Full Transcript for Midterm Elections Live -- From Rio de Janeiro | Yaron Brook Show

--> 00:05:10.509 with real money, she's running against a Republican who should 69 00:05:10.569 --> 00:05:16.990 be easy cakewalk. We'll see. I mean, right now she's leading, 70 00:05:17.089 --> 00:05:21.740 but Florida, famously Florida, the way they count the votes, 71 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:28.379 often you see very quick shifts later in the night, 72 00:05:28.600 --> 00:05:32.240 and they usually count the Democratic parts of the state 73 00:05:32.639 --> 00:05:35.040 earlier because those are in the cities and the rural 74 00:05:35.079 --> 00:05:38.620 stuff comes in later and then there's the whole mailed 75 00:05:38.660 --> 00:05:43.699 in ballots and everything like that so anyway what you 76 00:05:43.720 --> 00:05:47.279 get is what you're getting though is a Democratic Socialist 77 00:05:47.339 --> 00:05:49.850 of America candidate doing very well in Florida even if 78 00:05:49.870 --> 00:05:54.730 she doesn't win so you know that's what I hope 79 00:05:54.810 --> 00:06:00.670 that would be ideal Democratic Socialist no Trump no probably 80 00:06:00.709 --> 00:06:05.040 ain't gonna happen the worst, I think, would be an 81 00:06:05.100 --> 00:06:09.790 inconclusive evening where, eh, kind of, yeah, Republicans lose in 82 00:06:09.819 --> 00:06:12.389 the midterms, but they always lose in the midterms. The 83 00:06:12.430 --> 00:06:16.509 governing party always loses in the midterms. So it's not 84 00:06:16.529 --> 00:06:20.490 a statement about Trump. It's just, yeah, people are unhappy 85 00:06:20.550 --> 00:06:23.819 with the existing government, so they vote against it, against 86 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:29.439 the Republicans, but there's no overwhelming kind of repudiation. That 87 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:34.889 would be the worst. So early results, the state of 88 00:06:34.949 --> 00:06:38.529 Georgia was called for the Senate. And again, this is 89 00:06:38.550 --> 00:06:44.490 just an indication of how badly Republicans are doing, more broadly. 90 00:06:45.689 --> 00:06:50.560 Georgia used to be a solidly red state. It used 91 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:54.120 to be a Republican state. And you would think it 92 00:06:54.160 --> 00:07:00.540 was kind of a close call between Democrats and Republicans. 93 00:07:01.910 --> 00:07:04.870 the state is pretty evenly matched. Even though it's not 94 00:07:04.889 --> 00:07:09.310 solidly red anymore, you'd think it would be close. Well, 95 00:07:09.350 --> 00:07:15.149 the polls closed in Georgia, and within minutes, CBS projected 96 00:07:15.170 --> 00:07:19.100 that John Ossoff, the Democrat, would win the Senate. They 97 00:07:19.129 --> 00:07:21.629 don't even have to count that many votes, and it's 98 00:07:21.689 --> 00:07:24.699 obvious he's going to win. He's leading by so much. 99 00:07:26.220 --> 00:07:31.589 And that's pretty stunning. because he's a Democrat in Georgia 100 00:07:31.689 --> 00:07:35.389 and he's running away with it. And what that indicates 101 00:07:35.610 --> 00:07:42.040 is how bad the candidate on the Republican side is. 102 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:49.439 Georgia should be close. Now, Ossoff might be the guy 103 00:07:49.870 --> 00:07:57.189 the Democrats ultimately, you know, push forward as the presidential 104 00:07:57.209 --> 00:08:00.920 candidate in 2028. So Ossoff's a guy to watch. He 105 00:08:01.009 --> 00:08:07.439 might be the leading candidate right now for the Democratic nomination. 106 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:14.050 He's not a Democratic socialist in America, so that's good. 107 00:08:15.649 --> 00:08:18.389 And so we'll see. We'll see. And he's very articulate. 108 00:08:18.889 --> 00:08:22.689 He looks the part. He looks presidential. I wouldn't be 109 00:08:22.829 --> 00:08:25.910 at all surprised if he runs for president. I'm pretty 110 00:08:25.930 --> 00:08:28.730 sure he's going to. but that he actually becomes the nominee. 111 00:08:28.750 --> 00:08:35.769 We'll see. We'll see. So, you know, across the board, 112 00:08:35.789 --> 00:08:43.019 it really, you know, we'll see how well Democrats do, 113 00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:46.620 but it doesn't look good for Republicans right now, just 114 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:49.740 looking at some of the early results. But that's my hope. 115 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:53.779 My hope is the Democrats win big. And, you know, 116 00:08:53.820 --> 00:08:59.820 people could say, It's about inflation and price inflation, cost 117 00:08:59.879 --> 00:09:03.100 of food and cost of diesel and cost of fuel. 118 00:09:03.580 --> 00:09:05.919 And there's no question that's part of it. And that's 119 00:09:06.179 --> 00:09:09.139 partially Trump's fault. Tariffs is a big part of it, 120 00:09:10.350 --> 00:09:15.190 of prices going up. It's also the consequence of not 121 00:09:15.330 --> 00:09:17.159 winning a war, starting a war and not winning it, 122 00:09:17.750 --> 00:09:21.299 which has driven up oil prices and diesel prices, which 123 00:09:21.379 --> 00:09:25.429 then trickle, you know, affects some other prices. go up. 124 00:09:26.610 --> 00:09:29.230 It's also the fault of the Federal Reserve, which has, 125 00:09:29.250 --> 00:09:35.080 but partially encouraged by Trump, which has continued kind of 126 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:40.580 a loose monetary policy, which has driven up prices, driven 127 00:09:40.659 --> 00:09:45.129 up monetary inflation, the monetary component of the inflation. So 128 00:09:45.809 --> 00:09:51.889 across the board, prices are higher, people upset. People, you know, 129 00:09:52.289 --> 00:09:55.710 Americans have been, and this is A lot of this 130 00:09:55.909 --> 00:10:01.590 is just, it's Trump because tariffs are crazy. and stupid. 131 00:10:02.629 --> 00:10:05.750 And any economist in the world that he'd asked would 132 00:10:05.789 --> 00:10:08.759 have told him that they're stupid and crazy and people 133 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:11.720 don't like it. People don't like prices going up. Inflation 134 00:10:12.919 -->

00:10:17.779 is a political disaster. In American history, whenever there's inflation, 135 00:10:18.059 --> 00:10:23.179 the incumbent loses. Inflation, again, being price inflation. People don't 136 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:28.860 like to see prices going up. So Republicans are going 137 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:33.500 to suffer for that. But they also talk a lot 138 00:10:33.539 --> 00:10:37.679 about the corruption of this administration. In exit polls, there's 139 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:41.059 a lot of talk about corruption. That is part of 140 00:10:41.100 --> 00:10:44.419 what's motivating people to vote, I think, against Trump more 141 00:10:44.440 --> 00:10:46.659 than anything else. I think a big part of people 142 00:10:46.700 --> 00:10:51.460 voting today is pro or against Trump's policies. Trump is 143 00:10:51.500 --> 00:10:54.279 a Republican, they're voting against Republicans, not because they don't 144 00:10:54.350 --> 00:10:56.990 like the particular candidate, they don't even probably know what 145 00:10:57.009 --> 00:11:00.730 they stand for. They're voting for or against, to a 146 00:11:00.750 --> 00:11:05.750 large extent, for or against Trump. And that's a sense 147 00:11:05.789 --> 00:11:12.870 in which I very much hope Trump loses, right? That 148 00:11:13.149 --> 00:11:18.409 the Democrats have a big day today. And I think 149 00:11:18.850 --> 00:11:22.710 The Democrats will probably learn the wrong lessons from what 150 00:11:22.750 --> 00:11:27.090 happens today. They'll probably think that the way to go 151 00:11:27.370 --> 00:11:31.090 in the future is to lean more into the Democratic 152 00:11:31.110 --> 00:11:35.950 Socialist of America side of things and to go further 153 00:11:36.029 --> 00:11:39.149 to the left. I think that'll be a big mistake 154 00:11:39.490 --> 00:11:43.460 and that'll cost them in the future. But right now, 155 00:11:44.080 --> 00:11:45.860 it doesn't matter how far they go to the left. 156 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:49.240 People are voting against Trump. That's the vote. Now, we'll 157 00:11:49.279 --> 00:11:54.210 see again how bad it actually is. This is not 158 00:11:54.269 --> 00:11:57.929 DSA versus Trump. The DSA does not have political power. 159 00:11:58.490 --> 00:12:02.570 When it comes to actually passing laws and passing the legislation, 160 00:12:02.649 --> 00:12:07.580 DSA will not get its way. They don't have 60 161 00:12:07.580 --> 00:12:11.039 votes in the Senate to pass a Medicare for all. 162 00:12:11.659 --> 00:12:15.870 They can't pass anything. Now, what happens in 2008 happens 163 00:12:15.909 --> 00:12:22.009 in 2028, happens in 2028. But this is not DSA versus, what, Trump. 164 00:12:22.820 --> 00:12:27.659 This is Trump versus America. And America is repudiating Trump. 165 00:12:27.740 --> 00:12:32.279 America is not today. The victory of the Democrats is 166 00:12:32.419 --> 00:12:36.429 not a victory for DSA. Some DSA candidates will get in. 167 00:12:37.220 --> 00:12:40.480 But it's not because Americans support their agenda. It's because 168 00:12:40.539 --> 00:12:44.750 Americans are fed up with a second term of the 169 00:12:44.789 --> 00:12:48.299 Trump administration, where in the second term, Trump has actually 170 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:51.419 done the things that he promised to do in the 171 00:12:51.460 --> 00:12:57.019 first term and didn't get done. They're turning their backs 172 00:12:57.039 --> 00:13:07.570 to the most corrupt, you know, just despicable, irrational, I think, 173 00:13:07.629 --> 00:13:14.179 president in American history. So, It's Trump versus America. And 174 00:13:14.200 --> 00:13:17.460 the DSA will benefit. But the DSA is not winning. 175 00:13:18.179 --> 00:13:20.879 And nobody thinks of it. Nobody's going to the ballot thinking, 176 00:13:21.330 --> 00:13:23.539 I'm going to vote for the DSA. Even in Florida 177 00:13:23.610 --> 00:13:27.570 where the Democratic candidate is DSA. My guess is most 178 00:13:27.610 --> 00:13:31.330 Democrats don't even know that. They're voting. Do they want 179 00:13:31.710 --> 00:13:36.009 to support Trump or do they want to vote, you know, 180 00:13:36.330 --> 00:13:41.480 basically symbolically against him? And I think that's true. even 181 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:44.700 in house races, which are usually much more local and 182 00:13:44.740 --> 00:13:52.950 much more concentrated on the local. Yeah, I mean, here's 183 00:13:53.009 --> 00:13:56.830 another example, right? So Florida did a bunch of redistricting, right? 184 00:13:57.330 --> 00:14:00.009 Florida did a bunch of redistricting to try to help Republicans. 185 00:14:00.549 --> 00:14:06.279 So they redrew lines, district lines, in order to make 186 00:14:06.299 --> 00:14:09.960 them more favorable to Republican victory. So, for example, Florida 14th, 187 00:14:13.129 --> 00:14:20.679 which was redrawn by DeSantis to dilute Tampa. Tampa is, 188 00:14:20.740 --> 00:14:25.379 of course, Tampa, like many cities, is more democratic. So 189 00:14:25.419 --> 00:14:33.070 they redrew the Florida 14 to dilute Tampa. Trump won 190 00:14:33.889 --> 00:14:39.269 this district, the new lines of this district, by 11 points, right? 191 00:14:41.429 --> 00:14:46.740 they've just called the district for the Democrat, who's Castro, 192 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:49.840 I don't know anything about Kathy Castro, but she's winning 193 00:14:49.860 --> 00:14:56.480 this 51.5 to 45.6, with 91% of the vote. So 194 00:14:56.519 --> 00:15:01.830 that's a, I assume that's a Democratic pickup. But that's big, right? 195 00:15:01.870 --> 00:15:06.210 So these are, this is the Republicans playing the game, right? 196 00:15:06.950 --> 00:15:17.059 Playing the game. And losing and losing. I mean, um, 197 00:15:18.659 --> 00:15:20.970 I mean, here's a, here's a, uh, you know, another 198 00:15:21.070 --> 00:15:26.250 one where it was, um, you know, the, the, the, 199 00:15:26.370 --> 00:15:31.750 the GOP, this

is rural, uh, rural South Florida, north 200 00:15:31.769 --> 00:15:35.529 of the Everglades. It was drawn up as a GOP seat, 201 00:15:35.610 --> 00:15:43.580 another redistricted, uh, county. And, um, at least with 89% 202 00:15:43.580 --> 00:15:47.379 of the vote counted, it looks like the Democrats are 203 00:15:47.399 --> 00:15:53.000 going to take it. I mean, this is Florida. So, 204 00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:59.860 so much for redistricting. So much for redistricting. Now, the 205 00:15:59.879 --> 00:16:05.279 big ones are going to be the Senate races. You know, 206 00:16:06.830 --> 00:16:11.000 don't have a lot of the percentage vote in. So 207 00:16:13.019 --> 00:16:16.870 in Florida now, the Republican has taken the lead in 208 00:16:16.909 --> 00:16:19.570 the Senate, which is good because, you know, I guess, 209 00:16:19.950 --> 00:16:24.490 because Angie Nixon, the Democrat, is a DSA candidate, and 210 00:16:24.649 --> 00:16:29.259 I expect she will lose. And the Republican is ahead, 211 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:36.279 and that's with 83.8% of the vote in. So, you know, 212 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:40.480 we'll see. We'll see as the votes continue in. The 213 00:16:40.519 --> 00:16:45.179 big ones are going to be Michigan. Will El-Sayed win? 214 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:49.950 That'll be a huge win for the DSA, you know, 215 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:54.529 against Mike Rogers, who, you know, I'm pretty sure Mike 216 00:16:54.570 --> 00:16:56.250 Rogers is the guy who had a run-in years ago 217 00:16:56.850 --> 00:17:01.669 where we landed up yelling at one another. You've got Maine, 218 00:17:01.809 --> 00:17:08.000 where Susan Collins is the Republican incumbent. She always lags 219 00:17:08.059 --> 00:17:11.000 in the polls and then wins an election. So we'll see. 220 00:17:11.059 --> 00:17:14.559 Maine is a Democratic state with a Republican senator. Will 221 00:17:14.579 --> 00:17:17.869 they keep a Republican senator in a Democratic state? Kansas, 222 00:17:18.009 --> 00:17:23.750 which is a shocker, right? Kansas is a red state. 223 00:17:24.009 --> 00:17:28.799 Trump won it by a huge margin. But it was 224 00:17:28.859 --> 00:17:31.440 expected that it might be a tight race. The other 225 00:17:31.480 --> 00:17:34.660 one to look for is, of course, Texas. I mean, 226 00:17:34.779 --> 00:17:38.099 I really, really hope that in Texas the Democrat wins. 227 00:17:38.940 --> 00:17:44.750 This is one where, God, I mean, Ken Paxton is 228 00:17:44.890 --> 00:17:49.930 such a bad candidate. He represents everything that's bad about MAGA. 229 00:17:50.950 --> 00:17:56.730 His positions on the core issues are awful, including a 230 00:17:56.789 --> 00:18:03.950 moratorium on data centers. He is, by all accounts, right, 231 00:18:04.430 --> 00:18:10.150 He seems to be unbelievably corrupt. Again, MAGA. And just 232 00:18:10.170 --> 00:18:15.009 a horrible human being. Texas also is, you know, just 233 00:18:15.029 --> 00:18:19.890 the way Texas has

gone with regard to abortion is 234 00:18:20.190 --> 00:18:26.349 just horrific. In many respects, Texas Republicans should get a 235 00:18:26.609 --> 00:18:32.309 slap in the face. Ken Paxton losing would be huge. 236 00:18:32.369 --> 00:18:35.950 I mean, remember, this was a seat held by Senator Kanye. 237 00:18:36.589 --> 00:18:41.410 If Senator Kanye was running, he would probably win. And 238 00:18:41.450 --> 00:18:45.730 Republicans chose Paxton over Kanye in the primaries, where Paxton 239 00:18:45.769 --> 00:18:48.890 is clearly a bad guy who has a real chance 240 00:18:49.529 --> 00:18:56.089 of losing to this James Telerico, who I'm sure is 241 00:18:56.130 --> 00:19:01.930 an awful candidate, but Republicans deserve to lose. Here's the thing, 242 00:19:02.490 --> 00:19:08.049 more broadly. Republicans deserve to lose. Democrats don't deserve to win. 243 00:19:08.869 --> 00:19:15.890 Republicans deserve to lose. And as people often remind me, 244 00:19:16.509 --> 00:19:21.410 it's binary. One wins, the other loses. And if Republicans 245 00:19:21.509 --> 00:19:23.230 deserve to lose, then the Democrats are going to win. 246 00:19:25.119 --> 00:19:27.460 And by the way, here's the other point I wanted 247 00:19:27.480 --> 00:19:31.160 to make. I should have made this earlier. If Republicans 248 00:19:31.259 --> 00:19:36.130 lose big tonight, It won't be my fault. I know 249 00:19:36.150 --> 00:19:38.849 a lot of you will blame me. A lot of 250 00:19:38.869 --> 00:19:42.619 you will accuse me of bringing about the rise of 251 00:19:42.650 --> 00:19:47.140 the DSA. But let me just say plainly, it wasn't me. 252 00:19:48.500 --> 00:19:51.299 I didn't do it. I'll tell you who did it. 253 00:19:51.900 --> 00:19:55.940 Who's responsible for the Democratic victory? All of you guys 254 00:19:55.980 --> 00:20:00.799 who voted for Trump. Trump is the reason the Democrats 255 00:20:00.839 --> 00:20:05.329 are seeing such a resurgent. This country is not a 256 00:20:05.390 --> 00:20:10.930 Democratic country. Democratic in terms of pro-Democratic party. This is 257 00:20:10.990 --> 00:20:18.970 a right of center country. This is, the U.S. is Republican, 258 00:20:19.450 --> 00:20:23.880 you know, Republicans lose, you know, should win. And to 259 00:20:23.890 --> 00:20:26.599 the extent that they lose, they lose because of their actions. 260 00:20:28.319 --> 00:20:32.619 The person responsible for Democrats' victory tonight, if there is 261 00:20:32.660 --> 00:20:39.240 such one, is Donald Trump. The person responsible for the 262 00:20:39.279 --> 00:20:42.880 rise of DSA politically, the rise of DSA is caused by, 263 00:20:43.940 --> 00:20:47.329 you know, a lot of issues with our educational institutions. 264 00:20:48.180 --> 00:20:54.650 But the person responsible for electorally the rise of DSA 265 00:20:55.730 --> 00:20:58.809 is Donald Trump. So if you want to blame somebody 266 00:20:58.849 --> 00:21:02.450 for tonight, which I know a lot of

you want to, right, 267 00:21:05.220 --> 00:21:08.089 don't blame me. I have no influence. I wish I could, 268 00:21:08.549 --> 00:21:12.890 but I have no influence. Blame Trump and blame the 269 00:21:12.930 --> 00:21:17.470 people who voted for him. Because, look, if Kamala had won, 270 00:21:19.150 --> 00:21:23.359 today would be a massive red wave. Republicans would be 271 00:21:23.539 --> 00:21:29.400 sweeping into the House and Senate and would be stopping 272 00:21:29.460 --> 00:21:37.019 the irrationality of Kamala. But given Trump, This is what 273 00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:40.400 you get. Whether I think Republicans deserve to lose or 274 00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:56.480 not is irrelevant to what actually happens. All right, let's see. Yeah, 275 00:21:56.619 --> 00:22:00.680 Abdul El-Sayed is going to win. And maybe, we'll see, 276 00:22:00.859 --> 00:22:03.619 maybe he won't. But if he wins, that's Trump's fault. 277 00:22:04.480 --> 00:22:07.480 It's not my fault. It's Trump's fault. If Abdullah Syed wins. 278 00:22:08.420 --> 00:22:13.150 And Abdullah Syed is awful. And you deserve him because 279 00:22:13.329 --> 00:22:17.190 you voted for Trump. You deserve him. This is what 280 00:22:17.210 --> 00:22:19.950 you get with Trump. You know, what happens with the 281 00:22:19.990 --> 00:22:23.269 left and right is they feed off of each other. 282 00:22:23.990 --> 00:22:27.440 And when the right goes nuts, the left gets stronger. 283 00:22:27.980 --> 00:22:31.539 When the left went nuts with woke, Trump could even win. 284 00:22:33.349 --> 00:22:35.769 And you voted for this guy. You keep voting for 285 00:22:35.789 --> 00:22:40.569 this guy. You voted for him in the, what do 286 00:22:40.589 --> 00:22:44.109 you call it, the primaries. And you voted for him 287 00:22:44.130 --> 00:22:48.269 in the general election. So don't look shocked when Democrats 288 00:22:48.349 --> 00:22:53.410 like Abdullah Sayyad win. This is the response to a 289 00:22:53.450 --> 00:22:57.819 Trump presidency. This is what happens. Nutty things happen. Crazy 290 00:22:57.859 --> 00:23:01.680 things happen. Stupid things happen. Really, really immoral people like 291 00:23:01.920 --> 00:23:13.480 Sayyad get elected. Hassan has 200,000 viewers on his stream 292 00:23:14.079 --> 00:23:22.099 watching right now. Yep. He beats me. Jennifer says it's 293 00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:26.569 Canada's fault. Probably. I mean, probably Canada's fault. I mean, 294 00:23:27.630 --> 00:23:30.730 whenever something bad happens here, it's going to be Canada's fault. 295 00:23:30.750 --> 00:23:42.150 All right, let's see. 9.45 is the next check-in. Okay, 296 00:23:42.170 --> 00:23:45.910 so we've got another 15 minutes before we get another 297 00:23:45.950 --> 00:23:50.630 check-in in terms of how the races, the existing races 298 00:23:50.690 --> 00:23:56.809 are going. Again, we've got now, in terms of the 299 00:23:57.150 --> 00:24:01.829 key races, we've got one House race called in favor 300 00:24:01.869 --> 00:24:06.710 of the Democrats in Florida, 14th. This is a district 301 00:24:06.730 --> 00:24:10.769 that Trump won by 11th. and it went Democratic, and 302 00:24:10.809 --> 00:24:15.599 we've got Georgia by a huge margin. Ossoff is winning, 303 00:24:16.299 --> 00:24:18.380 and this should be a toss-up state, and it's not. 304 00:24:18.599 --> 00:24:22.119 This is a state won by Democrats. So, again, still 305 00:24:22.160 --> 00:24:26.480 hard to tell what this all means because we need 306 00:24:26.519 --> 00:24:30.319 a lot more data. And, you know, Alaska is only 307 00:24:30.339 --> 00:24:36.609 going to be closing at 1 a.m. 1 a.m. East 308 00:24:36.650 --> 00:24:41.299 Coast times. So in Alaska might be key to Senate control. 309 00:24:41.779 --> 00:24:44.329 So we might not know. So yes, I mean, there's a, 310 00:24:44.799 --> 00:24:48.180 I mean, if you had looked at this map a 311 00:24:48.220 --> 00:24:50.799 year or two ago and asked yourself, what are the 312 00:24:50.819 --> 00:24:57.000 chances that the Democrats could take the Senate in this year? 313 00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:03.700 You know, you would have said zero. The map right now, 314 00:25:04.509 --> 00:25:11.470 huge in favor of of Republicans. And yet, here we are, 315 00:25:12.049 --> 00:25:19.130 with the opportunity for Democrats to flip Texas, to, you know, 316 00:25:19.339 --> 00:25:24.359 they've already taken Georgia, which should be, you know, and, 317 00:25:25.619 --> 00:25:28.579 you know, what else, you know, they probably flip Maine. Maine, 318 00:25:28.740 --> 00:25:31.359 you probably would have predicted in advance, maybe, that that 319 00:25:31.380 --> 00:25:34.299 would be close. But there's a chance they take South Carolina. Yeah. 320 00:25:36.410 --> 00:25:39.490 They're very likely to take New Hampshire. That will be 321 00:25:39.529 --> 00:25:44.400 a keep, not a flip. You know, they're going to 322 00:25:44.440 --> 00:25:51.579 take Ohio, right? I mean, this is Vance's seat, and 323 00:25:51.640 --> 00:25:54.000 it looks like the Democrats are going to win it. 324 00:25:57.299 --> 00:26:01.119 In Ohio, again, a toss-up state, but not a toss-up state, 325 00:26:01.420 --> 00:26:04.750 a solid red state. It's going to go Democratic. And 326 00:26:04.789 --> 00:26:08.390 it might go Democratic on the governor, in the governor's race. 327 00:26:08.890 --> 00:26:11.109 I don't know if they've, I guess they haven't closed 328 00:26:11.130 --> 00:26:17.450 the polls yet. The polls are closing now in Ohio, 329 00:26:17.490 --> 00:26:22.589 so we might get some sense of, no, we've already 330 00:26:22.630 --> 00:26:27.420 got some data. 25% in Sherrod Brown is leading the 331 00:26:27.440 --> 00:26:32.769 Republican by quite a big margin. So we'll see. What else? Kansas. God, 332 00:26:32.950 --> 00:26:35.470 who would have thought Kansas was up again? And Texas? 333 00:26:36.759 --> 00:26:43.720 That would, you know, nobody would

have considered that. Nobody. So, yeah, it's, 334 00:26:44.359 --> 00:26:50.259 and Iowa even. Iowa is a toss-up. No, and, you know, 335 00:26:50.299 --> 00:26:53.269 and we'll see about Alaska, and Alaska will probably be 336 00:26:53.390 --> 00:26:58.470 litigated because, I mean, the Democrats clearly, I mean, talk 337 00:26:58.509 --> 00:27:05.259 about ugly, What the Democrats did in Alaska is about 338 00:27:05.299 --> 00:27:11.059 as disgusting as anything anybody does during an election. The 339 00:27:11.240 --> 00:27:15.319 story in Alaska is that the Democrats found somebody with 340 00:27:15.339 --> 00:27:19.099 the exact same name as the Republican candidate, put him 341 00:27:19.160 --> 00:27:25.299 on the ballot, knowing that people would get confused and 342 00:27:25.420 --> 00:27:29.069 vote for the wrong Dan Sullivan. and that would dilute 343 00:27:29.109 --> 00:27:31.480 the votes that he got, which would give the Democrat, 344 00:27:31.880 --> 00:27:42.039 in other words, disenfranchising voters, disenfranchising voters, explicitly doing so. It, it, 345 00:27:42.480 --> 00:27:46.700 you know, that, it's just shocking how ugly our politics is, 346 00:27:46.779 --> 00:27:51.609 and in this case, Democrat, the Democrats are the ones, uh, 347 00:27:51.829 --> 00:27:54.750 that are playing a really, really, really ugly game here. 348 00:27:55.410 --> 00:28:05.700 Ugly game. Um, Let me just find out any... Now, 349 00:28:06.460 --> 00:28:10.460 we've got... We've got also... Remember, we've got a lot 350 00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:14.380 of propositions. Really, the big one is going to be California, 351 00:28:14.920 --> 00:28:17.500 which is voting today on a wealth tax on billionaires. 352 00:28:18.440 --> 00:28:24.059 That'll be huge. Let's see. With 34% of the vote 353 00:28:24.099 --> 00:28:31.160 in for the governor of Ohio... Yeah, Amy Acton, the Democrat, 354 00:28:31.180 --> 00:28:38.390 has 59% of the vote, Vivek, 38%. You know, we'll see. 355 00:28:38.430 --> 00:28:42.329 It's too early to call, right? So nobody's calling this, 356 00:28:42.869 --> 00:28:51.420 but so far, at least, we have the Democrats ahead. 357 00:28:56.079 --> 00:28:58.099 I'll keep track of that one as well. I'm curious 358 00:28:58.140 --> 00:29:02.490 about What happens to Vivek? Of course, Vivek probably lost 359 00:29:02.519 --> 00:29:06.339 significant ground because of the stupid ad that he ran, 360 00:29:06.839 --> 00:29:12.519 which was just dumb. It was a toss-up. It was 361 00:29:12.539 --> 00:29:15.079 a very close race. And then he ran this ad 362 00:29:17.589 --> 00:29:23.369 using Amy Acton's mother. They haven't talked. They've been estranged 363 00:29:23.410 --> 00:29:30.450 since Amy was 12 when her I guess stepfather or 364 00:29:30.490 --> 00:29:36.400 father was indicted for raping her as a young girl. 365 00:29:37.869 --> 00:29:41.380 And Vivek used an ad. with the mother who had 366 00:29:42.259 --> 00:29:48.279 taken the father's

side of this, you know, attacking Amy. 367 00:29:49.680 --> 00:29:53.799 It's disgusting and stupid, right? Stupid. Now, we'd have to 368 00:29:53.839 --> 00:29:56.380 go through all the facts and figure out exactly, you know, 369 00:29:56.480 --> 00:30:00.190 all the facts about it. But even if there's some, 370 00:30:00.690 --> 00:30:02.930 even if it's not quite as clear-cut as it seems 371 00:30:02.990 --> 00:30:08.769 to be, it's just stupid. Because, you know, he just 372 00:30:08.829 --> 00:30:13.069 opened his eyes to accusations of being cruel and not 373 00:30:13.109 --> 00:30:18.150 caring about a pedophile and not caring about rape. I mean, 374 00:30:18.430 --> 00:30:25.230 but this is Vivek, who I think for, you know, 375 00:30:25.289 --> 00:30:29.480 when he ran in the primaries for the Republican in 376 00:30:29.500 --> 00:30:38.579 the Republican primaries for president exhibited the kind of callousness, cruelty, 377 00:30:40.019 --> 00:30:46.720 you know, and playing into whatever MAGA wanted and lying, right, 378 00:30:47.099 --> 00:30:52.680 the kind of lying that typifies a post-Trump Republican Party, 379 00:30:53.140 --> 00:30:57.799 kind of the explicit, shameless lies, and never backing down. 380 00:30:57.900 --> 00:31:00.670 That's the other thing. He didn't back down. And Andy 381 00:31:00.710 --> 00:31:06.369 withdrew the ad, but only after there was a huge backlash. So, again, 382 00:31:07.349 --> 00:31:10.569 Vivek deserves to lose. I don't know that Ohio deserves 383 00:31:11.069 --> 00:31:14.799 Amy Acton, but Vivek deserves to lose. This is the problem, right? 384 00:31:16.019 --> 00:31:22.579 So many of these Republicans deserve to lose, even if 385 00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:31.289 we don't deserve the alternative. Let's see. Yeah, as I said, 386 00:31:31.390 --> 00:31:34.069 we'll only get updates, I think. I'll only get updates 387 00:31:34.109 --> 00:31:39.410 here about any particular races, some of the bellwether races. 388 00:31:39.519 --> 00:31:41.539 Let's see if we have any kind of broader update 389 00:31:42.400 --> 00:31:47.700 about any of this. Let me pull up this. Yeah, 390 00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:52.640 I mean, if you look at the voter surveys, what 391 00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:55.930 are people upset about? I mean, they're upset about high costs, 392 00:31:56.470 --> 00:32:01.420 primarily of food and fuel. Uh, those are, those are the, the, the, 393 00:32:01.680 --> 00:32:05.000 the top concerns, uh, what they, you know, for them, 394 00:32:05.099 --> 00:32:08.579 cost of living. Um, Americans went to the polls in 395 00:32:08.599 --> 00:32:13.099 a sour mood. Um, they're looking for change in Washington. Uh, 396 00:32:14.769 --> 00:32:17.410 let's see, high fuel and fuel prices were the top 397 00:32:17.430 --> 00:32:21.910 voter concern. Makes sense with roughly, I mean, again, tariffs 398 00:32:22.289 --> 00:32:25.750 and not winning the war is really costing Trump and 399 00:32:25.789 --> 00:32:35.190 costing Republicans. Uh, Let's see. Let's see. What else? Roughly 400 00:32:35.190 --> 00:32:37.559 6 in 10 voters said they were very concerned about 401 00:32:37.619 --> 00:32:40.940 cost of food with a similar proportion registering that levels 402 00:32:41.099 --> 00:32:45.440 of worry about the price of gasoline or diesel. Ahead 403 00:32:45.460 --> 00:32:47.500 of the election, Trump cast the economy as being on 404 00:32:47.619 --> 00:32:52.369 solid ground. You know, that's the thing. He keeps telling people, no, 405 00:32:52.710 --> 00:32:54.670 you don't know what you're talking about. Everything's going great. 406 00:32:55.289 --> 00:33:02.869 When people seem to feel or really experience the fact 407 00:33:02.930 --> 00:33:07.230 that it's not going so great. Let's see, what else? 408 00:33:08.849 --> 00:33:10.630 Four out of ten voters said one of the reasons 409 00:33:10.690 --> 00:33:15.609 behind the U.S. House vote was to express opposition to Trump. Well, 410 00:33:15.650 --> 00:33:19.319 three-quarters said they feel dissatisfied or angry about the way 411 00:33:19.390 --> 00:33:24.980 things are going nationally. That's Trump. Congress remains deeply unpopular 412 00:33:25.339 --> 00:33:27.960 with almost half saying they strongly disapprove of the job 413 00:33:27.980 --> 00:33:30.509 it is doing. Yeah, I mean, Congress has done nothing. 414 00:33:31.069 --> 00:33:34.579 It has stood by and let Trump do whatever the 415 00:33:34.619 --> 00:33:39.319 hell he wants, and they do nothing. Absolutely zero. Seven 416 00:33:39.359 --> 00:33:41.799 in ten voters said the institution isn't doing enough to 417 00:33:41.839 --> 00:33:45.319 provide checks and balances on the president. Yay to Americans. 418 00:33:45.849 --> 00:33:48.769 That is exactly right. Seven in ten voters want more 419 00:33:48.829 --> 00:33:54.640 checks and balances. I do too. Both political parties were 420 00:33:54.680 --> 00:33:58.440 viewed skeptically by voters, with nearly six in ten having 421 00:33:58.480 --> 00:34:01.269 an unfavorable view of the Republican Party, and a bit 422 00:34:01.309 --> 00:34:07.230 more of half seeing the Democratic Party that way. Republicans currently, 423 00:34:07.289 --> 00:34:12.449 let's see, so most important issues for voters, the economy, 424 00:34:13.150 --> 00:34:16.409 a close second the state of democracy, so the state 425 00:34:16.429 --> 00:34:20.969 of kind of the functioning government. Good. 14% immigration, it's 426 00:34:20.989 --> 00:34:25.739 not clear which direction that goes. But look, ICE is 427 00:34:25.840 --> 00:34:34.519 not popular. Not popular. Nine in ten voters said government 428 00:34:34.760 --> 00:34:38.980 corruption was a crucial, a major factor in deciding their 429 00:34:39.039 --> 00:34:43.349 vote for the U.S. House. For the U.S. House. Where's 430 00:34:43.369 --> 00:34:47.010 the primary corruption? It's in the White House. It's Trump. 431 00:34:50.829 --> 00:34:55.880

So they're voting in the House based on how, you know, 432 00:34:55.960 --> 00:35:00.599 their sense of the corruption in, you know, in the 433 00:35:00.619 --> 00:35:09.309 White House. All right, let's see. Roy Cooper is being 434 00:35:09.389 --> 00:35:16.820 called as the Democrat, Democrat winning the Senate in North Carolina. Again, 435 00:35:16.880 --> 00:35:20.829 a state you would think. Republicans would at least be close, 436 00:35:21.510 --> 00:35:24.630 but he's running away with it. Running away with it, 437 00:35:24.630 --> 00:35:29.030 and that's a pickup. So that was a seat held 438 00:35:29.130 --> 00:35:35.949 by a Republican. So not good for Republicans. And Roy 439 00:35:35.989 --> 00:35:39.309 Cooper is another one who I expect will run for president. 440 00:35:39.909 --> 00:35:44.610 He is a more conservative Democrat. He wins in North Carolina. 441 00:35:45.150 --> 00:35:48.460 And that's why I think Democrats from Georgia or North 442 00:35:48.500 --> 00:35:55.690 Carolina have a real shot at winning nationwide, whereas Democrats 443 00:35:55.750 --> 00:35:59.730 in California or Democrats in New York have less of 444 00:35:59.769 --> 00:36:03.550 a chance of winning nationwide in a presidential election. So 445 00:36:03.610 --> 00:36:07.130 look at Roy Cooper, look at Ossoff as maybe the 446 00:36:07.210 --> 00:36:12.139 leading candidates on the Democratic side for the presidency. Right now, 447 00:36:12.519 --> 00:36:16.099 people are talking about the governor of California. I'm not 448 00:36:16.139 --> 00:36:18.190 sure if he's going to be the guy. I'm not 449 00:36:18.210 --> 00:36:20.530 sure if he's going to be the guy. Now, Trump 450 00:36:21.530 --> 00:36:24.360 is sitting at the White House watching Fox and seeing 451 00:36:24.420 --> 00:36:28.400 the results come in, and he is fuming. And every 452 00:36:28.500 --> 00:36:32.559 once in a while, he'll put out a tweet on 453 00:36:32.679 --> 00:36:38.219 Truth Social attacking Fox News for what he believes is 454 00:36:39.989 --> 00:36:46.489 much too much of a positive depiction of the Democrats. Now, 455 00:36:48.150 --> 00:36:51.829 So far, we have not seen ice in the streets. 456 00:36:53.250 --> 00:36:59.849 We did not see any significant attempt by anybody, Republicans 457 00:36:59.909 --> 00:37:03.690 or Democrats, to steal this election in any kind of way, 458 00:37:03.869 --> 00:37:07.389 at least not in the voting aspect. We didn't have 459 00:37:07.550 --> 00:37:15.090 ice around voting areas, intimidating people. So that is all good. 460 00:37:16.809 --> 00:37:22.469 Trump will challenge certain elections. Alaska, they've already challenged. The 461 00:37:22.530 --> 00:37:25.329 courts have let the vote go through. They challenged 20,000 462 00:37:25.329 --> 00:37:29.389 votes in California. They'll probably challenge them again. But they're 463 00:37:29.409 --> 00:37:32.949 the basis that some of the voters are not citizens. 464 00:37:33.170 --> 00:37:38.760 That's a legit base. They'll challenge other things. So we'll see. 465 00:37:39.400 --> 00:37:44.739 But I just don't think it's going to be significant, right? 466 00:37:46.969 --> 00:37:49.190 uh all these challenges i don't think they have a 467 00:37:49.250 --> 00:37:56.469 real chance um all right let's see this is so 468 00:37:56.510 --> 00:38:03.360 we've got now uh is this the second one or 469 00:38:03.400 --> 00:38:11.730 the first one Yeah, I mean, here it is. I mean, 470 00:38:12.050 --> 00:38:15.780 I can't remember. Let's see. Let me just see if 471 00:38:15.820 --> 00:38:18.219 this is the one I already told you was called. Yeah, 472 00:38:18.260 --> 00:38:20.260 it's the same one, but this is the Wall Street 473 00:38:20.280 --> 00:38:24.380 Journal writing about it. Representative Kathy Castor from Florida survived 474 00:38:24.440 --> 00:38:28.219 a mid-decade redistricting to defeat her Republican challenger. This is 475 00:38:28.570 --> 00:38:33.510 from the journal. Former state lawmaker Mike Beltran, the AP said, 476 00:38:33.530 --> 00:38:36.570 with 97% of the vote, she has 51.2 to 45.9%. 477 00:38:38.539 --> 00:38:42.659 Casta has held the seat since 2007, routinely coasted to re-election, 478 00:38:42.820 --> 00:38:47.110 but Republican Governor Ron DeSantis and state lawmakers reshaped her 479 00:38:47.190 --> 00:38:51.530 Tampa area district, Florida 14th, this spring to favor the GOP. 480 00:38:52.230 --> 00:38:54.630 She ran on her record of steering federal investment to 481 00:38:54.650 --> 00:38:58.889 her district and focused her campaign on bolstering the local economy. Beltran, 482 00:38:58.909 --> 00:39:01.880 the Republican, who served three terms in the Florida House 483 00:39:01.909 --> 00:39:05.800 of Representatives, was endorsed by Trump, so good that he lost, 484 00:39:06.800 --> 00:39:09.639 And he advocated for cracking down on illegal immigration and 485 00:39:09.699 --> 00:39:12.789 lowering cost of living. So cracking down on illegal immigration, 486 00:39:13.590 --> 00:39:18.289 I'm glad that lost. I'm not for cracking down on immigrants. 487 00:39:19.489 --> 00:39:22.820 And lowering cost of living, well, if you're a Republican 488 00:39:22.840 --> 00:39:25.260 and you're running on lowering cost of living, and the 489 00:39:25.280 --> 00:39:29.840 cost of living has been going up because of Trump, 490 00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:37.670 and tariffs and bad policy all around, then yeah, you're 491 00:39:37.710 --> 00:39:41.050 not going to be successful. That's not a bad thing. 492 00:39:42.429 --> 00:39:46.449 Let's see if we've got any other calls here. We 493 00:39:46.469 --> 00:39:48.389 don't have that. We don't have that. We don't have that. 494 00:39:48.570 --> 00:39:52.579 All right, Florida 14th, we said that was called. Florida 25th. 495 00:39:53.340 --> 00:40:01.550 So this is also redistricted in favor of Republicans, right? 496 00:40:01.929 --> 00:40:07.789 And Democrats won

it, 51 to 46. So again, the redistricting, 497 00:40:07.869 --> 00:40:10.730 at least in Florida, does not seem to have worked 498 00:40:11.110 --> 00:40:13.809 in Republicans' favor, does not seem to have worked in 499 00:40:13.849 --> 00:40:19.239 a way that they would have expected. let's see we've 500 00:40:19.280 --> 00:40:23.940 got some Texas houses again too early to call them 501 00:40:24.820 --> 00:40:31.610 house races and yeah alright let's see I think in 502 00:40:31.670 --> 00:40:35.769 another minute I'm going to get an update from Claude 503 00:40:36.250 --> 00:40:39.650 Claude is going to update Claude is going to update 504 00:40:39.670 --> 00:40:43.400 some of the races for us in like a minute 505 00:40:43.800 --> 00:40:51.860 so we will see what it looks like. Yeah, all 506 00:40:51.880 --> 00:40:55.880 of that's good. All right. What else do we want 507 00:40:55.900 --> 00:41:06.760 to say? We'll talk about that. Let me see if 508 00:41:06.780 --> 00:41:10.840 there was anything else. Yeah, I mean, if you want 509 00:41:10.860 --> 00:41:13.539 to see what Trump is all about, go to Truth Social. 510 00:41:14.250 --> 00:41:17.050 And check out his post right now and kind of 511 00:41:17.070 --> 00:41:21.739 the frantic nature of it. This is Donald Trump, and 512 00:41:21.760 --> 00:41:26.980 this is what I hope gets repudiated tonight. All right, 513 00:41:27.219 --> 00:41:32.480 here we've got the update. We've got, let's see if 514 00:41:32.519 --> 00:41:37.510 there's anything being called. What's this update now? Call that. 515 00:41:44.469 --> 00:41:52.119 Just looking at some of the Senate races. Yeah, it's 516 00:41:52.159 --> 00:41:57.519 way too early. Florida, as I said, shifted to the 517 00:41:57.559 --> 00:42:03.809 Republican side. All right, here we go. Ohio governor is 518 00:42:03.909 --> 00:42:08.750 not called yet. Amy Acton is at basically 59. Vivek 519 00:42:08.769 --> 00:42:18.300 at 38. And I guess Claude is now updating the rest. 520 00:42:19.440 --> 00:42:23.599 Right into the desk page and 945 update now. I mean, 521 00:42:23.619 --> 00:42:26.300 this is nice. You can kind of set up Claude, uh, 522 00:42:26.429 --> 00:42:31.030 to basically track the Senate races and key house races and, uh, 523 00:42:31.190 --> 00:42:34.489 and also tracks on the governor races and it will 524 00:42:34.650 --> 00:42:36.869 update it on a kind of a, on a regular 525 00:42:36.889 --> 00:42:43.769 basis that I, uh, um, yep. Yeah. You know, Brian says, uh, 526 00:42:44.570 --> 00:42:47.320 Brian Cross says, I felt ill of voting Democratic across 527 00:42:47.360 --> 00:42:50.239 the board. I made a last desperate attempt to find 528 00:42:50.280 --> 00:42:56.820 a Republican worth supporting. Any such Republican got purged from 529 00:42:56.880 --> 00:42:59.989 the party last election along with Liz Cheney. I think 530 00:43:00.030 --> 00:43:03.070 that's right. I mean, the better Republicans were kicked out. Again, 531 00:43:03.389 --> 00:43:06.889 this is why Republicans deserve to lose. Because they have 532 00:43:06.989 --> 00:43:11.889 kicked out the better people. The good people. They're being 533 00:43:11.909 --> 00:43:15.320 kicked out. And it's become a party of MAGA. And 534 00:43:15.599 --> 00:43:19.019 you cannot, I mean, what's the difference between MAGA and Democrats? 535 00:43:20.820 --> 00:43:24.579 I don't know. I mean, there are differences. There are 536 00:43:24.599 --> 00:43:28.760 differences in emphasis. There are differences in what way they 537 00:43:28.800 --> 00:43:34.809 are statist. But they're all statist. According to NBC, Ramaswamy 538 00:43:34.869 --> 00:43:38.869 would need about 54% of the remaining votes to catch 539 00:43:38.929 --> 00:43:42.929 up in Ohio. Higher counts, early votes first, and those 540 00:43:42.969 --> 00:43:46.550 lean Democratic. So it's still, you know, it's still going 541 00:43:46.570 --> 00:43:51.469 to be closer. Rural counties reported so far, like Adams, Allen, 542 00:43:51.510 --> 00:43:57.500 and Ashland, are going to run with Swami by roughly 55, 543 00:43:57.500 --> 00:44:01.400 between 55 and 64 percent. So this lead should narrow, 544 00:44:01.440 --> 00:44:05.300 but how much is open, right? So we're going to watch, 545 00:44:05.320 --> 00:44:11.329 we're Okay, as we said, Democrats picked up a Senate seat. 546 00:44:12.650 --> 00:44:18.090 That is the North Carolina Roy Cooper. New Hampshire, Pappas 547 00:44:18.769 --> 00:44:22.170 holds the Democratic seat. They've called New Hampshire for the Democrat. 548 00:44:22.289 --> 00:44:29.760 Ossoff holds his seat in Georgia. Ohio, NBC says it's 549 00:44:29.780 --> 00:44:34.380 a leaning Democratic, with Brown leading 55.8 to the Republicans 40.5. Now, again, 550 00:44:38.579 --> 00:44:42.550 They count the early votes, the mail-in votes first, so 551 00:44:43.550 --> 00:44:50.190 that gap will narrow. Florida special election right now, 97% 552 00:44:50.750 --> 00:44:55.449 of the vote, Republican lead, but they haven't called it yet. 553 00:44:56.289 --> 00:45:00.860 So Florida looks like it'll stay Republican. Again, it's going 554 00:45:00.880 --> 00:45:08.179 to be close. Early counts, not projections. Teleriso in Texas 555 00:45:08.260 --> 00:45:11.659 imagine Texas going Democratic I mean I'm not saying it'll 556 00:45:11.679 --> 00:45:16.239 happen but imagine that happening that is pretty wild you 557 00:45:16.260 --> 00:45:19.579 know even in the governor's race there's some talk about 558 00:45:20.880 --> 00:45:25.360 you know the Democrats potentially doing really well probably not 559 00:45:25.400 --> 00:45:28.480 winning it but doing really really well okay so Teleriso 560 00:45:29.079 --> 00:45:30.639 is leading 58% to 39% but that's only 29% and 561 00:45:30.679 --> 00:45:37.590 that's big cities report first and the Democrats are going 562 00:45:37.610 --> 00:45:40.230 to benefit in the big cities, and then it's the 563

00:45:40.289 --> 00:45:44.869 rural counties in Texas that will probably go Republican. But also, 564 00:45:45.469 --> 00:45:48.809 you've got a lot of Hispanic votes in those rural counties, 565 00:45:48.849 --> 00:45:53.429 particularly in South Texas, that went Trump in 2024, but 566 00:45:53.449 --> 00:46:00.440 will probably go Democratic this year. Let's see, Kansas, Democratic 567 00:46:01.099 --> 00:46:02.239 leading 62 to 36, but that's only 18% of the vote. 568 00:46:05.519 --> 00:46:10.139 El Sayyad is leading 56 to 42 with 10% in. Again, 569 00:46:10.159 --> 00:46:13.969 I think these are meaningless for the most part. South Carolina, 570 00:46:14.050 --> 00:46:18.809 here's a big one, right? South Carolina. You don't get 571 00:46:18.869 --> 00:46:22.510 much more Republican than South Carolina. When was the last 572 00:46:22.530 --> 00:46:28.510 time South Carolina voted for a Democrat in a statewide election? Anyway, 573 00:46:28.550 --> 00:46:30.809 South Carolina right now, the Democrat is leading 52 to 574 00:46:30.809 --> 00:46:35.429 46 with 53% in. Who knows where that will land up, 575 00:46:35.510 --> 00:46:40.170 but it just, it says a lot that anybody's even 576 00:46:40.250 --> 00:46:46.610 thinking about this, that it's even being considered, right? Okay, 577 00:46:47.710 --> 00:46:53.590 we've got a Democratic pickup in North Carolina, and let's 578 00:46:53.730 --> 00:47:00.920 see that, yeah, Ohio governor, senator, what am I going 579 00:47:00.940 --> 00:47:06.829 to look at? I want to see Texas governor race. 580 00:47:09.530 --> 00:47:12.949 I'm just curious if there's anything even to watch there 581 00:47:13.670 --> 00:47:16.320 in this, in a Texas governor. You think it would 582 00:47:16.340 --> 00:47:18.429 be a slam dunk. I mean, Abbott has been governor 583 00:47:18.449 --> 00:47:20.960 for what? Three terms. This will be his fourth term. 584 00:47:21.900 --> 00:47:25.960 He has to be the strong favorite. And yet who knows? 585 00:47:26.099 --> 00:47:31.519 All right. Um, so we've got it. We said the 586 00:47:31.559 --> 00:47:36.750 Florida ones we've already called, uh, Kentucky 6th, this is Kentucky, 587 00:47:37.110 --> 00:47:42.889 is flipped to the Democrats. Virginia flipped to the Democrats, 588 00:47:42.909 --> 00:47:48.869 Virginia 2. 50.9, 46.8, we'll see if that, you know, 589 00:47:48.889 --> 00:47:55.679 they expect that to hold. Indiana 5 is, it looks 590 00:47:55.699 --> 00:48:02.079 like it's Democrat. Virginia 5, Democrat is leading. Virginia 1, 591 00:48:02.079 --> 00:48:06.559 Democrat is leading. South Carolina 1. Republican is leading, but 592 00:48:06.719 --> 00:48:10.039 only by 1%. Well, that's just only 1% counted, so 593 00:48:10.079 --> 00:48:14.360 that's not significant. Let me just see if there's anything on. 594 00:48:15.659 --> 00:48:21.260 I mean, this is funny, you know, and I'm sure 595 00:48:21.320 --> 00:48:24.070 this tells you everything about where the votes are coming 596 00:48:24.199 --> 00:48:28.570 in from, but right now for Texas governor, the Democrat 597 00:48:28.610 --> 00:48:34.630 is leading 57 to 42. Now, my assumption is, That's 598 00:48:34.670 --> 00:48:36.369 because the votes have come in from the big cities, 599 00:48:37.130 --> 00:48:40.380 and that Greg Abbott will catch up and probably win this. 600 00:48:40.980 --> 00:48:46.539 But imagine, just imagine, just for fun, imagine if the 601 00:48:46.659 --> 00:48:53.309 governor of Texas is a Democrat. Now, you know, I 602 00:48:53.329 --> 00:48:59.070 have to say, given how, you know, the Republicans' position 603 00:48:59.769 --> 00:49:04.440 on abortion in Texas... but also given Greg Abbott's position 604 00:49:04.519 --> 00:49:11.079 on data centers in Texas, you know, given his position on, 605 00:49:13.510 --> 00:49:17.150 you know, on illegal immigrants and immigrants, immigration in general 606 00:49:17.289 --> 00:49:22.400 in Texas. Yeah. he should lose. Greg Abbott should lose 607 00:49:22.460 --> 00:49:27.599 in Texas. Imagine Texas with a Democratic governor and a 608 00:49:27.679 --> 00:49:31.659 House and Senate that are Republicans and complete gridlock in Texas. 609 00:49:31.960 --> 00:49:36.320 That's probably the best outcome Texas could want. Best outcome 610 00:49:36.429 --> 00:49:42.880 for Texas. So, yep. All right, let's see. All right, 611 00:49:42.920 --> 00:49:46.940 we've got those two. Georgia's being called for Senate. We 612 00:49:46.980 --> 00:49:49.800 said that. New Hampshire's being called for Senate, for Democrat. 613 00:49:49.840 --> 00:49:57.019 We said that. North Carolina's being called. We said that. Maine, 614 00:49:57.039 --> 00:50:01.760 they've started counting. We don't know where that is going 615 00:50:01.780 --> 00:50:07.570 to land up. It's way too early. Michigan, they've started counting. 616 00:50:08.239 --> 00:50:14.760 And again, way too early, but El-Sayed has an early lead. Kansas, 617 00:50:14.800 --> 00:50:20.699 they've started counting with the Democrat ahead, but again, it's 618 00:50:20.760 --> 00:50:27.869 way too early. And Texas, again, way too early. And 619 00:50:27.889 --> 00:50:35.920 then we've got Minnesota. The polls will close tomorrow. in 620 00:50:36.019 --> 00:50:38.679 six minutes. So, uh, and, and that one's an interesting 621 00:50:38.780 --> 00:50:43.130 one because there's a outside chance Republicans can pick that 622 00:50:43.230 --> 00:50:47.289 up because the Democrat running is so far to the 623 00:50:47.389 --> 00:50:50.389 left that Republicans think they have a chance of picking 624 00:50:50.429 --> 00:50:52.730 that one up. So, uh, we will, we will see 625 00:50:52.750 --> 00:50:59.099 what happens there. Um, right. I mean, a lot of the, 626 00:50:59.190 --> 00:51:03.440 what they call the bellwether districts, which are going to 627 00:51:03.460 --> 00:51:07.800 suggest if there's a, blue wave or blue tsunami are 628 00:51:07.820 --> 00:51:17.480

going democratic are going democratic right let me just see 629 00:51:23.320 --> 00:51:38.519 Georgia governor okay James is asking about a Georgia governor. 630 00:51:38.539 --> 00:51:52.179 All right, the Democratic, 66% of the vote in. 631 00:51:53.809 --> 00:51:58.469 Keisha Lance Bottoms, the Democrat, is leading 56 to 44. 632 00:51:58.469 --> 00:52:08.260 I mean, that's, That's, they haven't called it, right? Let 633 00:52:08.300 --> 00:52:15.190 me just add this to our list. Add Ohio, Texas, 634 00:52:16.670 --> 00:52:40.559 Georgia governor races to night desk monitoring. All right. It's 635 00:52:40.599 --> 00:52:45.320 going to add that. All right. We did that. Let's see. 636 00:52:45.340 --> 00:52:47.059 I'm just checking down here, and then I'm going to 637 00:52:47.099 --> 00:52:51.559 go to your other races to watch. Okay. Georgia governor, 638 00:52:51.599 --> 00:52:56.840 Texas governor, Ohio governor. Nice. Michigan's seventh. Polls are still open. 639 00:52:56.880 --> 00:53:10.210 All right. Right. Yeah, I mean, both in Georgia and 640 00:53:10.289 --> 00:53:15.670 in Texas, you get the metro areas reporting first. So 641 00:53:16.389 --> 00:53:18.769 it's going to be the governor's races are still wide open. 642 00:53:19.769 --> 00:53:23.349 You know, it's way too early to call them. But again, 643 00:53:23.449 --> 00:53:29.659 it's big leads for the Democrats, you know, even given that. 644 00:53:30.300 --> 00:53:35.340 I'm curious what Fox.com who's reporting, given that Trump is 645 00:53:35.400 --> 00:53:44.489 watching Fox. So that's his focus, is on Fox. And then, right, 646 00:53:44.610 --> 00:53:49.269 nothing much in the Wall Street Journal updating. Yeah, Fox.com 647 00:53:49.289 --> 00:53:50.809 is going to be all video. I don't want to 648 00:53:50.849 --> 00:53:58.420 watch video. Yeah, I guess it has to be FoxNews.com. FoxNews.com. 649 00:53:58.820 --> 00:54:10.570 All right. Right. Fox has called Florida for the Republicans. 650 00:54:11.949 --> 00:54:15.239 Very close, and it's pretty amazing how close it is, 651 00:54:15.269 --> 00:54:18.909 given that the Democrat is a DSA member and a 652 00:54:18.949 --> 00:54:24.809 complete wacko who shocked Democrats by winning their primaries. So 653 00:54:25.650 --> 00:54:30.170 they're projecting that Republican Ashley Moody will win her first 654 00:54:30.250 --> 00:54:33.289 full term in Florida. She was the one who was 655 00:54:33.349 --> 00:54:43.389 appointed to the position once Juan Corubio was made, joined 656 00:54:43.409 --> 00:54:47.590 the cabinet, right? Let's see, in terms of the Senate, 657 00:54:51.349 --> 00:54:56.670 what have we called, they've called, you know, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Illinois, 658 00:54:58.230 --> 00:55:03.400 New Hampshire, and New Jersey, have all been called for 659 00:55:03.420 --> 00:55:11.369 the Democrats. Florida, West Virginia, and Kentucky have all been called. 660 00:55:11.429 --> 00:55:15.849 So those are just holds for the Republicans, have all 661 00:55:15.909 --> 00:55:29.619 been called for the Republicans. And let's see, Fox calls 662 00:55:29.659 --> 00:55:39.230 West Virginia. Class 2, called Kentucky, for Andy Baugh. That's Baugh. Okay, 663 00:55:39.449 --> 00:55:44.030 that's not a Senate seat. That's a House seat. All right. 664 00:55:48.179 --> 00:55:57.139 Michigan voters break with party. We'll see. All right. We'll 665 00:55:57.159 --> 00:56:10.170 keep this up. All right. Let's go to some of 666 00:56:10.389 --> 00:56:16.550 your questions. I'm going to shut that down. I'm going 667 00:56:16.590 --> 00:56:27.309 to go there. And let's see if we've got anything there. 668 00:56:27.329 --> 00:56:38.489 All right. Let's send some of your questions, ones that 669 00:56:38.510 --> 00:56:43.530 are election, you know, well, just generally, and then we'll 670 00:56:43.570 --> 00:56:51.159 get updates as we go through the night. Let me 671 00:56:51.179 --> 00:56:53.900 just ask Claude when it's going to update it next. 672 00:56:54.139 --> 00:57:05.789 When is next update? Okay. 10.30 my time. Okay. 10.30 673 00:57:05.789 --> 00:57:07.869 East Coast time. I'm, I'm an hour ahead of that. 674 00:57:08.929 --> 00:57:14.190 So here it's, um, here it's 11. Uh, 10.30 your time, 675 00:57:14.230 --> 00:57:18.349 about half an hour from now. Um, just after Iowa, 676 00:57:18.369 --> 00:57:22.239 Nebraska and New York close at 10. After that it'll 677 00:57:22.280 --> 00:57:25.920 be 11.30, 12.30 and a final wrap up at 2.15 a.m. 678 00:57:26.000 --> 00:57:35.050 once Alaska polls close. All right. Looks good. Um, All right, 679 00:57:35.150 --> 00:57:38.170 let's check out your questions, and we'll go from there. 680 00:57:38.230 --> 00:57:43.179 We've got some $ 50 questions, and we'll start with those. 681 00:57:43.539 --> 00:57:49.139 Liam says, ICE is rapidly re-arresting immigrants who are being 682 00:57:49.179 --> 00:57:52.670 released after winning court petitions. Will their lives be breaking 683 00:57:52.730 --> 00:57:56.269 down with a sweeping Democratic victory? Will ICE be neutered, 684 00:57:57.090 --> 00:58:02.550 or will they form their own social justice version of ICE? Well, 685 00:58:02.610 --> 00:58:05.239 I mean, Democrats are likely ultimately, when they gain power, 686 00:58:06.019 --> 00:58:09.059 to form their own type of ICE. I mean, ICE 687 00:58:09.099 --> 00:58:12.260 has set a precedent for what the federal government can do, 688 00:58:12.780 --> 00:58:15.179 and it's kind of scary when you think about where 689 00:58:15.219 --> 00:58:20.829 that can take us. But I don't think Democrats are 690 00:58:20.849 --> 00:58:25.130 going to do too much to neuter ICE, partially because 691 00:58:26.210 --> 00:58:30.519 a lot of Americans support ICE, support running up illegal 692 00:58:30.559 --> 00:58:34.710 immigrants at least. And what can Democrats do, right? This 693 00:58:34.789 --> 00:58:38.530 is an executive, part of

the executive office. The budget 694 00:58:38.570 --> 00:58:42.019 has already been approved. You know, budget talks in the 695 00:58:42.099 --> 00:58:45.219 future are going to be very difficult between the Trump 696 00:58:45.239 --> 00:58:48.500 administration and potentially both the House and the Senate that 697 00:58:48.519 --> 00:58:53.179 are held by the Democrats. It could make any budget 698 00:58:53.219 --> 00:58:58.300 discussions impossible. Democrats might insist on defunding ICE or at 699 00:58:58.340 --> 00:59:01.079 least reducing the funding from ICE. But ISIS has already 700 00:59:01.119 --> 00:59:03.550 got so much money and I think a multi-year thing 701 00:59:03.590 --> 00:59:08.929 that the Republicans passed in order to try to prevent 702 00:59:08.989 --> 00:59:11.039 exactly the kind of defunding. that we will talk about 703 00:59:11.079 --> 00:59:14.139 in the future over the next two years. So I 704 00:59:14.179 --> 00:59:17.219 think ICE is protected from much of what the Democrats 705 00:59:17.320 --> 00:59:20.739 could do. Democrats, no matter what happens tonight, are not 706 00:59:20.760 --> 00:59:23.179 going to have 60 seats in the Senate. They're not 707 00:59:23.199 --> 00:59:25.619 going to be able to pass laws in the Senate. 708 00:59:26.469 --> 00:59:29.309 And Trump can also always veto them, and then I'm 709 00:59:29.329 --> 00:59:33.670 going to get a veto-proof majority. So, you know, I 710 00:59:33.690 --> 00:59:36.139 don't think ICE is going to be neutered. And I 711 00:59:36.199 --> 00:59:39.579 don't think Republicans, I don't think the lesson Republicans take 712 00:59:39.599 --> 00:59:44.320 from this election is we should treat immigrants nicer. I 713 00:59:44.340 --> 00:59:47.400 don't think that is the lesson they take. They might 714 00:59:47.440 --> 00:59:53.289 take something about tariffs, the non-Trump Republicans. They might take 715 00:59:53.329 --> 00:59:56.769 something about the war. They'll interpret this as an anti-war 716 00:59:59.650 --> 01:00:04.210 anti-war vote. I don't think they'll take this as a 717 01:00:04.230 --> 01:00:07.300 pro-immigration vote and I don't think Democrats will have enough 718 01:00:08.079 --> 01:00:12.460 power or really the motivation. I don't think immigration is 719 01:00:12.980 --> 01:00:17.460 a winning I don't think Democrats view immigration as a 720 01:00:17.579 --> 01:00:20.679 winning issue for them. I think they were going to 721 01:00:20.739 --> 01:00:23.719 focus on what they think are winning issues which have 722 01:00:23.760 --> 01:00:30.800 to do with affordability. So, you know, socialist policies, you know, 723 01:00:32.400 --> 01:00:37.099 price controls of various kinds, and Medicare for all are 724 01:00:37.199 --> 01:00:39.630 probably what they believe are winning issues. And I think 725 01:00:39.650 --> 01:00:44.889 if you look at survey data around Americans, Americans want, 726 01:00:45.050 --> 01:00:47.789 including Republicans, by the way, they want price controls, they 727 01:00:47.809 --> 01:00:50.050 want Medicare for all, they want more socialized health care. 728 01:00:50.460 --> 01:00:52.340 They want this kind of stuff, and that's what the 729 01:00:52.429 --> 01:00:56.110 Democrats are going to go after. They're going to go 730 01:00:56.170 --> 01:01:04.789 after where the voters are. And so-called affordability is, I think, 731 01:01:05.130 --> 01:01:07.570 their winning issue, or at least they're going to perceive 732 01:01:07.590 --> 01:01:09.769 it as their winning issue. And then what will happen 733 01:01:09.809 --> 01:01:12.320 is I think they're going to overreach, and as a 734 01:01:12.380 --> 01:01:16.119 consequence of their overreaching, I think they're likely to lose 735 01:01:16.159 --> 01:01:21.880 in 2028. Well, maybe not in 2028, maybe 2030, but 736 01:01:21.989 --> 01:01:25.320 ultimately they will lose because Democrats will overreach. They always do. 737 01:01:25.760 --> 01:01:28.360 They always overreach. They always overdo it. They always think 738 01:01:28.380 --> 01:01:30.480 they have a mandate to do stuff that they don't 739 01:01:30.519 --> 01:01:37.380 really have a mandate. Anyway, we'll see. The real tragedy, 740 01:01:37.820 --> 01:01:39.469 I think one of the big tragedies of all of 741 01:01:39.510 --> 01:01:44.989 this is going to be that Republicans will not blame 742 01:01:45.090 --> 01:01:48.809 Trump for this. Republicans will blame the war for this. 743 01:01:50.590 --> 01:01:55.730 They will blame, you know, the Iran war. They won't 744 01:01:55.769 --> 01:01:58.610 even blame not winning the Iran war, which is what 745 01:01:58.630 --> 01:02:02.190 they should blame. But they're going to blame going to war. 746 01:02:02.690 --> 01:02:06.800 That's what Republicans will say. The big mistake was going 747 01:02:06.820 --> 01:02:09.800 to war. When the big mistake was tariffs, the big 748 01:02:09.840 --> 01:02:13.679 mistake was Trump. Just Trump. Just the fact of Trump. 749 01:02:14.739 --> 01:02:18.440 The personality of Trump. You know, the corruption of Trump. 750 01:02:18.519 --> 01:02:24.409 The ugliness of Trump. And, you know, so they won't 751 01:02:24.449 --> 01:02:28.230 talk about tariffs when tariffs are probably the reason why 752 01:02:28.250 --> 01:02:31.969 Republicans are losing right now. Tariffs are what raise the 753 01:02:32.010 --> 01:02:36.320 cost of living and not winning the war. I don't 754 01:02:36.340 --> 01:02:39.840 think it's going to war, which is a problem. I mean, 755 01:02:40.599 --> 01:02:48.139 if you look at Michigan, Texas, Kansas, Iowa, the farm states, 756 01:02:49.489 --> 01:02:52.570 Why are farm states suffering right now? What is hurting 757 01:02:52.630 --> 01:02:59.030 farming in Iowa and in Kansas? Tariffs. Trade war. The 758 01:02:59.070 --> 01:03:05.320 fact that China is not buying soybeans. And Michigan. Why 759 01:03:05.360 --> 01:03:12.219 is Michigan

suffering? Why do Michiganders, right, why do they 760 01:03:12.239 --> 01:03:20.860 hate Trump? Because of the tariffs in Canada. And you know, 761 01:03:20.900 --> 01:03:24.219 the same with Texas and the threat to trade with Mexico. 762 01:03:25.179 --> 01:03:27.320 And of course, Texas, I would argue, I would argue, 763 01:03:27.760 --> 01:03:31.019 I don't think any Republican is going to say this, ICE, 764 01:03:31.380 --> 01:03:37.079 ICE is part of why Texas Hispanics are turning against 765 01:03:37.119 --> 01:03:40.920 the Republican Party when two years ago there was a 766 01:03:41.099 --> 01:03:46.639 massive move of Texas Hispanics towards the Republican Party. It 767 01:03:46.659 --> 01:03:50.150 was this big demographic change. Everybody said, this is it. 768 01:03:50.309 --> 01:03:52.710 Republicans are going to win forever because now they've got their, 769 01:03:53.050 --> 01:04:03.809 they've got Hispanic vote and even got some black votes. So, 770 01:04:06.320 --> 01:04:13.800 you know, so it's, but they'll never blame that. They'll 771 01:04:13.820 --> 01:04:18.539 never blame ICE. They'll never blame tariffs. They'll blame the war. 772 01:04:18.909 --> 01:04:21.190 That'll be the big thing. That'll be the only thing, 773 01:04:22.269 --> 01:04:28.449 you know, they'll talk about. Yeah, you know, so somebody 774 01:04:28.469 --> 01:04:32.329 just posted, the tariffs didn't help, but let's face it, 775 01:04:32.590 --> 01:04:34.849 any losses were because of the Iran war and its 776 01:04:34.889 --> 01:04:39.360 effect on fuel, which rapidly rippled through the economy. Not true. 777 01:04:40.409 --> 01:04:45.199 I mean, sure, should have won that war quickly. But 778 01:04:45.239 --> 01:04:51.670 it's mainly tariffs. And there was no upside. By the way, 779 01:04:52.730 --> 01:04:55.389 this is interesting, right? I didn't see this earlier today. 780 01:04:56.030 --> 01:05:01.489 But it turns out that Pete Buttiger, you know, the 781 01:05:01.769 --> 01:05:05.690 transportation secretary from Biden's administration, the guy who used to 782 01:05:05.730 --> 01:05:12.190 be a mayor, he said earlier today, he said, Abdullah 783 01:05:12.230 --> 01:05:19.579 Syed's comments and association with Hassan Paika should disqualify him. Well, 784 01:05:19.619 --> 01:05:25.969 that's good. Some reasonable Democrats identifying the bad guys within 785 01:05:25.989 --> 01:05:29.409 their own party. Imagine Republicans doing that. Imagine Republicans saying, 786 01:05:30.510 --> 01:05:37.909 Trump's behavior after January 6th disqualified him from being president 787 01:05:38.170 --> 01:05:41.239 and we should vote against him. A few Republicans said that. 788 01:05:42.159 --> 01:05:44.420 They were sent to the woodshed. Maybe Pete will be 789 01:05:44.440 --> 01:05:48.239 sent to the woodshed as well. We'll see. Now, why 790 01:05:48.300 --> 01:05:50.440 he does it on the election day and not a 791 01:05:50.460 --> 01:05:56.699 week before, so that what he says has no significance? 792 01:06:00.969 --> 01:06:26.460 All right. Yeah, all right. Let's see. Right now, according 793 01:06:26.500 --> 01:06:31.900 to the betting sites, the betting sites are saying 97% 794 01:06:31.900 --> 01:06:38.280 chance for Telerico to win Texas. That would be huge. 795 01:06:39.099 --> 01:06:45.630 That would be huge, right? You know, you raise taxes 796 01:06:45.670 --> 01:06:54.139 on Americans, tariffs. And look, Trump has deregulated energy. He's deregulated, 797 01:06:54.460 --> 01:06:58.730 he's done some important deregulation in the EPA, Environmental Protection Agency, 798 01:06:59.110 --> 01:07:06.469 deregulated environmental stuff. All that is really, really good. But 799 01:07:06.989 --> 01:07:13.010 not enough, not enough to compensate for just the horrible character, 800 01:07:15.099 --> 01:07:18.429 not enough to compensate for the tariffs. Not enough to 801 01:07:18.469 --> 01:07:21.250 compensate for starting a war and not winning it. A 802 01:07:21.329 --> 01:07:27.690 winnable war, which you could have won, and didn't win. 803 01:07:28.889 --> 01:07:32.219 Didn't win. And is not winning. Now, maybe he still will, 804 01:07:33.079 --> 01:07:37.000 but my guess is Republicans will learn from this, including Trump, no, 805 01:07:37.059 --> 01:07:39.699 the war is what caused me to lose, and therefore 806 01:07:39.840 --> 01:07:41.400 I need a compromise, I need to cut a deal, 807 01:07:41.440 --> 01:07:45.239 or something like that. In that sense, this is not good. 808 01:07:48.989 --> 01:08:04.969 Let's see if there's anything else. I don't know if 809 01:08:05.130 --> 01:08:11.320 this is... I don't know. I mean, if Greg Abbott 810 01:08:11.360 --> 01:08:15.360 loses in Texas, that'll blow my mind. That'll be huge. 811 01:08:15.920 --> 01:08:21.250 That'll be huge. But again, Republicans have earned this. They've 812 01:08:21.310 --> 01:08:24.930 earned it. They worked really, really, really hard to lose 813 01:08:24.970 --> 01:08:29.250 these races, to lose Texas, basically. And they're succeeding. You've 814 01:08:29.270 --> 01:08:35.649 got to give them credit. They're succeeding. Yeah, I mean, 815 01:08:35.670 --> 01:08:38.470 social democracy is not going to sweep the nation. It'll 816 01:08:38.550 --> 01:08:41.489 feel that way. But the reality is Americans don't want 817 01:08:41.550 --> 01:08:47.060 social democracy. This election is not about DSA. This election 818 01:08:47.100 --> 01:08:51.100 is about Trump. This election is about Trump, about whether, 819 01:08:51.899 --> 01:08:54.319 you know, the American people support Trump's agenda or not. 820 01:08:55.229 --> 01:08:58.899 And they're a puny idiot. It at least seems that 821 01:08:58.960 --> 01:09:01.880 way right now. All right, let's see some more questions. Michael, 822 01:09:03.479 --> 01:09:07.359 who is more socialist? Mamdani who wants to open some 823 01:09:07.460 --> 01:09:11.520 stupid

government-run grocery stores or Trump who's been having the 824 01:09:11.560 --> 01:09:17.899 government take equity stakes in major corporations by the dozens? Yeah, 41, 41. 825 01:09:17.899 --> 01:09:22.640 corporations now, they just took a position in a drone maker, 826 01:09:22.640 --> 01:09:27.260 41 American businesses now have an equity stake by the government. 827 01:09:28.680 --> 01:09:36.079 I mean, it's unprecedented in a time of peace or 828 01:09:36.479 --> 01:09:40.050 where we're not in a world war, right, for the 829 01:09:40.090 --> 01:09:43.850 government to own American businesses. And yet, 41 American businesses 830 01:09:43.890 --> 01:09:48.880 now have partial ownership by the government. And Don't tell 831 01:09:48.920 --> 01:09:52.270 me it doesn't affect how these companies are run, what 832 01:09:52.329 --> 01:09:54.869 happens to these companies. By the way, Intel, I think, 833 01:09:54.930 --> 01:09:58.229 took a major hit to its stock price last week. 834 01:09:58.270 --> 01:10:00.649 The government lost a lot of money. But that's not 835 01:10:00.689 --> 01:10:03.520 the point. The point is not losing or gaining money. 836 01:10:03.880 --> 01:10:10.560 The point is the government has no business. No. Capital N. No. Business. 837 01:10:11.399 --> 01:10:23.149 Owning equity. Owning U.S. businesses, or any country's businesses, stay 838 01:10:23.250 --> 01:10:27.409 out of... I mean, that's... The essence of socialism is 839 01:10:27.750 --> 01:10:31.590 the government owns the means of production. And the Trump 840 01:10:31.609 --> 01:10:37.409 administration is aggressively moving us in that direction. With no... 841 01:10:37.649 --> 01:10:39.930 By the way, no approval from Congress to use the 842 01:10:39.989 --> 01:10:43.369 funds in this way. No approval from Congress to take 843 01:10:43.489 --> 01:10:50.630 on 41 companies. 41 companies. And nobody's talking about this. 844 01:10:51.449 --> 01:10:54.609 This is not in the election. This is not in 845 01:10:54.630 --> 01:10:58.229 the agenda. But this is part of the reason why 846 01:10:58.409 --> 01:11:02.789 I believe the Republicans have to lose, because if the 847 01:11:02.829 --> 01:11:07.020 Republican Party was a decent political party, had any semblance 848 01:11:07.060 --> 01:11:12.439 of decency, then the Senate and the House would repudiate 849 01:11:12.800 --> 01:11:18.539 Trump's taking on American equity stakes in American businesses. They 850 01:11:18.579 --> 01:11:20.880 would pass a bill saying you can't do it. Let 851 01:11:20.899 --> 01:11:23.159 Trump veto it, fine. But at least they would make 852 01:11:23.199 --> 01:11:26.359 a statement. Or there would be some senators who would 853 01:11:26.399 --> 01:11:28.739 go out there and make a big deal out of this. 854 01:11:29.609 --> 01:11:32.069 The Republican Party is not a socialist party and therefore 855 01:11:32.109 --> 01:11:35.750 we don't want you to take equity positions in American businesses. 856 01:11:40.289 --> 01:11:46.319 Has any senator said that? No. Again, as a consequence, 857 01:11:46.560 --> 01:11:52.220 they deserve to lose. Thank you, Michael, for the $ 50. 858 01:11:51.619 --> 01:11:59.180 We really appreciate that. James, is Kant essentially post-enlightenment Plato? 859 01:12:00.119 --> 01:12:02.180 He tweaked a few things in Plato to make it 860 01:12:02.760 --> 01:12:06.779 palatable for people to absorb in a post-enlightenment world. Are 861 01:12:06.800 --> 01:12:09.930 there any substantial differences between Kant and Plato? Was Plato 862 01:12:10.199 --> 01:12:13.109 less of an altruist? Yeah, I think Plato is definitely 863 01:12:13.149 --> 01:12:17.149 less of an altruist. Plato doesn't have this pure altruistic conception. 864 01:12:19.090 --> 01:12:24.800 But again, this is a good question to ask Greg Salmieri, 865 01:12:25.140 --> 01:12:27.319 who's going to be, I'm going to be hosting a 866 01:12:27.460 --> 01:12:31.500 regular show with Greg, I think once every two weeks. 867 01:12:31.680 --> 01:12:36.399 I'll announce it closer to Thanksgiving when we start this show. 868 01:12:37.000 --> 01:12:39.260 So we'll have a philosopher on once every two weeks. 869 01:12:39.300 --> 01:12:40.979 And these are perfect questions to ask him. He's a 870 01:12:41.010 --> 01:12:44.510 Plato expert. He's a Greek philosophy expert. And I think 871 01:12:44.550 --> 01:12:47.689 he would be good. But there's a sense in which 872 01:12:47.729 --> 01:12:53.630 that's true, that Kant is, certainly in his epistemology, there's 873 01:12:53.649 --> 01:12:58.850 a lot of similarities, not directly, but certainly a post-enlightenment. 874 01:13:00.220 --> 01:13:04.659 This is the difference, though. Kant is a Christian, and he, again, remember, 875 01:13:04.680 --> 01:13:08.479 he's saving faith from reason. So he's trying to save 876 01:13:08.579 --> 01:13:12.850 faith by undermining reason. And that's exactly what he does, 877 01:13:13.029 --> 01:13:17.760 and that is not Plato's agenda. Plato's not Christian and 878 01:13:17.779 --> 01:13:20.279 he's not religious in the same sense as Kant is 879 01:13:20.319 --> 01:13:23.640 trying to be and I don't think he would explicitly 880 01:13:23.800 --> 01:13:28.270 undermine reason although his view of reason is wrong in 881 01:13:28.279 --> 01:13:31.789 terms of what he views reason as so yes Kant 882 01:13:31.850 --> 01:13:38.630 is a post-enlightenment but the big difference certainly in ethics 883 01:13:38.869 --> 01:13:45.189 but I think generally in his philosophy technically philosophically the 884 01:13:45.260 --> 01:13:52.159 big difference is but they're suddenly on the same axis, right? Plato, Kant, Aristotle, 885 01:13:52.180 --> 01:13:55.979 Ayn Rand. Those are the two axes, I think, ultimately 886 01:13:56.000 --> 01:14:02.520 in the history of philosophy. And Plato, Kant are winning, 887 01:14:03.590 --> 01:14:13.250 including in this election. All right,

let's see. Let's see 888 01:14:13.329 --> 01:14:15.170 if the Wall Street Journal has anything new to say. 889 01:14:22.149 --> 01:14:26.989 Angie Aga, a Democrat, wins North Carolina's 11th House District. 890 01:14:28.890 --> 01:14:37.060 Let's see, is that a surprise? Yeah, I don't know. 891 01:14:38.500 --> 01:14:41.640 Can't tell from that news report whether that's a surprise. 892 01:14:44.199 --> 01:14:50.579 Here's a headline. GOP Republican fears grow on South Carolina Senate. 893 01:14:50.699 --> 01:14:54.340 Here's a good example of why Republicans deserve to lose, right? 894 01:14:55.079 --> 01:14:59.359 How did they decide on a candidate for Senate in 895 01:14:59.399 --> 01:15:07.159 South Carolina? They chose the sister of the deceased senator, right? 896 01:15:07.590 --> 01:15:11.350 And who was, you know, a huge supporter of Donald Trump. 897 01:15:11.409 --> 01:15:14.090 Donald Trump chose his sister because she would be a 898 01:15:14.130 --> 01:15:17.340 huge fan of Donald Trump Not qualified. She doesn't know 899 01:15:17.359 --> 01:15:20.739 anything about foreign policy. She sits on a debate. She's 900 01:15:20.760 --> 01:15:24.140 just not a good candidate. By any standard, by the 901 01:15:24.159 --> 01:15:27.380 standards of winning, she's not a good candidate. And yet, 902 01:15:27.920 --> 01:15:32.479 because it's Donald Trump's party, he gets to decide. And 903 01:15:32.520 --> 01:15:35.899 he chose her. And they had a primary. And she won. 904 01:15:36.439 --> 01:15:43.409 And now, Republicans might lose a Senate seat in South Carolina. 905 01:15:43.810 --> 01:15:55.710 Lindsey Graham's old seat. Which is just, again, it's just stunning. Stunning. So, yeah. 906 01:15:58.329 --> 01:16:04.560 And really, the Republicans have put forward really, really, really 907 01:16:04.720 --> 01:16:08.800 bad candidates. Ken Paxton in Texas is probably the ultimate 908 01:16:08.840 --> 01:16:12.100 example of that. But also, Graham in South Carolina is 909 01:16:12.119 --> 01:16:15.399 a good example of that. It's just family relations. It 910 01:16:15.420 --> 01:16:18.159 has nothing to do with qualifications, nothing to do with 911 01:16:18.470 --> 01:16:20.750 ability to win. It has nothing to do with anything. 912 01:16:21.090 --> 01:16:29.350 Just bad, bad, bad, bad candidates. All right, let's see. 913 01:16:29.529 --> 01:16:34.739 Another $ 50 question. Thank you, James. Here's Arthur with $ 50. 914 01:16:34.319 --> 01:16:38.760 Is reason infallible? Reason is a faculty possessed by man. 915 01:16:40.079 --> 01:16:44.310 Fallibility is a concept that applies to entity of a 916 01:16:44.399 --> 01:16:48.739 volitional consciousness. It is man performing acts of reason, not 917 01:16:48.939 --> 01:16:55.140 reason as its own actor that you can call it fallible. Well, 918 01:16:55.779 --> 01:17:01.109 but how do you separate those two out? Reason is fallible. 919 01:17:01.189 --> 01:17:08.470 That is, reason, the faculty, can misintegrate. Now, it can 920 01:17:08.489 --> 01:17:12.180 misintegrate because of the guidance maybe it's gotten from you, 921 01:17:12.920 --> 01:17:19.310 but I don't think it's meaningful to talk about reason 922 01:17:19.369 --> 01:17:25.420 as something separate from man. Reason is a faculty of man. 923 01:17:25.899 --> 01:17:32.420 It's a faculty that does not provide you with infallible stuff. 924 01:17:33.319 --> 01:17:38.729 The sense is infallible. But once... And reason is also 925 01:17:39.010 --> 01:17:48.380 activated by... you know, by your volition. So absolutely, I 926 01:17:48.420 --> 01:17:54.239 think reason is fallible. Reason has, it's doing stuff. And 927 01:17:54.560 --> 01:17:57.000 so it's not like the senses, which in a sense 928 01:17:57.060 --> 01:18:01.699 are passive. They just receive. They just, it's just sense data, right? 929 01:18:01.739 --> 01:18:05.149 The sense data, they receive what they receive. And they're 930 01:18:05.170 --> 01:18:09.489 infallible in that sense. Reason is not. Reason is doing 931 01:18:09.550 --> 01:18:13.260 stuff with the sense data. And it can do stuff badly, wrongly. 932 01:18:16.619 --> 01:18:22.479 It can do stuff incompletely. It could do stuff, yeah, incompletely. 933 01:18:22.819 --> 01:18:26.060 So the integration could be wrong. It could be flawed. 934 01:18:27.460 --> 01:18:30.239 So I think you can say that reason is fallible. 935 01:18:31.380 --> 01:18:33.460 I think the whole point is it's a fallible tool. 936 01:18:33.779 --> 01:18:37.319 That's why when you're monitoring what your mind is doing, 937 01:18:37.920 --> 01:18:44.550 when you're monitoring your faculties, monitoring yourself, you have to 938 01:18:44.590 --> 01:18:48.199 be careful. You have to really be open to the 939 01:18:48.220 --> 01:18:52.840 possibility that what you're doing is wrong. is mistaken and 940 01:18:52.859 --> 01:18:57.439 therefore double checking and making sure you're not evading there's 941 01:18:57.479 --> 01:19:00.529 work to be done whereas with sense data there's no 942 01:19:00.569 --> 01:19:03.590 work to be done open eyes that's it there's the 943 01:19:03.609 --> 01:19:11.029 camera there's the computer there's no you know alright so Now, again, 944 01:19:11.260 --> 01:19:17.899 good question to ask Greg. Good philosophical question to ask Greg. 945 01:19:19.659 --> 01:19:28.850 But I think that's right. Like, I like something like that. 946 01:19:30.090 --> 01:19:34.010 Thoughts on Patrick Swayze. Rest in peace, Captain Picard. Thank 947 01:19:34.029 --> 01:19:36.310 you for all you do and the value you provide 948 01:19:36.329 --> 01:19:41.720 to me. I appreciate that. Thank you. Yeah, Patrick Stewart 949 01:19:42.960 --> 01:19:46.199 passed away a couple of days ago. He was a 950 01:19:46.199 --> 01:19:50.949 good actor. He had kind of a presence to him. 951 01:19:51.069 --> 01:19:55.369 I think he was a great captain for the USS 952 01:19:55.409 --> 01:19:58.649

Enterprise because he had a commanding presence. I think it 953 01:19:58.729 --> 01:20:03.220 came to some extent from his Shakespearean training or the 954 01:20:03.239 --> 01:20:05.060 other way around, maybe because he has a presence he 955 01:20:05.079 --> 01:20:10.869 made for good Shakespeare. but, but yeah, a good actor, a, uh, 956 01:20:11.770 --> 01:20:14.250 you know, somebody who, who seemed like a, a nice 957 01:20:14.310 --> 01:20:17.880 guy to the extent you could tell, uh, somebody, uh, 958 01:20:18.300 --> 01:20:26.760 you know, you could respect. So, um, yeah. Um, no, 959 01:20:26.800 --> 01:20:36.470 I don't want to go there. So, um, yeah, rest 960 01:20:36.479 --> 01:20:39.880 in peace, uh, Patrick Stewart, and you will be missed. 961 01:20:41.760 --> 01:20:44.100 I thought it was, you know, yeah, again, he had 962 01:20:44.779 --> 01:20:47.380 kind of a commanding presence. He was a real, I 963 01:20:48.720 --> 01:20:51.520 don't know, he gave the sense of being an actor's actor, right? 964 01:20:52.880 --> 01:20:55.479 Somebody who you paid attention to no matter what role 965 01:20:55.500 --> 01:20:59.750 he was playing, which is unique. All right, let's see. 966 01:21:10.590 --> 01:21:27.869 All right. What have we done here? Okay. All right. 967 01:21:27.909 --> 01:21:44.119 At this point, I'm looking to see If there's anything new, 968 01:21:44.180 --> 01:21:47.149 I think we'll get some new stuff, new data in 969 01:21:47.189 --> 01:21:55.090 five minutes from Claude. All right. Liam, can you be 970 01:21:55.210 --> 01:21:57.989 egoistic and happy in your 80s and 90s? I don't 971 01:21:58.010 --> 01:22:01.710 see why not. I mean, what would prevent you? I mean, 972 01:22:01.750 --> 01:22:08.609 health would prevent you maybe from being egoistic, from being happy. 973 01:22:09.329 --> 01:22:13.779 But I'm not sure why not. why is egoism an 974 01:22:13.800 --> 01:22:19.050 issue of age? I understand why, you know, happiness can 975 01:22:19.060 --> 01:22:21.010 be an issue of age because of health, but I 976 01:22:21.050 --> 01:22:25.250 don't understand why egoism is an issue of age. You 977 01:22:25.289 --> 01:22:27.609 can be egoistic in any age. You should be egoistic 978 01:22:27.670 --> 01:22:32.560 in any age. And I think even though bodies start slowing, 979 01:22:32.680 --> 01:22:34.640 you know, in the 80s and 90s, suddenly the body 980 01:22:34.720 --> 01:22:38.779 is falling apart and slowing you down and so on, 981 01:22:38.899 --> 01:22:40.560 I still think you can be happy in spite of that. 982 01:22:42.760 --> 01:22:56.439 alright thank you Liam Harper Campbell do most jealous people 983 01:22:56.500 --> 01:23:00.739 not realize their hatred comes from jealousy it manifests in 984 01:23:00.779 --> 01:23:04.050 them thinking more successful people are keeping them down I 985 01:23:04.069 --> 01:23:06.329 mean I really think you need to separate jealousy from 986 01:23:06.449 --> 01:23:11.170 envy I don't think it's the same thing you know 987 01:23:11.229 --> 01:23:18.720 jealousy is is maybe wanting something that somebody else has had, 988 01:23:18.739 --> 01:23:22.189 but not hating them for having it. Envy is hatred 989 01:23:22.229 --> 01:23:25.109 of the good for being the good. That's really evil. 990 01:23:25.250 --> 01:23:29.029 I think jealousy is just, yeah, I really like that 991 01:23:29.649 --> 01:23:31.390 guy's Porsche. I wish I had a Porsche. Maybe I 992 01:23:31.590 --> 01:23:34.550 need to work harder to get a Porsche. But envy is, 993 01:23:34.970 --> 01:23:37.859 I hate that guy for having a Porsche. So I 994 01:23:37.899 --> 01:23:42.850 think they're two different things. right? You're jealous if your 995 01:23:42.989 --> 01:23:49.779 girlfriend is flirting with another guy, right? You kind of 996 01:23:49.819 --> 01:24:00.369 protect it. You want it to be yours, but that's 997 01:24:00.390 --> 01:24:05.510 not envy necessarily, right? So I would separate those two out. 998 01:24:06.430 --> 01:24:10.979 I don't think I don't think jealousy has to involve hatred, 999 01:24:11.220 --> 01:24:14.439 whereas envy involves hatred. So if you mean, do most 1000 01:24:14.840 --> 01:24:20.409 envious people not realize that hatred comes from envy? Yeah, 1001 01:24:20.449 --> 01:24:23.369 I don't think people really think it through. They hate. 1002 01:24:24.850 --> 01:24:27.069 They hate, but they don't think about the source of 1003 01:24:27.109 --> 01:24:32.970 that hatred, where it comes from exactly. Envy is when 1004 01:24:33.029 --> 01:24:36.350 someone has something you don't. That's not envy. It's when 1005 01:24:36.380 --> 01:24:40.039 you hate somebody who has something you don't. And they 1006 01:24:40.079 --> 01:24:44.270 have it because of virtue. Again, Ayn Rand defined envy 1007 01:24:44.329 --> 01:24:47.789 as hatred of the good for being good, for being 1008 01:24:47.850 --> 01:24:53.130 the good. So it's not just a simple emotion of, 1009 01:24:53.930 --> 01:25:01.550 I want that thing that you have. It's much more substantial. Right, 1010 01:25:01.930 --> 01:25:04.630 I mean, it looks like most of the channels have, 1011 01:25:05.890 --> 01:25:09.729 Texas is leaning Democratic Kansas is leaning Democratic. That is 1012 01:25:09.840 --> 01:25:16.460 huge if Kansas goes Democratic. Iowa is leaning Democratic. Michigan, 1013 01:25:16.760 --> 01:25:24.979 leaning Democratic. Ohio, leaning Democratic. And Maine at this point, but, 1014 01:25:25.500 --> 01:25:29.899 you know, Maine, leaning Democratic. But it's all very early, right? 1015 01:25:30.520 --> 01:25:34.460 The only one that's flipped, and South Carolina, leaning Democratic. 1016 01:25:34.920 --> 01:25:39.310 The only one that's clearly flipped... is North Carolina. That's 1017 01:25:39.369 --> 01:25:44.729 the one pickup Democrats have. I don't think Republicans have 1018 01:25:44.770 --> 01:25:50.109 a pickup yet. Although Minnesota, Minnesota, that would

be huge. 1019 01:25:50.920 --> 01:25:56.880 If Republicans can take Minnesota, that's you. Peggy Flanagan, the 1020 01:25:56.899 --> 01:26:03.659 corruption in Minnesota that we saw, Republicans winning that would 1021 01:26:03.699 --> 01:26:06.020 not be a bad thing in spite of the idea 1022 01:26:06.079 --> 01:26:09.439 that We want Republicans to get hammered. I think picking 1023 01:26:09.500 --> 01:26:12.159 up Minnesota would be good. Not losing Michigan would be good. 1024 01:26:12.180 --> 01:26:15.220 Those are the two, in terms of Senate seats, I'd 1025 01:26:15.260 --> 01:26:19.039 like to see, you know, I'd like to see not 1026 01:26:19.159 --> 01:26:30.170 go generally towards the Republicans getting hammered. All right. Let's see. 1027 01:26:32.789 --> 01:26:37.310 Let's see if there's a update here. Yeah, I think 1028 01:26:37.329 --> 01:26:39.609 we need to give it a few more minutes to 1029 01:26:39.630 --> 01:26:47.270 run the update. Yeah, it's running the update now. Okay, 1030 01:26:47.289 --> 01:26:50.880 so we'll get to that. All right, James. Is libertarianism 1031 01:26:50.899 --> 01:26:54.500 a strange mix of Kantian subjectivism and nihilism with Ayn 1032 01:26:54.520 --> 01:26:58.439 Rand's political philosophy? No, I think that's way too generous 1033 01:27:00.800 --> 01:27:04.220 to the libertarians. I don't think there's much Ayn Rand 1034 01:27:04.239 --> 01:27:08.079 political philosophy they've taken bits and pieces from Ayn Rand's 1035 01:27:08.100 --> 01:27:11.810 political philosophy but I wouldn't say they've embraced Ayn Rand's 1036 01:27:11.850 --> 01:27:16.550 political philosophy and mixed it with Kantian subjectivist nihilism I 1037 01:27:16.590 --> 01:27:22.489 think it's a it's you know libertarianism mostly you know 1038 01:27:22.529 --> 01:27:27.460 it's a big tent with a big Rothbardian hoppe anarchist 1039 01:27:27.560 --> 01:27:32.659 Kantian subjectivist religious because you know a lot of them 1040 01:27:32.680 --> 01:27:40.279 are very religious but basically a political philosophy that elevates anarchy, 1041 01:27:40.869 --> 01:27:45.489 so not Ayn Rand's political philosophy, with a subjectivist morality 1042 01:27:45.710 --> 01:27:54.960 or religious morality or Kantian morality, with another wing of 1043 01:27:55.020 --> 01:27:59.600 the libertarians who are free market and don't want to 1044 01:27:59.659 --> 01:28:03.149 think about morality, don't want to think about epistemology, don't 1045 01:28:03.189 --> 01:28:05.409 really want to take those into account. Kind of what 1046 01:28:05.449 --> 01:28:09.329 I call kind of economics, I don't know, almost common sense, 1047 01:28:10.069 --> 01:28:13.029 just the pro-free markets. They get that free markets work. 1048 01:28:13.909 --> 01:28:17.510 They like freedom. They like the idea of freedom. They 1049 01:28:17.550 --> 01:28:24.029 reject anarchy. Some of them might be mildly, they don't 1050 01:28:24.069 --> 01:28:27.619 really understand arguments against anarchy, but they're not advocates for anarchy. 1051 01:28:28.060 --> 01:28:32.250 And certainly not advocates for the kind of nihilistic anarchy 1052 01:28:32.289 --> 01:28:35.659 that Rothbard and Hoppe stand for. I think that's more 1053 01:28:35.699 --> 01:28:41.569 George Mason and Cato and some of Cato Cato has 1054 01:28:41.729 --> 01:28:45.149 an awful foreign policy but you know that that where 1055 01:28:45.180 --> 01:28:51.779 they where they are basically guided by more of a 1056 01:28:51.859 --> 01:28:56.420 free market view and a pro-freedom view than a and 1057 01:28:56.560 --> 01:29:01.140 and they they either rejected or sidelined anarchy i think 1058 01:29:01.180 --> 01:29:05.979 reason magazine and uh and cato represent that it's not 1059 01:29:06.000 --> 01:29:09.439 that they're anti-anarchy although some of them are it's that 1060 01:29:09.460 --> 01:29:12.100 they it's not that you know they they don't go 1061 01:29:12.170 --> 01:29:17.289 there right um because they don't really understand arguments one 1062 01:29:17.329 --> 01:29:21.029 way or another it doesn't they don't like anarchy but 1063 01:29:21.069 --> 01:29:25.220 they don't really have the arguments against it all right 1064 01:29:25.300 --> 01:29:32.189 let's see um Wow. All right, so Keisha Lance Bottoms 1065 01:29:32.510 --> 01:29:38.430 is one. NBC is projecting her winning Georgia governor, so 1066 01:29:38.449 --> 01:29:42.010 she will be the first female and I think the 1067 01:29:42.029 --> 01:29:44.810 first black to be a governor of Georgia. Is that right? 1068 01:29:45.949 --> 01:29:56.279 I'm not sure. Wow. I mean, this is huge. The Democrat... 1069 01:29:57.229 --> 01:30:05.710 Hino Jossa is leading Abbott, 57.4 to 41.4, with 53% in. 1070 01:30:07.010 --> 01:30:12.149 And Abbott needs 58% of what's left. Now, he might 1071 01:30:12.170 --> 01:30:15.680 get it. It hasn't been called. But that is huge. 1072 01:30:16.920 --> 01:30:22.439 That is huge. Ohio is tightening. So the Democrat is 1073 01:30:22.479 --> 01:30:30.569 leading 51.8 to 45%. We're 57% in. But I can't 1074 01:30:30.649 --> 01:30:35.170 imagine Texas governor going Democratic, but that would be huge. 1075 01:30:37.029 --> 01:30:41.310 And that would be a real repudiation of Republican governance. 1076 01:30:42.680 --> 01:30:45.600 And Republicans really have to think about where did they 1077 01:30:45.609 --> 01:30:48.560 screw up in Texas? This isn't about national politics. This 1078 01:30:48.619 --> 01:30:52.640 is about Texas politics. And it has to reflect the 1079 01:30:52.659 --> 01:31:00.329 Hispanic vote, ICE, You know, and my guess is it 1080 01:31:00.369 --> 01:31:05.810 reflects abortion, right? I mean, Texas went all in on 1081 01:31:05.869 --> 01:31:13.300 banning abortion, criminalizing abortion, going after women, really. So the 1082 01:31:13.380 --> 01:31:15.960 governor race in Texas, I think, would be a reflection 1083 01:31:15.979 -->

01:31:19.220 of that and will be huge if that goes Democratic 1084 01:31:19.699 --> 01:31:21.720 and will be good, I think. I think having divided 1085 01:31:21.739 --> 01:31:25.720 government in Texas and kind of slapping the Republicans in 1086 01:31:25.739 --> 01:31:33.439 the face Now, again, we'll see what happens. Let's see. 1087 01:31:34.800 --> 01:31:41.560 NBC has moved South Carolina to lean Democratic. Ohio is narrowing, 1088 01:31:42.819 --> 01:31:44.960 so it's now in the Senate. This is not the 1089 01:31:45.000 --> 01:31:50.989 governor's race. Brown is 49.9%. Husted, the Republican, 57%. Florida 1090 01:31:51.010 --> 01:31:55.289 special election, we said, well, some places have called it 1091 01:31:55.310 --> 01:32:01.420 for the Republicans, others have not. but probably goes Republican. Again, 1092 01:32:01.439 --> 01:32:06.810 rural votes are still out in Texas, but Tel Aviv 1093 01:32:06.869 --> 01:32:12.829 is leading 60 to 39. In Kansas, the Democrat is 1094 01:32:12.869 --> 01:32:17.050 leading 59 to 38, again with the rural votes still out. Iowa, 1095 01:32:17.090 --> 01:32:21.079 the Democrat is leading 62 to 36. Michigan, El Sayyad 1096 01:32:21.140 --> 01:32:22.800 is leading 55 to 44, but only 16% in. So 1097 01:32:22.819 --> 01:32:27.560 hard to say. And then you know, Maine is only 1098 01:32:27.560 --> 01:32:33.050 8% in, and, uh, Nebraska has an independent running, who's 1099 01:32:33.100 --> 01:32:37.229 affiliated with the Democrats, running against the Republican, and the 1100 01:32:37.270 --> 01:32:39.710 independent is, is leading by a big margin, but only 1101 01:32:39.710 --> 01:32:46.369 24% in. Uh, rate, so none of the bellwether, what's 1102 01:32:46.409 --> 01:32:51.750 called the bellwether, um, uh, in Kentucky, Indiana, Virginia, and 1103 01:32:51.770 --> 01:32:56.800 South Carolina, uh, have not been called, but, uh, So 1104 01:32:56.899 --> 01:33:04.539 we're still waiting for calls on those. All right. Okay, 1105 01:33:04.579 --> 01:33:18.630 let's just make the next update for 11 p.m. Instead 1106 01:33:18.670 --> 01:33:37.159 of 11.30. Okay. All right. Let's go back to your questions, 1107 01:33:37.600 --> 01:33:40.250 and I'll keep an eye on this and see if 1108 01:33:40.369 --> 01:33:49.560 anything else is being called. I mean, they call it Massachusetts, 1109 01:33:49.579 --> 01:33:53.260 but that's kind of obvious, and New Hampshire. I mean, 1110 01:33:53.300 --> 01:33:57.880 Republicans hoped to flip New Hampshire. They ran John Sununu, 1111 01:33:57.899 --> 01:34:00.859 who was a very popular governor of New Hampshire. didn't 1112 01:34:01.039 --> 01:34:03.500 work you know even though all the libertarians have moved 1113 01:34:03.579 --> 01:34:06.319 out there to create the free state of new hampshire 1114 01:34:07.220 --> 01:34:15.449 um it's still going democratic all right let's see um 1115 01:34:17.890 --> 01:34:21.090 you know keisha uh lance bottom is governor of georgia 1116 01:34:21.130 --> 01:34:26.630 i mean that's pretty shocking you know and um yeah 1117 01:34:26.649 --> 01:34:29.600 i mean she's very left She's really bad. She's not 1118 01:34:29.800 --> 01:34:35.149 Democratic Socialist America, but she's very left. She's very bad. And, 1119 01:34:37.670 --> 01:34:41.470 you know, I think the Republican governor who didn't run, 1120 01:34:41.489 --> 01:34:44.270 I don't know if he was termed out or just 1121 01:34:44.310 --> 01:34:49.560 didn't run, was quite good. But my guess is Republicans 1122 01:34:49.640 --> 01:34:53.359 nominated some loser because that's who they've been nominating recently. 1123 01:34:54.220 --> 01:34:58.500 And the Democrats picked up Georgia again in a really shocking... 1124 01:34:59.840 --> 01:35:06.039 Georgia has been governed by Republicans for a long time. Now, 1125 01:35:06.079 --> 01:35:07.899 somebody asked a question about her. Let me just see 1126 01:35:07.930 --> 01:35:29.079 if I can find that question. Where is it? Uh... Yeah, 1127 01:35:29.159 --> 01:35:33.439 James says, how does a black governor change Georgia or 1128 01:35:33.520 --> 01:35:38.119 other states? She will be the first black to be governor. 1129 01:35:38.600 --> 01:35:41.199 How do you see race playing a role in 2028? 1130 01:35:41.199 --> 01:35:43.600 Every year the country becomes more mixed. On the one hand, 1131 01:35:43.760 --> 01:35:46.520 every year the country becomes more mixed. That's true. On 1132 01:35:46.539 --> 01:35:52.199 the other hand, Obama winning the presidency didn't seem to 1133 01:35:52.380 --> 01:35:56.939 really make a difference in terms of the Democrats making 1134 01:35:56.979 --> 01:35:59.989 race a bigger and bigger issue. And then Republicans becoming 1135 01:36:00.029 --> 01:36:03.170 more and more racist, at least at the extremes, right? 1136 01:36:03.890 --> 01:36:07.409 So I don't know how it's going to affect. You're 1137 01:36:07.470 --> 01:36:10.479 right in the sense that it should take race off 1138 01:36:10.489 --> 01:36:15.039 the table, right? Georgia would vote for a black governor 1139 01:36:16.000 --> 01:36:19.460 and a woman black governor. Then race doesn't seem to 1140 01:36:19.500 --> 01:36:25.109 be a factor anymore in American politics. And yet the 1141 01:36:25.170 --> 01:36:29.380 backlash to Obama was Trump. She's going to be an 1142 01:36:29.529 --> 01:36:32.960 awful governor. How much of that would be blamed by 1143 01:36:33.100 --> 01:36:38.260 some people on her quote blackness, whatever the hell that means. Um, 1144 01:36:38.920 --> 01:36:43.220 will this increase racism or decrease racism? I, you know, 1145 01:36:43.239 --> 01:36:48.060 I don't know. I wish it was as simple as look, 1146 01:36:49.399 --> 01:36:54.310 race doesn't matter. And, uh, and we'll elect, you know, 1147 01:36:54.350 --> 01:36:58.420 the least worst candidate or whatever. Um, But I'm not 1148 01:36:58.520 --> 01:37:02.090 sure that's how it actually plays out because

of how 1149 01:37:02.149 --> 01:37:04.970 people interpret it. So again, if you look back at Obama, 1150 01:37:04.989 --> 01:37:08.569 Obama should have been proof that systemic racism doesn't exist 1151 01:37:08.609 --> 01:37:13.270 in America, and yet the left made systemic racism the 1152 01:37:13.369 --> 01:37:20.239 issue for them, the issue, right? So, you know, I 1153 01:37:20.300 --> 01:37:24.579 don't know how this will play out. I fear that 1154 01:37:24.600 --> 01:37:27.659 it becomes, it highlights more racism rather than less racism. 1155 01:37:37.020 --> 01:37:42.859 All right, let's see. We talked about that. We talked 1156 01:37:42.920 --> 01:37:53.399 about that. We talked about that and that. All right. 1157 01:37:53.420 --> 01:37:58.390 All right, we'll keep track, and we'll see. I don't 1158 01:37:58.409 --> 01:38:00.170 know how long I'm going to go here, but we've 1159 01:38:00.210 --> 01:38:02.649 still got a lot of questions, so we'll certainly be 1160 01:38:02.729 --> 01:38:07.800 answering all your questions tonight. Clark says, Jordan Peterson said 1161 01:38:07.850 --> 01:38:13.399 gratitude is the antidote to resentment and arrogance. He's always 1162 01:38:13.520 --> 01:38:17.260 smuggling in altruism and humility in his lectures. He just 1163 01:38:17.380 --> 01:38:21.449 seems like a modern-day mystical witch doctor. I'm surprised he 1164 01:38:21.510 --> 01:38:24.850 hired you. Well, I mean, he's trying to create a 1165 01:38:25.170 --> 01:38:29.449 pluralistic platform, a platform that does not take his point 1166 01:38:29.489 --> 01:38:33.159 of view. So he's hired a lot of people. Well, 1167 01:38:33.199 --> 01:38:35.140 not a lot of people, but several people who disagree 1168 01:38:35.180 --> 01:38:41.270 with him. So, you know, there's a number of people 1169 01:38:41.310 --> 01:38:45.689 there who the economists are much more free market than 1170 01:38:45.710 --> 01:38:49.340 I think Jordan Peterson or his people are. that he's 1171 01:38:49.359 --> 01:38:53.399 hired to teach the basic economics courses. The philosophy course 1172 01:38:54.100 --> 01:39:00.350 is being taught by, what's his name? God, why the 1173 01:39:00.390 --> 01:39:05.390 names not come to me? Anyway, who's from the Atlas Society, 1174 01:39:05.409 --> 01:39:10.010 who's affiliated with kind of Ayn Rand in some way, right? 1175 01:39:10.590 --> 01:39:13.470 So friendly to Ayn Rand, and he's teaching all the 1176 01:39:13.510 --> 01:39:19.770 philosophy classes. Certainly not a religionist, and not somebody who 1177 01:39:19.810 --> 01:39:24.010 is going to advocate explicitly for altruism. So he wanted 1178 01:39:24.069 --> 01:39:26.409 a pluralistic platform, and I think he hired me as 1179 01:39:27.130 --> 01:39:29.569 part of that effort. And if he's owning me with something, 1180 01:39:29.590 --> 01:39:37.850 but he also, he had Schirmer, the so-called skeptic guy 1181 01:39:38.520 --> 01:39:42.479 who's pretty good on science and anti-religion. He has him 1182 01:39:43.079 --> 01:39:48.140 teaching at the Peterson Academy. So if Peterson Academy was, 1183 01:39:49.640 --> 01:39:54.319 we're going to teach Peterson's, Jordan Peterson's philosophy, and yeah, 1184 01:39:54.340 --> 01:39:56.430 we might have a token person here, a token person there, 1185 01:39:56.890 --> 01:40:01.529 teach each other stuff, basically it's Peterson's philosophy, then I 1186 01:40:01.909 --> 01:40:04.390 would not be part of it, but there is an 1187 01:40:04.449 --> 01:40:08.670 attempt at least to bring in a diversity, some diversity 1188 01:40:08.729 --> 01:40:10.670 points of view. Not as much as I would like, 1189 01:40:11.130 --> 01:40:17.659 but some diversity. I will have The third most courses 1190 01:40:18.500 --> 01:40:23.460 on the platform. The third most courses on the platform. 1191 01:40:25.220 --> 01:40:30.000 Let me just, one second. Oh, by the way, if 1192 01:40:30.039 --> 01:40:34.760 you're talking about Peterson Academy, big deal tomorrow. Very, very 1193 01:40:34.840 --> 01:40:40.439 big deal tomorrow. I'm really, really excited because tomorrow they 1194 01:40:40.460 --> 01:40:46.899 will be releasing my Ayn Rand course. So it's titled 1195 01:40:47.119 --> 01:40:51.090 Ayn Rand, Novelist and Philosopher. Ayn Rand, Novelist and Philosopher. 1196 01:40:51.670 --> 01:40:54.970 It's nine hours of me talking about Ayn Rand. And 1197 01:40:55.010 --> 01:40:59.550 it will be coming out tomorrow. Tomorrow. So stay tuned. 1198 01:41:00.229 --> 01:41:05.140 Now note, they've got Brad Thompson talking about the intellectual 1199 01:41:05.199 --> 01:41:12.159 origins of the American Revolution. You know, that's good, right? 1200 01:41:13.369 --> 01:41:14.930 You know, they've got a lot of people I don't like, 1201 01:41:15.010 --> 01:41:20.029 like Robert Barron, who's a bishop, who is a pro-market, 1202 01:41:20.609 --> 01:41:25.069 pro-free markets bishop, and all kinds of other stuff that, 1203 01:41:25.489 --> 01:41:28.390 you know, the historical reliability of the Bible, which is BS. 1204 01:41:29.289 --> 01:41:33.600 But they've also got, you know, a mixture of things, right? 1205 01:41:37.000 --> 01:41:44.890 What was I looking for here? I was looking for something. Uh... So, 1206 01:41:45.989 --> 01:41:50.289 you know who has the most courses on, the person 1207 01:41:50.310 --> 01:41:54.210 with the most courses in Peterson Academy is Stephen Hicks, right? 1208 01:41:54.689 --> 01:41:58.649 He's not a Jordan Peterson guy, right? So Stephen Hicks 1209 01:41:58.670 --> 01:42:02.289 has the most courses on the platform. Second most courses 1210 01:42:02.329 --> 01:42:06.130 on the platform is a, I think Cambridge or Oxford guy, 1211 01:42:06.149 --> 01:42:08.529 maybe he's an Oxford guy, by the name of James Orr, 1212 01:42:08.949 --> 01:42:14.630 who's more of a conservative, but a respected academic but 1213 01:42:14.649 --> 01:42:19.109 a conservative. Definitely more

for the Jordan Peterson direction. Third 1214 01:42:19.170 --> 01:42:25.029 most courses in Peterson Academy is me and Jordan Peterson. Now, 1215 01:42:25.329 --> 01:42:27.149 I'm sure at some point Jordan Peterson will overtake me, 1216 01:42:27.630 --> 01:42:29.710 but me and Jordan Peterson have the same number of 1217 01:42:29.770 --> 01:42:33.079 courses as of tomorrow when my course on Ironman comes 1218 01:42:33.140 --> 01:42:36.840 out on the platform. So that's pretty cool. So that's 1219 01:42:36.880 --> 01:42:40.760 why I'm doing it. And, you know, again, this is 1220 01:42:40.840 --> 01:42:44.079 why I think why he invited me. He wants good 1221 01:42:44.960 --> 01:42:53.770 good teachers somebody says Bradley Thompson has a course coming 1222 01:42:53.869 --> 01:42:55.850 no it's not coming it's already on there it's up 1223 01:42:55.869 --> 01:42:58.850 there it was released two three weeks ago and I 1224 01:42:58.890 --> 01:43:01.970 think I think he'll be back Brad will be back 1225 01:43:02.050 --> 01:43:05.229 there to do another course in in in in the 1226 01:43:05.310 --> 01:43:10.189 near or more distant future all right I am getting 1227 01:43:10.220 --> 01:43:23.359 all right let's see anything new no new calls I'm 1228 01:43:23.399 --> 01:43:29.409 looking at the you know the house we won't know 1229 01:43:29.470 --> 01:43:32.689 exactly what happened in the house until way into tomorrow 1230 01:43:32.710 --> 01:43:35.430 and probably not for another week or so California is 1231 01:43:35.510 --> 01:43:41.569 very slow in counting votes and we won't know you 1232 01:43:41.609 --> 01:43:50.500 know let's see governors Yeah, the big one is Georgia flipped. 1233 01:43:51.039 --> 01:43:55.600 That's the big one. Everybody else is pretty, in terms 1234 01:43:55.659 --> 01:44:02.859 of called ones, it's all expected. But Georgia is the 1235 01:44:02.930 --> 01:44:06.770 one that really flipped. All right, I don't want that. 1236 01:44:09.850 --> 01:44:16.529 All right, let's go. All right, Michael. Does the psychology 1237 01:44:16.550 --> 01:44:20.850 of envy come from frustration of holding the premise, I 1238 01:44:20.970 --> 01:44:24.109 don't have the ability to achieve what they have, so 1239 01:44:24.149 --> 01:44:26.770 I can't have it. Why should I be happy for 1240 01:44:26.829 --> 01:44:30.029 those who have? Well, I don't know. I mean, I 1241 01:44:30.109 --> 01:44:32.520 don't have the ability to achieve what some of these 1242 01:44:32.560 --> 01:44:38.539 people have. But I don't, I don't, you know, I 1243 01:44:38.560 --> 01:44:42.109 don't envy them. So I don't have the ability of a, 1244 01:44:42.970 --> 01:44:51.170 of a Bezos or, you know, Gates or Jobs and whatever. 1245 01:44:51.310 --> 01:44:53.010 So I'm not going to have what they have. I'm 1246 01:44:53.050 --> 01:44:54.770 never going to be a billionaire. Just not going to 1247 01:44:54.789 --> 01:44:58.689 be a billionaire. That's just, but I've never

thought, ooh, 1248 01:44:58.770 --> 01:45:02.090 I'm envious of the guy who's a billionaire. I'm just not. 1249 01:45:03.010 --> 01:45:06.069 They're billionaires. They did their thing. I do what I do. 1250 01:45:07.069 --> 01:45:08.779 You know, I try to be the best that I 1251 01:45:08.819 --> 01:45:10.239 can be at what I do. They try to be 1252 01:45:10.260 --> 01:45:14.260 the best. So I don't think I don't think it 1253 01:45:14.340 --> 01:45:17.960 comes from saying I can't achieve. I know I can't achieve. 1254 01:45:18.020 --> 01:45:21.270 I can't be a Nobel Prize winner. I can't be 1255 01:45:21.310 --> 01:45:23.149 a billionaire. There are lots of things I can't be, 1256 01:45:23.689 --> 01:45:30.470 and that doesn't cause me to envy the people who can. Jamie, 1257 01:45:31.250 --> 01:45:33.630 teachers' unions are definitely a big part of why American 1258 01:45:33.670 --> 01:45:38.170 education struggles, but proponents for unionization will point to Finland's 1259 01:45:38.289 --> 01:45:43.029 unionized teachers that have excellent results. What are your thoughts? Well, 1260 01:45:44.069 --> 01:45:46.729 you know, first of all, Finland's results are not excellent. 1261 01:45:47.729 --> 01:45:51.829 Finland has declined in the education rating significantly over the 1262 01:45:51.850 --> 01:45:55.109 last few years. So Finland is no longer a model 1263 01:45:55.590 --> 01:46:01.720 for excellent education. And generally, I don't buy this excellent education. 1264 01:46:01.819 --> 01:46:04.800 We don't know what excellent education is because we don't 1265 01:46:04.840 --> 01:46:07.800 have a competitive market out there anyway for really, really 1266 01:46:07.819 --> 01:46:11.140 good education. So Finland is better than America maybe. Even 1267 01:46:11.180 --> 01:46:16.359 that's not clear right now. But is it excellent? I 1268 01:46:16.399 --> 01:46:21.020 think it's probably not. It's probably just mediocre. And mediocre plus, 1269 01:46:21.079 --> 01:46:25.430 and we're mediocre minus. But it's all mediocre. And what 1270 01:46:25.470 --> 01:46:29.510 is possible in a free market is superb plus. And 1271 01:46:29.550 --> 01:46:32.590 we don't have that, so we can't even compare. We 1272 01:46:32.649 --> 01:46:35.850 can't even objectively evaluate a lot of these things because 1273 01:46:35.869 --> 01:46:43.829 we just don't know. Now, the problem with You know, 1274 01:46:44.029 --> 01:46:46.850 first of all, it could be that Finland's unions are 1275 01:46:46.869 --> 01:46:50.979 better behaved than American unions just because another country has unions. 1276 01:46:51.439 --> 01:46:55.899 I think unions generally in Scandinavia behave much better, are 1277 01:46:59.479 --> 01:47:04.279 less short term, are less about, you know, gaining at 1278 01:47:04.300 --> 01:47:07.359 the expense of the children, for example, teacher union. So 1279 01:47:07.880 --> 01:47:10.220 just because you have a union doesn't mean you're all 1280 01:47:10.239 --> 01:47:12.619 going to be equally bad. I think American unions are 1281 01:47:12.640 --> 01:47:17.829 particularly bad. Scandinavian unions are particularly good for whatever reason. 1282 01:47:18.350 --> 01:47:24.710 Maybe it's, you know, smaller countries, more cohesion, social cohesion. 1283 01:47:25.810 --> 01:47:29.270 So I don't think unionization, qua unionization is what's killing it. 1284 01:47:29.739 --> 01:47:33.159 But in America, the teachers union in America does harm. 1285 01:47:34.159 --> 01:47:38.840 In Finland, does less harm. Or maybe no harm. So... 1286 01:47:40.069 --> 01:47:43.869 It's not the unionization qua unionization. It's the particular incentive structure, 1287 01:47:44.270 --> 01:47:47.689 the particular attitude, the particular way the unions behave in 1288 01:47:47.710 --> 01:47:50.510 the U.S. that causes damage. But it's not just that. 1289 01:47:50.590 --> 01:47:56.539 It's the curriculum. It's the state running them. It's the 1290 01:47:56.579 --> 01:48:06.260 teachers' colleges. It's all these factors that make education in 1291 01:48:06.279 --> 01:48:11.489 the United States really, really bad. It's not just one factor. Okay, 1292 01:48:11.729 --> 01:48:17.149 the best Tom. Seems like the animus against Trump is 1293 01:48:17.229 --> 01:48:20.989 so intense people are becoming radicalized by the left. The 1294 01:48:21.050 --> 01:48:26.520 tragedy is cities turn to socialism, rarely recover. San Francisco 1295 01:48:26.560 --> 01:48:28.880 is a dump. Portland is a dump. I mean, I 1296 01:48:28.920 --> 01:48:33.180 don't think that's true. So San Francisco has recovered. It's 1297 01:48:33.319 --> 01:48:34.960 far less of a dump than it used to be. 1298 01:48:36.220 --> 01:48:39.470 It's much better right now. than it was three, four, 1299 01:48:39.529 --> 01:48:43.289 five years ago, as it replaced the kind of woke 1300 01:48:43.350 --> 01:48:47.409 mayor with a much better mayor. We'll see if Portland 1301 01:48:47.449 --> 01:48:50.920 can ever recover. I think it probably will recover. I 1302 01:48:50.960 --> 01:48:53.500 don't think it's true that socialism is a one-way track. 1303 01:48:54.359 --> 01:48:57.119 I grew up in a country that was socialist and 1304 01:48:57.159 --> 01:49:00.600 has done phenomenally well once it turned away from socialism. 1305 01:49:01.409 --> 01:49:03.829 Look at Eastern Europe, look at Poland, how well Poland 1306 01:49:03.890 --> 01:49:07.630 is doing, turning away from socialism. So There's no reason 1307 01:49:07.689 --> 01:49:12.489 we can't turn away from socialism. But we need to 1308 01:49:12.529 --> 01:49:15.560 take the turn right now away from what Trump is 1309 01:49:15.640 --> 01:49:23.680 offering because I think the animus against Trump is intense 1310 01:49:23.800 --> 01:49:27.180 and I think it's justifiably intense. That is this very, 1311 01:49:27.239 --> 01:49:30.140 very good reason for the intensity of the animus against 1312

01:49:30.199 --> 01:49:33.670 Trump and that'll turn people away from Republicans. I do 1313 01:49:33.789 --> 01:49:39.090 not think It's radicalizing people for the left. I do 1314 01:49:39.250 --> 01:49:42.529 not think that this is a permanent shift to the left. 1315 01:49:42.569 --> 01:49:44.869 I don't think, and if the Democratic Party views it 1316 01:49:44.890 --> 01:49:48.810 as such, they're going to have a rude awakening in 1317 01:49:48.829 --> 01:49:53.020 the future. I think this is an election penalizing Trump 1318 01:49:53.760 --> 01:49:58.020 for things that Trump has done that deserves punishing, and 1319 01:49:58.100 --> 01:50:01.859 not just Trump. As you saw, 9 out of 10 1320 01:50:01.859 --> 01:50:05.989 Americans think that Congress should have done more in terms 1321 01:50:06.029 --> 01:50:10.119 of separation of powers, that Congress should have done more 1322 01:50:10.159 --> 01:50:15.239 to rein Trump in. So part of this is a 1323 01:50:15.300 --> 01:50:18.520 repudiation of the Republicans for not standing up for Trump, 1324 01:50:18.979 --> 01:50:24.199 to Trump. And I think that's, you know, really, really, 1325 01:50:24.239 --> 01:50:29.859 really good and important to repudiate Congress for not acting 1326 01:50:30.659 --> 01:50:44.670 like Congress should act. Right? All right. Okay, Democrats are 1327 01:50:44.689 --> 01:50:48.409 projected to have won at least 210 House seats in 1328 01:50:48.430 --> 01:50:52.380 the quest for at least 218 to take control of 1329 01:50:52.420 --> 01:50:57.939 the chamber. And they also are leaning towards flipping three 1330 01:50:58.020 --> 01:51:05.560 Republican-controlled Senate seats in Ohio, Texas, and South Carolina. let's see, 1331 01:51:05.579 --> 01:51:12.500 the key midterm election is deciding control of Congress. We 1332 01:51:12.539 --> 01:51:21.069 will see what happens as the night progresses. Okay, thank you, 1333 01:51:21.890 --> 01:51:28.510 the best Tom. Jamie, would also like to point out that, again, 1334 01:51:28.529 --> 01:51:31.949 I'm a huge fan and a capitalist, but just like 1335 01:51:32.390 --> 01:51:35.890 to steel man the socialist arguments because your arguments against 1336 01:51:36.729 --> 01:51:44.729 are much more in-depth than the ones I offer socialist friends. Thanks. Absolutely. 1337 01:51:44.750 --> 01:51:49.949 I appreciate it, Jamie. I don't doubt you. You're giving 1338 01:51:50.529 --> 01:51:55.789 me $ 20 for the questions, 20 Canadians. I'm not thinking 1339 01:51:55.810 --> 01:52:00.850 you're just doing that while you're a leftist. Chris says, 1340 01:52:02.819 --> 01:52:05.949 Wait a minute. You're saying Republicans will just blame the 1341 01:52:06.010 --> 01:52:08.949 war and not view this as a repudiation of Trump 1342 01:52:08.989 --> 01:52:11.850 and MAGA. I thought we were supposed to get excited 1343 01:52:11.930 --> 01:52:15.050 about this result. I feel like you've said both of 1344 01:52:15.109 --> 01:52:21.909 those

things. So the bigger the Democratic wave, the more 1345 01:52:21.949 --> 01:52:24.609 likely it is to be a repudiation of Trump. But 1346 01:52:24.729 --> 01:52:30.130 here's the thing. I'm saying MAGA will view this as 1347 01:52:30.149 --> 01:52:34.500 caused by the war. I hope that the rest of 1348 01:52:34.539 --> 01:52:38.119 Republicans view this as a repudiation of Trump and MAGA. 1349 01:52:39.279 --> 01:52:44.350 We will see. MAGA and Trump will probably view this 1350 01:52:44.430 --> 01:52:47.890 just as an issue of the war in Iran. And 1351 01:52:47.930 --> 01:52:51.289 that will be really, really, really sad, right, if that's 1352 01:52:51.470 --> 01:52:54.289 all they think about. But I do think the rest 1353 01:52:54.329 --> 01:52:56.529 of the Republican Party will have to really think about this. 1354 01:52:57.130 --> 01:53:00.350 And I think, at least in some quarters, there will 1355 01:53:00.390 --> 01:53:05.010 be a real consideration of where did we go wrong. And, 1356 01:53:06.029 --> 01:53:11.090 you know, at the very least, don't nominate corrupt politicians 1357 01:53:11.569 --> 01:53:13.510 to run for the Senate like they did in Texas. 1358 01:53:14.989 --> 01:53:22.329 Or don't nominate somebody because they're the sister of somebody else, right? 1359 01:53:22.630 --> 01:53:24.090 So what do you call it when you do it 1360 01:53:24.250 --> 01:53:29.529 in the family? I forget. There's a term for that. So... 1361 01:53:32.409 --> 01:53:38.609 We will, yeah, so again, I don't know what Republicans 1362 01:53:38.689 --> 01:53:42.189 are going to do. Let's be clear on that. I'm 1363 01:53:42.270 --> 01:53:47.409 just giving you the different options. MAGA will not take 1364 01:53:47.449 --> 01:53:51.810 this as repudiation of ICE or of immigration. The broader Republican, 1365 01:53:52.220 --> 01:53:55.439 or of tariffs, sorry, of ICE or of tariffs, the 1366 01:53:55.500 --> 01:53:58.640 broader Republican Party might, and that's what I hope for. 1367 01:53:59.420 --> 01:54:05.300 That's what I'm hoping for. All right. Let's see. Andrew. 1368 01:54:06.960 --> 01:54:12.600 A main Republican talking point is in the lead to 1369 01:54:12.619 --> 01:54:16.020 the election has been that Dems offer no policies on 1370 01:54:16.140 --> 01:54:21.119 issues like affordability. Leftists do look during the headlights when pressed. 1371 01:54:21.779 --> 01:54:26.850 The right's main defense against Medicare for All is the 1372 01:54:26.989 --> 01:54:31.449 illegal immigrants would be covered. Yeah. Rand said that it's 1373 01:54:31.569 --> 01:54:35.039 not enough to know what one opposes, one must know 1374 01:54:35.119 --> 01:54:39.300 what one is for. Modern politics is a void. No 1375 01:54:39.359 --> 01:54:41.399 one seems to be for anything. That's true. The only 1376 01:54:41.470 --> 01:54:46.770 people who are for something are the Democratic Socialists of America. 1377 01:54:47.170 --> 01:54:51.729 They're clearly for something. And MAGA, which is clearly for something. 1378 01:54:52.350 --> 01:55:00.579 Kicking out immigrants, more statism, more ownership of companies by government, 1379 01:55:00.819 --> 01:55:06.329 more socialist control. So it's MAGA and the socialists know 1380 01:55:06.350 --> 01:55:09.609 what they want. Everybody else is just floundering. Everybody else 1381 01:55:09.649 --> 01:55:18.029 has no clue. That's absolutely right. And the Republicans cannot 1382 01:55:18.060 --> 01:55:20.220 make an argument against Medicare. What are they going to say? 1383 01:55:21.279 --> 01:55:25.840 What would be their argument? Medicare for all. It's the 1384 01:55:25.899 --> 01:55:29.899 reason why in the first Trump term, he had promised 1385 01:55:30.010 --> 01:55:33.460 he would repeal Obamacare, and he didn't. Obamacare was not repealed. 1386 01:55:35.399 --> 01:55:37.739 Because they can't. They can't fight socialist medicine. They have 1387 01:55:37.779 --> 01:55:39.840 no basis on which to fight. And they have no 1388 01:55:39.880 --> 01:55:43.470 alternative to offer. What are they going to offer instead? 1389 01:55:46.470 --> 01:56:01.369 What is the best that they have instead? Yep. Yeah, 1390 01:56:01.390 --> 01:56:04.409 here's Phil Magnus, who was on the show. He says, 1391 01:56:04.449 --> 01:56:07.260 voters in 2024 wanted to end the affordability crisis and 1392 01:56:07.300 --> 01:56:10.399 return to economic prosperity we had before COVID. This is 1393 01:56:10.439 --> 01:56:14.840 when they elected Trump. Instead, they got post-liberal Lyndon LaRouche, 1394 01:56:15.680 --> 01:56:20.029 and all of it egged on by J.D. Vance's ideological 1395 01:56:20.170 --> 01:56:43.029 hatred for mainstream economics. Absolutely right. Absolutely right. This is 1396 01:56:43.109 --> 01:56:46.369 a Republican strategist says this. This is going to be 1397 01:56:46.409 --> 01:56:50.270 a massacre. Donald Trump asked voters to vote as if 1398 01:56:50.409 --> 01:56:55.920 he was on the ballot. They did. He says it's 1399 01:56:55.979 --> 01:56:59.739 worse than anyone thought. The assumptions on the percentage of 1400 01:56:59.779 --> 01:57:06.850 Republicans that would vote Republican was wrong. Why? He says 1401 01:57:06.869 --> 01:57:13.090 the answer is obvious. Inflation, diesel, Iran, Israel, Epstein, data centers, ballroom, 1402 01:57:13.710 --> 01:57:19.109 Trump family deals. Did you see, you know, Trump's yesterday's 1403 01:57:19.430 --> 01:57:21.949 last minute pitch for people to vote for him was 1404 01:57:22.010 --> 01:57:24.329 all about the reflecting pool and how he's going to 1405 01:57:24.970 --> 01:57:33.529 name the reflecting pool in Washington, D.C. after himself. So, yeah. 1406 01:57:33.729 --> 01:57:39.890 And then today, Trump said on Fox that this was 1407 01:57:39.909 --> 01:57:43.170 the last year Israel was going to get any financial 1408 01:57:43.189 --> 01:57:45.250 help from the United States. Starting next year,

they're going 1409 01:57:45.270 --> 01:57:49.720 to get nothing. He can't do that unilaterally. But he 1410 01:57:49.770 --> 01:57:54.399 said it, again, partially to defuse the, you know, to 1411 01:57:54.460 --> 01:57:57.300 try to get Republicans to come and vote Republican because 1412 01:57:57.539 --> 01:58:06.750 he's not really pro-Israel. It's pretty bad. It's pretty bad. 1413 01:58:07.270 --> 01:58:15.359 Elon Musk, by the way, spent $ 470 million. on this election. That's... 1414 01:58:15.779 --> 01:58:34.260 All right, let's see. Brian says, Is Trump angry with 1415 01:58:34.399 --> 01:58:38.859 Fox for not questioning the election results and yelling fraud 1416 01:58:39.930 --> 01:58:45.590 as he wants? I expected the claims of fraud to 1417 01:58:45.630 --> 01:58:49.010 have started by now. Are the networks being careful to 1418 01:58:49.109 --> 01:58:52.409 not report Trump's claim of fraud? Well, you know, the 1419 01:58:52.510 --> 01:58:56.930 only place in which there's some legitimacy is Alaska. I 1420 01:58:56.970 --> 01:59:00.270 expect that to land up in court and it will 1421 01:59:00.289 --> 01:59:08.020 be litigated. clearly what the Democrats did in Alaska is horrific. 1422 01:59:09.119 --> 01:59:14.100 And I don't know what the remedy should be or 1423 01:59:14.180 --> 01:59:18.840 could be. But, you know, what the Democrats did is 1424 01:59:18.880 --> 01:59:26.590 really unthinkable. So, you know, we'll see. But other than Alaska, 1425 01:59:27.029 --> 01:59:34.420 I don't know, you know, where there's any any semblance 1426 01:59:34.460 --> 01:59:38.060 of something to yell about. So Trump will yell fraud, 1427 01:59:38.100 --> 01:59:40.840 he'll yell fraud, he'll tell it was stolen. He'll continue 1428 01:59:40.859 --> 01:59:43.460 to yell fraud and stolen four years from now, two 1429 01:59:43.479 --> 01:59:46.180 years from now in 2028. But I don't think anything's 1430 01:59:46.199 --> 01:59:48.239 going to happen. I don't think anything's going to change. 1431 01:59:49.399 --> 01:59:53.229 We'll see. Maybe he's put enough people in positions of 1432 01:59:53.789 --> 01:59:57.510 authority over the election to be able to reverse some seats. 1433 01:59:58.270 --> 02:00:06.739 I think this is probably too big too big to reverse. 1434 02:00:07.020 --> 02:00:10.800 Take this, for example. NBC is now projecting that Annie Andrews, 1435 02:00:10.939 --> 02:00:17.180 a Democrat, this is huge, defeats Senator Lindsey Graham's sister 1436 02:00:18.039 --> 02:00:24.140 in South Carolina. 51 to 46.8, with 86% in. That's 1437 02:00:24.159 --> 02:00:27.939 the second pickup of the night. Second pickup, one more, 1438 02:00:27.979 --> 02:00:31.800 and it's 50-50 in the Senate. Two more, and Democrats 1439 02:00:31.840 --> 02:00:35.680 win the Senate Democrats are plus two so far and 1440 02:00:35.720 --> 02:00:40.060 need plus four for majority. But that's huge. South Carolina 1441 02:00:40.460 --> 02:00:48.520 is now represented by Democrat. NBC now rates Kansas and 1442 02:00:48.600 --> 02:00:54.210 Texas leaning Democratic. Kansas, one of the reddest states in 1443 02:00:54.229 --> 02:00:59.529 the country. So if they flip Kansas and they flip Texas, 1444 02:01:00.220 --> 02:01:04.819 they have a majority. They have a majority. Ohio is 1445 02:01:04.880 --> 02:01:11.359 very close now. It's 1.3%. The Democrats still leading, 70% in. 1446 02:01:12.399 --> 02:01:16.850 NBC still says lean Democratic, but we'll see. So that 1447 02:01:16.890 --> 02:01:20.010 would be, you know, that'd be a third seat flipped 1448 02:01:20.229 --> 02:01:24.770 because that's J.D. Vance's seat. And then we're still counting Iowa, 1449 02:01:25.010 --> 02:01:29.420 where the Democratic leads with very little votes in. Michigan, 1450 02:01:29.439 --> 02:01:32.979 where the Democrat leads with very few votes counted. Maine, 1451 02:01:33.000 --> 02:01:36.380 where the Democrat leads with very few votes counted. I mean, 1452 02:01:36.399 --> 02:01:41.880 some of these are flips. Just, just, that's big. These 1453 02:01:41.920 --> 02:01:46.359 are huge. Where's Minnesota? I don't see Minnesota. I'm curious 1454 02:01:46.380 --> 02:01:50.539 what's happening in Minnesota. All right. According to that, in 1455 02:01:50.560 --> 02:01:53.680 the House, NBC counts a Democratic net game of four 1456 02:01:53.720 --> 02:01:57.739 seats so far. Democrats need three to flip the chamber. 1457 02:01:59.220 --> 02:02:02.930 But most, I mean, this is still very early. In 1458 02:02:03.090 --> 02:02:12.569 governor's races, Georgia went to the Democrats. Ohio, it's uncalled yet, 1459 02:02:12.810 --> 02:02:16.989 but the Democrats still lead. Texas, uncalled, but the Democrats 1460 02:02:17.029 --> 02:02:22.819 still leads by a big margin. Some of the bellwethers, 1461 02:02:22.939 --> 02:02:29.520 the bellwethers, Kentucky, Indiana, Virginia, too, all lean Democratic at 1462 02:02:29.539 --> 02:02:35.779 this point. Virginia leans Republican. Virginia won. Virginia 5 is 1463 02:02:35.859 --> 02:02:46.569 tied with 72% of the votes counted. All right. Let 1464 02:02:46.609 --> 02:02:56.390 me just do this. Pretty amazing, South Carolina. Next update 1465 02:02:57.189 --> 02:03:02.390 at 11.30 p.m. Right. So we'll do that. Let me 1466 02:03:02.489 --> 02:03:07.029 see if there's anything on this thing. Those are all called, wow. 1467 02:03:10.069 --> 02:03:13.510 So both Carolinas, South and North Carolina, have now flipped 1468 02:03:13.529 --> 02:03:21.289 to Democratic senators. No, this is a shellacking. This is 1469 02:03:21.310 --> 02:03:26.409 a shellacking. Okay, Andrew says, Swear I was writing this 1470 02:03:26.449 --> 02:03:30.800 before you brought it up. Revealingly, Trump's election eve speech 1471 02:03:31.420 --> 02:03:35.960 Undercut the moment by touting the Reflecting Pool's renovation. A petty, 1472 02:03:36.159 --> 02:03:40.680 personal middle finger to his critics just to

show he can. Yes. And, 1473 02:03:42.300 --> 02:03:44.979 you know, what was the point? And if anything, the 1474 02:03:45.020 --> 02:03:49.550 Reflecting Pool showed the corruption and competence of this administration. 1475 02:03:50.770 --> 02:03:53.689 So he can't. There was no way for him to 1476 02:03:53.729 --> 02:03:57.510 gain anything with the Reflecting Pool issue. Nothing. Zero, nada. 1477 02:03:57.550 --> 02:04:07.430 All right. 1010 Lakes. Objectivity includes subjective feelings, according to 1478 02:04:07.470 --> 02:04:12.670 Leonard Peikoff. Leonard says, any concept, when reduced to percept, 1479 02:04:13.289 --> 02:04:19.000 has subjective feeling or emotion feeling of the contact points 1480 02:04:19.079 --> 02:04:25.779 to reality, but not the decisive factor in decision making. Yeah, 1481 02:04:25.819 --> 02:04:28.939 I mean, I'd have to really flesh out what you 1482 02:04:29.000 --> 02:04:33.770 mean by all that. Any concept, when reduced to percept, 1483 02:04:34.409 --> 02:04:37.909 has subjective feeling or emotion. What does that mean? What 1484 02:04:37.949 --> 02:04:40.970 does it mean it has subjective? Feelings are the contact 1485 02:04:41.050 --> 02:04:45.460 points to reality. Feelings are the way we respond to reality. 1486 02:04:46.300 --> 02:04:48.939 But not the decisive factor in decision making. That's right. 1487 02:04:49.619 --> 02:04:56.619 Feelings are important. They tell you about you. Jennifer is 1488 02:04:56.680 --> 02:05:01.560 saying that, you know, Al-Sayyad is winning in In Michigan. 1489 02:05:02.909 --> 02:05:05.609 I haven't called it yet, but he's certainly leading right now. 1490 02:05:05.630 --> 02:05:10.449 All right. Toolbox says, voted Democratic for House first time 1491 02:05:10.470 --> 02:05:13.539 in my life, but never would vote for Kathy Hochul. 1492 02:05:15.119 --> 02:05:19.159 I get that. Absolutely. Yeah, I mean, you guys have 1493 02:05:19.180 --> 02:05:24.329 to make decisions on a case-by-case basis. But realizing kind 1494 02:05:24.369 --> 02:05:29.060 of the four stakes that are involved. Not to have 1495 02:05:29.079 --> 02:05:32.130 a juggle with them. If the state outright abolished private property, 1496 02:05:32.649 --> 02:05:38.050 would you surrender your condo or go out with a bang? Well, 1497 02:05:38.090 --> 02:05:39.909 I mean, it depends what's going on. I mean, if 1498 02:05:40.310 --> 02:05:43.649 literally they were coming and confiscating my condo, you know, 1499 02:05:43.729 --> 02:05:46.920 I would probably go out with a bang. But, you know, 1500 02:05:46.939 --> 02:05:50.619 or maybe I'd just escape the country with whatever I had. 1501 02:05:51.560 --> 02:06:00.720 And so would I literally fight and die for my condo? No. No, 1502 02:06:00.939 --> 02:06:05.260 not if there was an alternative. And no, unless it 1503 02:06:05.300 --> 02:06:07.399 was part of a revolution where I thought there was 1504 02:06:07.439 --> 02:06:11.300 some chance of change.

But just to fight for the 1505 02:06:11.319 --> 02:06:15.739 sake of fighting, no. Now that you have a jug 1506 02:06:15.810 --> 02:06:19.949 of them, Millet is pitching a regulation-free AI haven. Will 1507 02:06:20.010 --> 02:06:22.699 Argentina become the center of AI revolution? I doubt it. 1508 02:06:24.270 --> 02:06:26.909 Maybe you'd get a bunch of data centers there, but 1509 02:06:26.949 --> 02:06:30.949 I just don't see yet any reason to believe that 1510 02:06:32.149 --> 02:06:38.569 the brainpower that fuels AI is moving to Argentina. Because 1511 02:06:38.600 --> 02:06:41.399 that's what you need. You need more than the computers. 1512 02:06:41.439 --> 02:06:44.239 You need the programmers. You need the brainpower, the people 1513 02:06:44.260 --> 02:06:48.020 who actually build these companies to move this. I doubt it. Look, 1514 02:06:48.079 --> 02:06:50.079 I also think Millet's in trouble. I mean, I was 1515 02:06:50.140 --> 02:06:54.520 in Argentina, and people are pretty pessimistic about his, whether 1516 02:06:54.560 --> 02:06:57.050 he can win next year. It's not clear that he 1517 02:06:57.060 --> 02:07:00.069 can win. And people are not happy with him. Even 1518 02:07:00.109 --> 02:07:03.810 his supporters are not happy. They're not happy he didn't dollarize. 1519 02:07:03.829 --> 02:07:06.909 They're not happy that their reform seemed to have stalled. 1520 02:07:09.340 --> 02:07:13.600 You know, they're not as happy as they're worried. They're really, 1521 02:07:13.640 --> 02:07:15.880 really worried about his ability to win next year. So 1522 02:07:17.119 --> 02:07:22.239 whether that regulation-free AI zone can sustain itself, who knows. 1523 02:07:23.479 --> 02:07:26.430 Wyatt says the other party usually wins the midterms, so 1524 02:07:26.510 --> 02:07:30.250 why would voting Harris so the GOP could be doing 1525 02:07:30.329 --> 02:07:35.340 better tonight be an appeal to Trump supporters. What? I 1526 02:07:35.380 --> 02:07:40.020 don't know what that means. I'm not appealing to Trump supporters. 1527 02:07:42.159 --> 02:07:45.329 You know, if you really support Trump, then you support Trump. 1528 02:07:45.569 --> 02:07:52.470 And now you're getting the shellacking you deserve. But, you know, 1529 02:07:52.630 --> 02:07:56.640 I don't know what, I don't know. All I'm saying is, 1530 02:07:57.630 --> 02:08:00.350 If Harris would have won, the GOP would be winning tonight. 1531 02:08:00.710 --> 02:08:04.010 They wouldn't be losing the Senate. They wouldn't be losing 1532 02:08:04.029 --> 02:08:06.449 the House. They probably would have won the Senate anyway 1533 02:08:06.489 --> 02:08:08.789 last time. So Harris would have had to deal with 1534 02:08:08.810 --> 02:08:11.250 divided government. And now she would have had to deal 1535 02:08:11.270 --> 02:08:15.289 with the House and Senate that was Republican. And I 1536 02:08:15.329 --> 02:08:18.810 think we'd be in a better track long term. Whereas, 1537 02:08:19.430

--> 02:08:22.420 as of now... You know, Democrats are controlling the House 1538 02:08:22.479 --> 02:08:25.180 and the Senate. They've got a good chance to win 1539 02:08:25.220 --> 02:08:30.899 the White House in 2028 because J.D. Vance looks like 1540 02:08:30.979 --> 02:08:34.800 the nominee that the Republicans will put forward. And if J.D. 1541 02:08:34.840 --> 02:08:37.579 Vance is the nominee, I think he loses, particularly to 1542 02:08:37.739 --> 02:08:43.970 Ossoff or to Cooper, one of these moderate Democrats. So 1543 02:08:44.250 --> 02:08:48.119 all I'm saying is, if you care about America... then 1544 02:08:48.159 --> 02:08:51.159 I think voting for Trump in 2024 is a mistake. 1545 02:08:52.359 --> 02:09:04.170 I've said this for a long time. I don't know. 1546 02:09:04.930 --> 02:09:06.989 I think they'll win both houses, and it looks like 1547 02:09:07.010 --> 02:09:09.210 they might win big in both houses, or they might 1548 02:09:09.250 --> 02:09:12.609 win big in the Senate, which is shocking, shocking, shocking. 1549 02:09:12.850 --> 02:09:14.779 I mean, I don't think you guys, I don't know 1550 02:09:15.060 --> 02:09:21.310 how much you appreciate how big of a deal this is. Um, 1551 02:09:21.470 --> 02:09:24.210 if they lose, if the Republicans lose Texas and lose 1552 02:09:24.229 --> 02:09:32.550 Kansas and lose South Carolina, it's huge. Yeah, it's very 1553 02:09:32.590 --> 02:09:41.180 late in Rio. It's, it's, uh, 1215. Um, it's after midnight. Let's, 1554 02:09:41.380 --> 02:09:48.729 what was I saying? Um, so, um, I don't know 1555 02:09:48.770 --> 02:09:54.710 what happens. One possibility is Trump flips out and lashes 1556 02:09:54.850 --> 02:09:59.090 out on Iran to show he's a macho guy. It 1557 02:10:01.029 --> 02:10:05.250 could be that MAGA puts a huge, MAGA decides that 1558 02:10:05.270 --> 02:10:07.109 they lost because of the war and they put a 1559 02:10:07.229 --> 02:10:11.220 huge amount of energy behind stopping Trump from doing that. 1560 02:10:12.319 --> 02:10:14.720 I don't know. You know, it's Trump. Who knows what 1561 02:10:14.760 --> 02:10:18.479 he'll do? So he could go either way. Could go 1562 02:10:18.539 --> 02:10:21.279 either way. He could lash out, or he could be 1563 02:10:21.319 --> 02:10:24.859 restrained for the wrong reasons by MAGA, who thinks they 1564 02:10:24.979 --> 02:10:27.699 just lost the election because of the war in Iran. 1565 02:10:29.979 --> 02:10:34.630 I'm not making a prediction on that one. Neo, Bibi losing, apparently? 1566 02:10:34.729 --> 02:10:39.670 Any updates with Israel? No, I mean, Bibi, relatively speaking, 1567 02:10:39.770 --> 02:10:43.350 relative to what could have happened, had a successful election day. 1568 02:10:44.149 --> 02:10:47.340 He wasn't going to make 61 votes. His political party 1569 02:10:47.380 --> 02:10:52.180 is the largest. That was a surprise. He did much 1570 02:10:52.239 --> 02:10:55.579 better than the polls predicted, which is usually what happens. 1571 02:10:55.699 --> 02:10:57.479 I'm not talking about the bloc. I'm talking about his 1572 02:10:57.560 --> 02:11:02.810 political party. And now Israel has to figure out how 1573 02:11:02.829 --> 02:11:05.810 to form a government. We'll talk more about that in 1574 02:11:05.829 --> 02:11:09.189 the future. There's no rush because these things take a 1575 02:11:09.250 --> 02:11:12.369 long time for Israel to form a government, for the 1576 02:11:12.390 --> 02:11:15.300 Israeli parliament to form a government, given the number of 1577 02:11:15.310 --> 02:11:18.779 political parties and divisiveness of anything, and there's no obvious block, 1578 02:11:19.439 --> 02:11:22.579 and the Arab parties having an historical performance, which I 1579 02:11:22.619 --> 02:11:25.319 guess I haven't commented on, but I will comment on 1580 02:11:25.340 --> 02:11:27.550 the Arab parties as well and why they did so 1581 02:11:27.590 --> 02:11:32.449 well and what lessons should be learned from that. I'll 1582 02:11:32.470 --> 02:11:35.250 be commenting on that, but just not today. Today we'll 1583 02:11:35.310 --> 02:11:41.380 focus on the election in the U.S. James says, death 1584 02:11:41.439 --> 02:11:44.760 is not the enemy, a wasted life is. Marcus Aurelius. 1585 02:11:44.880 --> 02:11:47.569 I agree with that. That is absolutely right. Death is 1586 02:11:47.649 --> 02:11:51.489 also the enemy, right? Even if you didn't waste your life. 1587 02:11:54.930 --> 02:12:02.600 All right. Neo. Neo Collins agreed. I wish Democrats to 1588 02:12:02.640 --> 02:12:07.079 win Congress, to strengthen support for Ukraine through legislation, punish 1589 02:12:07.119 --> 02:12:11.710 Republicans for enabling Trump, and have Dems give Trump two... 1590 02:12:12.670 --> 02:12:16.250 Two years of political hell in office. Yeah, I mean, 1591 02:12:16.270 --> 02:12:20.930 I'm not sure that what you'll find is the Democrats 1592 02:12:21.949 --> 02:12:25.810 support Ukraine that much, particularly if the more left-wing Democrats 1593 02:12:25.829 --> 02:12:29.409 get elected. I don't think the far left is pro-Ukraine. 1594 02:12:29.909 --> 02:12:32.890 I think ultimately they're pro-Putin. So I don't think you'll 1595 02:12:32.930 --> 02:12:35.090 get that part of it, and I don't think they 1596 02:12:35.109 --> 02:12:38.689 are going to, but I agree with you, punish Republicans 1597 02:12:38.710 --> 02:12:43.369 for enabling Trump. I agree with that. and make Trump's 1598 02:12:43.409 --> 02:12:47.550 life hell for the next two years. I agree with that. Clark. 1599 02:12:48.310 --> 02:12:50.670 Rest in peace, Patrick Stewart. He would have made a 1600 02:12:50.710 --> 02:12:55.149 great objectorist. Yeah, that would have been cool. Nate says, 1601 02:12:55.590 --> 02:12:58.890 looking like Texas is about to have a blue senator 1602 02:12:58.949 --> 02:13:02.779 and governor. Wow. Wow is right. Wow is a big, 1603 02:13:03.399 --> 02:13:06.659 that's a

big deal. It's a big deal. We're going 1604 02:13:06.680 --> 02:13:09.560 to get an update in 13 minutes about how those 1605 02:13:09.600 --> 02:13:16.489 races are going. And then, yeah. James, I do not 1606 02:13:16.529 --> 02:13:20.260 understand how Republicans hate blacks and Hispanics, yet they all 1607 02:13:20.300 --> 02:13:23.880 worship the same God and read the same Bible. Did 1608 02:13:23.920 --> 02:13:27.699 that change in 20 years? I think Republicans, well, I 1609 02:13:27.720 --> 02:13:32.079 don't know that Republicans hate blacks and Hispanics. Certain Republicans, 1610 02:13:32.140 --> 02:13:35.159 way too many, hate blacks and Hispanics. There's a percentage 1611 02:13:35.180 --> 02:13:41.760 of Republicans that are racist. And... Since when has religion 1612 02:13:42.449 --> 02:13:46.260 prevented people from being racist? I mean, the South, which 1613 02:13:46.279 --> 02:13:49.399 was quite religious, had Jim Crow laws, and yet blacks 1614 02:13:49.420 --> 02:13:56.670 were all religious. So religion doesn't prevent racism. It just provides, 1615 02:13:57.970 --> 02:14:00.489 in the right hands, it just provides more excuses to 1616 02:14:00.529 --> 02:14:04.289 be racist. So I don't think religion is a solution 1617 02:14:04.329 --> 02:14:13.119 to racism. James, did you see the racism high school 1618 02:14:13.180 --> 02:14:16.479 soccer teams in North Carolina that got banned? No, I 1619 02:14:16.520 --> 02:14:20.119 didn't see that. If racism is taught at home and 1620 02:14:20.159 --> 02:14:24.229 by peers, how do we eradicate it? Well, I think 1621 02:14:25.270 --> 02:14:31.229 you eradicate it by delegitimizing it, delegitimizing it culturally, intellectually. 1622 02:14:32.109 --> 02:14:37.189 The reason racism is making a comeback is because the 1623 02:14:37.270 --> 02:14:41.210 left made it a big issue in identity politics, and 1624 02:14:41.250 --> 02:14:45.069 the right responded to that by becoming more racist. And 1625 02:14:45.090 --> 02:14:48.189 I think, you know, racism has increased in the United 1626 02:14:48.210 --> 02:14:51.710 States significantly over the last 10 years as a consequence 1627 02:14:51.729 --> 02:14:59.109 of identity politics on the left, resurrecting a, you know, 1628 02:14:59.149 --> 02:15:02.819 kind of a simmering racism on the right that had 1629 02:15:02.859 --> 02:15:08.350 been suppressed by racism being illegitimate and unacceptable in polite society, 1630 02:15:09.850 --> 02:15:13.909 the left made it legitimate again. And I remember saying, 1631 02:15:14.689 --> 02:15:21.289 when woke was big, you know, you think that what 1632 02:15:21.310 --> 02:15:27.180 you're doing is, you think it's going to end with, 1633 02:15:27.739 --> 02:15:30.659 what do you call it, with identity politics, but all 1634 02:15:30.680 --> 02:15:36.729 you're doing is enabling right-wing racism And that's exactly what happened. 1635 02:15:39.649 --> 02:15:45.109 All right. Let's see. Jamie says, dot-com bubble, NASDAQ 100 1636 02:15:45.109 --> 02:15:48.229 dropped 82%, 15 years to recover. Yeah, I remember that. 1637 02:15:49.149 --> 02:15:52.260 S & P 500 down 49%. I remember that. Seven 1638 02:15:52.270 --> 02:15:56.680 years to recover. Socialists say capitalism, capitalist failure that hurt 1639 02:15:56.720 --> 02:15:59.659 retirees and economy. Your thoughts? Thanks. Oh, I mean, that's 1640 02:15:59.699 --> 02:16:03.850 a big topic we can talk about sometime. But But no, 1641 02:16:04.210 --> 02:16:06.630 you know, a lot of that was inflation. That is 1642 02:16:06.649 --> 02:16:11.689 a massive expansion in the monetary base, which helped the 1643 02:16:11.729 --> 02:16:16.130 dot-com bubble along. But no, the dot-com bubble ultimately was 1644 02:16:16.170 --> 02:16:18.760 a huge success. The fact that the Nasdaq went down 1645 02:16:18.760 --> 02:16:23.220 82% is a sign of that success. Capitalism corrects itself. 1646 02:16:23.279 --> 02:16:27.199 Capitalism is not infallible. It doesn't know exactly what the 1647 02:16:27.260 --> 02:16:31.840 future is. Stocks that go up also come down. And 1648 02:16:32.260 --> 02:16:36.500 the NASDAQ corrected and then went up in a healthier fashion. 1649 02:16:37.719 --> 02:16:43.899 And ultimately, of the companies that got funded in the 1650 02:16:44.000 --> 02:16:49.120 late 90s as part of the dot-com bubble, if you 1651 02:16:49.159 --> 02:16:53.299 look at the wealth that those companies created, far exceeds 1652 02:16:53.739 --> 02:16:58.139 the wealth that was destroyed when the dot-com bubble collapsed. 1653 02:16:58.239 --> 02:17:04.030 So the net result of the dot-com bubble was overwhelmingly positive. 1654 02:17:05.940 --> 02:17:08.540 And I can send you the citation for the research 1655 02:17:09.159 --> 02:17:11.719 on that. Yeah, the S & P is going to 1656 02:17:11.760 --> 02:17:13.860 go up, and it's going to go down. And if 1657 02:17:13.879 --> 02:17:17.549 you look at retirees, retirees have done phenomenally well over 1658 02:17:17.579 --> 02:17:20.309 the long run. Remember, the NASDAQ went up 95% in 1999. 1659 02:17:20.309 --> 02:17:23.010 Anything that goes up 95%, an index, a broad index, 1660 02:17:24.350 --> 02:17:33.969 is going to come down. So you can't just look 1661 02:17:33.989 --> 02:17:36.340 at the down, look at the up. Where did it 1662 02:17:37.840 --> 02:17:42.260 go up to? Where did it come from? And retirees 1663 02:17:42.360 --> 02:17:45.209 over the long run, have they done well in the 1664 02:17:45.250 --> 02:17:49.129 markets or not? They've done well. Now, as an argument 1665 02:17:49.170 --> 02:17:52.940 against capitalism, it's a complete ridiculous argument because we have 1666 02:17:52.959 --> 02:17:56.479 no capitalism. We have a mixed economy. I argue against 1667 02:17:56.540 --> 02:17:59.079 a mixed economy. I don't think a mixed economy, I 1668 02:17:59.100 --> 02:18:01.600 don't think under capitalism, you would have had the run-up

1669 02:18:01.670 --> 02:18:05.030 in the NASDAQ in the late 90s and then the decline. 1670 02:18:05.569 --> 02:18:08.290 I think you would have had a lot saner, better 1671 02:18:09.370 --> 02:18:15.639 investment policies. and a more saner, better move of the markets. 1672 02:18:15.940 --> 02:18:21.399 So I don't think it's condemnation of capitalism, even if 1673 02:18:21.440 --> 02:18:26.790 you read it, those stacks as is. Jamie says, and 1674 02:18:26.969 --> 02:18:31.690 is NASDAQ 100 ETF safe bet for entire portfolio if 1675 02:18:31.750 --> 02:18:34.090 it's going to be over 25 to 30 years dollar 1676 02:18:34.129 --> 02:18:37.479 cost averaging monthly investment? No, I mean, I don't think so. 1677 02:18:38.329 --> 02:18:40.719 If you really want a diversified portfolio, you have to 1678 02:18:40.739 --> 02:18:44.959 diversify well beyond the NASDAQ. The NASDAQ, particularly the NASDAQ 100, 1679 02:18:44.959 --> 02:18:48.540 is just the biggest technology stocks. And that's great. You 1680 02:18:48.579 --> 02:18:52.780 should have it in your portfolio, but not just them. And, 1681 02:18:53.520 --> 02:18:59.319 you know, so no, I don't think that's safe. That's 1682 02:18:59.459 --> 02:19:05.739 volatile and over the long run goes up. But You 1683 02:19:05.780 --> 02:19:07.940 might want to retire exactly in 30 years when it's 1684 02:19:07.979 --> 02:19:10.719 actually down a lot. So no, you should be a 1685 02:19:10.780 --> 02:19:13.440 lot more diversified. You should have international stocks. You should 1686 02:19:13.469 --> 02:19:17.190 have small stocks. You should have value stocks. And then 1687 02:19:18.450 --> 02:19:21.049 you should only have a certain percentage of your portfolio 1688 02:19:21.149 --> 02:19:25.530 in risky assets, and that could be in the NASDAQ 100. 1689 02:19:25.649 --> 02:19:32.809 Riskier assets, I guess. Let's see. Jamie. I've heard people 1690 02:19:32.870 --> 02:19:36.399 make claims Singapore housing is successful because it's socialized any 1691 02:19:36.440 --> 02:19:38.760 truth to this. I don't know what it means that 1692 02:19:38.780 --> 02:19:42.709 it's successful. It is true that all of Singapore's housing 1693 02:19:42.750 --> 02:19:44.670 is basically owned by the government, or most of it 1694 02:19:45.090 --> 02:19:47.709 is owned by the government. But the government in Singapore builds. 1695 02:19:48.670 --> 02:19:51.149 And anybody, you know, if you build, then housing prices 1696 02:19:51.190 --> 02:19:54.770 don't go up. But no, I don't think, I don't 1697 02:19:54.790 --> 02:19:57.170 think it's a success. I don't think it should be emulated. 1698 02:19:58.129 --> 02:20:00.530 You know, it hasn't failed because Singapore government is generally 1699 02:20:00.579 --> 02:20:05.829 responsible and does, does it, fairly well the solution is 1700 02:20:05.870 --> 02:20:09.430 not to to socialize housing in the united states the 1701 02:20:09.450 --> 02:20:11.930 solution is to build which is what the singapore government 1702 02:20:11.969 --> 02:20:20.329 actually does rajiv says um so happy to see you 1703 02:20:20.389 --> 02:20:22.790 and hear you after a long time do you think 1704 02:20:22.850 --> 02:20:26.059 claude is better than chad gpt and gemini in research 1705 02:20:26.120 --> 02:20:29.620 analysis no not necessarily i think they're all good they 1706 02:20:29.659 --> 02:20:32.799 all do things a little differently I use all of them, 1707 02:20:32.840 --> 02:20:36.360 I even use Grok, because they all present slightly different 1708 02:20:36.500 --> 02:20:41.000 angles and different writing styles, and I like to get 1709 02:20:41.020 --> 02:20:45.239 the different perspectives and then integrate them. But I don't 1710 02:20:45.260 --> 02:20:49.090 know that one is better than the other at this point. Jamie, 1711 02:20:50.649 --> 02:20:55.790 part one my friend made the argument that Burkina Faso 1712 02:20:56.969 --> 02:21:01.870 and the socialist Sankara saw a huge spike in literacy 1713 02:21:01.930 --> 02:21:05.290 rates and had a massive vaccine campaign and in the U.S. 1714 02:21:05.329 --> 02:21:08.770 helped get him assassinated. I mean, I don't know. I 1715 02:21:08.809 --> 02:21:13.889 haven't studied that history. But no question that, you know, 1716 02:21:14.030 --> 02:21:19.860 authoritarians can get a lot of stuff done. Dictators can 1717 02:21:20.040 --> 02:21:22.840 get vaccine campaigns. They can force everybody to get vaccines. 1718 02:21:23.579 --> 02:21:28.059 They can build infrastructure. They can force everybody into schools. 1719 02:21:28.649 --> 02:21:33.850 So yeah, authoritarians do get stuff done. Whether it's worth 1720 02:21:34.909 --> 02:21:38.110 the lack of freedom is a different question. And I 1721 02:21:38.129 --> 02:21:40.450 don't know about the United States assassinating. I don't know 1722 02:21:40.469 --> 02:21:43.610 the history well enough. And look, why would you ever 1723 02:21:43.690 --> 02:21:50.069 want to defend what America does in its foreign policy? 1724 02:21:50.149 --> 02:21:52.350 Most of what America does in its foreign policy is 1725 02:21:52.389 --> 02:21:57.510 not good. You shouldn't defend it. So, you know, there's 1726 02:21:57.549 --> 02:22:01.250 no gotcha with the idea that America did something wrong 1727 02:22:01.290 --> 02:22:04.690 in its foreign policy. It's not a gotcha. They do 1728 02:22:05.110 --> 02:22:16.190 wrong stuff all the time. Let's see. Part two. There's 1729 02:22:16.350 --> 02:22:19.969 also widespread sentiment that America has prevented socialist success stories 1730 02:22:20.010 --> 02:22:23.270 in many countries. Any truth to this? No. Zero truth 1731 02:22:23.309 --> 02:22:27.399 to it. Socialist failures are not caused by America. And, 1732 02:22:28.379 --> 02:22:32.120 you know, America is not the cause for socialism not 1733 02:22:32.149 --> 02:22:36.430 to be successful. The cause of socialism not succeeding is

socialism. 1734 02:22:36.770 --> 02:22:40.610 Socialism is just a system of failure. There's no basis 1735 02:22:40.649 --> 02:22:46.909 to think it can succeed. It succeeded. Lots of places 1736 02:22:46.950 --> 02:22:49.979 in the world that were socialist that saw no government 1737 02:22:50.000 --> 02:22:54.590 interference from the United States failed, still failed. Jamie, one 1738 02:22:54.670 --> 02:22:58.950 big argument I've heard against AI is nuclear security. Is 1739 02:22:58.969 --> 02:23:01.250 this an irrational fear and why? No, I mean, none 1740 02:23:01.270 --> 02:23:03.829 of these fears are completely irrational. It's just a question 1741 02:23:03.850 --> 02:23:06.500 of who's best to deal with it. And, you know, 1742 02:23:07.329 --> 02:23:09.700 I've said all along, you need AI to deal with 1743 02:23:09.719 --> 02:23:13.200 the risk of AI. And the government agency is responsible 1744 02:23:13.239 --> 02:23:16.239 for nuclear. The government agency is responsible for biological and 1745 02:23:16.260 --> 02:23:19.420 chemical weapons. And the companies themselves all need to take 1746 02:23:19.459 --> 02:23:22.079 these threats seriously and deal with them. Deal with them 1747 02:23:22.100 --> 02:23:25.879 and make sure AI... you know, behaves and is not 1748 02:23:26.280 --> 02:23:34.110 used by malicious agents to do really bad stuff. All right. Sorry. 1749 02:23:34.170 --> 02:23:37.049 Some of these questions unrelated to the election, I'm giving 1750 02:23:37.069 --> 02:23:40.959 them short shift because it's after midnight and I'm tired, uh, 1751 02:23:42.120 --> 02:23:45.459 harder for me to focus. Uh, so, uh, a lot 1752 02:23:45.479 --> 02:23:48.840 of the answers are a little maybe shorter than usual. Um, 1753 02:23:52.829 --> 02:23:55.270 All right, Robert says, I'm glad the elections are going 1754 02:23:55.309 --> 02:23:57.719 the way I wanted them to go. Of course, I'm 1755 02:23:57.760 --> 02:24:00.579 unhappy that the left is winning, but I'm glad the 1756 02:24:00.620 --> 02:24:03.659 MAGA right is losing. Here's hoping it's all a bit 1757 02:24:03.700 --> 02:24:06.239 better in 2028. Let's hope. A lot of it will 1758 02:24:06.280 --> 02:24:12.579 depend on who the nominees are for president in both parties. Mark, 1759 02:24:13.360 --> 02:24:18.610 are objectivists uncharitable towards libertarians in accusing them of nihilism 1760 02:24:18.790 --> 02:24:23.110 over their mistrust of government Their stance, my stuff, is 1761 02:24:23.149 --> 02:24:25.889 for me, not anyone else. Well, if that was their stance, 1762 02:24:25.909 --> 02:24:28.389 that would be fine. But the idea of anarchy is 1763 02:24:28.450 --> 02:24:33.129 not that stance. It's something very different. And it has 1764 02:24:33.190 --> 02:24:36.790 implications to all of our lives. And I think anarchy fundamentally, 1765 02:24:36.870 --> 02:24:43.149 particularly the Rothbardians and Hopperians, is a nihilistic ideology. So 1766 02:24:44.319 --> 02:24:49.760 my stuff is for me, not anyone else. And therefore, 1767 02:24:49.920 --> 02:24:54.399 I need a government to protect my rights. Individual rights 1768 02:24:55.100 --> 02:24:58.780 are the foundation of everything. And libertarians reject it, and 1769 02:24:58.829 --> 02:25:00.950 they're exposed to it. They've read Ayn Rand. They still 1770 02:25:00.969 --> 02:25:06.770 reject it. So no, I don't think we're uncharitable. And again, 1771 02:25:06.850 --> 02:25:10.750 not all libertarians are like that, but a significant percentage. 1772 02:25:10.850 --> 02:25:14.409 I mean, think about their foreign policy. What was it? 1773 02:25:14.479 --> 02:25:17.139 My stuff is for me, not anyone else, unless you're 1774 02:25:17.159 --> 02:25:21.350 a Jew or an Israeli. and then hand over my 1775 02:25:21.409 --> 02:25:27.170 stuff to the Palestinians. I mean, the nihilism is best 1776 02:25:27.250 --> 02:25:32.610 expressed in how evil their foreign policy is, like Dave Smith. 1777 02:25:35.020 --> 02:25:37.180 That's not my stuff, it's for me, anyone else. That's 1778 02:25:37.200 --> 02:25:39.719 not property rights. If they actually believed in property rights, 1779 02:25:39.739 --> 02:25:42.139 they'd be huge supporters of Israel, the only country in 1780 02:25:42.159 --> 02:25:45.059 the Middle East that actually has any semblance of respect 1781 02:25:45.340 --> 02:25:52.489 for property rights. Hop up. Florida's Amendment 3 passed to 1782 02:25:52.569 --> 02:25:56.649 eliminate property taxes on primary residents. A huge victory. Do 1783 02:25:56.690 --> 02:26:00.600 you have more respect for DeSantis for making this a 1784 02:26:00.639 --> 02:26:03.600 serious topic? Not really, because I don't think it's a 1785 02:26:03.620 --> 02:26:08.159 serious topic, right? I mean, it's nice that they've eliminated 1786 02:26:08.719 --> 02:26:12.430 property taxes on your primary residents. Why only primary residents? 1787 02:26:13.049 --> 02:26:16.850 I mean, this is a kind of a no-brainer. everybody, 1788 02:26:17.389 --> 02:26:21.420 all the people who own residencies, particularly older people, who 1789 02:26:21.559 --> 02:26:24.459 own their primary residence in Florida voted for it. Why would, 1790 02:26:24.899 --> 02:26:27.360 you know, it would be shocking if they didn't vote 1791 02:26:27.379 --> 02:26:30.360 for it. So I don't think it's that important. I 1792 02:26:30.399 --> 02:26:37.010 don't think that's big of a deal. You know, what 1793 02:26:37.069 --> 02:26:39.010 is the state of Florida ultimately going to do in 1794 02:26:39.049 --> 02:26:43.350 order to raise revenue from other sources? I just think 1795 02:26:43.409 --> 02:26:47.920 it's the It's the lowest common denominator kind of thing. 1796 02:26:48.200 --> 02:26:53.379 It's the easiest thing, easiest tax to eliminate, particularly in 1797 02:26:53.440 --> 02:26:56.739 a state like Florida with retirees who own their homes 1798 02:26:57.440 -->

02:27:00.079 and pay property taxes. I mean, I'm glad. I'm happy 1799 02:27:00.120 --> 02:27:05.659 for Floridians not to have property taxes. But I don't 1800 02:27:05.739 --> 02:27:09.340 think it's a huge, I don't think it's that huge. 1801 02:27:09.979 --> 02:27:13.760 And it was completely expected given who's voting, right? Old 1802 02:27:13.799 --> 02:27:16.549 people vote. And they're the ones who own most of 1803 02:27:16.569 --> 02:27:26.899 the real estate. All right. Let's see. Loan dissenter. If 1804 02:27:26.940 --> 02:27:30.340 Dems take House and Senate, could they get enough Republicans 1805 02:27:30.379 --> 02:27:33.469 to join them in impeaching and convicting Trump and Hegseth? 1806 02:27:33.549 --> 02:27:37.149 Any chances? I doubt it. Very, very, very, very much 1807 02:27:37.229 --> 02:27:40.899 doubt it. Republicans, I mean, they couldn't impeach. him after 1808 02:27:40.959 --> 02:27:44.760 January 6th when it seemed like it was a no-brainer 1809 02:27:45.639 --> 02:27:48.739 and would have prevented him from running in 2024. And 1810 02:27:48.760 --> 02:27:53.579 when nobody supported Trump, they couldn't even get enough votes then. 1811 02:27:53.920 --> 02:27:58.760 I doubt they could get enough votes now. James, watch 1812 02:27:58.799 --> 02:28:02.209 the video on how Jared Kushner became a billionaire after 1813 02:28:02.270 --> 02:28:06.340 Trump's first term. Now his brother is a billionaire and 1814 02:28:06.420 --> 02:28:08.659 owns part of the LA Lakers. Yeah, I mean, Jared 1815 02:28:08.680 --> 02:28:12.559 Kushner became a billionaire by getting the Saudis to invest 1816 02:28:12.600 --> 02:28:15.829 a huge, huge amount of money in his first ever 1817 02:28:15.860 --> 02:28:18.969 private equity fund, which is really hard to raise your 1818 02:28:19.010 --> 02:28:26.479 first fund. But he had the contacts. He had the contacts. Gail, 1819 02:28:26.500 --> 02:28:28.639 thanks for the huge effort you're on. It is late 1820 02:28:28.680 --> 02:28:32.299 in Rio. Yes, it is. Thank you, Gail. Johnny, greetings 1821 02:28:32.399 --> 02:28:39.409 from Chile. I'm the letter guy. Thanks for answering. Glad 1822 02:28:39.649 --> 02:28:44.530 a top objectivist reached similar conclusions. Mine were raw. You 1823 02:28:44.569 --> 02:28:49.010 helped explain them. I'll keep studying. Excellent. Keep it up. Johnny, 1824 02:28:49.739 --> 02:28:54.639 it was great to meet you in Chile. Michael, we'll 1825 02:28:55.090 --> 02:28:58.389 Democrats shut down AI data centers if they take power, 1826 02:28:58.989 --> 02:29:01.610 or will they be too busy trying to impeach Trump 1827 02:29:01.670 --> 02:29:05.889 or defang ICE? Well, they can't. Anything they pass, Trump 1828 02:29:05.930 --> 02:29:12.170 can veto. But, you know, remember, Republicans were doing moratoriums 1829 02:29:12.250 --> 02:29:15.569 on data centers in places like Texas already. If they 1830 02:29:15.690 --> 02:29:18.250 flip Democratic, it's just going to become worse, but it 1831 02:29:18.290 --> 02:29:21.229 was already in that direction. But on a national basis, 1832 02:29:21.250 --> 02:29:23.940 they can't do it without Trump's support. because he can 1833 02:29:23.989 --> 02:29:33.510 veto any legislation they passed. Lincoln, my relatively moderate GOP 1834 02:29:33.530 --> 02:29:36.729 Hispanic congressman in Arizona, won by two points in 2024. 1835 02:29:36.729 --> 02:29:41.739 He's currently losing by 19 points. Wow. Insane how much 1836 02:29:41.780 --> 02:29:44.719 the Arizona GOP has been destroyed in the last few years. Yes, 1837 02:29:45.600 --> 02:29:48.120 Arizona GDP has just gone nuts, completely nuts. What was 1838 02:29:48.139 --> 02:29:51.180 her name? Lake. She was the one who completely destroyed 1839 02:29:52.040 --> 02:29:54.639 and it's just gotten worse and worse and worse, and 1840 02:29:54.659 --> 02:30:00.920 it's pathetic. All right, Hopper Campbell. If an amendment was 1841 02:30:01.000 --> 02:30:03.920 on the ballot in lefty states like California and New 1842 02:30:03.959 --> 02:30:07.920 York to eliminate property taxes on primary residency, I highly 1843 02:30:07.979 --> 02:30:11.639 doubt homeowners would vote yes on it. Their altruistic guilt 1844 02:30:11.899 --> 02:30:15.260 is too strong. I'm not sure. I'm not sure that's true. 1845 02:30:15.750 --> 02:30:18.430 I think homeowners, I mean, California was the first state 1846 02:30:19.190 --> 02:30:23.590 to cap property taxes. in the late 1970s. Now, it 1847 02:30:23.610 --> 02:30:27.870 was a different California. But I'm not sure if something 1848 02:30:27.909 --> 02:30:29.889 like that was actually on the ballot, made it onto 1849 02:30:29.909 --> 02:30:32.969 the ballot in California, if it would not be voted for. 1850 02:30:33.629 --> 02:30:37.750 Maybe you're right. But also, again, think of who the 1851 02:30:37.989 --> 02:30:41.469 people are in Florida. It's not like they're self-interested. It's 1852 02:30:41.489 --> 02:30:48.899 just that they're more elderly. They're more focused on, you know, living. 1853 02:30:48.979 --> 02:30:53.190 They're not working. So they're living on kind of a 1854 02:30:53.229 --> 02:30:55.909 fixed income, and the property tax thing is a no-brainer 1855 02:30:55.930 --> 02:31:01.229 for them. I don't think this is a big yay 1856 02:31:01.290 --> 02:31:05.889 for capitalism or yay for egoism in any kind of way. 1857 02:31:08.129 --> 02:31:10.430 I just don't buy it. All right, let me thank 1858 02:31:10.469 --> 02:31:13.479 some of the sticker people. Harper Campbell, thank you. Really 1859 02:31:13.590 --> 02:31:16.569 appreciate that. I think there were some big stickers earlier on. 1860 02:31:19.909 --> 02:31:25.450 And let's see, what else do we have? Almost done here. Whoops. 1861 02:31:27.530 --> 02:31:32.459 I think I saw Wes did $ 50. Ryan, thank you. Bonnie, 1862 02:31:32.520 --> 02:31:39.299 thank you. Mike, thank you. Isiv, thank you. Marylene, thank you.

1863 02:31:39.319 --> 02:31:48.379 And Tessa, thank you. And Cook and Wes, thank you 1864 02:31:48.399 --> 02:31:56.079 for the $ 50. Wes, really appreciate it. And, yeah, Nature Observer, 1865 02:31:56.120 --> 02:32:02.260 thank you. And John, thank you. By the way, I 1866 02:32:02.319 --> 02:32:04.989 wonder if any of the pro-Trump guys are going to 1867 02:32:05.020 --> 02:32:07.329 give me credit for predicting that this would happen to 1868 02:32:07.350 --> 02:32:10.930 the Republican Party under Trump's leadership. I doubt it. I 1869 02:32:10.969 --> 02:32:12.850 doubt if anybody's going to come on and say, hey, 1870 02:32:12.870 --> 02:32:15.459 you're on, you were right. Look, This is awful. Look 1871 02:32:15.479 --> 02:32:19.760 what Trump has done to our party. It's terrible. All right, 1872 02:32:19.799 --> 02:32:23.020 we now have one of those bellwether house districts in 1873 02:32:23.100 --> 02:32:31.200 Kentucky is now being called for the Democrats. A Virginia 1874 02:32:31.280 --> 02:32:34.500 second district is now also being called for the Democrat. 1875 02:32:35.489 --> 02:32:38.770 We talked about the two Florida districts called for Democrats. 1876 02:32:39.729 --> 02:32:43.420 In the Senate, We talked about this. Georgia, New Hampshire, 1877 02:32:43.440 --> 02:32:50.159 South Carolina, all Democratic. North Carolina, Democratic. In Florida, it 1878 02:32:50.200 --> 02:32:53.000 hasn't been called by everybody, but it certainly looks like 1879 02:32:53.040 --> 02:32:58.219 Florida will stay Republican. But very, very close. Really, really 1880 02:32:58.280 --> 02:33:02.399 close for a state that is pretty red. In Ohio, 1881 02:33:03.860 --> 02:33:10.790 the Democratic is leading, but by a very small margin. very, 1882 02:33:10.909 --> 02:33:15.930 you know, 1.2% lead. So it's leaning Democratic. 79% of 1883 02:33:15.950 --> 02:33:20.870 the vote in. So the Democrat is leading. That would 1884 02:33:20.909 --> 02:33:25.450 be a flip. That would be J.D. Vance's seat. In Maine, 1885 02:33:26.559 --> 02:33:29.739 the Democrat is leading, but only 26% of the vote. 1886 02:33:30.079 --> 02:33:35.479 In Michigan, El Sayed is leading. Kansas, you've got a 1887 02:33:35.540 --> 02:33:38.639 Democrat is leading by quite a bit with 71% of 1888 02:33:38.700 --> 02:33:46.899 the vote. So Hard to see how the Republican makes 1889 02:33:47.299 --> 02:33:55.049 up for it, but we'll see. In Texas, Telerico is 1890 02:33:55.229 --> 02:33:59.829 leading by a big margin with 58% of the vote in. 1891 02:34:01.129 --> 02:34:07.030 So we will see what happens. Minnesota. Minnesota looks like 1892 02:34:07.069 --> 02:34:11.340 it could be a Republican flip. where Republicans flip a 1893 02:34:11.360 --> 02:34:15.899 Democratic Senate seat. This would be big. And right now 1894 02:34:15.920 --> 02:34:20.409 the Republicans are leading 56% to 41%, but very few 1895 02:34:20.450 --> 02:34:23.690 of them vote in. So you shouldn't count that because

1896 02:34:23.809 --> 02:34:28.930 there's nothing we can really tell from that. Iowa, the 1897 02:34:29.450 --> 02:34:34.239 Democrat is leading. Alaska, the polls haven't closed yet. Governorship, 1898 02:34:34.270 --> 02:34:39.000 we told you Georgia is now being called for the Democrats. Texas, 1899 02:34:40.040 --> 02:34:45.450 Democrat is still leading with 59% in. We'll see. And 1900 02:34:45.729 --> 02:34:49.469 this is Abbott going for his fourth term, which he 1901 02:34:49.510 --> 02:34:58.879 won easily last time, easily. Ohio governor, again, the Democrat 1902 02:34:58.920 --> 02:35:05.219 is winning, beating Vivek. They haven't called it. Vivek would 1903 02:35:05.260 --> 02:35:08.350 need to win 56% of what's left. Hard to believe 1904 02:35:08.370 --> 02:35:12.409 he can do that, but maybe. We've got a Michigan 1905 02:35:12.950 --> 02:35:20.559 7th is close. New York 17th. We've got the Republican leading, 1906 02:35:20.739 --> 02:35:25.370 but it's close. All right, so that's where we are 1907 02:35:25.690 --> 02:35:29.549 as of now. Let's see if there's anything here that 1908 02:35:29.569 --> 02:35:41.729 I missed. All right. All right. We've got four last 1909 02:35:41.760 --> 02:35:43.409 questions and then we'll call it a night, I guess. 1910 02:35:44.290 --> 02:35:49.790 And we'll catch up next time. Next time. All right. Jason, 1911 02:35:50.870 --> 02:35:55.110 is if very red central Washington District 4 with the 1912 02:35:55.209 --> 02:36:00.979 last GOP who voted to impeach not running in 26 1913 02:36:00.979 --> 02:36:04.659 votes for Democrat for Congress, that would be huge and 1914 02:36:04.680 --> 02:36:08.500 a chance for a new party to get attention. Yeah, 1915 02:36:08.559 --> 02:36:12.930 I mean, you vote, you know, the guy who voted 1916 02:36:12.950 --> 02:36:17.389 to impeach was basically voted out by Republicans, and then 1917 02:36:17.409 --> 02:36:24.450 they flipped a Democratic? That's a repudiation of Trump again. Andrew, 1918 02:36:24.629 --> 02:36:27.510 is there any larger takeaway that can be gleaned from 1919 02:36:27.549 --> 02:36:31.920 the phenomena of two major politicians from different regions in 1920 02:36:31.979 --> 02:36:37.639 Mamdani and Al-Sayyad whose essential animating issue is being answered? Yeah, 1921 02:36:37.920 --> 02:36:41.030 this is This is the new woke. This is the 1922 02:36:41.190 --> 02:36:48.500 new far-left agenda item. It's not just those two. It's 1923 02:36:48.540 --> 02:36:52.479 what animates a big, big chunk of kind of the 1924 02:36:52.540 --> 02:36:57.750 far-left candidates, what animated the senatorial candidate in Democratic senatorial 1925 02:36:57.760 --> 02:37:01.989 candidate in Florida. A lot of them, this is their 1926 02:37:02.129 --> 02:37:06.389 focal point. This is what animates them. It's not an accident. 1927 02:37:07.500 --> 02:37:11.639 This is the manifestation of altruism right now. This is 1928 02:37:11.680 --> 02:37:13.729 the new woke. This is the new focus of the 1929 02:37:14.149 --> 02:37:29.790 crazy Democrats. We'll talk more about that. It's an important point. Rue... 1930 02:37:30.440 --> 02:37:34.420 we had a proposition to restrict traffic enforcement cameras. What 1931 02:37:34.440 --> 02:37:38.430 do you think about this topic? I mean, I'm not 1932 02:37:38.469 --> 02:37:41.530 big on cameras, but I think the main issue there 1933 02:37:41.569 --> 02:37:46.159 is how they're used. And what the restriction needs to 1934 02:37:46.190 --> 02:37:49.459 be is, They have to be used in the same 1935 02:37:49.500 --> 02:37:54.399 way that, you know, they can't just randomly use. They 1936 02:37:54.420 --> 02:37:58.360 can't be used to just spy on everybody. There has 1937 02:37:58.379 --> 02:38:03.340 to be probable cause. There has to be probable cause. 1938 02:38:03.440 --> 02:38:07.909 So that's my view on cameras. So they can film, 1939 02:38:08.469 --> 02:38:10.610 but to use the film, there has to be probable 1940 02:38:10.629 --> 02:38:18.010 cause first. Yeah, I mean, the headline of like Tim 1941 02:38:18.030 --> 02:38:22.290 Pool's podcast right now is live midterms, Democrats accused of cheating. 1942 02:38:24.389 --> 02:38:29.100 It's so, you know, I'm sure that's what you'll get 1943 02:38:29.120 --> 02:38:33.780 in the next few days. No basis yet for any 1944 02:38:33.799 --> 02:38:43.540 of that. Lone dissenter says, losing my voice. MAGA is 1945 02:38:43.559 --> 02:38:48.159 so dumb that they're losing the Texas Railroad Commission race, 1946 02:38:48.420 --> 02:38:52.000 leading oil and gas regulator, because their dumb candidate had 1947 02:38:52.020 --> 02:38:54.180 to tweet about Indians at the UT game. Oh, I 1948 02:38:54.180 --> 02:38:59.020 remember that. So this is the guy who tweeted against 1949 02:38:59.729 --> 02:39:03.809 Indian immigrants to the United States cheering on Texas in 1950 02:39:03.829 --> 02:39:06.590 a football game. And he tweeted about them not being 1951 02:39:06.649 --> 02:39:17.100 real Americans. Right? Right. And he just came out as 1952 02:39:17.139 --> 02:39:20.899 a real racist. And now they're going to lose the 1953 02:39:20.920 --> 02:39:26.389 Railroad Commission, which has been Republican forever. So if he's losing, 1954 02:39:26.889 --> 02:39:29.909 that is fantastic news. Because you want to kick out 1955 02:39:29.950 --> 02:39:32.610 the racists. You want to kick out the anti-immigration. You 1956 02:39:32.629 --> 02:39:37.219 want to kick out the people who vehemently support ICE. 1957 02:39:37.680 --> 02:39:51.930 You want to kick these bastards out. Okay, Ginger says, 1958 02:39:51.969 --> 02:39:57.729 a Democrat state is so anti-business that it's scary. Do 1959 02:39:57.770 --> 02:39:59.790 you think that's because of Trump, or is it just 1960 02:39:59.829 --> 02:40:04.659 normal Democrats? It's normal Democrats. You know, this is what 1961 02:40:04.690 --> 02:40:10.520 Democrats always were, is

anti-business. That's just standard practice. The 1962 02:40:10.600 --> 02:40:15.680 Democrats of Socialist America are worse than that. They're particularly 1963 02:40:16.159 --> 02:40:26.190 bad on all of that. All right. Let's see. Yeah, 1964 02:40:29.139 --> 02:40:33.760 I mean, a lot of what's happening to Republicans tonight 1965 02:40:34.920 --> 02:40:37.819 is the quality of the candidates that were handpicked by Trump. 1966 02:40:38.440 --> 02:40:41.739 Think South Carolina. Think Texas. These are people who were 1967 02:40:41.760 --> 02:40:53.790 handpicked by him and a complete disaster. Now, Trump is 1968 02:40:53.809 --> 02:41:00.870 saying there's massive election fraud happening nationwide right now. What 1969 02:41:00.909 --> 02:41:02.700 he can do about it, what he will do about it, 1970 02:41:02.879 --> 02:41:05.700 how he will respond to it, I don't know. But 1971 02:41:05.799 --> 02:41:12.879 he is completely losing it. Completely losing it. Now, you know, 1972 02:41:12.899 --> 02:41:15.989 people are already saying what, you know, DeSantis has positioned 1973 02:41:16.000 --> 02:41:19.000 himself very well to emerge as a right-wing critic. who 1974 02:41:19.079 --> 02:41:23.920 never aligned himself with the administration, and to succeed MAGA 1975 02:41:24.280 --> 02:41:35.020 from an anti-corruption, anti-war flank. So, you know, DeSantis is saying, 1976 02:41:35.340 --> 02:41:40.120 let's see, what is he saying? Oh, well, the gas, don't, 1977 02:41:40.479 --> 02:41:43.280 you know, he says, some of these Republicans are saying, oh, well, 1978 02:41:43.329 --> 02:41:46.469 the gas, don't worry, it's no big deal, or they're 1979 02:41:46.489 --> 02:41:49.750 trying to blame Biden. No, no, listen. We've just got 1980 02:41:49.770 --> 02:41:52.069 to be honest. Gas is higher, it hurts people, working 1981 02:41:52.090 --> 02:41:55.690 class people, and it's higher because of the Iran conflict. See, 1982 02:41:55.709 --> 02:41:57.770 it's not saying because we didn't win the war, but 1983 02:41:57.809 --> 02:42:01.069 because of the war, which is the wrong conclusion to 1984 02:42:01.110 --> 02:42:04.989 come to. That's just a fact. If you can't admit 1985 02:42:05.030 --> 02:42:08.569 that to voters, then you're gaslighting them, and they're not 1986 02:42:08.629 --> 02:42:11.430 going to listen to you on other things. So yeah, 1987 02:42:11.500 --> 02:42:13.680 this is the risk. The risk is the Republicans learn 1988 02:42:13.719 --> 02:42:18.079 this from their defeat, and that will not fix things. 1989 02:42:18.920 --> 02:42:21.540 That will not fix things. I'd like to see them 1990 02:42:21.620 --> 02:42:23.969 talk about tariffs. I'd like to see them talk about immigration. 1991 02:42:24.620 --> 02:42:26.940 I'd like to see them talk about winning the war 1992 02:42:26.969 --> 02:42:35.450 in Iran rather than never having done it. Now, of course, 1993 02:42:36.069 --> 02:42:40.549 you could argue he should have been nominated in 2024. 1994 02:42:40.549 --> 02:42:43.229 But no, you stuck with Trump. You stuck with Trump. 1995 02:42:43.309 --> 02:42:45.229 That's who you wanted. That's who you got. This is 1996 02:42:45.270 --> 02:42:49.270 the price you're paying. The price you're paying is you know, 1997 02:42:49.430 --> 02:42:57.700 really a disaster here. So, U.S. Senate midterm winner. Right now, 1998 02:42:57.719 --> 02:43:01.360 the Democratic Party looks like it's going to take the Senate. 1999 02:43:01.620 --> 02:43:05.219 The odds, oddmakers are placing the odds, you know, I 2000 02:43:05.239 --> 02:43:13.649 don't know, close to 90%, I think. Um, to the 2001 02:43:13.690 --> 02:43:15.010 rest of you, it looks like he's going to win. 2002 02:43:17.309 --> 02:43:20.719 It's huge. I mean, it really, really is huge. Candidate 2003 02:43:20.819 --> 02:43:32.590 quality matters. Yeah, here's Trump. Fox News ratings are way down, 27%, 2004 02:43:32.590 --> 02:43:36.290 because they're spending too much time covering the Trump derangement Democrats. 2005 02:43:37.110 --> 02:43:39.549 All of these people used to watch Fox and no 2006 02:43:39.590 --> 02:43:43.239 longer do. Get it. It's them, not me. My numbers 2007 02:43:43.299 --> 02:43:46.159 are better than they ever have been. The new CNN 2008 02:43:46.200 --> 02:43:51.270 poll stated, that Trump is at 99% among Republicans. 99%, really. 2009 02:43:51.950 --> 02:43:55.569 And among Republican presidents, Trump is at 53% compared to 2010 02:43:55.590 --> 02:43:59.389 Ronald Reagan, who's at 18%. And Abraham Lincoln at 8%. 2011 02:43:59.389 --> 02:44:02.430 So he's the best Republican president ever. This guy's deranged. 2012 02:44:02.829 --> 02:44:05.780 This is the kind of BS that people are voting against. 2013 02:44:06.620 --> 02:44:09.680 Fox knows this. And so does everyone else. Also, why 2014 02:44:09.719 --> 02:44:12.959 is Fox Corporation spending so much money donating to the 2015 02:44:13.040 --> 02:44:16.500 worst of the worst, including Hakeem Jeffries? He just goes 2016 02:44:16.579 --> 02:44:19.440 on and on. So it's those kind of rants that 2017 02:44:19.479 --> 02:44:24.319 make it clear that this guy is unhinged, completely unhinged. 2018 02:44:25.500 --> 02:44:31.340 He's worse than irrational. He is, you know, he's completely 2019 02:44:31.420 --> 02:44:38.260 lost it. And the consequence of that is, you know, 2020 02:44:38.280 --> 02:44:41.639 the consequence of that is people are voting against him. 2021 02:44:42.940 --> 02:44:46.799 Against him. And we always suffer from the fact that 2022 02:44:46.860 --> 02:44:49.280 now we have a House and Senate to the Democrats 2023 02:44:49.319 --> 02:44:56.579 and a real potential for a Democratic president. All right. 2024 02:45:10.750 --> 02:45:14.329 All right. Let's see. What else? What is going on here? Yeah. 2025 02:45:22.329 --> 02:45:25.170 Let's see, anything. 2026 02:45:25.610 --> 02:45:25.850 New? 2027 02:45:25.879 -->

02:45:30.020 Just asking for one last update. Will Republicans have an 2028 02:45:30.079 --> 02:45:36.500 economic panic with Democrats winning? I'm not sure what that means. 2029 02:45:36.920 --> 02:45:40.309 Will we have an economic panic with Democrats winning? I 2030 02:45:40.389 --> 02:45:44.709 think the Democrats winning was expected. So I think there 2031 02:45:44.750 --> 02:45:50.020 might be some worry about data centers. And so you 2032 02:45:50.040 --> 02:45:53.540 might see the AI panic continuing in the stock market. 2033 02:45:54.159 --> 02:45:57.969 I don't see an economic disaster on the horizon. Again, 2034 02:45:58.149 --> 02:46:06.190 Democrats can't get anything done without Trump. Trump can veto stuff. Now, 2035 02:46:07.629 --> 02:46:13.129 Texas having a Democratic governor, that has an impact. I 2036 02:46:13.170 --> 02:46:16.110 don't know exactly how. I assume the Republicans will hold. 2037 02:46:16.809 --> 02:46:23.120 the House and Senate in Texas. The Democratic governor won't 2038 02:46:23.159 --> 02:46:25.540 be able to do much, but I don't know. I mean, 2039 02:46:25.579 --> 02:46:28.659 we'll have to evaluate all this tomorrow morning once we 2040 02:46:28.739 --> 02:46:35.500 see the fuller results. Okay, here's the latest update. NBC's 2041 02:46:35.549 --> 02:46:40.270 projecting that Amy Acton will win the Ohio governor, flipping 2042 02:46:40.329 --> 02:46:47.559 it from Republican. So Ohio goes Democratic. Uh, Amazing, right? 2043 02:46:47.620 --> 02:46:51.090 Georgia went Democratic. Maybe Texas is going to go Democratic. 2044 02:46:51.329 --> 02:46:54.829 I don't know. But right now, Ohio is going Democratic 2045 02:46:54.909 --> 02:47:00.569 as a state, which is stunning, right? Democrats said plus 2046 02:47:00.649 --> 02:47:13.170 two Senate. Not enough has been called. Ohio is leaning Democratic. 2047 02:47:13.170 --> 02:47:21.170 Hard to tell about Maine. Kansas' is leading Democratic Iowa 2048 02:47:21.229 --> 02:47:27.799 is leading Democratic Michigan is leading Democratic Texas is leading 2049 02:47:27.829 --> 02:47:36.459 Democratic I mean let's see Nebraska is leading Independent which 2050 02:47:36.500 --> 02:47:52.620 is Democratic hey Republicans are winning in Mississippi. Yeah. All right. Oh, 2051 02:47:52.659 --> 02:48:00.360 we got one more question. Michael says, is there a 2052 02:48:00.440 --> 02:48:03.329 hunger you just can't teach when it comes to being 2053 02:48:03.360 --> 02:48:06.069 ambitious and successful in life? Yeah, I don't think you 2054 02:48:06.110 --> 02:48:08.489 can teach. That's an issue of the choice of values. 2055 02:48:09.120 --> 02:48:12.680 ambition is something you have to choose to be. It 2056 02:48:12.719 --> 02:48:15.590 has to be something you need to initiate as, as a, 2057 02:48:16.360 --> 02:48:20.059 as an individual. It doesn't just come, um, it doesn't 2058 02:48:20.100 --> 02:48:25.649 just come by itself. So, yes, there's, that hunger has 2059 02:48:25.680 --> 02:48:28.680 to be, it's, it's based on choices you make as 2060 02:48:28.729 --> 02:48:32.229 a human being. Um, but you can't teach it. You 2061 02:48:32.250 --> 02:48:34.370 can't bring it in from the outside. You can create 2062 02:48:34.409 --> 02:48:38.270 an environment where it's more likely to be chosen. Um, 2063 02:48:39.079 --> 02:48:43.760 But you can't teach it. Justin, thank you for the support, 2064 02:48:43.840 --> 02:48:47.000 for the sticker. I appreciate it. All right, guys. Let's 2065 02:48:47.069 --> 02:48:49.889 call this a night. Not sure when the next show 2066 02:48:49.950 --> 02:48:53.010 is going to be. Maybe tomorrow, but I'm not sure 2067 02:48:53.030 --> 02:48:56.290 exactly when I could do it tomorrow. We'll see. We'll see. 2068 02:48:57.450 --> 02:49:03.209 But if not tomorrow, no Thursday, no Friday. No Thursday. 2069 02:49:03.270 --> 02:49:09.329 Maybe Friday. So maybe Friday evening. I'll be in Mexico 2070 02:49:09.389 --> 02:49:14.450 City on Friday. Not Saturday. Definitely Sunday we're doing a 2071 02:49:14.709 --> 02:49:18.850 show with Nikos. Monday we'll do a show. And then 2072 02:49:18.899 --> 02:49:21.899 I travel again. So November is going to be spotty. 2073 02:49:22.860 --> 02:49:24.899 But thank you for tuning in tonight. Thank you for 2074 02:49:25.139 --> 02:49:28.799 being generous. And I will try to do a show 2075 02:49:30.100 --> 02:49:34.500 on Friday. Have a good night. I'm going to go 2076 02:49:34.540 --> 02:49:38.969 to sleep. It's almost 1 a.m. over here. And I'll 2077 02:49:39.000 --> 02:49:41.690 see you later in the week. Oops, my phone's died. 2078 02:49:42.270 --> 02:49:45.040 I guess it has. Bye, everybody. Good night.