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EPISODE 700: THE BALTIMORE KEY BRIDGE DISASTER AND THE COLLAPSE OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS
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This morning, a stunning bridge collapse at the port of Baltimore.
The entire key bridge in the harbor.
The Francis Scott Key Bridge plunging into the water overnight after it was hit by a cargo container ship.
Video shows smoke coming from the ship before it hit the bridge.
And though the collapse happened in the early morning hours, 1.30 a.m., video shows cars crossing moments before the ship hits.
The traffic then paused, but vehicles were still on the bridge as it then crumbled into the water.
Fire Department and Coast Guard teams rushed to the scene, rescuers searching the water overnight.
Jack Posobiec here in Baltimore Harbor.
You can see just behind me the ship, the Dali, Singapore flagged, Mare chartered, and the remains of the Francis Scott Key Bridge here in Baltimore Harbor.
Helicopters are up, search and rescue, Coast Guard looking for any potential survivors.
You can hear the helicopters.
Circling the area.
The ship, of course, is stationary.
It has stopped directly where the bridge, where it struck the bridge, where the bridge once stood.
As you can see behind me, the port is completely silent.
No ships are moving.
It's a quiet day that started out with a catastrophic early morning where overnight The bridge collapsed due to this catastrophic incident which took place around 1.30 in the morning.
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Today is March 26, 2024.
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So you saw my early morning reporting there after running a few errands this morning, drove out to Baltimore Harbor, and I was able to get some footage of what was going on at the time and continues now the search and rescue for any of these construction workers, these contractors who were told fixing potholes on the bridge.
When this ship collided with it and destroyed it so This is this is tough I've driven with my family on that bridge many times I brought my boys on that bridge my children In fact in our family, we actually have a little nickname for it for the kids We call it dinosaur bridge because if you look at it or if you looked at any of the old pictures Because it has that sort of you know, like a brontosaurus kind of
Back shape that we call it Dinosaur Bridge and whenever we're driving around or we're driving up to see my family in Pennsylvania, we always point out say, hey, there's Dinosaur Bridge.
And the first thing I had to tell my kids this morning was that Dinosaur Bridge was destroyed.
Obviously, we're still getting more information about how exactly it was destroyed.
Of course, we can see the ship hitting it.
We want to know exactly what happened to that ship, Motor Vessel Dali.
Colliding with it about 1 30 in the morning local time.
And there's a story that's starting to emerge now.
And we don't have quite all the details yet, but we're told that those construction workers who are up there and I remember 1 of the 1st things that I, I looked at.
And I remember watching the Kerch Strait Bridge attack that was in in Crimea, but you can see that there were cars on the bridge when that took place.
However, if you watch the video very carefully, very closely, when the ship collides directly with the support column there, you don't actually see any vehicles that are up on The bridge itself.
You don't see anyone driving across.
You see one, I think it's a truck, looks like a semi, makes it just before the ship collides.
And you say, wow, that's amazing.
It's miraculous, obviously, that none of the, that no cars were actually on at the time.
Well, there's a story and that's now emerging that the construction workers that were up there fixing potholes in the middle of the night, away from their families, making a buck, working hard, that those guys went out, put down their tools, and didn't try to save themselves, that they went over and they stopped traffic on the Francis Scott Key Bridge, Patapsco River, Chesapeake Bay, going into Baltimore Harbor.
These construction workers, these guys, put down what they were doing and got up to warn traffic off of the bridge, to try to stop traffic, to warn people from getting out there, and potentially saved many lives.
Doing so, in doing so, sacrificing themselves.
Sacrificing themselves.
To save other people's lives.
Now, we're told one or perhaps two of these guys, and in my video from earlier, we'll play it again.
You can see the helicopter.
It's a Coast Guard helicopter out of U.S.
Coast Guard Station, Atlantic City, searching for these guys, search and rescue.
These guys are heroes.
They're all heroes, and we're going to get the names as soon as it's released.
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Now, we're talking about the collapse of complex systems and looking at the infrastructure systems, but there's also legal systems that are collapsing in many cases, legal standards at least, that are collapsing in many cases, and when cases that occasionally collapse or at least are struck down and when cases that occasionally collapse or at least are struck down full or in part at the One of those was this ruling that came down for President Trump yesterday in New York.
Now, there were two cases in New York of which President Trump was involved.
The first was this civil fraud case, big appeal that came down.
A lot of people weren't sure what was going to happen.
Judge Ngaran, it happened right before we went to show yesterday, but I wanted to bring on now Will Chamberlain.
He is the Senior Counsel for the Article 3 Project.
You guys know Mike Davis from there.
You know Will, of course.
He worked here at Human Events, was instrumental, by the way, in bringing Human Events back to life, and he joins us now.
Will, how are you?
Good to be with you, Jack.
So walk me through this, um, uh, this, this ruling, because a lot of people were, you know, this, this, this kind of came down to, you know, the left had kind of sort of come up with this punchline saying, Oh, Trump doesn't have the money.
He doesn't have the cash.
Ha ha.
You know, he's, he's poor, poor Don Leon or something.
I can't even get it right.
Don Poor Leon is really, really bad puns, uh, on the other side.
And, and of course, Frank Luntz is running around saying, you know, you shouldn't be bragging about how you're just basically stealing things from a guy.
It's not going to play well in the polls.
But walk me through what actually happened from the legal standpoint yesterday in that ruling.
Okay, so basically, the Court of Appeals in New York reduced the size of the required appeal bond from $454 million to $175 million and lifted some of the other restrictions on Trump that Judge Engeron had put in place at the trial court level.
What that means effectively is that Trump goes from being in jeopardy of, you know, not being able to provide sufficient cash right away to even be able to appeal the case or, you know, somehow having to do a fire sale of assets really quickly.
Either way, what you have is You know, what you had was a very punitive appeal bond.
And what an appeal bond, the basic idea of appeal bond is, if you lose a civil judgment at the trial level, you have the right to appeal it, but the court can impose a bond upon you to ensure that you'll end up paying the judgment after you appeal.
And they're not supposed to be punitive.
And I think that's why, you know, Judge Engron, you know, issued obviously this absurd $450 million judgment and then said that Trump had to put the entire amount up as a bond.
So, I think the Court of Appeals found that unfairly punitive and reduced the size of it, and I think ultimately Trump's going to be able to make bond without too much of an issue now.
So making the bond, and of course he delivers this statement yesterday, oh it's your collateral cash.
Walk us through, does he have to pay the full $175, or is that just put up as collateral, or is a portion of that put up as collateral for the bond?
So he will need to put up, you know, he'll put up a certain amount of cash, there will be a fee, and then he'll post, he'll say that these stocks I own are collateral and these cash securities are collateral.
And that should be sufficient.
The big problem was that appeal bonds are sort of unique.
They're not like other normal loans where you can put up real estate as collateral.
Appeal bonds, these companies, one, they don't deal in $500 million amounts generally.
It's very rare that a judge will impose an appeal bond of that size.
And then second, they want the collateral to be very liquid securities, if it's going to be securities.
Illiquid assets like real estate, they're just not in the business of, you know, valuing those assets and then selling them, especially because, you know, appeals often lose.
And so it's very sort of common that a person who ends up buying an appeal bond will have to satisfy the judgment.
And so that's a big part of the reason why they want liquid securities in the first place.
You know, just shares of stock that could easily be traded.
So essentially they're thinking, we want to make sure this guy can actually pay should he lose the appeal because the majority of them are typically losers on appeal.
That being said, so it's $175k now, but if he loses his appeal, does it go back up to the full amount of $454k?
Yeah, if he doesn't actually win any reduction in the size of the judgment on the merits, then yes, he would still be on the hook for $454 million.
And New York and Letitia James would be able to satisfy part of that with the appeal bond.
They'd be able to take that $175 million right off the top.
And then they'd still be able to pursue President Trump for the rest of the judgment by seizing his other assets.
So what's the timeline on this?
Because a lot of the other cases, people have said, well, with the exception of Alvin Bragg, which I want to talk about to you in the next segment, that, you know, a lot of these cases are being delayed.
This is not one of them, obviously.
This is happening right now.
But the appeals decision will take some time.
Yeah, I don't actually know what the schedule is.
I haven't looked at the full briefing schedule.
So I don't know when the appeal, when the briefing is due and when the oral arguments are.
But you can expect that this will take a few months at least.
And so, I mean, if it's a normal slow appeal, it could take even up to a year.
But being able to post this appeal bond means that Trump will be able to appeal and have it heard and wait to not have to pay the $450 million now.
So why do you say the court should toss it?
Why do you say that would be the right thing?
Many people think, obviously, if the court does the right thing, this will get tossed.
But you can't you can't bet on the court doing the right thing.
So at least it's good for President Trump that he'll be able to delay this.
So why do you say the court should toss it?
Why do you say that would be the right thing?
Oh, well, I mean, it's a fraud case with no victims and where everybody understands that the vast assets are hard to evaluate and hard to put a proper value on.
There was a great New York Times article.
I don't know if you saw it where they said, you know, Leticia James might be able to start seizing Trump's assets, though it's difficult to value them.
Well, it turns out the entire premise of Letitia James's case was that... I saw the headline.
It was... Right.
Yeah, it was amazing.
I think Josh LaFave said, hang this in the Louvre.
Yeah.
This headline.
Yeah, because the whole premise of their case is that we can value your real estate assets, and they're way less than what you said they were.
Now, one, that's false.
Leticia James and the court set a value of $20 million on Mar-a-Lago.
President Trump has said it's worth $5,200 times that.
That seems accurate to me.
If you know anything about Palm Beach real estate, there aren't that many properties like Mar-a-Lago.
That's an enormous compound that actually stretches the entire width of the Palm Beach barrier island.
No other property on The island does that and just when that's the reason for the name.
That's actually the reason for the name.
A lot of people don't realize that from Italian Mar a Lago from the sea to the lake.
So that's it's right there in the name.
This is an extremely unique property.
Yes, in the most one of the highest priced real estate markets in the entire country and the entire world probably actually normal houses go for 20 million in Palm Beach.
So what does this property go for?
You can see it on your screen right now.
That's a that's a billion dollar property right there.
And they said, you know, Trump, essentially, the theory of the case is Trump defrauded these new, very sophisticated New York banks like Deutsche by saying, by getting loans to buy the old post office building where the Trump Hotel was.
And he cheated Deutsche out of it despite repaying the loan.
And I mean, you can't explain it without starting to laugh and realize how ridiculous it is.
That's the thing about this case, because it didn't need to go to a jury trial under New York law.
All it needed was Letitia James and Judge Engeron.
Letitia James would bring the case and Judge Engeron to find Trump liable.
And all of a sudden, you know, the state of New York has put a half a million dollar judgment on Trump's head.
It's half a billion, rather.
And it's it's an abuse of the system.
It's obvious and like absurd lawfare.
And that's why I say that the court appeals obviously should reverse this.
And it's it's another thing, too, where, of course, this is going to have going to have repercussions for anybody else who's got one.
I mean, I'm sure there's other, you know, real estate developers who are currently in in process with, you know, different claims or potential, you know, potential issues in New York, not just the city, but the entire state for the appeals.
And so, you know, now people are going to have to wonder, is this same standard going to apply to everyone who's seeking a business loan?
Right.
And I mean, any real estate developer, any anybody who has assets in New York and then makes a deal with a New York bank to borrow money using those assets as collateral on the basis of what was done by Letitia James.
It's clear that the state of New York feels it's perfectly reasonable to even if you paid off all your loans, nobody was victimized and you were just valuing your assets as aggressively.
But within the realm of reasonableness, you could just have all your money taken away.
You just have all your assets stolen and stripped from you.
And so I don't I think it's going to have a real impact on people actually doing business in New York.
And that's maybe the only positive thing that comes out of it.
And to me, it just I said yesterday on the show, it's state-sponsored theft.
It just looks like state-sponsored theft.
We're going to coming up on a quick break here.
Will Chamberlain from the Article 3 project is joining us.
He's walking us through these things.
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The fundamental tenet of communism is the abolition of private property.
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Will, We also got news out of New York yesterday where it wasn't about a ruling being struck down.
In fact, it was about something moving forward, and that being this trial, a criminal trial, with Alvin Bragg, whereby in, President Trump will now become the first president, or I guess former president now, to stand criminal trial in the United States.
Now, surely, If this is the first time, completely unprecedented, that a former president would stand trial, surely the crime must be just absolutely horrific.
It must be something that's just so atrocious that everyone can call it out for what it is.
Public opinion, of course, I'm sure, swinging to the DA on this one.
Tell us, Will, what was this horrific crime that President Trump committed A falsification of business records that nobody ever viewed, which is a unique crime in the history of New York law.
and put this dastardly man on trial?
A falsification of business records that nobody ever viewed, which is a unique crime in the history of New York law.
Normally, whenever you see a falsification of business records cases, the common theme is that there is some reliance being expected of another person.
It's being used to defraud, where somebody who's, say, buying your company is looking at your books and you falsify the things in your books to get them to purchase your company fraudulently.
That's not what happened here.
Basically, Donald Trump is being prosecuted for being the victim of Michael Avenatti's blackmail, kind of another bizarre feature of this case.
Uh, he is, you know, there really is no meaningful crime here.
And that's just on the substantive level.
Procedurally, this should have been time barred by the statute of limitations, because there's no external felony that this was in service of.
And, you know, there were some theories that maybe Alvin Bragg would try and say, Oh, well, this was, you know, in service of tax fraud or in service of a campaign finance reform violation, because somehow, you know, the giving money to Stormy Daniels was a campaign donation.
I mean, that all these theories were very silly, but Abercrombie just skirted by them by saying, Oh, we don't have to specify what felony this was in service of.
And that allowed him to then, or that gave him what he thought was the permission to charge a felony in this case, which extended the statute of limitations six years, which was necessary because the actions and questions happened in 2017.
And he didn't bring the case until 2023.
If it was a misdemeanor, as it should, it would have been time barred because there's a three-year statute of limitations.
And what we're all talking about here, what this is all centered around, is this series of payments that went to Michael Cohen and allegedly, because it is still alleged, allegedly then went to Stormy Daniels for the purposes of essentially having her not come out publicly with this story that she and Michael Avenatti were sharing, which by the way, she did also come out publicly, eventually I'd say, with Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes.
Yeah.
And they're basically saying, again, they're prosecuting him for being the victim of what seems to be a pretty clear blackmail scheme.
And I mean, Michael Avenatti actually is currently sitting in jail for attempting to blackmail Nike.
So it's a very interesting way in which our system is currently working that you're seeing this type of prosecution.
Now, that said, it's serious because it's coming up in April.
It's in New York.
It could be a terrible jury pool, not as bad as DC was going to be, but Manhattan is not a great jury pool for President Trump.
And it's remarkable that it's gotten this far.
This case should have been dismissed.
It was legally insufficient to bring in the first instance, very obviously, and yet it wasn't dismissed.
Well, and actually, I would throw out that, in fact, it was passed over a couple of times.
First, by the Southern District of New York, which, by the way, no fan of Donald Trump or conservatives or Republicans.
I mean, this is probably the most aggressive district in the entire nation.
They're going after Steve Bannon, they're going after James O'Keefe, they're going after a number of people in the Southern District.
They passed on this one because they said this thing was a lemon.
And even Alvin Bragg himself originally passed on it before, essentially, it became close to the election and it looked as though Donald Trump was going to run again.
Yeah, and I think a big part of it is because, remember, it's just, you know, Donald Trump isn't the guy sitting there accounting for everything in the business records and describing how it's going to be reported.
And the person whose testimony apparently is necessarily to link Donald Trump to the actual specific writings Is Michael Cohen, who's maybe the most dishonest lawyer in of our generation.
This is the guy who went out and started talking all this stuff about Donald Trump and breaching every single client confidence he could have had.
I mean, and, you know, he's he's trying to say, oh, I'm coming clean now as a lawyer.
It's just absolutely repugnant to see somebody say, oh, I'm going to come clean by airing my client's confidences in public, every single one of them and, you know, calling him all sorts of bad names.
Absolutely shameful and massive violation of legal ethics.
The guy's been disbarred.
He's already been, I think, prosecuted for perjury.
And I think SDNY thought better of the idea of bringing any sort of case where a necessary piece of evidence was going to be testimony from this convicted perjurer.
And so this was the reason that even Alvin Bragg, a couple of weeks ago, pumped the brakes on this whole thing and said, I want a 30-day, at least a 30-day delay, because SDNY spent an entire year sitting on something like 73,000 documents that they had conducted in the federal investigation into all of this.
The first bite at the apple, the first time around, when Michael Avenatti and Stormy Daniels started making their rounds.
And even the SDNY passes on this thing.
And so Alvin Bragg goes, look, I need some time to go through this stuff.
Judge Juan Mershon proceeding forward after only a 30 day trial, do you think that is something that is quick or is that something that's reasonable and average in your view? - I mean, I don't know.
It looks like the documents may have been mostly duplicative, which wouldn't be surprising, right?
Like, if New York's been conducting its own investigation and subpoenaing documents for three or four years now, and then, you know, they finally got a dump of documents from SDNY, well, SDNY would have been looking at much of the same documents.
So, I've seen reporting that there wasn't actually much new or interesting in what SDNY turned over.
But I think that ultimately the 30 days was about giving the Trump team the apparent ability to at least review some of these documents, although obviously the sheer number would have been unreviewable in 30 days.
That said, I think the real indication that Judge Merchant is not a fan of Donald Trump is the fact that this case is going to trial.
Again, it's similar to the civil case in that The underlying theory doesn't make any sense.
It's not, it shouldn't be seen as criminal behavior.
I mean, again, I remember there was a liberal law professor who said this is a unique case in New York jurisprudence as the first falsification of business record case, where there was no intent to defraud and no idea that anybody would be relying on the business records in question.
So one has to suspect that the reason this case is being brought forward is the same reason that the civil case.
went the way it did is that they want to punish Donald Trump.
And all this has the air of Laurenti Beria.
This is all find me the man and I'll find you the crime.
It's like New York has decided that Beria was a role model to emulate, you know, something about how communists are really bad.
Do you have a book on that coming out?
Yeah, you know, I was thinking about writing a book about how communists are bad.
And then Joshua Lysak said, hey, Jack, you should work together with me and we should write a book about how communists are bad.
And and so we did.
And we're currently sitting at like number 33 on Amazon, which you actually helped us go.
behind the scenes a little bit.
And we've got Joshua coming up next on this.
But I guess what I would say, and one of the things that we bear out in the book is that when people look at the news and they scratch their heads and say, gosh, this is unbelievable.
I can't believe this is happening.
My head is spinning.
And one thing that Joshua and I found going through the book is, no, actually, this is not unbelievable.
In fact, this is actually routine.
It's routine if your analysis is that these people have fully embraced communism, which is the ideology of placing envy and destruction of your opponents ahead of, well, everything else.
They're not motivated by wanting to better their own station, better their own, or I should say at least their own communities.
They certainly better their own station.
Letitia James has become very wealthy after entering public life.
But it has nothing to do with that.
It has all to do with, this is why they'll say you need to, you know, eat the rich, kill the billionaires, et cetera, et cetera, that anyone who is of means, anyone who is successful, must then be destroyed.
It's actually very similar to, I'm sure you've read, Bumpire of the Vanities, that taking place right in New York City, that's exactly what's happening to Donald Trump right now.
Yeah, no, it's genuinely like the worst instance of lawfare that anybody can remember.
I mean, the combination of all these civil cases and then four criminal indictments in four different jurisdictions in four months of a leading presidential candidate, it's lawfare.
It's been obvious from the beginning.
And, you know, I remember being a lot more worried that, oh, well, you know, people, I guess, will take this seriously and You know, Donald Trump will sink in the polls because of all this, but I was definitely wrong about that.
I think a lot of the bulk of the American people have figured out that this is absolute nonsense, that they're just trying to take their opponent off the ballot.
And I'm like, I will be very, very white-pilled if he manages to win the general.
Tell me about it.
The biggest white pill right now is looking at the polls on this.
Will, we're just about out of time.
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Now, we're going to bring Joshua Lysak on, the co-author of the new book, which is currently sitting at number 33 on Amazon All Books, Unhumans, The Secret History of Communist Revolutions and How to Crush Them.
And Joshua, one of the theses of the book, perhaps the main thesis of the book, is that we are currently experiencing what we detail in the book, something that we call the Communist Revolution 2.0, which is an irregular communist revolution.
And one of the things that you would find in an irregular communist revolution, and everyone needs to preorder this right now to understand what's happening, is that you might see systems become subverted.
You might see complex systems be deteriorating.
And you might sit down and say that all of this was actually not being done because of the unintended consequences of, you know, good minded liberals and and progressives that, in fact, it was actually deliberate and had been deliberate all along. it was actually deliberate and had been deliberate all along.
Walk me through the theory of the case.
Yes.
Thanks for having me on, Jack.
So the case that we make in the book is that the communist revolution that's currently taking place in the United States and in the Western world more generally is different from those revolutions that have came before.
The revolutions that have come before have been bloody.
They've been in the streets.
There have been thousands of participants in these mobs.
They're very obvious.
And there is a vocal figurehead who's Waving their fists, carrying a red flag, for example.
And it's visceral, it's real world.
But warfare itself has changed.
It used to be that armies would fight on battlefields.
But now, armies fight quietly, often through proxies or through other means such as cyber attacks, such as industrial sabotage.
That way they can get away with it.
It's a more sneaky way to, frankly, defeat the enemy without fighting them directly, especially if the enemy has superior firepower.
And this leaves the otherwise military advantageous powers at a disadvantage.
Now, what we point out in the book is that the socio-political context of our world has changed also for uprisings.
And therefore, the Communist Revolution we're experiencing now is a low-intensity revolutionary war.
It takes place, just as Will Chamberlain was saying prior to you, In domains like lawfare, where an individual like former President Trump is targeted for a micro-revolution, where all the forces of unhumanity and anti-civilization are rising up against him personally, rather than, let's say, all right-wing billionaires, for example, which would create a backlash.
It would create a true backlash, because it was an obvious, almost an open warfare.
But the micro revolutions can take place in a bit of a sneakier context.
Now we can talk about how this ties into what we're witnessing today with this Baltimore Bridge collapse.
When a communist revolution has seen any measure of success, the new top dogs, the new shot callers who have made that revolution be successful, what do they do?
They begin what John Robb calls the hollowing out of all institutions.
Think the oligarchs who became in charge in post-revolutionary Russia, first under Lenin and then under Stalin.
What did they do?
After seizing the means of productions, they then kept a nice lion's share of it for themselves.
And what we've been seeing in the United States since the 1960s is a cultural revolution.
A cultural revolution, Communist Revolution 2.0, in which those who have gone on the long march through the institutions have now begun enriching themselves.
And the price of that is a decline in the standard of living and the quality of life for everyone, particularly those most vulnerable, the have-nots, the so-called oppressed classes that the revolutionaries said that they were fighting for in the first place.
It's always the poor, the working poor, the underclass who stand to lose the most from those who promise them the most to gain.
And so this idea of what you're describing, the coalition of the fringes, this The putting of the purposefully substandard in terms of talent, substandard in terms of quality, substandard in terms of skill in positions of power will of course make them far more loyal to the regime.
I can't think of anyone more perfect than this than Pete Buttigieg.
Pete Buttigieg is like the poster child of someone who clearly, from everything we know from a very young age, looked out at the system, saw the inverted hierarchy of values that have been placed,
and decided to gamify it and essentially taper his own or tailor his own resume to fit all of these things and so here we have this guy who is our current Secretary of Transportation and his qualifications include number one that he said that he enjoyed trains when he was younger and that he if I remember correctly said that he and his husband got Chaston got engaged at an airport so those are his qualifications for Secretary of Transportation
But his real qualification, Joshua, that you're outlining is his loyalty.
Isn't that right?
Yes, that's right.
Many on social media this week have pointed out that DEI, formerly known as diversity, equity and inclusion, now ought be known as didn't earn it.
DEI didn't earn it.
Now, this doesn't really make any sense without the frame of reference for a communist revolution 2.0, a cultural revolution, but a low intensity.
Revolutionary War, because in the book, we lay out how communist revolutions unfold.
And one of the things that they always do is replace competent, smart people with incompetent, let's say, uneducated, meaning they not that they're uneducated, it's that they don't know anything about what it is that they're going to be in charge of.
And this results in catastrophe.
And this happens every single time.
But they were the ones who were loyal.
And so Former Mayor Buttigieg being a gay man, he finds himself in the alleged oppressed class in the United States.
So we went from Marxism, where it was all about socioeconomic oppressed versus oppressor.
Now we've moved to a new frame of reference, which is cultural Marxism, which is those groups in a culture that can claim to be participants in the Oppressed class or they can claim to be members of that oppressed class get the benefit of that Of the oppression strange as that sounds and yet that is what it is And so when we look at why are so many incompetent people being placed in positions of great power and authority?
It's because they're quote-unquote oppressed They are have-nots so to speak and when we look at other revolutions be it be that the communist revolution in Russia or particularly in China when The farms were collectivized in communist China.
Peasants were placed in charge of managing vast tracts of land.
What happened?
They had no idea what they were doing, and mass famines ensued and millions of people died.
It was dramatic.
What we see in the United States is a low-intensity version of a communist revolution taking place, where it's not necessarily all the farms that are being seized.
It's specific departments, it's specific regions, it's specific cities that are being seized by the minions of DEI, and they're placing those who didn't earn that responsibility in those places of power, and the result is exactly what we see. and they're placing those who didn't earn that responsibility in And sometimes what something is is exactly what it looks like.
Something you said there I am going to be thinking about for the rest of the day, The benefit of their oppression.
To benefit from oppression.
Because real oppression, of course, is nothing to benefit from.
Real oppression is horrifying.
Real oppression is something that makes you fear for your life on a regular basis.
Real oppression is something that prevents you from, oh, I don't know, applying for higher education.
Something that would apply to you for when dealing with the police would cause you to not be able to achieve promotions based on your skill set, whether you're when you're in the corporate world or in the military.
That's real oppression.
And so the idea that you could benefit from oppression seems like a complete contradiction in terms.
But given what we are in now, which is essentially a reverse government where the government exists to, as Scott Adams has said, the government exists to misgovern us.
That's exactly the situation we find ourselves in.
Joshua Lysak, co-author of Unhumans, is our guest.
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Now, Joshua, we're putting together this book, The Unhumans, The Secret History of Communist Revolutions and How to Crush Them.
And so people will push back on us and they'll say, well, hold on.
There have been other industrial accidents in the past.
There have been plenty of times when this has happened.
And specifically, Don Lemon, I guess, recently said to Elon Musk, he said, well, just because your surgeon might be a person of color, plenty of white doctors commit medical accidents and medical malpractice obviously is a huge issue in the United States.
Yes, it often has to do with who the accident happens to and who it was that was responsible for the accident taking place.
And how can you say that when there are problems already?
So, you know, apply that then to to this system or other systems in the past.
How can you say that just because there's accidents, that's an issue?
Yes, it often has to do with who the accident happens to and who it was that was responsible for the accident taking place.
So think about the oppressed versus oppressor frame.
And that is the most useful frame to understand the times as we live, as well as to predict what's going to happen next and how best to respond to it.
So in this cultural Marxist context, there are groups that are seen as those who have more and those who have less.
That's the oppressor versus oppressed.
That's classical Marxism applied to the modern world, to intersectionality, to critical race and gender theory and so on and so forth.
And therefore, the white Christian, heterosexual, competent male of means, that is the designated oppressor.
Whether or not they're actually oppressed is another story.
You don't have to actually be oppressed in order to be a beneficiary of that class, because you can say, people like me were once oppressed 30, 40 years ago, and therefore all of that which they suffered now accounts to me, and so I have a Suffering credit to cash in and white males have to pay for it.
And so it's seen that well, of course more Individuals who are not competent capable white heterosexual males should be in charge of things Well, even if they're not as competent and all that doesn't matter.
It's only fair to And so the left will use things like fairness, equality, equity.
I'll tie in real quick that you mentioned China before.
This is exactly what happened in Mao's China prior to the Great Leap Forward, where they said, OK, someone who's the like the foreman of a factory must be, you know, they are a class traitor.
So we have to get rid of them.
They're essentially a kulak.
And we have to take like the janitors and the lowest level assembly workers and we're going to put them in charge of the factory.
Yes, and the way to understand if you're talking to a communist, someone who is advancing the interests of anti-civilization, frankly, whether they call themselves a communist, a socialist, a progressive, or even none of those labels, is do they use manipulative language like that?
Do they talk about, well, it's only fair if, like, well, There's disparate impact.
They'll use language, like you said, of how they need an opportunity.
There has not been access of opportunity, for example.
And they use this sort of language.
And then you ask them, what do you mean by that?
And then they will say things like, well, what did Don Lemon say?
Only 5% of physicians are, I think you said, are black.
And then you ask, OK, so what should they be?
We'll say, well, it should be 12%, right?
Because that's the population of African-Americans and the demographic makeup of the country.
Well, then you ask, why should it be that?
And then he'll say, probably, well, it should actually be more to make up for all those years.
It's been less than 12%.
It should be 25%.
It should be 50% that all physicians in the country be non-white males.
And so what we have here is a competence crisis being manufactured, but the ends justify The means.
This has been the foundational principle of all communist revolutions.
The ends justify the means.
The fact that the factory breaks down, the bridge collapses, airplanes fall out of the sky, or any other issue that happens, if it is an advancement of a utopian vision where the alleged oppressed, the have-nots, begin to wield great power over their former oppressors, that is victory.
That is victory, regardless of the quality or the outcome.
Right now, there's a Gamergate 2.0 issue in our popular culture in the United States, where there are certain development studios who are talking about how important it is that gamers play video games that portray white males in a negative stereotype and non-white, non-males And he paused the stereotype.
And if you don't play those games, you're a piece of flaming hot garbage as a human being.
And people react to that and they say, well, you should play those games.
It's only fair.
And if you don't play them, there's something wrong with you.
You're racist.
You're sexist.
And there is one owner of one game studio who is praising the fact and she celebrated the fact that none of the characters in a video game are white men and that this is a great victory for her worldview in gaming.
What is that?
That is a micro-revolution.
That is the peasants being put in charge of the farms to plan the agriculture, which of course results in famine.
The one that it reminds me of as well is in the HBO series Chernobyl, they depict that the secretary for Belarusia is a former shoe factory worker who has now become the party secretary of the entire region of Belarus.
Amazing.
Yes, yes.
So in that oppressed versus oppressed or cultural Marxist frame, to not be competent is a checkbox.
It is.
Do you have the educational qualifications?
No?
No?
Oh, that must mean you were oppressed.
Therefore, you're now qualified to run the factory.
You're qualified to run the gaming studio.
You're qualified to be secretary of transportation, for example.
And so loyalty to the party is a prerequisite to your success.
And now when I say party, what I mean is loyalty to that which creates anti-civilization.
And that seems to be the trend.
Now, I'm not going to be completely black-pilled.
There are measures of progress.
There are people, organizations, mostly through decentralized networks now in the United States, who are redefining the vision that was lost, that can-do attitude of the Industrial Revolution and into the space age that has unfortunately been lost in the past couple of generations.
But they're not in charge of institutions.
They're having to go off and do their own thing.
Meanwhile, the institutions are hollowed out.
And any money and funding that can be extracted will be extracted by the forces of anti-civilization.
