A Radical Reset
Our Republic has been converted into a democracy which is just another name for mob rule. The mob is getting what it wants, to paraphrase H.L. Mencken, good and hard. One day soon, the entire edifice is going to collapse under its own weight and what takes its place historically will be tyranny. A Radical Reset is the alternative and the system is called Antipolitism. It calls for a new republic based upon merit and not ambition. No parties, no money in politics, no careers in politics, and only serving the public good.
A Radical Reset
From Prison Yards to Patriotism: Why Every American Should Be Grateful
America stands as the greatest nation in history because it protects individual rights over majority rule and offers unparalleled geographic advantages. This Independence Day podcast explores why all Americans, regardless of background, should recognize how fortunate they are to live in a country founded on these principles.
• America wasn't designed to be a democracy but a republic that protects individual rights against majority tyranny
• Prison life reveals extreme tribalism that mirrors current societal divisions threatening American exceptionalism
• Our geographic advantages include temperate climate, fertile land, and navigable waterways unmatched worldwide
• Black Americans descend from the "luckiest half-million black people in history" who ended up in a nation that eventually protected their rights
• Latino Americans and Native Americans likewise benefit from living in a system that, despite historical injustices, offers unparalleled opportunity
• Returning to tribalism and identity politics threatens the exceptional American formula that has created unprecedented prosperity
• We must stop judging people by ancestry, appearance, or group identity and return to protecting individual rights
Let's enjoy Independence Day by celebrating the fact that we live in the greatest country in history by any objective measure, and just revel in it without aggravation or rage in our lives.
Good morning and happy 4th of July. Happy birthday America. Happy birthday to us all who are lucky enough to live here. And that is going to be the theme of my podcast today why America truly is the greatest place to live in history and why each and every one of us here are lucky to be here.
Speaker 1:And I'm going to come at it from a very unusual perspective, since one of the things that makes me you know I'm going to be I'm not going to be falsely modest. I'm going to tell you one of the things that I think makes me special, which is the sheer level of weird shit I've gone through in my life and all the trials and tribulations I've overcome and all the experiences I've had since I've essentially lived my life on my own almost from birth, given the incredibly abusive background I come from. I know I sound happy coming from that, which is really weird. Another little thing I'm kind of happy about somehow I came out of it optimistic despite all of it, and I'm not going to recount my own sad story because you know, the truth of the matter is I went to prison and prison is I'm going to come at this from the perspective of having been exposed to the lowest elements of the biggest whiners in society. If you think about it I'll get to explaining what that means in a minute as a result of my own poor actions poor actions and if I start to describe my background and it'll start to sound like I'm trying to set up a predicate for why I did what I did, and I'd never like to do that. In fact, I refuse to do that because millions of other people went through exactly what I went through and didn't do what I did. So it's not an excuse, and that's the problem with you know, I had to go through this and I had to go through that. And I, you know, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah. You know, if, if you're going to be a stoic and I adopted stoicism as the central philosophy of my life while I was in prison um, I, you know.
Speaker 1:Again, I just to explain that people, all of us, as human beings, need a track to run on. I don't care how smart you are, how smart you think you are or how good you think you are, whatever the adjective you want to use. We just aren't born with the inherent knowledge of what to do in every situation, and that's what philosophy is about, and that's what religion is about. And because I am an agnostic and I describe myself as agnostic, by the way, for those of you who are new joining me for the first time Also, by the way, for those of you joining for the first time, if you want to check out my overall guiding philosophy and the movement I'm trying to begin, which is called Antipolitism. The system of Antipolitism, which is a republic by merit-based lottery, I know that in one sentence lays a lot of open ground. So if you want to read the manifesto of anti-politism, please pick it up on Amazon. It's called A Radical Reset, the same exact title as this podcast, a Radical Reset by me, herbie K Herbie, spelled with a Y, on Amazon in Kindle, paperback and hardcover, and you can read all about what makes antipolitism antipolitism.
Speaker 1:Okay, although I'm going to tell you in all honesty, I'm about to revise the manifesto to simplify the qualifications of who is eligible for the draft, so to speak. Not the draft into the military, the draft into Congress. I know, weird concept, but it converts ambition to duty and that's the key Ambition converted to duty, ambition. You know, people think greed is a bad thing. I don't think greed has anything. Greed is just a word.
Speaker 1:We put on trying to do things in our own self-interest, and our own self-interest is a good thing because it creates activity that benefits others even as we pursue our own self-interest. So if we go to the grocery store and we buy, we decide today is the day that we're going to, you know, pop for a prime rib and spend $100 on a slab of meat. Well, you know, there's the butcher that cut it, there's the packing house that packed it and there's the farmer or the rancher that raised it and there's the feedlot that fed it out. Everyone benefits by that transaction of someone buying that slab of meat. And that's why I don't really like to dwell on greed, because every time you acquire, as part of what we call greed, you benefit everybody that created it, whatever it is you acquired. So your very action of what some people would perceive as selfishness is actually a greater act of charity in the sense that, then, giving your money away because it creates productive activity and all the people involved in the chain that goes into that product or service that you wanted to buy. If you were Jeff Bezos and you wanted to buy a lavish yacht and throw a ridiculous wedding and spend all those millions and millions, tens of hundreds of millions of dollars on your own wedding, great, everybody that worked there, everybody who built that yacht, everybody, I mean think it through people. You know, when you hear things like the socialist saying there should be no billionaires, yet that's another word for billionaire's employer, you know. And taking money away from your employer does not make more, better paid employees. That's the, that's the fallacy of socialism. But anyway, that's one of the fallacies of socialism. Back on track.
Speaker 1:So I went to prison and in prison I and I'm counted number one, a very segregated society, segregated by the inmates, not by the prison staff, and they were. And the groups that were in prison were broken down like this there were the white guys who called themselves the Woods, which is short for Pecker Woods. I do not know why they chose Pecker Woods. The whites were run by the Aryan Brotherhood and the skinheads, which are essentially one of the same thing who, by the way, a lot of them belong to this religion called Asatru, which I had never heard of until I went to prison. It's like reviving the old Viking bullshit. It is Well. No, I shouldn't say that. It's reviving Viking mythology, which was beautiful, and turning it into racist bullshit. That's Asatru, but anyway they wear little Thor hammers. They don't even know anything about what they're talking about, but it's like all ignorance, it manifests itself in glorious ways.
Speaker 1:So there's the whites, then there are the blacks, and the blacks identify as kinfolk, which I completely understood that name right away and it didn't seem bad to me. In fact, when I was in prison, while I was white, I rolled kinfolk and I did that because the whites run by the Aryan brothers are anti-Semites and being a Jew, which I do not hide and I refuse to, I don't try to. I can pass, but I don't try to pass. I don't look particularly Jewish quote unquote. I don't have a big nose and my eyes are blue and my hair leads me to a story. I'm going to share one of my stories with you. I just popped into my head.
Speaker 1:So when I got married for the first time, I married a. I married a. Well, both times I married girls who weren't Jewish and both times I married girls who were Scandinavian, and I'm not sure what that tells you. But there you go. I guess I like Scandinavian women, although my second wife was a brunette, not a blonde. My first wife was a blonde. Her name was Kim and I married her. I met her in the Navy. I'm not going to go into the whole story of how I met her, but we had a lot of fun and I was very young when I married her. But I was also not entirely estranged, but pretty much estranged, from my parents. But I still talked to them and of course I was going to let them know that I was getting married. I wasn't inviting them to the wedding, mind you. I was, when I say parents, my father I had no contact with ever and my mother died when she was 50 and I was 28, 29, 29, 1986. No, 29. Yeah, 29. Anyway, but we had a very but anyway, my mother was funny. People are complicated. She had her good parts and her bad parts. The bad parts I'm not going to go into today. The good parts is what this story is about in a funny sort of way. So I call up my mother and I tell her I'm marrying, I'm getting married. She has no idea I'm even dating seriously at this point. And I'm in.
Speaker 1:Where I am is I'm at the National Security Agency at Fort Meade in Baltimore, maryland. I was a Russian linguist and I worked at the National Security Agency with the top secret, alpha Clarence. And that is what makes me so interesting. Just to share, because I've been at the top and I've been at the bottom in many different areas. And this is when I was at the top of the intelligence area, because at the time I was a very highly rated Russian linguist. I have a talent for foreign languages and there are a lot of guys well, not a lot, but there are a number of people that may be trained to speak Russian and among all of those, my Russian was the best and I graduated first in my class from Russian school, which was at the Defense Language Institute, monterey, california, where I attended a 47-week immersion course in Russian, taught by native Russians, and voila, I spoke Russian. So today I think they try to teach it more as a vocational skill and differently. I don't really understand that, but in those days they taught immersion Russian. It was great. I still speak Russian, I still have Russian friends.
Speaker 1:So I'm out in the NSA and my mother is back in Arizona, in Nogales, Arizona which means walnuts, in case you're curious what Nogales means and it's the largest crossing point in the world of produce between two countries, the United States and Mexico and Yadier, and they were there because of the produce industry. And so I call my mother up and I tell her what's going on. And she said her first question to me is is she Jewish? And I said no, and I heard the phone drop. Now you remember, this is before, way before cell phones. This is 1970, I'm going to say 1978, or yeah, it's 1978, I think 77 or 78, that I got let's see how old was I. It's 1978.
Speaker 1:So, no cell phones. You know, it's the old phone on the cord and the kitchen phone on the wall. That's what she was talking on. I could tell, because they had the really long cord you could walk around the house, drag on the cord. No one remembers these cords, but they were. You would play with them. I kind of missed the phone cord. It was fun to play with.
Speaker 1:Anyway, long story short, she drops, I hear it drop, she picks it up and then she's breathing like this and I said what's wrong? And she said oh my God, oh my God, your grandfather is rolling in his grave and you know how can you do this? And yada, yada, yada, so on and so forth. And my answer was mom, and it came down to this. No one in our family has ever done this before. How could you intermarry? How could you marry a Gentile girl? It isn't so much as a prejudice, so much as Jews, you know. Birds of a feather generally try to flock together. So this is what it came down to.
Speaker 1:And she was freaking out and I said to her I said, mom, no way that I'm the first one in our family to ever marry a shiksa. By the way, shiksa is the Jewish slash Yiddish word for a girl who is not Jewish. If it's a boy, it's a sheikah. It's just the masculine and feminine form of the same word, but the female form is shiksa. So I said to her I'm not the first guy in our family to ever marry a shiksa, I'm sure of it, or ever get involved with a shiksa or a sheikh. It's someone or a bloodline. She said how can you say that your grandfather's rolling in his grave? Blah, blah, blah. She goes through the soul speech.
Speaker 1:And I said to her look, mom, jews are Semitic people, true or false? And she said well, true, of course. And I said Arabs or Semitic people, true or false? And she said true, what are you trying to get at? I said in fact, everyone who lives in that northern part of Africa are Semites. Is that that's true? And she said yes, that's true. And I said so.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm talking about. You know swarthy, curly hair, dark eyes, large noses. You know Jews and Arabs look essentially the same, especially the ones that have never left the Middle East. So there are two kinds of Jews. By the way, guys, just to digress again, there are Sephardic and Ashkenazic. Sephardic are the Jews that never left Israel. Ashkenazic are the ones that emigrated into other countries and then came back later. I'm Ashkenazic, so I come from Russia, my family.
Speaker 1:So I said to her, I said, ma, so you know, like Jesus couldn't have looked like the pictures in the, you know, with the blue eyes and the long blonde, they would have drowned. That baby Jesus had to look like, basically, yasser Arafat. You know, for those of you, I and I don't mean that to be insulting, and just Middle Eastern people would not follow a guy that looked like he just walked out of the Roman Empire. I'm sorry, just not going to happen. So, anywho, digressing from my digressing from my digressing and now returning to the story, which is digression from the theme of the show and I'll get back to it, I promise.
Speaker 1:Finishing the story, I said, mom, I hate to break this to you, but I'm six foot three, I've got blue eyes. My hair is sandy blonde. It's absolutely white today, but it used to be sandy blonde with a little red mixed in. I burned in the summer. I said, mom, I hate to break this to you, but somebody was stupping a Russian somewhere. Now, stupping is the Yiddish word for screwing. Okay, so you get the drift. The point is, you know who among us are pure? I don't know why I even told this story. So, anyway, back to. So I'm Jewish, I don't hide it, I'm proud of it, yada, yada, yada. So I rolled with the kinfolk, the next group on the yard.
Speaker 1:We're back to the main story of the yard, which was a digression from where. Well, actually it's part of the main theme of what I'm talking about today. There were the Paisas, which are the foreign national Latinos. Okay, then they're not us citizens, they speak generally Spanish only. Then there are the Chicanos.
Speaker 1:Now you would think that the Chicanos and the Paisas, if you weren't really up on this. You know why are they in two separate groups? Because they hate each other. Why did. They hate each other For the same reason that Mexican American males, latin American males, voted heavily for Donald Trump, as opposed to what people who don't understand the issue thought, that they would all vote Democratic. And the answer is, when they become American, they speak English primarily. A lot of the Chicanos don't speak Spanish at all. What they mostly speak is Spanglish and the Paisas view that as positively outrageous and they just hate each other over it.
Speaker 1:I mean, I'm simplifying a much more complicated cultural story, mind you, but in the most simple sense, it really comes down to how they speak Spanish, and Chicanos, and me too, I speak Spanglish. You know, when I get stuck on a word, english will come out. But sometimes, believe it or not, I don't know about you guys any of you speak more than two languages. Do you ever find yourself speaking another foreign language and then you get stuck on a word and it comes out as another foreign language because your brain is in foreign language mode? I can't tell you how many times I have spoken Russian while I'm speaking Spanish or Spanish. When I'm speaking Italian, or Italian or French, when I'm speaking Spanish, it just comes out in other languages that I speak, even German words come out. It's just weird, my brain gets into foreign language mode.
Speaker 1:Anyway, I'm just curious. If that happens to you, you can comment, send me a note. If it does, I'm just curious. If this is, I don't know. I'm always curious in how other people think. I think we all pretty much think the same and we just think we're special.
Speaker 1:So anyway, they hate each other and break down into two groups. And then there are the chiefs, which are the Native Americans, who are very interesting, very quiet and I would use the word stoic people. You know they are, they're quiet, they take their time, they don't act impulsively. I'm speaking, this is a broad generality. I kind of like being around the chiefs. I find them calming.
Speaker 1:And who else was left? The chiefs? The Paisans, that was it. Okay. There were very few Asian Americans. So there were Asian Americans. There were generally rolled Chicano. The reason they didn't roll with the whites is because the Aryan brothers are such racist Nazi bastards really I have nothing good to say about them.
Speaker 1:So anyway, when you're among these groups in prison and when you were, I got involved in teaching reentry classes because of the corrections officers recognized that I was educated and yada, yada, yada, you get to know these groups really, really well and because I rolled black, I got you know, kinfolk, I got to know them very well and at that ladder of the socioeconomic scale, you're among the biggest whiners in our society, the biggest crybabies, the biggest parasites. These are people who do not understand that they have to do for themselves, because they're raised literally on the street and they simply take, and so their only question is what are you going to do for me? It doesn't occur to them that they would do it for themselves. Now, I'm not saying these are bad people. I'm saying these are products of being raised on the street. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:But I'm saying that it is the most extreme and therefore representative version of America's divisions that are taking place right now, because it's also tribal. Okay, it's very, very tribal. Tribalism is a reverted state. You know, civilization overcame tribalism. But the difference between a civilization and a tribe is that in a civilization, people mix and there are written and structured systems and institutions that control our worst behaviors. You know what goes on behind closed doors. It would terrify all of us. We all know that. We all have secrets we were raised with and we think we're alone and unique in it and we're not. It's a sad, sad story. Perversion is a norm, I think, but anyway, having said that, what Civilizations does is it puts a veneer and a structure over all of that, so that humanity can progress.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm being simplistic and this is a longer discussion for more than a podcast, but I'm you know. As you know, I don't speak from a prepared text, so this is all occurring to me as I'm speaking on a general theme. So, just, I hope, I hope you find this sort of thing interesting and let's just go with it. So, anyway, when you get lower and lower in the economic ladder or, as currently happens in America, it just occurs to me, higher and lower in the economic ladder, or, as currently happens in america's, just occurs to me, higher and higher in the college educated. What we're doing as a society is we're retribalizing, and so I was basically involved in the worst part of the retribalization.
Speaker 1:Wokeism is nothing more than the modern representation of tribalism. Okay, and you know, when you start subgrouping people into areas that they cannot break from and their primary allegiance is to their subgrouping, that's a tribe, that's not a civilization. Now, you can call it a tribe, you can call it a cult. In American parlance, modern vernacular it's these are synonymous terms. Okay, so I got to hear the whines and you know what was wrong.
Speaker 1:And the point is, I'm not going to go through all the complaints one by one, but one of the things I told all of these people, one of the things that I told the Chicanos and the kinfolk in particular, and the Native Americans, is how lucky they were to be conquered by white Europeans in America. And I know that this is going to be an incendiary statement, but I'm telling you right now, and I'm going to make the case, and this is why America. This all links to why America is great. Let's start with why America is great and then I'll finish with why these so-called aggrieved minority groups of America are the luckiest people in the world period In history. They're the luckiest people. They just don't recognize it.
Speaker 1:First of all, what makes America great is not that we're a democracy. We were never meant to be a democracy. We were meant to be a republic, which is a completely different animal, and we have destroyed the republic in favor of the democracy, which is really what anti-politism is all about is restoring the republic, but in doing that, we somehow taught people I'm not sure where this came from. I remember being taught this as a kid that democracy it still is. It's a word that's democracy. Say for democracy, we have to have a democracy. Democracy inevitably descends into mob rule, which is what's going on now. Hold on, I've got to take a sip and wet my whistle. So much better Iced tea on the 4th of July. What could be better Sun tea, as a matter of fact, in sunny arizona, where I am anyway? Um, so we're not at the moment, we weren't. That's not what makes america special, is the point I'm making.
Speaker 1:And and the majority rules. Majority rules everywhere. You know, it doesn't matter if it's a dictatorship. Majority rules in russia right now. The majority of the russian people love putin, and the day they don't love putin, they'll throw them out. It won't be through an election, it might be through a coup, but still it's a reflection of what the majority wants. A coup leader never leads a coup unless he or she it's always a he unless he thinks that the people are behind him in his delusions. Whether it's true or it's false is another story. But when Hugo Chavez took over Venezuela before he completely ruined it, he was a very popular choice and he was overthrowing a very unpopular government, and you know that was a reflection of the majority at the time, even though the majority was backing a dictator. Now, today, it's completely reversed, as socialism always fails, but anyway.
Speaker 1:So back to the United States. That's not what makes us special. Majority rule doesn't make us special. Part of what makes us special is our luck.
Speaker 1:Okay, so the first thing is America is the luckiest country in history because of our geography. We have phenomenal geography. We're in a perfectly temperate zone from north to south. Maine gets cold, but not as cold as Siberia. Florida gets hot, but not as hot as the equator, and in the middle it's mostly temperate, gentle as the equator, and in the middle are mostly temperate, gentle changes of seasons. And the American Midwest is the largest fertile growing area in the world, and not to mention the San Joaquin Valley of California, which might even be bigger now that I think about it, the American Midwest, and then running down the middle of the country, with tributaries everywhere, is the Mississippi River, and what makes it remarkable is that it's navigable its entire route, as are almost all of its tributaries, and so that links cities. And then from that we were smart enough to build canal systems and so on and so forth.
Speaker 1:And, to make a long story short, we're the geographically luckiest country in the world, but that's not what makes America unique in history. What makes America unique, what makes us special, which is what the reason is that all of us should be thrilled that we live here. First of all, we're also lucky because we're in such a geographically perfect place. There's nothing like the United States geographically in the world and never, never, underestimate geographics. One of the reasons Mexico, for example, is not as prosperous as the United States is they have shit geography. All their cities are isolated, there's nothing that links them and it's. The terrain is terrible. So you know it's one, you know it has beautiful, beautiful parts, but there's nothing.
Speaker 1:Anyway, I don't want to get into geography. What am I doing? So let's say what makes America special is the protection of the rights of the minority or the individual over the rights of the majority. That's what makes America special, and that we have elevated that to a near religious status that we're trying to destroy. And we need to restore that religious status and the sacredness of the original constitution as written by the founders of the United States, with a couple of small write-outs of the particularly racist and misogynistic parts, which is not what I'm talking about, but the rest of it is magnificent. And, by the way, the so-called racist and misogynistic parts were simply from perceptions of the time these people lived in, and even the slavery. You know what? I'm not going to go down that rat hole. I almost went down that rat hole, but I'm not going down that rat hole. Let me stay on subject. So here we go In America.
Speaker 1:What makes you special is you can be the biggest nutcase in the world, stand in the middle of the street, say anything you want out loud, short of threatening the life of somebody. That of it's not allowed, um, because no society would tolerate that. You know anyway, um, unlike any other place in the world, in england today, right at this very at this very moment, our, our parent cult, a country culturally um, is going through a period of where they're literally putting people in jail for um speech. What they, what they have defined this is hate speech or whatever they're calling it. That could never happen in America unless we tribalize it, and that's what I want to speak about today. So here's what I told.
Speaker 1:I want to talk to all of you in wrapping up today's podcast. I want to talk to all of you bitchers and moaners, or people who buy into the narrative that there are aggrieved minorities that we have somehow oppressed and ruined in the United States, we being the white Europeans who conquered the continent, which, in fact, is what we did, we can call it whatever we want, but basically Europeans came across and we conquered the continent. Now, as a result of conquering the continent, a lot of minority groups were brought in and, in the short term, abused. Slaves number one there were approximately a half a million slaves imported into the United States from Africa at the time. Just for you to know, there were about 11 million slaves were exported from Africa into the New World during the period of slavery in the Western Hemisphere from Africa. And of those approximately 11 million slaves, 10.5 million went to the islands in South America and a half a million went to the United States.
Speaker 1:All the slaves at the time, their descendants are the American blacks today, liberally mixed with a lot of white blood too, because, over the years, race is mixed, which is why I think, by the way, in a couple hundred years, if we could come back in time, the whole world is going to be basically brown with slightly almond eyes. I think we're going to screw each other into the absence of racial differences over a very short period of time, given the speed of technology. But anyway, I digress. So coming back to the point is that so about a half a million African and slavery ended. The importation of slavery ended in 1965, obviously, but the importation of slaves ended in 1938 because of malaria. Frankly, they, as many people were dying on the ships is under the decks of the ships, from the malaria that that, uh, white Europeans had no resistance to and they were dropping dead left and right and one thing led to another and they stopped the importation of slaves in 1838.
Speaker 1:So, anyway, all the black people that are descendants of slaves today are descendants of that original half a million people and they have nothing to bitch about, because those are the luckiest half a million black people in the goddamn history of the world. And let me explain to you why. And if it isn't obvious by now, let me lay out the case. You know, sometimes what's up is down and down is up, and that's why, in stoicism, we embrace challenge and difficulty and consequence as necessary parts of life to really achieve a life of value and worth your descendants, my black friends, my black American friends.
Speaker 1:Yes, it was a bad thing to be slaves, by the way, all sold into slavery by other black people, no such thing as a white slaver. In Africa itself there were white slavers quote unquote around the boats. But again, I'm going down that rat hole. Yes, they lived lives that weren't the greatest. Yes, they lived lives that weren't the greatest. Yes, they lived lives that weren't going to, but they were going to be slaves in Africa, my friends. They could have been African slaves or they could have been American slaves. These were black people, tribes that were rounded up by other tribes, then brought to the coast of Africa and sold to whites on ships that then sailed them to the new world. That's how it worked. That was the entire system. That's how every black ended up in slavery. So had they not been sold into slavery to white slavers, they would have been kept as black slaves, and black slaves exist to this day in Africa.
Speaker 1:There's nothing unusual about this, but those slaves the half a million that ended up in the in the United States are the luckiest black people in the history of the world to date, because they ended up in a country that, once they were freed, their right as an individual began. And yes, it was imperfect, and yes, there was Jim Crow, and yes, there was all kinds of stuff, but in the end, you today, living here now, listening to my voice, are so unbelievably lucky. And I used to tell this to the inmates in prison and when I'd explain it to them, most of them got it. And you know it's a funny thing, when you talk to people on their own level and you're not talking down and you're not being pedantic and you're not treating them like children, like so often progressives do with black people, I think that's insulting. And you tell them the truth. Shut the fuck up. You're the luckiest black people in the history of the world and you tell them what You're in America. Would you rather go back to Africa? And if the answer is no, then shut the fuck up. And would you rather go live in Europe? And if the answer is no, then shut the fuck up. If you'd rather go and live anywhere else in the world than here, my black American friends, if the answer is no, then shut the fuck up and enjoy the country you're living in, because we, as America, protect your rights as an individual today. Stop living in the past. The past is prologue. The present and the future okay, the present is all that exists and the future will take care of itself if you learn to live in the present and stop whining, okay, and recognize how lucky you are. Let's now move along to Latinos.
Speaker 1:In America, latinos fall into two groups, and I know this, living in the desert southwest and being bilingual and living most of my life in Arizona, which, except for the fate of history, could have easily been Mexico. So, having said that, I have a deep understanding and I have many, many. I'm not saying this in that, you know, I have a Latino friend, I have lots of Latino friends. If you went into my Facebook, into my ex-account, you'd find that shit. I don't know what the percentage is, but maybe half are Latino, and the reason for that is that I live in Arizona and I love it here and I love the culture and I love Mexican culture in particular, and I lived in Mexico on and off for a period of years and I had a home in Mexico, and so I really understand the culture.
Speaker 1:But here's the thing, dudes, they fall into two groups. There are the Mexican-Americans who came here the hard way, the right way, the green card way. Their families came here, they made a life. They're Americans first and foremost. They voted for Donald Trump. I hate to tell you, but that's true. Those Latinos will agree with me when I say you are the luckiest motherfucker. Good thing Mexico got its ass kicked. Good thing America threw out General Santa Ana and then made the deal to basically buy for peanuts the rest of the United States Good thing. Good thing Texas joined the United States. Good thing you're here. Would you rather live in Mexico? Anyone want to go back? And the answer to that I don't have to ask them this, because they know it. This is why they voted for Donald Trump and they understand that.
Speaker 1:America is a country where you speak English. Now, to those of you who are listening to me, whose English kind of suck and you think that we should be a bilingual nation bullshit. Bilingualism is a recipe for disaster. Ask the Canadians. Okay, that's all I have to say. It doesn't work. America is an English-speaking country and for those of you who embrace that and learn to speak English you soon will be you will learn that you know once you adopt the language of the culture and adopt the culture as your own at home, for example, I'm very Jewish at home, but in public I play the game with everybody. It's not a game. I'm part of the American culture. I'm an American Jew, not a Jewish American. You're an American black, you're an American Latino.
Speaker 1:And the Native Americans? I hate coming to that group of so-called oppressed minorities. You know that for those crazy activists, I hate to tell you this, guys, but Native Americans were Stone Age people who were preying on each other for millennia, not years, millennia. Every single tribe was on land. That it took from another tribe, that took from another tribe before that. That it took from another tribe before that. It was a history of slaughter. They hadn't even invented the wheel.
Speaker 1:The horseback Native I'm going to stop calling them Native, I'm just going to call them the Indians. It's a generic term. We all know what I'm talking about. Horseback warfare. The Comanches adopted it successfully, but they didn't have horses until the Spaniards came and they were the only Indian tribe that learned how to use horses correctly. The rest would ride their horses into battle, dismount and fight from the ground, which is just insane. But the Comanches learned to fight from the saddle, so to speak, or lack of saddle. But the phenomenal horsemen.
Speaker 1:Anyway, long story short, you were going to be conquered, guys. If it wasn't by the Spaniards or by us, it was going to be, sooner or later, the Ottomans. I mean, one way or another, the Native American tribes, the Indian tribes of the American continent, north to south, were going to be conquered because they were all Stone Age people, and that is the story of history. So who would you rather be conquered by? Okay, the Spaniards or the English? And I got news for you the English were the better conquering power, number one. They were Protestants. So there was no church bullshit, no missionaries, no, y'all have to be Catholic nonsense. Yeah, they tried to convert the Native Americans and other groups, but you could always say no. And then, of course, there's the American religion, which is Mormonism need to embrace no matter what minority group we may belong to or what sexual subgroup.
Speaker 1:How women thought they were oppressed is beyond me. But, okay, I mean, ladies, are you really happy you're abandoning traditional values? I mean, I'm not a woman, I don't know, but I have daughters and I know the baby itch starts to itch all by itself. You don't have to teach them how it just happens. And suppressing that cannot possibly lead to happiness, and the reason the traditional family sets up the way it does and it has for 10,000 years, is because it works, and it works to the benefit of everyone, including everyone's happiness. And the reason the United States exists, thank God, is the recognition of the rights of the individual over the majority, and we need to remind ourselves of that and restore a system of government that does that, reinforces that in the institutions, that protects that, and we do that best by taking the ambition out of power and replacing it with duty, which is what anti-politism is all about. But America, with or without it, has been the greatest country in history and if we don't ruin it and we continue to protect the rights of the individual over the rights of the majority, we will continue to be the guiding light onto the future.
Speaker 1:But we've got to pull our heads out of our asses, beginning with this return to tribalism. We have to stop identifying as what color the melatonin is or how much melatonin we have in our skin. Not melatonin, it's melanin. Melatonin is what puts you to sleep. What a maroon. Anyway, that's me I'm talking about, not you. Yeah, let's stop judging by melanin and let's stop judging by eye shape and let's stop judging by where our great-grandparents came from or what deprivations they went through. Mine went through pogroms and shtetls in Russia. I don't think Russia owes me restitution. Grow up and be thrilled and count yourself lucky. No matter what group you belong to, you are in the greatest place at the greatest time in history, and if we don't screw it up and we don't destroy ourselves through this inane return to tribalism, our future is so bright we'll have to wear shades, and that's the message for today.
Speaker 1:My friends, enjoy your 4th of July, enjoy the fireworks. I don't know about you, but my little puppy, pepper, who suffers from anxiety to begin with, is going to get. Puppy Pepper, who suffers from anxiety to begin with, is going to get a double dose of CBD, which I use to calm her and works quite well today Bacon-flavored CBD for pets. If those of you who have dogs and cats who suffer from anxiety, there's a tip for you and so it's all natural. It doesn't hurt them. As long as you're in a state where you you know you can buy CBD, what else are they going to say? Oh, you know, have a picnic. What we're going to do here where I'm living, we're all buying pizzas and doing a group thing. It's going to be fun.
Speaker 1:Enjoy your 4th of July, enjoy your day. God bless America. Let's not worry if we're Democrats or Republicans or libertarians, let's not worry if we're progressive or conservative. Let's just celebrate the fact that we live in the greatest country in history by any objective reason or factor, and just revel in it and bathe in the glory of it and enjoy just one day without aggravation or rage in our lives. Just enjoy the moment, live in the moment and have a wonderful day. God bless you, god bless your family, god bless America, and I'll talk to you on Monday.