 Today May 40 here. I Want to tell you something very vulnerable. I just want to share with you right now. I Would like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony and yet how did I get here start talking about gloomy topics such as The decline and fall of the Russian and Chinese empires I mean we discussed yesterday how it seems like Russia is not singing from the same playbook that The troops and the the media and the elite of Vladimir Putin. They're not all on board I mean, but I just want to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony I just want people taking spiritual crack not real crack But the the spiritual crack that I have to offer if you take my crack inside happy Friday If there's one thing we have learned about the people who make the rules It's that they have no intention of following them any of them ever ever They command you to wear a mask as you jog alone in the park while they head to dinner bare-faced at the French Laundry that happened They harangue of the carbon footprint of your lawnmower as they fly to Aspen on their private jets You see that every day How many members of Congress who voted to expand the police powers of the IRS don't pay their own taxes more than a few? How many politicians you fervently support gun control have armed bodyguards that you pay for? Well, let's see every single one we could go on and on and on whatever they're demanding that you do this week You can be dead certain. They are not doing it themselves Everyone notices this it enrages people, but it's often misinterpreted people say this is hypocrisy, but it's not it's privilege When Nancy Pelosi walks into her hair appointment without a mask at the height of the COVID lockdowns It's not because she forgot to bring a mask. No, she knows exactly what she's doing Nancy Pelosi is affirming her position in the social order Nancy Pelosi is in charge. You are not Nancy Pelosi can do whatever she cares to do. You can't That's the message she's sending Another word for this is a caste system, which is increasingly what we have in the United States Cast systems are common in poor countries the countries from which most of our immigrants come But it's the opposite of the traditional American system, which was imperfect egalitarianism In the old America every citizen citizen was considered equal under the law as well as in the eyes of God Everybody had to follow the same rules because nobody underneath it all was more important than anyone else. We were all citizens Citizens is a term you rarely hear anymore Citizenship implies inherent rights rights that politicians cannot under any circumstances take from you because they did not bestow them in the first place You were born with them But the people running our country don't acknowledge this they do not believe in inherent rights nor do they believe in equality You may remember how hysterical they became a couple of years ago in a few old-fashioned souls dared to say that all lives matter Which they certainly do The people in charge hated that they don't think that all lives matter in their view some animals are more equal than others It's hard to think of a new story in recent memory that illustrates this phenomenon as clearly as what is happening on Martha's vineyard Two nights ago Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida generously sent a plane load of 50 illegal aliens from Venezuela to the vineyard Which is a small famously affluent island off the coast of Massachusetts? Martha's Vineyard has everything you could ever want in the world except racial diversity The island is whiter than a Swedish bluegrass festival and DeSantis was trying to help Under normal circumstances the residents of Martha's Vineyard would have no choice But to smile and say thank you Governor DeSantis When government officials send you the blessed gift of diverse immigrants or refugees you must accept that's the rule It doesn't matter how disruptive these new people are It's irrelevant how much they cost to support or how dramatically your quality of life may decline after they arrive It doesn't matter if the crime rate spikes if your daughter's afraid to go outside if the schools become unusable The hospitals fall apart doesn't matter you never complain you take it like a man You don't even mention it's happening even in private text messages to your friends if you do you're a dangerous racist You could wind up at a government list That's how America works. Everybody knows it because it's been going on for a very long time. That's the rule But it turns out the people of Martha's Vineyard aren't just anyone They're the people who make the rules and in this case they had no intention of following them not even for a day The Venezuelans who arrived there two nights ago bless their hearts didn't know any of this. They know perspective They never heard of Martha's Vineyard. They were just thrilled to be there. What I? Can't tell you they are not angry at Ron DeSantis. They're actually thanking him for having brought them to Martha's Vineyard Well, yeah, they're not angry at Mark Ron DeSantis. They're thanking him for bringing them to Martha's Vineyard Why wouldn't they get they got a flee free flight to the vineyard and At first it seemed like they had every reason to be grateful because the people of the town appeared To welcome them as they walked in from the airport three and a half miles They saw signs like this one on Martha's Vineyard the sign reads we stand with immigrants with refugees all are welcome here Hey, it has no business here In other words, no one worked for Donald Trump can go to Martha's Vineyard But they didn't know that there was a caveat to that welcome. Hey does not welcome here Okay, then on Thursday an elected official on the island gave the migrants even more reason for hope and we're quoting This is a community rallying to support immigrant children and families said state representative Dylan Fernandez It's the best of America and then to prove his point that Martha's Vineyard will do whatever it can for immigrants Fernandez uploaded this picture onto social media because of course everything is a social media opportunity the picture shows several Venezuelans gathered on a porch one of them is wearing a shirt celebrating Ruth Bader Ginsburg notorious RBG It says clearly he got that from a local But then you look closely and you ask yourself are these people really welcome on Martha's Vineyard. What are they eating? There's no kale or brie for the Venezuelans. No instead. They got corn pops Fruit loops rice Krispies with a sight of paper plates and napkins You got to wonder what the Venezuelans thought of that This seems like a nice place the food is garbage It's less healthy than the crap we eat in Caracas way worse. Why are they feeding us this stuff corn pops? Really fruit loops what message are you sending? And of course the message is really clear the surf seat garbage. I think what are they eat? What are the what is your average Venezuelan eat? Fruit loops Venezuelans love fruit loops So the Venezuelans may have gotten a hint that they weren't really welcome there But it was hard to know the community seemed to be rallying behind them But then if there was any doubt in the morning It was gone by afternoon because the message changed very quickly and the new message was get the hell out of here brown people the difficult challenges are We have at some point in time and I have to move Right we cannot we don't have the services to take care of 50 immigrants and we certainly don't have housing we're in a housing crisis as we are on this island and We don't we can't house everyone here that lives here and works here. We don't have housing for 50 more people We don't have housing for 50 more people Says the lady on an island that literally has more than a hundred thousand Empty beds at that exact moment Because it's a seasonal place And more than a hundred thousand seasonal residents are gone So effectively Martha's vineyard was the largest dormitory in the United States But no, there's a housing crisis at some point. They're gonna have to leave meaning in like eight minutes max So there was a guy who's the leader of a nonprofit group Who stepped up to help the refugees and he had a different take He said the problem wasn't the housing at all. It was the migrants and we're quoting now It's like me taking my trash out and just driving to different areas where I live and throwing my trash there This man told NBC news Oh They're trash. They're human garbage They're not even real. They have no souls. Do they have souls venezuelans? Do refugees have souls? I don't know There's like trash someone dump them on the front lawn Let's give them fruit loops and get them out of here Yeah, call the truck have them hauled away NBC news actually tweeted out that quote Calling our beloved sacred immigrant community these non documented immigrants trash And then once they realized that they revealed how they really feel they deleted a few moments later Now not everyone on the left. We should tell you was so intent on sending these migrants away Novelist Jane Chittick, for example offered this alternative quote I would love to see the obamas open up their huge property and erect tents and look after all these people while they're being processed. She said Well, actually, you know, we're always in search of the one decent liberal left in america Maybe Jane Chittick is the one because that's a pretty fair point and Barack Obama has a long documented history of Having people on his front lawn. In fact, he set up a Tent city to house hundreds of people for let's see oh himself his own birthday party So could he do that again? Of course And he should because to do anything less than that Barack Obama himself told us Would essentially punish the people of martha's vineyard Mistreating immigrants would rob them of what makes america a worthy country. Watch this America is a nation of immigrants That's our strength and the notion that somehow we would stop now on what has been a tradition of attracting talent and strivers and dreamers from all around the world That that would rob us of the thing that is most special about america Right, so if people don't camp out on your lawn people have no right to be here in the first place. You're only hurting yourself But obama even on martha's vineyard where Approximately a hundred percent of people voted for him and love him even on martha's vineyard He could not make the sale. He could not get people who actually live there to agree with that They did do one thing though. They said a big go fund me, which they called an urgent plea And they told us this was a way to help the migrants and we're quoting From go fund me martha's vineyard is a community of open-hearted individuals that view these migrants as people Not political punts or trash However continuing the quote the island is a resort community with only 20 000 year-round residents And it already faces a shortage of affordable housing and off-season jobs Oh, it's just not rich enough. They don't have enough beds It's one of the richest places in the united states and it has more available beds in any other place Probably in north america right now But it's just they can't swing it but you can do your part by donating to the fund And by donating the fund they'll help the migrants well a lot of people believed it The fund raised 40 000 dollars, but here's the best part. You're going to love this part How much of that money is going to the migrants? Oh, none An update on the fundraising page Reveals that the funds will instead go toward and we're quoting building up a reserve to assist situations like this in the future Rather than directly helping this group of migrants in their situation. In other words, martha's vineyard is building itself an endowment Just like harvard That's amazing An endowment for martha's vineyard not to help anyone But because why wouldn't martha's vineyard want an endowment? Okay Well yesterday at the request of martha's vineyard's representatives They broke it up the governor of massachusetts the thoroughly loathsome charlie baker Called up the national guard charlie baker mr. Compassion literally brought in the army To remove brown people from the whitest island in the atlantic ocean So once the army brought them off Martha's vineyard they were sent to a military base on cape cut a military base how welcoming Cape cod by the way is a lot more republican than martha's vineyard. So let's send him to them So here's the scene of the migrants being squirted out after less than 48 hours On that jewel in the sea martha's vineyard Thank you so much for being here everyone is we're going to show you as we're as we're leaving you today a live look in massachusetts We're showing the the ferry carrying migrants who have been dropped in mass in martha's vineyard have arrived in cape cod That bus you see there that is heading to joint base cape cod Well, you got to say they don't mess around the liberals aren't joking. So the rest of the country just pick a city Pick a city in the country and ask the person after a few drinks who runs it like how many refugees do you have living here? How many Grants many of them Undocumented how many illegal aliens are living in your city and what does that do to the services in your town? Not one of them is as rich as martha's vineyard and they basically will tell you we just have to live with it No one wants to use the schools anymore. The hospitals are a complete mess or crime rate is up the city looks like crap But there's nothing we can do the government sent them here. Oh, but martha's vineyard Well, they don't play they bring in the army in a day and take him out like the garbage So there's a lot of irony here and we're going to try to unpack it as quickly and crisply as we can but it was just a day ago that we were told That ron de santis was a human trafficker He was in fact comparable to adolf hitler said ken burns america's filmmaker Because he had organized the transportation of migrants from his state to martha's vineyard watch This is so cruel and and so unnecessary so uncalled for and so brazen It shocks the conscience of any fair-minded human being this tactic By supposedly christian-right politicians like de santis, arizona's doug ducey and greg abbott of texas is about as Unchristian as it gets sephanie. That is not a political stunt. That is an act of evil And it is an act of evil being done by evil men Some politicians would rather not only have an issue but exacerbate it to the extent of literally human trafficking as you said And sending them to destinations Because you want to own in a country where a woman with a fetus inside of her with no brain has to travel a thousand miles To get an abortion Look here is short ron de santis and frankly greg abbott and doug ducey We hate immigrants get the f out and we will help you get the f out These people Morning joe literally had the chipmunk on to talk about how it's human trafficking And then his lady has to get a boy. There's not enough abortion by the way. Who mentioned abortion? I don't know. Mika wants more abortion. Okay. Mika settle down now. These exact same people are applauding massachusetts for using the military to remove undesirable immigrants trash Trash they promised to safeguard to a military base. I mean what? Is anyone noticing this? What's interesting is that this has been going on in other forms for quite a while for several months now The governor of texas has sent bus loads of migrants from the border to places like dc in chicago It got some attention. We kind of enjoyed it, but most people didn't notice But the second brown people arrive in martha's vineyard. Whoa swarms of reporters descended on the scene because they've been there before Yeah, they know martha's vineyard. They don't know a ton about the south side of chicago brownsville. What but martha's vineyard. Are you joking? CNN reported there was pandemonium This is the location. This is the one Uh homeless shelter that they have on the entire island. There are five different towns here St. Andrew's parish house can usually handle 10 They've had to increase the number to 50 Of immigrants who will be here after they were sort of unceremoniously dropped off on planes two different planes in martha's vineyard Look at the glasses on that guy are the glasses on tv people getting more complex But the dairs are just something old the old among us imagine in any case just put it in some perspective before we proceed This is 50 people 50 people. We've had two million people come here Illegally, where did they go? Well, they went to probably every state in the country The by demonstration flew them there to change the demographics of america forever. That's just true. Sorry And no one said a word, but 50 people It's chaos and martha's vineyard So why is only ron de santis a human trafficker for doing this? Why is ron why is only ron de santis a human trafficker for doing this? It's interesting According to gavin newson. He's a kidnapper Why did no one say that about greg avid or charlie baker or joe biden for that matter? As we've said for more than a year the by demonstration has flown illegal migrants throughout the country often in the middle of the night We showed you footage of these flights They're happening in secret secretly flying people around the country. Isn't that what the cartels do? But biden is doing it and by the way to his credit He said he would do it during the presidential campaign. He promised to relocate migrants throughout the us In fact, he announced that america has room for millions and millions of illegal migrants. Watch this We could afford to take in a heartbeat another two million people The idea that a country of 330 million people cannot absorb People who are in desperate need and who are justifiably fleeing oppression Is absolutely bizarre absolutely bizarre Yeah, it's bizarre. You're a bigot if you're not into it By the way, again just for perspective the one thing that should never be partisan Is immigration policy? Because immigration policy is the one policy that's irreparable. It changes your country forever So you should have a broad consensus about what you want your country to become before you tamper with the formula But something like joe biden who is only partisan. That's it doesn't care By the way, what happened after biden transported All these people around the country hundreds and hundreds of thousands? Well in one community in florida a florida a community that can quote afford more illegal migrants A 24 year old hunduran man ended up murdering a father in his own home. That was in jacksonville So that didn't get a ton of attention, but apparently people on martha's vineyard were watching They don't want that And that's why the minute biden's voters have to deal with venezuela and seeking the american dream They call in the national guard to ship them to military installations as florida's governor said yesterday This really does have to end and all those people in dc in new york Were beating their chests when trump was president saying they were so proud to be sanctuary Jurisdictions saying how bad it was to have a secure border the minute even a small fraction Of what those border towns deal with every day is brought to their front door They all of a sudden go berserk and they're so upset that this is happening if you have folks that are Inclined to think florida's a good place our message to them is we are not a sanctuary state And it's better to be able to go to a sanctuary jurisdiction And yes, we will help facilitate that transport for you to be able to go to greener pastures Yeah, greener pastures aspen next And by the way every iv league college all seven of them And then maybe you hit wesley in and boden and stanford The places that support a ball above all other institutions in this country that support illegal immigration That have more funding per capita Than any other institution in the united states are the richest places in america or college campuses liberal arts college Elite liberal arts colleges. How many migrants and refugees are they taking zero? Let's hope the next stop in this process Is there And let's also hope that the governors of sane states are watching how democrats handled this within 24 hours of having immigrants Dumped on their shores the people of martha's vineyard had the military move them out Why is nobody else doing that? true There's no longer any reason that republicans shouldn't do that. This is the template in texas, arizona, florida, etc They should do the exact same thing Chabek more is the editor-in-chief of outspoken and contributing editor at the spectator. He joins us tonight. Chabek Thanks so much for coming on this in some way, you know, it's easy to mock these people are just are they're literally beyond parody Um, and they lack all self-awareness, but they're also very effective like they don't want Illegals in martha's vineyard and they're just not going to have them and the military took them out What what's the lesson there? Oh, absolutely And as somebody who knows this type of liberal quite well and spent virtually my whole 20s in the capon islands area as a Minimum wage seasonal worker not as a rich person. I know these people very well There's not a question in my mind that if this had been 50 white ukranians They would have thrown together a parade. They probably already have the flags out They would have been lining up to adopt them host them in their guest bedrooms Parade them around social media. Look at my little pet ukranian. Me and dimitri are going apple picking, you know They're fundamentally racist. They are extremely racist green beings. Now. This is going to very upset them a lot because You know unlike when they call us racist We just laugh because it's so clearly not true and it doesn't affect us But they don't like being called racist and they don't like these things being pointed out to them Because it really hits at the bone and the core of who they are and how they view the world Races very very important to them. They think about it. They obsess over it. Yes, and frankly They don't want people who don't look like them in their little vacation homes Well, that's such a smart point. I don't think the average person is brooding about race all day That's a really ugly thing to do. Race is unchanging. So like why would you brood about it all the time? They are obsessed with it. They're obsessed with race and that suggests to me There's something really ugly inside them And can you imagine the optics if they put 50 ukranians over to a military base? But they don't care if they're doing it to the brown people from venezuela because as you'd mentioned earlier, one of them just said They're like trash It's dark stuff and it reveals exactly who they are and we've always known this is who they are Do they reveal themselves like this is exactly who they are? That boy is that true so true chevrolet more. Thank you very much. Thank you my pleasure Thanks. Thanks chad. Thanks. Uh, thanks mr. Tucker. So apparently the locals turned out in droves In marthas vineyard, right? They showed up carrying maps. Wasn't that thoughtful of them? They came carrying maps to help The brown people from venezuela get the hell off their island But some of the teenage girls were quite interested in dancing with the With the vigorous migrants, right? It's not unusual that uh, the Young women choose to side with with migrants over their own kind because the migrants are more exciting They're more vibrant They're more masculine and so the The teenage girls and the young women just loved up these migrants And loved them so much. They gave them maps to get the hell out of there So migrants filed out of the church They'd been sleeping in for two nights to hugs from the local volunteers They left with full bags and new cell phones and as they boarded the three white buses that would take them to the ferry many cried so The the liberal news media is all about how welcoming the people of marthas vineyard have been in reaction to this mean cruel republican stunt, but How welcoming do you think the people of marthas vineyard would be if every day 50 new migrants showed up? All right. It's very easy to be welcoming One off. All right. I've had a lot of first dates, right? I can make a really good impression on a first date, right not so many second dates but For one date I could pull it off. All right. I remember cendres thing load tells this story that She was having a gathering at her home cendres thing blows a Southern california institution. She's a professor of Performance and creative writing at usc. She's a regular on public radio. She's written books about her life in van eyes and so she had a bunch of women in their 30s like all Educated professional high achieving women with their perfect Tupperware containers And turned out that every single one of them had dated me And they were first, you know, quite excited to meet this, you know, interesting charming Australian until they until they got to know me and And then the the dream died, but it's very easy to put up a good performance One time remember in the bible Uh sarah tells Avram. Look go make a baby with my maid servant Hagar Right. So many people have many fine intentions And if you don't test them too much, they may very well follow through with their good intentions for a few minutes even for a day but If 50 migrants keep getting dropped off Martha's vineyard every day I would expect they would get a very different reception Like I can keep up a polite face for for a few hours, but eventually the real 40 is going to come out I don't care what they say. I just I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony. You just you can't you can't repress my spirit Even if it's socially frowned upon People don't like outgroups bro. Look look look these teenage girls here at this Episcopal church What is it with the Episcopalians? Like why are they encouraging? illegal immigration Why are Episcopalians dominating our institutions shoving our institutions to the left shoving our political policies to the left They dominate our elite. They dominate banking. They dominate law They dominate the academy What is it with Episcopalians and their left-wing agenda this tidy group? Right exercising disproportionate influence of a public policy of a culture They occupy the high ground of american elite status Episcopalians. They just dominate man And here they are outside an Episcopalian church and these Episcopalian girls are welcoming these brown Venezuelan immigrants, but how welcoming would they be? If these immigrants were pouring in at day in and in day out, it's about time that someone Brings up the Episcopalian question. Most people are too afraid. It's like oh The the anglos the Episcopalians they occupy the high grounds of our culture I'm too afraid to go up against them. They dominate politics. They dominate NGOs They dominate the academy and law and banking and finance and wall street They they know how to get things done. I'm not willing to go up against the Episcopalians, but I am willing All right, I will stand and say the Episcopalians are pushing shoving driving our politics to the left It's about time someone calls them out for their anti-american attitudes Gosh darn it. Do you remember? that there was a time when Christianity was not wimpy, right? There was a time when nationalism and Christianity went together like ham and egg So I've been reading a book peter acroy's 2012 book foundation the history of england from its earliest beginnings to the tutors tutors very raunchy show on on netflix Very very potent stuff. Don't don't recommend it. It uh, it may well place your sexual sobriety in danger. So Christianity and nationalism. All right, that's not some new thing, right? That's not something that marjorie taylor green and lauren barbott Invented right or andrew torber andrew torber the owner of gab He's come out with a book on christian nationalism, but uh christian nationalism has been an important thread in christianity for about 1600 years All right. So yeah, there are universalist threads in christianity There are threads talking about the beauty of all of god's children and why can't we just all come together But they're also considerable nationalist threads as well. You just can't take oh, this is my favorite text and this is my favorite text Therefore christianity is universalist. I was just listening to to richard spencer today. I mean He's is not particularly learned when it comes to religion He thinks that there's like this essential universalist quality to christianity and there simply isn't right there at universalist and particularist strands In christianity in Judaism and in islam so uh richard has this idea that uh That uh, all these different cultures, right had opposition to homosexuality So that didn't make Judaism special. What made Judaism special? were stories well The opposite is true many Judaism stories were developments upon ancient civilization stories But Judaism's prohibition of male or male sex is pretty much unique in the world Right in the ancient world pretty much every other ancient culture Ancient civilization had no problem with man or man sex It was Judaism that stood up and said stop. That's an abomination You need to keep the the sexual genie in the heterosexual Uh, verging on a monogamous bottle and that's what changed civilization Now this brings up something that's very painful for me to discuss As you know, nobody's done more than I have to fight against homophobia And I have a good friend of mine. He's always whining He's always complaining He's always taking offense That uh pretty much every time he goes to the new yorktimes.com There's some photo of dude's kissing and I tell him get over it man. It's uh 2022 Like love is love But no, he never becomes blasé. He never becomes Desensitized to that every time my friend sees A photo of two men kissing on the front page the front fold of the new york times He feels it as a visceral assault Right, he feels like he is being beaten down He feels like demons are running the new york times and I'm trying to educate this guy Trying to help him to get over his homophobia, but no matter how much I try to re-educate him Every time he encounters photos of dudes kissing in the new york times He experiences as a visceral assault on everything he holds sacred And then I think it was yesterday. He just blew his top man. It wasn't pretty I I can't repeat the things he said I just couldn't believe the level of bigotry that was flowing from my friend But apparently yesterday when he went to the new york times like over breakfast as he typically does All right. He likes to get this day started We're looking at the drudge report than the la times or maybe some steve sailor and then go over to the new york times So he's sitting there eating his breakfast clicks over to the new york times And no, it's not a still photo of dudes kissing. It's Action video. It's like highlights from tv shows and movies of dudes kissing Like he's just trying to eat his breakfast and get informed about the news And there's like moving action video Right there on the top of the new york times of dudes kissing and he's trying to digest his breakfast And he feels that like there's even more intense visceral assault on everything that he holds sacred. So Won't you join me in praying for my friend that he soon Overcomes this this, you know, really god-awful homophobia I mean, why can't he just celebrate That the love is love and finally For the first time in american history, you know gays are now free to love other gays gosh All right Back to peter acroyd foundation history of england from its earliest beginnings of the tutors for their part The kings of england were aware of all the advantages of the roman faith. Wow. So apparently english kings Loved christianity They found that christ was a more powerful support in war than the pagan gods They found that the christian god offered more effective lordship than a thaw so The roman catholic church simply preferred the rule of strong kings and unified governments It made the work of religious control much easier. Wow so christianity and nationalism went together like ham and eggs And we're talking 1500 years ago. Right the priests were the literate members of the kingdom Right So when legal documents and title deeds and proclamations of every kind were to be published the priests were absolutely indispensable administrators of the state christian nationalism Right the kings were happy to adopt a quasi liturgical role as the embodiment of the people and public ritual So christianity helped the kings enhance their authority Right christianity helped the kings enforce respect and ensure obedience Kings and saints appear in england and in some other societies at about the same time Right and they're frequently the same thing Got king edwin king athelbert now known to posterity as saint edward and saint athelbert Now there were occasionally some pagan reactions So king sygbert of kent was killed by two of his kinsmen for the ties and practice of forgiving his enemies So christianity brought unity to the kingdom christianity has frequently operated as a unifying force in christian nations Ergo increasing nationalism nationalism means that you strongly viscerally identify it with your people which will always have a significant. Oh my god I hate to say this racial component so christianity for hundreds of served as a force for nationalism and included in that is Racial identity. Oh my god apparently people who pray together stay together Form a more perfect union So the encouragement of moral discipline by the priests had a material effect upon the social discipline of the country Christianity went hand in hand with developing a more coherent effective and moral society Right, so the various regions of england slowly came together And the single english church essentially required a single english nation at this stage christianity nationalism working together hand in hand Right, so you have mass christian conversion turns all of the people Essentially into the english race. So race often has a religious component nationalism often has A racial component a religious component a civic component and an ideological component So just because someone identifies as a sieve nap, right? So that sieve nap in the streets and their ethno nap in the sheets, right? Just because people see a religious component to their nationalism such as christian nationalism Doesn't mean they don't also see a civic component and an ideological component and a racial component And just because people may identify with say a oh my god an ethnic component to nationalism It doesn't mean they also don't identify with a religious and ideological And a civic component as well, right people are just cookie cutter Oh all about the sieve nap man or just all about the ethno nap man, or i'm just all about christ is king Or i'm just all about the ideology of you know, all men are born inherently equal Endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights people are complicated Right, there are many levels to national identity. So let us gather together. I am here to help people sing Right, I want to bring the world to sing in perfect harmony. All right, and so we can recognize that some people may relate more to the religious Component of national identity and other people may relate more to the civic component Other people may relate more to the ethnic component other people may relate more to the ideological component But these different groups are not inherently our enemies. They're not a bunch of cocks Just because they identify as sieve nap or they're christian nationalist Or they believe that you know all men are created equal Right, so you have a venerable bead don't we don't we love the venerable bead? All right, he talked about the holy church of the english nation You know, of course that that excludes the the world should the picks but england as we understand it today Was created by the christian church. Oh my god christian nationalism The church has long been an essential aspect of government throughout the west Right the boundaries of christian diocese have essentially followed the frontiers of old tribal kingdoms Bishops tend to be aristocrats and members of various royal families of the land So when the king would call a church synod in london You would have secular as well as spiritual lords would attend because this was proto christian nationalism The king's edicts would invariably take on a christian tone The arch bishops would draw up national law codes in consultation with the king Only after the arrival of the normans in england in 1066 was their beginning of any formal separation between church and state so before that in spirit and in Habits and bishops are often part of the war bands of the great magnets So you have these large organizations large christian organizations known as minsters You have communities of priests and monks that essentially minister to their surrounding areas So these are the original expressions of the christian england beginning really in the 6 7th century They have all the energy and power of first things So these christian groups are centers of patronage. They are centers of learning. They maintain trade and agriculture So it's not just christianity in church, right christianities Implant it not just with the state with the monarchy with the king But with maintaining trade and agriculture Right These christian ministers would organize the countryside. They would organize rent payments and food They were essentially acting as royal courts. They were an essential part of the monarchy the And christ was king and that had a national and ethnic and ideological a religious component So people back then didn't believe in these buffered strategic autonomous souls where everyone You know was able to rationally decide what what they're going to do. No, they understood that Our ward is constantly interpenetrating with other people's ward. So Christians and secular leaders wanted to maintain order and reduce contagion All right, what's going on with the quote somebody also quite famous It's no it isn't the beginning of the end, but it might turn out to be the end of the beginning This is the first phase of the war the ukrainians first of all late They resisted being conquered completely and now they've proved that they can beat the russians on an open battlefield Which they've done and this is the first time in my estimation The russians have been beaten on an open battlefield like this since december 1942 So that's a pretty big moment and the humiliation of it believe me is goes deep into russian military circles But the russians won't give up. Putin is very determined that this war will go on And so he's looking at ways of increasing what we've begun to call crypto mobilization He won't yet declare full mobilization though in due course he might But at the moment he's undergoing a process of crypto mobilization Which is like as you were speaking with your last guest Pregosin of the Wagner group trying to get people in prison to sign up Yeah, they're scraping the barrel everywhere they can to increase their numbers What is the impact of that? Do you think I mean I asked about the the likelihood of Greater atrocities if that's possible to contemplate because of the kind of prisoners that you know because of the kind of Recruits that are now being put into the front line. Yeah, it's an absolute certainty I mean what Pregosin said and which this is all on on video now We've all seen it's gone. It's gone live and it's absolutely genuine. He makes a speech to them It's like something out of the dirty dozen He said that he says the only way you'll get out of this place is if god let you out and then you'll be in a box But if you join up you'll get out today You'll get out today and you sign up for six months And he said and we'll put you on the front line and we do all the dirty job So you might get killed and if you disobey an order or try and desert We will shoot you without without question But if you're still alive at the end of six months We'll let you free and you can go home without a stain on your character So these people are being recruited To be quite suicidal and take their chances of still being alive at the end of six months I mean they will be the worst sort of soldiers And in a way they won't make any strategic difference because you can't fit these sort of Brigands into a proper combined armed strategy with professional soldiers But undoubtedly they will do a lot of harm and damage in the areas that they go to and remember You know Pregosin himself the the commander of this Wagner group who who already got about 10,000 Convicts serving with the Wagner group he did nine years in prison for robbery before he ever knew Putin so he himself knows what it is like to be in a russian prison Well, I mean all of that is a terrible I think we all know what it's like to be in a russian prison. It's not a very happy place Hey everyone, Peter Zein here. Hello again from lake louise The news as of this morning's that the germans have nationalized a couple of physical assets Refinery specifically that belonged to russian state-owned oil company rosneft multi-billion dollar Assets we've always known this was coming as soon as you have the germans and the russians having to dispute over Economics and strategy they were to start drawing lines and this is one of the big ones now The german strategy for dealing with the russians going back two centuries has been pretty straightforward They want to avoid a war because wars between the germans and the russians are awful They fight in poland they fight in ukraine lots of people die the weather is horrible the terrain is wide open They both commit atrocities it's just wretched so they try to avoid it And they do that by trying to entangle their economies so they have a vested interest in not fighting But ultimately doesn't work out and they end up fighting and it's horrible So then they don't get to entangle again what we're seeing now is the disentanglement and the preparing for a direct confrontation The germans of course hope it won't come to that history suggests that hope is largely in vain That's the bigger strategic picture The economic picture is almost just as bold because we have now had direct entanglement between the europeans and the germans for going on 30 years And now that all becomes unwound So the germans have fired the starting gun with some multi-billion dollar assets They're taken away from the russians expect every single joint venture that the two sides have and lots of property on both sides To basically be unwound and return to their national authorities and that is the end of this phase of russian european integration Don't count on it coming back anytime soon because the demographic pictures on both sides are just atrocious So this is where it gets real and this is where we have sharp severing We'll talk about what's going on with the china Actually everybody here is on here comes you from monterell where He has some johnny's got holes in turk's drones and used it to completely obliterate the armenian country of 10 million people That has basically hitched itself to uh putin star and the poles the latans the lithuanians the estonians the finns The swedes they have been chomping at the bit for years to try to take alexander lukashenko of bellarus down to size And basically peel bellarus out of the russian orbit They will now have the opportunity And it's unlikely that anyone in europe or the united states is going to try to stand in the way if anything They're probably going to be encouraged to do it So unless lukashenko sues for peace with the balts and the nordics Very quickly We should count on seeing him being brought up on war crimes before very long because after all he did provide The access that was necessary for the assault on kyat early in the war A little bit different are things going on in the caucuses not even over on a karabah or as a virginan armenia but in georgia Now here i do expect things to be a little bit more circumspect the georgians tried to call russia's bluff And invade their former secessionist republics of north asesia and abkhazia several years ago in 2004 And it was trapped and the russians were able to destroy the georgian army So the georgians are not going to do this until a couple of other countries in the region have already pulled this off successfully So look to armenia and asa brijan first and then second look to moldova There's a small secessionist republic. They're called trans nistras only 10 of the population of the country of like three and a half million people There's not much going on there But the russians intervened decisively right at the end of the soviet collapse to basically make sure that trans nistra could be functionally independent under russian sponsorship But unlike the so i've been reading the decline of fall of the roman empire one of the most commonly pursued historical questions is you know, why did the Holy roman empire or why did roam the roman empire fall? and It's not that complicated when the marginal costs of belonging to the roman empire exceed the marginal benefits Then entities start peeling away when the marginal cost of being your friend Right starts to exceed the benefits people will start peeling away from you and now we're seeing The beginnings of entities wanting to peel away from the russian and chinese Empires and it's funny a lot of people on the alt right such as coach red pill Right talk about how china russia going to defeat the united states because they're more homogeneous so china definitely is more homogeneous than the united states But russia is is a multi ethnic multi racial multi religious empire and Right now it does not look at all like china and russia are going to outlast the united states what instead we're seeing Are the chinese and russian empires falling apart And america reigns Even more strongly and more powerfully than it has ever done before right the 20th century was the american century 21st century will be even more The american century i mean china is falling apart in front of our eyes russia is falling apart in front of our eyes The west in particular united states has never on a relative basis Stood more strongly and so even though we have You know all these degenerate trends in our country and Some of our advertising for our armed forces is not nearly as as tough and mean as what the russians and the chinese use That doesn't mean that the russian and chinese societies and armed forces are more effective than ours because It's simply not working out. Why do I think they are falling apart? Demographics right they are in far worse demographic situation than the united states So russia's in terminal decline China is going to have about half of its current population in in approximately 40 years So demographics would be number one number two China has always been a big pyramid scheme that they operate with astronomical Amounts of debt i mean far more debt than the united states so China's land is incredibly polluted russia's never been after manufacture consumer goods worth a dam the the Lifespan in russia is just being in terminal decline for for about 40 years Almost all the world's great universities are in the united states. They're not in russia And they're not in china like which chinese consumer product you most associate with quality none I mean when you think about chinese made goods you think of crap now not everything they make is crap But generally speaking so much of what they make is of substandard quality that it just naturally Occurs in the mind to equate anything made in china with crap Also chinese workers. They are half as productive as the average turkish worker right So it's no longer economical to manufacture in china So you have manufacturers reshoring returning to the united states or they're setting up Elsewhere, but frequently they're setting up in mexico So china and russia falling apart United states stronger than ever Georgian secessionist territories would share a land border with russia proper transistors on its own The only way to supply it is through ukraine and that is obviously stopped So the mldovans and their sponsors in romania have now invested interest in ending this historical Aberration and I would expect to see that being wrapped up within a year or two Okay, so that's in the former soviet union the second big category is um israel The russians have very publicly unfortunately for them Relocated a lot of hardware from syria to ukraine specifically air defense equipment to help them with their assaults Which means that if you are israel the only thing that is standing in your way of going after the syrian regime Is someone from the biden administration saying you know what? We really don't want a nuclear event to erupt because the russian troops involved Well the tone of the biden administration in the last 72 hours has kind of changed now. It's more of like You kids go have fun sort of vibe So I expect us to see some very interesting pyro techniques between the israelis and the syrians in a very short period of time Followed by the syrians suing for peace which means that we get to revisit the entire syrian civil war now Without the russians being players Iran is going to factor that into that as well and that brings us to the final category the one to the united states really cares about Now, I don't think the united states is about to go after iran. It's not like iran without russia is actually all that much weaker It's more like the united states saw russian sponsorship of iran as a problem because it meant that going after iran That there would be problems in other areas that we care more about So I don't think we're about to like go and knock heads with the molas But all of a sudden tyran has lost its primary weapons sponsor and its primary security council sponsor And that is going to force the iranians to think differently and act differently in every theater that they care about So this is a negotiation question more than a military one On that general topic are the two remaining issues that the americans care about cuba and venezuela in both cases the united states is um Finds it awkward now in the case of cuba the cuban government has had an on again off again interest in renegotiating the terms of its Relationship with everyone in the western hemisphere. So you should expect that to pick up again It started under the w-bush administration. It continued under obama. We will now see a rebound under the biden administration And that just leaves venezuela if it wasn't for the likelihood of global energy shortages This would be an opportunity for the biden administration and the venezuelan regime Once and for all so now it is purely a question of how quickly energy can be brought online from other players And how that informs Okay, so brandon says america is falling bro america is not falling you're falling All right, you want to be able to offload your own frustrations with life and imagine that there's something wrong with with america that uh america is you know deep feelings america's terminal decline is is somehow An excuse for whatever is frustrating you in your own life You live in incredibly if you live in america incredibly prosperous Society with abundant opportunities, but if your life's not working out Then it's so much easier to blame america and to imagine that america's in terminal decline rather than to build up your own life And brandon says i am well off and work is optional for me america is choking on workness Barron says i believe no one else is capable of taking over from us china is too weird russia isn't that bright on average And indians have low social cohesion brandon says luke is good at reading and regurgitating but less good at analyzing and thinking and forming a unique hot take Well, give me a more unique Well, there aren't degrees of uniqueness give me a a better take than vouch nationalism, right vouch nationalism The time has come where if you're going to have substantial privileges in the society like owning a gun or driving a car Or having kids you should have to have people vouch for you who are going to be accountable if you misbehave We need to move from this individualist society towards a little bit more of a Communitarian communal social society So yes vouch nationalism quite innovative. Wow Thank you so much. Uh loponius and i've got more thoughts where that came from now Press one if you think the world is filled with demons There are a lot of advantages to believing that the world around us is filled with demons and that it's demons who are our biggest Obstacle in trying to create a sane Society right demons are out there. They're they're promoting degenerate Agendas demons are you know taking over the democratic party Demons are the obstacle All right, so There are benefits to this way of thinking it can be one it can be exciting And two it can be clarifying and three it may connect you with supernatural forces All right, and therefore four it may connect you to other people All right, so it gives you kind of an in-group identity and it makes the world a much more enchanted magical and exciting place So press one if you believe in demons are for example destroying america But there are significant problems with believing in demons So one it will it all likely who tend to make you more passive Or tend to make you more irrational it will tend to make you less effective and You will discount other people who disagree with you and just simply dismiss them as demons which will mean there won't be any moral barriers between You and whatever you want to do to them So brandon is a man of extraordinary tolerance like after I I just went after him And he's he's just coming back with the thoughtful Responses look if I build a vouch social network where you promote it you bet I will Brandon says how about returning to what has worked for 200 plus years? I am down with that brandon and I appreciate you being such a man in the chat. You you're a consistent joy to have in in the chat and You're a living breathing example of the beauties of vouch nationalism Right brandon says imagine outsourcing everything to china and thinking it went backfire. Well, let's just take the iphone all right the most the most dollar rich all right the most productive the the most Affluent parts of the iphone are here in america. It's the the The riches that come from the iphone are from the design and the marketing and the invention of the iphone right the chinese are simply sticking little bits together right, so you're outsourcing the stuff that will You know eventually simply be done by machines. You can just look up reshoring. I'll google it right now if you think it's it's a delusion Right, there's just massive amounts of reshoring now So frontline is reshoring production the answer to supply chains reshoring high tech jobs accelerates a supply chain woes continue All right automation use surging with reshoring reshoring boom continues Surge in reshoring activity continues us companies are reshoring at a rapid rate pace Here's how to take advantage opportunities for advantage reshoring manufacturing Will reshoring chip production help fix the supply chain globalization of trade is an ending but more companies are backing away from Manufacturing overseas and instead they are moving towards reshoring. So there is a massive Shift in jobs and in manufacturing back to the united states just put reshoring into google News and you'll see dozens of articles on reshoring. It's a massive phenomena Okay, one of the downfalls of believing that demons are all around us is that it will It can very likely mentally destabilize you and it can remove any moral compulsions with how you deal with other people So there's a three-part interesting netflix documentary series sins of our mother About a Mormon woman who becomes particularly religious and starts seeing demons all around her including With her two children and with her husband seemed so off I would research lori's name and then I found their podcast and I was listening to that In the premortal world and I went to other worlds I've fought in this war for millennia And that's who I am and I came down here to be a warrior and fight But then I remember Charles was sending emails before he was murdered She she's lost her mind I never read them colby and I weren't interested in that. We thought it was really dramatic and Not our business. He was freaking out And at that time it looked like a guilty person I was convinced that he had cheated at least I was like, I'm not saying anything This is between you and my mom your adults. I have too much going on in my life to worry about your marriage with her You guys need to figure this out So I went back and I started reading all the emails. Charles had sent us I was like, I just I have to see what he was saying That's when I found these family history documents The email itself was actually a forwarded email to lori Charles wrote She calls her own daughter a dark spirit. Please help her Charles Vallo My throat fell on my stomach It was just like the list of our friends and family and they are listed as light and dark spirits We were both like, what does that mean light and dark spirits? She thinks I'm a dark spirit whatever that means And I saw my name on there and I was a three dark spirit This is totally not okay Like someone sat there made this list as if they Are like god or something making a list of who's good who's evil To see like my wife is dark my brother's dark my cousin's dark everyone on this list Is basically someone that didn't love and adore my mom And scrolling down I saw tiley's name on there and she was a 4.1 dark spirit So how does she pose a threat to your children? I don't know what she's gonna do with them I don't know if she's gonna flee with them. She's gonna hurt him And then I saw the guy who had sent the email to hory And I was like Who the hell is chad debo okay, so This this couple just loses its mind starts dividing people as demons and then murders them including two of the women's own children Okay, let's go to the chat Brenda says you've mentioned the electric unicycle is an example where china dominates the us in tech innovation I have to admit. I don't know anything about electric unicycle innovation Most engineering graduates in the u.s. Go on to administrative jobs and do no engineering at all as opposed to those crack chinese engineers All right, there's cutting-edge chinese engineers. So for every seven graduates Of chinese universities in engineering. Okay for every seven chinese engineers Only one on average is capable and competent enough to work in the west right What do you think chinese engineering students study? About 40 percent of what they study at university are the teachings of chairman mao Like how effective do you think that is for engineering? How many of the world's great engineering schools are in china? Right china most chinese don't even graduate from high school Chinese engineers by and large are pathetic Chinese technical quality the quality of what they make by and large is pathetic The quality of chinese education by and large is pathetic quality of chinese engineering by and large is pathetic China Has higher standards for education than the u.s. Then how come most chinese don't even go to high school? They don't even go to high school one third of chinese under 18 are retarded They're retarded one third the country is so polluted Right the air the water the filth right about a third of their kids are retarded Most chinese don't even attend high school their universities suck their communist propaganda machines Their their the productivity of their workforce Right, it's half that of turkey Oh those don't we all just naturally associate turks with super high productivity or china is so pathetic They can't even reach Better than one half the productivity levels of turkey Right chinese engineering graduates Right about the 15 percent are competent about 15 percent right after spending about 40 percent of their university education Studying the works of chairman Mao Do you really want to live in a high rise that is designed by people who spend 40 percent of their university education studying the works of chairman Mao China's falling apart china is done, bro absolutely done Okay, what's going on with uh shorn hennedy Let's have a look here Pennsylvania senate candidate dr. Oz will be here with a special message For the radical socialist trust fund brat in a hoodie John feterman guy that is not fit for office never had a job in his life But first we begin once again in beautiful matha's vineyard where after a full 24 hours of intense Emergency virtue signaling while the island's uber wealthy uber woke residents They booted all of their newly arrived guests out of town. They're gone as of 8 a.m. This morning The 50 illegal immigrants who flew in from florida or rounded up loaded onto buses and shipped to a us military base How loving thoughtful and accommodating of the left now according to local democrats There just wasn't enough room on the 55,000 acre island for the 50 illegal immigrants Uh, not our problem. They were saying you have the liberal racist xenophobic. Let's see millionaires billionaires who live Look, I try to create a show here where we take the best of disparate cultures I like to think of us as a bunch of crackheads, but the good kind of crackheads on spiritual crack We we take the best of crackheads. I mean you can you can criticize crackheads for this or that But at least it's an ideology like at least it's an in-group. I mean crackheads I mean they often have a lot of energy So let's take the best from crackheads and Adopt it into our lives. Let's take the best of gay bathhouse culture without the the sin and the sodomy just just think of gay bathhouse culture as you know a caring in-group and Let's take the best of monkey pox right not the not the nasty parts of monkey pox But let's just embrace that feeling of vulnerability that comes when you've got these, you know ever expanding You know anal postules Yeah, let's recognize that that we're all vulnerable here that I'm just sharing my delusions and you're just sharing your delusions So so let's let's take the best of of crackhead culture of uh retired culture of monkey pox culture of gay bathhouse culture and let us let us reason together and let's begin by just Hitting the spiritual crack pipe of truth. All right, let's let's just imbibe some spiritual crack Whoa, whoa, not not the illegal kind not not the bad kind, but uh Let's have some spiritual crack from from the show peep show season two Tony episode two you did didn't you? Oh, yeah And you did obviously. Oh, yeah Spicy clinical more like What are you going there? It's a bit of crack crack Cracksy bands relax. It's not blue Peter. Have a nice little relaxing smoke of crack Come on. Let's all take just a nice relaxing smoke of spiritual crack right now And and let's you know move beyond A judgmental superior attitude towards crackheads and let's Let's celebrate what's good in getting monkey pox. Let's celebrate and what's good about having hiv Let's celebrate what's good about being retarded. Let's celebrate the greatness in our homeless population Let's celebrate the wonders of gay bathhouse culture, you know without any of the the downsides and the sin and the sodomy All right, let's let's celebrate celebration time come on I want to celebrate I just want to teach the world to sing and how did I get here talking about the dissolution of the russian and chinese empires I just want to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony Oh, hey All right, so I enjoy a weekly column by thomas edsel these leftist rights for the new york times but very thoughtful and His latest column is why aren't you voting in your financial self-interest? All right So why do millions of americans on both the right and the left ignore Their own economic self-interest when they choose which political party to support Right, so now we've got these rabbit culture wars and how of how these culture wars superseded What used to be the basis of politics in america? Like the the division of resources I thought politics was supposed to be about, you know, who gets what like who gets, you know, which social forms of social welfare spending But in america apparently and around the world when people get rich They start placing a higher weight on moral considerations, which is inducing rich moral liberals to swing democrat meaning Universal moral principles such as caring about what's going on in ukraine and kenya So the parties are now polarizing on social issues because their voter bases have become more extreme So the poor morally conservative voter is now more likely to vote republican Even if his materially preferred economic policy has moved to the left So poor moral conservatives swing republican This pushes the republicans further right on social issues and the democrats further left on social issues So moral values are in essence luxury goods. And I just think this is such a Reductionist understanding of life. What we're all doing is we all want to feel good I mean, I'm maybe just Having a flashback to a more promiscuous time in my life where women would tell me I just want to feel good Just want someone to tell me that I feel pretty I just want to feel full when you just fill me up But we all just want to feel good And what feels good is not just money, but we have stories, right? We have hero systems about how the world works And when something's going on that challenges or smudges Or damages your hero system such as every time you go to the new york times and you're assorted by all these pictures of Men kissing men. All right, if that tarnishes your hero system, then you're going to be Feeling bad and people don't want to feel bad every living organism was to create an environment around it That is most conducive to its flourishing. And so we all have all these synaptic neurological impulses neurons wiring and firing and We have forces going on inside of us hormones and neurons and All sorts of things going on inside of us and we want to feel good And much of what makes us feel good is when we can shape the world around us to accord With what makes us feel good with what leads to our thriving, right? I'm all about the human thriving, bro So when you have same-sex marriage and that you know makes you feel bad then you are being damaged you're being hurt if If you conceive of the military as a heterosexual enterprise And then homosexuals start pouring into the military under a dodas don't tell policy Then you feel harmed if you believe that able-bodied people should work and instead they are getting incentivized to act in antisocial ways then you feel awful All right, so people want to feel good and it's not like money is the only thing that makes people feel good Right, so this reductionist idea way that people just vote with their self-interest people vote for their overall interests And morality and hero systems and stories we tell ourselves about how how the world works Are an integral part of our Biological life we would be crushed by our insignificance If we didn't have some sort of hero system that we signed on to that gives our lives and and our daily deeds transcendent meaning So for the last 30 years in particular democrats have increasingly placed a stronger emphasis on Universalist moral concepts a trend that's considerably weaker among republicans donald trump And his moral language is far less universalist more communal than that of any other presidential nominee in recent history and so The richest people Right, they may place far more emphasis on moral and cultural issues well everyone places emphasis on moral and cultural issues because you Can't get up in the morning and go through life without a moral worldview without an instinct that certain things are right and certain things are wrong so We've got economic shocks that boost conflict between cultural groups that this can trigger shifts to cultural identity so if jobs get outshored and People you know don't have jobs and it's the more educated who benefit right then working class voters may switch to voting for the right so losers from international trade tend to throw their support for right wing and conservative parties and rob henderson published an op-ed in 2019 luxury beliefs the latest status symbol for rich americans So it says in the past upper class americans used to display their social status with luxury goods today They do it with luxury beliefs So the upper classes have found a clever solution to the problem that everyone can have access now to luxury items They have luxury beliefs So these are the ideas and the opinions that confer status on the rich at very little cost while taking a significant toll on the lower classes On the island, they just say they don't have enough resources to accommodate them I'm not buying that and over at ms dnc Have chuck todd saying that the situation was inhumane because of the lack of infrastructure What about texas's 1.1 million illegals this year alone? Never mind the nearly 2 million last year Now it's not clear if chuck was worried about the illegal immigrants or the long suffering residents The wealthy people in mathas vineyard who were forced to endure a whole whopping 24 hours of uninvited guests Now either way it is clear tonight That america's virtuous liberals are no longer able to ignore the two-year crisis By the way, the crisis they caused at our southern border and they know just who to blame take a look It's a stunt using human beings to score political points I thought the word inhumane was a good good one to use in this particular case And people don't know where they're going the people that are there don't know you're coming Some politicians would rather not only have an issue but exacerbate it to the extent of literally human trafficking as you said And it's all Due to treating people as political pawns Leaving some migrants who might have been misled to believe they were going elsewhere as reported by npr on a literal island That doesn't have any infrastructure designed to help them at all In a word, it's inhumane instead of working with us on solutions Republicans are playing politics with human beings using them as props Right as opposed to politics as usual when the politicians never Use people as props. This is really shocking. All right, you're probably wondering 40 What books have you been reading lately? I've been reading a 2015 work by my favorite moral philosopher Can you guess who my favorite moral philosopher is? Yes, you're right. It's john m doris His book from 2015 talking to ourselves reflection ignorance and agency pretty sexy title So great anecdote to start the book. So when I was a kid I would find these books by vance packard in my dad's library and I'd read them the hidden persuaders like books like that so In 1957 there was this marketing consultant james vickery and he reported huge sales increases at a new jersey theater concession All you had to do he said was intermittently flash eat popcorn and drink coca-cola on the screen for one 300th of a second and then unsuspecting moviegoers ate more popcorn and drank more coke So very famous anecdote. So before long subliminal advertising was a staple of cold war paranormal paranoia That expose is likes vance packers the hidden persuaders and Other books like subliminal seduction or glutting bookstores. The new yorker pronounced vance packard's opus as an authoritative and Frightening report on how manufacturers fundraisers and politicians are attempting To turn the american mind into a kind of catatonic dough that will buy give or vote their command pretty creepy stuff Is catatonic dough you got movie night as night of the living nauseous with film buffs casters junk food zombies So what was sinister? Is that we have all these americans who are victims of subliminal sales techniques and they're made to do things They're their desires are manipulated without their knowledge or consent something sneaky Definitely going on federal regulators stepped in ruled this advertising deceptive Well turns out the alarmists were unduly alarmed After decades of research scientific evidence for the effectiveness of subliminal Advertising remains in very short supply. In other words, this is all based on a lie And so this just kind of reminds me of talk radio and live streaming like you get, you know, this sexy Topic this sexy title this, you know feed people's paranoia And it's just so fun to tune into but it's just so often bogus and I guess because in part, uh, I need to think about talk radio and live streaming as a conversation and What makes it for a good conversation are not You know an accurate recitation of facts people people will usually tune into punditry because they want to feel something They just want to feel good, man. I just want to feel full Fill me up Make me feel good. That's why most people go for punditry and live streams so Apparently a majority of americans have heard of subliminal advertising a majority of those believe it works And you still have books like the secret sales pitch and subliminal persuasion. They're still getting written Still getting published and there's even a celebratory 50th anniversary edition of the hidden persuaders appearing in 2007 all based on a lie It just so much of what's in the news and what's Drawn out by pundits and clerics. It's just a lie Now you're probably wondering 40 What is the philosophy of reflectivism? Okay, that's a doctrine to which the exercise of human agency consists of judgment and behavior ordered by self-conscious reflection about what to think and do so if you think it and Then you decide on something and then you do it, right? This is the notion that we Can can think our way to a better life And so when we act This is the product of reflection So people correctly divine the beliefs desires and other psychological states relevant to their decisions And they make these decisions in light of these emotional states or reasons and act accordingly now This sounds great. All right. Who who who doesn't venerate this this idea? But this assumption is completely compromised by decades of research in the social cognitive and behavioral sciences So reflection appears a very limited portion of human conduct behavior tends to be thoughtless quite unconstrained By reflection and when people do reflect There's usually little warrant for confidence that these reflections are informed by accurate self-awareness Sad they're doing it simply wrong. It's un-american. It's reckless And we have a process in place to manage migrants at the border. Yeah, put them in joe's cages Put in the middle of a pandemic. Really? Okay, let's yeah the chat is right. Donald trump was the first american president in 60 years who successfully crushed illegal immigration in 2020 With his policies like remain in mexico trump did something amazing. He crushed illegal immigration He was effective finally by 2020 a crushing illegal immigration Then his successor joe biden undid many of those policies and as a result millions of illegal aliens are flooding into our country And on that happy and cheery note Let's go out with some Some spiritual crack obviously. Oh, yeah spicy clinical more like What are you going there? It's a bit of crack crack Crack superhands relax. I don't play Peter. Have a nice little relaxing smoke a crack. Oh my lord Nice little relaxing smoke of spiritual crack