WEBVTT 00:01.010 --> 00:04.570 The spirit of this revolution is not going away. 00:04.770 --> 00:10.810 This is the Ron Paul Liberty Report with Ron Paul, Daniel McAdams, and Chris Rossini. 00:11.430 --> 00:17.090 We are all ambassadors of the Ron Paul Doctrine, and it's a symbol just to tell the truth. 00:17.270 --> 00:22.190 An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government. 00:33.660 --> 00:39.100 Everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report. With us today we have Daniel 00:39.100 --> 00:42.620 McAdams, our co-host. Daniel, good to see you this morning. 00:42.760 --> 00:44.300 Good morning Dr. Paul. How are you this morning? 00:44.740 --> 00:46.760 Doing well, doing well. Good, good. 00:47.260 --> 00:53.780 So let's talk about what's in the news. I think there was a speech that a few people watched, 00:54.340 --> 00:58.260 and I don't know how many people were pleased with it, but I guess the amount of people were 00:58.260 --> 01:05.400 really excited. But there were a lot of reports and a lot of analysis about the speech, and 01:06.940 --> 01:12.620 it's pretty much a mixed bag. The loyalists are still loyal, but there's a lot of other people 01:12.620 --> 01:19.980 now asking questions about exactly how we got into this war and how are we going to get out 01:19.980 --> 01:25.920 of this war, and there's a lot of concern. Soon it's going to cost some money on us, 01:26.000 --> 01:30.140 you know, it's into the billions, but who knows if they stay there much longer it'll 01:30.140 --> 01:37.720 be $2 billion before we know it. But I think the people are watching it closely, 01:38.080 --> 01:45.740 but I watched the speech and I wasn't too impressed. I didn't hear a whole lot of 01:45.740 --> 01:50.600 saying, well, at least Mays were going in the right direction. I thought it was just, 01:51.700 --> 01:57.500 this may be too strong, a lot of gibberish, you know, just gabbing away saying things. 01:57.500 --> 02:06.820 I didn't learn anything. I didn't know what they're going to do, but it was the same old thing, 02:07.200 --> 02:12.380 and it was a rehash. A lot of rehash, I thought, we've heard this story once before, 02:13.180 --> 02:18.460 but others have been critical of the speech because it doesn't lay out anything. They show 02:18.460 --> 02:24.520 that, oh, when is this likely to end? I looked at the markets pretty closely, and the markets 02:24.520 --> 02:31.940 were all over the place, but I think some of the markets were telling us, this whole mess is not 02:31.940 --> 02:38.800 going to go away quickly because the oil prices, it looks like they're going up and most people 02:38.800 --> 02:45.800 aren't overly optimistic about oil going down in price again. And I think this is absolutely insane 02:46.360 --> 02:53.980 that, you know, a few months ago, oil, although high, was not sky high, because I remember it's 02:53.980 --> 02:59.740 not that long ago, it was $70 a barrel, and now it just keeps going up, and that's a reflection. 03:00.300 --> 03:05.800 You know, gold is up sharply, down sharply. I don't know exactly what's meaning there because 03:05.800 --> 03:13.140 we still have a debt, so I predict that's a short-lived thing, and I didn't look exactly what 03:13.140 --> 03:18.220 the dollar did today, but I don't know why that speech would say, oh, this is good for 03:18.220 --> 03:25.720 the dollar, it's still kingpin. So we'll see, and one thing I do notice that I think is significant 03:26.260 --> 03:34.640 is the instability, you know, up and down, and catching up with it, and your stock markets, 03:34.800 --> 03:41.880 you know. I think it'd be really pretty tough if you were an investor that had to respond 03:41.880 --> 03:50.520 on a daily basis, buy, sell, buy, sell, because, you know, there's a lot of emotion in markets, 03:51.160 --> 03:55.200 the people who are trying to make a living and make a living for other people, 03:55.440 --> 04:01.160 they have to interpret all this, but it would be a heck of a thing to make a major decision 04:02.080 --> 04:07.060 on last night's speech and say, well, looks like they're scumming. A week from now, 04:07.060 --> 04:13.580 everything is going to be all right, and everything is going to go back to normal. I don't think that's 04:13.580 --> 04:18.640 the case. Yeah, I mean, there was a lot of expectation. Nobody knew what he was going to say. 04:19.420 --> 04:24.640 Was he going to say, hey, the hostilities are over, we've achieved our goals, they're obliterated, 04:25.080 --> 04:28.940 we're going home, or was he going to say the troops on the ground have started their 04:28.940 --> 04:35.440 invasion? The fact is, he said neither, and in fact, I don't remember, I was reading a lot 04:35.440 --> 04:39.420 this morning as you can guess, but someone had a good quip. It looked like someone took, 04:40.460 --> 04:44.240 what this person said, it looked like they took all of his true social posts about the war, 04:44.820 --> 04:49.580 fed it into AI, and said, spit me out a speech for 20 minutes, you know, and that's kind of what 04:49.580 --> 04:54.480 it was, and I think that pretty much sums it up. Now, our friend Larry Johnson kind of said the 04:54.480 --> 04:59.920 same thing. He had a pretty strong reaction to it on his Sonar 21 blog. He called it 04:59.920 --> 05:05.500 Donald Trump's Attled Speech on Iran. I go to that next one. Here's what Johnson said, 05:05.500 --> 05:10.940 and I think it makes sense. He said, wow, that was awful. Was Trump sedated? His monotone 05:10.940 --> 05:16.560 delusional delivery reminded me of the character Dustin Hoffman played in Rain Man. Trump plowed 05:16.560 --> 05:20.840 no new territory. Instead, he provided a Reader's Digest summary of his recent 05:20.840 --> 05:25.860 truth social posts, i.e. Iran is defeated, the Iranian Navy and Air Force were destroyed, 05:25.860 --> 05:29.540 victory is ours, but we're going to bomb the hell out of them for the next three weeks, 05:29.620 --> 05:38.780 is essentially what is what Johnson's take on it. So I go to the next one, though. He didn't 05:38.780 --> 05:43.640 back down from his previous threats to attack Iran's power grid, and this is important. If he 05:43.640 --> 05:49.480 does that, if he does that along with Israel, Iran will turn off the lights in Israel, 05:49.480 --> 05:55.620 Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Kuwait. Iran's ability to do this is a direct 05:55.620 --> 06:01.240 consequence of the depletion of U.S. air defense systems, i.e. the Patriot missile batteries and 06:01.240 --> 06:07.440 the FAD. Iran will also retain its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, even if the U.S. decides 06:07.440 --> 06:12.580 to put troops on Karg Island or some other piece of Iranian territory. So what Larry 06:12.580 --> 06:19.920 John is saying here, I think, is essentially that Iran has escalation dominance. Trump can 06:19.920 --> 06:24.720 threaten all sorts of things. He can try to do all sorts of things, but nothing is going to get 06:24.720 --> 06:31.580 Hormuz out of Iranian hands now, and nothing is going to get better if they do start bombing 06:32.340 --> 06:36.960 this critical infrastructure because the other countries in the region will lose 06:36.960 --> 06:40.100 their electricity, their drinkable water, and all sorts of things. 06:40.640 --> 06:47.200 I see this whole episode as preventable because it was created by the United 06:47.200 --> 06:52.280 States. I don't know how people could argue against that. You go a little bit before summer, 06:52.780 --> 06:56.840 nobody was on pins and needles that they were on the verge of having a nuclear weapon. 06:57.080 --> 07:01.260 Only BB. Only Netanyahu. He's been saying it for 30 years. 07:01.260 --> 07:08.200 Co-presidents, he had a word to say about that. So it was preventable, but here they go. 07:08.460 --> 07:13.380 How did they scare the people into? How did they even get started? Because Congress supported 07:13.380 --> 07:16.780 it. They send them money. They send them the bombs. They wouldn't even vote against 07:16.780 --> 07:24.280 any of this thing. So they said, well, we have to stop the nuclear bomb being built. 07:24.280 --> 07:31.700 And I thought that was stopped in 2003 or 2004, but we're still after the bomb makers. 07:32.880 --> 07:41.100 So that was a big deal. So that was some initial bombing. And that was the real start of all this 07:41.720 --> 07:48.760 current things going on. And there's still no proof that they were on the verge of a nuclear 07:48.760 --> 07:56.400 weapon. And the information that you can rely on, they said, yes, there was no operation like that. 07:56.720 --> 08:04.120 But the other tool they use is terrorism. I get so hard of it. I think the Iranians are a long 08:04.120 --> 08:11.120 way off from perfection and on civil liberties and all these things. But they're not exactly the 08:12.360 --> 08:22.800 monsters portrayed in the media. I mean, they must have murdered just because of street crimes, 08:23.400 --> 08:30.620 10,000 people last night, that kind of thing. It's just to build up the thing. The worst, 08:31.160 --> 08:35.500 I bet if you did a poll in the United States, who's the worst country in the world that commits 08:35.500 --> 08:43.840 terrorism? I think terrorism would get accused of doing this, but I think there's more and more 08:43.840 --> 08:50.820 people are starting to be more analytical because there's a few people now that are coming out that 08:50.820 --> 08:55.580 have had the experience in the military and even in the administration that are getting 08:55.580 --> 08:59.700 disgusted with this. And they're starting to see it the way we're seeing it. This was 08:59.700 --> 09:08.780 unnecessary. It's not based on sound policy or sound information that they have. So on and on. 09:10.460 --> 09:17.000 That's what's disgusting about it. It was preventable. Oh, they were protecting our national 09:17.000 --> 09:24.260 security. No, we're more vulnerable than ever. Oh, it's good for our economy. Our economy 09:24.260 --> 09:31.780 is in shambles because of deficits run up. They just throw that money around and they hardly 09:31.780 --> 09:36.480 even say it's sound. Oh, yeah, we'll watch that. We have to take care of that. But they never 09:36.480 --> 09:40.320 address the subject. Where do they get the money? Where do they get the authority? 09:42.440 --> 09:51.160 We blame a lot of people, but I never like to do this. But the people have a responsibility, 09:51.880 --> 09:59.400 why do they send these guys into Washington to spend them? If you do, what happens? You become 09:59.400 --> 10:05.940 the evil deodorant. If you actually stand up for what is right. And this is the part that 10:05.940 --> 10:13.780 disgusts me and especially since I truly believe this whole episode of the last six months or 10:13.780 --> 10:21.500 plus more, the harm done was preventable. And yet we on and on, we continue with it. 10:21.780 --> 10:26.380 I don't think that some people could hear that in a speech last night that we were 10:26.380 --> 10:32.300 changing tune, but I'll believe it when I see it. The thing is, you don't have to be on Team Iran 10:32.960 --> 10:38.640 to note the hypocrisy of the U.S. accusing Iran of being the chief sponsor of terrorism. 10:39.160 --> 10:44.800 We have a leader in Syria who was literally the head of al-Qaida in Syria, and he's welcome 10:44.800 --> 10:51.120 in the White House. This is a guy whose hands cut off heads. This is terrorism. He's welcome 10:51.120 --> 10:58.380 in the White House. And then you had JD Vance playing the role of the neocons during the 10:58.380 --> 11:05.540 run up to the Iraq war when he said, well, Iran could get a nuclear weapon and strap it 11:05.540 --> 11:11.060 to its vest and kill a lot of people. A, it's impossible. That's not how nuclear weapons work. 11:11.380 --> 11:15.200 You should know that. You'd think if you don't have to be a nuclear scientist to know, 11:15.380 --> 11:20.240 you don't strap it on and pull the cord like in a wildly coyote. It doesn't work that way. But 11:20.240 --> 11:26.120 what he was trying to do is exactly what Condoleezza Rice did. We don't want a smoking gun to 11:26.120 --> 11:31.440 be a mushroom cloud. And it was such a low level. But this is the hypocrisy of the whole 11:31.440 --> 11:37.780 thing. But on the whole idea of them two weeks away from a bomb or almost ready to have a bomb. 11:38.100 --> 11:42.300 So on the one side of that equation, you have Iran that says we're not building one. 11:42.700 --> 11:48.320 There's a fatwa against it. You have IAEA who up until last June were inspecting Iran regularly 11:48.320 --> 11:53.840 and said there's no suggestion that they're building a bomb. There's our own CIA from 2003 11:53.840 --> 11:58.420 saying we have no evidence that they're reconstituting their nuclear weapons program. 11:58.420 --> 12:05.340 And you have the NDI under Tulsi Gabbard saying we have no evidence that the Iranians are building 12:05.340 --> 12:09.300 a bomb. So all of these institutions say no. And on the other side of the ledger, 12:09.420 --> 12:14.460 you have Bibi Netanyahu, a guy who's been lying for 30 years about Iran being on the verge of it. 12:14.740 --> 12:18.900 And so what does President Trump do? Unfortunately, instead of listening to all these institutions, 12:19.100 --> 12:21.640 they don't listen to Iran. That's fine. But listen to all the other ones. 12:21.940 --> 12:25.620 Instead of that, he lets Bibi Netanyahu whisper in his ear and boom, 12:25.620 --> 12:30.800 we're in a disastrous war that's only going to get worse. The effects on the global economy 12:30.800 --> 12:35.800 haven't even started yet. They haven't manifested yet. But they will. It'll be like in COVID 12:35.800 --> 12:42.180 on steroids, I think, when it comes to that. Yes. But we did see a statistic today at a poll 12:42.180 --> 12:48.960 that I think is encouraging because the assumption is that all fundamentalist 12:50.500 --> 13:01.000 Christians support Zionism and all this nonsense as well as that if you're Jewish, 13:01.000 --> 13:08.760 you have to support this as well. But I find out that this is a misconception. I don't know 13:08.760 --> 13:12.760 whether it's shifting. I think it is shifting. At least they haven't even been doing the polls 13:12.760 --> 13:19.040 before. But there's a poll analysis. Most Americans Jews now strongly oppose war on Iran. 13:19.440 --> 13:27.800 But the assumption is, oh, no, Netanyahu speaks for them. My suggestion when we were talking about 13:27.800 --> 13:33.780 Netanyahu, I said, well, what could we do about this? Well, we have a responsibility for our own 13:33.780 --> 13:42.340 action. But I think prominent American Jews in this country, since Netanyahu comes to this 13:42.340 --> 13:47.800 country all the time, he ought to. But they don't like the war. Yeah, I think they should have dinner 13:47.800 --> 13:53.180 for them. Sit down and have dinner and say, well, you know, don't take us for granted. You know, 13:53.220 --> 13:59.140 we also have a brain and we don't have to do this. Yes. But the president invites me to the 13:59.140 --> 14:05.080 White House and I get to go to the House floor and give speeches almost any time I want. 14:05.080 --> 14:10.920 So this somebody has to talk to. But that that's just daydreaming. Yeah, obviously. 14:11.280 --> 14:15.580 No, he doesn't want to talk to those types. Now, I do have those that clip. I just wanted 14:15.580 --> 14:19.760 to show a couple of things before just from Trump's speech because I do have that poll. 14:20.320 --> 14:23.200 But I just real quickly go through a couple of things because I think it's important 14:23.200 --> 14:26.680 from his speech, President Trump said, if you put that next one up, 14:26.680 --> 14:31.460 we are going to bring them back to the stone ages where they belong. 14:31.960 --> 14:34.700 That's what he said in the speech. Now, that is a horrible thing to say. 14:35.200 --> 14:38.700 He didn't say we're going to take down their military or we're going to defeat the government. 14:38.820 --> 14:43.360 We are going to bring them, the Iranian people, back to the stone age where they belong. 14:44.380 --> 14:47.700 And Glenn Deeson, you were on his show a couple of weeks ago, I think, Dr. Paul, 14:48.240 --> 14:53.600 professor out of Norway, he pointed out, keep in mind that the initial justification for the war 14:53.600 --> 14:58.160 was to help Iranians, right? It goes from we got to help you guys get on the street, 14:58.160 --> 15:02.340 we're going to help you to now we're going to take you back to the stone ages where you belong. 15:03.060 --> 15:06.380 Now skip the next one and go to the bridge one. This is what happened today, 15:06.460 --> 15:11.540 Dr. Paul, a major bridge in Iran. Civilian infrastructure has been blown up by the 15:11.540 --> 15:18.020 U.S. Israeli coalition. And the Iranian American scholar and intellectual Sina Tusi, 15:18.380 --> 15:20.540 he made a good point if you go to the next one. He said, 15:20.660 --> 15:24.880 this is what it looks like when a war isn't going to plan. Unable to stop Iran's 15:24.880 --> 15:29.860 missiles and drone fire, the U.S. is escalating by bombing more civilian infrastructure, 15:30.460 --> 15:35.820 like a major bridge linking Tehran to Karay that millions rely on. 15:36.500 --> 15:41.080 So much for the ludicrous claim that anything about this war was to help the Iranian people. 15:41.620 --> 15:45.940 This is a brutal campaign to break a country of over 90 million people. 15:46.400 --> 15:50.000 All while Hormuz remains closed, global economic costs mount, 15:50.460 --> 15:53.140 and Iran continues striking targets across the region. 15:53.140 --> 15:56.820 That's something that we don't see often, but they continue. They launched, 15:56.960 --> 16:00.600 I think, 100 missiles yesterday. There's no strategy here, just desperation. 16:00.920 --> 16:07.200 Trump is escalating toward more barbaric attacks and rhetoric to mask a war that is not going his 16:07.200 --> 16:10.680 way. And if you go to the next one, Dr. Paul, I said, I know this is going to hit you. 16:11.060 --> 16:15.800 Personally, this is the Pasteur Institute in Iran. It is not a military 16:15.800 --> 16:20.000 by any stretch of the imagination. Heartbreaking, cruel, and despicable, 16:20.000 --> 16:25.100 and utterly outrageous. The American Israeli aggressors have attacked the Pasteur Institute 16:25.100 --> 16:29.840 of Iran, the oldest and most prestigious research and public health center in Iran, 16:29.980 --> 16:34.960 and the entire Middle East founded in 1920 through an agreement between the Pasteur 16:34.960 --> 16:40.220 Institute of Paris and the Iranian government. This is not merely another war crime committed 16:40.220 --> 16:45.580 as part of an illegal war. It's a barbaric assault on basic human core values. Remember 16:45.580 --> 16:50.800 how shocked we were, Dr. Paul, when the Israelis started blowing up hospitals in Gaza? 16:51.280 --> 16:56.700 This is exactly what we're doing with the Israelis over here in Iran, and it's despicable. 16:57.300 --> 17:00.820 But no, I'm sorry, I just wanted to take a little detour, but go over to that. This is 17:00.820 --> 17:04.220 what you were saying. This is not a responsible straight craft. Go to the next one, wrote this 17:04.220 --> 17:09.680 up. In this space, as you say, Dr. Paul, it may surprise some people who view, as you said, 17:09.680 --> 17:16.080 American Jews as a monolith, but in fact, they're not. Most American Jews oppose the war 17:16.080 --> 17:24.360 on Iran according to a new poll done by J Street, which is a more left-leaning Zionist group. 17:24.780 --> 17:32.320 Go to the next one. A new J Street poll finds that 60 percent of American Jews oppose the U.S. 17:32.320 --> 17:39.220 war on Iran. They also found that 77 percent of the respondents do not believe that Trump 17:39.220 --> 17:46.240 has a clear plan and a mission for the war. And then two-thirds agreed that concerns about Iran's 17:46.240 --> 17:52.660 nuclear program were best solved through diplomacy and sanctions. So American Jews, again, as you 17:52.660 --> 17:57.640 said, Dr. Paul, they're not a monolith. You know, interesting because of the argument 17:57.640 --> 18:05.940 who controls our media. Yet the media is not exactly favorable to this group of the Jews that are 18:05.940 --> 18:14.800 telling us the truth. But it's good. People will become aware of this and things will change 18:14.800 --> 18:20.520 because it's inevitable that you cannot print money forever and tell everybody everybody's 18:20.520 --> 18:27.100 going to get rich. And all of a sudden, the payment has come due. So it's the bankruptcy that 18:27.100 --> 18:35.200 is going to limit all this nonsense. And what people have to realize, there's a lot of people 18:35.200 --> 18:40.440 hurting. And even though those people that were hurting, if they listened to that speech last 18:40.440 --> 18:44.780 night, I wonder if they're hurting less. You know, the ones who are financially squeezed 18:44.780 --> 18:50.640 on all this because the lower half of the population, they're the ones who have to pay 18:50.640 --> 18:56.880 all the bills and the inflation problems they have to help. So if the American people would 18:56.880 --> 19:02.800 realize that they have to realize it to have a shift in attitude, and that is it's the American 19:02.800 --> 19:08.820 dollar. You look at all the bombing and what we've done in Gaza, it would not have happened 19:08.820 --> 19:15.080 without the American people. Totally complacent. Go ahead, do it or we don't do it and we don't 19:15.080 --> 19:20.980 want to be anti-Semitic and, you know, all this they listened to. And they should ask the question, 19:21.040 --> 19:25.900 where does the money come from? How do they manage to do this? And who gives them the authority 19:25.900 --> 19:31.040 to do it? Is there a moral authority? Is there a constitutional authority? They don't even talk 19:31.040 --> 19:38.800 about it, you know. And they've made it de facto now that if the Congress votes for the money, 19:39.420 --> 19:44.780 that's all you need. You don't need to debate the bill, you know, whether or not we should 19:44.780 --> 19:51.120 go to war or not. And that has to become a reality. And then the people will start 19:51.120 --> 19:56.340 setting up. They have to connect that. So right now the people are very much aware 19:56.340 --> 20:01.840 of inflation. That is what they call inflation. Prices are going up for various reasons. 20:02.100 --> 20:10.220 But they have to realize it's the dollar going down in value and it's building all these bombs 20:10.220 --> 20:17.600 that they have and killing people. And I just imagine now that how many civilians 20:17.600 --> 20:23.120 in the last 10 years where we've done some bombing never even got counted, you know, 20:23.700 --> 20:30.940 suffered from this, whether it's on Gaza or around or whatever. So it to me boils down to a 20:30.940 --> 20:40.300 moral principle. And the people have to share in that because they tolerate and I have to admit 20:40.300 --> 20:46.720 it is messy because they've been indoctrinated. And you know, they're intimidated. And some 20:46.720 --> 20:52.840 of this stuff is new. Nobody told them that they can just print money like monopoly money 20:52.840 --> 20:59.200 and people take it as money. And I think the American people are waking up and they know 20:59.200 --> 21:03.100 there's a connection. I think it started under Ukraine and people started saying, 21:03.580 --> 21:07.360 hey enough, what are we doing in Ukraine? And now they're doing it with 21:08.600 --> 21:15.460 right now what we're doing. But it's a mess. It's confusing. A lot of different messages 21:15.460 --> 21:22.120 from different people. And if you if you disagree, you know, you have to suffer the consequences 21:22.120 --> 21:32.700 of being dishonored and called a treasonous person. And so back to my old song, people 21:32.700 --> 21:37.720 need to understand the connection of just destroying a monetary system and trying to 21:37.720 --> 21:42.820 maintain an empire. That's where the real problem is. Absolutely. Well, there's another 21:42.820 --> 21:50.040 poll that's out that also shows that a group that a lot of people may assume is overwhelmingly 21:50.040 --> 21:55.780 in favor of the war. Well, that's actually not true. Go to the next one. The National Iranian 21:55.780 --> 22:04.060 American Council did a poll with the Zogby organization of Iranian Americans. Now you think 22:04.060 --> 22:09.520 that the Iranian Americans, well, they probably left after 79. They probably hate the current 22:09.520 --> 22:15.600 government in Iran. Some of them may want to shaw back. Maybe a few of them are MEK supporters. 22:15.860 --> 22:20.320 You don't know. But nevertheless, there is this perception and I have it myself that they're 22:20.320 --> 22:24.940 overwhelmingly in favor of this war. Well, that's not the case. Go to the next one. Now this is 22:24.940 --> 22:32.480 the main question in the poll. What is your position regarding the U.S. initiating a war 22:32.480 --> 22:41.180 on Iran? Now this is closer than Jewish Americans. But nevertheless, 49.3 oppose. Oppose this 22:41.180 --> 22:48.040 initiation of the war as opposed to 48.9 who support it. So an even split almost but with 22:48.040 --> 22:54.540 the slight edge going to those who oppose it. These are Iranian Americans who have a strong 22:54.540 --> 23:00.280 view to a large degree about what's happening in Iran. So this is every bit as surprising 23:00.280 --> 23:06.660 as the Jewish American vote. I think this poll. This should be a strong message for people. 23:07.000 --> 23:13.360 Even though I would like to think of this as not always putting it into the group, 23:13.620 --> 23:19.600 yeah, group thing, because you know, some of the people that support us are because we're 23:19.600 --> 23:25.260 very ecumenical, you know, a lot of people come from different viewpoint. And I think, you 23:25.260 --> 23:33.620 if you take even the libertarian movement as a whole, and you compare the intellectuals that 23:33.620 --> 23:38.700 came to the libertarian movement versus the typical professor that went to most of the 23:38.700 --> 23:44.460 government paid colleges, there was a complete difference. It had nothing to do with really 23:44.460 --> 23:48.440 nothing to do with religion and Judaism. It had to do with just plain, 23:48.760 --> 23:54.280 plain old economic study and understanding. Yeah, absolutely. Well, I'm going to close 23:54.280 --> 24:00.720 out with one final clip. If you put on that last one, now this I'm putting it up for a reason. 24:00.880 --> 24:05.340 I think what he says is very interesting. But I'll tell you the other reason. This is Joe 24:05.340 --> 24:13.340 Kent, the recently resigned head of counterterrorism in the office of National Intelligence O&I. 24:14.240 --> 24:18.200 And he has a very good point here. He said the purpose of the system is what it does. 24:19.080 --> 24:25.740 Israel is targeting the negotiators to ensure that we can't end the war and to assure that 24:25.740 --> 24:32.040 the Iranian leaders who come next will be more extreme, thereby ensuring that the war goes on. 24:32.580 --> 24:38.760 The first step to ending the war must be restraining Israel. It's a very important observation. Of 24:38.760 --> 24:47.260 course, that's what Israel did when it created and helped finance Hamas. They didn't want to 24:47.260 --> 24:49.940 be the representative of the Palestinians. They wanted to have these 24:49.940 --> 24:54.500 knuckle-dragging terrorists. They're doing the same thing here with Iran. And Joe Kent 24:54.980 --> 24:59.080 recognizes this. And the reason I'm pointing this out is that Joe Kent will be with us in a couple 24:59.080 --> 25:06.020 of weeks, Dr. Paul, at our conference down here on the Texas Gulf Coast. We are right 25:06.020 --> 25:09.980 now rearranging the tables because we're trying to squeeze a few more seats out of the 25:09.980 --> 25:15.780 venue. We're at about 90% capacity right now. So I do have a link in the description if you 25:15.780 --> 25:22.880 want to get one of those final tickets if you can. And we would definitely appreciate it and look 25:22.880 --> 25:30.140 forward to seeing you at the event. So over to you, Dr. Paul. We do have a Canadian, two Canadian 25:30.140 --> 25:35.680 dollars as a super chat coming in from Gerald's son, and we do appreciate that support. So over 25:35.680 --> 25:40.780 to you, Dr. Paul. Very good. You know, one point that I think we're making here maybe subtle, 25:40.780 --> 25:46.320 but that is, why do we always have to think of people belonging to a group? If you belong to the 25:46.320 --> 25:53.420 group, you vote a certain way. I've always been annoyed when the polling is done and when the 25:53.420 --> 25:59.920 votes come in, they immediately say, well, how did the minorities vote? As if they're 25:59.920 --> 26:05.580 monolithic. And maybe there was a time they were more so. But you know, that just, I 26:05.580 --> 26:12.200 hate to see them exclude people because as a libertarian, you get invited in and you get to 26:12.200 --> 26:18.680 be friends with people of all persuasions. That's the whole person. Purpose of liberty 26:18.680 --> 26:23.700 is bringing people who have different viewpoints together and sorting out the differences in a 26:23.700 --> 26:31.280 voluntary way. So I think that you have to do it and you have to realize that it's probably 26:31.280 --> 26:38.020 a practical benefit in campaigning in this sort of thing. But I do not like the idea that you're 26:38.020 --> 26:42.360 supposed to be because you're Jewish, that you're going to support everything that Yahoo says. 26:42.820 --> 26:46.760 You know, that sort of thing. That's what it leads to. And that's not thinking through. 26:47.200 --> 26:53.040 And that's why it can be simplified by unifying and narrowing and making it clear that we 26:53.040 --> 26:57.960 defend the cause of liberty. And everybody as an individual, the founders worked real hard 26:57.960 --> 27:06.000 to try to make that case. And at this time, I think it's under attack again, but in a positive way 27:06.000 --> 27:13.420 because the current system is becoming unglued in a way that means there's an opportunity 27:13.420 --> 27:17.780 to fill some of these vacuums. The vacuum that has been created by our universities 27:17.780 --> 27:23.580 and our economic system. And yes, the opposition is to look into this. You know, 27:23.580 --> 27:30.600 truly Marxist is playing this game that the chaos is what they want. They want to play 27:30.600 --> 27:41.480 with their more authoritarian system of government. So if there's going to be chaos and it's coming 27:41.480 --> 27:46.960 and there's a bit of that right now, that's why the opportunity is there for us who believe in 27:46.960 --> 27:53.340 volunteerism and individual liberty and a system of government that if you truly are interested in 27:53.340 --> 27:58.600 peace and prosperity, I don't know any other way you should go other than you, you know, 27:58.660 --> 28:04.520 being organized to promote that message. I want to thank everybody for tuning in today to the 28:04.520 --> 28:20.020 Liberty report. Please come back soon. Like and subscribe to help spread the message. And until 28:20.020 --> 28:22.060 next time, live free.