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The American Mind

Artificial Idols ft. Matt Peterson

The American Mind

The Claremont Institute

Philosophy, News, Society & Culture

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Ted Cruz grills the FBI on its potential participation in January 6, as Insurrection Hearing: The Musical Showtime Extravaganza drags on. Meanwhile, Google’s AI chatbot has some things to say about the soul that sound suspiciously like a Silicon Valley guru’s wish fulfillment fantasy. Plus: Matt Peterson joins the show to talk about so-called “blue locusts” and how to keep red states red.

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0:00.0

coming up on this episode of The Round Table.

0:03.1

You know, people are sort of mocking

0:04.8

the January 6th investigation.

0:06.9

I mean, possibly I think the greatest thing

0:09.3

was the defensive coordinator for the Washington

0:13.0

commanders, the Wapfelball team, who had that great quote

0:16.8

where he's like, listen, there's a double standard.

0:18.8

Obviously, one side you've got people burning cities down

0:22.3

and nobody cares.

0:23.1

And on the other side, some people had to dust up

0:25.3

in the capital and it's a big deal.

0:27.8

Now, he had to apologize and he was fine to $100,000.

0:32.2

But that just seems to be the common sense interpretation.

0:34.9

And, you know, honestly, I live in Manhattan.

0:37.4

I have not encountered one person who

0:40.6

seems to be particularly worked up about the insurrection

0:44.0

or believes that it's an insurrection.

0:46.6

You know, it's obvious what it is.

0:48.6

It's a political witch hunt.

0:50.2

It's a show trial.

0:51.9

And the one thing I took away from the hearing

0:54.3

is I didn't realize that they were really good to do this.

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