Unlearn16: Class is in Session - The One Where I Go To See The Wizard

00:00:00.000 class is in session hey everybody and welcome to unlearn 16 class is in session today you just get

00:00:09.780 me my face seems flushed today my hair's a little out of control but you just get me today and i

00:00:18.720 needed to come on and rant a little bit sometimes i feel constrained by like even the 10 minutes of

00:00:25.880 you know of other social media apps or whatever or I want to be able to have a long conversation

00:00:34.680 and mostly obviously I'm having this with myself. So I want to talk about what's going on in the

00:00:42.340 world a little bit but I want to talk about it honestly because I feel as though

00:00:46.780 I haven't heard a lot of honest talk obviously not from the right but even not from the left

00:00:55.780 and this is where I'm going to start, especially in the United States, but this applies to Canada

00:01:03.620 as well. A lot of people want me to talk more about Canada. We've often had sort of mirror-like

00:01:10.720 issues in Canada that goes on in the United States, but it's always been on scale. The

00:01:17.680 United States is just on such a massive scale. This is my thesis. It's going to be very essay-ish

00:01:25.020 today. You ready? Here's my thesis. It's all about the money. And a lot of you guys are going to be

00:01:32.120 like, of course it's all about the money, Joanna. We've always known that. But the problem is the

00:01:37.200 left doesn't admit it. The right basks in it as though they're like money's king, but the left

00:01:45.700 pretends as though it's not an issue. There's the problem. Because as much as I dislike the

00:01:53.520 administration right now, as much as it's terrifying, as much as it's devastating and

00:02:00.620 destructive and horrific, it's on the same road we've always been on. We're just at the end of it.

00:02:13.860 Countries have never done what's in the best interests of the world. They've never operated

00:02:20.840 on moral or ethical principles that has never been their fundamental sort of foundational

00:02:29.980 motivation, ever. And some countries say it is, and some countries don't even bother.

00:02:37.260 But in reality, their motivation has always been money. How do we get it? How do we wield it?

00:02:46.900 How do we garner power surrounding it

00:02:49.920 And then how do we pretend as though it was an ethical obligation in the first place

00:02:54.580 That's it

00:02:56.080 And the problem here is

00:02:59.600 We're at a point where this administration

00:03:03.080 Isn't hiding that fact anymore

00:03:05.720 He's saying it and his little minions are saying it outright

00:03:10.820 They're just flat out saying it's all about the money

00:03:13.520 It's all about the money

00:03:14.940 Ethics, we don't care

00:03:17.060 It's all about the money 1.00

00:03:19.260 I don't think

00:03:21.380 I think him saying it is new

00:03:24.360 I don't think the underlying principle is new

00:03:27.560 Let me walk you through some stuff

00:03:31.240 The Cold War

00:03:35.100 The Cold War has always been presented as though

00:03:40.360 It was about dictatorship versus democracy

00:03:45.160 It was not

00:03:45.940 It wasn't

00:03:48.500 Alright

00:03:49.920 It was an economic ideological war

00:03:54.600 For control, for power, for money 0.87

00:03:58.780 And just because the Soviets

00:04:01.380 Strategized and sort of compartmentalized

00:04:05.340 The idea of money differently 0.61

00:04:07.500 we all know that the soviets and that sphere of communism we're not going to compare to marxism 0.81

00:04:14.720 it's ridiculous they're more fascist than communist sort of ideology was all about

00:04:24.260 growing their nation to get resources to get bigger to get more powerful to get a bigger 0.88

00:04:29.580 military to have more money. The United States was the same. And proof of that is when you start

00:04:38.400 talking during the Cold War about countries that the United States supported and the United States

00:04:46.640 backed out of. And let me give you a little Coles Nolts hint. I'm going to skip right to the end of

00:04:51.740 story, it was not about dictatorship versus democracy. Let's start with Cuba. Before 1959,

00:04:59.700 Cuba was ran by a dictator named Batista, no relation to the baseball player. And Batista

00:05:06.880 was a pretty horrific totalitarian dictator, didn't care much about human rights. But what

00:05:12.800 he did do is he sold off a lot of land to American investors for sugar plantations and

00:05:19.620 for whatever else they wanted to purchase land for.

00:05:22.720 And American businessmen were making millions and millions and millions of dollars in Cuba.

00:05:29.980 1959 rolls around.

00:05:32.120 Castro takes over.

00:05:34.220 Right?

00:05:34.960 So keep in mind, they like the dictator Batista.

00:05:41.160 Castro takes over.

00:05:43.560 Revolution.

00:05:44.960 Communist uprising.

00:05:46.040 Castro nationalizes all of that land

00:05:50.520 All of the land that Americans had bought up

00:05:53.320 Had colonized, however you want to frame it

00:05:57.600 Castro said, no thank you, you gotta go

00:06:01.340 Doesn't give them their money back, just shows them the door

00:06:03.740 That's fine

00:06:04.500 Shows them the door, and all of a sudden

00:06:07.240 It's about dictatorship

00:06:09.760 No it wasn't

00:06:12.040 It was never about dictatorship

00:06:14.000 It was about money

00:06:16.120 The Platt Amendment, all the things that then go with Cuba

00:06:21.500 The fact that the United States will never go there again until very, very recently

00:06:25.540 Was all about who has the money and who has control

00:06:30.420 Because they don't hate a dictator

00:06:32.160 They just hate a dictator they can't make money off of

00:06:35.800 And that is true, and let me be crystal clear, of Democrats and Republicans alike

00:06:39.920 South Korea

00:06:43.660 We supported, the United States supported South Korea

00:06:47.320 Right?

00:06:49.060 South Korean government during the Korean War was a dictatorship

00:06:52.100 But they were a capitalist dictatorship

00:06:58.320 The United States doesn't have problems with dictators

00:07:04.520 They have problems with communist dictators

00:07:08.620 And they pretend as though it's the dictator part they have an issue with

00:07:12.460 rather than the communist part. And they don't care about control of the land. They don't care

00:07:17.900 about abuse of human rights. They don't care about a lot of those things. And this is true

00:07:22.580 for a lot of countries, not just the United States. They see it as, can we do business?

00:07:27.300 You want to know why Trump has switched sides? It's real, real easy. And his dumb as potato

00:07:33.080 Sun said it out right. The Soviet Union has way more minerals, way more oil, way more economic 0.99

00:07:42.700 potential, and if Putin's ready to do deals with the United States, it's real clear whose side they

00:07:48.540 should be on. You keep thinking that the United States doesn't like dictatorships. Again,

00:07:55.800 Republican and Democrat alike

00:07:58.740 That would be wrong

00:08:00.820 They love a good dictatorship

00:08:03.640 As long as that dictatorship allows them

00:08:06.980 To infiltrate, to make money

00:08:10.020 To be a part of that society

00:08:13.580 It has nothing to do with human rights

00:08:15.800 It has nothing to do with democracy

00:08:17.800 Saudi Arabia is not a democracy

00:08:21.060 Democrat and Republican alike

00:08:24.940 We've also allowed myths to be spoken about

00:08:30.020 When it comes to our political heroes from both sides, right?

00:08:39.340 The right has this legend of Reagan 0.98

00:08:43.200 That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever 0.95

00:08:46.880 And by the way, Reagan as opposed to Trump is like night and day 0.99

00:08:50.380 But again, same yellow brick road, guys

00:08:52.920 It all goes to Oz

00:08:53.860 Reagan was just not as far along as Trump

00:08:58.940 Reagan bought and sold what he needed to do

00:09:03.380 And made whatever trades he needed to make to make the United States money

00:09:07.040 And money for a very specific group of people

00:09:11.180 The United States has always been very, very clear

00:09:15.580 In the notion that the more money you have

00:09:18.600 The more stake you have

00:09:20.240 The more perceived stake you have in the United States of America

00:09:23.320 The more power you should have in the nation

00:09:27.300 If you have a bigger stake in the game

00:09:29.940 You should have more power controlling the game

00:09:32.580 And I would expect that a lot of Americans

00:09:35.860 Would stand very firmly beside that

00:09:39.260 And say yeah, that's true

00:09:42.240 They have a bigger stake

00:09:44.940 Therefore they should have a bigger say

00:09:46.520 They put their money where their mouth is, so to speak

00:09:49.100 So we elevate Reagan

00:09:51.680 But the left does it too

00:09:53.300 Now it's weird right now because Trump's elevating JFK, but the right elevates Reagan and the left elevates guys like JFK.

00:10:03.240 Let's talk about JFK.

00:10:05.080 Why is nobody honest about that family?

00:10:07.880 I mean, everybody's condemning RFK right now, but the left hasn't been very honest about who JFK was.

00:10:18.420 Who his dad was? 0.66

00:10:19.960 He was criminal.

00:10:20.420 everybody and their brother talk about and it's pretty much an accepted historical fact

00:10:27.860 that joe kennedy bought the election for jfk and by the way jfk wasn't his first choice he had an

00:10:36.940 older brother that died at war that was his first choice jfk was a distant second he shoved in

00:10:42.080 there. He bought the election. He had criminal and mob ties that figured out how to fix that

00:10:52.380 election, period. So number one, the left ignores that. Number two, what did JFK do when he was

00:11:02.360 president? Oh, wait, while you go Google something. What did he do? I know what he talked about.

00:11:10.000 I know he made beautiful speeches

00:11:12.520 I know he was very handsome

00:11:13.860 And his wife was good looking

00:11:15.160 And the kids were gorgeous

00:11:16.340 And they played underneath the desk

00:11:17.860 And they opened up different

00:11:18.860 I get all of that

00:11:20.200 What did he do?

00:11:23.880 Because we're going to talk about what he did

00:11:26.260 The Bay of Pigs was a disaster

00:11:28.780 The Cuban Missile Crisis was almost an absolute disaster

00:11:33.180 And to be honest, I'm going to come back to that

00:11:35.280 He didn't win that

00:11:36.880 I know you think he won that

00:11:38.680 But he didn't win that

00:11:40.000 He dismantled the CIA and the FBI to a certain extent

00:11:46.380 Maybe, kind of, did he 0.97

00:11:50.600 He put more troops in Vietnam

00:11:53.180 He said he wanted to take them out 1.00

00:11:55.040 He talked about equality and ending the race war

00:11:59.040 And ending segregation

00:12:00.060 He never did it

00:12:01.360 Could he have done it? I don't know guys

00:12:03.280 Maybe

00:12:04.680 Maybe not

00:12:10.000 I don't know. But let's go back for a second. Let's talk about the Cuban Missile Crisis.

00:12:18.060 So let's be clear about how badly this was messed up. Number one, JFK wants to denuclearize,

00:12:27.900 he wants to de-escalate tensions with the Soviet Union. I get it, it's a noble effort.

00:12:33.200 As he's wanting to de-escalate tensions with the Soviet Union, he starts the space race. These

00:12:38.660 things are going on tandem. Those two things don't go well together, just so we're all on the same

00:12:43.720 page. It's the only reason we got to the moon. We got to the moon and we did it so quickly and we

00:12:49.080 did it, we put so much money into it because we had to beat the Soviet Union. Crystal clear. 0.69

00:12:56.660 Ridiculous. I wonder how many people we could have fed. Anyways, I'm not against NASA, I'm just 0.97

00:13:01.480 saying. Okay. So you have Kennedy trying to deescalate tensions. Everybody's calling him

00:13:08.480 a communist. You're soft on communism, yada, yada, yada. And he then is sitting in the Oval

00:13:14.520 Office and he gets reports from whatever sort of military spy satellite plane, whatever his people

00:13:24.040 are. And they say, listen, Khrushchev is putting nuclear weapons. He's sneaking them in and putting

00:13:29.500 them on cuban soil jfk picks up the phone calls khrushchev khrushchev says i am not denies it

00:13:37.020 kennedy believes him he goes back to his cabinet back to his generals and said absolutely not

00:13:42.620 khrushchev is not putting nuclear weapons i believe him i'm a he's a man of his word at blah blah blah

00:13:50.140 little while later they get satellite photos on his desk and those satellite photos show

00:14:00.220 russian ships coming into dock unloading nuclear warheads putting them on cuban soil

00:14:08.200 oh kennedy loses it kennedy is losing it he wants to go to war full and by the way this is all

00:14:16.080 very clearly outlined in McNamara, who is Secretary of State, is clearly outlined in his journal.

00:14:25.580 So Kennedy's losing it. He wants to go to war. Why? Okay. Think about it. Pause. Pause. Want to

00:14:32.460 know where the United States has nuclear weapons? Exactly when the United States was losing their

00:14:36.320 mind about putting them in Cuba, they had them in Turkey. The United States had nuclear weapons

00:14:43.300 in turkey pointing at the soviet union and kennedy has the audacity to be pissed off

00:14:48.580 that the soviet union is trying to put nuclear weapons in cuba 0.70

00:14:55.380 hypocrisy is thick all right so he does this he wants to go to nuclear war he wants to go to

00:15:02.500 nuclear war not because he thinks it's a good idea not because he thinks that oh my god we're 0.65

00:15:07.140 going to beat them he wants to go to nuclear war remember the united states at this point is the

00:15:10.900 only country to have ever dropped any atomic or nuclear weapon on any civilian population 0.99

00:15:17.060 to this day he wants to go to work with the soviets because now he looks like a chump 0.93

00:15:23.860 i wonder how many wars trade or otherwise have been started because world leaders 0.96

00:15:31.700 don't want to look like they got taken i'm just curious how many people have died as a result

00:15:37.060 So, he wants to go to war

00:15:40.760 The way the story goes, Bobby Kennedy talks him out of it

00:15:44.180 They form that little blockade, the naval blockade

00:15:47.800 You have a

00:15:49.700 The 13 Days is a great movie, by the way

00:15:52.480 You have a Soviet warship coming towards the blockade

00:15:57.320 Supposedly, nuclear weapons on the Soviet ship

00:16:01.380 Nuclear weapons on the blockade-ridden US ships

00:16:06.500 coming closer and closer and closer. I think they get within a football field of each other. We

00:16:11.800 think we're going to nuclear war and the Soviets turn around. By the way, in that moment, the 0.93

00:16:16.000 Soviets lost the Cold War. We would have saved a lot of time had in that moment, they gone, 0.81

00:16:23.680 we got it, we lose. Why? Because it wasn't about anything other than you blinked, you lose,

00:16:33.360 You're done

00:16:34.280 You're never going to get the support of your people

00:16:38.060 The economics

00:16:39.540 Are going to follow

00:16:41.600 After that

00:16:42.740 Right? All the economic consequence

00:16:45.860 Is going to follow after that

00:16:48.080 You blinked, you lose

00:16:49.860 Should have given up, would have been

00:16:51.500 Totally different, nonetheless

00:16:52.780 Here's the funny part

00:16:55.240 Kennedy claims victory

00:16:57.500 Everybody, yay

00:16:58.900 JFK, what a hero

00:17:01.400 um later it'd be reported that the six seven nuclear weapons that they actually caught and

00:17:11.660 then had shipped off cuban soil and taken back to the soviet union as punishment for stepping out

00:17:17.820 of line were just a fraction of the nuclear warheads that they had smuggled onto that island

00:17:22.440 that when khrushchev got caught he says oh my god he takes them off he puts them back on the ship 0.74

00:17:29.920 they send them back. But in reality, it changed nothing. It changed absolutely nothing about the

00:17:39.640 security of the United States of America or nuclear weapons on Cuba. There's still a boatload

00:17:47.140 of them, and the United States still had a boatload over there. Perception, money. That's it.

00:17:53.420 So, we elevate these individuals to levels of godlike status

00:18:07.320 And we pit them against each other

00:18:11.940 But we don't call out the hypocrisy

00:18:17.040 Because if we call out the hypocrisy

00:18:18.900 We bring our side down and the perception is we blink

00:18:23.400 If somebody on the left

00:18:28.880 If a Democrat was to seriously call out hypocrisy

00:18:32.340 All you're doing is destabilizing the Democrats

00:18:36.540 You're blinking

00:18:37.440 It gives rise to more power on the Republican camp

00:18:40.820 But it's all about money

00:18:44.640 When Reagan decided to weaponize

00:18:48.760 And elevate evangelical Christians in the United States

00:18:52.000 It was about money 0.97

00:18:52.980 Power

00:18:55.100 If I can tap into their emotions

00:18:58.140 And elevate that kind of power

00:19:00.540 We're going to get more money

00:19:01.640 We get more money

00:19:02.520 We get to stay in government longer

00:19:04.200 We get to be more powerful

00:19:07.400 And we've ignored having

00:19:12.260 The hard conversations

00:19:14.260 I know a lot of people will say things like

00:19:16.660 Well, the Democrats and the Republicans

00:19:19.200 Different side of the same coin

00:19:20.740 Yada yada

00:19:21.220 Well, it's all semantics

00:19:22.580 You've got to be specific

00:19:23.640 Because the underlying breach

00:19:27.700 Or problem within the crux of the United States

00:19:32.780 And it's democracy

00:19:34.020 And I swear to God

00:19:35.800 If you come at me with

00:19:36.720 It's not a democracy

00:19:37.660 It's a republic

00:19:38.660 I'm going to lose my mind

00:19:39.800 But at the foundation of it

00:19:41.980 The problem is money

00:19:44.000 How do you get elected?

00:19:47.960 How do you stay elected?

00:19:49.880 How do you get enough coverage?

00:19:51.800 How do you get enough control? It has always been money. And the Democrats have never tried to take that out of the mix.

00:20:05.180 They've never really taken it out of the mix. And when Trump got on stage with Hillary Clinton, and I will never forget it, and Dave Chappelle does a great bit about this, and Trump points at her and says,

00:20:16.260 Why didn't you change the tax codes

00:20:19.020 Because I follow the rules

00:20:21.340 But I just know all the loopholes

00:20:23.320 And that's how I stay rich

00:20:25.020 You have a problem with me using the loopholes

00:20:27.640 You should have a problem with all your friends

00:20:29.220 Using the same loopholes

00:20:30.540 He called out that kind of corruption

00:20:36.060 He called out that money is the center

00:20:38.440 He called out that corruption was the center

00:20:40.740 But guess what

00:20:41.640 He never said he was going to fix it

00:20:46.260 He never said he was going to fix it

00:20:49.860 My problem is the Democrats never fixed it either

00:20:53.940 Bernie Sanders talks about it

00:20:56.820 I wonder why he didn't get elected

00:20:58.400 The most articulate, impressive, intelligent person I've heard in politics in a very long time

00:21:04.780 And the Democrats don't choose him

00:21:06.520 Everybody's like, well, he was too left, was he?

00:21:09.000 Was he too left?

00:21:10.620 Or did he say the truth?

00:21:13.540 And by saying the truth, it looks like the Democrats are blinking

00:21:18.420 Don't get me wrong

00:21:23.160 I really do think that the different sort of sides of the coins

00:21:29.320 Are really pushing towards a different narrative

00:21:31.720 Especially right now 0.97

00:21:33.040 But religion's always been a problem in the United States 1.00

00:21:35.320 Always 0.96

00:21:37.040 The notion of a separation of church and state has never been clear 0.88

00:21:43.060 It's never been enforced because you can't be free from religion unless you're free of religion. You understand 0.90

00:21:50.480 You got to have freedom of I can choose what I want to do

00:21:55.560 But I also need freedom from you need to stop jamming that down my throat every five seconds with days off with holidays

00:22:03.080 With with saying the lord's prayer with putting it on my national anthem

00:22:07.440 Constantly jamming that

00:22:09.700 With controlling who can get married

00:22:11.380 Who can't get married

00:22:12.360 How you can get divorced 1.00

00:22:13.560 All of it, religion 0.99

00:22:15.840 But it serves money

00:22:18.720 We're at the tail end of it

00:22:23.740 I think the last death rattle

00:22:27.900 So you would say

00:22:29.280 The notion that

00:22:31.220 The United States

00:22:36.300 Has never led with ethics or morals

00:22:41.300 And by the way, again, I like to point out

00:22:43.280 Canada was beside the United States

00:22:45.740 In 90% of everything they've ever done

00:22:48.120 On an international scale

00:22:49.420 So I'm not pulling Canada out of it

00:22:51.600 Right?

00:22:52.700 But there's reasons we never went into Rwanda

00:22:55.220 To stop a genocide 0.77

00:22:56.200 There's reasons we never went into Somalia 0.89

00:23:00.520 there's reasons the united states got drawn into world war ii it wasn't to rescue concentration 0.91

00:23:11.620 camp victims the jewish population the gays the comm no it wasn't the united states got dragged

00:23:23.300 into that war because the japanese dropped bombs on pearl harbor now the funny part is 0.94

00:23:29.200 Most Americans will say that's what started the war 0.99

00:23:31.620 Because those Japanese, why would they do that? 1.00

00:23:33.620 Just out of the blue like that 1.00

00:23:34.700 They just must have hated us

00:23:35.840 That's not how it worked

00:23:36.820 Want to know how it started?

00:23:38.280 The United States put an embargo on steel and oil going into Japan

00:23:43.400 They were going to starve them

00:23:47.600 And force them through economic means

00:23:51.980 Into complying with what the United States government wanted them to do

00:23:57.500 That was FDR

00:23:58.460 Japan was an imperialist expansionist state

00:24:02.940 So was the United States

00:24:04.220 But that was FDR doing that

00:24:06.080 That was a democrat

00:24:07.040 We don't talk rationally about mistakes

00:24:12.640 And about failures

00:24:14.260 And about motivations

00:24:16.400 We don't

00:24:18.180 We couch it in the right language

00:24:24.380 And the right speech

00:24:25.580 And I love Obama

00:24:26.880 But he dropped more drone bombs on Syria

00:24:29.960 Most of them were stipulated to be war crimes

00:24:32.560 We don't talk about that 0.72

00:24:33.740 Should he have done it?

00:24:35.900 Shouldn't he have done it?

00:24:37.060 Was it illegal?

00:24:37.940 Was it a war crime?

00:24:39.040 Democrats don't want to talk about that

00:24:40.400 They just want to elevate

00:24:41.920 Now do I love Obama?

00:24:43.500 Absolutely

00:24:43.940 But if we don't talk about them honestly

00:24:46.980 How the hell do we ever have a leg to stand on?

00:24:50.840 Now here's the problem

00:24:51.700 What happens when the other side doesn't?

00:24:53.240 And this has always been the Democrat problem

00:24:57.900 Right

00:24:59.000 The Democrats will always be a little more inclined

00:25:03.720 To have bigger conversations

00:25:06.560 Even if not perfect

00:25:08.000 A little more inclined to talk about failures

00:25:10.660 Whereas the whole Trump mentality

00:25:13.480 Has been

00:25:15.040 Never admit defeat

00:25:17.720 Never say you're wrong

00:25:19.080 Always pretend that you won

00:25:20.380 That's it

00:25:24.040 Never, never say you made a mistake.

00:25:28.060 Never say you failed.

00:25:30.560 It's January 6th, he still denies

00:25:35.840 that he lost that election right now.

00:25:41.200 Still denies it.

00:25:44.800 So here comes the problem.

00:25:48.060 And I get it, it's complex.

00:25:50.240 how do you have honest authentic conversations with another side who has seemingly said

00:26:01.520 it will be their strategy forever to never ever say they were wrong say that they lost

00:26:10.640 it will always always be their strategy to say we won even right now guys eggs are like

00:26:18.220 $47 a carton. You know what people are starting to say now is we see that Trump can't bring down

00:26:23.080 the price of eggs and they're going to go up even higher. You're starting to see all the right-wing

00:26:26.860 pundits say things like, it's patriotic to pay more for your eggs. We have to pay more for our

00:26:32.120 eggs so we can bring the workers back to America. It has to be done. This is the way forward. This 1.00

00:26:38.260 is what we have to do what all of that has to change so now in opposition to that

00:26:51.300 they keep saying they're shedding truth on everything right it's all about truth uncovering

00:26:58.660 if i hear the words fraud waste and and abuse one more time i'm going to lose my mind because

00:27:04.620 they cease to have meaning. They haven't uncovered what fraud, maybe waste, maybe waste.

00:27:17.860 But if, if Trump and the Republicans were really concerned about going line through line,

00:27:23.400 pulling out groups, pulling out whole sections of the federal government and actually saying,

00:27:28.880 is this worth it why not put it in front of congress why not televise every single department

00:27:37.120 line by line by line put it all on tv and say this is what we're paying for do you want to be

00:27:42.720 paying for this what's the vote in congress we don't want to be paying for it cool it's gone

00:27:49.520 they're they're not trying to cash light on anything they're trying to give you the illusion

00:27:55.920 the pretense that they are, that everything they do is in the auspice, under the auspice

00:28:06.180 of finding the truth. Meanwhile, they've shed no truth. Meanwhile, when they make huge mistakes,

00:28:12.540 they'll, oh, sometimes we'll make mistakes, then we'll fix them right away. But really,

00:28:16.600 it's not that big of a deal. We lost all of those nuclear scientists.

00:28:19.140 you will have many international agencies and and and alliances shutting down

00:28:32.860 what is that going to do to international stability when you don't have international

00:28:37.700 economic military and political stability you will have more war when you have the rise 1.00

00:28:46.180 Of the BRICS nations coming up here 1.00

00:28:48.460 Why do you think Trump's doing this?

00:28:52.720 But this rise of BRICS 0.99

00:28:54.240 This was happening for a long time

00:28:55.920 Let's not pretend

00:28:58.360 As though it's just a reflection

00:29:00.140 Of

00:29:01.520 Trump

00:29:02.480 Or it's just a reflection of certain Republican

00:29:06.160 Ideologies at this point

00:29:08.140 Same yellow brick road

00:29:10.480 Further on down the path to Oz

00:29:12.260 That's where we are

00:29:13.280 what does need to happen is more people need to have microphones nor more people need to be on

00:29:21.600 social media more people need to be talking and screaming and yelling and demanding that's what

00:29:26.900 absolutely needs to happen we also need to understand that this very fragile thing called

00:29:34.100 democracy does not work when 90 million people don't vote this very fragile thing called democracy

00:29:41.020 doesn't work when you vote for A, B, C, and D

00:29:45.000 and you get none of it.

00:29:51.940 Thomas Jefferson said that every 19 years

00:29:54.480 the Constitution should be shred

00:29:56.880 and a new one should be written to face the realities

00:29:59.660 and the needs of today's society.

00:30:06.160 We're a little past the 19 years, guys.

00:30:08.600 I think it's time to shred. And on that note, have a great week. I'll see you next Tuesday.

00:30:16.600 Same bat time, same bat channel. Dismissed. 0.91

Unlearn16: Class is in Session - March 04, 2025

The One Where I Go To See The Wizard

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