1 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:05,960 Speaker 1: Michael Brown. Give them one, give them one, Give them one. 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:07,920 Speaker 1: Give them one, Give them one. Give them one. 3 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:09,840 Speaker 2: Well, if nobody else said give them one, then I 4 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:11,400 Speaker 2: would have won the whole table. 5 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 1: Right, So give them one. Give them, give them one, 6 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:18,639 Speaker 1: Give them one, Give them one. Give them one. You 7 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: have to give him one. You are hypnotized. I'm gonna 8 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 1: give them one. Give them one, Give them one. Do 9 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 1: I dare ask? 10 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:36,200 Speaker 3: I don't even know, okay, And as I have stated before, 11 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 3: I know I don't leave them. 12 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:38,280 Speaker 1: I just play them. 13 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:42,240 Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, I just And you know what worries 14 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:45,920 Speaker 4: me is they're they're out there among us and we 15 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:47,239 Speaker 4: might bump into one. 16 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 2: Somewhere and unsupervised, probably unsupervised, and they you know, they 17 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 2: they're off their meds, they've escaped from the institution and 18 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 2: they're out wandering around. You know, when I was growing up, 19 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 2: there was this you can't say the R word anymore, 20 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 2: I guess, but that's what he was. And he was 21 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 2: His name was Stanley, and Stanley was obese. 22 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 4: Stanley was you know, five something but probably weighed two 23 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 4: or three hundred pounds. I mean was he was obese. 24 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 4: And Stanley had a not a boombox I don't anybody 25 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:27,520 Speaker 4: think about a boom box, but I want to think. 26 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 4: I want you to think about a small transistor. 27 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 1: Radio, just something handheld. Yeah, I have a walkman ish it. 28 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 4: Well, slightly larger than a walkman, but yes, but that 29 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 4: kind of shape, and had an antenna, you know, I 30 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 4: had a retractable antenna that we'll pulled out about three 31 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 4: or four feet. And Stanley would just walk around town 32 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 4: all day long with that radio held up to his ear, 33 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 4: and he just walked along. He'd walk through neighborhoods you 34 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 4: never knew in my little town where you might come across, 35 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 4: come across Stanley, and nobody was cruel to Stanley. Everybody 36 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:07,520 Speaker 4: everybody knew Stanley was just a harmless, you know character, 37 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 4: and nobody ever really knew what he was listening to, 38 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:12,800 Speaker 4: probably the local station. 39 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 3: It wasn't up loud enough for anybody else to hear. 40 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 4: No, just he was right right against his ear and 41 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:20,079 Speaker 4: he would listen to it. And you can walk by 42 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:22,639 Speaker 4: and say hi, Stanley, and he might, he might might, 43 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:25,640 Speaker 4: he might make eye contact and he might say hi. 44 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 4: Whatever that I think that was Stanley. 45 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 3: Well, what worries me about that one is the background noises, 46 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 3: sounds like he's a trucker. 47 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 4: And I know some of my classmates, uh some down 48 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 4: in Dallas, some and San Antonio other places. But I'm 49 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 4: sure there otherres other places that when they hear this 50 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 4: on the podcast or a third streaming right now, go, 51 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 4: I remember Stanley. 52 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:01,080 Speaker 1: I remember Stanley. He was just a I wouldn't you know. 53 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:01,799 Speaker 1: I'm sure that. 54 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 4: Stanley, because of all those problems, you know, died at 55 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:04,919 Speaker 4: a young age. 56 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 1: But I don't know. 57 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 4: Maybe maybe I can, I'll ask some of the funeral directors, 58 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 4: whatever happens. I can't remember Stanley's last name, missus Stanley, 59 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 4: but that reminded me of Stanley. Oh my gosh. So 60 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 4: I want you to think about this. So we're talking 61 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 4: about the blackout in Iran and how it's because of 62 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:27,519 Speaker 4: a bureaucratic bull crap going on inside the Beltway. 63 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 1: We have four agencies. 64 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 4: We got the Federal Communications Commission, and we've got let's see, 65 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 4: we've got the State Department. Within the State Department, you 66 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 4: have the Office of Foreign Assets Control. I'm sorry, that's 67 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 4: with it that. You have the FCC. State Department, you 68 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 4: have the Treasury Department, and within Treasury you have the 69 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 4: Office of Fort Assets Control, and of course then you 70 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:55,400 Speaker 4: have the White House. So essentially you got four agencies 71 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 4: all that have to move in some sort of sequence, 72 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 4: each with different priorities. They all have different risk tolerances, 73 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 4: they have different political masters, and in a normal bureaucratic environment, 74 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 4: this is a process that takes months. But we're not 75 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:17,159 Speaker 4: in a normal environmental bureau environment. We're in an active 76 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:20,720 Speaker 4: shooting war. The President at least at one point said 77 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:24,039 Speaker 4: we have a thirty five day timetable. We have a 78 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 4: foreign policy that changes with whatever gets posted on truth 79 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 4: social at one point thirty in the morning. So all 80 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 4: of this bureaucratic mumbo jumbo falls into the gap between 81 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 4: all these competing priorities. So what does it do. It 82 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:42,119 Speaker 4: just sits there and doesn't do anything. But the current 83 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:46,280 Speaker 4: regime is not sitting. The Iranian government has been building 84 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 4: what the experts are calling a barracks Internet. What's the 85 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 4: barracks Internet. It's a permanent architecture of digital isolation. Is 86 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:01,040 Speaker 4: modeled on the Chinese Great Firewall, and fact they're coordinating 87 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:03,600 Speaker 4: this with walweih Whahwai. 88 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:05,359 Speaker 1: It's designed to. 89 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:09,360 Speaker 4: White list only regime approved users and locked everybody else 90 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 4: out forever. Iranian state media has already announced that this 91 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 4: is a permanent shift, so the window to counter it 92 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:24,520 Speaker 4: is not infinite. Every day that this authorization sits in 93 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:29,600 Speaker 4: that file cabinet is a day that the concrete hardens 94 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:34,280 Speaker 4: around an alternative, I think. 95 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:34,800 Speaker 1: Tells you what it is. 96 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 4: Yet, I just want you to understand that there is 97 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 4: something out there that we could be doing, but for 98 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 4: the freaking e F and stupid damn bureaucracy, nobody's doing 99 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 4: anything about it. And quite frankly, I don't know why somebody. 100 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 4: I don't know why, Marco. I don't know why, Pete. 101 00:05:57,360 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 4: I don't know why, Susie Wiles, I don't know why, 102 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 4: Stephen Miller, somebody, I would say, the National Security Advisor, 103 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 4: but that is also Marco Rubio. Why somebody hasn't walked 104 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:13,120 Speaker 4: in and sat down, said mister president, I guess what. 105 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:17,279 Speaker 4: You can turn this switch on. You just have to 106 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 4: stand up and say do it. 107 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 1: Do it now. 108 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 4: There are some complications, and there are real complications. What 109 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:34,280 Speaker 4: am I talking about. I'm talking about direct to sell technology. 110 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:35,800 Speaker 4: It is still early stage. 111 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:37,040 Speaker 1: Now. 112 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 4: The Iranian regime has Russian supplied military grade jamming that 113 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 4: has already disrupted the standard starlink and disrupted it pretty significantly. 114 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 1: I'll get to that in a minute. So there is 115 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 1: a legitimate. 116 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:54,679 Speaker 4: Question about whether D two C direct to sell would 117 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:58,719 Speaker 4: be simply jammed on day one, producing a visible failure 118 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 4: that might actually be worse politically than not trying. 119 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 1: But they are also. 120 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:08,159 Speaker 4: Serious considerations, not bureaucratic cowardice. But here's what I keep 121 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 4: coming back to, the regime knows what we have. They 122 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 4: know that direct to sell is the one thing that 123 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:20,400 Speaker 4: they cannot fully counter because to do so would also 124 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:25,200 Speaker 4: destroy their own remaining infrastructure. So it's a catch twenty 125 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 4: two for them. The fear of it is itself a deterrent, 126 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 4: and we're not using that fear. We're letting the question 127 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 4: die in an inner agency process while the window closes 128 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 4: tighter and tighter and tighter. So let's go back to 129 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 4: Raza Polovi, the man who is at least I guess 130 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:49,600 Speaker 4: number one right now, I don't know, but he wants 131 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 4: to lead Iran's the Iranian transition. He actually has a 132 00:07:55,000 --> 00:08:00,560 Speaker 4: one hundred day plan. Who who is fifty one thousand 133 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:06,080 Speaker 4: registered defectors inside or in country? He went on sixteen 134 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 4: minutes what two weekends ago, and he told America that 135 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 4: he wants to be a transitional leader. He does not 136 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 4: want to be a king. But that guy, if you 137 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:17,800 Speaker 4: take him in his own word, he can't even reach 138 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 4: his own people right now, at least not effectively. So 139 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:26,120 Speaker 4: he's broadcasting from exile to a country where the television 140 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:28,160 Speaker 4: is off, the radio was jammed, and the internet is 141 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:35,199 Speaker 4: at one percent. The broadcast State TV hack when somebody 142 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:39,840 Speaker 4: hijacked Oran's satellite feed and put Paulavi's face on every 143 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:44,640 Speaker 4: screen in the country. That happened once, and it was brilliant. 144 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 4: It required somebody to take a very significant operational risk 145 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:53,800 Speaker 4: to pull that off, and it worked precisely because it 146 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 4: bypassed every layer of the. 147 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:58,840 Speaker 1: Regime's information control apparatus. 148 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 4: Direct to sell is a policy equivalent of that hack. 149 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 1: That I just described. 150 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:13,079 Speaker 4: It bypasses the kill switch, It bypasses the barracks Internet, 151 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 4: It bypasses the GPS jammers because it uses different power 152 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:21,840 Speaker 4: levels and different transmission profiles. It reaches people on the 153 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 4: phones that these people in Iran already have in their hands. 154 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 4: They have them in their pockets, they got them in 155 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:33,480 Speaker 4: their purses. We're not doing anything. The Uranians who died 156 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 4: and are dying in the streets, who's names we don't 157 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:40,480 Speaker 4: even know because the internet's turned off and the bodies 158 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:44,120 Speaker 4: are being buried in mass graves. Don't you think those 159 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 4: people deserve better than to have their revolution fail? Because 160 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 4: four federals US agencies can't coordinate a licensed authorization in 161 00:09:55,400 --> 00:10:00,439 Speaker 4: the midst of an active war, a grief, Abraham Lincoln 162 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 4: suspended Habeas Corpus with a stroke of a pen. Franklin 163 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:09,200 Speaker 4: Roosevelt reorganized the entire American war economy by executive order. 164 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:13,840 Speaker 4: Ronald Reagan simply went to Berlin and told gilbertchev to 165 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 4: tear down this wall. 166 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:19,200 Speaker 1: And you know what he did. He kept putting it 167 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:20,040 Speaker 1: back in his speech. 168 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 4: State Department kept putting it, taking it out, he kept 169 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 4: putting it back in. So he said, screw the State Department. 170 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:28,840 Speaker 4: He didn't care about the State Department's feelings. He just 171 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:32,720 Speaker 4: did it, and the wall came down. Somebody in this 172 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 4: administration has got to decide whether we are serious about 173 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 4: a free Iran or whether we're more serious about the paperwork, 174 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:46,079 Speaker 4: because right now the paperwork's winning. And again I want 175 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:49,960 Speaker 4: to emphasize this is not a panacea. But it's something 176 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:52,360 Speaker 4: that we could be doing but which we aren't doing. 177 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:54,840 Speaker 4: And I checked again before I came in the studio 178 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:57,320 Speaker 4: this morning. I went online. I dug around as much 179 00:10:57,320 --> 00:10:59,679 Speaker 4: as I could on Lexus Texas and some other platforms 180 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 4: find out whether or not anything's moved. Nothing is moved. 181 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 4: This is the bureaucracy that I'm talking about. The FCC 182 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:09,760 Speaker 4: just needs to authorize the license. They just need to 183 00:11:09,800 --> 00:11:14,160 Speaker 4: authorize it. State Department says, needs to say to the FCC, yes, 184 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 4: it might violate the sanctions, but we are going to 185 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:21,600 Speaker 4: make an exception for in Quite frankly, I would make 186 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 4: an exception for any of the Arabian UH cell companies, 187 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:34,000 Speaker 4: any of the European cell companies, and all the American 188 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:37,720 Speaker 4: cell companies. I don't care which one any of them, 189 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 4: but so so authorize a TV, Verizon and T Mobile 190 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:45,240 Speaker 4: authorize Orange in the European Union. 191 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:47,439 Speaker 1: And what are the other ones are? I can't think 192 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 1: of the other ones. 193 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 4: And I don't know what the ones are in the 194 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 4: in the in the UH, in the GCC and the 195 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 4: Golf Cooperating Council. But you know, the Saudis and the 196 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:02,559 Speaker 4: uaes include the Kuwaitis, the Oman, the Kataris, they've all 197 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:08,680 Speaker 4: got sell companies, So waiver the sanctions for them to 198 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:13,080 Speaker 4: do the D two C direct to sell, and suddenly 199 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 4: we might actually see some organizing going on. But the 200 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 4: lesson that I want you to drive home with you 201 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:24,679 Speaker 4: is we have something that could help us win this, 202 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:27,680 Speaker 4: that could help with regime change, or at least help 203 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 4: the counter revolutionaries in country to organize, and the bureaucratic 204 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 4: morass that I had to deal with still exists, and 205 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:46,720 Speaker 4: people are dying. People are dying because of now. Somebody 206 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 4: asked about, well, what about Starlink. Musk did not physically 207 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:58,160 Speaker 4: ship Starlink units to Iran. The hardburg got there the 208 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:01,679 Speaker 4: old fashioned way smuggled. 209 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:04,760 Speaker 1: The units in. Now, what Musk did. 210 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:09,160 Speaker 4: Was flip the switch on the satellite side. On June 211 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 4: fourteenth of last year, after Israel struck Iran's nuclear facilities 212 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 4: in Tehran shut down internet access to its own citizens, 213 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:21,800 Speaker 4: Musk posted an X simply this the beams are on. 214 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:28,200 Speaker 4: That's it. Three words, the actually forwards. The beams are on. 215 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 4: No press conference, no policy statements, just a man with 216 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:36,679 Speaker 4: the constellation of satellites deciding the regime's information blackout was 217 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:41,880 Speaker 4: going to end that day. Now, this wasn't starting from zero. 218 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 4: Back in twenty twenty two, during the Masami Amini protests, 219 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:49,319 Speaker 4: Musk had activated starlink over Iran for the first time. 220 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:53,480 Speaker 4: That triggered the smuggling of thousands of terminals into the 221 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:57,040 Speaker 4: country from neighboring states. So by the time June twenty 222 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:00,360 Speaker 4: twenty five rolls around, there was already an infrastry structure 223 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:05,280 Speaker 4: in place. An industry analyst estimated about twenty thousand clandestine 224 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:09,000 Speaker 4: starlink dishes we're operating inside Iran, pushing on the black 225 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:11,400 Speaker 4: market at prices topping two thousand dollars a piece nearly 226 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:15,440 Speaker 4: Twenton Bock is that twenty times an average monthly wage. 227 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:19,800 Speaker 4: Now Tron didn't take it lying down and frankly, the 228 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:22,680 Speaker 4: response tells you everything you need to need to know 229 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:27,040 Speaker 4: about how much they fear the Internet. Iran's Information and 230 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 4: Communications Technology and Ministry. They declared the starlink terminals were 231 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 4: illegal and warned that importing, operating, or even possessing one 232 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 4: will expose offenders to the full force of the law. 233 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 4: Primarily minigra be jailed, are killed. Then they escalated dramatically 234 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:52,680 Speaker 4: a draft. Iranian anti espionage law now explicitly bans personal 235 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 4: use of starlink, punishable by six to two years in prison, 236 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 4: and if used for espionage, which are always obviously claim 237 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 4: everything was used for espionage, the punishment is death death 238 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 4: for using internet, satellite internet. That's the regime telling you 239 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 4: in the clearest possible terms how terrified they are of 240 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:19,600 Speaker 4: their own people, particularly of them having uncensored access to information. 241 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:21,640 Speaker 1: But does it work? 242 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:29,600 Speaker 4: Yes, and SpaceX is actively fighting the jamming. After the 243 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 4: Uranian security services escalated jamming tactics, SpaceX pushed a firmware 244 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 4: update to starlink terminals inside Iran, specifically to try. 245 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 1: To circumvent the jamming. 246 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 4: So it's not just that the beams are on musk 247 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 4: and space X is actively engaged in a technical counterinsurgency 248 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 4: against the regimes electronic warfare capabilities. Then fast forward to 249 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 4: just this past January. Now we got ding ding Ding 250 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 4: round two, new protests spread to all of the thirty 251 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:07,320 Speaker 4: one provinces. We know that that's what started all of this, 252 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:12,160 Speaker 4: That was driven by the economic collapse, hyperinflation, and Nicole's 253 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 4: internally for regime change, not from us, but from the 254 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:19,080 Speaker 4: people in the country. Starlink again got activated, this time 255 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:23,200 Speaker 4: with free access at least reportedly free access available for 256 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:29,680 Speaker 4: a limited time. But the geopolitical significance here it's really 257 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 4: hard to overstate. One single American entrepreneur. Not an act 258 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:41,920 Speaker 4: of Congress, no UN resolution, no State department approval, has 259 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:45,720 Speaker 4: become arguably the single most important tool for regime change 260 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 4: inside the country. The regime can threaten death sentence is 261 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 4: all they want. But if Musk is able to re 262 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:58,080 Speaker 4: establish internet coverage, and it does remain difficult, precisely because 263 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 4: the few available terminals trade exorbitant black market prices. The 264 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:06,480 Speaker 4: bottleneck isn't the satellites, it's the terminals on the ground. 265 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:11,679 Speaker 4: The sky is open. The question is hardware distribution, and 266 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 4: the question is are the upgrades and the software changes 267 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:18,639 Speaker 4: that he's making is it going to be able to 268 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:23,040 Speaker 4: circumvent the jamming. So this is the story of a 269 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:28,600 Speaker 4: private citizen actually wielding more geopolitical leverage over an adversary 270 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:32,600 Speaker 4: or regime than most nation states can muster, and doing 271 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:33,159 Speaker 4: it with. 272 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:36,119 Speaker 1: Four words and a firmware upgrade. 273 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 4: Meanwhile, just compare and contrasts that with D two C 274 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:47,200 Speaker 4: direct to sell, which could be turned on circumvents the jamming, 275 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:54,439 Speaker 4: but it's not done because of the deep state. I 276 00:17:54,600 --> 00:18:02,040 Speaker 4: make no inferences, judgments, speculation, or anything about why, but 277 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:06,200 Speaker 4: I do know an underlying cause. And the underlying cause 278 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 4: is the same thing that I experienced for almost six years, 279 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:15,760 Speaker 4: some twenty years ago inside the Beltway. Who's on first, 280 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:21,879 Speaker 4: who's in charge? Why won't the FCC, as yet, as 281 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:23,359 Speaker 4: I point out, would come down on me at a 282 00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:28,920 Speaker 4: heartbeat if I dropped an f bomb. But huh, how 283 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:33,159 Speaker 4: about somebody that is at the FCC reach out to 284 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:37,200 Speaker 4: somebody in the State Department and they reach out simultaneously 285 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:40,119 Speaker 4: to somebody in the Treasury Department and the Office of 286 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:43,439 Speaker 4: Foreign Asset Control and say, guys, you know what, why 287 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:44,199 Speaker 4: don't we try this? 288 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:46,240 Speaker 1: It works? 289 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:50,280 Speaker 4: It doesn't work, but at least we're trying. We're doing 290 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:54,240 Speaker 4: our fair share to see if we can't help those 291 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:57,200 Speaker 4: people that really do want to get rid of the mullas. 292 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 1: Huh. 293 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:06,840 Speaker 4: Every time you hear CNN, MSNBC or whatever it's called now, 294 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 4: you hear any of them talk about, you know, oh 295 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:12,840 Speaker 4: we got we've had I'm not trying to minimize it. 296 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:15,720 Speaker 4: We've had some soldiers die we've had some injured, but 297 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 4: we could help the people in country rise up and 298 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:25,119 Speaker 4: do their part too, and we won't and we can't 299 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 4: because of bureaucratic inertia. 300 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:41,880 Speaker 5: Mike new term free range goobers. 301 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:40,680 Speaker 1: Dangerous, very very dangerous. 302 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 3: Yes, some of you all out there don't have your 303 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:48,280 Speaker 3: leash on. So that's uh, that's that's scary. I did 304 00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 3: my darnest yesterday. There were several posts on X. 305 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:59,200 Speaker 4: In which John Thune was trying the Senate Majority leader, 306 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 4: was trying to explain why the talking filibuster wouldn't work, 307 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:09,639 Speaker 4: and one of the arguments was, the Democrats will just 308 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:13,440 Speaker 4: take over the floor and you know, there are how 309 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:17,359 Speaker 4: many Democrats are there, forty eight or whatever the number 310 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:22,560 Speaker 4: is forty seven, and they would just offer amendment after 311 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 4: amendment and bill after bill, and they would just keep 312 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:28,120 Speaker 4: going and going and going. Well, I found a little 313 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:34,639 Speaker 4: disingenuous because and maybe there is a parliamentary procedure buried 314 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:37,680 Speaker 4: somewhere within the Senate rules that I don't understand, because 315 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:43,000 Speaker 4: the Senate rules are very very complex, very arcane, and 316 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 4: you've got to be there one hundred years you really 317 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:47,359 Speaker 4: understand that. That's why they have a parliamentarian to explain 318 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 4: all the rules to you. But I thought that's bull crap, 319 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 4: and it's bullcrap because my understanding is that the Senate 320 00:20:55,920 --> 00:21:00,199 Speaker 4: rules also if there is a talking filibuster, limit each 321 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:09,239 Speaker 4: senator to two shots at the at the floor in 322 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:13,840 Speaker 4: the words, you know, Corey Booker gets tired, then Chuck 323 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:17,240 Speaker 4: Schumer could step up, but that takes up one of 324 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:21,239 Speaker 4: Chuck Schumer's attempts, and then Chuck gets tired, and then 325 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:25,119 Speaker 4: Mazi Rano steps up. She gets tired, so Chuck comes 326 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:27,520 Speaker 4: in again. Now Chuck's boone as what and that's it. 327 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:30,760 Speaker 4: He can't he can't speak anymore. So, yes, it would 328 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:35,240 Speaker 4: take up time, but that's all they have because they 329 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:42,879 Speaker 4: don't do anything. So his argument that the passing the 330 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:46,880 Speaker 4: Save Act in the face of a threatened talking filibuster 331 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:52,359 Speaker 4: would be procedurally impossible. He says that the rules allow 332 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:57,920 Speaker 4: unlimited debate and unlimited amendments. Now, if both of those 333 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:02,359 Speaker 4: were true, that would be the conclusion that it would. 334 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:05,639 Speaker 4: They would the Democrats would just never shut up and 335 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:09,560 Speaker 4: it would never end. A determined minority could bury the 336 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 4: bill in speeches and amendments until the Republicans, the majority 337 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:21,399 Speaker 4: just surrendered. Here's what he said, having studied it and 338 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 4: researched it pretty thoroughly, you have to show me how 339 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 4: in the end it prevails and succeeds, because I think 340 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 4: what has been promised out there is that it would 341 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:34,520 Speaker 4: actually in the end get an outcome, and I find 342 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:39,160 Speaker 4: it very hard to see that based on actual past experience. 343 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,119 Speaker 4: There were a couple of different occasions where the Democrats 344 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:45,719 Speaker 4: contemplated doing this, both under Majority Leader Harry Reid at 345 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:49,399 Speaker 4: the time and Majority Leader Schumer, and they opted against 346 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:52,480 Speaker 4: it because they examined it the same way that we're 347 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:57,320 Speaker 4: examining it examining it and obviously what people don't realize, 348 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 4: I think is it's all unlimited debate, but it's also 349 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:05,719 Speaker 4: unlimited amendments. So what I've said before is you have 350 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,560 Speaker 4: to have unified support not only in support of the 351 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 4: ultimate goal, which is the same America Act, and on 352 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:17,119 Speaker 4: the process to be able to defeat amendments that would 353 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:19,639 Speaker 4: under the legislation in the very first place. And we 354 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:22,360 Speaker 4: can't find a piece of legislation in history that's been 355 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:25,440 Speaker 4: passed that way. I don't think even where those claims 356 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:30,359 Speaker 4: are true, debate is not unlimited amendments are not unlimited. 357 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:34,160 Speaker 4: I think both are bounded by long standing Senate rules 358 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:37,920 Speaker 4: and practices that any experienced majority there I think truly understands. 359 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:40,240 Speaker 4: I think the real question is not whether the Senate 360 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:43,480 Speaker 4: rules make passage impossible. The real question is whether the 361 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:45,879 Speaker 4: majority is willing to use the tools that are already 362 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 4: available to it. So I started to dig it in 363 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:54,440 Speaker 4: even further. Let's start with the whole process of debate itself. 364 00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:03,679 Speaker 4: That phrase unlimited debate is actually shorthand for the filibuster itself. 365 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,680 Speaker 1: But the phrase is misleading if you take it literally. 366 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:15,119 Speaker 4: Senate Rule nineteen first one I can find, contains what 367 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,680 Speaker 4: is called that what I described as the two speech rule. 368 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:23,639 Speaker 4: Under that rule, a senator can speak only twice on 369 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:29,320 Speaker 4: the same question during the same legislative day, unless the 370 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:34,200 Speaker 4: Senate grants permission to speak again. Now that rule matters 371 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:37,520 Speaker 4: because that is a structural limit on how often the 372 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 4: Senator can take the floor on the same matter. What's 373 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:46,440 Speaker 4: the matter here the Save Act. Now the limit becomes 374 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 4: clear once we understand the concept of the legislative day. 375 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:51,959 Speaker 4: And I've said before I don't want you to think 376 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,320 Speaker 4: of the legislative day as a twenty four hour day 377 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:59,360 Speaker 4: or a calendar day. If not that, the legislative day 378 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:04,639 Speaker 4: star when the Senate adjourns, and the legislative day ends 379 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 4: when it adjourns again. Now, if the Senate recesses, not adjourns, 380 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:16,880 Speaker 4: but just recesses, that legislative day continues. So let's say 381 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:20,640 Speaker 4: they started their legislative day this morning at eight am, 382 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:25,480 Speaker 4: eight am Mountain time, So at ten o'clock this morning 383 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,879 Speaker 4: Eastern time, they started the legislative day, and they started 384 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:30,919 Speaker 4: doing their work and their debates and their speeches and 385 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:35,320 Speaker 4: all that crap. But when they got to let's just 386 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 4: say noon their time, they work two hours. Oh my gosh, 387 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:43,680 Speaker 4: we're exhausted. So rather than adjourned for the day, they 388 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:48,480 Speaker 4: just recess. Well, that means the legislative day continues until 389 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:51,560 Speaker 4: they come back again. That means the legislative day can 390 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:55,639 Speaker 4: extend across many calendar days. In principle, they could extend 391 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:57,879 Speaker 4: it for weeks or months. They're doing that now when 392 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 4: they go on vacation or when they take a holiday 393 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,920 Speaker 4: day off, because they're not adjourning, they're just staying recessed. 394 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:09,280 Speaker 4: Why because Thune doesn't want Trump to make recess appointments. 395 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:15,199 Speaker 4: So the whole concept of legislative day, we already know 396 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:20,120 Speaker 4: that Thune is using it to prevent Trump fulfilling judicial 397 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:24,560 Speaker 4: positions with recess appointments, or even an under secretary somewhere, 398 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:30,200 Speaker 4: or an assistant to an assistant secretary. I despise these people, 399 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:33,359 Speaker 4: do I think you know that? Now, consider what follows 400 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:40,080 Speaker 4: from those two rules taken together, but speaking twice and 401 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:46,640 Speaker 4: the legislative day. Each senator receives two speeches per legislative 402 00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:53,200 Speaker 4: day on a single topic. If the legislative day continues 403 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:58,119 Speaker 4: and they don't adjourn, senators eventually exhaust their speeches. They 404 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:02,040 Speaker 4: can no longer rise repeatedly on the same matter. So 405 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,680 Speaker 4: debate can continue for some time because the Senate has 406 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 4: one hundred members, but it cannot continue indefinitely through repetition 407 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:17,359 Speaker 4: by the same speakers. And I started, you know, I 408 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:21,879 Speaker 4: love history, so I started looking at history. When we 409 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:26,520 Speaker 4: get back the Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty four 410 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:31,440 Speaker 4: is a classic example of how the choice is made 411 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:35,760 Speaker 4: by the leadership shapes the length of the debate. 412 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:41,879 Speaker 5: So yesterday, as we're talking that if we use nuclear power, 413 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:46,000 Speaker 5: that for everything we would use in our lifetime, we 414 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:48,920 Speaker 5: would have one pound of nuclear wastes for a person. 415 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 5: Wind turbine blades cannot be recycled in the US. The 416 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:57,359 Speaker 5: cheapest option is to send the fireglass blades to landfills. 417 00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:01,719 Speaker 5: By twenty fifty, there could be forty million metric tons 418 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,760 Speaker 5: of blades waste piling up worldwide. 419 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,600 Speaker 4: Then I had someone on the text line also tell me, 420 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,800 Speaker 4: because I made the comment about technologically, who may figure 421 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:14,639 Speaker 4: out waste to use some of that nuclear waste in 422 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 4: the future, said that we already can. There are different 423 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:22,119 Speaker 4: kinds of nuclear power plants that can take some of 424 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:27,119 Speaker 4: that waste and reuse it to generate new power. Oh yeah, 425 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:32,959 Speaker 4: Now that was from Stanley walking around here this transistor radio. 426 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:34,600 Speaker 4: So I don't know whether it's really true or not, 427 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:36,680 Speaker 4: but you know, I take the goober's at face value. 428 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:39,880 Speaker 4: I want to believe they're telling me the truth. So 429 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:41,520 Speaker 4: let's go to the history of the Civil Rights Acts 430 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,560 Speaker 4: of nineteen sixty four, because it's a great example, and 431 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:48,360 Speaker 4: it's counterintuity. It's truly counterintuit. Even it may or may 432 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,480 Speaker 4: not work here, but at least is it at least 433 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:56,840 Speaker 4: illustrates how soon could shape his choice could shape the 434 00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:01,080 Speaker 4: length of the debate. When the Civil Rights Acts in 435 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,880 Speaker 4: nineteen sixty four got to the floor of the Senate, 436 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:11,000 Speaker 4: Southern Democrats Democrats launched one of the longest filibusters in 437 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:16,880 Speaker 4: the history of the Senate. The majority leader Mike Mansfield, Montana. 438 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:21,320 Speaker 4: If I recall Mike Mansfield, he had a strategic decision 439 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:25,960 Speaker 4: to make. He could either allow or attempt to exhaust 440 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:31,560 Speaker 4: the filibustering senators physically by keeping that legislative day open 441 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:36,760 Speaker 4: four days on end for extended periods, or he could 442 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:41,920 Speaker 4: allow the Senate to adjourn every evening and start a 443 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:48,320 Speaker 4: new legislative day the next morning. He chose the latter, 444 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:54,400 Speaker 4: which is why I think it's counterintuity. By adjourning every day, 445 00:29:54,720 --> 00:30:00,320 Speaker 4: he allowed the senators to receive two new speeches every day, 446 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:03,719 Speaker 4: so the debate on the Civil Rights Act continued for 447 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:09,320 Speaker 4: about sixty days. But his choice was deliberate. He was 448 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:14,320 Speaker 4: not trying to crush the filibuster through exhaustion. His goal 449 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:19,080 Speaker 4: was to allow the debate to unfold while building the 450 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:24,640 Speaker 4: bipartisan coalition necessary to reach the two thirds culture threshold 451 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:29,840 Speaker 4: required at the time. The now sixty votes to end debate. 452 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,400 Speaker 4: So that shows something important. The duration of a filibuster 453 00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:40,280 Speaker 4: depends on, I would say, very heavily on how the 454 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:45,840 Speaker 4: majority structure is the legislative day. Mike Mansfield's theory was 455 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:50,440 Speaker 4: allowing the day to reset because his strategy required a 456 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:54,680 Speaker 4: prolonged debate. But a majority leader who wishes to limit 457 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:59,200 Speaker 4: speeches can simply keep the legislative day opening. In that case, 458 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 4: speech rules steadily constrains the supply of available speeches. Now, 459 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:10,480 Speaker 4: think about why was Mansfield doing that. He wanted to 460 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:13,680 Speaker 4: pass the Civil Rights Act in nineteen sixty four, so 461 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:20,160 Speaker 4: he was trying to build a coalition. The Save Act 462 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:22,800 Speaker 4: is an eighty five fifty. It's not even an eighty 463 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,320 Speaker 4: twenty issue. It's like an eighty five to fifteen issue. 464 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,960 Speaker 4: It's like a ninety ten issue. Well, if Food were 465 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:30,880 Speaker 4: to say, you know, well, I'm going leave the legislative 466 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,120 Speaker 4: day open, I'm gonna let them just keep talking and 467 00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:38,920 Speaker 4: talking and talking, that means the media would almost have 468 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:41,840 Speaker 4: to cover it. That means that a lot of people 469 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:44,000 Speaker 4: out there that don't think much about the Save Act, 470 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,680 Speaker 4: but they know they like it, and they start hearing 471 00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:50,000 Speaker 4: this bull crap from the Democrats, They're gonna light up 472 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:53,520 Speaker 4: the phones. They're gonna light up the emails, They're gonna 473 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:57,239 Speaker 4: light up everything. They're gonna become even more entrenched. And 474 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:01,520 Speaker 4: the more they talk against it, the more I think 475 00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:02,560 Speaker 4: people might rise. 476 00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:04,720 Speaker 1: Up up against those senators and say, what are you doing? 477 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 1: Sit down and shut up. 478 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:13,080 Speaker 4: So the very path that Mike Mansfield chose for the 479 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:16,560 Speaker 4: Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty four might actually work here. 480 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:22,640 Speaker 4: I don't know, but it's at least Mike Mansfield had 481 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:26,200 Speaker 4: a strategy and then an objective, and he had the 482 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:31,000 Speaker 4: tactics to implement that strategy and he won. And think 483 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,440 Speaker 4: about the Civil Rights Act in nineteen sixty four. Who 484 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:37,920 Speaker 4: was against it? The Democrats. So here is the Democrat 485 00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:43,240 Speaker 4: leader actually forcing his own party to stand up and 486 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:47,760 Speaker 4: speak against it. And Americans got that up and said, well, 487 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:51,800 Speaker 4: wait a minute, what why are we treating these black 488 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:52,640 Speaker 4: people so badly? 489 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:56,120 Speaker 1: They have a right to vote. 490 00:32:56,480 --> 00:33:02,320 Speaker 4: Soon doesn't even have the confidence in his group of 491 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:06,160 Speaker 4: senators that Mike Mansfield had in his group of senators 492 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,120 Speaker 4: who actually opposed what he was trying to do.