And

27:18

the converse of that is that people aren't going to trust anything

27:20

that you have to say. And

27:22

the government, it turns out, is incompetent at many,

27:24

many things and also involves itself in your life

27:27

in many, many things. You're going to have institutional

27:29

distrust for the government, and anything the government says,

27:31

you are now not going to believe. The

27:34

big check on this used to be godly

27:36

values. It used to be church. It used

27:38

to be going out and touching grass, being

27:40

with some real people and discussing what's rational

27:43

and true. But as sources of

27:45

truth decline – and the biggest source

27:47

of truth of all, of course, religion – as those

27:50

sources of truth and values decline, what fills the gap

27:52

is the necessity to explain the world around you. People

27:54

want to explain the world around them. And

27:56

they have a bunch of tools, historically, that they've used

27:58

to explain the world around One

28:01

of those tools, the most important tool, is

28:03

the tool of biblical religion in

28:05

the West, the tool of the idea that

28:07

there is a God who stands above the creation of

28:09

the universe, and there is a logic to his universe,

28:12

and there is a set of moral rules that guide

28:14

you through that universe. That

28:17

is the basic religious principle of all

28:19

biblical living. As that

28:21

declines, people see a disconnected set of

28:23

events, and they immediately search for some

28:25

sort of explanation for that disconnected set

28:27

of events. Many people find that in

28:29

slavish adherence to a political party. Okay,

28:31

there's a political narrative, and that political

28:33

narrative is now going to be framed

28:35

onto reality to explain everything. We'll have

28:38

a monocausal explanation of everything. This is

28:40

what leftistism is. Marxism suggests,

28:42

for example, that there is a

28:44

monocausal explanation of everything, and it's class conflict.

28:47

You want to understand why this girl is

28:49

acting all weird at Bandy? It must be

28:51

because of class conflict, really underneath. It's a

28:53

reflection of the deprivations of

28:56

capitalism. And then

28:58

you have right-wing explanations that are

29:01

similarly all-encompassing, that

29:03

anything bad that's happening in the world must

29:06

be the result of a cadre of evil

29:08

elites who are sitting there and planning everything

29:10

out. That would

29:12

be sort of the far-right equivalent. This

29:15

is why conspiracy theories thrive, because when

29:18

institutional trust declines and when

29:20

biblical values, which was the ultimate explanation for

29:22

everything, when that declines, there's nothing to fill

29:24

the gap except for constant conspiratorialism. And it's

29:26

why there is this new

29:28

push to explain everything through conspiracy. Everything.

29:31

Everything is conspiracy. You have the world

29:33

as a puzzling place, and you need an explanation. And

29:35

the easy explanation is to make one up in your

29:37

own head about how there is a group of people

29:39

in a back room somewhere who are manipulating all the

29:42

systems. It can't just be that life is totally chaotic

29:44

and that there are a lot of people who are

29:46

morons out there doing stupid crap. It can't be that.

29:48

It has to be that there is actually something deep

29:50

and nefarious going on, and it's every single story. When

29:52

there's a bridge collapse in Baltimore, you

29:55

end up with the left making the claim that it has something to

29:57

do with dirty fuel, and you have the right making the claim that

29:59

it has something to do with the evil. And I don't know, because

30:01

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get weird conspiracy theories about

31:13

Princess Kate, and Princess Kate goes

31:15

missing. And it's fairly obvious that when

31:17

a fairly prominent person goes missing, it's probably a

31:19

health problem. And instead, you get just tons of

31:21

conspiracy theories on all sides of the aisle. And

31:24

then, when Princess Kate comes out and says, I

31:26

just had a head of chemotherapy for cancer, a

31:28

new slate of conspiracy theories arises. According

31:30

to The Washington Post, users on TikTokX and

31:32

Facebook shared videos pointing out alleged AI bread

31:35

crumbs in her latest videos, such as a

31:37

ring disappearing and reappearing on Catherine Tan. Others

31:39

said her hair moves unnaturally, or that the bed

31:41

of daffodils in the background is suspiciously still. The

31:45

tendency of our society right now to buy into nearly

31:48

every conspiracy theory and to give it all a hearing

31:50

without just saying, nope, that sounds stupid. Is

31:53

a reflection of the complete

31:56

decentralization of values. Because

31:58

now you'll be willing to hear. But pretty much anything is

32:01

the CIA behind everything that you see in

32:03

here. Is it possible that the moon

32:05

landing never happened? Is it possible

32:07

that there's a cadre of sick people in

32:09

perverse industries who are all working together behind

32:11

the scenes because of their race or religion?

32:14

These kinds of conspiracy theories are arising because

32:17

of the vacuum of values. That vacuum of

32:19

values is almost

32:21

solely due to the decline of religion. That decline

32:23

of religious life in America is the single worst thing that's happened to

32:25

the United States since about 1950. It

32:28

continues apace today. All the

32:30

institutions, the secular institutions that were supposed to fill that

32:32

gap failed because of course they were going to fail

32:35

because no secular rationale can fill

32:37

the explanation that God plays

32:40

in our lives. And so you end up with

32:42

a bunch of fools running around

32:44

suggesting their own supposedly

32:47

plausible explanations for what is happening. And

32:50

again, this is why the ultimate

32:52

explanation, the

32:54

most self-serving conspiracy theory of all and the one that

32:57

has arisen on all sides of the political aisle is

32:59

a sense of victimization. Because

33:01

when you feel that the world around you

33:03

is chaotic and confused and discombobulated, when you

33:05

feel that you feel like a victim and

33:08

then you look for an explanation as to why your

33:10

failures are not your own fault. And it must be

33:12

because there's someone who's stopping you from succeeding. And

33:15

the hardest thing to understand in the world

33:17

when you are failing is that maybe it is

33:19

your fault. Maybe you do need to change

33:21

the things that you're doing in your life. This is true, by the

33:23

way, for 90% of human problems,

33:26

at least in a free West. There are

33:28

certainly places in the world where tyranny abides. That

33:30

is not true in the United States of America. 90%

33:34

of people's problems are generally solvable by them

33:37

and by the community in which they live. And

33:40

this attempt by politicians always have a stake

33:42

in engaging in the conspiracy theory because the

33:44

beauty of being engaged in a conspiracy theory

33:46

is that the prophet is the person who

33:48

promulgates it. The person who promulgates the

33:50

conspiracy theory is the person that you're supposed to listen

33:52

to because they will guide you forward.

33:54

They will help you. They will alleviate all

33:57

your problems. If you just give them enough

33:59

power, they will. They will destroy the Matrix.

34:01

They will destroy all the things you're seeing, and they

34:03

will lead you free. They'll be like Plato's cave. They'll

34:05

come back from outside the cave, and they will lead

34:07

you back towards the light. They never lead you towards

34:09

the light, by the way, because

34:12

every failure can now be attributed to that same conspiracy. If

34:15

they fail to lead you towards – if your life does not

34:17

get better, if you buy into their conspiracy theory and your life

34:19

still does not get better, and you give them power and your

34:21

life still does not get better, they just say that's because the

34:23

conspiracy is so damned powerful, there's no way they can overcome it.

34:27

This is the danger of conspiratorial thinking, and

34:29

it is filling up every cup that has

34:31

been left empty by God and religion and

34:33

community. It's filling up

34:35

all the political cups right now. It's extremely

34:37

dangerous. The left-wing brand is, of course, what

34:39

Joe Biden is doing right now by suggesting

34:41

that the system is rigged against a wide

34:43

variety of people. But it's also happening on

34:45

the right, where the suggestion is without evidence

34:48

in many cases that the system is rigged. Here's

34:51

the thing. There are situations

34:53

in the United States where the system is rigged, but

34:55

you can tell what they are, not because

34:57

someone posits a conspiracy theory without any evidence

34:59

whatsoever, just spitting out dumb conspiracy theories, but

35:02

because people say it and they do it.

35:04

It is not a conspiracy theory, for example,

35:06

to suggest that Asians are being discriminated against

35:08

on college campuses. You know how you know

35:10

it? Because you can see it in the

35:12

statistics and in the recruitment materials and in

35:14

all of the documentation at all of the

35:17

major colleges. That's not a conspiracy

35:19

theory. You know what is a

35:21

conspiracy theory? It is a conspiracy

35:23

theory that there is a cadre

35:26

of powerful people who are manipulating

35:28

the music industry so as to

35:30

hide their own devilish hand. That's

35:33

a conspiracy theory because you don't have any

35:35

evidence for it, but it

35:38

helps people sleep at night. What

35:40

America needs once you get back to normal? Same

35:42

thing it always needed. Church. Community.

35:45

A fact-based rational approach to

35:47

politics. That's all people need.

35:49

Maybe they don't want it. Maybe it's too

35:51

easy in this day and age to jump immediately to some

35:53

sort of narrative that explains why you're a victim of the

35:55

society in which you live in the freest, most prosperous society

35:58

in the history of humanity. But

36:01

that's not going to lead you to a happy life.

36:03

It's not going to lead America to a happier place. And

36:05

in just one second, we'll get to Joe Biden's economy.

36:07

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37:16

the Biden administration is trying to wish-cast itself to victory,

37:18

so they're appealing to the far left of their own

37:20

base. And then they're also trying to wish-cast themselves to

37:22

victory. So Janet Yellen is trying to convince Americans that

37:24

they really feel good about the economy. She's using

37:27

the old Jedi mind trick here. I mean,

37:29

I don't know if that applies among hobbits, but here she

37:31

is attempting it. What I want

37:34

Americans to see is

37:36

how successful the

37:39

president's agenda, which is not

37:41

just a short-term agenda, but

37:43

a medium and longer-term agenda

37:45

that is designed to create

37:47

good jobs in parts of the country that are

37:50

not just a part of the world. It's a

37:52

part of the country that in many ways has

37:54

been left behind and

37:57

making us more secure and bringing down

37:59

the world. I

38:03

mean they've been so successful. Well, there's only one problem, which

38:06

is that they have not actually been all that successful. According

38:09

to the Federal Reserve Governor Chris Waller, he said on Wednesday night

38:11

he's in no hurry to cut interest rates after hotter inflation data

38:13

in the first two months of the year. So

38:15

there's no rush to cut the policy, right? He

38:17

said the recent data tells me it is prudent to

38:20

hold this rate at its current restrictive stance perhaps for

38:22

longer than previously thought to

38:24

help keep inflation on a sustainable trajectory

38:26

toward 2%. Which

38:28

of course is correct. The fact is the Biden

38:30

economy is overheated. It's been overheated by Joe Biden.

38:32

He's spending too much money. And he

38:35

pledges higher taxes and more spending.

38:38

And by the way, again, one of the stupidities of

38:40

American politics is that you're not allowed to talk about

38:42

the actual issues in American politics, unless you offend somebody.

38:45

One of the biggest actual issues is of course the retirement

38:48

age. I got myself in big hot water a couple of

38:50

weeks ago because I said, hey guys, the retirement age

38:52

in the United States should not be 62. It

38:55

should not be 65 and it should not

38:57

be 67 when it comes to publicly funded

38:59

retirement. Oh no, can't

39:01

say every single human being who

39:03

knows anything about economics or public

39:06

spending understands that social security will

39:08

go insolvent. The Biden administration

39:10

has no plans on that. And if you mention any

39:12

plans on that, apparently you get electrocuted. Treasury

39:15

Secretary Janet Yellen actually said that Biden does

39:17

not have a plan. Only principles when

39:19

it comes to preventing social security from going insolvent.

39:23

No plan, only principles. So Senator Bill

39:25

Cassidy of Louisiana told Yellen, I'll note

39:27

there's already been $4.9 trillion in

39:29

new taxes proposed for those making over 400 grand a year.

39:31

It seems to be the go-to place, fill in the blank. We're

39:33

going to tax those over $400,000 a year for whatever. Of

39:36

that $4.9 trillion, none of that has been

39:38

dedicated to social security. Cassidy asked Yellen

39:40

what the tax rate would have to be on

39:43

those owners to address the unfunded accrued liability for

39:45

social security. Yellen said,

39:47

I don't have that computation. And then she said, the

39:50

president does not have a plan. He has principles. What

39:53

exactly would those principles be? The principles are that you can't do

39:55

anything with it and you're going to kick the can down the

39:57

road until social security goes completely bankrupt, at which point you can't

39:59

do anything. We will slash the benefits and blame whoever is in

40:01

power. That is the way this is

40:03

likely going to go, and everyone knows it. Washington,

40:06

D.C. has become a place where no problems get

40:08

solved, including the ones created by Washington, D.C. You

40:10

just kick it down the road until somebody else

40:12

opens the time bomb. That's effectively

40:14

where we are. Now,

40:17

they're hoping against hope that

40:19

basically the way out of this dilemma is just

40:21

a massively booming American economy. And despite the fact

40:23

that we are reproducing at 1.6 as

40:26

opposed to the 2.1 necessary in order

40:28

to even sustain a demographic curve, that

40:31

this will all be fixed by AI. According

40:33

to Axios, over the last 15 years, weak capital

40:35

investment in rich countries has held back productivity growth.

40:38

That may be about to change. The pathway

40:41

to higher incomes and standards of living rests

40:43

on economies, finding ways to deploy their labor

40:45

forces more productively. Productivity growth has been weak in

40:47

the United States and Western Europe since 2008, but things

40:50

look better among many emerging markets. Right

40:53

now, authors from McKinsey are optimistic

40:55

a confluence of factors will make

40:57

the years ahead different. They say that

41:00

there is new global demand, and

41:02

countries experiencing labor shortages, and they're hoping that AI

41:04

is going to fix all the problems. Well,

41:07

maybe AI fixes all the problems, or maybe AI creates a bunch

41:09

of new sets of problems. I

41:11

tend to be optimistic about the power of AI. I mean,

41:13

it's just unbelievable what the AI can do. If

41:16

you've checked chat GPT lately, they fixed

41:18

nearly all the bugs that originally were

41:20

disturbing about chat GPT. With

41:23

that said, is that going to solve the economic

41:26

malaise, the lack of innovation that exists

41:28

outside a peculiar strain in Silicon Valley? I

41:31

really don't think so, not when especially creators are

41:33

being taxed into the ground to fund ongoing liabilities

41:35

that we have no plan to actually solve. Meanwhile,

41:39

the White House continues to fuss around on

41:41

things that seem like fairly easy political issues.

41:44

So obviously, the

41:48

collapse of the Francis Scott Key

41:50

Bridge, which is a bit of

41:52

a shocking video, obviously. The

41:54

Francis Scott Key Bridge has collapsed. The White

41:56

House is now warning of a difficult path on rebuilding.

42:00

mirrors for the bridge

42:02

to be built in the first place. Unclear

42:05

at this point exactly why the bridge went

42:07

down, although I have a good explanation which

42:09

is that it got hit by a giant ship. That

42:11

would probably be the reason. Apparently

42:14

multiple alarms were heard from the ship's data recorder at 1.24 am

42:16

at 1.26. The

42:18

pilot asked nearby tugboats for help. At 1.27,

42:20

the pilot ordered the ship's anchor be dropped.

42:22

This is all just minutes before the crash.

42:25

The crash took place at about 1.30 am. It

42:28

was because they did warn people on the bridge what was going

42:30

on that there were no cars on the bridge apparently at

42:32

the time. The administration has

42:35

a pretty easy job of this, which is we'll handle

42:37

whatever is coming our way. There

42:39

will be supply chain disruptions. This is

42:41

a terrible tragedy. It's horrible this happened, and we're going

42:43

to rebuild as soon as possible. It's actually not all

42:45

that hard. It actually is a place where the

42:47

federal government, in intervention as federal government under

42:50

Joe Biden, he could theoretically get a political

42:52

win out of this. He could say, listen, I've been talking

42:54

about infrastructure spending for years at this point. I've

42:57

been doing this for about a year and a half, and I'm

42:59

here to say that that's exactly what we're going to do. Joe

43:01

Biden, all he has to do is travel one hour to

43:03

get to that bridge. He is not doing

43:05

that. Karine Jean-Pierre says Joe Biden will visit Baltimore at an

43:08

appropriate time, presumably when the Matlock reruns or not on. I

43:12

don't have an update for you. Obviously,

43:16

we want to do. We want to do it when

43:18

it is the appropriate time on the ground. We're

43:21

going to continue to have conversations with obviously

43:24

local officials on the

43:26

ground to get a

43:28

sense of what their needs are, but we want to

43:30

make sure that we do not disrupt their efforts.

43:32

You just heard from the secretary and

43:34

the vice admiral. This is a major,

43:37

major undertaking, and so we don't want

43:39

to get in the way. But you heard from the president.

43:41

He wants to get there as quickly as he can. Well,

43:44

I mean, as quickly as he can, he'd be like in

43:46

a car right now, like going to the bridge. That's

43:49

what he would be doing. But Joe Biden is

43:51

not a problem solver. He's a problem creator, which

43:53

is presumably why the Biden administration is still suing

43:56

the state of Texas to prevent them from taking

43:58

measures to close America's southern border. Again, we have

44:00

an episode of Divided States of Biden. There's a

44:02

bright nap at the fentanyl crisis. That is, in

44:04

fact, a border crisis, as I spoke to President

44:06

Trump about. That is the same

44:08

issue. The border of the fentanyl crisis, one and the same. Well,

44:11

now, a panel of federal appellate court judges

44:14

late on Tuesday continued to block taxes from

44:16

arresting and jailing migrants under state immigration law

44:18

SB-4, keeping a hold on

44:20

the measure while it weighs its legality. In

44:23

a 2-1 decision, the Fifth Circuit Court of

44:25

Appeals denied Texas's request to suspend the lower

44:27

court order that found SB-4 unconstitutional and in

44:29

conflict with federal immigration laws. Now,

44:31

again, basically, the case the federal government is

44:34

making is we are occupying the area on

44:36

immigration. Therefore, states cannot legislate on immigration. Also,

44:38

we're not going to do anything about immigration,

44:41

which seems like a fundamental dereliction of duty on

44:43

the part of the federal government under Joe Biden.

44:46

SB-4 creates state crimes for entering or reentering

44:48

the state from Mexico outside an official port

44:50

of entry. Those actions are already illegal under

44:52

federal law. Law enforcement officials

44:54

at the state, county, and local level would

44:56

be authorized to stop, jail, and prosecute migrants

44:58

suspected of violating these new criminal statutes. It

45:00

would also allow state judges to order migrants

45:03

to return to Mexico as an alternative to

45:05

continuing their prosecution. The Biden administration,

45:07

for its part, is suing to stop that

45:09

because they like the open border, apparently. And

45:12

just another indicator of how poorly thought out

45:14

and run this presidency is and how in-hoc

45:16

to their left-wing they are because there really

45:18

is no practical reason why you would not

45:21

just reinstall the remainder of Mexico policy that

45:23

Donald Trump had already negotiated with Mexico. Or

45:26

change border patrol policy such that if you arrive

45:28

and you do not have any sort of serious

45:30

asylum claim, we can't just reject you and send

45:32

you back across the border. Instead,

45:35

the Biden administration is facilitating illegal entry, leaving

45:37

the border wide open to extraordinary amounts of

45:39

fentanyl crossing that southern border. I know because

45:41

I've been down there and I've looked at

45:44

it. There's a full investigation on it.

45:46

That was episode one of the Biden State of Biden. You

45:48

should go check out both episodes if you want to understand

45:50

what's going on with fentanyl and the border. Well,

45:53

meanwhile, the media piranhas over at MSNBC

45:55

and NBC News have decided that it's

45:57

not enough for them to have rejected

45:59

Ronna McDaniel. as a contributor to the

46:01

network. Now they have

46:03

to get whoever even asked her to be the network

46:05

fired. According to the Washington Post,

46:07

they say that MSNBC president Rashida Jones participated

46:10

in recruiting RNC chair Ronna McDaniel earlier this

46:12

month. McDaniel has offered a

46:14

more lucrative contributor contract after she agreed to

46:16

appear on MSNBC and not just NBC News.

46:19

Obviously, this investigation is the predicate to the

46:22

firing of Rashida Jones. Anyone who deigned to

46:24

talk to the former RNC chair had to

46:26

be fired. Now again, I've had this experience

46:28

myself. Just last year, I wrote a newsletter

46:31

for Politico, and everyone lost their damned

46:33

minds at Politico. They had to have

46:35

these full-scale, 100-person editorial calls, struggle sessions,

46:38

where they were ripped up and down

46:40

for allowing me to write the sacred

46:43

playbook for Politico. Ooh, ooh, ooh, the playbook.

46:45

Ooh, ooh. I remember it was a huge

46:47

controversy at the time for Senator Tom

46:49

Cotton, whose editorial about how

46:51

we should unleash the National Guard on rioters,

46:55

how that was treated as not only verboten, so dangerous

46:57

that the op-ed editor had to actually – James Bennett

46:59

had to actually be fired from his job. Now

47:02

they're doing the same thing over at NBC

47:04

and MSNBC. Again, this all falls within a

47:06

particular matrix of thinking with regard to the

47:08

media left. For the media

47:10

left, if you disagree with them, it's because

47:12

– talking about conspiracy theories – you're a

47:15

tool. You're a tool of some unnamed forces.

47:17

The latest episode of this particularly stupid show

47:19

comes courtesy of our friends over at The

47:21

View. When I say our friends

47:23

over at The View, I mean the low-IQ idiots who are on

47:25

panel at The View and enough

47:28

brain power to possibly toast a

47:30

piece of bread extremely lightly, maybe

47:32

melt a little bit of butter in that brain microwave

47:34

over there. Not much going on

47:36

at all. The electrical signals between

47:38

neurons vary weak, not a lot of wattage.

47:41

In any case, they had

47:43

on an extremely good writer named

47:45

Coleman Hughes, and Whoopi Goldberg and the

47:47

rest of the crew there are very angry at Coleman Hughes. Why

47:50

are they angry at Coleman Hughes? They're angry because Coleman Hughes is

47:52

an iconoclastic black writer, which

47:55

is a thing you can't allow. He is

47:57

– he's a person who says not all the

47:59

time. left-wing things. And so Whoopi Goldberg spends

48:01

10 minutes berating him for not being a

48:04

Democrat. Explain

48:07

to folks what you mean by

48:10

this, arguments for a colorblind America.

48:12

What do you mean when you say that?

48:14

So a lot of people equate colorblindness to

48:16

I don't see race or to pretending not

48:18

to see race. I think that's a big

48:20

mistake. We all see race, right?

48:24

And we're all capable of being racially biased.

48:26

So we should all be self-aware to that

48:28

possibility. My argument is not for that. My

48:30

argument is that we should try our very

48:32

best to treat people without regard to race,

48:34

both in our personal lives and our public

48:37

policy. Okay,

48:40

so perfectly rational, perfectly reasonable. But

48:43

that's too much for Whoopi Goldberg who starts to go

48:45

nuts on him because again, these are verboten

48:47

perspectives. When

48:49

you say that socioeconomic picks

48:51

out people in a better way

48:54

than race, when you

48:56

do look at the socioeconomic, you

48:58

see the huge disparity between white

49:00

households and black households. You see

49:03

the huge disparity between white households

49:05

and Hispanic households. So

49:07

your argument, and I've read your book twice because I

49:09

wanted to give it a chance. Your

49:12

argument that race has no

49:14

place in that equation is

49:16

really fundamentally flawed in my

49:18

opinion. Well, two separate questions.

49:21

One is whether each racial group is socioeconomically

49:23

the same. I agree with you. They're not.

49:25

Yeah, they're not. And the staff should show

49:28

that. Yeah, of course. I agree with that

49:30

fully. The question is how do you address

49:32

that in the way that actually targets poverty

49:34

the best? And what Martin Luther King wrote

49:36

in his book, Why We Can't Wait, is

49:38

he called it, we need a bill of

49:40

rights for the disadvantage. And he said, yes,

49:42

we should address racial inequality. Yes, we should

49:44

address the legacy of slavery. But the way

49:46

to do that is on the basis of class.

49:49

And that will disproportionately target blacks and

49:51

Hispanics because they're disproportionately poor. But it

49:53

will be doing so in a way

49:55

that also helps the white poor in

49:57

a way that addresses poverty as the

50:00

to be addressed. Okay, so he keeps

50:02

his school. Sonny Hostin then goes on

50:04

to suggest that he has a pawn

50:06

of right-wing nefarious forces. Your

50:09

argument for colorblindness, I think, is

50:11

something that the right has co-opted.

50:13

And so many in the black community, if I'm

50:16

being honest with you, because I want to

50:18

be, believe that you

50:21

are being used as a pawn by the right and that you

50:23

are a charlatan of sorts. I don't think I've

50:25

been co-opted by anyone. I've only voted twice,

50:27

both for Democrats. Although I'm an independent, I

50:29

would vote for a Republican, probably a non-Trump

50:31

Republican if they were compelling. I

50:34

don't think there's any evidence I've been co-opted by anyone.

50:36

And I think that that's an

50:39

ad hominem tactic people use to not

50:41

address really the important conversations we're having

50:43

here. And I think it's better, and it

50:45

would be better for everyone if

50:47

we stuck to the topics rather than make it

50:49

about me with no evidence that I've been co-opted.

50:51

I want to give you the opportunity to respond

50:54

to the criticism. I appreciate it. The criticism.

50:56

I appreciate it. I'm a president that

50:58

I've been co-opted by anyone. I have an independent podcast.

51:01

I work for CNN as an analyst. I

51:03

write for the free press. I'm independent

51:05

in all of these endeavors, and no one is

51:08

paying me to say what I'm saying. I'm saying

51:10

it because I feel it. Again, the fact that

51:12

he stays calm there is a credit to Coleman

51:14

Hughes, because being insulted as a tool of the

51:16

establishment because you happen to cross swords with the

51:18

dolts over at The View is truly an amazing

51:21

thing. I'm playing a lot of Coleman Hughes

51:23

here because he did a tremendous job on The View. And it's

51:25

also rare when The View has on somebody who, again, has

51:27

more than a double-digit IQ. Here

51:29

is Coleman Hughes taking on another one of

51:31

the intelligentsia, Joy Behar, on the similarity between

51:33

white supremacy and leftism. You're

51:36

right that the anti-racism movement –

51:39

there are a couple of people. I don't even know

51:41

who they are. Maybe Robin DiAngelo. Robin

51:43

DiAngelo, Ibram Kendi, for instance. Okay.

51:46

Well, you say that that is just another form of racism.

51:49

You even say it has a lot in common with

51:51

white supremacy. How can you

51:53

compare those two things? I compare them because –

51:56

You talk about anti-racism. You're comparing it

51:58

to white supremacy. they

52:00

they both view your race as extremely

52:03

significant part of who you are so

52:05

rah white supremacist they obviously say we

52:07

all know what they say uh...

52:10

near a fifth like rob the angel of

52:12

a say that to be white is to

52:14

be ignorant for example with the racial

52:17

stereotype and i want to come call a spade

52:19

a spade and say this is not the style

52:21

of anti-racism we have to be teaching our kids

52:23

we should be teaching them that your race is

52:25

not a significant feature of you what who you

52:27

are who you are is your character your value

52:36

position in her book common

52:39

use happens to be great again points to him for

52:41

staying calm buried in a bit in the situation myself

52:43

it can be very difficult to take home when people

52:45

are just viewing foolishness and insult that

52:47

you at the exact same time well

52:49

folks who talked about a lot on

52:52

the show joe biden's economy has been

52:54

inflation-ridden inflation continues to run about fifty

52:56

percent hotter and you're supposed to want

52:58

to run if you're the federal reserve

53:00

joins online discuss all this is philip

53:02

patrick precious metal specialist spokesperson for birch

53:04

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53:12

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birch gold group back in twenty twelve thanks so

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53:25

you for having me so

53:28

let's talk about congress finally passing a federal

53:30

budget six months into the fiscal year what

53:32

is all of that mean for twenty twenty

53:34

five and beyond and

53:37

i mean it doesn't look good looking

53:39

at the the twenty twenty five proposed

53:41

budget it looks like more of a

53:43

wish list not so much

53:45

a budget but but part of his

53:48

re-election campaign i mean seven point three

53:50

trillion dollars in total spending that's a

53:52

trillion dollars more than he wanted for

53:54

twenty twenty four it's just

53:56

absurd now it does come

53:59

with proposed But they

54:01

would only pay for one third of

54:03

the additional debt. Now, thankfully, it looks

54:05

like there's zero chance of this passing

54:08

the House, which is why it looks

54:10

to be more political theater than a

54:12

serious budget. But essentially, it's

54:14

more of the same thinking that got us

54:16

where we are today. The Biden regime has

54:19

already racked up $6 trillion in debt. That's

54:22

almost as much as Obama's total

54:25

debt over eight years. And

54:27

of course, Biden's done it in a little over

54:29

three. The economy is suffering on

54:31

the back of it. So his solution is

54:33

just more spending and more of the same.

54:36

Of course, we know the 2024

54:38

budget was finally passed on Saturday,

54:40

and it largely tracks with a

54:43

deal made with former Speaker of

54:45

House McCarthy work back in 2023, which is

54:47

absurd, right?

54:50

We can't forget McCarthy was

54:52

answered to prevent exactly this

54:54

from reoccurring again. And

54:57

here we are again, another $1.7 trillion in debt. It's

55:01

a complete and utter surrender. It's

55:03

just outrageous. And ultimately, as we

55:05

know, it's unsustainable. We cannot continue

55:08

down this path. Well,

55:11

the fact is that as Congress continues to kick the can

55:13

down the road, spending more and more money, borrowing more and

55:15

more money, they're always leaving it up to the Federal Reserve

55:17

to sort of fill in the gap, which means that it

55:19

really is the Federal Reserve in control of

55:21

the nature of the American economy. Central banks have

55:23

far too much control over pretty much all the

55:25

Western economies right now. This is

55:27

why everybody who's an investor is constantly watching to see which

55:30

way Jerome Powell is blowing on any given

55:33

day looking for the weather vane. Well, right

55:35

now, the Federal Reserve has claimed that they

55:37

are going to look at several interest rate

55:39

cuts this year, but the inflation rate is

55:41

currently running at 3% annualized

55:43

minimum, maybe running higher than that.

55:46

And we're supposed to be at 2% before you

55:48

start cutting interest rates. If you cut the interest

55:50

rates, presumably the inflation goes back up. What

55:53

do you think are the prospects of future interest rate cuts? Are they going

55:55

to cut just before the election to try and boost by? And what do

55:57

you think is going to happen here? Two

56:00

months ago, it would have said absolutely yes,

56:02

and it looked like we were getting set

56:04

up for that. And as

56:06

you implied, certainly a political move

56:08

given where inflation is. Today

56:11

I'm not so sure. I mean, Jerome

56:13

Powell gave a 60 minute interview back

56:16

in February and he said, and I

56:18

quote, it's probably time or past time

56:20

to get back to having an adult

56:22

conversation amongst elected officials about getting the

56:25

federal government back on a sustainable fiscal

56:27

path. And I thought he made the

56:29

point even clearer when he said,

56:32

and again, I quote, every generation

56:34

should really pay for the things

56:36

it needs and not hand the

56:38

bills down to our children and

56:40

grandchildren. For me, this was

56:42

basically a slap in the face to

56:44

the Biden administration. This is the

56:46

man who's responsible for maintaining the dollars

56:49

purchasing power, essentially telling elected officials

56:51

to stop, to grow up and stop

56:53

robbing from our grandchildren and pay

56:55

our own bills. I

56:57

have to say, I hadn't been Powell's biggest fan,

57:00

but I respected him for this. And

57:02

after all, he may not lower

57:04

interest rates, particularly on the back

57:06

of surging inflation on the

57:09

last two reports. So we'll wait and see,

57:11

but he may have his legacy in mind

57:13

now and do the right thing. So

57:16

despite everything that's going on, obviously America,

57:19

in terms of its economy versus the rest of the

57:21

world, we're sort of the best house

57:23

on a bad block right now in the

57:26

sense that investment dollars are still flowing into

57:28

the United States because there's legitimately no place

57:30

else to put those investment dollars. With that

57:32

said, there has been a move by America's

57:34

enemies to de-dollarize. That's happening in China. It's

57:37

happening with Russia. It's happening with many of the BRICS

57:39

nations. What

57:41

do you think is the future of the American dollar if we

57:43

continue to spend like this? Look,

57:47

it doesn't look good. I think

57:49

you're absolutely right. We are, pardon

57:51

the expression, the tallest midget in

57:53

the room still, but we are

57:56

creating a case for

57:58

de-dollarization and we're doing it in two. reforms.

58:00

First of all, devaluation. Let's

58:02

not forget the dollar's lost 16%

58:04

of its purchasing power

58:06

since the pandemic. Now, we see

58:09

that as inflation here in the

58:11

US, but other nations that own

58:13

dollars see it as currency devaluation.

58:15

And they're seeing the value of

58:17

their purchasing power starting to dwindle.

58:20

The other side, of course, is

58:22

wampanoization. When Biden regime froze Russia's

58:25

dollar reserves, they sent a message

58:27

to the rest of the world,

58:29

your assets could become liabilities

58:31

overnight if you make a decision

58:34

that isn't popular here in the

58:36

United States. Now, what we've seen

58:38

on the back of that is

58:41

two record years consecutively of gold

58:43

buying by central governments. And

58:45

it's pretty obvious why, right? Number one,

58:48

it's the only asset that isn't someone

58:50

else's liability. It cannot be defaulted on.

58:52

By buying gold,

58:55

it achieves two things for the

58:57

BRICS and other nations. Number one,

58:59

it's just been a good trade, right? In

59:01

the same time period that the dollar has

59:03

lost 17%, gold is

59:06

up exactly 17%. Secondly,

59:08

by Russia, China, Brazil,

59:11

by them holding dollars, they're creating

59:13

demand for dollars. The more demand,

59:16

the stronger the dollar becomes and the

59:18

stronger the stick we are using to

59:21

beat them. So by buying gold, it

59:23

allows them to de-dollarize, puts pressure on

59:25

the dollar, and longer term will weaken

59:28

the argument for the dollar is global

59:30

reserve. So I think the train of

59:32

de-dollarization can continue, and it's concerning to

59:34

say the least. Well,

59:38

that is Philip Patrick, our friends over at Birch

59:40

Gold Group. Philip, really appreciate the time and the

59:43

insight. Thank you. And

59:45

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