Tripp (and Graham) Has Issues
Tripp Has Issues is a weekly audio experiment in what happens when you give a very libertarian Baby Boomer a microphone and absolutely no adult supervision.
There’s no script. No panel. No “experts.” Just Tripp Dettmering, and the incomparable Graham Dickinson, bloviating their way through opinions, half-formed ideas, questionable insights, cultural gripes, free-market sermons, and the kind of musings that usually get you politely avoided at neighborhood cookouts. Some weeks he’s right. Some weeks he’s loud. Every week he’s convinced he’s onto something.
Is it political? Sometimes. Philosophical? Occasionally. Coherent? Not guaranteed. The only promise is that Tripp will say what he thinks, think while he’s saying it, and probably annoy someone in the process — including himself.
New episodes drop every Wednesday, because apparently one unchecked rant per week is what the world can safely handle.
If you enjoy libertarian takes, Baby Boomer energy, and podcasts that proudly admit they’re “about nothing in particular,” congratulations — Tripp Has Issues probably has your issue covered.
Tripp (and Graham) Has Issues
It's Never Too Late!
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Tripp and Graham discuss the ridiculousness of excusing violence and bad behavior by NOT accurately describing who the culprits were... in order to be "culturally sensitive." They also address that it is never too late to discover new perspectives on issues. They also address the decline in interest for Pride Month Events and Support.
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We've had so many issues that Graham has just been out on issues. So he's we've got a lot of issues to uh to catch up on. And uh I just want to say I'm so glad to see you back. And he is looking fabulous.
SPEAKER_01I appreciate it. It's his month. It's his month, everybody. He looks fabulous.
SPEAKER_00Oh my god.
SPEAKER_02Streamers.
SPEAKER_01You know what else today is?
SPEAKER_02What's that? It's National Donut Day. So you can go to uh I think Krispy Kreme and uh Duncan and get a free donut. Yeah. If only eight sweets. I know. I same way. Um but yeah, some listeners out there, uh, by the time you hear this, um, you will find out that you missed your free donut.
SPEAKER_00This is a top uh source news information channel. Uh just uh after everything's over. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Or or recent history, you know, whatever you want to look at it. Yeah. So what has been on your mind? What has been your issue lately?
SPEAKER_00Oh no, it's contentious, but uh that's kind of what we do, right? Um the whole nation is going insane with these teen takeovers. Uh we they're called teen takeovers, which means black. Uh I hate to say it, not gonna tiptoe around it anymore.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Uh doesn't mean it's not Bubba and his friend Skeeter who are out there.
SPEAKER_00It's uh not the frat guy, frat white frat guys have their issues too. Oh, yeah. This isn't it? You're not gonna see Kyle and uh Jared out there tearing the place up.
SPEAKER_02Exactly.
SPEAKER_00So the the it's a you know, blue cities have this problem a lot. Chicago is just, I mean, he's given up, Brandon Johnson, or I think that's him, completely given up. And I think he encourages it. But the whole uh the whole blue country, but now it's the South too. It's moving all over, it's metastasizing. Uh they've shown up to Hilton Head Island. Um there was a weave removal ceremony at Pauli's Island Sonic. Um I mean, there's just balls all over the place.
SPEAKER_02I don't think this is organic or cultural. I think that I think just like the uh protests that are going on at the ice facilities and things like that, I think somebody I think they're buying them off. You think so with the takeovers? I do. I really do. There's there doesn't seem anything organic about them.
SPEAKER_00Um I guess uh except for with with the takeovers, social media. I mean, these kids are it's a way to first you become you go viral, so you get the virality out of it, and then you get the actual meetup, and then you get the credit for cut starting the meetup. So they get the organizers kind of turn them into celebrities. I'm not saying you're wrong, I don't know. It just seems like with the takeovers there with social media they have a place to do it, and that's I think that's how it's done, in my opinion. But who knows?
SPEAKER_02Well, I've just uh it it the timing of it, um uh the amount of money that they have for traveling to these uh these places and and gathering. Um I mean fuel prices are ridiculous anyway. I mean, there's not a lot of traveling that even families are doing. And so it just seems like they have the abundance of um of these uh uh black youths that are showing up at these things. And um I don't I mean, I I know my kids wouldn't have the income to be able to go to these places. That's a good point.
SPEAKER_00But I mean if they're the if that's their if they're in that city, I mean that's where they live. You know, there's no travel, but I don't know. There's sure a lot of them to be living all in one city for sure.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, uh it's just uh in the yeah. I mean, they're like they were finding out for the uh uh the ice protests in New Jersey. Um the Democrats all of a sudden were like, wait a minute, these people aren't from New Jersey. Yeah, because they're they were trying to sit there and and uh say, okay, you're here, you're help helping us and you're supporting us. We want you to do this. And they're like, no. So they're like, wait, what's what's going on? And then um everybody they arrested, uh that they you know ran their IDs, and I I don't think they had a one that was uh from New Jersey. Hmm.
SPEAKER_00I see I'm not surprised by that.
SPEAKER_02No.
SPEAKER_00But that you know, and then they're why are they there? Because the prisoners are uh I shouldn't say prisoners, they're not. No, they're detainees, right? Are going on a hunger hunger strike. Okay, well, don't do that. Uh what do you want to what do you want America to say about that?
SPEAKER_02That's the thing is all you've got to do nobody verified that they're on a hunger hunger strike. Okay, then they're gonna be able to do that. It seems like they're all yeah, they it seems like they're all being fed and fed well and all eating. Doesn't seem like there's they cannot find a person in there that is uh that's closing their pie hole and not you know taking in the free food.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Talk about feeding from what I've heard, there's uh I mean it's a good bit better food than prisons, which it should be. There's something new every day. So I don't know what they're talking about. And the and even if there was a hunger strike, like I'm saying, okay, so eat something. What do you what do you want America to do about that? We're we're following the law of the land and the law that uh most of the country voted to uh to enact.
SPEAKER_02They're honored they're on hunger strike because they want free GLP.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. That reminds me. Remember when body positivity was a thing before GLP? Yeah, that's right. That went away real quick. That's right.
SPEAKER_02Don't don't you dare talk about my anorexia.
SPEAKER_00That's gonna be the new thing. Yeah, Elizabeth's airplane sure leveled out after the GLP ones. Saved a lot of jet fuel for that.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, she doesn't have to buy three seats anymore. Yeah, exactly. On her own plane. We have to balance out the planes in the middle.
SPEAKER_00That's good stuff. She yeah, so that's true. I mean, that went away real quick too. But yeah, they I don't get it. Whether the ICE facilities or teen takeovers is like that. Another another thing with that is too, is like Winston Churchill said, it every country needs a good war.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And I think that's true because and I and not that we need an actual war, but that mind frame at least. And the the first worlders, these young kids with their iPhones and cappuccinos and there, they have no problems. You don't know what that's like to have to have to go to war, to be forced into austerity. And uh I think if we did have one, it would, you know, we'd remember what's important again. So everybody's got so much time on their hands, there's boredom. I get the teen takeover, it's fun. It's like with the BLM rights in Antifa says this is like Grand Theft Auto the video game.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And that's how they see it. I know that. Well, people can say, no, they're out there protesting for rights. Yeah, sure you are. That's why you're partying on top of a car, driving down through Charlotte, whatever that interstate is. And then they're in it's a street party.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and then they're in tears when the FAFO portion comes into it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, then there's a problem in everybody's there's too police are too uh enforced or forceful in all this, and it's just it it drives me insane because like I was talking about in the last podcast, we all have to pretend. We live in pretend world because we don't want to be labeled something or we're gonna get shot at, or you know, whatever it is. So we're all terrified and pretending. And it needs to come to an end. I think it is, and not to keep babbling here, but uh have you heard of this James Fishback in Florida? No, no. Oh, for governor. He's been on the mic. Somebody let him loose, and he's been saying he said, if you if you are he's running for governor. I thought it was attorney general, but I guess it's governor. Uh he was he said uh in in front of a crowd, not just TV, if you if you bring a teen takeover here, we are going to bring out dozens of people with AR-15s, and we are going to put an end to these takeovers. I don't care if you're black, white, muslim, Christian, Jew, we are going to show up with AR-15s. We are an open carry state, and we're gonna do it. I'm like, it's that shows how sick of it every people are getting. Is he an independent or I don't I think I don't know. I've got to look more into him because I think he's the guy, a friend of mine pointed out, I think he's the guy that wanted to ban, or not ban, but tax OnlyFans accounts, 50%, uh 50% tax on OnlyFans. Definitely not a libertarian, yeah. No, no, not libertarian. I I'm assuming he's uh Republican then. Okay, he's definitely not a Democrat talking the way he does, but yeah.
SPEAKER_02I mean, it's he just might be a uh independent, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, he could be independent, but I I'll have to look into it more. But his name's James Fishback, he's making the rounds.
SPEAKER_02Ah, very cool. Very cool.
SPEAKER_00Um and then on you know, with the we've now we've got the Carmelo jury, uh an all-white jury.
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SPEAKER_00So they're mad about that. And then they just found uh the some of the potential jury said, jury members said uh they admitted they said they'd have a real hard time putting a brother in jail. Okay, then that's why it's an all-white jury, maybe, because some of the black people are straight up saying we're not going to follow the scales of justice.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and then you've got the protesters outside saying kill the crackers and stuff like that.
SPEAKER_00The only good cracker is a dead cracker. He's on video saying it. Well, the dummy.
SPEAKER_02It's a saltine, you dumbass. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00I don't know why I don't know why they think that hurts us. I've heard the history was they called us that because we'd crack the whip on them.
SPEAKER_02I'm like, okay, well, that's that's actually it wasn't cracking the whip on them. Crackers was uh just uh a term for the uh the farmers who would be cracking the whips on the on the horses and stuff. So it was just and it didn't even have to be to be a cracker, you didn't uh a majority of crackers didn't even own slaves in uh in the area.
SPEAKER_00So well it was only like one percent of the South that owned slaves anyway or less. Very small number.
SPEAKER_02No, the largest largest slave owner in uh American history uh was a black woman in uh New Orleans. The first slave owner in uh before we became a nation was uh uh Antonio or Anthony Johnson. Johnson, yep. Who is uh a black man. So um yeah, I mean it's just uh and again, it's it's not about race. It's you know, these people just don't know history.
SPEAKER_00And that's what makes it even more infuriating. Oh, yeah. It's like this this stuff isn't even real. If it was real, you're still taking it too far because we're far removed for we didn't invent slavery, we were one of the first two to end slavery. Yeah, 700,000 white men died to freed free the slaves, yeah. All good things.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00But it's not even true what they're saying. They don't even know the history. Well, and I don't by they I don't mean black people, I mean uh pr anybody on the left, basically.
SPEAKER_02Or or yeah, I I guess we would just consider that the the the people that are in the uh uh the universities and so on that are trying to get out this uh alternative uh narrative of history and and so on, yeah. Um which is you know, I don't and I was talking to a young goth lady the other day, and she you know, she was just like you know, this is because of racism, and that's because of racism, and and so on. She was mostly talking about uh drug laws and things like that. And I said, historically you're not totally wrong. I said, but I don't today I don't I don't think it's really um as strong an argument. And um but yeah, as they they try to make it uh yeah. I I just uh and it but again it's because that that uh that social narrative, the guilt, the everything else they they put into the young people's minds uh from the institutions and uh and uh the medias and things like that. It's that plays in.
SPEAKER_00And I don't know why. I can't figure out the what's the logical conclusion is to eradicate white people?
SPEAKER_02No, no, uh I don't I don't know. Okay, well, I I'm gonna I'm gonna pose this. The reason why they do this is it it goes to Saul Linsky. Yeah it this is all uh so we can topple society and and not just government but society itself so that they can get a Marxist uh ruling class in there. Um and they don't even care, you know, honestly, they don't even care if it's Marxist, they just want to have a ruling class. And they want, they think that they are going to get, you know, they're gonna make the same mistake that uh that several of the early uh Russian communists did, that they're going to get their group in in charge. What's going to happen, and we all know that from uh reading uh Animal Farm, is that no, it's not going to be the erudite uh group that's in there. The erudite group is going to get killed by the people who have real uh desire for power and are not afraid to use force. And it's a thing that in history that keeps on going over and over again. Oh, but this time it's gonna be different.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. It hasn't been tried yet. It hasn't truly been tried yet.
SPEAKER_02But yeah, all this all this really wild, goofy stuff about you know, men being women, uh left being right, this is you know, language not meaning anything anymore, uh, not you know, teaching our kids to be stupid, uh, teaching them to hate each other, all this other stuff. It all doesn't make sense, except that you are trying to unravel the fabric of the nuclear family, of uh Judeo-Christian values, of uh free market capitalism, all the things that uh have made uh things successful and run and do well. And uh how do you do it? Well, you just pull that book book off the shelf and start reading all the uh instructions. But unfortunately for uh uh for the Marxists and the people on the left, the uh the people in the middle have also been reading that book and uh and uh you know uh and have been doing a better job uh at it than than the people on the left as of late.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I was as of late for sure. Yeah. It took uh uh about a decade and a half now uh has been where they've had free reign and total control over the narrative and what you can see and what you can hear and what you can read. And uh people are finally, finally just now tired of it, it seems like.
SPEAKER_02Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_00And doing something about it.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. So and um I I also I can see that they're going to have a reversal of people going into universities and and colleges because there are no there's no benefit. You you spend a lot of money and you don't get a job because of it. So uh yeah, uh it's better to be an entrepreneur or a uh or a plumber.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, something that a tradesman for sure. And now with AI, there's it's even worse. So yeah. That's the only I think that's one good thing. Maybe the only good thing about AI is it's pushing these kids into uh to obscurity where they their jobs don't mean anything.
SPEAKER_02I'm glad you brought up AI because uh here's another thing that's really interesting and kind of disturbing. Um, data centers. There's been a big pushback on data centers, and um and it's very coordinated. Now, um Mr. Wonderful from the uh uh the shark tank actually had uh paid for his own uh study on it and found out that it is all coordinated by our friends from Communist China. That makes sense. Yeah. So they're the ones putting out the misinformation about data centers using up water, you know.
SPEAKER_00Oh, so that's not true then. No. Because I saw something the other day with where the Chinese are putting theirs under at the bottom of the ocean. Uh yeah. Natural cooling, the cooling's already there. Yeah, they're not using up the same stuff. But I I'm not saying that to say I believed it. I just it was a sum as all.
SPEAKER_02No, it's it's uh it it really isn't. And um also that it's going to uh uh in the rural areas, it's gonna pull their uh their electrical grid and power grids down to nothing. It actually is gonna do the opposite. It's actually gonna be boosting their power grids and stuff when they they build them in because uh some of these are gonna have their own autonomous um uh energy centers that are gonna be put in, and then they're gonna be put into the grid and the overage is gonna go into the community.
SPEAKER_00I've heard uh yeah, somebody wanted to uh mandate that that they help supply the community with more power not take from it.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00I don't remember if it was Trump or somebody said that.
SPEAKER_02Well, and most most of the the centers that they have been designing and stuff want it because they don't want to have to rely on the public.
SPEAKER_00That makes sense, too.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah. I mean, if I'm putting in billions of dollars to have a data center, I don't want to rely on a government utility uh to make sure it's running.
SPEAKER_00Yep. So yeah. Especially these billionaires. Uh so the third thing is then what about the noise? Uh the hum that's coming out of these places.
SPEAKER_02Um well everybody likes a good hummer. But uh yeah, it's again, uh you and I both know about audible things. If if there's a hum, you can put a hum bucker in it. You can figure out a way to uh uh to alleviate the noise, and it doesn't have to be anything that's elaborate uh to do it.
SPEAKER_00I think that I think that's gonna be necessary because from the videos I've seen, it's like a it's it's high and low pitch at the same time, so it's kind of piercing, but also like a flowing hum.
SPEAKER_02We have to wonder if those are videos that are generated and paid for by the CCP.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I won't I want to hear one for myself in person. Exactly. They're very convincing videos, but uh yeah, who knows.
SPEAKER_02Uh that's it. I mean, uh you know, so I'm so I should be pro data center now then. No, I mean just be skeptical, but be also skeptical of the the stuff that's being out uh that's coming out because you know like, well, why? I mean, we've we've got data centers existing right now and we haven't heard these types of complaints before. Why now? And it's because China wants to retard our uh our uh superiority uh okay uh getting into AI and AI is is data center dependent.
SPEAKER_00I'm glad you brought that up because that was that's one that's like important to me because I'm like uh if they want to build one here, I'll be out fighting against it. But if that's the case, I'm glad to know that. I'll have to look into that more.
SPEAKER_02I mean that's you you always have to to know the uh uh try at least to get to to know the facts instead of what people post as facts. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Well, I think I wonder the other thing too, how they're doing it with zoning, because from what I've seen, unless these are fake videos too, but they're building them very close to neighborhoods where you can see them, I mean, right in your face out your front door, basically.
SPEAKER_02I think it would probably I I in the northeast, I I don't think it can be avoidable because those states are so small, so densely packed, and things like that. Um, I don't think that they're filming that in Montana. Yeah. Um so you know, I I think it it all depends. Uh again, and and you know, you I I think they have to have a certain amount of infrastructure that's close to them. So I I don't know. You know, again, I don't I don't have any real information on that um to speak speak of. You know, it's uh I'm sure you know it would be great if we could just like uh wipe out some you know really horrible like in Florida we wiped out a real horrible big section of St. Petersburg and built a baseball stadium there and we didn't even have a professional team yet. Um yeah. Uh the where the Rays play in that uh in in in um uh St. Petersburg, they didn't have they didn't have a team. As a matter of fact, what they did, they actually got a hockey team before they had a professional baseball team. And so the hockey team, the uh the uh Tampa Bay um Rays, aren't they? Thunder. Well the Rays are the baseball, but the Thunder, I think, is the uh that sounds right, yeah. Yeah, was the the uh or Lightning, Sam excuse me, it's lightning, Tampa Bay Lightning. Uh they they started playing in the the baseball stadium and um and it was great because you know they had they had record crowds for For a uh an expansion team because the hockey teams were not playing in these giant baseball stadiums. Oh yeah. So yeah. So they uh they had record time. And then they built a uh uh after they the Rays did come to uh be an expansion team, uh baseball team, they built the uh ice palace in Tampa for the uh for the uh the hockey team and you know the ice palace. And so yeah. But they literally, I remember because I was l living there, the reason why they did that is because they wanted to get rid of the gaslight district of uh St. Petersburg. And um it was actually a very genius uh way to do it.
SPEAKER_00What's a gaslight district? Uh I I mean I know, but for others that uh that don't know.
SPEAKER_02Well, I mean it it was it was literally uh where they um they used to have in old St. Petersburg uh the uh the gas tanks and plants for lighting up the city was in that little section of of town. Okay. And then it ended up being um you know uh eroded over a you know a period of time and so on. And so they just uh they kept the the name and so on, but they just needed to get rid of that area completely. And they did, and it was great. But they had uh I can't remember the the uh radical organizations and stuff that were you know responsible for shootings and protests and stuff like that that always came out of that area and stuff and that's makes sense, and it it just completely um they it was gone overnight when the domes started going up. So yeah.
SPEAKER_00Well, there's a way to do it. See, there's solutions to all of these problems. We just don't want to do them. Not saying we gotta build a baseball stadium or a data center. Yeah, and I'm no tree hugger, but with this information, if this is all right, uh as long as they're not wiping out rainforests and protected areas, then if that's the case, go for it.
SPEAKER_02We all have to be on our toes, be skeptical of everything, and uh just you know, see see if we can make our best judgment from the information that we can the the honest information and data that we can get.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. It's uh it which is more and more difficult, not less difficult as time goes by. Um AI and everything else can generate these things that look so authentic and feel so authentic. Yep.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. And uh the background details, uh, videos out in the street where there's tons of people, they're starting to look. I mean, yeah, it's not just the old people that can't uh tell the difference anymore. Yeah, they're getting so good.
SPEAKER_02I mean, uh, you know, it can extend it to make it look like I have four inches between my legs.
SPEAKER_00Um well the new iPhone update's coming with a uh a reframe where it adds more to the edges. So that's uh you may want to switch the iPhone if for that reason. My turgid two.
SPEAKER_02Make it look like four.
SPEAKER_00Well, and then you know, the next time you're on to catch a predator when they sit find your photo which you sent to the little boy, then uh it'll be more impressive. That's right. That's not funny. Uh why did I say that? I don't know. Oh it's because it's fabulous. Fabulous. I've got my hand folded out in the air like I'm carrying a tray. Uh there's a speaking of predators, I watch these uh the Chris Hansen types, the the copycats on YouTube. Yeah. Uh Digion and uh Street Skeeter Gene does these where they catch the predators and they get them, they get a lot of them locked up, most of them actually. But yeah, I guess one of them is Alex Rosen and he's white. He went, you know, Chud the Builder. Uh-huh. He went and testified in court and saying that he shouldn't be in jail and raised like $10,000 for him to get out. And uh this is I don't even know why I'm saying this, but it reminded me of the catch the predator stuff, the stream of consciousness. He was he used to work with Dijon, who Gideon or whatever his name is, it was a black guy, and now they aren't working together because Alex Rosen's white, he's supporting Chud. So just just more racial division. And I don't I don't know how to how what are we gonna do about this? Because as a Christian, I struggle with this a lot. Is that how how am I supposed to you just posted the other day uh you went to a movie?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you went out to a movie, yeah, and um in it, uh you had a beautiful young lady that was with you. And um, and you're such a frickin' racist.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's uh it's funny because uh I it's a friend. I I I'll yeah, and she's a longtime friend from high school. Uh we uh we had actually had were talking for a little while, but we're we're good friends, and I don't but uh so so there's that, but then as a Christian, I struggle with this. How are you how are Christians supposed to call out immorality and evil? And I'm not saying any people are evil, I'm saying behaviors are evil, keep from everybody. Everything's balance that out, I wonder how we're supposed to do that.
SPEAKER_02Well, I mean you just prey on it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Yeah, but then it then I know we're supposed to trust God, but then I mean, it's not gonna stop a teen takeover. It's you know, so I think people have to get behaviors. I feel like that it's gonna be the more people that are putting it down, the less people that are gonna do it. Because right now they can get away with it. They're the ones that are controlling it all. They're these whatever the the topic is, the bad thing that's happening, you're getting away with it. So I feel like it needs to be forced. Like we're like mo hovering over metaphorically, these people that say at some point you're you are outnumbered now, we're tired of it.
SPEAKER_02I always whatever it is. New York is a good example of it, too, in my mind. Um, I I always talk about the uh uh New Testament and Old Testament. And uh the New Testament God and Old Testament God total different reactions, total different rules and regulations and everything else. And um what happens is that uh everybody goes New Testament and then they go a little too too off the hook on it, and then all of a sudden, boom, we go back to Old Testament, where it's fire and brimstone, a lot of rules, we got you know uh death going on, and we're putting people in jail or shaming them or stoning them and everything else. When Christianity was cool, when or post post-Christianity, yeah. So or uh pre, I should say. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Um yeah. That's right. It wasn't even Christianity at that time.
SPEAKER_02That's right. Yeah. Old Testament was not not, yeah. It wasn't there yet. There yet. Yeah. So um, but yeah, you had the the the old covenants, you know. Yeah. And then when the new covenant came about, then I think it kind of gets loosey-goosey and so on. And again, too, that's that idea of the new covenant has been so bastardized by people. Um, and that's where wokeism has got into some of these pseudo-churches and and some things like that, too. Or they're you know, forgive everything and forget. No, you don't. You have to, as individuals, and you take take your religious label off yourself, as individuals, we have a morality that we have to put together. And now I'm all of a sudden going into philosophy, and um, this morality uh is has to be where you are only looking at actions, and um the best way for me to tell people how to, Christian or non-Christian or anything else, how to how to look at things and how we should look at it is just from um an objectivist point of view. So everybody put on your Ayn Rand hat and look at situations and things. You know, she was talking about protesters. And she where she would say, uh, yeah, she she she's for free speech, um, but she doesn't like freedom of action or or you know, active free speech where they uh go into the public uh streets and uh or burn anything down or go into the public streets and obstruct traffic or anything like that. That is not free speech. And I agree with her. It really isn't. And even though they protect it or the the courts have protected it in the past, yeah, I I I agree with her, they they they went overboard. Absolutely. And so, yeah, I think we have to have a colder, more objective, objectionist, objectivist uh view of society and behavior that's out there.
SPEAKER_00I think that's why Christian nationalism is not a bad thing. I don't I I'm moving toward that uh way of governance. And I know it's uh oh that is that me making yeah my chair was hitting the table. No. Um I don't that it's never gonna work here. Uh and it's almost anti-constitutional, but I think it's uh it's if we want an ideal society, I think Christian nationalism is that ideal.
SPEAKER_02Well, here's the here's the problem I have with the label, Christian nationalism is that people who use that label obviously don't know what nationalism means. Um I think Christian patriotism is more accurate. I don't think you're nationalist. Uh and here's why. Uh to be in and and uh if if people want to see a really good example of it, go to uh Matt Kibbe. Um uh and he's got his little series on YouTube of uh the deadly isms, and nationalism is one of them. Now, nationalism means uh I am going to put my life and my welfare above my individuality for the nation, and that's what drove uh the um imperialists for Japan. You know, death before dishonor. And uh and dishonor had to be what was good for the nation. Um, and also some some uh Germans were that that way, except they weren't quite as fanatical as the Japanese were about it. Um they didn't have uh communities throwing themselves off cliffs instead of surrendering um and things like that. That is the danger of real nationalism. So uh that is, you know, but I I do I I understand that they're misusing the term and they they actually mean Christian patriotism. Um and it and I wish they would abandon nationalism for those of us who really know what nationalism means, because if you label yourself that you have the danger of becoming it.
SPEAKER_00I guess uh and the the way I mean it, I guess, is the code of ethics. And even if it were uh codified into law, if it were biblically based, I think it is the best that's the way I mean it. Um I see what you're saying.
SPEAKER_02And when I say patriotism, it's almost like federalism too. They want to make it so it's not state by state that it's across the entire country. Yeah. And so on. And I and I get that. But I I don't think people people really because uh and again, I think it's just bad, bad labeling. Uh uh, but people can label their product whatever they want to. I just think it's just a really poor way of doing it. Yeah. Um, but yeah. I see what you mean. Yeah. For sure.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So I'm that's why we have these conversations.
SPEAKER_02And this is and folks, this is without our nicotine. We're usually having these conversations in a in a scar lounge.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. A lot of the a lot of the next week comes from those. So that's the those chats. That's good. Um yeah, uh but uh so mine is more uh more. Um I think a lot about morality. It is is hugely important to me and ideal. So that's that's the way I mean, but it's so your explanation is uh, yeah, I I agree with you.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Well, whoa.
SPEAKER_00I'm not used to that. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Marie, did you hear that? I got one. That's right.
SPEAKER_00Well, look at the well, the the thing libertarians are and re and conservatives are a lot closer. It's not like a Democrat's ever gonna agree with you. Oh, yeah, yeah, that's that's true.
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SPEAKER_00Goodbye.