From wars and rumors of war abroad, to the rise of anti-Christian, "woke" ideology here at home, it's clear that Americans are living in perilous and unprecedented times. Some would even say that we're witnessing biblical prophecy unfold in real time. Stakelbeck Tonight will make sense of these stunning developments through a bold and biblical lens.
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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: Upholding the Union | Stakelbeck Tonight | May 20, 2026
- Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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- I'm erick stakelbeck
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- And when someone tells you they want to kill you,
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- You should believe them and take them at their word.
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- At the 20th century, the century of mao,
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- Stalin, hitler and saddam taught us anything.
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- It's that.
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- So in 2026, we can't just laugh it off.
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- When political figures vow to crush their enemies
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- And even throw them in concentration camps.
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- Now, i know it's tempting to downplay this rhetoric
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- And say they don't really mean it.
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- But what if they do?
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- Hitler did.
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- He published mein kampf in 1925,
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- Laying out exactly what he planned to do.
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- But the world dismissed him as a fringe kook.
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- And yet, by 1933, he had absolute control
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- Over germany and began putting his plan into action.
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- Folks, let me preface what i'm about to say
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- By stating very clearly
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- Before the mainstream media goes into a tizzy.
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- I am not comparing.
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- Texas congressional candidate maureen galindo to hitler.
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- What i am saying is that her rhetoric and ideology
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- Is dangerous and evil, and if she does win
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- A congressional seat and push these views on capitol hill,
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- It'll be a very dark moment for our nation.
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- Galindo is running to be the democrat nominee
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- For texas's 35th congressional district.
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- Here's what she posted last week on social media,
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- Referring to herself in the third person for good measure.
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- When maureen gets into congress, she'll write legislation
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- So that all zionism
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- And support of zionism is undoubtedly
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- Anti-semitic, since it's zionist harming the semites.
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- She'll turn kahn's ice detention center into a prison
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- For american zionists and former ice officers
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- For human trafficking.
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- It will also be a castration
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- Processing center for pedophiles,
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- Which will probably be most of the zionists.
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- Very interesting.
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- So this person who's
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- Running for congress in texas and is clearly unhinged
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- Wants to throw zionists, presumably meaning
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- Not only jews, but christian zionists like me
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- Who support israel and stand with the jewish people
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- Into a prison camp.
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- And when she was called out on these evil remarks,
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- She doubled down on the insanity.
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- Watch.
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- When i say that i want billionaire zionists in prison.
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- That does not mean
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- I want jews in internment camps.
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- So why am i getting a whole bunch of death
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- Threats and maga insults?
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- Which actually makes sense.
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- I realize like maga and jewish violence
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- Apparently are the exact same people.
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- So, like, i don't care what religion you are
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- If you are a zionist, meaning that you believe that you are
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- Just entitled to land or someone's just entitled to land,
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- Based off of religious beliefs,
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- And that you'll kill all of the semites for it.
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- So yeah, i think that you're a danger
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- To humanity and belong in prison.
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- Good to know.
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- Now, just because she talks like a valley girl
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- And wears funny looking glasses, that doesn't mean
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- Those threats are not to be taken seriously.
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- She is symbolic of the kind of fringe candidates,
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- Including islamists, anti-semites and socialists
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- Who are now lining up to run for office.
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- House speaker mike johnson calls them mini mom données.
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- They're popping up around the country
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- And some are even winning elections.
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- Glinda
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- His comments were condemned by democrat leaders,
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- But it's hard to take them very seriously.
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- When house minority leader hakeem jeffries is dropping gems
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- Like this.
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- I guess part of how we as house democrats view this moment,
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- Either maga extremists are going to break the country
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- Or we're going to break them.
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- And our goal is to break them.
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- We will defeat them.
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- We have to beat them electorally,
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- And then we have to break their spirit
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- Because of the extremism
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- That's being unleashed on the american people.
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- That's completely and totally unacceptable.
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- So the left doesn't just want to defeat republicans
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- And supporters of president trump at the ballot box.
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- According to jeffries,
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- They want to break them even, break their spirit.
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- Folks, the days of politics, as usual, are clearly long gone.
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- This is now a spiritual battle between good and evil.
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- Doctor gad
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- Saad explores evil ideologies and how they're destroying
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- The west.
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- In his brand new book, suicidal empathy,
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- He joins us next.
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- Folks, we are facing trying times here in america
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- And across the western world,
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- And the most frustrating thing about it
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- Is that the majority of our problems are self-inflicted.
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- From anti-semitism to open borders, radical gender
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- Ideology and islamist migration, the west
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- Seems hell bent on committing cultural suicide.
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- Doctor gad saad has been sounding
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- The alarm about this for years.
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- He's a scholar
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- At the declaration of independence center
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- For the study of american freedom
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- At the university of mississippi, ole miss,
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- And author of the brand
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- New blockbuster bestseller suicidal empathy.
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- Dying to be kind folks.
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- It is a must read.
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- And gad joins us now.
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- Gad, always great to see you.
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- Hey, this was among our most anticipated books of 2026,
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- No doubt here on stakelbeck tonight.
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- Elon musk as well has been raving about it. gad.
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- And that's for good reason. we're about to unpack it.
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- But let's start with empathy.
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- A lot of people watching may say empathy is a great thing.
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- Where does it cross
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- The line into what you call suicidal empathy?
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- And by the way, you open the book with a great quote.
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- The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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- Gad, tell us more about suicidal empathy,
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- What it is and why it's so dangerous.
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- Right.
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- Thank you so much for having me back on.
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- Erick, look.
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- Empathy is a wonderful virtue to possess.
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- We are a social species and therefore part of being social.
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- We need to put ourselves in each other's minds.
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- That's called theory of mind or cognitive empathy.
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- So there is nothing wrong with well modulated empathy.
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- As a matter of fact.
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- We choose our mates, our friends, our veterinarians,
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- Our physicians, our therapists
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- As a function of them being empathetic.
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- So this is not an attack on empathy.
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- It's an attack on dysregulated empathy.
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- And so let me here explain what i mean by that.
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- Aristotle several thousand years ago, explained to us that too
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- Little of something is not good,
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- Too much of something is not good,
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- And much of life is about finding that sweet spot.
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- That's exactly the principle that applies to empathy.
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- If i'm not at all empathetic, i'm likely a psychopath.
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- If i am hyper active in my empathy,
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- If it is invoked in the wrong situations
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- And it targets the inappropriate targets, we end up with
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- Civilizational collapse vs suicidal empathy.
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- Yeah.
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- And you know this issue so well, gad,
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- I mean, growing up in lebanon, by the way, and fleeing lebanon
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- During the civil war, and now you see the suicidal
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- Empathy in full force
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- Behind the palestinian cause, the pro-palestinian movement,
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- Even after october 7th, that's really come to the forefront
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- That this madness
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- In portraying the perpetrators, the palestinians, hamas
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- As the victims.
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- Indeed.
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- And i mean
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- Suicidal empathy as relating
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- To the palestinian issue manifests itself in many ways,
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- And it does so in the way that you framed it, but it also does.
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- So when you intercept a woman.
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- I've got this incredible exchange in the book
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- Between a street interviewer who goes to,
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- I think it was in manchester, england,
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- And he intercepts a woman who's at a free, free palestine rally
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- And he says, okay, you support the palestinians.
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- She says, absolutely.
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- He says, well, do you know what they do
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- To queer people in palestine?
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- She goes, i know what they do, and i'm queer myself.
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- So then he pauses because he's kind of confused.
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- He goes, so you'd know
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- That they would kill you if you were queer. in palestine.
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- She goes, yes,
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- I don't care,
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- Because just the fact that they would kill me
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- Doesn't mean that i'm not going to support them.
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- The west in general descending into this madness.
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- Is this a more recent phenomenon, in your view?
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- Did really start after world war two?
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- When did this start?
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- Yeah.
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- Great question.
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- So if your listeners and viewers may not be familiar,
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- Or maybe they are with one of my earlier books,
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- The parasitic mind, in that book, i basically argued
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- That human beings can be parasitized
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- Not only by actual brain worms, physical brain worms,
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- But they can also be parasitized by ideological brain worms.
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- Things like post-modernism, cultural relativism,
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- Radical feminism, social constructivism.
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- Each of these ideas were spawned on university campuses
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- In the past 50 to 100 years, depending on the parasitic idea,
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- And now the reason why that's important
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- In answering your question, it's because these parasitic ideas
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- Laid the foundation for us to then subsequently swim
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- In the infinity pool of suicidal empathy.
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- And maybe i could give you a specific example.
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- Cultural relativism is a parasitic idea
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- That basically purports who are you to judge
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- The cultural
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- Practices of another society if they wish to engage in
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- A female genital mutilation of their five year old girls?
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- Shut up. racist?
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- Well, if you render me impotent to make any judgments
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- About the cultural practices of another society,
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- Then when you put me in charge of the immigration policy,
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- I am going to be the first one to be suicidally empathetic in
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- Supporting open border policies, because it's not fair
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- To not let in hundreds of thousands of people
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- From afghanistan and syria and gaza.
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- It would be racist for us not to do that.
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- This is common sense
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- In times where common sense is not so common.
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- As you lay out in, if suicidal empathy, dying
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- To be kind folks more with doctor gad saad after the break.
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- Be sure right now to pick up the book
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- Amazon.com wherever books are sold.
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- Also follow doctor saad on x.
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- He's got an incredible account there.
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- More with doctor gad saad.
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- After the break, we talked about the palestinians.
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- What about mass
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- Islamic migration, gender mutilation of children?
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- There's a lot
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- That goes into the suicidal empathy wave here in the west.
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- More with doctor, doctor gad saad after the break.
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- Stick around.
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- Stick around.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight
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- We're talking to doctor gad saad, author of the brand
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- New blockbuster bestseller suicidal empathy.
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- Dying to be kind.
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- God, you're a professor, of course.
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- And you mentioned in the last block
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- The role that
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- Colleges universities play in this suicidal empathy push.
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- Talk a bit more about that.
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- How much of these bad ideas harm, how much of them,
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- How many of them are derived on our college campuses?
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- Every single one of them.
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- At least the ones that i talk about in the parasitic mind.
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- And then it's suicide of empathy.
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- Now, that doesn't mean that people cannot be
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- Parasitized by bad ideas in other domains, right?
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- I mean, there was a time when, people thought that the good way
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- To organize your neighborhood is if
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- If you thought
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- That your neighbor linda,
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- Is a witch, then you would throw her into water.
- 00:12:05.916 --> 00:12:08.885
- And if she swam that proved that she was a witch.
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- And if she drowned, oops.
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- I guess linda wasn't a witch.
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- And then we got over that parasitic idea.
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- So it's not as though the capacity for human minds
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- To believe in sane things
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- Is something that is contemporary,
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- That is, unfortunately, a frailty of the architecture
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- Of the human mind.
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- What is unique about the current context
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- Are this specific, parasitic ideas
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- That are driving us off the abyss of infinite lunacy?
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- Yeah, i want to go through a few of those ideas real quick.
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- Add number one.
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- Okay, open borders and mass islamic migration to the west.
- 00:12:43.220 --> 00:12:47.991
- Great examples of suicidal empathy.
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- Arguably the best example of it.
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- Right.
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- Because that that reflex stems from the fact that people say
- 00:12:55.131 --> 00:12:59.369
- All immigrants are equal, while all immigrants are equal.
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- Once they enter the host society,
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- They're equal under the law
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- That doesn't mean that they are equally likely to internalize
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- The ethos of the west or of the american experience.
- 00:13:12.082 --> 00:13:15.285
- So many people will write to me hate messages.
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- You're such a hypocrite, got sad.
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- And because you're an immigrant, so is your buddy elon musk.
- 00:13:19.990 --> 00:13:23.927
- Well, that is such an imbecilic statement.
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- That's like arguing because fido, the house cat,
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- Is called the feline and the wild lion is also called
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- The feline.
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- They are both equally likely to cuddle with me
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- In front of the fireplace
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- Because they're both called feline. yeah.
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- And you talk.
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- We talked about the palestinian issue in the first block,
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- And i think that goes hand in
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- Hand with another anti-semitism, the anti-semitic madness
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- Spreading across europe, of course, but we're seeing it
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- More and more here in america as well.
- 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:54.291
- Suicidal empathy for the palestinians, for islamist.
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- Where is the
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- To me, anti-semitism is a sure indicator of the
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- Decline of a civilization.
- 00:14:01.164 --> 00:14:03.333
- Exactly.
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- So, that's a very good point.
- 00:14:04.301 --> 00:14:05.969
- Look, when you go to see
- 00:14:05.969 --> 00:14:06.803
- Your physician for your yearly checkup,
- 00:14:06.803 --> 00:14:09.439
- He or she will do a few quick markers to gauge
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- How healthy you are. let's check your blood pressure.
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- Let's check your weight.
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- Let's see what your, sugar, blood sugar level is like,
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- Because that could serve
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- As a good indicator of your general health.
- 00:14:21.151 --> 00:14:24.321
- Well, exactly to your point,
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- If you start normalizing jew hatred,
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- That is definitely a society that's heading in decay.
- 00:14:31.094 --> 00:14:34.831
- That's basically a society
- 00:14:34.831 --> 00:14:36.399
- That's suffering from terminal pancreatic stage four cancer.
- 00:14:36.399 --> 00:14:40.437
- So again, that doesn't mean that bigotry towards
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- The jews is the only bigotry
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- That we should be talking about, right?
- 00:14:45.909 --> 00:14:47.444
- The darkness of the human heart comes in many forms,
- 00:14:47.444 --> 00:14:50.480
- But there is something existentially unique
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- About normalizing jew hatred, and we are allowing it
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- To flourish in the west to our great risk.
- 00:14:56.686 --> 00:15:00.657
- Yeah. god. so well said.
- 00:15:00.657 --> 00:15:01.858
- Another issue i think of in terms of suicidal
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- Empathy is the transgender issue in particular children.
- 00:15:03.893 --> 00:15:08.531
- Many parents are kind of caving into their kids whims.
- 00:15:08.531 --> 00:15:11.668
- Their nine year old,
- 00:15:11.668 --> 00:15:12.769
- A boy who's saying he's suddenly a girl,
- 00:15:12.769 --> 00:15:14.971
- And the parents are allowing these castration,
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- These surgeries. it's terrible stuff.
- 00:15:17.674 --> 00:15:19.642
- Where does that play in in terms of suicidal empathy?
- 00:15:19.642 --> 00:15:22.479
- It stems from the dysregulation of where your empathy
- 00:15:22.479 --> 00:15:26.349
- Should be directed towards. right.
- 00:15:26.349 --> 00:15:28.218
- So in the old days, if you wanted to have
- 00:15:28.218 --> 00:15:31.054
- A sex change operation,
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- Let's say in the 70s
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- Or 80s, you'd have to typically go to
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- Scandinavia for these operations.
- 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:37.894
- The number of obstacles that you had to go through
- 00:15:37.894 --> 00:15:41.398
- Before you were a viable candidate
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- To go through that procedure
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- Was extensive in terms of the psychiatric, therapeutic
- 00:15:45.935 --> 00:15:49.839
- And medical things that you had to go through today.
- 00:15:49.839 --> 00:15:52.942
- Your three year old child says, hey, i'm in the wrong body.
- 00:15:52.942 --> 00:15:56.279
- You have to accept it and believe it and affirm it.
- 00:15:56.279 --> 00:15:59.449
- But by the same token,
- 00:15:59.449 --> 00:16:01.217
- From the other side
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- Of your mouth, erick, if somebody who is 17 years old,
- 00:16:02.352 --> 00:16:06.623
- 364 days old, meaning that they are one day
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- Shy of their 18th birthday, if they kill five people,
- 00:16:10.427 --> 00:16:14.431
- Well, surely we can't put them in prison
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- Because they're just a child.
- 00:16:17.167 --> 00:16:18.835
- So an 18 year old who wipes out five people as a child
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- Who's not responsible
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- And doesn't have personal agency,
- 00:16:23.773 --> 00:16:25.542
- But your three year old daughter decides that she's a boy.
- 00:16:25.542 --> 00:16:29.079
- Shut up. transform. affirm her.
- 00:16:29.079 --> 00:16:31.481
- Get so well, so well said all around.
- 00:16:32.215 --> 00:16:34.217
- And folks, points like this throughout the book.
- 00:16:34.217 --> 00:16:36.119
- It is a must read. amazon.com.
- 00:16:36.119 --> 00:16:37.720
- Wherever books are sold, pick it up right now.
- 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:39.823
- Suicidal empathy
- 00:16:39.823 --> 00:16:40.790
- It's a blockbuster bestseller for a reason.
- 00:16:40.790 --> 00:16:42.792
- Got about 40s left
- 00:16:42.792 --> 00:16:44.694
- Before the break, then we'll bring you right back.
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- Socialism on the rise i think of zoran mamdani
- 00:16:46.596 --> 00:16:49.466
- In new york city and elsewhere across europe.
- 00:16:49.466 --> 00:16:51.501
- Another example teams of yes, suicidal empathy.
- 00:16:51.501 --> 00:16:54.737
- It is because they appeal to communism.
- 00:16:55.605 --> 00:16:58.041
- Socialism is rooted in a form of, you know, pathological,
- 00:16:58.041 --> 00:17:03.079
- Empathy.
- 00:17:03.346 --> 00:17:04.547
- It's not fair that some people have more money than others.
- 00:17:04.547 --> 00:17:07.250
- Why don't i come as your overlord,
- 00:17:07.250 --> 00:17:09.752
- The government, and take from the rich to give it to the poor?
- 00:17:09.752 --> 00:17:12.956
- That's a lot more of an empathetic society.
- 00:17:12.956 --> 00:17:15.525
- Amen. okay, folks, god is laying it out.
- 00:17:15.525 --> 00:17:17.794
- The west is in big trouble due to suicidal empathy.
- 00:17:17.794 --> 00:17:20.797
- Chiefly. so can the west be saved?
- 00:17:20.797 --> 00:17:24.167
- We break it down with doctor gad saad after the break.
- 00:17:24.167 --> 00:17:26.736
- Stick around.
- 00:17:26.736 --> 00:17:29.005
- Stick around.
- 00:17:29.005 --> 00:17:31.875
- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight we're talking to doctor
- 00:17:33.009 --> 00:17:35.178
- Gad saad, author of suicidal empathy dying to be kind.
- 00:17:35.178 --> 00:17:38.915
- Folks.
- 00:17:38.915 --> 00:17:39.682
- Please follow him on x right now.
- 00:17:39.682 --> 00:17:42.819
- Doctor saad, we had a good friend,
- 00:17:42.819 --> 00:17:44.020
- Victor davis hanson, on the show
- 00:17:44.020 --> 00:17:45.655
- The other day, and he compares the left.
- 00:17:45.655 --> 00:17:47.824
- And much of this is coming from the left.
- 00:17:47.824 --> 00:17:49.392
- The suicidal empathy push.
- 00:17:49.392 --> 00:17:51.561
- He compares today's left and the democrat party
- 00:17:51.561 --> 00:17:54.097
- In america to the jacobins of the french revolution.
- 00:17:54.097 --> 00:17:57.667
- He compares them to essentially french revolutionaries.
- 00:17:57.667 --> 00:18:00.403
- Gone are the days of truman, fdr and jfk.
- 00:18:00.403 --> 00:18:03.873
- This is the party of mamdani, aoc and ilhan omar.
- 00:18:03.873 --> 00:18:08.378
- You see any truth to that?
- 00:18:08.378 --> 00:18:09.846
- Yeah.
- 00:18:09.846 --> 00:18:10.880
- I mean, one of the things that i so appreciate
- 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:11.948
- About victor davis
- 00:18:11.948 --> 00:18:13.016
- Hanson is his ability to draw parallels between
- 00:18:13.016 --> 00:18:17.420
- Not so distant past, but he can also take you back
- 00:18:17.420 --> 00:18:20.190
- To ancient greece and show you that there are certain patterns
- 00:18:20.190 --> 00:18:23.993
- That keep reoccurring throughout human history,
- 00:18:23.993 --> 00:18:26.362
- Because the software that ran people's minds back
- 00:18:26.362 --> 00:18:30.533
- Then is exactly the same.
- 00:18:30.533 --> 00:18:32.202
- That is running our minds here today, right?
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- Yeah.
- 00:18:34.737 --> 00:18:35.638
- It's a really dangerous moment for sure.
- 00:18:35.638 --> 00:18:37.307
- With the left and these ideas,
- 00:18:37.307 --> 00:18:39.175
- An assassination culture developing.
- 00:18:39.175 --> 00:18:42.879
- Which brings me to the point.
- 00:18:42.879 --> 00:18:44.080
- The left is ascendant.
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- Not in america right now,
- 00:18:45.448 --> 00:18:46.849
- Which seems to be to me,
- 00:18:46.849 --> 00:18:48.518
- The last line of defense for judeo-christian
- 00:18:48.518 --> 00:18:50.920
- Western civilization at this point.
- 00:18:50.920 --> 00:18:52.689
- By the way, i think israel's the first line of defense
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- For our civilization.
- 00:18:55.225 --> 00:18:56.626
- But doctor saad, europe right now, canada,
- 00:18:56.626 --> 00:18:59.529
- Australia is there hope.
- 00:18:59.529 --> 00:19:02.465
- There's always hope, i know,
- 00:19:02.465 --> 00:19:03.666
- But the hours late,
- 00:19:03.666 --> 00:19:05.235
- It seems to turn this thing around and turn against
- 00:19:05.235 --> 00:19:07.904
- Suicidal empathy.
- 00:19:07.904 --> 00:19:09.639
- So i'm going to give
- 00:19:10.106 --> 00:19:11.174
- Both an optimistic and a pessimistic answer.
- 00:19:11.174 --> 00:19:15.311
- Not because i'm trying to be coy
- 00:19:15.311 --> 00:19:16.746
- And equivocate, because i think that's really the true answer.
- 00:19:16.746 --> 00:19:20.049
- I'm optimistic in that there is a blueprint
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- For solving this conundrum that.
- 00:19:24.187 --> 00:19:26.589
- Now, let me explain here what i mean.
- 00:19:26.589 --> 00:19:28.391
- Let's suppose, god forbid, that you went to see your physician
- 00:19:28.391 --> 00:19:31.494
- And he or she said, you've got stage four pancreatic cancer.
- 00:19:31.494 --> 00:19:35.198
- You've got three weeks left to live.
- 00:19:35.198 --> 00:19:36.599
- Get your life in order, because there are no ways
- 00:19:36.599 --> 00:19:39.402
- That we could solve this problem.
- 00:19:39.402 --> 00:19:40.837
- That would be real pessimism in our case.
- 00:19:40.837 --> 00:19:43.306
- In the west,
- 00:19:43.306 --> 00:19:44.173
- There is a blueprint by
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- Which we could implement things to auto correct the lunacy.
- 00:19:45.908 --> 00:19:49.746
- Now here comes the pessimistic part. erick.
- 00:19:49.746 --> 00:19:52.215
- I don't see that the west has the testicular fortitude
- 00:19:52.215 --> 00:19:56.552
- To actually implement those auto corrections.
- 00:19:56.552 --> 00:19:59.622
- So the solution does exist.
- 00:19:59.622 --> 00:20:02.292
- But we see i see us doubling and tripling down
- 00:20:02.292 --> 00:20:05.762
- On some of this lunacy.
- 00:20:05.762 --> 00:20:07.063
- Now, to your point earlier,
- 00:20:07.063 --> 00:20:09.232
- The united states doesn't
- 00:20:09.232 --> 00:20:10.700
- Nearly suffer of suicidal empathy
- 00:20:10.700 --> 00:20:12.702
- As much as the rest of the west, right?
- 00:20:12.702 --> 00:20:15.071
- Canada is in stage five suicidal empathy.
- 00:20:15.071 --> 00:20:17.674
- Britain is also some of the scandinavian countries also.
- 00:20:17.674 --> 00:20:21.010
- But if you don't watch it and if you're not careful
- 00:20:21.010 --> 00:20:24.314
- And if you don't
- 00:20:24.314 --> 00:20:25.448
- Eat some of our warnings, the ones who are living it,
- 00:20:25.448 --> 00:20:29.252
- You will be in stage five very soon, inshallah.
- 00:20:29.252 --> 00:20:32.555
- Okay. you're a professor born in lebanon,
- 00:20:32.555 --> 00:20:34.991
- A great thinker, academic.
- 00:20:34.991 --> 00:20:37.260
- This book in particular in the parasitic mind
- 00:20:37.260 --> 00:20:40.163
- And other bestseller folks you can pick up right now.
- 00:20:40.163 --> 00:20:42.165
- But this book in particular, it seems like
- 00:20:42.165 --> 00:20:45.301
- The sense of urgency is through the roof.
- 00:20:45.301 --> 00:20:48.204
- Your guide with this book.
- 00:20:48.204 --> 00:20:49.405
- In writing this book, as i said, it was hotly anticipated.
- 00:20:49.405 --> 00:20:52.308
- You've been talking about these themes on x in particular
- 00:20:52.308 --> 00:20:55.411
- In your writings for years, but now the book is here.
- 00:20:55.411 --> 00:20:58.648
- This was a mission for you.
- 00:20:58.648 --> 00:21:00.049
- It seems the sense of urgency,
- 00:21:00.049 --> 00:21:02.652
- A clarion call to the west wake up before it's too late.
- 00:21:02.652 --> 00:21:05.988
- Clarion call is the perfect way to say it.
- 00:21:06.856 --> 00:21:08.925
- The reason why some of the most vociferous defenders
- 00:21:08.925 --> 00:21:12.161
- Of america and the west are typically immigrants, right?
- 00:21:12.161 --> 00:21:16.032
- It's god's side. it's ayaan hirsi ali.
- 00:21:16.032 --> 00:21:18.401
- It's because unlike americans, we weren't born into this,
- 00:21:18.401 --> 00:21:22.672
- This freedom.
- 00:21:22.672 --> 00:21:23.840
- We've sampled from the wider buffet of societies.
- 00:21:23.840 --> 00:21:27.310
- And we're here to warn you that this is not the default value.
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- Right?
- 00:21:31.180 --> 00:21:32.215
- America is an anomaly within the context of the
- 00:21:32.215 --> 00:21:35.418
- History of humanity.
- 00:21:35.418 --> 00:21:36.986
- So don't take it for granted.
- 00:21:36.986 --> 00:21:38.821
- Stand up and fight, because you'll close your eyes
- 00:21:38.821 --> 00:21:41.357
- And open your eyes
- 00:21:41.357 --> 00:21:42.592
- And you'll say, oops, how come i live in beirut, lebanon? now
- 00:21:42.592 --> 00:21:46.429
- That's a guy that's, brilliant as always, my friend.
- 00:21:46.429 --> 00:21:49.432
- And folks, a book is called suicidal
- 00:21:49.432 --> 00:21:51.601
- Empathy dying to be kind, amazon.com.
- 00:21:51.601 --> 00:21:54.337
- Wherever books are sold,
- 00:21:54.337 --> 00:21:55.438
- Pick it up right now and follow doctor sad on x guy,
- 00:21:55.438 --> 00:21:58.508
- It was great to see you my friend.
- 00:21:58.508 --> 00:21:59.609
- We'll have you on again soon. congrats on the book.
- 00:21:59.609 --> 00:22:01.577
- Keep it up!
- 00:22:01.577 --> 00:22:02.845
- God bless and coming up after the break, my final thoughts on
- 00:22:02.845 --> 00:22:05.715
- You guessed it, saving our civilization.
- 00:22:05.715 --> 00:22:08.718
- That's next. don't move.
- 00:22:08.718 --> 00:22:12.004
- That's next. don't move.
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- Welcome back to
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- Stakelbeck tonight, folks, as we wrap up here.
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- Hey what a great conversation with doctor gad.
- 00:22:19.162 --> 00:22:21.931
- Sorry, i can talk to him all day. it's a great book.
- 00:22:21.931 --> 00:22:24.333
- Suicidal empathy and getting biblical here
- 00:22:24.333 --> 00:22:27.503
- I think of proverbs chapter 22 verse three,
- 00:22:27.503 --> 00:22:30.273
- The prudent seed danger and take refuge.
- 00:22:30.273 --> 00:22:34.177
- But the simple keep going and pay the penalty.
- 00:22:34.177 --> 00:22:38.481
- We've got a clarion call here from doctor saad.
- 00:22:38.481 --> 00:22:41.017
- We've been warning here about it.
- 00:22:41.017 --> 00:22:42.852
- On the show every night we've been watchman on the wall
- 00:22:42.852 --> 00:22:45.621
- Telling you the west is in dire, dire danger.
- 00:22:45.621 --> 00:22:49.692
- We can take heed to the warning and do something about it
- 00:22:49.692 --> 00:22:52.361
- And turn back before it's too late.
- 00:22:52.361 --> 00:22:53.930
- Or we can keep marching into oblivion over the cliff.
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- Thank god, in 2024, united states voted to sustain
- 00:22:57.200 --> 00:23:01.604
- Sanity in not voting kamala harris into office.
- 00:23:01.604 --> 00:23:05.174
- But again, nothing is guaranteed beyond 2028.
- 00:23:05.174 --> 00:23:07.710
- We got to keep up the fight.
- 00:23:07.710 --> 00:23:09.479
- That includes europe, canada, australia,
- 00:23:09.479 --> 00:23:11.848
- The entire western world. hey, tomorrow, great show.
- 00:23:11.848 --> 00:23:14.450
- Tommy robinson speaking up
- 00:23:14.450 --> 00:23:16.352
- A defender of the west coming to us from the uk.
- 00:23:16.352 --> 00:23:19.055
- You won't want to miss that until then.
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- God bless you and we'll see you soon.
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