Point of View March 18, 2025 – Hour 2 : Tuesday’s Notes

[00:00:04] Across America, Live, this is Point of View, Kirby Anderson.

[00:00:43] It comes from Nicole Russell writing in USA Today. I just simply called it stock market versus the economy. Her article actually has, Don't Panic About the Stock Market, Trump is Fixing Holes in Our Economy. But I use that concept because a while back, I was watching this YouTube video where they began, these four analysts about the economy, and they're talking about how the economy had taken a dive.

[00:01:10] The next person said, Well, wait a minute. I think it's more fair to say, Yes, the stock market has gone down, but the economy is doing relatively well. And there's a confusion sometimes people have. There's a difference between the stock market and the general economy. Sometimes they're parallel. Sometimes they're not. There's a difference between Wall Street and Main Street. And so I think that is maybe one way to think about some of the things we're going to be talking about here.

[00:01:39] And the key issue right now is, since the stock market is down, that has been a talking point against President Donald Trump. As a matter of fact, as illustrated by something I just watched just a little bit ago, it was a CNN back and forth in which they were going on and on about the deportation or the removal of some of those criminal gangs, which we've talked about yesterday.

[00:02:04] And then one of the commentators said, You know, the problem of all this, we're talking about the removal of these criminal gangs, and we're not talking about what Donald Trump has done to the stock market. And I thought, Well, isn't that interesting? Because if you've listened to Point of View any length of time, you've heard me say it many times, but I'll say it again. The president is oftentimes taking too much credit for what happens in the economy, and oftentimes presidents are getting too much blame for what happens in the economy.

[00:02:32] And this first article, I think, illustrates that. Nicole Russell says President Donald Trump has a new title, Stock Market Master. She says when the markets go down, it's his fault, according to Democrats and the legacy news media. But when they rise, as they eventually will, it won't be because of Trump. Now, I think there's a better way to look at this. Yes, presidents can do some things that hurt the stock market and hurt an economy.

[00:02:59] But by and large, most of that gets evaluated very quickly and added into that as well. First of all, she takes on the obvious thing. It is undeniable, she says, that Trump's tariff war with Canada, China, Europe, and Mexico has injected uncertainty and fears of recession into the markets. We talked about that the other day.

[00:03:23] When markets are uncertain, as we talked about last week with our guest from Georgetown Law, who actually is at their Denny Center for Capitalism, we talked about the fact that, yes, uncertainty rattles the stock market. True. But also what Nicole Russell tries to go on to say is, it's time for some perspective. She points out that sometimes stock markets vary. There's corrections.

[00:03:52] Sometimes those corrections are necessary and healthy, she says. For example, the S&P 500 dropped more than 25% between January 2022 and October 2022. That was in the second year of Joe Biden's one term, first term as president. First and only term, I should say. And that actually was corrected relatively quickly in 2023 and 2024.

[00:04:18] So she also quotes from one of the individuals from Fund Straight Global Advisors, who said, I think it's quite possible that March, April, and May actually could be one where we have some huge rallies in the stock market. So the first thing is, if you want to think about this carefully, make a distinction between the economy, which seems to be doing relatively well when you look at inflation going down, unemployment relatively low,

[00:04:47] and a variety of other things, job creation going up. Those are all positive signs. But if you are certainly a hater of Donald Trump or you're convinced that the Trump administration is going to destroy the economy, well, then you're going to focus your time and attention on the stock market. And so the next point that Nicole Russell makes is not only making a distinction, which I've already made more than she does, between the economy and the stock market.

[00:05:14] The number two point she makes is give it time. She says it's natural to feel anxious about the market's plunge. Nobody wants to see their retirement accounts drop, especially if you're near retirement age. She says I have empathy for people in that position. But at the same time, it's important to recognize that the stock markets may, of course, come back, as she mentioned. And creating better jobs in the United States is the point of the tariffs that Donald Trump

[00:05:43] and his administration have enacted. The easiest way for companies to avoid the tariffs is to make more goods in this country, and that in turn will drive up wages. And, of course, we could go through the long list, but you probably have heard the president himself list them. And the Secretary of Treasury, Scott Bessett and others, talk about the number of various companies

[00:06:06] that say they're going to bring some jobs back or are already in the process of bringing jobs back to the United States. Which leads to her third point, and that is the left has a double standard on the economy. She says there's another piece to the stock market panic worth mentioning, and that is the left's egregious double standard. We've talked about it before, but let's get into it one more time.

[00:06:31] She says for four months, President Biden made policy decisions that rapidly drove up prices on items that Americans need, from food to cars to homes. We talked about some of that yesterday. As she quotes from the Cato Institute, reported last year, food prices rose less than 18% between January 2010 and January 2021 when Biden took office,

[00:06:58] but they shot up 21% in the first three years of Biden's term. And, again, ask an obvious question. Where were the progressive protests when millions of families struggled to buy milk and fruit for their kids? The left might have amnesia, but I don't. So, again, the argument she's making, I think they're pretty sound, is that, first of all,

[00:07:22] if indeed we want to bring jobs back, tariffs are one tool, maybe a blunt instrument, maybe not the way we like it, certainly not helpful to where the prices in the stock market are at the moment, but with the goal to do so. And sometimes people say, well, this is not planned. I think it's a feature, not a mistake. And that is there has been a real desire, I think, from the Secretary of Treasury, Secretary of Commerce,

[00:07:50] and the President to maybe even weaken the dollar and to really, in some respects, use that to actually improve the business climate here in America, along with the regulations we've talked about before. And so her argument is, give it time. Of course, we talked about that just the other day when we used some of the facts and figures from what happened when Ronald Reagan took over, and in some respects, for some of the kind of restructuring that is happening right now.

[00:08:21] But again, at least be aware, as she says in her third point, there is kind of a double standard. We were told that everything was fine in the economy, inflation was transitory, and of course we learned our lesson that that really was not the case. So anyway, it's our first article. When we come back, we want to get into some other topics, but just a little bit of Economics 101 for all of us. We'll be back right after this.

[00:08:58] This is Viewpoints with Kirby Anderson. Two weeks ago, I talked about President Trump's countermarch to the institutions. Progressive activists have been marching through the institutions of this country, and Trump is engaging in a countermarch. Now, Victor Davis Hanson provides a different perspective on what is happening. He is asking, who caused the counterrevolution? He observed that at some point, some president was going to have to stop the unsustainable spending and borrowing.

[00:09:26] He then looks at the crisis at the border and concludes to have any country left, some president would eventually have had to restore a non-existent border and stop the influx of three million illegal aliens a year. He also added, some commander-in-chief finally would have to stop the theater wars abroad. Eventually, someone in authority would have to deal with these issues. President Trump is leading a counterrevolution because he is convinced there is a need to restore common sense.

[00:09:55] Yes, some may be disturbed at the speed or the breadth of action, but most would agree that some changes needed to be made. Most Americans believe there are two genders. Most Americans don't think biological men with greater size and strength should compete with women in sports. Most Americans believe too many people cross the border, and they do fear that a percentage of migrants who are criminals should be removed.

[00:10:20] We may not like it when a federal employee is fired or when a government program is terminated. Getting to a balanced budget at times might seem heartless. We may not agree with every decision being made to deport people here illegally, but Americans voted for a change from the previous four years, and that is why there is a Trump counterrevolution. I'm Kirby Anderson, and that's my point of view.

[00:10:46] For a free booklet on a biblical view of genetic engineering, go to viewpoints.info slash geneticengineering. viewpoints.info slash geneticengineering. You're listening to Point of View, your listener-supported source for truth. Back once again, our second article actually comes from the file. Fact checkers need sometimes to be fact-checked. Good news is we don't have to because the former senator from Arizona,

[00:11:15] Kirsten Sinema, who was a Democrat and then later became an independent, actually did the work for those fact-checkers who decided not to fact-check. And I was going to mention it the other day, and I thought, well, maybe not. I'd seen her post on X. And then Brittany Bernstein put this together, so it's our second article. And Brittany says, Welcome back to Forgotten Fact Checks. This week we look at Democrats flip-flopping on the use of the Senate filibuster

[00:11:44] and cover more media misses. I will only look at the first part of this article, and that is what she referred to as Kirsten Sinema's well-deserved victory lap. Again, she was a senator from Arizona, served as a Democrat until Democrats got so crazy that she finally then declared herself to be an independent. But it's a reminder of a time in which they wanted to, that is the Democratic leadership on the Senate, wanted to get rid of the filibuster.

[00:12:13] If you've listened to Point of View any length of time, you've heard Kelly Shackelford talk about that almost every time he was in this particular seat across from me on a Friday weekend edition talking about that. And the thing that kept them from removing the filibuster were two individuals, Kirsten Sinema and another former senator, that would be Joe Manchin,

[00:12:38] which ended up being the two individuals that kept them from getting rid of the filibuster. Well, last week, all of a sudden, as Brittany Bernstein points out, many of those same Democrats who said we want to get rid of the filibuster suddenly embraced the 60-vote threshold as a means to block a Republican-backed spending bill,

[00:13:03] which ultimately passed after, as we talked about last week and earlier this week, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and nine members of his caucus decided the passage was preferable to a government shutdown. And so as a result, you can read this in its entirety, was kind of interesting because that's when then you had Kirsten Sinema first criticizing, of all people, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,

[00:13:30] saying, oh, a change of heart on the filibuster, I see. And again, argued that she was not being critical, but even hypocritical. But then Kirsten Sinema wasn't having any of it. She said, literally zero Senate Democrats support the filibuster. 38 voted to filibuster the continuing resolution yesterday. Eight who previously voted to eliminate the filibuster did not filibuster.

[00:13:58] I, one who previously campaigned the filibuster did not filibuster. And then you can see some of her posts on X. First of all, one of the lines, you've got to love it here, just surprised to see the support for the Jim Crow filibuster here. Because some of you might remember that the way in which this was portrayed is anybody who was not going to get rid of the filibuster actually was supporting Jim Crow,

[00:14:25] which of course is one of the dark chapters of American history. And then she says, turns out someone has a spreadsheet and it shows the senators who were on record to eliminate the filibuster. Then those same senators who voted to filibuster. And then bonus points for an additional column listing those people in April 7, 2017, who actually wanted McConnell to preserve the filibuster.

[00:14:52] And if you might say, well, that might have been just a bit of overreaction. That's why Brittany Bernstein said, no, it was a well-deserved victory lap because she reminds us that she could be forgiven for this meticulous scorekeeping because she was attacked relentlessly by Democrats in her party because she was wanting to uphold the filibuster. Here's just a few quotes and then we'll move on. This one from the New Republic. How dumb does Kyrsten Sinema think we are

[00:15:22] accusing her of offering an illegible defense of the filibuster? Well, let's go to The Nation, which again is a left of center magazine as well, claim that Sinema's position on the filibuster echoes Goldwater's case against civil rights. Here we go again. Then you go to Vox. Vox, you know, again talked about the Democrats' failure on the filibuster reform will haunt them.

[00:15:51] Then you can go to NPR, National Public Radio, which talked about Kyrsten Sinema's political evolution from progressive to filibuster defender. And then you had these attack ads that came out against the former senator from Just Democracy to the tune of $1.2 million. Here's just one of the narrators of the ad. And this in the deep voice, I'll try to do it.

[00:16:20] As the GOP tries to silence our voices, she's just standing by supporting a Jim Crow relic instead. Why do you stand with you? And so, again, just all these attempts to minimize her, to criticize her, to vilify her, and the rest. And so then it goes into how she was even, quote, misleading her constituents. And you can read the rest.

[00:16:46] But it was just a good example of she had had enough of all the attacks that she had received. And then when it came time to say maybe we should actually not have the filibuster, all of them use the filibuster, not successfully, that budget proposal. And so, again, I think it was her wanting to just remind people of how the Democrats,

[00:17:12] just a few months ago, were actually against the filibuster. Now they're for the filibuster. And, of course, they were really for the filibuster when it looked like Donald Trump was going to take office, which he did. So, again, those are just a few examples of where, again, Democrats are for whatever helps them continue their particular issue. I think some Republicans have been wishy-washy, but most of them have been pretty strong through all of that.

[00:17:40] One other piece I thought I'd put on the table real quickly, it's from Allen West. Colonel Allen West, of course, has been on the program many times before. And he reminds us that recently the California governor, that would be Governor Gavin Newsom, had the conservative activist Charlie Kirk on his podcast. And during that interview, Colonel Allen West says, Newsom asked Kirk for advice.

[00:18:04] And he says, if Gavin Newsom had asked the same question of me, that is, Colonel Allen West, my response would have been, stop digging. Now what he's referring to is the old adage that if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. And he gives a couple of examples. Of course, he talked about last week in a piece that we posted about why do Democrats, what do Democrats stand for? They wouldn't stand for all sorts of things.

[00:18:30] But then he takes on the issue that we discussed even yesterday and a little bit on Friday, the situation with Mahmoud Khalil, who is an individual who has supported Hamas, which Colonel Allen West reminds us is a designated terrorist group. And Hamas has its charter, on its charter, the elimination, eradication, and extermination of the state of Israel and Jewish people.

[00:18:57] And then reminds us that, you know, if you want to defend some of the individuals that should not be deported, probably the one you don't want to defend is Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder here with a student visa, who has been leading pro-Hamas rallies, demonstrations, and protestations on various college campuses. And, of course, I shared with you yesterday the kind of damage from vandalism that has been done there as well.

[00:19:27] But he says, Here come the leftists with their shovels to dig deeper and take the side of an individual that is supporting Hamas, stating that he has a freedom of speech. And as I tried to explain yesterday, yes, he does have the freedom of speech, but he doesn't have the freedom to destroy property, at which there were an incredible amount of expenses at both Columbia University and Barnard College. But, nevertheless, that is the case.

[00:19:56] And he said all through the week, the left has been pushing the weak argument that he should not be deported. And, of course, that is one of those as well. And then the other one he picks up, pretty simple, and that is we have a Democrat here in the state of Texas, Representative Jasmine Crockett, who the other day made an unbelievable statement that by coming into America illegally, that's not a crime. And, of course, goes through all the history there as well,

[00:20:24] as well as the legal code, the U.S. code and statute and all the rest. But, again, the point he's making is, if you really want to win over the American people, maybe the best thing to do, since you find yourself in a hole right now, is to stop digging. So, anyway, you might enjoy reading the entire piece by Colonel Allen West. It's four pages. I've only summarized about two of those pages. But it illustrates, again,

[00:20:55] why, as you look at some of the various opinion polls right now, Democrats in Congress not looking very good. As a matter of fact, about one of the lowest percentages of favorability we've seen. And maybe, as Colonel Allen West suggests, if you're in a hole, you might think about stop digging. It's good advice for all of us. Maybe even advice for those right now that are trying to defend sometimes the indefensible.

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[00:22:51] You are listening to Point of View. The opinions expressed on Point of View do not necessarily reflect the views of the management or staff of this station. And now, here again, is Kirby Anderson. Final half hour. We're going to spend some time now looking at those for just a few minutes.

[00:23:18] But as a program note, let me just mention that we're going to spend kind of a deep dive into China tomorrow. And so that will be our first hour, in which we'll talk about some of the material that comes from Senator Tom Cotton's book, about the seven things you can't say about China. Also, some other material from Gordon Chang on Plan Red. And, of course, our March issue of the Outlook magazine, which we make available to those of you that are donors, is already out. And we'll maybe refer to a few things there as well.

[00:23:46] So that's just kind of the first hour. Get into some other issues as well. But let me just talk about Doge for just a minute. And for those of you in the state of Georgia, this might have more significance than people around the country. Although I found that when I mention Stacey Abrams, most people know who she is. And so I guess this would probably work for anybody, but especially would be significant to people in the state of Georgia.

[00:24:12] And that has to do with the fact that when you look at all these stories about waste, fraud, and abuse, first of all, some of them turn to be a little bit of hyperbole. When you dig down, you find out maybe they're not quite so accurate. But the biggest problem is there's so many stories, after a while your brain kind of just gets on overload. And I think sometimes there's a value in maybe picking one story that probably illustrates the rest.

[00:24:40] You know, it becomes, if you will, sort of like, you know, the story that you remember most often. And so in some respects, I'm starting to see more and more commentators are referring to the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Okay, you might say, what in the world is that? Well, this was part of what was the infamous, if you will, Inflation Reduction Act. This really was later on, even President Biden admitted,

[00:25:09] it was really the Green New Deal, but renamed called the Inflation Reduction Act. It had nothing really to do with reducing inflation, but it was passed. And in it, there was a $27 billion program called Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Okay, it was a first-of-its-kind program to address the climate crisis issue,

[00:25:34] especially as it affected maybe marginalized communities, low-income families, those who, as it said in the bill, were historically left behind. And so the money was really to help those individuals that were in more under the poverty-level groups or other communities. But it turns out the money never made it to those communities, but instead went into the bank accounts of environmental nonprofit groups

[00:26:01] that had been created back in August, and then actually were receiving all that money just before Donald Trump took office. And so I found a number of people quoting it. Barry Wise, for example, with the Free Press. She used to be, if you might remember, the op-ed editor for the New York Times. She said that most of that money, $20 billion out of the $27 billion,

[00:26:30] was rushed out the door to eight nonprofit groups that actually received the money after Joe Biden lost the election, but before Donald Trump took office. This is what led to a phrase that we've talked about before, where there was a secretly recorded video in which a former EPA official said that it was like tossing gold bars off of the Titanic.

[00:26:59] I was going to say tossing gold bricks. That would have been accurate too. But again, they were just rushing this money out to all these various nonprofits, which are staffed by individuals who either were major Democratic donors or else individuals that had very strong connections to the Obama administration or the Biden administration. Katie Pavlish, though, quotes a Washington Free Beacon story

[00:27:25] that actually found that Doge had discovered that $2 billion of those funds, $2 billion of those funds went to a nonprofit link to the perennial Georgia Democratic candidate, Stacey Abrams. Now, this, I think, gives you a couple of very interesting perspectives. First of all, one quote that I dug up from the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett said,

[00:27:52] look, we all think there's been waste, there's been abuse, but I think there's also been real fraud here. You think? $20 billion out of the $27 billion went into the bank accounts, in some cases a separate literal commercial bank account, and like they said, it was like tossing gold bars off the Titanic. So the first thing is that even people in the administration are saying fraud.

[00:28:20] I had some of you call in the other day saying, do you think these people will be prosecuted? I'm thinking at some point maybe this would be the case, given who the Attorney General is, Pam Bondi. But it also explains something else, because if you've been watching this, the almost rabid response to some of the Doge investigation makes you wonder why you would fight so strong about some of this,

[00:28:48] and you're starting to realize who some of the recipients have been under this. And so in some respects, if you want to have what I guess we could call the poster boy of the Doge investigation, maybe the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund is one of those examples, and maybe that's why we're seeing more and more columnists and pundits actually quoting that. Let me, if I can, while we're talking about Doge, go to Scott Powell.

[00:29:16] He is an individual that wrote a very good book a number of years ago called Rediscovering America. He's with the Discovery Institute, and I've quoted him on other columns, but I've posted this one in which he says, you know, Doge, cultural and spiritual renewal and revival will make America great again, because he recognizes that part of the solution to the future of America rests in dealing with some of these economic and political issues.

[00:29:46] But we're kidding ourselves if we think that just the political and economic issues are going to make America great again. We need a spiritual and cultural revival and really even a reformation. I would encourage you to read it in its entirety, but let me just try to talk about the fact that he says that America's greatness was attributable to its spiritually grounded culture and its form of government, a unique constitutional republic that empowered the people in the states

[00:30:15] more than elites and the federal government. But then he points out that in our history, two Republican and Democrat presidents, one Republican President Theodore Roosevelt and one Democratic president, President Woodrow Wilson, really embraced progressivism and expanded the power and scope of the federal government. Kind of basic history 101. Then you get to the 1930s and you have one more thing,

[00:30:43] and that is the Democratic president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, established a raft of federal agencies which ostensibly were to help provide relief to the poor, solve unemployment through public works projects and a number of other things. But as a result, this kind of sent us in the wrong direction. And so he says, look, while America was not founded as a Christian nation, the written record of the Constitution Convention

[00:31:11] records and reveals that the founders recorded debates, discussions and writings were actually inspired by citations and guided by Bible verses, as we've talked about so often here on the program. And if you even go and look at the founders quoting, they quoted the Bible more than anything else, but they also quoted Montesquieu, Blackstone, and Locke, each of whom was known for their devotion to Christian beliefs.

[00:31:39] And so we had certainly an understanding of sort of the cultural foundations and the spiritual foundations of America. Then he takes us fast forward to the 1960s, in which some of that orientation was unraveling, and in some respects, what we find ourselves in today, and then points out that even though we often talk about those three-letter commissions and institutions

[00:32:07] that were established under Franklin D. Roosevelt, he then takes you through this long list, the U.S. Agency for AID, which we've already talked about, Social Security, Housing and Urban Development, Environmental Protection, Department of Education, Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, and as a result, this massive expansion of government as well that took place from the 1960s to 2000, all are ones which from a cost-benefit proposal

[00:32:37] really didn't work very well. And then says that what we have needed to do is recognize that we need to come back certainly to some of the political and economic foundations of America, but more importantly, we also need to come back to those cultural and spiritual foundations as well. One of his last lines is this, American greatness cannot be achieved without a spiritual awakening and cultural revival.

[00:33:06] The critics who might argue that we should not set the clock back have it wrong. It is essential to get the time right, synchronized with the U.S. Constitution, which is based on natural law and the limits, the reach of government, and empowers the people. Again, I would commend to you his timeless book written back in, what is it, 2022? I think it was. Rediscovering America. Just a reminder that let's not hitch our wagon

[00:33:33] just to doge or actually balancing the budget. As important as that is, we also need a cultural revival and a spiritual reformation. We'll take a break. Come back with more right after this. You're listening to Point of View, your listener-supported source for truth. Last column today is by Gerard Baker,

[00:34:03] and he is editor-at-large for the Wall Street Journal and actually has a piece which says, Anti-Semitism rears its head on the right too. Now, we've talked about this before, that if you get, for example, and I just mentioned Barry Weiss's name just a minute ago, she's Jewish, wrote a very good book, which I have on my shelf, about how to fight anti-Semitism. She does have a chapter on anti-Semitism on the right, looking at some of these really far-right groups.

[00:34:33] I don't even consider them part of the right, but that's how they get listed, so fine. Then she has very long chapters on the left, and of course we've seen this for some time. Well, Gerard Baker says, look, the eruption of anti-Semitism on the left, dressed up as opposition to Israel's tactics in a war started by its enemies, is the most potent form of Jew hatred. But it goes on to talk about the strong pedigree, unfortunately, of anti-Semitism on the left,

[00:35:03] which oftentimes is not called out, and needs to be, and I think is going to be a real problem for obvious reasons in the next election. But then he goes on to point out that if you now go to the right, some of the people that have very large voices are interviewing people that are promoting anti-Semitism as well. And he mentions Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, even has a passing mention of Elon Musk,

[00:35:32] but that's just a post. But okay, I'll put that one in there as well. You might say, where is this coming from? Well, he says, Joe Rogan, the podcaster with the biggest audience, last week hosted a man who has made a living spreading sympathetic falsehoods about Nazi Germany. Gerard Baker goes on to say, I won't even dignify his sham scholarship by naming him, but he recently became famous when Tucker Carlson also interviewed him and called him

[00:36:00] America's most honest, popular historian. You can go and follow the links for yourself because I'm not going to mention that individual's name, but even in the interview that Tucker Carlson did with this individual, this individual made the claim that Winston Churchill was the chief villain of World War II and then said that the Jews who were murdered in Nazi concentration camps somehow ended up dead there.

[00:36:30] And of course, you can at this point say that should not stand. We all believe in free speech, but passing off shoddy scholarship erroneous scholarship without any kind of pushback is not responsible. Now, as an individual that sits in front of this microphone, I'll be the first to admit that sometimes you bring an individual on the phone or into the studio and it goes some directions

[00:36:59] you didn't anticipate. Anybody that's ever done live radio knows what that's all about. And sometimes you can't kind of unring the bell. But in both cases, these are podcasters who recorded it and then decided to disseminate that. And again, I think it is fair, as Gerard Baker points out, to point out that Joe Rogan has hosted others with vile views, as he calls it, one who claims that the Jews are responsible for 9-11

[00:37:28] and even another individual who talks about some of the so-called blood libels that I talk about in both of my booklets on anti-Semitism. And then he does, in order to include Elon Musk's point about one podcast that he shared, which I think was just maybe a stupid thing to say, but I might not necessarily put that into the category of anti-Semitism. But I did want to cover this

[00:37:57] because we, whether we're Christians or non-Christians, whether we're liberals or conservatives, need to call out the anti-Semitism that seems to have reared its ugly head here in the 21st century. You would have thought we were beyond that, but we're not. Even if the left do not call out the anti-Semitism on their side, I think it's time, long past time, to call out any anti-Semitism on the other side. So, if nothing else, that I think is one of those topics

[00:38:27] that I wanted you to be able to read. But just before we wind down, let me quote one other one that comes from the New York Times. Because Elon Musk lately has not only been criticized for what he's doing with Doge, but now he's been recriticized for some of the things he's said about the military. For example, he posted that America needs a large quantity of long-range drones. He says, anything man will die very fast in a drone war. As a matter of fact,

[00:38:56] if you saw one of his videos he posted a while back on Chinese drones, he said, meanwhile, some idiots are still building manned fighter jets like the F-35. Well, if you want to get yourself in trouble with certain members of Congress or companies that make up the military-industrial complex, that's a quick way to get it done. But he's not the only one bringing up this issue, and that is, a while back, Warren Kelly passed on to me a piece from the New York Times which was talking

[00:39:26] about reimagining the American war machine. Turns out, some of these authors are saying, if you look at the war being fought right now between Russia and Ukraine, you can see that it might change the way the Pentagon buys weapons. For example, one quote from them, in Ukraine, drones of all types, from cheap quadcopters and radio control boats to long-range attack drones have radically altered the battle in the war

[00:39:55] with Russia. They go on to point out that the Ukrainian military reportedly introduces drones with new capabilities every few weeks. As the Russians adapt, the Ukrainians respond as well. And so, I think it is helpful for us to begin to recognize we don't want to make a mistake that we've seen in the past. As we go into another war, we sometimes use the tactics of the last war to fight the new war. The tactics that may have worked

[00:40:25] in the 20th century may not work as well in the 21st century, but if you've also read my commentary that I had come out a couple months ago about killer robots, you also need to recognize that we cannot allow AI or robots or drones to fight battles with little or no human oversight. But it does appear that modern warfare is changing and the Trump administration seems like they're ready to scrap 20th century

[00:40:54] warfare mindsets and swap them for 21st century military. So, even though I think Elon Musk, he's getting criticized for everything these days and probably that just comes with the territory, he's not the only one looking at some of these issues and saying can we not learn some lessons about what it might be like to have to fight a war? We hope we never have to fight a war with Russia, with China,

[00:41:24] with North Korea, whoever it might be, Iran. But can we not learn some lessons from the battlefield right now in this war between Russia and Ukraine? So anyway, it's a topic I wanted to put on the table and it comes from a really insightful article that appeared in the New York Times. So, I commend it to you. Just before we run out of time, let me just mention that tomorrow we are going to talk about China that gets us back into the military, gets us into a variety of other

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