 the radical fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights. This is the Iran Book Show. All right everybody, welcome to Iran Book Show on this January 10th. It's a Tuesday. Well into January now. No excuses for signing your checks 2022 anymore. It is 2023. I don't know who writes checks anymore, who dates checks anymore. All right anyway, good morning to those of you on the west coast. Good evening to those of you in Europe. Good early afternoon to those of you on the east coast. Welcome to Iran Book Show. All right, let's jump into it. Lots of stuff I guess happening. Let's start with this new immigration executive order rules being put forward by the Biden administration and being promoted or being negotiated, I guess, final details with the Mexican government in Mexico. This is kind of interesting. It's an interesting proposal. What they're trying to do ultimately is use the framework of I think how ultimately they will solve this issue of immigrants on the southern border coming in illegally. So I think this is a framework. But let me just say first that the first thing to remember about immigration is it's the law that has to change. And the reality is that the last time we had systematic immigration reform was 1964. It's been almost 60 years since that has happened. Attempts to have comprehensive immigration reform primarily under in the Bush administration were killed by the Democrats and then attempts by the Obama administration were killed by the Republicans. And there was an attempt to have some little bit of immigration reform done just a month ago by cinema and the Republican senator from North Carolina in that field. This is an issue for Congress to deal with. Congress needs to pass a new immigration law. It needs to fix the problem. The immigration law for 1964 does not cannot cope with what's going on in the southern border cannot cope with the needs for immigrants the United States has today but cannot doesn't have the equipment doesn't have the tools to cope with massive influxes of people from south of the border. We need a new immigration law. It's not going to be the law I want. It's not going to be even close to the law I want but they they need to solve this. So whatever Trump does whatever Biden does whatever anybody does at the end of the day the ultimate problem here in the United States other than a fundamental wrong view of immigration. But the fundamental problem here is a problem that we keep seeing repeating itself and that is that the legislative branch of government is basically not doing its job and not not in delegating to the executive branch and then blaming the executive branch or whatever happens. The fundamental issue here and this and lots of other issues trade being another one. The whole issue of tariffs should not be in the hands of the president. There should be Congress that has to vote on tariffs. That's how it was originally set up and that Congress is basically defaulting on its responsibility to actually pass laws and actually do the hard work and actually hashing out deals and granted you know if you're going to have a deal given this Congress it's going to have to have some compromise but something and even have the discussion and the negotiation and that hasn't happened in a long time. So you know I don't know what's going to happen ultimately and whether this Congress can hash out an immigration deal. Kevin McCarthy says immigration is high on his priority list but I'll believe it when I see it and how do you resolve the real conflicts even among Republicans never mind between Republicans and Democrats and how do you come up with a reasonable immigration solution. Now I think what Biden is doing is actually pretty reasonable and you could expand this into a more broader deal. I think what he's doing is tinkering at the edges with what he can do. So what is this new proposal? The new proposal basically says that right now there are four countries that dominate asylum requests in the United States. Four countries that dominate. They are, let's see if I remember this by heart, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Haiti. And what happens is that people cross the border illegally and if the United States wants to return them to their home countries they can't. We don't have any kind of diplomatic relationship with Venezuela, Honduras, sorry Nicaragua and Cuba and you know if we try to return people to Haiti all hell breaks loose in the press and everything so people don't like that. So we're basically not returning them there. Mexico is resisted in taking them in Mexico. So and they come here and they have, based on current law, again current law, the law is what it is, they have what are seemingly legitimate cases for asylum but they're coming here illegally and they kind of right now the authorities are stuck. What do you do with these people? So they kind of keep them in the United States while they appear for asylum and it takes forever and when they reject it they can't ship them home. So there's just, it's just like a dead end with these countries. So what the Biden administration is basically doing is just saying okay if you come here, if you just cross the border and come here and ask for asylum we're sending you to Mexico and Mexico has agreed to receive 30,000 of these immigrants from these four countries. But what we're also doing at the same time is we are going to set up a process that if you apply for asylum from your home country or from our country before you get to Mexico, if you apply for a country before you cross illegally into Mexico and to the United States we will expedite and make it simpler for you and if you can show you have a financial support and if you can show you know whatever you can find a pass a FBI screen you can pass all these other screens we will let up to 30,000 people in every month from these four countries. So they're basically encouraging them instead of crossing the desert, instead of paying the coyotes, instead of doing all these things and then coming here quote illegally they get a chance to actually apply for asylum. Again I'm not for all the asylum rules I would like a work-based system but this is what we have so you work with what you have. Get them the opportunity to apply early they don't get a green card but they get work permits for two years while I guess their paperwork is finalized and they get the right visas and they get all the other things working out but at least they're in the United States legally and they could fly here right they can come instead of playing the coyotes they can buy airplane tickets which are much cheaper and and fly into the United States legally. So accompanying this the US claims that they're going to be rolling out a new website which is going to be dedicated to explaining to people in Latin American countries what the legal options are for coming into the United States or emigrating to the United States all the different options and supposedly it's going to make it really easy and simple for them to apply for legal ways in which to get into the United States based on the existing laws and the existing system. This is going to be rolled out in a few months I mean tech rollouts and government don't I don't expect too much and the idea is there then to then establish centers in south Mexico so the first they cross the border into Mexico and then there's centers in south Mexico that provide them with information that help them apply legally and help them do all that you know it could even be funded by the fees that they pay in order to come into the United States and then they can again come legally rather than having to travel through the desert of Mexico and having to come through illegally. So and I think at the end of the day it's that kind of program and I've always said the way to stop illegal immigration is to expand and simplify legal immigration and what needs to happen is to make this comprehensive and then decide on what basis that we want to accept legal immigration on the basis of asylum on the basis of family unification on the basis somebody can support you on the basis in my view of hey I here's here's somebody who's willing to hire me here's here's a job off I got and then you simplify it and if you make it really really really easy including for example seasonal workers who can come in for for three months four months five months and then go back home and come in and make it really really simple again make it put it on a website make it simple this is not hard to solve and that's how you get rid of illegal immigration but you see Republicans in my view don't want to solve this problem because they can they have they have two issues one they don't want immigrants they certainly don't want immigrants in Latin America and two they don't want to solve the illegal immigration problem because it is their number one campaign issue if illegal immigration basically stops being an issue as really it did from about 2008 until 2018 there was very little illegal immigration I mean Trump still made it a big issue even though it was it was really a non-issue there was negative illegal immigration into the United States but if that really goes away and everybody but perceives it as going away and people are integrating into American society and getting jobs and everything is going smoothly they lose a big issue that they have in terms of in terms of all these all these other issues so there we go so that's Biden's proposal or I guess I guess plan this is what's being enforced that Mexican government has agreed to accept 30 000 of these these people into Mexico the ones that get kicked out of the United States in addition to others that are already being kicked back to Mexico than Mexico I think Mexico views them as as additional labor potential I think they view it as a as an economic plus having these immigrants in Mexico and you know Mexico is really driving to become an industrial center that can become a part of the U.S. company supply chains even bigger part of U.S. company supply chains that take advantage of all the tariff benefits and NAFTA allows and provides okay so that's uh that's by by the immigration I just hope congress actually does something actually does something that would be that would be pretty amazing if we actually got some form of immigration reform and I think if Republicans and Democrats have to compromise maybe they can compromise or work an asylum and drop some other things or find some way to rationalize this or throw them a few smaller numbers on asylum and on other family unification and stuff like that but make the emphasis on work that would be huge and and what I don't like and what I think is awful right um is that um uh this this idea of the government deciding which jobs have acquired giving points to different jobs and different let the markets sort it out give them job applications uh Ken says that there's 70 million illegals here that is BS Goldman Sachs doesn't have such a study that names 70 million that the number it puts is 30 something million what's a what's her name in her book uh cites that number that number's been debunked many many times there's some way between 10 to 15 million illegal immigrants in the United States maybe the number's a little higher uh now given the the influx since COVID uh but it's it's it's far far it's it's got 70 million is just such a laughable just a laughable number and based on nothing based on no actual evidence of fact um all right let's see um yeah you remember the meme stocks well one of them Bed Bath and Beyond uh that uh uh you know went up to close to 40 dollars a share during January of uh 2021 um is just announced earnings yesterday earnings were disappointing there wasn't much expectation for earning and they were disappointing even given that um and uh Bed Bath and Beyond is is letting people know BBBY that it is probably uh filing for bankruptcy it will probably fall for bankruptcy this is I think it's going to be interesting to watch first of all it's trading now at a buck 89 last time I looked that was up a lot today after uh being pounded yesterday but uh buck uh so hopefully you listen to my advice and you sold uh Bed Bath and Beyond at uh when I told you to get out of meme stocks back in January uh 2021 they were disasters you can follow you can look up all the meme stocks and all the meme stocks are disasters this one is in particular a disaster um all right let's see um uh so uh the reason I think it's interesting is that so first if you want to buy stuff from Bed Bath and Beyond and you need supplies go there now and and stock up um although you know a lot of these companies survive bankruptcy bankruptcy it's just about restructuring it's not about shutting down every store and ending it um but in addition uh this is going to be interesting in the sense that um this might be the first right we've talked about uh we've talked about the fact that uh there is um gme is is not over that's true it could go down a lot more of what it's gone so far there's still a lot of downwards there's a lot of space downward and given the call icon has a big short position gme is probably going down quite a bit uh anyway Bed Bath and Beyond is interesting to watch because it could be the first of the zombie companies to go under um it could be I've seen other retailers other large retail chains that have announced that they might be filing for bankruptcy or that analysts thinks are going to go bankrupt this might be the beginning of what I've told you has been missing from the from the Fed right-hate rate hike god I can't talk anymore um and that as interest rates go up companies that have sustained themselves on debt at at very low interest rates will start seeing trouble and um and we'll start uh we'll start declining uh and and we will start seeing we'll start getting into trouble and paying off their debts and we'll really start seeing bankruptcies maybe Bed Bath and Beyond is kind of the canary in the coal mine in terms of recession and in terms of the the zombie companies uh filing and going under uh if if we see a significant increase in these kind of companies going bankrupt not just retail companies maybe some real estate companies um maybe some some other types of medium to small-sized businesses um then uh then what you will then then then we're heading towards a deeper recession not just a milder recession but a much deeper recession so this is something uh this is something it's worth uh you know you know this is something that's worth tracking with monitoring uh with keeping track of not not hard not hard to find the debunking of the Goldman Sachs uh you know just just google it you know the idea that I have at the back of my mind the exact reference to every an exact study all you have to do is look at Alex Nowitzki's uh research on immigration at the Cato Institute the the debunking has been thoroughly done on multiple fronts um look at Alex's website that I'll give you all the sources you need all the references you need I mean the myths about the destructive nature of immigration that's a that's a different issue there I would refer you to the work of Brian Kaplan who's done some excellent work on on immigration and the impact that they have but um yes I mean the Goldman Sachs study um I've read a number of papers that have debunked that and and and and argued why it's wrong uh google it google it if you think I have uh an encyclopedia of references in my mind then you're nuts you know and Ken what are you doing here I thought I thought we finally got rid of Ken but he seems to he seems to keep popping back with his uh with his uh imaginary fairytale facts and conspiracy theories all right working remote working remote obviously is a big deal and a big issue um much of the tech industry and much uh many other industries went remote starting in um during COVID and there was a lot of talk about this being the trend this being the thing and people are going to stay uh people are going to stay remote you know forever and and the reality is that um much you know a lot of companies have required people to come in uh there is a real battle going on between uh companies and their employees about remote work and not remote work New York midtown is slowly coming back as companies more and more companies in financial industry are demanding their employees come back to work uh today there was a story about disney disney uh uh inga the new the new return CEO of disney requiring people to come back to work and ending remote work the flip side of that is a lawn mask who had said that he doesn't believe in remote work he's gonna fire anybody who stays at home he wants everybody to come into the office uh is now allowing remote work in Seattle where in order to save money on rent they have shut down all their offices and therefore in Seattle you can work remotely for twitter uh but not in other not in other uh locations uh and that's because uh i don't know if you saw the stories but twitter's been having a hard time paying rent in san francisco and in other places and has decided shut down its office completely in um in seattle it'll be interesting to see how this evolves over time and uh and whether you know what and and whether this is uh this trend is is will sustain itself or not we will see how remote work lands up i think apple insisted on everybody coming into the office other companies have not but now we're also seeing a lot of layoffs and it'll be interesting to see uh companies preferring to layoff people who work remotely or people who come into the office the massive tech company layoffs another interesting trend a lot of those tech company tech people are leaving the tech companies and what they do instead is join um joining non-tech companies and tech roles a lot of companies need tech people a lot of companies need tech people programming is needed in almost every industry today and what's happening right now is i think a lot of these people are discovering that they don't have to work for a big tech company or a little tech company on startup there's actually jobs for them in banks and even the auto industry and in almost every industry uh that needs this and those jobs might be safer if that's what you're looking for so um interesting it's going to be interesting to watch the tech industry as well as this economic conditions continue as their stock prices continue to be hooding and and and to see to see uh uh where all those employees uh land up finally i'm sure you're all going to be relieved that the Biden administration is considering uh banning gas stoves those of you had gas stoves you might want to think about the cost of replacing them uh probably they'll ban only new gas stoves from being installed they won't ban existing ones but gas stoves kind of the the way in which most of us i think or many of us have used to to heat uh to eat food um are going to be banned and and why are they going to be banned um well because they're dangerous i mean a lot of you i think leave the gas on and forget to turn it off and then you blow up the house when you light a lighter match and you kill yourself um it's just it's just dangerous we just don't want people to do dangerous things and uh and uh we want to protect you from yourself we want to protect you from your own stupidity so expect the price of um cooking to go up one of the reasons gas stove is popular is that gas is cheaper natural gas is cheaper than electricity but it's always good to see our central planners and chief um our government out there trying to make sure that we don't kill ourselves and trying to protect us and help us and and uh and do good by us uh you know so uh i'm sure you know all of you are now relieved that the new home that you're buying will not have a gas stove thanks to the biden administration i i don't know what we're gonna do about movies i mean because so many action movies involve uh homes being blown up by the use of um by the use of uh you know uh gas stoves and leaving them leaked i mean i i can there are probably a dozen movies that have that so i'm not sure what the movies will do in the future they'll have to find a different way of dealing with it all right um let's see um michael yeah this is a newsy story and i thought michael was wrong initially but he turns out he's right uh at least impartially uh michael says great news you're wrong the house will be voting to abolish the income tax and irs they want to replace it with the sales tax it probably won't pass the senate override biden's veto at least it's a step in the right direction uh yes it turns out that um a bill will be introduced the fair tax act that will abolish the irs abolish all income taxes abolish all corporate taxes it'll also abolish let me let's be clear the wealth tax um let me see it basically abolish uh you know the wealth tax dividend tax capital gains taxes that abolish all those taxes and basically lever a national sales tax a consumption tax uh on the united states now this is this is in my view from a purely economic perspective this is ideal um it would it would you know it would be a huge step forward it would result in massive um uh you know massive economic progress and massive uh economic success it would it would change everything it would change everything um if this passed but let's be let's be a little bit of reality here a little bit of reality um this bill was first introduced in congress at the house in 1999 this bill has been voted on in the past by the house as far as i can tell and never passed the house in spite of republicans having majority after majority after majority in the house during the 2000s and during the 20 teens oh yeah it will abolish the list income taxes the death tax gift taxes payroll tax even social security tax many kid tax the uh you know and and and basically all taxes right uh and replace them with one tax yeah beautiful amazing i wish it could pass it's been bouncing around the house since 1999 it won't get out of committee if it gets out of committee and comes to our house vote uh i i'm willing to speculate that a majority you don't know well maybe not a majority of republicans but it won't pass a significant number of republicans will vote against it um and the only reason other republicans will vote for it is because they know it won't pass um there is exactly zero chance that it would pass the senate but i think the probability that a bill like this passes the house of representatives is less than 10 percent and um like all of my predictions i encourage you to come on the day after they vote and let me know i'm full of it right let me know i was wrong but on one condition that if it turns out i'm right please come on and say you're on you're right because nobody ever does that nobody ever acknowledges that when i write meme stocks trump losing the election uh you know all the other many many many many many many many predictions i've made that have turned out right and yet nobody actually comes out and says yeah all right anyway there you go um it's it's been on the books again this was first introduced by buddy Carter um it was introduced by um buddy Carter in this in this uh in this congress um he's from the georgia's first district it was first introduced in the u.s congress exactly the same bill um in 1999 by former georgia congressman john linda um and has never gone anyway so maybe what they've uh got a commitment to to bring it to the to the floor for a vote but the reality is that it will now pass on the leeway just said i'm right and gave me 20 that compensates for all the times everybody else did not say i'm right so uh thank you on the leeway i really really uh i really really appreciate it all right um so thank you michael um sorry i had this specific story early on because what did happen today is they did the republicans have voted in the house to cancel the increase in the irs's budget you remember they approved uh 80 billion dollars and uh to hire 87 000 new irs employees and um uh that passed the house today but the senate is not going to even vote on it and uh nothing's going to happen so this is this is the kind of ridiculous symbolism the ridiculous symbolism uh that uh that republicans do they come in they do something symbolic and they pat themselves on the back and when it comes to anything actual they can actually make a change make a difference they're completely wrong and they're complete disasters um yeah the other thing i was big time right was on uh ukraine which i called on the first day on on the first or second day of the war and it turned out on almost everything about ukraine to be absolutely right so that's the other thing thank you but thank you on the leeway you've kind of covered them all so i you know we don't we don't need specifics anymore uh adam thank you for the support really appreciate it um all right let's see um yeah oh and by the way of course they repealed the funding for the 87 000 new if we uh you know irs employees but i've already explained to you several times now there's no way in hell the irs can hire 87 000 employees they're just on the people aren't there um uh they the people aren't there the people have never been there uh they they can't hire them they can't they can barely replace the people retiring from the irs right now they i wouldn't be surprised at all if five years from now the irs workforce is actually smaller than is right now because of the the number of employees that are about to be retired um so uh so yes all right uh bradley says uh uh who's more masculine jobs are prudent how do you think masculinity and collectivism interact well the collectivists admire muscle and view masculinity from the perspective of muscle um you know this is if you look all you have to do is look at a communist and fascist sculpture and you can tell from communist and fascism everything everything you need to know about their view of a man their view of human beings they view man as as material to be molded they view man as just a physical entity with no mind uh and and and if you look if you compare that sculpture the communist and fascist sculpture to let's say 19th century sculpture of of of men masculine men right then what you will find is grotesque musculature and a mindlessness and a face that is that is always always always the same very little very little that distinguishes the individual as an individual and and that's the view of masculinity it's all about muscle it's all about bravado it's it's all about tate right it's all about fast cars beautiful women and lots of muscles sorry that's not masculinity that's bullshit that's that's a barbaric primitive collectivistic view of masculinity i think jobs is much more masculine jobs is a modern masculine man he is the epitome of smart um you know of confidence of self-esteem of of the ability to dominate dominate on a on a stage and and reflect his ideas and his passions his ability to change the world with words and in that sense in that sense uh putin is a you know putin is at the level of beasts and jobs that is at the level of human beings and uh you know so i believe jobs is much more masculine than uh than putin i don't consider putin masculine i consider him a brute a thug and i uh said that i've said that more than once in russia in st petersburg and in moscow to the horror of my audience who thought i should be careful um but the the self the self-confidence the self-esteem the calm command of an audience and then the ability to be in a sense ruthless in in in the business environment and and have his way um that is real you know that's what i think needs to be admired needs to be admired ashton is a time thank you for the fifty dollars that's great and thank you thank you and amina basically put us over our goal is it time for us objectivist that many manual content john john jacuzzo were right about reason and iron man was wrong no because they were not um they were not right about reason they were wrong about reason they still are wrong about reason they will always be wrong about reason and i think being up steve jobs is a good example of that and being up you know people you know who uh live by reason and history history shows us that cons and john jacuzzo were wrong it shows us because of the massive success of reason uh the massive success that reason has had in basically completely revolutionizing human life over since cons and john john jacuzzo have died that is uh since their heyday human life on planet earth has been dramatically and massively uh revolutionized standard of living quality of life life expectancy everything about human life has been changed and it's all being changed for the better by reason cons and john jacuzzo belong to an era before that revolution and they are the anti-revolutionaries they are the uh what do you call it the reactionaries who are trying to prevent that revolution from happening and to some extent ultimately they succeed they succeed in that um they have not allowed the reason revolution to win outright but uh they failed to um to prevent it from having a huge impact on our lives at the end of the day in spite of con winning the intellectual high ground in the culture con lost and uh you know we live we don't we live in it we don't really live in a content world not dominantly content um so no i i i i don't think i don't think uh imano account and john jacuzzo were right and of course we can't say it's time for us objectivist to admit because as soon as you admit imano account and jacuzzo were right about reason then you're not an objectivist so it's meaningless to call yourself an objectivist and therefore there's never a situation where objectivist have to admit this uh the only thing you could argue is that objectivist should admit that they're not objectivist anymore all right armin says i was watching one of your older videos that you briefly uh denoted plato's philosophy philosophies as being destructive could you elaborate oh my god that's a big question armin um you and you deserve a a systematic answer so here's the outline and then maybe ask me the same question on one of the longer shows so not on a show that's doing the news and therefore i'm committed to making it fast and quick and short um so yes plato is the enemy uh we talked about content who so but content who so could not be possible without plato plato is the enemy because plato like cons but plato does it well before cons um divorces human reason and human um senses from uh reality that is truth uh fact um uh reality really reality in a platonic universe in in according to platonist reality is is is is unknowable the real reality real reality is not what we see with our eyes it's just a it's just a poor reflection of the truth of what's really out there the world of forms that is in a different dimension and only philosophers can see that dimension the rest of us basically live in in a cave and have no access uh to the the real reality and and we can we can never have that access and as a consequence therefore we must be guided by philosopher kings who have access to that reality who can tell us about the truth but we can never discover it for ourselves because we don't have the tool that mystical revelatory tool to connect to reality uh itself to to to discover the world of form so in many respects uh platonism is the picosa to uh christianity which is a very neoplatonic and very detached from this world and very very much uh affiliate with the world of forms uh it is destructive epistemologically because it detaches the human mind and human reason from the evidence of the senses and from reality itself i think Aristotle went a long way to debunking Plato at least on on some important issues and on pointing us in the right direction in terms of where to go um but Plato himself is there's a great book on in that i highly recommend i've recommended before on the show but it's a really good book not written by an objectivist uh called the cave in the light which illustrates kind of western history from the perspective of Plato versus Aristotle and it's quite good i i think it's quite good and and and and we'll we'll say a lot about what i think the problems are with Plato there are many many many many many more problems with Plato Plato makes mysticism possible because he placed truth in a different dimension uh and and and that is destructive to human epistemology it's why the christians love Plato why they picked him up because he makes he legitimizes philosophically mysticism uh roland uh too bad you stopped reviewing songs uh now who am i going to annoy by making them review katie perry last Friday night you see you're just convincing me now that i made a good decision not to review songs not to you view songs anymore jeffrey millis says i'd like to switch on monthly contributions to be paid by check um okay we can do that um anything you want jeffrey maybe maybe what i should do is i should come to restaurant and pick the check up in person and you you could feed me while i'm there i think that would be that would be good all right michael says rules disconnected from facts of dogma and their attempt to use reason to justify dogma is rationalism um rules disconnected from facts of dogma yes and their attempt to use reason to justify dogma is rationalism yeah sounds sounds right oh don't do this michael what do you think of eric daniels did you see speech on defending capitalism from its defenders quite good uh you know i don't i have no interest in commenting on other objectivist intellectuals and giving you my opinion of them i've told you this a hundred times before don't ask me what do you think of um i like i i i i like this particular speech i like the work eric daniels does on capitalism so i'll say that i think i've heard this particular speech um and uh but uh you know but i've i've liked the work that eric has done on capitalism and his work on history is uh is quite good so uh i encourage people to seek it out and and listen to it um scott says you claim i want to work with the enemies but you've also said everyone is an enemy it's part of the issue that you're anti-correlation in practice yes i'm i'm anti-broad coalitions this is uh iron rand's iron rand was very specific about this and i agree with her you form coalitions only on specific issues uh like i'm willing to form a coalition with brian kaplan on the specific issue of immigration and trade right on on on those specific issues do i want to form a a political coalition with brian kaplan to take over the world no because he's an anarchist so i i i don't want that broader coalition i want it narrow on a particular issue um you know do am i willing to am i willing to join forces with some republicans to advocate for a fair tax sure am i willing to join a coalition with republicans to fight the left no because on on the broad sense republicans could be a man am i willing to join a coalition with the left in order to find for abortion rights some people on the left yes um absolutely there are certain people on the left i would form a coalition to fight for abortion rights or to fight for other specific rights so you on a particular issue you find the people you make clear that you disagree on other things and you fight but the fight on a broad political platform that is fighting with your that is working with your enemies and that is a sanction they do not deserve and it is moral treason to do so adam says from your military experience can 10 bodies challenge it twos make a difference in ukraine what's the superiority of a main battle tank over tracked fighting vehicles opinion on israeli converting mercava uh tanks to to tfvs tfvs are troop movers uh uh uh mercava was also a was always a dual function tank it could both act as a as a tank but it could also uh move troops so it had more space than a typical tank uh to actually carry small numbers of troops look um the whole question of of uh of the usefulness of tanks uh in in modern wef warfare is something that's heavily being debated right now um all over the place by military experts um i think it's way too soon i think it's way way too soon to um give up on tanks i think tanks are an important uh an important weapon by which to take ground and to take ground um fast and in overwhelming ways and a way in which to to to move uh ground troops uh forward that is the the tanks advance and clear the path for the ground troops that they always have i don't think it's the end of tank warfare i think it's the end of the soviet model the soviet model is don't you know the russian model is i don't give a i don't give one aota about my crew i don't care if they die i build tanks that are basically uh human traps um and and this i know you can argue with me about a lot of things but this i know from first hand experience with russian tanks russian tanks are death traps western tra- tanks are not western tra- tanks are amazing vehicles and in this sense a bit of challenge you choose i have no doubt uh uh amazing vehicles these are amazing weapon systems um they're up there with the german tags and the the american tanks and and the israeli milk cover um and um and uh you know they would make 10 tanks would make a big difference i think um and they are not death traps because so much of the thinking behind building these tanks and the making of these tanks is to protect the the crew inside and is to protect the tank from damage exactly the opposite of the thinking of the russians the russians and the soviet model is you throw numbers at the enemy you throw large numbers at the enemy and a bunch of them die who cares you can see that right now in the way russia is fighting in bakhmut which is just unbelievable uh the first of all it's unbelievable it's taking so many months to capture this little town uh given how much effort they're placing on it but second just the number of casualties just the casualties that they are taking here is just just unbelievable anyway uh i think modern modern western tanks um can make a huge difference um you know what ukraine needs right now is the ability to move fast i think uh 10 tanks can make a difference to them moving fast but remember the us is considering giving them uh troop movers germany is considering giving them tanks it's not just going to be 10 tanks it's going to be other tanks um and uh but if they do get these tanks if you do see these kind of weapon systems on the ground the russians just don't have a chance they really don't have a chance um and uh you know i don't think they'll get abram's tanks by the way one of the reasons i think the israelis are converting the mercavas into something different is the cost of updating the mercavas as new technology comes out um and it's in a sense cheaper to buy abram's tanks from the us and abram's tanks are really really good so they're probably the best in the world and and and and you know and the mercava was just expensive for the for the israelis to produce it turned out to be cheaper to bring it in um anyway that's my views for whatever it's worth on uh on the world of a tank and uh i've actually had tank trading it actually uh knows something about russian and american and israeli tanks uh but you can see them on the battlefield you can see how pathetic they are richard witzett bolton for president says he will beat trump for nomination due to the terminal decline in trump support i wouldn't run as a vanity candidate if it didn't if i didn't think i could run seriously and then wouldn't get in the race um i don't think john bolton has a chance in hell to win the republican nomination um so i don't think he has a chance i think i think trump would crush him would crush him sadly i mean i would take i would take bolton over trump any day in seconds um it's not even close but uh but i think trump would crush him i don't think i don't and i'm coming to conclusion as i said in my 2023 show that you know trump is a frontrunner and what happened in the house of representatives is just gonna just gonna solidify his um um you know his position um i don't know if you've seen but the russians russians have this a fifth generation fighter the su i figure i forget the exact number um it's it's a fifth generation fighter they're afraid of flying it over ukraine because they're afraid of having a shutdown so it's it does not do missions over ukraine it basically flies in russian airspace and fires its missiles from there um that's the level of confidence that the russians have in their most advanced weapon systems uh they ask you 57 i thought it was 57 but i didn't want to say if i was going to be wrong um you know and um yeah i mean if it had to go up against the the the the american stealth fighters forget about it i mean russian weapon systems are have always been an are worse than pathetic uh and uh that that is equivalent to the masculinity of prudent all right michael says the religious right is like skynet in terminator three they claim they must have full control to stop the virus of the left uh when skynet religion is the only effective virus at play all right uh paul says i watch your earlier show about predictions for 2023 i was curious about your opinion on whether iran will attack israel vichy's ballat that devote attention for problems at home i don't think so yet because i think they're too weak they're they're trying um they're trying i also think that right now the russians are holding them back um they they they're not in a strong enough position in lebanon and syria to do it um so i i don't think so i don't think it's going to happen anytime soon um i think also remember a lot of their strategy around attacking the israel and saudi arabia has to do with drones right now all their drones are going to russia russia's sucking up all the drones that the iranians can make um and uh so i don't i don't think but things in the middle east can change very very quickly but uh you know then they're not quite where they want to be i think they the iranians were hoping to be better established in syria so that they could um have a two front war against israel and could be in a much better position supply weapons to khizballah now and khizballahs had opportunities to attack israel they threatened to attack israel and they've not done it in the last few months and i think again the reason for that is they just are not confident also i think khizballah's position in lebanon is weakened because of the the crisis in lebanon and as a consequence of the weakening position in lebanon um uh i i think they are wary of turning the lebanese against them if israel you know uh uh damages lebanon because that's what israel has done in the past that the lebanese uh you know and then the lebanese turned against khizballah for causing a broader war michael says his ideas are worse with so with his view of man is born good and society is evil um well civilization is evil or harbs with his view that man is born evil and needs to be controlled whose ideas are more prevalent today i think who's so i think who's so is that is dominant uh i think harbors is not very original far harbors is basically christianity so there's nothing um uh nothing particularly um uh really that influential but i think i think who's so is dominant dominant on the left and in the entire environmentalist movement but also if you remember my shows on the black lives matter you could see who's so all over the place the defund the police is is a who's so in it's a policy inspired by who's so the police cause crime they don't prevent crime that's straight out of who's so so on the left who's so is dominated all right thank you guys really appreciate it appreciate us exceeding our target again today amen um save that question also for a for one of our philosophers when i have an interview with the philosopher ask about play dough and and and uh what about play dough that makes him as bad as i argue he is tom thank you really appreciate the support from all of you i will see you all tonight 7 p.m east coast time not sure yet exactly what the topic will be but i'll be i'll be putting it up online in soon so keep track of that regular show tonight 7 p.m east coast time