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So I'm trying to, you know, to give 12 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:36,679 you a reason for optimism, right, No need to take 13 00:00:36,719 --> 00:00:40,159 the black pill people, Okay, don't don't go down the 14 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:43,600 path of nihilism no matter. You know, are all the 15 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:45,479 bad things going on in the world, and all the 16 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:48,880 frustrations and all that stuff. But you know, by and large, 17 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:52,880 we are like the luckiest people to have been born 18 00:00:53,119 --> 00:00:55,479 in this country at this time. 19 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 1: We really are. 20 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 2: Of all the people that have walked the face of 21 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:05,239 this planet since the beginning of time, we are pretty lucky. 22 00:01:06,359 --> 00:01:09,680 We live pretty long, we have pretty healthy lives. We 23 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:12,680 have the highest standard of living and creature comforts that 24 00:01:13,159 --> 00:01:19,120 human beings have ever seen ever, Like the poor people 25 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:22,680 in America have a standard of living that's higher than 26 00:01:23,239 --> 00:01:27,840 kings of you know, one hundred, two hundred, three hundred 27 00:01:27,879 --> 00:01:33,519 years ago, kings, I tell you kings. So here's another 28 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:39,640 bit of reason for optimism. The Trump administration a couple 29 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:41,200 of weeks ago, I guess it was. 30 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:41,519 Speaker 1: Now. 31 00:01:41,519 --> 00:01:43,879 Speaker 2: This is one of the things I did in between 32 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:46,920 my doses of niquill over the Christmas break while I 33 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:52,239 was sick, they put out their National security strategy. And 34 00:01:52,319 --> 00:01:55,560 this is a pretty normal occurrence, right The administrations put 35 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:58,200 these things out during their terms to tell you know, 36 00:01:58,239 --> 00:02:01,040 the country and the world, like, this is our strategy. 37 00:02:01,319 --> 00:02:05,439 And I read through it. It's thirty three pages and 38 00:02:06,359 --> 00:02:08,080 I read it, so you don't have to. I'm gonna 39 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:09,759 give you the highlights here. And I got to tell 40 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:15,879 you there's a lot to like if you like America. Okay, so, 41 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:20,319 and I do. I like America. I like the concept 42 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:23,960 upon which it was founded. I'm proud to be American again. 43 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,520 I am glad that I live in this country right now. 44 00:02:28,159 --> 00:02:31,240 I recognize the blessings of liberty that have been bestowed 45 00:02:31,319 --> 00:02:35,520 upon us by generations that came before. So I try 46 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:38,319 to always kind of keep that in mind, that gratitude. See, 47 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:44,000 I feel like gratitude is the antidote to nihilism. If 48 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,719 you recognize in real time the things in your life 49 00:02:47,719 --> 00:02:52,400 that are good. It is a guard against the black pill, 50 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:55,879 which is very easy to take. You just swallow it. Basically, 51 00:02:55,879 --> 00:02:58,520 it's like and then it's and and then you're like, oh, 52 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:01,400 it's law. It's just burn it all down. Who cares 53 00:03:01,479 --> 00:03:03,360 and all that, And that's no way to live there. 54 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:06,280 You're gonna be miserable, okay. And we all know people 55 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:08,639 like this that they're not happy unless they're miserable. And 56 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:10,599 I don't want to be that. I'm not because I'm 57 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:13,520 not a miserable person. So I mean, I don't think 58 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:17,120 I am. I'm sure people will tell me if I am, 59 00:03:17,159 --> 00:03:19,159 but I don't think I am. So I read through 60 00:03:19,199 --> 00:03:22,199 the National Security Strategy and I'm gonna give you some 61 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:25,439 of the highlights here because I think it's important that 62 00:03:26,719 --> 00:03:29,960 you know, we know sort of what is the framework 63 00:03:31,879 --> 00:03:35,759 within which the administration is operating, and I think it's 64 00:03:35,759 --> 00:03:39,439 a framework that we really like, we should all be 65 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:43,800 able to get behind as Americans. This I know, I 66 00:03:43,879 --> 00:03:46,080 know it's coming from the Orange Man, and so it 67 00:03:46,159 --> 00:03:49,400 must be you know, Hitler esque, but it's not if 68 00:03:49,439 --> 00:03:52,599 you just listen to what they're outlining here. I feel 69 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:55,599 like this is stuff that not too long ago, like 70 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:59,199 in my lifetime, most people would have agreed with this stuff. 71 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:04,039 So it says, first and foremost, what should the US want? 72 00:04:04,919 --> 00:04:06,199 Speaker 1: What do we want? Overall? 73 00:04:08,199 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 2: They say, we want the continued survival and safety of 74 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:16,439 the United States as an independent, sovereign republic whose government 75 00:04:16,519 --> 00:04:19,920 secures the God given natural rights of its citizens and 76 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,480 prioritizes their well being and interests. 77 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:27,519 Speaker 1: What's objectionable about that? Nothing? 78 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:31,199 Speaker 2: Is it God given natural rights? Is that going to 79 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:33,199 be the trigger word for lefties? 80 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 1: But they are. 81 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:39,519 Speaker 2: That's the foundational premise upon which our country was founded, 82 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:42,279 is that these are inalienable rights. They are not bestowed 83 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:46,720 upon us by the government by humans, because if it is, 84 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:50,279 if these rights are bestowed upon us by government or 85 00:04:50,399 --> 00:04:55,240 human beings, then those same people can take it away. No, 86 00:04:55,639 --> 00:05:02,000 our rights come from our creator. That's the premise, natural law, 87 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:06,360 natural rights. We want to protect this country, its people, 88 00:05:06,399 --> 00:05:09,639 its territory, its economy, and its way of life from 89 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:17,279 military attack and hostile foreign influence, whether espionage, predatory trade practices, 90 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:24,279 drug and human trafficking, destructive propaganda and influence operations, cultural subversion, 91 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:27,920 or any other threat to our nation. We want full 92 00:05:27,959 --> 00:05:32,319 control over our borders, over our immigration system, and over 93 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:36,360 transportation networks through which people come into our country legally 94 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:40,879 and illegally. We want a world in which migration is 95 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:45,759 not merely orderly, but one in which sovereign countries work 96 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:53,319 together to stop, rather than facilitate, destabilizing population flows. And 97 00:05:53,759 --> 00:05:58,000 these nations have full control over whom they do and 98 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:02,800 do not admit. A country without borders, I will add this, 99 00:06:02,879 --> 00:06:06,879 A country without borders is not a country, right. 100 00:06:06,879 --> 00:06:07,959 Speaker 1: And this you may hear. 101 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 2: There is a line that people, a lot of a 102 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:14,480 lot of people will say this. Usually they're on the right. 103 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:18,160 They're like, we are not an economic zone, right, Stop 104 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:21,279 treating America like it's an economic zone. We are not. 105 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:24,399 We are a nation. We have a history, we have customs, 106 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:26,720 we have law. In fact, we were the first ones 107 00:06:26,759 --> 00:06:28,959 to write it all down in a constitution, which was 108 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:30,560 a pretty big deal at the time. 109 00:06:31,079 --> 00:06:31,639 Speaker 1: I learned. 110 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,800 Speaker 2: I was watching a podcast the other day and I 111 00:06:34,879 --> 00:06:39,560 learned apparently Israel does not have a constitution, which is 112 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:42,279 crazy to me. I thought they did, but apparently they don't. 113 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:47,879 And The beauty of what our founders was able to 114 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,319 were able to do was that they did not have 115 00:06:52,639 --> 00:06:55,720 or they were They were constructing a constitution before there 116 00:06:55,759 --> 00:07:04,120 were entrenched powers that were protective of very industry, industries 117 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:07,759 or government power. Right, so they were behind I think 118 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:10,920 the guy he called it the veil of ignorance, I 119 00:07:10,959 --> 00:07:13,439 think is what he called it. In other words, you 120 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:15,720 don't know what's on the other side. So you're just 121 00:07:15,759 --> 00:07:20,240 trying to construct the parameters of this constitution of the rules, right, 122 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:22,439 You're trying to write out all of these laws, and 123 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:25,639 you're not doing it from a position of well, I 124 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:31,040 need to protect this particular government agency. And that's the 125 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:33,480 problem that Israel has because they' attempted to do a 126 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:37,279 constitution a couple of times, but because they're already a 127 00:07:37,319 --> 00:07:40,360 functioning government, you have all of these interests that compete 128 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:42,680 and they're like, no, no, no, you can't get rid 129 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:44,480 of that, or what about our power over here? And 130 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:47,000 so you have all these roadblocks all over the place 131 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:49,439 to create a constitution, whereas our founders did not have that. 132 00:07:51,319 --> 00:07:54,439 He goes the strategy paper goes on to say that 133 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:58,920 we want a resilient national infrastructure, a strong military, a 134 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:07,240 nuclear deterrent, the world's strongest economy, robust industrial base, innovative 135 00:08:07,399 --> 00:08:10,160 energy sector. I'm just kind of going through again. It's 136 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:11,959 thirty some up pages. I'm not going to read the 137 00:08:11,959 --> 00:08:14,000 whole thing obviously, I'm just going over the highlights here. 138 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:16,439 You can find it too. They've got to post it 139 00:08:16,439 --> 00:08:19,120 at the White House website. They go on to say, 140 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:22,439 we want to remain the world's most scientifically and technologically 141 00:08:22,439 --> 00:08:25,800 advanced and innovative country, and to build on these strengths, 142 00:08:26,199 --> 00:08:33,240 and we want to protect our intellectual property from foreign theft. Again, 143 00:08:33,279 --> 00:08:35,120 so far, I have not found anything in here that 144 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:38,879 should be objectionable to anybody on the well, to any 145 00:08:39,159 --> 00:08:41,519 let me just say Democrats or Republicans, because like people 146 00:08:41,519 --> 00:08:43,639 who are on the left, that's a very large group 147 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:45,360 of people. And you got people that are way on 148 00:08:45,399 --> 00:08:48,519 the left and they're just leftists. 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I will not tune my radio station 179 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:28,360 to you until next year. 180 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:32,759 Speaker 1: Keep it up. I'm warning you. I mean that's fair. Dan. 181 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 2: Look, I'm going to keep I'm staying on this topic 182 00:10:35,399 --> 00:10:37,440 for the hour or so. If I don't, if I 183 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:39,440 don't see it until next year, I guess, so be it. 184 00:10:40,519 --> 00:10:44,360 I said, so be it, not so Vie, It's okay, 185 00:10:44,799 --> 00:10:48,480 Shannon says, Amen, Pete, we are blessed. Don't let the 186 00:10:48,519 --> 00:10:52,480 government ruin our happiness. Have the best new year. Thank 187 00:10:52,519 --> 00:10:55,519 you for another year of news delivered only the way 188 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:57,960 you can. Charlotte is lucky to have you, and I 189 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,360 am lucky to be here. Shannon, I do shate the 190 00:11:00,399 --> 00:11:00,879 kind words. 191 00:11:00,879 --> 00:11:01,279 Speaker 1: Thank you. 192 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:05,559 Speaker 2: And keep up the good work. Dan and says, thank you, 193 00:11:05,639 --> 00:11:09,440 appreciate that. Jordan says, twenty twenty five was a tough year, 194 00:11:09,519 --> 00:11:12,919 one of my worst, but I had three goals, break 195 00:11:13,039 --> 00:11:16,960 ninety on the golf course again, lose weight, and get 196 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:21,360 a better job. I achieved all three, which included sixty 197 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:24,039 pounds that I desperately needed to lose twenty twenty six. 198 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:27,919 Ain't looking too bad. Good job, Jordan, that's awesome. I'm 199 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:30,840 glad to hear that, sir. Good for you got all 200 00:11:30,879 --> 00:11:34,639 three of the I mean, the golf scorer, the weight loss, 201 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:35,679 the better. 202 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:37,559 Speaker 1: Jobs it so okay. 203 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:39,679 Speaker 2: I know this is a little off topic, but I 204 00:11:39,679 --> 00:11:44,080 will whenever I get the opportunity to impart this, I 205 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:49,080 try to do so. Which is, have a goal if 206 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:50,919 you want, have a couple goals. Don't have too many. 207 00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:53,840 You get too many goals, then it's you know, you 208 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:57,240 kind of lose focus. But you want to have a goal. 209 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:00,480 Make it like a five year goal or a five 210 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:03,480 year plan or something. But have a goal. Write it 211 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:08,679 down someplace, and then here's the most important part, tell 212 00:12:08,879 --> 00:12:14,360 other people what the goal is, okay, because you would 213 00:12:14,399 --> 00:12:19,360 be amazed how many people can help you achieve your 214 00:12:19,399 --> 00:12:24,039 goal much more rapidly than you thought you could achieve it. 215 00:12:25,639 --> 00:12:26,679 Speaker 1: If you just tell people. 216 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:31,919 Speaker 2: Most people want to help you achieve your goal, So 217 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:33,879 tell them what the goal is, and they'll help you 218 00:12:33,919 --> 00:12:34,360 achieve it. 219 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:36,200 Speaker 1: They want to do it. 220 00:12:36,279 --> 00:12:40,600 Speaker 2: A lot of particularly successful people They love to impart 221 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:43,759 their wisdom and knowledge, the things that they have learned 222 00:12:43,919 --> 00:12:46,440 that made them successful. And this is one of the 223 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:50,440 things that they tell people. I mean even in the 224 00:12:51,519 --> 00:12:54,480 was it not how to win friends? Maybe it was 225 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:57,159 how to win friends and influence people. Was that Carnegie No, 226 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:00,559 what was Carnegies book? I'm trying to remember what that 227 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:05,799 book was. Anyway, it was about visualization, that was what 228 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:10,559 they kept saying. Visualization and all that means is to 229 00:13:10,759 --> 00:13:15,279 visualize your success, to conjure up a mental image of 230 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:17,399 what it means to be successful, what that looks like. 231 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,639 And when you start thinking in those terms, people call it, 232 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:24,320 you know, manifesting your goals or dreams. That's what they're 233 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:26,879 talking about. This one of the things too, Like when 234 00:13:26,919 --> 00:13:31,759 you like, you're shooting hoops, right, if you visualize the 235 00:13:31,759 --> 00:13:34,519 ball going in the basket, chances are the balls going 236 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:38,919 in the basket. Now, you're not guiding the ball into 237 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:42,360 the basket with your brain or your eyes, but the 238 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:47,200 visualizing you making the shot more often makes the shot. 239 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:51,360 I cannot explain it, but just apply that to your life. 240 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:54,000 Have a goal, write it down, tell other people what 241 00:13:54,080 --> 00:14:03,600 it is. Okay, next from this, Nash security strategy. We 242 00:14:03,639 --> 00:14:07,600 want to maintain the United States's unrivaled soft power, through 243 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:11,320 which we exercise positive influence throughout the world that furthers 244 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:16,039 our interests. In doing so, we will be unapologetic about 245 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:21,799 our countries past and present, while respectful of other countries 246 00:14:22,519 --> 00:14:29,080 differing religions, cultures, and governing systems. So, in other words, 247 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:31,679 what is what they're saying is like you do you, 248 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:35,120 We're going to do us. We respect you, are right, 249 00:14:35,159 --> 00:14:37,320 you're your own sovereign nation. You do what you're going 250 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:39,000 to do. We're going to do what we want to do. 251 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:42,159 And if our interests align, then we could be friends. 252 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:44,480 We could be peaceful. That's that's great, and we would 253 00:14:44,519 --> 00:14:46,399 prefer that to be the case. And we're not going 254 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:48,799 to come in and tell you how to do things, 255 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:52,519 because you know, we're going to exert our influence over 256 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:54,639 you and we're going to you know, spread democracy and 257 00:14:54,679 --> 00:14:55,000 all of this. 258 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:55,799 Speaker 1: We're not doing that. 259 00:14:56,440 --> 00:15:00,679 Speaker 2: Soft power that serves America's true national interest is effective 260 00:15:00,879 --> 00:15:06,600 only if we believe in our countries inherent greatness and decency. 261 00:15:08,679 --> 00:15:11,039 And this, my friends, is a threat to those who 262 00:15:11,039 --> 00:15:15,000 seek to destroy the West, which is why there is 263 00:15:15,039 --> 00:15:19,120 a contingent in the West that is blackpilled, and they 264 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:23,320 keep telling us that we suck and we're terrible. We 265 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:27,720 always have been terrible, systemic, this institutional that the whole 266 00:15:27,759 --> 00:15:31,840 point is to demoralize, to destabilize, so they can swap 267 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:35,039 us out with something else, some other form of government. 268 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:39,039 Because this is I mean, it's really classic Marxism, which 269 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:44,320 is it's parasitic, that whole philosophy. It's just I would argue, 270 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:48,120 it's rooted in evil. It's rooted in envy, one of 271 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:54,159 the sins, right, it's envy. It relies on the production 272 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:58,279 of a wealthy society first, and then it moves in 273 00:15:58,679 --> 00:16:05,679 and takes everything, and then eventually everything crumbles to pieces. Finally, 274 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:10,120 they say, we want the restoration and reinvigoration of American 275 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:16,480 spiritual and cultural health, without which long term security is impossible. 276 00:16:17,039 --> 00:16:20,679 We want an America that cherishes its past glories and 277 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:24,679 its heroes, and that looks forward to a new golden age. 278 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:29,759 We want a people who are proud, happy, and optimistic 279 00:16:30,039 --> 00:16:32,480 that they will leave their country to the next generation 280 00:16:32,799 --> 00:16:36,840 better than they found it. We want a gainfully employed 281 00:16:36,879 --> 00:16:40,360 citizenry with no one sitting on the sidelines. Who take 282 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:43,960 satisfaction from knowing that their work is essential to the 283 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:47,320 prosperity of our nation and to the well being of 284 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:52,360 individuals and families. This cannot be accomplished without growing numbers 285 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:57,279 of strong, traditional families that raise healthy children. I've said 286 00:16:57,279 --> 00:17:03,159 this before. Too many people talk about out their particular community, right. 287 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:05,720 You hear this all the time, And this is just 288 00:17:05,759 --> 00:17:11,640 a form of identity politics. It's separating ourselves out into 289 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:16,599 essentially clans, and that is not conducive to a to 290 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:20,480 a healthy nation that is comprised of a lot of 291 00:17:20,519 --> 00:17:24,400 different quote unquote clans, right, a lot of different communities. 292 00:17:25,759 --> 00:17:29,119 Which is why I have suggested, why don't we just 293 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:33,240 view ourselves in addition to however else you want to 294 00:17:33,279 --> 00:17:39,200 identify yourself whatever, but identify predominantly mainly as part of 295 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:48,039 the American community. You're part of the American community. Why 296 00:17:48,039 --> 00:17:50,519 can't we call it that? Why can't we think in 297 00:17:50,559 --> 00:17:53,799 those terms that we are part of this grand experiment, 298 00:17:53,839 --> 00:18:00,279 this historical, unique, exceptional experiment, exceptional in that not that 299 00:18:00,319 --> 00:18:03,799 we're better than everybody else simply because we're Americans, but 300 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:07,680 that this is a unique thing, that this is the 301 00:18:07,799 --> 00:18:11,640 exception to the rule This experiment was predicated on an 302 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:17,200 exceptional idea, an unusual idea, a unique idea that people 303 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:21,559 could govern themselves, because that wasn't the case, right, for 304 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:27,000 most of human history that was not the case. So 305 00:18:27,559 --> 00:18:33,279 what do we want in the world and from the world? Okay, 306 00:18:33,319 --> 00:18:36,759 so they talked in this paper about what we want 307 00:18:36,799 --> 00:18:39,559 for ourselves. 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You guys are so smart. 338 00:20:22,559 --> 00:20:24,279 Speaker 2: See if I don't know something, I just throw it 339 00:20:24,319 --> 00:20:26,319 out there, like what is this thing? And usually people 340 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:30,480 answer it like somebody else told me it's Blues Blues 341 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:36,920 North Carolina. I was from Rotten Roger who said no 342 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:39,880 one says blues Creek. I lived and worked in the 343 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:42,039 area for years and had lots of fun boating and 344 00:20:42,079 --> 00:20:46,119 camping at blues Creek Lake. Forget the spelling, just say 345 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:48,519 blues or where the label. 346 00:20:48,559 --> 00:20:53,720 Speaker 1: Out of towner? Well, that's just hurtful out of towner. 347 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:03,799 Speaker 2: I mean, yes, I am an out of towner to 348 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:08,119 blues Greek because it's spelled b e l l e ws. 349 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,839 So I do know how to say meban though I 350 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:18,119 do know that I thought I saw hang on a second, 351 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:22,640 there was another message. Maybe well I'll tell you I 352 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:25,960 will do this because this is just hilarious. Spencer Claven 353 00:21:26,799 --> 00:21:31,759 all right, so Spiked News, Spiked Online did a story. 354 00:21:31,799 --> 00:21:33,039 I'm not going to go into the story, but it 355 00:21:33,079 --> 00:21:36,559 relates to the National Security Strategy document that Trump put 356 00:21:36,559 --> 00:21:39,599 out because they talk a little bit about, you know, 357 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:43,000 being proud of your nation, your nation's history, your culture. 358 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:44,440 Speaker 1: In Europe. 359 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:48,920 Speaker 2: They specific he's the paper specifically goes after Europe. It 360 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:51,880 doesn't go after the moment. It's just like, come on, guys, 361 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:55,799 stand up for yourselves. That's the kind of tone. And 362 00:21:55,960 --> 00:22:01,799 Spiked Online has this story, gay voter in Europe are 363 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:07,079 moving sharply towards the populist right. Why do you think 364 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:13,000 that is would Why would gay voters in Europe be 365 00:22:13,079 --> 00:22:16,920 aligning themselves with the quote populist right. Now, remember, over 366 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:20,240 in Europe the right is still like if they were 367 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:22,279 in America, they would probably still be on the left 368 00:22:22,279 --> 00:22:24,880 in America. Okay, so just keep that in mind. But 369 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:29,799 the reason mass migration from parts of the world that 370 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:35,000 are hostile to gay rights has shattered old political allegiances. 371 00:22:35,519 --> 00:22:37,839 And according to some of the people who are doing this, 372 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:40,359 the the term that they have dubbed and this is 373 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:41,680 over is not my term. 374 00:22:41,759 --> 00:22:42,559 Speaker 1: I'm just giving you. 375 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:47,319 Speaker 2: I'm relaying the information the term they are associating with 376 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:51,960 this with this movement of gay voters to the quote 377 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:54,720 populist right. They're calling it because you've heard of ethno 378 00:22:54,799 --> 00:22:59,880 nationalism or Christian nationalism or just nationalism, right, they're calling it. 379 00:23:01,319 --> 00:23:06,559 They're calling it homo nationalism. And Spencer Claven, who I 380 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:09,359 will point out, is gay, so he can say this, 381 00:23:10,039 --> 00:23:16,359 he says, who the hell went with homo nationalism when gayism. 382 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:19,880 Speaker 1: Was right there? That's gases. 383 00:23:22,759 --> 00:23:27,279 Speaker 2: So to this point, according to the national security strategy, 384 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:31,079 we want to ensure the Western hemisphere remains reasonably stable 385 00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:34,119 and well governed enough to prevent and discourage mass migration 386 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:37,799 to the US. We want a hemisphere whose governments cooperate 387 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:42,680 with US against narco terrorists, cartels, and other transnational criminal organizations. 388 00:23:43,519 --> 00:23:46,599 We want a hemisphere that remains free of hostile foreign 389 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:50,799 incursion or ownership of key assets, and that supports critical 390 00:23:50,799 --> 00:23:54,240 supply chains. And we want to ensure our continued access 391 00:23:54,279 --> 00:23:58,119 to key strategic locations. We want to halt and reverse 392 00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:00,960 the ongoing damage that foreign actors inflict on the American 393 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:05,160 economy while keeping the Indo Pacific free and open, preserving 394 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:10,440 freedom of navigation in all crucial sea lanes, and maintaining 395 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:14,640 secure and reliable supply chains and access to critical materials. 396 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:20,319 So all of this should be universally acceptable. I would 397 00:24:20,319 --> 00:24:23,279 like to think if you take Trump out of the equation, 398 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:26,160 which I know some people are just completely incapable of doing, 399 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,960 but take him out of the equation and just read 400 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:29,519 the words. 401 00:24:29,599 --> 00:24:30,359 Speaker 1: Listen to the words. 402 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:34,200 Speaker 2: You know, we want to support our allies in preserving 403 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:39,000 the freedom and security of Europe while restoring Europe's civilizational 404 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:45,559 self confidence and Western identity that got the Europeans all 405 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:52,519 upset by the way civilizational self confidence. Like I watch 406 00:24:52,559 --> 00:24:57,000 a lot of podcasts from Europe, from Britain, and this 407 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:00,559 is a common theme in the podcasts. This is a 408 00:25:00,599 --> 00:25:05,079 common thing being discussed, particularly in the UK right, this. 409 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:05,720 Speaker 1: Loss of. 410 00:25:07,279 --> 00:25:11,960 Speaker 2: Self confidence and respect for your own history, your culture, 411 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:16,240 Like we ended slavery, Like why are we Like why 412 00:25:16,279 --> 00:25:18,799 are we the bad people here? Like yeah, our empire 413 00:25:18,799 --> 00:25:23,279 did bad things spoiler alert. Every single civilization on the 414 00:25:23,279 --> 00:25:26,200 face of the planet, and every non civilization on the 415 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:29,640 face of the planet has done terrible things too. Everybody 416 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:33,799 has done terrible things. Everybody, every group, every plan, every tribe, 417 00:25:33,839 --> 00:25:39,079 every nation, everyone. We want to prevent an adversarial power 418 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:42,359 from dominating the Middle East, its oil and gas supplies 419 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:46,039 and the choke points through which they pass, while avoiding 420 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:49,480 the forever wars that bogged us down in that region 421 00:25:49,519 --> 00:25:53,119 at great cost. And we want to ensure US technology 422 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:57,240 and US standards, particularly in AI, biotech and quantum computing, 423 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:02,839 drive the world forward. These are the United States's core 424 00:26:03,599 --> 00:26:07,640 vital national interests. And they made a point earlier in 425 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:13,119 the document to say, like, look, we cannot cover everything 426 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:15,920 as a top priority, Like when you have so many 427 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:18,720 priorities and everything else it just becomes a jumble and 428 00:26:19,559 --> 00:26:24,759 you can't focus on the top order priorities. Right, So like, 429 00:26:25,039 --> 00:26:27,000 if you're not in this document, it doesn't mean we 430 00:26:27,039 --> 00:26:33,000 don't care. It means these are our top focuses. They 431 00:26:33,039 --> 00:26:39,279 then go on to talk about focused definition of national interest. 432 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,559 They say, since at least the end of the Cold War, 433 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:47,559 administrations have often published these strategies that seek to expand 434 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:51,319 the definition of America's national interest such that almost no 435 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:55,000 issue or endeavor is considered outside its scope. But to 436 00:26:55,039 --> 00:26:58,920 focus on everything is to focus on nothing. America's core 437 00:26:59,039 --> 00:27:04,000 national security trysts shall be our focus. Strength is the 438 00:27:04,039 --> 00:27:06,960 best deterrent peace Through strength, countries won't mess with us. 439 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,440 Speaker 1: You know. If we're strong, we. 440 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:14,160 Speaker 2: Have a predisposition to non interventionism. In the Declaration of Independence, 441 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:17,359 America's founders laid down a clear preference for non interventionism 442 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,440 in the affairs of other nations and made clear the basis, 443 00:27:20,519 --> 00:27:25,200 just as all human beings possess God given equal natural rights, 444 00:27:25,279 --> 00:27:28,839 all nations are entitled by quote the laws of nature 445 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:33,319 and Nature's God to a separate and equal station with respect. 446 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:33,559 Speaker 1: To one another. 447 00:27:34,079 --> 00:27:37,039 Speaker 2: For a country whose interests are as numerous and diverse 448 00:27:37,079 --> 00:27:41,519 as ours, rigid adherence to non interventionism is not possible. 449 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:47,319 So in other words, they are rejecting isolationism. But they 450 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:51,119 say this predisposition should set a high bar for what 451 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:56,200 constitutes a justified intervention, so we will intervene. It's just 452 00:27:56,319 --> 00:28:01,640 it's a high bar. We seek relations and peaceful commercial 453 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:05,799 relations with countries of the world without imposing on them 454 00:28:06,319 --> 00:28:10,519 democratic or other social change that differs widely from their 455 00:28:10,599 --> 00:28:16,240 traditions and histories. And then they talk about the primacy 456 00:28:16,319 --> 00:28:19,359 of nations, and this is something this is where I 457 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:24,640 departed from the Capital l Libertarian Party a long time ago. 458 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,359 There seems to be a rejection of the concept of nations, 459 00:28:30,039 --> 00:28:35,319 and I'm not on board with that. So they rejected 460 00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:38,880 in this paper as well, that the world's fundamental political 461 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:44,319 unit is and will remain, the nation state, and I 462 00:28:44,359 --> 00:28:46,480 agree with them on that. All right, if you're listening 463 00:28:46,519 --> 00:28:48,079 to this show, you know I try to keep up 464 00:28:48,079 --> 00:28:49,839 with all sorts of current events, and I know you 465 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,359 do too, And you've probably heard me say get your 466 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:56,279 news from multiple sources. Why well, because it's how you 467 00:28:56,359 --> 00:28:59,279 detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed 468 00:28:59,319 --> 00:29:03,079 with Ground news News. It's an app and it's a website, 469 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:05,559 and it combines news from around the world in one 470 00:29:05,599 --> 00:29:09,079 place so you can compare coverage and verify information. 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Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, 482 00:29:45,519 --> 00:29:47,839 but it also supports ground News as they make the 483 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:53,599 media landscape more transparent. So the primacy of nations, it 484 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:58,680 is natural and just that all nations put their interests 485 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:05,240 first and that they guard their own sovereignty. I expect 486 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:09,000 no other country to do nothing less. Every country should 487 00:30:09,039 --> 00:30:12,079 be looking out for their own national interest and their 488 00:30:12,119 --> 00:30:17,279 own people. That's what I expect. The world works best 489 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:21,920 when nations prioritize their interests. The United States will put 490 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:26,079 our own interests first, and in our relations with other nations, 491 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:32,160 encourage them to prioritize their own interests as well. We 492 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:36,359 stand for the sovereign rights of nations. This is, in 493 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:38,799 my view, this is a shot across the bow to 494 00:30:38,839 --> 00:30:47,279 the EU right, because the EU is corrupting the governance 495 00:30:47,319 --> 00:30:53,680 of all of the member nations. It says, we stand 496 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:58,759 against the sovereignty sapping incursions of the most intrusive transnational 497 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:04,359 organizations and stand for reforming those institutions so that they 498 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:10,440 assist rather than hinder individual sovereignty and further American interests. 499 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,240 They go on to say later, here attempts by foreign 500 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,720 powers or entities to censor our discourse or curtail our 501 00:31:17,799 --> 00:31:23,640 citizens' free speech rights, we will unapologetically protect our own 502 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:27,119 sovereignty against that. This is another shot across the bout 503 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:30,359 to the EU that just did their Digital Security Act thing, 504 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:34,160 where they're going to know they're going to start fining 505 00:31:35,279 --> 00:31:40,920 tech companies that don't censor Americans. So the Europeans are 506 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:45,440 going to find American companies because like Twitter, for example, 507 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:51,279 if Twitter doesn't censor Americans based on European guidelines, then 508 00:31:51,359 --> 00:31:56,640 European officials are going to find the American based Twitter, 509 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:04,359 and the Trump administration just levied sanctions against European officials 510 00:32:04,359 --> 00:32:07,440 for doing this, as they should. You don't get to 511 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:11,000 control our free speech. You can shut down Twitter over 512 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:12,680 in your countries. If you want to do that, then 513 00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:14,759 that's what you need to do. If you want to 514 00:32:14,799 --> 00:32:17,720 go to talitarian, you do that, but you don't get 515 00:32:17,759 --> 00:32:21,240 to You don't get to shut down free speech for Americans. 516 00:32:22,559 --> 00:32:25,720 The US cannot allow any nation to become so dominant 517 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:27,680 that it could threaten our interests. We will work with 518 00:32:27,799 --> 00:32:31,920 allies and partners to maintain global and regional balances of 519 00:32:32,039 --> 00:32:38,440 power to prevent the emergence of dominant adversaries. Right, So, 520 00:32:38,759 --> 00:32:42,160 if you are a hostile nation and you are seeking 521 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:47,279 to dominate an entire region of the world, Iran, then 522 00:32:47,319 --> 00:32:51,440 we're going to work against you. Let me see, he 523 00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:53,839 don't have a whole lot of time left in twenty 524 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:55,599 twenty five. So I want to get to this part, 525 00:32:55,640 --> 00:33:01,599 which was promoting European greatness. Officials have become used to 526 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:06,480 thinking about American problems in terms of insufficient military spending 527 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:11,039 and economic stagnation, and there is truth to this, but 528 00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:15,400 Europe's real problems are even deeper. Content and by the way, 529 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:19,319 this is the portion that got the Europeans big mad. 530 00:33:19,759 --> 00:33:21,440 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, they are so mad about this. 531 00:33:21,799 --> 00:33:24,599 Speaker 2: I've been reading different articles about like they are just 532 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:30,440 super angry. How dare the administration, the Trump administration say 533 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:37,559 this sort of stuff. So from the document, Continental Europe 534 00:33:37,599 --> 00:33:41,720 has been losing share of global GDP, down from twenty 535 00:33:41,759 --> 00:33:46,240 five percent to nineteen ninety to fourteen percent today, partly 536 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:53,480 owing to national and transnational regulations that undermine creativity and industriousness. 537 00:33:54,319 --> 00:33:57,759 Once again, another shot across the bow of the EU. 538 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:05,599 But this economic decline is eclipsed by the real and 539 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:16,079 more stark prospect of civilizational erasure civilizational erasure or erasure 540 00:34:16,199 --> 00:34:21,840 depending on your preferred pronunciation. There, the erasing of your civilization. 541 00:34:22,559 --> 00:34:25,320 That's the bigger problem. I mean, yes, the GDP, the 542 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,679 economic stuff like that's really important, that's pretty bad, sure, 543 00:34:29,599 --> 00:34:33,599 but that pales in comparison to what you're doing to yourselves, 544 00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:39,920 your civilizational erasure. That's what set everybody off. The larger 545 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:44,920 issues facing Europe include activities of the European Union and 546 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:51,079 other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration 547 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:56,320 policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship 548 00:34:56,360 --> 00:35:01,039 of free speech and suppression of political opposition during birth rates, 549 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:08,360 and loss of national identities and self confidence. Should present 550 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:12,840 trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in twenty years 551 00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:17,039 or less. As such, it is far from obvious whether 552 00:35:17,159 --> 00:35:22,320 certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough 553 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:28,960 to remain reliable allies. This has gotten the Europeans very 554 00:35:29,039 --> 00:35:35,239 concerned as well. It should, because the whole reason why 555 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:39,440 we are allies is because we have a shared sense 556 00:35:40,079 --> 00:35:47,239 of right and wrong, rule of law, governance, freedom, right, 557 00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:50,079 all of these things that have united particularly like the 558 00:35:50,159 --> 00:35:55,679 NATO countries. These ideals are the things that unite us. 559 00:35:56,360 --> 00:36:01,519 And if your country abandons those ideals and either through 560 00:36:02,119 --> 00:36:05,280 the welcoming in of millions of people that don't share 561 00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:08,000 those ideals, to the point where now your country is 562 00:36:09,039 --> 00:36:13,800 changed at a national level, that national policy now changes 563 00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,360 those ideals, the way you live your lives in your 564 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:21,719 society no longer aligns with ours, then we have to 565 00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:24,920 then we are going to question whether or not we 566 00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,039 should still be your ally. Of course, we would. Why 567 00:36:28,039 --> 00:36:31,559 wouldn't we Hello. It's like if your next door neighbor 568 00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:34,639 is a great friend, and then some other neighbor moves in, Like, 569 00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,920 I don't owe allegiance to your house. It was to 570 00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:41,480 the people and the values of the people that were 571 00:36:41,519 --> 00:36:43,960 next door to me. And if somebody else comes in 572 00:36:44,079 --> 00:36:47,199 and they have the complete opposite values for me, then no, 573 00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,239 I don't owe any allegiance to that house. 574 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:53,400 Speaker 1: It's just a house. They go on. 575 00:36:53,679 --> 00:36:55,480 Speaker 2: The paper goes on to say, many of these nations 576 00:36:55,519 --> 00:36:58,559 are currently doubling down on their present path. We want 577 00:36:58,599 --> 00:37:03,280 Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self confidence, 578 00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:10,760 and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation. Later, 579 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:12,719 it goes on to say, over the long term, it 580 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,280 is more than plausible that within a few decades at 581 00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:20,840 the latest, certain NATO members will become majority non European. 582 00:37:21,519 --> 00:37:24,599 As such, it is an open question whether they will 583 00:37:24,679 --> 00:37:27,360 view their place in the world or their alliance with 584 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:30,880 the United States in the same way as those who 585 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:40,960 signed the NATO Charter. Again, this is the truth, friends, 586 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:48,039 tell friends, the truth. That's what the administration is telling Europe. 587 00:37:48,079 --> 00:37:50,280 You guys better figure it out. 588 00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:51,519 Speaker 1: You better. 589 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:59,320 Speaker 2: Reclaim you know, your self confidence, your pride in your 590 00:37:59,559 --> 00:38:02,639 history and your people and what you have been able 591 00:38:02,679 --> 00:38:06,079 to accomplish. Right like these countries over in Europe, like 592 00:38:06,119 --> 00:38:09,880 these were empires of the world. And what are you 593 00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:11,840 doing now? What are you doing? 594 00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:13,159 Speaker 1: Friends? 595 00:38:13,159 --> 00:38:16,880 Speaker 2: Tell friends the truth and this is the truth. If you, guys, 596 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,800 change your entire composition of your population to the point 597 00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,840 where we are no longer aligned, you know, ethically, then 598 00:38:23,159 --> 00:38:27,000 we don't need to be aligned militarily either. All right, 599 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:28,519 that'll do it for this episode. 600 00:38:28,599 --> 00:38:29,960 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening. 601 00:38:30,079 --> 00:38:32,199 Speaker 2: I could not do the show without your support and 602 00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:34,960 the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, 603 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:37,400 so if you'd like, please support them too and tell 604 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,159 them you heard it here. You can also become a 605 00:38:39,159 --> 00:38:43,840 patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecleanershow dot com. 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