00:30:51.180Right, and allowing these Chinese patriots to share information, right, so that they can organize their peaceful and brave protest against the abusive CCP.
00:31:01.060Look, there was a time, Steve, regarding big business, there was a time in America when there was a phrase that was very common that what's good for General Motors is good for America.
00:31:07.880And that was actually largely true because big businesses were guided not just by profits, but also by patriotic responsibility to the country.
00:31:16.380We have the exact opposite situation right now, where big businesses, not only are they not patriots, they are, in fact, fully enmeshed with the Chinese Communist Party.
00:31:25.160And because of that alliance with the Chinese Communist Party, big business primarily acts antithetically to the interests of the United States.
00:31:34.040And we see that in a very specific case right here, where Apple is literally acting against not just the interests of the United States, but also acting against the interests of these brave freedom fighters in China.
00:31:46.480Now, why? Because Apple is totally beholden to the CCP, and that is the unfortunate and sad reality.
00:31:52.560Now, what do we do about that from a policy perspective?
00:31:55.960Well, when these companies will no longer act patriotically, we have to punish them.
00:31:59.740We have to punish them financially with policy.
00:32:02.900They should be facing harsh financial sanctions for offshoring, for acting the manner that Apple is right now.
00:32:08.920That's the reality, and I hope that this incoming J.P. House realizes the immediacy of what's going on and the urgency of this situation.
00:32:47.520You've got a White House that's complicit.
00:32:49.420You've got corporations that are complicit.
00:32:51.760You've got the global elites that are complicit.
00:32:55.800Nobody's standing up for Lao Bajing right now, except for War Room and some of the patriots here in the United States that understand how these dots connect.
00:33:03.240Well, and by the way, in terms of connecting the dots, let's also connect this to the economy, both in China and here in the United States, because these protests are, of course, erupting primarily because of the tyranny of the CCP and what it has done via these just vicious lockdowns to the Chinese people.
00:33:16.920But clearly, also feeding the anxiety of Chinese citizens is a massively weakening economy, but particularly there in China.
00:33:26.720And to prove this point, if we can pull up the chart, I'd like to show shipping rates.
00:33:31.140And this is shipping rates from Shanghai through Los Angeles, perhaps the most important shipping route in the entire world right now.
00:33:37.640Those shipping rates during the lockdowns, of course, tanked.
00:33:41.420They then, because of pent-up demands in late 2020, started to absolutely soar.
00:33:48.000But what has happened in recent months?
00:33:50.060Shipping rates for a container across the ocean from Shanghai to Los Angeles have absolutely collapsed.
00:33:56.780And chart one shows that it's actually now about one-sixth the price to ship a container, a 40-foot container, from Shanghai to Los Angeles, as it was just a matter of months ago.
00:34:09.460On the U.S. side, on our side of the Pacific, the U.S. consumer is massively weakened because of Joe Biden's inflation.
00:34:16.060And we know this by a variety of metrics, including consumer confidence, also exploding credit card debt.
00:34:20.960So the U.S. consumer is largely tapped, so a lack of demand on this side of the Pacific.
00:34:25.680On the Chinese side of the Pacific, its disastrous zero-COVID policy has meant a tremendous difficulty, if not halt, to predominantly on the Chinese side of the Pacific.
00:34:38.200All of that resulting, those two forces together resulting in shipping rates absolutely collapsing.
00:34:43.740So the economic is also very much part of this protest, this burgeoning protest, this freedom movement, what we hope is ultimately going to be a revolutionary populist movement in China against the CCP.
00:34:55.680Can we pull up, if Denver can pull up that chart just one more time, I want to make sure you explain this to our podcast, our enormous podcast and radio audience that's not watching on the streaming services that Real America's Voice are good or these others.
00:35:08.500Walk them through what that chart shows because it, and then I'm going to put up the Drudge front page where we're going to connect some dots.
00:35:15.580This is, and this is why this lame duck is so important.
00:35:20.200You're about to see a 2023 that ain't going to start off well as far as the economy goes, Steve Cortez.
00:35:32.880When the shipping containers drop in a free fall like that, what does it mean?
00:35:37.020Right, and this is important, by the way.
00:35:39.100So that is a chart of the rate to ship a container, a 40-foot container, the standard shipping metric for the world, from Shanghai to the Los Angeles port, from the busiest ports in the world to the busiest port in the United States.
00:35:51.860That chart goes back just over 10 years.
00:35:54.140Now, you saw a massive spike in late 2020.
00:35:57.740Because there was so much pent-up demand because of the lockdowns globally, including here in the United States.
00:36:02.940So because of that demand, you saw a very unnatural spike, and it would actually be, Steve, a good thing for that number to very gradually, the container rate to very gradually come back down to a more normal rate.
00:36:15.680Instead, we've seen a collapse, which is even more violent than the previous ascent in shipping rates.
00:36:21.740And this collapse, again, is happening because on the U.S. side of the Pacific, we have a consumer that is completely in a corner because of Biden's inflation.
00:36:34.200On the Chinese side, you have massive problems with production, with producing these goods because of the zero-COVID tyranny of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:36:42.220So the trend, anyone looking at the chart can see the trend is not our friend right now.
00:36:47.580The trend projects that we are going to have a terrible 2023 after a very poor 2022 economically in the world, including here in the United States.
00:36:58.320So to your point, Steve, the urgency for the incoming House GOP, urgency is acute.
00:37:07.000We really, I mean, more than I can even express, we need the House GOP to address the economic crisis that deepens in this country and, in fact, in the world, most of it caused by the terrible economic mismanagement of Joe Biden as reflected in that chart.
00:37:21.960I want to put up, I want to put up, can we put up the Drudge Mac Daddy and get that at Denver?
00:37:29.580I want you, Steve, look at this audience and explain to our podcast audience what we're looking at here of Drudge, both the Mac Daddy, which is always the one above the Drudge headline, but then in the upper left where he puts a mini stack.
00:37:39.720I want you to kind of give the audience what they are and then connect dots for me.
00:37:44.960Well, listen, what's important here, I think, is even Drudge, which is a website that used to be really valuable, not so much anymore, especially if you're of our philosophical bent.
00:37:54.420It is anything but MAGA or America First or populist nationalists.
00:37:57.980But even Drudge here recognizes the risks to the global economy.
00:38:01.700What we have going on right now, Steve, for the first time, it's literally never happened since China emerged as a major economic power two decades ago because of the Washington Uniparty insistence that it be allowed into the WTO, the World Trade Organization, on terms that were incredibly beneficial to China and terrible for American workers.
00:38:20.880Since that time, we have not had a recession in all major economies in the world at once, meaning Europe, the United States and China.
00:38:29.800Now, all three economic centers of the world right now in synchronicity are crashing into the economic ditch.
00:38:37.580And the risks of that confluence, the risks are hard to overstate.
00:40:01.060We want you to be the manufacturing powerhouse.
00:40:03.280Only a couple of years later did the Clinton and Bob Rubin group, along with the Bushes, give them a most favored nation, World Trade Organization, what, seven or eight years later.
00:40:14.380The last time the Chinese people rose up, it was the U.S. government, along with all their global partners, that told the CCP, which was about to collapse, that we have your back.
00:40:26.500And then allowed them, they actually were the co-partners in building the China model for the slave labor in China.
00:40:35.580That's how we got the world situation we have today.
00:40:42.340And by the way, let me contrast that with our intervention in Ukraine.
00:40:45.380And what I mean by that is I get criticized quite a bit for talking so much about the CCP and some folks who are very America first, perhaps even isolationist in terms of foreign policy, criticized me for being adventurous or neocon.
00:40:58.280OK, my point is Ukraine is immaterial to the United States, and that conflict would not matter if we would actually just leave it alone.
00:41:04.700But what happens in China matters enormously for the United States because of the degree to which, you're exactly right, the degree to which the U.S. ruling class completely sold out to the Chinese Communist Party and, in doing so, eviscerated the production capacity of the American people, particularly American industrial workers.
00:41:25.840So it matters enormously to the domestic prosperity and health of the United States directly.
00:44:43.600So, you have to balance, and you do it in real time, depending upon the viral load of disease in your region, whether, you know, the upper northeast may be quite different from the southwest, from the Pacific coast, from the upper northwest.
00:44:58.460So, you have to have the local authorities evaluate on a situation-by-situation basis the potential collateral deleterious effects with the effects of what might happen if you have so many kids getting infected.
00:45:11.760What happens is that if you look at the anti-China approach that clearly the Trump administration had right from the very beginning, and the accusatory nature, the Chinese are going to flinch back and say, you know, I'm sorry, we're not going to talk to you about it, which is not correct.
00:45:28.300But they're not talking to the Biden administration about it either.
00:45:31.560I think that horse is out of the barn, and they're very suspicious of anybody trying to accuse them.
00:45:37.140We need to have an open dialogue with their scientists and our scientists, keep the politics out of it, and let the scientists, because these are scientists that we've known for decades, that the Chinese, not necessarily the scientists that we know and we have dealt with and collaborated with productively for decades,
00:45:58.940But the whole establishment of political and other establishment in China, even when there's nothing at all to hide, they act secretive, which absolutely triggers an appropriate suspicion of like, what the heck is going on over there?
00:46:16.720So right now, what we would really like to know is all of the details of what went on with the original people who were infected.
00:46:25.180We keep a completely open mind as to what the origin is.
00:46:29.880Having said that, if you look at the examination by highly qualified international scientists with no political agendas, they've published in peer-reviewed journals that the evidence is quite strong that this is a natural occurrence.
00:46:47.300Does that mean we've ruled out that there was something funny going on at Leek?
00:46:51.120I think absolutely, and I and all of my colleagues keep an absolutely open mind.
00:46:56.800We've got to investigate every possibility because this is too important not to do that.
00:47:03.400By the way, CBS and NBC beclown themselves even more.
00:47:20.780He spent months trying to cover up what he had done.
00:47:23.660Natalie, this speaks so much to the problems we have in this country, and this is why the media's approval rating is, I don't know, 10%, 11%.
00:47:33.600She sits there like a bump in the log, nodding her head.
00:47:37.160Not one tough question, not one tough follow-on, Natalie Winters.
00:47:41.900So the entire interview is about 20 to 30 minutes, and I had such difficulty pulling some of the best clips from Anthony Fauci
00:47:49.200because, really, the entire interview is just an effort to, I think, really whitewash the sins of Fauci's actions at the NIH.
00:47:57.960But of those highlights that we pulled, I think it's really interesting.
00:48:01.000I love the framing of it, how he begins the interview claiming that he's not political and that he never has been.
00:48:07.880But then he goes on to not only make, obviously, very political statements about the Republican Party and Trump and the anti-China movement and school lockdowns,
00:48:17.100but he also sort of reveals that his entire COVID calculus in terms of uncovering the origins was political in the sense that he didn't want to offend the Chinese Communist Party.
00:48:30.060The same Chinese Communist Party, which you can see there's a moment where he says, you know, we've been partners with them for years,
00:48:37.880but then he sort of realizes what he says, so he takes a step back and he says, these are the ones that we've collaborated, quote, productively with, you know, not the politicians, not the regime itself.
00:48:49.260But that right there is saying the quiet part out loud.
00:48:51.580We know that Anthony Fauci has really been the leading voice leading the crusade over at NIAID to collaborate with the Chinese Communist Party,
00:48:59.280not just in Wuhan, but really all these labs across the country.
00:49:04.040But I think this is the final interview. I mean, I've obviously known this for a while, but it's so in your face.
00:49:09.760And I really think that it solidifies that Anthony Fauci should go, I think, down really in the trash bin of history,
00:49:17.500really is another figure in D.C. who's just like a lot of these people who kind of reared their ugly heads during the first impeachment of Donald Trump.
00:49:25.920Right. The Alexander Vindmans, the Marie Yovanovitch types who love to masquerade under this false pretense and this false facade of nonpartisanship and not being political actors.
00:49:38.200But they have an agenda. And in the case of Anthony Fauci, as he said, it was to cover for the Chinese Communist Party,
00:49:45.480but also on the political side of things, really to undercut Donald Trump, because he did not like that he took a, quote, anti-China approach.
00:49:55.320Yeah. Hang over a second. I'm going to ask you and Cortez, please.
00:49:58.900I know you're busy, but just stay through to the next break because I want to get your assessment and I want to get back to you on that.
00:50:05.840But if Fauci had been truly a man of science and truly a man in a search for truth, the individuals that burned to death welded into that apartment complex would have never happened.
00:50:16.460This would have all been outed in the CCP. The sins of the CCP would have all come to light back in 2020 and 2021.
00:50:24.840This is it's inextricably linked. Those Chinese patriots on the street, they're all going to be rounded up and put in prison.
00:50:31.260OK, that's on Anthony Fauci and the people that were burned alive, welded into because of the severe lockdowns.
00:50:38.220That's on Fauci, too. That lion scumbag, OK, is at the heart of much of what has happened here because he didn't.
00:50:45.640He was a chief science advisor. He did not come forward and say what he knew about the gain of function, about Wuhan lab,
00:50:52.060about the gun decking by the Chinese officials, all of it and the truth about lockdowns, mass vaccine, all of it, all of it.
00:50:59.680And it's all coming out. This is the great fight ahead of us.
00:51:04.140OK, Fauci, you ain't seen nothing yet.
00:51:11.260Natalie Winters, Steve Cortez, going to stick around for a few minutes.
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