Inauguration, Overreaction, and Response

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4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Isaac Botkin talks about lessons from the escalating reactions to everything surrounding the election and inauguration. Don't let the overreactions fool you.

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"But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. While the king, and all in authority under him, were believed to govern in justice and mercy, according to the laws and constitution derived to them from the God of nature and transmitted to them by their ancestors, they thought themselves bound to pray for the king and queen and all the royal family, and all in authority under them, as ministers ordained of God for their good; but when they saw those powers renouncing all the principles of authority, and bent upon the destruction of all the securities of their lives, liberties, and properties, they thought it their duty to pray for the continental congress and all the thirteen State congresses...

...This produced, in 1760 and 1761, an awakening and a revival of American principles and feelings, with an enthusiasm which went on increasing till, in 1775, it burst out in open violence, hostility, and fury.” - John Adams

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another T-Rex talk. This is Isaac Botkin, and this is kind of a strange
0:07.0	episode. Most of our episodes, the last 30-some episodes, have all been live-streamed on YouTube.
0:14.4	They're all conversations with people at T-Rex or sometimes one person talking to himself like I am today.
0:21.9	But this episode was not live-streamed on YouTube.
0:25.9	And the reason for that is complicated.
0:28.3	Basically, I should state for the record that today is the 20th of January.
0:34.6	It is inauguration day.
0:36.1	It is the day that Joe Biden was inaugurated as president of the
0:39.7	United States, the 46th president. I'm still not sure exactly what to call him. I would like to
0:45.7	respect the office of the president, but the temptation to call him Uncle Joe is pretty strong.
0:52.4	And on this day, there were a bunch of random changes to various social media
0:56.6	platforms and rules. So things like Facebook did not allow the advertisement of any weapon
1:03.3	accessories. And they're going to keep that rule in place until at least a couple of days from now.
1:07.8	Because the idea that somebody seeing an ad for a weapon light
1:12.8	or a holster or any other thing that might go onto a weapon like I don't know possibly a sling
1:19.5	would drive some insane levels of domestic terrorism and violence and so there's a bunch of
1:26.2	crazy one-off rules for today and tomorrow,
1:31.0	and then hopefully not too many days after that. So based on congestion on the YouTube system
1:36.4	and crazy social media rules being applied in an opaque and arbitrary manner, we did not do
1:42.3	the live stream. We will hopefully be back doing our regular
1:46.4	uploads and our regular live streams on YouTube. As long as they will let us use their
1:51.2	platform, we are going to continue to put our messages there. But there are a few messages
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