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March 2, 2022 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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There’s a Feeling I Get When I Look to the East
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Hey guys, welcome to Left, White, and Right.
I'm Gregory Hood.
I am here joined with Chris Roberts, and today we are going to be discussing President Joe Biden's State of the Union Address, which seems to have fallen pretty flat among even his most devoted supporters, at least according to what I was seeing on CNN last night.
What was your impression?
My impression was the same impression I've had for every State of the Union Address that I've ever listened to, which is that it was largely quite boring.
Yeah, I mean, the endless standing ovations were really getting on my nerves, particularly because of just sort of the, you know, what professional wrestling fans would call the cheap pops talking about Ukraine and everything else.
Obviously, that's where you can get bipartisanship in the United States is interventionist foreign policy.
But my main interest today will be talking about domestic policy.
And it was interesting that.
The Biden administration seems to be Doing its best to make sure that progressives are not going to turn out for them in the midterms.
I think we should all agree on not defunding the police.
It's like, well, you might want to talk to some of the people in your caucus about that because I think some of them would actually like to defund the police.
I mean, one of the big things, of course, is they just pretend this never happened.
Like, we never heard this.
And that the dramatic increase in crime that we've seen as a result of the Black Lives Matter movement, and that continues up until the present, which the media has just more or less decided to stop covering, like, all that is still happening.
And they seem to believe that if they just don't talk about it, Nobody will notice, and to some extent they might be right.
I mean, people will notice in the sense of when they make their decisions about where to live, where to move to, and everything else, but that doesn't necessarily change their voting behavior.
Well, you've got to keep in mind that for the midterms, the Democrats aren't worried
about any squad member getting outed from Congress, right?
Those deep blue seats are totally safe.
It doesn't matter what Biden says, and it doesn't even really matter what AOC says.
I mean, you know, Ilhan Omar and Rashid Tlaib and all of these people are going to win re-election.
What the Democrats are super fearful about, with good reason, is losing the suburbs and
losing white women, because it was the suburbs and white women that helped them win in 2020.
And that's how they lost Virginia.
I mean, that's the big concern.
So just in terms of trying to win them back, Biden is clearly tacking back to the center, which, you know, is to be expected, I suppose.
You know, the thing about You know, the specific phrase and policy of defund the police is such a hot button issue, but it really misses the broader thing of like,
You know, defunding or not defunding the police at this point doesn't have that much to do with the crime wave.
Right.
It's like, well, the crime wave is ongoing and we do not defund the police.
We still have this huge issue.
Right.
And there's still there's still basically a nationwide Ferguson effect of cops overlooking you know, minor crimes and just trying to do as little as
possible lest they get in trouble and become, you know, the next Derek Chauvin or Darren Wilson
or whatever. And that has nothing to do with funding. I mean, that's a rhetoric issue. That's a
media issue. And the Ferguson effect, again, began under President Obama, which, you know, Joe
Biden was the vice president for, obviously.
I mean, that's sort of when the beginning of this current crime wave we're undergoing really got started, was 2014 to 2015, 2015 to 2016.
It's just that it went back down very briefly when Trump took office, because suddenly all police departments across the country realized That the Department of Justice wasn't going to be investigating and harassing their cops for any possible racially charged indiscretion.
So it's very rhetorically useful for Biden to campaign on being against defunding the police, right?
Because that sort of makes him seem less radical.
But he still doesn't actually really have to do anything about the crime.
It just sort of makes it sort of seem like maybe he's against.
Yeah.
I mean, one of the things that we're seeing in the figures, which of course everybody is, how do we explain this?
Is the amount of traffic crashes and deaths on the road has dramatically increased.
And everyone's pondering, how could this be?
And it's, well, It's because police don't want to pull over certain people because they know it's, it's a cost benefit thing.
I mean, you can do your job and you can try to maybe do some good on the margins and you won't get any credit for it, or you can stay in your vehicle.
And if you do get out of your vehicle and have any kind of interaction with anybody except, I don't know, somebody resisting vaccine mandates or something like that, but your whole life, Could be over within mere moments.
I mean, I think about Derek Chauvin and the only media mention of him prior to, let us
call it the late unpleasantness, was about his refugee wife.
And it was about how she had won, I don't know, some sort of beauty contest for whatever
ethnic group.
And this was a heartwarming story about people of different… She's Hmong, for those who are curious.
Yeah, yeah.
Hmong is in the, you know, eight… It was in, you know, eight.
H-M-O-N-G, which is a tiny ethnic minority of Southeast Asia that came to the U.S.
after the Vietnam War, because they sided with us.
Yes, a lot of people have Learned with American foreign policy, if you side with us, it doesn't tend to go well for you in your own country and send you into heaven to come here as refugees.
But.
He was seen, you know, in the media, they portrayed him in that one story.
Oh, instantly.
Yeah.
I mean, the same day.
I mean, that was the end of that.
I mean, it's kind of funny when you read the article about what a teddy bear is and this and that and how much he loves them.
And it's like, yeah, three or four news stories.
And that's the end of that.
The thing that really got brought home is even when you look at the video and everything else is how how casual everybody is, how the police who are controlling the crowd don't really see anything amiss.
Now, of course, they have just been they're going through their trials and their legal process will go on forever.
They're being brought up on charges, even the guys who really didn't deal with Floyd at all.
And so.
This idea that We're going to defund the police or not defund the police, or we're going to change the way they do things and everything else.
It ultimately comes back to a far simpler calculation, which is that multiculturalism ultimately and must, as San Francis said, lead to anarcho-tyranny.
And there are just certain people in the country who can just do whatever they want now.
And police could stop them.
And occasionally they might stop them.
But that's only going to matter as long as nobody's there to record it, as long as nobody's there.
Because even a lawful arrest where you do everything right, the optics are inherently going to look bad in the current climate.
And so no matter what you do, your life is over if the wrong person Decides to put it on social media and puts it with the wrong context.
I mean, think of how many fake stories we've had just the last few days, both with domestic stories and international relations.
And so I think police are sort of thinking to themselves like, look, I just want to get to my pension and get out of here and who can blame them.
And I think that it gets to a larger question of sort of the bowling alone phenomenon, which is.
You put if you participate in public culture and you have anything that descends from the mainstream narrative, it's not just that you're risking unpopularity.
It's not just that you're risking some sort of criticism or unpleasantness.
It's that the entire national media and the entire force of both state and big business will come down on you and you won't even know why it'll happen so suddenly that It won't even have registered until like a week later.
And so I think most people just sort of inherently understand when they see a crime taking place, when they see a robbery taking place, when they see something bad happening, you got to ask yourself, everyone's making this calculation.
What could potentially happen to me if I get involved compared to if I just ignore it?
And on a society-wide scale, when you just don't have a stake in what's happening, or you calculate the cost of involvement to be greater than trying to do the right thing, you get social collapse, which is basically what we're seeing now.
Collapse is a strong word, but... Decline, certainly.
Dramatic increases in violent crime are nothing to sniff at, certainly.
Yeah, Biden is sort of finding a way rhetorically to make it seem like he's against it.
But I mean, you know, who are I mean, who are we kidding, really?
It goes beyond violent crime, too.
I mean, if you look at major cities, including San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, A lot of these places where I've been over the last few months and you contrast it to what it was just a few years ago in terms of the homeless encampments, in terms of the people kind of approaching on the street and doing all sorts of disgusting things and open drug abuse and everything else.
This is just how it's going to be now because people are complaining about it and you are seeing these sort of local movements or whatever else about How we're going to clean up the neighborhood or this and that, but nobody actually wants to do it, especially when it's just so much easier to move away.
And once they move away and you don't have to deal with it every day, you're just going to kind of vote the same way.
And I think that President Biden rhetorically last night was was giving a message of moderation.
He was giving a message that we are the free world in contrast to Russia.
We're still the good guys.
Everything's fine.
We're going to kind of call back some of the culture war stuff.
We're not going to reverse any of the stuff we did.
None of the monuments that have been toppled are going to be put back up, but we're going to try to Pretend that we still have some sort of coherent national identity.
You notice that he was Repeatedly referring to one America and a unimer unity agenda and everything like that Which I think was very smart and I think that a lot of Americans Want to be told that everything is okay that they're all still on the same team and that the government cares about their well-being and the fact that All these bad things are happening and will probably continue to get worse in terms of social decline, in terms of crime, and certainly economically in terms of inflation.
Because there you're just dealing with things that, frankly, the president doesn't have a lot of direct control over, at least not in terms of what he can do over the next, what, six to eight months.
But If they get it told to them in a soothing voice, he's calculating that at least enough of them will vote Democratic that he'll have some semblance of getting something done in the last two years.
Yeah, well, and he talks, you know, Biden spoke exactly the same way.
All Democrats speak when they're on a national stage, whether it's during a debate or during a State of the Union or during like a campaign stump, which is that, you know, we're going to lower the cost of prescription medicine.
You know, we're going to make sure that there aren't price hikes for gasoline.
You know, do something about the exorbitant child care costs.
And there's the signature Democrat promise.
to not raise taxes on the middle class.
You know, they're always very, very careful about that.
They want to make sure that nobody who sees themselves as middle class in any way is worried that their taxes will go up, that it's always just the people above you that will get taxed.
And it's just, you know, I'm not, I'm not exactly an old guy, but I mean, I remember when John Kerry was talking about all of this in 2004.
In his debates with President George W. Bush, you know, Kerry again, you know, just just like Biden now is like, listen, I'm not going to raise taxes on middle class people, just on rich people.
And what we really need to focus on is lowering the costs of prescription medicine.
There's this inevitable comparison with Canada.
And there's always cost.
There's always discussion about child care and gasoline prices.
And it's just the same thing.
Always.
It's just.
It's just incredible.
I mean, the same people have been making all of these promises for just so long.
And listen, I don't, I'm not here to portray the Republicans as being better at delivering on things they like to talk about.
Not on affordable family formation, which is what we're talking about.
It just so happens that we're talking about a Democrat State of the Union.
But it's just, all of this actually reminded me a lot, like watching the State of the Union last night, Reminded me a lot of why I liked Trump in 2015 2016 was you know is an outsider who wasn't just delivering these same Promises, you know that you just know aren't gonna go Anywhere, you know, it's like Biden's been in the Senate for 36 years.
I think John Kelly had been in the Senate for a Nearly as long at least certainly over 20 years and it's like you guys have been a part of this system Do you think I mean are we supposed to believe that now you're gonna start doing something about?
prescription drug costs didn't he he was the one who Released president Trump's control on the cost of insulin, I believe Which I think he mentioned last night his own Yeah, but I mean he was he's the reason that the price went up recently I mean, a lot of Trumpist themes were sounded last night in terms of support for American manufacturing, in terms of he talked about visiting the families of slain policemen.
And support for law enforcement.
I quote here, he said, there is something happening in America.
Just look around and you will see an amazing story.
The rebirth of pride that comes from stamping products made in America.
The revitalization of American manufacturing.
Companies are choosing to build new factories here when just a few years ago they would have gone overseas.
That is what is happening.
Well, there are some pretty big reasons for that, a lot of which have to do with President Trump, in which guys like Joe Biden were fighting against kicking and screaming the entire time.
But I think they recognize that and that, you know, they talked about with Senator Sherrod Brown, how we need to retire the term Rust Belt.
Instead, it's going to be the center of innovation and manufacturing and everything else.
Ford and GM got a shout out.
Tesla, notably, did not.
Because the White House does not seem to like Elon Musk very much because he's been tilting right somewhat.
But they still everything is still cloaked in this language of nationalism and unity.
And the West, we heard the free West invoke time and again, where they said that there's this battle between freedom and autocracy.
We, of course, are on the side of freedom.
If you actually Asked what's the difference between the so-called free world at this point and the autocratic world in terms of control of media, in terms of control of what information people are allowed to see, in terms of corporate power and everything else.
There's not that much of a difference.
But again, I don't think most people want to hear that.
I mean, I think they want to believe that they are free and that things are not that different than they were 10 years ago, even though we can see that it's change dramatically just in terms of discourse online, in terms of financial services, in terms of just the way people operate, and in terms of how networking has not proven to be something that unites people but actually is a way of just invoking mobs and internal division and political extremism.
But I think a lot of what Joe Biden Was talking about last night is he wasn't talking to the extremely online.
He wasn't talking to Twitter.
It was a State of the Union that seemed to be really targeted at older Democrats who voted for him because they were tired of President Trump and they were tired of the craziness and then they see a world that is considerably more crazy and Then when President Trump was in charge and Joe Biden is trying to reassure them that no, actually, everything's going to be okay.
Yeah.
That was a big, I mean, that's what he said about COVID is that we're entering sort of the last phase of, of COVID and that these restrictions aren't going to last forever and we're not going to have to live with it indefinitely and all of this stuff, which again, you know, sort of like with him talking about prescription drug costs, it's, you know, it's a nice thought.
I, you know, I hope, I hope he's right.
I fully agree with him, but it's just so hard to believe it.
I mean, it's been almost... How many years now of COVID?
Well, what's funny is how... It all got started in March.
It's been almost exactly two years now, and they said it was going to be two weeks.
It's just... Well, certainly we have to pause and thank Russian President Vladimir Putin for curing COVID and ending the pandemic once and for all.
It's actually rather amusing if you compare last year's speech to this year's.
This year, of course, I think three days ago.
Remember, there were all these stories about people on the House floor who were refusing to wear the masks.
Some of the more populist right-wingers in the Republican Party were making a big deal about this.
And of course, they were accused of wanting to kill people and they were going to infect everyone and make everyone sick.
Then a couple days ago, the new science dropped.
and apparently we don't need to do masks anymore.
And what I found truly, you know, the optics look bad.
And what I found truly incredible is he said, oh, well, let's just admit that COVID is a bad disease.
COVID is a bad disease.
We shouldn't let it divide us.
And I quote here, stop looking at COVID as a partisan dividing line.
See it for what it is, a god-awful disease.
Let's stop seeing each other as enemies and start seeing each other for who we are, fellow Americans.
Well, this is the same guy that said our patience is at an end with the unvaccinated.
So now we've gone from Basically designated a part of the population as this is your fault, and it's your fault that we have to put up with all these restrictions and everything else because you won't take the vaccination.
And now it's just a bad thing that happens.
Actually, we're all in this together.
And I'm beginning to think six months from now, they'll say, well, Those mandates and everything else that never really happened.
A year from now, they'll call it a right wing conspiracy theory.
Maybe three years from now, they'll say like COVID never happened.
And you're crazy that if you, if you say that any of this stuff was real, because how quickly the narrative shifts and it just becomes, okay, we're just not talking about COVID anymore.
All that stuff that was the most important central thing.
That's how you defined yourself.
That filled the God shaped hole in so many people.
We're just moving past that, and now we're moving to Russia.
And when they talk about the unity of the West, and when they talk about the unity of the free world, and the unity of Europe, these are phrases that President Biden used last night, it's interesting to think, well, what kind of unity?
What defines the West?
What defines Europe?
What defines a united response?
And we get kind of this response of, well, it's freedom versus autocracy, but We can't really get into too many details about what the differences are.
But again, I think that the people who he's talking to don't need to think about those differences.
I think this was a speech targeted at a. At an older audience who still have some sort of Cold War hangovers about.
We're still vaguely fighting the Soviet Union somehow.
That this is.
People still want to believe that the old America is there.
And I think that's also part of the reason that Joe Biden got elected.
I mean, a lot of his pitch was that he was going to be the uniting figure and he was going to.
You could count on the progressive left supporting him because Trump was seen as such an existential threat, but he was also a rebuke to the more radical elements of the Democratic Party and.
Older white people who just, as you say, white women in the suburbs, people like that, who just want to be comfortable, he was going to let them be comfortable.
And that was the message he was sounding again and again and again last night.
And it's just a question of, can they keep this illusion up?
Because as he even conceded last night, these sanctions that they're imposing and all the other things that they're trying to do are going to hit the West.
As much as they're going, not certainly not as much as they're going to hit Russia, but they are going to have a major impact on people here.
And it's certainly going to destroy the president's economic agenda.
Well, I don't know if the sanctions alone will destroy the economic agenda, but overall, I mean, it's very difficult for the president, yeah, who basically campaigned on like, let's just get things back to normal.
I'll be the normal president.
Things will go back to the way they were.
It's increasingly difficult to argue because of the situation with Russia, you know, the ongoing COVID restrictions, now inflation and crime and all of these things.
And it's just it's so much.
It's so much damage control, you know?
Yeah.
But again, all of this, you know, all of this is an illusion in regards to the crime thing.
Biden also attacked the Center on Immigration.
He did say we need to secure our border, and he talked about, you know, using high-tech stuff to make it more secure.
And I was reminded of the fact that in 2006, the Secure Fence Act was passed in Congress, and basically everybody supported it.
Joe Biden voted for it.
Barack Obama voted for it.
You name it.
And again, I know I'm such a broken record on this, but I agree with them.
The issue isn't actually that I disagree with all of these people or think they're closet communists or want to kill me or something.
It's that everything they say is just completely hollow.
Even when they vote for laws that are supposed to be good, even that is hollow.
Jacobin Magazine has been talking about how We live in sort of this uniquely bad world in which absolutely everything is political, everything is politicized, and yet nothing changes, and nothing ever gets done.
Morgoth's review kind of talked about that coming from the right in one of his commentaries a few months ago, where essentially that you can never opt out of politics, but there's also nothing you can do.
Yeah.
So you kind of get this, you're always in this hysterical, neurotic climate where people, you can't even just say, I don't care.
Right.
You're not allowed to say like, I just don't care.
You have to take a side on stuff, but whatever the cause is, it's not going to do anything.
Yeah, exactly.
When I was younger, this used to fill me with rage, and now it just sort of makes me sleepy.
You know, I mean, how else are you supposed to react when, you know, when President Biden says something about making sure, you know, filling up your tank of gas doesn't get too expensive?
Everybody says that.
They always say that.
I mean, this is just endless.
I mean, can anybody possibly believe that something is going to be done about this?
No.
And particularly, everything relies upon, and I think this is part of If it's not a deliberate plan, it certainly has worked out this way, and perhaps I'm getting a bit more conspiratorial in my old age, but I'm beginning to think less has to do with stupidity and more has to do with malice, you know?
And when they say things like, well, inflation is going up with regards to gas costs, and it's like, well, yeah, but that's because at the beginning of the administration you were talking about getting rid of Increasing carbon fuels and how we're going to move past all this stuff.
So when you've set up circumstances that are naturally going to increase gas costs and then gas costs go up and then you say, oh, how could this have happened?
It must be Putin's fault.
Well, no, it doesn't work that way.
And last night he said, well, in coordination with 30 countries, we're releasing 60 million barrels of oil.
That's, That's nothing.
The United States alone uses 20 million barrels of oil a day.
So the world has released enough oil for the U.S.
to use for three days.
I mean, that's not going to make a big difference when it comes to oil.
Now, I think that in terms of what they're trying to do and in terms of a global coalition against Russia, you are seeing now cancel culture, if we want to use that term, how the ability to disconnect From an entire country, from the world's largest country at this point.
And I think that it may very well prove to be successful.
And that should give us pause when we think that, oh, well, the system is going to collapse of its own volition.
Things are going to get so bad.
People will see through the lies.
I think people are seeing through the lies at some point, but what results is not radicalization, but more of a kind of cynical apathy.
And it's not that people won't still get worked up about whatever the cause de jour is, but it's almost like you're just going through the motions.
I don't think anybody really expects that things will be significantly different at this point.
Certainly if you look at, and you saw this with a lot of the rage last night with progressive Twitter, I mean, again, not a lot was discussed in terms of race, but Race obsessed progressives were certainly very angry about President Biden talking about border security and President Biden talking about how we all need to agree on the need to fund the police and support the police, because certainly a lot of his base doesn't actually believe that.
And I guess the question, because you're somebody who tracks the The progressive grassroots a bit more than I do.
I mean, do you think he's going to have any problems with this?
I mean, as you say, those progressive bastions are certainly safe in the midterms, but can he just kind of coast on this indefinitely?
Fair question.
Um, I mean, so yeah, it's, it's irrelevant for the midterms because you know, the squad is, the squad is super safe.
You know, it's too early to tell, right?
Because a lot of the progressive wing of the Democrats is not crazy about the Biden position on Ukraine.
They think America shares a lot of the blame because of the expansion of NATO, which they view as imperialistic and in poor taste.
They don't support sending more weapons to Ukraine because they think that will just prolong the conflict.
And this is like the Glenn Greenwald, Max Blumenthal type line.
Yeah, that's right.
That's right.
And moreover, a lot of them think that sanctions are basically evil and ineffective, which is true.
You know, mass massively impoverishing random citizens and in Russia is a really monstrous thing to do because they I mean, the American the American left.
It's really championing the cause of the anti-war protesters within Russia, and they're very cognizant of the fact that it is those protesters who will suffer because we are going to stop selling them stuff.
It's random Russians who aren't going to be able to buy Apple products anymore, now that Apple is boycotting the entire country.
The idea that this is somehow going to...
Going to change Putin's mind or create a popular revolt against him.
There's like a 1% chance of that happening.
And the left is familiar with that because this is what we tried to do with Cuba starting in the 1960s and 60 years later.
It didn't do anything.
They're familiar with the death toll of sanctioning Iraq in the 90s and Iran today and all of these things.
So they are really unhappy with Biden about all of this.
But again, the big question is how long this conflict lasts and how exactly It ends.
I mean, because as far as, as far as I can tell, we don't, we don't know if Putin's goal is to occupy the entirety of Ukraine permanently, or if they're just trying to take out the government to recognize the separatist states.
Listen, I'm just saying.
There's supposedly ceasefire talks this week.
Apparently, American military experts are predicting a 10 to 15 year conflict, which strikes me as completely insane.
So just like another Chechen War?
Yeah!
Also they won the Chechen War, the second one anyway, and they won it so decisively that the Chechens are now being sent into Ukraine to fight.
Sure, but it lasted a long, a long time, that conflict.
Yeah, 10 to 15 years.
Dear God, that sounds awful.
I'm just saying, we do not know how this ends or how long it's going to take to end.
So how much it affects 2024, poof, it's anyone's guess.
And again, that also depends on who gets the Republican nomination.
Because if it's Trump in 2024, he's going to hit Biden for having gotten involved at all, but if it's some, you know, if it's some random neocon like Nikki Haley, she's going to hit Biden for not having done enough.
Yeah.
The Republican response, the Republican response last night was of course, pushing for more.
And you're seeing this with a lot, Marco Rubio, of course on Twitter and a lot of other people.
I mean, this is why I have some concerns about whether the Republicans They seem to be just assuming that they're going to win the midterms But right now the thing that got everybody really mad particularly suburban housewives and parents Were the masking requirements in schools and the hypocrisy behind it when you see celebrities, you know doing whatever they want but you know, your five-year-old has to wear a mask all day and Now they're just saying okay.
Well, none of that ever happened.
We're getting rid of all these controls and And if you even bring up that these controls existed and that they were being pushed so aggressively and you were a bad person if you didn't go along with them, that never happened.
We're all in this together.
COVID is a bad disease.
We're all Americans.
We're not the ones being divisive.
You're the ones being divisive.
Now, so I mean, that could fade as an issue.
And then in terms of foreign policy, I think that Biden's position of we're going to try to bleed the rush and along with Europe's we're going to try to bleed the Russians by sending all these weapons into Ukraine.
We're going to send people to fight the Ukrainian Foreign Legion.
So that way we can have plausible deniability bleed them like they did in Afghanistan.
That is probably closer to what most Americans think then we need to get directly involved in the conflict.
Which is what at least some Republicans seem to be championing.
And then you could say, OK, well, what about the Biden administration's radicalism when it comes to immigration, which is, of course, been a complete disaster and crime?
And Biden, of course, is taking a moderate line rhetorically when it comes to these issues.
Now, he's not doing that in terms of the actual policy.
One of the things he said last night was that he was going to bring in more immigration judges.
to rule on people's asylum cases.
Well, of course, they're just going to rubber stamp them and then send them in.
And then you don't have an illegal immigration problem if you just make them all legal and say that they all have legal status and everything else.
It'll be interesting, frankly, to see what happens with the Ukrainian refugee crisis.
Wouldn't be surprised if all of a sudden we see some immigration restrictionism from the Democrats About why we shouldn't let these ukrainians in and how they're actually really privileged.
Uh, this debate is already starting in europe Where countries like poland are obviously opening their borders up to the fleeing ukrainians And a number of journalists have a lot of problems with that because they weren't so willing to take in infinity muslims Five six years ago after we blew up libya but It's there was a lot of Stuff under the surface about race, about crime, about a lot of the issues that we care about.
But I think it was covered up with enough, you know, syrupy sweet stuff about American unity in the free world.
And you have to be living in a bubble and kind of living in the past to believe this stuff.
But I think the people that he's trying to win the votes of are Living in a bubble and living in the past.
And if they aren't confronted with the direct costs of progressive government, maybe they'll forget about it.
I mean, right now, the main thing that people are going to have to deal with, which I don't think President Biden has any escape from, is simply the economic problems.
And he said, oh, I get it when it comes to inflation.
That was a quote, you know, basically along the lines of, I feel your pain, as Clinton would have said.
Right.
But and he vaguely kind of hand waved like, oh, Approve my Federal Reserve nominees and that will stop inflation Well, I mean what the Fed is going to do over the next few months is pretty set in stone I mean, I think we all know interest rate hikes are coming but and that doesn't matter who's in charge that's gonna happen, but that's not gonna change the problem of Americans wage increases are not keeping pace with inflation and Him saying that he gets it doesn't change things and he said well I have a better plan
You know, instead of, we have a choice.
One way to fight inflation is to drive down wages and make Americans poor.
I think I have a better idea to fight inflation.
Lower your costs, not your wages.
Well, that's just great.
I mean, why not just wave your hand and say, why don't I just make everyone a millionaire by sending everyone a check?
I mean, you can't, the wages are a part of the cost.
I mean, we have a very tight Labor market, which is one of the few things workers have going for them right now.
But of course, the Biden administration is going to undermine that by increasing immigration.
And the Republicans clearly want to increase legal immigration.
Even President Trump said that during his CPAC speech about how his wall would have a gate for legal immigrants and everything else.
So you're going to reduce wages if you loosen up the labor market.
Nobody seems to be talking about that.
It just seems to have faded entirely as an issue.
And as far as the supply chain disruptions, there are no answers for that.
And frankly, a lot of what the Biden administration is doing is going to make things a lot harder for everyday Americans.
And I think that's going to fuel a lot of the political and cultural war radicalism that we see.
I mean, the one big culture war thing that he said last night, was when he was talking about transgender children and how the president will have their back and everything else.
Now, again, this kind of shows how quickly things can be mainstreamed, where I think 10 years ago, your average progressive suburban housewife or whatever would have considered this an abomination.
Whereas now, You know, they're out there flying the flag with 20 million stripes and whatever it gets changed to next week.
I think maybe President Biden is miscalculating in terms of getting out in front of this issue, but maybe not.
I mean, this is one of those feel good issues for, I think, a lot of those those voters who want to just be seen as doing the right thing.
And they're not.
They may not really like where this ends up.
Uh, the full logical conclusions of, of these policies, the ends of women's sports, for example, the end of really the distinction between men and women.
But as long as we don't have to think about it too hard, I think the president might be able to get away with it.
And I think the Republicans are really shooting themselves in the foot because you have a time when ordinary Americans are besieged by cultural leftism.
They are frustrated by cancel culture.
They're frustrated by corporations seemingly dominating what they are and are not allowed to say.
They're angry at journalists for treating them with hatred and contempt.
They're angry for what their governments did to them in the name of COVID only to just hand wave it away and say that either never happened or it didn't matter.
And what is the Republican response to all this?
We need to increase legal immigration and we need to be more militant when it comes to foreign policy.
I mean, again, we're in this situation where everybody's unhappy, but at the same time, everybody's still more or less following the official line and there's no real opposition, at least not within the two-party system.
Well, I mean, in terms of the midterms, in terms of the midterms, sorry for the redundancy, everybody, I do not think the midterms will be decided by American foreign policy in regards to Ukraine.
I have no idea what the status of that conflict is going to be like by November, but it's basically impossible that America actually sends literal soldiers into that conflict zone, regardless of how many weapons and how much hardware we send.
I just have a really hard time imagining That, you know, Texas's 28th congressional district, the fate of it is going to be decided by what the various candidates have to say about Ukraine.
This just seems really, really, really unlikely.
I mean, all of these races are going to be decided on these culture war issues and economic issues.
And in regards to those, you know, for all the COVID stuff, it's impossible to know.
What mandates will be in place, and which ones won't, and where by November?
And same with inflation.
I mean, I'm not a blogger for lubrockwell.com.
I'm not going to pretend to know exactly what the rate is going to be within a couple of months, and I'm certainly not going to predict some sort of massive economic collapse.
I'm not going to predict an economic collapse.
I'm going to predict that inflation is going to continue to outpace wage growth.
Yeah.
And I'm certainly going to predict that energy costs are going to remain extremely high, which is going to be one of the big, I mean, that is the main thing that's driving inflation for a lot of this stuff.
And again, one of the things President Biden talked about last night was how increasing automobile costs were responsible for, I think, up to like a third of how they calculated inflation.
His response is, OK, well, we need to have factories in America.
Well, that's great.
But I mean, the reason we can't have factories in America is because of a lot of the regulations, including, of course, the diversity regulations and workplace regulations that are in place.
I mean, again, Tesla, which was unmentioned last night, even though it's the number one electric vehicle company, is currently being investigated by the Department of Justice for racism.
And they fled California.
For Texas, because they couldn't deal with the regulations in California.
Well, when Texas goes blue, if immigration waves continue, you're just going to have the same place.
And we can't just keep, you know, retreating from state to state until we all end up in Utah, especially when Mitt Romney is not going to do much to defend against the tide of the way things are.
I mean, there just seems to be an air of of unreality to American policy right now.
I mean, I want to quote something that President Biden said about COVID, where he said, we will continue vaccinating the world.
We have sent however many million vaccine doses to however many countries, more than any nation on earth.
Quote, we won't stop.
We cannot build a wall high enough to keep out a vaccine.
I don't even know what he meant by that.
The vaccine.
Maybe he meant virus, but.
Of course, you know, we could build a wall to keep out a virus, which is what a lot of these other countries were doing when they were restricting travel, but never mind.
The vaccine can stop the spread of these diseases.
Well, OK, but that's not really true anymore.
I mean, I think that the science, quote unquote, more or less concedes at this point that the vaccine may somewhat slow down transmission, but it's not going to prevent it.
It just makes the symptoms not as bad.
I believe that's the current line.
Who knows what it will be a week from now.
We have lost so much to COVID-19.
Time with one another.
Worst of all, so much loss of life.
Let's use this moment to reset.
Well, you just don't get to do that after what he said about the American people and what they've imposed on us over the last few years.
I mean, it seems like the leadership of the Democratic Party is looking at these Americans who At this point, really, because the Republicans have no real agenda, because President Trump has essentially been completely de-platformed, I don't think Truth Social is going to turn it all around somehow, his new social media network or whatever.
But again, I mean, that's another indication of how even the so-called hard right just doesn't want to deal with the problem.
I mean, we have big tech de-platforming, we have these corporations controlling things.
What do we do?
We'll complain about cancel culture for Joe Rogan, who of course endorsed Bernie Sanders, and we'll start another social media company that's reliant on the same big data and cloud processing that everything else is.
So it can be cut off just as easily.
So this isn't a solution at all.
And really all the Republicans have going for them is frustration with the way things are and President Biden essentially said, well, I know things are bad, but it's not really my fault.
And we should all kind of unite around me and I'll lead you out of this.
But he's been the one insulting the rest of us since he started running for office.
I mean, notice that this, this president began his campaign by invoking Charlottesville.
Like that was the reason that was why he said he had to run.
You didn't hear anything.
About race last night.
You didn't hear anything about immigration besides kind of a hand-waving like, oh, of course, we'll secure the border and fix our broken immigration system, which can mean whatever you want it to mean.
I mean, absolutely anything you want.
Yeah.
And I can I'd like to fix our broken immigration system, too.
It's just, you know, what I think that would mean is probably very different than what the president thinks.
And then, of course, they said that President Biden said that we need to get rid of Or we need to impose more gun control.
And one of the big things he said is, I will do everything in my power to crack down on gun trafficking of ghost guns that you can buy online, assemble at home.
No serial numbers cannot be traced.
I asked Congress to pass proven measures to reduce gun violence, pass universal background checks.
Again, none of this is going to make a difference in terms of the crime land.
Yeah.
The only time I can think of a ghost gun being used recently was a few years ago when that Antifa guy tried to shoot up that ICE station.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
It was a ghost gun.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Okay.
Yeah.
Well, of course not, because, you know, how quickly, when you see the shooting with a ghost gun, it's like, why isn't this dominating every news station?
And then you find out who the shooter was and his motivation, and it's like, oh, okay.
You know, within a week the story never existed.
Right, but the idea that average street crime is being committed using ghost cuts.
Right, right.
It's just ludicrous.
The Bloods and the Crips are using 3D printers to get their stuff.
Yeah, they're on the dark web to buy weapons.
Right.
They don't have access to weapons anyway.
And it's the same thing when you look at gun control measures in places like Mexico.
Where you have essentially entire, yeah, entire communities just completely dominated by criminal organizations and they have on paper, very strict gun control.
It doesn't make a difference, but you better believe the government is going to crack down on those people that can crack down on.
And I think what's really the most horrifying thing about this is that white Americans seem to be just sort of sleepwalking towards their extinction.
But now, There's a sense of inevitability that I don't think was there a few years ago, and that it really has to be our job to speak up against and create an alternative to.
Because right now, they're not even being given the pretense of hope from either the Democrats or the Republicans.
I mean, at least a couple years ago, and even when President Biden started his run for office, the Democrats were at least Talking about big ideas that were stupid ideas, but at least they were big ideas You know, we're going to we're gonna reduce class inequality.
We're gonna end racism.
We're gonna stop police Misconduct we're gonna transform America.
We're gonna reorient everything toward this egalitarian culture and now that things have not worked out the way that they said they would we're just gonna kind of pretend that never happened and They're going to consolidate their cultural gains, but as far as the excesses, they're just going to pretend they never said any of this stuff.
And the Republicans seem inclined to just let them get away with that and expect to win simply by default.
Now, maybe that'll be enough considering how many Democrats are retiring going into the midterms.
But I mean, we have to consider the possibility that from our point of view, from the point of view of confronting political correctness, mass immigration, All sorts of racial legislation in terms of freedom of speech, freedom of assembly.
Certainly a lot of the culture wars in terms of monuments and in terms of American identity and the really existential questions of whether we're going to be a nation at all and what that'll look like.
The Republicans just don't seem to be giving any alternative whatsoever.
And there is a sort of cultural populism I guess that was best exemplified by, I think, who was it?
Laurie Boebert, who screamed out that President Biden, notice he didn't mention Afghanistan.
She screamed out that 13 Americans had died during the evacuation of Afghanistan.
But people complained about that.
I mean, all of a sudden, the norms of being respectful of the commander in chief, all that stuff that Was out the window when President Trump was in charge now, we're back to that now it's it's a real shame if somebody says something during the State of the Union or you make a mean face or something while the president's talking but Again, Afghanistan.
I mean this was America's longest war who can even count the human cost and how much money was wasted and how many people were killed over in Afghanistan itself and The disaster that we're dealing with, the refugees and the crimes that have already been committed by them, and nobody knows where half these people are.
None of that exists anymore.
No one has been held accountable.
There will be no hearings on what happened in Afghanistan.
There will be no resignations.
And the best you're going to get is a pretty marginal congresswoman screaming out about 13 Americans who died.
You know, it's sort of like Benghazi, where that was something that became a niche interest of American conservatives.
And as far as the mass public, nobody cared.
Yeah, well, I'll say a few things about this one.
I mean, I'm aware of the left wing hypocrisy regarding, you know, respecting decorum and how that wasn't in play during Trump's, but it's
in play now.
Now that hypocrisy is true and it's, and it's vile, but I don't think this Congresswoman
should have interrupted the president's speech.
I do think that that was inappropriate.
And just like with Benghazi, it's so strange to me that Republicans talk about, you know,
these relatively small number of Americans who, who died in Benghazi and in the withdrawal
from Afghanistan, you know, relative to the much, much higher number of Americans who
died during the actual war in Afghanistan and, you know, the invasion and occupation
of Iraq.
So it's not this weird, this weird thing.
I mean, that drove me crazy during the Obama years, this Republican obsession that, like, the blood of Benghazi was on Obama's hands.
It's like, well, I guess that means that George W. Bush has way more blood.
on his hands.
I mean, it's kind of the same thing with this withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Listen, I'm not happy that 13 Americans died.
Obviously, it's, you know, it's sad.
I wish the number had been zero, but you know, so what?
More than 13 would have died if we had stayed.
Right.
It's like, so to avoid those deaths, we should have stayed longer and just continue to rack up deaths in this pointless occupation.
It's just such a strange, it's just such a strange thing.
Well, I guess, there's no right thought on any of this.
It's like Condoleezza Race was on Fox saying that what Russia was doing was a war crime
because she indicated a sovereign nation.
You know, and it's like, there's just no self-awareness of so many of these Republicans.
And I'm just, I'm not impressed with these, with these niche talking points.
I mean, especially it's like, okay, so we're mad at Obama for the death toll of withdrawing from Afghanistan, or excuse me, we're mad at Biden for that death toll, but we're also mad at Biden for not doing more to stop Russia and Ukraine.
It's like, well, what's the death toll of that going to freaking be?
Even the populist right couldn't seem to get its act together.
We're be mocking President Biden because he was predicting that they were going to invade and Russia obviously wasn't going to invade.
And then when they did invade, then they jumped down his throat for not preventing the invasion.
Is the problem that we're not being militant enough against Russia or that we're being too militant?
I mean, it's just sort of this reactionary.
Whatever he's doing is bad, but there's no counter.
There's no vision for what American foreign policy should look like in the world.
The best we can come up with is just this tired rhetoric of the free world against autocracy, which I'm sorry, just makes me want to vomit.
When you look at what the countries of the so-called Western world, what we should really call the post-Western world, and they said that they're fighting for a lead of freedom and liberty and all these other just cheap slogans that mean absolutely nothing.
In terms of what you are and are not allowed to do in terms of whether you are or are not free.
And it's what's worse is that the repression that's coming is being justified in the name of fighting autocracy.
I mean, again, it's it's I hate using the word Orwellian, but you just keep going back.
You just keep going back to it because no other word quite captures it where they say, I mean, even today.
Powell, Chairman of the Fed, is talking about how Congress needs to do more for cryptocurrency usage because obviously this is used for criminal stuff and therefore we need to control it.
And you're just going to see a lot more of a push for digital only currency.
You're going to see a lot more of a push for, and again, last night was the first State of the Union where social media was mentioned by the President and it was mentioned In terms of social media's war on our children, I believe that was the phrase that he used.
Now, I would agree that social media has had an incredibly warped effect on children and their development.
And I would say that's particularly true when we look at some of the, how to phrase this, more colorful forms of sexual identification.
That had been newly invented over the last few years.
I think a lot of that comes from that sort of echo chamber that comes with social media and the need for attention and everything else.
But that's not what President Biden's talking about.
What he's talking about is body image issues.
What he's talking about is people getting misinformation.
What he's talking about You know, for the last few months, when the Surgeon General was saying, we need to restrict COVID, we need to make sure there's no COVID misinformation on social media.
All of this is about the government getting more control about what you could say online.
And this is being justified in the name of freedom.
Yeah.
To be free, to be democratic, you have to have only this certain information given to you, because otherwise you might vote the wrong way.
And if you vote the wrong way, that's an attack on democracy. Like the very premise of
democracy, the idea that people are capable of making up their own minds, we've thrown that
out the window, but we're still keeping the ritualistic form of going to the voting booth
and pushing a button.
Yeah, sorry, go ahead.
No, I just think we've lost we've lost what's actually important.
I mean democracy and freedom are not the same thing I mean, this is like neo reaction 101, but now we're we've gotten beyond that what we're saying the the argument seems to be It wasn't long ago When the protests were going on in Canada where they were saying freedom itself is an alt-right code word now they sort of rehabilitated it because of the Ukraine war but The idea that people are doing things unsupervised, the idea that people are having discussions where there aren't reporters looking over their shoulder, the idea that there were secret groups on Facebook where people could talk, the idea that any kind of organization that could exist without some sort of official supervision, either by media or government or big tech or all of the above, was seen as somehow autocratic.
When, in essence, you would think that it's the opposite of autocracy.
It's citizen organization.
It's being able to do things for yourself.
That seems to be something that is considered dangerous now.
And, you know, lest we not forget, we are going to see a big push for immigration amnesty, even if the Republicans do retake Congress.
And I'm going to quote here from what President Biden said last night.
He gave a bunch of stuff about, oh, we're screening and securing commitments and supporting partners in South and Central America to host more refugees and secure their own borders.
Now, again, why do you even say that if immigration is such a blessing, if diversity is our strength?
Yeah.
Why do we want these guys?
Yeah.
I mean, isn't that actually a bad thing if they keep their own citizens?
Like, shouldn't it be like trying to bring them here to We're weakening ourselves by not bringing these people, right?
I mean, that's the logic.
And then, of course, he had this sloppy, just eye-rolling rhetoric.
We can do all this while keeping lit the torch of liberty.
Yeah, what liberty?
That has led to generations of immigrants to this land.
My forebears and many of yours provide a pathway to citizenship for dreamers, i.e.
illegals.
That, of course, gets interrupted by the 20 million standing ovations.
For those on temporary status, farm workers and the central workers revise our laws so businesses have the workers they need and families don't wait decades to reunite.
I mean, I pause here that family reunification policy is at the root of many of our problems.
I mean, fix our broken immigration system would start by ending family reunification and scrapping birthright citizenship.
If you don't do those things, you're always going to have this problem.
Yeah.
But he continues, it is not only the right thing to do, it's the economically smart thing to do.
And here's where we get the, oh, lower your costs, not your wages.
That is why immigration reform.
And this is a quote.
That is why immigration reform is supported by everyone from labor unions to religious leaders to the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce.
Let's get it done once and for all.
Applause.
Well, you know what?
I can guarantee that if something is supported by everyone from labor unions to religious leaders to the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce, it's probably a really stupid idea.
And it's really going to hurt the American people.
And the people advocating it probably know that.
And that's why they're advocating it.
Look, I mean, do you think the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce is advocating this because it's going to increase wages?
Is that what we're supposed to believe?
Do you think labor unions are doing this because they care about how their supposed members are doing?
No, it's because it increases a sense of grievance.
It allows them to increase their membership.
But of course, it's not going to do anything from wages.
I mean, if the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce and labor unions are both agreeing on something, you're being fooled.
And, oh, religious leaders.
Well, you know, how quickly religion goes from, we need to have a strict barrier between the government and religion, and religion shouldn't have any interference with the government, and you shouldn't bring your religious values into this.
But, man, you bring out one of these, you know, mainline Protestant denominations with Clergy that haven't believed in the supernatural in three generations and they mutter something about immigration reform and boy God is right back at the center of politics But we got to be careful because I despite the polls.
That's so immigration is a top concern of Republican voters Republican congressmen are very eager to increase legal immigration and they'd be quite willing to go along with some sort of amnesty and If the Chamber of Commerce will give them donations and they can somehow blame it on the Democrats, so their voters, you know, Oh, President Biden pushed this amnesty, but he also promised to complete the wall.
And therefore I voted for this thing.
The wall doesn't mean very much.
It's the legal structure behind it that allows people to stay here when they can't like that's the big problem.
And again, president Trump's 2016 immigration platform, Had he moved on any of that we wouldn't have this problem right now, but he didn't until somebody does it's The problem doesn't get solved.
It just gets worse and worse and worse until the historic American nation is essentially replaced and All this becomes somewhat academic It's kind of funny that right after he quoted the The need to pass immigration reform because religious leaders say so.
That was immediately followed by talking about how much he loves abortion.
Well, and interestingly, when he started talking about all the oppression trans children face, he brought up that we need to let them reach their God-given potential, like the God-given potential of trans minors was invoked, which is an amazing example of the way so many of these centrist Democrats manage to sort of merge their weird kind of quasi-centrism with radicalism, right, where he wants to defend trans kids while simultaneously invokes, you know, God to do so, which presumably not a whole lot of trans kids are asking for God's help with.
And certainly not a lot of the organizations dedicated to defending, in quotes, trans kids.
They're not really a religious bunch.
But there you have it.
President Obama famously said that he thanked God every day for Planned Parenthood.
There's that same sort of thing, where it's like, well, Planned Parenthood doesn't thank God every day for itself, you know?
Yeah, I mean... There is this, you know, these centrist Democrats do have this amazing ability to kind of smush these opposites together.
It's... I don't know.
Well, I think that's how people operate.
I think the average person, even us, even everybody, I think this is just part of the human condition.
It would be completely exhausting if you tried to live in a logically consistent way.
Right.
I think you should try to.
That's the goal.
But I think most people, particularly people who don't really have much of a coherent worldview or spiritual basis, are quite capable of living with a great deal of doublethink.
And the way God is invoked to support causes that are not just blasphemous, but would be considered, you know, antichrist to any clergyman a hundred years ago, I think people are quite able to reconcile that within their own minds.
Apparently so.
But there's, you know, there are even bigger contradictions there, too, where, I mean, just one thing, and pausing, where they say, oh, well, God says this, God says that, and I often feel like I'm a better defender of religious conservatives than religious conservatism.
Conservatives themselves, where it's just, well, what do you know about God?
Joe Biden, President Obama, you know, trans-affirming Protestant clergymen or whatever.
What God are you talking about?
I mean, are you talking about the Bible?
Are you talking about the way Christianity was practiced?
Are you talking about the church fathers?
Like, what specifically are you citing?
That says God supports what you're doing right now because you can say because there's no this is not a confessional state like you can say whatever position you want on trans stuff but when you cloak yourself in spiritualism and say that you're a minister that you have divine mandate for what you're doing you got to be able to back it up with something and they don't I mean it's like Martin Luther King lecturing us on family policy, like, oh, OK, I know he calls himself a reverend, but he doesn't exactly act like one.
And fine.
I mean, whatever his positions were on race and whatever his positions were on on socialism and everything else, that's fine.
But when you start saying it's because God commands it and you actually don't believe in God, According to his writings in terms of Jesus being the son of God and everything else.
And when you don't actually practice any of what you believe in, in terms of family policy or anything else, considering his marital behavior, you don't get to claim this as a cloak for why we should pursue your policies.
And the bigger contradiction, I think, is when they say the straight face.
I mean, look, taken as a given, yes, there is such a thing as People being born where they have a deep-seated sense that they are the wrong sex Like that is a medical condition.
It is vanishingly rare, but it is it is a thing but now that it's becoming Almost fashionable and now that we have empirical evidence where you can track how this stuff is promoted online and And then you see increases in the rates of transgenderism or homosexuality and everything else.
Things which we were told all along were genetic and it's offensive to suggest otherwise.
Right.
The idea that an adult has to be protected, you know, your grandmother has to be protected from what she might see on her Facebook feed because otherwise she might believe in QAnon or she might like raise questions about the 2020 election and we can't have that.
Because that's treason and Russia and whatever else.
People need to be protected from misinformation.
Adults need to be protected from misinformation.
Everything has to be very carefully cultivated.
But if a six-year-old thinks that he or she is the wrong sex, not only does that six-year-old have the wisdom to make this life-changing choice, but in fact, in the public schools, we will actually hide What this child is saying from the parents and affirm it and use the pronouns and do whatever it is we got to do and tell them that this is good and heroic and brave because you can make these kinds of choices when you're six years old, but you can't make intelligent choices about how people should be governed or what you want to believe about foreign policy or electoral reform or race or medicine or any of these things when you're 40 years old.
Like, that's the state of American democracy.
And if you think about this stuff in any kind of coherent way, obviously it falls apart really, really fast.
But how can you do that?
Because the information just keeps getting shot at you like a fire hose getting shot at a teacup.
I mean, there's just no way for people to process what's happening.
Really, ever since I think President Trump Yeah, I think there was a big shift in how they see themselves after Trump won.
I think journalists and tech CEOs sort of regard their job almost as a kind of informational
counterinsurgency.
Yeah, I think they have to.
There was a big shift in how they see themselves after Trump won.
Yeah, I think that's I think that's true.
I mean, when you see like CNN going into a rural community and speaking to protesters
and stuff and trying to correct them and treating them with this contempt, I mean, it is like
an occupational force and it's an occupational force.
That's ultimately More insidious and more destructive than even guys with guns because guys with guns leave eventually but when you've got the power to to force people to renounce what they believe or else you're gonna put pressure on them and When you have people dragging in families when I mean to me the the greatest case was when CNN doxed like some random woman in the middle of nowhere who had administered like a Facebook page that I guess they connected with the Russians without her knowledge and they were knocking on the door and screaming questions about what she felt about this that at the other thing and that that was seen as extreme now but
Seen as extreme then but now it's typical and It's incredible to me that with the state of the Union you you still have this radicalism in terms of what he's truly pushing for with immigration policy where you have a direct call for amnesty where you have a direct call for Increased immigration because the Chamber of Commerce and religious leaders and labor unions say so but Because it's smoothed over with some talk about border security and because some far-left progressives throw a tantrum on Twitter That allows them to position it as moderate and they get away with it because you know Who's gonna push back against it Tucker Carlson?
That's it and how much who knows how much longer he'll be allowed on the air Yeah, well, I mean that's a whole lot of job options if he ever gets yanked from the air, you know, I I mean, the foreign policy thing may be what they use to get them off eventually.
I mean, there is, I think, a lot of confusion among Americans where they may not like what, you know, politics stops at the water's edge.
And so they may not like what their government is doing to them at home, but whatever their government says regarding foreign affairs, there's always going to be this kind of rally around the flag effect.
And I think President Biden may be counting on that to give him at least a puncher's chance in the midterms.
And the Republicans' counter to that is to be even more militant.
So this could get out of control pretty quickly.
I think where this leaves us is we really do have to take a position that, as Jared Taylor put it, I mean, the biggest anti-white I'm not saying that people shouldn't pay their taxes or obey the law or any of the kind of stuff, but you do need to operate with the consciousness that you're a stateless people.
You do need to operate that you're part of a people that is still lacking any kind of political, any kind of political representation or political expression.
And you have to start building that from the ground up, not just metapolitically and in terms of ideas and everything else, but in real practical terms, in terms of getting together, in terms of building skills, in terms of being able to survive collectively, because things are going to get, I don't think things are going to collapse or you're going to get any of these apocalyptic scenarios, but things are just going to get a little bit harder every year in terms of cost of living, in terms of services you're able to count on.
And in terms of things that you can no longer count on.
I mean, I think three years ago, most Americans could comfortably assume that if you sent your kids to public school, at least they weren't being indoctrinated with complete nonsense.
But now, liberals of TikTok, which was briefly taken down off Twitter and then was restored, I think that has given us a very interesting look at the mindset of many of our public school teachers.
I think that some of the red pills that public school teachers have sent in to American Renaissance have also been a very interesting and detailed and disturbing look at the way educational institutions function in our country right now.
It's a really incredible experiment.
The educational institutions paid for by the government basically teaching subversion and self-hatred.
It'll be interesting to see how that plays out in the long term.
Yeah, well, I mean, ultimately, guys, if you're hearing this, we are on our own.
And if you were watching the State of the Union and then you watch the Republican response and you just felt this sense of cynicism and even a bit of despair and disconnectedness, that's not necessarily a bad thing.
That's that's where it has to start.
It just can't end there.
You do have to think to yourself, okay, what's the next step?
Because this is the world you're living in.
This is what the people with power want for you.
And it's just a question of whether you're going to tolerate it or not.
If you're not going to tolerate it, there are things you can do.
There are things you can do right now.
These are some of the things we talked about in my speech at the American Wrestling Conference.
There's things we've talked about on this podcast or things we talk about on the website all the time.
But the very first thing is you can't get too Committed to identifying with one party or the other or with the Potomac regime.
It's just Something you got to live with it's it's something that's there that we have to deal with like weather but it's not something that I think is worth getting to emotionally attached to one way or the other and I for one am not particularly excited or worried about whether or not The Republican Party wins the midterm elections because frankly, I don't expect much to change if there is going to be a change It's going to come from people like us not from some Republican senator No Well, it's probably a solid note to end on huh?
Yeah, and you know, I want to keep people keep that fire of resistance alive because On we and boredom and Alienation these are weapons just as surely as physical force are and You can't just give in to that.
I mean this has to be the disconnection has to be followed up with resolve.
Otherwise We're just going to continue along that path of decline and if we're willing to tolerate that then Unfortunately, we're gonna deserve what we get All right, everybody.
We'll see you next week.
Keep fighting guys.
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