Part Of The Problem - Enjoy Your Replacement
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What's up? What's up, everybody. Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem. I am Dave Smith. He is Robbie the Fire, Bernstein, and we are just thrilled to pieces to be with you. We got big stuff coming up, Rob. This weekend, we're going to be in Dallas, Fort Worth, Texas, at the hyenas comedy clubs out there. ComicDavsmith.com, grab those tickets. You got a bunch of porches coming up.
Yeah, I got a porch show out in the same area on Thursday. I think it's Turning Point Brewery. Come on out for that. And then you can go to port store.com for all my.
future dates the run after that's going to be californian marino so uh porch store dot com go find all the
dates hells to the yeah um i'm looking forward to that really looking forward to uh being out in
dallas this weekend and then we uh you know oh there's also more stuff comic david smith.com we got
all the dates me and rob will be out for the rest of the year a lot of fun uh a lot of fun dates on the
calendar so um okay i wanted to talk about this um this uh i was going to say meme but i guess that is not the
term photograph rob sorry let's go old school on this even for there was a a photograph that went viral
and has started this big uh kind of internet debate or you know the debate of the day but it's around the
topics of immigration and replacement demographic changes things of that are we going full
flentes on this episode well maybe not quite um but uh well we'll see we'll see where we get you know
you never know where you're going to go when you start down a path. You have an idea.
No one ever starts down a path intending to go full four and as you find yourself there.
But, well, I did, maybe this is going on point is I did fight with Ben Shapiro on Twitter today.
He actually went back and forward with me on this.
And so maybe some of that's worth getting into.
Actually, he had a video on this, which will play because it's the perfect kind of example of.
I don't know.
I mean, I guess technically Ben Shapiro is not that old.
I was going to say boomer con slop, but he's still, he's old in spirit, I suppose.
How many years did it take to get a response from Ben Shapiro?
Well, it was something.
You know, it was a weird little internet thing where I literally just went on Twitter.
And I just saw in real time that he posted a thing.
And I just, I responded right to it.
And it was like we were both on Twitter at the same time.
Like we found each other in the hall.
And it was on site.
and we started going, put it in our little virtual dork way.
But I find this whole thing.
I actually, before I had this interaction with Shapiro,
had already sent you the clip about it.
And I wanted to talk about this on today's show
because I just found this to be very interesting
on a lot of different levels.
Now, here is the photograph.
This was from UT in Austin, a football game,
and a guy who's running for like, I forget,
I just said what the position was to Natalie,
but it was something like some job that you didn't even know was a job.
He's running for, it's Beau French is his name,
and he is the Republican nominee for Texas Railroad Commissioner.
Okay.
So he's just a guy running for a random local office.
So he's a one to get them out?
Yeah, that's, I guess so.
I mean, it is a little bit worse when it's the railroad guy who's criticizing.
I don't know if you've listened to my campaign here.
I'm just saying we got a lot of extra trains on these railroads.
Just anyway.
I didn't even know that.
That makes it so much worse.
It is.
It doesn't, well, it doesn't help the optics for sure, Rob.
But we focus on the substance here.
But so he posed this picture.
Now, here's the picture that he posted.
Now, as you can see, nothing out of the ordinary.
Just a regular old Texas football game.
$100,000 to the first person who could point out what is different about this picture.
Okay.
So anyway, this is the picture.
Now, this is a, it's a section of the game.
But if you do look into the picture, it is, well, at least that photograph is dominated by what appear to be Indians.
brown skin, very hard to find white people there.
Now, one of the reasons, Rob, why this is so fascinating
and the debate that this sparked
and why it is receiving kind of the predictable reactions
from the Ben Shapiro types of the world
is that this really is in one sense,
so a lot of the boomer-cons reaction to this, Rob,
as they go, well, guys, why would you post this picture?
This just makes you look like a bigot, you know?
Because look, Rob, you're not posting pictures of illegal immigrants committing crime.
You're not posting pictures of, you know, like, you know, even somebody like protesting or like causing a problem.
You're posting pictures of what kind of you claim to want.
The immigrants are assimilating.
I mean, this is the most, you look at this here.
It's almost could this would be an image that would be used as a counter against.
someone arguing that immigrants can't assimilate into our culture. I mean, look at this. This is the
most American thing. They are at a college football game. They're getting drunk. They're probably
going to a frat party after this. They're very excited about the local thing. But at the same time,
Rob, in some way, isn't that, I think, why the image is even that much more powerful? Because you're
just kind of like, you're talking about a Texas college football game. And it is a little bit, I think, of a
jarring visual to a lot of people that represents something really being transformed about the
country. And I suppose like one of my broader points in this whole thing is just going to be that
I think it's crazy to claim that you're a bigot or some type of horrible racist to like notice this,
think it is a profound change and, you know, think this is something that ought be discussed and maybe
even mentioned that like this was kind of done against the will of the American people like there's
just this is a microcosm there's a much bigger conversation there but any thoughts that you have about
any of that Rob feel free to jump at yes I listen I think it's totally okay for uh to have the
conversation about forced demographic changes and I think anyone that has those concerns it's
fair to have those concerns I think if somebody saw this picture and thought oh this is exactly
the thing I'm concerned about I can understand why they had that reaction uh if
this picture had not made it into the news and I'd come across it. I would not have jumped on and
gone, oh my God, is this how many, how many brown people are attending colleges? It's just not
even, to me, it's like not even that noticeable of an image. You got, firstly, they're doing the
American thing. I don't know what would have called my amor if you said, look what's happening at Texas
A&M right now. And it was a room of kids playing, you know, doing software engineering and they
all were Indian. That would have called my eye more of like, holy shit, things have changed.
But in a way, in a way that is interesting because, well, I kind of think of it like this.
You know, I've said this before, but I think it's useful as like a framework that, because this
isn't how I thought about it, you know, throughout my life.
But so the Civil Rights Act happened in 1964.
And I was born in 1983.
So I was born less than 20 years after the Civil Rights Act was passed, which is a strict.
You know, like, I don't know.
That just seemed like kind of part of America to me, not like this new thing that had just happened.
But the way I conceive of 20 years today is much different.
Like, you know, I don't know if you were like, hey, there was this policy that America made in 2007.
I wouldn't feel like, oh, that's just always been part of America.
I'd be like, oh, that's a very new thing in America, you know.
And so I'm born in 1983.
Jim Crow was 20 years ago.
20 years ago, you know, like that is, where is close as we are to like, I don't know, the Bush
administration as the country was to Jim Crow back then.
But I'm going to, I'm in my mid-40s and 45 years, you know, so it's now we're talking
65 years after the Civil Rights Act.
And 20 years and 65 years are a big difference.
You know, it just makes sense that we'd have a slightly different attitude about some of these
things.
You know, talking about any of these times.
You know, talking about any of these topics, anything racial, my whole life, that's the type of topic that would just get a lot of people like, this is very uncomfortable.
You know, we've had like a kind of allergy to any type of nuanced conversation about race for many, many decades.
A lot of this having to do with the, you know, the Second World War and the Civil Rights Act and probably for some very good reasons.
but I guess what I look at it is like this.
There's really what we're talking about today.
There is a major difference between having a conversation about immigration
and having a conversation about mass migration.
And it's almost as if people today are having the conversation about what's going on,
but all they have is the tools of like the civil rights movement
and a conversation about immigration.
And now they're trying to apply that to a conversation about.
mass migration and the things are just fundamentally different. Yeah, there was an old episode of
South Park Rob maybe you'll remember this one. I can't remember exactly what the joke was, but it was
something where they were doing a play on the word minority like Carmen was talking about how
the water park was all minorities and then like Kyle makes the point at one point then they're not a
minority and like Cartman's like no, they're a minority. They're black. You know, it's like even if
they're 80% they're like, oh, they're a minority. But anyway, just thinking about like,
there is a different conversation between like, hey, we have minorities amongst us.
How ought we treat those minorities and coming to the conclusion that, like, you shouldn't be
dicks to them.
They should have equal rights to everybody else.
There's a difference between that conversation and saying, should we transform the majority
into being a minority itself?
Those are just different things.
And like, I don't know, like, reacting to one, it's almost like if someone reacts to the idea
that we should transform the majority into the minority.
And they go, hey, I don't think that's a good idea.
They go, so what are you saying?
We should treat the one minority amongst us like we should be dicks to him.
And you're like, no, that's not the same.
You know what I'm saying?
Does that make sense, Rob?
It's like when I was debating Alan Dershowitz and he hasn't uploaded any data in 30 years.
It's like a software program that just hasn't updated.
Like his talking points are exactly the same as they would have been in 1992.
If he was trying to sell a war in Iran in 1992,
Alan Dershowitz would have started talking about 1934 Germany and how a war of aggression would have helped there and how the mullahs are so crazy and how if they get new like nothing's updated even though we've had like 30 years of lots of information like you haven't learned anything and it's very similar to that the conversation is not over whether we should be a dick to the minority the conversation is about the fact that like you know the United States of America has profoundly changed in a way that is
kind of unreversible.
And nobody wanted.
The people didn't want that.
This was done to them by government policy.
I don't know.
There's kind of no other way to look at it as far as I'm concerned.
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and uh you put it that way i'm like where's this train guy
I'm just kidding internet.
No, I, of course.
But, well, you know, it should, it's an interesting thing to that, you know,
Darrell Cooper has made this point a lot.
I think it's kind of helped me to understand this a bit.
But he does make the point that, you know, America,
in the history of the United States of America was always,
there was always kind of like radical openness and radical demographic change.
Like, that is a part of.
the history of America in a way that it's just not the part of the history of almost any other
country. I would go, I would say any other country. I don't think there's anything that quite
compares to it. Like, even, um, what is it? It's like the, like the naturalization act of 1798 or something
like that. Or 70, maybe it was a, maybe that's the one that restricted it and then they reversed it
a couple years later. But it's one of those early naturalization acts where they basically say that,
um, like any free white man of good character is welcome to come.
come to America and become a citizen within a few years.
And, like, people might hear that today and think, like, oh, that's restrictionist
because you hear, like, only free white men or whatever.
But, like, if you put that into perspective at the time, it was, like, radically open.
Like, that was great.
You know what I mean?
And we had this huge continent.
We wanted to fill it.
So that was a big experiment.
And then, of course, we had huge mass waves of immigration.
What was it in the, like, 1870s?
and then in the 1930s, I guess.
And then, of course, there was huge migration of black Southerners to the North,
which is like a huge thing in American, modern American history
that people just don't really talk about.
Rob, like, or I certainly didn't know much about that.
But like, I think there's something like six or seven million black people
between like 1910 and 1960, like moved from the set.
Like during Jim Crow, they were leaving.
to come up to the north, and then they all had lots of kids.
And so there's like this huge, you know, like a whole lot of black people up in the north,
like are their only first or second generation northerners or whatever.
But, Rob, the entire history of America, the country's been like 90% white and Christian.
And that is now, like, radically changing.
And people kind of feel that, I think, throughout their lives,
lives. Again, I'm not like trying to say, like, it doesn't have to be some bigoted thing, like,
oh my God, I hate that there's minorities around or something. It's just the point that like,
that really does change a country. And again, this is not something that was like this wasn't
decided democratically. It's not like there was a referendum and people decided to drastically
change the country in this way. And also, it's not as if this was something that was decided in like
the market. Like, proper.
owners, just to, you know, like, so Americans were just inviting so many of their cousins from
over here to come over here and do business. And so this is the way the demographics changed.
It's not anything like that. What it is is that government controls the borders, government
sets the immigration policy, government decides which of its laws it's going to enforce and not
enforce. Government taxes the people, sends the money to all types of different NGOs, including
the UN, that then funds all types of caravans and mass mobilization.
And like, this is, I don't know what to say.
It's like the whole thing is kind of indefensible.
And now in the, when it's a done deal, when it's a fade-a-complete, Rob, if any Americans complain about it, they're met with the accusation of bigotry.
It's just, I don't know.
It's like, I just find it to be so profoundly unfair.
Like, it's like the, in many ways, like the most.
kind of like fucked up thing a leadership class could do to its own people is kind of like erase
them or dilute them with foreigners like totally change the country against their will but then on
top of that if they dare complain about it to like morally condemn them it just seems to be about
as despicable a thing as a leadership class could do if you ask me yeah and uh i mean clearly what
happened under the byd administration was a effort to get as many people over the border as they
possibly could and pardon them into the country. And I 100% agree with you that Americans should
have more of a say in, hey, we don't want widespread illegal or even immigration, for that matter.
You know, I personally would like to have free markets, no social programs whatsoever. And I'd be
in favor of more immigration, but that's not the system that we live in. And I can fully respect
that under the current system, people not wanting that should be allowed to prevent it.
and, you know, I mean, at the end of the day, we got a lot of socialism here and you don't want a bunch of people coming into the country and voting against your interest and sizing down your piece of the pie and then also changing the culture on you to maybe a more leftist socialist culture that's going to demonize you or see you as a bigot for, you know, realizing, oh, I got to join a team and represent and be a part of that team. And oh my God, everyone hates me if that happens to be the white team.
Yeah, that's right, dude. All such good points, dude. All such good.
good points. And like, you know, as you said, because even when you say it's like, you're at
exactly right, that's why I say it's not, we're not really having a conversation about immigration.
We're having a conversation about mass demographic change. You know, it's like if we were,
like whatever it is, like say there's 350 million people in America and let's just say whatever
the numbers are, right? Like, let's just say, for example, you got, you got a country with hundreds
of millions of people. Let's say you got a thriving tourism industry.
And let's say there is a healthy immigration and maybe like a few hundred thousand people
are legally immigrating into your country every year.
And you have a secure border.
People aren't coming in illegally.
You know, but you've got like a good immigrant.
And then maybe we'd be having a conversation about like someone was demonizing immigrant groups
or arguing that the immigrants are taking our job or they don't like how there's
these different restaurants or different neighborhoods.
Then we might be having a conversation about whether you're anti-immigration or not.
But, like, look, I use this extreme to paint a picture.
But listen, man, the picture itself is pretty extreme.
Let's just, like, the example that I like to use, right,
I think this Scott Horton came up with this one first,
but India is just the example because there's so many of them,
and this does happen to be the same, you know,
I think those were Indians in this picture.
So, you know, you say hypothetically, like four,
there's 300 and change million Americans.
let's say 400 million Indians wanted to come over here.
Okay?
So like, 400 million and let's just hypothetically even say like we, I mean, we do have the room, right?
We got all types of states like Kansas and stuff where there's, you know, it's not very densely populated.
I mean, let's say we're going to take them here and spread them out.
But then you also recognize that like, look, immediately what happens as a result of this is that Americans become a minority in America.
America is now majority Indian.
Now, first of all, if you're giving them voting rights and stuff like that, then obviously
this has a huge impact on our democratic processes.
The entire government essentially now is owned by Indians.
Okay, so that changes everything about the way we're governed.
But even if that wasn't the case, even if they didn't vote and it didn't change the laws,
Rob, like that just profoundly changes the country.
You can't tell me that another 400 million, like Indians here, this changes the country
in profound ways culturally, religiously, all these things.
And again, like, to say that Americans can't have any feeling about that, or if you oppose that,
it's because you're racist.
It's because you don't like Indians.
That I don't, I just think that's complete bullshit.
And just to kind of prove the point, imagine if in that picture all those people were wearing
a Kufa or whatever the Muslims wear.
And imagine if all of the mass migration to this country happened to be Muslim.
who absolutely despise the state of Israel and they all got voting rights and got people into
Congress who absolutely spoke out against the state of Israel.
What do you think Ben Shapiro would have to say about that?
Well, you for this is this is what I said to him.
Yes.
Oh, really?
Yeah, this is literally what I said to.
Of course, because why not?
No, no, no, it's fine.
But it's just, it's hilarious because of course, why would?
It's like, look, and I'll tell you his response later if you want, which really is something.
and we can get into that.
But yeah, I mean, but look, I'm even, look, it's clearly you could see the point much clearer
if you use some of these examples.
But okay.
All right.
So it's not that.
It's not 400 million, you know, Indians coming here.
It's not that drastic.
But if the principle still stands that like, no, Americans would have a right to, like, object
by that.
And in fact, stop it by any means necessary.
Then, like, okay, again, look, what is, Natalie, can you just Google this real quick?
for me, what percentage of the Texans are white?
What percentage of Texas is white?
I want to get that number real quick.
Because I was told this earlier.
I was somewhat shocked by the number.
I looked it up and I got the same number.
So I just want to see what Natalie's got.
Yeah, 39% Rob.
Like Texas is third.
39% white. Now, I'm sorry, just as a country that has historically been a 90% European white Christian country.
That is like, these are shocking demographic changes in an incredibly short period of time.
And, you know, for anybody who wants to say, Rob, that like some type of thing, which is, was the Ben Shapiro line, and I guess still is, is that it's, um, right, well, it's 73, if you count Hispanic, but like,
you know, okay, but that's a little bit different. I'm just saying it's a major cultural change
in America. Just to clarify the Natalie point, I think that there are people who self-identify as
white, who are white, but are technically Hispanic. And I guess they're not counted as white.
Well, it's, no, it's Hispanic is the, I think it's the way they measure it is that there's a
big portion of Hispanics who are counted as white. And so they're two different questions.
It's like, it's like not, what do they call it again?
They call it like, shit, I think it's non-white Hispanic or white Hispanic, but like, I don't know.
But I'm just saying like, however you want to measure these things, these are major demographic changes that have taken place.
And people will say, well, you know, okay, like this is the Ben Shapiro thing, right?
that essentially you're racist to care about the browning of America.
All we care about is what culture comes along with that browning.
Now, if it's brown and they're still at the football game cheering for that and they're
for capitalism and they support Israel, then we got no problem with them coming at.
But if they're rather they don't support Israel, whatever, you know, so like that's the,
but I got to say, like, there's a couple things on this, okay?
Number one, I did like, there was one time I saw Ben Burgess,
was debating Curtis Yarven.
And I think someone asked Curtis Yarven, well, is Haiti poor because of the, like, the
genetics of the people, or is Haiti poor because of the culture?
You know?
And Curtis, when he goes, as soon as someone runs that experiment that controls for culture
versus genetics, I'd love to take a look at it.
you know like essentially you just go i don't know like we don't know we don't have to pretend to know
for sure it's it's a much more let's just say we would all like to go it's not race at all it's culture
and the reason why we'd like to say that is because that's a much more comfortable answer that
we'd all rather be the case i don't know um the point i think is that when you radically change
the demographics like this, you're going to radically change society. It's a gamble. We're rolling the
dice and going, hey, you think we could still be the United States of America like this?
I don't know. We'll see. Why would we take that gamble? Why would we do that? And especially given a
little bit of awareness about like what the state of nature is. And when I say the state of nature,
I don't mean like the state of nature literally. I mean what the normal state of man is, what the normal
the normal, you know, society is.
What are the, we roll the dice, we come out with the United States of America again,
probably not, probably not what we get.
And also on top of that, I just think to some degree, like, it's just different, man,
and people have the right to have some say in whether things get radically changed or not,
just for their own reason.
You know, it's very hard.
Like, I don't know.
if if there are some non-Japanese people in Japan you know there's a minority population in Japan of
something that's not Japanese it's only reasonable for us to be like hey guys don't be dicks to them
don't deprive them of their rights you know treat them like equal people you know um but to ask the
Japanese people to make their country majority Italian well there's no such thing as Japan anymore if
they do that now this is obvious with any group of people who are a people like that America's a little
bit different, but still you're drastically changing the whole nation. Why should you just get to do that
against the will of the people? I just find it so indefensible. All right, guys, let's take a moment
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And yeah, maybe these Indians just shouldn't sit together at games.
Spread it out, guys.
You want to really just spread out a little bit.
But I don't know, man.
There do.
I think it does, I think it fundamentally changes a society.
in a lot of ways, you know? I think there are, there are advantages, and I think one of the
advantages is you get a much more high trust society when it's not as multiracial and multi-ethnic,
you know, and it's, I don't know, it's just, we've never really been a multiracial society.
We've been a biracial society for all of our history, and we just rolled the dice on doing this.
And now we're going to be living through the fallout of it, which, by the way, is like, maybe
that's more of what our focus should be. It's just like, hey, okay, well, what do we do from
here? But one of the first parts of it is recognizing that as people start to recognize what's
happened, because I think people are just starting to kind of take in the severity of this.
There are going to be some people who are upset about it and just simply lecturing them
like they're Nazis is not, I think, helpful. And I think there's an additional problem,
which is on a more personal or localized level. And I, I,
I don't fall into this category, but if this is not what you're into, if you're on a business,
you can't just hire all whites.
You need an HR department.
You need to play by the rules of other people, and you will get shamed on a more localized
level for not being more inclusive.
So it's not even like you can congregate with like-minded individuals and have what I call
freedom of assimilation and go, well, all right.
Freedom of association.
That's the word I was looking for and just go, well, yeah, I get that the rest of the
country decided to go this way and a bunch of liberals are more into this but that's not what i'm into
you're not allowed to make that decision for yourself you don't have the freedom to do so so it's not
it's not even like uh just a national thing it will go start a business tomorrow grow it to a point
where it's successful and then try and tell minorities that they're not allowed to work there yeah well
that's right it's like we don't even have freedom of association people are kind of like forced into
the country against the will of the taxpayer against the will of the people and then
They don't have freedom of association to even disassociate with those people.
You could also use the example of like landlords renting to people or all types of different
examples like that, Rob.
And, you know, it's, again, this is not the dynamic of like, hey, like, you know, as you just go,
like, it's okay, it's a group of white people and there's a minority there.
and how should we treat that person?
We're talking about something totally different than that.
And for essentially now, you know, my entire lifetime,
let's just say those 65 years since the Civil Rights Act, right?
Like even the 20 years before I was born,
the liberals and the left have been constantly harping
on how difficult it is to be a minority.
You know, how difficult it is to be a minority.
And then somehow the expectation,
because so much of what has animated them, particularly for the last 20 years, has just been anti-white, you know, sentiment.
It's like there is a hatred for white people.
Okay.
You're being demonized constantly in academia and media and Hollywood and, you know, political class by the entire left, really.
So white people are being demonized.
They're also being told how bad it is to be a minority.
they also can't kind of help but notice that the only places where all of these massive demographic
changes are taking place are where, Rob, call the white countries.
We're not talking about having this problem in China or Russia or Japan or partly because
those countries won't allow it to happen, but also partly because really this expectation
from white people who get so lectured to by the left, there's really the,
not this expectation for any other group of people,
which is that, number one,
we're going to tell you how terrible it is to be a minority.
And number two,
we also expect you to voluntarily make yourself a minority
in the countries where you're a majority.
Now, by the way, a leftist will have nothing but sympathy
for a black person in Bedstai who talks about gentrification.
They will have nothing but sympathy for anyone else
if they were ever displaced in this way,
against their well. They would have nothing but say, but the expectation amongst white people who,
of course, are uniquely evil, and also we're going to need you to ignore that everyone wants to
live in the countries that were built by white people. They are expected to just like embrace
becoming a minority themselves. I'm sorry, but like, that is, um, that is an insane request.
You know, I don't know. I understand this is an uncomfortable conversation to have, but if we're just
being honest about it, man.
Like, that is just, that is craziness.
It is not the same thing to, like, think, oh, we could, like, oppress a minority of people amongst us, you know,
screw those people.
They don't have rights.
Or even, like, maybe just, like, be a dick to those people or discriminate against those people
or try to keep those people in one part of town.
It's a whole different thing to really think you could exploit a minority, you know, enslave them or
genocide them or do something terrible to a minority.
That is a totally different thing than being the majority of a country and wishing to remain that majority, like not wanting mass demographic change.
It's just not the same thing at all.
It is total consensus in Japan that the place remain Japanese.
Like total 100% consensus.
Nobody thinks that modern Japan is on the level of Nazi Germany, morally speaking, for that belief.
Yet somehow that is the expectation of Americans.
And Rob, as you kind of got into before, even worse, this is the expectation of Zionists who do not hold this same standard for Israel.
Now, that to me is a whole different level of hypocrisy.
And that's why I went at Ben Shapiro this morning on Twitter about this.
Rob, like one thing, which by the way, you know, I've always been more of a two-state than one-state solution guy, although look, it's not my choice.
I don't know, solve it however you want to.
One of the things, Rob, that the Zionists have been very well aware of in the Israelis
from the very beginning is, what, that demographics are destiny.
Why do you think the Israelis are so into ethnic cleansing?
Well, because, dude, if you want to have a democratic state, that's a Jewish state,
you got to have like an 80, 20 super duper Jewish super majority.
You know, I mean, like, it's otherwise it doesn't really.
work can't really have elections when it's close and so you know you have to maintain those demographics
otherwise the whole thing is different it won't be a jewish state if it's not majority jewish people there
so for any of them to come around and say oh we don't know what's the problem what's your beef with
mass demographic change it really does say something yeah i mean it's it's the ultimate an hypocrisy
it's almost incredible that it's coming from a ben shapiro is on the right and uh just to reiterate what
you were saying the fact that the left not just not only do you not have the freedom of association but
they will even shame you uh if you are flirting with hey do i like this well you're not being inclusive
you're not being nice it's like you guys have initiated the change that changes my life and now you're
not to criticize whether or not i even like it or have a thought about whether it's a bad idea
and then the people on the right who are pro israel who uh clearly i guess even though they don't
live in that country and live for it which is a little bit psychotic but they understand
that it's really important to them that they keep their voting base and that they keep one culture
within the society and at the same time over here that they would advocate for anything different
and pretend why would anyone be concerned about this why would anyone care yeah that's i mean it's the
ultimate and hypocrisy yep well here let's uh let's go to ben shapiro's segment here and let's
let's take on some of what he what he had to say about this are conservative supposed to be upset that
people from different ethnic backgrounds enjoy college football a vital photo of like i don't know
30 Brown students from the stands of this weekend's UT Ohio game when viral when a random low level low-level low-party you just already see just like how much he is just dripping in dishonesty just dripping in dishonesty and and again I just find this look I don't I was kind of like trying to explain this to Natalie how I feel about this before I started it's like look man I understand believe me because I also come from like I'm a Jewish kid from Park Slope I also come from the same
liberal culture that all leftist and liberals, you know, kind of do today. I understand why when I
start talking the way I'm talking, I know that there's a percentage of like left-leaning viewers
who will kind of shut down to this and be like, oh, this is just like, Dave's got a little bit of
like racism and I'm, eh, I like him on Gaza, I like him on this stuff, but he's just kind of like,
I understand, I know, because it's very, people have developed an allergy for this.
I don't even begrudge liberals who have a little bit of an allergy to me, even, even,
suggesting that there's a problem with just like more brown faces in this game or something like that
but for like an israeli racist right winger to do it rob like for you to be trying to shame our
american racist right wingers you know for i use this tongue and cheek these terms but like no you
don't get to do that dude and so like i just as an american i'm kind of like i'll stick up for our
racist right wingers over you but again i'm just joke i don't really consider it to be that racist but like
the issue here nobody's issue is that we have a problem that minorities like football
like what even are you talking about minorities like football minorities play football the game is
a minority game what are you talking about dude we don't have a problem that like oh an indian guy
and and by the way right rob if you showed a picture that was a sea of white people at a texas
college football game which is what we've come to think college football might look like
But that was, I used to think that Minnesota wasn't Somalia, but that, you know, that's crazy.
But if, if you showed a sea of white people and there was one Indian person in there and people
had a problem with him, then Ben Shapiro, yes, you could accurately say the issue people have here
is a minority enjoying a football game.
But Rob, that's clearly not what we're talking about here, right?
Am I mean, is this, come on.
We're talking about people looking at this picture and then jumping off.
to, oh my God, there are demographic changes in the country.
No one's actually going.
We're not allowed to have minority should not be allowed to attend or enjoy football.
That's not of anyone's concern.
You're looking at the writing on the wall and you're going, oh, man, this really is the cut.
Listen, white people are going to be a minority in this country.
This is going to be different.
This is going to make culture and movies and sports and everything feel different.
And we don't, why are we to assume the only reason anyone would assume this is for the better is if you're
already working on some type of kind of like anti-white racist starting ground.
Like yeah, that's what you get.
You're the big oppressor.
So you deserve to kind of be replaced.
But like, that's not everybody's opinion.
I'm like, well, yes, white people are guilty of a lot of oppression.
They're also, you know, have created a lot of prosperity and, you know, in many different ways.
So I, anyway, whatever.
It's just like, it's, you know, there's, uh, Orrin McIntyre always shares.
There's some quote.
I forget who's it is.
I apologize to the person.
But it's something, it's like the simplest quote, but it really is where he said something
like he goes, so much of arguing with the left is them pretending to not understand concepts,
thus making argumentation impossible.
You know, like, I don't know.
This totally just applies to Ben Shapiro too.
Like, it's like, it's a, you're making the argument impossible because you're pretending
that the argument is something else.
And leftists do this all the time.
You know, like when you get into it and they just go, oh, so I guess you just don't want
minorities to live. Got it.
You know, okay, we have to pretend
that's what the argument is about.
All right, let's keep playing.
Viral when a random, low-level, local
GOP candidate said kind of gross things
about their skin color. After review why
football is great. We're going to run through some stats
about UT's demographics. Texas Senate
candidate Ken Paxton's reaction and why
James Teller Rico is actually the most racist
candidate of them all. There's a person named
Bo French. He's running for Railroad
Commissioner in Texas, and he snapped
a picture of UT students who are celebrating their miraculous win over Ohio.
So for those who missed the game, basically Texas was down 20 points in the last quarter,
and Archie Manning came back, 21 points in the fourth quarter, incredible comeback.
And the cameras flashed to the crowd.
And one part of the University of Texas at Austin crowd was pretty clearly heavily Indian.
it's a lot of people who have heritage that is not white right that that is what is happening in this photo
it looks like some people of Hispanic origin some people of indian origin maybe some people of arabic origin
just ethnically speaking so beau french tweeted out a picture of this that i heard at u t graduation this
should look like this i didn't believe it the problem is now obviously far worse than anyone imagine
now a few things about this one these are not people who are there flying the next
Mexican flag or the Palestinian flag or protesting for Gaza.
The only evidence we have about the belief system of these people is that they are
putting up the Texas hookum horns for a football team in Texas.
Just pause.
That's literally the only thing.
So like again, right.
Well, two things.
Number one, but again, as I said before, that's kind of the point, Ben Shapiro.
Right.
Like, look, man.
And obviously, if 400 million Indians are going to move here tomorrow and drastically change
the United States of America, right?
But let's just say they do kind of simulate to America.
And they don't vote for more welfare.
And they're not, God forbid, protesting on behalf of the poor Palestinians.
And they're not burning American flags.
They're not waving their foreign flags.
But it's just different.
I'm also allowed to be against that.
I'm also just allowed to be against things drastically.
changing. Like, I don't know. You don't, it's just so like, look, man, Rob, well, first of all,
by the way, I guess maybe what should also be pointed at is like he actually, it's not so
subtle really once you look for it. This is why the Zionists are so doomed, Rob. Once you see it,
it's the toothpaste is out of the tube. He just let him he subtly throws in one of the things like,
or imagine, imagine they came here. They were committing crime and they hated your country. Imagine
they had a problem with the genocide you guys are funding.
Like, why?
First of all, you know how unpopular Israel is?
You know how unpopular our funding of Israel is?
Most Americans would not think that actually is the worst thing you could do if you came
there.
Oh, they came here and started protesting against the taxpayers being fleeced to pay for Israel's
genocide.
I wouldn't actually have such a big problem with that one.
Interesting how you snuck that in is just not even just like they committed a violent
crime or they were a bad neighbor or something, but they didn't support Israel, Rob,
when they came here.
But like, I don't know, dude.
Yes, that's right.
It's not a picture of any of that.
It's just, you know, Texas college football.
That's kind of the whole point, Ben.
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No, let's continue.
All right.
About them is that they are Texas football fans.
So here's the thing.
If you look at this picture, there are three ways to interpret this picture.
One of them is you just look at it and look at it.
and look at the ethnicities in which case the answer is kind of who cares because i know a lot of
great people who have indian heritage i know a lot of people are awesome who have Scottish heritage
i know a lot of people who suck who have all these heritage right that's the reality of humankind
so when i see a bunch of people who are celebrating university of texas winning a football game
my positive for a second again this is like it reminds me of debating with alan dershowitz dude
you're just like dude are you just having your own separate conversation over there man that has
nothing to do with any of the rest of us.
You know, like, imagine your response to my hypothetical, Rob.
Hey, should we allow 400 million Indians to come here?
And your response was, look, man, I know some Indians who are good people.
I know some Indians who are bad people.
I know some white people are good people.
I know some white people.
What?
Yeah, no one's arguing that.
That would be the question of should we treat the 1% of the population who are different
in a bad way?
Well, no, okay, we shouldn't mistreat them.
That's a different question to whether you want to flood and drastically
change the racial demographics of a country. And so I don't care whether you like it. Yeah, I know
lots of Indians who I like too. Okay. Does that have to do with anything? You know, it sucks to be,
can you pull up that picture for one second? Are we able to zoom in at all? All right. You see that guy in
the cowboy hat? It just sucks to be that guy in the news right now. He's like, I put on a dirty shirt.
I look like I work at a cattle ranch. I did everything I could to blend in. Oh, dude. And now I'm in the
newspapers. There's too many brown people here. Like, how did I get into this position?
I do. Well, look, dude, it also, by the way, I mean, I know you're, you're being funny,
but it also is true that you can feel for the individuals involved to be like, dude, it's not,
it's not anything personal about any one person. Like, this is a broad policy, you know,
this is, that is the question here. You know, things get invoked. Like, remember, there was a boat
of Jewish refugees from the Holocaust who got turned back to Nazi Germany and then they got
slaughtered. It's like, dude, we're not talking about taking a boat full of people into a
country of hundreds of millions. You're talking about taking in millions and millions of people.
Like, this is, it's just a different conversation. Anyway, let's go back to the, let's go back
to Shapiro. First thought isn't, oh my gosh, that is a lot of people with the wrong ethnicities
because I don't think that's a good way to think. All right, let's pause. I think it's quite a bad way.
By the way, nobody is saying those are a bunch of people with the wrong.
ethnicities. It's not that any ethnicity or race is right or wrong. It's just like, I don't know.
Like if you just took a look at Tokyo and saw it was like 80% black, it's not that black is the
wrong race to be. It's just like, wow, that's different. Did the people of Tokyo have any say in this?
Oh, what are you telling? Oh, they hate it. Oh, it's their number one issue is that they're against this.
okay, well, I do kind of understand why they'd be against that. It's not really Tokyo anymore.
Now is it? It's a whole different thing. Like, whatever you want to say, man, like, if you made
Tokyo 80% black, it's just, it's not the same Tokyo anymore. That doesn't mean it's worse or
better. That doesn't mean you hate black people or hate Japanese people. And so again,
this just isn't, it's not that they're wrong, but it is a little bit jarring. Are we, again,
if Ben Shapiro saw Jerusalem look anything other than Jewish, he would notice that.
Rob, would he not?
Would he not know?
It's not, again, being the wrong ethnicity or the right ethnicity.
Well, in his case, he probably would feel that way.
But it's like, yeah, I don't know.
That would be, that sure would be different.
Or it's just so, it's so like, I guess part of this here, Rob, too, is, right?
Because it is, I do.
Look, I know people say, oh, this is like your Israelic obsession or something.
That's why you're focused on this.
But no, I'm sorry.
This is stunning hypocrisy.
And it's also like, look, dude, unlike Iran's nuclear program or the Shiite crescent that once ran through Syria or Hezbollah's control over southern Lebanon, unlike issues that Ben Shapiro really cares about, immigration, which is what we call this even though we really mean mass demographic change, is actually a lot of people's number one issue, Rob.
this was like one of the bet this was either number one or number two really the economy is usually one
but like it was number one in some polls this was the animating issue of the trump presidential campaigns
this is a major major issue especially amongst the conservative right half of america and so like
you've got ben shapiro here this this guy who his big issue is his identity as as which is
two percent of the country his loyalty to this foreign government his
support for this most unpopular of wars.
And yet he's going to turn around and lecture all of these,
these Americans who might be concerned about like drastic change happening in their
own country, God forbid.
I just, I don't know.
I find this to be appalling.
Yes.
I mean, it's completely hypocritical.
And also, I don't know.
He's just kind of subverting the entire issue, which is, you would think if you were
looking at a picture of Texas.
you were seeing mostly white kids and here you clearly managed to snap a photo of uh not that it's
almost like you know i don't know if you got a picture at a country club and everyone's uh a minority or
something you'd be like whoa that that wasn't expecting to see that and then it does jar to you oh
i guess is there that much a was there that much illegal immigration or has the government
created that many policies that are favorable to minorities that they're actually displacing
white people and he's completely sidestepping any of those questions or feelings which would be
legitimate to try and localize it to, hey, I can't believe anyone's reacting to this picture.
Why do you hate minorities?
And why do you think they shouldn't be at a football game?
It's like he's just, he's not, he's having a different conversation than you are.
Intentionally, yes.
Yeah.
Yeah, let's play a little bit more.
You think.
Now, if you were to tell me that University of Texas, just without reference to this picture,
imported thousands of students from Saudi Arabia, I'd be like, I'm not sure why we are doing that.
Or, by the way, thousands of students from communist China.
We're going to return to communist China.
I'd say I don't think that that's a great idea.
But the problem is far worse than anyone imagined based on a picture of people celebrating University of Texas.
I mean, these are probably second generation kids or kids of immigrants.
That's probably who these people are.
And the demographic breakdown of University of Texas is pretty diverse.
UT admits 89 to 91% of all in-state undergraduates only seven.
11% of the UT student population is from out of state, according to college factual.
Only 4% is international.
Asian students make up about 22 to 26% of the UT campus.
UT does not disaggregate the Asian category into South Asian,
which means like Pakistani or Indian versus East Asian,
which would be like Chinese or Japanese.
Realistically speaking, there are some 200 to 300 foreign exchange students
who come from the Middle East University of Texas every year out of some
40 or 50,000 people for a University of Texas at Austin.
The population of University of Texas at Austin is like 30% white,
I think 28% Hispanic somewhere in that neighborhood.
So both French got a lot of flack for this.
He said, I feared the win for the team.
It was a great game.
I weep for the families in Texas who can't get into UT
because they prioritize foreigners or Texans.
Shame on you for ignoring that fact.
Now, again, that's not true.
90% of in-state undergrads are admitted to University of Texas.
Now, again, this is a bit of selection.
bias here because here is a picture of part of the Texas student section.
As you can see, that is a lot of kids from various countries, many, many, many of those kids.
All right.
So let's just pause here.
Again, Rob, talk about just running away from the issue when it's obvious.
Look, even by the numbers he read where he was like 30% of them were Southeast Asian or no, I'm sorry, not Southeast Asian, but 30% of them were Asian or West Asian.
You're like, okay?
Yeah, that's kind of jarring.
Yeah.
Sorry, I'm trying to pull up a quick stat here because I believe he's completely wrong on the 90%.
But also it's worth knowing that the white demographic of Texas A&M, I think, has fallen by about 20 to 25% of the last 10 years.
And that's because Texas A&M has to admit 90% from within the state of Texas.
That doesn't mean that they're accepting.
90%. I think this is, this is Texas University. Sorry, this is Texas University.
Texas University has fallen. I believe I'll have to fact check myself, but we can just go with about 20%.
And that also his 90% number, I believe, is inaccurate. I think it's that the university has to take 90% of people from the state of Texas.
That doesn't mean that 90% of the people from the state of Texas that apply are automatically admitted.
Right. And also like, listen, I'm sorry, but when you have a guy running for local dog catch,
who posts this and it goes super viral and hundreds of millions of people have commented on it.
It's like, yeah, dude, it's not about whether he got the technicality right or whether the picture
actually shows because, yes, the numbers back up the trend.
The overall numbers clearly tell a picture.
And I'm sorry, man, but I don't think I'm wrong to say this, Rob.
And I say this, as you know, Rob, as the nation's leading fighter of anti-Semitism.
It's not a role that I wanted to fill, but I'm the only one who actually fights it.
I'm not the only one, but anyway, most of the people who claim to be fighting it seem to just be making a lot more of it.
But Rob, I just want you to think about this for a second.
And I want you to tell me if I'm being unfair here, okay, if you were going to sit here and essentially what Ben Shapiro is saying here,
in different words is that America is a propositional nation.
What he's saying, Rob, is that, look, when it comes to these things, right, we should,
he's going, well, look, I'm not, Ben Shapiro is not making some type of open borders,
cultural relativism, like egalitarian type argument here.
He's very clear to say, hey, look, man, if this was like, I don't know, a bunch of people
coming from communist China, or if this was a bunch of people coming from Saudi Arabia,
or something like that, I wouldn't have a problem with that.
But the thing is, right, we shouldn't be judging off the color of their skin.
We're not judging, like, your country isn't a people.
Your country is a set of values.
It's a propositional nation.
And so if it's Indians coming over who, like, love Mets baseball and free market capitalism,
then they're Americans, man.
Then they should be here every bit as much as you.
Because America isn't a people who has a right to maintain itself as a people.
America is an idea.
America is, you know, just kind of,
America is concepts.
And so as long as people come in and they get in line with the concepts,
then you are a bigot.
If you just have a problem with their skin, tone,
or you just have a problem that they're not your people,
then you're a nativist.
You're a bigot of some sort.
Okay, if you're going to have that view, Rob,
dude you better not have an ethno state that you're loyal to is this unreasonable for me to say you better not have than your own people over here where it's not a propositional nation now is it rob and in fact a jew rep correct me if i'm wrong here right you or a jewish 17 year old in brooklyn or a jew in los angeles have a right to go to is
and become a citizen there.
If you're of the people, you're one of the, I mean, maybe not anymore, Rob, you've been
hanging out with me for too long, but like at one point, like, if you're, this is, this whole
country is a country of the people.
We're a Jewish state.
Like, this is, this is in great.
If you're a Jew anywhere, you have a right to come here.
This state is about the people and the people cannot change.
Those demographics, it's not a propositional nation.
This is a blood and soil nation.
about this land and these people, dude, you can't hold that and lecture Americans about how they're a
propositional nation. Am I crazy or is that just obviously got to be true? I think that that is
obviously true. And, you know, in theory, I'm more in line with Ben Shapiro that I think anyone
that wants to move to this country because they believe in freedom and they just want to work hard
and live a better life, that is the American spirit and they should be allowed to do so.
But sadly, they've introduced so much of the socialism to the system that I don't think that that's the motivation of most people that are coming here.
And I also don't think that that's, I don't think it's fair to impose it on, you know, the people that actually kind of built up and have lived in this country for longer periods of time.
I just don't think that that's, I prefer it.
I think it's the better ideal.
It's kind of more the America I grew up in.
But I think they introduced too much socialism to the system that it's just not really, it's not really fair to people who feel otherwise.
and it's not really in line with reality.
All right.
Well, listen, I get what you're saying.
So anyway, we can end with the reveal here on this.
But so, yes, I did respond to Ben Shapiro.
I actually got him.
He worked up the courage to respond back to me today on social media.
So I said, Rob, I had the same instinct as you as a lot of people probably did too.
So he said to Sean Davis, who had a very good response to this, by the way.
I might even read Sean Davis's response here.
But Ben Shapiro said, why don't, he said, Sean had written, yes, that's what people are upset about.
You are very smart and you definitely figured out the key issue here rather than carpet bombing a helpless straw man referring to that video that we just played.
Which Ben Shapiro said, why don't you explicate in clear terms what people are upset about based on a photo of a very small segment of the UT fan base during the game?
To which I replied, Rob, I said, imagine it was some Palestinians who were given the right to return to Israel.
that would you feel? See, you got it immediately. I thought that was fun just to like again,
it's it's not that hard like but this is the thing where people go like you try to say this all
the time. You know like after 9-11 or after there's a terrorist attack where people go, oh my God,
dude, we got to go. They messed with us. We're going to go blow some shit up. And I go,
hey, you know that feeling? That's how they feel. Like you're happy. You do know the feeling, Ben. You just
to imagine it was happening to Israelis.
Imagine Israeli society was being demographically replaced.
That's how a lot.
Believe it or not, look, how crazy is it to say this, Rob?
Is this an unreasonable message to say to like our Zionist Jewish friends?
Rob, how would you feel?
How would, just to be personal about it, Rob, how would many family members of ours feel?
How would many Jews feel if Israel was being demographically replaced?
and Jews were going to become a minority in Israel.
How would they feel about that?
Just think about that for a second.
And wrap your head around this idea,
a lot of Americans feel the same way about that happening here, man.
Like they value their nation at the same way you do.
Anyway, so Ben Shapiro responds to me in this point.
He said, this is his point, right?
This is what he responds.
He said, because we know generally the belief system of some groups of people,
not others. Please explain who the people in that photo are and what they believe. If you can't,
you're full of it, which you are. So I wanted to be clear here. Ben Shapiro's response to me was that
we can know generally what some groups think, but not all. So unless I specifically know every person
in this picture, I can't have a problem with it. Now, of course, Rob, he is clearly saying here,
If it was Palestinians in Israel, he's not claiming to need to know the individuals or how they feel.
He can already know that, but somehow I'm a fraud unless I can specifically name the individuals.
Of course, Rob, what of any of my claims have relied on me knowing the individuals and their beliefs in this picture?
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Yeah, I'm specifically saying I like Cowboy Hack Guy.
I'd like to hang out with that, dude.
But yes, there is a problem with demographic changes within the country.
So obviously his point is, is once again just skirting the bigger question and bigger issues.
Yes.
So I responded back to Ben.
I said, no, Ben, you don't know that Palestinians are bad by looking at them.
That's your feelings getting in the way of facts again.
That's great.
I said, the point is that Americans don't like the broader policy that replaces the domestic
population against their will.
This picture is obviously just a little microcosm of the gigantic shift happening in America.
After years of demonizing every right-wing immigration hawk, you now come out to lecture Americans
about being racist for not supporting this.
all while reserving the right to be a racist and restrictionist against demographics that might
threaten the country of a foreign nation.
And I said, get it?
And then I said, let's have a conversation.
Don't be scared, homie.
So, you know, got one more challenge out to it.
Anyway, I'll read the last thing that Ben Shapiro said, and we can close the show here.
So Ben Shapiro says, ridiculous on its face.
One, we have excellent data on what Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank believe about the existence
of a Jewish state of Israel.
You know this and are being deliberately ignorant.
Meanwhile, you have literally no idea who the people are in the UT photo,
whether they're even on a visa or third-generation immigrants,
let alone what they think.
Third-generation Americans, I think he meant to say,
not third-generation immigrants.
Two, I have been an immigration hawk with regard to illegal immigration for decades,
and I have always opposed importation of people who oppose assimilation to the West.
Always.
Stop lying.
Now, I just want to real quickly take on both of these.
I said, what I did, I responded on Twitter.
I said, wait, you have data to suggest that Palestinians don't very much like the state
that has militarily occupied them for 60 years?
I said, well, that's proof.
They're Amalak.
And then I said, you're also right.
racism is bad. So, listen, to be clear, Ben is saying, we have excellent data on how the Palestinians
feel about a Jewish state. You want to go ahead and just get into the problems of what, yes,
okay, so you have public opinion polls that the Palestinians don't like the state that has
militarily occupied and slaughtered and genocided them. Shocker. Okay. Anyway, he's saying,
I don't have any data about who these people are.
The entire point that I'm making to Ben Shapiro, and this is something you got to say to a lot
of these guys, particularly like neocon Zionist types.
Dude, if the American people don't wish to have this massive demographic change, they have a right
to not wish that.
It doesn't matter whether they know the people and know, or I have data on how, but by the way,
of course, I could find data on what Indians in general think, and I could find issues.
of things they think that would be incompatible with something that Americans might desire.
But none of that really matters.
The point is, just as you always say, doesn't Israel have a right to exist as a Jewish state?
It doesn't matter if any of the people coming into Israel had lots of great values.
You still wouldn't want them coming in.
Don't tell me for a second that Ben Shapiro would support Indians or Swedes or Brits
coming in and demographically replacing Jewish people in Israel.
Israel, right, Rob? So no, I don't need any of that. And then number two, what can I even say?
Just on that first one, also, imagine if you took everyone in Ghazi, aligned them up at the border,
and you said, hey, we're about to get, we're going to make you an Israeli citizen. You just have to
agree that you believe that the state has a right to exist. And then you can live in here and you can
work. How many of those people do you think are saying, yeah, I'm good with that. And then
Does Ben Shapiro still hold the same position there?
Well, we have previous polling that says that you hated us, so we know what your opinion is.
He can't come in.
I mean, it's just obviously not true.
Yes.
And then I will just say to the second one here, I just thought this was so funny.
Two, I have been an immigration hawk with regard to illegal immigration for decades.
Yeah, it's a nice little change of the topic there.
We're talking about government creating policies.
Oh, you don't support people breaking the law.
Oh, wow.
well thanks ben Shapiro yeah but so much of the demographic change has been done through legal immigration
right so what does that mean you've i said uh my my other response i put on twitter was that uh that which
i don't know if the young people get it but i said ben shapiro believes that demographic replacement
should be safe legal and rare um that's great but like for example democrats used to say about abortion in the
90s because it should be legal but it should it should only happen legally it's also it's a tough line
because, you know, Biden pardoned people into the country.
So is that still illegal?
I mean, I guess that was a legal mechanism to let them into the country
because that administration wanted to let people into the country.
And then what if a Democratic administration decides,
hey, you know what?
We want 10,000 South Koreans coming into the country.
And so they're in the entire American public's against it,
but the issue of the visas.
So that's legal.
But again, and then again, by the way,
what I had said is that Ben Shapiro smeared all the greatest hero right-wingerers who were immigration hawks.
And it's true.
He did because they also weren't warhawks and didn't support Israel.
I'm talking Pat Buchanan and Russell Kirk and Ron Paul and all the great ones, right?
But then on top of that, he goes, and I've always opposed the importation of people who oppose assimilation to the West.
Again, Rob, but like, why can't the standard just be whether the Americans want them or not?
whether they want them here. Again, if I said, I'm flooding Israel with people who will assimilate
to Israeli values, that wouldn't be good enough for Ben Shapiro because they'd have to be Jewish.
Well, like, people here are saying, like, no, they have to be American. And again, you're a hypocrite
that we don't need two standards. One will do just fine here. This is why he's saying he could look at
a picture of Muslims in Israel and already know they're bad, but I can't look at a picture of Indians
in Texas and feel the same way.
Again, it shouldn't say they're bad,
but just that like, yo,
it should be the choice of the people
who live here, whether they want to come.
And unlike the Palestinians,
this land doesn't actually belong to Indians.
Well, the other kind, but not this kind.
All right, Rob, we got to wrap up on that.
Catch you guys tomorrow.
Peace.
