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🗓️ 17 December 2024
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Right after I taped this week’s episode with John McWhorter, I got on a call with my creative director Nikita Petrov, expecting some follow ups.
We talked about Syria, the world’s reaction to Trump’s victory, P. Diddy’s parties, the reasons the labor movement never got the same kind of momentum in the US as it did in Western Europe, and more. But we started by connecting two topics from my conversation with John: the surprisingly cheerful reactions to a killing of an insurance firm CEO in New York, and the seeming demise of DEI as a movement.
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0:00.0 | Can I envision class taking the place of race as the focal point for serious political struggle and conflict? |
0:08.0 | If Trump and his people were smart about consolidating their power, that would be the direction they would go in. |
0:14.0 | They would make idiots out of the Joe Bidens of the world who went around saying they're all racist by pointing out, no, we're |
0:21.8 | the ones who really have an interest in empowering the minorities because we want them to join |
0:27.7 | with our majority to make a new America. |
0:30.2 | I was somewhat excited to see Trump win the election because I think that kind of thought |
0:34.6 | is at least thinkable, even if it's not likely. |
0:41.3 | The baboon, the idiot, the imbecile is the leader of the free world. |
0:45.8 | And even though people afflicted with Trump derangement syndrome in the United States can't see that, |
0:48.5 | everybody else on the planet can. |
0:50.2 | There was a long civil war in Syria. A lot of tragedy in that country and refugees and displacement and civilian deaths |
0:55.5 | and all of that. |
0:56.5 | And it's been going on for over a decade. |
0:58.3 | Turkey and the Kurds have a long-running conflict. |
1:01.4 | Israel is in the mix here. |
1:03.7 | Chemical weapons, biological weapons, they worry about the security of the possible stores of |
1:08.3 | these things that may be afoot. |
1:10.7 | Syria is a transshipment point for Iranian |
1:13.0 | munitions getting to Hezbollah, which constitute a very serious threat on Israel's northern border. |
1:18.0 | The next thing, was race really a thing? Was it the thing? When the diversity mongers turned out to be |
1:24.4 | the people who were more sympathetic to Hamas, I found out, and I didn't |
1:28.4 | know, they really don't have any power at all. |
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