Unlearn16: Class is in Session - The One Where I Watch The US Vote For Their President

00:00:00.000 class is in session hey everybody and welcome to unlearn 16 class is in session now when this gets

00:00:10.480 released it is going to be election day in the united states trump versus harris um a level of

00:00:20.720 insanity is like filling the air at this particular moment and and i don't know which way to take this

00:00:27.360 this kind of insanity. To be honest, I think we've set up such a dynamic, such a destructive

00:00:34.680 dynamic that I worry that when Harris wins, sure, I think Harris is going to win. When Harris wins,

00:00:44.140 I think Trump has set up such an incredible track record and template that is going to work

00:00:52.260 to instantaneously invalidate election results and the outcome of the election and deny it all.

00:01:02.200 And what I'm incredibly worried about is that there's 70 million people that are willing at

00:01:08.320 this point to potentially take up arms or incite revolution or an overthrowing of government under

00:01:17.180 the auspice that they're actually fighting for liberty because this election has been so

00:01:22.900 fraudulently won. What do we do with that? What do we do when we're looking at a nation

00:01:30.380 where one side of this incredibly broken system has worked tirelessly for the last

00:01:39.960 four years to disavow the truthfulness of anything. The media is lying. The DOJ is lying.

00:01:50.480 The FBI is lying. The CIA, okay, fine. The CIA is always lying. The political system's lying.

00:01:56.240 The election system is lying. Everybody is lying. There is no truth to be found anywhere.

00:02:05.020 What Trump has done has created this insanity, this absolute insanity, whereby if he doesn't say it, it isn't true.

00:02:18.200 I was listening to a podcast the other day, and it was a debate back and forth.

00:02:22.280 And one of the people said, go ahead and find me one single clip of Trump speaking intelligently, articulately, educatedly on on any subject, domestic or foreign policy wise.

00:02:38.660 and I tried. I went and I searched and I scoured the internet about trying to find somewhere or

00:02:46.220 someplace where he's actually speaking in an intelligent manner, outlining policy or what

00:02:53.060 he's going to do and how he's going to do it and why he's going to do it and how it's going to

00:02:55.960 benefit the people. There's a lot of grand statements, right? Grand statements about

00:03:00.680 getting rid of millions of illegal immigrants. How? Grand statements about taxing China 1.00

00:03:07.100 200% in tariffs.

00:03:09.860 What?

00:03:10.520 It's like he doesn't even understand what a tariff is.

00:03:13.120 About blowing up, like getting rid of the DOJ,

00:03:18.060 Department of Education, the FBI, 0.93

00:03:20.100 just getting rid of them all because they're all corrupt.

00:03:23.280 What is he going to replace it with? 0.92

00:03:25.820 And as he's making these statements

00:03:27.820 and making the arguments that go bigger and bigger

00:03:31.280 and bigger into the abyss,

00:03:33.480 it's as though his popularity is just gaining momentum.

00:03:37.100 And the troubling part is, is when and if this comes to a head, when and if this particular

00:03:48.600 system actually breaks down and fractures, and you have 70 million people now listening

00:03:59.800 to whatever he tells them to do next.

00:04:03.180 so if we're there this is a very dangerous precipice you elect him and if and that's a

00:04:15.220 big big big big if he follows through with any of the very large things that he's saying he's

00:04:20.620 going to do and whatever large scale he is going to accomplish them in or try to accomplish them

00:04:26.100 in that's dangerous in and of itself as he protects women even if they don't want him

00:04:32.380 even if they don't want him to. All of that's happening. Or is it more dangerous if he loses

00:04:40.000 and he incites a similar, if not more aggressive, more sort of countrywide form of rebellion

00:04:52.960 against the government under the actual auspice in his mind, and now in the minds of 70 million

00:04:59.080 people of severe election fraud and government corruption.

00:05:04.640 Because part of the Constitution is the people have the power, and if the government becomes

00:05:09.640 too corrupt and too empowered and too morally ambiguous, it is the people's responsibility

00:05:16.900 in a democracy to then step in and quite literally overthrow.

00:05:22.920 We have visions of V for Vendetta in our head, and he's elicited these, right?

00:05:29.080 Right. He's utilized these ideas from comic books and moments in history to speak about a U.S. citizen's patriotic duty to fight against a corrupt government.

00:05:43.500 Now, do I think that the government's perfect? Guys. Do I think it's perfect? Of course not. Do I think that there's corruption? Absolutely there is.

00:05:54.620 Do I think it's going to be solved by a billionaire who has made his money, his fortune, and garnered power through the corruption of said system?

00:06:03.060 Do I really think he's going to pull it all down?

00:06:05.500 Or perhaps is he going to now install, magnify, and elevate new systems of corruption that best serve him and whatever his ideas are?

00:06:17.700 I mean, I'm leaning to the ladder, right?

00:06:22.100 I'm leaning to the ladder.

00:06:23.160 When people say, oh, my God, he's another dictator, and then other people are like, 0.99

00:06:27.160 that's so ridiculous. 0.91

00:06:28.260 Look, all of these things that he's done, making himself sort of a personality, a cult 0.97

00:06:33.900 of personality, this is what you do with that power.

00:06:38.420 You weaponize it.

00:06:40.460 You break it.

00:06:42.800 You magnify it in order to get and grab whatever it is you can grab in that moment, because

00:06:49.520 to hell with what comes next.

00:06:53.160 You know, and I think part of my worry isn't just that Trump is in the position he's in, or he was able to manipulate his way there. It's the ability, or it's the choice of millions and millions of Americans and people in different countries that are buying into it because it seems simple. It seems easy. It seems accessible.

00:07:20.660 He's made it seem like he has pointed out the enemy and he will crush them in the first day of his presidency and everything else will be fine.

00:07:29.780 The inflation that you felt, poof, gone, even though it's gone right now.

00:07:33.420 The housing crisis, poof, gone.

00:07:35.440 Immigration problems, poof, gone.

00:07:37.620 Problems with international trade, poof, gone.

00:07:40.760 He's made it feel like that.

00:07:43.140 And you know what?

00:07:44.140 The problem is we want to believe him.

00:07:46.080 the problem is

00:07:48.740 we want it to be true

00:07:50.440 people want that to be true

00:07:52.280 we crave that simplicity

00:07:54.440 so as we crave that simplicity

00:07:58.800 what do we do next

00:08:01.120 because if we are going to be

00:08:04.680 the kind of uneducated voter

00:08:06.440 that chooses candidates

00:08:09.780 based on the ways in which

00:08:11.940 they can manipulate the truth

00:08:13.740 and wield a turn of phrase or a meme or a spot on the news, which by the way, it's been happening

00:08:22.240 forever. Make no mistake. Don't think that it's new with Trump. Reagan was really good at it too.

00:08:27.060 So we're all, for the most part, presidents, prime ministers. They were good at public perception.

00:08:34.340 But if we now have entered into a time where nothing we know or nothing we assume to be

00:08:41.540 fact is actual fact, and it's all up for debate. And if it's all up for debate in a significant

00:08:47.560 way, and he has undervalued and undercut all of those institutions, who are you supposed to

00:08:53.520 believe? Do we just believe the Supreme Court because they ruled in his favor? What happens

00:08:58.520 when the Supreme Court doesn't rule in his favor? Who's at fault then? What happens when he creates

00:09:03.620 a new DOJ and all of a sudden they turn on him? Let's remember very, very clearly that everybody

00:09:10.660 40 people that used to work for Trump, Republicans, lifelong Republicans, men and women that would

00:09:19.820 have laid down everything in order to support the Republican Party have now walked over the aisle

00:09:26.880 and are voting, voting for Harris. They're not even just downplaying Trump. They're now voting

00:09:33.200 for, you have military generals saying he is a dangerous man who has a tendency to fascism and

00:09:39.820 authoritarian regimes. He has the biggest crushes on Putin and other dictators within the world.

00:09:47.000 All he wants to do is be around these guys, tell them how great they are, what a great job they're

00:09:52.160 doing. Are you okay? And the American people and international communities

00:10:02.560 alike, you have been confused and manipulated by the desire for simplicity

00:10:13.260 and somebody to solve your problems. You've been lied to, but it's your fault

00:10:20.260 that you didn't check. He's manipulated you. Sure. Propaganda has been in full swing. However,

00:10:29.820 you have everything within your power in order to control and understand the narrative because

00:10:38.840 it's sitting right in front of you on the computer. You have never had as much access

00:10:44.320 to information as you do right now. And the more people you talk to, and the more realities you sit

00:10:51.620 and try to understand, the more you should come to the conclusion that no problem in politics,

00:10:57.860 in government, in the way in which society integrates and works together, not a single one

00:11:04.080 is simple. Not a single one will be solved in one presidency. Not a single one has a simplistic

00:11:12.560 solution that once you sprinkle it on, everything else gets paved with gold, not a single thing.

00:11:20.400 If I can boil down a problem into absolutes, I'm lying. If I can boil down a problem into

00:11:28.080 a simplistic solution, I'm manipulating you. As soon as you hear somebody say something like,

00:11:34.000 this is the only way. If not me, then destruction. If not this, then the world collapses.

00:11:40.520 If not this, then you're overrun by people who hate you, want to destroy you.

00:11:46.520 All of that.

00:11:48.540 And look it up for five seconds.

00:11:50.980 Are the words of dictators who are trying to usurp and garner and steal your power in order to give it to themselves?

00:12:02.220 In the history of humankind, they have never done what they said they can do.

00:12:07.140 and they've always used that power and that overt belief system

00:12:14.760 to oppress, to control, to make billions, and to wage war.

00:12:21.120 And I know what a lot of you are thinking,

00:12:22.360 well, Trump stayed out of all the wars back in the day.

00:12:24.480 So, just because he didn't start anything in that term

00:12:32.580 doesn't mean he didn't start anything. 0.57

00:12:35.260 He sat down and broke bread with the Taliban.

00:12:38.500 You all know what the Taliban are doing in Afghanistan right now?

00:12:42.800 He's the one that withdrew from that country.

00:12:47.800 Any man or any woman, any leader who says we should never be in any conflict

00:12:56.600 is a weak embarrassment of an individual.

00:13:04.360 and any leader of the United States of America that doesn't understand that the United States

00:13:13.380 is already waging wars all over the place, even if they're not with guns. You've supplied them

00:13:18.820 with arms. Even if not with guns, you're taking over their economic opportunities. Even if not

00:13:23.800 with guns, you're using them for slave labor. You are doing it everywhere. And since you are

00:13:30.200 doing it everywhere. You are creating the conditions of civil war, civil unrest, oppression,

00:13:35.360 and of violence. How dare you? How dare you step away from the responsibility of having boots on

00:13:42.320 the ground? Do I want people to go to war? Of course not. But let's not pretend that the last,

00:13:49.140 what, 300 years of your existence as a nation and as an imperialist nation hasn't set up the world

00:13:57.760 as we now see it with the conflicts that now exist because of us.

00:14:03.420 It's embarrassing.

00:14:05.880 But everybody wants to stick with a simple solution

00:14:08.560 because the hard solution and the hard conversations are,

00:14:11.660 when do we go to war?

00:14:13.380 When does it make sense?

00:14:15.840 And the answer has always been, by the way,

00:14:18.340 for most countries, if not all, money.

00:14:21.500 We go to war, self-defense, fine, but mostly for money.

00:14:27.760 That's when we'll go to war. Protecting our international interests.

00:14:33.960 That's when we go to war.

00:14:35.820 We've never gone to war for moral, ethical reasons. Stop it.

00:14:40.440 So let's all put that on the table right now.

00:14:43.000 And if we put that on the table right now, we can have an honest discussion about what it includes.

00:14:47.520 If you really want to talk about war, international globalization and what that has led to, you can start saying it's about time that all countries stood on trial for war crimes.

00:15:05.800 And if you were serious about it, the United States, Trump, Harris alike, you will then drag your people by the scruff of the neck and put them in front of the Hague.

00:15:17.520 Why aren't you doing that?

00:15:20.640 Trump, you talk about the military industrialized complex.

00:15:24.540 It's so bad, it's so bad.

00:15:25.760 I promise you, you have money in it, sir.

00:15:28.780 Grab them by the scruff of the neck, put them on trial.

00:15:32.980 Guys, I would have nothing but respect for that. 1.00

00:15:37.040 Stop telling other countries how to clean up their own house. 0.99

00:15:39.080 Clean up yours.

00:15:40.400 And again, this goes for both political parties.

00:15:42.940 But to sit around and to think that Trump's simplistic solutions and lack of any clear

00:15:52.200 policy perspectives are going to somehow rescue the United States is the 70 million people

00:16:00.160 choosing ignorance. That's it. You're choosing to remain ignorant.

00:16:08.540 And I have a specific word for that. I call it stupid. And I use it purposefully. Ignorant means you don't know. Stupid is that you chose to remain ignorant. And if you choose not to educate yourself, you choose to blindly follow, you choose not to check things out, talk to people, fact check, do some research, and you're blindingly following somebody, you're choosing to be stupid. 1.00

00:16:34.080 And in this day and age, in the United States of America, that is 100% your choice, and you should be embarrassed by it. Absolutely embarrassed. I haven't heard anybody announce a policy. And then he gets up and, you know, he named calls. It's like, part of me believes that, you know, this is a guy that is seeking so much love and attention. 0.99

00:17:01.160 and I think he really fell into this position and now he wants to win to be loved

00:17:08.540 he wants just to feel those accolades and fulfill the very empty broken little boy

00:17:18.240 soul that he has and I find the same is true of Elon Musk I really do

00:17:24.660 but that doesn't mean the fault necessarily lies in their court the fault lies with the voter

00:17:32.160 you have every option every ability every strategic initiative to become educated in

00:17:39.040 anything you want to become educated in but wait what are you arguing for en masse

00:17:42.840 get rid of the department of education 0.87

00:17:44.640 are you crazy have you lost it are you okay you want to get rid of more education

00:17:54.960 that kind of positioning that is exactly what they want what they've done is they've 0.85

00:18:05.840 They've convinced you to demonize books, conversation, intellectual debate, university.

00:18:16.680 They're telling you all, guys, not to go to school because it's this bastion of manipulation.

00:18:27.400 They shouldn't be able to do it in this day and age, guys, and it's your fault.

00:18:30.500 But I understand why.

00:18:32.200 It's a lot going on in the world.

00:18:33.980 The internet's overwhelming.

00:18:34.960 life's overwhelming understanding the interconnectivity of globalized markets

00:18:38.700 overwhelming understanding the way the political system works understanding the way international

00:18:43.600 diplomatic affairs work it's all incredibly overwhelming and we're expected to understand it all

00:18:49.340 and when you can't

00:18:52.220 when you don't have the capacity necessarily and i don't mean that in a negative way i mean that

00:18:58.300 it's a very complicated economic political and social institutions at play here when you can't

00:19:04.100 understand it, you sometimes reach out and grasp for the most simplistic solution that

00:19:11.860 you can spout, wrap your head around, and sometimes somehow go to bed at night, pull

00:19:17.100 up the covers, and feel quiet, calm, cool, and collected in the notion that everything's

00:19:23.820 going to be okay as long as the man who denies all reality is right.

00:19:29.300 when's the solution with your family ever been easy when's the solution with your job ever been

00:19:38.840 easy when has there ever been a clear-cut black and white answer to anything in your life when

00:19:47.240 it comes to money when it comes to family when it comes to co-workers and when you come up with

00:19:54.560 there isn't one. You need to apply that in the microcosm you see it in to the other aspects of

00:20:05.520 political, international life. When nothing's easy between you and your partner, when that's true,

00:20:17.000 magnify it by about a billion and you'll get why nothing's easy when it comes to the international

00:20:22.180 stage. And if you can get to the place where you understand nothing is easy, nothing is

00:20:29.560 clear cut, you have to inherently disavow everything Trump stands for. Because I want

00:20:38.800 to say one more thing before I go. Not only does he simplify everything, not only does

00:20:45.980 he make everything seem so incredibly basic. But when he takes power, if you elect him,

00:20:56.880 he literally, literally will have no intellectual capacity to understand how to do any of those

00:21:05.000 things that we've talked about. If he believes it to be simplistic, he is showing you that he

00:21:13.040 doesn't understand the problem. And if he doesn't understand the problem, guys, how is he supposed

00:21:17.960 to fix it? So on today, I want you to remember, after you listen to this, you're going to go vote.

00:21:27.220 I want you to think about, are problems simplistic in my life? And if they are not,

00:21:35.000 why would I ever vote for an individual who simplifies everything to do nothing but gain

00:21:43.760 power and control? I wish you guys all the best. And on that note, I'll see you next week, guys.

00:21:52.300 Same bat time, same bat channel. Dismissed.

Unlearn16: Class is in Session - November 05, 2024

The One Where I Watch The US Vote For Their President

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