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Nov. 27, 2024 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor

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Crybaby Buggers Off

Jared Taylor marvels at an Atlanta man who’s leaving America because “the nightmare came home.” Taylor also discusses mass deportation, Chris Rufo, Jews leaving Western Europe, and a smart liberal who reflects on “lawfare.”

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	Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Radio Renaissance.
	I'm your host, Jared Taylor, with American Renaissance.
	And with me is not my indispensable co-host, Paul Kersey.
	I'm having to dispense with him on this occasion.
	He appears to be preparing for a wonderful Thanksgiving.
	Now, I know that most of our listeners, you are Americans, and you know very well how wonderful a holiday Thanksgiving is.
	But for those of you who are not Americans, I would like to remind you that this is one of America's favorite, favorite holidays.
	It's a day in which people get together with family and friends, and it reminds us of the profound importance of family.
	Friends are wonderful.
	I have many wonderful friends, but there's nothing quite like your family, your blood kin.
	And in a small way, our attachments to our own nuclear families and extended families, that attachment reminds us of our attachment to our largest extended family, which is our race.
	I like to describe our race as a world brotherhood of Europeans.
	Now, you might say, well, Taylor, you're not a European, you're an American.
	But when you think about it, people, whether you're born in North America, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, or on the mother continent of Europe, Everything about us, really, is European.
	Our biology to begin with, our language, the religion of our fathers, the way we view the world, the kind of institutions we build, wherever we go, we are Europeans.
	We are happy parts of this wonderful world brotherhood of Europeans.
	So, for all of you Americans, and even those of you who are not, two days from now, it will be Thanksgiving, and I wish you a wonderful, wonderful Thanksgiving Day.
	Today is November 26th, the year of our Lord, 2024. And I'd like to start with a few comments from listeners.
	And most appropriately enough, the first comment is, Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.
	We thank you for all that you do.
	My wife and I listened to Gregory Hood's American Renaissance conference speech, and it was outstanding.
	The video was posted just a couple of days ago.
	I hope that my wife and I can attend one of your conferences in the near future.
	I very much hope so, too.
	During your podcast, you might mention the books available written by Mr. Hood, Mr. Kersey, and yourself.
	It's a great time of the year to send someone a gift and enlighten them at the same time.
	Well, yes, I can tell you some of the books that Mr. Hood has written.
	He has written something called Waking Up from the American Dream, a remarkable book.
	Also, he's written one called Dark Right, Batman Viewed from the Right.
	He was co-contributor along with Greg Johnson, another brilliant defender of our race and culture.
	Mr. Kersey has written a large number of books.
	Whitey on the Moon, for example.
	And also, there is one of his called Escape from Detroit, Stuff Black People Don't Like, Because We Live Here, Black Mecca Down, Bell Curve City, St. Louis, Hollywood in Blackface, Captain America and Whiteness.
	Just search for books by Paul Kersey on the internet and you'll find a great deal.
	Our listener writes in to say, Mr. Kersey's book, Whitey on the Moon, we have it sitting on a historic desk.
	The desk goes back to the Confederacy.
	Well, many wonderful things go back to the Confederacy.
	Our listener goes on to say, Please wish Gregory Hood and his wife congratulations on their new baby.
	Yes, indeed, another young white man has come into the world, and that's always a reason for celebration.
	And our listener concludes, Happy Thanksgiving to all of you and your staff.
	God bless you.
	Well, God bless you too, listener.
	Another comment.
	Two points regarding your latest radio renaissance.
	First of all, Franz Fanon, he was the author of a book called The Wretched of the Earth, was of French nationality but born in Martinique and not Haiti.
	I must have said that he was from Haiti.
	Well, thank you very much for that correction.
	Now, well, before I go on to the other part of this person's commentary, the idea of the Wretched of the Earth that really stuck with me is that Frantz Fanon said that the only way that a colonized person can truly liberate himself from the colonial hold on his mind was by killing the colonizer.
	Now, maybe there's a certain truth to that.
	I spent a certain amount of time in all of the North African countries, and I remember being struck by how different the Algerians were from both the Tunisians and the Moroccans.
	Tunisia and Morocco both were granted a kind of peaceful independence by the French.
	The Algerians, as you well know, they fought a fairly lengthy and very bloody war with the French.
	And they have a much prouder sense of who they are.
	For example, in Morocco or Tunisia, now this was, gosh, 40 years ago when I was there, if you went into a store, they practically want to come up and lick your head and they want you to buy things.
	Whereas in Algeria, if you went into a store, they didn't treat you with any particular interest.
	There really was a sense of pride in Algeria.
	And perhaps...
	I don't wish to sound like a fan of Frantz Fanon because he absolutely hated white people, but maybe there's something to the idea that when you fight for your independence, it gives you a greater sense of stature vis-a-vis the people of the race of your colonizers.
	In any case, the second point that our listener made, your report on the exceedingly lenient treatment of a Congolese rapist in England, raised a question I sometimes consider but haven't answered satisfactorily.
	Is the increased presence of women in our political life to blame for many of the gross excesses of indulgence towards lawbreakers?
	Not only are women more inclined towards empathy than men and less content with abstractions, they also seem less comfortable rejecting categories of people based on the probability of bad results, such as crime.
	That is, they are more inclined to say that the majority of any group is good and that it would therefore be unjust to refuse the group as a whole.
	Well, yes, I think that there are basic differences in the nature of men and women.
	These differences are complementary.
	Without the one, the other would be unable to reproduce, and I think human beings are happier when they are coupled man and wife.
	At the same time, I think that women have evolved In a particular role, which is a more nurturing role, they are the ones who have to make sure that young humans don't die.
	And they have a natural care for those who are helpless, those who are in need.
	And I think in some respects women tend to be natural socialists or communists.
	They have evolved in the family, and of course men have too, but men have roles outside the family and have had for a million years.
	When all of your evolutionary experience has largely been within the family, it is easy to think that the way a family works, that is, from each according to his ability to each according to his need, and that's the only Context in which that actually works.
	That is a quotation from Marx.
	I believe it's from the critique of the Gotha program.
	But it's a Marxist concept.
	From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
	And I believe women gravitate to that concept.
	Yes.
	So putting women in charge of a society will have consequences.
	It certainly will have consequences.
	And that's not one of the areas that American Renaissance gets into too deeply.
	But these are perfectly legitimate questions and very serious ones, and how we answer that question may have a real influence on our prospects for survival.
	Our prospects for survival require us to say to people of other races, No.
	Where we live, what we do, our society, this is something our ancestors built for us.
	We think you are just fine people, but you are not part of us.
	Our ancestors built this for us.
	You must stay where your ancestors built whatever it was that they have built for you.
	And if you don't like it, improve it.
	Don't come to us.
	It takes a certain amount of backbone to say that to people.
	I believe women are less likely to have that level of backbone.
	Final comment.
	You mentioned last week that the businesses located in what is now known as George Floyd Square, where St. George went to his reward on May 25, 2020, are unhappy about what has happened to their neighborhood, and they're suing the city of Minneapolis for letting the area to go to pot.
	It's very sad for them, no doubt, and maybe they have a point.
	The city ordered the police not to go there.
	The bad guys very quickly found out that the police weren't going to go there.
	And pretty soon a lot of other people, including potential customers, stopped going there too.
	Now you would think having a genuine certified act of martyrdom on your street corner would be great for business.
	But it hasn't turned out that way.
	And by the way, just for fun, After having read this comment, when it came in, I looked up, I just typed in May 25th, 2020, into a search engine.
	And I will read you the first entries that came up.
	The first is from Wikipedia, Murder of George Floyd.
	Number two, Minneapolis Public Radio, The Murder of George Floyd.
	The New York Times, How George Floyd Was Killed.
	Then next, National Institutes of Health.
	Good grief.
	And this says George Floyd.
	And the murder of George Floyd was not new information.
	History.com.
	George Floyd is killed by a police officer.
	AP News, Today in History, May 25, Police Kill George Floyd.
	And Wikipedia has another article.
	The first one was the murder of George Floyd.
	Now we've got George Floyd, all about the great man himself.
	And then, this astonished me, the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS, as it is often called, based on its initials of PNAS. This used to be one of the most prestigious articles Academic journals in the entire country.
	The entry here for PNAS is the emotional and mental health impact of the murder of George Floyd.
	Then another New York Times article, how George Floyd died.
	Then AP News, timeline of events since George Floyd's arrest and murder.
	And that's the entire first page of search results.
	And there are, of course, many, many, many search results for May 25, 2020, but I think that is enough.
	I wonder how far you'd have to go, really, to find something that was not about St. George.
	Well, we love hearing from you.
	We love it.
	And especially when you correct errors that we make.
	Paul Kersey rarely makes errors, but I sometimes do as I daughter into old age, unlike him, who is still a young sprout.
	And there are good ways to reach us.
	The best way is to go to amren.com, A-M-R-E-N.com, and click on the Contact Us tab.
	And you can send a message that will come to me.
	So please avail yourself of that option.
	Tell us what you think about our podcasts and tell us what sort of stories have come to your attention that we have not covered.
	Now, the news is full of immigration and what might happen because of the advent of our new president.
	And here's an article that says, I hope it ends up being millions of people.
	He's expected to end parole from people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, and he's likely to undo a policy that significantly constrained deportations for people who weren't deemed threats to public safety or national security.
	Well, they may not be threats to public safety, but they're here illegally, and they've got to go.
	Trump's team is already thinking about how to craft executive actions aimed to withstand the legal challenges from immigrants' rights groups, of which there will be many, I can predict.
	This time, Trump may have friendlier arbiters.
	These fights will be refereed by a federal judiciary that he transformed during his first term, including by appointing more than 200 federal judges, Well, let's hope that they will have a more sensible attitude on how to deal with lawbreakers.
	You'd think there should be no trick to it at all.
	These people have no right to be here.
	They're criminals simply by setting foot in the United States.
	Boot the criminals.
	How hard is that?
	Legally, there should be no problem.
	This article goes on to say, the speed at which Trump could remake deportation policy depends on surmounting tactical challenges, like expanding detention capacity and cutting through a massive immigration court backlog.
	Well, I would just cut through the court backlog with a sword, Gordian Knot, because again, they're here illegally.
	Out they go.
	Trump has tapped South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, who has little experience with the Department of Homeland Security, to lead the sprawling agency.
	However, from within the White House, Stephen Miller, widely seen as the architect of Trump's first-term restrictionist agenda, has an expansive role over domestic policy.
	Stephen Miller is a good man.
	I think he really has an eye on what the country needs.
	And also, Thomas Homan, A former acting director of Immigration and Customs Informants under Trump is returning to the administration's border zone.
	I think Thomas Holman is great.
	Once somebody asked him, well, how can you deport people without breaking up families?
	He says, easy, deport the whole family.
	Good man, Thomas.
	According to DHS, Department of Homeland Security, the largest number of yearly removals in American history came into fiscal year 2013 under Obama, when more than 430,000 people were removed.
	That's a good start.
	That's a good start.
	430,000 people.
	They used to call Barack Obama the deporter-in-chief, and apparently he was.
	Of course, they kind of fluffed up the numbers.
	And people who left the country under other circumstances, under previous administrations, they counted as deportations.
	In any case, he flopped up the numbers to make it look as though he was doing a good job.
	Trump advisors have indicated they would prioritize people with criminal convictions and final removal orders.
	Now, in 2022, a final removal order, that is somebody whose case has worked his way through the immigration court, and judges have decided that they have exhausted all appeals, and they've got to go.
	A judge has said, out, out, out, out, this is it, you know, get, get.
	There are 1.19 million such people, 1.19 million, and they haven't been booted.
	This is an absolutely shameful thing.
	You think a country, they're worth its salt.
	They've gone through all of these multiple appeal processes, and a judge has finally decided, no, no, you don't belong here.
	And they're still here.
	What kind of message did that send to the people who are trying to get in?
	The article goes on.
	Detention capacity alone would be costly.
	Lawmakers need to appropriate the funding.
	And even if they do, the administration would have to hire, vet, and train more officers.
	No easy feat.
	ICE currently employs 7,000 officers who do 250,000 deportations a year.
	If they want to quadruple that, I wonder if they're going to have to quadruple the staff.
	As this article points out, you've got to get them up and running pretty quickly.
	Another Biden administration program that's likely to end quickly is a special visa-free humanitarian parole process for residents of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
	They call it the CHNV program.
	Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
	Aren't those the people we really want badly in your neighborhood, in your schools?
	Yes, being your doctors, being your social workers.
	Boy, oh boy.
	These people were piling up the border and it made it look very bad.
	They added to the illegals who were hopping the border and so the Biden administration said, okay, we will fly you in at taxpayer expense and that way you won't show up as border hoppers because this was an embarrassing number.
	So they're not border hoppers anymore.
	They're people that were flown in on your dime, ladies and gentlemen.
	And this was a completely transparent trick to cut down on those embarrassing numbers.
	The idea is they enter legally, and once they're here, then they can apply for asylum.
	They don't have to line up.
	They don't have to go through that weird app that gets an appointment.
	They don't have to trudge across Mexico.
	They get flown in.
	And as I say, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela.
	Do we want these people?
	No.
	And as of August, nearly 530,000 such people had flown in, had flown in legally, and they got permission to live and work in the U.S. for two years.
	I say out, out, out, out tomorrow.
	Trump is campaigning on expelling them, and he promised to revoke Haitians' eligibility for temporary protected status.
	TPS. It's never temporary.
	They always stay here forever.
	During Donald Trump's first term, his administration tried to end TPS for more than 300,000 people.
	But the immigrants sued.
	Now, this is a euphemism.
	They didn't sue.
	They got some busybody do-gooder to sue on their behalf, of course.
	And they argued the move was made out of racial animus.
	And they got a nationwide injunction that lasted through the Trump administration.
	They apparently found evidence that Donald Trump had said unkind things about some of these people, and he was doing this out of racism.
	The fact that they could go safely back to their countries, that's the whole idea of temporary protective status.
	If your country is considered absolutely uninhabitable, Basically, for whatever reason, then you get TPS. And even if it is, by objective standards, it returns to some sort of semblance of habitability, you're supposed to go back.
	And even if that's the reason, no, no, no.
	The judges said, oh, this is racism.
	The Biden administration rolled out a mobile phone application called CPB-1 that migrants could use to set up appointments to seek asylum.
	That will be very quickly gone.
	One challenge for rapid deportations is that the home countries of many migrants, particularly those convicted of violent crimes, the one that we want to boot most vigorously, don't like to take their people back.
	Well, I can't blame them in a way, but they are theirs, not ours.
	To pressure these countries, the U.S. government can threaten to restrict visas.
	We can say, okay, you won't take Pedro, Pedro the rapist, Pedro the hatchet murderer.
	Well, we're not going to issue visas to your people.
	The Trump and Obama administrations both did this.
	You see, Obama was not as bad as certain people who followed him in the Democratic Party.
	The administration didn't do that.
	So if some country says, no, no, we're not going to take Pedro, the hatchet murderer.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, sorry.
	We'll just keep him around.
	Gee, well, you know, maybe you'll change your mind someday.
	But in the meantime, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Well, we'll just try to fit him back into American society.
	Trump has also said he would restore his remain in Mexico policy.
	That's right.
	You stay in Mexico while you go through this phony baloney asylum-seeking.
	Most people, they may spend years seeking asylum, and most people reject it, as they very rightly should.
	But, you know, they're in the country, they disappear, all the usual things.
	Under Mallorcas, Alejandro Mallorcas, even when a criminal was to be deported, agents were supposed to examine the totality of the circumstances and try to find every possible excuse to let the creep stay.
	Well, that policy will end also.
	In the meantime, Texas is riding to the rescue.
	Yep, here come the Texas Rangers.
	Texas is offering the incoming Trump administration a tract of land of more than 1,400 acres on which to stage its mass deportation operation.
	That's a lot of land.
	1,400 acres.
	Boy, you could build a big, big deportation center on a piece of land that size.
	It's in Star County.
	The state purchased it from a ranch owner in October, just in October.
	The Texas Land Commissioner, a lady named Dawn Buckingham, has written to Donald Trump saying the state is happy to To allow a facility to be built to process, detain, and coordinate the largest deportation of violent criminals in the nation's history.
	That is Dawn Buckingham's language.
	We are losing too many of our children to these violent criminals that are coming across the border, she says.
	I am 100% on board with the administration's pledge to get these criminals out.
	We are more than happy to offer our resources.
	She says, it's flat.
	It's easy to build on.
	We could very easily put a detention center there.
	We are happy to help.
	Do anything we can to get these violent criminals off our soil.
	Now, I wish you shouldn't put the emphasis on violent criminals.
	Yes, they're important to get out.
	But there are plenty who are not violent criminals, but we don't want them here anyway.
	They're illegal, and they are not us.
	They cannot be us.
	They don't want to be us.
	And we have the right to be us.
	And only we can be us.
	So, out, out, out.
	About 1,500 migrants formed a new caravan just last Wednesday in southern Mexico, hoping to walk or catch rides to the U.S. border.
	Yep, it's back to the old caravan days.
	They're mainly from Central and South America.
	Some say they want to reach the United States before Donald Trump's inauguration.
	They think things might be a little tougher after that.
	I think they're right.
	I hope they're right.
	Now, they started out walking from the city of Tapachula, near the border with Guatemala, where thousands of migrants are stranded because they don't have permission to cross further into Mexico.
	Well, I wonder what the Guatemalans think about that.
	Thousands of them bottled up there on the border with Mexico.
	And I don't know why this batch of 1500 managed to get across.
	What's so special about them?
	If immigrants try to cross Mexico alone or in small groups, they are often either detained by the Mexican authorities and sent back to southern Mexico or deported back to their home countries.
	In that sense, there's a certain safety in numbers.
	In other words, they can overwhelm the authorities, the Mexican authorities, because it's hard or impossible for immigration agents to detain hundreds of migrants at a time.
	So the police and immigration agents often try to pick off smaller groups, and they wait for the main body of the caravan to tire itself out.
	The fact is, it's over a thousand miles.
	It's eleven hundred miles from this city called Tapachula to the nearest crossing point.
	A thousand miles.
	And if they're hiking all the way, that's a lot of hiking.
	Of course, they usually try to hitch rides.
	But even with numbers of them, there's no safety necessarily because there are threats, extortion, and abduction by drug cartels.
	They've become heavily involved in migrant trafficking.
	They will charge migrants or their smugglers for permission just to cross their territory.
	Well, it's like a tariff.
	Or an admission fee.
	Hey, you want to go through our territory?
	You pay up.
	And gangs often won't kidnap these infiltrators and hold them in terrible conditions or torture them until they call relatives to send money.
	Yep, lots of money to be made this way.
	The biggest obstacle, says this article, is the searing heat, dehydration, and distance.
	Yep, don't forget that, 1,100 miles.
	And all that does is get you to Matamoros, which is across from Brownsville, Texas.
	Matamoros is a pretty awful place these days, run by gang cartels, not a happy place to be.
	But that's the shortest.
	to the U.S. border, also one of the most dangerous routes.
	Even if an adult were walking with no rest stops, it would take him 16 days of continuous walking to get there, and of course many of these migrants, infiltrators, invaders come with children.
	Now, the CPB1 cell phone app that we talked about earlier, that was put together to make asylum claims more orderly.
	And about 1,450 appointments are made daily.
	And the idea is to encourage migrants to get an appointment before they show up at the border.
	But that service is available only in northern and central Mexico.
	The idea is to extend it south to Tapachula.
	They hoped that would stem the rush northwards.
	But some migrants still want to be close to the border, so that if they get one of those cherished appointments, They can get to the border quickly and not risk their appointment.
	Trump will end the app.
	Now the biggest caravans formed in 2018, 2019, and back then Mexicans helped out.
	They would arrange buses and they would encourage people going by to pick them up.
	Believe it or not, once they got to the border, that created a backlash in those Mexican communities.
	Hmm.
	I wonder why.
	Yes, the Mexicans, there was only a limited amount of solidarity with these Mexicans who have remained in Mexico with all of these people from Central America, whom they don't generally like anyway, camping on their doors, camping in their parks, camping in their school playgrounds, And they didn't like it.
	Well, what do you know?
	We don't like it either.
	But some of those original caravanners did get into the United States.
	And of course, Joe Biden wants them because his administration is quietly implementing new policies that will make it easier to get in.
	This is a parting attempt to thwart Donald Trump's promises to stop People from coming.
	And, as it turns out, according to the New York Post, the Big Apple will be ground zero.
	The outgoing administration wants to launch a new ICE portal app, cell phone.
	Because, you know, all of these poverty-stricken people who are starving to death and who just have that terrible time.
	Death's door practically back.
	But they all have cell phones, you see.
	They all have roaming plans, I suppose.
	They all have cell phones so they can download the app.
	And starting in December in New York City, this will allow migrants to bypass in-person check-ins with their local ICE office in New York.
	Now, there are sources within Homeland Security who told the Post the app will make it easier for these infiltrators to avoid dealing with authorities at all.
	And at the same time, the software has proven to be very glitchy.
	Even when it's working properly, it doesn't check for past arrests or outstanding warrants.
	That's something the current system does.
	Believe it or not, under Biden, they had a system that checked for outstanding warrants.
	Well, then you went out of heck with that.
	We want these people, even if they've got outstanding warrants, even if they've got criminal records, and that's just one of a handful of initiatives being pushed before Inauguration Day.
	The idea is to let these people come in Former Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan slammed the Biden administration's last-minute moves as the opposite of a peaceful transition of power.
	This is an obstructionist transition, he says.
	What they're trying to do is to put as many roadblocks and obstacles and throw as many grenades as they can on their way out.
	Yep, yep, that's what lefties do.
	And in the New York City field office with an Apple launch, ICE is already overwhelmed by the number of illegal immigrants roaming the streets.
	Yep, but they want more, or at least Joe Biden and Kamala Harris want more, even if New Yorkers don't want them.
	And listen to this.
	As of early last year, the ICE office in New York City was already fully booked through October 2032. Fancy that.
	2032 for appointments to talk about asylum or whatever it is your foolish claim is.
	The Biden administration is rolling out the app despite issues with it during the pilot program.
	The new system, contrast with the current system, as I said, not only does it fail to search for arrest records and you don't have to even show proof of a current address.
	And the old days, if it would show up for an appointment, it would flag ICE officers if these people are known criminals.
	Now, a lot of them are unknown criminals.
	How would you even know that some Venezuelan has an arrest record in Venezuela?
	The Venezuelans ain't telling us.
	The system actually allowed ICE to be active about migrants.
	Even when they're currently in a sanctuary city like New York.
	It would get no cooperation from the New York police because they're under orders to just stand there with folded hands while ICE removes a hatchet murderer or a baby rapist.
	But at least they knew about them.
	The Biden administration.
	Well, we need that information that if those people don't go to court, they've absconded.
	They have a final order of removal.
	We need that data to go start looking for people, says the former ICE administrator.
	The Biden administration is trying to sneak through loosened regulations on its electronic monitoring of released migrants, ankle bracelets.
	Some of them get ankle bracelets.
	I don't know who gets them and who doesn't.
	I guess the flight risks, the ones who have to wear them, but they will be allowed to request a review of this ankle bracelet process at any time and demand that monitoring be downgraded or terminated.
	And apparently, if ICE says, no, no, we want you to keep it on, there is an exhausting review process, And as this former administrator says, it gives the alien the ability to get off the program entirely because it's too much trouble to fight all of their appeals, which will probably be paid for either by non-profits or by non-profits.
	Whether they get money from the U.S. government, that means you paid for it, or from idiots within our own country who think that it's virtuous to make it difficult to remove lawbreakers and illegal immigrants from our country.
	Now, that was a whole lot about immigration.
	So we'll move on to something else.
	This is good news.
	It's an article called, Christopher Ruffo has Trump's ear and wants to end DEI for good.
	Christopher Ruffo, of course, is the guy who has made a huge stink about DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and also critical race theory.
	All of these are just blatantly anti-white programs, and he's been very good about calling the world's attention to some of their terrible excesses.
	And he has badgered a certain number of companies, along with a fellow named Starbuck, who we'll talk about later, into ditching some of the most blatant and obvious awful DEI. But he has an invitation to Mar-a-Lago, where he will present the president-elect's team with a plan that We're good to
	go.
	Boy, these African-American fellow citizens of ours just seem to be perfectly happy to plagiarize.
	Just like Martin Luther King, he was plagiarizer number one.
	Rufo has also taken aim at diversity practices in large companies, most recently at Boeing.
	Now, I'd always thought that in the airplane manufacturing business or medical school or in such things as air traffic control, where if you are incompetent, very bad things could happen, that they would just quietly not do any of this DEI stuff.
	No, no, no, no.
	All of this affirmative action and lowering of standards, that's for personnel departments, or that's for clerks, or that's for typists.
	I guess we don't have typists anymore.
	But surely not for air traffic controllers or people who build airplanes.
	But yes, yes, yes, that poison has been everywhere.
	According to J.D. Vance, Future Vice President, Chris Ruffo is a leading voice in the movement to restore merit and excellence to universities.
	Ruffo wants to excise race-based affirmative action from any institution with which the federal government does business.
	And the feds have the right to do that.
	They say, hey, hey, this anti-white stuff?
	No, got to cut it out.
	We won't do business with you.
	And his stated goal is to make America a colorblind society.
	By eliminating rules that require behavior or special treatment according to race.
	You know, this is one of the great mysteries of American society.
	The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is very explicit about that.
	You don't discriminate or distinguish on the basis of race.
	And, of course, that very law, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, was turned on its head by people who want to discriminate against white people and say, no, no, we can do this.
	We can do this.
	And that has resisted to this very day.
	The American Civil Liberties Union, which I think has never found a silly idea they didn't like, and other organizations say Rufo's work promotes denial about racism.
	It's all racism denial.
	And they contend that the wider Republican push against DEI undermines racial equity.
	Well, it sure does.
	Equity is the idea.
	We all end up at the same place.
	And yet, if you have standards, we ain't all going to end up at the same place.
	That's them's the breaks.
	Rufo supports closing the Department of Education.
	That's the federal department.
	Yay!
	I'd be all for it.
	Get all those people working real jobs, if they can.
	And this is an interesting idea.
	He wants to force schools to To advertise the earnings of graduates from specific programs so students understand their risks when they enroll.
	Yep, if you get a degree in critical race studies, you're probably not going to be able to pay off those loans.
	That is not a well-paid job unless you hit the jackpot and you become a CRT guru in some big company.
	Or feminist history.
	Or, I don't know, gay history.
	All of this stuff.
	It's not very lucrative for the most part.
	Also, Rufo says if students default on their loans, he says universities should have responsibility for paying off some of it.
	Now, I don't know about that.
	It seems to me it's caveat emptor.
	If somebody is stupid enough to get some sort of worthless degree, is that the university's fault?
	And if somebody wants to study English literature and loves English literature, that's something he should study.
	If it turns out he can't get a job teaching English literature, has a hard time paying back those loans, that's his job.
	And he had a wonderful time studying the best literature on the planet.
	So should the university be responsible?
	I say no.
	But here is an idea with which I agree with Chris Ruffo.
	He would like to see the number of Americans enrolled in four-year colleges slashed by more than half.
	That, I say, is a great idea, and I've thought this for a long time.
	The idea that somehow you have to have gone to a four-year college to be a legitimate human being.
	This is cuckoo.
	A lot of people are going to be just fine going to some kind of trade school, or they can go to a junior college, get in some kind of nursing or medical-related program.
	The idea they've got to go to a four-year college, this is nuts.
	Now, if that was slashed by half, there are a lot of colleges who would be hurting, but they would end up training people who probably are receptive, who've got the brains for it, the determination for it, even cutting it by more than half, cutting it probably by two-thirds is probably all you need.
	The idea that everybody's got to have a BA, this is utterly goofy and non-productive.
	So, good for Chris Ruffo.
	I hope he does have a salutary effect on the Trump transition team, and Godspeed him in his plan to exterminate DEI, at least in those organizations that have any contracting with the federal government.
	Now here is an interesting article from the New York Times.
	It's by a guy who is a professor of law at Yale.
	His name is Samuel Moyne.
	I know nothing about him, but I'd like to read some excerpts from this article because the guy is on to certain things, but some of the things he says can be interpreted in very intriguing ways.
	He goes on to say, "The years-long effort to vanquish Donald Trump in court was a dismal failure.
	For liberals like me, it may be tempting to attribute the collapse of the various cases against him to convenient explanations of process or personnel." Not quite sure what that means.
	Maybe they didn't just push the right buttons.
	The more uncomfortable truth is that our search for political salvation, primarily through the law, has backfired.
	Well, yes, the idea is you choose your political leaders not by what you can get a jury to decide or what you can persuade a judge to do, but at the ballot box.
	He goes on to say to oppose Mr. Trump in his second term, liberals must learn the lesson of this defeat.
	Which is that there is no alternative to persuading our fellow citizens of our beliefs.
	What do you know?
	That's the way democracy is supposed to work.
	You're supposed to persuade the voters that you're right.
	Samuel Moyne goes on, For decades, liberals have made the mistake of prioritizing legal victories over popular ones.
	Absolutely, 100% true.
	And it's interesting to find a liberal admitting this.
	But take abortion, the right to an abortion, for example.
	Was it 1973?
	the case that legalized abortion in all of the states.
	That was all that somebody had to do was persuade enough justices, and then they got the entire country to agree to something that some states didn't want.
	That was a legal victory, and it was a legal victory of a kind that they could have not gotten on a political basis.
	The same with same-sex marriage.
	Same-sex marriage.
	There were some states where it was legal, some states where it wasn't.
	And then all of a sudden, the Supreme Court says, eh, it's going to be legal everywhere.
	That was yet another legal decision that took the place of what should have been a political decision.
	These are just appointed judges.
	They are not the guys who should be making the rules.
	They interpret the rules.
	They shouldn't be making the rules.
	And then Brown v.
	Board of Education, 1954, the famous case that integrated public schools.
	They couldn't get integration of the public schools by the kind of legal action.
	Getting lost change is complicated.
	You've got to persuade people, just like this Samuel Moyn is saying.
	You've got to persuade people that they were wrong and that you were right, and they've got to vote for people who are going to do what these guys, these liberals, think is right.
	And in all three of these cases, abortion, same-sex marriage, Integrating schools.
	The liberals didn't bother.
	And so long as everything was working out for them, they thought this is great.
	They thought this is great.
	Now, of course, when a Supreme Court decided, as I think was perfectly justified on a legal basis, that there's nothing in the Constitution that guarantees a woman a right to an abortion, and it goes back to the states, then, oh my gosh, they're shrieking, they're wailing, they're roaring, they're prancing in the streets.
	Oh my gosh!
	As usual, when people have used a weapon and it's worked for them many times, and then it turns out to be a weapon that can be held by the other side, then they start despising the weapon.
	Well, enough on that.
	Now, we'll continue with Samuel Moyne.
	The legalistic resistance was supercharged in May 2017 when Robert Mueller was appointed as special counsel to investigate Russian election interference and Mr. Trump's collusion.
	But when Mr. Mueller's inconclusive report was released in April 2019, it was an embarrassment to the liberals.
	Yes, it was a huge embarrassment, and it tipped their hand.
	They're saying, we say we make all these accusations against Donald Trump, and they turn out to be baseless.
	Moyne goes on to write, Prosecutors in Georgia looking into the pressure Mr. Trump had placed on state officials to reverse his 2020 loss had the most solid grounding in law of the number of cases brought against him and might have been worth pursuing in isolation.
	That's aside from all the payoff scandals and the classified documents he was mishandling or allegedly mishandling.
	But this Georgia case stalled thanks to its feckless lead prosecutor, Fannie Williams.
	Yes.
	Then he goes on to say, it was the lurid New York case, widely seen as the most legally flimsy and nakedly political that succeeded.
	That's right.
	This was taking a state statute and then somehow piggybacking it onto a federal law which the federal prosecutor had not dared bring against Donald Trump to turn a minor bookkeeping process into a felony.
	Yes, it was the most legally flimsy and nakedly political that succeeded.
	In their totality, the trials became an all-consuming part of a larger pattern of seeking some law, like the Constitution rediscovered Civil War-era ban on insurrectionists in office, that might preempt the need to beat Mr. Trump in the court of public opinion.
	Yes, a whole lot of people saw this.
	A whole lot of people.
	Here they're taking the opposition candidate who has clearly got the wind behind him, the wind in his sails, and trying to find some lawfare, legalistic trickery to take him out of the running.
	Agonizingly, Mr. Trump revealed how unprepared the law was for his acts.
	The law?
	Well, if you bend the law, it's not going to work.
	He goes on to say, I love that.
	Jury nullification is the fact is the jury in its wisdom and its bliss during its deliberation, it can ignore the law.
	You can have a whole pile of evidence against somebody and you can decide, we the jury, we ain't convicting.
	We ain't convicting.
	And they can get away with it because juries are supreme in the courtroom.
	National jury nullification.
	I love that.
	That's what the election did.
	The election, in effect, said, okay, those boobs in New York City who were chosen because this was a jurisdiction, New York City, where everybody hates Donald Trump, and they convicted him on this flimsy Rube Goldberg phony charge, that verdict has been nullified by the election.
	He goes on to say, That's right.
	It didn't convince us that this guy couldn't govern.
	Unsurprisingly, legalistic moves produce a struggle for more power over the law.
	That's right.
	And Mr. Trump's choices for Attorney General, first Matt Gaetz, now Pam Bondi, were predictable responses to the protracted attempt to hold him accountable.
	His rationale for both, as he put it, was ending the weaponization of the Justice Department, the honest response to which is that law has always been a weapon.
	And what matters is whether it advances just or unjust outcomes on balance.
	Well, here's his liberalism showing.
	By those committed to litigating Mr. Sorry.
	But those committed to litigating Mr. Trump's policies aggressively should keep in mind the risk of producing illiberal and noxious precedents that could last for decades.
	What does that mean?
	Such was the risk incurred in the travel ban case as well as in the Smith investigation, which has nothing to show for itself except Supreme Court decisions granting the president broad immunity from prosecution.
	In other words, these guys are saying, watch out, you guys.
	You think you're going to, through litigation, get these wonderful precedents that are going to be liberal?
	Watch out!
	Because you don't know what the courts are going to decide.
	As this guy concludes, the law cannot make as much difference As many liberals had hoped.
	Instead, it has helped the enemies of liberalism win.
	Well, yes, if you use the law in an obviously biased way, then, yes, the people who are ordinary voters in the United States can see through that and the guy that you've convicted and you think you've hung him up permanently, out to dry, you're going to be disappointed.
	Now, this is an interesting Wall Street Journal article.
	And it is about Jews leaving Western Europe for Eastern Europe.
	Anti-Semitic prejudices still endure in Eastern Europe, but the religion has not seen the kind of violence against Jews visible today in Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, and other Western European cities.
	The main reason for the difference?
	Drumroll, please.
	I bet you all can't guess.
	Britain, France, Netherlands, and Germany are all homes to large Muslim communities.
	Well, what do you know?
	What do you know?
	Gosh!
	Having Muslims in all of these places, that turns out not to be so good for Jews.
	Last month, the European Commission reported that the conflicts in the Middle East have led to levels of anti-Semitism unprecedented since the founding of the European Union.
	In Berlin, Paris, and Brussels, Jewish sites are guarded around the clock by armed police.
	Government officials and community leaders often warn Jews to hide their identity in public so as to avoid being assaulted.
	Most European Jews aren't immediately recognizable in public.
	The ones who are most likely to be targets are Orthodox believers dressed in traditional Jewish garb or people speaking Hebrew.
	In London in January, a group of two men and two women from Israel who spoke Hebrew were assaulted by three men of Arab or North African origin who threw glass bottles at them before punching one of the women in the neck.
	Well, yes, who is going to recognize that these people are speaking Hebrew?
	Not I, not most French, not most Brits.
	They're going to say, well, there's some sort of jibber-jabber going on.
	But Arabs who speak their own jibber-jabber, they can tell Hebrew from other languages because they're really quite closely related languages.
	While in the past, anti-Semitic violence came from the far right, it now comes much more from left-wing extremists and Islamists.
	Israel's conflicts with Hamas, Hezbollah, or Iran seem to rile up the migrant communities, says a Jewish spokesman.
	Well, gosh, they seem to.
	Well, yes, I think they in fact do.
	No surprise there.
	This should not astonish anyone.
	And Benjamin Jacobs, the chief rabbi of the Netherlands, says that on a recent trip to Budapest, Hungary, he relished the opportunity to move around without police protection, which is something he needs in the Netherlands.
	My guess is the chief rabbi must wear standard Jewish rigout of one sort or another if he's got to have constant police protection.
	Back home, he says, I've had my windows smashed and Muslim kids shout Jehud, which is Arabic for Jew, at me on the street.
	Yes, he must wear distinctive clothing.
	In Budapest, there's nothing like that, no danger at all.
	Well, dear me, dear me, the fact is, of course, Jews have been at the forefront of the diversity movement in terms of immigration.
	They have promoted third world immigration, not only into the United States, but into Europe as well.
	And now, now that they are reaping some of the unpleasant consequences, they're going to bugger off to Eastern Europe?
	Oh boy, I wonder if they're going to try to change things in Eastern Europe, make them more diverse.
	You know, people who leave California and they complain about, oh, there was traffic, oh, there was crime, oh, there was pollution.
	And then they end up in Oregon or Washington State and they say, oh my gosh, oh, we missed the diversity.
	Yeah, right.
	Well, we'll see.
	But Jews have certainly had a hand in changing the nature of the societies that they are abandoning now.
	And we will see if they've learned a lesson or if they're going to promote diversity in Eastern Europe too.
	I think they'll have a hard time in Budapest, but they might try.
	Now, this news about Walmart.
	The nation's largest private employer is the latest company to make changes in its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives under pressure.
	The retail giant said it would not renew a racial equity center created after the 2020 murder of George Floyd, and it would no longer participate in an annual benchmark index from LGBTQ plus advocacy groups.
	So, they are turning their back on that stuff.
	And it is Robbie Starbuck.
	He's the one who warned Walmart last week.
	He was working on a report about wokeness in the company.
	And according to Starbuck, the company then engaged in productive conversations to make changes.
	Now, I don't know where this Robbie Starbuck gets his influence, but God bless him.
	Apparently, he can write a letter to them and say, hey, hey, hey, hey, I'm cooking up a document on you guys.
	And they say, uh-oh, uh-oh, yes, we'll have to talk.
	I think this would not be possible unless there were plenty of voices already within the company saying, this stuff is nuts.
	This stuff is just plain nuts.
	This article goes on to say consumer boycotts that slashed sales forced some brands such as Bud Light.
	Remember Bud Light?
	Dylan Mulvaney?
	That freak who was happily trying to sell the stuff?
	Yes, a transsexual selling Bud Light.
	Boy, that's going to make all those male drinkers just want to guzzle it down.
	And also Target.
	Target had all of these homosexual baby clothes and all sorts of related apparel.
	They retreated from marketing campaigns to the LGBTQ community.
	Major brands such as Ford and Lowe's have abandoned initiatives and overhauled teams after pressure from Starbucks.
	Keep at it, Starbucks.
	Business leaders are now reluctant to talk about their initiatives.
	Major corporations, including Walmart, recently declined to make executives available to USA Today to discuss their DEI programs.
	Yeah, I wonder why.
	I wonder why.
	I would like to think that all of this stuff, there must be conversations within these companies.
	People who realize this was crazy.
	This is suicidal.
	All of this whooping about homosexuals and whooping about all of these non-whites.
	And the other one is promoting fat violence.
	Ladies' underwear ads, models I mean to say, this stuff is just cuckoo.
	I don't think that women are ordinarily going to want to buy something that's being modeled by somebody who's overweight.
	Men are certainly not going to think that's a good idea.
	The latest, of course, is this Jaguar ad.
	I don't know if any of you have seen it.
	It's probably very easy to find on YouTube now.
	It is, there's not even a car that appears in the ad.
	All it is, is these freaks, obvious, they look like transvestites or transsexuals.
	I don't think there's a normal looking person to hold ad.
	And they're whirling and walking on the ceiling upside down.
	And they're dressed in one kind of puffy outfit after another.
	And then they say, we are breaking the mold or something like that.
	We are free from the past.
	We are forging ahead.
	And you're supposed to go out and rush right out and buy Jaguars.
	What on earth?
	What on earth?
	But, you know, one company makes a mistake.
	One company hires this transsexual, Dylan Mulvaney, and Jaguar just makes a similar ad.
	Some people don't learn.
	Let's hope they are punished, punished badly in sales, but it would be a terrible thing.
	Jaguar is this classic, distinguished brand, and it would be a pity for the company to go under because of utter stupidity in its ad campaign.
	Now, let's see.
	Oh, now this is something we can't do without.
	This was an opinion piece in the Atlanta Constitution Journal.
	It was titled, I'm Not Leaving My America.
	I'm leaving Trump's.
	In other words, I'm leaving Trump's America.
	This is a white guy writing this article.
	Now, I don't know what the name Todd Kapilovits is.
	That could be Eastern European.
	I don't know.
	He says, We're teetering on the edge of a free fall into rock bottom, pulling everyone with a shred of decency down with us.
	Growing up in the Midwest, I couldn't fathom how a nation could embrace someone like Hitler.
	Now I know better, in parentheses, because it's happened here.
	Fear weaponized.
	Simple scapegoats offered.
	The toxic cocktail that blinds people.
	Well, listener, if you voted for Donald Trump, you have been blinded by the toxic cocktail of fear weaponized.
	It happened in Germany, Bosnia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Stalin's Russia.
	Implication, it has happened here.
	Less than a month ago, my heart dropped like a lead white.
	The nightmare came home.
	Fury and fear have been spinning in my head ever since.
	Gosh, he's had a bad time, hasn't he?
	Donald Trump will soon be president again, this time with a MAGA-led Republican Congress and a rubber-stamped Supreme Court ready to green-light whatever hateful agenda he couldn't finish the first time.
	They're going to green-light whatever hateful agenda he couldn't finish the first time.
	Yep, that's what the Supreme Court does.
	For a horrifying number of Americans, the misogyny, racism, and anti-Semitism didn't matter.
	Or worse, they liked it.
	Yeah, they voted for it.
	Anti-Semitism, misogyny, you like pretty girls, you like to have sex with pretty girls and you're a misogynist.
	And I don't know what makes him an anti-Semite and racist.
	What did he ever do to hurt black people or any kind of non-white?
	But boy, they just have these words branded into their brains and they can't get past them.
	We're banning books, arresting librarians, threatening teachers, demonizing education itself.
	This is Nazi Germany territory.
	I guess it's not yet Nazi Germany itself, just Nazi Germany territory, but that's close enough.
	I can't sit by idly, praying that authorities don't come from my immigrant neighbors.
	I won't watch them try to erase my son.
	Now, I don't know why it is.
	That Donald Trump wants to erase his son.
	Strip away my daughter's rights.
	Well, I suppose his daughter wants three abortions next year.
	I don't know what's going on.
	Or escalate anti-Semitic rhetoric into action.
	I can't gamble on this ending well.
	Where is Donald Trump's anti-Semitic rhetoric?
	I don't get it.
	Decency is a crime.
	Hate is a virtue.
	Got that?
	I guess in this guy's mind.
	Neighbors turning on neighbors.
	Cultural differences being criminalized.
	Yeah, that's right.
	If you like to eat with chopsticks, you're a criminal.
	I believe I have an obligation to make the world better for those around me.
	Until now, that meant leaning into the fight.
	Donations, phone banks, petitions, protests.
	But I'm leaving.
	I'm packing my family and moving overseas.
	After too many sleepless nights and endless spirals of what-if, we've chosen a future in...
	Now, ladies and gentlemen, guess where this guy's going?
	Is he going to seek joy and diversity in Guatemala?
	Is he going to help the poor in Pakistan?
	Is he going to maybe go to Turkey and teach those Islamists something about women's rights?
	Is he going to do that?
	Why no?
	As he goes on to say, in Northern Ireland, my family will be able to finally breathe, thrive, and focus on building something meaningful.
	In Northern Ireland!
	Well, in Northern Ireland, not that long ago, Catholics were shooting Protestants, but I guess, you know, they got that out of the system, and they're just going to love Trump haters there.
	The house we're moving to in Port Ballantyre has views of the North Atlantic.
	This isn't retreat, it's strategy.
	When the rules are rigged, the boldest move is to stop playing.
	Okay, the rules are rigged in the United States.
	I wonder how that happened.
	Does he think the election was stolen?
	It's not fear.
	It's purpose.
	I'm building a life where compassion, justice, and democracy aren't theoretical.
	They're real, lived values.
	Northern Ireland?
	Hmm.
	Okay.
	Of course, it's overwhelming.
	He's probably noticed in an unconscious way.
	People are nice there.
	You know, there's not the kind of constant tension of diversity.
	He lives in Atlanta, this guy.
	And he's going to get away from all of that and get a view of the ocean.
	Sometimes the smartest move isn't finding a broken system, but working on building a new world and thriving outsiders.
	Well, Todd Koplovitz.
	He's a former reporter and economist for the Dallas Morning News.
	I suspect he got a full dose of diversity in Dallas.
	Well, ladies and gentlemen, this brings our podcast to an end.
	It is always a joy, a pleasure, and an honor to spend this time with you.
	And please, do get in touch with me with your ideas and comments, and it will be my pleasure to spend this time with you again next week.

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