Unlearn16: Class is in Session - The One Where We Find Out Trump Is Just On Repeat

00:00:00.000 class is in session hey everybody and welcome to unlearn 16 class is in session guys i have uh i

00:00:10.760 have some bad news for you i don't know if you're gonna like this podcast i really don't because i

00:00:16.960 i think i think it's time we say some hard truths and i know i come hard in the paint about the

00:00:27.160 United States a lot, but of course I do. The United States has been sitting in the privileged

00:00:30.660 position of being the superpower for a very, very long period of time, right? When you talk about

00:00:35.460 other superpowers, I condemn the British for what they did during colonization. I condemn the Soviet 0.98

00:00:40.980 Union, you know, what they did and what Putin has done since during that kind of expansionist

00:00:47.640 history. And I come hard in the paint against the United States now, but in all fairness,

00:00:57.160 we always should have and I and I say this again not because it's the United

00:01:05.700 States but because they sit where they sit in a position of power and again I'm

00:01:13.900 gonna see some things I don't know if everybody wants to hear I'm gonna say

00:01:17.620 some things that people will be like whoa what is she what do you mean like

00:01:23.160 Like, why are you, because I think it's time, unless we own the whole picture, and I'm doing

00:01:29.680 a series on TikTok right now where I'm trying to go back in the past. I'm trying to talk about the

00:01:34.820 United States. When they became an imperial power, let's say in the early 1900s, after their

00:01:43.020 World War I win. And I do say World War I win because they came in in 1917, 0.51

00:01:48.580 cleaned house but before 1917 they sold weapons to everybody they won the war forget who's on

00:01:57.680 whose side it doesn't matter economically imperialistically culturally they won the war

00:02:05.440 and and then they went on to amass and to expand and to create an empire and i use the word

00:02:16.320 purposefully because they did create an empire through imperialism rather than colonialism.

00:02:24.860 And the reason why I think it's so important that we acknowledge that and we speak about that now

00:02:29.780 is because we're watching the current administration behave horrifically, say they're

00:02:35.680 going to do horrible things, do horrible things. Time and time again, I am not disavowing any of

00:02:43.440 that to be true. Of course it's true. However, do you think it's unprecedented?

00:02:52.180 Do you think it's without history and without example? Do we really think, and take a pause

00:03:02.940 on this, that Donald Trump, that Pete Hegson, that, that tiny little horrific Stephen Miller

00:03:15.960 baby boy, do we really think that the, do we really think that these individuals have

00:03:23.420 an original thought, have an idea about what the future holds, has an idea about how to

00:03:30.060 do things differently in order to change the world and change America and progress into the

00:03:36.580 blah, blah, blah. Their whole campaign slogan was make America great again. They took it from Reagan.

00:03:46.420 They took it from Reagan. You understand? Their slogan is stolen. Their ideas are stolen.

00:03:55.760 The only difference, and I'm going to go through as many examples as I can stomach in the podcast

00:04:02.940 Because after a while I feel like I get dizzy

00:04:05.200 The only reality of today is that

00:04:09.860 He doesn't know how, isn't smart enough, isn't aware enough 0.98

00:04:16.620 Or maybe understands the population just doesn't give a crap about playing politics

00:04:24.760 about about the end goal and the means to get there are very similar over time guys very very

00:04:35.860 similar over time the united states foreign policy has not changed what's going on domestically

00:04:42.740 i'd argue still hasn't changed i think it goes through ebbs and flows depending on the time

00:04:47.260 depending on what the president has to do depending on the enemy that they are fighting

00:04:51.020 I think presidents have created enemies

00:04:55.600 I think they've bolstered enemies

00:04:57.380 They've supported enemies

00:04:58.920 They've funded enemies 0.97

00:05:00.040 They've flipped sides more time than a triple agent has done so 0.98

00:05:04.720 Yet, yet 0.95

00:05:06.920 We sometimes stand impressed or distracted

00:05:14.260 by the incredible levels of politicking, of speech-making, of pontificating. It's a really

00:05:24.700 great word, pontificating. Go ahead, try to use that in your daily lives. We get mesmerized by it

00:05:30.840 because they say all the right things. They talk about constitutional rights. They talk about

00:05:36.840 freedom. They talk about democracy. They talk about the First Amendment. They talk about

00:05:43.440 being the international policemen they talk about saving people from themselves and from

00:05:51.040 evil empires trying to take them over none of that is new donald trump's just not good at talking

00:05:58.740 about it so i think it takes us a back it we kind of go whoa what what just happened

00:06:06.760 what what what just went on i just did a tiktok where obviously we spoke about venezuela you can

00:06:16.820 go back and take a look at that tiktok but i just did another tiktok where in 1990 bush senior did

00:06:23.240 the exact same thing in panama george eight sorry hw bush the old one i don't care about their 0.97

00:06:36.160 initials it's exhausting get your own name damn it the old bush 0.58

00:06:42.720 was paying and had noriega on the cia payroll for years since the 60s was noriega dealing 0.90

00:06:54.640 was he a drug yes yes did the united states ignore it absolutely as long as he kept giving

00:07:00.480 information about communist movements in south america so that the united states could grab

00:07:07.840 and do whatever they needed to do in order to expand their sphere of influence yeah

00:07:16.560 he did it forever until the collapse of the soviet union shockingly 1990 is when old bush decides to

00:07:24.800 invade panama arrest 27 000 troops arrest noriega who's been working for them for 30 years drag him

00:07:33.520 back to the states and put him on trial for drug trafficking for uh corruption charges for money

00:07:38.960 laundering everything they knew he was doing of course they knew he was doing it they funded him

00:07:45.360 the cia did it with him

00:07:47.360 venezuela same thing same thing you want an interesting story go look at how miami was built

00:07:59.320 miami was built on the backs of cocaine drug lords

00:08:06.240 the the government turned a blind eye as long as they were redirecting all their money and

00:08:14.300 putting it in infrastructure in Miami until the government had enough of them,

00:08:18.200 closed up shop, arrested them all, called it a day. 0.86

00:08:24.280 Afghanistan. 1.00

00:08:27.480 Let's go through this one. 0.96

00:08:29.320 Everybody has an enemy until the enemy ceases to serve your, sorry,

00:08:34.600 everybody has a friend who's of an enemy until they cease to serve your purpose.

00:08:39.880 the united states forum policy during the cold war used to support fund and train

00:08:46.040 osama bin laden and the taliban in afghanistan

00:08:48.420 what you said what yeah until policy shifts policy changes and all of that money and all

00:09:00.520 that support gets pulled out of afghanistan taliban and osama bin laden and his boys get

00:09:06.840 absolutely slaughtered by the soviets and all of a sudden flash forward to 2001 you wonder why

00:09:13.940 they're flying planes into buildings everything is connected

00:09:20.180 and everything and and again i'm going to say this about the united states because they're

00:09:27.440 sitting in the imperialist seat because they're sitting at the superpower head of the table

00:09:31.980 And as they sit here, and as they consistently act in international policy in order to heighten and magnify their own economic, social, cultural hegemony means, as they do that, the ways in which they achieve their goals become unimportant.

00:09:55.360 key question to ask yourself and the key question to ask any government do the ends justify the

00:10:03.520 means the answer should be no but the answer is always yes because the end goal is what we want

00:10:12.300 we applaud ourselves for it we cheer but i tell you what the means will come back to bite you in 0.96

00:10:18.440 ass sometimes in the in the image of four planes flying into your buildings those are the means 0.98

00:10:28.120 when you are unjust in your means unjust in your goal

00:10:34.440 nothing will ever stay balanced because what you've done is you've created you've used your

00:10:41.000 power to create inequity to use and abuse until it serves you and then you're shocked when those

00:10:48.200 people gain a little bit of power and come back at you that's what's happened and the cold war

00:10:55.720 and you can say the same for the soviets but the reason i'm not saying it about the soviets

00:10:59.480 is because we've been being taught that for our whole lives in this country

00:11:05.080 i am not denying the soviets did it of course they did i'm not denying they were horrific i'm not 0.99

00:11:13.240 denying the the level of dictatorship and oppression not at all however i think it would be 1.00

00:11:22.520 and it is flawed and uh incredibly inherently biased for us not to look at ourselves and when

00:11:31.880 i talk about the united states let me be crystal clear canada was standing right beside them the

00:11:36.760 whole time there goes cia there goes csis we just might not be loud about it we might not be running

00:11:46.740 the show all the time but make no mistake we are their best ally in up until very much now 0.99

00:11:53.740 everything is a is a move to get more power to get more money to get more control period and

00:12:00.220 Every government would do it if they had the opportunity to do it.

00:12:08.320 And different governments are going to do it through different means.

00:12:11.160 So the British government and the British Empire did it through colonization.

00:12:18.440 They went places.

00:12:19.580 They sent soldiers.

00:12:20.600 They took it over.

00:12:21.520 They created a British system.

00:12:23.460 They built schools and communication systems

00:12:27.980 And railway lines

00:12:31.440 They built infrastructure

00:12:32.960 They amalgamated into their empire

00:12:37.320 Canada is still a part of the commonwealth

00:12:41.660 We may not be a colony, but we're right beside it

00:12:45.820 Britain did that in order to amass

00:12:50.800 and create an empire that nobody had ever seen an empire where the sun never sets such a cool

00:13:01.520 moniker right you are so vast you are so big you you are so expansive that the sun never

00:13:08.720 sets on the british empire wild because i like a good pork rind and a fish and chip

00:13:16.720 my people come from there you're like amazing and there's this talk there's this idea that somehow

00:13:24.540 we're superior the united states has been no different but the united states has done it

00:13:32.000 differently instead of sending their army now don't get me wrong they send their army

00:13:35.920 but that's not that's not how they take over they don't send their army they send starbucks

00:13:42.020 And please understand that is a metaphor. They send their companies. They let companies take

00:13:50.280 the risk. They let companies expand culture, expand the idea, expand the potential of economic

00:14:00.160 growth, of wealth, of this lifestyle that has been sort of, you know, propagandized in such

00:14:07.980 an incredible, beautiful way. So they send a Starbucks, a Walmart, right? They send the

00:14:17.860 United Fruit Company. I'm going to do an entire TikTok on this as well, but the United Fruit

00:14:22.420 Company, and this is how wild this is. You have countries who are less than developed in South

00:14:29.640 America, the United States gaining its independence, gaining its wealth, gaining its military

00:14:34.600 dominance. And what do they do to South America? They send the United Fruit Company down there

00:14:38.500 in order to buy up land, in order to amass land, grow crop, and make an incredible sum of money

00:14:45.740 for a very few South Americans. And then you watch the cost of living go way up. The GDP goes way up

00:14:54.940 due to these companies, but all of the money is held in the hands of very, very few. It's not the

00:15:00.360 people. It's not the farmers and not the people that work on the land. They create an aristocracy.

00:15:07.460 They give money to the aristocracy and they take the lion's share with them.

00:15:16.360 Guatemala, Peru, Argentina, all over South America. And then they are shocked. They are

00:15:25.280 baffled, they're blown away, no pun intended, when you have revolutionaries pop up in Nicaragua,

00:15:32.440 in Peru, in Argentina, in Chile. When socialist governments start to pop up going, whoa, whoa,

00:15:40.040 whoa, we're nationalizing those resources that you took from us. The United Fruit Company took from

00:15:44.700 us. That copper mining company took from us. That silver mining company took from us. That oil

00:15:50.860 company we're nationalizing we're taking it back the united states screams a lack of control and

00:15:58.620 a lack of of freedom and democracy and they and they elect socialist leaders and the cia goes

00:16:08.100 walking all down there and has them funds the funds the the contras they have them exiled they

00:16:16.640 have them killed they have them whatever they have them in order to install the leader that suits

00:16:24.660 them in order to install a leader that serves their capitalist agenda and not a capitalist 0.97

00:16:32.260 agenda mind you that's going to service the entire country a capitalist agenda that's going to serve

00:16:36.880 the united states company that was in there

00:16:39.200 Cuba. Since we're up and around Cuba right about now, and I realize I'm jumping all over the place,

00:16:47.800 but my mind's racing because I think there's a real danger in thinking this is a one-off

00:16:54.880 with Trump. I think there's a real... I think putting the blinders on when it comes to what

00:17:02.660 he's doing and pretending as though it's somehow unique is problematic. And I think for too long,

00:17:13.920 the United States has allowed itself with its popped up collar and its international police

00:17:19.620 like status to walk around the world claiming they're doing what's best for everybody when in

00:17:27.480 actuality, and again, let me reiterate, every single country would do the same. They're doing

00:17:31.540 what's best for the united states always have that's how countries work and they're big enough

00:17:39.820 they're strong enough they're powerful enough their militaries that significant that they don't

00:17:46.120 have to listen to the international community that when the international community says

00:17:49.380 they say who's going to stop us because the only way the international community has any

00:17:55.360 policing powers of a whole host of countries are willing to stand opposed

00:18:01.060 to that superpower and since they aren't seemingly wild by the way since they

00:18:08.620 aren't and they're not willing to mitigate that this is how it'll roll

00:18:17.480 and I think a lot of the things Trump saying out loud will have always been

00:18:21.280 said behind closed doors, he just has zero filter. So let's take Cuba. The United States used to love

00:18:27.600 Cuba. Want to know why? Again, imperialism. They sent all other companies there and companies 0.57

00:18:32.400 bought up the majority of Cuban land in order to have sugar plantations and make billions and

00:18:37.680 billions of dollars, right? You think the United States cared that Batista, who was the leader of

00:18:44.560 Cuba was a horrific dictator? Of course not. As long as you allowed the U.S. companies to do what

00:18:51.660 they were doing, make the money they wanted to make, and pull it all out of Cuba, all the while

00:18:56.340 making dictators and a little few of their friends a boatload of money. Then Cuba has this guy Castro

00:19:03.780 come around. Castro wants a revolution. Now, do I think that Castro's revolution over time played

00:19:13.320 out no but when you have a regime or when you have an imperialist force that is able to crush

00:19:22.120 control manipulate your entire economy in order to take what they want to take and leave what they

00:19:28.060 don't want you will have violence meeting it eventually and you will have and this is the

00:19:33.980 scary part you can think about iran right now if you want you will have the people willing to back

00:19:41.000 Anybody

00:19:42.220 That is going to stand up against that imperial power

00:19:46.620 So Cuba

00:19:48.540 You have Castro

00:19:51.920 Come take it over

00:19:53.100 What 1959

00:19:54.460 What does he do? Nationalizes everything

00:19:58.280 Kicks out all the Americans 0.99

00:20:00.140 Do you think they would have cared 0.99

00:20:02.860 About Castro

00:20:04.380 If he was just another dictator

00:20:06.920 And let them keep their stuff

00:20:08.340 Stop it

00:20:09.980 Stop it right now

00:20:14.040 Then you have the Cold War that's raging on at this particular time

00:20:21.140 Obviously Cuba is now allied with the Soviet Union

00:20:24.600 The United States looking at Cuba 90 miles off of its coast of Florida thinking oh, this is a very very dangerous place

00:20:33.180 and then you start

00:20:37.440 well you see Kennedy get elected

00:20:40.240 everything sees soft on communism 0.73

00:20:43.940 Khrushchev is in the Soviet

00:20:46.200 leading the Soviet Union

00:20:47.800 and Kennedy catches wind

00:20:51.280 somebody comes in and says

00:20:52.500 we think the Soviet Union

00:20:54.780 sneaking in missiles

00:20:57.420 nuclear missiles into Cuba

00:20:59.100 Kennedy says no

00:21:00.600 picks up the phone calls Khrushchev

00:21:03.120 is this true do you have missiles coming no i can assure you mr president there are no missiles

00:21:09.180 no soviet missiles coming into cuba i swear kennedy goes back to his chief of staff and his

00:21:15.460 entire room of little uh uh cabinet members and said absolutely not he has assured me there are

00:21:22.800 no missiles a few weeks later god this day must have really sucked for kennedy a few days later

00:21:29.900 a spy plane has taken photos of a soviet ship unloading nuclear missiles onto cuban soil

00:21:41.500 pictures kennedy loses his mind what how dare he he's ready to go all out to war bobby kennedy

00:21:51.240 calms him down says we're just gonna have this little we're gonna put this little blockade

00:21:55.760 around cuba there'll be no more missiles coming into cuba if they try to cross us that's it cold

00:22:01.560 that's it there's going to be a nuclear war cuban missile crisis happens 13 days of nothing but pure

00:22:09.880 panic little kids hiding under their desks covering their head as if that was going to make any

00:22:14.100 difference and you have the soviet ship getting closer and closer and closer to the u.s blockade

00:22:20.620 and within about a football field and i use that term purposefully because it's in this moment the

00:22:27.840 united states won the cold war even though it's going to rage on for another 30 years

00:22:32.280 that soviet ship turned around khrushchev said i will take all my missiles out that you caught

00:22:40.040 us putting there takes them all out puts them on a ship takes them back to the soviet union

00:22:45.760 kennedy you win there's two problems with this story number one nobody ever talks about the fact

00:22:52.240 that the united states already had jupiter missiles nuclear missiles in turkey aimed at

00:22:58.560 the soviet union within striking distance this entire time how dare the united states say

00:23:05.360 you can't have missiles pointed at us so close to our borders

00:23:08.400 number one and here's the funnier one there's a great documentary called the fog of war if you

00:23:16.800 ever have time to watch it it's based on robert mcnamara who is kennedy's uh secretary of state

00:23:24.880 i believe secretary of defense created a journal the funny part about those days was

00:23:32.340 He removed X amount

00:23:35.000 Fine

00:23:36.180 He made a big show of it

00:23:38.740 But as would later be admitted

00:23:42.120 They had tons of nuclear warheads

00:23:45.460 That had already gotten into Cuba 0.69

00:23:46.920 Way before they got caught putting in the last five 0.99

00:23:49.700 And those stayed there and remained there

00:23:51.700 For the duration of the Cold War

00:23:53.240 I assume they're still there today

00:23:55.000 The United States, you can't travel there

00:24:00.320 You can't buy anything

00:24:01.640 Why? Because it's an oppressive dictatorship? Stop. Please. Let's not pretend as though that's

00:24:11.100 the issue. Iran, same deal. The Iranians used to have an Ayatollah. The United States helped

00:24:22.240 lead a revolution. The Shah of Iran gets put into power. He becomes a puppet of the American 0.85

00:24:30.320 government, a puppet of the American CIA, foreign interests, imperialist measures, 0.64

00:24:36.180 and the people of Iran see it. And it's clear that who they have in their, representing them,

00:24:43.580 who they've elected, isn't representing anything that they want, isn't representing Iran,

00:24:48.520 is representing the United States of America. So what does it do? It sweeps the Ayatollah back

00:24:54.060 into power, a horribly oppressive regime that is going to lead Iran to awful places throughout 0.94

00:25:02.380 history. By the way, don't worry about it because the United States still likes to flip back and

00:25:06.560 forth between who do they like? Iran, Iraq, Iran, Iraq. And now is facing yet another revolutionary

00:25:13.580 movement. When you don't have the right means and justice as your benchmark, as your

00:25:23.740 As the point for you to start from

00:25:27.040 Everything will come back

00:25:31.940 Nothing will be stable

00:25:34.300 Nothing will be continuous

00:25:36.220 You will never be able to speak from a position of authority

00:25:40.680 Or a position of moral certainty ever

00:25:43.740 Yet we watch this happen time and time and time again

00:25:51.000 Reagan, probably one of the most beloved U.S. presidents in history

00:25:56.920 His nickname was the Teflon president

00:25:59.560 Because he did so many horrific things, yet nothing stuck

00:26:04.580 He was involved in a CIA and revolutionary movement in Guatemala

00:26:11.280 That killed about 200,000 Mayans

00:26:13.840 Teflon president

00:26:17.000 the secretary of state and secretary of of defense in many administrations not just republican in 1.00

00:26:29.040 many administrations have been quoted as saying we will not let countries fall due to the stupidity 1.00

00:26:37.100 of their people they don't believe in democracy they only believe in democracy when it when the 0.99

00:26:44.760 end is the end they were looking for i remember when donald trump was running against

00:26:56.840 clinton hillary clinton and i remember the moment and it's this is a very dave chapelle

00:27:03.800 thing because he also speaks about this but the moment that i went uh-oh was the moment he said 0.92

00:27:10.760 she she was yelling at about not paying his taxes and he responded by saying the tax code sucks

00:27:15.960 why don't you fix it i don't i don't cheat i i don't commit any crimes he was talking about

00:27:24.840 uh particular tax evasion crimes this is different crimes the crime scene the fraud crimes are

00:27:29.640 different um fix the tax code why do millionaires and billionaires get around it so so easily hillary

00:27:38.520 fix the tax code. I'm telling you right now, I use every element within the current tax code to 1.00

00:27:45.640 make sure I don't pay any taxes. That's because that's how the game is set up. She's pointing at

00:27:51.660 me saying, I don't pay my taxes. I'm saying I don't pay them because the system is set up so

00:27:56.840 that my accountants can get out of me paying any taxes. If you want to fix the tax code, fix it,

00:28:01.640 but you're not going to fix it because all your billionaire friends are going to be really pissed

00:28:04.560 you're never going to get reelected now everybody really wanted to hear that from somebody and so

00:28:15.440 he said it out loud and when he said it out loud i think he amassed a level of following the problem

00:28:20.880 is the people that are following him they just assumed they inferred the second half of the

00:28:27.680 message since he pointed out the corruption since he pointed out how billionaires run everything

00:28:38.560 since he pointed out that all of these rich people work together in order to get whatever

00:28:43.280 the hell they want and everybody else gets through since he pointed out so clearly they inferred

00:28:49.920 he was gonna fix it he and they infer they they inferred they assumed well he said it was broken

00:29:03.000 he said billionaires ran the show he said all these people took advantage he pointed out the

00:29:08.520 hypocrisies and the injustice of the system he never once said he was going to bring it down

00:29:16.500 did he did he ever say he was gonna change the so people like him couldn't

00:29:24.240 get away with that did he ever say that did you just think he said that I know

00:29:27.900 he loved to say I'm gonna drain the swamp that's not what he meant did he

00:29:32.640 ever say he was going to change that level of corruption I'm gonna go you one

00:29:38.460 step further I'm gonna say he thinks it's that kind of corruption and that

00:29:43.140 kind of economic opportunism that that he thinks makes america great

00:29:53.060 that's what

00:29:57.140 and and now instead of fixing the corrupt system that only benefits millionaires and billionaires

00:30:04.180 he pretends as though the average working guy making 60 grand a year can one day be a millionaire

00:30:10.020 and billionaire if you just get

00:30:12.140 his cryptocurrency and

00:30:14.040 buy his really nice watch that only

00:30:16.020 works on Thursdays.

00:30:20.040 That's what he hopes.

00:30:25.680 There's been lots of presidents I've loved.

00:30:29.040 Come on.

00:30:29.820 I would be in a room with Obama.

00:30:32.520 That guy could convince

00:30:34.300 me to do anything. 1.00

00:30:36.720 Dropping bombs on Syria

00:30:37.920 was a war crime.

00:30:40.020 Want to know who pays for war crimes? 0.98

00:30:43.720 Only the losers.

00:30:47.020 I wonder how many more war crimes the winners have to commit in order to win and never actually

00:30:53.620 pay the price.

00:30:59.480 The winners never have to be held to account.

00:31:03.400 Do they?

00:31:04.400 Have we seen them held to account internationally ever?

00:31:10.020 Nixon used secret slush fund money after Congress said no more to carpet bomb Cambodia and Laos.

00:31:20.140 And what does he get impeached for?

00:31:22.000 Well, not really impeached because he resigns and then Ford pardons him for organizing and covering up a break-in into the Democratic office.

00:31:33.520 that should point out to you

00:31:36.580 the reality of the account

00:31:41.340 that the American people are holding their leaders to

00:31:45.840 carpet bomb hundreds of thousands of people

00:31:49.400 by guns

00:31:51.420 break into and cover up people

00:31:55.920 getting into the Democratic office

00:31:59.040 you're out

00:32:01.120 what?

00:32:03.520 There is no mechanism, there is no means to hold presidents or administrations to account

00:32:17.840 other than just not electing them again, because since 1914, there has been no other superpower

00:32:25.620 in a position that either wanted to or could hold the United States to account.

00:32:33.520 What I find fascinating

00:32:38.100 is the rise and the stability

00:32:42.320 and the consistency of Putin in Russia.

00:32:46.660 They should have held him to an account a long time ago,

00:32:49.760 but you know what?

00:32:50.580 I think he's about that billionaire boys club

00:32:52.660 that's just cheating the system

00:32:54.220 and all the while having backroom conversations

00:32:56.920 about ways to keep power and keep people off of his tail.

00:33:04.260 This expansionist policy is a U.S. policy.

00:33:09.320 World War II, you think the United States wanted to go to war against Hitler? Stop.

00:33:14.460 No evidence of that.

00:33:17.180 Same with Canada.

00:33:18.200 The Montreal Gazette, the Montreal Gazette was running stories on concentration camps, on taking away citizenship, on taking their homes, their businesses, on burning their books, on throwing these people in work camps and detention centers way before the start of World War II.

00:33:43.920 Did the United States declare war on Hitler?

00:33:48.200 Did they try to control Japan? 0.70

00:33:53.500 Absolutely. 0.97

00:33:54.300 How did they do it?

00:33:55.380 Well, they stopped oil and steel reserves going into Japan in order to starve them out,

00:33:59.720 in order to force Japan's political hand.

00:34:05.660 So what did Japan do?

00:34:06.660 Well, they bombed Pearl Harbor.

00:34:08.120 That everybody, by the way, thinks was completely out of the blue.

00:34:11.120 What a rude thing to do. 1.00

00:34:16.280 Might it have been stupid? 1.00

00:34:17.800 Sure. 0.99

00:34:18.200 They declare war on Japan 0.98

00:34:21.240 But guess who declares war on the United States first 0.66

00:34:23.980 The United States doesn't declare war on Germany

00:34:27.300 Germany declares war on them 1.00

00:34:28.680 All of these things being true 0.96

00:34:33.180 We think what's going on now

00:34:37.380 With acquisition

00:34:38.840 Or the attempted acquisition of more oil

00:34:42.060 The attempted acquisition of more resources

00:34:45.560 The attempted acquisition

00:34:47.780 of more land of strategic advantage none of it is new the united states did it straight 0.94

00:34:56.780 from 45 to 50 to 90 55 years the cold war raged on every bad guy in any movie was a soviet

00:35:07.680 every horrible thing the united states government wanted to do was in opposition to the domino 0.81

00:35:15.680 effect and if we don't do it the soviet union is going to expand and multiply when in actuality

00:35:21.040 the more horrific things the united states did the more validity the soviet union had in trying

00:35:27.040 to expand their empire saying look at what they're doing african americans in their own country

00:35:32.000 what that doesn't seem very democratic does it 1960 missouri stop it

00:35:39.200 the more the cia the military force had these proxy wars

00:35:48.220 the more they enraged the lack of justice in these missions

00:35:55.000 justified violence from the other side created violence from the other side

00:36:02.720 and what it comes down to and what it's always come down to is

00:36:15.740 military might is incredibly powerful and incredibly important but what's the most

00:36:22.860 terrifying and powerful thing is will do you have the will to do it to go through with it

00:36:32.700 If you're willing to sacrifice everything

00:36:38.840 No wall, no tank, no nuclear arsenal

00:36:45.680 Will stop a population who believes they have to

00:36:52.440 Because they are so desperate

00:36:55.240 At the other options given to them

00:37:02.700 so here we stand

00:37:07.940 right we stand in a place where

00:37:13.400 the the circus that trump is creating is giving an illusion of a different type of united states

00:37:22.540 when there isn't one guys

00:37:24.400 There isn't one

00:37:28.140 Now, can we say that maybe the United States

00:37:33.640 After the Cold War wanted to find more peace?

00:37:37.160 Sure, after the Cold War, it was an absolute chaotic disaster

00:37:41.640 Absolute disaster

00:37:45.760 You had horrific things happening all over the world

00:37:53.140 All due to the fact of proxy wars, of militarization, of child soldiers, of creating counterinsurgency forces all over the place.

00:38:05.760 And now there's this huge power vacuum, and they are shocked.

00:38:10.440 They are shocked when everything goes to hell in a handbasket after all said and done.

00:38:17.400 1994, you have the Rwandan genocide.

00:38:20.180 And what does Canada and the United States do?

00:38:21.940 Nothing.

00:38:23.140 nothing we argue about the theoretical of a genocide

00:38:31.200 they're they're announcing it on who to radio and we're discussing how many actually claims a

00:38:40.660 genocide you see the Belgians and Belgians involved the French is involved all of these

00:38:49.240 these old remnants of superpowers, and they're all holding weapons sold to them by the French

00:38:56.120 army, pretending as though they have nothing to do with it, when you don't think that the means

00:39:07.420 matter, when you don't think, when you only focus, when you're only focused on the end

00:39:17.240 goal, on the winning, on the money, on the land, on the resource, and you don't care

00:39:23.380 how you get it, it will create a foundational rift that will perpetuate a cycle of violence,

00:39:35.620 perpetuate a cycle of revolution, and never, ever, ever be satiated.

00:39:43.680 And that's where we are.

00:39:47.240 If we really want to stop this administration, if the United States really wants to, and

00:39:54.500 I believe the United States people to be incredible people, it is time to recognize that your

00:40:03.340 life, that your economic advantage and superiority has only come from the imperialization, the

00:40:17.200 impression the oppression the the absolute plundering of world resources of their poverty

00:40:27.280 of their fear of their desperation and when you push people to too much desperation they

00:40:34.740 have nothing to lose and if they end up nothing to lose

00:40:37.720 they're going to be knocking at your door

00:40:47.620 Sorry for bumming you out, guys. I needed to get through all of that. Come check out my TikTok

00:40:51.900 channel. I'm going to be going through many, many of these as we're going through. I'm going to do

00:40:57.260 micro lessons in about under 10 minutes each lesson, chalkboard behind me in order for us

00:41:02.780 to understand and put together some historical realities rather than sitting here and pretending

00:41:09.280 as though this is the one-off. It's not. He just says what he's going to do. He's a horrible,

00:41:17.960 horrible politician about it. He says it out loud. So maybe now's the time to take a real hard, 1.00

00:41:27.540 critical look at why it's so easy for him to say. Thank you guys so much for hanging out.

00:41:35.360 I'll see you next time. Next week, same bat time, same bat channel. Dismissed.

Unlearn16: Class is in Session - January 13, 2026

The One Where We Find Out Trump Is Just On Repeat

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