Interview with Matt Cole, CEO of Strive Asset Management

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Strive Asset Management is a newly-formed asset management firm with $1 billion in assets under management, an impressive milestone crossed in September 2023 for such a young company, founded in 2022, by Vivek Ramaswamy, a rising star in the Republican Party. 

Strive's CEO Matt Cole spent time with me to talk about Strive's approach to investing. Some call the approach anti-woke or anti-ESG. The ESG (environmental, social, governance) push is largely driven by Black Rock's Larry Fink and World Economic Forum's Klaus Schwab -- ironically, two white guys fighting for social justice and equity so white guys don't rule the world.  We talk about the controversies around ESG; the lost debate around fossil fuels; the position of the left that their view of climate science is incontrovertible.  We also talk about the ESG value system, which is a new faith-based morality that Schwab articulates in his book The Great Narrative. 

Unequally Yoked Episode 9 - Obama's epistemological crisis plus the case for Judeo-Christian faith

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Obama says we're entering an epistemological crisis. But we may already be in one. This crisis is fueled by Obama and Trump. Both men with larger-than-life egos plus animus and jealousy toward one another play a big role in the distortion reality. The two promulgate division just like warring parents having a divorce and spewing their own version of truth. Obama can help this crisis because he's eloquent and communicate effectively. Here's my advice for him. Plus book reading of Chapter 6: The case for Judeo-Christian faith (pages 141-151)

Obama was recently interviewed about his new memoir when he made an arousing observation: “If we do not have the capacity to distinguish what’s true from what’s false, then by definition the marketplace of ideas doesn’t work. And by definition our democracy doesn’t work. We are entering into an epistemological crisis.”   

Epistemology is the perfect ten dollar word for the crisis. When history is written, we could indeed have different versions of truth depending on which news channels, newspapers or books historians use as reference. Yet the New York Times has already rewritten history with its 1619 Project, claiming the one we know is false so at closer inspection Obama might have been more perspicacious if he recognized that the crisis he speaks of has already been well entered into. Despite many believing the reality distortion started when Donald Trump became president,  Obama had a hand in shaping this. Like a social stealth bomber, he is hard to see coming as he eloquently glides in to deliver his rhetorical payload. It is in the aftermath that the carnage becomes visible. Trump takes the blame for a situation of Obama’s making.   

Unequally Yoked Episode 8 - BLM and COVID; The epistemological crisis driven by the left

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The Left's dogmatic and pious positions will be their undoing and will push more people to embrace conservatism. What are those dogmatic positions? - social justice is the path to salvation and we have to repent of our "whiteness" The left is forcing these conversions by justifying violence in the name of social justice and indoctrinating society through critical race theory and implicit bias training. Those pushing these dogmatic views are today's modern-day pharisees. This is an epistemological crisis because the postmodern woke religion has a very fluid definition of truth and goodness. Epistemology is the study of knowledge and determining truth from false or fact from opinion. Hence the crisis. I explain how they're using this fluid definition to define violence and then project violence on Trump, the police and others who don't agree with them. Plus Reading of pages 131-144

The Left's dogmatic and pious positions will be their undoing and push more people to embrace conservatism.

What are those dogmatic positions?
- social justice is the path to salvation and we have to repent of our "whiteness"

The left is forcing these conversions by justifying violence in the name of social justice and indoctrinating society through critical race theory and implicit bias training. Those pushing these dogmatic views are today's modern-day pharisees.  

This is an epistemological crisis because the postmodern woke religion has a very fluid definition of truth and goodness. Epistemology is the study of knowledge and determining truth from false or fact from opinion. Hence the crisis. 

I explain how they're using this fluid definition to define violence and then projecting violence on Trump, the police and others who don't agree with them. 

Unequally Yoked Episode 7 - BLM and COVID; Threat to democracy is the dishonest media”

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Pages read: 120 to 132 1) The biggest threat to our democracy: -- Constitution and election dishonesty -- Media malpractice 2) False claims -- Trump is racist because he called Mexicans Racist (pg. 87) -- Trump didn't denounce White Supremacists in Charlottesville (pg. 63-65) -- Rampant shootings of unarmed black Americans by police officers (pg. 128-131) 3) Election overtime! But it's not over until it's over! One cannot unequivocally say there was no voter fraud during an election year with historic turnout. 4) A look at media malpractice: how media is dismissing voter fraud. 5) Ibram Kendi's absurd expansion of the definition of racism, this time including "personal responsibility." The real definition of racism - though not said - is anyone who doesn't vote Democrat and who doesn't say there is systemic racism and who doesn't admit to being racist against blacks.

Unequally Yoked Episode 7 - BLM and COVID; Threat to democracy is the dishonest media

Unequally Yoked Episode 6 -BLM and COVID (start of chapter); Election update

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Six points about the election: 1) Whatever the outcome - HOPE 2) Silver lining - Senate; historic judiciary wins 3) Interesting results 4) We remain deeply divided 5) Threat left-leaning media is the threat to democracy 6) Systemic racism narrative will persist regardless of who's in office because it's big business and because it keeps the indulgences alive and coming. Pages read: 107-121

Reading of pages 107-121

Six points about the election:

1) We’re heading to the Supreme Court - but whatever the outcome - HOPE
2) Silver lining - Senate; historic judiciary wins
3) Interesting results
4) We remain deeply divided
5) Threat left-leaning media is the threat to democracy
6) Systemic racism narrative will persist regardless of who's in office because it's big business and because it keeps the indulgences alive and coming.

Unequally Yoked Episode 5 - The Crossfire Era - Deconstructing Amy Cooper story

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Overview of the main takeaways of the book: 1) Ad hominem attacks (mainly around racism) due to media-enabled coup that's tried to take Donald Trump down with a deeply entrenched false narrative 2) We are a nation that presupposes a Supreme Being; an absolute adjudicator of justice and truth; We live under the moral laws under God and the governing laws of man 3) We created a moral void by taking away prayer from schools circa 1960s 4) What people get wrong about Christians 5) Solutions: How do we move forward and find overlap with those we disagree with? Reading of pages 93-106

Reading of pages 93-106, which includes segments on the "Media's pet causes", "Graceum est; non legitu" (It's all Greek to me); "Guilt Peddling" - a deconstruction of the Amy Cooper dog walking incident 

Overview of the main takeaways of the book:
1) Ad hominem attacks (mainly around racism) due to media-enabled coup that's tried to take Donald Trump down with a deeply entrenched false narrative that he is the embodiment of evil
2) We are a nation that presupposes a Supreme Being; an absolute adjudicator of justice and truth; We live under the moral laws under God and the governing laws of man

3) We created a moral void by taking away prayer from schools circa 1960s

4) What people get wrong about Christians

5) Solutions: How do we move forward and find overlap with those we disagree with?


Unequally Yoked Episode 3 - The False Narrative part 3

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Reading from page 66 to 81 (ending Chapter 3 - The False Narrative and starting into Chapter 4 - The Crossfire Era). Brief overview of our different worldviews distilled down to being inherently good or inherently broken. How the Democrats are propagating a false narrative to bring people to their party's view: we're all inherently good and the governing system and institutions are flawed and intentionally racist, creating a good and evil moral polarity. Plus why Judge Amy Coney Barrett is not racist, though you'd think she is due to media's coverage her during her Supreme Court confirmation hearings this week. www.unequallyyoked.com/

Reading from page 66 to 81 (ending Chapter 3 - The False Narrative and starting into Chapter 4 - The Crossfire Era).

Brief overview of our different worldviews distilled down to being inherently good or inherently broken. How the Democrats are propagating a false narrative to bring people to their party's view: we're all inherently good and the governing system and institutions are flawed and intentionally racist, creating a good and evil moral polarity.

Plus why Judge Amy Coney Barrett is not racist, though you'd think she is due to media's coverage her during her Supreme Court confirmation hearings this week.

www.unequallyyoked.com/

Unequally Yoked Episode 2 - The False Narrative part II

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A reading of the book Unequally Yoked and the making of the false narrative; plus discussion of polarizing issues like racism. https://www.unequallyyoked.com/

The foundation of the two polarized worldviews. A look at Rousseau and Hobbes as well as a reading of Chapter 3 from the book Unequally Yoked. Plus discussion and Q&A with attendees during the live reading.