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July 2, 2024 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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Everyone, welcome to View from the Right.
I'm Gregory Hood.
I'm here as always with Paul Kersey.
And today we are going to be discussing quite a number of topics, but one of the most important being the, I can't even think about losing my composure, the incredible debate, if you can even call it that, between President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden.
And a lot of people are saying that may be the end of the Biden campaign.
I think that's a bit overstated, but not terribly overstated.
What do you think, Paul?
Wow.
The end of the Biden campaign.
Well, just the reaction after the debate.
Of course, the debate took place on Thursday.
I guess that was, what, the 27th of June?
And, you know, there's going to be one more debate, apparently.
Ostensibly, there'll be one more debate.
I had to actually put out a tweet before it happened because I didn't know how to watch it.
You know, I've cut the cord.
So I was like, I guess it's going to be the internet, maybe Twitter, you know, I'll stream it on YouTube.
And I watched the first about 10 minutes and it was so uncomfortable.
It was, I'm trying to, I can't even describe to you the feelings I had because you're watching in real time, the elites lies collapse before your own eyes.
This idea that this guy has been healthy at all during his presidency and that he's not just a figurehead.
It all came crashing down.
And I think the reaction.
Yeah, yeah.
The reaction is always more important than the story itself.
I mean, this is this is the key is because none of us really care that much about Biden as a person.
And I'm probably more skeptical of Trump than most people in our sphere.
And we can't endorse anybody on this anyway.
And I'm more forgiving, I think, than I guess you are of people who are like, well, I'm just not going to vote for Trump because nothing will change.
Like, I at least get that.
And so I'm not going to, like, freak out about it.
And I, you know, didn't really care too much.
I wasn't happy about it, but I didn't, like, lose my mind when Trump lost in 2020 or said that they lost, whatever you want to say.
But we've all known that Biden is just the front man for bigger forces, but we don't live in the liberal cinematic universe.
And in the liberal cinematic universe, you have to believe like you actually have to believe.
That he's this caring, compassionate leader, a decent man who woke up and decided to run for president, even though he didn't really want to because of Charlottesville, because Trump called Nazis very fine people.
And he stood up and he's been standing up to Putin and he's been doing all this all along.
And just a few months ago, you had Joe Scarborough saying Joe Biden is smarter than ever.
He's more on the ball than ever.
Anyone who says otherwise is a conspiracy theorist.
And then like the next day.
He's, oh yeah, if you were a CEO, you wouldn't keep this guy in this position.
Like, there's no way.
There's no way that he's got the composure to do this job.
There's no way that he's got the mental acuity to do this job.
And there's not even the acknowledgement that he ever changed his mind.
And there never will be.
And a lot of people are, and I flirted with this a little bit, a lot of people are saying, well, this is clearly a hit.
A political coup because they're going to remove them and they're going to put somebody else in there.
But the more I think about it, the more I really, this, I mean, I'm generally one who goes with malice more than incompetence as an explanation.
But I actually think incompetence is the explanation here.
You know, I'm looking at the Georgia report right now, a site that I haven't even looked at in years.
Oh God, yeah.
It's got a whole, it's a picture of Joe Biden with his aviators on his Ray-Bans.
And he's not licking an ice cream cone, though he probably should be, because it would be like a scene out of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, as you're hoping that the Jack Nicholson character can somehow escape the Usain Asylum.
In reality, we're all trying to escape the Usain Asylum of America.
And the poll shows that 72% want Joe Biden out.
I mean, it's amazing to see the retcon of this Biden presidency, because it's been a disaster since day one.
You know, before we came on air, We kind of did a little storyboard in and I was joking about one of Pat Buchanan's last columns before he retired his pen was pointing out that Joe Biden basically was not campaigning in 2020.
He was hiding out in his basement calling it a landing.
That's right.
That's why a lot of people thought Trump would pull it out.
Exactly.
Exactly.
You had the law and order.
You have to go back and there's so much about 2020 that I think, you know, there are a few people who think about this stuff as much as, and I'm not trying to Say like, oh my gosh, you know, we're better or anything.
Like, we just immerse ourselves in this world a lot more than other people.
And there's a lot of what happened in 2020 that needs to be put into a book.
You know, the world, you know, post-George Floyd America.
Like, what actually, what all we lost.
And you know, Trump was trying to fight back.
You know, he got COVID.
Remember when Trump gets COVID and it was terrible?
Like, he came out and did this very, He looked terrible, but he came out, I think on the White House.
On the balcony, right?
And of course, everybody was, all the reporters were making fun of him.
You had the people just like screaming for his death on social media and everything else.
At the same time, Biden is not campaigning.
Trump's going out there giving, giving, he's campaigning nonstop, even though he's, he's faced with basically a situation after the attack in the White House at the end of May, when the Joint Chiefs of Staff basically told him, We're not going to follow your orders.
And because he wanted to do the Insurrection Act, according to a number of books and what Stephen Miller was trying to fight for against Milley.
And so the country, something happened during that time period.
And Biden is just hiding out in his basement.
He doesn't have to campaign because the media is 110 percent lockstep for him because Orange man's tweets were bad and we can't allow this guy to come into the office.
You know, that's the same time where Time Magazine published the article where they're bragging about how they've used social media and the algorithm on Google to basically make it so that Biden was going to be victorious.
And we know what happened with the laptop story that was spiked and all of the all of our, you know, Uh, CIA assets and, uh, foreign, foreign lobbyists who basically said, Oh no, no, no, no, no.
The Russia collusion is real.
The Hunter Biden laptop is fake and, and all this stuff.
We, we know a lot of shenanigans.
We're not even talking about the election, but what we saw Mr. Kirkpatrick, Mr. Hood, Kevin, whatever you want to be called your, your, your Hydra.
All of the above.
What we saw on June 27th was the, the, the liberal cinematic universe.
Jump the shark in a way that I don't think we can understand or average get.
Like they, you saw it in real time happening where this guy couldn't, couldn't, he couldn't put a sentence.
Yeah.
And what was great about it was people are acting like Trump just kind of stood there and won by default.
And yeah, he did win by default.
I mean, that was obviously the larger takeaway.
But he was still on the ball.
I mean, he was very quick with a lot of these responses.
Biden makes that verbal flub where he says, like, whoa, we beat we beat Medicare and Trump just instantly like, yeah, he did beat Medicare.
He beat it to death.
And with the border where he says, all you had to do was do nothing.
All you had to do was leave it the way it is.
The way that when Biden, and I actually give Trump a lot of credit for this, when Biden went on that weird tangent about Trump going to the funeral of somebody who was killed by an illegal immigrant and then Biden just starts rambling about people being raped by their parents and their in-laws and stuff.
And you could tell Trump was thinking about some of the rumors, especially on social media, Biden and stuff, and you could tell that it was ticking in
his head, like, should I say something?
He's like, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Where he actually restrains himself.
And he, every once in a while, he would do these little double takes toward Biden and
then do like a knowing look at the camera.
Like are you watching what I'm watching?
But the key is that he understands.
I mean, he's been doing this for a while.
I mean, in 2015, he was not a politician.
He is a politician now, for better or worse.
Donald Trump is a politician.
That is what he is.
And he's not a TV host.
He's not a real estate developer.
He's a politician.
And he understands the political game, I think, a little bit better.
And he understands that if he just jumped down his throat, the coverage the next day would be like, oh, he was mean.
he was bullying him because we have this like very feminine, therapeutic culture in the way we talk
about what should be serious issues. But he understands that and he just let Biden drown.
I mean, he let him sink himself. He showed restraint. He showed composure. He looked
presidential. He looked on the ball. I thought he did a really good job.
And there were a lot of answers that I personally, you know, cringe that from a political level or that I disagree.
Trump's answers, I mean, that I might have disagreed with ideologically.
But just from a political point of view, I'm not sure he could have done much better.
There's no there's no question that Mr. Trump was restrained in a manner where he realized when you See your opponent fumble the ball on the initial kickoff of a football game and your team returns it for a touchdown.
You're already up 7-0.
And then on the next play, the quarterback fumbles the snap and your defense recovers it and scores a touchdown.
If the team is going to keep making turnover after turnover, why try and do anything else except just exploit the situation, just sit back and watch the self-destruction take place?
And that's what occurred.
And Trump, like you said, there were moments where you're looking at him and you had to split screen.
You're wondering, my God, this is like Jim in The Office.
He's staring at the camera because he gets the inside joke and he's looking at the audience.
Trump did that a couple times, and he didn't need to do anything.
You know, the one thing that Trump, I wish he would have done, was remember the girl's name that he went to the funeral, who was killed by the illegal alien?
Again, they allowed the word migrant to be used in replace of illegal alien.
He needs to go back and just hammer on that.
And one of the things that really blew my mind, Mr. Hood, Was when CNN did the initial question on immigration, and I think it was Jake Taper who basically said, the border is a disaster, there are millions of people crossing, this is all on your watch, what do you say to that?
And just the framing of the question, I remember sitting there thinking, that's gonna be an ad right there, CNN just admitted that the crisis is- Yeah, yeah, I mean- And Biden didn't know what to say!
No, no, no, he didn't, and what made it really unforgivable was that Biden spent about a week supposedly in preparation.
Now it's clear to me that Trump actually did prepare for this one as opposed to in 2015 where he was just winging it or at least reportedly just winging it.
You could tell with like some of his comebacks about January 6th and stuff.
I mean clearly there were some, they were good, but they were canned lines.
With Biden, He obviously prepared because you could see him reaching for something in his brain, but it just wasn't there.
He just couldn't bring it back.
But I think the immigration thing honestly caught him off guard, that I think he thought that he would just never be asked about it or be asked about it in a friendlier way.
And so he just didn't know what to say.
And what made this really remarkable was that CNN basically had it set up in such a way
that the smart money was going in, that it was basically rigged for Biden, that they
were going to have this time delay.
It wasn't even really going to be a live debate.
You were going to mute mics so you couldn't interrupt, which obviously everybody thought
would favor Biden because Trump wouldn't be able to just jump in.
You wouldn't have an audience, so you couldn't have Trump feeding off the audience the way
he did in 2015, 2016.
But instead, the format practically doomed Biden because without an audience, without
the back and forth, back and forth between the candidates, back and forth between the
candidates and the moderators, the focus was just on the candidates themselves and the
expression and just these long, painful silences where you're staring into the face of this
guy and it's so clear that nobody is home.
And his mumbling and stuttering and he can't even get across anything.
I mean, this is one of the problems with the American system of government is that our head of state and our head of government is the same person.
So as the head of state, part of the job is just the ability to communicate effectively, even if you're not really saying anything of substance, like doing this kind of stuff is part of the job.
And Biden just can't do that job anymore.
It's funny, we're talking about that Pat Buchanan column that we just mentioned here, and I just found it.
It was actually published, you're not gonna believe the date, June 30th, 2020.
Pat Buchanan, Joe Biden's basement strategy, just say nothing.
That's incredible.
Yeah, many wishes he had done that now.
It's basically four years to the date that we're doing this podcast.
It's June 30, 2024, ladies and gentlemen, that we're doing this podcast.
And Pat Buchanan, one of his last columns he wrote was Joe Biden's basement strategy.
And he wrote this, if Biden emerges, then he will have to answer why all these institutions where his party and people are predominant are apparently shot through with systemic racism after decades of democratic dominance and more precisely what he intends to do about it.
Perhaps it's better to shelter in place in the basement.
Now, what he's talking about is obviously the summer of 2020 was when The racial reckoning took place, which I believe we've actually, we're all over now.
I think in a lot of ways, we don't even hear about George Floyd.
One of the fascinating things is Tucker Carlson just did a two-hour interview with Steve Saylor.
And Saylor, you know, very wonkish.
You and I both know him.
I like Steve an awful lot, but he's at his best when he talks about wokeness.
And he just says, stop trying to make a lot of intellectual sense of this.
It's anti-white.
Stop.
Full stop.
And I think we're at a point now where Enough people who work in corporate America, enough people who you would want to have as your neighbors, understand that the country is irrevocably—something's happened, and there has to be a dramatic shift back, or there has to be a big punchback.
And that's why I go back to what just happened with this debate, because our managerial elite have told us all along that Biden was fine, He had nothing wrong with him. There's no cognitive decline
that, oh, Trump's the one who's doing mistakes when he's on the campaign trail. We never
see his speeches anymore, but it's like, well, on the campaign trail, he muffed this and he got the
wrong name at some speech he was giving, and he got the wrong head of state. It's like, no, Trump is
still getting these massive crowds.
Biden can't even go out and campaign.
Um, you know, it's, it's, it's interesting.
I tweeted out something right away.
Like there's no way this guy can be the candidate.
There's just no way because he cannot come back out and do it.
They have to, they have to, I mean, there was a poll that I think Scott Greer tweeted out, posted whatever, where it showed, I think it was something like 45%.
Said Biden should be replaced, but a majority are still sticking with him.
And the key is, who do they replace him with?
Because people are saying, well, Gavin Newsom, including some friends of mine, are saying, you know, well, Gavin Newsom.
But the problem is, Gavin Newsom is a white male, and the Democratic nomination process is basically black caucus bosses operating out of the black churches who are mostly allowed to violate non-profit laws, and they just get away with it, you know, just because.
They're not going to sit aside.
I mean, why is Joe Biden the Democratic nominee in 2020?
Because Clyburn in South Carolina backed him at a critical moment when Biden was not doing very well and demanded a black woman and a black woman Supreme Court justice as the price.
And that's how we ended up with Kamala Harris.
And Kamala Harris, it's her turn.
She is not going to sit aside.
Kamala Harris is more unpopular than Biden.
Yeah.
The election is going to come down to the Rust Belt, and it's going to come down to white working class voters.
The Trump campaign, if you can even call it that, is doing a woeful job going after these voters.
The state parties have been gutted.
There's no infrastructure.
It's just complete incompetence up and down the line.
They're wasting all this time going after voters who are not going to vote for Trump, or at least not vote for him in any significant numbers.
And also, it doesn't matter.
The only people who matter are basically working-class voters in states like Michigan and Pennsylvania.
100% of the effort should be dedicated to these places.
But, on the flip side, for the Democrats, the only person who can win those people is Biden.
Because he can play off the union, manufacturing, oh, I'm Scranton Joe, whatever.
Biden is actually the best guy they have.
For those types of things.
Kamala Harris can't bring those people home.
Gavin Newsom certainly can't bring those people home.
And I think they're stuck with them.
It's also just too late when it comes to like ballot laws or something.
Now maybe if he just actually steps down for health reasons or or if he dies or something like that.
I mean, maybe there's some sort of a process where they can they can do something but it's then they're really stuck with Kamala Harris.
And I don't think they want Harris.
That to me is, again, we're talking here, and if you paid attention to the Sunday morning shows,
what Chris Todd has said, what the John Kings of CNN, what these, James Carville, the big names on the left,
the big names who held a lot of sway and who, let's face it.
Total panic, total panic.
Operation Mockingbird, they're all CIA assets.
You know, they've all been trained.
They all know what to do.
They all have their handlers.
The point is, I would not be surprised, and this is just me saying this, if Joe Biden abdicated.
See, I think it's just, it's too sloppy.
It's just incompetence, I think, and panic.
I think they believe I mean, I, again, am more willing to go with malice most of the time, but this is, I think the simplest explanation is best here.
I think that they really believe their own propaganda, and they believed it up to this point, and they set themselves up for a fall.
It could also be that, as some new reports have indicated, because Biden did look a lot better in the speech the next day, that he just can't speak late at night.
They were the ones who scheduled this thing.
I mean, a lot of these, the circumstances of the debate were things that Trump more or less had to agree to.
Uh, they were presented to him as like a fait accompli and it worked against them because I mean, frankly, how are you supposed to have a debate at noon?
Nobody's going to watch it.
So by, you know, Biden just can't operate late at night and Or nine o'clock whenever it was. I mean, not particularly
late and they're everyone's acting like, well, he could still do the job. It's like, well, the president of the
United States needs to work more than four hours a day. I don't know how to tell you this, but like, that's the
nature of the job. If something happens, he has to get up and make critical decisions. In fact, it's pretty likely
that if he has to wake up in the early hours of the morning, that's like the time for the most critical decisions to be
made.
Finally, I think they, this is being done in such a stupid and self-destructive and cannibalistic way in terms of what
it's doing to the Democratic Party already, that it doesn't seem like a conspiracy to me.
Or if it is a conspiracy, it's one of the most incompetent ones ever done.
I mean, you have the New York Times.
The New York Times editorial board, not just random opinion writers, but the New York Times, full stop, saying Biden needs to drop out.
And Biden gets out there the next day and is talking about how he's staying in the race.
Joe Biden saying how proud she is of him.
All these polls saying actually he won.
You have these other polls coming out saying like Biden actually got a small boost from it.
I think Univision was trying to promote, or Univision or Telemundo, one of these networks, was trying to promote some sort of a narrative that he actually got a boost among Latinos for this sort of thing.
There's too many contradictory narratives going out.
They still haven't fully agreed on what the overall message is going to be.
And Byron York, who I think is one of the better political reporters out there, said that insofar as there's one emerging narrative now, it's that Biden essentially had a bad night.
But, you know, he's going to get them next time.
Well, there strikes me as like the most dangerous thing you could possibly go with.
No, I mean, again, you know, right now across the world is remaking itself.
We're watching the post World War Two era.
I'm sorry.
We're watching the post World War Two paradigm completely collapse before our eyes.
It's one of the greatest things ever.
That's why I'm so white pilled.
Because one of the things that they talked about was the Russia-Ukraine situation.
And of course, President Trump kept saying over and over again, hey, Zelensky's the greatest salesman of all time.
He comes over to the United States and he gets 40, $60 billion every time he comes over here.
But for what?
Where's it going?
This crisis is insane.
Real quick, I do want to go back and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Mr. Hood, on the cover of the newspaper today, Actually had on the Sunday, June 30th issue.
Time for Biden to do the right thing, step aside.
To defeat Trump and for the good of the nation, President must bow out of the race.
Mr. Hood, this was an unprecedented editorial on the cover of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Georgia is going to go firmly for Trump because one of the great things that the GOP did, we're not endorsing anyone, but what they did is they passed a law to go through and actually look at the books.
And if you go back to 2022, Brian Kemp won his second term resoundingly over Stacey Abrams,
basically destroying her political career, because she staked everything on the fact
that 2018 had been stolen, and then she was beaten, I think, like 56-44 by Brian Kemp. So
Georgia is not one of the states you have to worry about anymore.
Like you said, it's Arizona, Philadelphia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
And I also think Virginia is going to be in play.
I think Minnesota is going to be in play.
I think I think the country right now, there's so many weird things happening.
You know, there was just this video just emerged from Ilhan Omar's district where they're saying, you know, we don't care about America.
We don't care about Minnesota.
You know, she's a politician advocating for Somalians and they've spoken Whatever language Somalians speak, I don't care because they shouldn't be in our country.
Why do I care about Somalia?
The point is this, that's where I think we are.
And I think that's what Trump has always represented.
He's this avatar for an America that most people don't realize is already gone, and yet they still want to blow the embers of that America to start some sort of conflagration, some sort of fire to restore this pride.
And I think what we saw And I think what you're seeing as people pay attention, and again, I don't like to use the word normie, but people who just kind of look and they pay attention to your, maybe your Breitbart, your Daily Wire, your Fox News, maybe they follow Clay Travis, and they're realizing, my God, we've been lied to about Biden.
What else have they lied to us about?
This is something that is like made for normal people to notice because It's not something that you have to explain.
It's not something where, well, you know, he had said three months ago this answer to the policy question.
Now he's saying this.
It's this man is a vegetable.
I mean, there's just nothing left.
Everyone can see it.
They still have to put him up there, and I don't see a way they can back down from that.
And it does raise further questions.
I mean, this is the power of the moment is that it's fundamentally not even about the presidential election so much as it's about the power of media.
And the power of media, I think, is terrifying, but it's not infinite.
And every once in a while, the biggest problem that they face is that, and this is why I do think it's fundamentally a question of believing their own propaganda, not conspiracy, you end up in this kind of funhouse mirror where, or hall of mirrors I should say, where Everything is a skewed reflection and you have to agree with what everybody else is saying or you're going to get cancelled in this very small and intense, intensely competitive ecosystem.
And so they're constantly agreeing with each other, trying to one-up each other on these certain narratives that are very predictable.
You know what they're going to say before they say it.
You know what the party line is going to be.
And then when something genuinely unexpected from their point of view happens, You immediately see it fragment because there's nothing in their training.
There's nothing in their background.
There's nothing in the everyday way in which they operate that prepares them to answer this question.
And so what did you do?
They panic.
They lash out.
They come up with contradictory storylines.
And when you have contradictory storylines.
That really undermines the whole way our society is governed one of the things I've hammered on again and again is that when you have interlocking institutions that provide credentials and provide narratives even if the narrative they're putting forward is wrong even if it's completely false.
One narrative being put from the top down throughout all of these different things, from the universities, from politicians, from supposedly apolitical things like medical organizations or scientific organizations, through popular media, through cinema, through music.
Doesn't matter if it's true or not.
If everybody is putting this thing out, it's going to be effective.
Whereas if you look at the right, you end up, everybody has their own pet enemy, everybody has their own pet conspiracy, everybody has their own bad guy behind the curtain.
Maybe one of them is right, maybe all of them are right, maybe none of them are right.
Doesn't matter.
The very fact that there are so many different answers means that it's going to be ineffective.
Because everybody is just running off on tangents all over the place.
You know, a phalanx, a united group is always going to be the divided group, even if the divided group is non-numerous.
But now that advantage has been lost because nobody knows what to do.
And this is the one thing that everybody's going to be paying attention to for the next few months.
And now they have no idea what their party line is going to be.
Do we throw them overboard?
Is Biden himself actually a traitor somehow to democracy?
Because again, these people really believe this stuff.
I mean, you and I, certainly myself, my greatest fear is that Trump is going to be as ineffective and feckless as he was in 2016, that he's not going to do anything, that he's already been president and we didn't get the kind of fundamental changes and personal leadership that we thought we were voting for.
He didn't personally take charge and make America great again, regardless of what it cost.
He tried to play by the rules and he got rolled.
But to them, they really think democracy is on the line.
They really think the whole thing is going to fall apart if they lose an election, even though we've already seen this guy be president and the country somehow survived.
So therefore, if Biden needs to throw himself on a sword, if they need to just rig the thing, if they need to cancel it, I mean, I've seen some pretty hysterical things saying the election should be canceled because the stakes are too high and all this kind of stuff.
If they can't even agree that we're going to go forward with the election itself, I mean, what chance do they have of maintaining the narrative on far less salient and important questions?
I mean, this is a real crisis of faith for them.
No, that's such an important point that God, you know, watching what's happening all across the Western world.
Like I said, going back to that, I was trying to get ready to change gears here toward what's happening in Europe as the post-World War II paradigm is ending before our eyes.
And the question is, what comes next?
And the question is, I think so many people yearn for something.
I've always joked to quote Bain from Dark Knight Rises, that people of their
status deserve to see the next era of Western civilization, that Trump is always just
the bridge.
There had to be somebody who pointed out that this is not going to work.
And again, if it took this guy who had become this beloved by everyone before he ran for
office back in 2015, when he came down the escalator at Trump Tower, he was loved by
He was just this guy who had his show on NBC, he would host things occasionally, he would show up and do his beauty pageants, and try and do his steak, which failed, try and do his university, which failed.
But he was always this just really amazing entrepreneur, who of course in American Psycho, the novel, Patrick Bateman was in love with the Trump Tower. He just
represented something about Americana that everybody knew was fantastic. And here we are now, this guy,
that country's gone, and yet there's a yearning for something else. We know from the polls that—and
this is where you should be white-pilled—that even Democrats want mass deportations.
And Trump was asked about that, didn't really have to give an answer on it.
Just the fact that he's talking about the largest deportation program in American history, that's exciting.
This is stuff that has to just even broaching the idea and then realizing that not only is it popular, but it's popular among different racial groups, Hispanics, Democrats are a favor in it, because we know this can't go on.
I mean, CNN even admitted, as we mentioned earlier, that Biden's presidency has been a disaster for the border, that cities are overrun, that they no longer have the capacity from a financial standpoint, from a fiduciary standpoint, to pay for housing these illegal aliens.
And I think what you're seeing in Europe, where the AFD, the alternative for Deutschland, what you're seeing in France, what you're seeing in the elections just across the board.
Again, there's been some Kurt Wilders has turned out to be obviously a disaster, as has the individual in Italy, the female.
But the point is this.
You can only fail so many times before people say, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
And I think we're at that point now where people are ready for something.
And they know that this whole era, this whole epic that we, you and I were born into this.
We didn't have any say.
We had to watch it all come crumbling down.
We had to watch, we had to watch the mistakes of our elders in real time.
And I think that's why people will look at this debate, and they'll realize we should never have let this happen.
We can't let another debate happen, because this guy's gonna malfunction again, and we have to have some semblance of... They have to at this point.
I mean, this is why I think, again, it's incompetence.
It's not... And you see a lot of people saying this too, that we're ruled by a feat incompetence.
We're not ruled by these Machiavellian Puppet masters who summon demons and are part of an international conspiracy.
I mean, we're, in many ways, we're ruled by very mediocre people.
Yep.
Who, and there are certain groups within them who are more powerful than others.
I don't want to say that it's just, oh, you know, it's just, there's no conspiracy.
There's no central guiding thing.
No, I mean, there, there clearly is a guiding intelligence to much of what is happening, but When you look at who's actually got their fingers on the levers of power and the people who are actually putting these policies into place, they're being done in very foolish ways.
And some of it is mediocrity and some of it, I think, is ideological extremism born of true belief, which, as Saul Alinsky warned his own side, is very dangerous when it comes to actually executing policies in a competent manner.
Biden's family is reportedly urging him to stay in the race, including Hunter Biden, who's never been known for bad judgment before.
And I think he has to.
I think, I mean, if I'm a Democrat and I look over everything that's happened over the last couple of days, let's say I'm a donor.
The best bet for winning the election is still Joe Biden.
Because who else are you going to put in there?
Regardless of who you put in there, it's going to divide the party.
People are going to go nuts.
If you try to put Gavin Newsom in there, you're going to decrease black turnout.
What are you going to do?
Have another black vice president other than Kamala?
You're going to have Kamala be vice president for Newsom?
Forget it.
I mean, maybe, maybe, maybe you could have Kamala be president and Newsom be vice president, kind of the power behind the throne.
But I don't know.
I mean, at the end of the day, it's still Kamala Harris versus Trump.
I mean, the one big unanswered question, and we should get into this before we move on to... Go ahead.
Back to what we talked about last week, because one of the things we all thought was going to happen was that... That's right.
Yeah, you beat me to it.
Pete.
And that didn't happen.
And I still think, I know people are going to laugh at this.
I'm going to double down on what I said, because I know a lot of people want Youngkin from Virginia.
You and I both live in the Commonwealth.
I truly believe it has to be DeSantis, because I think it has to be in 2024, a meeting where it's basically, listen, this is
the guy who's going to make America great again in 2028 and 2032. We're looking toward the future and
victory. And DeSantis has scalps.
DeSantis has fought.
And I think what everybody wants on the right, and even if it's not the right that we want, because we're, you know, this show's named after Lawrence Oster, and I think that, you know, you and I both knew Larry.
He never denounced us, although he denounced everyone else he knew in his life.
We actually got to entertain him right before he actually went to hospice, I think in 2013.
We were at some sort of book fair.
Was it a book?
Where were we?
We were in New York for something.
Yeah, it was some sort of book thing.
We were at some book thing at the, uh, oh gosh, that, uh, that beautiful, uh, convention center there.
I forgot the, uh, the, um, I forgot the name of it, but, um, we had talked about, the point is we talked about the rise of a white working class insurgency that could take over the GOP.
And he was, very favorable for the idea. In many ways, we were
discussing Trumpism over Trump, because nobody had thought of Trump at that point. Yeah, it was the Javits
Center, right? I had to remember where they were. It was the Javits Center. Yeah, no, because
again, this was a couple years before Trump came. We were talking about how, you know, I think
one of the things that I pointed out was that one of the great things we're seeing, Mr. Oster, is
that on a micro level, you're seeing a secession movement from a lot of these cities, where
whites don't want their tax.
And it's going to be implicit whiteness at this point, but white people don't want to see their taxes go to prop up these failing cities like Atlanta, like Baton Rouge.
And now there was just an article about white fortresses.
And one of the major newspapers because this is happening all across the country.
There is a secession movement happening at the micro level from failed cities and people want to have their tax dollars and they want to have representation.
And I think this is one of the most important things that has to happen in our lifetime is democracy must be discredited.
And I think that's being able to get ready to segue into our next conversation is that's what this debate was just about.
If this is what democracy is going to put up and if this is what The adherents and their proponents of democracy are going to defend as being the defining the definitive individual who can stand against Trump and Trumpism and white supremacy and and you know Charlottesville and and all this you know all this horrible things and
Again, he had to keep talking about how, oh, this is a guy who separated people at the border.
It's like, I don't care about the people who are trying to illegally cross our border.
I care about Americans who are separated from their loved ones because an illegal immigrant murdered them or raped them or killed them.
That's where we have to get to, where somebody just simply says, it's us versus them.
And I don't care about them because they are not my responsibility as a statesman.
That's what I want to see.
And that's why I think someone like DeSantis He's shown that he's going to fight for Floridians.
I don't, I don't think there's any chance that Trump picks DeSantis, though.
I mean, he hasn't, I mean, what just happened in Virginia, Bob Good, who is a very conservative, was a very conservative congressman who endorsed DeSantis early on, just went down to defeat.
Because even though he tied himself to Trump as closely as he could, because Trump didn't forgive him for endorsing DeSantis.
And he got crushed in the primary.
There's no, Trump doesn't forgive stuff like that.
He just doesn't.
Same reason I have my doubts about J.D.
Vance, because J.D.
Vance obviously has tied himself very closely in the last few years to Trump and he speaks a very Trumpist language when it comes to manufacturing and immigration and this kind of stuff.
But at the end of the day, he was a never Trumper in 16.
And he denounced Trump as a rapist and a racist and all these things, and I'm sure Trump remembers that.
Yonkin has never denounced Trump.
The North Dakota governor, who, I think, he could write some checks, which I think is the only real value he would bring, but frankly, they need that.
And you've got a few other guys floating around, but I think what Trump is looking for more than anybody else is loyalty.
I mean, that's probably the one thing he has learned from the experience with Pence.
Incidentally, it's amazing how quickly Pence has become a non-factor.
When you're driving around in rural America, occasionally you'll still see Trump-Pence signs, and the Pence is always like spray-painted out, and they put 2024 over where his name was.
I mean, no one cares about that mode of conservatism anymore.
It's just gone.
And that was the kind of like normal conservative ink movement that we worked in for so long, but it's just gone forever.
What was the guy's name from Pennsylvania?
Was it, um, who was, uh, was he a Senator?
Why am I blanking on his name?
Who was a big Catholic who kept, uh, Oh, Rick Santorum.
Rick Santorum.
I mean, you think about even Ken Cuccinelli, who was not a bad guy.
I like Cuccinelli.
I think he, I met him a couple of times, but Rick Santorum, like that kind of goofy brand
of compassionate conservatism is just, we're past that now.
And I think the base is past that.
I think people, that's why I keep going back to what Trump is.
He's that bridge.
Yeah, I think he's going to let everybody down again, but he may be the bridge to something better.
That said, if he picks a VP who is going to try to turn things back to the way the GOP was, which is probably what Junkin is, I mean that may be where we end up.
We may have to look for somebody else.
I mean, if I had to predict what's going to happen, if you get Junkin, you're probably going to, and he's the one who I think would bring the most to the table in terms of winning the election.
So if we say that his top concern is winning the election, he picks Junkin, you put Virginia in play.
And if he wins Virginia, who wins the election?
Obviously.
But he loses his administration, I think.
And you're not going to get the mass deportations.
You're not going to get the kinds of things that, I don't know if Junkin would be willing to put himself in the line to defend a lot of this stuff, even if Trump runs in a very restrained kind of way.
I don't think that kind of stuff is going to happen.
But the bigger question here is that it's not, it's not even really about Trump.
I mean, the election is about Trump, but it's also not because it's more the reaction to Trump.
Trump is not that big of a threat.
I mean, there's a very good argument to be made that the American political system is so lacking in credibility and legitimacy at this point, at a time when it may face real international challenges and real international competition, that you have to put Trump back in there to try to get white Americans to rally around the flag a little bit before, to get white boys to sign up for the military, to get people to care to feel like they have a stake in this government, in
this state, in this polity, which we really don't right now.
I mean, what I've been writing about since 2013 is essentially that.
And yet they're still doubling down on the idea that Trump is a unique threat to democracy
itself, that if he wins the election, America in some sense is just over, even though this
is a guy who has already been president.
And to some extent, we already know what we're going to get.
The real question becomes Trump wins.
And this is my segue into the other thing I want to talk about for the last 20 minutes, which is we just saw the first round of the elections in France.
And in many ways, it's very similar to the situation we have developing here.
After the European Union elections, which saw a significant rise in support for the center-right to the right-wing in the European Parliament.
Now again, it's not going to have any real policy consequences, but it's something.
Emmanuel Macron, President of the Republic.
called a snap election, and he did this under the presumption that the French people, if actually put to the question, would not vote to support the quote-unquote far right at any cost, and he would somehow strengthen his hand in Parliament.
Well, what actually happened after the first round, and again, this is what always seems to happen there, but after the first round, Marine Le Pen and the National Rally, the rebranded National Front, Although some would say at this point it's actually a distinct thing.
The National Rally won 34% of the vote, the left-wing Popular Front won about 30%, and Macron comes in a distant third.
And reportedly what's going to happen now is Macron and his centrist fake party of technocrats is actually going to endorse the far left, which they were brought into office to oppose, to try to push through fiscal reforms You know, this is the thing that drew a lot of French people into the streets, opposing the kinds of cutbacks that Macron was trying to put through, that they're going to support the left wing to keep Le Pen and the National Rally out of the Parliament, out of having the largest share in the Parliament, because if they do, they get to pick the Prime Minister and it sets up everything nicely for the election.
Now, here's the thing.
Marine Le Pen is not her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen.
We've had people from the National Front speak at American Renaissance before.
That is not going to happen with Marine Le Pen in charge.
She has softened the party's message significantly.
She's openly flipped, I think, on the Israel issue.
She's a very strong supporter of Israel, whereas her father was not.
She's broken.
Actually, she kicked her father out of the party.
That's right.
She is not a racial nationalist.
She is very much a civic nationalist.
She defends French values on liberal terms a lot of times when it comes to confronting Islam.
She was unwilling to even form an association with Eric Zemmour, who had the Reconquest Party.
I think she's reconciled somewhat with her niece, but it hasn't been Fully, I mean this is she she sends kind of feminist things once in a while.
She's not the kind of traditionalist Catholic that was sort of the basis of the old-school French right or even the the Identitarian and Identitarian Paganism that was sort of the European new right that you would see with Alain de Benoit or any of these types of guys who are really formative influences on the alt-right a few years ago.
Marine Le Pen is very much a a soft I mean, it's very dishonest to call her anything other than center-right, and if anything, my fear is that she'll be another Maloney in Italy, where you'll get all these scare articles and all these people screaming about how this is the end of democracy, whatever else, and then she gets an office and things actually get worse and she doesn't do anything.
Now, she wouldn't actually get an office here, I mean, we're just talking legislative elections here, we're not talking the presidential election, but this could still be a big deal.
Potentially, if she has the will for it.
I don't think she does.
But that's not what's important right now, because we're not at that point yet.
What's important is the way the French political establishment is reacting.
The center party immediately, without any reflection, totally endorses the far left.
And it's a popular front, which means that it's as far left as it goes.
Everybody's on one team.
As of this writing, or as of this recording, I should say, there are already protests in the streets.
What are they protesting?
People voted in a way they don't like, so they get to go into the streets and smash everything, because apparently that's what you're allowed to do.
That's how you defend democracy.
If the wrong group of people win an election, you get to use violence against them, because that's how democracy actually works.
And of course, none of these people are going to get punished.
This is very similar to what we may be facing in the states because Trump has kind of become a bit of a Marine Le Pen himself over the last few years.
It's not the kind of candidacy we were expecting in 2015.
At the same time, the reaction of the left and the reaction of the system in many ways is more hysterical than ever.
Now, maybe they're just working the referee and maybe this is just the best thing for them to do.
But on the other hand, it also It's burning up their legitimacy and their credibility.
I mean, I think this is not something you can just sustain forever.
This is hysteria.
You can't.
You can't sustain forever.
And you can't at this point, you can't try and make these parties illegal because you've seen the popularity.
You know, obviously, Germany, again, going back to that whole concept of the post-World War Two World Order.
Germany is a captive state, just like Japan is.
And what are we seeing over in Japan, by the way?
Wasn't there just some black guy who raped someone in Okinawa?
Yeah, it was an American GI in Okinawa, and you may be saying, hey wait, didn't that happen like 20 years ago or whenever it was?
It's like, yeah, this always happens.
I mean, it's really remarkable how American presence overseas now At an elite level, it's gays and trannies, and at a lower level, it's just wild blacks, like, running, you know, committing crimes and raping people, and that's what America is.
I mean, it's kind of funny when you think of, like, the ugly American, and now you're like, oh wait, now I know what they were talking about with the ugly American.
It wasn't unsophisticated Midwesterners being rude or something.
It was basically the Emmett Till's fathers of the world running around doing what they do in other countries.
And now, Certainly it has policy consequences, but of course makes this doubly tragic or funny or maybe a bit of both is
What was the Biden administration doing at the very beginning with the urging of the media and all the NGOs and everything else purging all the conservative white guys in the military?
And you had all these affirmative action generals and you had all the careerist white generals being like, oh, the biggest threat we face is white nationalists, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And instead you replace them with a bunch of illiterates who are jeopardizing your alliances with countries that you actually need.
Good work, guys.
Yeah, no, and in Germany, of course, there's there's the whole push to ban the alternative to Deutschland.
It's too late.
You know, the cat's out of the bag.
People are people know something's wrong.
And that beautiful I can't remember her name, who's basically called out Gerd Wilders for, you know, one of his One of his lieutenants or one of the people in his party.
It's not that you can't remember her name, it's that you can't pronounce her name.
I can't pronounce her name.
Laura Eva V. Yeah, Eva V. She gave that great speech at CPAC in Hungary where she said the Great Replacement is happening, you know, for, you know, Europe is a white, a white place and that this administration will not, is now calling out and saying, oh no, no, you can't say the Great Replacement.
Guys, it's too late.
Like we know, we know what's happening and people know what's happening.
Just like in the United States, people know Biden is a puppet has, you know, he's got, um, you know, he's a Geppetto.
There's somebody who's pulling the strings.
Who is it?
What, what entity is, what shadowy entity is doing it?
We're not here to speculate on that.
You know, come on, that's Alex Jones's territory.
And we all know what happened to Alex.
But my point, that's Steve Bannon's territory.
You know, there are no conspiracies, but there are no coincidences.
I think that's what he has beyond him.
And by the way, I'd like to say, Steve, I hope you do well.
I know you're about to go to prison, but, you know, soldier on because we would love to see you in a presumptive Trump administration 2.0.
My point is this, we're nearing that event horizon where a Western, where a European nation is going to step back and they're going to say, there's going to be some sort of crisis of confidence.
And I think we're seeing that in the United States.
I think that's what we just have.
We happen to watch in real time and we're still seeing the reaction by the left because they don't know what to do.
It's panic mode because again, they lived in that cinematic universe.
Where they thought that they're the good guys, that the moral arc of justice always, what's that stupid MLK quote?
Why can't I remember it?
Cause I don't even care.
Oh, the, uh, the arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice.
And of course by bends toward justice, that means agrees with modern progressivism.
I should note in passing, you know, Ava unpronounceable last name.
I mean, she, she's been saying some really great stuff lately and obviously it's important that, The Great Replacement is being mainstreamed.
That said, I mean, she used to be part of the Forum for Democracy and Terry Bordeaux's party, and she broke with that.
Now, I'm not fully, I'm more familiar with that scene than most, the Dutch political scene, but I get a little uncomfortable when people break with more right-wing parties and run toward the center.
That said, she is moving in the better direction now, and she's been pulling the mainstream conservative movement in a better direction, so that is a good thing.
There is the sense that They may be losing how to put this.
It really is kind of a ride the tiger type situation for the left because they've invited nemesis in the form of all these migrants that they thought were going to be a stable political block that will allow them to stay in power forever because they would outvote the majority of white people and you would get white minority And then 90% of the non-whites and they would just get to stay in power forever.
But the premise was that you would still be able to maintain high living standards or at least you could run it down low enough that people wouldn't notice that prosperity was just a thing that happened that you could keep politics relatively uncompetitive through control opposition on the right and media domination on the left.
And also that non-whites would basically just take orders.
Now, generally, that is what they do.
They are generally just obedient clients, but the situation is getting a bit more complicated thanks to the situation with Israel.
And especially with the Muslim voting bloc in a lot of these European countries and by European countries, I include, of course, Great Britain, where you now have independent Muslim political parties, which are threatening to break from labor and elect their own candidates. Now, of course, George Galloway
is, I mean, though he himself is not Muslim, at least I don't think he is, he's managed to
already do that, where you have people saying, vote for Gaza, and you're in an area that was 100%
white 30 years ago, but now is majority Muslim. These types of things are also going to start
happening in France. These things are already happening in Germany. Probably the most notorious far right
group in Germany with some actual power behind it is not a German group at all, but the gray wolves,
which is the Turkish nationals group.
I mean, that's something that the domestic security services have a hard time dealing with,
especially because they can't bring themselves to use force the same way they can against actual
Germans. All of these things, you have these independent powers operating within and among
European countries and European peoples.
The European peoples themselves are leaderless.
The double standards are becoming so monumental that even the most outrageous censorship and political repression are having a hard time containing.
And you could still do it.
You could still pull it off.
Except for the fact that the people in charge just aren't that competent.
And a lot of the foreign interests, I think, that have been running Europe this way are getting ready to make their exit.
Because they understand the ship is going down.
I don't think they can keep this going forever and I think one of the other things we need to be looking for is at some point I think there's going to be a break between a significant part of Europe and the United States.
Because right now you have the European economy essentially devastated because of their alignment with American foreign policy.
Every once in a while even guys like Macron would talk about Europe developing strategic autonomy, but they never actually do it.
At some point somebody's going to come along to do it, and of course the critical countries to watch here are France and Germany, which are the only ones who have any kind of capability to do something like that.
Yeah, I think that's one of the things people are talking about.
More France than Germany.
Exactly.
I think one of the things people are talking about is that Poland and Hungary are not France and Germany.
France and Germany are the epicenter, the center of Europe, of the old Europe.
And I think we both wish the European Union actually existed to promote the interests of the actual European people as a union, as opposed to the plutocrats and the bureaucrats who are there exist basically to hasten And to quicken the Great Replacement.
It's one of the great tragedies of our time, is that we've had to watch, you know, I actually got to see, fun little anecdote for you.
Back in 1999, I got to go to England, one of my best friends' dad was promoted to a pretty big job in Bristol, and we got to go to do a tour of Big Ben, and we got to go see a House of Commons presentation, where Tony Blair gave a speech, and it was fascinating to watch members of the Tory party and the Labour Party interact
where there was no script. It was all extemporaneous.
It was just brilliant to watch these politicians uninterrupted, uncensored, and having to interact with each
other matter-of-factly, minute by minute. One person would give a statement,
there'd be retort, and it was something you would never see in the United States because everything has to be so
Liberated and it has to be scripted. Yeah, exactly and And then at the same time, I think I was 15, and we got to go around, and we looked like we were all 18, so no one carded us, and we went to this Sony place where we got to drink, and we had so much fun going around and seeing the tube, and mind the gap.
Don't leave the Tories out of responsibility here.
We're just Americans getting to experience something that most Americans never will get to experience
because it was all London before Tony Blair's mass non-white migration really took place.
I wanna say London, at that point- Don't leave the Tories out of responsibility here.
I mean, I'm on record as supporting zero seats.
Well, Jesus.
I can't endorse candidates here, but I think I can endorse foreign elections.
I want the conservatives to go to- I want the Tories to be eliminated as a political party.
I know they're the oldest political party in the West.
I want them gone.
I don't want there to be a Conservative party in Britain after this election.
I know Labour is going to destroy the country even more, but with reform, at least maybe you have a vehicle for launching something, or perhaps something will rise from the ruins.
The Conservatives have been governing for 13 years, and they've done more damage than Labour ever did when it comes to immigration.
All of the bad things we complained about in the UK happened under Conservative rule.
It's very clear they're just not going to change their mind.
I mean, they govern the country in total contempt for the actual British population, and the Prime Minister isn't British.
Say whatever you want, he's not British.
No, and that's psychologically, even as an American.
Who's an Anglo-Saxon who's, you know, Scots-Irish and who just looks at this like, what is happening?
Like, I mean, you look at just the individuals who are in charge of Ireland, the Prime Minister, I think he stepped down.
And I think the guy who was the Indian in charge of Scotland also stepped down.
But at the same time, it's like, why is this island that once 70, 80, 90 years ago ruled the entire world now so irrelevant and so Capital E embarrassing.
I'll be in seed like what what happened?
Yeah.
Well, I think there's one of the critical explanations and this is a good place to end it.
Whenever you see a left-wing protest in the rest of the world, it's always in English.
The signs are always in English.
Everything is always geared toward an American audience.
Now, part of this is because America on the international level is, unfortunately, and I'm not saying this as somebody like chest-beating bragging about it, America is the only country that really matters.
I mean, they're the only potentially sovereign country.
Because America runs the show when it comes to NATO, when it comes to the way the West operates, and when it comes to dictating what is permissible in other political systems.
I mean, nobody really believes that, say, the Netherlands is sovereign in a significant state because it doesn't have an independent capability to wage war.
And you see it certainly with what happened with economic policy, what happened to Germany, for example, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Whether you think it was right or wrong, these policy choices, I mean, what you're seeing is the deindustrialization of Europe and Germany has just been absolutely devastated.
And let's be honest, I mean, everybody knows America blew up that pipeline.
I don't even think that's a conspiracy theory worth debating anymore.
But the big problem here is that Britain still has this concept of itself as a major imperial power, and it's still, it has lost so much capability relative to other countries over the last 30 years that it simply doesn't have the strength to sustain that self-image.
I mean, for example, when they handed over Hong Kong to the Chinese, and why they did that, I have no idea, they still had a larger GDP than China did at the time, and now You see these comments, there was a kind of gotcha thing against Nigel Farage where some white girl who supposedly actually is a political activist, you know, shocking, they, this was a setup.
She said, she tries to ask this question where she's like, will you admit that the only, that this country would be nothing without mass immigration?
It's like, This little island has probably pound for pound given more to world culture than any other culture on the planet.
And it's not particularly close.
I mean, if, as Thomas Jefferson said, I would gladly lend my hand to sink the whole of the British Isles into the ocean.
If that had happened a few centuries ago, the world would be infinitely poor in every way, culturally, financially, everything.
I mean, Britain has done more, England specifically.
has done more than anybody else. And yet they can't even conceive of themselves as having a culture.
They can't even conceive of themselves as having any accomplishments because the only thing they're
allowed to celebrate are basically Turkish barbershops and Muslim religious festivals
in the street and delivery drivers dropping off slop to people with declining living standards.
I mean, that's what Britain has become everything good about it lies in the past and that's the one thing it's not allowed to celebrate and so therefore it doesn't have a future and I think a lot of that becomes comes about because English is the language of propaganda and America still has enough sovereignty and wealth and Call it a strategic reserve of cultural pride that we can still kind of go forward somewhat.
But Britain just doesn't.
And so they're just getting hit from both ends.
Even a country like the Netherlands, which has a reputation for always being left-wing and everything else, they still have those kinds of barriers against international propaganda.
So you still have Authentic cultural traditions, you still have the sense of being part of the people.
Even though they're not really sovereign, you can still speak of the Dutch people as a thing.
Whereas, in many ways, that's much harder to speak of the English people.
Now really, what this election is about, and then I'll shut up and let you end it.
Ultimately, what the Trump campaign, the esoteric question of the Trump campaign, Is America to be a nation again?
Are the American people to survive or not?
America, yes or no?
It's very simple.
It's that pure.
It's that existential.
And it's the same question in France.
France, yes or no?
It's not, you know, living standards or pensions or foreign policy.
It's, is there to be a France?
Will France just become part of Africa?
Will France just become part of the Middle East?
Will America just become Swallowed by the endless hordes of the third world because it makes journalists feel better about themselves.
Like that is the those are the questions and.
I don't have faith that either Trump or Marine Le Pen are the leaders that we need, but the best case scenario is that they are the bridge to what has to happen.
And with that, I'll leave it to you.
No, that's it.
That's people have to always come along.
And when the world is ready for true change to happen, other people will rise and greatness just manifests.
And I think that's the great thing that we've seen.
One of the more unlikely guys who had a cameo in Home Alone 2 who pointed Kevin McCallister in the right direction to go to the lobby so that he could check into the hotel.
You know, now he's a guy who has the opportunity to point The entire Western world into a new direction inadvertently.
You know, he's not someone who set out to be an individual, this harbinger of true change for the West, but that's what his enemies have made him out to be.
You know, that's what they perceive him to be.
And the individual who hid in his basement back in 2020, who, as we mentioned earlier in this podcast, Pat Buchanan noted on June 30th, 2020, four years ago to the very day that we're broadcasting this, is that can be a strategy to win the White House. And it
was. And now we saw him trotted out four years, almost to the date, and we saw the lie of democracy.
And it's the God that failed, you know, and it's a God that was never a God. It wasn't
something that we should ever have given any thought to. And I think that's the beautiful thing
about where we are right now, because the next couple of weeks are going to be fascinating to
watch as the United States, as other countries look and they're realizing there's a
power struggle going on behind the scenes.
You know their their intelligence network.
There's all sorts of weird stuff going on right now that we don't know about and the thing is to people talk about the post-war order as it's this immutable law of nature.
When you look at the let's just take Europe.
When you look at the men who set up the post-war order after World War II, I mean, we're talking about Adenauer in West Germany, who was like a Catholic monarchist when it comes down to it.
Charles de Gaulle, who was also like another closet monarchist and a nationalist.
You look at the types of people who were leading a lot of these other core countries.
I mean, even a country like Spain was still being ruled by Franco.
Yeah.
And there's not the idea that The post-war order in the mind of somebody like Joe Biden, insofar as there is one still, automatically means dechristianization, gay rights, trans rights, restrictions on free speech,
Unlimited leftward movement forever. I mean, this is all very fringe and has only been really pushed
aggressively since maybe Clinton. I mean, you probably I think it's kind of the end of the
cold war that really made things go off the rails here. And I have no illusions that you can turn
liberalism back a few decades and then freeze it in place like so many of these so-called post
liberals who write articles for the New York Times being like, I used to be a Democrat,
but the party left me.
It doesn't work that way.
You don't get to stop the revolution at an arbitrary point and say, this far and no further.
I mean, it has to all go, but this is what it is going to take.
a full-scale repudiation of all this stuff. But one of the reasons why I think it's possible is
it was never meant to end up here. I mean, a lot of this really is, they've already lost control.
They're already for they're already defending things that they were never that the systems that were set up were never intended to defend.
And you're trying to do this with populations that are no longer capable of the kinds of efforts that the countries say that one World War Two were capable of doing.
I mean, you can't get America to even do something like Vietnam ever again, let alone World War Two.
And At some level, I think the people in charge, at least some of them, may know that.
But this is kind of the tragic problem with all overextended empires, with all degenerate political systems, is it's always more important to take care of your own little faction and to gather resources to yourself and rent-seek and just assume it'll work out somehow, rather than try to keep the whole thing going.
And at this point, in a weird way, I think Biden With his senility, with his incompetence, with his stupidity, with his long career of corruption and self-interestedness, he's a very good representative and exemplar of what liberal democracy really is, because he still speaks.
In these chest beating platitudes about it.
Nobody takes advantage of America and America is so strong and we are the ones who guide history, but there's nobody there who really believes it and he doesn't even really understand it anymore.
And the people who will come after him, he will be considered way too right wing for them.
Oh, I mean, appealing to memories that they despise.
Those would have no use for him once he's done.
Yeah.
To the left.
Those were jingoistic comments.
It's like, wait a second.
Is he promoting American exceptionalism?
He's basically like the clerk of America in the same way that the clerk like sold out white South Africa.
And he was useful to the left for doing that.
And then they hated him.
That's what Biden is.
Good point.
He's selling out white America, but there's not going to be a statue to him.
Nobody's going to remember him.
He's not going to get a prize.
He'll just be forgotten and spat upon, and that'll be the end of it.
And that's regardless of whether we win or they win.
That's just it.
And that's why I really have no sympathy for the kind of living death that he's going through right now.
But with that, I think we should bring it to a close.
I'm Gregory Hood.
I'm Paul Kersey.
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