March 23, 2018 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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4035 Why Donald Why? President Trump Betrayal, Signs Disastrous Spending Bill!
President Donald Trump has signed the $1,300,000,000,000, 2,232-page Omnibus Spending Bill despite massive opposition from the overwhelming majority of his supporters. President Trump expressed his dislike for the bill, but claimed that the increase in U.S. military spending was so important that it offset the massive debt, funding of Planned Parenthood, lack of limitations on funding sanctuary cities and not funding the promised border wall between the United States and Mexico. Your support is essential to Freedomain Radio, which is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by making a one time donation or signing up for a monthly recurring donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate
In literature, there is something called the fatal flaw.
It is an aspect of a person's character that drives them to self-destruction, that causes them to abandon and overturn all the values that have driven them through most of the arc of the narrative, and today we saw that in President Trump.
You can see it in literature.
For Hamlet, it is indecisiveness.
For Macbeth, it is ambition.
For me, it is tentativeness.
Which I will not be manifesting today.
And for Donald Trump, it is his desire to shovel the money of the unborn into the blood-soaked great white shark maw of the military-industrial complex.
What did he sell his base out for in signing rather than vetoing the pork-fest $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill?
What did he betray his base for?
For being able to enact the largest military budget in history, I dare say, in human history.
Because that, of course, is what Trump supporters were cheering all the time.
Not lock her up, not build the wall.
More bombs, more guns.
We will sacrifice and burn to the ground our personal relationships, our credibility, our professional opportunities, our friendships, our family relations.
We will burn them to the ground.
Donald J. Trump, on one condition, please find ways to send extra, to sell extra hundreds of billions of dollars of military hardware to Saudi Arabia.
That's what we are sacrificing for!
That's why we send you millions of dollars and take massive personal risks, not just in terms of relationships, but in terms of personal safety.
We will burn all of that to the ground to hand you power to do what?
To create jobs, to build a wall, and to control immigration.
That's all it was about. That's all it was ever about.
You look at this omnibus spending bill.
Well, of course it's going to destroy jobs, because it's spending vastly in excess of what the government is taking in.
Hey, you know what doesn't work?
This is an old Republican trick, going back to at least Reagan.
Lower taxes raise spending.
Foot-peer spread.
The largest military budget in history.
Why? Why?
So that you can keep 700-plus military bases around the world, continuing to poke their stick into the various hornets' nests of religious and ethnic conflicts all over the world?
Why? What is it?
With white people and their pathological narcissism where we somehow believe that we can stride across the world like a colossus and sweep and dust and arrange like inanimate chess pieces the countries and cultures and religions of the world in our own image.
It won't work.
It will never work. The dream of me remaking the world in your own image is to lose everything you have.
I can stride through an asylum and make everyone sane with the power of my words and the force of my personality.
What happens in the long run?
The sane become insane and the insane win.
You add one more to the asylum by imagining that you can make the world sane through example, through weaponry, through words, through foreign aid, through funding.
Through overthrowing governments.
This is what Trump has portrayed his base for.
What about the wall?
All these prototypes have been built forever.
Well, this bill, this omnibus spending bill that Trump signed today, specifically bans Trump's Department of Homeland Security from building new border walls and any kind of fencing with any of the prototypes That the president has been touting and has recently visited.
You can't use any of the prototypes to build any of the war.
So no war. No war.
War costs about 18 billion dollars.
You know what else is in this omnibus spending bill?
9 billion dollars for scholarships from students from Afghanistan and Egypt.
Oh, also lots of money without condition.
Billions of dollars to help countries in the Middle East secure their borders.
Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, all get wall funding.
This is Kafkaesque.
This is worse than a joke.
It's a fatal comedy.
All that had to happen, of course, was that the Trump supporters needed to be more specific.
When they said build a wall, they should have added, in America!
Now they didn't. So he's like, yeah, I built walls in Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan.
Nine billion dollars for scholarships and walls in the Middle East.
That's half the cost of the entire wall right there.
Oh, added bonus, PNAC signatory and the man with the most eminently punchable mustache in the history of the planet, Bolton, has been appointed as national security advisor, a man who still defends the ungodly brutality.
And deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, destabilization of the region, creation of ISIS, beginning of the dominoes that topple Syria, Libya, and create a migrant crisis.
Bolton, who still defends the Iraq War to this day, now National Security Advisor.
Neocon rising, blood levels rising also.
Oh, also added bonus, President Trump is now tweeting out leftist talking points about the Second Amendment.
He tweeted today, Obama administration legalized bump stocks.
Bad idea! As I promised today, the Department of Justice will issue the rule banning bump stocks with a mandated comment, period.
We will ban all devices that turn legal weapons into illegal machine guns.
Yeah, see, that's what happens.
You betray the people, and you are the last chance to save the country.
You betray the people, you better start chipping away at their gun rights, and I think we all know why.
I mean, the 24-7 porn network that the mainstream media has turned into, where they're parading Stormy Daniels and Playmates talking about banging Trump.
Any of those women meet President Trump today?
They're like, no thanks! Not really.
I'll pass. So what does this mean?
Of course he's still better than Hillary.
Better than Hillary? Well, the taller than Danny DeVito contest is won by Trump.
But it's not going to happen.
It's not going to happen. This is the end of the Republican Party.
Don't even get me started on how...
Paul Ryan has delivered the Chuck Schumer budget, and how Trump has been bested by doddering, cross-eyed Nancy Pelosi, who stutters out that, well, Trump should just imagine there's a wall in there and then sign it.
For decades, the American public have been begging and genuflecting before the Stoneheart's And giggling visages of the Republican politicians saying, please secure our borders.
Please reduce immigration!
Tens of millions pouring into the country.
No plan for integration.
Massive expenses.
Displacement of quality education.
Overloading of the healthcare system.
Cross-cultural conflicts being sowed.
Hey, funny Lebanon came up before.
Diversity plus proximity equals war.
And people have been begging the Republicans to put up a wall.
The wall has been funded well north of a decade.
They won't do it. They have been begging.
The black community has been begging for a reduction in immigration and control over the border because it undercuts the wages of the least privileged within society does nobody care about the blacks.
The Hispanics? The working class of any kind?
This expands all of that.
Chamber of Commerce, victory, civilization, loss.
So, what does this mean?
Thank you.
Well, it's the end of the Republican Party as it stands.
And the lightning strike of the coincidence of a man with an extraordinarily high charisma, net worth, visibility, intelligence, seeming integrity, this is not, lightning is not going to strike again.
It was Trump or bust, as I have said for, well, years now.
It was Trump or bust.
And it's bust. It's bust.
He could have sent the bill back, but he got the military fetish.
He was probably pumped up with false blood-soaked testosterone by the warmongers that surround him.
We need military to be strong!
We need security in the country!
Because you've got to go deal with North Korea.
That's China's problem. That's China's problem.
North Korea is America's problem about as much as Mexico is China's problem.
Ann Coulter today sent chills through me, I'll tell you that straight up.
She was on a show and she was saying that she's so glad that she doesn't have children.
Because America, within a generation, will be South Africa.
Well, I am a parent.
I have no choice. 2018 midterms.
There will be no energizing the Republican base.
Democrats will sweep in.
Impeachment proceedings will begin almost immediately.
The second half of the Trump presidency will be paralyzed, if not prematurely ended.
What are they? Take out Trump, they take out Pence, and Pelosi steps up.
The borders are opened.
The spending goes nuts. The addiction takes over.
And at once, great land will be buried.
Confirming that when you have a state at the center of your society, and you have the mad vanity and exploitation of an empire, you are lucky to get 250 years out of it tops.
So, what now?
Well, now is the time to find your tribe, to develop your relationships, to bring into your circle those who you can trust in the storm that is coming.
