 Yes, they can hear me. All right Well, as I said happy new year today, we're going to dedicate the show to a review of 2016 and Talk a little bit about 2017 I am actually in San Jose. So I'm not at home. We are broadcasting live on Facebook live so You can check out the the video over there and And I've got a lot a lot of stuff to cover reviewing 2016 so What what is characteristic of of this last year? What would you say? is Are the most important of events of last year and of course I think everybody's gonna jump out and say the election of Donald Trump and And yeah, absolutely probably the most important significant event of the year And I'm gonna try It's gonna be hard but I'm gonna try not to talk too much about Donald Trump because I've done so much of that so far and You know, I'm gonna disappoint a lot of you, but I haven't changed my mind about him I'm still pretty negative about or they're not pretty negative very negative about Donald Trump. So He's done nothing in the last month his appointments would be not bad, but he's done nothing in the last month to To make me feel or think any better of him, but I think what's more significant Is what the election of Donald Trump represents and more than that if we look at all the events globally for look at everything That's going on in the world Is there some unifying theme? Is there something that brings it all together? It explains it all And and I would argue. Yes, I think I think there was a definitely a universal theme to 2016 there's definitely a You know a general A general movement. It's it's not it's not good. It's a negative It's a negative movement, but there's definitely there's definitely something that unites. I'd say most of the events of 2016 I made a list just kind of everything that came into my mind of important things that I think happened during the year and Then I try to categorize them and they all kind of fit into this big theme So so here's the theme and then we're going to try to break it down Into into what it actually means by the way if you want in on the conversation and You you want to chat about any of this three four seven three two four three zero seven five three four seven three two four Three zero seven five and particularly if you've never called the show before call in but the regulars can call in as well and If you have some events important events of 2016 that I do not mention jump in and Offer what you got or if you disagree with my theme or if you disagree with the with the what you think the What you think is happening in the world, let me know alright Now I'm using I'm gonna be a little slow today because I'm using My laptop because I'm on the road so I don't have my big too massive 27-inch screens in front of me where I've got all the news stories laid out to my outline for the show laid out So it's a little slow. Oh, right. So I I've got one more technical thing to deal with here Let's see if I've got the right wire. I've got the right cable, right? Let me deal with this and Let me get back to you one second. I think I think this will do All right, I Think we're good maybe We'll see so theme What are we? What are we talking about? Well, I think what characterizes this year is really a a continuation of the decline of the West a continuation of the impotence of Western of the elites the intellectual the political the economic elites in the West But what's different about 2016? What I think will will characterize the year 2016 and differentiate it from previous years is The fact that the people have woken up to this So people are recognized and this is the positive if you will The positive spin on the election of Donald Trump and Brexit and their vote in Italy and many of the other votes in the world Is the people are pissed off? They've recognized that the world around them is bankrupt. It's culturally bankrupt. It's philosophically bankrupt. It's economically bankrupt it's culturally bankrupt and They have woken up. They are starting. I don't think it's the end of it I think we're gonna see a lot more they have started to respond they have started to react now the reaction and the response have been Primarily and we've talked about this all year. They've been tribal. They've been emotionalistic. They've been nationalistic they've been A very negative response, but it is a response. It is a response to real evil So it is a response to true nature or the true state of the culture in which we live It is a response to real state of the West. It is a response to real threats for example the Islamist threat that the West faces it is a response to leftist philosophical intellectual cultural bankruptcy and Corruptness and in the political class feeling I can get away with everything and I think that's what Hillary Represented for many people. It's the idea that you can get away with anything. You can be unbelievably corrupt you can be unbelievably anti-American and Nobody seems to care. Well American people says well now we do care Now again the now we do care What is the alternative? Well, what is the alternative? The alternative is what exactly you'd expect given? That philosophy leads a culture that philosophy determines the state of the world that philosophy is What ultimately guides the choices that people make? so if the philosophy is bad Then when people wake up to the corrupt state of the country They are going to choose something An alternative that's still corrupt Because philosophically the fact is that philosophically Nothing has changed philosophically There is no new alternative in the West to the standard conservative and and you know progressive nihilistic agenda conservatives and The left and I hate though. I hate using the term left I need a new term and I don't want to call them liberals because that's too nice of a word I actually like the word liberal liberal liberal used to represent liberty and freedom and Procapitalism pro-individual rights, so I hate to call the bastards on the left Liberals so what you know, you've got to get me a I need a new term right because they're all collectivists so so you've got collectivists of the left and collectivists of the right and People are rebelling against both But they're rebelling with a different form of collectivism call it collective You know collectivism 2.0 or collectivism negative 2.0 or whatever, but it's not that they've discovered individualism It's not that they've discovered capitalism. It's not that they've discovered reality and reason so Okay, my two friends on their iPhones have reminded me because they're sitting there doing something on their iPhones, which is fine But it reminded me which is great that you guys should live tweet the show right so anybody's listening live if you're on Twitter go live tweet the show because That's how I'll grow the audience right if each one of you live tweets to your people that'll be viewed by hundreds Maybe thousands maybe tens of thousands and that's how the show will grow You can also do the equivalent of live tweeting on Facebook. I don't know how that works Although, you know what link to the Facebook live feed right the show is live on Facebook Which is cool and plus if somebody on the comments on Facebook can put in the URL for the blog talk That'll be great. All right. We're doing a lot of technical stuff. Anyway, so This is the key to understanding 2016 nothing philosophically has changed but People have fed up with the status quo So they are gonna adopt the existing corrupt bad philosophy of altruism collectivism and Anti-reason to something new because they're pissed off at the status quo That doesn't mean they're gonna embrace reason Individualism and egoism. No, there's no reason for them to do that. There's nobody Other than a few voices here and there advocating for those ideas. There's no there's no awareness of these ideas Indeed everywhere we go. There's a an explicit rejection of the ideas both of on the part of intellectuals conservative intellectuals and Progressive intellectuals so there is no embrace There is no embrace of individualism. There's no embrace of reason and there is no embrace of capitalism Anyway on the political spectrum So where are people going to go if they want to reject the status quo? Well, they're gonna go You know, I think in this case it seems like people are moving towards The anti But not the anti-collectivism not the anti-altruism not the anti-emotionalism but the anti status quo that still embraces altruism collectivism and emotionalism Now remember nothing's changed in academia in academia this year was just another year of nuttiness Expressed I think particularly in the battle around free speech free speech this year There's common a massive attack on American campuses This is the year if you're gonna remember the year on campuses with anything. It's the year of the snowflake, right? It's the year of the what are they still millennials? These are the younger millennials. This is the year where the millennials Got their feelings hurt By speakers on campus by ideas They didn't like by people saying things they didn't like and this is the first year and maybe it's probably starting 2015 or 14 This is the first year where the university is basically capitulated to that creating safe spaces where they could go and hug a teddy bear or Listen to soft calming music You know, they should have put like a guru in there so they could meditate with them and really calm themselves You night with something. I don't know what what you unite with when you When you listen to those gurus anyway, this is the year where It seemed like young people were obsessed with their own emotions with their own feelings with not being upset with elevating the feeling to the status of truth and elevating being upset being emotionally upset To the level of coercion of physical force being implemented against them so that they could use being offended as a means to silence other people, right? So the whole Microaggression the whole idea of microaggression on university campuses the whole idea of microaggression Is to use the word aggression That is to blur the distinction between speech and action to blur the distinction between offending somebody And punching them in the face right So because if you punch somebody in the face the state can come in And stop them the state can intervene the state can block them Free speech protects us if we offend somebody But if offending somebody now is the same as punching them in the face Then there goes free speech now the state can intervene the state is there to protect us against violence against coercion against force and The whole point again of the idea of the term of the concept of microaggression Is to blur the distinction between force and speech force and emotional offense All right, so on campuses, I would say that the number one issue became the attack on free speech again more as a as a attempt to cause people to self censor Then is using the government to silence people so we still have the first amendment in this country This is the difference by the way between the u.s. One of the key differences between the u.s and europe today Is that the fact that we have in our constitution of protection for free speech And that in europe they don't have that so they can pass hate speech laws Whereas in the united states we can't pass hate speech laws But our public institutions like our universities can certainly pass hate speech codes Which try to silence people so it's not quite the same Silencing effect as if the government actually imposed these laws But it is a step in that direction and I would argue and I think this is true that if we did not have The first amendment if we did not have an explicit bill of rights That protected free speech free speech would be a massive decline in the united states And and we would be much like europe in the sense of adopting hate speech laws In this country so You know again, we're lucky in this country Because we have the farny fathers and we're lucky in a sense in madison lost the debate Lost the debate About the bill of rights ultimately came around to believing the bill of rights was a good idea But originally it was against the bill of rights because I think if if we had not have a bill of rights We would be in deep deep doo doo. I mean the fact is the bill of rights and in the constitution has already been eroded dramatically almost almost to the point where we can't Or we can't even Identified where we can't even find it But at least on some issues like free speech. We still have it so 2016 is the year of the attacks on free speech on campuses. It is the year I mean again, this is started in 1415 but really came to the forefront really became a public issue during during this year So one other issue that I think well so That was a big one and another issue that I think Serves an importance only in the sense that I think people were belling against this was that again over 15 and 16 the whole transgender issue became a huge issue Uh and put aside what you think about that issue and and where you think because certainly there is an issue there of of Of rights and and and people have people have right to do what they were with their body and to define themselves Are they want to define themselves? But I think the issue became a huge cultural issue and was blown all out of proportion by the media and You know this became one of the favorite topics for the new york times to write about And I think this is part of the alienation that much of america felt towards the Mainstream media the leftist elites The the the collectivist elites the elites that tend to be on the left. I'm still struggling with how to get rid of this Left-right distinction how to how to how to replace it with something meaning more meaningful Anyway, I guess I'm going to continue to be struggling with that. So while I'm going to use left and right Recognize the fact that I don't view myself anywhere on that spectrum. I don't buy this We are really on the right and the right is really not the right and the the the right and the you know There's collectivism versus individualism But I think there's an important differentiation between the What's today considered the left collectivism and right collectivism? So I'm going to stick with that distinction in that context So I think that alienation partially came from the fact that mainstream media and our intellectual elites Was so obsessed by issues that I think most of americans particularly at the time of economic fear of economic stagnation of economic issues It felt just alienated from it's not even that they objected to the particulars. It's just that Who cares about bathrooms when I don't have a meaningful job? I don't have a good job The economy is not doing well. I feel scared the muslims ain't vading whatever Instigated the the the fear that people had They felt detached from what the the the mainstream the mainstream media if you will Were talking about so I think that's a big part of it. All right Let's see. I need to do something here. I understand All right, I think I'm back. Sorry about that more technical issues one of these days We'll get all these technical issues worked out and we will have no more problems ever again Right, we'll see Okay, had a all right, so So that's I'd say that's where we you know, some of the Intellectual elites some of the top stories from the intellectual Elites it was a lot more going on. Obviously there was a election An election in which I think people felt so alienated from the mainstream media And I think this is this this has really been um One of the key stories of 2016 is this alienation from the mainstream alienation From mainstream media from the mainstream elites from the from the university professors from the intellectuals and unfortunately So many people have chosen to throw the baby out with the bath water. So they rejected all media And and shifted to uh to some of these ridiculous um completely incredible Alternative media sources as a consequence Okay, uh Let's see. I'm gonna take I'm gonna take a call before I switch. I want to talk a little bit about foreign policy and And then we'll get to some economic issues in europe and there's tons and tons to talk about. All right we're gonna take a call from uh Here we go through it too. Hi, you're new on book show. Who's this? Hey, skylapping you. Yeah, how's it going? Good good excited about 2017 Well, I'm with you. I'm I'm looking forward to I'm looking forward to making money in 2017. There you go That's that's a good optimistic spin on things yep Sure No, no, you're gonna have to give me a little bit of time on that one. I'll get to it promise Okay, okay, okay fast status versus faster status All right, I don't know that's a mouthful And and fast nobody understand what's that, you know, nobody's gonna understand what that means And nobody knows what the status is Nobody knows what the status is. All right. Yeah, I've got a question here um Yeah, I know I know by the way facebook live. I know the call is knocks mixed in Next week all will be good. You will everybody wait. Thanks skyla. I really appreciate the call I keep thinking of keep thinking of uh of terminologies and facebook live. I apologize The calls are not going to be uh mixed in I do not I do not travel with a mixer But I did buy for next week. I bought this cool 10 channel mixer and I'm gonna have an audio guy Come in next week and install and everything is going to be connected And as we connected to this show and my am 560 show And any other video I do in the future And we are slowly building The uran brook show studio in in my old son's bedroom Uh in my house, uh in california But it's still going to be a challenge when I travel So the next step is to is to find a small mixer That I can travel with and then be able to hook everything in through that mixer and make sure I have the right cables So you're just gonna have to be patient with me. You know, uh facebook live Is is still at the experimental level still experimental stage But i'm excited about it. I hope you're excited about it and we will get it right So that everybody will be able to enjoy the show and then You know when twitter live comes on board and when instagram live comes on board will be connected to everything Right because we're going to be cutting edge here in the uran brook show. We're gonna be all right so So as I said the theme for 2016 is continued impotence Of the west continued impotence of the west on all fronts intellectual farm policy domestic economic just impotence of our politicians impotence of our intellectuals impotence of our economic leaders just just a complete bankruptcy ideological bankruptcy And the people have woken up that's really 2016 the people have woken up and we'll see more of that in 2017 As we get elections in france in the netherlands Um as as brexit starts being implemented in the uk you're going to see the people Rising up. Is that a good thing? Is that a bad thing? Well, yeah, it's a good thing that they woke up It's a bad thing that they might be waking up to and creating an even worse nightmare for us all But let's talk a little bit about About farm policy, right Um because I think if you think about the west impotence One of the areas in which that impotence is is obvious is Farm policy and let me break this up into two. I want to talk about american farm policy American impotence abroad and then I want to talk about european impotence because european impotence has to do Both domestically and farm policy and then we'll go back to the united states and talk about economics cultural decline and and then um And then I so all of this kind of comes together with this impotence theme, which is You know, I think pretty obvious But then we'll talk about the waking up and then of course I do want to talk about I've been criticized right so a lot of objectives out there and I know not all of you objectives But a lot of objectives that they've said you're on you don't know what you're talking about uh, donald trump Donald trump represents the american sense of life donald trump Is the american sense of life waking up? This is good stuff. This is the american sense of life saying Enough is enough and this is a true statement of what ian ran called the american sense of life And this is a great thing that happened with this election I'm not convinced guys And I'll so I want to talk about the state of the american sense of life And I want to talk about The rejection of the status quo The rejection of the culture that we have the bad culture that we have and whether every rejection like that represents a positive In a sense of the waking up of what ian ran called the american sense of life And I want to remind you What ian ran thought the american sense of life was and what is represented and let's then see Whether the election of donald trump and everything else going on in the world in terms of this rebellion Really represents What ian ran met By by the american sense of life. I don't think so. I mean what I think has woken up Much more than the american sense of life, but what I think is woken up in america Is the european sense of life And that's scary. All right, but we'll get to that I'm I'm I'm jumping ahead just to give you a teaser so you stick around And you don't you don't leave right now. You know, I gotta I gotta keep uh Keep dangling some goodies out there so that you stick with me Uh through the next uh the next half hour or the next hour All right, uh, so let's let's quickly review american impotence abroad right and and this is really I think 16 years 16 years of pathetic weak ridiculous stupid farm policy From american I you know, I know all of you all of you love to blame every problem in the world on obama And I'm cool with that because I hate obama Almost as much as you guys do. I probably hate him a little bit less than you guys do But I can guarantee you this I hate george w bush 10 times more than any of you I know that because I know you guys And you guys are soft on bush and you have been forever And I'll tell all of you guys who are critical of me criticizing trump You guys were all critical of me when I criticized bush I voted now I did not vote for hillary clinton this election I know some of you are spreading the rumor I see it on facebook that I voted for hillary clinton so for the record I did not I didn't vote for donald trump, but it didn't vote for hillary clinton I didn't even vote for johnson. I did not vote I did not believe that not a single one of those candidates deserved my vote Or deserved to be anywhere near the presidency of the united states. I did not vote But in 2004 some of you do not know this some of you do but in 2004 I voted for john carrey The same john carrey who just gave that evil speech about israel like yesterday or the day before yesterday I voted in 2004 for john carrey and i'm proud of that vote And I wish john carrey had won in 2004 because he would have been blamed for the financial crisis He would have been blamed for iraq. We would have never got barack obama The whole history of the united states would have shifted and bought us more time George w bush was a disaster. I hated him from 9 12 2001 I was critical of him from 9 12 2001 and you know what I was right and you guys were wrong Well, not all of you guys because some of you agreed with me, but some of you guys were wrong And the same thing is going to happen with trump I'm going to be right and you guys are going to be wrong now The fact is I actually hope I'm wrong and you're right. I hope donald trump turns out to be great The pro individualism pro capitalism pro reason candidate that you guys are fantasizing about That's what I hope he is But I'm pretty confident. I'm pretty confident that ain't happening Um But you know, george bush was a disaster He you know, the warning rock was a disaster 5000 young americans lost their lives for nothing for for for stupid rules of engagement that george bush put in place the ridiculous nature of operation iraqi freedom The whole Sacrificial altruistic christian way in which those wars were being fought Yeah, okay. I don't want to get into a whole uh, whole george bush thing, but but right Obama then took it to the next level if george bush required u n Approval and thumbs up for everything that he did if george bush Sacrificed american troops on the ground to uh, iraqis and to afghans and to our worst enemies Sacrifice the lives of your kids to our worst enemies Then obama wanted to sacrifice all america to our worst enemies He wanted us to so-called lead from behind. He wanted to make america just like every other country on the planet He wanted to emphasize american weakness emphasize american humility Emphasize that america is no better and no different than the rest of the world. Let me be very clear Obama is the first And only so far because i don't consider uh, uh trump in this category the first and only anti-american president we've ever had Right, he did not like this country does not like this country He wanted america to be Europe He wanted america to be the anti-america He hated this country and he came across in in in in his early on particularly in his speech in kairo Um in michelle obama's statement about never being proud of america except on the day they elected obama Um and the rest of it. So here's a president Who has been? Anti-american from the beginning weak. You remember the red line he drew in syria Now, I don't think he should have drawn the red line. It was a stupid red line But if you draw a red line and you're president of the united states, you better live up to it He just backed off on it and he let at every point during the syrian conflict. He has let the russians Take control. He is like the russians lead He you remember when he called isis an insignificant nothing Didn't matter was not worth bothering with well. Look what happened All right, we'll get to isis when I talk about 2017, but we'll get to isis, but Here he was a president who got everything wrong on farm policy You remember his pivot to asia and what was the result of the pivot to asia was being Disrespected by the chinese now the chinese are more authoritarian than they've ever been before This is one of the one of the things that happened in 2016 and I think a direct consequence direct consequence Of our impotence of of the west's impotence and china looking at the west and saying We do not want to be like those guys We do not want to have anything like those guys culture those guys politics those guys World And as a consequence china's become more authoritarian they have lost Their respect for the west and as a consequence They have lost the west particularly america as a role model for what they would would and should become Which I think they had once Yeah, so now on facebook live you can see me sipping the coffee the rest of you just after why is he pausing? What's he doing? Well now you can actually see it all right So all over the world what The rest of the world has learned particularly those who are Not our allies. Let's put it that way. So not part of the western alliance Which I would consider europe uh north america and Parts of asia japan south korea taiwan places like that What they basically what the rest of of the world has learned is that the west is impotent The west is not going to stand up. They you know, we kind of deal with iran that was 2015 But but you know people learned from that in 2016. We let isis Expand grow. We barely bomb them. We drop leaflets before we drop them. We wait until The truck drivers get out of their cabs before we bomb the trucks We don't bomb the oil facility. So we let isis continue to fund itself. It's just unbelievable. It's unthinkable how stupid Sacrificial our policy is and again while this is true Well, this is true of uh of obama This was just as true This is just as true of george w bush So, uh Just pathetic. It's just more obvious under obama because he's so in at least bush Talked to talk. He didn't walk to walk when he talked to talk Obama talks the opposite talk. He talks to anti-american talk So he at least his actions are consistent with his words Libya where we led from behind and we turned it into an isis haven Iraq which has turned into an ally of iran afghanistan where we know if we leave is going to fall in the hands of the Taliban it's not even obama's reversed himself and he's going to keep troops there of course russia invading ukraine and and You know a few sanctions here and there now i'm not saying we should go to war with russia We certainly shouldn't but it's just that response was so pathetic. It's so weak. It's so Unassertive and and and friendly ultimately towards the russians china Doing whatever it wants in the south china sea and again. I'm not saying you're to war against the chinese for doing that I still do not consider china an enemy But but the fact that they That they felt that they could get away with it the fact that they think that they need to do it I think they need to do it for legit. I think the legitimate chinese reasons To assert themselves in the south china sea if the united states is weak if the united states is turning against trade Then somebody somebody better potato protect the trade routes For china which is very dependent on trade And a lot of what they're doing in the south china sea is an attempt to protect to protect those trade routes That's a pretty benevolent interpretation of what the chinese are doing But there is that element as the united states is perceived in the world to be weaker and weaker and weaker The rest of the world is going to assert itself and become stronger and stronger. So the fact that the russians would hack A major political party in the united states and try to affect the election and don't tell me it didn't happen It's bullshit. Of course it happened and we knew it happened three months ago I mean i'm shocked by the fact that it's news It didn't donald trump in some news conference during the election actually encouraged The russians to hack The the the the democrats email so everybody was talking about this in september october I don't know why it's news in december of course the russians hacked and the fact that they Just went into a lepo and they crushed it. You know, I don't Necessarily have a problem with that other than i'm no big fan of asad or putin But i am I don't have a problem with actually going to war Doing what's necessary to know to win when you go to war But the fact that the west said you can't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it And they just ignored it was just another example of the fact that nobody gives us a damn About what the west thinks about what america thinks because we're impotent, right? so All this hacking uh, and I don't know if you saw the story today There's a story today about or yesterday about uh, they're finding finding that the russians have hacked into Some electric utilities in the u.s. They haven't done anything with that hack But it looks like it's a hack in order to Let us know that they can actually shut down The electrical grid in the u.s. If they wanted to so and again I don't doubt that that's happening I don't doubt that the russians are trying to tell us You guys are nothing and and they're right. We guys are nothing We have the mightiest strongest military force in human history. We still could take on the chinese and the russians and crush them But they know they're impotent because we're a paper tiger We will not use our fangs our claws or anything. We will not do anything and of course Obama's final party shot in foreign policy so far has been uh The abstention at the u.n. Uh over the uh, Israeli condemnation now I don't want now to spend a lot of time on this Because I you know, I know I keep promising this but but I really will do a show on israel And I really do want to comment on the u.n. What an immoral stupid ridiculous organization Which america should have nothing to do with and should you know, I think I said this when uh, trump appointed nikki haley Uh to the u.n. nikki haley is way too good to be our ambassador to the u.n That you know, you should we should appoint a 12 year old to the u.n They should be a 12 year old should be our ambassador to you because that's how seriously we should take the u.n I would have actually supported trump if he'd appointed a 12 year old Or maybe his little son is eight year old son could have been ambassador to the u.n. I think that would have been appropriate Uh, the u.n. Is a ridiculous organization. It's not ridiculous an evil organization No, we should be out of it. So anything done at the u.n. But the fact that that uh, that The obama administration did something that was clearly anti-israeli And then uh had carry Due to speech which was clearly anti-israel It's just more of this. We're not going to support our allies Model equivalency. There's no difference between the west and everybody else Everybody's equally corrupt. Everybody's equally evil. We are nothing. We are nobody And again think about the american public the american public are going. That's not right. We know Not really we know we feel that we're better than the rest of the world we feel That We are exceptional that we are special And and again, I think this is what they're rejecting and even in europe what you're seeing is a rise Of people saying wait a minute Europe is not like everybody else Europe is different. We're better in some fundamental way. We don't know what that fundamental way is Maybe it's because we're christian Maybe because we're white Maybe maybe because we're european whatever the hell that means maybe they don't know Right and they're looking for false They have lots of false explanations. And this is why you're seeing I think in the u.s. And in europe the rise the rise of of race identity racism And nationalism and tribalism because people are looking for explanations for why they are quote better than everybody else They don't get it almost nobody gets it. So it's certainly the intellectuals don't get it The intellectuals are telling the people now you're not better than anybody else You're not better than the muslims. You're not better than than the africans or the asians or any other culture All cultures are the same indeed. We in the west we should feel guilty because we've raped and pillaged all these other cultures So we're worse than all the rest of them And people are rebelling people are saying no, but we're not worse We're better, but but but why are we better and they have no idea. They don't know why we're better They know it can't be because of capitalism because capitalism doesn't work They'd be told that over and over and over again by the authorities And they know it can't be because of reason because they'd be told by everybody And they'd be taught by everybody that reason is impotent And it can be individualism because europe's never had individualism not really not deep in a deep sense And nobody talks about individualism. Nobody knows what it is. Nobody has any concept of what it is So how could they identify individualism as a unique characteristic to the west when they have not They have not Nobody talks about nobody Has brought that up So they're left with nationality race history heritage religion something to grab a hold onto And this is where you get this New identity politics on the so-called right on the on the on the collectivist right All right, so let's talk about europe a little bit. We've already started obviously, but uh, you know europe I guess this is really the year in which the migrant crisis became very real within europe where where It became a big issue for for europeans over a million Primarily almost exclusively muslim migrants into into europe and i know some of you Don't think this is a migration. Some of you think this is an invasion Some of you think it's a million soldiers marching in or a million A million sleeper cells marching in Again, I don't have time right now to to deal with with that nonsense Um, but it is nonsense. Yeah, some of the people coming in isis Islamists some of the people coming in are going to be radicalized over time But this is not a thought-out planned invasion right now Uh, and this is not this is not an army You know, here's a question for you for those of you who are so anti so-called asylum of any So-called anti muslim immigration any muslim immigration no matter what um And by the way, I've already claimed that I would be against it if war was declared and if we actually if we actually Identified the enemy properly, but but think about this. I was just this week The this woman who is the first female pilot in the afghan army in afghan air force So a woman who who has gone out there being unbelievably courageous and death threats all the time Got a pilot's license joined the air force in afghanistan and became a pilot in the afghan army She's a muslim. I don't think she's an atheist. I don't think she's renounced Islam. She's a muslim but She has flouted all the conventions all the the the You know the slumists all the fundamentalists there and again daily with death threats And become this amazing role model For afghan women who would like to have human rights basic individual rights for themselves Where they don't have them not even with the so-called moderate afghan government now she was in a uh a training um exercise here in the united states as part of the afghan air force And at the end of the training exercise she decided she did not want to go back to afghanistan because of the constant non-stop death threat she was getting and she has applied For political asylum in the united states I guess the trump administration would deny her and I guess you guys would deny her because she's muslim Not all of you guys some of you guys would deny because she's muslim and and she's just asleep herself She just could convert to islamism any moment now Right and start shooting us and killing us all from the inside. I mean, what a heroic woman What a what a what a you know, what a what a woman that should be a a symbol of what is possible And uh to stand up. This is like that similar to ayan hosie li although ayan hosie li intellectually went an additional step but I would grant asylum in a heartbeat I Love of devil one. Yes, so she believes she she you know, she's gonna practice certain things about islam you know Many of you practice certain things that I consider pretty pretty weird and christianity or eunjudism or whatever um all right We've got a bunch of phone calls. Let me take a few phone calls and and then we'll go back to talking about Europe. Hi, you're in the yuran book show. Who's this? Aloha, how's it going? Okay Yeah, I like that illibals. Okay illibals. Let me try that out. Let me try that out. I like that All right Good. So this is an alternative to the left instead of the left. We'll call them illibals Of course, that's two of the right as well. That's the problem But okay, we can we can associate it with the left. Yeah, go ahead I'll get to the good stuff. Don't spoil it. Yeah, go ahead Yep yeah Absolutely and crisper just the the whole existence of crisper this gene new gene splicing technology Is just a gene editing technology is just amazing what they can do today in a fraction of the time what they could do in the past Is stunning and and it bodes really well for the future. So that that and and that became I think much more commercially viable this year. Um, the technology has been developed over years But really and of course in the uk now you can use it on on human embryos So the uk is way ahead of the united states on these things All right, great steward. Thanks, and I've got a few other positives that I'm going to get to for 2006 So don't worry. I'm not gonna I'm not going to end on what a shitty year And uh 2017 is going to be even worse. I promise not to do that Thanks to it. Thanks for the call. All right, we got one other one other call a 651 area code How are you on the uran book show? Who's this? Hey, Megan, how are you? I'm good. I'm good Well, I appreciate that. Thank you, Megan. Thank you Yep. Yep. Oh, wow You know, I you we can't actually do this but um, but uh, uh, let's see, uh You know, sorry, this would be unconstitutional. But what the hell we're fantasizing, right? Um Uh, Donald Trump and uh, Mike Pence dropped dead congress appoints John Allison president of the united states No, no, I have no problem them dropping dead. It's I'm fine with them dropping bad I'm I'm more concerned about what congress would do if that happened. I don't think they'd appoint John Allison as president I don't think it's constitutional for them to do it. I think uh speaker the house becomes president, uh, but um But yeah, I mean somehow if we could get it arranged that John Allison could become president of the united states I mean that would be pretty cool, right? Or somebody like John Allison, right? So, um But I don't know. I mean there was a period There was a period when um, a few years ago when I was doing these, uh state-of-the-art presentation and I would do a slide show and uh to begin the slide show to begin the popcorn presentation I would do This is the world we'd like to see and I would do these fake news headlines So exactly and one of them was exactly yours fda dismantled You know another one would be a federal reserve dismantled The error of free banking is now with us or You know we could Yeah, you could you could do it to every one of the you could do it to every one of the, um of the Uh What alphabet super agencies sec dismantled all of those dismantled, but then also, you know more fundamentally you could do something like um Tara smith appointed to the united states supreme court That would be cool, right and she's she's she's done she's done philosophy of law So, uh, she would be perfect as a supreme court's, uh You know nominate, you know nominated. Uh, she she's a philosopher. She's done philosophy of law She'd be great or you know, you could you could do more intellectual stuff rather than just political You know, so all of that would be cool and and I hear the baby in the background so, uh That's fun Wonderful All right, let me get back because I've got a lot still to cover Well, the babies are the best spiritual fuel. I love love babies and they're incredible motivations. They're incredible motivation Thanks, Megan. Thanks for calling Have a great new year all right, so We are talking about what we're talking about. We're talking about uh, europe Let's start. I'm gonna speed this up. Okay, migrant crisis. Europeans can't stand up for themselves They just fine with just having a million people across the border um, a little bit of waking up but but not really You know just pathetic and I've talked about the migrant crisis and I talked about why it's legitimate to restrict immigration When there's just floods of people coming in because of a civil war Um, they should have restricted immigration, uh in europe, but they can't they have no leg to stand up We saw the rise of the increased terrorism all over europe. We saw the uh, You know these, uh, radicalized individuals. We saw in the united states as well. We're San Bernardino and the nightclub in Orlando These radicalized individuals just gaining a weapon and and you can see the gun control doesn't help because in europe They have gun control people don't have guns. So they use their cars as weapons If somebody's intent on killing you they will find a way to kill you they don't necessarily need a rifle or a gun Uh, we we've lived through massive economic stagnation Italy, Greece, Deutsche Bank on the verge of collapse French banks, italian banks being bailed out right now Europe is stagnating. It's not collapsing But it is stagnating and some of the countries within europe are in deep deep trouble and and greece has not gone away 2017 you're gonna see the return of greece is a problem. It's gonna be very interesting to watch the The trump administration deal with that um Italy is gonna become a big problem in 2017 and if italy becomes a big problem expect spain And france to be problems as well, although i think spain is doing more positive reforms than the rest in many other countries in europe Generally all of this driven by a general skepticism about european identity. What does it mean to be european? skepticism about the whole european project about you know, so People reject the whole european union thing and they view the the whole european union thing as a bad deal And i disagree I disagree the the the idea of the european union was a great idea The idea of creating a place that had a uniform currency So getting rid of the transaction costs associated with replacing currencies and crossing borders and having lots of different currencies and Securing free movement of of goods capital and labor that is a wonderful idea That is a fantastic idea And the european union it is actually tragic that it has failed and it's failed because on top of that unity of of um Or top of doing away with all these barriers to trade capital and movement They also introduced massive regulations in order to create uniform regulations across the entire european block So the the failure of the european union is In the government's attempt to control the economy of the entire union Well any attempt to have government to control the economy is bad But when they try to do it uniformly across the entire union, it has devastating consequences So it's the uniform labor laws. It's uniform subsidies. It is the for for green energy or whatever It is the uniform uniform uniform regulations Uh and in the attempt to have uniform tax codes all of that has been a disaster, but the idea of free trade The idea of free movement of people capital and goods That is a brilliant idea. And that's an idea that should be embraced by more countries not fewer countries so european identity The skepticism about european identity has left the skepticism of the entire european project Which has led to skepticism of the european union And they're going to throw the baby out with a bathwater that is not skepticism towards trade It's skepticism towards immigration. It's skepticism towards free movement of capital And by the way immigration here i'm talking about just migration within the european union So i'm not talking about the muslims coming in or africans coming in I'm just talking about within the european union european citizens moving from country to country without showing a passport Without any restrictions. I love it when I go to europe you enter once And then you go all these other countries and you don't do passport control It's like going from one state to another within the united states and that's great. There's nothing wrong with that. That's fantastic But the problem is That there is no sense Of european identity. Therefore, there's no sense of what it means to be european and therefore now Replace the idea of being european or western civilization is going to be nationalism Brexit was the first sign of it. Now again, I was for brexit. I'm still for brexit, but Because I assume that england Or the united kingdom separate from europe will institute pro free market policies that the europeans would not have allowed them to institute Now that's yet to be proven Instead they could very much institute anti free market policies nationalist policies tribal as collectivist policies And be much worse off than if they'd stayed with you with the european union So they could take the worst of the european union the regulations and controls Instead of the best and deny the best which was free trade Free movement of capital free movement of labor So it's still to be determined whether brexit will turn out to be a good thing or a bad thing Italy's vote against the prime minister Was just stupid the the constitutional reforms that were being proposed were actually good and they were good for the people They were they actually made a lot of sense and people voted against it because it it was proposed By a sitting prime minister and we're against anybody who's sitting right we want them to be standing or something like that Right next year. You're gonna have france. You're gonna have netherlands who are moving way to the right Not just any way to the right collectivist right Good builders who's good on some issues around islam not good on other issues around islam And it's terrible when it comes to domestic policy Terrible when it comes to pretty much everything else. He's a he's a horrible horrible Representative of this nationalist tribalist Collectivist Attitude that might be we might share the suspicion of islam or the hatred of islam with them But nothing beyond that so in france marie lapin who I think is awful and dangerous and horrific But this is what's going to grow in europe. This this is what we're heading and we're seeing We're seeing The fervor we're seeing all of this Really rise up This year all right I'm running out of time and all i'm gonna i'm not gonna have time to do anything positive or to get to anything interesting Because this is just a laundry list of really bad things that are happening, right? All right Let's let's complete the laundry list with a few horrible things happening in america culturally and economically I mean culturally, I think there were Maybe the two most important things that happened this year And again, I think they started in 15 but really got full steam ahead in 16 with the election or with everything else And that is the police shootings And the response to police shootings and I did a couple of shows about this So you know my attitude to with police shootings. I think there's a real problem there I think some of these police shootings are horrible when somebody's on the ground and a policeman stands above them and Empties they empties a whole cartridge of bullets into into the percent I mean something is wrong with that specific policeman And when you see it And a few occurrences you have to question at least whether there's something in the culture of some of these police forces Whether there's something endemic and whether there's something that can be done about it And I believe that You know this there has to be some significant increase in police training on how to use a weapon when to use a weapon I've used weapons. I know how to use a weapon You don't when when you're you know when you're pointing a gun It has to be in the face of a real life threatening situation And I don't care if you're a policeman or not a policeman. You don't just shoot people You don't just shoot people So I think there's training that has to be done there But then there was the response to police shooting Which the most dominant response was that by black lives matter now there were two responses one by the so-called conservatives Who will defend anything a policeman ever does and it doesn't matter how horrific it is They will defend it to the death And that was ridiculous And then there was the opposite response which was black lives matter and they would defend The person being shot no matter what happens whether they were whether they had Done something bad to deserve being shot or not Didn't matter and then of course into the whole black lives matter into the whole shootings issue They wrapped into that a whole Moxist anti-capitalist anti-individualism anti-american agenda So I I I I've promised to do a show on black lives matter and I will do a show on black lives matter But black lives matter took a legitimate issue which is Some of these police shootings look really really bad And there is real question about whether they are or not uh politically or racially motivated And uh that that that issue of being racially motivated is a real issue And they took that legitimate issue of trying to evaluate what was really going on And then turning it into a radical Nealistic emphasis a nihilistic capital land. This is just not an illiberal This was a nihilistic campaign to destroy everything western everything capitalist Everything uh that is associated with western civilization and it was crude. It was disgusting And and black right matters is it represents an evil bad ideology an evil bad framework So I'm gonna do a whole show on this because I think it deserves some attention In its nuance and particularly in the sense in which they combine something that's right that we should be upset about racism with Packaging it with a lot of really really bad stuff the attack on on western civilizations So black lives matters came into its own during 2016 social justice warriors Now again, they've been around for a while But they gained a lot of prominence because of the election They were very active because of election. But what made them more prominent It what made them particularly stand out is the fact that they for the first time I think got a systematic response From the so-called alt-right. They got a systematic response in their own language It was using their own methodology on social media trying to be so-called funny by the alt-right By a by by an alt-left and alt-right are not different philosophically. They're both the same creepy evil collectivist racist social justice warriors and the alt-right are the same They are philosophically two sides of exactly the same tribalistic collectivistic emotionalistic irrational evil coin And don't tell me there's no such thing as alt-right. I know somebody's going to go out there You're on there's no such thing as alt-right. You're just exaggerating Ask Ben Shapiro if there's no such thing as the alt-right. Here's a here's a good good guy Who is he yamica? He's religious, right? So he's not a hundred percent on my side But man The anti-semitic stuff that he got the threats the and not just by one or two people, right? And and and he is on the so-called right, but you know what he did to do You know what he did to do he did not to support donald trump And the man that they go after him they went after him much worse than they went after me They went after me a little bit, but they went after ben Shapiro. Oh my I mean, it was absurd, right? So they are around they exist. They are dangerous and they are being emboldened by trump and and and and bannon is at the very least a Sanctioner of the alt-right if not a card-carrying member of the alt-right. So and he's right in the hub of power So the rise of the alt-right as a as a force An anti-force to the social justice warriors Very scary very scary people who used to hide People who used to hide under rocks because they even they were embarrassed by the stupidity and evilness of their ideas Is there such a word as evilness? Evil of their ideas. There's no nest at the end. Anyway, evil nest sounds good. It sounds more It places an emphasis on the word of their ideas They're crawling out from under the rocks and thumping their chests They're proud of being racists They're proud of their Hitler-like salutes They're proud of of the tweets with Nazi slogans and Nazi symbols. They're proud of their Anti-civilized attitude And that's on the left and right again. I don't think there's a difference That's on the social justice warrior and on alt-right sides both two sides of exact the same coin coin both Disgusting offensive and ridiculous And it's not just on the internet You know, you can find these people everywhere. I meet them everywhere unfortunately Uh, as we said free speech under attack everywhere And a and something new I thought this year more so than any other year because it was an election year partisanship The hatred of the other side not just we disagree not just we dislike you, but we hate you You're bad. You're evil. You we can't talk to you The way the right described the left on the left described the right And the way they lived in their own bubbles and their own echo chambers And there was no cross communication and there was no there was no sense among the american people Well, I like some things she and I like some things. No, no, you bought into the whole package or you didn't buy into the whole package Just uh, uh, people have talked about partisanship for years And I kind of Foo parted foo part. That's the word foo part it or poof on it or whatever foo part. I think foo part it and No, it's real man. This year really came together people coalesced people. I thought would never Never vote for donald trump coalesced around here because he was not left He was not the democrats Oh, we can't have anybody but a democrat, you know other than so the god forbid you Voting for hillary was considered a mortal sin. You went to hell for voting for hillary Immediately instantly you went to hell. I don't know because I didn't vote for hell It could be that those people who did vote for hillary went to hell immediately instantly although I think they're still around um and the 50 percent of the population but You you couldn't do that. It was like So if people voted for donald trump because they hated the other side in a way That i've never seen in politics before and of course people hate donald trump again Now this has been getting worse and worse. I think it was true ready with obama Although there were a lot of people in the middle who kind of didn't like obama, but still voted for him They didn't love him now. It was all love or hate or you know, it was all very very emotional Which is again a theme of the year the year of emotion Both sides both sides rejecting facts and this is the scary thing Celebrating the fact that they reject facts Both left and right now are proud of being in the post factual era It's an era where you don't have to present facts. You can make them up You can pretend false news on both sides left and right freely creating false news Because the goal is to get elected the goal is to gain power and then we can drain the swamp Oh, you know our swamp their swamp or whatever, right? Everybody has their own swamp. All right So You know, here we are here. We are That's our culture as of 20 end of 2016 economy And I'm going to spend a lot of time on this You know stagnation slow economic growth Cronism everywhere you look government intervention everywhere you look government evolving in the economy and in companies and in a sense 2016 Ended with the ultimate act of cronyism with the donald trump and carrier You know, just just this is again Crawling from under a rock it used to be that when you did cronyism you were embarrassed by it. You did it You hid away. You did it in in a dark room somewhere and the check was slipped under the table and Nobody reported it as a headline Now with donald trump. It's cronyism out in the open. It's proud cronyism. We're proud of our cronyism It's cronyism as americanism And that's what that that's what the carrier deal really was you do it way out there All right Let me let me just clarify for those of you who think donald trump gave them a tax cut donald trump Cannot or should not be able to constitutionally give me a tax cut If donald trump came into my office tomorrow and said you're on from now on you don't have to pay taxes That should be unconstitutional suddenly immoral We should be a land of laws not of men We should be we should have equality before the law not granting special favors to those who you like Yes carrier gets less money stolen from them. So I get more money stolen from me. That's not justice That's not rights protection. That's the exact opposite You cannot believe in free markets and believe in the carrier deal You cannot believe in individual rights and believe the carrier deal is right Please if you believe the deal with carrier was right, please don't call yourself a defender of capitalism Please don't call yourself a defender of individual rights and therefore, please don't call yourself an objectivist This is this is fascism. That's what it is It's when the it's when the rulers get to decide who get favors from whom who gets to pay So-called less taxes. Who do we steal less from and who do we give who do we steal more from? That's not the rule of law. That's not constitutional government That is not the rule of laws, but the rule of men. That is what characterizes fascism And that Now you got me all pessimistic. That's where we're heading All right, so we're in we're in we've got cronyism up the way zoo Uh wealth redistribution in all directions from industries that we like the industries that we don't like Which has always been happening, but now is going to be happen industries that make stuff in america and industries that don't make Stuff in america businesses that employ people in america people who don't employ people in america all kinds of new redistribution of wealth and redistribution of favor schemes and uh Distractions, right? all right, and You know the regular story stayed completely out of control and this is part of what I think the rebellion Of the america america working class was it's it's it's so absurd. I mean I had examples for you guys from a from a piece by another Uh anti trump intellectual who I mostly like although he's also anti iron rand Brett Stevens and he he had a great piece in the wall street journal, which I recommend on december 19th and and he gave he gave some examples of Uh Of some of the ridiculous regulations and you know the big ones like like sarbanes oxley and like obama kin like god frank Those are the biggest ones, but do you know that according to the labor department? You have to if you're going to be a contractor a subcontract with the government You have to have seven percent of your workforce be disabled Seven percent of your workforce has to be disabled And to achieve this goal listen to this this is this direct quote, right? You tell me if you understand the sentence quote Contractors must conduct an annual utilization analysis An assessment of problem areas and establish specific action oriented programs to address any identified problems In other words, you have to go and do an assessment of how many people are Disabled and if you don't have enough I guess either disable the existing workforce or go find new people to who are disabled I don't know. I mean the government leaves you the option of choosing how you get 7% disabled people Now think about this. These are contractors subcontractors that might be in the construction business In other words, you have to have seven percent disabled people, right? I mean, this is insanity or osha recently banned Blanket policies on post-accident drug testing. So one of your employees has an accident you can't test them for drugs Because that might be discriminatory right now osha also decided to adopt the un's 2003 globally harmonized systems of classification and labeling of chemicals So how we label chemicals has to be standardized based on un standards Now this required and it was implemented over the last couple years. This required relaboring and reclassifying Done by companies in the u.s. Do you know what cost how much it cost? $2.1 billion. Now million 2.1 billion dollars in compliance Now who do you think is paid for that? Or Do you know that if you deliver something that a driver That makes a delivery within seattle city limits must earn A minimal wage of $15 an hour Even if the company is based outside of seattle, even if nobody lives in seattle Even if the company has no branches in seattle if he makes a delivery in seattle. He has to make 15 bucks an hour Now I can see trucks Lining up on the city limit of seattle and switching the cargo from one truck to the next just to avoid this But this is the kind of nuttiness right nuttiness So the city of san francisco Fair chance ordinance Forbids employers from asking about convictions or arrests on a job application So we don't want to know if you're a rapist or a motor or something like that. It's irrelevant to this particular job I wonder if that's true at like I don't know government rung kinder gardens, which is I'm sure san francisco has So, yeah Yeah, we're fed up people are fed up. This is absurd. This is ridiculous. People are pissed off So what do we elect instead? What do we what do we choose instead of this right instead of this Insanity instead of this craziness, right? What is the what have we chosen to replace? the illiberal left with Oh with an illiberal right We've chosen to replace it not with ideas not with policies based on individualism now with more freedom now with more reason Now we haven't said, you know this craziness on campus what we need now Is to rediscover reason and rediscover dialogue and to rediscover speaking and rediscover free speech No, what we want is to yell louder than the other guy What we want is to be able to You know offend them as much as they offend us now. I'm all for offending I'm all for the right of the alt-right to say what they want to say But is this the answer Is this the answer to the social justice warriors the alt-right? Is the answer to 16 years A horrific farm policy to elect somebody to elect somebody who is a fan of putans to elect somebody who can't Hold a position on farm policy for more than 48 hours without flip-flopping on it Who doesn't have Any kind of sense of the world No principles. I have not heard Donald Trump articulate a single principle Yes, he says America first But I'd like to know what that means to Donald Trump because Based on what it means to him with regard to trade. He has no concept of what America first means So I doubt he understands that in farm policy and I've seen no articulation of what it means in farm policy any kind of principle so The response to the left has been anger frustration Emotional Outcry, but that's not the american sense of life. It's not being don't tread on me Which was there during the tea party. No, this is post tea party. What you saw in 2016 is post tea party 26th in in in the tea party. It was still the american sense of life, but the american sense of life is weak It's very very weak When I ran talked about the american sense of life. It was 50 40 Years ago 35 years ago 35 years A post modernist leftist that even I ran couldn't well, I guess you could imagine But she put it in a fiction not in a nonfiction pounding on the american people over and over and over again presidents who do nothing against This intellectual pounding who indeed Stand for nothing and who bankrupted this country culturally Farm policy-wise and economically You think the american sense of life, which I'm I'm already identified as weak in the 70s Has withstood all that Well, we know it didn't because we know that the american sense of life did not respond to 9 11 The way the american sense of life would have responded to 9 11 if it had happened 30 years earlier It certainly didn't respond to 9 11 like it responded to poll harbor And it and listen all of you should go back and listen to lennard peacocks I think it's 2003 photo forum lecture called america No, americans versus america where he identifies that the the the Almost death of the american sense of life and he says americans are now working against america And all I can say is 2016 Is more of that deeper Then of that and I know you're going to be pissed off, right? I have to say it like I see it guys And you want to be polly anish about this? You want to every time trump says I know you guys every time trump says something good Like he takes the phone call from the taiwanese prime minister a president and I go yeah I would I think he should take the phone call right? I think that's good Or he stands up to he calls castro a really bad guy and I go. Yeah, that's good and you guys go. Yeah, that's good But then he does 55 horrible things and you guys says oh, he doesn't mean that That's not important You you you focus on the good things and you ignore the bad things It's not a good sign. That's not being objective to be objective Either take his word or don't take his word, but you can't be selective on what you take it his word or what you don't take it his word You can't rewrite the laws of economics to make You know trade barriers a good thing, you know to justify donald trump donald trump does not come before reality Reality comes first Facts come first his position on on on trade his position on almost On on on a lot of what he does is so anti factual so anti reality so anti freedom that did Come on people now again. He might be a great. He might be fine, right? But you don't know that Because he's a complete utter Pragmatist He has no principles and he will be the first to admit that he is a proud pragmatist And then there are those of you who love milo Right milo Milo represents the american sense of life First of all, he's a brit. You can't have an american sense of life with the british accent. I'm sorry But milo is the anti american sense of life Milo represents the exact europanization of america Milo is cynical He's nihilistic. He's anti anti anti anti. What's he for? What does my list stand for? Now, yes, some of the time he says some really good stuff and he shatters political correctness I'm and this is what donald trump did i'm all for shattering political correctness The problem with donald trump is he's creating his own political correctness milo granted doesn't believe in political correctness good for him But that's not the american sense of life The american sense of life is not anti The american sense of life is pro It's pro Individualism deep down. It's about leave me alone Not protect me protect me against chinese. They're gonna they're gonna they're gonna take my job Protect me against those mexicans. They're gonna kill my kids Protect me against muslims. They're gonna slaughter all of us Protect protect protect that's that's what we got today. We've got a bunch of I don't know. I'm not gonna say it. Um Wimps, I was gonna use a more a worse word than that We got a bunch of wimps in this country and who who voted for donald trump out of out of him Now i'm not saying all of you did i know again You get a lot of you voted for donald trump because you hated hillary and you and you saw some hope of good in donald trump Fine. I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about those of you who were enthusiastic about donald trump, you know This is emotion. This is anger This is uh, this is rebellion and of course it's an appeal to tribalism What donald trump did with the america first and and what's he meaning about right now? I'm committing that my state, you know, I I uh, I had this ben Shapiro has a great Let me let me give a plug to this op-ed by ben Shapiro, which is excellent um It was published just a few days ago uh december 29, so two days ago, um It's about trump's tweet. Trump sent out this meme and it says Whoops, I started this music. We're gonna shut it down. Okay The meme says my administration will follow two simple rules By american and high american Now we have an op-ed written by harry ben swanger written years and years ago years and years ago as true today as ever That is titled by american is un american So by american high american is un american It's un american That's what american sense of life says Get off my back. I will hire whoever I want to I will take my plant wherever I want to and I will buy whatever god damn good from whatever god damn place I want to it's none of your business That's what americans. That's what don't tread on me This isn't don't tread on me this is nationalism This is tribalism disguised as americanism americanism is the opposite of tribalism americanism is the opposite of collectivism americanism is the opposite of trumpism And by the way this op-ed By ben Shapiro is one of the reasons I could be a little optimistic going into 2017 Because it's obvious to me that ben Shapiro has read iron ran It's obvious to me that she's on an impact on him. I would not be surprised that he's read harry ben swanger's You know article about this it's so explicitly listen to the last sentence Last sentence of this op-ed says We're citizens with rights And those rights include our right to engage in commerce that makes our lives better And I would add although this is what he means with whomever we choose None of your business federal government stay off our backs Good for ben Shapiro. I really like this guy In spite of the fact that he wears a yamaha. I'll take his yamaha over a lot of secularists out there Anyway, I'm almost out of time and I haven't covered a fraction of what I wanted to all right, let me um I'm going to go over time. So this is going to be a show that's over over an hour and a half. Sorry guys, but we're just going to go over this So yes Population in the west in america in in europe Has rebelled against the bankruptcy of the illiberal left It's the as rebelled against the corruption the cultural economic and political corruption And I mean spiritual spiritual deep deep corruption not just You know the fact that they corrupt financially Corruption of the elites of the status quo But they have rebelled like little three-year-olds And and and they they have they have chosen one evil They've replaced one evil with another and again it it might turn out that donald trump will be okay But it's why he was elected and how he was elected that i'm sorry. I don't buy into it fire me right um And now i'll talk about being fired in a minute anyway um So this is not good. This is not the american sense of life. This is not the american sense of life The men's american sense of life would not have voted for Somebody who used i've mentioned this tactic over and over again, but it's still true the tactic of donald trump was one scare the american people like crazy by making up false news about uh crime rates illegal immigrants Muslims coming into this country and the horrible things that they're going to do to all of us By making the economy seem even worse that it already is. It's bad But it making it even worse and and making making it seem like we're Even worse than we are there's a lot of things that are bad But making things much worse scaring up the jesus office then Blaming not our ideas Or our policies or who we voted for in the past but blaming foreigners for this chinese Japanese, koreans, mexicans and muslims for all of our problems and then saying trust me Voting for that is not the american sense of life Yeah, once in a while because he's non-pc Donald trump will say something outrageous and we go yeah That's cool that somebody in power is willing to say that But it's meaningless giving who it comes from and giving everything else he says And and you have to evade so much, you know to latch on to this just this one thing again might turn out to be Okay, because he's a pragmatist say might turn out that the few pragmatic things that he does are going to be fine I'm skeptical because he's committed to this trade stuff and that's long term a disaster for this country All right, I want to go through some positives for 2016 and then I want to tell you why I have hope for 2017 Although, I don't know how I come back from the depressing statements. I just mean Some good stuff that happened in 2016 Isis And its satellites are being defeated Now this is localized It's not the defeat of islamic totalitarianism or jihadism or islamism But these organizations and I think defeating them helps every defeat helps every time we defeat somebody else But isis is going to be defeated in 2017 2018 It's already in the defensive. It's already lost most of its ground And I think it's going to lose a lot of the inspiration it provides For these terrorists all over the world to attack us because it's losing ground People are much more likely to volunteer to fight for a cause that's winning than to fight for a cause that's losing Isis that's specific manifestation of the islamist cause Is on the defensive and Boko Haram The the the isis satellite in nigeria Is almost being wiped out. So the good news there is nigerian government about a year ago got serious They unleashed the the military on them and they have crushed them and Good for the nigerians. Good for africa to get rid of this this and and hopefully This will be a trend of at least on a local level not, you know, it should be much bigger It should be ideological But you know, we should be really at war with them and wipe them out But at least locally this happened in 2016. That's good anytime these bad guys these bastards are defeated. It's a good thing russia and china Now they made a lot of progress standing up to the united states Ultimately, but look these are both corrupt Horrific regimes china is becoming worse and worse particularly internally It's becoming much much more authoritarian. They're putting many more people in jail now It's becoming more and more difficult to speak out in china a lot of my my friends in china are in deep trouble over there and I think Really worried about their futures as professors and so on in china But the good news there is Both china and russia are weak They're weak militarily They're weak economically russia is basically bankrupt economically. It's it's pounding its chest, but there's nothing there Uh, there was talk about donald trump's tweets about a nuclear arms race. There's no nuclear arms race Russia can't afford one. I mean it has no money even if oil goes stays at 50 dollars a barrel Uh, it just it's not enough to keep the russian economy Doing well and at some point the russians Are going to get upset by the fact that the the economy stagnating china Equally the the the economic policies over the last I'd say since 2008 at least have been bad. This new president is awful They're doing they're doing very negative things in terms of the the economy in terms of free speech in terms of political Liberalization and i'm not worried about china I think china is going is going to decline as long as they don't continue to liberalize and they know There's no signs of chinese liberalizing Further liberalization of their economy Anywhere to be seen So in spite of the fact that they are rattling the sabers they will not be war with china in 2017 and they will not be war with china in 2017 The u.s economy 2016 not great, but not terrible It wasn't horrible wages picked up quite a bit so average wages were up quite a bit they're caught up with productivity So a lot of the top line numbers were actually good Job growth again not great not spectacular 160 170 thousand jobs A month most of them in the private sector that those are good numbers. Those are not Great numbers then nowhere near the numbers that should be or could be But they're not horrible numbers. It's not the hysteria again of a donald trump and of the the the panic that people had about how bad 2016 was Uh wage growth was robust during 2016 across All the income levels lots of problems the federal service is screwing up this economy And as I said the regulations are still problematic But I take 2016 is one more year to go down as thumbs up for the resilience of the u.s economy in spite of all the obstacles We did pretty well Gay marriage gay marriage is great I think it's a fantastic thing and it's spreading around the world and good for gays And we should celebrate that so sometimes when the left wins, it's a good thing And and i'm all for that and you know what this whole transgender thing good for transgender people You know, I think too much is made of this. I have my own qualms about the whole phenomena, but What the hell politically You know they have they have individual rights just like anybody else as individuals More freedom in the world. There's definitely more freedom in the world today than there was five years ago Certainly more than there was 10 15 20 30 40 years ago. So, you know Small steps in the right direction. I don't have time to go all of them And people are waking up and I'll get to that in a minute And a great olympics in Rio de Janeiro one of my favorite cities in the world They they you know, everybody just like always we live for armageddon. We live for complete and utter disaster We live for the collapse of everything. We kind of eager for it And that was everybody was talking about that before the real olympics Everything was fine, you know, other than that stupid american swimmer making up the stupid story You know, there was a funnel. He had the pool turning a wrong color and a few other things that were shady Overall, I had a blast this olympics. I enjoyed it. It was a celebration of human achievement and human success I love it every four years and and to see really Rio de Janeiro pull it off in spite of everything You know great The Chicago Cubs won a world series that has to be one of the highlights of 2016 I'm cool with that as a as a boston red sox fan I was I was cool with the cubs winning I thought that was cool and then I think steward mentioned it. I was going to mention it anywhere CRISPR and I'm sure there are lots of other technology technology wonderful technological innovations CRISPR is one of the most exciting ones one of the most interesting ones It look it up This new gene splicing technology I think this is going to be revolutionized health care has the potential to if the FDA doesn't kill it This is why it's happening more of it's happening in europe because europe they're more lenient about these things They're less they're less christian about them You know, so a lot of stuff happened in technology that is exciting. There were some breakthroughs on so-called ai I don't like the term ai but but computers are getting are getting more sophisticated Being able to deal with more complex problems I'm a huge pro technology guy and I think technology is going to do fantastic things And those of you and and you should you know, you should You guys should look into you know science Particularly in biology. There's some exciting things going on I don't know enough about physics. I'm suspicious of physics, but uh But my my sense is that there's still some sanity some not complete some sanity certainly in technology Certainly an innovation in some insights. All right quickly 2017 Uh Trump is going to be very mixed he's going to do some good things like he'll cut some regulations some emphasis or some he will Cut taxes some I don't believe my taxes will go down I believe my weight will go down and the amount of deductions and exclusions I'll have will go will be eliminated Everything else held constant. That's better than there's no alternative But I would rather pay less taxes, which I don't think will happen So tax amplification that's good um Cutting regulations will go that's good, but Increased regulation when it comes to Who you hire where you hire from increased regulations on immigration immigration is bigger government guys immigration control is bigger government You like small government. You should be pro immigration. I'm not saying open borders tomorrow But pro immigration is small government limiting immigration constraining immigration. That's big government um Big government is by america big government is tariffs all of that dangerous stuff We're not going to have a war with russia and china forget it. ISIS probably will will will collapse in 17. That's good news Iran I'm still hoping for that revolution internally. Um I guarantee this trump will do nothing about iran and the deal with iran will not be renegotiated And if it is it'll be trivial The economy comedy will do great. This is my prediction for 17 good year for the economy good year for stocks bad year for bonds 18 19 i'm not so sure I think we're gonna get a I think we're heading for a recession the bubble There's there's definitely a bubble here caused by the federal reserve It's gonna my this is my lot of my long term economic prediction We're gonna do ever good economy It's gonna be robust bank lending is gonna go up inflation is gonna rear its ugly head The federal reserve will overreact and we'll get a recession. Okay trade Disaster read the bench appeal or op-ed. It's excellent Could we wake up? Well, maybe I mean in a healthy way Right from one form of emotional tantrum to another form of emotional tantrum. That's not really waking up I'm talking about intellectually waking up. Well, that depends on you guys And on me but on you guys It means we have to wake up we have to fight We have to make our voices heard and that does not mean becoming accolades of donald trump It means criticizing him and criticizing him and criticizing It means being at the forefront of what a policy of pro individualism Pro capitalism actually means It means if you listen to my previous show from last week I gave an agenda for the first hundred days of what donald trump should do We should advocate for that and holding up to that standard not Oh, wonderful. He cut my taxes a little bit, but he kept spending the way it is Then it makes no difference if you cut taxes ultimately so A real agenda let's push for it. We have to advocate for it and but more importantly We have to advocate for an intellectual agenda not a political agenda Which means an agenda that's pro reason pro individualism. We have to evaluate every political act On the basis of does this move towards more individualism or less individualism more freedom or more statism not Americanism the way donald trump defines it away so many of you So whether we wake up intellectuals after 2017 has to be the year that you start fighting aggressively To defend america By the way, somebody mentioned this in the chat I don't know why you're making such a big deal out of 2016 into the celebrities dying One I know this sounds heartless, but who cares I mean These are pop stars. I mean give me a break. These are not world changing philosophers These are not brilliant scientists. These are popular. Yeah, okay, somebody, you know, people die Second, you know why more celebrities are dying Because they're more celebrities That's all because we are a freaking rich culture They can afford to obsess over stupid what You know what? What's the name no celebrities name is popping into my mind that tells you Tells you how how little I pay attention to popular culture how paris hilton. This is celebrity from years ago What she's wearing who the hell cares? so We have so many celebrities today that it's diminished the meaning of celebrity And we have had for 30 40 years. So pop stars for when I was growing up are starting to die now Yeah, they're old Sorry for my insensitivity. I'm not in a sensitive mood All right, so we need to until and and this is this is my hopeful comment my two second hopeful comment I think young people outside of the united states are waking up I think there's a global phenomena out there of young people saying we've had it being poor. We've had it being unfree We want We want to live in freedom And iron ran today is more popular outside of the united states than than she's ever been before And she's selling well in the u.s So what we need what we need is to really push iron rain Let's take advantage of the fact that every media outlet on the universe right now is talking about iron rain because so-called This is an iron rain cabinet To differentiate between us and jonah trump differentiate That means don't embrace It means differentiate Let's emphasize the differences Emphasize what makes iron rain unique Emphasize what makes our philosophy exciting to people personally particularly to the young Let's really go out there and get the young excited about iron rain So you've still got a few hours To contribute to the iron rain institute the only organization in the world that's doing this in a systematic way And get a tax deduction in 2016 so end 2016 in a positive way Go online Well, I think the post office is still open So you can actually mail a check as long as it's postmarked today and you get a tax deduction If you still itemize your deductions But you should do it anyway $10 $35 $50 a million dollars whatever right That's the only I mean, I'm sorry. I I know I'm this is pretty self-centered But the only hope the universe has is iron rain So support getting The word out maybe the universe is an exaggeration because there might be other species out there that are more responsible than this crazy species The human race is only hope is iron rain So Let's get iron rain out there and that needs your financial help. I'm I'm pumped up About our ability to do that. Great. And one of the reasons I'm pumped up is That today Is my last show ever well ever might be a well my last show ever I think As CEO of the iron rain institute, so I am no longer the chief executive officer of the iron rain institute We have just hired a new chief executive officer. He starts on monday. His name is jim brown. He's a long time ari supporter He's a great guy. He's a good friend. He's going to do a fantastic job I'm not going away. I will be doing more of this stuff more yelling at you over the radio And by facebook live and all kinds of other fun stuff So I need to figure out at this point what I'm going to be do with the rest of my life, but um, I can guarantee you That it's not that I'm going to go away But I'm excited. We've got a division of labor going on. We've got a CEO for the iron rain institute I'm going to be executive chairman and president starting on monday and Yeah, I'm all you're on on the radio. That's definitely what you're going to get you're going to get more you're on publicly generally and what you guys need to do Is join me in the fight And you can still do that by making contributions to iron rain institute by live tweeting these shows By liking and sharing all this stuff on facebook and everywhere else By you know, I've been told the standard is this 10 000 downloads a day of the podcast 10 000 downloads a day So if I don't count facebook live because I don't know how to measure if facebook live distorts everything But if I don't count facebook live, we're at about 2000 a day today. So we need a 5x downloads of the oran book show from now until the end of 2017 I'm pumped up to get that done. So you guys need to join me in getting pumped up and get that done All right and If we do that We can change the world one mind at a time. All right. Have a great New year have a great party or whatever you do tonight um live it up and to a uh incredibly successful 2017 a year of Reason how about a year of rediscovering the human mind All right, you'll be listening to your own book show and I will talk to you next week same time same place