 Hello everybody and welcome to the Donald Trump era. Donald Trump is now officially president of the United States of America, which is, I don't know, I guess we will see. I mean, encouraged by everybody to have a wait and see attitude and to see how it all develops and to see what the actions are versus the words. Okay, so people are saying volume is too low, so I'm going to raise the volume, so one second. But I take it that should be better, and yeah, probably as compared to the music, it was lower than the music. But hopefully this is better, hopefully this is going well, and hopefully sound on Facebook is good. Please let me know if there are distortions on the sound, which is definitely possible. Let me just adjust a little bit. I think we're a little too loud on Facebook right now. All right, all right, we'll get this one day. I'll be right. All right, here we go. So, inaugural address yesterday and, you know, one of the things that has amazed me, and I'm really trying to be understanding and objective and so on with everything going on with the Trump phenomena. One of the things that really does surprise me though and quite astound me is how different people's opinions are about Donald Trump and about, you know, their estimation of him and where we're heading and what we're doing and so on. And I saw that yesterday. I think I tweeted that, you know, his inaugural address actually made me fairly depressed. So, and I got a lot of responses back, oh, you know, you're on, you're being too negative as usual and so on and so forth and everything. So what I'd say to do is I've got the speech in front of me. I'm going to read you the speech. Actually, this will be fun because you'll hear me reading Donald Trump's speech, which will be kind of interesting because I think I deliver differently than Donald Trump delivers. You know, the emphasis is going to be different and it's going to be kind of fun. And then we're going to, as I'm delivering it, I'm going to stop as I talk about it, I'm going to stop and we're going to talk about the particulars and the specifics and what's there. And I'm going to try and be patient with me because some of you will hate this. I'm going to try to be as positive as possible about this, right? I'm going to try to spin this in the most positive way possible. And it's easier to do, it's easier to do when you actually read the speech than when you hear it because when I hear it, I hear Donald Trump. And that immediately, I have to admit my own bias, immediately I hear something negative. Now, I still think the speech is negative, you'll see that. The other advantage, and now there are a few things, I mean, so I'm trying to think why do people view this as, now, yeah, I know, people are already coming down to me, I'm not going to compare this speech to an objective of speech. That would be ridiculous, right? And an objective of speech would be a million times better and a million times different and different in every respect. I just want to compare this to reality, right, to what is actually going on in the world, to who this appeals to, to what this projects about a Trump administration, what it projects about Trump, and mainly who is appealing to because I still think Trump doesn't really represent anything personally, I don't think he has any ideology. But, you know, this is not, and the standard is not the perfect objective of speech. One day, one day, you know, we can, we can do your own books inaugural address what I would say in a speech, if I was elected president, if you like that idea, let me know, we could put that together and do that, that would be kind of fun for me. I've done that before for the State of the Union address. Yeah, that would be fun. That's not what I'm talking about here. I'm talking about just analyzing this objectively. What is he saying by what standard? Who's appealing to? Is it true what he says? Isn't it true what he says? Now, why do people, so why did people like this speech? And I'm just going to say a few positive things of how people respond to the speech, and then we'll talk about it at the end and about whether this is objective, any of this is objectively true. I mean, it's, the speech is assertive, and they like that, right? Enough of these mealy-mouthed, whiny presidents, right? Here's a president who says it, you know, who says stuff with assertion, with confidence, he non-apologetically, and he just, he just yells it out there. He projects a certain sense, I think a wrong sense, but a certain sense of self-interest, America first, right? And American first can be an appropriate slogan, particularly for foreign policy, that you place American interests first, which means then you have to understand what America means and what American interests are. But there's a certain sense, and I think Trump projects this, and I think people respond to this, there's a certain sense of we're doing this for our own self, for self-interest, which I think people are responding to that kind of American sense of life, of self-interest, of selfishness, of moral, you know, defense of one's own interests. So, again, that's an emotion more than anything else, right? He is good at focusing on groups that struggle, so there's a certainly, and we'll talk about this, there's certainly a subgroup of Americans who this is very much appealing to, because he appeals to them, and he's relating directly to them, to those who are struggling economically and struggling financially, and struggling to understand them. And you'll see through the speech, he appeals to them quite a bit, and then of course there is this vague, non-specific, but explicit claim of we're giving power back to the people, we're giving power back to the people, and that's a positive objectively, but giving back power back to the people, not in a celebration of democracy, there's no celebration of democracy at all in this speech, and that's one of its virtues. But here's the line, and I'll come back to this, at the sense of this movement is a crucial conviction, put aside what the hell this movement is and whether there is such a movement, but that a nation exists to serve its citizens. That's a good line, that's a good line, right? Government is there to serve its citizens, government is a servant, and government is not there. You know, this is in a sense the opposite of JFK's statement, don't ask what you can do for the government, for your country, but what the country can do for you. No, don't ask what the country can do for you, but what you can do for the government, the opposite, right? So this is saying, no, the government is our servant, the government is there to do stuff for us. Now, he's got the wrong things for the government to do for us, and it's not about what we mean when the government is our servant, it's there to protect our rights, which means therefore to protect us from coercion. He has a much more expansive role for government, which we'll get to, but note that at least he is saying that the government is there to serve us. To serve its citizens. Now, in what capacity? How is it going to serve us? Because if you think about it, that could also be a big socialist, a big socialist statement. You know, we are here to serve the people, we allocate resources and to give you stuff and to make sure you're taking care of. And there's a bit of an element of that in what Trump means by that, but if it means to serve the people by protecting them so that they can pursue their own happiness, which he never says, which he never says is a problem. Okay, so I'm going to read from the speech and you know what, I'm going to skip the whole beginning. We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and to restore its promise for all our people. Yeah, okay, restore promise is good. For all people is good. I mean, that's what you want in a president, you know, restore and indeed America has lost much of its promise. Today we will determine the course of America and the world for years to come. We will face challenges. We will confront hardships, but we will get the job done. That's a theme that he keeps returning to is we are men of action. We will get stuff done. We will make it happen. Every four years we gather on these steps to carry out the orderly and peaceful transition of power and we're grateful to President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama for the gracious aid throughout this transition. They have been magnificent. You have to laugh at that. But anyway, he's trying to be gracious. That's good. Today's ceremony, however, here's the shift, right? Has very special meaning because today we're not merely transferring power from one administration to another or from one party to another. But we are transferring power from Washington DC and giving it back to you, the American people. Now that's good. That's a good sentiment. That's a good sentiment. It's dramatic. It's well written. You have to give it, give it, you know, we're transferring. We're transferring, you know, we've taken this position to transfer you power, right? You, the people where it belongs. But, you know, it's a great sentiment. And it's good to express great sentiments because the power resides in the people. The power resides with individuals. But what does it mean? And you'd expect him to say something about what it means. You know, again, not, and don't have to be an objectivist here to say, okay, what does it mean to transfer back power to Americans? And you could go into a spiel here about I'm going to deregulate. I'm going to cut taxes. I'm going to give you your money back. I'm going to cut regulations so you could start your own businesses and determine your own fate. You know, there's a lot you can say here, but Trump has never been strong in presenting a positive case for anything that he does really. So he immediately goes to the negative here. For too long, a small group in our nation's capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the costs. Hard, you know, you're going to find me arguing with that, those bastards in Washington. I hate that. I hate that city. Washington flourished. Yeah, it's booming economically. But the people did not share in its wealth. True, they keep taking it away, although it's only partially true, right? And this is where it gets interesting, right? Trump is appealing to a certain segment of the American population, a segment of the American population that is not doing well, that hasn't done well. Not that is not doing as well as it could. I feel like all of us are not doing as well as we could. Anybody productive in America is not doing as well as we could because of all the regulations and constraints and controls and a bad educational system and everything else that's involved. We as individuals are not doing as well as we could do as well as we should do. But many of us, many of us are doing well. And this speech is very alienating to anybody who's doing well in this country, to anybody who's in Silicon Valley and starting a business and transforming the world in some way is making money as a professional. Or as an employee and rising up the chain and earning more and more money every year. To anybody who's actually being a success in spite of all the government programs in spite of the taxes, in spite of the regulations, in spite of the bad philosophy around us. If you have been successful in spite of all that, Donald Trump is not celebrating you. Donald Trump is not saying presenting you as an example of what is possible. But what Donald Trump is highlighting, is celebrating, right, is celebrating that those people who are not successful, who for whatever reason have not prospered, have failed. And have not so-called shade in the wealth that is being created, that is being produced again, not acknowledged by Trump at all. That is truly being created and produced over the last, you know, 20 years or whenever. I'm not sure what Donald Trump's ideal is, where that would place him. But certainly, so he's saying, you know, Washington has reallocated all the resources to them, they've made a lot of money, they've done well. The D.C. is booming all true, and the people did not share in its wealth. Partially true, and its sharing is not the right word anyway, because really Washington stole the wealth, Washington didn't create any wealth. By saying sharing in the wealth, you're suggesting that Washington creates wealth, and it's not sharing enough of that wealth with the people, where it's really the other way around, the people create the wealth, and Washington steals it from them. So there are a lot of problems with this section, a lot of problems with this section. Again, problems identifying anybody's speech, because as somebody says, I'm not, this is not an objective of speech, that's not the standard we're holding it up to, but I do think it's important to notice, and it keeps coming back to this, who is being raised up as the people Donald Trump is talking to as the standard, and that is people who have failed for one reason or another. Politicians prospered, but the jobs left, really, I mean this is such a cliche, and we've talked about this, I'm not going to talk too much about this, but this is his old strategy, is the jobs left, because he needs a foe, he needs an antagonist, he needs somebody to blame for everything that's gone wrong, and he's going to tell us who should blame for that. So the jobs left, which is already an indication, where'd they leave to? Donald, where'd they left to those foreign countries who are stealing our jobs and stealing our workers, and stealing our factories, and we'll get to that, he actually makes that very explicit in a little while. Jobs didn't leave, jobs didn't leave, we destroyed jobs, we destroyed jobs. I'm going to give you a comparison in a few minutes to Ronald Reagan's inaugural address from 1979 or 1980, January 1980, when the economy was truly in dire straits, we'd just gone through massive inflation and stagflation and all this stuff, and who did he blame for all of it? Interesting, notice who Donald Trump blames, we know this from the campaign, he blames foreigners, he blames the others, he blames other countries, never does he blame Americans, other than the elites. Never does he blame us for voting for those elites, we only blame the elites, so-called elites, and we blame foreigners in one way or the other. The jobs left, BS, and the factories closed, well some factories closed, many factories closed, most of the factories closed under Ronald Reagan, and under Bush and Clinton in the 80s and 90s were most of the factory closures, and the economy was booming while those factories closed, and more jobs were created than certainly under Obama, and huge numbers of jobs were created in the 1980s and 1990s, unemployment plummeted in job creation, so factories closed way back then, factories are still closing, but most of those factories are closing because we can produce the stuff much more efficiently with fewer factories, as I've said many times on the show, we produce more than double, more than double what we used to produce at our so-called employment peak in manufacturing, which was 1979. The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country, their victories have not been our victories, your victories, their triumphs have not been your triumphs, and while they celebrated in our nation's capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our country. True, struggling families had little to celebrate, and it's true that the establishment, the political establishment, the intellectual establishment, has been detached from the real world, has been detached from Americans, has been detached certainly from struggling Americans, and has been living it up at the rest of the country's expense. So I'm awful at attacking the establishment, although Trump needs enemies, needs to define enemies, and clearly the establishment, however you want to define it, is the enemy, but he's not the only enemy, we'll see other enemies, and the question is how do you fight an establishment as an enemy? I mean, you do it intellectually, and it's clearly that's not what's going on here. You do it ideologically, again, that's clearly not what's going on here, it's just that they somehow benefited and you all suffered from what? From bad policies, no, from letting foreigners take our stuff. We'll get to that. That all changes, starting right here and right now, because this moment is your moment. That's good rhetoric, right? And this is good assertive and seems self-confident. That all changes, starting right here and right now, because this moment is your moment, it belongs to you. It belongs to everyone gathered here today and everyone watching all across America. This is your day, this is your celebration, and this, the United States of America, is your country. All right, cool, right? But notice that really everything up until now, when he's been talking about you, he's been talking about those people who voted for him, those people have pissed off, those people upset, those people who've not done well economically. What truly matters is not which party controls that government, but whether a government is controlled by the people, all right? Government is your servant, that's okay, that's good. January 20th, 2017 will be remembered as the day that people became the rulers of this nation again. The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no more, no longer. Now, do you know where the forgotten man comes from? That comes from FDR. FDR talked a lot about the forgotten man and all the things the government was going to do to help the forgotten man. Trump is trying to, he's catching that idea, the idea of the suffering. And again, that's who he's really talking to. He's talking to those people who are his base, who feel like this economy is a disaster that the country's in shambles and, you know, he's going to illustrate that in a little while. That this carnage in the streets, he's going to talk about carnage and, you know, you are forgotten no longer, I'm your voice. By the way, this line could be read by FDR, was in a sense, could have been Bernie Sanders. The idea of the forgotten man and the standard for what I'm going to do is taking care of the forgotten man, not the producer, not the creator, not the builder, not the successful. All right, everyone is listening to you now, the forgotten man. You came by the tens of millions to become a part of a historic movement, the likes of which the world has never seen. Again, he's talking about people in the movement. This is not anymore, this is your government. You know, this is all of Americans. This is the people who voted for me. At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction that a nation exists to serve its citizens. I actually think I deliver Trump's speech better than Trump does. Hey, maybe you should hire me to deliver his speeches. Oh my God. Never, never, never. All right, not a bad line that a nation exists to serve its citizens. If now is the crux, what does that mean? What does that mean? By the way, it would be great if you guys live tweeted this. Some good one-liners I'm giving you here. You could live tweet them. Just use the hashtag, you're on Brookshow. Hashtag, you're on Brookshow. You're listening to your on Brookshow. Tell your friends, tell everybody to listen to your on Brookshow because you're not going to get this kind of stuff anyway. I've seen other people do the analysis of the speech. You know, most of them missed the point. All right, Americans want great schools for their children. True. Save neighborhoods for their families. True. And good jobs for themselves. True. These are the just and reasonable demands of a righteous public. Demands of who? They're servant. Which servant? The government. The government. So the government is supposed to. And, you know, this is pretty conventional. So, you know, for an objective perspective, I would argue against this. But what the people, what the government is supposed to provide us are great schools, safe neighborhoods, and good jobs. I will just mention that from my perspective, the only true statement on those three is safe neighborhoods. Great schools shouldn't be the government's role. It is government is doing that and good jobs. All the government can do by trying to provide good jobs is destroy jobs. These are the just and reasonable demands of a righteous public. Okay. Now, granted, everybody accepts that these are responsibilities government. You won't find anybody right or left who doesn't believe that schools, jobs, and safe neighborhoods. So this is pretty standard stick standard stuff. Okay. So now, now he gets to his view of the world out there. But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists. True. Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted off factories, scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation. Well, a little exaggeration, wouldn't you say? I, you know, I know some of you think I live in a gated community in Southern California. And I don't know anything about the world, but you know, I probably travel like a gazillion times more than any of you guys do. And I travel all across this country in all kinds of places and all kinds of neighborhoods because I speak in all kinds of places. I was just last week in Northwest Arkansas. Northwest Arkansas. Anybody ever been to Northwest Arkansas? It's, it's Northwest Arkansas. It's the middle of nowhere. You know, hardly anybody goes to Northwest Arkansas. But what you notice in Northwest Arkansas, it's how the place is booming. How much construction there is. Infrastructure building in terms of highways. The airport is pretty, it's small, but efficient. Houses everywhere being built. New, modern, big houses being built. For whom? Oh, and by the way, I do drive an Audi. Now I hate Donald Trump even more because last week or some week he attacked German automakers, which really pisses me off. So anyway, Northwest Arkansas building going up. Do you know why? Why is Northwest Arkansas? No, it's not because of shale. I don't know that there's any shale in Northwest Arkansas. Maybe there is, but I think that's Oklahoma. I think you're confusing with it. Why is Northwest Arkansas booming? It's booming because of Walmart. And it has been booming for the last 20 years. If you do like a Google map, where you see the transformation of a Google satellite, I think it's called, where you see the transformation of a place over time. And you see the growth and a good friend of mine sent me this little video of, I mean, the place is booming and a lot of it's Walmart, but not only Walmart. J.B. Hunt, the big trucking companies headquartered there. There's some technology related to it, particularly to logistics and supply chain management. It's the University of Arkansas with a business school named after. It's called the Walton School of Business. Right. So here is a Northwest Arkansas. And it's booming. The landscape is not scattered with, you know, Western factories. That's not what's going on. That's not what's going on in Northwest Arkansas. Now, true, there are places where this is happening. Move to Northwest Arkansas, right? If you live in a place that because of regulations and because of government controls and because of technology, the jobs in your location have gone. It's hard to find a job. Move to where the jobs are. Here's a tip. They're in Northwest Arkansas, among many other places. If you've ever been to Austin, Texas, the most liberal place in Texas, it's booming. It's great. It's amazing. I used to live in Texas. I mean, in Austin, the changes over the last 30 years in Austin, Texas are amazing. Oh, go to Dallas. Go to Dallas and wow, I was just in Houston driving through Houston. Right. So, okay, that's Texas. But, you know, you even go to Chicago and downtown Chicago. The skyscraper is still going up. There's construction all over the place. Now, some of that's a bubble. There's no question in my, there's no question, right? But, you know, there are places in this country that are doing well. And I would like to see a president celebrate that, not in a sense of being myopic and being detached, but saying, look, why is it that those places are doing that? Those places are doing well because of business. Those places are doing well because of the business climate maybe, right? And what we need to do is bring that same business climate to the whole country. Those places are doing well because of entrepreneurs. And what we need to encourage in this country is entrepreneurship. But that's not the message that Donald Trump wants to convey. He wants to convey a message of everything's falling apart. Everything is falling apart, right? And, you know, it's this sudden elements that are falling apart. And you can do that, but then say, talk about the positives. You know, talk about the positives. And he never gets to that. We never talk about anything positive going on in the United States of America except his election. Nothing positive is going on in the United States of America. So we can't learn from anything. So we're going to make a break by emulating what he goes on. An education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of knowledge. Now, this is maybe the best negative statement he makes in the whole damn speech. It's true. Educational system is flush with cash. If this was Hillary's speech or Obama's speech, they would say educational system deprives students of knowledge and what we need is more cash. Donald Trump acknowledges that they have enough cash. This is not a cash issue. And he says, now he never tells us nowhere in the speech what he's going to do about it. But maybe that's not the purpose here. But that's a true statement. Good for him. That's maybe one of the best lines of the whole speech because he's acknowledging that it's not money that will solve the problem of our education. And then he goes on and this is, this is, this beats it all, right? And the crime and gangs and drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential. Now it's starting to sound spooky. And this is the line that probably be most remembered of the entire speech in my view. Well, because partially because the media will pounce on it. This American carnage stops right here, stops right now. All right. Has he seen crime statistics? Have you seen the actual crime statistics for the last 50, 60 years? I mean, really? But again, this is how authoritarians work. And I, Donald Trump is not going to be a dictator, but he, he, he, he, his modus operandi is that of an authoritarian. And this is what's scary about him. Because I think he's preparing, he is setting the groundwork, you know, and it's been set for 100 years and Obama certainly set it up as well for authoritarianism. But this, but he, his modus operandi is more of an authoritarian modus operandi in his speeches than any American president ever that I know of, right? Make them afraid. Make them afraid. Make them very afraid. Then, right? Offer them an enemy. Tell them who the enemy is. Establishment immigrants far and other countries. And then tell them to give him the power to deal with those enemies and he will make America great again. That's the modus operandi of every dictator in history. And that's certainly the way Donald Trump has structured his campaign from day one. And this is very much like a campaign speech. So if you've looked at the crime statistics, yes, last year was not a good year for crime, particularly in places like Chicago, but it's still true. The crime rates in the United States are way, way down. Way, way down from a peaks on 90. The trend is still downward. Hopefully last year was just a blimp. Maybe it wasn't. We'll see. But there's no carnage in American streets, even in Chicago, where I walk around at night freely downtown. And everywhere, I mean, it's tragic what's going on in Chicago. It's horrible what's going on in Chicago. And we can talk about crime at some point. Why crime is declined? Why crime is going up right now? What exactly is going on with American crime? But there's no carnage in American streets right now. And suddenly when Ronald Reagan was elected in 1979, there was real, real, real crime problems in this country. Fine access, far, far in excess of the kind of crime that Donald Trump was talking about. And yet Donald Trump and that Ronald Reagan could still give a positive speech and not terrify us to death. We are one nation. And their pain is our pain. True. I mean, you know, people are dying out there from crime. That's not a good thing. They dreams are our dreams. And their success will be our success. To some extent, that's true, but not everybody dreams the same dream. He keeps repeating this idea that we all share the same dream. Not true. We all have different dreams and not even an essential. Some of us dream to be successful and we'll do whatever it takes to be successful and work hard and prosper. And some people are not. Some people don't do that. Some people are lazy. Some people ain't titled. Some people anyway. We share one heart, one, one heart, one home and one glorious destiny. Really? Now that sounds that sounds nationalistic, right? We talk about collectivism. We share one heart. No, we don't. We share one home. Luckily, you guys don't share my home and one glorious destiny as a nation borderline spooky. But it gets spooky later, so don't worry. The author office. I take today as an oath of alliance to all Americans. It doesn't sound like it. Nothing he said so far sounds like he is advocating for all Americans. He seems to be advocating for a particular group that is suffering. All right, I just somebody on the chat just corrected me and saying that indeed there is a there is a fracking in in Arkansas. There's I guess there's a there's shale there and and that side. But let me just say that North West Arkansas is not only, you know, expanding and developing and growing because of the shale, but I think it's primarily because and indeed was growing and succeeding and prospering even before the show was discovered. Going back to early to Walmart and to these other infrastructure corporations that have done so well. So, yeah, maybe there's also shale, maybe that's also helping good. Cool. My point was that there are places in this country that are doing very well. And indeed, when I travel around the country, I see a lot of places that are doing well. Now, I know how much better things could be. I know all the missed opportunities. I know all the missed wealth. And I know what clamping down on freedom can actually do. So I don't want to be Pollyanna share. Everything's fine in America. Everything's not fine in America, but you have to be able to recognize the good and the bad. Use the good, identify what's good about the good in order to fix the bad and identify freedom. There's nothing about freedom here. Not once in the speech about freedom, about freedom. But individual. Isn't that what America is about? For many decades, we've enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry. Now that's just BS. And I'm not going to talk about here because I've talked about it so much. That is ignorant stupidity. This is Bannon's economic nationalism. It's nonsense. It's not true. And it's implications of disastrous for all of us. We've enriched foreign industry at the expense of America. This is a zero-sum mentality, which is repeated later on in the speech. No. We've enriched foreign industries by enriching ourselves and by enriching our own industries. Subsidize the armies of other countries while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military, partially true. We have subsidized militaries of other countries in ridiculous ways and ridiculous armies, often of our enemies. It would be nice to actually say we've actually subsidized our enemies. We've depleted our military. It's questionable how much we've depleted it. I think that's probably an exaggeration. And our military is still unbelievably strong. The biggest problem with our military is we don't use it correctly and we waste it. And some of that is in here. We defended other nations' borders while refusing to defend our own. From who? Who's attacking us? Who's invading? Where's the invaders on the border? Why aren't the Marines stationed there? Give me a break. This is again, fear-mongering BS. Immigrants are not invaders. Immigrants are not invaders. Immigrants are not coming here to militarily attack us. And this idea of defending our borders with a wall to protect us from immigrants is nonsense. And spent trillions of dollars overseas while America's infrastructure has fallen into despair and decay. Some are true. Some of America's infrastructure has really fallen into despair and decay. And something needs to be done about it. And it's right about trillions of dollars overseas. We have built infrastructure for Iraqis. We have built infrastructures for Afghans. I wish you'd actually just say it. And that is despicable and a disgrace. Despicable and a disgrace. So, yes, good line. I agree with it. Probably in the wrong spirit, different spirit, but I agree with it factually. All right. And indeed, during the Marshall Plan, we spent trillions of billions of dollars on Europeans and in Asia and all that stuff. That could apply as well. We can talk about that another time. We made other countries rich while the wealth strength and commonance of our country has disappeared over the horizon. Again, nonsense, not true. Yeah, other countries have become rich by trading with us and by making us rich at the same time. This is this whole zero sum world. This whole attitude to its trade. This whole attitude to its wealth creation. There is no wealth creation in the entire speech. It's all about wealth distribution. There's wealth, too much of it has gone to Washington. Not enough of it went to the people. Too much went to Washington, but it was created by the people. And there's not enough wealth creation going on in the country and too much stealing of that wealth by Washington. That's how I would do it. One by one, the factory shuttered and left our shores. Not even a thought about the millions upon millions of American workers left behind. Again, the trade zero sum nonsense, factory shuttering. Most of them shuttered because of technology. Yes, some of them shuttered because we couldn't compete. Good. Somebody else can make it cheaper and better. Our lives improve as a consequence of that. And those American workers who lost their jobs go find more jobs. You don't have a right to a job. That's FDR, the idea of a right to a job. And all of them are middle classes being ripped from their homes and then redistributed across the entire world. Now that is one of the ugliest, stupidest statements. He has ever made, although he keeps making the same thing over and over again. That's nonsense. It's nonsense. Again, zero sum. Now, I want to just quickly contrast this with Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan came into office, gave his first inaugural address in 1981. Inflation was high, double digits. Unemployment was high, double digits. We were losing, losing in quotes, jobs to Korea and Japan for the first time in American history. Factories were shuttering, truly shuttering. We used to make televisions. We weren't making them anymore. We used to, we invented VCRs. We weren't making them anymore. You can go on and on and on. It was one of the worst, darkest time in American history. It's economically, economically. And crime was really bad. Really bad. Go back to the crime statistics. 71. Today, it's unbelievably peaceful in comparison, 1981. It's unbelievably peaceful in comparison. Interest rates were high because Paul Volcker was trying to smash inflation. The economy was in deep trouble and the Iranians were just about to release hostages, which they had held, I think, for 444 days, if I remember right. It was a dark, dark time for America. Now, who did Ronald Reagan blame these problems on? Did he look for a devious enemy out there to attack? No. He blamed the problems on Americans. He blamed the problems on Americans themselves. And part of this I'm getting from an article which analyzed the speech in the Atlantic. He blamed the problems on Americans themselves for mistakenly choosing higher taxes and government spending. And I would add regulations. So he didn't blame the Japanese and the Koreans. He didn't say the trade with them was bad even though he went on to do all kinds of tariffs, silly tariffs things. I mean, this is the difference. And I'm not a huge Ronald Reagan fan, but I miss him. I really miss him. The optimism, the positivism, the understanding that wealth is created, that American entrepreneurs create wealth, the understanding that America has made mistakes, that we, the people voted for higher taxes, voted for more government spending, voted for regulation, and that's what's destroyed jobs. And that's what created inflation and, you know, and that's what created stagflation. We are fault and therefore we can fix it not by attacking the other. That's the authoritarian message, but by fixing ourselves. And Trump is full of this and a lot of it is just leftist garbage what he's spouting. I mean, he is a leftist deep down. He is a leftist when it comes to all his economics ideas are fundamentally leftist. And again, we'll see how he implements it all. I know you guys are waiting leftist in a sense of pro government intervention in the economy. So now he's trying to be positive. But that is the past. And now we're looking only at the future. We assembled here today issuing a new decree to be heard in every city and every foreign capital and in every hall of power. From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land. A new vision. We're really excited to hear is the vision of freeing up entrepreneurs of individualism, even a little bit, little bit, just a tiny bit. I don't know. From this moment on, it's going to be America first. All right. Now, I understand why some people respond positively to this, because indeed in foreign policy, the standard should be America first. We're standing in for the rights of American individuals. And it should always be the case that in foreign policy, we go out and we defend the rights of American individuals out there. And it's it's Americans. First, we don't sacrifice for the people. We shouldn't be. We shouldn't be defending other people for the sake of defending them. It should always be from the perspective of Americans interests, which means from the perspective of the rights of Americans. How do we defend the rights of Americans? But what about domestic policy? Domestic policy is not about America first. It's about the individual first. It's about the individual citizens first. It's about their rights first. It's about articulating. It's about not articulating. Defending the rights of the individual citizens. Now, again, that's what an object of us would say. Somebody who's not an object of us say differently or wouldn't even say it, but you got to be careful not to get all enthusiastic about America first. It's a collectivistic slogan as expressed by Trump. And just in case you weren't convinced of that, he tells you in the next sentence, every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs would be made to benefit American workers and families. Now notice, every decision on trade and on taxes, on taxes, on taxes. There's such a thing as America first on taxes. There's my taxes and I want to pay as little as possible. What does it mean America first? It's the social good, the common welfare, all of that BS. That's what he means by it. It's pure collectivism. And then who's going to benefit from this America first? Not all of us Americans. Oh no. Only some Americans. And again, this is where he's a lefty. American workers. That's Bernie Sanders people and American families. That's the religious right, I guess. If you're single, you don't have a family. And if you happen to be a businessman or an entrepreneur and are not a quote worker part of the proletarian, you know, I know some of you are going to say, I'm distorting his words. He didn't say benefit anybody who works in America. He didn't say benefit American entrepreneurs, businesses, workers, families, single people. He said American workers and American families. Again, this nationalistic proletarian, right? We must protect our borders from the ravages, ravages, ravages of other countries, making our products, stealing our companies and destroying our jobs. Oh my God, this is what America first means. It means building a wall. It means isolating us from the rest of the world. It means not trading with the rest of the world and not letting our companies leave. Maybe, maybe we should erect walls to prevent our people from leaving. Because they might go over season work, God forbid. Again, our jobs are being destroyed not because of regulations, not because of taxes, not because of the bad policies coming out of the evil elites. No, our jobs, our companies are being destroyed by the fact that other countries are stealing and destroying our jobs. And I'm making our products, our products, all of our products, you, me, you, all of us, we have products and they're making them. I mean, this is mind-boggling nationalism, mind-boggling collectivism, mind-boggling mercantilism, mercantilism. Protection will lead to great prosperity and strength, protection from what? Who's the enemy? I agree that the enemy's the elites, but the enemy's not foreigners. The enemy's not immigrants. The enemy's not companies leaving. The enemy's watching in DC the regulations, the controls, the taxes, the government spending, all of that's the enemy. But nothing about that here, nothing about the growth of government, nothing about paternalistic government, nothing about regulations, nothing about controls, all about the other and the danger of the other. They're gonna come here and they're gonna drink the blood of our children. Just you watch, carnage in the streets and I, Donald Trump, am going to protect you from all this. I will fight for you with every breath in my body against those foreigners and against all these enemies that are coming and they're trying to destroy us. America will start winning again, winning like never before. Are we in a race? Or are we at war? Or is this just a zero-sum world? Isn't it just a zero-sum world? And if it's a zero-sum world, then yeah, it's all about winning, it's all about being erased, but the world is not a zero-sum world. And this is the biggest problem with Donald Trump, is this whole view of the world is zero-sum. It's about screwing the other guy because if you don't screw them, they'll screw you. That's the essence of the art of the deal. It's not about win-win, trade. It's about warfare. Jonathan Honing posted on the chat here. A quote from Leonard Peacock from a lecture a long time ago, and this could be Ayn Rand, and I certainly agree with the sentiment, quote, the enemy is in communism, it's Harvard. This is in the 80s or 70s, right, when this was said. And that's true. And even today, the enemy's not Islamic, fundamentalism, it's us. It's us. Because we could rid ourselves of them very easily. We'll get to that. He's going to tell us we're going to rid of them. All right, here we go. We will bring back our jobs. No. A, the jobs never left. And B, what does that even mean? Means nothing. We will bring back our borders. Did we lose them? Did we lose our borders? Our borders are still there. You know net migration, net migration from Mexico is right now negative or zero. And I want to see the data. I want somebody on the fear-mongering, we're being invaded by Mexicans on that side. I want you to show me the data where it shows that over the last eight years, since 20, well, over the last nine years, since 2008, I want you to show me the data that shows that net illegal immigration into this country is positive and up. From everything I've seen, net illegal immigration is down and is actually negative. It was negative during this period and is zero right now. So people going back, people coming in, net has been negative over the last nine years and is actually zero right now. But oh my God, we lost our borders. We got it. We will bring back our wealth. What is that? Did our wealth go away? I thought wealth was created. I mean, come on guys. Anybody out there who supports Donald Trump, we will bring back our wealth. Wealth is created. But Fauna stole our wealth. Really? How did that happen? And we will bring back our dreams. Dreams of what? You haven't told me yet. What are my dreams of? We will build new roads and highways and bridges and airports and tunnels and railways all across our wonderful nation with money borrowed from whom? The Chinese, the Japanese, right? Who are we going to borrow this money from? Because we don't have it. This is the one way sense in which our government is broke. We don't have the money to build all this infrastructure. So you want to build all this infrastructure. It's not our wealth. It's my wealth. It's your wealth. This individual's have wealth. Now I'm fine building infrastructure. God, if the government only did that and protected our lives, then we could start having the argument about private roads. We're a long way from there, right? But right now, where are they going to build it from? Where are they going to build it from? Where's the money going to come from? We're going to have to borrow it. And how are the Chinese going to get the money to lend it to us? I guess because we're going to buy their goods. If we stop buying their goods, they're not going to have dollars to buy our debt. I guess maybe then we'll have more money. No, we'll have less money. We will get our people off of welfare and back to work. Good sentiment. We building our country with American hands and American labor. Now that sounds like a leftist stimulus package to me. We're going to build all this infrastructure, and that's how we're going to get people off of welfare. Dig ditches, fill them up, right? This is just leftist stimulus package. Notice how getting angry and angry as the speech gets longer and longer. I actually thought I would be covering the speech in like 15 minutes, and we'd have a lot of time for Q&A today, but I guess not. I guess the whole show is going to be just the speech. How depressing. So think about it. The way to get people off of welfare and back to work. I'm all for that. The way to do that is by getting businesses to invest, getting businesses to expand, getting entrepreneurs to start new businesses. Getting businesses to grow. And if you had said that, we will get our people off of welfare and back to work. We will deregulate American businesses. We will cut their taxes. We will provide them every incentive in the world to. Fine. Fine. But instead, this could have been written by Hillary Clinton. This could have been written by Bernie Sanders. This is just a, we, by Paul Krugman. Paul Krugman could have written this. This is right out of Paul Krugman's, the way to get people off of. I'm not sure why the mainstream media didn't love this speech. It's full of stuff right for them. We will follow two simple rules. Buy American and hire American. Oh my God. This guy is anti-American. I encourage everybody to read an article written by Harry Benzwanger. You can look it up. Written by Harry Benzwanger. It's called Buy American is Un-American. Buy American is Un-American. And buying American, hiring American is anti-American. And you should read the article. We'll discuss it here on a future show. But it's, it's, it's really important. It's a really, really important article to read in the context of this. Just Google it. It's available for free online. Look, it's true that if Donald Trump had campaigned on, I'm going to cut regulation and cut taxes, and he may be not, would have not been elected. But you know what? He's president of the United States. He can, he can say whatever he wants to say. He can do an advocate for whatever he wants to advocate. He's not running for president anymore. He got it. Now is the time to actually cut regulations and cut taxes. Let the economy boom and win next time based on that. Buy American is Un-American. That's what you should all read. And you can see the fallacy in what he's talking about. We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world. But we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first. I agree. I agree with that statement. That's a good statement, right? What does it mean? What is putting your own interests first mean? We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example for anyone to follow. Now that, that's good for everyone to follow. That's good. That's a great line. That's a shiny city on a hill from Ronald Reagan, right? We want to lead by example. I'm all for that line, right? I'll take that sentence again if it had meaning. We will reinforce all old alliances and form new ones. And, and this is the only policy thing he says in the whole speech that I endorse. And unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the earth. Now, kudos to Donald Trump for saying it. For identifying as president, not just as a campaign as president, radical Islamic terrorism, identify Islam as part of it, and being willing to say something like, which I've been saying by the way for 15 years, 16 years, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the earth. That's a great line. I'm all for that. Love to know how he's going to do it. We'll wait and see. I give him credit for saying it. This is, of all the stuff he says, this is a concrete. And, you know, that's a good thing. It's a good concrete. The only good concrete in the whole thing, I think. All right, we'll keep going. At the bedrock of our politics. We'll be at total, isn't it lucky that he only spoke for 15 minutes? That's the best part of the whole speech is that it's short. Maybe, maybe state of the union speeches now are going to be short. That's going to be cool. Maybe we'll get some short stuff. That'll be really cool. At the bedrock of our politics. We'll be a total alliance to the United States of America. Really? Oh my God, that's scary now. Total alliance? Snowden shoot him because he didn't have a total alliance to your perception of what the United States of America is. And through our loyalty to our country, we will rediscover our loyalty to each other. Now he's starting to sound like a patriotic fascist type thing. Now that, that starts scaring me, right? And I know you guys think I'm a scaredy cat. I'm not. When you open your hearts to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us how good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity. More scary stuff. More scary stuff. Well, united. We're all good. And here it really is the kicker. We must speak our minds openly. That's good. Debate out disagreements honestly. That's good. But always pursue solidarity. No thank you. I don't want solidarity. I know that my ideas are not going to lead to solidarity. Always pursue solidarity. Union, be unified. Oh, can't we all just get together? Get along together. Patriotism. That's what unifies us. Love of country. Love of country. When America is united, God forbid, I guess, America is totally unstoppable. There should be no fear. We are protected. And we will always be protected. We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement. And most importantly, we are protected by God. I, you know, really. Finally, we must think big and dream even bigger. More dreams. I like dreams. Let's see what the thinking big and dreaming is. We will no longer accept politicians who are all talk and no actions. Okay. So I skipped that sentence in America. We understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving. I like that. In a sense that a nation is living. You know, it's got a nice ring to it. It's a little collectivist. It's quite collectivist. But it could have a positive implication said by the right person. How about that? Not by Donald Trump. Said by the right person. We will no longer accept politicians who are all talk and no action. Good. Constantly complaining, but never doing anything about it. Good. But you'll note in this speech and in other things he does is the primacy of action over ideas. This is a really important feature of pragmatism. It's really an important feature of materialism and really ultimately is dangerous. It's a little, again, it's a little scary. Again, going back again, I'm not calling him a fascist. I'm not calling him a Nazi. I'm not calling him. But if you go back to the speeches of nationalists, of fascists, of Nazis, they talk a lot about action. We need to act. Time. Stop talking. Stop thinking. It's time to act. Act, act, act. You know, action. If I remember right, that's a big feature of what fascists about is this idea of physical action as being a primary. The time for empty talk is over. Now arrives the hour of action. Do not let anyone tell you it cannot be done. No challenge can match the heart and fight in spirit of America. Oh, it sounds good. We will not fail. Our country will strive and prosper again. All optimistic, empty slogans. We will stand at the, we stand at the birth of a new millennial. Ready to unlock the mysteries of space. To free the earth from miseries of disease and to harness the energies of industries and technologies tomorrow. All true, cool stuff. And who's going to do that? A new national pride will stir our souls. He can't say anything positive without going to some nationalistic bullshit. Will stir our souls, lift our sights and heal our divisions. National pride will heal our divisions. Patriotism is first. Nation first. America first. I mean, I didn't vote for McCain because he came out of the Republican National Convention with country first as a slogan. This is McCain on steroids. It is time to remember that the old wisdom our soldiers will never forget. That with the, then whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriotism. We all enjoy the same glorious freedoms and we all salute the same great American flag. More nationalism. But here's the kicker. Red blood of patriots? We all bleed the same red blood of patriots. Let me say it again. We all bleed the same red blood of patriots. That's the standard. Don't we all just bleed the same red blood? But we are patriots. That's what makes us great. And by the way, he just passed a, I forget what it was, a day of patriotism, a commemorative day of patriotism, something like that. This is so nationalist. Oh, red blood, blood, blood, blood. That's so nationalist. It's so creepy, creepy and enjoy the same glorious freedoms. I thought one of the reasons America is in decline is because of a lack of freedom. This is the only place where freedom is mentioned and it's mentioned in the context of glory of everything's great. And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky and fill their hearts with the same dreams. I still want to know what the dream is. He hasn't told us. What are we dreaming of America being great again? I don't know any child that looks up to the sky and dreams of American greatness. They dream maybe of their own greatness. They dream maybe of their own freedom. They dream maybe of their own prosperity. They dream of going to space and being an astronaut or a fireman or whatever. But nobody, no kid looks up to the sky and dreams of American greatness. But he hasn't told us. And they are infused with a breath of life by the same almighty creator. So we're all equal because we all have the same almighty creator. So to all Americans in every city near and far, small and large from mountain to mountain and from ocean to ocean, hear these words. All right, here's the closing. You will never be ignored again. Your voice, your hopes and your dreams will define our American destiny. More dreams undefined. And nobody's going to listen to my voice except you guys. And he's not listening to my dreams because my dreams is, well, I won't say it. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way. Together. Together. We will make America strong again. Yay. We will make America wealthy again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. It's pretty safe right now. And yes, together, we will make America great again. Thank you. God bless you and God bless America. All right. So yeah, you know, what do you make of the speech sort of power back to the people. Some kind of self interest coming through America first. But at the end of the day, this is nationalistic zero some same as his campaign. Nothing's new. He's president of the United States right now. No positive vision for America other than we're going to stop the bad guys from stealing our jobs and closing our factories. And those bad guys are all overseas. We're going to, in a sense, drain the swamp. No description of how that's done or what that means. You know, we're going to attack the elites where that comes from. Oh, I have to give you this anecdote, just an anecdote. God bless you and God bless America is the way every president closes a speech right now. And I always thought, I guess this is just an American tradition. I mean, I have to say that when I give a rousing motivational speech and I need to close, I have for a fraction of a second tempted to saying God bless whatever, right? Because it's such a good close. The sentiment is a good sentiment. And it's such a good close, right? The sentiment is, you know, America should be blessed. But do you know that Ronald Reagan was the first one to use this as an ending for a speech? It was almost never used before this. And since Ronald Reagan, almost every speech, no matter left, right, Democrat, whatever has used God bless you and God bless America to end every single speech, right? It's now, if you don't do it, they say, oh my God, he must be an atheist. So just an anecdote, and this relates to the whole idea of Iron Man's that Ronald Reagan was going to bring religion into politics in a way that had never happened before in America. In America, he's going to bring the more majority in and they will take over the Republican Party all turned out to be true. And why she didn't vote for Ronald Reagan, even though he was like a hundred times better than this guy. And I still have people who tell me Iron Man would have loved Donald Trump. Iron Man would have been horrified. Because at the end of the day, as I think is obvious, this speech is nationalist, it's zero sum, it's xenophobic, it's fear mongering, it's blame the other guy. It's more of what he did throughout his campaign and it's no different from being president. And of course, he signed a few executive orders yesterday and two of them were quite good. One was taking away a loathing of rates that HUD provides on insurance for mortgages or something like that. And which Obama just passed a few days ago and he reversed that. And of course, the left is crying out that this is raising the cost of mortgages for Americans, but it was just a stupid thing. Now, why that was the first thing he signed? I have no idea but it was. I don't know what the urgency was there in particular. Then he also signed an executive order to tell agencies to loosen up the requirements on Obamacare and not to penalize anybody around Obamacare. So that's the beginning of the, I get effort to unravel Obamacare. We'll see what happens with that. I talked about that last week on my AM560 talk, which you, a guy, should all listen to. You can download it from iTunes and everywhere else. It's on blog talk radio. And it's also on Facebook Live because I did it on Facebook so you can scroll down my feed or look at my videos and you can find it where I talked about Obamacare. And it seems to weaken the issue of the mandate without actually formally doing away with it. It tells the agencies not to enforce it, in a sense. So how that exactly plays out, we'll see. It's not clear. But then the third executive order, the other tend to point, to formally appoint dissappointees to the different positions, was to establish a day of patriotism. Now, we don't know yet if it's a national holiday or what exactly the status of this thing is. I couldn't find information exactly about what it was. But let me see if I can find it. No, that isn't it. Yeah, I had a story here open on Facebook. Oh, here it is. Trump to proclaim national day of patriotism. Declaring a national day of patriotism was among Donald Trump's first acts as president of the United States. This is a tweet from his press secretary. Now we know that it's not just Donald Trump that tweets. The press secretary is going to tweet. POTUS signing three things. Mattis waver bill into law. Find formally nominating two Senate and proclaiming proclamation for national day of patriotism. So we don't know what exactly that means that it's different from Obama's proclaimed patriot day and national day of service and remembrance. So anyway, it fits against national day of patriotism. I was going to speak a lot about patriotism today because I thought I'd have a lot of time, but the show's almost over. So I don't have much time, but patriotism is not an automatic thing. Patriotism has to be earned. Patriotism is alliance to a state that is good. Alliance to a state for as long as it is good and allegiance to that state, but it's in that context. Now look, so patriotism is not just a virtue and a good thing independent of everything else. Now look, because this is going to go on forever, right? Donald Trump is president of the United States. Donald Trump is president of the United States. And that's a given. That's done. It's a done fact. And the protesters are protesting right now. I'm all for protests, not for riots, but I'm all for protests. You don't like what's going on, protest. That's good. But the fact is, like it or not, Donald Trump is president of the United States. I don't care if he's better than Obama. I don't care if he is better than Hillary if she'd won. She didn't win. He won. He's the president. I'm going to criticize him like he's the president. I'm not going to every time I criticize him say, but there are people worse than him. Of course there are people worse than him. And the voting is over. The campaign is over. This is not about who to vote for. You know my opinion about that. I've said it before. But that's not the issue anymore. Leave that alone. Leave that alone. You can't every time I criticize Trump say as I get on Facebook all the time, but he's better than Hillary. Okay, even if I grant you that. I'm not 100% sure I do looking at the long picture. Short term, maybe. It's irrelevant. He won. You guys won. Whoever voted for him won. Celebrate and let's get on with criticizing him. Let's get on with trying to straighten him out. Now I have to actually what I'm going to do is I'm going to do my am far 60 later today, which will be on Facebook live. I'm going to do on patriotism. That's a good topic. I was looking for topic for that. I'll talk about patriotism and what patriotism means and what it should mean and what it reflects. I want to take two quick calls here because this is a five one six area code. How are you on the book show? Who's this? I just came across your show. My name is Hugh. I'm calling from Virginia. How did you come across the show? I'm curious. Well, I just let spirit lead me and that's what I'm looking to show people that they have to go into their hearts and ask God to really sort out the egos with all the global leaders because there's a lot of hidden things that people just aren't aware of. And the conspiracies and the control, conquer and divide are confusing the heck out of everybody. So they have to really understand that everybody, no matter who came from spirit, and we're all going back into spirit eventually and you can't take the material goods with you. So that's what people have to start focusing on. Well, and I have had such a bizarre life. I actually share common background traits with President Trump. And there's a letter from President Obama to me that can be seen on the internet and a whole lot more. Great. Well, I appreciate you calling. I don't have a lot of time. So I'm sorry to cut you off. Please listen again and maybe call in again. We're going to disagree. And as you listen to this show, we're going to disagree a lot because I am a proud atheist and I don't believe you go anywhere after you die. You're dead. And it's true. You don't take it with you. So you might as well spend it and enjoy it while you have it. And generally, I'm for people living their lives and pursuing their own values while they're alive and living the best lives that they can live on this planet. I'll also say this. I don't believe in the conspiracy theories. I think the conspiracy theory is right out there in front of us and it's blatant. What we're living through, what we've always lived through is an ideological battle. We're fighting an ideological war and the war out there is a war between good ideas and bad ideas. And Donald Trump, in my view, has bad ideas. Just as Hillary Clinton has bad ideas, maybe he's a little bit better, maybe he's a little bit worse, but they're bad ideas and it's our job. Those of us who believe in good ideas, those who believe in rational self-interest, in reason, reason of faith, those of us who believe in capitalism, we must stand up. We must declare his ideas bad ideas. I don't care if you think he's better than anybody else. Maybe he's better than any other candidate in the world. That just suggests that we're really, really bad shape. His ideas are bad. They are wrong. They are no good. They will destroy this country if he practices all of them. Stand up and declare it. Fight it. Otherwise, what's the point? What's the point? Otherwise, just give in. Well, anyway, those are my ideas. I have a feeling while I gained a listener today, I just lost him. We've got one more caller who has been very patient because I think he called in like in the first minute of the show. Hi, you're in the Ron Book Show. Who's this? Hi, this is Evan from North Carolina. Hey Evan, how's it going? I recognize the area code. That's right. So I saw on the blog talk description, it said, in this episode, he takes, you're on, takes a look at the inaugural address, the women's march on Washington. I know he, so you briefly touched on the protest, but that made me think, I know you said plenty about, you know, like, today's feminists and how they're and how, you know, the anti free speech thing but I was thinking, like the women's rights movement has legitimate grievances. I know these people who are out protesting Trump if I were a, if I were a woman, I'd have grievances with Trump. Yeah. But what they say their rights are being taken away. What do you think about that? Well, like, I think there's, there's, there's worry, there's legitimate worry, there's worry about abortion, because there's no question in my mind that Donald Trump's going to appoint an anti abortion Supreme Court judge, and that that that You think he like really cares about that? I don't think he cares, but I think he is beholden to the religious right. Jeff Sessions is a big religious right guy. Remember that what's his name, Huckabee was a huge Donald Trump supporter and helped him a lot and was part of the transition team. Now his daughters will fight him on that but but his daughter will fight him on that but I think, I think that's one he's going to give the religious right and I think that's a worry. I think on the other hand what you'll see is some leftist stuff passed like I think his daughter is big on, you know, mandatory leave for women who have babies and all that stuff. You're going to see a lot of kind of that kind of leftist stuff being being proposed by the Trump administration because his, his, you know, because of who influence and so you'll see that now. What are the women's issue I just think that the way he expressed himself in the campaign was awful in terms of how we approached women and how he talked about women and I think if I was a woman I would have been offended. I mean I'm offended without being a woman I was offended being a man that another man would talk this way about women. So, so, you know, I think that's reason to be worried. But at the end of the day, you know, the protesters don't know what they, you know, that what they want is, is, is as bad as what Donald Trump is going to do. I think abortion is certainly one issue free speech might be another issue but that they believe in free speech they don't. I mean, but I, I think protesting is a good thing. I think if you believe something strongly, and if you believe, and if you're against something strongly, then I give them credit for going out to the streets. They're doing it, if they do it peacefully last night, it wasn't peaceful. And maybe today it won't become, it won't be peaceful. But so far, for what I've seen it was peaceful. If you do it peacefully, if you're not destroying property rights, if you're not purposefully blocking streets, but you're demonstrating just as other people have demonstrated all kinds of causes. And for people expressing themselves, I think that's part of free speech. So I'm all for that. But I'm worried about the pro-life stuff because I do think the pro-life, I hate that term, anti-abortion stuff, because I think he is going to try to appease the, I worry about Jeff Sessions and the impact he's going to have. But in terms of the other issues these women are marching for, in particular issues of women in the workplace, I think he's going to be good to them, bad for the rest of us. I think they're going to have new regulations. And I also think that when it comes to free speech, they're all bad. So he's bad, but so would have been, Hillary would have been just as bad, just in a different way. So does that make sense? And let me just say, I do apologize that I did not get to talk about the protesters, although I just did, I guess, a little bit. But because I really did not expect the whole show to be the speech because I'm really bad at estimating time. All right, I want to give you a TV show recommendation. I binged watched it last night. The episodes are short so you can do that. I didn't binge the whole show because it's long, but over a few nights and then the last few episodes were so suspenseful that my wife and I kept saying, okay, one more, one more, one more. And I think we watched until after midnight because you couldn't put it down. We couldn't put it down. And we're doing now it's a mix show, but it's very suspenseful. And I think I think it's really interesting. An interesting look at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and at the day-to-day of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict versus the big picture, because it doesn't deal with the big picture at all. At all, which is a weakness of the show, because in a sense there's a certain moral ambiguity there, but because it ignores the big picture, it ignores what's really going on. In a sense of what the situation is day-to-day, life-wise, in terms of people's lives. And in terms of the violence and in terms of, it's a really good thriller. I really enjoyed it. It has the elements. I warn you of this small equivalence which you have to be careful of. The show is on Netflix. So you can watch it on Netflix if you've got a subscription for free. It's an Israeli show. So the show is in Hebrew and Arabic. So you can have to read subtitles, but it is subtitled in English. And it's, I haven't given the title yet, so don't worry people. It's, as I said, it's on Netflix. It's an Israeli show. There are a lot of fights, say, in Hebrew, half in Arabic. So I had to read the subtitles when they were speaking Arabic. Very suspenseful. Just very well-made. I mean, it has plot holes. I mean, you could poke holes at this. But at the end of the day, very, a lot of suspense. Season one is all out there. It's got other weaknesses that, you know, in every show that has a hero, it has to have a miserable family life. It's like a standard thing. You can't have a happy hero because that would go against the Christian ethic of saints being miserable people. Think 24. Think Jack, right? He was miserable. Had a pathetic life. Everybody hated him. His daughter hated him. He hated his daughter. It just, no, he loved his daughter, but it really is a standard practice that if you have a hero, unequivocal heroic actor out there, right? In action, he is a hero. Then he has to have miserable family life. His family has to die. They have to hate him. He has to get divorced. They have to be affairs. It just, this show is consistent in that pattern, at least. But I enjoyed it. I found it interesting. I found you get a sense. And maybe I don't know if you guys will have enough background in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to get everything that happens in it. And maybe I should do a show just on this as a look into what is happening with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as it is today, where Israel is not winning and the Palestinians are not winning. And it's like a status quo and Israel cooperates with the Palestinian Authority, the old PLO and Hamas. It's kind of an enemy of the PLO but not really the allies and some things. And Hamas is an enemy of Israel but they let them get away with stuff and they don't really go after them because that would be too disruptive. And there's this weird stalemate going on. And there's covert actions and the terrorist attacks and more covert actions but there's no resolution. There's no victory. There's no, we're at war and we're going to win the war kind of attitude. So the name of the show is Fouda, which is an Arabic word. It's F-A-U-D-A. F-A-U-D-A. And F-A-U-D-A, right? And that means chaos in Arabic, chaos. And an insane kind of chaos. And that's what you get on the West Bank. It's an insanity. It's an insane life for the Palestinians. And it's an insane life for Israelis. It's not, you know, it is. Anyway, it's on Netflix. If you don't have Netflix, maybe it's on something else. I don't know. But it's, you know, I think it's worth watching. It's very well done. It's very well acted. Production values, you can tell it's on the cheap a little bit. Some people have called it the wire, which is one of my favorites. It shows the wire of Israel. We'll see. We'll see what season two is like. It's already been renewed for season two, so that was good. But Fouda on Netflix is my recommendation for a television show this week. I watch a lot of television, and I'm recommending a lot of stuff to you. Anyway, 12 episodes short, between 30 and 40 minutes. They must have a lot of commercials in Israel because the episode is so short. But that, it moves. It moves. Not like the wire, the wire I thought was slow, particularly early. Fouda moves fast. Bam, bam, bam. And you can't put it down because there's action. Now, I know there's at least one more caller who's called. And I apologize that it can't take the call. I'll try in the weeks to come to devote more time to your questions. I also have a list of questions that you guys have sent me by email that I need to catch up on. And maybe we'll do a show dedicated to Q&A, although I get fewer listeners to those shows. That's why I struggle with that. But what I'll try to do is have a sexy title, but try to only devote the first half hour to that. And then do it. Somebody suggested I have a three-hour show. We'll see. We might get there to the point where we have a three-hour show. Maybe we'll see. Anyway, I have another hour soon on AM560 where I'm going to talk about patriotism. And that'll be on, and that's at 205 Pacific Time, 205 Pacific Time. 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