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Murdoch wants what's good for America. I'm pretty sure that he never wakes up and says, you know, I want to destroy America today. It looks like the opposite, like he'd very much like America to do well because it's one of the places he has a lot of business. And so but the way the government works, it's going to take forever to approve a thing like this. I mean, it could take up to a year to get…

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e not this way, we probably would already be out of business.

So let me see if this analogy works. You've heard the stories about Steve Jobs being a genius at everything he accomplished. Have you also heard the stories that he was the biggest asshole in the entire world, like just a dick? You've heard that, right? Do you think it would have happened if he was just a get-along guy? Do you think if he had not been all those things that you wouldn't want to be and you wouldn't want to support and you wouldn't want to be near, if he hadn't been all of those things, do you think that Apple would be Apple? I don't. So I think you have to live in the real world a little bit and know that the hugely terrible things your government is doing is sometimes to benefit their buddies and their cohorts and the people who make the weapons. That's definitely a big part of it. But it's also probably absolutely critical for your survival, and they can't tell you that directly. So I'm going to tell you. It doesn't mean you shouldn't fight to stop wars because I think that's still the right impulse. There must be other ways we can do things. It's just not always about bombing stuff. But you have to be honest. The colonizing is the only reason that DEI even exists. And I don't mean as a complaint about colonizing. It's meaning you wouldn't even have the luxury of complaining about racial stuff if it weren't but you wouldn't even have the luxury of complaining about it except that we're a hugely successful country because of colonizing. I hate to say that. If you understand economics, everything looks different, but it is. You have to look at the whole picture.

Now, I wouldn't want anybody that I like to imitate this argument because it just makes you look like a jerk. That's why people don't do it. But one of my minor values to the world is that I can look like a jerk because I'm already cancelled, but it doesn't make any difference to me. So there's your argument. That's all I have for today. I'm going to talk to the locals people privately because they're special, and the rest of you I will see you tomorrow, same time, same place. So thanks for joining on YouTube and Rumble and X and Locals. I'm coming at you in 30 seconds. We'll have a little sip while we're waiting.