1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: To night. Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA 2 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:05,960 Speaker 1: director of talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, no Brownie, 3 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,000 Speaker 1: You're doing a heck of a job the Weekend with 4 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:12,080 Speaker 1: Michael Brown broadcasting Life from Denver, Colorado. You've tuned into 5 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: the Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to have you joining 6 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 1: the program today. Text line, as usual is always open. 7 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 1: That number is three three one zero three three three 8 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:22,440 Speaker 1: one zero three. Tell me anything, Ask me anything. Use 9 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:25,639 Speaker 1: the keyword Mike or Michael. Go follow me on social media, 10 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 1: whether you want to follow me on ex, Facebook or Instagram. 11 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 1: They're all the same at Michael D. Brown. At Michael D. Brown. 12 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 1: London is one of my favorite places in the world. 13 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:43,000 Speaker 1: It's it's just it's like New York with a British, 14 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 1: British accent. It's a fun place. And I've got a 15 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 1: lot of friends that are expats that live in London 16 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:53,559 Speaker 1: and we have a lot of conversations about, you know, 17 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 1: how it's changed, what's going on. And a friend of 18 00:00:57,560 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 1: mine was there recently and came back and said that 19 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 1: she had walked out of her hotel in central London 20 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 1: and that she felt this thing almost immediately, not like 21 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 1: walking out of say, the Plaza Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, 22 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 1: and realizing instantly that you're in a big city, in 23 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 1: a big tourist area. Not even the normal London chaos 24 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: of just the buses, the sirens, people flowing around you 25 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 1: like a river. It was something else, she said, something deeper, 26 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 1: and something that was jarring, And she described it as 27 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:38,040 Speaker 1: the feeling that the place no longer matches the story 28 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:42,039 Speaker 1: that we've always been told is London. And what makes 29 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 1: London unique. You look around and you could always see 30 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 1: different cuisines. You could always hear different foreign accents, just 31 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 1: like you can in New York. You step out on 32 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 1: Fifth Avenue or anywhere anywhere in New York set aside 33 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 1: Little Lily or Chinatown, but you step out anywhere in Soho, 34 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:10,120 Speaker 1: the Upper East Side, any place, and you'll see all 35 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 1: different cuisines. You'll hear all the foreign accents, you'll hear 36 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 1: all the different language. But what's different, she says, about London, 37 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: is you're seeing all the burkers, the hijabs, the Arabic signs, 38 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 1: everything in Arabic, not English. Hellal is everywhere, she says, 39 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 1: you pass Middle Eastern food shops, just one after another, 40 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 1: and then like it's the most normal thing in the world. 41 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 1: There's a Muslim prayer hall, a makeshift mosque just a 42 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 1: few steps from your hotel, and then you would think, 43 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 1: wait a minute, this is England. This is the heart 44 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:53,960 Speaker 1: of the old Christian world. This is the country whose 45 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 1: very name points back to the Angels and the Anglo Saxons. 46 00:02:57,360 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 1: This is the land of cathedrals and church bells, Christmas 47 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 1: carols that weren't seasonal songs. They were actually part of 48 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 1: the cultural soundtrack of an entire culture, an entire people. 49 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:16,920 Speaker 1: It's not crazy. I don't think to expect England to 50 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: feel like England, Germany to feel like Germany, Switzerland to 51 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 1: feel like Switzerland, or for that matter, you go to 52 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 1: buiness Ares for it to feel like Buenos Aires. Now, 53 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 1: before somebody turns me into England's Anti Discrimination Commission or 54 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:41,440 Speaker 1: the local cops for hate speech, this is not about 55 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 1: hating people. I'm not talking about treating anybody unfairly. I'm 56 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: talking about the reality of what's going on, the reality 57 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 1: that you can see with your own eyes when you 58 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 1: walk the streets. The reality that you know the polite 59 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 1: class keeps trying to talk you out of noticing, because 60 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 1: once you notice it, you can't unsee it, and once 61 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 1: you can unsee it, you're for to ask the forbidden question, 62 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 1: what is happening to England. We've always been told that 63 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 1: England is multicultural, it's diverse, and it's inclusive and all 64 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:16,840 Speaker 1: the other buzzwords that sound all warm and safe until 65 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 1: you realize that those buzzwords are often used as a 66 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:25,159 Speaker 1: substitute for one thing that any nation actually needs, and 67 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 1: that is continuity sovereignty. A nation is not just a 68 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:35,720 Speaker 1: zip code with an economy. It's not just a geographical 69 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:40,919 Speaker 1: location with an economy. A nation, a sovereign nation, is 70 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:48,360 Speaker 1: its people, its history, its culture, its faith, a shared 71 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 1: set of assumptions about how you live your life. All 72 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 1: of that's an invisible glue that holds strangers together and 73 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 1: turns them into your fellow countrymen. Now, that glue, whether 74 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 1: it's in England, Germany, France, anywhere, cannot survive unlimited demographic change. 75 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 1: And that's not being racist. That's been mathematical, sociological, and 76 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:23,159 Speaker 1: quite frankly using common sense. Because when you're now walking 77 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: around London, I think what strikes people is that there 78 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 1: are Muslims here. Okay, it's that's that's always been true, 79 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 1: but it's how confident and unapologetic the public expression is 80 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:43,240 Speaker 1: and how submissive the host culture has become about their 81 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:50,160 Speaker 1: own identity. Christianity built the moral architecture of England, yet 82 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 1: Christianity is now treated like an embarrassment, something you've got 83 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 1: to hide or you've got to mock. What's really surviving 84 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 1: is Islam, and so much of the system bends over 85 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:04,360 Speaker 1: back wards now to accommodate it. Why why why are 86 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:09,359 Speaker 1: the English institutions so often brave only when it comes 87 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:13,480 Speaker 1: to telling the Christian in their country to sit down 88 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: and shut up? Why are they suddenly timid, careful when 89 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: it comes to Islam. She told me that you could 90 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 1: almost feel the tension underneath the surface, that you can 91 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 1: sense the quiet fear that talking plainly about what she's 92 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:32,039 Speaker 1: telling me about would get you labeled, punished, smeared, maybe 93 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 1: even targeted. And she says that the fear is the 94 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 1: real story. The fear tells you that something has shifted. 95 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: And this is an expat that I've known for drinking 96 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:49,039 Speaker 1: gosh twenty twenty five years now, which she tells me 97 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 1: how the fear seems to have shifted. I think that's 98 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 1: because in a truly fe you know, in a truly 99 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 1: free society, you don't have to whisper about what you 100 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 1: can see. So I started digging in. The Muslim population 101 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 1: in England and Wales has grown substantially over recent decades, 102 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 1: especially in the major cities and in a lot of 103 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,920 Speaker 1: the urban areas. It's no longer the small minority. It's 104 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 1: actually a concentrated block. And concentration matters because concentration starts 105 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 1: to change the local culture, the local politics, the local 106 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 1: educational system, all of the local norms. And then once 107 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:35,680 Speaker 1: those local things start to change, that then has a 108 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 1: continuing effect and it creates paralleled communities. It doesn't create 109 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 1: a melting pot. It doesn't create e pluribus unum. I 110 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 1: know that's our model, not England's model, but that's what 111 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 1: Western civilization traditionally is. Now take France free for example, 112 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 1: or just state France. Anyway, France has just always been 113 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 1: the been the French, and I've always learned that traveling 114 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:08,880 Speaker 1: in France, that you've got to recognize that. Okay, I'm 115 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 1: gonna make a generalization. So they're uputing, they look down 116 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 1: on Americans, Okay, great, we saved your button World War two. 117 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 1: Otherwise you would be speaking German blah blah blah blah. 118 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 1: And I will make an attempt, and I recognize that 119 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 1: I don't speak French, so I will be somewhat you know, sorry, 120 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 1: you know, apologetic. I don't speak French. But can you 121 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 1: help me order dinner? Or can you tell me what 122 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:36,840 Speaker 1: the price of this is? Whatever? So you learn to adapt. 123 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 1: I don't expect them to conform to me. I'm in 124 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:45,439 Speaker 1: a different culture now. I picked out France because I 125 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 1: don't speak French, and the French are a little haughty 126 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:54,199 Speaker 1: about their culture. And I respect that. I'm picking on London, 127 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 1: primarily because of my conversation with my expat friend, but 128 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 1: also because we have a common language, we have a 129 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:03,960 Speaker 1: common background, and we have a lot of common moras, morals, 130 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,080 Speaker 1: we have a lot of common things, common traditions that 131 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:11,439 Speaker 1: despite our revolutionary war and despite our our very public divorce, 132 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:16,600 Speaker 1: we still got along. We still took care of the kids, 133 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:21,360 Speaker 1: we had joint custody, and we treated each other with 134 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 1: that kind of respect. But once that concentration changes the 135 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 1: local culture and changes everything that goes with that, you know, 136 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:34,040 Speaker 1: the politics, the schooling, all the all the normal things 137 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 1: of a of a community. Then those start to pop 138 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:43,200 Speaker 1: up everywhere and that becomes not different flavors in one 139 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 1: national stew it becomes something entirely different. And I think 140 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:54,760 Speaker 1: here's a symbolic moment that should stop any of us 141 00:09:54,840 --> 00:10:01,200 Speaker 1: pretending that this is a minor issue. Muhammad Mohammad became 142 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:04,200 Speaker 1: the most popular baby boy name in England and Wales 143 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 1: two years ago and it's continued to hold the top 144 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:12,320 Speaker 1: spot in twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five. So 145 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 1: what does that mean for their culture? I'll be right back. Hey, 146 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 1: welcome back to the Weekend with Michael Brown. Let have 147 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:28,080 Speaker 1: you with me. I appreciate you tuning in. So if 148 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:30,160 Speaker 1: you like what we do on the week end program, 149 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:32,079 Speaker 1: you might like what we do during the weekday Monday 150 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 1: through Friday. 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So I don't care 165 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 1: what your personal feelings are, but I think that fact 166 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:37,240 Speaker 1: is a giant flashing sign that says, oh, the future 167 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:42,720 Speaker 1: is changing in the United Kingdom. That's just the demographics. 168 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:48,080 Speaker 1: Think about the politics. London's Mayor, Sadik Khan, is a Muslim. 169 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 1: And again I'm not saying a person's faith automatically makes 170 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 1: them fit or unfit for office. But what I am 171 00:11:53,960 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 1: saying it reflects the shape of the city. Now. London, 172 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 1: I don't think is any longer a diverse metropolitan metropolitan area. 173 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 1: London is increasingly a city, one of the major cities 174 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:13,960 Speaker 1: in the entire world, with its own identity that is 175 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 1: actually drifting away from the nation that surrounds it. And 176 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:23,080 Speaker 1: if you're a normal person, not a professional activist, not 177 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:26,600 Speaker 1: some sort of think tank parasite, not some sort of 178 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 1: media mogul, you might ask an obvious question, is it 179 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:34,920 Speaker 1: fair for the capital of England to not feel English? 180 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 1: Is it fair for ordinary people to be told, hey, 181 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:41,680 Speaker 1: this is just normal, to get used to it, when 182 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:46,600 Speaker 1: what they're really being told is your culture is going 183 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:51,320 Speaker 1: to shrink and disappear, Your heritage will shrink and be deluded, 184 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:55,319 Speaker 1: your confidence must be crushed, and you can't complain about it, 185 00:12:57,160 --> 00:12:59,679 Speaker 1: because isn't that what's really going on? And it's not 186 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:03,199 Speaker 1: just immigration, it's not just a new restaurant opening up. 187 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:10,720 Speaker 1: It's actually a slow, methodical transfer of cultural power. And 188 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 1: here's where I think it gets really interesting and serious. 189 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:19,960 Speaker 1: For that matter, Islam is not merely a private spirituality. 190 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:24,720 Speaker 1: It's not like, you know, I consider myself Christian, and 191 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:30,320 Speaker 1: of course Christian that I hope pervades my morals and 192 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:36,200 Speaker 1: how I conduct myself. But I have a different you know, 193 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:39,360 Speaker 1: I have a religious system, but I also have a 194 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:44,600 Speaker 1: separate legal system. I have a social political system, and 195 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:51,120 Speaker 1: it's not all the same. Islam is Now, that's not 196 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 1: me being dramatic. That's Islamic juris prudence, and that's what 197 00:13:56,320 --> 00:14:00,600 Speaker 1: Islamic jurisprudence actually claims that all is law, all stands 198 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 1: above man's law. Now, when that world view starts to 199 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:09,480 Speaker 1: get stronger within a liberal democracy, you're obviously don't get friction. 200 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:13,120 Speaker 1: Those two are going to collide with each other. What's 201 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:16,520 Speaker 1: great about this country is that we have freedom of religion. 202 00:14:17,679 --> 00:14:26,840 Speaker 1: And so whether you are Muslim, whether you are Christian, Catholic, Jewish, 203 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:34,520 Speaker 1: your Sikh, Hindu, Buddhist, whatever, you can participate in this society. 204 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 1: And then over that society, while you adhere to your 205 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 1: particular religious standards, your particular religious beliefs, you are still 206 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 1: subject to a cultural, legal, social political system that adheres 207 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:57,120 Speaker 1: to all that applies to all of us. So, again, 208 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 1: the friction occurs when a worldview grows stronger within a 209 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: liberal democracy because you get pressure on things like free speech, 210 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 1: you get pressure on public education, you get pressure on 211 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 1: all public institutions, pressure to create pressure in this case 212 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 1: where criticism is actually hate, pressure to enforce respect that 213 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 1: is not and will not be reciprocated. So all of 214 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:31,320 Speaker 1: the elites in Western civilization, what they do time and 215 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:34,920 Speaker 1: again is retreat. They retreat on the language, they retreat 216 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,800 Speaker 1: on tradition, they retreat on common sense, they retreat on 217 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:40,160 Speaker 1: the simple right of the host nation to say, this 218 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:43,160 Speaker 1: is who we are, and if you come here, you 219 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 1: join us, e pluribus unum, out of many, you become one. Instead, 220 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:51,960 Speaker 1: I think what's happening in the United Kingdom is we 221 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:55,960 Speaker 1: will change you, we will adapt to you, we will 222 00:15:56,000 --> 00:16:01,560 Speaker 1: reshape our public life around your sensitivities. And then we'll 223 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 1: get called marginalized even or not. We won't, but they 224 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:11,080 Speaker 1: will say they're marginalized even when they grow an influence. 225 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:18,040 Speaker 1: And then we'll call the historical majority privileged, even while 226 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:22,240 Speaker 1: they're being told to apologize just for existing. The point 227 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:24,600 Speaker 1: is that's kind of how a nation begins to unravel. 228 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:32,720 Speaker 1: It's like progressive politics. It doesn't happen overnight. It happens 229 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 1: over time. It happens not with one dramatic apocalyptic moment, 230 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 1: catastrophic or dramatic moment. It happens with a thousand small surrenders. Now, 231 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 1: as a Christian, I'm called to love my neighbor, but 232 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:53,040 Speaker 1: we're also called to tell the truth, to be courageous. 233 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:57,440 Speaker 1: So Loving my neighbor doesn't really mean handing my neighbor 234 00:16:57,480 --> 00:17:00,200 Speaker 1: is the keys to my house and then pretending it's 235 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:01,920 Speaker 1: bigotry to ask, Hey, what are you gonna do with 236 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:07,159 Speaker 1: my house? Love doesn't mean self destruction, Compassion does not 237 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:10,919 Speaker 1: mean cultural suicide, and tolerance does not mean tolerating the 238 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:14,520 Speaker 1: erosion of the very freedoms that made tolerance possible in 239 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 1: the first place. So what do we do? I think 240 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:21,960 Speaker 1: at some point we have to separate people from ideology. 241 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:28,359 Speaker 1: You treat individual Muslims with dignity, fairness, decency, humanity, but 242 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:31,560 Speaker 1: you don't lie to yourself about what the ideological challenges 243 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 1: are that come with large scale demographic change and the 244 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:38,960 Speaker 1: growth of a religious political system that struggles and actually 245 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 1: rejects pluralism and free speech. London's disappearing, London's the canary 246 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:47,320 Speaker 1: in the coal mine, and I think my friend is 247 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:51,240 Speaker 1: absolutely right. Watch carefully what's happening in London. I'll be 248 00:17:51,320 --> 00:18:01,040 Speaker 1: right back tonight. Michael Browne joined me here, the former 249 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:04,479 Speaker 1: FEMA director of talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie. Now, Brownie, 250 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:06,480 Speaker 1: you're doing a heck of a job. The weekend with 251 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:09,440 Speaker 1: Michael brown Welcome back to the weekend with Michael Brown. 252 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 1: Glad to have you with me. I appreciate you tuning 253 00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 1: in text line as usual always open three three one 254 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:17,679 Speaker 1: zero three three three one zero three. Keyword Micha or Michael. 255 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:21,200 Speaker 1: Follow me on social media x, Facebook, Instagram, They're all 256 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:25,919 Speaker 1: at Michael D. Brown, at Michael D. Brown. So the 257 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 1: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who, by the way, this 258 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:33,920 Speaker 1: just established a baseline. He's an accolade of Claus Schwab. 259 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:37,840 Speaker 1: In the World Economic Forum, he announced a deal with 260 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:41,880 Speaker 1: the Chinese Communist government at exactly a time when President 261 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 1: Trump was obviously distracted with a whole bunch of other 262 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:50,040 Speaker 1: pressing matters Venezuela, the Iranians, Greenland, and of course preparing 263 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:54,080 Speaker 1: for his trip to Davos. But I kind of waited 264 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 1: all week long for Trump's response to a provocation that 265 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:02,880 Speaker 1: the Canadian Prime Minister did, and sure enough it came 266 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:10,200 Speaker 1: in a morning post on truth social The Canadian Prime 267 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:15,960 Speaker 1: Minister has set our neighbors to the north on a 268 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:20,720 Speaker 1: path straight into China's geopolitical orbit by doing so with 269 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:24,000 Speaker 1: a new trade deal that's going to inevitably create a 270 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:28,760 Speaker 1: Chinese puppet national on our northern border. So Trump on 271 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:33,000 Speaker 1: truth Social in response to a story at Just the 272 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:36,960 Speaker 1: News headlined deal with the Devil, how Canada's new partnership 273 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:42,280 Speaker 1: with China could backfire, Trump wrote this, If Governor Corney 274 00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 1: thinks he is going to make Canada a quote drop 275 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 1: of port close quote for China to say goods and 276 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 1: products into the United States, he is sorely mistaken. China 277 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:56,240 Speaker 1: will eat Canada alive, completely devour it, including the destruction 278 00:19:56,359 --> 00:20:00,120 Speaker 1: of their business as social fabric in general way of life. 279 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:02,840 Speaker 1: It makes a deal with China, it will immediately be 280 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 1: hit with a one hundred percent tariff against all Canadian 281 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:09,600 Speaker 1: goods and products coming into the United States of America. 282 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:12,400 Speaker 1: And of course, thank you for your attention to this matter. 283 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 1: President DJT. Trump is absolutely right on this one, absolutely right. 284 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:25,960 Speaker 1: And what really bothers me the most is that Mark Carney, 285 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:29,760 Speaker 1: the Prime Minister, the current Prime Minister, is a globalist. 286 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:39,800 Speaker 1: He is a He's an absolute perfect example of everything 287 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 1: bad and wrong that the World Economic Forum stands for 288 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:47,159 Speaker 1: because he is part and partial a part of the 289 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:51,119 Speaker 1: World Economic Forum. He's a true globalist. He's the former 290 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:54,639 Speaker 1: head of the Bank of England. He's a central banker. 291 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:58,560 Speaker 1: He is he is a well I keep repeating myself, 292 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:03,239 Speaker 1: and he's a globalist. Now I understand this is not 293 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:07,119 Speaker 1: just a casual note by Trump to a friend. This 294 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:10,919 Speaker 1: is the President of the United States of America, and 295 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:14,720 Speaker 1: he is reminding the Prime Minister of Canada that the 296 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:18,919 Speaker 1: Monroe Doctrine or the Donroe Doctrine, if you want to 297 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:23,080 Speaker 1: be cute about it, doesn't just apply to communist friendly 298 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:28,360 Speaker 1: tenpot dictators in Central and South America. This has always 299 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:32,320 Speaker 1: been true. Quite the contrary, the Monroe Doctrine applies to 300 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:36,880 Speaker 1: the entirety of the Western hemisphere. And though it loves 301 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:40,520 Speaker 1: Canada loves to pretend that they're part of Europe, Canada 302 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:45,679 Speaker 1: sits squarely in the western part of this world. So 303 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:49,639 Speaker 1: I think we got to remember what some recent events 304 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 1: have really been about. Do you think Venezuela is about oil? 305 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 1: Do you think Venezuela was about the drug cartels? You 306 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 1: think Venezuela was about the corruption of Nicholas Muro. Yes, 307 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 1: it was about all of those things. But Venezuela was 308 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 1: really about China, the Panama Canal. Do you think it's 309 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:12,600 Speaker 1: about Trump being pissed off that we gave it away, 310 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 1: gave it back to the Panamanians. Yeah, yes, Do you 311 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 1: really think it is about rates of US ships or 312 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:24,600 Speaker 1: US flagships going through the canal? Yes? What was the 313 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:31,600 Speaker 1: Panama Canal controversy about? And still about communist China? Cuba? 314 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:36,800 Speaker 1: I really think we will see regime change in Cuba 315 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:41,760 Speaker 1: six months, maybe less, I don't know. Do you think 316 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 1: Cuba was really about cutting off Venezuela and Russian oil? 317 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:50,600 Speaker 1: New to some degree that's true. Do you think regime 318 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:54,720 Speaker 1: change is about really getting rid of the Cuban communists? Now? 319 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:57,240 Speaker 1: To some degree probably? Do you really think it's about 320 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:01,480 Speaker 1: expanding business interests in Cuba? American business? What's interest in Cuba? Yes, 321 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 1: to some degree it is. But what's Cuba truly about? 322 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:13,840 Speaker 1: Chank Communist China? Columbia, same thing, it's about communist China. Greenland? 323 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:16,399 Speaker 1: What's Greenland really about? Do you think it's about the 324 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:18,719 Speaker 1: rare earth minerals? Do you think it's about all the 325 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:22,280 Speaker 1: natural resources? Do you think it is about our basis 326 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:27,359 Speaker 1: and our Golden dome? Space force is about all of 327 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:31,080 Speaker 1: those things? But what all those things about Russia and 328 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:35,760 Speaker 1: communist China, everything everywhere, all at once? It is all 329 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 1: about China. It is about getting the communist pestilence out 330 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:45,879 Speaker 1: of the Western hemisphere, and I'm one thousand percent for that. Now, 331 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:50,640 Speaker 1: the Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, apparently he thought 332 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:52,919 Speaker 1: he was immune to this effort by the United States. 333 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:55,720 Speaker 1: Well guess what, mister Prime Minister, you are not, and 334 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 1: you're about to find out the hard way. Thus has 335 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:04,240 Speaker 1: an open salvo. President Trump promises a huge new elevated 336 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:07,560 Speaker 1: tarifund Canadian imports. And trust me, that's probably only the 337 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:12,439 Speaker 1: opening salvo unless Carney relents. Now. I want you to 338 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:18,400 Speaker 1: note also that in that truth social post Trump Trump's 339 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:22,200 Speaker 1: a great troll. He takes the referring to Carney as 340 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 1: governor the same minimizing epithet he applied to marginalized Carney's 341 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:34,399 Speaker 1: predecessor Justin Trudeau, absolutely too great effect. And it's not 342 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:37,760 Speaker 1: an accident. This is Trump putting Carney in his place 343 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:39,879 Speaker 1: as the leader of a fairly minor nation on the 344 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:43,280 Speaker 1: global stage. It's a reminder to Carney who is really 345 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:46,920 Speaker 1: in charge here, and it's Donald Trump, not him. Note 346 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 1: also that Trump reposts a link to a very good 347 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:53,400 Speaker 1: story over at just the News with a headline deal 348 00:24:53,560 --> 00:25:00,439 Speaker 1: with the Devil. How Canada's new partnership with China could backfire. Indeed, 349 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:08,119 Speaker 1: it could Beijing betrays his calls to preserve the international 350 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:10,439 Speaker 1: order that he says is under threat from Donald Trump. 351 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:15,800 Speaker 1: In Canada's economic independence, our dependents on the United States 352 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:20,480 Speaker 1: may cause Carney's plan to backfire. When he was in 353 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:26,680 Speaker 1: DeVos this past week, Carnee warned the attendees that the 354 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 1: so called rules based order established by the United States 355 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:32,320 Speaker 1: and its allies in the wake of the Second World War. 356 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,439 Speaker 1: He pointed out that that's fraying amid the reemergence of 357 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:40,000 Speaker 1: a great power conflict, and we are in the midst historically, 358 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:42,760 Speaker 1: we are in the midst of a humong this power 359 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:47,359 Speaker 1: power conflict right now. And that's between no, not the 360 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:51,199 Speaker 1: United States and Russia. That's minor compared to this one. 361 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:55,200 Speaker 1: And that's between the United States and China. Carney said, 362 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:58,440 Speaker 1: every day we're reminded that we live in an era 363 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 1: of great power rivalry, that the rules based order is fading, 364 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:04,399 Speaker 1: that the strong can do what they can and the 365 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:07,800 Speaker 1: week must suffer what they must. But he called them, 366 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:12,600 Speaker 1: Canada and our European allies to ban together to preserve 367 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:15,000 Speaker 1: that order in the face of challenges from the United States, 368 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,120 Speaker 1: and he actually warn that quote, the Middle Powers must 369 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 1: act together because if we're not at the table, were 370 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:24,080 Speaker 1: on the menu. Well, the dumb ass dingos running off 371 00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:26,560 Speaker 1: to the very guy that would eat him alive, Shi 372 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 1: jing Ping, the head of the Chinese Communist Party and 373 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 1: the head of China. Carnie really is stupid. He made 374 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:41,960 Speaker 1: no secret of his purpose. The new Deal, which represented 375 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:47,119 Speaker 1: Canada recalibrating their relationship with China, actually sets up the 376 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:49,680 Speaker 1: country for the new world order. But that's a new 377 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:52,240 Speaker 1: world order in which the United States ally would try 378 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:56,119 Speaker 1: to distance itself from US, which is really stupid on 379 00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:59,920 Speaker 1: his part. And then when Karne left Beijing, the new 380 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 1: so called Strategic Partnership committed China and Canada that they 381 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,479 Speaker 1: were going to increase their trade and investments, as well 382 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:10,240 Speaker 1: as closer collaboration on the very global governance that Mark 383 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:14,640 Speaker 1: Carney says that Trump has abandoned. So the two countries 384 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:19,520 Speaker 1: also promised close cooperation on law enforcement. Well, that's a joke, 385 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:26,040 Speaker 1: focusing on drug traffic and cybercrime. This is the very 386 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:30,320 Speaker 1: definition Mark Carney is. He's a living, breathing definition of 387 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:34,600 Speaker 1: a useful idiot. He thinks that focusing on drug traffic 388 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:39,520 Speaker 1: and cybercrime or increasing cultural exchanges, this somehow he's going 389 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,000 Speaker 1: to keep the upper hand or a balanced hand with China. 390 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 1: He won't. Chi Jing Ping is as ruthless, as bad 391 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 1: as Mousey Tongue, as bad as Carl Marx, as bad 392 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 1: as Vladimir Putin, as bad as Nicholas Maduro, as the 393 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:04,960 Speaker 1: Astro Boys, as all of them, And he was to 394 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:11,440 Speaker 1: go play with him. He's crazy now. The Heritage Foundation 395 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,960 Speaker 1: Brent Sadler says that Prime Minister Carney's trip to Beijing 396 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:19,199 Speaker 1: absolutely makes no sense. It might feel good at the 397 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:20,840 Speaker 1: moment to try to stick his finger in what he 398 00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:24,320 Speaker 1: thinks is President Trump's eye. The reality is he went 399 00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:28,200 Speaker 1: to a country of an authoritarian communist regime that does 400 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:32,000 Speaker 1: not acknowledge or respect religious freedoms, personal rights to freedom 401 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,679 Speaker 1: of speech. They have the social credit system that you 402 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,239 Speaker 1: get judge on every day, and access to services, let 403 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:40,560 Speaker 1: alone medical services, and everything else. And then said, it's 404 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:44,320 Speaker 1: everything that's anathetical to what the Canadian people seem to 405 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:50,320 Speaker 1: think and embrace in a liberal society. He makes no sense. Oh, 406 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,680 Speaker 1: it makes total sense to me. I get what the 407 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,480 Speaker 1: Heritage Foundation is saying. Brent Sadler, by the way, is 408 00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:00,720 Speaker 1: the one that wrote that. What I think mister Sadler 409 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:06,800 Speaker 1: would more be stronger to point out is what I 410 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:13,480 Speaker 1: just said. Mark Carney as Prime Minister of Canada, insofar 411 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:17,920 Speaker 1: as Beijing and g Jene Ping are concerned, is a 412 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:22,360 Speaker 1: useful idiot, and g Jing Ping will walk all over 413 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:29,520 Speaker 1: him because he knows that he's a weak, pathetic character. Indeed, 414 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:34,440 Speaker 1: China's human rights and the horrible record they have is 415 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:38,400 Speaker 1: ignored by the globalist Mark Carney. I'll explain why that's 416 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:48,240 Speaker 1: even worse. Next. Hey, welcome back to the Beegning with 417 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,040 Speaker 1: Michael Brown lead have you if me, I appreciate you 418 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,480 Speaker 1: tuning in. We're talking about this foolishness of the Prime 419 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:56,280 Speaker 1: Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, who is I think just 420 00:29:56,360 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 1: because he's so infested with Trump arrangement syndrome, that he 421 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,720 Speaker 1: somehow believes that everything that Trump's trying to do to 422 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:09,160 Speaker 1: protect the Western Hemisphere, which includes his nation from Chinese 423 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:14,360 Speaker 1: communist influence, that you combine the Trump de arrangement syndrome 424 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:19,280 Speaker 1: with his globalist mentality, he's turning to China somehow think 425 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:23,120 Speaker 1: he's going to stick his thumb in Trump's eye. It's 426 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,320 Speaker 1: not going to happen. And in fact, what will happen 427 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:31,200 Speaker 1: is at some point Beijing will take advantage of Canada, 428 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:34,200 Speaker 1: just like they have every other country in South America 429 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:39,280 Speaker 1: or any other place where they've put all their money. 430 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:43,959 Speaker 1: The United Nations, a key governess body of the so 431 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,080 Speaker 1: called rules based order that Karni supports, found back in 432 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:49,880 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two that China was indeed responsible for committing 433 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:53,560 Speaker 1: serious human rights violations, particularly against the weaker minority group 434 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:57,080 Speaker 1: in the Eastern a Regia region of xin Xiong. Now, 435 00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,800 Speaker 1: the report from the High Commissioner for Human Rights can 436 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:05,200 Speaker 1: cclud that the Muslim Wigers citizens of China face imprisonment, harassment, torture, 437 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:11,400 Speaker 1: cultural erasure. Now Beijing justifies that repression as being anti terrorists, 438 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:15,520 Speaker 1: and the report says that the Chinese government refers to 439 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:22,040 Speaker 1: the Wagers to the vocational education and training centers, oh, 440 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:26,880 Speaker 1: to those places, the camps. There's no legal basis to 441 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:31,400 Speaker 1: do that. And those detainees, they've been testified to torture 442 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:35,080 Speaker 1: in those facilities, forced medical procedures, beatings. I mean, it's 443 00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:38,800 Speaker 1: horrible what they do to the Wagers, even that our 444 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:42,520 Speaker 1: own State Department determined back in January of twenty one 445 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,600 Speaker 1: that the Chinese government had committed both crimes against humanity 446 00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:50,080 Speaker 1: and genocide against the Wagers in the State Department, like 447 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:53,120 Speaker 1: in the treatment of the Wigers to the genocide perpetrated 448 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:58,160 Speaker 1: by Hitler's not the regime in Germany. It's not often 449 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:02,120 Speaker 1: good to compare things to Hitler. This is a valid comparison. 450 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:09,200 Speaker 1: China doesn't respect the international law the seas. Twenty sixteen, 451 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:12,080 Speaker 1: an international court ruled in favor of the Philippines because 452 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:14,800 Speaker 1: they'd accused China three years earlier of encroaching on their 453 00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:18,320 Speaker 1: maritime rights in the South China Sea. Beijing is on 454 00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:23,360 Speaker 1: the march everywhere. They're looking for world dominion, and China 455 00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:26,560 Speaker 1: doesn't care. They don't care about the United Nations Convention 456 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:29,800 Speaker 1: on the Law of the Sea. They wouldn't recognize the judgment. 457 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:34,280 Speaker 1: So beyond the accusations of the political double talk, Carnie's 458 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,240 Speaker 1: going to face an indisputable fact of economics, and that 459 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:41,440 Speaker 1: is the United States is Canada's largest trading partner by far. 460 00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:47,360 Speaker 1: When you look at Canadian government stats, more than seventy 461 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:53,800 Speaker 1: five percent of all Canadian exports are destined for this country, 462 00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:58,760 Speaker 1: just over ten percent go to the Indo Pacific. Nearly 463 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:03,280 Speaker 1: half of Canada's imported goods come from the United States, 464 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:10,240 Speaker 1: and barely a quarter come from the Indo Pacific. Carnie 465 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:13,560 Speaker 1: is now on the clock, and I think he's gonna 466 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:16,920 Speaker 1: find that he made a huge mistake in doing this. 467 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:21,520 Speaker 1: But it all is a great example of how, at 468 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:27,360 Speaker 1: least in Trump world, people are willing to shoot themselves 469 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:31,320 Speaker 1: in the foot. They're willing to betray their own nations 470 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:36,920 Speaker 1: because they despise Donald Trump so badly. That's not good 471 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:42,040 Speaker 1: for a rules based world order where the United States 472 00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:48,000 Speaker 1: is supreme. Talking to a friend at dinner a couple 473 00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:52,800 Speaker 1: of nights ago, he is he's very interested in politics, 474 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:56,480 Speaker 1: He's very interested in what's going on around the world. 475 00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,400 Speaker 1: But I wouldn't call him. I mean, he's, don't get 476 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:05,480 Speaker 1: me wrong, smartest attack, but his focuses on other things 477 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:09,040 Speaker 1: education and how we can improve education in this country 478 00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,640 Speaker 1: and how government schools are so poorly run, and that's 479 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,080 Speaker 1: really his main area of interest. But he made a 480 00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:18,200 Speaker 1: comment to me that I thought was so insightful, and 481 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:21,560 Speaker 1: that was, you know, as much as he dislikes the 482 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:26,799 Speaker 1: way Trump behaves, acts, or talks. He gets the chess game, 483 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:31,840 Speaker 1: and he gets that as much as he worries about 484 00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:35,760 Speaker 1: his children and his grandchildren, he sees that what Trump 485 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,920 Speaker 1: is doing, sure it's risky, but what he's really trying 486 00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:43,239 Speaker 1: to do is he's trying to change and protect the 487 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:47,200 Speaker 1: United States from all of these enemies abroad that really 488 00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:49,480 Speaker 1: want to see us fail, that don't want us to 489 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:53,080 Speaker 1: see the superpower of the world. And so far Trump's 490 00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:56,919 Speaker 1: doing it really without putting troops on the ground. Now, 491 00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:59,399 Speaker 1: he and I that then kind of veered off into 492 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:03,040 Speaker 1: a conversation about what's going to happen in Iran, because 493 00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:05,879 Speaker 1: in Iran, with the Internets back up, and so we're 494 00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:08,640 Speaker 1: going to start seeing how much damage has been done 495 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:12,920 Speaker 1: by the Molas and the Ayahtola. But when an entire 496 00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:19,160 Speaker 1: bizarre when you take Tehran, and it's not students, or 497 00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:25,279 Speaker 1: it's not political activists, or it's not religious groups, but 498 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:31,200 Speaker 1: when commercial activity in all of the bazaars in Tehran 499 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:36,960 Speaker 1: come to a complete halt. The drapes are closed, the 500 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,800 Speaker 1: doors are locked up, there's no traffic, there's no commerce 501 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:46,440 Speaker 1: going on whatsoever. That is an economy that is at collapse, 502 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:51,680 Speaker 1: and Trump knows that, and Trump knows while I worry 503 00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:53,960 Speaker 1: about I personally worry about the timing. So I don't 504 00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:57,239 Speaker 1: know how long they can hold on. But just as 505 00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:01,480 Speaker 1: he is rearranging things in the Southern Hemisphere, in the 506 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,600 Speaker 1: Western Hemisphere, the southern part, and while he's trying to 507 00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:08,120 Speaker 1: rearrange things in Europe, and while he is certainly rearranging 508 00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:12,040 Speaker 1: things in the Middle East, the Uranians will be the 509 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:17,880 Speaker 1: next challenge, and that might involve military activity. We'll have 510 00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:20,879 Speaker 1: to wait and see. But Mark Carney, what you ought 511 00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:24,480 Speaker 1: to do is wake up and realize the world's moving 512 00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:28,040 Speaker 1: and it's to your advantage to be on our side, 513 00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:32,040 Speaker 1: not China's. Again, thanks to everybody for tuning into the 514 00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:35,120 Speaker 1: Weekend with Michael Brown. I so much appreciate it. I'll 515 00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:38,040 Speaker 1: see you next weekend.