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Episode Date: July 9, 2025

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Media exposed for covering up the white farmers murders. What is this? Welcome back to Stars and Gryps where we expose the activists masquerading as journalists. Uh-oh. There is a lot of that this week. Uh-oh. That's a long episode. Here we go.

And much of it centers around the issue of dozens of white farmers in South Africa being slaughtered every year. Yep. Just put this on. It's right behind you. Yeah. There's nothing this parliament can do. Bro, this was such a good day. Oh, my God.

Yeah. Well, I could do that. Look, here's burial sites all over the place. These are white farmers that are being buried. Well, that was U.S. President Donald Trump confronting the president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, with concerns about the sheer number of white farmers being masked every year. That's a lot, by the way. the point that I do not think that genocide is accurate here.

That word has specific connotations and needs to meet a high threshold. And just because people on the left want to water down the meaning of words to assist their political goals, it does not mean that conservatives should fall into the same trap. He's right about that. I think that's true. Whether or not these killings... Yeah, and also, by the way, as if that makes it, oh, no, no, it's not a genocide. They're just killing a lot of them.

Oh, oh, thank you for tell. I was almost worried about this. Oh, geez. Oh, now I can relax, guys. Everything's fine. The ignition of genocide is not really the point. The point is that a group of people which shared racial backgrounds

are being killed in large numbers. Yeah, that's bad. And some journalists in the media are trying to either justify this horror or insist it simply isn't happening. Of course. And that is a shock to us here in Australia, because this issue has mainstream acceptance. We have taken in farmers fleeing horror, we have reported on their stories, and we know these people exist.

You know what? I'm so grateful that, you know, finally this is being heard and that, you know, President Trump has brought it up. Because when we moved to Australia four and a half years ago, you know, it felt like nobody was listening. So it really is, I'm thrilled that it is coming out into the open and that the world is now going to see what's really happening in South Africa. No, and W for Trump for actually talking about this, because it is a big issue and it's bad. And I think that it definitely, like in my opinion, I feel like this issue, the reason why it's important is because it shows that oppression is not something that is coded. into a person's genetics, it's something that can happen in any society, no matter what. And it's nothing, it's not one-dimensional.

Well, joining me on the desk is Gabriella Power, the host of Power Hour, one of Sky's most watch shows. Jack, thank you for having me. Well, thanks for joining us on the desk. Now, this issue of white farmers, and I think Donald Trump, he does this thing where he makes mistakes or he maybe over-exaggerates or overstates a position. which then allows the media to sweep the whole issue away. And that's what he does.

But I think as journalists, we should be able to still look at the issue, acknowledge that maybe there was an error in how something was stated. And the clip we just played there of this woman, and Kieran Gilbert did that interview this week. And we've spoken to her many times on Sky News. These people exist. And I'm really uncomfortable with this push by some journalists in the media to either downplay.

the stories or turn them into statistical anomalies to suggest that. Well, the reason why they downplay the stories is because it defeats their narrative that they're trying to push at the local population. They're trying to push at the local population that this type of discrimination is one directional. So if there is an example of this discrimination happening both ways, it removes the racial component from it and it makes it look at it, it makes people look at it from a power perspective instead. And so that's the reason why they don't want to talk about it. That's the reason why they try to avoid it is because they want to make it a race issue. They want it to be a race issue and they want it to be a one-dimensional race issue. So if you bring up

a South Africa part of this and it actually becomes multidimensional and you can see the same thing happening but on opposite sides, now it destroys the narrative that this is racially based. because if it's racially based, then why is it happening opposite? Well, maybe because it's not. The number of them is so statistically irrelevant that it should not even be discussed, that there shouldn't be any legitimate conversation around it. I think it's a very disturbing trend.

What are you saying? Yeah, absolutely. I completely agree with you. Look, many people disagree with Donald Trump's approach here, and I'm not here to say that his approach is perfect, but watching that exchange at the White House, Many people do not disagree. The vast majority of people agree with this.

And that's number one, why he won the election. That's number two, also why the only places that you see that are talking about it being bad are these legacy media publications that have no form of, like, online presence that is, like, it's effectively voted on by viewers, right? Like they have no real like people aren't watching these shows. They're just writing articles and doing nothing, basically. He shows you why Donald Trump was elected and why so many people support him because he's not afraid to stand up to other world leaders. Yeah. While South Africa's president has gone to the White House to talk about trade at the same time that America is taking in refugees from South Africa

who were fleeing racial violence, Donald Trump is going to raise the issue with the president. Now, this is part of Donald Trump. transparency agenda. He's not afraid to have these conversations while the cameras are rolling. And as you point out, that here in Australia, we're very aware of the issues of what is unfolding in South Africa. We've had that interview. I think more of those conversations need to happen in public. They can't happen behind closed doors. Yeah, call it out directly for what it is. There's no reason like, why can't you just call it out directly? Why is this a bad thing? Ask that question. And we've given them a silo.

Absolutely. And the reality is that hundreds of farmers have been attacked. There's been dozens of murders in South Africa. And right now, America. Comment sections are turned off with their online articles. Yeah. I think that a lot of you guys don't understand the amount of fakery that's going on with the mainstream media news apparatus. They interact with only the same people. It's a completely segmented part of society. There is a basically journalist and media class. They do not let other people that aren't, you know, I would say approved come into their space. These are just paid for by these massive companies. They're on these cable news stations by no vote of the people. And that's why whenever they come into alternative media, and that's why they view podcasts and alternative media as such a threat. It's because alternative media and podcasts are voted on.

by the people, and as soon as the people realize the consensus isn't with this mainstream organization, then the mainstream organization loses all of its power. So the entire power structure that they have is built completely around consensus. The moment that you break that power structure is the moment that the whole thing falls apart. It's kind of like game reviewers. Yes, I think that, and this is what happened. This is like what happened with video game reviews and like video game journalism is happening with all journalism. It's just that video game journalism is small enough that most people

can understand most of the facets to it, right? But this is actually happening everywhere. Taking in 59 or last week, I think it was 59 refugees from South Africa. And the left wing media in America had an absolute freak out about it. There was one commentator on CNN, completely minimizing the issue, saying, oh, it's only a couple of people being murdered, as if that is somehow okay. And so Donald Trump is up against the leftist media every day in America where they're horrified that America is taking in refugees from South Africa. And so by Donald Trump... Well, it's a deliberate obfuscation from the point, right? It's the fixation on the word genocide and the fixation on whether the crosses there were for the actual burial sites or were memorials.

Like, both of these different distinctions are deliberate obfuscation. from discussing the actual issue. It's like basically somebody argues against you, and then you point out like a grammatical error, as if this is supposed to invalidate their entire point of view. They're intentionally missing the point, and they're trying to not address the core issue. And I think that average people can see that. Handing up to South Africa's president at the White House, he's also coming there with the receipts. He's there showing the footage of leaders calling for racial violence in.

South Africa. There is a vision of white cross as being marked to mark and honor every white farmer that has been killed in South Africa. And so as we heard from that interview that was played on Kieran Gilbert's show, that so many people watching that exchange in the White House were so grateful for President

Trump for really highlighting the issue. And although his approach may be unpredictable, maybe bold, it's unconventional. He makes a highlight as well. And then I think that some of fact checks are focusing on splitting hairs and it's not it doesn't matter whether he makes errors or not people will still make up stuff like for example whenever trump did that speech at charlottesville and he said there were fine people on both sides and he said i'm not talking about the neo-nazis

people just lie so like if they don't have something that they can go against that's legitimate they just make it up so there's no reason to try to argue and get mad at oh will this point wasn't specific enough or this was technically wrong. It doesn't matter because if you have a point that isn't specific enough, they'll just lie about it anyway. That's a great example. Hassan says I was talking about black fatigue. I'm saying the exact opposite. You cannot approach these types of situations in good faith because they're not being approached in good faith by the people that are doing them. Approaching them in good faith is losing categorically. You've lost by even stepping into the arena.

Not the substance of what the message is. When you've got a government which is pressuring white farmers to sell, a law was passed in January that gives them the power to take it without compensation. You can't have that situation politically without there being an underbelly of resentment. And I understand why there is resentment because of apartheid. But that doesn't mean that this reality isn't happening. Anyway, let's move on because Whoopi Goldberg, took on the issue of white farmers.

Oh no. Oh, God. No, not the, it's not the view, is it? Oh, fuck. I'm just kidding, guys. I love watching the show. It's my favorite fucking show. I'm pretending completely.

I can't wait to see this. Here we go. A genocide and used it as a scapego to dismiss the entire reality of the situation. Yeah, let's be honest. And watch how her brain dead panel chuckles and smirks while discussing such a serious issue.

So, South African president, Robiposa, paid a visit to the White House yesterday, which turned into a surprise presentation on conspiracy theories. It's a conspiracy theory. She didn't want to use the word ambush because she realized that it became the NPC word of the day. And so she was trying to come up with another version of that. Yeah. Yeah, it's, I don't know. It's something that's really uncomfortable to me when there are dozens of people. that are murdered. There is that underbelly

of anti-white resentment. I don't think it meets the threshold of genocide and I think that it was a mistake for Trump to say that. But they're chuckling and laughing at that and it is a serious situation and it's quite obvious to me that the government wants these farmers to seed the land. There is pressure

behind that. The community knows that. The community would be seeing that, listening to that and they're laughing. And they're calling it a conspiracy theory. You know, that's absolutely absurd. It's all a conspiracy. theory, guys. You have to understand that all of the videos are fake, all of the articles are fake, all of the history behind this is fake, the 25% of the population there that supports it is fake.

Everything is fake except for the thing that we're telling you, which is in fact real. I say that white farmers are not being murdered, that that's a conspiracy theory, and it's not just the view. Other media outlets, I should say, covering the exchange in the White House, have, have all almost had the same headlines. Trump ambushes this South Africa's president amid false claims of racism. These aren't false claims of racism. People are being murdered. And you've got people like Whoopi Goldberg on the view.

I don't see how it isn't a genocide or why people are scared to call it that. I don't see why it's like it's not important to me that that vocabulary and that word is used. It's a semantics argument. The entire debate about that word isn't relevant. because the problem is the issue. Like it's not the word, the word doesn't matter. The problem is what matters.

Focus on the word. This is just more obfuscation. It's conspiracy theories. Again, to your point, genocide's not the right term, but it's still a very real issue. And Fliupi Goldberg should really go back and actually look at the statistics

if she wants to. You know, if you look at the homicide rate in South Africa, it's 45 per 100,000. The homicide rate in South Africa for white farmers is 109 per 100,000. Now, of course, noting that white farmers do make up a small percentage of the population, but the point is that this group is vulnerable

and they are being targeted. And that is why America is now taking in 59 refugees from South Africa. And so for this... It's 59 people. It's not a big fucking deal. It's not a big fucking deal. Like the big problem, like remember whenever we brought in

all those Haitian migrants? The issue is that there was like 20,000, of them. That's a big fucking deal. 20,000 fucking people. 59 fucking people. We're acting like this is some kind of 50,000, 50 fucking people cares.

Issued to be aired on the view with really no sympathy for what is going on. I think it's just they're almost using it as another way of slamming Trump for everything. They want to play into this narrative that Trump is a big bad. No, that's not what they're

playing into, what they're playing into is it's the racial narrative. It's obviously the racial narrative. It's the racial narrative that white people are being targeted. And the reason why they're trying to undermine it is because the media here tries to push a racial narrative themselves that black people and other brown people are being targeted. So if you have a situation where white people are being targeted somewhere else, it defeats the entire premise that this is a race-based issue and not a power-based issue, which weakens their argument and makes it less morally sound and makes it more circumstantial. And so that's the reason why they're against it. It's because it damages their movement by abstraction. That's the reason why. Well, the left loves nuance until it's

uncomfortable, until there's maybe more than the surface-level story to discuss. And then all of a sudden nuance goes out the window. And they love that broad brush to say conspiracy. We know time and time And again, the conspiracies are often proven true when some of these people are pushing that word. Anyway, staying on this issue, again, reporters spent their energy quibbling and fact-checking the semantics of statements, and it led to a heated exchange between one woman and press secretary, Caroline Leavitt. Good to see you. Thanks for taking the question. Sure.

The president showed a video that he said showed more than a thousand burial sites of white South Africans, and he said were murdered. We know that that was not true and that the video wasn't doing that. So I wonder, why did the president choose to show that it's not true, Yomish. It's not true that the video was showing a burial site. It is unsubstantiated that that's the case. No, it's true that that video showed the crosses that represent. It's not the president claimed. The video showed images of crosses in South Africa about white farmers who have been killed and politically persecuted because of the color of their skin.

Not good. Those crosses are representing their lives. Definitely not good. Those crosses are representing their lives in the fact that they are now dead, and their government did nothing about it. Very bad. Are you disputing that there's no... The video showed what the president claimed it showed because it did not show that, but even more.

This is like saying that somebody shows you a photo of a house that's burned down, and you say that's not a burned down house. This is just a picture of a burned down house. It's insane. What I'm asking you is who at the White House. It showed white crosses representing people who would perish because of racial persecution. The White House verifies the videos that the president shows and what protocols are in place when there's unsubstantiated information being put out for the world and more leaders to show. What's unsubstated about the video?

The video shows crosses that represent the dead bodies of people who were racially persecuted by their government. In fact, the Associated Press of all places has a picture of that very monument in the caption from the. Associated Press is each cross marks a white farmer who has been killed in a farm murder. Again, Donald Trump has opened himself up to these kind of fact checks, and I do think they're wholly irrelevant. Is it a burial? It doesn't matter whether they're, it doesn't, like, these fact checks don't matter. Because here's the thing. They either argue semantics where they call it a conspiracy theory or they just lie and say you said something that you didn't say.

there's not an outcome of this that they capitulate and acknowledge and accept that what you said was accurate. This is just another way of obfuscation. So you're not going to win anybody over by playing their game and being hyper-specific. All you're going to do is tone police yourself for no reason. Or is it a symbolic site to represent? Guys, these aren't crosses. This is a photograph of crosses. It's a video of crosses.

These aren't crosses. What are you talking about? It's literally just a video. It's not really wholly relevant, but he misspoke or whether intentionally or not, whether he understands the difference. And it does leave him vulnerable in moments like that. And he does do that. We know that Donald Trump exaggerates. He gets a few things wrong.

but it is, it's missing the point. That's not my dad. That's a cell phone. They're really focusing on that because I want to come out with a story to say that Donald Trump is a liar, that Donald Trump is the worst. Hello, is this the Krusty Krab? No, this is Patrick. Like, how many examples of retards doing this do you need before you realize that it's retarded? What is this?

A scoffer ants? You can only. fit like three people into this. Caroline Leavitt is just so brilliant at highlighting exactly what Donald Trump was pointing out. Really, the facts are that these white crosses were there to mark and honor the white farmers that have been killed. And back on the view, Whoopi Goldberg even seems to suggest that the South African president wouldn't want to come back and continue meeting with Donald Trump in the future, which is

absolutely outrageous when South Africa depends on America for trade. America is South Africa's second largest trading partner. I think that the South African president can handle a hated exchange with the president. It's not a big deal. It's just a conversation. And you get people like this that get mad about it. I'll read your comment. I forgot I was still following.

I'm here to unfollow. Is that true? No, you're still following. Also saying retard over and over makes you look so cool, bro. What have I said it can have dangerous repercussions? What have I said that you think is problematic? Give me an example of something that I've said that you're unhappy about. Do you have an example of this?

Do we have an example against Muslims? So let me get this straight. When I celebrated Trump going to the Middle East, I said, you know what? This is the current government in Syria. Yeah, this guy used to run ISIS, but this is the way it is now. it's different. When I said it's probably a better idea to have a trade deal with Iran than have a war with Iran. When I said that it's probably not just Muslims, it is the issue with the mass assimilation and them not coming in, you know, in a measured way.

When I also said that there are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, if the religion was fundamentally violent, we'd have a lot more problems than we already did. That's not what I'm referring to, a thing you got banned on. oh, you mean the thing that I said that wasn't true? You mean the point that I said, oh, wow, yeah, that wasn't true. I shouldn't have said it that way? So you're mad at me for saying something that I agree with you is wrong. That was one example? No, I know what example you're talking about, but why even bring that up?

What's the point? It looks like there's no response. As usual. You're obviously talking about Hamas, of course. but like it doesn't matter right I mean like either way it's still a bad thing to say but the point that I'm making is that listen I'm gonna ban this case person not commenting

obviously but here's the thing you have people that get mad about this kind of stuff let me give you a little bit of a tip 99% of the people that are talking about these different political events and these different issues in the world are retarded they're stupid people

That's why they make up bullshit. They're stupid. Just because you have a degree in something doesn't mean that you're good at it. There's plenty of doctors that think that vaccines are evil. I don't care about a degree. I care about outcomes. And the fact is that I think my outcomes are pretty good. I think I've got a pretty good track record on outcomes.

Degrees don't mean anything. Yeah, I don't respect degrees. I don't respect credentials. I don't respect any sort of institutional, you know, like credibility at all. None of that stuff matters. Nine times out of ten, in my opinion, I think that it's either fake, misrepresented, there is nepotism going on, or there's plenty of people, guys, sees get degrees. I'm not going to take that stuff seriously at all.

There's plenty of morons that go to good universities and they turn out to be losers. Do you believe in science? I believe in the scientific method. I do not believe in the outcomes of the scientific method all of the time. And so I think, you know, world leaders are on notice a bit with Donald Trump. They know they have to be prepared, but anything can happen in these sorts of meetings. But Donald Trump is going to call out what he thinks is unfair, whether it's happening in America or whether it's happening in other countries. But, you know, with Caroline Levitt being so brilliant and so articulate at really a driving,

home what is the most important. So you believe in science? You just don't believe scientists, smart? Yeah. Yeah, there's scientists that I just don't believe. I think that they misrepresent data. I think it's very easy to misrepresent data. And anybody who understands how data works, and they understand how you can conduct an experiment and all of the different ways that you can create, you know, like a collaboration of two different pieces of information to make them similar, if you understand this in a good way and you have a deep like understanding of it it of course you shouldn't trust people categorically because they're a scientist that's outrageous what a ridiculous thing to say there was a study done it was a psychological experiment done a long time

ago and it was about people that believed that if they were like they were this is you know what this is a totally fucking, this is a massive tangent. We don't even need to go down this tangent. My point is that people place too much authority in authority. They do. They place too much authority in authority. Question authority. Think about things for yourself.

Don't let some person in a lab suit tell you that you're wrong just because they made a study that says that you're wrong. There are plenty of studies that were done that show that cigarettes are good for you. They were wrong and they were proven wrong. And that's why, again, these scientific means, method is the thing that should be believed, not necessarily all the time the outcomes. If you don't understand that, that's not my problem. A message and what journalists should really be focusing on.

It's interesting because it really speaks, I think, to why Americans seem to have lost a lot of trust in the media when they're a journalist going into the White House and to the overall office and the press briefing room, I should say, and they're just so desperate to try and get on Donald Trump. We've definitely got a lot of work to build that trust back. But Gabrielle, thank you so much for joining us. No, I'm glad I watched this. And again, I didn't know that the View talked about this.

I did see that recently the View had a, you know, there was a bad time that they've been having. Let me see if I can show you guys this. Disney CEO Bob Eiger and ABC News President Alman Kalemak have advised the hosts of the view to tone down their political rhetoric, particularly their criticism of president. Trump, Trump, Trump, per New York Post. Oh, boy. Oh, boy, oh boy. And so we'll see if that happens.

Let me see if I can find it. The view. If there's any new, I spelled Africa wrong. Okay. Actually, I think I spelled it right. The view is South Africa. Okay.

show, maybe? Let me see if I can, is this not? Okay, yeah, here we go. This is, all right, we finally found it. You're going to know what's happening in our world. So, South African president Robiposa paid a visit to the White House yesterday, which turned into a surprise presentation on conspiracy theories of a white genocide. in his country. Yeah. Take a look. You have many people that feel they're being persecuted,

and they're coming to the United States. So we take from many locations, if we feel there's persecution or genocide going on. You do allow them to take land. Nobody can take land. And then when they take the land, they kill the white farmer. And when they kill the white farmer, nothing happens to them. No.

There is quite nothing happens to it. There is criminality in our country. people who do get killed, unfortunately, through criminal activity. Criminal activity does happen. The majority of them are black people. And we have now... What a surprise. The country that is the majority black people,

the majority of people that are involved with crime are also the majority population. What a shock. What a great argument. Fucking brilliant. Wow. Wow. We don't say that's good or bad, but the farmers are not black. Oh my God.

So between ambushing Zelensky. So she used it. And this. Why would world leaders continue to come to the White House? Okay, well, first of all, this is... The thing is that if you too much of a bitch to come in a White House, maybe you should think about why that is. If you got this many skeletons in your closet and the door ain't even closed, then maybe

you should think about where those fucking skeletons came from and figure out how to fix that problem rather than go and blame Donald. That's it. They come to back for money. Yeah, they want the money. That's the reason why. The problem with getting all your information from Laura Lumer and Elon Musk. Because this is what they're going to deal you.

And it was false conspiracy theory. The whole thing. Everything's fake. That the president was the president of South Africa was trying to share. was that data collected by white farmers themselves. This is it. Let me see. They might tell you the truth.

Well, I'm not sure if there's any more of this either. I think that's probably the entire clip. Is that the entire clip? It looks like it's pretty much the whole one. I'm not sure if I can find the rest of this. But yeah, anyway, well, there we go, guys. This is the way that this is the way these people think about. Oh, was that data collected by white farmers themselves.

These are the white farmers. has counted 1,363 white farmers murdered since 1990, which is an average of 40 a year, far less than 1% of total murders. The rest are all black people. So there's no genocide going on. There's a crime. There is no genocide.

But the thing he's talking about, because usually all conspiracy is taking bits of fact and then just choosing your own adventure, is the government will occasionally come to remedy some of the problems with apartheid that happened for 50 years. They will occasionally come to remedy some of the problems. You can see the softening of the language that's happening right here.

And it's very obvious whenever you start seeing this, right? It's very obvious what we're doing. In that country, they will come. And with compensation, they will take the land occasionally back. So what he did is he took two little seeds and just like did his own thing with that. He was completely false and wrong. Yeah, it just... Of course.

I'll just say it like this. I made movies in South Africa. I've been in South Africa. I sent your son to South Africa. To talk to people that I know who still live there. There's no white genocide, okay? There's not a genocide happening. There is crime, as there is all over the world.

Yeah. But it is not... It's not about killing off white people. This is just straight up. Well, I guess I mean, all those speeches and everything, I guess all that was fake. Yeah, Darkstream thinks there are five good subs.

Yeah, guys, I guess it was all fake. The whole thing was fake. All those videos that we saw and everything, it all got made up. That's right. What do they gain out of a blatantly lying? Well, they don't really gain anything. Well, I guess they do if it's like their worldview

they're trying to push. But in general, the reason why they're doing that is because, they disagree with it, right? And so they just make stuff up. It's actually pretty simple. I mean, there's not really a lot to it to understand. They gain viewership. Well, yeah. And there's people that eat it up, man. And I've always been so shocked. Like, I've never understood this. Like, growing up, and even now, I do not fully understand it, but I'm starting to. And it's like, I'm starting to see, like, a correlation between, like, why is it that people follow such obvious,

false idols. Why is it that people believe things that require them to simply abandon critical thought and abandon rationality? And I think that the reason why, and this is a big thing, okay, guys, so I'll go ahead and just kind of, let me just start this right now, is that I think that human beings' brains, the ability to process and critically think has evolved much faster than the ability to compartmentalize and understand and process the outcomes of that critical thinking. And so you have a lot of these latent tribal behaviors that people have and tribal tendencies that people have. And these things are basically made extremely uncomfortable whenever you have these different crazy things happening, like, let's say, like things that, like, destroy their worldview.

And so this is why people adhere to such dogmatic religions. This is why they adhere to such dogmatic political doctrines. This is why they have such crazy worldviews with like racism or something like that. And so all of these things are actually done in accordance with the human beings, I think, innate desire to give up their ability of critical thought. I think that the majority of human beings are uncomfortable with the ability that they have to critical. critically think and the problems that that creates for them, right? So like, for example, think about all of the issues that critical thinking causes for people whenever you don't know.

And this is also something that, like, if you ask yourself, like, here's a great example. Trust the science. Trust the science. Oh, okay. Well, let's trust the science with vaccines. All right? Well, vaccines seem good. Okay, well, let's trust the science with trans athletes.

Oh, okay, this is different. Let's not trust a science now. All of these things require a degree and an ability to completely compartmentalize your critical thinking and to give it away to somebody else. And so the reason why these shows are so popular and the reason why this type of thinking is so popular is because faith is a manifestation of people's desire, primal desire to give up their ability to critically think. I don't think that they want to critically think. They don't want to see the world in the way that it actually is. They want to see it in the way that they want it to be. And so they instead embrace an ideology or a worldview that does that.

And I think this is true with everything. It's true universally fucking like with people in Africa, America, England, China, Everybody. Everybody has some sort of ultimate power that they derive their morality and their views from. Because I believe also, the stronger the power is, the more that people believe in it. I think at the apex of virtue is power. Virtue and power are the same thing at the very peak. That's God. If you don't believe me, read the old fucking testament. every single God in every single Abrahamic religion and other religions to the best of my knowledge. I'm not an expert, though, is not a good guy, okay?

Like, even we look at like Odin, right? Odin's not really a great guy, but he's doing it for the betterment of everybody to stop, you know, uh, you know, Ragnarok or whatever the fuck, right? I don't remember the specific things. And so anyway, um, Odin is a testament. Yes, exactly. It's a mega asshole. Right.

Exactly. So he's an asshole. and all of these characters are assholes, but it doesn't matter. Like God torturing Job, that doesn't matter. Who cares? Because it's all for a greater good. And so what people do is they want to find a place where they can put all of their trust and their ability to critically think into, and that will make all of the decisions for them. And I know this might sound crazy, but I really want you guys to take a step back

and think about how many different things this applies to. how many people have let Trump take over all of their critical thinking? How many people have let some podcast person take over all of their critical thinking? How many people have let a religious icon, like Kenneth Copeland, for example, take over all of their critical thinking? Everything. Religion, politics, ideology, social ideals, everything. It's universal.

people have a basic discomfort with the ability to critically think and as soon as you realize that a lot of these dogmatic worldviews make immediate sense Thanks.