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Thursday morning ahead of the SpaceX IPO and it is already going to create probably
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more billionaires than any one day event ever has in history.
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And that’s really where we’re headed right now as America is to some kind of gilded age.
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Every society since time began has had the gilded class,
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the pharaoh class and the servant class.
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What made America different was America’s middle class and the social mobility that
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was a hallmark of the great American dream.
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that came out of the Gilded Age,
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the concept of an American dream,
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and became so unique and so fundamental to the idea of fairness in our country.
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And that is now going by the way of the automobile or the buggy or whatever you want to call it.
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But this idea of a ruling class and Elon Musk, the trillionaire,
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And America that seems to be falling farther and farther to behind and feeling like
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the American dream is farther and farther away is really a problem.
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And people wonder why socialism seems appealing to 60 plus percent of Democrats.
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That is why.
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Look, Steve Moore was on the show last night.
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He goes, yes, but the middle class has never been better off.
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And true.
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Never before has a middle class in America been able to have an iPhone 17.
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or been able to afford air travel in the way that they can now versus the 1960s.
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But boy, it doesn’t feel that way.
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That is an enormous problem, that feeling.
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And Steve Cortez is one of the first people to ring the alarm bells about it.
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He’ll be on tonight to talk about it.
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It’s the intersection of politics and culture of how people feel in America.
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Politics is always downstream of culture.
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The culture is getting very angry at the billionaire world.
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ruling class and with good reason because the American economy no longer feels fair.
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That ties into gas prices.
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Gas prices are down 40 cents week over week.
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Boy, huge change.
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That is something that’s not reported.
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There’s a reason for that, obviously.
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But if Trump is going to take on Iran, now is the time to do it without question.
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This is the opportunity,
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yet he keeps telegraphing his punches and being like,
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well,
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maybe we’re going to hit Iran tonight and they should be ready and worried.
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If you’re gonna hit a bridge or a power plant, probably doesn’t make a difference.
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You can’t move a bridge or a power plant.
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But I’m not sure if I was flying F-18s right now,
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or worse,
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if I was the parent of somebody who was flying F-18s right now,
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would I wanna be giving the Iranians a heads up every day?
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So that is a huge issue.
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And we’re talking about your General John Teichert,
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one of our favorite guests on Iran,
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about that,
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Ambassador Kurt Volker as well,
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on the diplomatic side of why the Iranians seem to just be unwilling
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to negotiate,
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partly because they don’t think they have to after being this long into a
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ceasefire.
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A few different lines to this.
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We’re going to talk about how all of this impacts the midterms.
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James Tallarico down in Texas is now running ahead of Ken Paxton.
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Ken Paxton is a flawed candidate.
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James Tallarico is a flawed candidate in so many ways.
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But
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The anger in America is palpable.
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And when people are carrying the water for the establishment,
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either for the Democratic establishment or the Republican establishment or just the
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establishment at all in Washington that seems to keep doing well and not being
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responsive to the voters,
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there’s a reason James Tallarico is doing well,
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despite talking about running a vegan campaign and how Jesus may have been
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transgendered.
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There is that.
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So out of Elon Musk,
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he is becoming a great spokesman for Western values and how important saving
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Western civilization is.
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It has gotten him in a lot of trouble with the anti-liberal
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elites of the European ruling class and especially the European progressive class
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that seems to think that the problem with the beheading in Ireland or the attempted
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beheading in Northern Ireland by a Sudanese immigrant is Elon Musk allowing the
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conversation on Twitter about the attempted beheading.
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The immigrant population in Europe refuses to assimilate.
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The
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Immigrant class in France,
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for example,
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is about 13 or 15 percent,
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something like that in the population.
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It commits about five times that number of the rapes in France.
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This is a society that does not want to assimilate.
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They still want to live in the Middle Ages.
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That is the problem with fundamentalist Islam.
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It is a conquering religion.
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It is political Islam.
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That is what is happening.
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It is not the gulfy kind of happy,
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we’ve had a reformation,
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Sunni Islam that loves Western culture and loves Western money and Western values.
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So Niall Standage is back with us tonight about why the European political class is
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willing to trade away all the values they say they profess to agree with,
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like women’s rights,
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like free speech,
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like actual even progressivism to be seen as empathetic to this class of immigrants
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that wants to conquer and destroy the civilization that they say they believe in.
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So we’ve got that as well.
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That conversation is one of the most important conversations, I think, of our time.
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And interestingly enough, Elon Musk, who is rightly, I
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Post Restack Leland Vittert
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And it’s something that Trump tried to solve in his first term and was told he couldn’t.
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And now the Washington Post, among others, are very worried about it.
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So that is just another example of people who I think hate Donald Trump more than
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they love America,
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which is an interesting concept that we have right now of those saying that they’re
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going to try to save
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See you tonight at 9 o’clock.
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