The problem with Yemen Notes from the edge of the narrative matrix a Big part of the problem with Yemen is that the photos of starving kids are too often captioned with oh Look how sad instead of your government is doing this on purpose Warmongers are saying if we leave Afghanistan and it returns to Taliban control it will be like the whole war achieved nothing Yeah, yeah, it will be lots like that How about that, huh? The only reason Americans think it matters who's president is because no one's ever compiled all the data about the entirety of US Government behavior around the world to show what a microscopic fraction of a percentage point of that data actually changes between administrations My social media feeds are full of Americans literally trying to crowdfund their own survival while the nation's war First are adding hundreds of billions of dollars to their wealth But wanting to change this system makes you an extremist The Assange case isn't about national security. It's about narrative control Nothing WikiLeaks published endangered the American people it endangered a globe-spanning empire's ability to control our understanding of what's happening in the world This could not be permitted Listening to the young Turks defend themselves from the outrage that has rightly come their way in left-wing media circles You'd think Jimmy Dorr broke into their studio and forced jank Uygur and Anacasparian at gunpoint to lie about Aaron Matei being a secret agent for a foreign government Imagine if all the people yelling that it's time to move on from TYT Smearing Matei as a secret agent for foreign dictators had from the very beginning Just spent all that energy telling Jank and Anna that they need to retract and apologize for a disgusting and unacceptable act If left indie media had simply united along the very simple and obvious No, we don't accuse leftist anti-war journalists of being secret agents for foreign governments This would have resolved very quickly and would have gotten Anywhere near as vicious as it did It's not okay to smear anti-war journalists as secret agents for a foreign government It's not okay to smear anti-war journalists as secret agents of a foreign government for fuck's sake people This should be the most basic bare minimum slap in the face obvious position for anyone to the left of Joe Biden It's absolutely amazing The amount of creativity people will pour into coming up with excuses for supporting the worst impulses of an unfathomably corrupt and murderous globe-spanning empire The revolution will not be televised because someone dug up its old tweets and now the revolution is too problematic to platform The next anti-imperialist socialist voice to rise to a position of prominence will with absolute certainty become the subject of many urgent news Reports solemnly informing us that that person is problematic for some reason Might be anti-semitism might be Kremlin cronyism might be something else But they will find something to warn us about and they will warn us and warn us until that prominent voice is distrusted and its influence nullified Seriously trying to think of an influential voice who consistently opposes Western imperialism But hasn't been smeared as an anti-semite a Kremlin asset a closet right-winger or a kook at some point Such figures simply are not permitted to emerge without being viciously smeared anymore If Western leftists ever want to be more than a glorified group chat, they're going to have to stop letting this happen They're eventually going to have to plant their feet and resolve to keep shoving toward their agendas regardless of deliberate divisive concern trolling tactics about the specific individuals within that movement as Soon as the capitalists figured out that leftists actually have values and care about things while their opponents do not and That this could be weaponized. They were guaranteed to keep doing so to keep the left down At some point we do need to stop letting them do this and just go It is good that people are becoming more aware of the very real distinctions on the American left Progressive Democrats are not the same as anti-imperialists socialists and pretending otherwise was only causing unhelpful tension and confusion It's good. There's more clarity now This doesn't mean the two groups need to be isolated from each other It just means they're different and it's important to be aware of that There are issues on which the two groups are in alignment and they can work together on those issues But be aware of the differences. It's just like how anti-war right libertarians can work together on some issues with anti-war Socialists, but it doesn't know when any good to pretend those two groups are the same Progressive Dems can likewise be worked with on some issues. Just be crystal clear on the differences More and more manipulators are coming out into the light and being seen for what they are The predators are no longer hidden in the tall grass or camouflaged as logs in the river But out in the open on a white tile floor with everyone looking at them This trend will continue


Let's just hop right in. You know what I mean? Big sweet, big sweet! Former Oilers and former Titans were in town last weekend. Here are some of the best moments. Y'all want to see some pictures in the new stadium? Boom! New stadium. The Titans had a few surf projects this past weekend. The Titans teamed up with Dairy Alliance to have T-Rack show up at a local elementary school and promote being active and being healthy. Kevin Byrd and his wife teamed up with Campbell's Chunky Soup to donate with Bridge Ministries. Nikwan Jones and Lonnie Johnson head on over to Page High School for the big game and they were there to show their support. Alright guys, it's time for the best part. Tiny Mike. Well, we're going to start Candy Corn. Might be the worst candy of all time. I think Candy Corn is probably God tier. Alright guys, we will see you in Houston as the Titans take on the Texans. Kickoff for that game is at 3-0-5. That's right, 3-0-5.


I guess that's my confession got no regrets I made mistakes, but I learned from my lessons guys. Welcome back vlog number four. Thank you Croatia for all the fun times We're leaving Croatia now headed to Budapest. We got a bus to catch and it's leaving in 10 minutes and our Uber has just arrived So what happened in Croatia was the best so far. So let's see how Budapest is This is our breakfast five minutes away from the bus station and it's 10 minutes away from leaving so we should be good So so far Reese to Venice Venice to Zagreb Croatia and we're in Zagreb to Budapest and our Airbnb in Budapest is so So I'm really excited to get there. We got a four-hour bus die. We're gonna play a lot of runescape. That's always good Remember to give us your OSRS gold I'll see you at the bus station. How do I do it like a whip transition? Will that work for you editor? Mega-faggot. Last people on the bus and he was mad at us, but we made it I love you. I never turn the mic off. We spent like six hours in cars and taxis We're ready to be in our Airbnb. It's not some Airbnb Hopefully the Wi-Fi is great so I can record some fortnight regardless for recording a smasher pass So it's gonna be fun.  Stop it. So this is where our Airbnb is. The door doesn't look nice But trust me when we're up in there, this place is insane But apparently this is called the Jewish district which is apparently one of the nicest districts in Budapest So that's gonna be sick. Our Airbnb guy won't be here for another 30 minutes So to let us in so we're just gonna hang out and probably go get something to eat and I'm gonna show this guy It's okay. Oh, hello man. Let's go smack some food I Don't think the mic picked that up, and I'm really hoping it didn't so when we were in Croatia We went to a McDonald's and now they were here in Budapest. We're going to Starbucks Okay, you guys got to understand it's different because we've been in I miss you. You gotta understand that all of us have been mom. I miss you, too. I love you We've been in Greece for like 45 days, okay, so we've had an enough culture 45 days in Greece plus The now six days we've been doing this. It'll be two months on me and James in our head and we lose our thoughts soon Oh, well, yeah, whatever and a quick breather here at Starbucks and Morgan gets a waffle. Who gets a waffle at Starbucks? Are you really gonna pull the I'm a Hungarian person now that we're in Hungary They're 20% Hungarian Starbucks is in my belly I gained about 50 pounds from it. That's okay. I had to back the AirBn brats to check it out Oh, well, there goes Reagan's phone AirBnB guys said he'd be here, but I don't see anyone So now I'm confused a few inches later Cute oh man, I got some TVs in here. That's so cute. It's a swan. Look at this room. It's absolutely gorgeous Well, this is a nice time. This one's cute. That bed is so nice And then there's two twin beds over here with this cool-ass poster of Buddha, but he's pushing together. It's a big bed This is so sick.   Hey, nice call So we got 20 yeah, it's rigged bro. That's rigged. Whatever. Let's take this room Actually, it's Jamison's birthday on Tuesday, so it's okay. It's nice that they get this room We don't want to know what she was gonna say They're great as long as it's not the two single beds that I'm actually care. We're taking this room instead. It's got Buddha It's got this two twin beds so that we don't sleep together because we have to save room for Jesus So in our last Airbnb we were incapable of playing for tonight We're mad and really because the Wi-Fi was so shitty then in the next Airbnb We had amazing Wi-Fi, but the TV didn't have HDMI. It was a TV from the goddamn 80. Ronald Reagan was president I don't actually know and Ronald Reagan's president, but now we have the trifect amazing Wi-Fi a working TV and thoughts That's the trifect. I had to ruin everything I'm just kidding. We're your brats. You're so cute Yeah That's not bell skis that's not bell skis and you guys don't probably see strip fortnight before you see this But we're gonna record strip fortnight here Why do you ruin everything come cuddle come cuddle you're going in the dungeon if you don't get over here right now You're hilarious Wop was in the top game. Yeah, I'm top 10. Which means I'm gonna choke it That's just kind of you've ever watched me for a night's dream You know that at some point very soon you're gonna die admittedly I landed in What it's a llama llama 310 boys, we're about to have a lot 10 stream squad those I've talked about everyone else is like what the hell is going on? Let's go Yo, that's actually fire. I'm trying James's new way of playing No, it's bad James has made me put this job thing on our own thing.  I'm tweaking Shit. Oh, this is bad Right there Look at this that looks like so seen it looks cool. All right guys. We are headed to a couple things for one We're going to grab euros because we missed them from Greece We're gonna go get some food and then we're also gonna grab some alcohol. I do want to make a really big point So I'm 20 drinking age legally here is 18 I do not encourage you guys to drink underage at all and I'm not drinking underage right now I mean the United States I would so there will be times when you'll see us like drinking We were drinking wine at the dinner yesterday and like stuff like that definitely don't encourage it Definitely not an excellent idea, but if you're being responsible and it's legal then have fun So that's my opinion on that I guess we're gonna grab that and then we're gonna record some videos It should be super fun.  We'll find something else So big Giant, I've never seen such a thing. We're gonna ice the ladies when we get back. We're gonna have two of these I know where we're eating today Morgan really wanted a redemption so she's High five these guns she just picked up. She's not a gun all game. No material No, you're just a woman. Okay.   This guy's seven kills. This kid's good. I was looking at drawing There's WWE gone This one oh, Reggie's got you Hey, Morgan brats doing a slam All right You fight somebody's six five two forty five So I just walked in What happens when you leave them unattended for literally seven days I think I could have gone my whole life with how ever seeing that and I would have been okay with it Now we do have a surprise for the ladies James and got you guys I got you something Get on one knee and then two knees later Who's gonna win my thought was James's thought come on Morgan Morgan you're making me Brown hair people win Six hours You are


Welcome back to Vine Intimacy Radio. My apologies. We had a little different kind of approach to the show today, and I, as the host, I didn't properly signal to my co-host and our producer what was going on. And they apparently no longer read minds, and so that didn't work either. So we're back. We're gifted. We're not that gifted. We're heading to segment number two. I don't know. Jordan maybe can read minds. On Divine Intimacy Radio, on internet or social media, internet persecution, so to speak. So on your markets, go. Welcome back to Divine Intimacy Radio's Dan Stephanie Burke. Segment two, we talked, of course, in the first segment, Sister Kristen Gardner, who's the postulator of the cause of Sister Claire Crockett and how the, her, what is it, documentary about her life and her conversion, and then her beatification process was taken down by YouTube for spurious reasons and said it was fraud and they were selling stuff, whatever, and they were doing none of the things that were accused of. Yeah. And, you know, we just need to push back on this stuff. Yeah. We need to be clear. We need to be bold. We need to be loving. We need to be all that we're called to be. But we need to push back on these things and find ways around them. Yeah. You know, get the word out. That's why we had that show, the first segment of this. And now we're going to our issue. Yeah. Yeah. And I would encourage, because I do know Sister Claire's story. I have watched it. It's beautiful. You don't want to miss it. Check out sisterclare.com, watch her story and pray to her. Yeah. Pray to her that her cause can be moved forward because it's not a minor thing that her English views were 5 million, Spanish views were 4 million. Yeah. That's amazing.  So let's pray to her maybe to help deal with these issues.  What's going on? Yeah. And ours isn't quite as dramatic in terms of 5 million views. But just asking our producer, you gave me a number a minute ago, Jordan, about the high, high number of views on one video. We had 62,000 views at one point on several of the videos and now it's, we'll be lucky if we break 300. 300. And what's fascinating is we don't, just like the sisters, we don't deal with a lot of controversial political issues. What we deal with the Catholic mystical tradition. So, you know, my instinct is just, you know, the work of the enemy, but we do need your help. So our main YouTube page is spiritualdirection.com YouTube page and that's got all of these shows on it. And we've been posting there for years, thousands of hours of great content. What we've decided to do to try to reboot the effort and figure out ways around this challenge and wanted to invite you to help us out is start a new page. We're not, we're not getting rid of the old one. We're going to keep posting there. But a new one called, what is the title of the page? If you search Dan Burke, The Way of Contemplation. Dan Burke, The Way of Contemplation. And it's going to be content that I'm producing, asking and answering questions on the interior life. And some of that will also include my beloved spouse and co-host as well and other folks like Father John Bertunek, Dr. Anthony Lillis. A lot of good, a lot of good new content. But what I'd be grateful for you to do is help us get the word out to try to break this barrier and get to where our views and distribution are back up. And we're also looking at other, you know, channels and means to get, get the word out as well. But head out and do that search at Dan Burke, The Way of Contemplation. And when you go out there, the way you can help is subscribe, which tells YouTube you're interested in it. And then comment, which affects the algorithms. Jordan, do you want to explain, you know, I, and by the way, this is for all Catholics who care about good content on, on social media. How is it that these companies determine that your content is interesting and rise it, like automatically rise it up to the top in searches and that sort of thing so that good Catholics know here's what I can do to help, you know, like the sister Claire situation or our situation. Basically, you know, it's not enough just to watch a video. If you subscribe, that helps the algorithm liking the video, sharing the video. That's huge commenting on the video basically interacting and telling every interaction tells these different platforms that this is content that I want to see. And it allows the algorithm, which is generally unmanned. It's automatic. It's pretty automatic. You have to help the algorithm recognize that this is content that I want to see and that others want to see. Otherwise, you can subscribe and if you don't interact, you may not see anything. So how little or a lot do people need to interact? Can they just like put? Yeah, I agree. Or great or anything helps any comment like that thumbs up or sharing that sort of thing. No, sounds good. Yeah. So head out to Dan Burke, the way of contemplation, spiritualdirection.com as well. That YouTube page and you're going to find all kinds of great stuff. You know, I had to just to switch over to a like a Q&A thing that we can post for people. I had a question that was asked to me here at the retreat house recently that we can address and that will post this up and in one or both of the places. But somebody asked me how important is it that we know where we're at in the spiritual life, you know, like in the purgative, illuminative and unitive ways. Is it important at all? And what does what? What does let's say say Teresa of Avila of John and the Cross teach about those phases and why? Why did they spend time delineated, including Thomas Aquinas and St. Catherine of Siena and St. Francis of sales? Why did they spend time delineating phases of spiritual growth? Seems like it'd be pretty important. Well, I think the first thing that comes to mind is an understanding that the spiritual life is not a is not a straight line trajectory. I was just discussing this with the director the other day because they were concerned where they would, you know, kind of make a surge forward to be doing really well.  You know, I thought I was doing better. I thought I was past these kind of things. And we were working through that. And so what I did is I described it as rather than a linear line from the purgative to the unitive. It's a little bit like if you throw spaghetti on the wall and it's a little bit of up and down and up and down and back and forth. But what you want to know is the overall trajectory. Are you continuing to move forward? You know, if you took a ratio or a percentage of the the movement, is it an upward movement towards greater union with the Lord, less sin growth in virtue, more prayer, more self giving, more self denial. Yeah, so I would agree. I mean, the first and most important concern is, are you generally making progress, even if there's a wavy up and down? The only thing to clarify on the spaghetti thing is, so the purgative, illuminative and unitive ways can be relatively compared to like childhood, adolescence and adulthood, you know, in our psychological, physiological development cycle.  But in the in the little twists and turns in those phases, which can be decades long, you'll go up and down and back and forward in your progress, just because that's our brokenness. And that's the way even God teaches us. Right. So one, trajectory is the most important thing. Are you increasing in love? Are you decreasing in sin? Are you increasing in virtue? Are you increasing in patience or whatever your root sin is, pride, vanity, wrath, lust, you know, avarice, whatever those are, are they minimizing and are their opposite virtues emerging just in a way that is, you know, let's say on an annual basis, which is a good way of judging, asking someone who knows you really well, am I better in this way than the last year? That tells you you're heading the right direction or not. But they also delineated between the phases, all of these spiritual doctors of the church, so that we could in those phases understand what's normal and abnormal. Right. And then yield to what the Holy Spirit wants to do or heal us of or where we need particular work in terms of sin against sin and that sort of thing, yield to those movements in that phase. Yeah. Does that make sense? What what we're basically showing is that the Holy Spirit has provided common language between the different doctors of the church saints that have described this. I mean, there's a place I think it's in spiritual direction or in your navigating the interior life, where you show the different languages between the different saints, denoting the purgative, illuminative and unitive and how they describe how they describe it. So it's it's providing some commonality and language, some commonality and understanding. Should you be staring at that dashboard? Absolutely not. Yeah, you don't want to stare at your gauges when you're driving your car. No, because that becomes that becomes an exercise in narcissism. Yeah. You just want to know and to be able to have this conversation with your spiritual director. Like you said, you know, what maybe once a year, once every six months to just make sure that you're still on the trajectory towards oneness with the Lord. And what is it? I mean, your examine helps you decide, OK, where am I? How do I move forward? How do I diagnose this with my spiritual director? How do I discern this? And how do I use the examine in my in my plan of love? Yeah. As it were, as we describe it to continue this upward trajectory. Yeah. And just to give you a really specific example, like if you're in the early purgative stage, which is the first stages where you're beginning to say, yeah, yes to the Lord and I want to move forward. The thing you're going to realize is that habitual sin is the first target to go after. Now, you do you do how you do that is multifaceted. It has to do with, as you say, the examine going to confession regularly, immersing yourself in the sacraments, which is the greatest sources of the life of God, you know, in you, given to you, poured out for you in and through those sacraments. So you have the clarity to see what is my sin. Self-awareness always growing in self-awareness. Right. So you have the clarity to see through self-awareness. And then you have the strength to pursue that sin and to go after that sin and overcome it by God's grace, but you also have to cooperate and fight like crazy. And so in the early purgative stage, that's how you yield to the Holy Spirit is if it's mortal sin, you got to be super aggressive because that's so dangerous. The ultimate, you know, end of dying in a state of mortal sin is not ending up in the in the good place and going to the bad place, going to hell. And none of us wants that. And that's not God's desire, which is why he gave us, gave himself up for us and gave us, gave himself through the sacraments to us. So if you want to, if you want to get a good treatment of that, like the lay the first treatment I did was in navigating the interior life, as you mentioned, which also has a quiz, if you will, or a self-assessment, to better ways on a quiz of finding your roots in and making you more aware of which to tackle first. But then also in Devil in the Castle, which is my most recent book where I updated the purgative, illuminative and unitive ways. And of course, you can find courses like about this. And at the Avila Institute, I teach foundations of prayer and union with God where I go into it in depth at avila-institute.org. Really all the work that we do teaches about this in some form or fashion, including our marriage retreats. Yes, exactly. Everything we've incorporated this. Because it's such a powerful perspective. Well, it's life changing. Yeah. Well, with that, we're all out of time. Until next time, may the God of peace make you perfect in holiness. May he preserve you whole and entire spirit, soul and body irreproachable at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. Alrighty. Alrighty.


Hey everybody, Matt here for Layton Sports Cards, ripping. This is 2022 Topps Museum Collection Baseball, full case number eight, tiered random teams. Here's another look at those random results and Sean just gave me a heads up that I did not post those results yet, so I'll get those posted to the website. Oh, I put them on the site, but I didn't drop the link. Okay. All right, here we go. Good luck. Yo, this case, 12 boxes of Museum Collection. Here we go. Just one break left to fill up for the entire night. That is our Immaculate Football, full case, tiered random teams. Four spots to go on that. Greg Maddox, amethyst to 99. That is Artist Proof, Vlad Guerrero Jr. sketch reproduction, print run of 50 on that, Blue Jays. That is Marlins, Jersey to 50. Ichiro, Go Miami. Eloy. This is White Sox. Dual Relic Auto, Andrew Vaughn. Nice patch on the top. That's the 25. Ken Griffey Jr. Sapphire to 150. Bobby Whit Jr. Rookie. Dennis Eckersley sketch reproduction and Padres. That's Quad Jersey to 99. Will Meyers. Nice one, Padres. Right, there's Carl Yastrimski, Sapphire to 150. Spencer Torkelson, Rookie. And Dodgers Quad jerseys to 99. AJ Pollock, Aaron Judge, Hunter Green, Rookie, Cal Raleigh, and Padres. That's Jumbo Patch Auto to 15. Chris Paddock. Here goes San Diego, Wilson Contreras, Blue Bob, sketch reproduction, and Brewer's Patch to 25. Christian Yelich. Yeah, there've been some nice, I like those, the Patch Autos to 15. They're looking really good. That is O'Neill Cruz, Copper Rookie, Pirates. Chris Bryant, that is Ray's Auto to 25. Tyler Glass now. So again, just one break left to fill for the night. iMac football tier random teams. Four to go on that. Oh, nice. Some of them are serial numbered. Nick, and then, yeah, some of it's just knowing, like, just learning as you go and studying up. That is Brewer's Dual Bat Relic Auto, Castan Jira, 399. The best hit so far has been probably what there was a Wander Dual Relic Auto. There was a Black Frame Carlton Fisk Auto that was just incredibly nice looking. There's John Carlo Stanton, Judge Jersey number there, 99 of 99. CJ Abrams Rookie, sketch reproduction, Vlad Jr. and Cardinals. Dual Jersey to 50. Nolan Aronato and Paul Goldschmidt. Oh yeah, the Judge original sketch. That was really nice too. Carl Yastremsky, Royce Lewis, and this is White Sox, Auto to 50. Eloy Jimenez. Yeah, Rob, I was thinking the same thing. Jump on eBay and pick one up for myself. Sharon Durand Rookie, Copper. This is Astros, Rookie Auto to 50. Chas McCormick. Astros again, double dipping in this box. That's Quad Relic to 75. Michael Brantley. So again, be sure to subscribe to the LSC Baseball Channel over on YouTube. It's coming to Twitch soon and live five days a week over there during the daytime. Usually start at 10 a.m. Eastern and a little different change of pace from the main channel. Got a lot of fun over there. Check out the schedule and get your spots for those breaks at latensportscards.com. It's Jacob DeGrom, Bryson Stott, and Yankees Jersey to 50. Corey Kluber. Oh yeah, on YouTube and Twitch, Sean just dropped a link for the LSC Baseball Channel schedule. Bryce Harper Copper. Harper Copper. There's Vlad Sr. Sketch Reproduction. And Yankees, Dual Jersey Auto, Luis Severino. That's $2.99. Oil's a little light on that. $2.99. Manny Machado. Blue Bob. And this is Braves, Quad Relic to 99. Danesby Swanson. Go Braves, nice Danesby. We have two diamond icons, random hit style breaks up after this. Fernando Tantes Jr., Copper. And this is Yankees, Quad Relic to 75. DJ LaMahue. So we have four spots left for the day. IMAQ Football to your random teams. That's not what you're looking for. We have personals tonight after the group breaks until 2 a.m. Eastern. And then we have maybe another book in here. And then after that we have the Sunday breaks to fill up. We have another book coming. There's Pudge Rodriguez, Copper. Contreras, O'Neil Cruz, Rookie. Brian De La Cruz. And look at this. Giants, 5 of 5. Dual Patch, Dual Auto Book, Buster Posey, and Brandon Crawford. Awesome hit. Giants, congrats. Beautiful. Dual Patch, Dual Auto Book, 5 of 5. Tony is still watching over on YouTube. There's Peter Lanzo, Sapphire to 150. That is Miggy, Sketch Reproduction. There's Braves Patch to 25. John Smoltz. Yeah, that was a nice hit. Hopefully I can get you one of those soon. Brandon Marsh, Rookie Copper. Royce Lewis. And this is Red Sox, Quad Relic to 99. Rafael Devers. George Kirby, Rookie. And nice. That is Tigers, Rookie Auto to 199. Spencer Torkelson. I'll do the camera here to give it a focus. Tony Gwynn, Sapphire to 150. Ray's, Quad Relic to 99. Randy Rosarana. Go Ray's, Tantes, and Blue Jays. Jumbo Patch, Auto to 15. Jose Barrios. Go Toronto. There's Manny Machado, Copper. How much were these boxes? 390. Yeah, just under 400 box. Rice Harper, Copper. There's Lou Gehrig, Sketch Reproduction. And Red Sox, Patch to 10. Jackie Bradley, Jr. It's Jacob DeGrom, Jern Durand. And Brewers, Auto to 150. Keston, Hira. All right, halfway through the case. Corey Seeger, Copper. Bobby Whit, Jr. Rookie. Yankees, Triple Jersey, Auto. Aroldis Chatlin, to 299. Copper, Ichiro. Thanks, Frito. That's Nationals, Rookie Jersey to 50. Josiah Gray. There's Eloy. Amethyst to 99. We have Black Frame, 2 of 5. Cardinals. Nolan Aranato, Black Frame, Auto. Awesome hit, Cardinals. Let's see who had them so I know who I'm jealous of. Peter M. There you go, Peter. Awesome hit, man. Juan Soto, Copper. This is Philly's, Quad Jersey to 99. Bryce Harper. I don't know what you mean, Haley. Mariano Rivera, Copper. That's Astros, Patch to 35. Michael Brantley, Snell. Philly's, Triple Relicado. JT, Real Muto. Go Philly, to 399. Just one break left to fill up for the night. Let's get that one filled. That is 2021, Panini Immaculate Football. Six Box Case, Tier, Random Team Stylers. Tony Gwyn, Amethyst to 99. This is Ray's, Quad Jersey to 99. Randy Rosarena, Brandon Lau, Fidel Bruhann, and Kevin Kiermeyer, one of 99. We have the quality and the value of the hits you can pull compared to other products. Randomly backwards, Derek Jeter here. Sketch, Reproduction, Yankees. Nice Jeter. There's Nationals, Quad Jersey to 75. Patrick Corbin, Chipper Jones, Sapphire to 150. Frank Robinson, this is Cubs, Dual Jersey Auto, Nico Horner. This is to 50. Shane Boz, Rookie Copper, and Cardinals, Patch to 35. Nullin Aronato, another one for the Cardinals. Matt Chapman, Amethyst to 99. And base. That's Yankees, Rookie Auto to 299. Luis Gil, go Yankees. Roger Clemens, Sapphire to 99. There's Raphael Devers, Sketch, Reproduction, and Astros, Quad Relic to 25. Jose Altuve, Patch, Bat, Jersey and Bat. Javier Baez, Sapphire to 150. And Cardinals again, and that is Triple Relic Auto, Nullin Aronato. That is to 199, 27 of 199, one off the Jersey number. Third Aronato hit, Thomas Rookie Copper, Jander Ran, White Sox, Jersey to 50. Frank Thomas, Vlad Junior Copper, Griffey, Andre Dawson, Sketch, Reproduction, and Aaron Judge, Sketch, Reproduction, Argus Group with a print run of 50. Jose Altuve, Sapphire to 150, Wander Rookie, that is Brewers, Auto to 250, Josh Hader. All right, two boxes to go. Let's see a big Rookie Auto now. I see a redemption coming. Tanteese Copper, and Redemption, Single Player Signature, Triple Relic Autograph. Aaron Judge, Yankees, there you go, Yankees, congrats. Maeswanamql, Randy Johnson, Amethyst to 99. This is Royals, Quad Jerseys to 75, Salvador Perez, Salvi, four to go on iMac football, tier random teams. That is Angels, Patch to 35, Anthony Rendon. Patch isn't quite filling the full window there. Here we go, Angels, Mike Piazza, Sapphire to 150, Wander Rookie, there's Nolan Aronato, Sketch, Reproduction, and Royals. Rookie, Auto to 199, Bobby Whit Jr., there you go, Casey. That is Jason F., congrats. There you go, Royals. We'll mag that one for you. Yep, got the right width at that time. Last box, I will do a hit recap at the end. Boba Shet to 150. Yankees, Triple Relic Auto, Alfonso Soriano, 200. Bat, Jersey, Jersey. Nice case here. There's Rendon. That's Rockies, Bat Relic to 50, Larry Walker. I'd love to see Tops come out with some Larry Walker autos in the Carmel uniform. Walker was the man. Yeah, Ian Bishat, man, they have me trying creatine right after I graduated. That is Artist Proof, Sketch, Reproduction, Jonathan India, Reds, All-Cardship, Giancarlo Stanton, there's Julio Rodriguez, Rookie. This is QuadJersey's to 99, Aroles Chapman, Josh Hader, Kenley Janssen, and Edwin Diaz. Yankees, Brewers, Braves, and Metz. Yankees is Namql, Brewers, Steven U., Braves is Anthony P., Metz is James D., so that will be a random, I'll do that random here in just a minute. This is Museum, case number eight. So we had Yankees, Brewers, Braves, and Metz. All right, here we go. Six times. One, two, three, four, five, and six, Metz. There you go, Metz. We'll get the QuadJersey. Do a hit recap here. We had QuadJersey's to 99, went to the Metz in the random, Chapman, Hader, Janssen, and Diaz. More relics. We have Rockies, Bat to 50, Larry Walker, Angels, Patch to 35, Anthony Rendon, Royals, QuadJersey, 75, Salvador Perez, White Sox, Jersey to 50, Frank Thomas, Astros, QuadRock to 25, Jose Altuve, Cardinals, Patch to 35, Nullin Aranado, Nationals, QuadJersey to 75, Patrick Corbin. This is Rays, QuadJersey's to 99, Rosarena, Laubruhan, and Keirmeyer. Astros, Patch to 35, Michael Brantley, Phillies, QuadJersey to 99, Bryce Harper, Nationals, Rookie Jersey to 50, Josiah Gray. That's Red Sox, Patch to 10, Jackie Bradley Jr. Rays, QuadRelic to 99, Randy Rosarena, Red Sox, QuadRelic to 99, Raphael Devers, Braves, Patch to 25, John Smoltz, Yankees, QuadJersey to 75, DJ LaMahue, Braves, QuadRelic to 99, Danesby Swanson, Yankees, Jersey to 50, Corey Kluber. That's Astros, QuadRelic to 75, Michael Brantley, Cardinals, Dual Jersey to 50, Aranado Goldschmidt, Brea, I'm sorry, Brewers, Patch to 25, Christian Yelich, Dodgers, QuadJersey to 99, AJ Pollock, Padres, QuadJersey to 99, Will Myers, Marlins, Jersey to 50, Ichiro. That's Yankees, Triple Relic Otto, Alfonso Soriano, that was to 200. We had Redemption, Yankees, Single Player Signature, Triple Relic Otto, Aaron Judge, Brewers Otto to 250, Josh Hader. Oh, nice, Slogger, that's awesome. Congrats, man. Nice. Cardinals, Triple Relic Otto, Nolan Aranado, Aranado Otto to 199, that's Yankees, Rookie Otto to 299, Louis Skill, Cubs, Dual Jersey Otto, Nico Horner, that was to 50, Phillies, Triple Relic Otto, JT Real Muto, 399, Yankees, Triple Jersey Otto, Araldis Chapman, that was to 299, Brewers Otto to 150, Keston Hira, that's Blue Jays, Patch Otto to 15, Jose Barrios, Tigers, Rookie Otto to 199, Spencer Torkelson, Yankees, Dual Jersey Otto, Luis Severino to 299, that's Astros, Rookie Otto to 50, Chas McCormick, White Sox, Otto to 50, Eloy Jimenez, Brewers, Dual Bat Relic Otto, Keston Hira, 399, Reyes, Otto to 25, Tyler Glassnoud, that's Padres, Patch Otto to 15, Chris Paddock, White Sox, Dual Relic Otto, Andrew Vaughn to 25, we had my favorite card in the break, Cardinals, Black Frame Otto to 5, Nolan Aranotto, Royals, Rookie Otto to 199, Bobby Witt Jr., and Five of Five, this is Momentus Material, Dual Jumbo Patch, Autograph, Relic, Book Card, Giants, that was Buster Posey and Brandon Crawford, there you go, very, very good case, thank you everybody, appreciate it, we have Diamond Icons coming up next.


Is everybody in this room a public speaker? Yes or no?  For a living you guys all speak. Every single person in this room, I've talked to a lot of you, you're not very good at speaking. You don't understand that you get paid to speak for a living and honestly if I pulled you up here and I told you hey but teach the room everything you know you would learn you're not as good as speaking as you think you are. So what does that mean? That means your income is probably about 20% of what it could be if you could learn to speak better. Your goal is to get someone to admit that they have a problem without it being no big deal and that way you can say based on what you just told me this is something that we want to remove and we can do that and this is how I'm going to do it. You can't just be telling them what's wrong with them. What I learned in my early stages of sales is I was so good at selling and I got in their shoes and I knew what their problems were that I would tell them what their problems were and they never got to say it themselves. So in the close I knew that what I was saying was correct and so did they but they never said it and I was like god man why aren't they closing this is this is facts but it's because they never admitted it themselves. When you see your customer tell you something slow down and look at them right in the eye. Make sure they know at that moment when you're going to close that deal there is nothing more important in this world than them. Listen to me. Who creates the atmosphere in which the customer lives in? The salesman. What's it called? It's called transfer and motion making them feel the way you feel but it's called buyer management. Who's the buyer? The customer. Who's the one that is responsible for managing them? We are. It's our job to manage the buyer. Be so good that knows can't even exist in your atmosphere. Be so good that your energy is so infectious that people can't even say no to you because it makes them sick to tell you because they love who you are they love what you stand for and they love your product and most importantly they love you so much and you've done such a good job you've earned the right to ask for their business and it would be disrespectful to tell you know and even if they had something else they wanted to look at they would make an exception just one time to say yeah you know what Andy normally we don't do this but we're going to do this because of you. So in order to be the best in the world guess what and not get any no's you're going to become so good that there aren't even any objections to overcome at the end. When I talk to people if I want you to calm down I will calm you down if I want you to think about what I'm saying and demand your attention I'll slow down with my words I'll be very precise and I'll articulate them to a point to where every word is dangerous does that make sense slow down you guys want to close more deals when people start saying stuff instead of speeding up moving fast slow down make their ears work you hear me pull them into you and by the way people don't care about how much you know until they know how much you care.


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Hello and welcome to NewsClick. I am Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay and you are watching Present Past and the Future. Even before the newly elected Lok Sabha began transacting business, the government called a meeting of political parties to discuss holding parliamentary, state assembly and panchayat elections simultaneously. The slogan of one nation, one pole, has been on the BJP's agenda for two decades or more. In various arguments presented since then, there has been an unstated portrayal of elections as being unnecessary and unnecessary impediment or irritant. Elections are considered as hindering development of the country and an exercise that can be done without or at best hold them quickly and get over the process. To discuss whether the largest democracy in the world can become so dismissive about elections, I am joined by two very powerful independent voices. My first guest is Professor Jagdeep Chokar, wearer of many hats but here in our program as in the capacity of being a citizen activist who spent years trying to improve democracy and governance. My second guest is Ashutosh, well-known public figure who after a small stint in politics is back to where he should have always been there, that is journalism with us. Now like always I will present three thesis or propositions as my viewpoint, basically to open up the entire subject for discussion. And my first thesis is in the discourse pushed by the BJP and other backers of simultaneous polls, the emphasis has been on feasibility or how this can be done and not on its desirability. Now Professor Chokar to begin with you, you had also prepared an excellent working paper for the Hindu Center. You have studied the entire issue of simultaneous election in detail. Now politically why do you think is the BJP pushing this? What is there in it for it? Well not only the BJP I think every political party when it happens to be in a very strong position wants to or has this sometimes latent and sometimes obvious desire to perpetuate its rule. And it is I think with that in view that the current party in power seems to feel that they are now in a state when they can actually control the entire country. If you remember that the original proposal was parliament, state assemblies and panchayats as you rightly said, but over time panchayats have been forgotten. Now the discussion only is on state assemblies. In any case you know panchayat elections. It becomes news only when there is violence and then you can slam the opposition parties. Yes. And therefore that has been very quietly dropped and now nobody talks about it. So the idea is to have control of the parliament and state assemblies so that you can do what you like with the constitution. Ashutosh, now if I ask you you know that we recently had this meeting, so the Congress and the BSP, they decided that they will not go. Immediately you know it created a situation where the BSP and Congress did not come. That means that the big issues of the country which are being damaged in the country, they do not want to take part in it. Politically if we talk, then it was wrong to not go. You will remember that when the GST was going on, then it was called one nation, one market. So this nation word, the association behind this nation word or national word is being done on the whole country that we are doing anything for the nation, we are doing it for the country and so far people have not done anything for the nation and for the nation. The first thing is that the social party, the social party, the Congress party do not have any competition, they do not understand how the nation word is being damaged or the nation word narrative that is being done in this country, they do not have a cut or not. Because till now their politics was either about the nation or the caste, if it was about the country then maybe their politics was not like that. The third thing that is very important is that why is this debate or this narrative is being set. And for that we have to go into the thinking of BJP and RSS. Where they talk about the unitary form of government. And when I talk about the unitary form of government, when I talk about Golwalkar's book, it is also written that one politician, one legislature and one government. If you start defining it. Integral humanism is also the same thing. So you should be a politician at the level of the country. There should be only one parliament and only one government. This means that there is no need for the union that is established. And they feel that these different states, these different parties, in fact, the whole project of making a Hindu state is a huge hindrance in its way. And it is trying to end that diversity in a way. Otherwise I am not ready to believe it. You said that this is happening for two decades. The progress that took place in India after the 19th century, if we talk about the Arctic progress, the middle class of a big 30 crore class that has come in front of us, it happened in the last 25 years. In the development of Turkey, these coalition politics, or the ones that are being chosen again and again, where is the promise? It is not a promise. It is established that if we see the figures of GDP, then in the coalition era it is a very good question. And in fact, India did not have the progress when... From 6th January to 2014, it was established by the coalition government. Whether it was under Congress or in the U.P. 10 years ago, or 6th year before that. If you see that the biggest arctic reform that took place, Narsimha Rao said that he had 235 members in our parliament. That was also a coalition government. And India has made progress. The most poor thing was when there was a party in this country, it was a Congress system. There were also their governments in the state, there were also their governments. We were talking a bit about the history. So, let me actually present my second thesis, which is partly related with the past, and really when the story actually began, as the way they are trying to present the one nation, one pole thing. My second proposition is that when Lok Sabha and assembly elections went out of sync in the late 1960s, it was not a negative development. Instead, it indicated that India's pluralistic policy was emerging out of the shadows of post-colonial politics. Now, this was the kind of politics which gave a huge advantage to the Congress for having been the vanguard of the freedom struggle. Now, this is what I am saying. It is said that 67 is supposed to be the very bad year. This is different. Today, there is a debate on the basis of the facts. First of all, if it goes out of sync, then it happened in Kerala in 1960. In 1977, the Communist Party of India's government came. At that time, the Congress, the Nehru government, destabilized it and made mid-term elections in Kerala in 1960. Second instance, in 1957, the 57th election in Odisha, it created a situation, Professor Chokar, where the Congress did not have a majority. So, it had to form a coalition government with a right-wing party called the Ganadantra Parishad or the Democratic Council. Now, this government also could not last the entire five-year tenure as a result of which mid-term elections were held in 1961. Fair enough. You know, not much of a gap between 61 and 62. But if you are actually trying to debate such a major issue, you cannot say 67 was the bad year. 67 is the problem time when all problems started in this country. What is the problem if there are repeated elections? We have already talked about. First of all, this repeated elections is actually a bogey. Elections happen in one state once in five years. And Lok Sabha election happens in the same state once in five years. So every state... Maybe it gets shortened at times if the government is unstable. That's a... those are exceptions. Average is every state... If a party is unable to run the government, anywhere it will change. It will happen. But I... one assumes that most parties and most governments will last five years. So the constitutional scheme is there is one state assembly election in a state in five years. And there is one Lok Sabha election in a state in every five years. So every state only has two elections every five years. Where is this... every day there is election. I mean, ultimately, there are 29 states. So 29 state assembly elections will happen once in five years. And Lok Sabha... I mean, I don't understand where does this... Every day there is an election that's coming from. Number one. Number two. I mean, I'm saying there is not a plethora of elections. The number of elections is the same. Number two. Elections and development have been made polar opposites. As if elections have been made polar opposites. As if election is, as you rightly said, impediment to development. And if there are elections, development cannot happen. So the best solution then is not to have elections at all. So we should always be working for development. That is what... This is also a bogey. Yeah, you know, Ashutosh... If there is a sentiment, you know, especially... You talked about the middle class. I remember I was a... My political understanding came up in the aftermath of the years around emergency. There is a certain constituency in the country which feels that this democracy is actually a... You know, a very irritating affair. It's better to have a dictatorial and authoritarian kind of a government. What is this fatalist attraction of the middle classes towards some kind of an anti-democratic... I don't think middle class has any problem with the democracy. Middle class doesn't have any problem with the democracy. The problem is with the narrative which the government wants to set. And the kind of control it has over the media. That's where the things come from. So any narrative which wants to come from the top, it comes and it gets into the mind of the people. There is no counter-narrative. There is no way that you can counter this narrative. That's the unfortunate part of it. See, I fully agree with Professor that there is... If you are talking in terms of democracy and the development, and if the priority is the development, then there should not be democracy in this country. But the issue is... The issue is if you see any country which is prospered, developed and became a superpower, almost all the countries had gone through the process of democracy. Whether you take the example of... USA, you take the example of UK, France, Germany, every country. Germany for some time it has experimented differently. So I think this whole narrative is to kill the democratic process in this country. Point number two, I think this election happening all the time, it creates politician and the government always on the toes. No, I think that's a very important point. It always keeps on the toes that you have to deliver. If you do not deliver, you will not come back again. In the last 20 years, if you see, the government which has delivered economically, those government had come back. Like you see in Delhi, Silaadikshad government was for 15 years. In Assam, for 15 years, in the... Even the Manvarn Singh government... It was voted... It was voted back despite 2008, 2006, 11. So that means the people, they want to take the democracy, they believe in democracy, and if any government which is delivering, it's coming back. So I don't understand from where this narrative is coming. This narrative has an ulterior motive. I have no agitation in saying this. So basically what Ashutosh is trying to say, is that there are certain system of checks and balances, which are inbuilt. Even if we look at our entire Constituent Assembly debates, when we had this debate over, whether we should have one house or two houses, Rajesh Abba was basically introduced, primarily with the intention, that legislations and laws passed in a hurry, in a state of passion, should not become permanent laws of this country. That is why the Rajesh Abba was set up to take a more reasoned view of that. Similarly, if we have a state election, being out of sync with the parliament elections, it gives an opportunity to ensure that wave elections do not set the political, do not actually settle things, everything for the next five years. It is possible like for instance, in 84, the elections which were held after the assassination of Indira Gandhi, was a highly unnatural election. No government ever in the past or after that, has ever been able to come to power with such kind of a 400 plus kind of a majority. So, there definitely are unnatural mandates, which needs to be corrected. Which is why you argued in the paper that this is what should be continued, that we should continue to have separation of Lok Sabha and assembly elections, as and when it happens. This is not the only reason. What happened in 1960 or 67 or whenever, was not a deliberate attempt to change the simultaneity of elections. No, it happened because of the... No, no, no, I'll tell you. It happened because of the evolution and maturity of our polity. In the process of evolution and maturity, certain undesirable things also happened. They happened, the elections started happening, but one has to understand that part 16 of the constitution, if I'm right, is on these states. These states have independent, more or less autonomous existence under the constitution. They are constitutional entities to force fit them with the calendar of a larger entity, which is the Lok Sabha, is absolutely unnatural and wrong. And when people say one nation, one election, I often tell people that there is one nation, one election. There is one parliament for the nation and there is one election. So one election does not mean that, you know, every municipality election will also happen. It is not the same thing. Somebody was joking, you know, that why leave out resident welfare associations from the central lot, you might as well have the same thing. After all, that is what you had referred to, you know. The RSS credo is actually a Chalak Anuvartitva, which is follow one leader. So let's have a leader every day. The basic point is, this is a back door attempt to bring in a presidential form of government where the entire authority lies in the president. Right. Now, I have no problem. And the president rules through his proxies in states. That once you are a president, then you take care of everything. I have no problem with the presidential form of government. But my only contention is, if we want to do that, let us say that and discuss that and do that. And let's have a discussion on that. On that. Let's not actually try to bring it to the back. No, no, to say that elections cost money and that money can go into development. I think it is the most painful statement. In fact, we have just touched upon, you know, my third thesis, which I am just going to present, which is that efforts of political parties should be to provide the most effective democracy and not the least expensive. Moreover, no one in any state can be deprived of having a representative government. Ashutosh, this entire argument costs too much money. If in a democracy, elections, you don't spend money for elections or to improve democracy, what are you going to present, you know, spend money on? But I find it, sir. You know, it's a weird debate. It's a question. How much is it being spent? No, no, I want to ask that how much money does it take? The government never tells me that how much is it worth? Excuse me, I will interrupt. People say that it costs so much to run a parliament and the parliament doesn't run properly. It's just a solution. That's exactly what I am saying. Is it worth 1.5 lakh crores to run a parliament? Or is it worth 2 lakh crores? Who is spending it? How do they get it? It must be worth 1,000 crores. And I don't need to take the name of the party because I don't need to take the name of the party. How do they get it? They also need to say it. The second thing is that they get it from the electoral bond.  They get it officially from the electoral bond, but they don't get it from the government. You are saying that the bond money, what about the un-bond money? But what you have said is that if the people in this country want to stay alive, then whatever its value is, it must be paid to this country. I mean, money should not be a barrier, money should not be an excuse. You are talking about the presidential farm-up government. You are talking about the presidential farm-up government in this country. I don't have any problem. But in the presidential farm-up government in America, the states in there are more autonomous. They have more residual powers. And the president there is basically a person who seems the most powerful in the world, but America is not the most powerful in the world. He has to compete with the chairmen of the different multinational companies. He has to compete with the different governors of the states. And in fact, governors in the states in America is more powerful. If they want to have that kind of a government, I have no problem with that. But let them say that. I'm saying they don't want to bring a presidential farm-up of the government. They want to, they want to condemn this democracy and the unitary farm-up of the government. That's what I'm saying. There are presidential farms of government of different types. Ashutosh had just mentioned the US. There is also a presidential farm-up government in Turkey. There is also a presidential farm-up government in the Philippines. There are multiple models of presidential farm-up government. There is not one thing. But the point is to prevent any alternative thinking is the objective. I was in a television program on the same issue. And one participant said, the, the, the problem is that even on one nation, one pole, if you are critical of it, if what we are discussing, three of us here, if we actually say it from a wider platform, you'd immediately be depicted as being against development of the country. So are we moving into a situation where, you know, we use these phrases, you know, that we are heading towards becoming an electoral authoritarian system? Yeah, we could be. I mean, electoral or non-electoral. Elections will continue. Yet we are authoritarian. No, no, elections are no election. Authoritative system of government is the objective. But let me also say, I mean, it has been three years when the debate has been raging. And I have been on something like 16 to 20 discussion seven hours. Everywhere people say, at least let us discuss. Why are you objective to discussion? In the DD News, I said recently that I am here only to discuss. I am not saying don't discuss. In a discussion program, you're not supposed to discuss. You're supposed to agree. But nation is subject to discussion. So if you oppose it, that means you're against the nation. I want to focus on one thing. Pranam Mukherjee, when he was a president, he supported one nation, one country. He set this in a presidential election. In the presidential election? In the republic day. In the republic day period, which is written by the government. After demitting office, he said that it is impractical. But he also said that this is non-representative. What he also suggested, and I think a lot of people have also said, the problem is basically with the model code of conduct. We are discussing the model code of conduct. There is no problem with the model code of conduct, sir. Those who have read the model code of conduct know. It says nothing except that every political party will observe the law of the land as it exists. This is all there is. No, it says that the work is closed. You have said it theoretically. We are talking practically. The model code of conduct. The government gave the farmers 6,000 rupees before the election. It didn't even announce that it would be given. It gave it in retrospective effect. So, if you want to validate the model code of conduct, then there is no problem. There is no problem at all. I can tell you in a better way about the model code of conduct. Because I covered it in the TN session. Where is it written in the model code of conduct that the stated policies cannot be implemented if the elections are going on? Absolutely. Secondly, if there is something important to be done, then the model code of conduct doesn't come anywhere. And I remember that there was an issue regarding the agrarian culture policy. Mr. Amiz Gil was the chief election commissioner there. And he took it to the court. The court said that if you want to implement policies, these doles are being given. Give 2000 rupees, 3,000 rupees, 4,000 rupees. The only purpose of which is to influence the citizens for their party's sake. If there are people sitting on the election commission who are like the Gandhari of Patty Bandar. And who have considered the whole country as a traitor. That no one is watching. That you will make the elections of Himachal Pradesh at one time and the elections of Gujarat later. And the doles of 10,000 crore rupees will be given to Gujarat people. At that time, was the election commission sleeping? Or when Rahul Gandhi will get a statement about the binar, then you will remain quiet. And here, for 30 seconds, when the election commission was asked that the third election commissioner who gave a minority opinion, why do you want to publicize it? They say that their life is in danger. Who is in danger? Actually, this time, see that people have been elected. Right now, in October and November, Maharashtra, Jharkhand and Haryana are going to be elected. In Delhi, there is a due in February 2020. If there was only one nation, one pole, then okay, the common man party's government is in Delhi, so don't shake it. But your own government, Maharashtra, Jharkhand and... Sir, Raj Sabha, why are you doing it? Why don't you advance it? See, Raj Sabha's government is doing it again and again. They are empty together. So there is no one nation, one pole. There is a technical matter, right? But why are you doing it? Why are you doing it? But, we have done it in a short period of time. We have done it in a short period of time. I'll tell you one more thing. I have written that one nation, one election is not going to happen. We have not done it in the constitution. It is going to be flagged all the time to say that the people who are opposed to it are anti-national. No, we have not done it in the constitution. If I have written today that if all the political parties agree, it will not happen either. Because it will not happen without the constitution. The number of amendments which have to be made is not feasible. Those amendments in totality will be stuck down by the Supreme Court under the basic structure. So this is not going to happen. But it is good to discuss. You wanted to say something. I want to say that without saying anything, the Supreme Court can change the basic structure concept. I hope that Supreme Court will not do that. I think till the time we get any evidence, we should not say that this is what Supreme Court is likely to do. I think we should tell the time that there is... It is within the domain to change it. It is within there. But till the time I do not think that we should flag it. I have no problem. Let them change it. But let them change it. It will happen, it will happen, it will happen, it will happen. It will not happen like this. Well, I think... Thank you. It has been a very fruitful discussion. The problem is that those campaigning for simultaneous polls depict those opposing as being against India's development and progress. From a time when pluralism was a matter of pride, it is all about unitarism, political, ethnic and cultural. One nation is the common prefix. The suffixes change. One people, one culture, one flag, one tax, one election and one verdict. Suddenly diversity is being presented as hurdle to unity and strength lies only being in a single file. We hope this discussion enabled you to understand why simultaneous polls will undermine the federal character of our constitution. Thank you.