 You know I made 40 here so there was one big example that I wanted to share to elaborate on my incoherence point. So I noticed that philosophers and intellectuals and people who have verbally gifted often put a very high priority on the coherent response and my argument was that what is so complicated that there are so many more factors than what we can possibly see understand company and and and intent because we're operating from within bodies that you know are blinding us to things that are going on in life because we have lots of emotions early childhood imprinting that we all have a belief system we all have a hero system and anything that we hold sacred anything in our hero system right we're just going to be blind to the subjective possibly fictitious nature of our hero system so my point was often the response that looks coherent is in fact you know a very coherent response you just won't realize it for a long time and so I just thought of an example that I wanted to share earlier come on mate give me give me a nice flat there we go I just thought thought of an example that I didn't share on the show earlier and that is of course we're talking about Theo Rello Laguardia all right he was a very successful mayor of New York City he was Italian he was he was Jewish and around 1933 all right he needed funds from the from the Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration and the Roosevelt administration was going to deny him funds because they absolutely hated Moses so Moses was the Robert Moses was was the bloke who was operating the parks he was you know a great bureaucratic fighter so Robert Acaro wrote a very powerful influential and famous book about Robert Moses called The Power Broker So Robert Moses a great New York City bureaucrat and infighter right had not gotten along with Franklin Delano Roosevelt when Franklin was the governor of New York and then when Roosevelt became president of the United States he told Laguardia that federal funds were going to be withheld from New York City unless he fired Robert Moses from a particular position Robert Moses said fine find me from that position I will then resign from everything right all my posts in the city and Robert Moses had tremendous personal popularity with the people of New York they liked all the parks that he was building so Laguardia was between a rock and a hard place and so he came out with an incoherent response he told Roosevelt administration yes Robert Moses was going to resign but he couldn't force Moses to do that because it would just be too devastating and it'd make Fiorello Laguardia look bad so eventually there's infighting going back and forth Laguardia is telling the Roosevelt yes yes I'm going to fire him but he never actually does so the funds from the federal government keep flowing and then when the funds finally get delayed and things come to a head Robert Moses leaks the letter from the Roosevelt administration making it clear that its legislation was was primarily designed to just get one man Robert Moses out of a job and there was a tremendous public outcry Robert Moses won the infighting but Fiorello Laguardia won by not taking sides in the dispute and by telling each side what they needed to hear and he found you know a way through an impossible situation and I think that is often the reality of life we're faced with impossible choices and we just kind of muddle through doing the best we can perhaps either telling one side one thing and telling another side another thing and that these two things are incompatible and sometimes that works sometimes it doesn't depending on the circumstance but we're frequently getting squeezed by reality we're getting squeezed by life and we come out and we come up with some incoherent response and I think it's a response that works if it works right if it's effective if it allows you to sleep at night if it makes you more effective in life if it strengthens the your relationships with the people most important to you if it helps you to become more coherent internally or more integrated internally rather than fragmented internally so the words incredibly complicated place and a lot of the responses that we that we may think are incoherent given all the complexity all around us are actually they're pretty dug on coherent so I just I'm reading the new book on J. Edgar Hoover and he was part of a fraternity at college that I thought just is a great a great summary for what's going here on here in this live stream the place where the sacrament of brotherhood is administered the word of brotherhood is preached the power of brotherhood is felt the spirit of brotherhood is manifested and the love of brotherhood is revealed okay I mean it's not exactly Shakespeare but it's pretty dug on good all right here's a little bit from Richard Spencer Mark Brahmann you know it had all the kind of leaders I mean where do you want to say no that's true but it just it has kind of true it inquires like energy and stuff like that yeah I mean like I don't think you know Ricky Vaughn was a high quality person but yeah that's true I mean I and I can see that happening again I just feel like there's a little no I guess it does require the endorsement of somewhat intelligent leaders which it did have in 2016 right yeah yeah so Kevin McCarthy simply just placed an impossible situation only has a five vote majority he had to make deals with the devil and on his 15 attempt 15th attempt he got through a speaker of the house and again this is reality we often have to make a lot of very painful deals with unsavory characters to try to achieve anything in life yeah it had you and it had yeah it had Enoch and it had it had all the kind of leaders I mean whatever you want to say about England he is so intelligent I mean he's not an idiot yeah I mean he's a weirdo but he's intelligent yes you know so and I think that the so the broader kind of populist activist community on Twitter rallied around figures that did have his quality you know I mean or some of them did at least right so could the band come back together again for Trump I don't know I mean I guess that nothing's impossible but it's interesting that because everyone it seems like he's still banned back together that was like really kind of pivotal pivotal at least to the more radical element of that movement you know guys like Enoch and Fuentes' band still yeah so I don't know what's going on there I think the part of it is I think part of it is that because I was listening I probably you guys have heard this as well too but I was listening to I think it was it was broadcast two months old so probably you guys are familiar with all these details but Twitter the amount of information that Twitter keeps is pretty astonishing or has access to you so if you you know so if you have made an account a previous account or you've made multiple accounts Twitter knows right so you can't like just have exact accounts and I think that so I think a lot of the people that are not being allowed back on are probably people that were engaged in platform manipulation spamming or organizing troll armies or this sort of thing or had multiple accounts so guys like so I mean there are other reasons I've yeah so there are rules you can't break in life without very severe consequences and then there are rules that you can't break in life without these severe consequences so you have to know yeah what are the rules I could break one of the rules that I can't break and spamming platform manipulation not something that social networks look at kindly obviously why Nick Fuentes wouldn't be let on because of the Kanye West thing but um but absent that I mean who knows if those guys hadn't been you know organizing troll armies and stuff like that and engaged in platform manipulation which evidently they were and it's not something I'm not something it's not something we should complain about as far as 2016 was concerned but I think that's a reason a lot of the guys are not being allowed back on you know I mean yes I mean yeah I mean I would use the example of Keith Woods I mean he because his rhetoric is relatively non-inflammatory I think oh yeah politically but he hasn't been allowed back on the platform and it has to do with the fact that he was engaged in and that was the reason he was banned is was for platform manipulation so I think but I doubt it is kind of fascinating because a lot of people have been let on I mean England's on Laura Loomer is back on somebody's crazy Q-tards I've that I I remember from back in the day or back on like it's kind of weird that Keith Woods isn't on absent the fact that he was literally engaging in platform to not what she clearly was only sock accounts attacking you but yeah but I doubt that he's an isolated case though and some of these guys like I remember at the time that they're like and this used to be more of a phenomena but it is still a phenomena but the accounts are less radical and they're kind of alt right accounts but there's all these accounts on the DR or in the alt light that are just like I mean who the fuck are these people you don't know who they are but they have these massive followings right and they're just tweeting all day and they're you know they're politicos or they're politically oriented but you've never heard of them and you'll just encounter these massive accounts once in a while that have all these followers and and I think so I think a lot of those types of accounts have also have not come back on you know I mean because and I think it's probably because they were also engaged in platform manipulation that sort of thing you know I mean yeah absolutely yeah so platform manipulation not a winning formula for getting along with a social network all right interesting article here by Joshua Green for Bloomberg Business Week and he he makes a lot of points about Undecentus and none of them trouble me like they all strike me as like really great things so let's uh let's see what we can do here play a little bit Joshua Green he's a man of the left but nothing he says nothing he says here is is bothering me I think it's all you know good things the secret to DeSantis success is ignore Trump and attack business the Florida governor's attacks on business leaders who promote progressive values they're finding traction with the republican grassroots written by Joshua Green for Bloomberg Business Week narrated by Michael David Axel two days before the mid germ election Florida governor Ron DeSantis concert on stage at a boisterous rally in an airplane hangar in Sarasota and as Donald Trump likes to do began tossing baseball caps to the crowd the similarities with the 45th president didn't end there DeSantis mimics Trump's braggadocio touting his own 2018 victory as probably the most consequential governor's election in the history of the state of Florida he even channeled the Trump's predilection for claiming that unnamed supporters routinely approached him weeping with gratitude for the unswerving strength of his leadership in the face of elite liberal hostility as usual it involved his skeptical response to the COVID-19 pandemic sometimes DeSantis told the crowd people will just start crying saying my business would just have gone under if you had not stood up for me Trump famously reoriented republican politics away from Reagan's optimism and toward a feta populist agreement so this is a left-wing reporter who wrote a book on Steve Bannon a few years ago and he doesn't really land any punches on on Ron DeSantis he's just a load away by how effective Ron DeSantis is so ignoring someone like Ron DeSantis is vis-a-vis Trump is often the best strategy like Ron DeSantis as opposed to Trump seems to be thoughtful and strategic and calculating and hardworking and effective had far more power than anyone realized until his run for president DeSantis may be his best student his public persona is built on projecting truckulent contempt toward the people the magamasses despise most including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Dr. Anthony Fauci and like Trump he has a gift for sensing what people are primed to get mad about in Sarasota and other stops along his don't tread on Florida tour the weekend before the midterms he rattled off a lengthy list of oppressors liberal politicians who refuse to enforce immigration laws school boards teaching kids to hate our country government bureaucrats demanding math and vaccine mandates and job-killing shutdowns and woke ideologues instituting radical ideas about gender and sexuality DeSantis said he was striking back against the last group when he signed a controversial law in March restricting public school teachers from discussing gender identity and sexual orientation in the classroom critics dubbed it the don't say gay law but the enemy that drew the loudest applause in Sarasota was one that until very recently ranked as perhaps the GOP's greatest ally corporate America DeSantis is at the fore of a growing crowd of conservatives who insists that big business has fallen under this way of perfidious liberal social reformers he recounted how he went after Walt Disney one of Florida's largest employers when it criticized the don't say gay law DeSantis didn't just strip Disney of its special tax status he also publicly demonized the company claiming it had aligned itself with left-wing politicians bent on teaching a first grader that they could change their gender so I haven't paid a great deal of attention to Ron DeSantis it's just what I notice is that what he does seems to be effective and he seems to keep winning these fights he seems to select these fights carefully then he seems to win them and people then are scared to cross it he added sexualizing these young kids is wrong a lot debooing this remark elicited testified to DeSantis' skill at inciting new grievances Disney's firing of chief executive officer Bob Tapik two weeks later only enhanced DeSantis' aura in conservative circles he's made business and the financial markets into the new playing field in the culture wars says Andy Puzder who was briefly Trump's nominee for secretary of labor and has advised the DeSantis administration in its current job leading an investment firm but though DeSantis' pugilistic style and even his mannerisms owe an obvious debt to Trump and he probably wouldn't be governor if Trump hadn't endorsed him in 2018 DeSantis rarely mentions the man after months of suing over this perceived in gratitude Trump finally attacked him as Ron DeSantis at a rally right before the midterms not his best effort but not entirely off the mark so ignoring Trump seems to be the most effective path forward for Republicans who want the nomination such as Ron DeSantis DeSantis ignored him as his national profile has risen DeSantis has been described by mainstream media outlets as Trump with discipline and Trump with a brain but what really distinguishes him is his judgment even as he whipped up populist furor in Sarasota he avoided the issues Trump harps on most he didn't question the 2020 election results or suggest that voting machines were hacked or spout QAnon conspiracy theories they took another 48 hours for the importance of this distinction to fully register on election night the republican red wave never materialized candidates trump had backed fared it fatally poorly so Ron DeSantis seems to have the discipline that Donald Trump so badly badly badly acts and much better judgment and much better execution and much better strategic discipline in the 13 races in battleground states where an election denier ran for governor secretary of state or attorney general every one of them lost DeSantis on the other hand one reelection in a landslide and she didn't nearly crud his democratic opponent he won voters republicans weren't seriously expected to compete for carrying a majority of his panic votes and winning in places that this deep blue Miami Dade county which Hillary Clinton took by 30 points in the 2016 presidential election that's incredible that Ron DeSantis won Dade county which Hillary Clinton won by 30 points I mean that's unbelievable and how has he done it by taking the battle to vote corporations that seems to be a political winner with independence in the process he swept the GOP to super majorities in both houses of the Florida legislature ensuring that he'll be one of the most powerful governors in the country in 2023 when DeSantis called the results the greatest republican victory in the history of the state of Florida it wasn't just Trump's style hyperbole so pretty much everyone's surprise the midterm election results showed Trump's solipsistic brand of politics to be a much diminished force for the third cycle in a row republicans underperformed in an election that revolved heavily around him no one was more enhanced by the latest rubbing than DeSantis who polls show has emerged as Trump's main rival for the 2024 GOP nomination if as expected he opts to run experience has taught that writing off Trump is unwise and governors who seem headed for the White House on a rocket ship often blow up on the launch pad even so DeSantis is showing offers a glimpse of what successful post-trump republican politics might look like still combative and polarizing still consumed with grievances but less centered on Trump and more animated by issues and enemies that resonate beyond the magabase yeah so just centering on Donald Trump the human being has a limitation like everyone gets tired all right so charisma as I shared that definition the other day is where you perform a miracles and that's what Donald Trump did when in the 2016 presidential campaign when you perform a miracle you then get more followers and resources so you can then keep doing what seems like the impossible until you stop being up to do the impossible so in 2018 the republicans were crushed in the midterms and then 2020 Trump was defeated and so now his charisma seems much less strong than it was in the wake of his 2016 victory what DeSantis has done as governor and what he's aiming to do in florida's upcoming legislative session could have a lot more influence on republican politics than Trump's next controversy or legal travail as DeSantis moves toward a possible presidential bid he's expanding his fight against corporate america this time going after big asset managers and wall street banks and a great comment from the chat a lot of republicans a lot of people on the ride are addicted to losing yeah they would rather posture they would rather fundraise they would rather you know get on fox news they have a lot of other agendas aside from being effective right do you optimize for truth do you optimize for effectiveness or do you optimize for showboating do you optimize for attention seeking good things to ask in life an attack over the summer he declared masters of the universe are using their economic power to impose policies on the country that they could not do at the ballot box he returns to the theme in his swaggering victory speech on election night we will fight the woke in corporate america he said florida is where woke goes to die conjuring up a distant shadowy financial elite and vowing to fight it on behalf of the little guy is textbook populist politics it's just kind of extraordinary that this textbook you know popular politics is being done so effectively by politicians on the right you just don't expect this but this is the wedding formula going forward to become the party of the working class and the middle class and the democrats have become the party of the elite and the underclass and another move borrowed from trump who made big banks and famous financiers into useful villains in his 2016 presidential campaign the santa is betting he can generate enough resentment about woke capital to keep his momentum going if he's right he may go from emulating trump to succeeding him yeah being a populist like being against big corporations being against big corporations trying to socially engineer society that's probably a very winning formula not just with republicans but with enough independence to win the next presidential election even before his midterm triumph the santa had pulled ahead of other republican white house aspirants remember how effective donald trump became at the last part of the 2016 campaign like the last month he really honed his message draining the swamp they're taking on the elites is incredibly effective discipline trump that i i don't think we've seen since uh run to santa's you know kind of reminds me of donald trump's final month prior to the november 2016 presidential election like on message disciplined worthless by figuring out how to build an independent profile in a party that centers almost entirely on trump during his presidency trump redefined what constitutes being a republican in good standing where it once meant embracing certain policy commitments trump changed the definition to whether or not one supported him personally and fed his alpha male self-image because his popularity with republican voters was almost absolute most lawmakers complied but this created a problem for politicians hoping one day to replace him every republican presidential hopeful understood that the quickest way to gain attention and build a national following was to jump into the big loud messy culture fights that constitute most fox news programming and excite grassroots conservatives a problem so culture wars have overwhelmingly been a losing battleground for republicans over the past 40 years they consistently lost in the culture wars are only starting to see a turnaround in this area in the last two years so after 50 years of steadily losing in the culture wars for the first time with the u.s supreme court and with elections it appears that republicans may have found certain culture war issues that are winners such as the ones that run the santus happens to have picked along with if he's tough on crime that should be another winning issue and tough on immigration most of these fights revolved around trump that forced ambitious republicans fearful of him to spend their airtime vigorously defending trump against whatever outrage was driving the news site do i read richard hananya yeah sometimes so sometimes he seems great and sometimes i i don't follow him i don't follow his his thought at all so he bats about 300 as far as i can tell well while simultaneously fluffing his ego and doing that can sign them to the dreaded role of betas neutering the credibility of any future break with trump that might prove politically advantageous and the chat says america is overdue now america is going to be even more dominant vis-a-vis the other major powers in the next 10 20 30 40 50 years and it has been in the previous 50 years so the 20th century was the american century the 21st century will also be the american century america is blessed with you know geographic safety right they don't have any enemies on its borders great natural resources rivers to transport goods and you know pretty good demographics compared to countries like china which are going to approximately halve in size over the next 50 years the republican landscape is littered with casualties of this dynamic white pence's book tour clearly meant to reintroduce him before 2024 has been a succession of cringe worthy interviews in which the former president tries to project an image of strength and fortitude while ducking questions about the pro-trump mob that almost killed him on january 6th 2021 and who is the natural successor to steve sailor good question richard ananya seems to be positioning himself in this way the more geopolitical slant yeah megan mccaudal who writes for the washington post uh steve ross dalthat who seems to recycle steve sailor in a more politically acceptable way yeah the lot of successes to sailor but none can can touch him as yet it's the right finally winning on cultural issues because of how far off the deep end workism has gone losing even many people on the left yeah i think that's true jim bellum says he who has the dollar controls the narrative and the power dollar talks bs walks well no not necessarily it's only one component of power so people during american elections they spend hundreds of millions of dollars they change very few votes so like all the all the spending on on elections doesn't tend to change many minds so uh corporations may have a lot of money but uh they don't necessarily have the same power as ronda santus who in his battles with corporations so far ronda santus has always come up the winner as far as i know former secretary of state mike pumpayo is campaigning by subtweet issuing cryptic pronouncements that appear intended to distance him from trump without risking blowback by mentioning his name after trump dined with notorious anti-semite and white supremacist nick fuentes in november pumpayo tweeted anti-semitism is a cancer right so nick fuentes is many things but just summing him up as you know anti-semite white nationalist that's that's not fair to the man he's not like you know any anti-semitic or white nationalist we've seen before he's more like a pre-war war two traditional you know rama catholic as secretary i fought to ban funding for anti-semitic groups there was no mention of the evening's host rather than attempt this awkward straddle senator tom cotton of arkansas a tireless trump booster announced he would forego a run entirely back in 2018 when desantis was still just a gubernatorial candidate he too frequently defended trump on fox usually against special counsel robert moeller's russia investigation trump rewarded him with a coveted endorsement vaulting desantis past the frontrunner in the republican primary agriculture commissioner adam putnam and landing him in so there are some jobs where you have to be ruthless right i think i shared that metaphor that uh you know adulthood is like having a countertop with four four stoves you know one one stove represents friendship one stove represents health one represents family one represents work most people only have the strength to pay attention and to life you know for war two you know two stoves out of the four so most people choose work and family but if you really really want to be the best usually you can only choose one stove such as you know some man just put work over over everything else and offer that the neglect of family friends and and help tallahassee then desantis did something radical he quit defending trump yet he still managed to get plenty of tv time ron is very good and has always so my point was that in some professions you have to be ruthless right you're gonna be a professional football player you have to be ruthless right you have to go for you know every advantage that you can get away with if you're going to succeed in politics and in business you have to be ruthless so you endless people support and then you drop them when they're no longer useful to you right if you don't want to be you know treated in this ruthless fashion then you have to stay off the professional football playing field you have to stay out of politics you have to stay out of certain areas of business all right you can live in tenon sands you can have a very nice life and you can avoid the ruthlessness that is described in this article and very good at knowing the things that are going to trigger the media brad herald how does 40 quantify the impact of ceo sailor on american life the most influential commentary most americans have never heard of the most influential pundit the most influential intellectual he's he's played a huge role that he essentially uh designed or you know showed a way that uh donald trump turned into victory in 2016 ceo sailor is an absolute giant i can't think of anyone who comes close armored the santas campaign manager said in a recent podcast interview he knows what is going to push people's buttons the santas declines to be interviewed for this article covid with early proof of this have you read the late sam francis yeah i've read some of his not all of his books it's no longer the politicians are in charge of the so-called lovey managerial society who have the real power people like amazon visor and youtube says the chat well guess what neither politicians nor the corporate elite are empowered you know who is empowered the situation is in power so facebook is being chased by politicians social media is being chased by politicians right corporations have gone to war with ron the santas and have been defeated so sometimes politicians have more power than corporations in some areas of life in some circumstances corporations have more power than politicians like there's no one entity or one group who is inevitably marked out by the will of heaven to always dominate that sometimes it's a longer his most powerful sometimes it's a live streamer sometimes it's a corporation sometimes it's an interesting billionaire sometimes it's politicians it depends on the situation you know what's going to determine you know who succeeds and who fails events my dear boy events just cast himself as the scourge of liberal do-gooders and government healthcare bureaucrats juxtaposing what he called the free state of florida with the strictures in place how is c-sailor influential i don't know anyone in real life who knows his name well he has influenced so many people like he pointed out the easiest way for republicans to win presidential elections is to go where the votes are right get an extra one or two percentage points of the white vote instead of diluting the white vote by going after the non-white vote which they are less likely to win anyway so that's the sailor strategy which essentially donald trumpett point but david brooks ross doubt that uh just so many mega micardal richard ananya so many commentators and pundits seem to be influenced by steve sarah so often the most powerful influential people are people who almost nobody knows so i remember when i used to write on the the pornography industry perhaps the most powerful person at that time was around 2004 to 2007 was lushai habari which almost nobody knew his name he was an israeli uh clickbroker and almost nobody in the industry knew his name but he may very well have been the most powerful person in the industry almost everywhere else in april 2020 only weeks into the crisis he began lifting the statewide lockdown by september he'd eliminated many state restrictions and am i following an up-and-coming thing from just a ride just a bronson no not yet 40 is describing how trump is so influential while playing a clip of how trumpism doesn't want trumpism is influential donald trump reconfigured the republican party from pro free trade to more trade restrictionists he reconfigured the republican party to be more skeptical of immigration he stopped fighting on losing cultural issues like the marriage and pushed the republican party in a direction of winning on cultural issues so ron de santis is following in the footsteps of donald trump he just seems to be doing it more effectively more strategically and before discipline so donald trump mounted a hostile takeover of the republican party unlike anything i can't think of any parallel in my lifetime maybe child's the gore or child's the gore did after world war two taking power in france right that that's probably the closest analogy i think i think donald trump announced the hostile takeover of the republican party and then he won the presidency of the united states and the united you know the the new type of republican party which has become the party of the working class so he's shown a way forward trump simply lacked the discipline to be particularly effective ron de santis seems to have the discipline to be effective with an executive order prohibiting local governments from enforcing mask mandates no republican besides trump was more prominent during the pandemic a more recent example is the de santis orchestrated stunt in which 48 asylum seekers from venezuela were promised jobs and tricked into boarding a state contracted charter flight to martha's vineyard in massachusetts where they were then abandoned the study conducted by media matters for america for bloombird business week found that over the next month fox news ran at least 148 segments that mentioned that de santis is nasty trick here was the the sea sailor orchestrated all these things behind the scenes that the sea sailor is intellectual he does have an email list with you know very elite thinkers on it that sea sailor is friends with people like steven pinker so sea sailor knows a lot of people converses with a lot of people who he doesn't write about so it's not orchestrating things behind the scenes except in the sense of talking about ideas and statistics and the reality of group differences santis formula in a nutshell create a cultural embryo that outrages liberals and that is trump adjacent but features himself not trump in the role of alpha male as de santis looks ahead to a possible white house run there are growing signs his fights with business could give him the most traction the idea has caught fire with congressional republicans who plan to haul woke chief executives to capital so a lot of politicians in europe found the campaign against the jews was a good vote-gatherer such as the mayor of vienna who you know you know hitler in large part you know shaped himself after and so too you know many politicians have found running against big business is a great vote-gatherer and i think ronda santis is on to something donald trump was so effective in like the last month of the 2016 campaign he was finally un-messaged you know disciplined uh ronda santis is like that month of donald trump but uh ronda santis seems to be able to do it day in and day out ill for grilling during the new session of congress it was hardly an obvious turn for a Yale university educated republican with political roots in the libertarian house freedom caucus born to a working-class family in jacksonville in 1978 de santis was a star athlete and student at dunedin high school so this article is almost halfway through and despite leftist journalists just agree and he doesn't lay a glove on ronda santis so unlike all the other elite journalists who are writing about ronda santis says and saying that now ronda santis doesn't have a personality to be president but uh people that like him but uh you know ronda santis is really bad you know retail interpersonal politics just you agree it's kind of stunning in this long article it doesn't reveal you know any prominent mid-steps mistakes or you know killer weaknesses by ronda santis became captain of the Yale baseball team he went on to earn a law degree at harvard university and served in iraq with the u.s. navy judge advocate general's core luke please list differences in policy between republicans and democrats okay republicans are more immigration restrictionist than democrats our republicans generally want lower tax rates than democrats republicans generally opposed to affirmative action or democrats want affirmative action democrats generally won't republicans generally anti-work republicans are party law and order democrats are the party people are opposed to law and order so there's a pretty significant differences in 2012 he won an open congressional seat in florida's sixth district running as a doctor and air small government conservative so one plainly bursting with ambition to launch his bid he wrote a book dreams from our founding fathers first principles in the age of obama when he got to congress the santis co-founded the freedom caucus but his sights were set elsewhere you could tell from the moment he got here that he had his eye on bigger things a former freedom caucus and another difference between republicans democrats is that republicans currently have much more commitment to free speech and to selecting judges who have free speech commitments but democrats are much more speech restrictionist and there are elements in in australia of the conservative coalition who want you know pure hate speech laws that's restrictive hate speech laws than the parties on the left his colleague recalls in 2018 the santis entered florida's republican gubernator luke luke the borders where is the wall biden is just the same as trump donald trump crushed illegal immigration in 2020 he finally crushed it people said it was impossible he crushed it the institute remained in mexico he replaced hundreds of miles of wall or superior wall but more importantly he implemented policies like central american countries but with mexico that basically reduced illegal immigration to negligible levels this is not being done in 50 years donald trump finally by 2020 took him a while to get to get policies that were effective but donald trump had steven miller and he crushed illegal immigration then joe biden takes office and the floodgates just opened so compare the number of immigrants in the united states in 2020 when donald trump very ably and effectively used covid incidents used to close america's borders while joe biden takes power opens up the borders and we're flooded with illegal immigrants and refugees tutorial primary and his armed careers smacked into a big obstacle sugar what does 40 make of the great man theory of history and generally more of a structuralist right i generally think that structure is more important than personality but there occasionally are history trans working characters like donald trump he is you know unlike anyone probably since then shawls the ball so generally speaking i think subscribe to the great man theory of history that sometimes yet there are world transforming individuals who are just impossible to comprehend and they just come along and they they shock and surprise us the donald trump perhaps is you know the one that i can think of in my lifetime generally speaking i believe that institutions uh the primary thing to to look at military economic political the sugar industry was probably more in for adam putnam than they'd ever been for any politician says peter schorge publisher of the newsletter florida politics he was their golden child the santas on the other hand had voted against sugar subsidies as a congressman as one of the state's most powerful industries pounded him with millions of dollars in negative ads many funded by dark money groups now i'm increasingly getting more viewers live on rumble than i am on youtube so right now nine live viewers on rumble eight live viewers on youtube two live viewers on odyssey and no live viewers right now on twitter so recently getting my viewership from rumble much more of a free speech platform than youtube santas struck back branding big sugar as a major polluter and aligning himself with the everglades foundation a conservation group co-founded by the billionaire hedge fund manager paul tutor jones who became a major campaign donor the santas one plotted for standing up to sugar the tampa bay times dubbed him the green governor despite his two percent rating from the league of conservation voters and after dispatching putnam he narrowly won the governor's race then he exacted revenge by forcing everyone on the south florida water board which was known for doing the industry's bidding to and harrell says so ronda sanders is the most collaborative candidate to the institution he's the institution's candidate now he's the most effective at dealing with institutions not that he's the institutional candidate he seems to be right now from the little i know the world's far more complicated than i can possibly probably comprehend but right now it seems like ronda sanders is more effective at negotiating and strategizing and dealing and at times confronting and at times going to war with institutions than any other politician on america's right of whom i am aware of right now dine his battles with business didn't end there the santas's feel for the trump kistalt had made him a vocal proponent of measures to curb illegal immigration and he moved to follow through on a campaign pledge to require all public and private employers to screen workers legal status through the federal e-verify program this move threatens not only sugar but also two other major florida industries that rely on immigrant labor tourism and construction the state chamber of commerce complained that employers would be unduly burdened by the new requirement but the santa's plowed ahead anyway condemning the use of cheap foreign labor although he won accolades on fox his victory was limited the collective forces of the corporate opposition watered down the legislation so only public employers and their contractors but not private employers were required to use e-verify the santa seemed to take so do you you want to be used by others or do you want to use others right do you want to be the frontman for institutions or do you want to manipulate and shift institutions in your favor ronda santa seems to have the higher q and the strategic good sense and the ruthlessness to be much more currently of a user than a used it seems to be the top rather than the bottom this opposition personally his grudge intensified after the pandemic struck and many florida corporations refused to endorse his controversial covid policies in october 2021 without notifying his own party he held a press conference to announce a special session of the legislature devoted to penalizing companies that required their workers to be vaccinated this only deepened the rift we've always been against government mandating what business can do and can't do complained the executive director of the florida chamber of commerce so ronda santa's frequently went against the conventional wisdom with regard to covid and due to the youtube terms of service social media terms of service i i can't you know say anything critical of any of the conventional wisdom of public health experts with regard to covid but i think i can get away with saying it is more and more an elite media consensus that ronda santa's was a lot more right than than not with regard to covid am i am i allowed to say that the santa's was once against mandates like this too the bullying of private industry he wrote in dreams from our founding fathers was part and parcel of the modus operandi of the obama administration under obama the federal government exercised a roving review authority over the business decisions of a number of large companies a few days later desantis was the keynote speaker at the chamber's annual meeting in orlando in a remarkably obstreperous speech that was met mostly with silence he blasted the rise of woke capitalism and so this is like bill clinton's sister soldier moment remember when bill clinton attacked this black female rapper and it showed his independence that he wasn't craving to democratic party interest groups this this was like ronda santa's sister soldier moment where he took it to the corporations issued an unvarnished threat to the state's business elite if you're using your power as a corporation and you're leveraging that to try to advance an ideology he warned i think it's very dangerous for this country and i'm not just going to sit idly by former aides and allied strategists say desantis was driven by more than personal peak and currently 12 live viewers on rumble nine live viewers on youtube his popularity in florida particularly among independents was steadily rising and nationally republican voters were becoming more attuned to corporate behavior like democrats they've begun choosing brands that align with their values and morals so easily obviously republicans were like party in the country club they were the party of big business and democrats were the party suspicious of power and suspicious of our major institutions now it's republicans who are more likely to have an anti-privilege bias against republicans who are much more likely to be suspicious of elites the big institutions of big business so big business hasn't you know completely turning in with the democrats big business and the defense industry the the what the reagan type of foreign policy right the back crowd and and the business crowd their their votes are still up for grabs right now so republicans have shifted to becoming the party of the working class democrats have shifted to becoming the party of the elite and the underclass interesting times as matt as kowski a former trump campaign strategist and co-founder of human behavior a consumer intelligence company a conservative backlash against corporate america had been brewing since at least 2019 that summer the business roundtable the national association for ceo's of major corporations issued a statement signed by the chief executives of apple black rock disney and dozens of other big companies declaring that the purpose of the corporation was no longer simply to generate returns but also to respect the people in our communities and protect the environment by embracing sustainable practices across our businesses many conservatives were aghast at what they saw as the nation's top business leaders abdicating the single-minded pursuit of profit which they believe is the basis of us capitalism but what really seemed to supercharge republican animosity towards ceo's and businesses was the corporate response to the murder of george floyd a year later the public expressions of solidarity with pro okay so it's rare that i get angry it's rare that while i'm doing a live stream that there's a topic that i regard as sacred so that i just become you know blind to any nuance but to the extent that our elites through in with black lives matter to the extent the corporate fortune 500 companies subsidize the terrorist organization black lives matter leading to additional thousands of murders and additionally thousands of traffic deaths both the drivers and pedestrians due to the overwhelming force of the media our elites the big business academic elites teaming up to discourage cops from doing their job right this is like the one topic i think more than any other of which i lose my mind that i lose objectivity i'm unable to see nuance it just infuriates me that infuriates me the big business for subsidizing the terrorist group black lives matter that our elites effectively ganged up to incentivize cops not to do their job and so the least law-abiding segments of our society and it started acting out with predictably disastrous results destroying millions of lives by raising the crime rate making more and more people feel unsafe and and to think that the fortune 500 companies were subsidizing this that that's the one thing that outrageous investors and support for black lives matter along with trump's condemnation of these moves dramatically altered republican attitudes toward corporate america last year a gallup tracking poll found that republicans unhappiness with the influence of major corporations almost doubled in the year and a half after floyd's killing yeah can you imagine that our corporations were subsidizing the terrorist group black lives matter leading to thousands of additional murders i think that's infuriating and run descendants is absolutely right to call them out for it i remember when 40 it was enraged by the idea of gay sex except the chat never apologized for being a straight white male pissing on 40 stream whereas the flex bar i didn't bring it with me to australia run descendants loves susie rejiki he loves 40 and that's why we still show up to see the public humiliation for you know 40 effectively compromising to fit with the standards of service 40 is a youtube live stream or anything else of the pale imitation imagine watching a Torah talk on rumble absolutely nightmarish look for youtube chat right the current internet terms of service so yeah during during the the more heated days of 2018 i think that's when i i developed a you know a guideline a moral code for the chat and i couldn't believe how effective it was people who become so much more reasonable and responsible after i started posting and and talking about you know a code for you know code of ethics for you know just being in the chat and 36 to 68 percent while democrats views remained largely unchanged so when desantis went after disney a few months following his chamber speech he wasn't simply striking back at an employer critical of his administration yeah we had such good times in 2018 i remember the excitement of teaming up with denis dale and professor kasey and vivian and my first partner was vivian all right that's 2015 my first partners were vivian and her sister and that was the first live show that i did on youtube it was a Torah talk with vivian vivian veritas and her sister and then started doing regular shows with vivian which then transitions doing regular shows with professor kasey it's now gone with podcast and then adding denis dale to the mix and then rickardo started braiding denis dale rickardo comes on the street and rickardo is an absolute streaming star i think that's march of 2018 then rickardo becomes my daily co-host and you know we're we're DMing back and forth on twitter like rickardo is such an amazing co-host because he has just like a visceral feel for things and emotional honesty that i do not have but then you know rickardo had to dial it back then i was lucky enough to discover kevin michael grace those were heady days bringing kevin onto the stream along with denis dale and kasey and uh the the reasonable guy from oklahoma the the the respecter uh like we had a whack pack with with you know babs you know babelone and hebrew that we had such good times back in 2018 those heady days of internet bloodsports and richard spencer kevin mcdonald on the stream rick striker mike benak you know some you know transsexual leftist skilled at a rhetoric who you know eventually got exposed for claiming to be black when when she wasn't oh man and then meeting kyle and then wow kyle's amazing i got it i got to give kyle is an hour of the show so start bringing you know kyle on at 4 p.m west coast time they're bringing kevin michael grace on i don't know something like uh i bring you know half an hour an hour later or there's epic battles between kyle and kevin and rickardo and sometimes kasey and then we had that that woman in australia who came on the screen the show and she was she was dying and but she was like a regular viewer of the show i mean and the discussion got to be so much more wide open but then in late 2018 youtube imposed a particularly draconian terms of service which i have internalized and so you know you can turn in here to watch me humiliate myself by internalizing youtube's terms of service no longer just something that is imposed upon me from the outside head to moment i love seeing 40 grin like a little boy at the thought of better days the nostalgia hits me the same way pure judeism was better instead of all this people did the stream go down the jew hole or did you get sucked down the jew hole be honest i just thought we had a lot of great streams in from 2015 to 2018 and then we've had i'll be honest we've had fewer great streams since 2018 the show generally speaking was at its best in 2018 when we had nazis talking to jews like we had some pretty stimulating conversations those were those were good times so when desantis went after disney a few months following his chamber speech he wasn't simply striking back at an employer critical of his administration he was leading a leading role in a national drama that's become increasingly central to republican politics by normal political standards a governor attacking his state's marquee employer would be an act of unimaginable recklessness and pigger says odyssey will be number one in two years i love odyssey we are streaming live on odyssey right now rumble or or dedicated republicans odyssey and dedicated libertarians bring back the magic bloke that's very self-aware of you look cool like a vod congratulations yeah so almost everything goes better with other people my solo streams and they were as good as when we had a whack pack on there so i need to bring back the whack pack but you know what there's something that's more important to me than doing good live streams there's something more important to me than producing compelling content there's something that's even more important to me than bringing great characters onto the streams and that's not damaging people and i came to realize in 2018 that most people probably are better off not live streaming than i need to be much more selective about the type of people i bring on the show and that comes at a tremendous cost of spontaneity and the compelling nature of the show but it's more moral it's more ethical and showing more concern for the well-being of other people so people don't tend to think of the consequences of live streaming and there are so many possible negative consequences that only a tiny tiny tiny number of people are really cut out for live streaming for the overwhelming majority of people coming on a show like this is not in their self interest and so i don't push it on people right i try to be very selective i you know cut way back on my stroll streams because i just think it's antisocial people don't like it when someone's strolling down the street doing doing a live stream and i realized that so many of the entertaining characters that i brought on the show it was not good for them it didn't bring out the best in them so there's something that's more important to me than producing a great live stream and that's trying to produce a good life for myself for other people and not not damaging people unnecessarily who are naive about the consequences of coming on a show and talking about intense topics so there are values that are higher to me than producing compelling content there are values that are higher to me than my personal success there are values that are higher to me than getting you know a large number of viewers i found that you know obviously internet blast force is the best way to get a large number of viewers but that's frequently really bad for people and i sometimes just don't like the effect on me and i don't like the possible effect on on viewers so often the most compelling content the most entertaining content the most lucrative content the content that produces the most views is the content that's worst for you and higher IQ content the more morally and intellectually demanding content which gets one percent of the viewership of the trashy uh you know internet blood sports content uh least you feel good about it and to the extent that it has an effect on someone that's either going to be neutral or positive so there are higher values in the world than producing compelling live streams figure says you're damaging more by not expressing your true self but i think i'm largely expressing my true self i just have to use more euphemisms due to the terms of service so it's like playing tennis with the net up versus playing tennis with the with the net down so i really like bringing people on and you know going back and forth in arguments and you know people from all sorts of different streams of life but that is just so painful it's so disconcerting to realize this was really bad for many of them it was not in their self interest they had to be much more selective it's really disconcerting to me to realize that 99% of people who want to come on the stream it's not going to be good for them it's not going to be good to the audience it's not going to be good for the stream so generally speaking to people who most want to come on the stream it's not good for them or the stream or for the audience and or for me and the people who'd be best to bring on the stream tend to be the people most reluctant to come on the stream so let's have a look at the youtube chat brave of you to say that after you've destroyed so many lives before now i didn't destroy their lives i provided a forum opportunity for them to destroy their own lives and i don't give myself even 20% of the demerits for that like if someone comes on this show and destroys their life like i would hold myself less than five percent responsible but still i'm not going to i'm not going to take that as as easily and heavily as i did before i'm not responsible for what anyone says on the screen right that's their responsibility i only have yeah a small amount of responsibility in that i provide a forum if they don't self-destruct here and they want to be on live streams i find other live streams that they're going to self-destruct on so i don't want to take over responsibility i want to take just an accurate amount of responsibility please give us your psychologist contact information oh yeah i remember the skip mailers the 40s the skip mailers of the old right post games for for Andrew Anglin and Saugard yeah that was magic that was great i'd come home i sometimes have to work in 12-hour days and i hadn't even gotten to see that the stream that i was going to that we were all going to comment on but i just come back with you know let's do a post game on the on Andy Wastie show or jf garapies show or the whatever debate and take a part place that evening and i was you know i think i you know open to many many different points of view so we got to have some pretty lively and entertaining discussion yeah let's read the forbidden book it'll be fun yeah that's that's my attitude see if someone reads a forbidden book and it destroys them i don't believe the book is primarily responsible and i don't believe that i'm responsible for suggesting that they should read it for fun it just so happens that sometimes some self-destructive personalities again to use that forbidden book is the opportunity to inflow and i don't feel great about that but i don't take primary responsibility for it either i provided i opened up a door that person walked in the door then he ran out found the window and he jumped up the 10th floor i'm sorry that happens that's not on me but i don't feel good about it so i want to do everything i can to minimize the chances of that happening okay i normal political standards a governor attacking his state's marquee employer would be an act of unimaginable recklessness but desantis had read the landscape correctly as corporations have gotten bigger and bigger their local ties have weakened so i don't believe that i never did damage to anyone there's a big difference between on the one hand i never did damage to anyone which i don't believe and the opposite attitude is you know i damaged so many people by giving them the opportunity to speak on the show right i reject both extremes i have a i provided a forum where some people self-destructed and as a result of those experiences have became much more reluctant to bring people on if i thought there was a significant chance that they would self-destruct but i'm not responsible for their self-destruction on the other hand as a morally aware psychologically aware socially aware person i don't want to be doing a show where people are destroying themselves so it's kind of a middle part between the two extremes of i never damaged anyone to i am responsible for other people self-destructing on the show i think there is a middle part i i can't help but damage people as i go through life even when i'm not on air like we all bruise people right when we interact i want to minimize the amount of damage i do when i do do significant needless damage i want to face up to it and try to make amends so i've had a history of being very selfish in my suit of pleasure my pursuit of women i'd be very selfish in my pursuit of attention so i've been disruptive to individuals and to groups i uh have not exercised sufficient self-control so i've disrupted social occasions dinners uh Torah talks uh you know all sorts of parties gatherings one-on-one conversations by saying things that are offensive so in my old age i'd like to think i'm increasingly tuning into the appropriate situation of the person who i'm conversing with so that i can bring things down so that i'm not needlessly humiliating or offending people because when i needlessly offend people i am harming them and the therapist said when you offend someone you are harming them as brad koker a pollster in florida it used to be if you were a corporation based in pittsburgh even if you weren't a steel company you had your finger on the pulse of what pittsburgh voters cared about now that's gone the big secret about disney is that floridians don't go to disney world they see disney as california corporation when koker went into the field with his survey team he found no drop in disantis's poll numbers it hasn't hurt him at all quite the contrary in late october the florida camber of commerce gathered once more for its annual meeting in orlando dinner is ready i gotta go