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Hasan Piker; Starlink/Ukraine; Inflation; Netanyahu; Banking; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 166)

Does Yaron Brook think Hasan Piker — Twitch's biggest socialist, a man who openly praises Mao, Castro, and North Korea — is actually the most honest man on the American left? And if so, why can't a single Democratic moderate explain what's wrong with him?

Hasan Piker streams eight hours a day to millions of viewers, pulls in seven figures doing it, and openly admires Mao, excuses North Korea's labor camps, and calls Zionists Nazis. According to a new Atlantic investigation by left-leaning writer Jonathan Chait, Piker isn't a fringe embarrassment to the Democratic Party — he's its most consistent expression. In this episode, Yaron Brook explains why moderate Democrats can't actually refute Piker: they've already conceded his core premise, that self-sacrifice for the collective is the standard of virtue. Once you grant that, Piker isn't an extremist. He's just honest.

From there, Brook tears into a week's worth of stories that all come down to the same question — principle or expedience? Elon Musk throttles Starlink bandwidth to Ukrainian drones in the middle of a Russian blitz on the power grid, and Brook argues the real culprit isn't Musk, it's Trump — foreign policy run on mood instead of strategy. A hot CPI print quietly wipes out six months of real wage gains. Former Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar sues Netanyahu over ignored October 7th warnings. Bank of America eats a $1.2 billion fine for a "crime" with no victim and no proof. And one state, Idaho, actually cuts its regulatory code instead of growing it — proof that deregulation isn't just a talking point.

Reason over tribalism. Individual rights over collective guilt. That's the standard applied to everyone in this episode — a streamer, a president, a prime minister, and a bank regulator alike.

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Main Topics
0:01 — Intro
2:21 — Hasan Piker goes mainstream: inside Jonathan Chait's Atlantic piece
43:46 — Why moderate Democrats have no answer for Piker
54:28 — Altruism's hierarchy of victims: how it leads straight to Mao and Castro
1:04:25 — Starlink throttled to Ukraine mid-blackout — whose call was it really?
1:12:06 — Hot CPI print erases six months of real wage growth
1:21:21 — Ronen Bar sues Netanyahu over October 7th warnings
1:27:15 — Bank of America's $1.2B fine: a crime with no victim
1:36:49 — Idaho's 49% regulatory cut: deregulation that actually happened

Audience Q&A
1:47:46 — Is "here today, gone tomorrow" really a malevolent-universe premise in disguise?
1:49:26 — Is our education system manufacturing kids who can't survive in a meritocracy — and is that fueling the Nazi/communist comeback?
1:57:51 — Does all nihilistic behavior trace back to self-hatred?
2:01:39 — Why do Objectivists almost never talk about "central purpose" — and why does it matter so much?
2:07:23 — Should principled capitalists vote Republican just to push Democrats back to the middle by 2028?
2:12:06 — Would 90% tax rates actually force businesses to hire more people, like Sam Seder claims?
2:16:53 — AOC has an economics degree — so why is she this economically illiterate?
2:17:44 — Could the US end the Iranian regime with zero American casualties — so what's Trump actually afraid of?
2:20:04 — If government forced banks into bad loans, did failing banks deserve bailout money?

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Trump's FP; SA; China Debt Spiral; AI Panic; Omar Raid; CFTC; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 165)
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Why does Donald Trump only have one kind of friend in the world — dictators?

In one single afternoon, Donald Trump blamed Ukraine for Russia's missiles, threatened the Houthis with action "after the election," and mused about meddling in Israel's vote — and Yaron Brook says none of it means anything, because Trump doesn't have a foreign policy, he has impulses. 

On this episode of the Yaron Brook Show, Yaron tears into Trump's authoritarian-friendly instincts, breaks down a Saudi Arabian airport attack that shows Iran's reach is only growing, and lays out — number by number — why China is trapped in a debt spiral that should embarrass every politician on the left and right pushing "industrial policy." 

Then: a Michigan Senate candidate's AI panic platform that would freeze American innovation cold, a politically-timed FBI raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar's home, and a CFTC trade scandal with Trump's fingerprints potentially all over it — a six-million-barrel oil sell-off, fifteen minutes before Trump reversed an Iran strike plan, followed by an alleged cover-up at the agency that's supposed to police exactly this kind of thing. 

Plus: Guyana's oil windfall—a nation of 800,000 people suddenly flush with more oil money per capita than almost anywhere on Earth, and a reminder of what resource wealth looks like when it's not run by a kleptocracy. 

And through it all, Yaron makes the case for the achievements that still make this country work, even when its politics are broken. This is capitalism, foreign policy, and moral clarity, unfiltered — new episodes every week.

Main Topics
00:00 — Cold open: does Trump have a foreign policy, or just instincts?
04:15 — Trump blames Ukraine, threatens the Houthis, and talks about meddling in Israel's election
12:40 — Saudi Arabia airport attack: Iran's reach isn't shrinking, it's spreading
21:05 — Inside China's debt spiral — the numbers both parties ignore
31:50 — A Michigan Senate candidate wants to freeze AI. Here's why that's a disaster.
40:20 — The FBI raid on Ilhan Omar's home — politics or justice?
48:00 — CFTC scandal: a six-million-barrel oil sell-off, 15 minutes before Trump reversed course on Iran
56:30 — Guyana's oil windfall — what resource wealth looks like without a kleptocracy
1:04:10 — Yaron on the achievements still worth defending

Audience Questions
1:12:00 — Is Trump's instinct for dictators dangerous, or just realism?
1:16:45 — Can China collapse without taking the world economy down with it?
1:21:30 — Should AI really be regulated like a weapon?
1:26:10 — Is the Omar raid politically motivated, or is she actually guilty of something?
1:31:00 — Did Trump's inner circle profit from insider knowledge at the CFTC?
1:35:40 — What does a country do right when oil money doesn't get stolen?

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Europe Burning; Econ Nobel; Trump & Diesel; SA & Houthis; Compute; More | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 164)
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Is Europe's welfare state now a machine that burns its own young to feed its old — and is Trump too much of a coward to stop pouring gas on the fire?

France's teenagers are torching their own schools. Spain is rioting over rent. Bond yields in Paris just blew past 2008 levels. Yaron Brook says none of this is really about Macron, migrants, or budgets — it's a fifty-year-old promise the old made to themselves and billed to the young, and the bill just came due. In Season 12, Episode 164, Yaron tears into Europe's demographic collapse, calls out Trump for buying diesel from Putin to shave gas prices before the midterms, breaks down this year's Economics Nobel, explains why Houthi missiles hitting Riyadh's airport barely made the news, and lays out why compute — not capital — is now the scarce resource in AI.

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Main Topics
0:00 — New Monday schedule, plus a new biweekly philosophy show with Greg Salmieri
5:30 — Why Europe is burning: a welfare state built to sacrifice the young for the old
16:07 — Germany's government in freefall and the AfD's quiet rise
35:28 — Islamism, not immigration, is Europe's real crisis
36:30 — Houthi missiles slam Riyadh's airport while the world looks away
39:21 — This year's Economics Nobel and the theory of creative destruction
48:37 — Trump's call with Putin: buying Russian diesel to save his poll numbers
51:21 — The "ceasefire" Moscow never agreed to — and broke within hours
54:41 — Trump blames Zelensky instead of the man who invaded Ukraine
58:09 — Why isn't Trump demanding Russia get a new president?
1:08:00 — Inside the AI compute arms race: Google's $200 billion-a-year bet
1:10:53 — Capital is no longer scarce — compute is the new bottleneck

Audience Questions
1:14:00 — Is Argentina proof that Milei's shock therapy actually works?
1:19:00 — Should the government be funding secret HHS drug trials?
1:26:00 — Is "MAGA antisemitism" real, or manufactured outrage?
1:33:00 — Does executing the Fort Hood shooter finally deliver justice?
1:41:00 — Is Sam Harris still worth taking seriously on Islam?
1:47:00 — Could Mamdani's deregulation push actually help New York?
1:54:00 — Is being "settled" the quiet death of ambition?
2:01:00 — Why is political compromise sometimes just slow poison?

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Gad Saad's Book "Suicidal Empathy" | Yaron & Nikos Dialogues
(Yaron & Nikos Dialogues, Episode 15)
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*Is "too much empathy" really what's wrecking the West — or did Gad Saad just hand the left a get-out-of-jail-free card?*

Gad Saad says the West is dying of "suicidal empathy" — kindness and compassion gone haywire. Yaron Brook says that's exactly backwards, and in this Yaron & Nikos Dialogue he explains why: Saad never defines empathy, concedes that altruism is morality, and lets evolutionary psychology do work it can't do. The real killers aren't an overdose of compassion — they're altruism, tribalism, and the refusal to judge anyone for anything. Yaron and Nikos take the book apart chapter by chapter — immigration, socialism, taxation, criminal justice — and show why "he couldn't help it, it's evolution" is the most dangerous sentence in the book. Also: Erika Kirk's forgiveness, Mamdani dodging October 7th, California's billionaire tax, and a review of Yes Minister's "The Compassionate Society."

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Main Topics
00:00 — Why Yaron almost shut the book off after chapter one
13:48 — Saad never tells you what's evolution and what's your choice
16:38 — "Empathy as the standard" — how this becomes intersectionality
21:56 — The real problem: 300 pages of red meat, zero theory
44:23 — The "survival benefits of empathy" argument collapses
1:01:44 — Virtue signaling, determinism, and why we stopped judging people
1:09:35 — Yaron's framework: altruism + tribalism + non-judgmentalism, not "empathy"
~1:15:00 — Erika Kirk's forgiveness of her husband's killer
~1:25:00 — Mamdani can't say the word "terrorism" about October 7th
~1:35:00 — California's billionaire tax and the pragmatist's blind spot
~1:45:00 — Yes Minister's "The Compassionate Society" — satire that aged perfectly
~1:55:00 — Rick and Morty review
~2:05:00 — Self-interest vs. mere "preference" — why the distinction matters

 Audience Questions
~1:12:00 — "If Christ's crucifixion is the ultimate act of suicidal empathy, why won't Saad say so?"
~1:28:00 — "Is deporting innocents along with criminals an acceptable trade-off?"
~1:40:00 — "If communism is 'the right system for the wrong species,' isn't socialism still the moral high ground?"
~1:50:00 — "Does forgiving a killer make you virtuous — or just undefended?"
~2:10:00 — "If criminality is 'in the genes,' can we still judge anyone at all?"

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