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Okay, so what does this mean in practice? The White House put out a fact sheet laying it out. The order directs the Attorney General to immediately pursue criminal charges, sentencing enhancements and sentencing variances in fentanyl trafficking cases. The order directs Secretary of State, Secretary of Treasury to pursue appropriate actions against relevant assets and financial institutions for those involved in or supporting the manufacture, distribution and sale of illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemicals. The order direct Secretary of War and consultation with the Homeland Security Secretary to update their chemical incident response related directives to include the fentanyl threat. There's, there's like 20 bullet points. You can go read the fact sheet for yourself if you want to. I'm in favor of this, I think. I mean, I'm certainly in favor of doing everything possible to get this poison off the streets. I think categorizing it as a weapon of mass destruction feels a little bit gimmicky, to be honest. If it actually has some kind of practical benefit, then okay, I guess I'm for it. I mean, you can, you, you can make an argument that it qualifies for the reason that Trump said it is a chemical that kills tens of thousands of people. So, yeah, in a sense you could call it that. But is this just a gimmick or is it, is there a reason for, is there like a strategic benefit to saying this is a weapon of mass destruction? And that's always the question. Will this have any practical, real life implications? Now, to me, they categorized antifa as a domestic terrorist organization. It feels a lot like that. And then nothing happened. Right. And then the, the inaction in that case is worse because it's bad enough to not crack down on antifa, but if you call them a domestic terrorist cell and then still don't crack down on them, if you still don't have mass arrests all across the country of anybody who's ever been involved in any antifa activities at all, then what do you do? Why'd you call them domestic terrorists like you call them a domestic terrorist? That means that what we should have seen is all across the country, every single person who is involved or has ever been involved in any capacity with any antifa related activities should be under arrest. All of them. So, like thousands of people should be under arrest. And we haven't seen that. Okay, so we're not actually treating them like domestic terrorists. And the same is true of this. If you're saying it's a weapon of mass destruction, well, now, sure, you're blowing up the drug boats. So that is consistent, that's cons. Treating it like a weapon and you're blowing up drug boats. That's a consistent, that is a, that's what you would do if people were trying to smuggle weapons of mass destruction in. Sure, but it's got to go a lot farther than that. Okay, because now, like the drug dealers are not just. They're selling weapons of mass destruction. What would you do if there was someone on the corner selling a weapon of mass destruction? Okay, what if they were selling a nuclear bomb? What would you do? What would happen to that person? Well, if the same thing doesn't happen to the drug dealers who are selling fentanyl, then you're not really treating it like a weapon of mass destruction. And so there's. Why'd you call it that? So again, it should be mass arrests, severe, severe, severe penalties, life imprisonment, death penalty, which is what you would do with a terrorist who's trying to sell a weapon of mass destruction. Life imprisonment at a minimum, probably the death penalty. 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Such an illustrative word, said Greg Barlow, Merriam Webster's president, in an exclusive interview with the Associated Press ahead of Monday's announcement. Announcement. So what do they do? Like a press conference? This, this word of the year thing is like obviously a cringe. This is a gimmick. It's a cringe marketing gimmick. Now why does the dictionary need a marketing gimmick? I don't know. That's a separate question. But I will say, though, that for once they kind of nailed it. So this is the one time I've seen this dumb. The word of the year is. And this is the one time where I say yeah, you can't. Yep, that's it. I agree. Number one, it's a real word. A lot of times the word of the year is not even a real word. It's a real word and it is a word that is. Has become very relevant over the course of the year. So it is the word of the year. Slop is not only the word of the year, it's our, it is our future. The future of our civilization is slop. Just an endless stream of slop ingested mindlessly by slack jawed, glossy eyed drones who have no goals in life, no capacity for joy, no internal monologue, no thoughts or feelings of any kind, just sitting there, consuming. Consuming whatever images pop up on the screen with no discernment. Whatever. Whatever pops up. Consuming it passively. I was thinking about this the other day, that one of the most prophetic dystopian novels of the past century is one that doesn't get talked about in that context as often. You know, we hear about, we hear about Orwell all the time. Orwellian. And we know what, we know what they're doing with Animal Farm. In fact, ironically, they're treating Animal Farm in a very Orwellian way with this cartoon adaptation we talked about. But one novel that doesn't get talked about nearly as often in that context is Infinite Jest, the David Foster Wallace novel that came out in the mid-90s. It's like a thousand pages long, non linear. If you've ever read it or attempted to read it, you know, it's like a thousand pages long. It, the story, it, there's no, it doesn't follow a linear path. So it's just every paragraph or every chapter jumps from one place to another, footnotes all over the place. And by the end, if you actually get through it, you won't be entirely sure what the story was even about. To get to the end and say like, what was that about? Exactly. But I liked it. And I think that David Foster Wells was an absurdly gifted writer. And anyway, in that book there's this piece of content called the Entertainment. And it's in the book, it's a film that when people watch it, they become totally mesmerized. They become unable to take their eyes off it. They're just, they become like these passive zombies that will lose their will to live. They, they no longer have any will to live because they're just sitting there, cat in a catatonic state, unresponsive, watching this piece of content. The, the entertainment. And this was written in like 1996 or something. So in the book, the entertainment is on vhs, I think it's a. It's a film that you pop into the VCR or whatever. So he didn't get the technology right. He didn't predict that part. But otherwise that's exactly where we are now. Except the entertainment is not a film. It's. It's an endless scroll of slop of content. It's actually worse. It's worse than what David Foster Wallace was prophesying in his book, because that was at least a film. And the idea in the book is that the film was so great, so beautiful, so mesmerizing, so incredible that it, it. Once you watch it, you could take your eyes off it. And what we have now is a lot worse than that because it's not the entertainment, it's the content. And people sit there staring at it. Not really mes. Not mesmerized by it, not captivated by its beauty or anything like that, but numbed by the sheer pointlessness and inanity of what they're watching. And it's the slop. He called it the entertainment. It should have been called the slop. And that's where we are now. And no one, and we, no one is impervious to it. We're all susceptible to it. I talk about this all the time, but I get caught up. Especially not like you go, you're on X. I mean, every social media platformers like this now. But you see a video like this happened to me this morning actually happens all the time. I see a video that actually want to watch, like a really short. I forget what it was, but it was something for the show. It was like a piece of content. Okay, I need, Let me watch that. And then you watch it and it's 35 seconds long, okay, but then immediately the next video plays, right? Because they just want to. They want to keep your eyes on it. And it doesn't matter what it's about. And the next video that plays has nothing to do with the thing you just watched. The only reason it's being served to you by the algorithm is simply because it's something that they think you'll keep watching. And it doesn't matter why you watch it. It's not, it's. It's doesn't like whatever, whatever incentivizes you to watch it is fine as far as the algorithm is concerned. And you could watch it because you're entertained by it. You could watch because you're grote, you're. You're grossed out you could watch it because you're horrified. You could watch it because it makes you angry. You could watch it because it's very sad. You could watch it because it's heartwarming. Doesn't matter. All the algorithm care about, cares about is that you just. Whatever the slop is, just whatever is it is that gets you to watch it is, is fine. And so you know the next video and then the next one, and then you look down, it's like 42 minutes later. 42 minutes. I don't. You don't even remember. It's like, it is very. It's like this. It's like the entertainment in Infinite Jest. You were basically in a catatonic state. You don't even realize how much time went by. And by the end of it, you snap out of it and you're like, what? That was. What did I get out of that? Nothing. I. It wasn't even entertaining. I didn't, I didn't watch. I. There was one video I wanted to watch. It was 35 seconds long, 42 minutes later. This thing just cannibalizes you. It cannibalizes your attention. And that is the, the slope. That's our future. And that is the thing that we. This is why I preach it all the time, that we as parents should be the most concerned about protecting our kids from. It's not. We talk so much as conservatives about, well, we don't want our kids to be. We want to keep them away from the woke stuff. We want to keep them away from the objectionable content. We want to keep them away from the filth and the pornography and all the rest of it. And obviously we do want to protect our kids from that. That's very important. But just as bad is just the. Is. That's only part of the problem, I guess, is what I'm saying. What we're trying to protect our kids from becoming is this empty vessel and a vassal. Empty vessel and vassal sitting there staring at the screen. No hopes, no dreams, no desires, no passions at all. Ingesting slop. Even if 95% of the slop is on its own looked at in a vacuum, unobjectionable, just sort of. It seems kind of innocent. It's still, it's still slop. And that's what we should be protecting our kids from. America's approaching it's 20. America is approaching its 250th birthday. It should be a time of celebration. But did you know only 41% of Gen Z say that they're Proud to be American. Why is that number not 100%? We need to fix that and fast. Thankfully, there is no organization better positioned to educate young people about the true history of this country than Prageru. For years, young Americans have been fed a steady diet of misinformation, taught to believe this country is racist, sexist, bigoted. 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I'm looking at it. Okay. They're scored on a scale from 1 to 8. At the bottom of the cosmetic caste system, with a score of 0.25 to 1.5, are the subhumans who are deemed exceptionally unattractive and often exhibit deformities. Most humans fall in the normie category. Per the scale which divides this designation into three tiers, the first low tier normie, 1.5 to 3, constitutes an ordinary level of unattractiveness. Includes such celebrities as singer Ed Sheeran and rapper Jay Z and actress and comedian Sandra Bernard. I don't know who that is. This culminates in the high tier version. 4.5 to 5.5, defined as appealing and good looking. This would be Justin Bieber, Zendaya are in this tier. And then in the top 1% are these stunning Chad lights and Stacy lights. 5.5 to 6. And then. And then all the way at the top are the Gigachad and Giga Stacy, only a handful of which are found globally. These are the basically people of, like, godlike beauty. Okay, first of all, no offense to Jay Z, but he's Normie. Is he like, he's got to be in the subhuman category, right? I mean, in terms of looks, I'm saying according to this scale, according to the look scale, which I didn't invent. I'm, I'm just looking at it objectively. So I think that he's got to be in the Elephant man camp. He's under the circus tent. No offense to him intended. I don't need any. I just, when I say subhuman, I mean it in a non offensive way. Then we got all the other, other levels, all the way up to beings of, you know, as I said, godlike beauty. The gigachads. Now, where would I put myself? You know, you look at this tier. Low tier normie is what, 1.5 to 3? Can I give myself a 3.5? Can I, can I just a half point above low tier Normie? I think probably I'm not fat. That's my saving grace. Does my relative lack of body fat help me escape the low tier Normie? Does it help me escape the gravity of the low tier Normie vortex? Or maybe I'm like a 2.9, just like barely on the edge, scratching and clawing my way, hanging on the, on the edge of the, of the cliff with all the hideous trolls down below trying to pull me down. But here's the, here's the thing. Two, two quick things about this that I find somewhat interesting. And the first is that we've gone from body positivity. That was the thing for many years, and, and I guess that was ultimately kind of the millennial thing for millennials. It was all about body positivity. You're beautiful at any size and everyone's beautiful and all that stuff. And we've gone from that to now labeling ugly people as subhuman. So wild swings in one direction and then the other. And I have to say, between those two extremes, because it was a millennial body positivity, right, to like this Gen Z honest scale. Everything is. Is. Everyone is categorized according to their looks and judged accordingly. And I have to say this extreme is healthier, relatively speaking, still not great. But better to put an overemphasis on physical beauty than to pretend that it doesn't exist, in my opinion, because that's more natural. That's at least more natural. Judging people harshly because of their looks, thinking less of people who are ugly. It's not good. We shouldn't do that, but it's more natural. That's a. It's a natural human instinct, this thing of pretending everyone is beautiful. And we can't even distinguish between someone, a woman who's a supermodel and a woman who's £450, like they look exactly the same to us. That's not natural. That's not human. So at least this is a little bit more in keeping with human nature. But the second thing is, there is a secret. There's a kind of like one weird trick to get to a point where you don't have to obsessively worry about your looks. And the trick, the one weird trick is to get married. Get married, and none of this stuff matters. Now, true, in order to get married, you might have to worry about your looks to some extent, that's true, but the goal, the point is that the goal, that you should have a goal in mind, an objective. What's the point of this? Well, the point should be to make yourself desirable, whether you're a woman or a man, so that you can get married. And then once you're married, it doesn't matter at all. Now, I'm not saying you should get married and get fat, let yourself go. You shouldn't do that. You shouldn't get married and become a fat, hideous slob. That's not fair to your spouse. You should stay in shape. You should try to be healthy for your spouse's sake, for your own, for your own, the sake of your own health. What I'm saying is that once you're married, you don't have to worry about being attractive to everybody of the opposite sex. You found one person, even if just one person. You only need to be appealing to one person ultimately. And you found that person. And so you're good. Don't, don't decay, you know, don't, don't completely let yourself go. But you found that person. And I can't tell you how freeing that is. It's one of the most underrated aspects of marriage. How freeing, how freeing marriage is. Everyone talks about marriage like it's slavery or something, especially people who aren't married, they talk about it that way. And some people who are married or have been married talk about it that way too. But I think it's the opposite of that. I think, I think there's a lot of freedom in it. Marriage is very freeing in many ways, and this is one of them, is that you're no longer held hostage by the need to be desirable to anyone else. You don't need that doesn't matter. And it makes you impervious in a lot of ways to the judgments of other people. Like, my job is on the Internet, so I get, of course I get nasty comments all the time, people making fun of my looks and all this kind of stuff. And it's great because I don't care at all. I'm not going to say that there's nothing someone can say to me that, that, that, you know, I'm not going to say that I'm totally impervious to any sorts of criticism at all. No one is impervious in that way. We're human beings. But this is a vein of criticism that has no effect because someone could say, hey, you're ugly. And it's like, okay, so it's the equivalent of somebody coming to you and saying, oh, you're really slow in a 40 yard dash or saying you're not good at tennis. Okay, so you're making fun of me for lacking something I don't need, something totally irrelevant to my life that doesn't hurt. That's not, that's not where, you know, everyone has their vulnerabilities. That's not one of them once you're married. And so that's the beauty of it. But of course, you got to get a spouse first. So, yeah, looks, Max, should be looks maxing if you're, if you're single. But this is the end point. This is what we're missing a lot in the, in the dating world in general is people having a clear idea of what the point is, why you're doing this. And this is the goal that you should have in mind. And that's my, that's my motivational speech for the day. And we'll leave it There. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. God. All of this is an illusion. An echo of a voice that has died. And soon that echo will cease.
