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Today we are joined by Jason Jones. He is the president of the Vulnerable
People Project. He contributes to stream and he's the host of The Jason Jones
Show. He also has a new book out called The Great Campaign Against the
Great Reset, which sounds Jason pretty great. Thanks so much for joining us.
Well, thanks, Emily, it's uh yeah, it's got two greats
in there, and you know, any campaign against the Great resource Reset is
obviously great. But Jason, before we get started, could you tell us
a little bit about the Vulnerable People Project and how you got involved in the
kind of work that you do, because it is really unique work and it's
fascinating work too, So if you could tell us a little bit about that,
that would be great. Yeah, that is such a hard question because
the real answer is kind of a big answer. But I founded the Vulnerable
People Project in two thousand and two and the idea was to as a young
I was a soldier. I dropped out of high school on my seventh literally
the day I turned seventeen. I joined the army and I was an infantryman.
And as a young soldier, I really had this idea of an organization
that would advocate for ethnic and religious minorities facing genocide. And I was conservative.
I was very pro life, So I had this vision of like a
pro life organization that it was genocide, demicide, warn abortion. And in
two thousand and two I founded the Vulnerable People Project to do just that too,
to advocate for vulnerable ethnic and religious community facing genocide, but also to
advocate for the incomparable dignitine beauty of the human person and in the West,
in the United States, especially the Child in the Womb. VPP has a
sister project or program, called Movie to Movement, and we've been pretty successful.
You know, We've made several films. We've won film festivals like the
Toronto International Film Festival, the NAACP Image Award. Yes, so we've had
quite success with filmmaking as well. But it's all to the same goal of
sort of inspiring salidarity with the vulnerable and promoting human dignity, and we use
film to do that as well. And you know, it's actually really interesting
because this question of the Great Reset and what's happening in some of the most
powerful corridors of society, global society right now. A lot of people will
talk about, you know, quote unquote vulnerable people, they'll talk about genocide,
they'll talk about all of those things, and yet they are the ones
that are pulling the levers of kind of these these Great Reset policies and proposals.
Can you talk to us a little bit about how you connect the dots
between people who are suffering around the world and the Great Reset in particular.
Well, the Great Reset is what's causing their suffering, and you hit on
their number one tactic, the fact, it's to me the most important chapter
in my book that one of the ideological or rhetorical tactics of the Great Reset
is victimism. And what victimism is is feigning concern for the vulnerable to gain
wealth and power. So we can look at this in many different ways,
but let's just look, for example, at electric vehicles. Right. So
King Charles and his Christmas Address said we should not let and this strikes me
close to home because I've spent the past, you know, twenty years working
where there's war, where there's genocide, where there's demoside, and where there's
famine. So it's not you know, pixels on a screen to me.
I can smell it, I can hear it, I've seen it. So
King Charles says we shouldn't let war and famine distract us from what we should
really be having compassionate for compassion for the climate. So this is an example
of victimism, you know, feigning concern for the quote unquote climate to acquire
wealth and power. You look at the green economy, I call it the
black and brown economy, black cole, brown kids, you know, at
the ground zero of the green quote unquote green economy, Our children as young
as six, over forty thousand children in Congo harvesting cobalt with shovels and spoons,
getting cancer, working themselves to death so that people can drive around their
you know, tesla with their coexists bumper sticker and feeling like they're they're virtuous.
So I think that you know that's that's just one example of how they
use feigned concern for the vulnerable to acquire wealth and power. And one of
the reasons I wrote this book, and I really for this audience, especially
young conservatives. Young conservatives are just young people in general. They're so repulsed
they may not even know, they won't know the expression or the term victimism,
but they're so repulsed by victimism that any concern for the vulnerable they find
repulsive. So expressing any concern for the vulnerable is reprehensible because they've only seen
it done in ways that are used to acquire wealth and power at the expense
of vulnerable. So rather just reject it all together. And that's why there's
another chapter in my book on one of the five strategies against the Great Reset,
it's radical solidarity. So radical solidarity with the truly vulnerable comes at a
cost. Whether you're Nick Sandman at the March for Life and you have the
whole media establishment come down on a poor kid standing for life. But so
when you stand with the truly vulnerable, you become vulnerable. But that is
the path out of the Great Reset. That's the opposite of victimism. Oh
no, I was gonna say that brings up a really big question. And
I like asking this to people who are involved in the space because I imagine,
you know, I remember when I was growing up trying to envision what
was sort of happening in places like Washington, DC or I'm recording this right
now, Davos, whatever, And it's always one of these big looming questions
of if they really care about vulnerable people? Are they Are they aware of
what's happening in the Cobalt minds and doing this on purpose? Is it,
you know, means to what they see as a just end? How do
they Jason justify this in their own minds? Or is it really you know,
sort of that caricature, the scheming Bond villains behind the scene, really
trying to just profit off of people's misery. What's going on in their heads
as they make some of these plans and come up with these ideas. Well,
what's great about this great campaign against the Great Reset, which will be
quite the adventure for your generation, is you in fact have scheming Bond villains.
They look like scheming Bond villains. How great is that? Like,
as a filmmaker, the casting is masterful. I mean, Klaus Schwab couldn't
be better. You couldn't have cast a better villain. But that's not most
people, right, Most people are just expressing sort of a public piety to
the gods of the city, and they don't want you to you know,
roughle any feathers or what Hannah Runt would call the banality of evil. It's
you know, most evil in the world is just normal folks trying to avoid
pain, you know, or just go along to get along. But no,
they know, like, let's just look at some examples of how the
great reset and what inspired me to write this book is the past three years,
I've spent most of my time in Afghanistan and Ukraine sort of trying to
clean up the messes that we've caused, you know, rescuing our Afghan alli
in Afghanistan, or providing for the widows and orphans of our for our allies
who died in Ukraine in the first days of the war, evacuating women and
children to the West, and now removing land mines and other initiatives in Ukraine.
So you can see the real human cost of the globalist the globalist schemes
and That's why I wrote this book. But let's just look at some examples
of how the vulnerable been utterly abandoned in the world. Today. You have
three million ethnic Wiger and Chinese occupied East Turkistan in concentration camps. There's no
doubt about this. The Trump administration labeled a degenocide. The first thing that
Biden administration tried to do is roll this back. You know, you have
some of the biggest brands saying that they cannot guarantee that their products are slave
labor free. The company Disney made a movie Mulan that made a caricature of
the weaker people and celebrated the Han Chinese decimation of the evil Weiger. And
what was so tragic about the live action version of the Mulan movie is they
shot it in East Turkistan. Shinjohn and the actors were driven past real concentration
camps. As Disney partnered with the CCP to make anti Wiger propaganda. You
have in China brutalizing of the church. You know, seven Catholic bishops disappeared.
The most prominent Catholic layman in the world, Jimmy Lai, in a
Hong Kong prison you had, under the Obama administration, the almost total ethnic
cleansing of the first century Christian communities from Iraq, total silence, complete,
in total silence. In October, you had the Armenian Christians cleansed from their
homeland where they had been celebrating mass every day, praying and living since the
second century, ethnically cleansed. And no, they're not ignorant to what's happening.
This, in fact, is what the Great Reset looks like. So
what we fear coming to us, coming to our children, grandchildren of posterity,
It's already arrived. I mean, the Great Reset has arrived for China,
it's arrived for Chinese occupied East Turkestan. The Great Reset has arrived to
the children, for the children in Congo. And then something else I address
Emily in the book that's more intimate and more to your generation, is this
war on the ability to love or experience Euros And I think this is at
the heart of the challenges of the Great Reset. We have generations now that
haven't been able to experience the awakening of Eros naturally, and so the ability
to love their parents, to love God, to experience romantic love in sort
of a healthy, normal human way has been absolutely robbed from them by technology.
And this too is a part of the great which we see with transhumanism
and anti humanism, obliterating what it means to be human, obliterating sexuality,
gender, This is at the heart of the great reset's desire to make us
all sort of separated, isolated and alone. That's that raises such an interesting
point about how you know, through usai D and other organizations that a lot
of Americans may not be aware of the sort of dark side of the work
that they do. So much of it has focused actually on some of those
cultural issues that we were just talking about. I mean, some people who
who have researched this very long time or just followed these stories for a long
time are aware of the sort of contraception abortion promotion, the kind of LGBT
rights promotion that bleeds into you know, other things, sport for teen transgender
stuff and all of that. Could you tell us a little bit about how
that's kind of an export of the American and Western I should say, NGO
and even governmental organization work in some of these places these days. Yeah,
and it's again it's victimism, right, It's feigning conserve for these communities when
they're doing nothing but causing heart heartache. So I can give you three unbelievable
examples. One example was during the I was in Iraq traveling with the Peshmerga
during their war with ISIS. And there was a small ethnic community that lives
in Iraqi, Curtis stand, a very small embattled community that was suffering at
the hands of ISIS. They're called the Kakai. And as I was meeting
with a prominent woman from one of the most powerful or the most powerful Kohai,
an influential Kokai family, I had asked her had she met with the
US State Department yet, she said, And I assumed she would have been
meeting regularly with the US State Department. And this was twenty sixteen and the
height of the genocide. She said, I had one meeting and I was
informed by the person I was meeting with from the State Department. Now,
Emily, you're not going to believe this. And when I say that,
when I tell people a story, I feel like I'm lying. The State
Department representative said to this woman whose community was facing ethnic cleansing at the hands
of ISIS, like a brutality. The world has never seen that. We're
focused on LGBTQ issues right now, not ethnic issues. And this is an
ethnic issue now. That seems unbelievable. This doesn't even seem it doesn't seem
believable. I was in Ukraine meeting with government officials in June last this past
June, and two things were brought to my attention. One was Germany taking
advantage of the war to try to pressure Ukraine to change their laws on exporting
fetal tissue. In Germany, you cannot import fetal tissue. I'm sorry,
you cannot do research on fetal tissue derived from abortions in Germany, but you
can import fetal tissue for research and in a bizarre irony. And by the
way, this laws were in place because after World War Two, the Germans
sort of had a revulsion to sort of any taking of innocent human life or
bizarre experimentation on tissue derived from destroying innocent human life, so they banned research
on fetal tissue. Well, they import it. And Emily, where's the
last country in the world you think Germany would import most of their feetal tissue?
Hmm, you do not want to know. But I'm going to tell
you Germany imports most of its fetal tissue from research from Israel. That's what
you were going to say. Now, this clearly makes them uncomfortable, so
they're pressuring Ukraine. Hey, let us import your feetus, you know,
your fetal material to do research. You have that. When I met with
some of Zelensky's UH top staff in his presidential palace in June, they lamented
the fact that the US State Department was taking advantage of this war to put
these bizarre ideological agendas on Ukraine. I was in Ukraine in June. Now
I saw it, not one rainbow flag. The only rainbow flag I saw
I saw one. It was at the Canadian embassy. That was it.
So in Russia and China weaponize the State Department's exporting of these trans ideologies and
just another tragic example. My organization began evacuating and resettling our former Afghan allies
beginning in late July of twenty twenty one, as Afghanistan began to fall.
It's something we still do. This week, we'll be doing evacuations this week.
We haven't stopped. In the early months after the fall, I started
getting messages through my LinkedIn from activists working Afghan activists in Kabble working for Western
organizations that were promoting LGBT abortion and contraception in Afghanistan. Organizations they worked for
basically sent them form emails from their lawyers saying you no longer work for us,
We're not no longer responsible for what happens to you. And then they
came to my organization, a Catholic human rights organization, sheepishly and embarrassed,
asking if we would evacuate them, and we did, of course we did,
but the organizations they worked for just abandon them. And to me,
that's victimism, luring people into dangerous activism in Afghanistan, and with the fall
of the government, you just leave those people who you're responsible for to their
fate. And that's where we are. But not just the exporting of you
know, these bizarre ideologies. What really concerns me is for these generations Z
and Gen Alpha Americans who were addled by pornography and their phones before they even
hit puberty. You know that they they're dating on apps where they have settings
that ninety percent of the young men not even visible to young women. And
so you have this sort of strange death of Aros, robbing young people of
what's most beautiful in life and robbing from them the ability to love. And
in my introduction to young Americans in my book, I address what I call
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important connection kind of between point A and point B, you know, point
a great reset? Point be it this sort of dissemination through foreign policy initiatives
of radical essentially radical cultural leftism. And I'm curious you're also making this important
connection to faith and God. And how much or how important to the Great
Reset is secularism in your experience? You know, what is this? Essentially
it's motivating factors that the sort of Nietzsche and approach to the world. How
big of a role does does secularism play in the Great Reset? Yeah?
Well, I mean, you know, you brought up Nietzsche, Heidegger,
the rise of illiberal ideologies left and right. You know, there seems to
be an abandonment of this sort of vision of the human person that our republic
was founded on. I mean, the United States of America is the only
country that's founded on anthropology, you know, the Declaration Independence. We hold
these shoes to be self evident, and what they the truth that they hold
to be self evident are truths on the nature of the human person, and
that the human person has an inviable dignity, and every citizen is a sovereign
and the governments exist to serve our interests. That's radical and so yeah,
fundamentally, it's a denial of the vision of the human person that inescapably the
only way. The West, what we call the West, is what is
left of Christendom, and what Christendom was was it's a vision of the world,
how the world should be ordered around the vision of the human person.
And that vision of the human person is a creature made in the image and
likeness of God, who has an inviable dignity, beauty and worth. And
what the Great Reset hopes to do is a race forever. That vision of
the human person that our founding fathers had, now, our founding fathers called
it so self evident, and they were wrong. There ein Rand would call
it axiomatic. She too, shared our founder's vision of the human person,
and she said it's axiomatic. Our founding fathers call it self evident. But
with Nietzsche and sart And and Freud and others understood was the no, this
isn't self evident. This is the fruit of Christian revealed religious truth. And
if you deny Christian revelation, as Sartz said, then you have to deny
that vision of the human person grounded in Christian revelation. So what the Great
Reset hopes to do is a race from our memories that vision of the human
person that was birth with the incarnation of the second person of the Trinity,
and theologians and philosophers and churchmen and laymen pondering on what does it mean to
be made in the image and likeness of God? What does it mean for
our creator to be three persons Homousius, you know, three persons one essence.
What does that mean for the second person of the Trinity to become man
and man to be made in God's image? And what that led to was
a culture that respected the individual, respected those who were disabled, who respected
the minority, who respected the other. And that's something we don't want to
lose. And what the Great Reset, the tacticians of the Great Reset are
really good at doing is dividing us and blotting out the natural sentiment for solidarity,
or replacing it with victimism, which is an easy faue solidarity. And
there's so much to learn from some of these case studies that you've mentioned.
You were talking about Nicorno Karabak, I from pronouncing that correctly used in Iraq,
people who are left behind through our disastrous withdrawal in Afghanistan, and whatever
people think about the funding debate over Ukraine, about the military conversation about Ukraine.
Certainly there's a lot of suffering in Ukraine right now as well. What
can people learn from some of those case stories, if there's more that case
studies, if there's more that you want to share about particular ones. I
mean, Niicorno Karabak is a great example of one that's gotten barely any attention.
Yazdi's have gotten way less attention than they should have. What can we
learn from some of these examples? Well, you know, the Great Campaign
against the Great Reset is really a Girardian look at the Great Reset, and
the French anthropologist Rene Gerrard wrote about how these communities outside of social concern,
where it takes risk to stand with, well, we'll never have authentic defenders.
So you know, you look, what have we learned? We have
learned that when we're silent about the a ZD genocide, can we take the
establishments concerned whatever frenzy they're whipping us up to at any moment, right,
can we really believe that they're sincere? Like absolute silence on the ethnic cleansing
in art Soak, absolute silence in the weaker genocide, absolute silence on the
Yazidi. I mean, I was in Emily, I was in Iraq.
I went through villages of Yazdi where I could smell their flesh still burning from
the buildings that were set on fire by Isis and their retreat. I could
look at, you know, Yazdi women with little holes in the front,
big holes in the back. I participated in mass funerals for Yazid's miles from
the battlefield. And these are real human beings, you know, the Azids.
Just to put it in perspective. And one of the great privileges of
my job is, hey, I get to learn how we're just all the
same, Like I just the human, whether I'm working in Afghanistan or Sudan,
or I rock like, you know, we're really just we're a human
family, but we're also very unique and and beautiful and have really different histories.
The Azdi are proto Semitic people, So the Jews, Kurds, and
Arabs descend from the Azidi. When Abraham was waving goodbye to his family,
he was waving goodbye to somebody, and they're still there. They're the Yazidi.
Now, their religion has gone through several changes since the time of Abraham,
but it's more or less, you know, still it's still related to
the religion that Abraham came out of. How unbelievable is that. So to
see these proto Semitic people suffering this brutal ethnic cleansing, and then the president
of the United States at the time, Barack Obama, refers to Isis as
the JV team and sort of shrugs his shoulder at that genocide. It makes
you wonder we just when we're being sold to be concerned about something, we
really realize we're being sold in other bill of goods, and we'll go to
Ukraine for example. My position on Ukraine's be quite controversial. I work in
Ukraine. We remove land mines in Ukraine, we've We've done a lot of
work there. But I've been calling for a ceasefire since the day of the
invasion because I don't see how Ukraine wins this war militarily. And I support
working to help Ukraine defend itself, but not to use Ukraine as a means
to our end. In general, Milli, this is another example of victimism.
General Millie said out loud, like weeks after the invasion, General,
do you think that we can win the war? He said, we don't
need to win, we just need a quagmire. Good lord, that's right,
I've forgotten about that. Yeah, And Emily, it's you know,
for me, I'll never forget it because and I'd love to invite you like
I. You know, in June, I was at touring hospitals across Ukraine.
I was in one hospital, a former Soviet prison. Every room was
filled with boys missing arms, legs, and eyes. I went to a
home for pregnate women whose husbands were off at war, and they were from
the East. And every night these women had to go into the bomb shelter.
In fact, many of them had given birth in the bomb shelter.
These are real human beings with real hopes, you know, with real goals,
with real feelings, they're not means to our end. And I met
with an American official in Kiev in June, and when I wanted to talk
to him about the interest of the people of Ukraine, he literally, like
a broken record, just kept repeating over and over the weapons systems that we
need to get Congress to fund. And he was speaking not as he was
it was coming not from the interest of the people of Ukraine, but as
if literally this was a government employee, as if he was like a rep,
you know, pharmaceutical rep trying to sell me a new medicine. And
you know, it was It's quite quite heartbreaking. And I think that our
establishment really has no real concern for the interests of the people of Ukraine.
And you know, Ale can make that argument about the Ukrainian government too,
which is now pulling men beyond military age off the streets because they're having such
a hard time getting people to fight. Yeah, it's quite solid. War
is a horrible I'm a former infantryman. I was a soldier, my son
was a soldier, my dad was a soldier, my brothers were soldiers.
My grandfather was a soldier. Come from a military family. We're all combat
arms. You know, war is the worst thing in the world. There's
nothing in the world because every bad thing that can happen happens in war,
rape, human trafficking, you know. So that how lightly our establishment,
the same advocates of the Great Reset talk about war, should tell you their
real interests and their interests aren't aligned with ours. And again to defeating the
Great Reset, it's inevitable, you know this. I'm a Catholic, and
so coming from our theology, ideologies of evil are deprivations, deprivations collapse under
their own weight. Saint John Paul the Second said that when the Nazis invaded
Poland, he knew they wouldn't be there long, and he knew that the
Soviets wouldn't be there much longer either. He always had faith in this because
theology told him that regimes of evil are deprivations and collapse under their own weight.
And that's true. And so this inhuman great reset that you know,
you look at what's with the rise of the farmers and across Europe, which
is absolutely unbelievable, the truckers across Canada. If we can break the spell
of victimism because people Emily that you know and love, they are captivated by
the language of concern for the vulnerable, and they're exploited. Their sentiment and
their humaneness is exploited by those who, as you said, are really bond
villains. They're like, legitimately not to be disrespectful to Bond villains, but
they're Bond villains. And that's why I felt called to write this book.
I was actually give you a little backstory. I was the day Afghanistan collapsed.
The publisher called me and said, we'd like to publish your next book.
What is it? And I said, well, and I pitched them
I want to write my spiritual autobiography called on Rocky Soil, a spiritual autobiography
of a man you probably won't meet in heaven. And they said deal,
and they sent me the contract. And two years of trying to move our
allies and losing a lot of people that I got to know quite well to
violence into the Taliban, I wasn't in the mood to write about God,
and I wasn't angry at God. I was just like God, Okay,
you're there, I'm here. Let's not talk. You don't talk to me
I don't talk to you. I'm just thinking. But I also saw just
the carnage, the carnage in Ukraine, the carnage in Afghanistan, the carnage
in Sudan, everywhere we were working. It was just the past three years
were harder than the previous twenty at the Vulnerable People Project, and I saw
you, this is the Great Reset. I'm seeing the Great Reset up close
and personal. It's lack of respect for human dignity, it's disrespect for humane
societies. And I felt. I called my publisher, said, look,
I don't want to write about God right now. I don't want to write
about my relationship with God right now. I got to get through some things.
But I'm hearing all this talk in the West on the Great Reset,
and I've been nose to noose with it in these killing fields and battlefields now
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much there. I wanted to ask, based on just what you're explaining about
the a ZD, what you were talking about in Africa, certainly in Afghanistan
with the Taliban, what role does sort of the radical Islam and the dare
I say, imperialism of radical Islam in places like Africa and the Middle East?
How much sort of suffering of Christians like the Yazidi or in Nigeria for
example right now, I mean barely makes headlines, but there's just incredible levels
of violence specifically against Christians in Nigeria. Are we seeing something that is I
mean, to me, it almost feels like a chapter ripped out of a
book about the early period of Islam. What role is that playing in perpetrating
some of these acts of mass suffering mass violence? Right now? Oh,
it's awful, It's horrible. And so, for example, all the profits
proceeds my book is I've signed over all the profits from this book, which
it's already pre sold. It doesn't come out for eight weeks and it's already
pre sold one hundred and twenty thousand copies. Wow, congrats, that's fantastic.
Yeah, it's unbelievable. Really, we're kind of taking it back.
But all the prophets are going to secure churches and synagogues in Nigeria. They're
actually a small and battle Jewish community in Nigeria as well. After the October
seventh attacks, I ordered I funded the putting in of security cameras and hiring
security for the last remaining synagogues as well. So, yeah, the rise
of Islamist extremism obviously, from ISIS to Bocal Haram to in Afghanistan. Our
biggest problem is in the Taliban. Actually right now with our work, it's
ISIS. So even with the permission of the Taliban, we secure schools.
Now I have my organization as armed guards outside of schools that we fund and
are allowed by the government in Afghanistan to fund and put in front of schools.
How bizarre is that. So I have armed guards in front of girls
schools in Afghanistan and they're there to protect the girls from ISIS. So yeah,
it's a real problem. But then I had an article out at the
stream today with the rise of Hindi nationalism and the butchering and the destruction of
hundreds of churches in India, by Hindu nationalists. So yeah, we're seeing,
you know, a rise of violence, but you hit the nail on
the head with Nigeria. Nine out of ten Christians who are martyred this year
will be killed in Nigeria. Oh my goodness. Wow, just a stunning
piece of information compared to when you when you compare it to the headlines,
and how little attention that it's getting. It's just unreal. And one question,
Jason, is I'm thinking about your work, thinking about this book.
It reminds me sort of of some of my friends on the left have this
and for a long time have argued with the right about the arrogance of US
foreign policy and US imperialism, And of course they would often be talking about
Central America, Guatemala and all of that. But actually, to me,
it seems like almost now this is the middle of the Venn diagram between left
and right, that there is this sort of arrogance, cultural arrogance, and
our foreign policy is increasingly becoming a vehicle for the ideological, as you said,
the ideological victimism, you know, whether it's hollowing out the middle socioeconomically
while the top gets richer and richer and richer, or it's the cultural imperialism
of the LGBT agenda, whatever it is. The left. Some of those
people on the left that were you know, Chomsky, Howard Zendavid Tayes might
not have fully signed on and realized what this is happening, But it's now
so much clearer. I think from the perspective of the right that our foreign
policy Ukraine is a great example is being used to advance the interests of totally
ulterior or ulterior interests. I should say, is there anything there from your
perspective You've worked in this space really closer than I have. Do you see
this as a sort of function of cultural arrogance or foreign policy arrogance, anything
on that line. Yeah, No, there's definitely this this air. It's
you know, I call them the bastard children of the British East Indies company,
these progressives, like they're they're the they're the colonialists, they're the imperialists.
I mean they're going they're trying to like turn societies upside down with no
thought of the consequences. I mean, let's just go back to Afghanistan and
how they had these you know, young Afghans working for their organizations, and
when Afghanistan collapsed, they just left them there to die. You know,
we you know that we see that. It's again it is really just a
tactic to acquire wealth and power because there's no consistency. They don't chastise Saudi
Arabia for you know, executing homosexuals. They don't, uh, they don't
condemn China that Disney changes its movies. You know, they'll call the people
of Georgia Nazis, but then they'll change and say they're not going to ever
produce a movie in Georgia. But then Disney will edit its films to make
its content palatable in the Middle East, or literally shoot a film advocating genocide
in China in the very place the genocide is taking place. So I think,
yeah, it's arrogance. But then also I think for most people who
are working in these institutions, it's really just like I call it the passover
ideology, Like they just put blood on their door and hope the angel of
death passes over them. They don't want to be canceled. They don't want
problems, Like what do I have to say, I'll say it, just
leave me alone, please, I don't want the hive mind attacking me.
I don't want the mob attacking me. I mean, your generation has literally
was birthed into a cultural revolution. And at least in China, they would
pull you on stage, mock you, attack you, throw things at you,
and then you be ripped off the stage and it would be over.
But now they attack you, and it's therefore in your social media account and
they can attack you anytime, night or day. So you know, young
people, as they progress from college to the workforce, are never going to
be able to express dissent. I'm a graduate of the University of Hawaii,
and since I was a student, every year I would get to give I
give it would give a speech to the police side apartment from the right.
It would give me one lecture a year, and this continued until twenty nineteen.
Right before COVID was the last time I did this. I asked the
students to express before I gave my speech, one position that they hold to
that wou may be offensive to their classmates. So like one dissenting opinion,
you know from you know, the gods of the city. And after like
four minutes of awkward silence, one student raised his hand and said, my
generation lacks the ability to authentically express dissent, and well, we won't give
you an answer, and everyone agreed to that. And so the sort of
that, I you know, what that young man was sharing with me in
his classroom. It's true at the State Department. I mean, do you
think most people at the State Department, in the midst of the ethnic cleansing
of the Azdi think that it's best to go meet with the leaders of communities
in the Middle East facing ethnic cleansing and talk to them about LGBT issues or
is it as again as Hannah Aaron says, the banality of evil? What
does my supervisor want me to do? What do I have to do to
avoid trouble? Okay, I'll go do it. And it's it's sort of
it's tyrannical. It's tyrannic. It's it's it's the tyranny of this Wok ideology.
It's it's it horrifies people that it made a choice to work inside these
institutions. And Jason, where can people find a copy of the book?
You can go to Amazon dot com or wherever you buy books. The Great
Campaign against the Great Reset comes out April sixteenth, and you can follow me
at the stream. My podcast is The Jason Jones Show and if you want
to check out our work, Emily, you know, our mission of the
Vulnerable People Project is to stand with those people in the world that have been
abandoned. And I was inspired by Ecclesiastes, for one, when Solomon said
I looked all over the world, and all I see is suffering and an
oppression. On the side of the oppressor is power, and on the side
of the oppress there is no one. So as a young soldier, I
said, you know what, I want to spend the rest of my life
standing against power and the oppressor. That's what we do at the Great Campaign
dot org. And you can see the work we're doing around the world.
Well, God bless you Jason Jones, and thank you so much for joining
the show. Thanks for having me on. You've been listening to another edition
of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Emily Trishinski, culture editor here at the
Federalists. We'll be back soon with more. Until then, be lovers of
freedom and anxious for the fray. I heard the fame voice the reason and
then it faded away. M HM.