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Welcome to another edition of the Chicks
on the Right podcast, where we chat

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with the chief investment officer at Bulward
Capital Management, our friend and sponsor of

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the show, Zach Abraham. Zach, we talked to you today about all

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the hullablue with the college campus protests. So we have this list of schools,

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right, and it's gifts for American
universities from foreign countries since twenty twelve.

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I gotta know, like, first
of all, how the hell do

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they do this? It's like,
how does this even work? And then

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second of all, what's the economic
impact of that? Because I we already

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know what the cultural impact is because
we're watching it play out, but from

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an economic standpoint, like, just
how do you feel about that? From

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a guy that you know handles money
every day, what are your thoughts on

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that? I will be honest with
you, this chart shocked me really,

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yeah, because think about it,
what is the university? The university system

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in this country is so massive and
so bad. Right. The only reason,

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like you, the China one is
the only one that doesn't. Now

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you put it in context, and
I sit there and I go, this

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actually makes a lot of sense.
China's China's whole deal. It's not even

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well hidden. Right, China's whole
deal is to have social impact on the

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people that are running our country,
that are running it, right, And

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they've even set up these Chinese institutions. I'm blanking the name. There's a

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term, there's an actual term for
these they've set up at all these colleges,

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the confusion like the Confusions institutes.
Yes, yeah, right, right,

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And it makes sense when I look
at the rest of them, they

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see what they see what what China's
doing. But how does that work when

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we're giving so many of those countries
a money, right, and then they're

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like they're turning around and then taking
money and saying here American University. Like

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I don't understand the mechanics of this. Yeah, because one of the things

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I thought was interesting, like we
said this morning in our like Venezuela,

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they're eating zoo animals. But yeah, but they're turning around and giving us

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like more million dollars, Like,
how does that even work? I don't

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get it. Priority, right,
like paying for influence. I mean,

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look, DC has taught us that, right, paying for influence matters and

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it works. Wow. And more
importantly, I think what it shows is

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something that's really scary, and I
think something know but you know, real

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large now, even in the university's
segment of our of our country, everything's

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for sale and everybody's for sale good
and I and and and you know that

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you put this in context, you
look at this chart, no wonder you've

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got these protests going on, right, the Middle Eastern influence is so prevalent,

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like it's just it's right in your
face. I mean, cutter,

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is that how you proNTs it?
Cutter? Who knows? Cutter? Saudi

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Arabia, Uee Kuwait. I mean, look at the Iraq, look at

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the countries that are giving gobs and
gobs and buckets of money to these universe

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to are universities, I know.
And it's not for nothing. It's not

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to be kind. It's not like
here, I'm just being so altruistic and

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fill well. And that's what I
was That was going to be my next

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point, right, why do why
you know, why? Why is their

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corruption and bribes? Because it works
like it works, right, that's why

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they do it. And I mean
they're just buying influence. And I was

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going to say, I guarantee you, especially with the top four or five

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on those lists. Did those come
with caveats? Right? You need to

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hire some professors from our from our
local university or whatever. And these you

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know, in these college presidents that
they've all they've become really is overseers of

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these huge endowments and money racers,
right, and they're not going to turn

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money down. The other thing is
is it's sort of like the prisoners running

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well, I mean, it's certainly
the prisoners running the asylum or the patient's

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running the asylum, but even with
the faculty, right, you don't I

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mean, listen to Claudine Gay right, the best and brightest, I mean,

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well, when you're listening to her, you don't really know whose words

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you're listening, but you know these
are not the best bribers, and they're

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not they're going to be easy to
snow, they're going to be easy to

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manipulate. But it just I don't
really think I've been more bummed out by

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a chartive scene. I'm sorry,
I'm sorry. Where did you even run

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into that? I it was floating
around social media the other day and I

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was just like I don't get this, Like I don't understand this at all.

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And the source is the US Department
of Education, which I'm surprised they

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even allowed this to go out,
you know what I mean, Yeah,

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I had. This reminds me of
a conversation. My grandfather was a really

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brilliant guy, and he was he
wrote two New York Times bestseller lists and

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he actually he wrote he was he
was pretty high up in the Republican Party.

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At one point he wrote speeches for
a couple of the president, the

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Republican presidential candidates for president. And
I remember him telling me I was probably

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like eight or nine at the time, back in the eighties, and he

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was saying, like, look at
all these you know, look at this

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modern liberal party. He goes,
in your lifetime, these people are going

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to be the most intolerant people you've
ever seen. And he laid it out,

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and I remember asking him why,
and he goes, zac that the

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extreme of any position eventually becomes its
opposite right, and now you have the

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Party of Tolerance and Love right radically
anti semitic on college campuses. Isn't it

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crazy? It's just I'm shocked,
Like, it doesn't surprise me that those

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people have gone there. It's just
crazy. I'm old enough to remember the

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Party of Anti war and love is
now pro war and anti it's just crazy,

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right. He was right, He
was one hundred percent correct. He

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was correct. Yeah, isn't it
well? And with everything being as crazy

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as it is, one of the
things, I mean, we talked to

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our audience a lot about how important
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So you know, people, we
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oh you guys, really this isn't
cookie cutter stuff. We're like, no,

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I was just I was just dealing
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