1 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: On this episode of Newtsworld, I'm joined by members of 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 1: my Inner Circle Club for a fascinating conversation about a 3 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 1: wide range of issues and topics on their minds. We 4 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:17,960 Speaker 1: hold these regular video conference calls so that we can 5 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 1: have an honest discussion about what is happening in America today. 6 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:25,920 Speaker 1: I find it extraordinarily helpful to me personally in helping 7 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 1: think through the issues that are facing us. So I 8 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 1: hope you'll find this episode of Newts World informative, and 9 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: if you'd like to become a member of my Inner 10 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 1: Circle Club, please go to Newtsinner Circle dot com and 11 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:46,160 Speaker 1: sign up for a one or two year membership. Today 12 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 1: a couple things. The election in Argentina of a libertarian 13 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 1: candidate who is clearly totally outside the mainstream of Argentinian 14 00:00:56,880 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 1: politics is one more example of a pattern happening around 15 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 1: the world. We just saw it of this very same week, 16 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 1: we saw the most conservative leader in Holland end up 17 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 1: with thirty seven percent of the vote, which is a 18 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 1: multi party system. The next person down was about twenty 19 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 1: four percent, so you can imagine how big a change 20 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: that is. People in Holland are shocked. Fifteen years ago, 21 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 1: this Guy was considered it a not and was considered 22 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:29,320 Speaker 1: totally unacceptable. But the immigration problem in Holland has gotten 23 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:32,760 Speaker 1: so bad that really has had an impact. We've now 24 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 1: seen Conservatives win in South Korea, Greece, Italy, Slovakia, Hungary, 25 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 1: Finland and Holland. We've seen the rise of a very 26 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: aggressive populist conservative movement in Germany, and we've seen continued 27 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:52,639 Speaker 1: strength growing for Le penn and the conservative movement in France. 28 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:55,559 Speaker 1: So it's really interesting. Meanwhile, of course great Britain, it's 29 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 1: probably the biggest mess I can remember. I don't remember 30 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 1: as somebody who stayed British history. I'd have to really 31 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 1: think a well to remember the last time that the 32 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 1: Conservative Party was as totally screwed up as it is 33 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 1: right now. Probably Labor is going to win an election there. 34 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:13,080 Speaker 1: One of the interesting things I've been looking into is 35 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 1: that the British Socialist National Health Service has seven million, 36 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:23,800 Speaker 1: two hundred thousand people on waiting lists. They have thousands 37 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 1: who have been waiting over a year. You can imagine 38 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 1: how Americans would behave if we had, proportionate to our population, 39 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 1: twenty one or twenty two million people on waiting lists 40 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:37,080 Speaker 1: to get healthcare. But that's how bad the system is. 41 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:40,640 Speaker 1: It's not getting better. But there's something about British culture 42 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:43,080 Speaker 1: that they just can't come to grips with it. So 43 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: that's a fascinating side note. Meanwhile, I'm told by good 44 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:51,560 Speaker 1: friends in Canada that Trudeau is collapsing, is becoming a joke, 45 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,520 Speaker 1: and that it's very likely the Conservatives will win in Canada. 46 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 1: All of these, I think are indicators that should give 47 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,080 Speaker 1: us some hope. The twenty twenty four could be a 48 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 1: very good year. The Capital remains a mess. I think 49 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:08,640 Speaker 1: it's to me interesting to see how the new Speaker, 50 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:12,800 Speaker 1: Mike Johnson is doing. He's been very methodical. His problem 51 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:15,359 Speaker 1: is that he's got to find the last six or 52 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: eight votes and they may not be there. The margins 53 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 1: are so narrow. If Kevin McCarthy ends up resigning, and 54 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 1: I'm told one other member may resign in January, they 55 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 1: really could be down to a margin of one or 56 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:30,080 Speaker 1: the most two votes. Well, when you're that kind of 57 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 1: a margin, you've got enough people who are mavericks, who 58 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 1: are going to go off on their own just because 59 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 1: they enjoy the attention and they like being treated badly 60 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 1: by everybody else that somehow makes them feel good. I 61 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 1: think Johnson faces a huge challenge. On the other hand, 62 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 1: you can see things are shifting in very fundamental ways. 63 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 1: I read an article this morning which I'll be writing about, 64 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 1: that a ninety four year old World War Two veteran 65 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 1: was being forced out of his nursing home so that 66 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 1: they could put Biden's legal immigrants in there. You'll be 67 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 1: hearing me say a lot in their future about Biden's 68 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 1: or legal immigrants. I think if everybody would always put 69 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 1: the word Biden in front of the legal immigrants, we 70 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 1: begin to communicate to people that this is a policy problem. 71 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 1: It's not a random accident, but it's in fact a 72 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 1: very deep policy problem. One last thing I guess before 73 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:21,039 Speaker 1: we toss it open, and I was very sad to 74 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: hear about Henry Kissinger passing away. Henry and I have 75 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: been very good friends since the nineteen eighties. He's been 76 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 1: a very good friend to Callista, chatted with her about 77 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:33,320 Speaker 1: her going to the Vatican and was very encouraging to 78 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 1: her and very positive. Claire and I actually had lunch 79 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:40,600 Speaker 1: with him back in twenty seventeen, literally about three weeks 80 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 1: after Clister went to the Vatican as the ambassador. I 81 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 1: happened to be back in the States. We were doing 82 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: some business and New York, and Henry agreed to have 83 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 1: a nice lunch with us, and he was amazing. And 84 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 1: maybe when she comes back on Claire will take just 85 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 1: a minute and tell you, but what her view was 86 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:58,159 Speaker 1: a much younger woman compared to some old guy like me. 87 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 1: I would be like, like I used to kid Henry 88 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 1: that he's twenty years older than me. I would call 89 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:06,159 Speaker 1: him and say, you know, I need your advice on aging, 90 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 1: and he would say, well, you're not old enough yet, 91 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 1: you know, call me in a decade. He was a 92 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 1: brilliant intellectual and wrote very important books. He was I 93 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: think the best American diplomat of the twentieth century. Changed history, 94 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:25,480 Speaker 1: opening up China, using them to counterbalance the Russians, getting 95 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: to arms limitation agreement with the Russians, ending the war 96 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:31,600 Speaker 1: in Vietnam, for which you got the Nobel Peace Prize, 97 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: a whole series of things where Cassindra was just a 98 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:39,280 Speaker 1: remarkable human being. We will miss him. He and his 99 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:42,359 Speaker 1: family are in our prayers, and Clifton and I really 100 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 1: were very fond of him. He was a great national treasure. 101 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 1: We have a segment that we're working on a new 102 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 1: pilot project called Journey to America, which is a series 103 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 1: right now in the pilot stage of three thirty minute videos, 104 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:58,719 Speaker 1: the look at the lives of people who came to 105 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 1: America legally and made us a better country. Henry had agreed, 106 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:05,279 Speaker 1: and back in January we interviewed him as a very 107 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 1: touching video. Why don't you take ninety seconds, Claire and 108 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:11,719 Speaker 1: tell us what your reaction was to being able to 109 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:13,280 Speaker 1: go and have lunch with Henry Kissinger. 110 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:16,360 Speaker 2: Thank you newt Yes Today, when I heard of the 111 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:20,119 Speaker 2: very tragic news of doctor Kissinger's passing, I reflected on 112 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 2: the lunch that we had a couple years ago. It 113 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 2: was when we first started really working on the China 114 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 2: Book and having the opportunity to meet with doctor Kissinger, 115 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:33,600 Speaker 2: who really paved the way towards the United States understanding 116 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 2: more about the large country with a five thousand year 117 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:40,159 Speaker 2: long civilization. But I think, what is you know? Growing 118 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:43,720 Speaker 2: up reading about doctor Kissinger and just reading his writings. 119 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 2: You know what struck me the most about him is 120 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 2: there was never a question that was too big, that 121 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 2: was too hard, or too complicated to try to tackle, 122 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 2: and especially in the last couple of things that he's 123 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:56,920 Speaker 2: done on AI, he's been a huge spokesperson for that, 124 00:06:56,960 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 2: written a great book on it, and I think you know, 125 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 2: his legacy will endure and will continue to consult doctor 126 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:05,480 Speaker 2: Kissinger's work and writings as we move forward, So he'll 127 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 2: be greatly missed. 128 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:09,279 Speaker 1: Was there anything, by the way, about him that surprised you. 129 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 2: That surprised me? His story of coming over to the 130 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 2: United States, the journey to America. Interview about his journey 131 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:20,120 Speaker 2: coming over here and his appreciation for our country and 132 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:22,400 Speaker 2: the values that it stood for, and how he dedicated 133 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 2: his life to defending those and promoting those all throughout 134 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 2: his career and around the world. I think was really remarkable. 135 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 2: So that interview you and Callista did with him really 136 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 2: was insightful. 137 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:34,560 Speaker 1: Good all right, So you want to ask it open 138 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 1: for questions. 139 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 2: On to questions. The first one is a write in 140 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 2: newt and this comes from Jeff in Armarillo, Texas. Mister speaker, 141 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 2: what do you think are the top issues on vote 142 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 2: minds right now as we head into the twenty twenty 143 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:04,240 Speaker 2: four election cycle. 144 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 1: Well, I think the number one issue will be inflation, 145 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 1: the economy, the cost of living, and I think that 146 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:16,920 Speaker 1: that continues to dominate, although I was very struck in 147 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 1: Argentina they have one hundred and twenty four percent inflation rate. 148 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 1: We currently are at about three point two percent. We 149 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 1: peaked last year at about seven point six percent, and 150 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 1: we thought that was horrifying. Can you imagine trying to 151 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:33,720 Speaker 1: live in a country that had one hundred and twenty 152 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:38,120 Speaker 1: four percent annual inflation rate. It was astonishing. So Number 153 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:40,680 Speaker 1: one will be the economy, and in particular I think 154 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 1: will be the question of the price of goods, the 155 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 1: availability of goods. I think number two is going to 156 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 1: be a combination of Biden's illegal immigration, drugs that are 157 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:54,839 Speaker 1: out of control, and crime. The three woven together because 158 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:57,840 Speaker 1: they all relate to each other. Two reports recently, New 159 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 1: York City last year had four billion dollars shoplifted from 160 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 1: its stores, all of which of course gets passed on 161 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:08,679 Speaker 1: to the consumer. The other example is Washington, d C. 162 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 1: Where on Thanksgiving Day we had our nine hundredth carjacking, 163 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 1: and in the last month we had carjackers try to 164 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:21,960 Speaker 1: carjack a Secret Service suburban and got shot at by 165 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:25,280 Speaker 1: the Secret Service and yesterday. I've not seen this story, 166 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 1: but tried to carjack an FBI car. So I think 167 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:31,640 Speaker 1: it's fair to say that the whole issue of controlling 168 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 1: the border, immigration and crime, and then the fact that 169 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:37,679 Speaker 1: we're losing over one hundred thousand Americans a year to 170 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 1: drugs will be the number two issue, and I have 171 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:44,720 Speaker 1: a hunch that education may become the number three issue. 172 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:47,400 Speaker 1: If you want to compete with China and you want 173 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 1: to be the leading country in the world, you can't have, 174 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:54,840 Speaker 1: for example, the Baltimore City schools with five high schools 175 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 1: in which not a single student, not one can do math, 176 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:01,680 Speaker 1: not a single student out of five high schools. That's 177 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:04,280 Speaker 1: impossible to sustain as a country. So I think that 178 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:06,560 Speaker 1: may become a much hotter issue in next year. That's 179 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 1: just my personal overview. 180 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 2: Thank you, nit. The next question comes from how. 181 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 3: It aid me, mister speaker. It's very clear that President 182 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 3: Trump is the front runner for the GOP nomination, and 183 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 3: if he is the nominee, I will vote for him, 184 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:27,320 Speaker 3: no question. But he can only serve four years. He 185 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 3: brings a lot of baggage with him in terms of 186 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 3: lawsuits and so forth, and he can certainly turn out 187 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 3: the Democratic vote. I am really concerned about his ability 188 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:43,480 Speaker 3: to beat Joe Biden, even though the polls show he can. 189 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 3: I would be curious about your thoughts, Police. 190 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 1: Well Fresh all that assumes Biden will be the nominee, 191 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 1: which he probably will be. The difference in their age 192 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 1: is much greater than the difference. 193 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 4: In their age. 194 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 1: Christ and I both have seen Trump recently. He's dynamic, 195 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:02,200 Speaker 1: He's totally engaged. She's active. When you see Biden, you're 196 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:05,720 Speaker 1: looking at somebody who is rapidly becoming old, and you 197 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:07,960 Speaker 1: see that with his cognitive problems, and you see it 198 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:10,840 Speaker 1: with other things. So I think the odds are very 199 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:13,880 Speaker 1: very high that Biden will be the Democratic nomy, but 200 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 1: not one hundred percent. Trump is something very unusual in 201 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 1: American history. He's not really a candidate. He is the 202 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:26,880 Speaker 1: leader and champion of a national movement, and that's a 203 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:32,840 Speaker 1: very different phenomenon. And I would not underestimate the potential 204 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:36,360 Speaker 1: he has. Everywhere I go, when you get outside the 205 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 1: biggest cities, the amount of support that's there for Trump, 206 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 1: not for the Republicans, but for Trump is astonishing. I 207 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 1: would not underestimate how real that is and how deep 208 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:47,960 Speaker 1: that is. 209 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:52,439 Speaker 2: Thank you, Knut. The next question comes from Gordon. Gordon says, 210 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:56,439 Speaker 2: the most striking thing about the Congressional hearings on government 211 00:11:56,559 --> 00:12:00,320 Speaker 2: censorship was that Democrats are in the position of defending it. 212 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:02,199 Speaker 2: What are your thoughts, Well, I. 213 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:06,080 Speaker 1: Think the left everywhere in the modern world believes that 214 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:09,040 Speaker 1: a thing just shut you up, that they can win. 215 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:12,319 Speaker 1: And you see this. There's just a lawsuit in Finland 216 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:15,440 Speaker 1: about a woman who had read from the Bible, and 217 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:18,120 Speaker 1: if you read parts of particularly the Old Testament, they're 218 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:21,600 Speaker 1: very tough. For example, if you're a gay activist, and 219 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 1: so there was a law that said you couldn't say 220 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:26,360 Speaker 1: certain things. Well, she was saying them, but she was 221 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 1: saying them by reading the Bible. There was a pastor 222 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 1: a couple of years ago who was threatened with imprisonment 223 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 1: in Sweden for the same reason. So there's a real 224 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:37,400 Speaker 1: tradition on the left of trying to coerce you, to 225 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 1: shut you up, to lock you from having any kind 226 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 1: of dissent, and it's a real problem. I was very 227 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 1: struck yesterday at the American Legislative Change Council meeting that 228 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:50,199 Speaker 1: there's a real effort underway, particularly in places like Arizona 229 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:53,680 Speaker 1: to take on the public universities and take on the 230 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 1: professors who are so committed to an anti American left 231 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:01,720 Speaker 1: wing value system. And frankly, I'm being to think that 232 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:04,800 Speaker 1: we ought to take away the tax deductibility of the 233 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:08,439 Speaker 1: big universities. When Harvard makes a billion dollars a year 234 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:11,080 Speaker 1: off of its investments, it really doesn't need to be 235 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:13,720 Speaker 1: treated as though it's a charity. And that makes it 236 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:17,080 Speaker 1: very difficult to influence Harvard because they have so much money, 237 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:19,920 Speaker 1: they don't care what their alumni say. You can't starve 238 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:21,800 Speaker 1: Harvard out. It's just too rich. 239 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:24,440 Speaker 2: The next question comes from Edward. 240 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 5: It would seem to me that there's a core element. Obviously, 241 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:32,600 Speaker 5: the majority would appear of so called Republican Party that 242 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 5: support Trump, but in of themselves are not sufficient to 243 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 5: carry the ball over that fifty percent line, assuming that 244 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:44,600 Speaker 5: the popular vote is something analogous to the college and 245 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 5: that he needs to get the dissident Republicans on board 246 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:52,280 Speaker 5: and then hope they can get enough swing voters. Yet, 247 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:56,280 Speaker 5: this patroot for Trump that exists in this constant resistance, 248 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 5: whether it's the McConnell's, the Romney's, whatever it is, they're 249 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:01,440 Speaker 5: willing to shoot themsels in the foot and lose an 250 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 5: election just to spite. Do you think there's any chance 251 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 5: at all that the publican party could say, like the Democrats, say, hey, look, 252 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:10,440 Speaker 5: if we're going to win this thing, we got to 253 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:13,840 Speaker 5: just bury this thing, reunite behind the mega agenda, because 254 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:16,840 Speaker 5: those are the key policies that people want. Let's just 255 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:19,040 Speaker 5: go for the goal and make sure we win this 256 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 5: thing and finally come together and put this to Spike, 257 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 5: whether we like him or not. Is there any chance 258 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 5: that that could happen. 259 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:28,640 Speaker 1: I think you'll see almost everybody fall in line. If 260 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 1: the choice is Biden versus Trump. There will be a hardcore, 261 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:36,360 Speaker 1: bitter group. But that's partially because Trump represents a genuine revolution. 262 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:40,440 Speaker 1: We are gaining votes among African Americans, We're gaining votes 263 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:44,720 Speaker 1: among Latinos, We're gaining votes among Asian Americans, are gaining 264 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:50,680 Speaker 1: votes among the blue collar white construction worker minor, you know, 265 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 1: people who work with their hands. In a sense, where 266 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 1: Trump is recreating Franklin D. Roosevelt's coalition, the Democrats are 267 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:05,840 Speaker 1: shrinking into college graduates, universities, news media, and bureaucrats and 268 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:09,240 Speaker 1: then lawyers. That's the core group of the Democratic Party, 269 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:12,080 Speaker 1: and to some e sense the labor union leadership, but 270 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 1: not necessarily the labor union members. So the net result 271 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 1: of all that is that, let's say you're a Republican 272 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 1: with a graduate degree, you may feel real tension to 273 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:26,720 Speaker 1: be with your friends who are anti Trump rather than 274 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:29,560 Speaker 1: with your values, which might be pro Trump. But I 275 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 1: think on balance Trump is attracting more new voters than 276 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:36,360 Speaker 1: he's losing among old Republicans. 277 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:39,760 Speaker 2: I'm going to read this question from Kurt who wrote 278 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 2: in I am wondering how can a country like Argentina 279 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 2: adopt the dollar? Has this happened before? 280 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 1: There have been occasions, It's usually done as a practical matter. 281 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:52,920 Speaker 1: That is the most common currency in the world, I 282 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:57,040 Speaker 1: am told is the American twenty dollars bill, and they're 283 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:00,800 Speaker 1: apparently just an enormous number of far more twenty dollars 284 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 1: bills outside the United States and inside. So in a 285 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 1: lot of countries, if you have like one hundred and 286 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 1: twenty four percent inflation, you actually give people a discount 287 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 1: if they'll pay in dollars, and so you get a 288 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:15,640 Speaker 1: de facto transition. And I think he's going to find 289 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 1: it easy to have a de facto conversion rate, and 290 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:22,720 Speaker 1: very very hard to actually make it the official currency. 291 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 1: And part of the reason is if you're sitting out 292 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:26,560 Speaker 1: there and you've worked all your life and all your 293 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 1: savings are in pesos, you have to worry about if 294 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 1: you shift to a dollar, does that devalue everything you have? 295 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:36,600 Speaker 1: And so it becomes very complicated to actually make it 296 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 1: an official transition. 297 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:40,200 Speaker 2: The next question comes from Matthew. 298 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:44,400 Speaker 6: Yes, mister speaker, do you consider Islam a long term 299 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 6: threat to the country. 300 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:51,040 Speaker 1: I believe that the radical Shario wing of Islam is 301 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:53,880 Speaker 1: a threat to everybody because I think it is a 302 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 1: religiously inspired dictatorial system quite prepared to kill you if 303 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 1: you don't agree with it. I find it, for example, ironic, 304 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:05,680 Speaker 1: that a substantial number of gay Americans are taking a 305 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:08,639 Speaker 1: position in favor of Hamas, when in fact, if they 306 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:11,160 Speaker 1: were in Gaza, they would be thrown off the roof 307 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 1: of the nearest tall building. You find the same thing 308 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 1: happening with women who are for women's rights, and then 309 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:19,280 Speaker 1: you go and you look at what actually happens to 310 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 1: women in places like Iran. There's a significant long term problem, 311 00:17:25,119 --> 00:17:26,639 Speaker 1: and I don't know how we're going to solve it. 312 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 1: Because having allowed as the French chef, for example, in 313 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:32,360 Speaker 1: the British have huge numbers of people in it. As 314 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:35,440 Speaker 1: the Biden illegal immigration is now here, you suddenly have 315 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:37,720 Speaker 1: a large number of people who not only have no 316 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 1: interest in being assimilated into your society, they are actively 317 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:45,879 Speaker 1: hostile to it. They don't believe in it. And so 318 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:48,679 Speaker 1: that creates an internal tension that we really have not 319 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:50,840 Speaker 1: had before. And I think it's going to be a 320 00:17:50,920 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 1: big long term problem. 321 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:08,320 Speaker 2: Now we're going to turn it over to Thomas for 322 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:09,080 Speaker 2: his question. 323 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:14,560 Speaker 7: There's about ten million illegal aliens, immigrants, whatever you want 324 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 7: to call them now in the United States or will 325 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:21,560 Speaker 7: be by Joe is no longer president. The end game 326 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 7: is what do we do with them? And you responded 327 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:33,639 Speaker 7: that you hope they become active, engaged employers, employees of 328 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:38,199 Speaker 7: the American dream, and I hope so too, But it 329 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:41,639 Speaker 7: looks like a whole bunch of them might not want 330 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:46,360 Speaker 7: that dream. What do we do with the X million 331 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 7: of them who don't want that dream, who don't want 332 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:52,720 Speaker 7: the American dream? You know, the pick of fence to house, 333 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:54,680 Speaker 7: And I'm saying you deport them. 334 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:57,919 Speaker 1: I've said publicly now for the last five or six weeks. 335 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:01,760 Speaker 1: Any student who's here on a student visa who is 336 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:05,320 Speaker 1: demonstrating in favor of Hamas should be deported the next day. 337 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:08,480 Speaker 1: I mean, we don't have some obligation to allow people 338 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:11,960 Speaker 1: who are for hatred and terrorism in the United States. Now, 339 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:13,879 Speaker 1: you have a different set of challenges if it's an 340 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:17,200 Speaker 1: American citizen. But in terms of dealing with people who 341 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:21,000 Speaker 1: come here, I would have very tough screens for people 342 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:23,720 Speaker 1: who get to stay here who come illegally, because they've 343 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:26,439 Speaker 1: already proven they're willing to break the law, and so 344 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:28,800 Speaker 1: I would have some pretty high hurdles for them to stay. 345 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:31,679 Speaker 1: And part of the key to that, which even Trump 346 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:33,919 Speaker 1: was not willing to take on, is to say to 347 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,000 Speaker 1: the employers of this country, you can only hire people 348 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:42,080 Speaker 1: who have legal government identification. You can't have some underground 349 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:44,760 Speaker 1: economy where you're hiring all sorts of folks in paying them, 350 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:48,399 Speaker 1: you know, cash and sustaining what is in essence and 351 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 1: the illegal economy. And I can tell you from my 352 00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:55,080 Speaker 1: own experience, places like the Chamber of Commerce are very 353 00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:59,399 Speaker 1: aggressively pro immigration because they want a less expensive workforce. 354 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:03,080 Speaker 2: Richard asks, what do you think will come of several 355 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 2: states trying to remove Trump from the ballot in the 356 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:06,679 Speaker 2: upcoming election. 357 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:10,960 Speaker 1: Nothing. The Democrats have lots of lawyers, and the lawyers 358 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 1: believe in waging what they call lawfare. We have to 359 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:16,560 Speaker 1: spend money defending it. We have to fight our way 360 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:21,960 Speaker 1: through it. But the idea that the fourteenth Amendment adopted 361 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:27,040 Speaker 1: to eliminate Confederate traders from running for federal office somehow 362 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:30,240 Speaker 1: applies to somebody who, by the way, has not been 363 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:35,840 Speaker 1: proven and has not even been charged with leading an insurrection. 364 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 1: Even the most radical Department of Justice lawyers have not 365 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:44,320 Speaker 1: charged Trump with being an insurrectionist. So the whole framework 366 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:47,320 Speaker 1: of the fourteenth Amendment has no bearing on Donald Trump 367 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:50,119 Speaker 1: being allowed to run. In Furthermore, think about it. You 368 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:52,640 Speaker 1: have a guy who's been president, He's gotten seventy three 369 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:56,400 Speaker 1: million votes, he's currently the front runner, he's currently leading 370 00:20:56,440 --> 00:21:00,399 Speaker 1: the incumbent president. You're going to say to eighty ninety 371 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:03,639 Speaker 1: or one hundred million Americans that some judge is going 372 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:05,439 Speaker 1: to block them from having the right to vote for 373 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:09,080 Speaker 1: their candidate. That's really a dangerous road to go down. 374 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:11,600 Speaker 2: The next question comes from Bill. 375 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:16,040 Speaker 4: I get frustrated with these requests for funds from Republican 376 00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:19,440 Speaker 4: leaders who haven't really earned them. As soon as Mike 377 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 4: Johnson got the speakership, I got emails and text messages 378 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:27,960 Speaker 4: asking for money helping him. The same for comer I'll 379 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 4: give them money when they accomplish something. I think they 380 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 4: need to earn it, just like we're do in business. 381 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:36,920 Speaker 1: Those are two very different problems. In the case of Johnson, 382 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:40,720 Speaker 1: he's taking over from one of the best fundraisers we've 383 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:46,440 Speaker 1: ever had. Kevin McCarthy raised four hundred and eighty million dollars. 384 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:50,080 Speaker 1: So Harri's comes Johnson, who in the last cycle raised 385 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:53,920 Speaker 1: five hundred thousand, and he's now the speaker and he's 386 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:56,080 Speaker 1: got to raise the money to be able to be 387 00:21:56,160 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 1: effective in dealing with getting republic Is elected next year. 388 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:05,040 Speaker 1: So that's just practical necessity from a standing starter. He's 389 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:07,879 Speaker 1: done pretty well he's supposed to. I think tonight be 390 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,680 Speaker 1: raising four million dollars in New York. Raised a couple 391 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 1: million dollars at Congressman Buchanan's place in Sarasota a couple 392 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:17,919 Speaker 1: of days ago, So I mean, he's really working at this. 393 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:20,520 Speaker 1: He understands that's a significant part of the job. Of 394 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 1: being speakers, you got to raise the resources to get 395 00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:25,720 Speaker 1: your team re elected. In the case of Comer, I 396 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 1: actually think he's doing a heck of a job. There 397 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:29,320 Speaker 1: are a lot of guys I agree with you. They 398 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 1: just particularly if they're Senators who aren't up for another 399 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:33,919 Speaker 1: four years. You know, they just want to raise the money. 400 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 1: But Comer as chairman has been very systematically exposing stuff, 401 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,399 Speaker 1: some of which is amazing, and I think you're going 402 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:43,720 Speaker 1: to see them continue to do that. And I would 403 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:47,919 Speaker 1: give him considering how hostile the elite media is to 404 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:51,720 Speaker 1: anything which involves telling the truth about what I call 405 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:56,200 Speaker 1: the Delaware sopranos the Biden family, I think that Comber's 406 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:57,359 Speaker 1: doing a pretty decent job. 407 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 2: We have a question from Carol who asked me to 408 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,800 Speaker 2: read it to you. Carol says, with the release of 409 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 2: the January sixth tapes, what do you think of the 410 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:10,960 Speaker 2: chances of ridding the insurrectionist attitude and getting our political 411 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:12,200 Speaker 2: prisoners out of jail. 412 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:16,560 Speaker 1: What I've recommended to the House Republicans is that they 413 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 1: very methodically put together what really happened, and then what 414 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,680 Speaker 1: is it we were told happen? And how did the 415 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:28,720 Speaker 1: January sixth Committee operate, and how did the Justice Department operate. 416 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:30,280 Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at all these things, there 417 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:33,919 Speaker 1: are a lot of Americans who compared to what happens 418 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:36,840 Speaker 1: to somebody who, for example, becomes part of a flash 419 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:40,280 Speaker 1: gang stealing two hundred and fifty thousand dollars from a store, 420 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:43,399 Speaker 1: compared to how they're dealt with, we had people who 421 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:46,360 Speaker 1: have been really very aggressively attacked by their own government, 422 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:49,480 Speaker 1: and there's increasing evidence that they actually had the Capitol 423 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:52,600 Speaker 1: Police inviting them in. I mean, I don't understand all this. 424 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 1: It's a complicated story, but everyone I've talked to says 425 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:58,480 Speaker 1: that these videos are just devastating to the case that 426 00:23:58,520 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 1: the Left was trying to make. 427 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 2: The next question comes from Jim. 428 00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:07,760 Speaker 8: Thank you, mister speaker. This vivec Randma Swami. He's trying 429 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:12,720 Speaker 8: to model himself after Trump and seems like he has 430 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:15,800 Speaker 8: a lot of good points about trying to get people 431 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 8: back to work and a lot of the points that 432 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:22,280 Speaker 8: Trump may Do you think there's any chance Trump would 433 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:26,560 Speaker 8: name him as his vice president to pull in the 434 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:27,479 Speaker 8: younger people. 435 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,000 Speaker 1: I don't, but that's because I think Grandma Swami had 436 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 1: a very good opening act. I like him. We've done 437 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:35,800 Speaker 1: three podcasts with him. He's very smart, he's very successful. 438 00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:38,520 Speaker 1: I think he's had two companies that he created that 439 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,520 Speaker 1: are over a billion dollars each. But I thought that 440 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:43,240 Speaker 1: he's kind of like a guy who had a good 441 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:45,959 Speaker 1: opening act that he didn't have a second act. And 442 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:48,240 Speaker 1: so I think he needs to probably spend some time 443 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:51,040 Speaker 1: growing up, learning a little bit more, thinking some more. 444 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:54,399 Speaker 1: And I think he probably has lost round in the 445 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:57,400 Speaker 1: last month or two, and I think the pollie indicates that, 446 00:24:57,840 --> 00:24:59,920 Speaker 1: and that makes him frustrats he gets a little more shrow, 447 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:03,359 Speaker 1: which actually further hurts his case. So my guess is 448 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:05,360 Speaker 1: I'd be very, very surprised if Trump would to pick 449 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 1: him to be the vice presidential nominee. 450 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:12,720 Speaker 6: Bedything Newte, what are your thoughts regarding the left's motivation 451 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:17,720 Speaker 6: behind the fixation on force feeding transgenderism on our children? 452 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:20,920 Speaker 6: What is their endgame here with this fixation. 453 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:23,920 Speaker 1: Look, I think there's a large part of the left 454 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:28,480 Speaker 1: that hates America and hates middle class values, hates the 455 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:31,000 Speaker 1: whole sense of conformity, and hates the idea of the 456 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:36,320 Speaker 1: work ethic there for anything which undermines America, and obviously 457 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:41,720 Speaker 1: the whole transgender notion challenges everything from the God create 458 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:45,359 Speaker 1: man and woman, to the orderly structure of marriage, to 459 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:48,160 Speaker 1: clear roles, and so to the degree that they can 460 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:51,680 Speaker 1: basically claim that you get to invent who you are. 461 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,000 Speaker 1: And if you wake up Tuesday and you decide you're 462 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:57,199 Speaker 1: a man, then our job is to treat you like 463 00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,399 Speaker 1: a man. And if you wake up Wednesday and you 464 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,600 Speaker 1: think you're a one, our job is to switch and 465 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,000 Speaker 1: learn how to treat you as a woman. That creates 466 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,920 Speaker 1: a kind of relativism which just undermines the entire civilization. 467 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:11,280 Speaker 1: And I think that that's their ultimate goal, is to 468 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:15,159 Speaker 1: on every front. If they can undermine Western civilization, for 469 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 1: some reason, they regard that as a great step towards 470 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:18,520 Speaker 1: a better future. 471 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:21,240 Speaker 2: And the last question this evening is a write in 472 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 2: from Kyle. Kyle says, the Pentagon just announced that the 473 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:30,720 Speaker 2: Department of Defense will increase aggregate DEI spending to almost 474 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:36,159 Speaker 2: two hundred and seventy million dollars to further its diversity, equity, inclusion, 475 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:40,520 Speaker 2: and accessibility agendas from twenty twenty two to twenty twenty 476 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:44,639 Speaker 2: four to increase military recruitment. Does it really need to 477 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:48,119 Speaker 2: spend nearly a third of a billion dollars to polarize 478 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:52,280 Speaker 2: and fixate on race, gender, and sexual orientation rather than 479 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:55,960 Speaker 2: adhere to a racially and gender blind, inclusive meritocracy. 480 00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 1: My view would be if Speaker Johnson's looking for offset 481 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:02,560 Speaker 1: for spending, that'd be a good two hundred and thirty 482 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:04,960 Speaker 1: million dollars to save the American people and cut it out. 483 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 1: I think it's ridiculous. I think it's destructive, and I 484 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 1: think a significant part of the current recruiting problem is 485 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:13,880 Speaker 1: that people don't want to go. Now, if you try 486 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,320 Speaker 1: to recruit people who want to be the best, and 487 00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:18,800 Speaker 1: you're trying to recruit people who are willing to risk 488 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:21,080 Speaker 1: their lives to save their country, and then you say 489 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:23,959 Speaker 1: to them, now you here are the fifty three pronouns 490 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,560 Speaker 1: you have to learn, they just think you're nuts. I've 491 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,840 Speaker 1: watched the current generation of leaders. I had a very 492 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 1: serious former three star general say to me that the 493 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 1: next president should ask every officer above two stars to 494 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 1: resign just because you've got a clean house and you've 495 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:45,080 Speaker 1: got to move towards profoundly rethinking what's going on. Because 496 00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:47,840 Speaker 1: these guys are so bad, then their performances have been 497 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,200 Speaker 1: so bad. They said the Russians will be in Kiev 498 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:52,520 Speaker 1: in four days. They're still not in keep. They said 499 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,960 Speaker 1: that the Taliban wouldn't be in Kabble. They got in 500 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:59,439 Speaker 1: Cobble way before the Joint Chiefs thought they would. Nobody 501 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:01,080 Speaker 1: on our side of Apparently I was aware of what's 502 00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:03,879 Speaker 1: going to happen on October seventh. Just go down case 503 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,360 Speaker 1: after case after case, and it's very troublesome. We need 504 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,280 Speaker 1: reform of the Pentagon more than we need extra money. 505 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:13,760 Speaker 1: I am delighted to have this chance to report to 506 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,280 Speaker 1: you and to listen to your questions and ideas. I 507 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 1: really value the idea of our getting together. And if 508 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:22,680 Speaker 1: you find this useful, I hope that you will tell 509 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,600 Speaker 1: your friends and encourage them to join, and encourage them 510 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:27,719 Speaker 1: to go to Ginglish three sixty. 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