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Havok and LX sit down with Evan Jaqua, globe-trotting founder of the Solutions Party, for an unscripted wrestling match over the oldest political drug of all: power. After 20 years in Japan, time in communist China, and two decades in South America, Evan came home convinced career politicians, rage-bait news, and immortal parties are the common denominator behind government failure everywhere. His fix is blunt: one term, no reelection, no running for the next office while you serve. Then he stacks on temporary parties, certified journalism with a National Press Fund, five-year government jobs with efficiency bounties, and a worldwide war on corruption that starts at the local bid table. The two bearded guys do what they do best: push back hard. How do you get the people extracting wealth from power to vote it away? Who audits the auditors? Why would voters suddenly agree on anything? And isn’t government itself the tumor? Evan answers with Lincoln, Thomas Sowell, Carroll Quigley, Putin-as-plumber thought experiments, and a stubborn faith that people are sick of the Kool-Aid. No scripts. No sacred cows. Just tomatoes in space and a long conversation about whether democracy can still reach its “majestic potential.”

Guest: Evan Jaqua • solutionsparty.org • info@solutionsparty.org 00:00 Welcome back + the two bearded guys

01:14 What is the Solutions Party?

02:27 The human brain and the most addictive drug: power

04:29 Small doses spread apart: one term only

06:07 “You’re asking the powerful to undo themselves”

08:22 Vote for candidates who pledge one term (Lincoln did)

10:41 The system is working exactly as designed

11:32 Manufactured division and the lunch-menu problem

14:24 Journalism became emotion-manipulation entertainment

17:00 The pen as national defense

18:29 Real consequences when politicians lie

19:28 How do you enforce a one-term promise?

21:24 Thomas Sowell, X conversations, and getting past the rage wall

22:44 First Amendment vs journalistic integrity (Assange & laptops)

25:16 Certification, Rotten-Tomatoes ratings, and the National Press Fund

29:40 Who audits the auditors? Human bias is real

32:17 Two news cycles vs the 24/7 clickbait machine

35:07 Funding journalism without Bezos or the state

39:13 Should the graders be volunteers or paid?

41:50 Fourth-rate salesmen and the sacred responsibility

45:47 “We don’t even choose who gets on the ticket”

47:24 Temporary political parties (Washington warned us)

48:30 Abolish the tents entirely vs keep them short-lived

53:17 Five-year government jobs and efficiency commissions

54:44 Milton Friedman, baboons, and the Sahara Desert

57:05 Lessons from Japan, China, and Peru

59:46 A worldwide war on corruption (without global police)

1:07:20 Government as tumor vs politicians as the problem

1:13:35 Public lobbying, no corporate capture, live under a microscope

1:24:15 Shout-out: Carroll Quigley’s Evolution of Civilizations

1:26:38 Where to find Evan and the first step

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