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Ep. 304: The ICE Shooting In Minneapolis (1/12/25)

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Ep. 304: The ICE Shooting In Minneapolis (1/12/25)

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Welcome back to Highly Respected. I'm your host, Scott Green. Today we're going to have a fantastic and incredible episode for you guys today. So hopefully you enjoy. And obviously, our topic today is going to be the ice shooting. Actually, I probably, and also the Greenland taking are the idea of us potentially taking Greenland. I didn't get any questions about Greenland, but I will cover that as part of our second topic or second main topic today. But I did get a lot of questions about the ice shooting, James, Ken and New England Refugee asked about my thoughts on it. New England Refugee has a specific hypothetical he wants me to address, so I'll address that at the end and then we'll move on to the tensions with Europe over Greenland. So the ice shooting, it's

100 percent justified. I think if you watch all the videos, if you look at any evidence, the video from the cell phone camera of the ice officer who shot Renee Good shows that he's completely in the right. You have good and her lesbian partner creating a disturbance, trying to interfere with the officers. They're clearly trying to block their activities. They issue an order to step outside the vehicle and they're detaining her and she disobeys police commands. That is a crime. And she then tries to drive out of them and she's likely a bad driver and I don't know if she intentionally tried to drive at the officer, but it had the effect of making the officer think she's driving at them because she's likely a stupid bad driver. She's panicking because she's like, oh shit. And then she's like, oh, I'm actually going to get arrested for this. And then

her lesbian lover is telling her drive, baby drive. And then she drives and the lesbian lover is encouraging her to commit a crime to resist arrest and potentially drive into law enforcement officers. So, you know, it is a crime and he emptied his bag. And the fact that the officer have been dragged and nearly killed by illegal alien who they were trying to detain a few months prior and that this has been a major problem with ice officers that people have been trying to drive into them and resist. I mean, there was a lot of cases in the Chicago area over this. So, no, it's 100% justified. But it's bound to make people upset. And I'm not surprised liberals are treating this or trying to turn this into another George Floyd situation where they're like, oh, this is terrible. How can we do this? And I think James asks, is like, do you think this is a PR disaster for the admin? Well, it's likely not good with normies, but it's still justified

and necessary. I mean, it wasn't good for normies when they saw the George Floyd thing. Normies have weak stomachs. Normies are easily propagandized and brainwashed into thinking the dumbest things about carnivates. And in certain cases, you just need to say whatever, it to do things necessary. And if you're wanting to hype up mass deportations and to have a nice agency, ice agents go into areas that are protecting illegal immigrants and a lot of the locals are trying to protect illegal immigrants, you're going to have these type of confrontations. And so this is an ex, this is a natural result of Trump's policies. Now, I think, you know, the left getting up in arms is no surprise. I knew this was going to blow up when it happened because it's if it had been an illegal immigrant who clearly was trying, it was a clear case of them trying to resist and then it turns out they're an MS-13 gangbinger. You know, even with the case of

George Floyd, not as sympathetic with character. And especially if they're not speaking English, it creates a harder degree of greater golf between the ordinary, normy audience and the person who is shot. Now, Renee Good is a white 37 year old mother. She, you know, speaking English, she looks like a normy. She is in fact a radicalized normy. And so there are crates that degrees, like this could happen to me. And, you know, most of the media coverage is trying to portray this as the mother of the year, despite her not having a job and her being trained to interfere with ice actions and maneuvers, you know, her being a warrior against ice as, you know, her friends and activists were calling her. You know, she, but they should try that she was just a mother driving her kids off to school. And then she didn't know what to do in a roadblock and then it happened, which the cell phone video clearly shows that this is an intentional act that they were

trying to interfere with ice activity. You know, the, the lesbian lover gets out of the car. They're blocking the road, you know, what she's, you know, she's not and that's not how you have your vehicle parked in the, you don't park your car in the middle of the fucking road. So it's like, why is she doing this? You know, and she's clearly interfering with police activity. She's resisting arrest. And then she's probably a bad driver and drove in the direction of the, you know, ice officer. And he, you know, apparently got nipped in the hip by this and he just experiences. And you know, if you experience it, you know, stressful, traumatic experience like that, and you see it happening again, and you know, he pulled out his gun really quick and emptied it into her, you know, this is the type of thing that's going to happen. And I'm not surprised that this happened at all because the left is encouraging violent confrontation with ice. Their constituents, I references in my Amcon article over the weekend is that Democratic offices have been blown up by their constituents demanding that they violently

confront ice. So this is why all these Democratic lawmakers are staging these PR ops to be like, I'm resisting arrest or I'm stopping ice. You know, there was that former media matters staffer cat. It's some, I'm not going to try to pronounce her name, but she got arrested at a nice thing. And now she's being charged with resisting ice activity. You know, and all these Democrats are getting in there and now they're going full abolish ice and they're thinking ice is a terrorist group. And we've seen this a lot. I mean, you know, a lot of these Hispanic gang mayors have shot at them and use lethal force. The white antifa and leftists haven't really used lethal force yet are maybe you could say that good intentionally did it or unintentionally, whether it's intentional or unintentional, you don't resist arrest after blocking police activity and then try to drive away and you being a bad driver, you drive right into a nice agent. You know, you don't do that. And that's this is the type of shit that's going to happen

to you if you do stupid shit. And that's what happened with Renee good. So I think it's on your recent justified. If it's a bad PR move, it's, well, what do you guys want to expect? If you think this is bad PR, then you want people to, you want the administration to stop the doing deportations. You want them to just stop doing the ice race. You want them to do, you basically want them to pull back from their immigration policy and then follow the old immigration policy of just not really deporting people unless a city or state arrests some pedophile or murderer and it turns out to be illegal immigrant. And they actually report his immigration status to federal authorities, which a lot of cities don't fucking do. Then you're like, okay, that's all we're going to deport. So deportation numbers would, would plummet if that's in the, if that's the case. And when everybody brings up these numbers about Biden and Obama or deporting more, the reason why they're deporting more is they counted all the people they were turning away

at the border. And when they're, when you're like Biden, you're having over 100,000 migrants come every month, really over 150,000 over 200,000 in a lot of months. You have a lot of people to turn away to boost your deportation numbers, but they were doing zero internal deportations, absolutely zero deportations internally. They were not going out and arresting people, unless it was some extreme case of this kind of hard and criminal. And he's about to be released and, you know, they don't have anywhere to go with, do with them. And they announced the Biden administration announced in 2021, you know, Mayorkas went out there and said, we're not going to deport anyone unless you commit a really serious crime. And it's basically like aggravated rape and murder. And they're first going to have to serve a lengthy sentence. So they're essentially announced a complete amnesty on all legal immigrants for doing this. And it's even a same with Obama, is that Obama just began aggressively turning away people at the border to boost deportation

numbers in order to bamboozle Republicans into thinking he was serious about border security, but was doing hardly any internal, you know, deportations. And so when you have high numbers of illegal immigrants at the border, you can then boost your deportation numbers. Trump is getting historically low, the lowest illegal entries on record. We're getting like 5,000 migrants coming to the border every month and they're immediately turned away. Now that's a good thing because we're getting hardly any illegal immigrants, but you can expect them to boost numbers from the border. So there are pretty much all the deportation numbers are people that they're deporting from the interior. And in order to do this, you have to have actions like this. And so the most, the real response, like I'm not surprised the left went over this. I mean, I think we're going to have more incidents like this. It's just natural. If you want me to mass deportations, this is the cost of it. It's going to make a lot of the public queasy and, you know, get weak

needs. It's just expected. I knew this would be the case last, not last year. It's last year is now 2025, but I knew this was the case in 2024 when I saw the public, you know, getting weak stomachs over things. I saw people on the right being like, we can't fire people who celebrated Trump's near-ass nation. That's wrong. And I saw this all the time. And it's like, do the public is not going to have even our own side. It's not going to have the stomach to do this stuff. And with our side, they have not had the stomach to see this, but it's surprising with the left that they're melting down, but they're not having rights. I'll go to New England refugees question on this about the matter rights at the end, but I really want to go off on the rights. The amount of people who are somehow crying over who are right-wingers who are crying over and they're good. And a lot of these people are doing this or, and I'm not using a pejorative, or not sees. And especially this one guy I got into it, or even with his like Morgot, who is like this British right-winger. I don't know what's up with British right-wing influencers on Twitter,

but they're pretty much all universally like terrible. And it's, you know, I don't support X's idea or not X's idea, but Britain's idea to shut down X. And Britain, that would be bad for us, but have this silver lining of never having to hear from these terrible British right-wingers who spend all their time like talking about how Trump sucks, and it's like time for revolution, and they're like 50 years old and incapable of violence. And one of these guys is like Morgot. Morgot is like this is petty sadism and just weak, impative beta-cuck rage. And this guy has like all these calls for violence in recent years. He's like, we need to hang new people and all the stuff. And he in the past, it's elevated day of the rope, right-wing death squads. And he tried to claim that this is fake because of this from a left-wing antifusite. And it's like, look, you know, I didn't want to cite it, but you know, it is your words. And a lot of when people throw that back, it's like, you can't cite that. That's from a bad source. I have right-wingers every fucking day send my docs

to me over some dispute. You know, if I tweet out NFL results, I'll then send that somebody will be in my fucking mentions showing my docs to me and celebrating I got like consequences for my docs. And these are fucking right-wingers. So I hate this fucking argument because nobody on the right shares this argument where it's like, we can't rely on left-wing sources of people saying stupid stuff. It's like people who do this all the time. It's selective standards. And he was like, you're starting with left-wingers on this. But this is like the fact is like half the people who are the most actually the vast majority of right-wingers who are doing this are people who celebrate Hitler who will defend the Einsatz Group. And sometimes they'll be like, have people with Oscar, Oscar, Derla Venger, Avies. And they're like, this is outrageous. This is Penny Sadism. I'm like, look at your fucking Avie. Look at your profile picture. Like, what the fuck are you talking about?

It's all the, it's like the funniest thing is that the people who are most inclined to cry from the right are most likely to cry over the ice agent are also the most inclined to defend the Nazis in their actions over over two. And you're like, what is going on here? And it's a lot of the old Wig Nats. I don't think that's their very reflective of even sentiment among the broader right. I think this is similar to like two in 2020 where a lot of Wig Nats were hardcore COVID lockdown people initially supported the George Floyd protests. And when they saw George Floyd, they're like, you've got to have sympathy for this because the police state will also do this to to white activists. And there was a lot of people saying this stuff. They meet once the riots broke out. There was some initial support for the riots as a as a great demonstration and campaign against Western capitalism or something. They immediately realized that they're that the side was on a different

level, moved in into it. And now they're doing this with the eye itself. So I'm not surprised they are like upset about Maduro. You know, there's a lot of non interventionists and a lot of like anything that, you know, they oppose anything America does and they're one of destroy the empire. You know, there's a lot of sense if you go to like unsreview and stuff, this is reflected in the opinions of those writers and other things. But here, you know, you're like, how are you guys like really hostile to it? And they use bad arguments. They're like, oh, you know, this guy, the ice officer is married to a Filipino. First off, like at least a third of white nationals who are married are married to non-whites. I mean, the, you know, return the land guys are complaining that like they get all these application applications from guys with non-whites. Like this might also burnish his right wing credentials by being married to a Filipino. Of course, I'm not, you know, supportive of this, but, you know, in this situation, I'm not going to care, especially when these guys don't care, depending on the circumstances,

and they also elevate non-white voices themselves. So it, I don't want to say it is very and nervy. It's very frustrating to see these voices and taste gain credence. I had some of the guys like the people in America saying this is stupid, but it's all the Euro right wingers were also into this because they're all, you know, but heard over the Greenland stuff and they're also mad about Venezuela. And so this just added a new thing like America's Insanisom. How could you do this? We don't do this in Europe. And well, of course, you don't, you just let them drive over you and then you let them out and out of prison and don't deport them. Like that's what happens in Europe. Like you almost reward these people as you don't have a real ice agency. You know, you just, their deportations strategy in Europe is to issue them deportation notices and then hope that they deport themselves. And usually they don't deport them. It's like, all of Europe has a huge problem getting rid of these illegal migrants. And whenever you read these

crime stories or terror stories, they're all people who got told that they're no longer allowed in the country. But you know, then they say they're anyway and they're like, well, make me and they're like, please, you know, they don't, they don't have a real ice agency to go after, to go after these people. Or they have nothing like ice are as, are as given as much power to be as aggressive as ice. So it's something but a lot of people on the online right are just there to take contrary positions to the rest of the online right. And that's their only political. That's that's their sole politics. If we're for Trump, they're anti Trump. If they're, if we're for the ice agent, they're there against the ice agent. If we're for toppling Maduro, even though there's a lot more debate over that. And I think that's more reflective of broader right wing tendencies are at least people who are into online right stuff. I think that's better reflective of the audience. I don't think the audience was that like, I don't think much of our audience actually agree with

like the anti ice takes. But you know, they'll take any contrary position. It's why they'll like defend Mamdani, AOC, all these leftists. And eventually at the end day, they just become vote Democrat for base reasons and leftist for base reasons. But it doesn't matter if it's for base reasons, the in practice, they're leftists. And so they're basically leftists who like Hitler. And it's something that you have to realize with a lot of the elements of the online right. But I don't think it's reflective, but it was very, it was very idiotic with some of these people. But I think with the euro right wingers, they're just a lot of these British guys, even though they they fantasize about mass murder and stuff that they, you know, it becomes another way to counter signal America and the rightoids of the online right. And so I got into it. It's relating to the Greenland stuff. But I'll get into that moment. I'll go to New England refugees specific question. Where you asked, do you believe that if Renee Good was black, there would have been looting?

Well, I guess she meant writing. You know, they haven't really done any the looting and writing. Yeah, there's been a lot of police shootings and stuff. And people like this can be a long hot summer and then nothing happens. I don't think they really, they don't seem to really want to do that stuff anymore with blacks. I mean, they, and they still have the potential to do it. But there's way, we've had a lot of police shootings and other things where people like there's going to be a long hot summer and like, they don't do this. They haven't done this since 2020. And even before 2020, they didn't seem as eager to do it. I think it was all when Trump got into power, they really stopped writing. There was a ton of writing in the mid 20, in the mid 2010s is that it started in Ferguson. Then I went into Baltimore and approach after any police shooting, there was a good chance of writing. And in the lead up to Trump's election, there was three riots, major riots, and three different cities in the months leading up. There was one in, I was one in Baton Rouge.

There was one in Milwaukee and there was one in Charlotte. And it also, there was also the police, uh, the assassination of officers by a black national sundale. I think that was in June or July. So, you know, there's a lot of violent in June or July of 2016. So there's a lot of this violence. Then once Trump's gotten to power over the riots quite, quite down. We're still having police shootings, but they're not really doing it. Then they got cooped up with COVID and people lost their minds. And then they started doing mass riots. And, you know, the whole liberal media and normies are apparently in support of it. But it really hasn't been the case since then. Now, I think that if she was theoretically black maybe, but blacks are not getting involved in ice enforcement. This is really just Hispanics and white liberals. That's it. Like blacks are not involving themselves in this shit. It's like blacks are very, um, I'm going to try to think the word. Not really active in politics right now in terms of like street activism. They aren't getting that

involved. If you look at a lot of the element, uh, you know, big radical events, they've not really been involved. They weren't the ones voting for Mamdani. They were voting for Cuomo in the elections. You know, they were not going for Mamdani. They haven't been involved in any street protests involving Trump. It's all their Hispanics have been activated. Uh, when it's involving their community, most of violent and most of people are capable of violence. It is these Hispanic gang bangers who are getting in fights, uh, shootings shootouts with them. And that's what happened in Portland, whereas, um, you know, two people affiliated with MS-13 who got in a firefight with ISO officers. So, you know, that's, that's the type of things that are happening. But blacks are just not getting involved in all. You know, I think, uh, some black, I mean, uh, electorally, they're not going to vote for Republicans, but, uh, I guarantee you in Chicago, and I'll sort of like, oh, yeah, they're taking all jobs. Get them out of here. They're taking all houses, you know, and there's only probably don't give that much of a shit about this. So they're not going to get involved in this in the first place. This is entirely Hispanic and

white libtards. And I think that also, but that also prevents the outside of the left wing cities where they can mobilize a large anti-fuck contingent such as Portland, potentially Seattle, maybe many, many, manyapolis. They, I think of as warmer. I think you would have had riots break out. They would have not been on the scale of 2020 because they wouldn't have had the black community there. They are getting Somalis, though, activated because there is like videos of these Somalis. They're trying, these ice guys are trying to do some type of rest or some type of raid. And these Somali community, there's like hundreds of them. And they're just like shouting and they're foreign tongue and going nuts and they're like, the ice officers retreat. And I think that they could get the Somalis involved, that the non Somali blacks are not going to get involved. And they I think that in order to have the type of scale of riding that we saw in 2020, outside of Portland,

which Portland had as hardly any blacks and was completely anti-fuck driven. And I think they could also do that in Seattle. Manyapolis is one of the other, you know, hardcore anti-fuck places that maybe they could, but in 2020, they still dependent on blacks to be there. And I always talked about this with the 2020 riots, is that the white element or the anti-file element was always trying to go against symbols of authority. They would lay siege to courthouses, government buildings, and get in fights with cops. The black element would just loot the two wanton mayhem. The anti-fuck types were much more strategic and where they went. And that's why in Portland, they laid siege to the courthouse while in most of these cities, they would just go and loot the local footlocker. And so that was a dependent on that. But they still need that black element to provide enough manpower to do this. But we'll see, I don't think that I think we're not going to

have riots. It's like, it's really fucking cold in Minneapolis. So people don't want to riot when it's really cold. And they don't have the NBA element. They could get the Somalis. But I think the Somali leaders are going to be like, please do not do this. They're going to like to port all of us if you riot. And that's another reason they don't want to riot is that if there's local leaders who can, and I think that's the same with black me, where there were people who would agitate these elements. But they're like, do not do this. This is going to be a gift to Trump. And it would be a gift to Trump if they riot it. You know, the LA riots last summer, over ice raids helped Trump. And they turned out, because it's like, look at these radical violent elements, illegal immigrant elements. Look at what they're doing. We need to get more of a amount of the country. So, I don't, even if it was just a normal police shooting of a white officer shooting a black woman, which it just wouldn't have because black are not going to get

themselves involved in this, unless they're like a really white black person who probably has a white lesbian lover or something of that sort. They're not going to involve themselves in this. They're focused on their own matter. And you can see like the black reaction is that there's a hilarious cell phone video, a video of it, whereas a black guy's like, oh, hell no, they're all out here. And he's like, checks out this ice age. Oh, damn, she thickens hell. And that's like the reaction. They're just like, you know, it goes from like, oh, damn, they shot that woman to like admiring the ass of some ice officer. So, they're not as like, you know, if there was really worked up about it, I don't think he would have the time to notice the ice agent is thick as hell. But that's my views on the ice shooting. I think it's 100% justified. I think that the only proper response is to back the ice agent. If you are crying over his actions, if you are

you know, going off on this and saying this is horrible or saying this is horrible optics, are really the worst thing is if you think that we, that this is a distraction that we can master port 10 million people without upsetting anyone, you're a fucking moron and you're in practice a lot of this. That's it. Like there, this is how master portations work. This is going to be the result. And if you're getting a week's stomach over this and are complaining about it and saying this is meant to prevent more master portations, you're just frankly a moron and shouldn't have any, should not air your political opinions anywhere. Like even in private conversation. And I get sick of that when all these people are like, we could easily deport 10 million people without upsetting anyone. And it's like, no, you have to do this. People are like, well, we just, we just punish them and no, but we'll send any officers out there. And it's, we've done this in the past. They don't leave. And even if they're like, not only able to get jobs, they'll just stay in random cities where they're able to get government benefits like Minneapolis, Maine, Illinois, you know, there,

you know, there's a lot of places where illegal immigrants can easily get government benefits. And most illegal immigrants who came here under Biden, we're coming from government benefits, not to work. So that's a stupid argument, even if you're arresting players, we've done this in the past. They don't leave. You have to have terror attackers to leave. If immatillial immigrants think that they're going to be sent to a super max prison in El Salvador, they're going to leave. And if we've seen the numbers, they're starting numbers to come out that about three million, it's, you know, it was the past summer, we're 2.2 million. And these numbers came out like August, September, but it's likely over three million have left. And most of those are self deportations because they're terrified of ending up in the super max in El Salvador or some God forsaken country in Africa or in their terrified of ICE agents breaking down the door. You have to have the terror tactics to leave. And this is the type of things that are going to happen when you try to enforce the laws and try to make America great again. And if you're getting weak summing for it, you don't have what it takes to support mass deportations. And it's like this guy highlighted

who is like a mass deportationist in his bio and he's crying over this. And this is like what happens. And if you think this is a distraction, you think this is unnecessary, you don't understand what it takes to achieve what we want. So that is my thoughts on that. So yeah, it's likely not good for the admin. It's happened with more normy, it upsets normies, but I always get this about tariffs and other things that hurt people's bottom line. That's why I don't think that the administration shouldn't do too many radical things that might upset the public because we want them to the one thing that we can upset the public on our go radical is mass deportations. Well, I think everything else needs to be calm and moderate in order to create the public goodwill to have people ignore the mass deportations. But if people's economic fortunes are hurting, they're going to pay more attention to this and turn on the admin and Republicans and a right wing agenda.

But it's not starting to do. This things are going to happen if we're going to do mass deportations. You either have mass deportations and run the risk of this happening again or you don't have you don't have deportations at all. That's your choice. There's no, there's no third option here. There's no secret third option where you deport a hundred million migrants and no one is upset and no one gets hurt in the process and there's no video, there's no videos of anything that might upset the public. That is just impossible. And if you think that you might as well go off to Hogwarts or some other fantasy land because you are not fit to understand political reality. So that is my thoughts on the ice shooting. Now for my thoughts on Greenland, I guess I'll give short thoughts on this because I've 30 minutes in. I'm just going to repeat my tweet. I had I think, you know, I am relatively neutral on this. It's probably, you know, we we do need to keep the EU on our side. But it's also the EU overstates how much independence it has.

But we should still be like, okay, you can have Greenland. We can do more projects now. Somebody explained this to me is the reason why that it's harder to share projects is that American projects are subject to it use idiotic regulations and stuff when they do things at Greenland. And it'd be a lot easier and convenient if we're just subject to our own laws and regulations. And we could do a whole lot more. And that's why we've paired down a lot of these projects in Greenland because we're tired to deal with you nonsense. You know, it might be we might just have to deal with it or negotiate some like regular we're not subject to the regulations anymore. We could work out some deal. I think it's better to share Greenland but to renegotiate our access to it that essentially we get to do what we want. But it's normally in Denmark's hands. They have access to it if they want. But we're running the show in the way we see fit. But they it's still part of Greenland. It's still part of Denmark. We don't need to take it.

They still have access to it. They're not getting denied. But we're able to do our projects more with a greater degree of independence than we are in the past. And I think that's I think that's the best solution. And you almost had the question. But the Euro's reaction almost justified just annexing it. I am. Eurocats are just people. I don't I don't I'm one of the few Americans who gets upset about some of the you know anti-European stuff. But a lot of the Europeans bring this on themselves. And the idea that Europe all these Europe all these people who are wanting to fight to death over Greenland view Russia as their mortal enemy and don't want to make a peace deal over Ukraine. So they want to fight Russia and America at the same time when the EU is insanely weak and depending on one of the three great powers of the world to you know have as its ally. I guess they would want China but they're not even that eager to

align with China. They just imagine an independent Europe which is you know doesn't have the resources of the other three great powers. Doesn't have any nowhere near the military might our military ability or capacity to fight and die as them. And they're weak and divided you know they can't you know agree on common policy. They don't have a common military. They're militaries or jokes compared to America China and Russia. Despite what's happening in Ukraine. And some of them will be like well what's happening in Ukraine? And Euros will do stolen valor of what the Ukrainians do and say that the Danes will fight to death in the trenches over Greenland. There is zero chance of that happening. There is no chance first of like Danish military. It's like you you're about to fuck with the mighty Danish military. It's like I don't think we need to worry about the Danish military. I don't want to make too many jokes but is the Europeans are bringing themselves on this? And online once again this these are like all these euro right wingers or coming online who tweet all day in English. It's like you're so anti-American. Why the fuck are you tweeting all day in English?

Like you are showing a sign of how American cultural and imperial dominance if you're tweeting all day and fucking English and talking about our political affairs. Like you are not talking about what's happening in Germany and France as much as you're talking about the ice shooting in Minneapolis. So what you know you're not you're hating the thing you're engolging in every day. In any case these guys just imagine that like America empire is going to fall once we fight the mighty EU army over fucking Greenland it's not going to happen. And euro crats the the leadership of the continent is terrible. These people you know they censor anyone who opposes immigration. They have terrible hate speech laws. They have they have regulations that cripple business. These are the people ruining the continent. And instead and the average European isn't even aware of Greenland of having access to Greenland. It still is important to Europe's long term prospects is because they have to have access to the Arctic. And they're going to need access to the Arctic in the future

and all they've got is you know Scandinavia. So they it's much better to keep Greenland within their orbit. But you know the average European isn't aware of this and they're not going to find dye over it. And it is ridiculous to say this. And the European reaction almost justifies the annexation of it. It is funny that this whole diplomatic row is caused by Katie Miller. Steven Miller's wife tweeting a meme of like American flag over Greenland and they're like this is though we don't do this in Germany. And then they go and have this meltdown over it. But you know it's you do need a better relationship with Europe but Europe doesn't want to face reality of what it's like. It's that it's a weak vassal whether that's correct or not. There are weak vassal entity of the United States. They're utterly dependent on us you know for where they get defense weaponry for defense even though they're spending more their their militaries are still

going to be jokes compared to the American military. Maybe that you what you can argue that that shouldn't be the case but they've decided this you know after you know two devastating World Wars that destroyed the continent and you know killed their appetite for war that they moved in a less militaristic direction. And they don't have the people who were willing to find dye like they did a hundred years ago. So I mean a lot of them died and didn't and didn't reproduce so it's not the same. And you could say well maybe you want to stronger in Europe you know I'm open to that is that they're less dependent on us. I think that would be better for both American Europe. Well they got to figure out what who they want to ally with and they currently just think that they can be an independent great power on their own while hostile to both American and Russia. You know they're fighting you know they're apparently going to fight and defeat Russia in Ukraine or the Ukrainians are. I don't know who they're going to utilize as their people as their cannon fodder in Greenland but they're going to fight and die and defeat America and Greenland

and you know there's a lot of fantastical notions. And America the thing about Trump is for better or for worse he is dropping the pretense that Europe you know they're equal partners and you know we're not an empire and we're going to work together and we're going to pretend that Europe is a mighty state and he's just dropping the pretense and it's like we're tired of you know we're tired of supporting your systems we're tired of providing the defenses allowed you to have these extravagant welfare states that has hurt your long-term prospects and we want you to pay your fair share and defense. And we're also more inclined to just leave you to having your own defense. You know they complained about the national security strategy which was going to leave grant Europe a degree of independence that they've not had before at the same time it is meaning that they get a crappier trade deal but they would get less oversight by America and you know there'd be pullback from NATO and they all the Europeans flipped out about it so it's you know they can't figure out what they want they really want the past pretense and false reality that

they are great power and they're fully equal with America and they can pretend that they're you know what they say matters in the world and Trump has just dropped that and they're really pissed off about it and we see that in Greenland. I still think you know I'm neutral about it if we talk Greenland we talk it I don't think we will it's probably a waste of diplomatic capital but I think it's necessary to negotiate a better deal where we're able to do our projects the way we see fit independent of you oversight and regulations it's probably the that's probably the best that's probably the best deal we can get and we should strive for that we probably shouldn't waste a political capital in Greenland in the first place but Europeans are inviting it when their response to this it's just so outrageous and preposterous and based in fantasy of what their capabilities are and they got to play nice with America you know it's like with a trade deal they

threaten to do a trade war and then their leaders like we'd be really screwed by this and they agreed to a humiliating trade deal with us which I don't know if we should have done I probably am more opposed to that than making a better up more pro-American Greenland trade deal but we did it anyway and Europe has no power to resist it and they if they have no power to resist our trade deal demands they certainly have no power to resist us annexing Greenland but they should keep that in mind and make a better deal for us so we can both share Greenland so that is my takes on that now we'll go to questions we've got we'll go with Gillis and Joyer first all their questions he said do you think the administration is getting enough support to keep morale high you've mentioned before it's important that they don't think the bases amending them or else they stop trying to push through a base agenda and the online right is full more full of doom or so I have to think you have to distinguish the base from the online right the online right is not the

base the base is represented by Fox News and a lot of these rumble a cast or even the rumble cast are starting to turn on the base are the people going to Trump's rallies and they're much more regressed roots oriented thing the online right is separate from the base now sometimes the online right represents is you know in sync with the base sometimes they're opposition towards it and a most the base is really excited about what Trump's doing you know they think everything is doing it's awesome he has extremely high favorables among Republicans so there's no real turning on Trump from the base you know there was a lot of people in the base who had questions about how he handled Epstein but most of these things that people claim that the base is turning on like Iran over 90% of mega Republicans back the Iran bombing whether we like it or not I think the Iran bombing we shouldn't have done the Venezuela raid once again they're overwhelmingly supportive of it they're not losing the base they're just pissing off the online right so I think it's like

do you think that the administration getting enough support from the online right I would say that they're getting a lot more support with the ice agent even though I mentioned all these idiotic right wingers who are crying tears over it you know and you know acting this is all this is outrageous this is terrible as they've got like a swastika or bio and stuff you know the the majority of people the majority of right wing influencers who have been either on the fence about Trump or you know to go back and forth on Trump I've been supportive of the administration this fight so and I also saw a lot of people who were very supportive of the Venezuela raid that maybe otherwise wouldn't have been so they got the thing is like people were worried about the public I mean the public doesn't care about the Venezuela case there's no troops there they it's like oh I guess we shouldn't have done that but it's like it's not something that's really hyping them up they they with the ice shooting I think that has a bigger impact on

the normies but the online right seems largely supportive of it except for these very vocal wignats and euro right wingers who've decided it's the worst tragedy ever you know but I think I think overall they're not getting as much because I think there are a lot of right wing influencers who whatever happens they focus on their pet issues is that they immediately go to you know Venezuela happens well why aren't we doing this to federal judges well we're prevented from doing that by the laws of the country and that would be insanely unpopular and a lot of people suggested stuff are talking about the bad optics of an ice agent shooting the leftist who's driving at them so we can't that's not going to happen that's just not going to happen so then they suggest fantasy and then you know this ice shooting happens and they're like we need to send like of mobilize every soldier to arrest every liberal in in the country it's like they focus on their pet issues and they say they create these impossible demands no matter what news event and these impossible demands are never going to be met and then they black pill their

audience I think it's that a huge problem with the right wing influencer online influencer network is that they're setting impossible demands that are not demanded by anyone in the base even though mass deportations people want mass deportations but you know they don't want to cripple the economy and in response to it or you know deport their favorite lawnmower or whatever they they have more reasonable expectations for this but the online right is like oh they haven't deported 50 million a year I'm giving up on Trump and voting for Newsom you know and that's always what happens is like I'm taking my ball and going home if I don't meet these impossible demands the problem is that the online right can doesn't command actual voters and we're starting to learn that with these online right candidates who are running in Ohio and Florida and elsewhere and they're you know real polling shows them at most with 5% and they have no real support among actual people but people think that they're serious because they have a lot of online right support but the online right does

not have the ability command voters are sway elections as much as the online right think they do they do and so we have to be much more pro Trump than I think and set reasonable demands for the administration I think it's worthwhile to criticize I'm not one of those people say you can ever criticize them criticize them about a student visas I criticize them at the terror of all the time you know a lot of the online right doesn't do it I criticize them out as H1B comments I am willing to criticize and I criticize them about their you know moves to bomb Iran you know I'm willing to criticize the administration I think the online right should do but I think is that a lot of times we criticize them for not doing the impossible and then we black pill our audience and encourage them to vote Democrats in response to them not meeting our impossible demands and so I think the real issue is that the online right is misunderstands it's influence of the base it doesn't have as much influence of the base as it thinks it thinks it does and it doesn't represent the base as much of it as it thinks it does and as well as the demands we're setting

are not going to be achieved and they end up just black pilling our audience and we turn into more of a corner to bitch about everything Trump is not doing rather than to provide a support and if Trump sees this as just a source of criticism then they're going to zone us out and it's what's happening with even though everyone hates Vivek and you know obviously I have my problems with Vivek Vivek has decided to go with a completely offline candidate campaign which will likely benefit his campaign if he wins that's going to be huge blow to the online right because it's going to show the this guy who made himself a name through online presence and online commentary decided to go offline and actually became governor of Ohio and showed that you can do this in spite of being the most hated Republican by the online right and it doesn't matter in elections and if Republicans get that message that's not good for the online right second question degree that regime change in Iran would be good for us as long as there are no us boots on the ground no I I think the

thing is he says that Iran is a main source of instability and therefore refugees for region and they says that the regime is replaced with the US friendly one or even neutral one something that there's no reason to care about the region anymore we've had it even harder to the Asia Pacific I think theoretically if you just replaced it with a region a country a government that can keep it together that would be fine it's whatever I mean the mollus suck I'm not a support of them I'm not one of these people is like hands off Iran I mean well I we should not get involved we should have no military strikes there we should not let's set the issue is is that the most likely scenario is that it descends into civil wars that it turns into another Syria because the mollus and IRGC know that they're going to likely be killed by the next government also it doesn't seem that there is a force that can unite all these disparate disparate dissonant elements because there's you know ethnic minorities that have their own interests there's these college students and urban populations that have their own interests and their urban populations means something different

here than our urban populations and you know what oppose alternative force can come and lead them and keep the country together and I don't really see that because it's all these foreign dissonants who don't seem to have much influence on the ground like the MEK who are communist who helped the mollus take over and then got the mollus turned on them I'm not sure if they have any influence on the ground the shots certainly doesn't have any influence on the ground so who's going to take over and really the best scenario for regime change would be how many dies and a moderate clerk takes over and pushes them in a different direction I don't think revolution is going to be you know a violent revolution is the best way for us to have Iran how many is not going to live very long I mean he's I think in his late 80s so he's not going to be around much longer the best thing to do is just to wait for you know him to be you know I'm not suggesting assassination because that's not because that's just going to terminate martyr and that's probably going to radicalize the regime ever but it's just like to wait for him to die of natural causes

most likely once he dies and also the fact is is most of the Iranian government is all these old boomers the Iranian equivalent to Boomer who are around for the revolution they're old they're getting replaced and eventually the Iran will moderate on its own over the next 10 years but but I think a violent revolution is going to lead to what we've seen in Syria Libya Iraq when we did toppled Saddam and you basically have a civil war that sends countless numbers of refugees here of destabilize his region eventually could even become a proxy war between competing Gulf State competing Middle Eastern Paris because now it's like where there's only this proxy war there's now a proxy UAE and Saudi Arabia are now competing for Middle Eastern hegemony along with there's you know maybe Turkey could turn on the Gulf States you know you know it'd be all the Sunni powers coming in there but I don't think you know we experience enough tragedy and awful things to

come out of the experience of war I don't think we should strive for that in Iran and I think that's the most likely scenario with the regime change maybe there's a more moderate leader or cleric that say they depose how many and then there's like moderate cleric who takes over who then transitions them into a stable more pro-US government but and you know that's a that's a bet and you don't know if that person's going to have the charisma and authority to do that so sometimes it's better to deal with the devil you know than rather than the actually it's often but it's usually better to deal with the devil you know rather than the devil you don't know and I think that's one of the problems with the regime change so I don't think regime change is really good for world stability because it will likely lead to conflict in the Middle East and we could potentially be drawn in over time like we we were drawn in from what happened with the Arab Spring into the Middle East so something to look out for

now Nitro's got a great question he said thoughts on James Fishback's appearance on Tucker Carlson well that's not surprised that Dr. Carlson endorsed him but you know it is showing he's running an influencer campaign that's not dealing with voter issues I think if you're wanting to run from Florida governor saying the Jews run the state is probably not the best way to campaign on I mean if you're an influencer commentator you can say whatever you want but you know he's out there it's really funny how he talks it's like he sounds I find him amusing on like Casey Putch like Putch I have no time to even contemplate but Fishback is I do find him funny and just how what he does it is campaign you know he talks like a chopped UPG it's like well let me tell you Tucker um the thing that there happens with this government is that it is a bad thing and Benjamin Netanyahu I want to say be very clear he's a he's a worker you know he's like it's it's like a weird like they all went to like Barack Obama camp and they figured out you know

some ways is speaking so it's not completely the same but it is like a super like anybody listen if it's like very put on like I don't think this is his normal voice and he does this in all his interviews I mean it is a it's much more you pay much more attention to it than the average politician such as Byron Donald's like Byron Donald this doesn't have much charisma but it is like a chat GBD bot and a lot of his tweets also resemble that too um but he has like a funny campaign he's like talking about Jews and stuff it is interesting these how turned entirely on DeSantis which you know he began his campaign as the pro DeSantis anti-Trump guy and he got a lot of DeSantis we're backing him because they were all before he announced like DeSantis if you watch the influencers they were all attacking Byron Donald's they hated Byron Donald and they're preparing for the DeSantis cabinet they hoped it would be Casey DeSantis but they might accept the lieutenant governor and then when Fishback announced himself he was like presenting himself as the DeSantis cabinet and a lot of DeSantis liked him and then he obviously did

DeSantis a very pro-Israel and then he made anti-Israel his main campaign issue and he's running for governor Florida on an anti-Israel platform which is you know the governor Israel doesn't determine a foreign policy now the governor Florida at the same time does a lot of pro-Israel stuff they should do I mean he's governor Florida this isn't his business but at the same time like you know that's not the governor Florida doesn't deal with that matter and so he's focusing on all these online issues and if you read and if you listen to his podcast you know it's all things that really ordinary Florida voters don't care about and it's not something that a governor says it's an influencer discussion and his campaign is just to build himself up to be an influencer and it is what it is I don't take him very seriously but it is like funny I think there's still the funniest thing about the James Fishback campaign is they had to apologize to the you know anti-Semitic community for being friendly with Barry White he says this is quite the campaign

in Florida and Florida is like one of the few states where Jewish voters are significant enough to impact elections and even a Republican primary so fishback I don't know this just just show that online right politics don't translate well into electoral politics because you have to focus on a lot you have to make concessions you have to focus on local issues you have to meet where voters actually are and voters are nowhere near where the online right is and eventually you just kind of have these like clown show campaigns that are going around and they resemble you know influencer battles then you know actual campaigns and that is the case with fishback but it it was uh uh there's funny moments with it so it is interesting it is now presenting self as the anti-decentive camp it can't it I guess the anti-Trump as well even though I don't think he really I think he at least has enough intelligence to not attack Trump but he is

which Casey Puch in Ohio does not have the intelligence to because he's full on anti-Trump uh but fishback it's more implied he's anti-Trump but uh he you know he has no chance of primary all the polls put him at 5% at most and I don't think that when voters get to know him or are they gonna want to support him but it is what it is but I think the main testament to both push and fishback is it shows that online right politics don't translate well into electoral politics and especially with priorities that people have that they want these candidates to talk about and it's not really what ordinary voters care about is what it is so we will go with Ken Ken's other question was can you break down the Jaguar's game of the Trevor Lawrence sloppy Joe down the middle into an interception to end it uh it wasn't that much of a salt like first off it hit the receiver's hands you know it was a it popped up and then it went into a cornerbacks hands it wasn't that bad of it wasn't that bad of a call or pass it just it's one of those accidents it's not like

he threw the ball and it hit went straight to a cornerback I don't think it was that bad there was a play in the in earlier in the game where it was a bad throw they are a throw he shouldn't have made like an interception earlier but that interception ended was the guy almost the receiver almost caught it popped up I went in a quarterback stand they do talk about that there was a there was a receiver open more open down the middle but you know it's a quarterback he's got defensive lens coming at him he makes a split second decision and it was a catchable ball but it uh didn't end to that so it's not a bad interception I don't think it was terrible because it wasn't like that the it went straight into the cornerbacks hands so but the Jaguar's I mean they had a thing they're a young team they're not as playoff experiences the bills you know I'm really right now is that the player the that you would want in high pressure games and playoffs is Josh Allen now Josh Allen I don't know how well he's going to do he is really banged up and

even in the game you know he was playing on a bad foot and he got banged up even more in the game like he you know hurt his fingers he gets he hit it on the helmet of another guy throwing and or like he was like I'm in serious pain he's got a ton of other injuries are like brewed he was really battered throughout the game so I don't know how he's going to do um next what well they'll be against the they'll be playing against the Broncos next week but I don't know how well I guess I you know I like the I think Josh Allen deserves a Super Bowl so I I'd root for the bills now to just to give Allen a Super Bowl ring even though I don't think the bills are the best team this year but you know Allen deserves to go to the Super Bowl so it's fine though you know they lost to you know who else would you rather than lose to but yeah it just games go like that yeah I'm unlucky breaks and that was the interception so that's my thoughts on the Jaguars game but I have all my other picks in my playoff I did not do this for the fan duel I did not

put any money on it but I had a bracket and I am I am four for five and if the Texans winded night I will be five for six so I have all my other predictions correct but I think this Jaguars to win the Super Bowl so I think my bracket is destroyed otherwise so we will go to Gilson Joyers are are no actually aren't got I meant arm day enjoyer other other enjoyer he said well things like this like the space race to find Anglo-Americans fousing spirit many normal white Americans still think there really is in a white culture my assumption is because they view those higher aspirations as something they can't be involved in unlike third world slot food or third world festivals just wanting your opinion on that well a lot of normal white American culture is what's around us it's like respecting laws Christmas Thanksgiving July 4th parades you know all these things are ordinary American culture is white culture the thing is is is not exclusive to us

we like it to be inclusive to everyone it's like you can celebrate Christmas whoever you are and Thanksgiving and July 4th and you can follow rules too and you can play football as well and enjoy baseball we think it's open all the whole world and a lot of other cultures is they think it's very exclusive to themselves and there's a higher barrier of entry and even what's authentic like white American culture we like to be inclusive even something like country which is very white we like to love that you know minorities listen to it and I guess that's like a very specific thing to Englose is that we in order to validate or the things we like we need minority faces there so really with white culture is just what's all around you and what you grew up celebrating but people don't recognize that as specifically white culture we just celebrate that as American culture but whites the and this is a both a problem I guess it's a bit of a problem it's both a problem and maybe a benefit is that normal mainstream American culture

is white culture it's the product whites but we don't view it as exclusive to whites and we view it as as open to all Americans who come here and embrace American culture and assimilate to it but that's what our culture is but some people try to make it with even pop culture and I even see this with like all these the like the remember what they took for me it's like pizza hut and stuff there was a really bad one where they did I don't know if this was joking but it was like look at how the world's changed it's like the world you grew up in with is no longer is no longer and then they had like a 2011 review of this strip mall and had like toys or us and chucky cheese and now it was like a amazon store and I think bedbath and beyond and it actually looks like an improvement and they're like I couldn't believe it I couldn't figure out if it was a joke or not and the commenters were divided on it as well but it's not too far off from what people

seriously post on on ironically posts so that is that but I think that's one difference is that it's hard for white Americans to think of these specifically white things are unique to them with it's open to all and it's just standard American culture his second question is um well I guess to go back to actually to go back onto thinking about that you in order to educate themselves you the really great things about like the constitution space race or market economy the ability to you know live free without you know to own us a taxation and property rights and you know the type of American dream we have you have to do we do have to be a better job was just saying this is a product of whiteness and then once whiteness is a cultural value disappears or is denigrated then the American dream disappears with it as well I think it's a it's a job for our side to communicate that to the general public

on a second thing I said on a related note despite the talk of his fantasization you can't really fundamentally change who people are like John Smith can't walk into a Mexican restaurant but he won't turn into one well that's because he's an adult but when you're a child you can transform yourself if you grow up uh you know when you're learning Spanish and stuff and go into a Mexican restaurant and you're surrounded by Hispanics and you will adopt their ways but once you're an adult you know you are fully formed individual you are likely not going to learn Spanish or change who you are so you're not going to walk in that Mexican restaurant and change that but the children who experienced that in school will experience that his fantasization is that they're surrounded by people and they're about it's the same with like white kids who grew up in like a lot of black neighbors a lot of them become wiggers because that's the norm and they assimilate to that norm so it's more of a a thing you have to worry about with the children rather than with adults and you can fundamentally change the people when you change the children

this is always happened with like the the languages they learn with you know they had all the tribal invasions in Europe you know and the languages they decided to learn that as a children their adults may have learned a certain language and practices a certain religion and then the children spoke learned a different religion for their mothers and they and their different religion for their mothers and eventually that transformed the people and so it's through the children where you have the most cultural effects not through adults so let's see we got deuter normative let me make sure there is no questions you know refresh to see there's no any other questions nope might be I wonder if some people might get them after the buzzer but we'll see but deuter normative has two questions he said well Trump's executive order banning male embellish and tabulation machines make it through the courts I don't think so because the courts generally uphold the states right to oversee elections how they see fit and so it's very difficult

for us on a federal level to make those blanket bands and decisions and it have to take an act of congress for that to happen I don't think an executive executive order is not going to be held up I think of congress passed a bill saying banning male and out ballots that might work but even there and it it might be iffy because we've generally leave elections to the states and it's usually for the best because imagine if democratic super majority I mean they what they want it with the John Lewis voting rights act in 2021 it would have been a permanent democratic majority for all time if they had passed it it'd have been like completely no oversight of male embellish or complete federal oversight and all these things so it's often better for the states to over the seas of courts but it's more about these battleground states where we've got to you know we've got to get Republicans in power of Michigan Pennsylvania Wisconsin in order to better their elections and Arizona and elsewhere and then you can

make it better for us I mean Trump won all the states but into insure down ballot Republicans when you're going to need to do this but it's better on the state level but I don't think I don't think that executive order is going to hold up I don't even legislation would be even a tough would it be even a tough legal battle but a legislation would have better time in court you can't courts generally say it's progogative of the states to determine their own elections certainly not the president it would have to be go through Congress but it's a good measure I think we need to it still puts pressure on this and keeps that issue alive to ensure Republicans are also focusing on it the second question is racial I think lines seem to be much more blurry in South America than in North America do you think this has an effect on increasing the salience of class identity well generally throughout a lot of America the wider you are the more likely to be upper class so it's like a color you know color aligns with class even much more so than it does in America because now we've got Indians and Asians and all in the upper class so

it's a little bit harder I mean you do have blacks and Hispanics at the bottom but it's it's with Latin America it's much more long color align so I don't I'm not quite sure if you mean this in America the salience a class identity Latin America I don't think that they it don't they don't seem as strong of a class identity that Europe does like Europe has extremely strong class identity and they're and they're much more static than they are in America America is very fluid class identity you you can grow up in a working class family but then you get really good SAT score go to a good school and then move up and see elites that's still case now that usually doesn't happen as often due to I forget this specific term but we've been over several generations we've been pairing off people with if you have two more on parents or parents that

didn't do so well it's pretty much likely you're gonna be like them well we've had so many of the we've had the SAT for generations that have been picking out the smartest kids and they've been able to go to the good school so we still have exam you know exceptions like JD Vance and others but you don't see it as often but it still can happen or you can just be you know grow up and work in class family and then you start your own business and you make a lot of money and then you elevate you know there's multiple paths to rising out of your station and it's the same with the upper class like you could be you know have a very affluent family but you're a shit head drug addict and you lose your parents cut you out and you end up in among the lump and proletariat in a petty criminal you know that's very that's very much the case like there's much more fluid class either which there's not as the much of the case historically neuro I'm not quite sure if it's in Latin America because Latin America I don't think that they they just have a lot of poor people not rich people and you know that I don't think that they have as much of a

developed middle class and they don't view themselves as having a middle class society like we have like the middle class is the norm for us but in Latin America places the slums are the norm and that is not middle class so I'm not quite sure if you mean that about Latin America but it works differently from class I would be hesitant to say like I will say this there's a sharper divide between rich and poor in Latin America than there is in America we like to view the rich in poor as all being middle class there is starting to be I mean now income lives there's obviously a massive gap but culturally and socially we like to view everyone as on the same plane now that might not be the so much the case anymore but historically and as an ideal we think that but in Latin America there's not even an ideal it's like rich poor and it's why socialism is much more popular in Latin America because they the poor feel that there is no way for them to ever escape

poverty while everyone in America thinks that they if they work hard enough they can achieve the American dream so that is my answer to that and I think we are now down to okay Rick if I didn't get your question just remind me and I will get it for Wednesday and his question is a wall back I saw a video of a black woman on ex calling local churches to ask for baby formula and was going to ask about it but forgot but better late the number can you criticize this strain of a largest thought that doesn't seem to know that churches are not welfare offices I was like to call it Gibbs tianity I'm not quite that familiar with the idea but there are people always imagine that churches can provide charity independent of welfare which I'm very critical of welfare but churches are shot for resources they can barely keep open churches so they're not capable of this the real thing I think what the right is that I don't know because

most of the people who really emphasize on like feeding the poor and or from a Christian perspective even on the right they end up being socialists and think the government should send this job and some right wingers think that churches should take up some degree of public service that we assigned to the state I see this a lot with schools like they like we can we need to end property taxes I got this a lot when I'm talking about my property tax defenses that these guys like we'll just end property taxes and churches will take this over and I'm like first off like churches can barely keep a roof over their heads and right now as that mochi's churches are shutting down and you just imagine that they can now add an additional burden with no with little public funding because you ended property taxes to take this up and that becomes a form of charity but most people think that they want churches to be welfare offices I guess that's a that's a very much of a left-wing thing sometimes they're like well why don't churches give more to the poor and they're trying to support themselves the issue is that they don't have enough resources they

barely have enough resources to keep themselves open they certainly don't have the resources to become welfare offices so yeah it's rather stupid I'm trying to interpret it this is way I guess you think this more the left-wing way I've left this who like attack churches for not you know giving all the resources to the poor but you know they the resources they have to they have to keep themselves open to maintain themselves you know do remodeling and renovations to keep themselves open and they often struggle to do that when they have declining membership so they're not welfare offices but in other terms like with some the right-wing thought of this that the the the the churches can overtake public services once again same thing as they barely able to keep themselves open they're not gonna run I mean some churches can run their own schools now but if they're not running their own schools now they're not gonna have the ability to do so once you end property taxes so I always find that yeah you shouldn't treat churches

as welfare offices so I both we'll both agree on that so that is it for a highly respected today we're gonna be back on our normal schedule this week we're gonna have an article tomorrow mail bag Wednesday article Thursday IQ supplement Friday so be on the cover for that so until next time stay respected

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