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All right, everybody, welcome to Iran Brooks Show on this Monday, June 23rd. Iran has now responded. World War III? World War III? Anybody? It's about to happen. It's just, it's just, just give it a little time. I mean, I mean, it can't be that Tucker Carlson, Jeffrey Sachs, and all these other, you know, prophets of doom are wrong. That, that, that is not possible. They're too smart. It can't happen.

All right. So, yes, Iran indeed responded. It launched a missile attack on on Qatar, on the massive Air Force base that the United States has in Qatar. It was empty.

The United States actually, and I think I said this on one of the shows last week, the United States had long ago, a week or two ago, emptied the Air Force, the base. It was too close to Iran and they emptied it out, moved the planes to Saudi Arabia, moved them to Diego Garcia. The base was basically empty. There was nobody there. There was nothing there.

But they launched an attack on Qatar. They also launched attacks on some of the American bases in Iraq, I think mainly using drones. And there were actually air raid sirens going off in Bahrain and in Kuwait. No signs of any missiles targeting those places, but they did have to run into air raid shelters, I have to say, frequently.

you know, maybe it's just me. I enjoyed that thought, that thought that air raid sirens are going off in those countries did not, uh, did not upset me to say the least. All right. Um,

What do we make of this? Well, first of all, this was like a pinprick. Nothing happened. Almost all the missiles were shot down by Patriot and THAAD U.S. air defense systems. Maybe there's some rumors of three that made it to the ground, impacting the desert. I think they had a profound impact on the desert. But other than that, no American...

No American killed. Nothing. They also launched some drones, I think. Those were all shot down. I don't think any drone impacted anything. So we are told, again, fog of war, hard to tell exactly what's going on. But we're told that the Iranians tried to fire the astronomical number of 80 missiles over the last 24 hours.

I guess, at Israel and the U.S. and everywhere else, 80. Total, over the last 24 hours, they managed to fire 20. The rest were destroyed before Iran could even launch them. This is the Israeli Air Force on patrol in western Iran, identifying launchers and knocking them out, knocking them out. So, yes, the mighty Iranians, that force to be feared, that force that would drag us into World War III.

Got off 20 missiles in the last 24 hours. By the way, the Iranians have declared, officially, they have declared that they pulverized, pulverized the U.S. al-Udein airbase in Qatar. Pulverized it. It doesn't exist anymore. They didn't even, you know, scratch it.

But that is the Iranian claim. Now, you know, to give the Iranians credit, they very much acted in the way Israel does. I mean, they basically learned—they took a book out of the Israeli book, and they basically—

They made sure they made sure to coordinate their attack fully with the United States of America. I mean, that's the one thing that, you know, the Iranian seem and the American, the Israelis seem to have in common. They both coordinate what they do with the Americans, because the reality is that they basically gave advance notice to both Qatar and the United States that the missiles were going to be launched sometime today.

So that, uh, to guarantee that there would be no casualties and, and they won't hit anybody. Um, and, um, you know, this, uh, this all done, of course, uh, in an effort to be able to say to the domestic audience, we launched missiles and we pulverized the Americans, uh, and, uh, and, and look like, look like, you know, they're powerful and strong and competent and able. Uh, and at the same time, uh,

you know, expect that the Americans will not respond because, you know, nothing really happened. Nobody was hurt. This was a smaller response and indeed fewer casualties in terms of injured than the ballistic missiles that were fired at al-Assad airbase in Iraq after Trump ordered the assassination of Soleimani.

In 2019, 2020. So this was even a less of a response than that. So, you know, there was in that attack, soldiers were really hurt. They got there was concussions, brain damage. There were real injuries. This time, as far as we know, so far, the zero zip, nothing, nada. So there you go. The mighty Iranian army.

Revolutionary Guard, army, military has basically done nothing. And it does appear from there. All indications are that the United States will not respond. That is, this was one opportunity for the United States to enter the war and maybe go for regime change. Maybe maybe just just just.

to pulverize the Iranian military. But it looks like Trump is going to sit this out, and particularly if this is it, if this is all Iran has, if this is all Iran willing to do.

All indications are that the Trump administration will call it a day. I guess let the Israelis do what the Israelis do and in the background continue to or try to get some negotiations with the Iranians going. The Iranian foreign minister today is in Iran.

In Moscow, really, you know, I think groveling before Putin to try to get Putin to intervene. Putin's not going to do anything. Putin has no incentive to come to the help of Iran. You know, he didn't come to the help of Armenia when Azerbaijan invaded. And that would have been an easy one. There's no way he's going to come to the help of the Iranians. Putin is stretched. The economy stretched. You know, he's fighting a war in Ukraine.

You know, he's benefiting right now from oil prices being as high as they are. But other than that, you know, Russia is doing very poorly and very badly. It's also everybody seeing the whole world can see now the fundamental difference between American weapons systems and, you know, Russian weapons systems. His his his military industrial complex is is not feeling good right now. And they're not getting a lot of foreign orders for their weapons systems. So no, no incentive.

to go and help the Iranians. So that is what we are. It is, let's see, what are we doing here? No, okay, this is out of order. That's fine. You know, that's where we are in terms of the United States and Iran. I expect that, I expect the United States to sit it out now, unless it turns out

that there's still a need to go after the Fodor. There's still a need for more bunker-busting bombs. Not MOABs. Not MOABs. I've learned that. MOPs. Maybe there's a need for more MOPing up to do in Fodor or some of the other nuclear sites. I expect the United States to just stay out of this completely.

Israel today, very intense bombing into Iran. Really interesting targets. Targets that are clearly aimed by the Israelis, even though they might deny it. Clearly aimed by the Israelis at regime change in Iran. So here's a list of some of the targets that Israel destroyed today. It didn't destroy in this case. Evin prison wasn't destroyed. But...

Its gates were burst open. That is, a bomb blew up the gate of a launch of an airplane, blew up the gate of prison. Now, this is a infamous prison. This is a prison where protesters are imprisoned. This is a prison where political prisoners are in prison. This is where they are tortured, raped and executed. This is one of those horrific, if not the most horrific, crimes.

prisons in Iran. It is very much, again, this is what the protesters hate. This is what the Iranian protesters despise. Many of the leaders or many of the people involved are inside. This is a real symbolic, you know, of Israel to blow up that basically gate, basically encouraging

The prisoners to escape, basically encouraging the protesters to go out into the street. We'll talk in a minute about why they haven't yet. The protesters to go out into the street, basically saying we're with the protesters and we're this is, you know, going after this prison is going after the regime directly. So.

You know, this is this is great. Second, they went after the Basij headquarters. Now, this is a this is a major strike that completely destroyed the building. The Basij is the morality police. This is the headquarters of the Iranian morality police. These are the thugs that got, you know, got a rise out of beating up young girls, blinding them.

arresting them, taking them to heaven prison. These are the people that would inspect how your hair is covered and whether it's okay or not. But more than that, these are the people that were sent out in 2019 when there were massive demonstrations and in 2009 when there were massive demonstrations in Tehran.

These are the people, these are the people that went out to beat up the demonstrators, to kill them. They killed over a thousand, to maim them, to imprison them, to torture them. Again, this is a massive sign, a massive signal to the, you know, Iranian people.

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Israel is taking out your enemies. Israel is taking out the people who will oppress you. This is your time. Rise up. By the way, the son of the Shah was on TVs today and did a press conference out of Paris today, basically presenting that exact statement. That exact statement.

Israel also destroyed, destroyed. I mean, you should have seen the explosions and the fire. The Kurds force compound. This is the regime's terror export factory. These are the people who armed Hamas and Hezbollah. These are, this is the Kurds, in a sense, the special forces of the Iranian revolutionary guard. Again, the people, these are the people who, A, armed Hamas and Hezbollah, but also other people who would,

Turn out against demonstrations. Turn out against the Iranian people. These are the people that oppress and suppress the Iranians. They were taken out. The compound was taken out completely. The Tharallah headquarters. This is the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp unit that murders kids and students in the protests. So these are actually soldiers who go out into the streets and start shooting them.

Again, this headquarters was demolished and destroyed. Notice that all of these targets are internally focused, focused on people who oppressed and suppressed and killed and destroyed and primarily killed protesters. Again, sending the Iranians the signal, Israel is with you. We will do what we can. Now it's up to you. Supposedly the clock, you might have heard this on the news, the clock that is a countdown for Israel's destruction.

It was bombed. I also saw reports later on that it was still working and it was still up. I think they should keep that up because I think that is a reminder of, yeah, Israel's bombing all of Tehran and yet there's a clock about Israel's destruction. Give me a break. Maybe the clock should be switched to a clock that represents the destruction of the Mullah regime, of the theocracy in Iran. So maybe they should keep it up to remind people how stupid it is.

Every time the Iranian people have tried to oppose this regime, the Basij, the Thar Allah, the IRGC, the Quds would come out and oppress them, suppress them, kill them. And Israel is taking them out. They've already taken us on the police stations. So, you know, let's hope that the Iranians, this emboldens the Iranians ultimately to do this. In today's strikes,

Today's a strikes. You probably got the largest numbers of actual casualties in terms of people. You're probably looking at hundreds, hundreds of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps soldiers, members, as well as the Basij, which are IRGC as well.

killed by some estimate 700 to 1,000 soldiers were killed just in these bombings today, by far more

the large numbers of casualties that Iran has taken so far, again, a clear indication about who they're going after. They're not going after regular soldiers. They're not going after the Iranian military, who I think Israel still hopes will ultimately side with the Iranian people and topple this regime. They're going after the Revolutionary Guard, and they're going after its various spinoffs

that are used to oppress the Iranian people. So I think this is pretty dramatic and important. So somewhere between 700 to 1,000, at least that's estimates, they were saying bodies were being dragged out of there, you know, constantly. Now, why aren't the Iranian people in the streets yet? What is going on? Why aren't they gone into the streets yet?

This is from an Iranian inside Iran. He says, right now in Iran, there is full scale security crackdown. Arm checkpoints are everywhere. IRGC, Sajjiv and plainclothes forces are stopping cars, searching phones and intimidating people. On top of that, the regime is taking families of Iranian journalists. I read this elsewhere as well. Activists are

you know, hostages, activists from abroad. So they're taking their families that are still in Iran hostage, threatening them to silence opposition voices. Dozens were arrested today. Several were executed this week under false charges of spying for Israel. The regime uses fear and lies to justify killing. Now, this was written yesterday. So the interesting question is,

Is this, you know, is it was Israel's attack today? Did they do anything to reduce the threat that the regime poses to its own people? Remember, the Iranian regime is an unbelievably brutal, murderous regime, murderous and brutal to its own people. They can't kill Israelis. They can't kill Americans. Not anymore.

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If you went on a road trip and you didn't stop for a Big Mac or drop a crispy fry between the car seats or use your McDonald's bag as a placemat, then that wasn't a road trip. It was just a really long drive. So all they've got left is to kill their own people. And they're good at that. They're right there. They're unarmed. They don't have an air force. They don't have missile defense systems. They don't have anything to protect themselves.

The regime is rounding up anybody they suspect that might be involved in the opposition and basically torturing them, killing them, taking their families, making sure to silence them at all costs because the last thing they want is the Iranian people to actually know the truth of what is going on. Just if we step back a minute here, you know, if we step back a little, just a few things that are worth saying.

You know, Iran was presented as this mighty force. Iran was presented as a real threat to the United States and to Israel with very little real prospects of achieving anything. Whether it was Tucker Carlson telling us that, you know, that here's what he wrote. Just three weeks ago, Tucker Carlson wrote,

Iran has a fearsome arsenal of ballistic missiles, many of which aimed at U.S. military installations in the Gulf. He predicted the first week of a war with Iran could easily kill thousands of Americans. We heard Jeffy Sachs. We heard, you know, really everybody on the MAGA right just hyperventilate about the threat that was Iran and how Iran was going to

Take Israel out and take America out and launch us into World War III. And what a disaster this would be. But evil is impotent. They really are. And Iran is illustrating that. And I've been telling you that for 20-something years. They're not a paper tiger. There's no tiger there. That's an insult to paper tigers. They're barely paper. They're nothing. Zero. Zilch. They've got a bunch of, you know, really...

big bombs that they can launch blindly towards an enemy, towards its civilian population. Because even if they didn't want to hit civilians, they can't avoid it because they can't target these things. They can't control them. They are a pathetic, pathetic military. And think about it. They have launched a thousand drones at Israel. How many of them have actually reached the target and actually hit something? One.

One out of 1,000 Israel and allied forces, including Jordan, have downed 999 drones. Of the 550 missiles that they fired, maybe 30 to 50, probably closer to 30, got through.

They've killed 24 civilians. Yeah, they put in hospital several hundred people, which is tragic and horrible, but it's a war. And those numbers are really, really, really low. They haven't managed to kill a single member of the Israeli armed forces. They haven't been able to down a single plane. They've downed maybe two or three drones, but no planes. And at the same time,

Israel has taken out 20, 30, 40 of their top generals, taken out 14 of their top scientists, and slowly has been dismantling their infrastructure. So, you know, this is one of the, one of the, I don't think it's the most, this is one of the most single, one-sided wars in all of human history. And this is Israel. Like, the United States has so many more

tools and suddenly just share numbers so much more. The United States never had to fear Iran, never had to fear Iran, not just today, ever. And the pathetic leadership of this country has allowed Iran to terrorize the Western world for 40 years and just stood by and did nothing.

Out of, I don't know, fear of destabilization or fear of the mighty Iranian whatever. I don't even know what. I mean, if that's not cowardice and weakness and just being pathetic and not being America first, not being self-interested, not pursuing America's interests.

Taking out Iran has been one of the top American foreign policy interests over the last 40 years. I'm glad it's happening finally, but it's mainly happening right now because of Israel. You know, America is kind of piggybacking off of its smaller ally, which is kind of weird. But so be it, whatever it takes to get rid of Iran and make America and the West safer, I'm all for that. And then the real question is going to be,

I'm asking you guys this. The real question is going to be what price a Tucker and Jeffy Sachs and all the other, you know, ignorant, you know, fear mongering, just, you know, people out there who have made an unbelievable living off of, you know, just the anti-Americanism and the real ignorance of geopolitics.

Jeffrey Sachs. Whoa, what a big name. And is anybody going to interview him again? My guess is the answer to that is yes. Is Tucker Carlson going to lose a lot of his subscribers? My guess to that is no. It's the same reason that the environmentalists can predict a disaster decade after decade after decade after decade. And the fact that it never comes true, nobody cares. They still listen to them. They still follow them.

It's like Greta, still a celebrity, in spite of the fact that everything she says is wrong and nobody cares. It's not about truth. It's not about being right. It's not about being accurate. If it was about being right, I would have millions and millions and millions and millions of followers, of subscribers. And I did get a big boost today.

Today, out of nowhere, 75, which is a lot for me, 75 all in one day. You know what it is? I think I'll know more in the next few days as I get actual data breakdown. I think it was the fact that this morning I appeared on Sky News in Australia to talk about Iran. And right after that,

People found me online and subscribed and I got a huge boost. So welcome to all my new Aussie subscribers. You know, love Australia. And yeah, if any of you want me to come to Australia and come and give a talk about Fond Posse or about anything you want, happy to do it.

But welcome, welcome as subscribers. And if you're listening right now and you're not a subscriber, then press that subscription button and you'll be notified every time I go live and you'll be able to join us. So I know we have a lot of people on Twitter watching right now. Go to YouTube and press subscribe and join the almost 40,000. At this rate, we'll be at 40,000 quite quickly. 40,000 subscribers that follow me on a regular basis.

But yeah, I don't think it has anything to do with truth. Nobody follows Tucker Tucker for the truth. They follow him to, you know, basically reinforce their own fears and their own biases and their own their own confusions and their own conspiracy theories. Jeffrey Sachs hasn't been right on pretty much anything. And people follow him not because he's right, not because he's logical, not because he's rational. People following because he's logical.

And it supports their desire for fear to justify the fear that they feel anyway. They need somebody to explain it to. And the fact that World War Three won't happen, the fact that Iran is worse than a paper tiger, weaker than a paper tiger, is sadly not going to change all these people. It's not going to change humanity.

The support they get, it's not just changed the fact that they have interviews and so on. Oh, by the way, I also did another interview live on a Sacramento, California radio show today. So maybe I got some from that as well. Again, I'll know more when they give me the breakdown of which countries people subscribe to. I think I can get that today. But I also did a lengthy segment on the Sacramento radio show. They interview me quite often. And I think Sky News...

In Australia, I indicated that they would like me on again this week. So hopefully, maybe they'll make me a regular commentator. I think I do good TV. I think I do good TV. All right. Let's see. What else did I want to say? Yeah. We've got two more topics here. All right. A couple of funny, weird Donald Trump tweets today, kind of generally on this topic. This is one very short tweet.

Everyone, keep all prices down. I'm watching. You're playing right into the hands of the enemy. Don't do it. Don't. I mean, we got a president who, I guess we have a lot of presidents in our past who are like this. They don't like supply and demand. They don't like the market sitting prices. They want to be able to dictate. They want to be able to lower, go lower. I want it to go lower. I demand it go lower. And who's that if you want it?

I don't have an impact on oil prices. Do you? Who is he talking to? Is he talking to Saudis? Is he talking to the oil and gas guys in the Permian Basin in West Texas? Who is the everyone to keep? I mean, all prices are going to do what our prices do based on supply and demand and based on perceived risk. Now,

Oil prices did not go up today because the reality is that the perceived risk from Iran is zero. You remember Iran threatened to close the Hormuz Straits? Guess who came out today and said, don't do it? Not the United States, not Israel. No, you know, a country that Iran depends on as a lifeline right now, not Russia. The country that came on to do that was China.

China gets most of its oil through the Homeworld Straits. And it's a, you know, Iran needs China. So Iran is not going to shut down the Homeworld Straits. That takes away the risk to oil prices. They're not going to attack, you know, oil ships carrying tankers any more than they actually, you know, wanted to attack U.S. military bases. So nothing's going to happen vis-a-vis oil. Israel's not attacking oil.

The oil fields in Iran, Israel is not attacking. The big island where they hold all the oil and they use it to export is basically one location. You would shut down the Iranian economy with just a couple of bombs. Israel is not attacking those, partially not to alienate the Chinese and also not to alienate Trump. Maybe Trump, when he says keep oil prices down, is actually saying Israel...

don't bomb, don't bomb the oil facilities in Iran. We want oil prices to go down. So nobody wants oil prices to go up except me. I want those oil facilities to be bombed. I think it would help get rid of the Iranian regime. Oil prices are falling right now because of the Iranian, Iran's pathetic response.

And the fact that World War Three is not breaking out and the fact that they couldn't even hit anything. So and they didn't close the straits of four more. I mean, all prices have been pricing a not a worst case scenario, but a bad case. All of last week, it actually hit above 80 for a little while and has come down since then.

But no, I think I think nobody nobody seems to want to take out the Iranian oil. And as a consequence, Iran knows that if takes out Saudi oil, then the US, Israel, somebody will take out Iranian oil. So there's just a there's just a we're not touching oil. And that is helping keep oil prices down and actually moving them down.

This one is fun. This is this is Trump responding to Medvedev. We talked about this yesterday. Medvedev kind of threatening lots of countries want to give Iran nuclear weapons right now. And it was kind of it was kind of funny.

you know, a funny, well, kind of an ominous tweet if it was real. But of course, it's complete, you know, Russian propaganda BS. But anyway, Trump is responding to it today. He says, I did hear former President Medvedev from Russia casually throwing around the N-word in parentheses, nuclear, and saying that he and other countries would supply nuclear warheads to Iran.

Did he really say that? Or is it just a figment of my imagination? If he did say that, and if confirmed, please let me know immediately. Immediately, all caps. The N-word should not be treated so casually. I guess that's why Putin's THE BOSS, all caps. By the way, if anyone thinks our hardware was great over the weekend, far and away the strongest and best equipment we have,

20 years advanced over the pack is our nuclear submarines. They are the most powerful and lethal weapons ever built and just launched the 30 Tomahawks. All 30 hit their mark perfectly. So in addition to our great fighter pilots, thank you to the captain and crew. I think somebody told him, you know, Trump,

It's really not fair. You thanked the fighter pilots. You praised them. You said all these nice things to them about them yesterday. But what about the submarine guys? They, you know, 30 tomahawks pinpoint accuracy destroyed. You know, they were shot into Istafan and I think in Antares. And they were brilliant. Why aren't you praising them? So you had to add that at the end. And of course, you know, using his kind of bizarre sense of humor.

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from submarines. So the B-2s, we used 12 bombs on four-door, two bombs on Nantaz. Those are the MOPs, the bunker-busting MOPs. So 12 on four-door and two on Nantaz. And then there were 30 Tomahawk missiles

and Nantas were the targets. So they kind of finished off those two locations. So, all right, finally, before we go into other topics and God, I have a long list of topics today. Hmm.

And no super chat questions. This is not good, guys. You can't just stop doing super chats suddenly. What's up? And 250 people watching. You know, the way to support the show is you ask a question or you can just make a contribution without asking a question like Brian has. Thank you, Brian. And a number of other people, Paul and Cook and RDF.

and William and Robert and Jonathan, Jonathan Honing and Ryan Ward and Hector. Thank you guys. Thank you all for doing stickers. You can do a sticker. There's a dollar sign right below there. But you can also ask a question. You know, $20 is great. $50, $100. You can also ask for $2. But yeah, a question about anything. It doesn't have to be about the topic of today, but a question about anything. Anyway, for now a week or so, we have seen all over the West that

Demonstrations, people going out into the street, taking a day off, I don't know, from their weekend, leaving their kids home or whatever, and going out in the street, not only waving Hamas flags, that's pretty amazing in and of itself, but now waving Iranian flags.

And wearing T-shirts, I stand with Iran. I stand with Iran with a fist, with the Iranian fist there. And, you know, with big placards with pictures of Khamenei. Now, let's be clear, you know, looking at the photographs from these, and I don't want to be, you know, racist or anything, but they don't look Iranian to me. Most of them look just like normal white people.

They're in New York City. They're in the U.S. They're in big, big demonstrations in Canada. I told you Canada. I told you the Iranians are coming for Canada. A lot of Canadians went out into the street to celebrate Khamenei. And then in Europe, all over Europe. Now, what is the cause here? Like, I can kind of get, you know, Hamas.

You know, Israel's bombing buildings and children are dying and babies are dying. And there's a cause, the Palestinian statehood. The Palestinian nation has been oppressed by the Israelis forever. That's the story they tell us, right? So I get why some people, you know, their altruism is so great, so dramatic. They have to go and defend the poor Palestinians, right?

And they might be ignorant of the fact that Palestinians throw gays off of buildings. And they often blame that on colonialism. The Israelis are really at fault. Or the fact that Palestinians kill themselves, kill each other and maim and torture. And, of course, what they did October 7th and all that. They can ignore that. But what is it exactly about the Iranian regime that they like? Right. These are leftist people.

Americans, Canadians, a lot of Canadians and Europeans. What is it about Iran that they like? Is it is it they force all women to cover their hair? Because none of the women in these demonstrations. And by the way, there are a lot of women in these demonstrations. None of them. None of them actually have their hair covered. I mean, all these women have, you know, are risking being blinded, literally blinded. This is what the regime in Iran does to women. If if the if the if the Iranian government,

you know, revolutionary God catches them. What is the appeal of Iran? What is it about Khamenei that they like? Is it the terrorist attacks, the sponsorship of terrorism? Is it the theocracy? Is it the religion? Again, people, most of the people in this picture do not look religious one way or the other. Why do they like Khamenei? Why do they like the Iranians?

And this is the thing. These are people who claim to really, really care about the civilian casualties that Israel is inflicting on the Palestinians. But they care zero nada about the civilian casualties that Iran inflicts on its own people. They care zero nada for the civilian casualties, for example, that Iran inflicted on the Syrian people, where it killed thousands, tens of thousands of Syrian women and children.

Many, many babies. So it's not caring about civilians, it's not caring about babies that motivates these people to go into the street. What is it that unites Hamas and Iran? Why is it that these people are so sympathetic to this cause? I mean, so much so that they're willing to go out into the street, waving flags, pictures of Khamenei with his beard and his whole thing. What do they actually care about?

Well, the only explanation has to be that what unifies Iran and Hamas is a hatred of the West. Hatred of the West and what the West represents. The West representing reason, individualism, political liberty. That's what they hate. These are people who despise the West. And this is why, by the way, there are so many people in Manga who support them, who are also pro-Iran. Tucker Carlson. They hate the West. They hate individualism.

They hate political liberty. They hate people being able to express themselves of opinions that they disagree with. They are not going to go move to Iran, but secretly, deep down in their soul, they would love to have a theocrat tell them what to do. They are mindless and they are filled with fear, fear of their own life, fear of having to take responsibility for their own life.

I mean, these are people defending and celebrating a regime that uses sexual violence and rape to crush the spirit of women. And they will claim that they are feminists, claim that they are feminists. And yet they'll carry around a photo, a picture of Ayatollah Khamenei.

who blinds girls for showing too much hair, blinds them. I don't know if you've seen the photos. You should go find them and look at them. Women were completely disfigured, half-faced, because they had been blinded by the Iranian security forces because they showed some hair.

This is what's being defended. It's not even some oppressed country, you know, oppressed people. The Iranians are not oppressed. They have their own government, their own regime. Supposedly they had a mighty military. Who's oppressing them exactly? This is about hatred, hatred of the West and everything it represents, hatred of America, and more than anything, hatred of Israel. Hatred of Israel, hatred of Israel's success, hatred of Jews, hatred of Jews' success.

And it's really hatred of the whole idea of Western civilization. Here's a woman. I don't know who she is. Let me click on it. Maybe it'll tell us. It says she's the host of Bubble Pop with Rachel Gilmore, your least favorite person's least favorite journalist. I don't know. Rachel Gilmore is her name. This is what she writes, right?

Creating a dichotomy, this is in the context of saving of Iran and people calling the Iranians barbarians for doing, for raping and blinding young girls. She says creating a dichotomy of the civilized and the barbaric is an act of racist dehumanization that can be a precursor to genocide and other mass atrocities. Read a fucking book.

So what they really, really, really hate is civilization. There's no, you can't call anybody barbaric. Goldie, you know, an Iranian woman writes, Hi, Rachel, Iranian here. I think the Islamic Revolutionary God Corps and their supporters are a bunch of inbred, uncivilized barbarian savages who belong in the 7th century along with their evil ideology.

Does that make me a racist too? She's Iranian. Good for Goldie. Good for you, Goldie. I mean, it's an excellent response and absolutely right. I'm not sure about the inbred, but everything else is absolutely right.

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If you can't call savagery, savagery, if you can't call barbarians, barbarians, you will lose. You are nothing. You've given up on civilization. If you can't differentiate, if you can't see the difference between civilization and barbarism, because God forbid, if you declare civilization, that's racist and it's a precursor to genocide, then you are barbarian.

you will lose. You will be conquered by the barbarians. Now, this is the modern woke left. Here's Rachel Gilmore again. Just watch Netanyahu praise the U.S. strikes as a victory for civilization, which is just so fucking racist. My God.

And Natasha responds to this as Rachel comes out swinging for the IRGC nuclear project. The mullahs blind women with acid and refused for refusing to cover their hair. The despotic regime has plunged its own into poverty. Political opponents are imprisoned and tortured. No shit. It's barbaric. You dingbat. I mean, this is the left and the MAGA supporters of the left who hate the West.

primarily oriented towards hate of the rest. I mean, the people out there in the streets, it's just unbelievable. You know, the kafirs, what the kafir symbolizes, rape and murder and terrorism. That's what the kafir symbolizes. When I see somebody wearing a kafir, they are supporting rape and murder and terrorism. I don't care who they are. They are the scumbag of the earth. Is that even a, can you say that? Scumbag of the earth? I just made that up. I don't know if that's a saying.

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NATO. NATO is meeting this week. And I think Trump is going to fly to Europe for this meeting in, I think it's in the Netherlands.

And in advance of the meeting, I think the European members of NATO have met to discuss their commitment to NATO. Remember that Trump came in in his first term and said, you guys are not paying enough. He was absolutely right. They're not. They should be paying a lot more. You're not you're not devoting enough to NATO. And and.

You know, I don't think really in response to Trump, but response really if you look at when Europe starts paying more into NATO, it starts in 2014. What happened in 2014? What happened in 2014? One of the good guys, Vladimir Putin, invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea. And the Europeans went, whoa, maybe this guy's serious. We should start ramping up our militaries. That was the beginning, small scale, but

Anyway, more recently, as we all know, Europeans committed to raising their contributions to NATO significantly. And now at the summit in the Netherlands, NATO leaders are going to endorse, this is the plan that's being put in front of the NATO leaders later this week, endorse a goal of spending 5% of GDP on security, 3.5% to be dedicated directly for the military, for defense spending, explicit defense spending.

Another one and a half percent dedicated to building infrastructure within the countries that will facilitate, for example, the movement of troops, the upgrading roads, bridges, ports and airfields.

so that armies can deploy and also money will be deployed from this 1.5% for counter-cyber activities and any other kind of attacks that might occur. So some of this will be defensive, some of this will be infrastructure. But overall, they are committing to spending 5%, which is a huge number. There are countries out there right now who are spending less than 2%. Spain and Canada, too.

Spain has already said, we're not playing. We're not going to be in this. And it's going to be interesting to see how Trump and the other NATO members deal with the Spanish when they get to the summit later this week. Trump has already said, no, no. Nobody is opting out except the United States of America. Trump basically says, we're not going to spend 5%. We already spend well over 3%. We're not going to spend 5%. We've been spending...

Three plus percent for decades. You guys have been free writing off of us. We're going to make this up by you spending more than us.

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us you know we spending uh you europeans spending more than the united states uh so i think this is this is actually really good again we'll see about spain now and remember spain is almost about as far as you can get in europe from russia one of the reasons they can be a little blase i'm not sure what portugal is spending portugal is the only european country further away from russia than is spain

So I don't know what Portugal is going to do. But, you know, Spain only spends about 1.28% of GDP on military budget. Spain is also the most anti-Israel of all the countries in NATO and is constantly trying to get NATO to boycott Israel. Spain did say they would increase their –

contributions to over 2%, but they will not go to 3.5% to 5% that is going to be required. It'll be interesting coming out of the meeting this week, what they do about Spain, what they do about other countries that might be hesitant. It'll also be interesting to see, you know, over what time frame are these countries going to commit to doing this, right?

Let's see countries that are particularly committed to this, who who are ready to spend this kind of money. The Netherlands, Germany, most of northern Europe. So all the Scandinavian countries very gung ho about spending more money now that that that Norway, sorry, Finland and and Sweden have joined NATO. NATO is much, much bigger, much more significant, has a real presence on the northern front of Russia.

And they are eager to spend the 5%, and they will be spending 5% very soon here. Places like Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia are all spending up to the 5%. So you'll see, and of course Poland, the countries that are going to be most impacted or potentially could be most impacted by a Russian invasion are the ones that are most supportive of this proposal. One of the challenges will be Canada. Canada spends a lot less money.

For Canada to get up to three and a half percent, that'll require quite an economic shift for them. It's going to be interesting to see if they can pull that off. And again, there'll be a lot of pressure on Canada, particularly from Trump, to increase the amount of money. All right, we got two new subscribers in the last few minutes. So thank you, guys. If you're not a subscriber, please subscribe. Press that subscription button. Don't forget to like the show before you leave.

But subscribers, we need to get that number up. We need to go to 40,000. And it's doable. It's doable. Maybe if some of the people came from Twitter over to YouTube and press subscribe, that would get us big numbers. All right, let's see. That was NATO. Oh, this is an interesting story. So Senator Lee from Utah, together with the other senator from Utah, whose name I don't know,

And I can't see it here. Anyway, the two senators from Utah are proposing a bill. This is the first time I've agreed with Senator Lee in a long time. I used to be a fan. And then he went all Trump mega stupid on me.

And this is the first time I've seen a sign of kind of the old Senator Lee, who was pro-free market and pro-cutting the deficit and so on. Thank you for whoever just subscribed. Really appreciate it, the subscriber who just joined. Anyway, he is proposing to sell more than 2 million acres of federal land. And he's proposing to sell this federal land to either states...

or to basically private entities. And this is a part of the budget proposal. This would raise a lot of money in a time where the government has massive deficits. We're talking about land in 11 Western states. Remember that the federal government, just the federal, well, federal state and local governments own 75% of all the land Western Mississippi. There's massive amounts of land. So he's proposing to sell $2 million

This is something like point what point five percent of all the federally owned land, you know, in the United States. This is a way to raise revenue. It would affect 11 Western states from Alaska to New Mexico. The one Western state.

that would not be eligible is Montana, which has been carved out because Montana freaked out when they heard the federal government might sell some land in Montana. That's a big no-no, even though note that Montana is a big-time, big-time, big-time, big-time Republican state. They won't sell federal land. A spokesman for Montana, Montana Senator Steve Daines, who's a Republican, said he is against the sale of public lands, but glad to see Montana exempted.

Anyway, this proposal hit a few days ago and the Internet went crazy, crazy. And part of the fun part of this is you'd expect certain people to go crazy, right? You'd expect like the environmentalists to go crazy. You'd expect the left to go crazy. But environmentalists more than anyone, they would go nuts, right?

But what was shocking, at least I was surprised. I have to say, I was surprised. Thank you, by the way, to the two additional people who just subscribed. Really, really, really appreciate your subscription. Thank you. And I hope you enjoy the show as the shows that you're subscribing to as we move here into the future. What was shocking was how many people on the right objected to this.

How can you sell American land? You can't sell a state, a federal government. This is our treasure. This is our children's inheritance. Not Silicon Valley is our children's inheritance. It's not private enterprise, not the capitalist system. No, no, the land, the soil. How can we separate the soil from the state? Even I was surprised. Even I didn't expect it.

And here, as always, as I've told you many times, the combination of the far left and the far right coming together over land, of all things, is quite stunning. I mean, I can see that coalition. I can see the far left, far right coalition coming together over Russia, over Iran, over land, over generally anti-capitalism. There is a real program here. I should run as the future dictator, right?

Now, you know, most of the public lands in Western, most public lands are in the Western states. In some places like Utah and Nevada, the government controls the vast majority of land, protecting them from, of course, exploitation by those evil capitalists and growth. But by doing that, what happens? They hinder growth.

Lee's proposal does not specify that properties will be sold. It directs the Secretary of the Interior and Agriculture to sell or transfer at least 0.5% and up to 0.75% of U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management holdings. That equals to at least 2.1 million acres and up to 3.2 million acres. The Republicans said, I'm reading from a story on AP News,

The Republican said in a video released by his office that the sales would not include national parks, national monuments, or wilderness. So it's not going to include, you know, the wilderness and the national monuments and national parks, the things that you so cherish that have to stay in government hands because, oh, what will happen then? They'll build condominiums in the Grand Canyon. Most evil thing possible, right? They would instead target isolated parcels that could be used for housing or infrastructure. This is Lee.

Lee continues, quote, Washington has proved time and again it can't manage this land. This bill puts it in better hands. Now, I for one, I for one am a radical, a real radical.

I want 100% of federally owned land sold, not given away, not given to the states, sold to private people, including, by the way, conservation groups who could buy big tracts of land and keep them forever for the spotted owls and for some of you who like to hike and go and spend time in the wilderness. I'm fine with that. Sell it all. Lee is way, way, way, way, way too moderate.

Here is what Mike Cernovich, you know, Mike Cernovich, the MAGA influencer on X, kind of a little bit somewhat of a, yeah, big MAGA influencer. He says, quote, selling off our federal land should be a no-go. We haven't even done mass deportations. Men better than any of us died exploring these areas.

They are the birthright of Americans. Selling them off for a bowl of stew would be heresy. These are the blood and soil MAGA people. Blood and soil America is not about an idea. It's not the land of freedom. It's not the land founded by the founding fathers. It's not a constitution declaration of independence. America is about the land, the sacredness of the land.

Men better than any of us died exploring these areas. Yes, they did. They didn't die exploring these areas for you, for the state. These were men who believed in progress. These are men who explored those areas to discover new paths for immigrants to travel over, discover new places to settle. Conservative author and veteran Baxter McCoy says...

If you're in Utah, calling Mike Lee's office isn't going to do anything. He has been focused on selling this land off since he got elected. He already knows you don't want it sold. That's why he pitched his lawsuit on the lie that it was only about transferring it to the state because local management is better. Call all the other offices, though. They may be more receptive.

I also saw Mike Solana from Silicon Valley talk about the birthright of his children, selling off the birthright of his children. Freedom is not the birthright of his children. Capitalism is not the birthright of his children. Liberty is not the birthright of his children. No, those are just ideas. The land, the physical land, it's his birthright of his children as federal land rather than as

I don't know, land in the hands of developers who actually will do something productive with it? Land in the hands of ranchers who will actually graze their cattle on it, which they do now, but they have to lease it from the government. All kinds of weirdness happens around that. Land that would be sold off to, I don't know, farmers, ranchers, developers, who knows? And conservation groups who would conserve it.

No, no, that's not acceptable. This is the exact opposite of Ayn Rand. Ayn Rand's definition of capitalism is the socioeconomic political system in which the government protects our individual rights, in particular property rights, in which all property is owned by private people. No property is owned by the government. These people want to protect every last little corner of society.

this government ownership, the statists, the worst kind of statists. Now, I get the left doing this, right? Benji Baker, founder of the nonprofit Nature is Nonpartisan,

President Trump made a promise to revive this legacy, and he kept that promise during his first term with the Great American Outdoors Act. I don't even remember that one. But now this selling off of public land would undo those years of hard work and progress. The Teddy Roosevelt Conservation Partnership wrote...

The Senate proposal sets an arbitrary acreage target and calls for disposal of up to six times more land than was proposed in early versions of the House Budget Reconciliation Bill. In the past, sportsmen and women would lose access to large tracts of public land. Sportsmen and women. Oh, sportsmen and sportswomen. I guess. I guess that's what you mean. Again, we're talking about 0.5 to 0.7 percent of land holdings.

0.5 to 0.7%. This is tragic. This is going to decimate America. This is taking away your children's... All right, this is just a warning for you guys, particularly if you live in New York. I don't know what is going on. But this, you know, socialist, Hamas-sympathizing, global intifada advocate is actually now leading the polls, right?

For New York City mayor, in a polymarket where people put money on who they think will win, Zohan Mamdani currently has 61%, with Andrew Cuomo coming in at 38%.

I mean, I cannot express to you how evil this would be, how horrible this would be for the city of New York. This would make the election of de Blasio look like he just elected a laissez-faire, you know, loving mayor of New York. This guy wants gum and run grocery shops. And again, he defended his usage of global intifada.

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Has been condemned by even the New York Times. The New York Times, I think he spiked in popularity after the New York Times went after him. So, guys, if you're in New York, you got to do something. Call your friends. Do something. You got to, first of all, get out the vote. Go and vote. I don't care who you vote for. I mean, you got to vote for Cuomo just to prevent this guy from coming in. You know, this would be appropriate.

Anti-Komo for Komo. Komo is terrible. He's awful. He's horrible. But anything to prevent the Zoran Mamdani guy coming in. I mean, he's a Muslim sympathizer of Hamas. He's going to be mayor of the greatest city in the world. He is a socialist who's going to be a mayor of a city that more than any other city in the world represents capitalism. Maybe Hong Kong used to represent it more so.

I can't think of anything more horrible than this. I mean, I guess if New Yorkers vote this guy in, they deserve it. But the minority that don't vote for him don't deserve it. So, you know, I don't get it. Who are these people? Are there that many socialists? Does the upper east side and upper west side dominate New York? Or is this a I don't know. I just don't get it. Make it not happen, guys. Here's a political cause to get around.

stop this guy. I mean, he's a former rapper, an explicit socialist, and he's polling at 52 to 48 right now. And again, the polymarket, which is usually more accurate than polling, has him winning. Has him winning. That's the state of the world. Okay, some good news. Well, good news and bad news. Anyway, good news. Tesla. Tesla is launching, as we speak, I think yesterday, launched its robo-taxi service in Austin.

And it launching it at a flat fee of $4.20. She can go from anywhere to anywhere for $4.20. Now, I don't know if the robot actually drives on the highway. Waymo does not go on the highway. I don't know if the Teslas go on the highway. Let me know. But it's great news for you guys in Austin. Use it. Promote it. Hopefully, they'll be launching in other cities soon. By the way, in Arizona, I got a ride in a Waymo.

First time riding in a Waymo outside of San Francisco. I love it. I think it's the coolest thing. I feel super safe. I love seeing that steering wheel turn without a person turning it. I think that's a cool feature to have the steering wheel there, even though obviously they don't need to have the steering wheel there. But it's just cool to watch. I'm sure future cars won't have it.

But yeah, please use the service. Go for it. Oh, I just lost somebody on the subscriber list. Somebody's unsubscribed. You see, it's constantly, it's a dynamic motion. What did I say that caused them to unsubscribe? Who knows? It might have been another video that they watched. It might not even have been somebody live. But if you are watching live and you haven't subscribed yet to the Iran Book Show, please go and subscribe. Please go and subscribe.

Anyway, this is big. It's very big for Tesla, which is kind of basing its future on this. You know, making electric cars is not, they're not going to be able to survive, I think, as a car company, just by making electric cars. They're going to have to have added value. And the added value seems to be this, not only, oh, somebody did subscribe. Thank you. There we go. We jumped back.

So not only does this provide them an extra source of revenue, but now Tesla, if you buy a Tesla and let's say you go away for a week, you can actually in the future, you'll be able to set that Tesla up to do right share and you'll get some revenue from it. So that makes your Tesla an income producer when you're not using it.

You don't have to devote any time for it and it'll produce revenue for you. That is pretty cool. That's about as cool as it gets.

Anyway, this is exciting. I love technology. The flat fee obviously can't survive, but it's a great opportunity right now to go test them out in Austin. You're going to pay very little, and you're going to get a great ride. I am curious about, I'll have to research whether they can drive on the highways. The Waymo cannot. And it's difficult for them in Arizona, for example, to get to the airport because it's difficult to get to the airport online.

without going on the highway. The same is true in Austin. So limited use so far. Ultimately, they will be allowed to drive in the highways. Ultimately, we'll all be riding in driverless cars. It's going to happen. You will have a hobby car that you can go out when you want to drive, but mostly you'll just be ordering driverless cars to take you around. You won't even own a car. There's no reason to own a car in the not so distant future. Um,

Yeah, let's wish Tesla luck and hope they succeed. All right, finally, Ben,

One of the great businessmen and business leaders of the 20th century, American 20th century, died over the weekend. Fred Smith, who in 1965 wrote an economics paper that basically spelled out an idea for a nationwide overnight delivery system using airplanes. By the way, his professor gave him a C on that.

passed away at the age of 80, at the age of 80 over the weekend. You know, Smith basically revolutionized delivery in the United States. He, you know, he left Yale, he graduated from Yale, served in a Marine in Vietnam, went to Little Rock, Arkansas, and launched a business at the age of 26, 26, with a handful of small planes. In those days, if you wanted to do delivery service,

By regulation, by government control, you could only use small planes. You were not allowed to use larger planes. Simple concept. People would pay up when it absolutely positively had to be there overnight, which became kind of the marketing slogan for FedEx as they grew. Two years later, FedEx moved to Memphis where they're still based. They pioneered kind of the hub and spoke system for delivering packages online.

It took a while for FedEx to be successful. They were hampered by regulations throughout most of the early years, particularly the restriction on small planes and the use of small planes. But, you know, and of course, the living packages was the thing the post office made money off of. And one of the things Smith did was he spent real time lobbying Congress to deregulate

This is during the 1970s when there was a push for deregulation. This is under Jimmy Carter. An underappreciated side of Jimmy Carter's presidency was the extent to which deregulation happened. And indeed, in 1977, when airlines were deregulated, so was FedEx in a sense. They were now allowed to use large planes, allowed to do delivery of packages and next day mail.

And of course, yeah,

You know, from starting in – they started in 73. You know, he had basically raised money from venture capitalists and friends and family. He raised $80 million, one of the largest venture capital raises of the time. And he had struggled through the 70s to make money. And it's only after the deregulation of 1977 that they really took off again creating the hub and spoke with the hub being Memphis. To this day, FedEx is a dominant player in this space.

It's a space, of course, then UPS came into DHS, foreign companies, and created a lot of competition. And of course, now Amazon. But he is one of the pioneers, one of the pioneers of delivery and really a phenomenal businessman, a phenomenal success story, an inspiring leader, if you ever heard him speak. When he was asked about his legacy, Smith said, quote, I don't think that way. I just enjoy what I'm doing.

I'm very focused on the here and now. The legacy will be the success of the company, and I hope the success of my children, of which I have a lot of. I don't know how many children he has that he said he has a lot of them, but you know, he retired from being kind of chairman, executive chair of, no, he retired from being CEO actually in 2022, so not that long ago. His successor, Raj

Family name cannot be pronounced. Obviously, an Indian name is now the company's CEO. He retired at the 50th anniversary of the founding of the company. Anyway, a great business leader. And he has, I'll leave you with this, I think this amazing statement that he is quoted as saying, if you brook mediocrity,

eventually you will become mediocre. We make no apologies for that. So again, one of the great business leaders of the previous century in an industry, whoops, did we lose connection? In an industry we basically take for granted, basically take for granted. Are you guys on? Do you see the internet? We got a lagging, we got something going on.

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So let's go to the new stream. All right. Sending data, sending data. All right. We're on Twitter, but we're not on YouTube. Why is it not sending data to YouTube? Frustrating. Sorry, those of you in the podcast or those of you watching on Twitter. I'm trying to get it up on YouTube. There it is. Okay. I'm going to keep this.

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We can go to the super chat immediately. All right, chat. Let's do that. Stuck again? God. Stuck again. Stuck again. What the hell is going on? Why is my internet giving me problems? Internet looks great. This is... All right, here we go. We're back again. All right, let's hope we're back again and it'll stay back. We will actually see.

Uh, if it actually stays back and then I'll splice these two shows together and make them all one show. So, uh, I apologize for all of that. It kind of sucks. And, uh, I apologize. All right. It's, uh, it seems to be working. Uh, let's just jump in. We got a lot of super chat questions. Hopefully those of you who, um, who asked the questions are here. Uh, and, uh, and, uh,

You get an opportunity to answer the question. All right. So we're going to do a super chat now. Let me just add, you know, that Donald Trump just tweeted. He just tweeted, congratulations, world. It's time for peace. In other words, the Iranian attack doesn't count. It doesn't count as a response, right?

And, yep, we're going to cut a deal with Iran. And I would just say if Israel still has some targets that they would like to take out in Iran over the next few hours, they better get on it because I think it's very likely that Trump is going to tell them to stop and declare a ceasefire and peace and go for his Nobel Prize and try for his Nobel Peace Prize.

But I think I think I think Trump is going to say it's over. I think it's if he says that, I think he's negotiating already with the Iranians and we're going to be done soon, which will be, I mean, disappointing from my perspective, because as I as you know, I wanted regime change. And I think that is the only appropriate way to end this. But it doesn't look like that's going to happen.

All right, a few things. Let's do some super chats, then we'll talk about our sponsors, and then we'll wrap it up. And I'm going to ask the two pieces of this show to be edited together so that it all becomes one video. All right, Michael, $50. Thank you, Michael. Really appreciate that. Michael says, yesterday you rejected the idea. Why isn't this not working here?

Let me just try something once again. All right, that's better. Yes. Yesterday you rejected the idea that once you know yourself, you know everyone else. But one of the reasons why Ayn Rand was so good at knowing other people's psychology was because she was a one-of-a-kind introspector on her own psychology. I think that's right. But I think that's why she was good at knowing psychology. But the fact is that Ayn Rand was fooled by people all the time.

She was clearly fooled by Nathaniel Brandon for many years. She was fooled by many people who surrounded her for all the wrong reasons and were there as latches on for all the wrong reasons, and she didn't see it. So, no, I think what you can do by knowing yourself is know something about a healthy, if you're healthy, know something about a healthy psychology, know something about the motivations that drive people, but that doesn't mean you know specific other people.

You know in general, you know in principle, you know the kind of psychology that's driven by a kind of ideas and things like that. So she could approach psychology and people psychology from her knowledge of herself and knowledge of her philosophy. That did not mean, that did not mean at all that she actually knew individual people.

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You'll see me at the Marquee Theater, the Canix Night on Fire, enjoying a Surfside. Come enjoy a can or two with me. DrinkSurfside.com. And indeed she didn't. She got, as I said, she got fooled by many, many, many people. The sound video mismatch. I don't know what to do about that. Let's see. It feels like it's dubbed. It's a tough one. It's a tough one. Not sure what you do to catch up. Let's see.

All right, let's keep going. Hopefully it'll synchronize. It's still a bad connection. I don't know. It keeps going in and out over here. I'm not sure why. Although, no, my internet speed is phenomenal right now and unbelievably stable. So I have no idea what's going on. Okay, sound is okay now. All right. Oivind asks, are we starting to see the slow demise of some of the most evil authoritarians that exist today?

Yes, I think to a large extent we are. I mean, at least in the Middle East, completely thanks to Israel, we're seeing the demise of Hezbollah and Hamas and the Assad regime in Syria. And now hopefully the Ayatollahs, and we're very close to getting rid of the Ayatollahs. Let's really hope that Trump is not going to walk away from

from this too quickly and that at very least he lets Israel finish off the job even if he won't do it himself. But I have a feeling the pressure on Israel is mounting right now

to agree to cease fire. But we will see. So yes, I mean, Putin is being weakened significantly. China is not. China's still strong. And in that sense, China's the new dominant bad guy in the world. And we'll see how bad they want to be and how bad they're willing to become. So that will be interesting to see as we move into the future. And the real question is,

Not so much what happens to evil regimes. I think they were always impotent. The real question is what happens to good guys? What do we do with ourselves? What does America become? Where's America heading? It doesn't look like in a good direction, given that we elected Trump as president. Where does Western Europe head? It doesn't look very good, given the kind of demonstrations. I just lost somebody, one of the subscribers, because I said...

because I said something negative about Trump. What does it look like in Europe, you know, where you have regular Hamas demonstrations, pro-Hamas demonstrations in the streets? I've never worried about the bad guys out there. The bad guys out there have never really concerned me. I don't think they're that big of an issue. I worry about the bad guys among us.

I worry about the people who would turn the West into an anti-Western place, into an authoritarian place, into a, you know, a...

a theocratic place into a socialist, a communist place, into a fascist place, whatever it happens to be, depending on the country. That is what I worry about. I worry less about Islamists and Putin than I do about the professors at our university and the new right. That's who the real threat to our lives really is. And that's why, even though Trump bombed the nuclear facilities of Iran, I'm still not excited about Trump. I'm still not pro-Trump.

Because I know the threat he represents to America in every other dimension. Getting rid of the bad guys out there is relatively easy. You just saw Israel do it easily. Getting rid of the bad guys among us, really, really, really hard. Really, really, really hard. All right, James says,

One, if people people are trying to give Trump credit for being unpredictable, but our enemies know he will bend to flattery. Iran is one of the few countries that refuse to butter him up. If they had, he might have negotiated with him. Yeah. And I think what you're seeing right now with a weak response is the equivalent of buttering him up. And he's completely folded. Right. He's completely folded. Right.

So and they're probably through back channels begging to negotiate and saying nice things and whispering sweet nothings into his ear. And he is folding. So you're absolutely right. His unpredictability is not really unpredictability. I think all the enemies know how to play him, except for the, you know, except for the for the Islamists who are, you know, so detached from reality, they don't even know how to do that.

Okay, it's part two of the question. This is the predictability of the unprincipled, and it works to the benefit of our enemies. Absolutely, James. I agree with you completely. At the end of the day, Trump is bad for America, bombing the Iranian nuclear power, and he's bad on foreign policy, and he's good for our enemies. In spite of the fact that he just bombed the nuclear reactors, now he's urging Israel and Iran to seek peace. That's the meaning of

Of, you know, of that, of that, of the tweet I just mentioned, the meaning of that is an eagerness for peace. I mean, the only guy he's serious about, the only people he's serious about destroying and crushing and doing everything he can to actually destroy is, is, is Massey.

The congressman from Kentucky, God, did Donald Trump lay into him today? Wow. And is now setting up a PAC to fund somebody to replace him in the House of Representatives. And Massey has committed two sins. He voted against the big, beautiful bill to his credit.

And he is against and he thinks that Trump's attack on Iran is unconstitutional. He's right, but he's also generally against attacking Iran. He's kind of pro-Iran. So he's a typical libertarian foreign policy guy. And that is bad. But yeah, the president going after him the way he did is really scary. I mean, if Trump was that aggressive towards the Iranians, we really would have peace in the world today.

All right, let me just say, let me just, yeah, it really looks like he is now focused on a ceasefire, a peace between Iran and Iraq. Let's see. Here's Trump. Let's read this. This is what he wrote a few minutes ago. Iran has officially responded to obliteration of their nuclear facilities with a very weak response, which we expected, and it very effectively countered.

There have been 14 missiles fired, 13 were knocked down, and one was set free because it was headed in a non-threatening direction. I'm pleased to report that no Americans were harmed and hardly any damage was done. More importantly, they've gotten it all out of their system. And there will hopefully be no further hate. No further hate. No further hate. The hate is all gone. They shot 14 missiles and now there's no hate. It's all gone.

I want to thank Iran for giving us early notice, there you go, which made it possible for no lives to be lost. No, the fact that all the missiles were shot down made it possible for no lives to be lost and nobody to be injured. Perhaps Iran can now proceed to peace and harmony in the region. And I will enthusiastically encourage Israel to do the same. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Donald Trump, President of the United States of America. Very formal.

Anyway, there is Trump returning to being Trump. We didn't lose him. He's still there. Trump is still Trump. He had this off moment where he actually, you know, bombed the facilities and now he's retreating back into being himself. All right. Let's see. Paul, I saw a military analyst say we have not seen strength like this Trump since Reagan.

I'm like, what? Reagan was the original failure when it comes to Iran. Yeah, failures with the gun to Iran. Remember those Marines who died in their barracks, that was under Reagan. And it was clear at the time he was Iran. And this is right after they held the hostages. There were plenty of reasons to attack Iran. And what did Reagan do? Lobbed a few missiles into this Baka Valley in Lebanon. Nobody got hurt. And he tailed between the legs and got out of there.

So Reagan was super weak. And yes, Reagan gave a good speech. And his speeches were tough, particularly with regard to the Soviet Union, not with regard to Iran. And that was good. But Reagan did nothing. But people don't know history. People don't know what strength looks like.

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I mean, both Bushes were stronger than Reagan in a sense of military reaction. The first Gulf War, where the United States just wiped the floor with the Iraqi army, just completely destroyed them. That was a show of strength. What did Reagan do? He invaded Granada. And then even the second Gulf War, the stupidity was not...

I mean, the weakness was not in the military success. They cleaned up with the Iraqi military, got to Baghdad really, really early and destroyed the military forces that do you walk out. The mistake was staying. The mistake was trying to do nation building. The mistake is to bring democracy to the Middle East. It wasn't the lack of strength.

In the initial attack. So these people have no clue. They don't know what they're talking about. And they're so desperate to associate Donald Trump with Ronald Reagan. You know, Ronald Reagan was so much better than Donald Trump, even though he was weak in 83. He was just so much better as a human being. I mean, just think of the immigration policies and the difference between that. Jason, you're looking for Super Chat. So I guess talk a bit about Iranian Jews. History, present, future, whatever. Yeah.

I mean, Jews and Iran or the Persians have a very long history going all the way to Cyrus. A lot of people talk about this. Cyrus was the king of the Persian Empire that basically destroyed the Babylonian Empire. And when he destroyed the Babylonians, the Jews...

had been taken out of Israel and were resettled in Babylonia. Babylonia is today Iraq. They were settled in Iraq. And he allowed the Jews, almost encouraged the Jews, to go back to their home in Israel and to build a second temple. So the second Jewish temple was built there.

when the Jews came back from Babylon, and it's Cyrus the Persian. And to this day, Jews consider Cyrus one of the great good guys in history. Again, this is Old Testament stuff a long, long, long, long time ago. There have been Jews in Iran, you know, forever, really. They've done quite well in Iran, you know, over many, many years. There was really a thriving Jewish community in Iran before the Shah fell.

When the Shah fell, many of them left. Some of them came to Israel. Many of them came to America. Indeed, Beverly Hills today. If you go to Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills is, I don't know if it's majority, but it's a big part of Beverly Hills is Iranian Jews. And they've been very successful in the U.S. They were very successful in Iran. They have a lot of money. They're quite wealthy. But

And there's a thriving community in Los Angeles and in other parts of the United States and, of course, in Israel. So Iranian Jews primarily left at that time. So it'll be interesting to see. I think what will happen if the regime falls—

I think what's going to happen is you will see, you won't see Iranian Jews go back to Iran because they have good, comfortable lives in the United States and in Israel. You'll see them invest in Iran.

You'll see them really help the Iranian economy by taking their capital and building businesses and starting businesses in Iran. So Iran is going to benefit from the wealth that they've created in the United States, and they will be investors, and they will do very well, and Iran will do very well as a consequence. And they will support kind of a move towards Iran.

more freedom in Iran. So that will be interesting to watch. Thank you, Jason. I know you weren't really asking. You were just trying to support me, and I appreciate that. DWN Logic has just come in with $500, and this is what he wrote. I'm day drinking and buzzed and have nothing rational to say. Here's $500, and thank you for keeping me informed about an objectivist perspective.

Thank you, DW Logic. Maybe I need to revisit what I said the other day about drinking and getting buzzed. Maybe there's an upside. Maybe there's an upside, particularly if you do it while listening to you on Bookshow.

And it leads you to a $500 contribution. But I'm going to assume that even a non-buzzed DW Logic would be this generous because he really values the show. So thank you. Really, really appreciate it. And I hope this is something you don't regret when you become unbuzzed. I salute you. Thanks, DW and Logic. This is great.

All right, let's see. Oh, we're so close. Let's change the goal to a new goal just because we're that close. Oivind, the big Iranian missiles serve some of the same purpose as cathedrals. They are in place to make man feel small, both built by the primitive mindset. Yeah, but they're mainly worse than cathedrals because they're built to destroy. Right.

They're built to destroy man. They're built to destroy man's achievements. They're built to blow stuff up. They're built to knock down towers. Hey, it's Brooke. We're getting closer to the KNIX Night on Fire with Corey Kent at the Marquee Theater July 7th. It'll be hot outside, but cool yourself off with a refreshing sunshine in a can. I'm talking about Surfside. It's made with vodka, real tea, real juice. It's only got 100 calories and 2 grams of sugar, zero bubbles, so you can have a few.

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I just I'll read you. I'll read your comments. According to Barack, a read of Axios quote, a White House official told me that Trump's goal now is to end the war and he's going to make it clear to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. We want to deal and don't want any more war. The official said, there you go. As I predicted. All right. He's had his moment of fame. He's used a big bombs.

It's made him look really macho. And now it can end. He's got his little pit and we can finish it now. Mirko, thanks for your battle, Ivan. Here's my support. By the way, I sent you an email with some options about your trip here in Madonna. Yes, it keeps slipping my mind. I keep wanting to reply to you. I will today, hopefully, get back to you about Modena. But thank you, Mirko. God, thanks for reminding me.

Andrew, your passionate condemnation of those who hate Western civilization stirred me to righteous hatred. Do you consider those who hate Western civilization nihilists? I don't know. I mean, nihilism is a technical—I mean, they're probably ultimately nihilistic, but is that the first thing that comes to mind? No. I mean, there's all kinds of ideologies that lead them to this.

You know, ultimately, what this leads to is nihilism and destruction of the good, basically for being the good. It's envy and nihilism. But it's driven by ideologies, anti-reason ideologies, collectivism, and just a resentment and a hatred of success. But yeah, I mean, yes, at the end of the day, you can't be holding a picture of Ayatollah Khamenei without a deep resentment.

Deep hatred of mankind, a deep hatred of women, a deep hatred of civilization. You need to come to my—yeah, I'm going to talk about this a little bit in my Ocon talk about the haters of Western civilization.

You know who the first real hater of Western civilization probably was? I mean, there probably were a lot. I think Christianity was full of it because they resented the Enlightenment and they resented what Western civilization was becoming. But the first philosopher to be explicitly, passionately, articulately, articulately, is that a word? Anti-West, anti-civilization, I think, and maybe some philosopher will correct me, was Rousseau.

One of the things that made Rousseau famous was he responded to an essay which asked about kind of the, you know, is there a downside to civilization or something like that? And that's where he came up with the whole noble savage civilization is bad. No, this is before Kant. Kant was inspired by Rousseau. It's Rousseau.

Now, it could be if you go into ancient society, but I don't consider ancient society to have Western civilization. I mean, it's not clear that Greece is the West. You know, Western civilization is really, you know, modern civilization. It's not Greece and Rome. It's inspired by Greece and Rome, but it isn't Greece and Rome. But Rousseau. Rousseau is the first really...

vicious, bad philosopher who is starting to undermine the entire project of the West. And Kant, of course, completes his job. And Kant is a giant philosophically and really brings the hatchet down on the West. But Rousseau gets it all started.

To do the bunny, Ayn Rand said, never doubt yourself because of others. Do you find negative people weigh you down or make you doubt yourself? Or do you cut negative people out of your life like cancer? I cut negative people out. I have no, it doesn't help to have negative people. I mean, there's some people who are negative people.

who are helpful in a sense that they point out things that are actually objectively things that can be improved and better. They overly focus on that, but okay, but at least they're pointing out real things. But generally, yes, I, you know, if somebody presents a criticism and it's true, then I thank them. And if somebody presents a criticism that's false, then it's their problem. But in no case do I let it put myself down. No case do I let it put

It plays doubt on myself. Hopper Campbell, it seems mankind does not want to return to the dark ages. The forces of evil are shrinking to the point of oblivion. Iran, Russia, Trump, all will fall from pressure of the remnant of the Enlightenment. Yes, the question is what remains afterwards? That is, again, the problem is not evil and evil societies. They can't survive. They can't hold on. What happens to civilization? And where do we land up?

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Ryan says, can we can we America is all cause regime change with basically zero American lives lost? How would that look? Thank you for all you do. Yes, I think we can. It would basically mean it mean continuing what Israel started today.

attacking the regime strongholds, attacking the symbols of the regime, going after most strongly, for example, Iranian media, radio and television, attacking the revolutionary guard, attacking the police and all those units that are responsible for suppressing the Iranian people, and just giving the Iranian people the backbone of

the moral backing to actually go out there and defend themselves and take over this regime. So it is, to a large extent, to a large extent, you can do this on the air by weakening the regime so much that the Iranian people will have the courage to go out into the street and topple it. Right now, Israel is telling the Iranian people to evacuate District 7 of Tehran

asking all those in the zone to evacuate due to imminent strike against military infrastructure in the area. This is a heavily populated area. It's right in the heart of Tehran. These are the kind of attacks that are going to get the Iranian population to notice that their regime is weak right now, that the regime can't do anything to stop it.

And this is also going to weaken the ability of people in Tehran, the regime supporters in Tehran, to kind of enforce all the bans and the blockades and the bans on demonstrations and stuff like that. So there you go. There you go.

Yeah, you know, a lot of people, a lot of people expected that even the weak response that Iraq, that Iran had would, you know, be the excuse that Trump waited for in order to attack Iran. But Trump never wanted to attack Iran. He wanted to do that again, the macho moment. He wanted to go in and destroy the nuclear capabilities and walk away. He never actually wanted to do anything else. So this played Iraq, Iran figured him out finally and played right into his hand.

So the tweet that he had earlier today, any retaliation by Iran against the United States of America will be met with force far greater than what was witnessed tonight. Thank you, Donald Trump. That he's ignoring because they didn't kill anybody and they were nice enough to let him know they were sending the missiles in advance. So nothing is happening. Carl says, great to celebrate all the winning. Thanks, Iran. Thank you, Carl. Really appreciate it.

Esoteric dichotomy. My family dealing with an adult child who is threatening to refuse to pay rent and co-signed student loans, 45K. How would you address this? You know, kick him out. Kick him out. Call the police. Kick him out. Disown him. Let him go fend for himself. Maybe one day when he apologizes and becomes a human being, welcome him back into the family. But if that's how he's treating the family, then just kick him out.

You know, and if you have to call the police on him, call the police on him. You can't tolerate that from anybody. You know, and your children, you can't let your children take advantage of you. You don't owe an adult child anything. All right, Paul, Israel has indicated that its operations may be completed in a few days. What will follow in Iran when the bombing stops? You know, that's really hard to tell. I mean, yeah.

Are the Iranian people emboldened to go out into the streets and to demand a regime change? Is the Iranian army ready to depose this regime? Are there people within maybe even the Revolutionary Guard who are willing to go out there and depose this regime? That is the big question, and I don't think anybody really has an answer to what happens.

I'm hoping that Trump lets Israel keep going at it for the next few days because I think it's important that Israel does that. And it's important that Israel soften the regime up as much as possible to provide as much space for the Iranian people to rise up against the regime as possible. It would be great if Israel killed Khamenei right now. That would be a good move, right?

But I doubt they'll do that because I doubt Donald Trump will let them. Andrew, Israel and America's attack is like an injection of energy into the good in the world. Will that energy be wasted or lead to others' lasting virtuous effect in the culture? Well, I mean, you've already got a lasting virtuous effect in the fact that

At the very least, Iran has been defanged. And at best, Iran will become a good place. That is, it will become a decent place to live. So no matter what, this will have positive effects. Will it have dramatic positive effects? I'm very doubtful. These kind of events, just like the fall of the Berlin Wall, don't actually bring about dramatic ideological changes. Now,

particularly in the West, maybe elsewhere, but in the West. So no, I don't think that it's going to have a lasting kind of energy towards more liberty and towards freedom, other than maybe in the Middle East. Maybe in the Middle East it'll have that effect, but I don't see that happening in the West, sadly. All right. Djokovic says,

If the current strategy of dismantling the IRGC and encouraging internet regime change works, is it likely the Shah returns? What are the options? Yeah, I think it is likely the Shah will return. He will return when he is guaranteed that he's got protection from the military. I think, but he won't return as a monarch, as a authoritarian monarch. I really do think that he will return as a

as an interim leader to facilitate the change, the more democratic governance. I think he will advocate for maybe a monarchy, a ceremonial monarchy, just fine, I don't really care, just as a symbol of unity, like in somewhere like Spain. But so I do think he'll return. Whether the Iranian people want him, enough of them want him, whether they'll want a ceremonial monarchy, given the history of his father, I don't know. They might not.

I think enough Iranians value tradition. I don't, but enough Iranians value tradition that they might go for it and they might embrace him and he might become the ceremonial, you know, king of Iran. But I do think he is genuine when he says he wants a liberal democracy in Iran.

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surfside.com esoteric dichotomy also the wills in the family are skewed mooches are rewarded supportive family members given minimal you have money already success is punished yeah i mean that's horrible i mean

Again, you know, it doesn't mean that wills have to treat all kids equally. But you shouldn't punish people for being successful. And you certainly shouldn't reward people for being assholes. You shouldn't reward people for being bad. So wills need to be rewritten. Wills need to be rewritten. And there are lots of ways to keep money out of the hands of the mooches. But parents have to want to do that.

And it's the parents' responsibility. And if altruism is strong, then it'll be very difficult for them to take people out of the world. That idea of you're already successful is pure altruism. But a lot of people are altruistic.

I had an internet friend, Iranian musician, for multiple conversations. I get the idea. There's massive motivation for a revolution, but a lot of fear. Yeah, I think the same. I think that's right. That's everything I'm seeing. But again, we're communicating with a certain segment of the population. There's also probably a segment of our population that doesn't want change, that is religious, that believes in the mullahs,

That segment doesn't want change. So, again, you've got, you know, Iran is not unified in that sense. N1BBE, I expect the right to go crazy due to Roosevelt. I expected the right to go crazy due to Roosevelt. Who's Roosevelt and what does it mean to have the right to go crazy? Don't get that.

All right, another question. But Iran, you can't sell the land because BlackRock, China, and India will buy everything. So I am told by the right. Yeah, I know. They're crazy. First of all, BlackRock, why wouldn't they buy the land? That would be great if BlackRock owns the land. They're Americans, last I look. You could bar China from buying the land, and who cares if India buys it? But yes, yes.

The right is going to use the tactic of fear, which they're very good at, just look at Iran, to try to prevent this from happening. But BlackRock are the good guys. I don't know why BlackRock are the bad guys, but they are to the right because they make money. Yeah.

Dozens of fighter jets reported leaving Israeli airspace over the Golan Heights, flying east now over southern Syria. I think Israel's gotten a message from Trump and they're basically they've got a list. OK, these are the targets that we have to destroy before we have to give in to Donald Trump's demands. So off they go. Dozens of them. Lately, they've only been about 20 airplanes at a time.

I don't know if this is a lot more than that. We will find out. But I don't think it's because BlackRock is woke. I think it's because BlackRock is big and they bought and they have a hedge fund that owns a lot of residential real estate. And the new right hates hedge funds and private equity and they hate hedge.

financiers and they hate financiers owning residential real estate. They blame the lack, the high prices of real estate on that, which is complete nonsense. But yes, lots of reasons why they should hate BlackRock, including the fact that they used to be woke, but now they're not woke anymore. All right. Oops.

Do you think people are genuinely serious when they express fear about World War III? I still don't understand. Do people really believe we're on the brink or is it just emotional panic driven by the moment? I think they really do because I do think that there's a certain segment on the right that

They believed that Putin is so strong and so powerful he would rush to Iran's support and that China is just itching for war. And they also believed that Iran was a lot stronger than it landed up being. They also thought destabilizing the Middle East, who knows what will happen. But it's mostly driven by just ignorance.

They just don't know. They don't know the Middle East. They don't know Iran. They don't know Iran's relationship to other countries. They certainly don't know Iran's relationship. They don't understand Iran's relationship to Russia. They don't understand Iran's relationship with China. They just don't understand. They're not idiots. They're ignorant, but they're purposefully ignorant. They're evaders on a mass scale. They have opinions about things they don't know, and it's basically all motivated.

by hatred of Israel and America, and by fear. Fear. So there's a sense in which it's emotional panic driven. But it's not in the moment. It's emotional panic driven because that's how they live their lives. And that's what motivates their, quote, thinking.

Harper Campbell, since you're only required to spend half the year in Puerto Rico to get the tax benefit, couldn't you Airbnb a place anywhere in the world for the other half of the year? Yes, but it would be expensive for me. You guys, I mean, as generous as you guys are with the super chat, I don't have enough money to have a second home somewhere. Not if I plan, not if I plan to live to be pretty old.

But also, I like Puerto Rico. And basically, you know, living big chunks of time in a variety of different places is difficult. It means moving. It's, yeah, it's not simple. Now, as you know, because I've said it on the show a few times, my wife and I are planning every summer to

August and September to spend somewhere outside of Puerto Rico. Last year, we were in Barcelona for six weeks and then spent two weeks in Israel. This year, we're going to be in Lisbon and in Florence with kind of a week in between in Naples. And we're doing Airbnbs in Lisbon. We'll be three weeks in Lisbon and four weeks in Florence at Airbnbs.

So we're doing that for two months a year. And then I travel for business a big chunk of the year. But I'll still be in Puerto Rico more days than I need to be. But I like it here. I've got a beautiful condo. Life is good here. I mean, I can't complain. I've got a beautiful condo. I've got great restaurants. There are a few things that are problematic in Puerto Rico. Maybe a little bit of the instability of the internet today is something I can complain about. Although that happens everywhere, I've discovered. But yes, I mean...

We have chosen to live here partially because we like it. And there's no reason not to spend more time here and then spend hurricane season, which is August and September, somewhere in Europe, probably. So I expect that next year we'll be back in Spain somewhere, even though I hate the politics of Spain.

It was really lovely to spend two months in, almost two months, in Barcelona last year. And I think we'll do that next year. So that's our plan. So the plan is to spend two months at Airbnbs somewhere. Bobby, rereading Romantic Manifesto, which modern day directors would Rand say are properly artistic? Excited for Ocon. God, I don't know. I mean, I don't know.

It is very hard to tell. And I'm not that familiar with the names of modern-day directors. So it's hard for me to say. Yeah, I'd have to give that some thought and think about it. I mean, I'm very bad at coming up with what movies did I like recently. But I'd have to think about it and think about which directors they are. Hey, I'm looking forward to meeting you in Ocon, Bobby. Thank you. And Ben, thoughts on the first crusade the Islamists took Jerusalem by force.

It was the evil Catholic Church, but was some of it justified? No, absolutely not. I mean, first of all, the Muslims took it from the Byzantine Empire, not from the Western Empire, but from the Byzantines. The crusade was done as an act of distraction from the problems the Pope was having and the problems in Catholicism at the time. It was a brutal crusade, which involved slaughtering and butchering people

particularly the Jews. The first crusade started in northern Germany and started with a bunch of massacres of Jewish populations in small towns in Germany, in the Cologne area of Germany, and then continued with the killing of Jews and others on the way down to Jerusalem. But Jerusalem was not

didn't belong to the Christians. And certainly the people in the crusade had no connection to Jerusalem. It was a massive sacrificial campaign of the Christians who went there. What, were they going to die in order to get Jerusalem back? For whom? For the Byzantines? For what? What was the purpose of it? What was to be gained? Nothing. So again, the people who volunteered to go in the crusade were all from Western Europe and had no relation to Jerusalem.

I mean, the Byzantines were in a fight with the Muslims. It made sense for them to continue fighting and maybe take Jerusalem. It didn't make sense for the people in Western Europe to get involved. They were poor. They had bigger problems. You know, I don't know, call it Western Europe first, right? They had bigger problems than to go and intervene in the Middle East. Not their issue. So no, there's zero justification for the First Crusade. It was brutal. It was horrible. And

And again, it was so bloodthirsty that right at the beginning when they started it, they had to kill a bunch of Jews in order to get the energy going, which is just horrible, just horrible.

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Ron Robertson.

There's this conventional wisdom against regime change. I think that regime change isn't necessarily a bad thing. But am I missing something? Of course, the government has to be focused on individual rights. I mean, I talked about this yesterday. I mean, we did a regime change in Germany. That was great. Regime change in Japan worked really, really well. America has done a regime change in Panama, in Granada, in some other places. And those are good. So it depends on

The kind of regime change, what the purpose of the regime change is, who you're kicking out, who you're bringing in, how much resources do you have to devote to doing it? Are you doing it in the name of bringing democracy to the world? Are you doing it in the name of self-defense? This regime is hurting my people. I want a different regime because I hate this.

So, you know, there's absolutely nothing wrong with regime change if it's done for self-defense. It doesn't even have to be that you're installing a new government that is pro-individual rights. All it has to be is that you're installing a new government that is not going to hurt you.

that is basically friendly to you. It ideally is a rights-protecting government, but at the very minimum, it has to be a regime that's not hostile to you anymore. So absolutely, I'm pro-regime change when the regime is hostile and needs to be replaced and can be replaced at a fairly cheap cost, and the regime is doing damage to you.

Vikram, thank you. 4,000 rupees. Really appreciate that. That's almost $50. That is great. Vikram says, in New Delhi, there's a drive to ban coaching institutes operated from second or third floors of houses. They lack fire clearance because of only one staircase. This follows a few tragic events after fires due to electric malfunction and extreme heat. Are such regulations justified?

No, they're not. I mean, the reality is that if this is something that people are really concerned about and really upset about, then they can stop going to those kind of institutes on the second and third floors. Or they can say, if you want my money, you have to install, I don't know, a fire escape or a fire thing or something. It's not the job of the state.

to get involved in something like that. Now, you know, you could publicize it. You could make it known. You can tell people about the risk. But people have to make assessments about their own risk. I mean, when does it become something the government gets involved? Only when, you know, if you could show me a particular place where the risk is so high that the probability of something happening is super high, then the government can come in and say,

You can't do this. This is risking human life. But it has to be a particular place. They can't ban all second and third floor. What about those coaching institutions that have second or third floors that have good electrical wiring and they've made the effort to put a fire escape in or something like that? And well, electricity is not going to malfunction because they've done a good job. Why are they getting penalized with everybody else?

You could say, you know, you will be criminally prosecuted if a fire happens and it turns out that you are negligent in how you put in the electricity. Now that we know about this, you could make people exposed to

you know, criminally negligent in, you know, because people got killed because of it. But you can't prescribe a one-size-fits-all kind of regulations on that. It's unfair to the people who are good, who are doing their job, who are protecting. All right, guys, you guys were unbelievably generous today. So thank you, particularly DWN Logic, who hopefully is

Still buzzed, not more than that. But a bunch of you, Michael did $50 and Vikram did $50 and we had a lot of $20 questions. So we blew away the gold today thanks to DWA and Logic and everybody else. So thank you. I will be back same time, same place tomorrow. Don't forget to like the show before you leave. If you're not a subscriber, make sure to subscribe.

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