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coming up how do we know the threat of tyranny is coming from the left and not
from Trump.
I'll answer that question by looking at some comments by Solzhenitsyn, by Vaclav Havel, and by George Orwell.
Debbie's going to join me for our Friday roundup.
We're going to talk about Israel and President Macron's arms embargo.
We're going to talk about whether pro-lifers should feel comfortable in voting for Trump.
And also the political lessons of Hurricane Milton and Hurricane Helene.
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now I Thought I would talk today about a theme that is
Addressed in the book touched on in the movie and the question is simply this
Is the threat of tyranny coming from Trump or is it coming from the left?
Now, One way to answer that question is to look at what Trump did or maybe even said that is all that that is supposedly so tyrannical.
And here you'd be hard-pressed to find very much at all.
Once in a while, Trump will say something generally whimsical, things like, well, I'm not going to be a dictator, but maybe for one day.
And if you're the kind of person who goes, oh, there you go, he's being tyrannical again.
But for most of us, we realize that that is Trump doing his shtick.
That's Trump's one-liner.
Trump is being almost a partial comedian.
And moreover, you can judge a dictator by his actions.
Dictators, when they come to power, generally immediately set up a regime of repression.
That's what Hitler did in 1933.
Hitler took power in 1933.
When did he become a tyrant?
1933. And the Democrats have a greater burden of arguing that somehow Trump came to power in 2016.
He was there until 2020.
He didn't do anything tyrannical.
But guess what? If we let him in the next time, he's definitely going to become really tyrannical.
Well, that's implausible.
That doesn't make any sense.
But we can answer the question in a more profound way if we look at the characteristics of dictatorial and tyrannical regimes.
And here we need to turn to some of the kind of wise men of our age.
People like Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Václav Havel, who was the Czech dissident, later became the prime minister or president of the Czech Republic, and of course the The great George Orwell.
And I want to read you a few comments by these figures, not comments that are well known.
I mean, I obviously covered Solzhenitsyn in the discussion I did at the Gulag Archipelago over several weeks of the podcast.
But here I want to talk about Solzhenitsyn, who talks about how in the Soviet regime, law was always infinitely elastic.
And what he means by that is that Soviet jurists would, in fact, have hearings, interrogations, investigations, trials, But they did so in the understanding that the trial is not about whether you determine whether someone is guilty or not.
Of course they're guilty. The trial is merely about coming up with some kind of a rationale for why this person is getting a punishment that you want to give him anyway.
And here Solzhenitsyn invokes a guy named Andrei Vyshynskiy.
And here's what Solzhenitsyn says about him.
He says that this guy, Vyshynski, was a genius at coming up with, quote, the most flexible dialectics.
And Vyshinski would argue, it's never possible for mortal men to establish absolute truth, but relative truth only.
What's he saying? He's basically saying, listen, when a crime happens of any kind, we're not on the scene, we're
not there, we can't see what actually happened.
We have evidence. And the evidence is going to be probable, or more probable, or very probable.
But Vyshinski goes, because evidence is always like that, let's forget about trying to achieve certainty.
Let's basically just go on whether there's more evidence for it than not.
What he's doing is he's essentially converting the legal process into something completely subjective.
And he's basically saying, if you want to get some guy, you can totally get him.
Because after all, there's always some indication that points to the person's guilt.
And all you have to do is weigh that more heavily than the indications that he didn't do it.
And so this is the so-called Vyshynski doctrine, which is that it's useless to seek for absolute evidence, call it evidence beyond a reasonable doubt, evidence is always relative.
Now, let's turn for a moment to Vaclav Havel, who says the following about the tyrannical regime in the modern era, and ask yourself if this describes Trump, or if this more closely describes what the left and the Democrats have been doing.
He's talking about the tyrannical regime, and I now quote,"...it touches people at every step, but it does so with ideological gloves on." What this means, of course, is that the tyranny is not for everybody.
It's ideologically determined.
You are prosecuted for ideological reasons.
I continue to read.
This is why life in the system is so thoroughly permeated with hypocrisy and lies.
The arbitrary abuse of power is called observing the legal code.
The lack of free expression becomes the highest form of freedom.
Farcical elections become the highest form of democracy.
Banning independent thought becomes the most scientific of worldviews.
It falsifies the past, it falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future.
Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything.
Now think of how...
Prescient how farsighted this is and how, with eerie kind of dart accuracy, it describes what's happening in America today.
Almost every line lands with a thud.
Life in the system is thoroughly permeated with hypocrisy and lies.
Arbitrary abuse of power.
It's called observing the legal code.
I mean, think if someone, you know, came to America from Mars and let's say that they observed these Trump cases or January 6th cases.
Outwardly, it appears like there's a normal legal process underway because, after all, you have an adversary system, you have statutory rules of procedure, you have a judge, you have a judge, A legal courtroom, legal vocabulary, but everything is kind of hollow because you realize that underneath all that, in a way, the whole idea of trying to arrive at truth or justice and all the accompanying rules of justice.
What did this person actually do?
Where have they broken the law?
Are they the only person in the country that's being prosecuted for doing this?
Or does everybody who does this get prosecuted also?
Do people who commit the same crime get roughly the same penalty?
And if the answer to those questions is, no, they don't.
This is the only guy being prosecuted.
You know that while the form of the law is being observed, the substance of the law is being denied.
Now we turn to George Orwell.
Intellectuals, says George Orwell, are more totalitarian in outlook than the common people.
You might think that the peasant or the ordinary guy is going to be like, oh yeah, I want to be a tyrant because I don't have a lot of power in my ordinary life.
I would love to have some power through political.
No. Orwell goes, the intellectual is more susceptible to the appeal of tyranny than the ordinary guy.
Most of them, writes Orwell, are perfectly ready for dictatorial methods, secret police, systematic falsification of history, So long as they feel it is on, quote, our side.
And this is very creepy because what Orwell is really saying is that nobody wants tyranny for themselves, but they take a certain pleasure and relish in imposing tyranny on others.
And it's actually easy to see why for two separate reasons.
One is it gives your side an unfair advantage.
It puts you on top without even having to fight, right?
I don't have to argue with that guy.
I've just censored him.
I don't have to compete with him in elections.
I've just jailed him. So tyranny is appealing in that sense.
And tyranny is also appealing because it is a raw exercise of power.
And if you think of what intellectuals are all about, they're always drawing blueprints
for society.
Society would be better if you only did this.
If you only listened to me and organized things this way, the world would be better.
But of course, by and large, people don't listen.
And so there's a little part of the intellectual that goes, well, you know, it's kind of a
pity that my great idea can't be forced on people.
Wouldn't it be great if there was some sort of dictator, I mean, ideally me, but if not
somebody else who says, let me take Professor so-and-so's idea and impose it on the whole
society.
That way, the intellectual's theory would be converted to action.
And this helps to explain the tyrannical mentality of the intelligentsia.
And intelligentsia that I point out mainly comes from the political left.
So looking at this, these are just three snapshots from...
From far-seeing writers about tyranny, I think we can see that none of this, none of what they're talking about bears any remote resemblance to Donald Trump, but all of it, almost to the letter, evokes, points to, and is an indicator of the tyrannical mentality and the tyrannical actions that come from Democrats and from the left.
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It's time for our Friday roundup.
And we're going to be getting to Debbie's favorite topic.
And I say favorite topic because pretty much when we get home or we have a break or making our coffee, she's on the Weather Channel and you're following the trajectory.
But we're not talking about that right now.
Yeah, no, I was going to say we're going to get to it.
Oh, I gotcha.
We're going to save the best for last, so to speak.
But we want to start by talking about...
I thought you were going to say my favorite subject is real.
Well, actually, to be honest, Israel is also a topic that you care a lot about.
I do. And you care a lot about for, I think, maybe reasons different than a lot of other people.
Because, of course, by and large, for people in Israel, but also for Jews in America, they look at Israel in terms of a homeland for the Jews.
They look at it in terms of strategy.
In some cases, they look at what's in the U.S. national interest.
But you have a kind of a larger framework, which is a biblical framework.
And so we did a very interesting sort of thumbnail for today, which is a quote from Genesis, right?
So read the quote so we can reflect upon and ask, what does this tell us about the world we live in today?
Right. So, what does Genesis 12-3 mean?
So, it says, Okay.
And who is talking to whom?
So, God is talking to Abraham.
Okay, so this is at the very beginning, one of the very early chapters, I mean, basically the beginning of the Hebrew Scriptures, and God is saying this to Israel.
Now, right away, we should address, there are going to be some Christians...
Who will say, well, that's the Old Testament, which was a covenant between God and the Jews.
But then along came Jesus, and we were propelled into a new covenant, and we have, of course, a New Testament to go with it.
And all of this is sort of interesting, but it's ancient history and it doesn't describe
the Israel of today or even the world of today.
And what would you say to those people?
I beg to differ because this Israel was the Israel where Jesus was crucified, correct?
You're saying it's the same place, it's the same physical land.
Physical land, physical place, and it is the place where he will return.
Right.
Right. Right.
Exactly. And so geopolitically, you know, there are a lot of people are like, well, I don't know why we're helping Israel.
Why should we care?
Why should they, you know, they can defend themselves, blah, blah, blah.
But if you are really to take the Bible, both the Old and the New Testament, because let's say you
really don't see the two correlate, which I do, but if you don't, you still know that the Bible
prophecy says that people will return to Israel. So regardless of what you think of God making that
covenant, right, or not, the return place is a place, and that place happens to be Israel. That
happens to be Jerusalem, correct? So if we don't help Israel, if these Islamic terrorists, which
are super, like, supercharged and evil, if they destroy the very place that God says will be the
place where Jesus comes back, I feel like it's our responsibility to make sure that that place is still there.
Now, this is a very kind of interesting line of analysis because it differs from the way in which we normally consider wars or political questions, right?
So, for example, let's look at Putin and Ukraine.
I would say that if we look fairly at that situation, there is in fact some right and wrong on both sides.
Obviously, the invasion is precipitated by Putin.
So he is clearly in that sense the bad guy.
He invaded. However, there is also a kind of history behind that.
Not only was Kyiv and most of what we now call Ukraine part of Russia at one time, but after the end of the Cold War, when Putin actually wanted to become part of the West, when Russia wanted to join, Russia even talked about joining NATO, NATO basically refused and began to mobilize these areas like Ukraine against Russia.
And so, in other words, the provocation, at least from Putin's point of view, comes really from the side of the West.
They're encircling Putin, and any large country that is being encircled on its own borders is going to get very jittery about that and want to lash out and basically shut that down.
So, we're not applying a biblical analysis.
We're just looking at facts, at history, at the balance of power.
But you're saying with Israel, we should apply a double analysis, where we don't set aside this geopolitical analysis.
But you're saying that there is a much more clear-cut kind of good and evil.
God's side and the enemies of God's side.
Right, right. And what you're saying is that regardless of...
I mean, we had... We had a guest, Joel Rosenberg, on the podcast a couple of days ago.
You are obviously here.
And he was saying Israel today is a very secular society.
He was kind of admitting that Israel is not exactly marching to God's orders these days.
Well, I guess they didn't that much in the old days either.
Right, exactly. Yeah, yeah. You know, I don't know about that, but I think God is going to punish all of us, really.
I mean, all of the people that have shunned away from Him, that have turned away from Him, will be punished.
We have to be accountable. I mean, obviously we have to be accountable.
Now... I look at Israel in kind of a different light than, say, Russia, China with Taiwan, even Venezuela with Guyana, you know, because they want to acquire Guyana as well.
So, all of those things are, you know, okay, well, that's the world we live in.
We have dictators.
There are We have tyrants.
They want land.
But with Israel, you do have to go back and you have to look at the miracles that take
place in Israel.
The fact that the Jews scatter throughout the world, which is what the Bible, what God
predicted would happen, and the fact that they're back, and the fact that the Muslims
were not there to begin with.
That wasn't their land to begin with.
Yeah, this is a very good point because all the anti-colonial sort of rhetoric which says
that Israel is the colonizer, you notice that when it comes to discussing America and the
Native Indians, they always go to the question of who was there at the beginning.
Because there were obviously wars going back and forth, and there were wars that the Indians won, and there were wars that the Cowboys won.
The Mexicans. Right, exactly.
But the question is determined by the left to be settled by essentially the question of aboriginalism, which is kind of who was there at the outset.
And if you apply that same test to Israel, the answer is obvious.
The Jews were there at the outset.
And it is right there buried under the ground.
It is there in artifacts.
It is there in stones.
We've seen it for ourselves.
seen it for ourselves. Yes. And I thought it was very telling when our friend Zev Ornstein
And I thought it was very telling when our friend Zev Ornstein said, you know, he said
said, you know, he said that there are many delegations that come through to look at these
that there are many delegations that come through to look at these artifacts.
artifacts and they say they're very impressed, right? But then when Zev says to them, listen,
And they say they're very impressed, right?
But then when Zev says to them, listen, why don't you simply make a declaration?
why don't you simply make a declaration? Don't worry about whether it's a one state solution
or two state solution. Don't even make a declaration about today. Just make a declaration that
you have seen the evidence that the Jews were there in the beginning.
In other words, the Jews are the ancient inhabitants of this land.
And these guys will immediately go, well, I can't say that.
It's true, but we're not willing to say it.
And what you're saying is that that is not only historically telling, but it's kind of biblically telling.
Biblically telling. And of course, when it says, those who bless will be blessed, those who curse will be cursed.
So when I just made a joke about Macron calling for an arms ban, not sending any arms to Israel, the first thing that came to my mind was, you will be cursed.
I mean, that was like...
In other words, you're saying that this guy's not just making a miscalculation, that in some ways, whether you're on Israel's side or not, and you know, one can obviously reasonably debate, should the United States be providing this or providing that?
But what you're saying is what we shouldn't be debating is, should our moral stance be for Israel?
You're saying it should emphatically be yes.
Emphatically be yes.
I don't even understand how that could even be a question.
If you are a believer, whether you are a believer in God of Israel and not Jesus Christ, if you're a Jew or if you're a Christian, there's no question about it.
And you're saying it is stated not only right there in Scripture in black and white, but it is at the very beginning of Scripture.
It's almost like one of the first, apart from creation and the making of nature and the making of man, it's really one of God's original commitments.
Absolutely, his promise.
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We're back and we want to talk in our second segment about...
Well, I won't say just about pro-life Spider-Man, but it's interesting because when I did my locals conversation on Tuesday, there were some people in that conversation who had seen the interview.
And I think they were genuinely a little divided because I think they felt, you know, pro-life Spider-Man is making kind of a good point.
And his good point is that we want to decrease the number of abortions.
We don't want them to increase.
And we want the Republican Party...
To be the party that champions that decrease.
And so if the Republican Party is sort of backing away a little bit, easing up on what has been a pretty consistent pro-life stance, that does represent a problem.
And what pro-life Spider-Man is trying to do is use his leverage to say, okay, well listen, you know, the way that Coalition politics works.
We support you, but you deliver for us.
And we're looking for the Republican Party to do that.
So that was the strength, I think, of what he was saying.
He was not taking the absolute position that either no abortion or if the Republican Party doesn't commit itself to no abortions at all.
I think he was saying he wants the party to uphold its commitments, which it has had before.
And, and, and yet I think there were others who were taking the view that, hey, listen, you know, frankly, in fact, one guy put it very bluntly.
He goes, listen, how many abortions do you think are going to happen in America under Trump?
Probably a pretty big number.
But how many will happen under Kamala?
A much bigger number because if she has her way, abortion will be legal for nine months nationwide.
In every state. Every state.
And so just looking at that, but again, we then come back to should votes be based upon the lesser evil?
And I think the answer is quite clearly yes, right?
Yeah. Because, and that is true in any situation.
Yeah. Absolutely it is.
In fact, you even made the argument with Spider-Man, Mason, that there have been instances where we have supported the lesser evil in some countries with the Islamic radical and the not-so-Islamic radical, radical, if there's such a thing, and we go for the not-so-Islamic
radical so that the Islamic radical doesn't completely decimate the place,
right?
Well, let's say, look at World War II.
We allied with a really bad guy, Stalin, because another bad guy, Hitler, posed a greater threat
at the time.
Now, in terms of the sheer volume of killing, Stalin was worse than Hitler.
If you just look at the number of people Stalin killed, for example, in his own country compared to Hitler, Stalin killed more.
But Stalin wasn't a threat, at least not immediate, to us.
He became a threat or the Soviet regime became a threat, which is why after World War II we went into the Cold War.
But it seemed to me that if we look at the history of the 20th century, it's almost all decisions of the lesser evil.
Yeah. Right? I mean, we talked about Jimmy Carter and the Shah of Iraq.
Get rid of the Shah, the bad guy.
You get Khomeini, the worst guy.
The worst guy. You talk about how there was corruption in Venezuela on the part of the COPE, the right-wing party.
But you vote the right-wing out.
You know, the pro-life Spider-Men of Venezuela go, I'm not going to support the right-wing party.
They're corrupt. And then you get Hugo Chavez and the whole country is destroyed and the corruption reaches a whole different level.
Right. Well, you know, and again, I feel like he was right about the morality of abortion and taking a stance and all of that.
But again, I go back to my point that we need, as the pro-life movement, we need to figure out a way to make people understand that life begins at conception and that Right.
Right. How do you convince that woman that an embryo is the beginning of a person?
It actually is a person.
It's the beginning stage of a person.
Are you going to tell me that when you see a bud, a rose on a rose bush, you see a bud, you're like, that's not a rose?
I mean, is that, you know what I mean?
Right. Of course it's a person.
Well, there was a comedian, one of these comedians we saw, and his analogy was so brilliant.
He was basically talking about the fact that he was using the analogy of baking a cake.
Yeah. And he said that if the cake is in the oven, I mean, it's not ready yet, it's being baked.
Right. And you come in, and you just grab it and trash it and throw it out, and someone goes, you destroyed my cake.
And they go, well, it wasn't a cake.
Right. Because it's not baked yet.
It is only in the process of being baked.
Therefore, this guy was like, no, that was my cake right there.
Sorry, but that's the cake.
Exactly. It's hard for me to believe that that woman that you're referring to sort of doesn't realize that.
It's almost like I feel like the overwhelming weight of human selfishness is so heavy that it has a blinding effect.
It does. It has to.
It has to.
Now, when you have scientific knowledge, you know when the sperm and the egg come together.
You know when fertilization takes place.
You know the stages of gestational development.
You have ultrasound.
You can look and see if it's a boy or a girl.
You can see the fingers.
Absolutely. And not to mention, you know, when I had a miscarriage, my first baby was a miscarriage at 11 weeks.
I didn't say, I just lost a clump of cells.
I said, I lost a baby.
I mean, I knew it was a baby.
Instinctively, you know it's a baby.
And so I just don't understand how you can turn that in.
I just saw some videos of this guy in California and he's interviewing people.
And he's talking about the fact that in California, if you kill a pregnant woman...
It is a double homicide.
It is everywhere. Yeah.
And I think maybe in New York they removed it, but they removed it only because they knew that it is a standing indictment of abortion.
Exactly, right. Because if you're prosecuting someone for a double homicide, what is that but a clear legal admission?
Right. That it's a murder. That you're dealing with two human beings.
Not one. Not one plus extension, but rather two human beings who are physically connected, geographically connected, but nevertheless genetically distinct.
Yeah. Well, you know, and it's interesting because recently Melania Trump came out and said that she was pro-choice or...
Does she call herself pro-choice?
She didn't use that phrase, but what she did say, she starts off by saying a very interesting and odd kind of statement because it's a promotion for a book.
And what she says is, I support freedom in all its forms.
Right. And then she uses the phrase, just a couple of lines later, my body, my choice, which was in fact the slogan of the pro-choice movement.
My body, my choice.
I think what Melania Trump was trying to say is that just as we have the right to over our body when it comes to vaccines, in the same way we women have the right over our bodies when it comes to abortion.
Yeah, well, that's her opinion, right?
As is a lot of women's opinion, I guess.
But you just have to remove that from your lexicon because that is a separate...
Different DNA, different blood.
What you're saying is it's not the same as a vaccine.
It's not the same as a vaccine. You're using the same slogan or the same tent to cover two totally different things.
Totally different things. And it's not even the case of like, I don't want to have my breast removed because that's my choice.
I want to keep my breast. Don't remove my breast.
Give me a lumpectomy instead.
The breast is your breast.
The baby is not your body.
Right. It's not your body.
It's maybe your baby that you conceived along with somebody else, but it's not an extension.
It's a vessel. It's a vessel for another human being to come out into the world.
Right. Now, interestingly, you know, there are some Christians who are like, well, look at what Melania Trump said.
It is worth noting that Laura Bush...
Nancy Reagan.
Nancy Reagan. And I think maybe even Barbara Bush.
I'm not totally sure. I don't know about that.
But nevertheless, and the Christian community at that time was kind of silent.
Left it alone. They left it alone.
They're like, well, that's Barbara Bush, but Barbara Bush is not the president, or Laura Bush is not the president.
But in this case...
Melania chose...
I mean, it's interesting that she also chose it right now in an election season to take the...
I kind of wish she didn't.
But that seems to be her opinion.
But again, she has not been an active figure in government.
Now, quite honestly, other people have been.
We know, of course, Hillary Clinton was very active.
But even Nancy Reagan was around the White House quite a bit.
And I don't think ideologically motivated, but getting very involved in Reagan's business, partly to protect Reagan.
Like, oh, that guy's trying to get rid of Reagan, and I gotta go, you know, spike that guy.
Nancy Reagan, in that sense, got her hands dirty.
Melania Trump is a sort of a graceful...
But she also didn't influence Reagan.
Reagan was very staunchly pro-life.
Yeah, remember what he said about those that oppose abortion have all been born.
I notice that all the people who are for abortion have already been born.
I love that. It's very similar to what Lincoln said, where Lincoln basically said something like, whenever I see a guy argue for the benefits of slavery, I feel a strong desire to have it tried on them personally.
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We're now on our third and final topic for today and for our roundup, and that is hurricanes.
Now, you've been tracking these things for really as long as I've known you, right?
And you actually follow even hurricanes that aren't coming our way per se, particularly because I think, what is it?
Is it that you have a certain awe of the power of nature?
That, and I've also been, I've experienced hurricanes since I was 11 years old.
And I was fascinated by hurricanes.
I just remember as a kid, like 11 years old, you know, newly in America.
Of course, we lived in Harlingen with my grandparents.
And I just remember every time that there was a hurricane in the Gulf, and it was maybe headed our way, my grandpa would go to the lumber yard and get plywood, and I would help him board the house up.
That was our ritual every time we had a hurricane.
We would board the windows, and it was really kind of scary for an 11-year-old to do this and go, why are we doing this?
And then my grandpa would be, so that the windows don't break.
And I was like, well, if the wind is that strong, won't I take the whole house?
And my grandpa would look at me kind of like, well, you got a point there.
It could happen if it's strong enough.
Yeah, yeah. And so then we would all get in the car and We're good to go.
At the house there in Harlingen, she talked about Hurricane Beulah, which I believe was in 67, maybe 69, I think 67.
But anyway, they had about five feet of water in their house.
It It practically ruined their house.
I mean, everything. Lots of flooding.
And I just remember thinking, oh my gosh.
So the realization that a hurricane is coming your way and that can happen was a little hard to take.
But yet I noticed that nobody moved.
Everyone just stayed in their house.
They repaired their house and they lived on.
And so this has been...
I'm 58 years old for well over 50 years.
I noticed that there are certain countries and certain states in the Union, in America, that take a very stoic and practical attitude to hurricanes.
In terms of countries, my favorite, Japan.
They get some horrific cyclones, hurricanes, natural disasters.
You never hear a word of complaint about them.
You never see the Japanese on the international news.
Help us! Well, that and earthquakes, as you know.
Massive earthquakes, bad ones.
They just essentially zip it and they start working to rebuild the They're not complainers.
They're not complainers. And similarly, in the United States, I mean, look at the difference in the reactions to hurricanes in Texas versus, say, Katrina in Louisiana.
Now, we were talking about this in the car on the way over, and you were saying partly you think there's kind of an ideological component to that, right?
In other words, Louisiana had a Democratic mayor.
Did they have a Democratic governor as well?
And so the usual Democratic victimology and whining Yeah, but that then, okay, so this is what's really funny about that, is that it was all Democrats, but guess who was president?
Bush. Bush. So they blame Bush and FEMA, right?
Because they didn't do their job.
Right. The Democrat mayor and the Democrat governor, oh, they were just, they couldn't do anything.
Right. And I mean, there were a whole bunch of people that left the state and never came back.
They came to Houston!
Hello? Oh! So anyway, so a lot of, unfortunately, criminals from Louisiana came to Houston and wreaked havoc in Houston.
But that's another story.
I digress. Well, I also mentioned earlier in the week that, you know, the press is now taking the line, don't criticize FEMA. It's very dangerous to do that.
So it's the opposite of what happened.
Right, because this time there's a Democratic administration.
Exactly right. And I even read that some of these media outlets are going back and deleting their old articles because the inconsistency is too obvious and is bound to be pointed out and people are going to make memes about it.
So I have a couple of stats here that are kind of interesting.
Let me look for it.
Let's see. So, kind of the worst hurricanes in U.S. history, they go back to, there's one here in 1884 in Texas.
That had the millibar at 925.
Now, I believe Milton dipped into the 800s, but it stayed consistently in like the 920s.
That just means that the pressure is very high, which makes it a more powerful hurricane.
And then the Florida Keys, 1919.
They had a really bad one.
Florida in 1928, another really bad one.
Louisiana in 1915.
New Orleans, horrible.
Carla, 61. My grandma talked about Carla also.
So they had a really bad one in Carla.
They had a really bad one in Beulah.
And so I always say that these are cyclical.
I mean, they just are. We're always going to have hurricanes.
So you're saying that if you were to look at the path, let's just identify the most dangerous hurricanes, right?
Call them super hurricanes.
You're saying that there is no consistent pattern of the number of super hurricanes
increasing as the years go on because quite clearly there is an increase over time of
the amount of carbon that human beings put into the atmosphere.
That's just the effect of industry and it's the effect of the population of the world
growing.
So, more human beings, more carbon.
And if it were the case that these super hurricanes were produced by that, you would expect there
to be, let's just say, maybe one super hurricane in the late 19th century and maybe two in
the early 20th and maybe four in the 1920s and maybe eight in the 1950s and 60s.
and 60s and maybe 12 today, but no such pattern is observable.
Yeah, well I'll give you an example. Like here in Houston, we have a bad hurricane about every
eight years. Right.
And it's been like this for a long, long time.
As far as I can remember.
And you live in Houston now. I've lived in Houston 35 years of my life, right?
So, on the Gulf Coast, imagine, right?
So, I've seen them consistently.
Every 8 to 10 years they come.
We had one...
Recently in July, Category 1, very bad.
Quite destructive. Quite destructive.
And before that, Harvey.
Right. And I kept telling you, it's like, you know, the farther down we go, the further the months we go...
The less chance that we're going to get one in Texas.
Why? Because the trough of low pressure is pushing the wind towards Florida.
Every time that there's a system coming, where does it go?
It goes east to Florida.
You're saying it's a little cooler here as we go into the fall.
We're getting cold fronts.
And so the more cold fronts we get, unfortunately for Florida, the more they're going to get.
They're going to get the systems.
And so I pray that that's not going to be the case, but there are a couple of systems right now in the Atlantic that may even merge.
And so we may get a We're good to go.
I mean, the neglect of the citizens who are affected by these hurricanes, by the government, really shows you that it really makes a difference who's running our government.
Yes. Because this stuff is going to come to haunt you and to bite you.
And it does in many ways. It's not just hurricanes.
It's also things like crime.
Yeah. Right? You have a government when New York was run by Giuliani and then even Bloomberg.
Crime was down. The city was clean.
It was safe. Now it's not so clean.
Now it's not so safe. So the kind of governments we put in place have an impact on our safety.
And our peace of mind, too, because as you notice, the money, you know, they're like, oh, FEMA's running out of money.
We're running out of money.
Well, where is some of that money going to, right?
A lot of it's going to house illegals.
And that is a fact.
That's not a misinformation campaign.
That's a fact. And that's off the FEMA website.
Yeah, exactly. They boast about it.
It's a fact. So perhaps if we didn't house illegals, perhaps if we didn't allow illegals, we would have more money for these natural disasters that occur every few years and that do wreak havoc on U.S. citizens because, you know, Florida's a great place to live.
It's beautiful. It's warm.
But it is a bit dicey.
Okay. When it comes to these disasters.
I think the political lesson couldn't be more clear.
And if you don't vote for America first, you're going to be getting America last.
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