Denying the rise of Marxist violence doesn't mean it's not happening | Hour 3

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And I did read a there was a text that I got and I've had debates with this uh, with this listener that I've dubbed Candy Crusher because I think they were a big fan of Candace Owens or something. I'm happy to put a real name in there, or a preferred name if you give me. On the text line. If you give me a name, I can put it into the system here and then that name will always show up, so you'll know it's it's you. Otherwise I just have to make up a name. And so that's why I put Candy Crusher. Yes, I think our last debate was about Candace Owens. Now this this individual like, and I'm I don't say this as an insult. I urge people to not take the black pill. Okay. That is that is the path to resentment, despair, vengeance, nihilism. It's it's not a good path to go down, Okay. The antidote is gratitude for what you have, looking around your life and your world and seeing the things that you can be grateful for that other people do not have. There's in fact, I just thought of this, so let me. I'll tell the story. I remember hearing the story in church as a kid. It always stuck with me. A man is. Lamenting all of his hardship, right, blaming God, blaming the world, blaming people, right for all of the crosses, the size of the cross that he has to bear. And so God comes to him and says, here he shows him all of these crosses. Whichever cross you would prefer to carry. That'll be your cross. And the guy looks around. It's, you know, huge space. I don't know, maybe they're in the clouds or something. I don't know, but like, there are a whole bunch of crosses everywhere, and some of them are towering into the sky. Right, he can't even see the top. And he's walking around trying to find the smallest cross, you know, that he can pick up. And finally he comes across one that's very small and he's like, Okay, I'm gonna pick this one. This one's like the smallest one that I have seen so far. I want that cross. And God says to him, well, that was the cross that you came in with. Right, when you recognize that other people are bearing harsher and heavier burdens than you are, you should feel some sense of gratitude for the things that you have. For your health, right, for your your dumbest, your family, your friendships, your job, whatever it is, all of these things that you have in your life that people throughout literally all of human history have never been able to have to the extent that we have. But here's the thing, Like, the free market does not guarantee you anything. It never has. Accept the ability to work and better yourself and try to improve your station, and to pursue the things that you want to pursue. That's what the free market offers versus say Marxism, where they will assign. You the things that you will do, you will not be able to. You know, people complain, oh we have I saw somebody complaining the other day. I think it was on face or no, yeah, it was on social media. I don't remember where I saw it. They were complaining like, oh, we don't have any free time. Like what are you talking about? You don't have any free time we have as a species, Like in all of human history, the amount of time that we have to do leisure activities has never been greater than right now, for real. I mean that's by the data people would walk. You think there are people today who will spend an hour, two hours, three hours, four walking to get their daily supply of water. Right, They will walk for hours to get water for the day, and we just turn it on. Be grateful for that. I mean little things like that. I mean, I know you're not supposed to mention this guy, the comedian he got canceled Louis c k. But he told this joke about, you know, people complaining about flying, and he's like, what are we so spoiled that we're We're in a plane and we're complaining about all the various things. And don't get me wrong, I can complain about air travel too, God knows, they make it easy. The carriers make it very easy to complain. But his point was like, we should be like, you're sitting in a chair going hundreds of miles an hour at twenty thousand feet, crossing. Oceans in a quarter of a day. That would take people months and probably a lot of them would die, right, like the advancements that we enjoy. The fish doesn't know it's wet. We are the fish in this society and in this system that has given us greater comfort, lifespan, health, wealth than any other group of people throughout all of human history. If you can't be grateful for that. That's not to say that everything's perfect. This world is not perfect. It will never be perfect because we're here, humans are here, and we are far from perfect. So yes, every man made construct is always going to need repair, is always going to need to be monitored and fixed and reformed, right, sometimes replaced, of course, absolutely. But we live in a fallen world, so there's always going to be problems. And if every time a fallen problem, if every time a problem presents itself, it's like, oh my gosh, this is the worst ever, Well that's it. I guess it's just you know, pack it all up, no point to any of it. Let's just tear everything down again. That is not a conservative position. That's a nihilistic one. That's more on the left. That's what the nihilists are about, just burn it all down. I am not hilist or nihilist, if you want to pronounce it that way. But I always felt that was kind of awkward sounding, so I go with nihilists. It's not a it's not a healthy way to live. Limbaugh used to talk about this all the time. Pessimism is sort of the natural state, you know, so is poverty. By the way, poverty is the natural state of human beings. And as a as a society, we do not live in poverty as a society. That's not to say there aren't people who are poor, but as a society we are not. 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Actually, our natural state is hunter gatherers. Okay, I said, the natural state of humans is poverty. That's our natural state. We have nothing and you got to like do stuff to get stuff. So we're not disagreeing there. You know, thousands of years ago it was hunter gas gathering, right, so to alleviate the conditions of hunger, shelter, clothing, right, because the natural condition of humans is to have none of those things when they're born, right, So we were far, far better. When we were hunters and gatherers. We will be hunters and gatherers once again. Okay, I disagree. I think a life span of twenty two years old not actually ideal. I would prefer to have a much longer life span. I feel like that's better. I feel like, yeah, I feel like having a house with air conditioning, running water, not getting dysentery. I feel like those things were achievements. No, right, yeah I could. Curtis says, the man with no shoes saw the man with no feet. The man with no feet saw the man with no legs. Be thankful for what you have. Yeah, So, gratitude is the antidote for nihilism, black pillarism. It is the it is like, be grateful for the things that we have. I'm not saying be Pollyanna. I'm not saying, you know, be naive. I'm not saying that that the world is perfect and all the systems and institutions are perfect, not saying that at all. However, if all you see is the negative, it will rot you. If all you see is the negative, and if it so warps your mind, that like this is how you now move through the world, Like you're just going to be a miserable person. I actually have a relative I hadn't seen him in a while, saw him when I was up in New York, and he sees and I remembered him growing up. And he was. You know, he was fun, he was happy and all this stuff. And then a couple of years ago I saw him and he was just angry, raging against everything. And then when I saw him this last week, he was back to the old version. And I found out later it was because he told Christy, my wife, He told her that he had stopped watching all of these YouTube videos and news and stuff. He just he tuned out. He was like, I cannot do this anymore. This is toxic for me. And that's I recommend that. By the way, I do not like I've given this example before. If you are the kind of person that your entire week is ruined if the Panthers lose on a Sunday, then and it affects you in some way that like you're just angry and depressed and you're you know, yelling at people, you get abusive or something. Okay, you should not be watching the Panthers. Then this is obviously not something that you are able to handle right, And the same thing goes for. News. Some people cannot. They start reading the stories and they just get all worked up and it affects them in a very negative way, and so they would probably not be They're not helped by being overly informed, you know. All right, let me get back to this report on the Cuban government. I went over a lot of it in the last hour, so I'm not going to rehash it. But the New York Post had a piece by John Christiansen about this. Left wing activists with deep ties to the Cuban government and intelligence have developed a plan for coordinated nationwide actions outside US military bases and ICE facilities in the event of an imminent threat or actual attack by American forces on Cuba against Cuba. And this goes to the text that I got in the last hour about you know, Trump's gunning for a war, They're ramping up the propaganda and all this. Like. So, if you just dismiss. All of the the realities of what Cuba has been engaged in, of what these Marxists have been engaged in against America for now what seventy years, you want to just dismiss all of that, you want to say it's all propaganda, it's allus, Trump's a warmonger, whatever, you want to just throw. All of that out. How do you square this is this propaganda to the fact that you've got a coordinated plan for whatever if Trump were to go in and, you know, knock out if you wanted to, soho take if Trump goes in there and he takes out the leadership in Cuba and all of a sudden you see this coordinated response in America. Would that be proof then that Cuba has been engaging in this kind of activity for a very long time, that they have in fact developed these networks. Would that prove it to you? And it's not just propaganda, because that's what they're saying. This is the National Network on Cuba, the NNOC. It's an umbrella organization of groups including the DSA, the Communist Party USA, Code Pink, and more than fifty other organizations. They released a plan last month stating its goal would be to make it politically and materially costly for the US government to wage war on Cuba within twenty four hours of any threat or attack. So is that proof that there is a network that's been doing this work? Because it seems like that's proof. That's evidence. Piece by John Christiansen at the New York Post about the National Network on Cuba, the NNOC umbrella organization of various groups including the DSA, the Communist Party of USA, Code Pink, and dozens of others. They put out a plan it's called the National Rapid Response Plan. They call for demonstrations or worse, to target US military bases, recruitment offices, federal buildings, ice facilities or field offices, and even sports arenas during high visibility events. And this National Rapid Response Plan would be if there were to be any sort of a threat against Cuba, or any actual military action against Cuba, why would targeting and ice facility have anything to do with a threat against Cuba? Right? What's going on there? Well, because you already have your street thugs mobilized against ice. So if that's what motivates you know, one particular merry band of rioters, then you just let them keep doing the thing that they like doing. It's one of Saul Alinski's rules for radicals. Actually. The ninety nine page report that was released by the State Department also highlights a frequent collaborator with Havana a group called the Black Alliance for Peace. Okay, they circulated a target guide that listed some thirteen hundred military or law enforcement facilities. That's their target list. The State Department report also described Cuba as having built a sprawling revolutionary network that shaped a disproportionate share of America's most famous and influential extreme extremist movements, going all the way back to the Black Panthers, the Weather Underground for then the next several decades through to the modern iteration which is Antifa. In fact, I mentioned this at the time when she was running. She won. She's going to win again, by the way, the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass. Right, have you noticed the woman who came in second? Remember Spencer Pratt was running, and then there was that other woman, Oh, Pritha, Prithia something or other. I don't even remember her who she was, Right, Spencer Pratt was winning, and then he fell to second place, and then like a whole bunch of late arriving ballots show up, and the woman who was in third, distant third, all of a sudden got like all of these ballots, none for Pratt, none for Bass. It was just all for her, and that propelled her into the second slot in the jungle primary, knocking out Spencer Pratt so he wouldn't be up for the election in the general election. And ever since then that woman again, I forget her name, because she isn't anywhere no campaigning. There's like she's a city council member. So now people are saying she was a stalking horse for Bess. She was simply there to ensure that Spencer Pratt would not finish in the top two. But Karen Bass, she went to Cuba organizations like Cuba's then then then Cerramos, then then Ceramos, the Venceremos brigade, which over half a century helped bring radical Americans to Cuba for a political education in the communist revolution that swept through it the island. This was a program that they ran. You find the Marxists in America, you bring them down to Cuba and you give them the tools, right, you educate them, you help them, and then you send them back to America where I'm sure they will not deploy any of the tools that they have learned. Right. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was just one of the many left wing youth who took them up on the offer, repeatedly visiting Cuba and participating as a Venceremos organizer in southern California. The report also cites the Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples as the central nexus of Havana's intelligence and influenced network through its long standing ties to US universities, student groups, and activist movements. Back in June, Secretary of State Marco Rubio sanctioned the Cuban Institute of Friendship with Peoples or the ICAP or ICAP, which was founded by Fidel Castro, and it was sanctioned for functioning as a political subdivision, agency or instrumentality of the government of Cuba that supports Cuban intelligence and counterintelligence activities. Icap's leader, Fernando Gonzales Jort, served fifteen years in US prison for being part of a Cuban spy network that sought to expose exile groups and obtain information about American military sites back in the nineties. This is what we would call evidence. Evidence presented that you may say that there's other perse perfectly reasonable explanations for these things. I would submit that these are pieces of evidence that indicate that what the State Department is laying out and that has been reported. Things like this have been known for decades. These are all pieces of evidence that line up to point in the direction that seem to indicate that what the State Department is saying is in fact true. Which brings us to Manhattan and a facility that was targeted yesterday by one Andrew John Arabaka forty three years old. He attacked a facility that just so happens to house ice facilities. I'm sure this is all completely unrelated. This from Andrew McCarthy National Review. Law enforcement agencies have identified the suspect in this morning's attack on the Federal building in Lower Manhattan. It was yesterday morning, actually, this article published yesterday afternoon. The suspect is. One Andrew John Alrabaca, forty three years old, an Army veteran who lives in Poughkeepsie. New York. The FBI described Alrabaca as an anti ice activist. Apparently he had a whole bunch of material in his car or somewhere's cart. He was like a cart. He had some slogans on his helmet, and he was also screaming anti ice slogans while he was taken into custody, So I'm pretty sure that might have had something to do with it, and also the fact that he targeted a building that had ICE facilities in it. ICE has offices at the Federal Building twenty six Federal Plaza, across the street from two federal courthouses. The FBI's New York office is also located there. Three people, two federal employees and one alien. I'm assuming that means illegal alien or maybe illegal alien. I'm not sure, but. So somebody that Arabaca is so mad that ICE is deporting that he went to attack a federal building was injured in that attack. This is like the leftist who shot up the van in Texas. Remember a year or so ago, guy in a sniper position on top of the building across the street, and he just opened fire on a van and killed a bunch of the illegal immigrants that were in the van. So, yeah, they were injured. They suffered minor injuries though, so thank goodness for that. He allegedly, according to the video, poured flammable liquid onto the ground outside the building and then set it on fire. He had a whole bunch of fireworks apparently he used that as part of the explosion. He was also armed with a pellet gun that he fired around five six seven times or so at the building, and that's why the initial reports were that it was a shooting incident. At the time of his arrest, the FED say that the suspect was in possession of two axes, a hammer, a machete, and three knives, which I feel is some of that's is unnecessary, right, Look, I know, like you see on the TV shows and the movies and they're like we're, you know, gearing up for the for the mission. You know, they got all the weapons laid out, and there's lots of clicking and clacking. And like all of that sound like loading all the weapons up. And then you've got lots of the lots of the sounds, and it's and then you got music playing in the background, like m getting all geared up, you know. But at some point, like two axes, even if these are just the little camp axes, you like, the little ones you take on a camping trip you can stick in the in the backpack, probably like that. I doubt I mean, I don't think he would have taken like the full on lumberjack acts. That would be stupid. Carry two of those things around, a hammer, a machete, and three knives. How are you How are you planning to use all of these? You don't have enough opposable digits to make that all work. Did you think you were going to be engaged in a knife fight or something with federal law enforcement after you set fire to their building? You think they're going to approach you with knives and you're going to be able to like, Oh no, they knocked that knife out of my hand. Ha ha, I have another, ha ha, I have an ax. I'm just saying I don't think the plan was very well constructed. He also had other incendiary devices, which apparently were not lit during the attack. Alrabaka reportedly served in the US Army from two thousand and one through two thousand and four with the rank of specialist, who worked for part of his tour as a mechanic on Patriot missile systems. He also served in the New York Army National Guard until two thousand and five. He was never deployed. Over According to Newsweek, Arabaka is currently employed as a Preservation Company program assistant. I have no idea what that is a preservation company. Program assistant at Hudson River Community Health. Hudson River Community Health. I mean that sounds like some sort of a medical medical establishment, right, So what's a preservation company? Is Hudson River Community Health a preservation company? Because I would think a preservation company is like environmentalist or something, right, I don't know. He appears to also have previously worked at the or for the US Census Bureau and as a research assistant at the psychology department at Sunny New Poults. That's a state University of New York, Sunny New Poults, and he graduated in two thousand and eight from that college with a psychology degree. Also, he was involved in climate activism for a few years twenty thirteen twenty fourteen timeframe. So we may never know what may have inspired this attack. But also, look, I don't want to offend anybody. I'm sure there are lots of very sane, well adjusted people in the field of psychology. But I just I'm going to tell you what a friend of mine, he was a psych major. I'm just going to tell you what he told me was that people in his classes, they all seemed to be in the classes so they could figure out what was wrong with them first, Like, that's why they enrolled, so they could learn about themselves, which I think might be kind of narcissy narcissistically. That's a all right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to dpetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.