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Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
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We have now fallen into a bizarre and terrible cycle in the United States in which one side does something bad and the other side then does something similarly bad and then points to the fact that the first side did something bad as an excuse for doing it. This is a problem. We used to call this whataboutism.
Now, people have misapplied the term whataboutism over and over and over in the political context. It is not whataboutism to point out double standards.
Whataboutism is when you do something wrong, and instead of you saying, yes, I did the thing wrong, but a double standard is being applied, it's when you say, I didn't do anything wrong at all, and it doesn't matter if I did do something wrong because the other side did it.
So, for example, if Hunter Biden is super duper duper corrupt and then somebody on the right side of the aisle does something super duper duper corrupt and then they're called on and they say, well, yeah, but Hunter Biden did something super corrupt. That's whataboutism because it's a non sequitur.
You can say there's a double standard being applied by the media that was willing to ignore and cover up Hunter Biden's activity for years. But now they're going after, say, Team Trump. They can say that the media have been disproportionate in their coverage of corruption. That is a fair point.
It is not a fair point to say that corruption on one side of the aisle is justified by corruption on the other side of the aisle. If you do that sort of stuff, then you end up in a bottomless spiral. That bottomless spiral gets worse and worse because everybody just reacts against the last bad thing that the other side did and justifies what they are doing now.
And then the other side comes back and says, yeah, well, you just did something even worse. And so I'm going to do something even worse than that. The reality is that calling out double standards is a good thing if you wish to uphold a standard. Calling out double standards as an excuse for doing bad things is not in fact calling out a double standard. It is just justifying doing bad things.
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Chapter 2: What happened with Shiloh Hendricks and the N-word incident?
Presumably, if they have a nuclear weapon, they will then put that nuclear weapon on top of the missile and fire it at Israel. Meanwhile. Several Iranians were just arrested in the UK in two anti-terrorism operations. In one operation, according to the AFP, five men, four of them Iranian, were taken into custody on suspicion of preparation of a terrorist attack.
This is no surprise because the Iranians spread their terror tentacles all over the world, ranging from Latin America to Europe to the United States. Obviously, Iranian agents were planning to assassinate President Trump. President Trump, for his part, has been attempting to negotiate some sort of deal with Iran.
The question inside the Trump administration has been whether they're attempting to negotiate a deal that will completely dismantle the Iranian nuclear facilities or whether they will allow them to continue a quote-unquote civilian program while opening up the sanctions, which would basically just be the Barack Obama program, but on steroids, because Iran is now significantly closer to a nuclear weapon than they were even when Barack Obama was president of the United States.
That has been sort of an open debate inside the administration. It's also been an open debate as to whether the United States is willing to do anything if some sort of nuclear deal is not signed with the Iranians. President Trump, for his part, has been very consistent and clear on this. Yesterday on NBC News, he said that the goal was total dismantlement of the nuclear deal. regime in Tehran.
The idea was get rid of the nuclear weapons and the nuclear facilities entirely, not the sort of special envoy Steve Witkoff proposal that was basically the Obama proposal, allow them nuclear development to 3.67%. President Trump is saying no, total dismantlement is the goal.
Is the goal of these talks limiting Iran's nuclear program or total dismantlement? Total dismantlement. That's all you'll accept? That's all I'd accept. Secretary Rubio has said that he would accept, or the idea is... There is an openness to accepting peaceful, civil nuclear programs.
Well, that's what people I didn't say anything contradictory that people are talking about that. And this is something that's really pretty new in the dialogue. And I'd have to be, you know, my inclination is to say, what do you need that for? You have a lot of oil. So you want total dismantlement, bottom line. I think that I would be open to hearing it. You know, civilian energy, it's called.
But, you know, civilian energy often needs to leads to military wars. And we don't want to have them have a nuclear weapon.
Now, again, there is precedent for a peaceful civilian nuclear program. The United States signed an agreement in 2009 with the UAE on peaceful nuclear cooperation. But basically what that meant is that the UAE would forego all domestic uranium enrichment and reprocessing of spent fuel, and they would have to be completely open to all sorts of inspections.
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Chapter 4: What is whataboutism in political discourse?
And this is part of the terrible slide into the bottomless pit of garbage that the United States seems to be embroiling itself in. The idea that you have to give money to Shiloh Hendricks because people gave money to Carmelo Anthony. You don't. The idea that you have to justify the use of the N-word for a five-year-old kid because a black kid killed a white kid in Texas, no.
How about all of these things are bad? They're not all equivalently bad. Some of them are way worse. Murder is way worse than using the N-word.
And I understand that some on social media are pointing out and going crazy about the fact that one woman, a white woman, using the N-word for a five-year-old kid, the news media will treat that in the same way they would an actual racial murder or an alleged racial murder. And I think there is truth to that. That's what I said before.
Calling out the double standard in order to get the media to adhere to a better standard, that's not unjustifiable. That is calling on a person to do a more moral thing. But if you are calling on people to do less moral things with reference to other people doing immoral things, that's not doing anything productive. That is making the world a worse place one step at a time.
And there is no bottom to that pit. Because the next time somebody does something terrible, with the races reversed, then somebody will raise a million dollars. And this is how you end up with a body politic that has no level of trust in one another. It's how you destroy the social fabric. Because then I think you should be able to hold all these thoughts in your head at one time.
I don't think you need to engage in the reactionary rush to defend bad behavior because somebody else did a bad behavior. I don't think that's childlike logic. It's the same thing that your children do where your kid breaks a rule and then your kid when caught says, yeah, but my sibling also broke the rule, so it's okay if I do it. That's kid logic, and there's no reason to use it.
It is not moral. It does not make the world a better place. It does not make America stronger. You can call out all bad behavior when you see the bad behavior. And the fact that this has even come into question now is not only bizarre, it is somewhat terrifying.
Because if you as a society cannot call out bad behavior, ranging from racialized murder to calling people the N-word, and again, those are not equivalent in any way, shape, or form in terms of the moral gravity of And we can call out the media for treating them as similar. They're not.
But if you can't at least say that these are bad things, all of these things fall into the category of bad things people should not do, and you find yourself justifying the behavior on the basis of what the other side did, you're making the world a worse place. We'll get to more on this in a moment. First, this July, there's a global summit of BRICS nations in Rio de Janeiro.
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