Point of View August 29, 2024 – Hour 2 : Thursday Notes

[00:00:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Apparition, Moving Away, Across America Live, Point of View

[00:00:09] [SPEAKER_00]: If we can talk about a few things that maybe we should have done differently here at Point

[00:00:26] [SPEAKER_00]: of View.

[00:00:26] [SPEAKER_00]: From time to time I kind of sit down and I say, okay if I had to do it all over again

[00:00:30] [SPEAKER_00]: or if I was going to be very critical of what we bring to you on this program would I change

[00:00:36] [SPEAKER_00]: anything?

[00:00:36] [SPEAKER_00]: And I think the one thing maybe we have not done very well at is talking about the investigation

[00:00:42] [SPEAKER_00]: of the assassination attempt against Donald Trump.

[00:00:46] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's no small issue and it has been made into a small issue in large part by the

[00:00:51] [SPEAKER_00]: fact that now we're what, six weeks since the assassination and it's never hardly even

[00:00:58] [SPEAKER_00]: mentioned.

[00:00:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Just recognize that if that bullet was, I don't know, just a few millimeters or a centimeter

[00:01:06] [SPEAKER_00]: to the right, we wouldn't be talking about Donald Trump running for office.

[00:01:10] [SPEAKER_00]: We wouldn't be talking about J.D. Vance.

[00:01:11] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, we can't even imagine what that world would have looked like.

[00:01:15] [SPEAKER_00]: And it does seem to me that there is a reason for that and that is that we've had not only

[00:01:21] [SPEAKER_00]: very little press coverage up until a few days ago, we have had very little information

[00:01:27] [SPEAKER_00]: that has been provided by the Secret Service.

[00:01:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh yes, you've had, of course, the head of the Secret Service step down.

[00:01:34] [SPEAKER_00]: We now have five Secret Service agents that were put on leave.

[00:01:39] [SPEAKER_00]: So in some respects, there hasn't been a lot for me to talk about, but I think there are

[00:01:44] [SPEAKER_00]: a few things we could have taken on and let's take care of that right now.

[00:01:49] [SPEAKER_00]: The first is, is that just as we were last hour talking about phony conspiracy theories,

[00:01:55] [SPEAKER_00]: there are some other ones out there as well, not the least of which is the argument that

[00:02:00] [SPEAKER_00]: this whole assassination attempt was staged.

[00:02:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Now let me give credit where credit is due.

[00:02:06] [SPEAKER_00]: I first saw some of the best answers at PBS on their website, but actually it's a quote

[00:02:11] [SPEAKER_00]: from PolitiFact, so I've got the one from PolitiFact in which first of all they take

[00:02:15] [SPEAKER_00]: on that and point out that there were individuals that were saying things like, this was so

[00:02:21] [SPEAKER_00]: staged, if someone really wanted to take him out, they wouldn't use a BB gun.

[00:02:26] [SPEAKER_00]: These are the kinds of things being posted on X.

[00:02:28] [SPEAKER_00]: First of all, it was not a BB gun.

[00:02:31] [SPEAKER_00]: It's an AR-15 type of, it wasn't an AR-15, but it's like an AR-15.

[00:02:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Some of them said that Donald Trump faked it by having a blood pill in his ear.

[00:02:44] [SPEAKER_00]: These are things which go to PBS, go to PolitiFact, they take those on, dismiss them very quickly.

[00:02:51] [SPEAKER_00]: So those come from mostly you would assume the left.

[00:02:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, some have come from the right.

[00:02:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, and again, let's give credit where credit is due.

[00:02:59] [SPEAKER_00]: PolitiFact, you know that Joe Biden ordered this, that this was a deliberate attempt to

[00:03:05] [SPEAKER_00]: take him out, or that in some respects that there was very little evidence that they had

[00:03:13] [SPEAKER_00]: a smaller group of individuals protecting Donald Trump.

[00:03:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Interestingly enough, that one is mostly false, but there's a grain of truth that turns out

[00:03:27] [SPEAKER_00]: to be the case, and that comes from your congressional hearing in the House the other

[00:03:31] [SPEAKER_00]: day in that we do know now, and I think you can document pretty easily, that there were

[00:03:36] [SPEAKER_00]: repeated attempts on the people that were associated with the protection detail of Donald

[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Trump asking for more protection, and they were not given that opportunity.

[00:03:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Now is that the first time that's ever happened?

[00:03:50] [SPEAKER_00]: No, I'm sure every individual would want more protection.

[00:03:55] [SPEAKER_00]: But this has been a chronic thing about trying to protect Mar-a-Lago, the argument being,

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_00]: which is interesting, one of the arguments against that is, well, we don't provide protection

[00:04:06] [SPEAKER_00]: details for a social club.

[00:04:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, yes, but the president, former president of the United States lives there.

[00:04:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Also the detail, and again, if you want to get into the fever swamps of conspiracy, say

[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_00]: well they were doing that because they wanted to make Donald Trump vulnerable.

[00:04:22] [SPEAKER_00]: I think politics is a better explanation.

[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_00]: They didn't want to have such an entourage that would make him look more presidential

[00:04:29] [SPEAKER_00]: if some of those individuals weren't Trump supporters, and I think you can explain that

[00:04:34] [SPEAKER_00]: as well.

[00:04:35] [SPEAKER_00]: But let's get back to what we do know, and I want to quote from one United States senator

[00:04:40] [SPEAKER_00]: and then another United States senator, and I'll also quote from our good friend Gary

[00:04:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Bauer who I was hoping to have on today, but I can read what he's put together, and first

[00:04:49] [SPEAKER_00]: of all, as you've heard me say, it's been six weeks, five Secret Service agents put

[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_00]: on leave, and that's about it.

[00:04:59] [SPEAKER_00]: And trying to gain access to the encrypted accounts on the shooter's phone was like really

[00:05:07] [SPEAKER_00]: difficult, and it shouldn't have been difficult.

[00:05:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Senator Ron Johnson has been critical of the Secret Service and the FBI for, and these are

[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_00]: his words, dragging their feet and stonewalling their congressional investigation.

[00:05:22] [SPEAKER_00]: On an interview he did the other day, Senator Ron Johnson said we're not getting squat

[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_00]: and talked about very little information, and what they were getting was highly redacted.

[00:05:34] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean you think this had something to do with international secrecy or national security

[00:05:40] [SPEAKER_00]: or nuclear codes or something like that.

[00:05:43] [SPEAKER_00]: One of his quotes are, if you want to design an investigation to raise suspicions and drive

[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_00]: conspiracy theories, this is exactly how you do that investigation.

[00:05:54] [SPEAKER_00]: It was, he said, just jaw-dropping that they released the body for cremation before anyone

[00:06:00] [SPEAKER_00]: had seen an autopsy or toxicology report.

[00:06:03] [SPEAKER_00]: It's just driving suspicion and conspiracy theories.

[00:06:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Now you also in the hearing heard a little bit more about the fact that the roof where

[00:06:12] [SPEAKER_00]: the shooter was was washed down the next day.

[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean it's almost like you were trying to get rid of evidence.

[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Again, I tend to believe that this is incompetence, not somebody trying to cover something up,

[00:06:24] [SPEAKER_00]: but you can see that if you're trying to avoid conspiracy theories, which grow very easily,

[00:06:32] [SPEAKER_00]: a lot of the things that were done should not have been done as well.

[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And then of course we can't even see the document that is part of the shooter.

[00:06:42] [SPEAKER_00]: And again, why are they hiding that?

[00:06:45] [SPEAKER_00]: It took so long to get the document of that trans-shooter you might remember in the Midwest.

[00:06:50] [SPEAKER_00]: But again, here's another issue.

[00:06:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Senator Josh Hawley, a different senator, says that now we have whistleblowers and these

[00:06:59] [SPEAKER_00]: new whistleblowers claim that the Secret Service leadership explicitly told their field agents

[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_00]: handling the Butler rally, because this was in Butler, Pennsylvania, to not request additional support.

[00:07:14] [SPEAKER_00]: And so again, there are people that are very concerned about what that might mean and if

[00:07:19] [SPEAKER_00]: you are certainly somebody concerned about the bureaucracy and the deep state and the

[00:07:25] [SPEAKER_00]: idea of trying to cover your rear end as they say it, that seems to be what's going on there.

[00:07:32] [SPEAKER_00]: And interestingly enough, the shooter's parents, who I think would be fair to say are economically

[00:07:40] [SPEAKER_00]: challenged, just hired lawyers from one of the top-ranked law firms in the state of Pennsylvania.

[00:07:48] [SPEAKER_00]: And you've got to ask that question.

[00:07:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Who's paying for that?

[00:07:51] [SPEAKER_00]: So I'll admit that we haven't maybe done a whole lot of conversation and even covering

[00:07:57] [SPEAKER_00]: of the investigation of the assassination attempt, partially because there's just not a whole

[00:08:04] [SPEAKER_00]: lot to talk about.

[00:08:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Because there has been so little information that has been forthcoming.

[00:08:10] [SPEAKER_00]: But since we did have a congressional hearing earlier in which you had some very prominent

[00:08:16] [SPEAKER_00]: individuals testifying, I thought I would at least mention that we still have questions

[00:08:22] [SPEAKER_00]: and we don't have too many answers.

[00:08:24] [SPEAKER_00]: And if you want to say that we haven't done a good job here at Point of View covering

[00:08:29] [SPEAKER_00]: that story, I'll take that as a valid criticism in part because there's not a whole lot to

[00:08:35] [SPEAKER_00]: talk about.

[00:08:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully we'll learn more in the next couple of weeks.

[00:08:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Let's take a break.

[00:08:40] [SPEAKER_00]: We have a lot more to cover.

[00:08:41] [SPEAKER_00]: We'll be right back.

[00:08:58] [SPEAKER_00]: This is Viewpoints with Kirby Anderson.

[00:09:02] [SPEAKER_00]: James Lindsay knows what the next big woke trend will be because he knows how the left

[00:09:06] [SPEAKER_00]: thinks.

[00:09:06] [SPEAKER_00]: He calls it critical immigration theory, which is not to be confused with critical race theory.

[00:09:12] [SPEAKER_00]: He says that critical theory is so flexible that you can stick any word between critical

[00:09:17] [SPEAKER_00]: and theory and you have a new way of seeing the world.

[00:09:20] [SPEAKER_00]: For example, critical colonial theory argues that colonial exploitation by Europeans allowed

[00:09:25] [SPEAKER_00]: them to get rich by taking advantage of weaker countries in other parts of the world.

[00:09:30] [SPEAKER_00]: When critical theory is applied to mass illegal immigration, it uses a human rights perspective

[00:09:35] [SPEAKER_00]: by talking about having compassion for the poor and oppressed people of the world.

[00:09:40] [SPEAKER_00]: He warns that what it is really about is targeting national citizenship and national sovereignty

[00:09:45] [SPEAKER_00]: using mass illegal immigration as a wedge.

[00:09:48] [SPEAKER_00]: He observes that we're already hearing some of the language changing from the mainstream

[00:09:52] [SPEAKER_00]: media.

[00:09:53] [SPEAKER_00]: The descriptions have migrated from illegal aliens to illegal immigrants to undocumented

[00:09:58] [SPEAKER_00]: migrants to just migrants.

[00:10:00] [SPEAKER_00]: He predicts that what comes next will be no adjective at all.

[00:10:03] [SPEAKER_00]: In other words, people who enter the United States illegally are just as American as any

[00:10:08] [SPEAKER_00]: American citizen.

[00:10:09] [SPEAKER_00]: He then provides several examples illustrating his prediction and then concludes by explaining

[00:10:15] [SPEAKER_00]: that the goal isn't merely to water down the idea of national citizenship.

[00:10:19] [SPEAKER_00]: The real goal is to eliminate it.

[00:10:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Instead, we'll be hearing about global citizenship that allows migration from anywhere to anywhere

[00:10:27] [SPEAKER_00]: as a human right.

[00:10:28] [SPEAKER_00]: This will be a world where borders are just meaningless lines on a map.

[00:10:33] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, we need to be ready for the next political trend based on the plight of migrants

[00:10:37] [SPEAKER_00]: and illegal immigration.

[00:10:39] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm Kirby Anderson, and that's my point of view.

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[00:11:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Back once again, let's see if we can get to some other issues which sometimes surface

[00:11:07] [SPEAKER_00]: during the election, but something that we've been covering for some time, and that is the

[00:11:11] [SPEAKER_00]: idea of sex reassignment surgery or gender modification.

[00:11:18] [SPEAKER_00]: One of the individuals over the years that we've interviewed many times on the area of

[00:11:23] [SPEAKER_00]: bioethics is a man by the name of Wesley J. Smith, and he has posted a very good piece

[00:11:28] [SPEAKER_00]: about what some are now referring to as the gender industrial complex.

[00:11:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Now we've had a little bit of a, if you will, peek to some of that in large part because

[00:11:42] [SPEAKER_00]: you might remember when Matt Walsh did his documentary What is a Woman?

[00:11:47] [SPEAKER_00]: One of the things that he was able to surface through some of the Freedom of Information

[00:11:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Act requests and through some of the individuals who now, because he was taking a stand on

[00:11:59] [SPEAKER_00]: this idea of transgender gender modification, began to give him not only material but also

[00:12:05] [SPEAKER_00]: videos.

[00:12:06] [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of those had to do with what was happening in Vanderbilt since he is located in Nashville,

[00:12:12] [SPEAKER_00]: and we were able to watch, and we've had links and you can still find them on our website

[00:12:17] [SPEAKER_00]: of individuals who were talking about how when you do these gender modification surgeries,

[00:12:24] [SPEAKER_00]: it is a financial benefit to the hospital, number one.

[00:12:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Number two, another video we posted in which one of the leaders of this said if you have

[00:12:35] [SPEAKER_00]: any moral concerns about this, you may want to seek employment elsewhere.

[00:12:40] [SPEAKER_00]: So it's pretty strong stuff.

[00:12:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, Wesley J. Smith starts out by saying, I guess I was a little naive because he said,

[00:12:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I used to think that the great push to prescribe children puberty blockers and hormones and

[00:12:56] [SPEAKER_00]: to subject teenagers to surgeries and even the explosion in what's called adult medical

[00:13:04] [SPEAKER_00]: transition procedures was primarily about promoting a radical ideology.

[00:13:11] [SPEAKER_00]: I think it is, but he goes on to say gender ideologies want to replace Judeo-Christian

[00:13:17] [SPEAKER_00]: moral values and the belief in objective truth with a culture based in radical individualism,

[00:13:24] [SPEAKER_00]: irrationality, and the right of personal recreationism.

[00:13:28] [SPEAKER_00]: And so as a result, we should actually remake ourselves so that we feel good about ourselves.

[00:13:34] [SPEAKER_00]: But he says, even though I recognize that the ideology is important, I also, he says,

[00:13:42] [SPEAKER_00]: now look at this new report produced by the American Principles Project, which reveals

[00:13:48] [SPEAKER_00]: that it is also about making a lot of money.

[00:13:52] [SPEAKER_00]: How much?

[00:13:53] [SPEAKER_00]: He says, as I explained in the gender industrial complex, it's as it's explained in that in

[00:14:01] [SPEAKER_00]: general industrial complex, it's difficult to put a precise price tag on the process

[00:14:07] [SPEAKER_00]: of sex trait modification, given the sheer variety of procedures offered, the wide range

[00:14:14] [SPEAKER_00]: in cost and the additional unknowns of required follow up potential complications, the rest.

[00:14:23] [SPEAKER_00]: But they at least have some ideas about this because they found that really there were

[00:14:28] [SPEAKER_00]: two broad interlocking parts of gender surgery industry, really surgery and hormone therapy.

[00:14:36] [SPEAKER_00]: The former that is the surgery, everything from mastectomies to I won't even use the

[00:14:42] [SPEAKER_00]: word to voice feminization where the vocal fords are altered to give you a higher pitch.

[00:14:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Those are pretty expensive.

[00:14:50] [SPEAKER_00]: So if you want to be a girl to become a boy, mastectomies of a boy to become a girl, there's

[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_00]: some things that obviously need to be changed both in the throat and somewhere else.

[00:15:00] [SPEAKER_00]: And you can know what I'm talking about there.

[00:15:02] [SPEAKER_00]: And so according to that analysis, the sex reassignment surgery market size is about

[00:15:09] [SPEAKER_00]: four billion dollars in 2022 expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of eight

[00:15:17] [SPEAKER_00]: percent from 2023 to 2030.

[00:15:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Again, I won't get too explicit.

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I remember years ago when we first got into this, it actually led to some letters to us

[00:15:31] [SPEAKER_00]: and even the FCC.

[00:15:33] [SPEAKER_00]: So I'll be very careful about how I say it.

[00:15:36] [SPEAKER_00]: But OK, you want to be a male transition or the total cost of fully transitioning could

[00:15:43] [SPEAKER_00]: be all of eighty seven thousand dollars, but it could be as high as four hundred thousand

[00:15:49] [SPEAKER_00]: dollars because it depends on how many years of puberty blockers, how many years of hormone

[00:15:56] [SPEAKER_00]: surgery given your average life expectancy, then hair removal, vocal training and the

[00:16:04] [SPEAKER_00]: rest.

[00:16:05] [SPEAKER_00]: And you can see where, again, there's a wide range, but anywhere from almost ninety thousand

[00:16:10] [SPEAKER_00]: dollars to four hundred thousand dollars, depending on the age of the individual and

[00:16:13] [SPEAKER_00]: the various things for a female transition.

[00:16:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Or, again, anywhere from sixty six thousand dollars to six hundred thousand dollars.

[00:16:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Again, looking at puberty blockers and hormone use in the rest.

[00:16:30] [SPEAKER_00]: And it doesn't take long to start running the numbers because you start figuring out

[00:16:35] [SPEAKER_00]: how many individuals ages 13 to 17 who right now maybe identify as transgender.

[00:16:43] [SPEAKER_00]: You multiply that by the particular costs associated with what may or may not take place

[00:16:51] [SPEAKER_00]: and you end up with a potential market of thirty seven billion dollars.

[00:16:58] [SPEAKER_00]: And so, again, I just wanted to have you have access to this because if this becomes an

[00:17:05] [SPEAKER_00]: issue in a school board election, maybe this is an issue that you're discussing right now

[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_00]: in terms of city council.

[00:17:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it's an issue which is surfaced in a congressional election, whatever it might

[00:17:19] [SPEAKER_00]: be.

[00:17:20] [SPEAKER_00]: This whole report, which you can find the link to as well of the gender industrial complex,

[00:17:26] [SPEAKER_00]: shows you that not only is it being pushed by the issue of ideology, it is also being

[00:17:33] [SPEAKER_00]: pushed by the financial benefits thereof.

[00:17:37] [SPEAKER_00]: All of that taking place, I might mention he doesn't mention this in the commentary,

[00:17:41] [SPEAKER_00]: but we've mentioned it before at a time when many particular countries and medical procedures

[00:17:48] [SPEAKER_00]: and hospitals and clinics are starting to reevaluate whether or not this is even effective.

[00:17:55] [SPEAKER_00]: And of course you have some major report out of the UK and of course a number of states

[00:18:00] [SPEAKER_00]: which have now attempted to try to ban this kind of surgery within their state.

[00:18:04] [SPEAKER_00]: And of course you have others which are, if you will, gender affirming sanctuary states,

[00:18:12] [SPEAKER_00]: one of which is Minnesota.

[00:18:13] [SPEAKER_00]: We just talked about that the other day with the current governor, now vice presidential

[00:18:17] [SPEAKER_00]: nominee Tim Walz, state of California.

[00:18:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Those of you in California are well aware of that as well.

[00:18:22] [SPEAKER_00]: And so these are I think going to be ongoing battles for some time.

[00:18:27] [SPEAKER_00]: But I thought that this very good piece by Wesley J. Smith, who we've had on before, matter

[00:18:32] [SPEAKER_00]: of fact I was really planning on doing a commentary pretty soon on one of the very

[00:18:37] [SPEAKER_00]: good articles he's written about how we're trying to redefine euthanasia, in part I think

[00:18:43] [SPEAKER_00]: because if you really want to get organs from a dying patient or one that was in a car accident

[00:18:51] [SPEAKER_00]: or whatever, the quicker you can get those organs, the better you can then get them into

[00:18:57] [SPEAKER_00]: someone else.

[00:18:58] [SPEAKER_00]: And so I was going to write a piece about that from a very good article by Wesley J.

[00:19:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Smith.

[00:19:05] [SPEAKER_00]: This one I think is probably going to be a commentary as well.

[00:19:09] [SPEAKER_00]: So again you can see the article right now, it's on our website pointofview.net and of

[00:19:16] [SPEAKER_00]: course you can also maybe be looking forward in the future to a commentary where I'll pull

[00:19:21] [SPEAKER_00]: some other bits and pieces together to make the case.

[00:19:24] [SPEAKER_00]: One of the other articles, I'll just mention it in passing, I might even use it again tomorrow,

[00:19:30] [SPEAKER_00]: and that is the claim that is being made time and time again.

[00:19:33] [SPEAKER_00]: It was made all through the Democratic National Convention.

[00:19:36] [SPEAKER_00]: It's being made now in a number of campaign ads that the tax cut which came when Donald

[00:19:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Trump was able to pass the Tax Cut and Jobs Act was really nothing more than a benefit

[00:19:48] [SPEAKER_00]: to the wealthy and yet this particular article in the Washington Examiner points out that

[00:19:55] [SPEAKER_00]: most everybody in the middle class benefited from it and that there was, interestingly

[00:20:00] [SPEAKER_00]: enough, so much misinformation about this that even like the left-leaning tax policy

[00:20:08] [SPEAKER_00]: center had to say no.

[00:20:10] [SPEAKER_00]: About two-thirds, about 65% of people got a tax cut with the additional portion of those

[00:20:17] [SPEAKER_00]: that didn't pay income tax in the first place and it got even worse when after a while

[00:20:22] [SPEAKER_00]: the New York Times really had to run a headline and this was the title of the headline, Face

[00:20:28] [SPEAKER_00]: It You Probably Did Get A Tax Cut.

[00:20:31] [SPEAKER_00]: So whether you're quoting from the tax policy center or whether you're quoting from a variety

[00:20:37] [SPEAKER_00]: of other surface organizations that have looked at this like the American Enterprise Institute,

[00:20:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Heritage Foundation, the list goes on and on.

[00:20:46] [SPEAKER_00]: The sad reality is that this claim that the tax cuts that were provided years ago in 2017

[00:20:54] [SPEAKER_00]: only went to help the rich is factually incorrect and you have in this particular article some

[00:21:01] [SPEAKER_00]: very good answers to that question as well.

[00:21:04] [SPEAKER_00]: So again if you hear people making those kinds of statements we wanted to provide you with

[00:21:10] [SPEAKER_00]: information that you can use to challenge some of the statements being made especially

[00:21:15] [SPEAKER_00]: if they're in print or certainly made in some areas of social media.

[00:21:20] [SPEAKER_00]: So a lot of those resources are available today.

[00:21:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Many of those resources are available at our Election Central so find that as well.

[00:21:28] [SPEAKER_00]: We'll be right back.

[00:21:30] [SPEAKER_02]: It almost seems like we live in a different world from many people in positions of authority.

[00:21:36] [SPEAKER_02]: They say men can be women and women men.

[00:21:40] [SPEAKER_02]: People are prosecuted differently or not at all depending on their politics.

[00:21:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Criminals are more valued and rewarded than law abiding citizens.

[00:21:49] [SPEAKER_02]: It's so overwhelming, so demoralizing.

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[00:23:10] [SPEAKER_02]: And now, here again is Kirby Anderson.

[00:23:13] [SPEAKER_00]: It's been a half hour and as I promised just the other day we're going to spend just a little bit of time

[00:23:17] [SPEAKER_00]: thinking about this issue of foreign policy.

[00:23:19] [SPEAKER_00]: It's not something we think about or talk about very often and yet I think it is very important

[00:23:24] [SPEAKER_00]: and I think it is going to be part of the election issue if indeed you look at it in terms of your particular policy bias.

[00:23:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And I have in front of me here something we've posted.

[00:23:38] [SPEAKER_00]: It is from Pew Research where they actually ask Americans what are their top foreign policy priorities.

[00:23:47] [SPEAKER_00]: And I guess it shouldn't surprise you.

[00:23:49] [SPEAKER_00]: The number one was taking measures to protect the U.S. from terrorist attacks.

[00:23:55] [SPEAKER_00]: This is something we don't tend to think about every day.

[00:23:59] [SPEAKER_00]: And then we hear of Taylor Swift having to cancel a concert because of the terrorist threat.

[00:24:05] [SPEAKER_00]: And now evidence coming out that there were attempts at other venues where terrorists saw this as an opportunity.

[00:24:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Not that they disliked Taylor Swift, although maybe they do.

[00:24:17] [SPEAKER_00]: The point was this is a place because she's been so unbelievably successful where you have such a large number of individuals,

[00:24:25] [SPEAKER_00]: you can get such a mass number of casualties.

[00:24:28] [SPEAKER_00]: That was again an opportunity for us to, I hate to use the illustration, dodge a bullet, but we did.

[00:24:36] [SPEAKER_00]: But it's a reminder that we have identified people at the border who are obviously on the terror watch list

[00:24:43] [SPEAKER_00]: and there are groups that have really wanted to get individuals into this country.

[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_00]: And it used to be that you had most of the people crossing the southern border that were Hispanic.

[00:24:56] [SPEAKER_00]: That's still pretty much the case, but you have a lot of others that are not.

[00:25:01] [SPEAKER_00]: For a while we used to talk about the OTM, other than Mexican, category.

[00:25:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Well now some of these individuals are coming from hotbed countries, countries that are hotbed for terrorism.

[00:25:12] [SPEAKER_00]: So that's the number one issue.

[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Number two issue, interesting enough, is also related to the border, reducing the flow of illegal drugs into our country.

[00:25:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Number three, preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction.

[00:25:27] [SPEAKER_00]: And number four, maintaining the U.S. military advantage over all other countries.

[00:25:35] [SPEAKER_00]: So these were all more than 50% of people choosing some of those.

[00:25:40] [SPEAKER_00]: But here's where you see the dramatic switch.

[00:25:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Because when you ask Democrats or Democratic leading independents,

[00:25:51] [SPEAKER_00]: 70% of them said that climate change should be the top priority.

[00:25:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Now to be fair, even with that high percentage, only 44%, less than half, actually said dealing with climate change was important.

[00:26:07] [SPEAKER_00]: By contrast, when you have 54% of Republicans say getting other countries to assume more cost of maintaining world order should be a high priority,

[00:26:18] [SPEAKER_00]: only 33% of Democrats did.

[00:26:21] [SPEAKER_00]: So there is a very definite shift.

[00:26:24] [SPEAKER_00]: What I thought was so interesting is almost at the bottom of this list, only 23% said supporting Ukraine,

[00:26:33] [SPEAKER_00]: only 22% said supporting Israel.

[00:26:35] [SPEAKER_00]: So at a time when we're going to be talking about some of these foreign policy issues, and you can read this,

[00:26:42] [SPEAKER_00]: I have made this available to you, and it's about seven pages of all sorts of information,

[00:26:47] [SPEAKER_00]: showing again that there is a very significant divide on such issues as whether climate change

[00:26:55] [SPEAKER_00]: or trying to protect our nation from terrorists is the highest priority.

[00:26:59] [SPEAKER_00]: There is also a growing partisan divide between whether or not we should support Israel or the Palestinians,

[00:27:07] [SPEAKER_00]: and you see those kinds of splits as well.

[00:27:09] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a fascinating look at what I'm going to now spend some time talking about,

[00:27:14] [SPEAKER_00]: and that is we live in a very dangerous time.

[00:27:18] [SPEAKER_00]: I might illustrate that by my commentary that came out just recently, which had the title,

[00:27:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I know it was a little bit of an intended to get your attention title, World War III.

[00:27:30] [SPEAKER_00]: But the reason I used it is because the candidate right now, Donald Trump,

[00:27:34] [SPEAKER_00]: has argued that we're closer to World War III than we've been in decades.

[00:27:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, we all understand that Donald Trump sometimes engages in a little bit of hyperbole,

[00:27:44] [SPEAKER_00]: but what I did was then in the next paragraph point out that ignoring Donald Trump,

[00:27:49] [SPEAKER_00]: looking at people in the intelligence community, often whom do not like Donald Trump,

[00:27:55] [SPEAKER_00]: nevertheless issued a 114-page report, the Commission on the National Defense Strategy,

[00:28:02] [SPEAKER_00]: and this included both Republicans and Democrats.

[00:28:04] [SPEAKER_00]: You had individuals like Jane Harman.

[00:28:08] [SPEAKER_00]: She was a Democrat, member of Congress.

[00:28:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Eric Edelman, a top Pentagon official during George W. Bush's administration,

[00:28:23] [SPEAKER_00]: and they said,

[00:28:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Now they didn't go on to warn about nuclear war, but again, I'll hold this up for those of you watching online.

[00:28:34] [SPEAKER_00]: My booklet on nuclear war, I know you didn't want to receive this one in your inbox or even in your mail,

[00:28:40] [SPEAKER_00]: but I am using it because I recognize that there are people saying there are entirely too many countries

[00:28:48] [SPEAKER_00]: that are threatening us to use nuclear weapons, and we have nine countries that do possess nuclear weapons.

[00:28:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Russia, France, China, Pakistan, India, Israel, North Korea, the UK, and of course the United States,

[00:29:03] [SPEAKER_00]: and so we have to think about this.

[00:29:05] [SPEAKER_00]: I know nuclear war is unthinkable, but we need to think about these issues,

[00:29:10] [SPEAKER_00]: and more importantly, who you elect as president and who you elect to the United States Senate

[00:29:16] [SPEAKER_00]: who are engaged in treaties and all sorts of other issues are going to be very important.

[00:29:21] [SPEAKER_00]: We live in a dangerous world, and we've maybe been lulled into believing that it isn't as dangerous as it might be.

[00:29:29] [SPEAKER_00]: So again, I want to point back to an article that we posted a few days ago by Victor Davis Hanson.

[00:29:36] [SPEAKER_00]: You can still find it on there. It's entitled Quiet Before the Storms in Ukraine, Gaza, and Taiwan.

[00:29:43] [SPEAKER_00]: The first two pages I read just the other day, but I want to get into the specifics

[00:29:47] [SPEAKER_00]: because he reminds us of these three hot spots that the next president is going to have to deal with.

[00:29:55] [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter whether you elect Donald Trump or you elect Kamala Harris.

[00:30:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Whoever the next president is, is going to have to address these issues,

[00:30:05] [SPEAKER_00]: and the wisdom that individual and the individuals that he or she put around them is going to be key.

[00:30:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Number one is, of course, Russia and Ukraine.

[00:30:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Victor Davis Hanson said,

[00:30:18] [SPEAKER_00]: While Russian and Ukrainian forces advance and retreat along their shared border,

[00:30:23] [SPEAKER_00]: most experts privately feel that there is a quiet consensus about an eventual armistice to end this bloodbath.

[00:30:31] [SPEAKER_00]: He says,

[00:30:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Currently Ukraine is running out of manpower, given its losses, draft problems,

[00:30:36] [SPEAKER_00]: and a quarter of the population having fled the country.

[00:30:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Can you believe what has happened in Ukraine?

[00:30:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Russia has suffered twice as many casualties as Ukraine and faced blows to its military prestige.

[00:30:49] [SPEAKER_00]: And of course we recognize, as he points out,

[00:30:51] [SPEAKER_00]: that NATO and the United States will never really allow Russia to annex much of Ukraine apart from maybe Donbass and Crimea.

[00:31:02] [SPEAKER_00]: So that's the first hot spot, Russia-Ukraine.

[00:31:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Number two, we now look at another conflict in which, as he says,

[00:31:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Iran is now in a dangerous position of its own making.

[00:31:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Why does he say that?

[00:31:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Well it turns out that it has loudly promised Israel and boasted to the Muslim world

[00:31:22] [SPEAKER_00]: that they would attack the Jewish homeland for a second time within the year.

[00:31:26] [SPEAKER_00]: And of course Hezbollah, as we've talked about on this program many times,

[00:31:29] [SPEAKER_00]: threatens to join in, perhaps with some contributions from the Houthis and Hamas.

[00:31:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Yet Iran really does not believe in its heart of heart

[00:31:39] [SPEAKER_00]: that its missile and drone launch is going to be enough to seriously injure Israel.

[00:31:49] [SPEAKER_00]: And so as a result, he says,

[00:31:51] [SPEAKER_00]: In short, Iran's rhetoric and the provocations of its satellites have put it in kind of a lose-lose position.

[00:31:59] [SPEAKER_00]: To save face, the theocracy feels it must honor its threats and attack Israel,

[00:32:04] [SPEAKER_00]: but it also knows it will not be able to do much damage, in part due to things like the Iron Dome.

[00:32:11] [SPEAKER_00]: And then of course Hezbollah hopes that some of its rockets and drones will do real damage

[00:32:16] [SPEAKER_00]: in concert with an Iranian attack.

[00:32:19] [SPEAKER_00]: But again, that I think is a great concern as well.

[00:32:24] [SPEAKER_00]: And then for the third one, just before we take a break,

[00:32:26] [SPEAKER_00]: you have China envisioning a strategy that would not only take Taiwan,

[00:32:31] [SPEAKER_00]: but really envisions a strategic global strategy,

[00:32:36] [SPEAKER_00]: but again right now is openly aiding Iran,

[00:32:40] [SPEAKER_00]: not because they're friendly to Muslims,

[00:32:42] [SPEAKER_00]: but because they welcome some of the tensions that actually are created because of that.

[00:32:49] [SPEAKER_00]: And so one of the things that Victor Davis Hanson, in this very good article for five pages,

[00:32:55] [SPEAKER_00]: says the unspoken corollary is that the American people and both their political parties

[00:33:02] [SPEAKER_00]: are certain that while Biden is incapable of continuing as a normally engaged president

[00:33:08] [SPEAKER_00]: through the last half of his tenure, he will nevertheless inevitably do so.

[00:33:13] [SPEAKER_00]: And if you've been seeing some of the press reports,

[00:33:15] [SPEAKER_00]: they're showing the President of the United States on a beach in Delaware.

[00:33:21] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's again of real concern of what happens between now and when the next president,

[00:33:27] [SPEAKER_00]: whether it's Donald Trump or Kamala Harris, takes office in January.

[00:33:32] [SPEAKER_00]: We are at a very dangerous time, and so this article is available to you.

[00:33:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Also get to a second one in just a minute.

[00:33:40] [SPEAKER_00]: But we'll take a break, be back with more right after this.

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[00:34:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Alex in Georgia, listening on WLPE.

[00:34:08] [SPEAKER_00]: What would you like to add to the conversation today?

[00:34:11] [SPEAKER_03]: Hey, thank you, Kirby. I appreciate it.

[00:34:14] [SPEAKER_03]: Thank you for your steadfastness in proclaiming the truth.

[00:34:18] [SPEAKER_03]: I know it's not easy.

[00:34:21] [SPEAKER_03]: So I just want to offer the opinion, the idea that this election has as much or more.

[00:34:28] [SPEAKER_03]: This is not true for everybody, but it's true for a fair larger number of people.

[00:34:32] [SPEAKER_03]: The election is about two different world views, essentially.

[00:34:36] [SPEAKER_03]: One where humans can determine whatever reality they want.

[00:34:39] [SPEAKER_03]: And they don't, in a sense, they don't really care whether Kamala Harris can actually provide any of the things that she's promising.

[00:34:46] [SPEAKER_03]: Like some of these people don't really care.

[00:34:48] [SPEAKER_03]: All they want is the opportunity for us to live in a society where we can pretend, you know, make up the rules.

[00:34:55] [SPEAKER_03]: Or you're voting for a president who believes that there is a reality and that we have to face reality.

[00:35:03] [SPEAKER_03]: There are consequences for actions, and we, that's it.

[00:35:07] [SPEAKER_00]: That's very good.

[00:35:08] [SPEAKER_00]: We live in a cause and effect universe, or whether we believe in freedom.

[00:35:13] [SPEAKER_00]: And tomorrow we will have Dr. Merrill Matthews here.

[00:35:16] [SPEAKER_00]: He's written a very good article about what freedom means, for example, to a Kamala Harris, Tim Walz,

[00:35:21] [SPEAKER_00]: or individuals that are part of more of the far left extreme part of the Democratic Party.

[00:35:28] [SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's very good analysis because either you live in a cause and effect, there are impacts for that.

[00:35:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Or you can make up realities you want.

[00:35:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And I think that is best illustrated by the piece which we talked about earlier, the gender industrial complex.

[00:35:47] [SPEAKER_00]: And I think you see that very easily as well.

[00:35:50] [SPEAKER_00]: So very good.

[00:35:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Alex, I hope you'll be listening tomorrow because I think in some respects Dr. Merrill Matthews,

[00:35:56] [SPEAKER_00]: since I've already read ahead to a piece we're going to be talking about with him, makes your case in even more detail.

[00:36:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Let me just, before I take another phone call, mention something else.

[00:36:05] [SPEAKER_00]: And that is another article we posted earlier in the week is entitled The Broken Spoon of American Hegemony.

[00:36:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, that's a little bit complex, but it gets back to this idea of foreign policy.

[00:36:16] [SPEAKER_00]: First of all, hegemony.

[00:36:17] [SPEAKER_00]: That's the idea of the dominance of the United States over other nations.

[00:36:21] [SPEAKER_00]: And certainly after World War II, the United States had economic dominance.

[00:36:26] [SPEAKER_00]: It came from Bretton Woods.

[00:36:27] [SPEAKER_00]: It had military dominance for sure.

[00:36:29] [SPEAKER_00]: And certainly that has taken place.

[00:36:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, what's the broken spoon story?

[00:36:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, he waits really until the second page in about the middle paragraph to talk about the fact that one day when he was 11 years of age,

[00:36:43] [SPEAKER_00]: after his mother would oftentimes grab this small wooden spoon, he actually grabbed it out of her hand and broke it

[00:36:50] [SPEAKER_00]: and it went out of the house.

[00:36:52] [SPEAKER_00]: And then when he came back, he says, I don't remember what any of us said,

[00:36:56] [SPEAKER_00]: but the point is, is once you've broken the spoon, you can't be spanked.

[00:37:00] [SPEAKER_00]: And his implication is that America today has a broken spoon because he said, look, since the end of World War II,

[00:37:09] [SPEAKER_00]: the status of America as the global hegemon has been defined by one rule,

[00:37:16] [SPEAKER_00]: and that is the United States could assert its geographical and geopolitical will,

[00:37:22] [SPEAKER_00]: oftentimes without having to resort to military operations, simply based on their rhetoric and their economic force.

[00:37:31] [SPEAKER_00]: And so this has prevented some of these massive major conflicts.

[00:37:36] [SPEAKER_00]: And he said, no, some people are going to say, wait a minute, what about North Korea?

[00:37:39] [SPEAKER_00]: What about Vietnam?

[00:37:40] [SPEAKER_00]: What about Iraq?

[00:37:41] [SPEAKER_00]: He said, no, these were exceptions to the rule.

[00:37:44] [SPEAKER_00]: But by and large, especially once you had the build down of the Soviet Union, the major superpower was what?

[00:37:54] [SPEAKER_00]: The United States.

[00:37:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Now we talk about a major superpower of the United States and China,

[00:38:00] [SPEAKER_00]: but he said that what you've had really since 9-11 is the now all too familiar phrase of forever wars.

[00:38:09] [SPEAKER_00]: And so he then takes you into an interview that Tucker Carlson did with the former CEO of Blackwater, that'd be Eric Prince.

[00:38:17] [SPEAKER_00]: And this is where he was basically talking about the number of attacks on American sovereignty,

[00:38:23] [SPEAKER_00]: which were either planned or allowed by some of our rivals and goes through the list,

[00:38:30] [SPEAKER_00]: everything from flooding the United States with fentanyl and the attacks,

[00:38:34] [SPEAKER_00]: at least through microwave attacks on foreign personnel, all sorts of other skirmishes and the rest.

[00:38:42] [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, that's where Tucker Carlson says, well, why didn't we react to that?

[00:38:47] [SPEAKER_00]: And here is the answer.

[00:38:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Eric Prince answers that any meaningful response would involve the forceful imposition of consequences.

[00:38:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Didn't finish that, but the implication is we're no longer able to back up, is probably one way to say it, some of our rhetoric.

[00:39:07] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, it used to be, Teddy Roosevelt's credited with this, speak softly and carry a big stick.

[00:39:14] [SPEAKER_00]: If you have a big stick, you don't have to speak real loudly.

[00:39:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Matter of fact, your rhetoric is something that just warns people about what you're going to do.

[00:39:21] [SPEAKER_00]: But the reality is, according to Eric Prince, is America's spoon is now broken.

[00:39:27] [SPEAKER_00]: The forever wars are no coincidence.

[00:39:31] [SPEAKER_00]: They're a result because we really cannot exert the kind of hegemony that we used to.

[00:39:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And as he says, in short, American rhetoric and sanctions aren't backed by enough real power to deter Russia from using those kinds of weapons

[00:39:49] [SPEAKER_00]: to stop China from sending fentanyl across the border and all of the rest.

[00:39:54] [SPEAKER_00]: And America's enemies and frankly, America's friends are no longer convinced they would lose to the United States even in a hot war.

[00:40:06] [SPEAKER_00]: And there are reasons to believe that.

[00:40:09] [SPEAKER_00]: The other day I gave you some of those numbers from Jim Garrity, but let me mention them again.

[00:40:14] [SPEAKER_00]: When you talk about the attack right now that has taken place on this oil tanker,

[00:40:19] [SPEAKER_00]: which is going to possibly be one of the worst environmental disasters in history, four times worse, they think, than the Exxon Valdez.

[00:40:31] [SPEAKER_00]: How are we doing with the Navy?

[00:40:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, we had 300 ships in 2021.

[00:40:37] [SPEAKER_00]: By the end of 2025, 287.

[00:40:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Matter of fact, more recently I talked about the fact that the Sea Lift Command, they actually remove crews from 17 of the support ships.

[00:40:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Why? Because we just simply don't have enough individuals.

[00:40:54] [SPEAKER_00]: They're not actually being recruited at a level that allows us to maintain that.

[00:41:00] [SPEAKER_00]: And the United States has the smallest active duty force since 1940.

[00:41:07] [SPEAKER_00]: So again, we can't risk it any longer.

[00:41:12] [SPEAKER_00]: At least that's the article here by Adam Elwanger.

[00:41:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Because if we attempt to even give our greatest foes a small retaliatory spanking, they could break our spoon.

[00:41:25] [SPEAKER_00]: And if you think about how ineffective we've been in, let's mention them, Afghanistan, Iraq, go all the way back to Vietnam if you want.

[00:41:33] [SPEAKER_00]: You can see that that I think is why he refers to this as the broken spoon of American hegemony.

[00:41:42] [SPEAKER_00]: These are the problems.

[00:41:43] [SPEAKER_00]: These are the hot spots that we certainly will be dealing with in the future.

[00:41:48] [SPEAKER_00]: And this is the reality of the American military currently.

[00:41:52] [SPEAKER_00]: No matter who you elect as president, Kamala Harris or certainly Donald Trump, they're going to have to deal with this reality.

[00:42:00] [SPEAKER_00]: The real question is what are they going to do with the circumstances they find themselves in?

[00:42:06] [SPEAKER_00]: And who is going to be the better commander-in-chief of the military?

[00:42:11] [SPEAKER_00]: And who's going to pay attention to some of these great threats around the world?

[00:42:17] [SPEAKER_00]: I think that is another very important question you need to ask as you consider who you're going to vote for for president.

[00:42:23] [SPEAKER_00]: And even who you're going to vote for in the United States Senate and Congress, because those are the individuals that are going to determine things like military budgets and deployments and treaties and all sorts of other issues.

[00:42:36] [SPEAKER_00]: So again, if some of this would be helpful to you, these are articles we've posted on the website at pointofview.net.

[00:42:43] [SPEAKER_00]: We will watch the interview with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz tonight.

[00:42:47] [SPEAKER_00]: We'll talk about it tomorrow.

[00:42:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Penta Dexter, Dr. Merrill Matthews will be in studio.

[00:42:51] [SPEAKER_00]: I think you'll appreciate some of the material that we're going to cover with them then.

[00:42:55] [SPEAKER_00]: But go to the website pointofview.net to find out more.

[00:42:58] [SPEAKER_00]: And most importantly, I want to thank Megan for her help engineering the program.

[00:43:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Steve, thank you for producing the program.

[00:43:04] [SPEAKER_00]: We look forward to you joining us tomorrow on our weekend edition right here on Point of View.

[00:43:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Many years ago they began saying that we live in the information age.

[00:43:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, today there is so much information coming at us from every direction.

[00:43:21] [SPEAKER_02]: The hardest thing is to discern which issues are really important and how can I make a positive impact without wasting my time trying to figure out accurate information.

[00:43:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Let me give you a suggestion to help with that.

[00:43:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Visit pointofview.net.

[00:43:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Look at the tabs across the top.

[00:43:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Find the one named Viewpoints.

[00:43:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Kirby Anderson and others on our team are constantly watching for news to identify those issues that you really need to know about.

[00:43:50] [SPEAKER_02]: They boil things down in a brief summary and then you can decide if it's something on which you want to learn more and get involved.

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