 Thoughts on Rand Paul calling for media to expose the whistleblower. I mean, I think it's disgusting. I Mean really disgusting. I mean, this is the guy who claimed to defend Snowden and Snowden's right to be a whistleblower and to protect protected from prosecution and Prosecution as a whistleblower. This is the guy who believes in the rule of law. We have whistleblower laws That clearly protect the identity of the whistleblower. I mean, it's it really is I mean Rand Paul sold his soul wholeheartedly to Donald Trump He has made a mockery a mockery of everything. He once believed it. He is a senator Who has said almost nothing about a? government spending going out of control He licks Donald Trump's boots regularly, so I Have lost whatever respect I had for Rand Paul. I've lost completely in you know, he's Apologist for trumpet, but just lost his credibility as a deficit hawk as that, you know When he first came to Senate, he proposed a budget a whole budget that cut $500 billion from next year's budget that he balanced the budget in three years Now where is that guy? Where is that guy? Now he was always soft-spoken and kind of quiet and a little meanie mouth and stuff, but this is I Mean Republicans have sold their souls. Look at look at it's Ted Cruz look at, you know All of them all of them You know, where are the principled Republicans? I thought I went start there were like five or six of them in in the Senate the God Should federal student loans be forgiven given how predatory it is to give an 18-year-old hundreds of thousands of dollars for a useless degree I don't think you can forgive them, but certainly I think that there is a way There is a way to reduce the burden To speed up repayment to cut payments significantly As part of a comprehensive plan to get the government out of the business of funding education So as long as as long as the government is funding education, you can't do anything you have to Get the government out of the business funding education and as part of the government getting out of the business completely Zero no grants no scholarships. No loans zero today. They do basically a hundred percent And then shifting all that to the private sector as part of a comprehensive plan like that you can also Part of a plan like that. You can also reduce the debt burden that people have There's a question on the whistleblower fair enough about Rand Paul, but one's entitled to face one's accuser. No No, I mean, this is not a court of law and There are clear laws about whistleblowers, right this clear Legal precedent. This isn't you know, you might not like the laws. You might say the laws are wrong, but you can't tell people Go ahead and violate the laws. We don't care about the laws today So if the whistleblower was on Obama, let's just run the exercise if there was a whistleblower claiming Obama did XYZ and There were hearings and Republicans were running hearings and Democrats came out and said, oh, no We need to reveal the name of the whistleblower. I mean Republicans would flip out Rand Paul Everybody would flip out There's zero Entitlement to face one's accuser in the kind of proceeding that is happening right now You know, you can interrogate the accuser or if the accuser won't face cross-examination then you discount their testimony In a sense, you ignore their testimony. You can't ignore the testimony. The fact is that nothing That Trump is being accused of right now depends on the whistleblower Because the whistleblower only had second-hand information about the phone call and about the all the stuff going on with Ukraine Now there's testimony that's Directly from people who are on the call and who were instructed to do X Y and Z. So you've got direct evidence So you don't even need the whistleblower. This is all a distraction But no, I mean imagine Imagine if there was a whistleblower who was a union member and He wanted to reveal information about how the union was actually run by the mafia But he was afraid Because if he was revealed not only would be fired he would be kicked out of the union His life would be in danger because of the mafia characteristics of the union and he wanted to remain anonymous Would a grand jury? Take his testimony anonymously. Sure they would they would take into account that it's anonymous They would discount it to some extent and then you go and you find other evidence But you don't I mean Would Rand Paul have asked that Snowden reveal his name if he could have stayed anonymous Of course not he would have fought to keep Snowden's name hidden because the things Snowden were revealing with things that Rand Paul viewed as bad the only reason they want This the the whistleblower's name is because the things he's revealing they consider bad So there's no rule of law. It's all a question of whether it's good for me or bad for me That's pure pragmatism. That's Donald Trump's way of governing That's a destruction of the American system and you're seeing it throughout government now In Congress in the White House in agencies in the State Department throughout this Whatever works Whatever gets me what I need tomorrow whatever keeps the left out of the White House You see that all over the place as long as we're beating the left nothing else matters Including if we have to violate the law including if we have to break into the Democratic Party headquarters I mean Nixon wouldn't be impeached today. I mean Republicans would just say so what we had to defeat the left What's the big deal? The left is really really evil. They're really really bad So we broke in no nobody got hurt. We didn't kill anybody What's what's the big deal? I mean, that's how far we've come nobody would care today This leads us to the third and the worst argument of some alleged conservatism The attempt to defend freedom on the ground of man's depravity This argument runs as follows Since men are weak, fallible, non-omniscient and innately depraved No man may be entrusted with the responsibility of being a dictator and of ruling everybody else Therefore a pre-society is the proper way of life for imperfect creatures Since men are depraved, they are not good enough for a dictatorship Freedom is all that they deserve. If they were perfect, they would be worthy of a totalitarian state Dictatorship this school asserts believe it or not is the result of faith in men and in men's goodness If people realize that men is depraved by nature, they would not entrust a dictator with power The belief in human depravity is what would protect their freedom and more Dictatorships this school declares and all the other disasters of the modern world are men's punishment for the sin of relying on his intellect and of attempting to improve his life on earth by seeking a perfect political system and a rational society Thus humility, passivity, Resignation and belief in original sin are the bulwarks of capitalism This is truly the voice of the dark ages Rising again in the midst of our industrial civilization The liberals are trying to put statism over by stealth Without letting the country realize what road they are taking to what ultimate goal And while such a policy is reprehensible, there is something much more reprehensible The policy of the so-called conservatists who believe in compromise and who are trying to defend freedom by stealth If the liberals are afraid to identify as a program by its proper name If they advocate every specific step measure policy and principle of statism But squirm and twist themselves into semantic pretzels With such euphemisms as the welfare state, the new deal, the new frontier They still preserve a semblance of logic if not of morality It is the logic of a con man who cannot afford to let his victims discover his purpose Besides, most liberals are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery So they evade the issue for fear of discovering that their goal is evil Immoral as this might be, what is one to think of men who evade the issue for fear of discovering that their goal is good What is the moral structure of those who are afraid to know or to proclaim that they are the champions of freedom What is the courage and the integrity of those who outdo their enemies in smearing, misrepresenting Speaking at and apologizing for their own ideals What is the rationality of those who expect to trick people into freedom, cheat them into justice, pull them into progress Come them into preserving their rights and while indoctrinating them with statism Put one over on them and let them wake up in a perfect capitalist society some morning Such, unfortunately, are a great many of today's conservatives Gentlemen, if you want to save capitalism, there is only one type of argument that you should adopt The only one that has ever won in any moral issue The argument from self-esteem Check your premises, convince yourself of the rightness of your cause, then fight for capitalism with full moral certainty Using the super chat and I noticed yesterday when I appealed for support for the show Many of you stepped forward and actually supported the show for the first time So I'll do it again, maybe we'll get some more today If you like what you're hearing, if you appreciate what I'm doing Then I appreciate your support Those of you who don't yet support the show, please take this opportunity to go to www.uranbrookshow.com Slash support or go to www.subscribestar.com www.uranbrookshow.com And make a kind of a monthly contribution to keep this going I'm not sure when the next