WarRoom Battleground EP 261： The Undermining Of European Democracies
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Former Treasury Secretary and host of the Monica Crowley Podcast, Monica Crowley, joins me to discuss the results of the mid-term election and the implications for the future of the world's most important economic and political reserve currency, the dollar.
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this is what you're fighting for I mean every day you're out there what they're doing is blowing
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people off if you continue to look the other way and shut up then the oppressors the
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authoritarians get total control and total power because this is just like in Arizona this is just
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like in Georgia it's another element that backs them into a quarter and shows their lies and
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misrepresentations is why this audience is going to have to get engaged as we've told you this is
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the fight all this nonsense all this spin they can't handle the truth war room battleground here's
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we got dead people voting drop boxes and dominion
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I know it, you know it, we know it, they know it, everybody knows Trump won
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USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
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what happens if our economy and the U.S. dollar are no longer the world's dominant currency?
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Former Assistant Treasury Secretary and host of the Monica Crowley podcast, Monica Crowley,
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is here to weigh in. Monica, great to see you this morning. Let's start right there.
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What happens if these emerging economies move away from the U.S. dollar towards the Chinese yuan?
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Well, good morning, Will. It's great to be with you. And it's really hard to overstate exactly
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how catastrophic the abandonment of the U.S. dollar would be as the world's global reserve
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currency. Look, since the end of World War II, the dollar has been the safe place to go. And
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it's been backed up by a couple of things. It originally was backed up by gold, but President
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Nixon took us off the gold standard. So there's no hard asset backing up the dollar anymore for the
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last 50 years. But also it's been backed up by the strength and economic power of the United States
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and the fact that oil has always been traded in dollars. If that were to end, that would mean
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the end of the U.S. dollar. Look, there is a perfect storm happening right now, Will.
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The world's reserve currency being that, having that status has been a real privilege. But we've
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abused the privilege by wholly reckless monetary and fiscal policies over many years, certainly over
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the last couple of years, which has really devalued the dollar. On top of that now, you do have this
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perfect storm of Biden's weakness, his war on American domestic energy production, the Ukraine war.
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And as you point out, because of all of these things, we've got America's enemies led by China
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forming a new economic block. And all it would take at this point now, because we're at this pivotal
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moment, Will, is for Saudi Arabia, who has indicated that they're open to this, to say, you know what,
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we're going to be open to considering other currencies to trade in oil. If that were to happen,
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there would be a complete implosion of the global economic system, but certainly the American economic
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system. And if that were to happen, you'd be looking at sky-high inflation, just raging Weimar
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Republic kind of inflation. If you think inflation is bad now, just wait. But more importantly,
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we would lose our economic dominance and we would lose our superpower status.
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Monica, the world's reserve currency, you said it's a privilege for the United States for the dollar
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to have been the world's currency. How does that relate to each individual American? How has that
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changed or impacted or improved our lives throughout the last several decades?
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Yeah. I mean, it's given the United States incredible dominance in the world in terms of
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the economic system and in terms of trade. It's kept prices down. So whether it's energy prices,
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whether it's your food prices, the entire global economic system is relying on the safe and secure
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dollar. But that is no longer true, again, because we've been printing money like crazy and devalued
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the power of the dollar and the value of the dollar. But on top of it now, again, oil is the
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critical linchpin of this. If Saudi Arabia decides to join with America's enemies here and start trading
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oil in different currencies, that is going to undermine the entire global economic system.
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And here at home, you know what it's going to mean for us? It's going to mean raging inflation so
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much worse than anything we have ever experienced will. And I'll tell you, they're setting it up
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so that they can then come to the rescue by introducing central bank digital currencies.
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If they were to do that and the United States already has a pilot program, that means the loss of
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your individual economic freedom, because the government will have total access and control
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of everything you buy and sell and the ability to turn it off like that.
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Ominous warning. I hear you. Saudi Arabia is the tipping point. Oil trading in dollars is the tipping.
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Okay. It's Monday, 27 March in the year of our Lord, 2023. Number one, Trump did win. We can't play
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that song enough. But we're here. I got Ben Harnwell in Rome. And Ben, we've had, of course,
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our own Monica Crowley up there on Fox. And I'm going to play Farid Sakhar in a second.
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The talk is about, you know, they're all panicked now because what we've been talking about the last
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couple of years is about China and Russia coming together, but particularly going after the American
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currency by using the Chinese yuan. I know at the end of the morning show, you start talking about
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this foreign policy story on China and Russia coming together. You're in Rome, and Ben joins
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us in Rome today. What has the impact of the importance of this sunk into the European people
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yet? Do they see this alliance coming together of Persia and the House Assad and Qatar and Turkey
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and Pakistan and obviously many, many in North Korea, but principally around the orbit of the Chinese
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Communist Party and their junior partners, the KGB in Moscow, sir?
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How can they possibly... What was the perception? Because here, and you're here,
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Farid Sakhar, say it when he comes on, there was very little media, given the importance of this,
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there was very little media coverage for this week. I mean, obviously, the war room's been on this 24-7.
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But in the general media, there was relatively small coverage of this. What was the coverage like
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Well, it was really... I think it matched people's expectations. They expected Xi to go
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and to stand by Putin to the degree that he was expected to do so, to the enthusiasm he was expected to do so,
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to the commitments he was expected to deliver. Those were the variables. But there was no real doubt
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that Russia and China are... The constellations have been moving together, thanks, of course, to Western pressure.
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I think the situation is, of course, why Xi is obviously acting in China's interests here.
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And the question is, well, why would he be doing this? Why is it in China's national interests to face down the rest of the world,
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of the West, in supporting Russia? You know, does China have a dog in this fight?
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Well, not particularly in the Russia versus Ukraine land-border dispute.
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What Xi's interested in is prolonging the war, because that was winding down, grinding down the West,
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to give, to open up, obviously, on the other side of the Chinese territory, to open up the Vista there,
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to do a naval blockade on Taiwan or something like that. Obviously, the more bankrupt we are in the West,
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the more we've depleted our military reserves, the more we've ground down the appetite in the West for war,
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the freer hand Xi has on Taiwan. That's his interest.
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And that is why he went there and gave every indication of standing by what he said a year ago,
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that there was an unbreakable bond with no limits between China and Russia.
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You're in Rome, and we had the great young analyst of PolicySonar, who wrote a book about –
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his entire book was about – it has never been translated into English. I would love to do that.
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But his book was about the CCP on the One Belt, One Road initiative, particularly around Venice,
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actually coming in and becoming a major player behind the scenes in Italian politics with just money for One Belt, One Road.
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In the same time, you've got the Vatican has signed – not just signed a secret deal with the Chinese Communist Party,
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of which Cardinal Zen actually made a huge – he flew to Rome. He wanted to see the Pope.
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He said, you can't do this. Then they've re-upped it. How bad is the – is really the influence peddling
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and the subversion of the CCP into these European governments? I know in the Czech situation, it's terrible, right?
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You had – you had – now they're finally standing up a little bit, but you had one of the senior leaders –
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I remember I met with him a couple of years ago, and he tried to field strip me about my adamant warrior-like nature against the CCP.
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The CCP is meddling in the internal affairs of European member states.
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But listen, I need to be impartial here when I come on this show.
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I'm not sure that the CCP's meddling in European nation-states affairs is any worse than the CIA's meddling over here in continental Europe.
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It hasn't particularly taken a noticeable back step from the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Well, what's going on is that two power blocks, two economic and military power blocks, are pursuing their own interests ruthlessly.
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Here in continental Europe, you've got the U.S. military-industrial complex on the one hand and the CCP on the other.
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The way they're going about exerting that influence is different.
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But that's the reality of the realpolitik here.
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What I would say, you know, when you ask me the absolutely correct question,
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because it's an existential question here for Western civilization,
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whether people are paying attention to what's going on with the shifting of the constellations
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and the alliances on the other side of the NATO war.
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Well, no, but one of the substantial reasons for that is because you really require,
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if you really want to penetrate into that conversation and get these ideas across,
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you really need political players, either in government, at a head of state or head of government level,
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or candidates at that level who aim for that, to move the discourse themselves,
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which is a lot of what Donald Trump himself did, both as a candidate and then as an incumbent.
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And there is, you know, the only person I could indicate on continental Europe
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who has that kind of authenticity and grasp is Viktor Orban in Hungary,
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who isn't necessarily as impartial as perhaps you'd be looking for on the US stage.
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But he's an absolute hero in terms of what I mean today is that Hungarian national interests
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aren't necessarily going to work out and be American national interests.
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But he's an absolute hero in putting his country first.
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And if more countries in continental Europe were prepared to do that
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and face down the European Union in doing that, Europe would be a far healthier place.
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As it is, it's easy pickings for the two main power blocks I mentioned earlier.
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You remember you were with me in Rome a number of years ago.
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I think it was in 19 when Freed Zakhar, so that was four years ago.
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Freed Zakhar, we did the interview with Freed Zakhar and talked about this very issue about China
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and the rise of China and China trying to partner and becoming a threat to the EU
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of using one belt, one road to actually get into the European elites.
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Freed Zakhar, yes, finally, after all these years of talking to him, he now understands the absolute
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threatening nature of this alliance, this global alliance, particularly off the Eurasian landmass,
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Let's go ahead and play Freed Zakhar, and we're going to return with Ben Harnwell for his comments on that.
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The most interesting outcome of the three-day summit between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping got limited media attention.
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So, the world's second-largest economy and its largest energy exporter are together actively trying to dent the dollar's dominance
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as the anchor of the international financial system.
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The dollar is America's last surviving superpower.
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It gives Washington unrivaled economic and political muscle.
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It can slap sanctions on countries unilaterally, which frees that country out of large parts of the world economy.
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And Washington can spend freely, certain that its debt will be bought up by the rest of the world.
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The war against Ukraine, combined with Washington's increasingly confrontational approach to China,
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have created a perfect storm in which both Russia and China are accelerating efforts to diversify away from the dollar.
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Their central banks are keeping less of their reserves in dollars,
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and most trade between them is being settled in the yuan.
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They are also making efforts to get other countries to follow suit.
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The Biden administration has handled the economic war against Russia extremely effectively by building a coalition of almost all the world's advanced economies.
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That makes it hard to escape from the dollar into other highly valued stable currencies like the euro or the pound or the Canadian dollar,
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because those countries are also warring with Russia.
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What might have been a sharper turning point for the dollar's role was Donald Trump's decision in May 2018 to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal.
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The European Union was strenuously opposed to this move,
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but it watched as the dollar's dominance meant that Iran was immediately excluded from the world economy.
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Jean-Claude Juncker, then-president of the European Commission, proposed enhancing the euro's role internationally to shield the continent from what he called selfish unilateralism.
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The Commission outlined a path to achieve this.
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There remain too many fundamental doubts about the future of the euro itself.
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Dollar dominance is firmly entrenched for many good reasons.
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A globalized economy needs a single currency for ease and efficiency.
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You can buy and sell at any time, and it's governed largely by the market and not the whims of a government.
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That's why China's efforts to expand the yuan's role internationally have not worked.
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Ironically, if Xi Jinping wanted to cause the greatest pain to America,
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he would liberalize his financial sector and make the yuan a true competitor to the dollar.
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But that would take him in the direction of markets and openness that is the opposite of his current domestic goals.
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All that said, Washington's weaponizing of the dollar over the last decade
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has led many important countries to search for ways to make sure that they do not become the next Russia.
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The share of dollars in global central bank reserves has dropped from roughly 70 percent 20 years ago
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to less than 60 percent today and falling steadily.
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The Europeans and the Chinese are trying to build international payment systems outside the dollar-dominated swift.
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Saudi Arabia has floated with the idea of pricing its oil in yuan.
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India is settling most of its oil purchases from Russia in non-dollar currencies.
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Digital currencies might be another alternative, and in fact, China's central bank has created one.
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But the last few years should have taught us that increasingly nations are willing to pay a price
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when they want political goals to trump economic ones.
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We keep searching for the single replacement for the dollar, and there will not be one.
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But could the currency suffer weakness by a thousand cuts?
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The author and investor Ruchir Sharma points out,
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Right now, for the first time in my memory, we have an international financial crisis
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in which the dollar has been weakening rather than strengthening.
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I spoke last week about the bad geopolitical habits Washington has developed
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America's politicians have gotten very used to spending seemingly without any concern about deficits.
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Public debt in America has risen almost five-fold,
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from roughly $6.5 trillion 20 years ago to $31.5 trillion today.
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The Fed has solved a series of financial crises by massively expanding its balance sheet,
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almost 12-fold, from around $730 billion 20 years ago to about $8.7 trillion today.
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All of this only works because of the dollar's unique status.
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If that were to wane, America will face a reckoning like none before.
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I mean, he understood the overall construct, but he wasn't buying it.
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Remember when they made the movie, what was it called, The Brink,
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and the young filmmaker who absolutely hated my guts.
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I would sit there and try to explain to her the geopolitics of all this,
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and that we had to make sure that we stopped Russia from uniting with them.
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She would look at me like, what are you even talking about, right?
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I want your sense of, over the weekend, the escalation,
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and it was escalation of Russia talking about putting missiles into nuclear weapons,
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Yeah, because the Western media here in Europe has,
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you know, there's an anatomy here of how to gaslight your own people.
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And it starts with, you provoke Russia into doing something.
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Russia responds to defend its own national interests.
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supposedly neutral points of authority in the so-called international rules-based order,
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then entering the debate on the side of the West.
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is Ukraine coming in, demanding that ever-escalatory response
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And that's exactly in that order, exactly what we've had here.
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And, of course, the Western media has come in and said,
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this basically just illustrates that Putin is either crazy
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because this moves us ever closer to nuclear war.
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There's no, there's literally, Steve, there's zero introspection.
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There's zero interest in thinking, well, why is Putin doing this?
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You know, if politics and international politics especially,
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Why has Putin, for the first time since the fall of the Berlin Wall,
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said that he's going to place nuclear weapons outside of Russia's border?
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That is obviously something that NATO has been doing since its foundation.
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But Russia, since the fall of the Soviet Union, hasn't done that.
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And this is basically being spun to a very uninformed
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as in the further illustration that the right here is with the West
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We stand on the precipice of fundamental societal transformation.
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Nobody knows when, but many, including me, believe it's within our lifetime.
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The collective intelligence of the human species begins to pale in comparison
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by many orders of magnitude to the general superintelligence
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in the AI systems we build and deploy at scale.
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The increase in quality of life that AI can deliver is extraordinary.
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We can make the world amazing and we can make people's lives amazing.
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We can like help people be happier, more fulfilled, all of these sorts of things.
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And then people are like, oh, well, no one is going to work.
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We're just going to find new and different ways to do them,
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even in a vastly better, like unimaginably good standard of living world.
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I think like these systems will make a lot of jobs just go away.
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And there's some folks who consider all the different problems with a superintelligent AI system.
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But one way to summarize it is that it's almost impossible to keep AI aligned as it becomes super intelligent.
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So first of all, I will say I think that there's some chance of that.
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And it's really important to acknowledge it because if we don't talk about it,
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if we don't treat it as potentially real, we won't put enough effort into solving it.
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I'm certainly willing to believe that consciousness is somehow the fundamental substrate
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and we're all just in the dream or the simulation or whatever.
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I think it's interesting how much the Silicon Valley religion of the simulation
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has gotten close to like Brahman and how little space there is between them.
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But if it is like physical reality as we understand it
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and all of the rules of the game are what we think they are,
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then there's something that I still think is something very strange.
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What are the different ways you think AGI might go wrong?
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I think it's weird when people like think it's like a big dunk that I say like I'm a little bit afraid
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and I think it'd be crazy not to be a little bit afraid.
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And I empathize with people who are a lot afraid.
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The current worries that I have are that there are going to be disinformation problems
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or economic shocks or something else at a level far beyond anything we're prepared for.
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That doesn't require a super deep alignment problem in the machine waking up and trying to deceive us.
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So these systems deployed at scale can shift the winds of geopolitics and so on.
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How would we know if like on Twitter we were mostly having LLMs direct the whatever's flowing through that hive mind?
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There are soon going to be a lot of capable open source LLMs with very few to none, no safety controls on them.
00:34:51.740
Joe Allen joins us, our editor of all things transhumanism.
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As I continue to say, I think we're still inside the 100-day window since, hold on, it was January to February, February to March.
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We're just outside of 60 days on the introduction of ChatGPT on artificial intelligence.
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Well, Steve, you had Darren Beatty's favorite character, Lex Friedman, interviewing Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI.
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You know, what I see in that interview is you have two true believers who really believe that artificial general intelligence, some kind of super intelligent version of AGI, is over the horizon.
00:35:44.660
Everyone has differing opinions on when, but they both seem to agree that GPT technology is a huge leap forward in that direction.
00:35:58.280
I mean, you also heard a lot of stuff about, you know, the impact on jobs.
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I think that Sam Altman's essay, Moore's Law of Everything, is really informative here as to how he feels about it.
00:36:11.760
Basically, the idea is that in the same way that transistors doubled in capacity every 18 months as the price went down,
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you're going to see the same sort of exponential increase in artificial intelligence and its impact on jobs will be tremendous.
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If nothing else, the anticipation of employers that artificial intelligence is going to be more efficient at these jobs than their current employees
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is going to lead to a sort of, you know, a readiness to lay people off.
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But I really think you can see with the actual capacities of GPT technology, good reason to believe that these jobs really are under threat.
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That includes everything from copywriters to journalists to teachers.
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And it really is that last one that probably bothers me the most, Steve, is we've covered a lot.
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In fact, the ideas that, say, Bill Gates has as to what this technology should be used for to educate young people,
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One, a younger population that will inevitably be brainwashed by whatever sorts of biases are programmed into these AIs that are teaching them.
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But most importantly, teachers, I think, are among the most valuable people you have in any society.
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Education is the most valuable quality of any advanced society.
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And a teacher's job, of course, is to accumulate knowledge, become excellent in their field,
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and then transmit that information not only through teaching but also through modeling behavior for the students.
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A lot of people on our side of the aisle just say, well, all of these teachers are corrupt anyway.
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All of these teachers have become basically woke or whatever.
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They're teaching kids to be transgender or whatever.
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And so they really aren't all that sentimental about the loss of these teaching jobs.
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But I think that the devastation to our society is the same nonetheless.
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Instead of reaching out and bringing in better teachers or forcing those teachers who are dragging their heels now to become excellent,
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there's this sort of blasé feeling that, oh, well, we can just simply dismiss them because the machines will do a better job.
00:38:41.240
And then maybe most importantly, Steve, Friedman and Altman are talking about the real dangers that these technologies pose,
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not just GPT, all of these sorts of AI systems that are becoming a critical part of different infrastructure controls or weapon systems or biological systems.
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All of these pose various dangers to humanity and the most extreme cases that get brought up by the AI safety people that AI starts killing people that you heard though Altman.
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I think the Altman is there are a lot of things to dislike about Altman, but I don't think that he's being dishonest.
00:39:23.560
And he's talking about the most immediate danger with GPT is the danger of mass disinformation.
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When the Internet is flooded with large language models and not just GPT, you have a whole array of companies and independent projects that are releasing these large language models into the wild.
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And as the Internet fills up with these synthetic minds, people are going to be more and more, A, persuaded by these sort of disinformation bots,
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or those who are skeptical, B, unable to really trust or tell whether or not the people or the characters that they're interacting with or reading on the Internet are even real people at all.
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And so, you know, in sum, Steve, I think that what you hear in that interview with this sort of true believer philosophy,
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and especially when you get into stuff like the simulation theory or what Altman calls the Silicon Valley religion of the simulation,
00:40:24.900
what you see is this technocratic or technological elite who have literally lost their minds,
00:40:32.580
and they are intent on dragging the rest of us into their psychosis with the belief that they're going to make our lives better.
00:40:40.220
I think that the audience has every reason to be afraid, but I think the biggest thing the audience needs to do is brace for the impact of these technologies
00:40:48.480
and figure out how they're going to organize their lives in a world, a corporate world, religious world, or educational world,
00:40:55.920
where these technologies are going to be pushed on us from the top continually.
00:41:01.900
Joe, how do people get to all your writings, sub-stack, everything that you've got going on, including a war room and social media?
00:41:10.900
You can find me at jobot.xyz, warroom.org under the transhumanism tab, social media, Twitter, and getter, at J-O-E-B-O-T-X-Y-Z.
00:41:24.780
We're doing a massive drill down, as you can tell, and everything dealing with the singularity and artificial intelligence.
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Okay, for the next couple of days, we're going to be in East Palestine.
00:41:33.220
We come back tomorrow, we're going to be in East Palestine, Ohio, out there with the deplorables, MAGA, the working class people, Democrats, independents, all of it.
00:41:42.340
What is most important for us is to have the back of the people in East Palestine.
00:41:47.340
We have a show tomorrow morning, afternoon, and then on Wednesday, we're out there for a couple of days.
00:41:52.180
I want to make sure everybody tunes in tomorrow.
00:41:55.020
We're also going to be doing breaking news, capital markets, geopolitics the entire time, but make sure you join us.
00:41:59.880
It's going to be very, very special of what you're going to see in here.
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Remember the inflection point from President Trump's campaign was President Trump going to East Palestine.
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We want to end tonight by going to this amazing, this amazing video by Benny Johnson.
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He's one of the best citizen journalists out there.
00:42:17.460
We're going to now go, this is a whistleblower.
00:42:19.180
They're going to get the true story of what really happened with Buttigieg and the Biden regime in East Palestine.
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We'll see you tomorrow morning live in East Palestine, Ohio.
00:42:32.420
What happens when your practical joke actually ends up uncovering a massive bombshell news story?
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Earlier this week, we staged a fake water station in front of the Department of Transportation in Washington, D.C.
00:42:47.820
The joke was that they were from East Palestine, the tap water that the Department of Transportation poisoned.
00:42:53.200
We wanted to see what people's reaction would be to being offered East Palestine water.
00:42:57.220
Now, as we were filming the reactions and the security guards pushing us away from the building,
00:43:03.300
a news story dropped directly into our lap and all it took was a bottle of water.
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A Department of Transportation employee walked up to our table.
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He's a 25-year veteran of the Department of Transportation.
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And he began to spill incredible amounts of information about what the D.O.T. was doing.
00:43:23.120
He told us about how the Department of Transportation was allocating resources based on the politics of a state,
00:43:30.140
Talked to us about the bungling of the train incident and told us about open politicization and criminality
00:43:39.940
Moral people trapped in immoral systems eventually break.
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They have to shout the things that are going on.
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And this person decided to walk up to our table and tell us.
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We pray that there will not be any retaliation to this employee
00:43:55.640
and we've gone out of our way to hide this person's identity.
00:43:58.480
What you're about to watch is a raw video from the streets of Washington, D.C.,
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all inspired by a bottle of water poisoned in East Palestine.
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Yeah, they won't let me stand in front of the building.
00:44:45.000
He shows up just so like if you have a party or something.
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and they want to make sure there's enough people in the office that day
00:45:02.580
These federal government buildings are all empty.
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And I don't care where you come from politically.
00:45:35.940
A lot of Republicans were like, where's the federal government?
00:45:46.080
Well, we want this project because it's a blue state.
00:45:50.380
Oh, no matter how bad it is, they appoint these leaders of each group.
00:45:56.920
And then they make sure the money will be recommended.
00:46:02.860
So you think this was politically motivated in East Palestine?
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It was at this point that we couldn't believe our ears.
00:46:10.280
The Department of Transportation allocates money based on red states or blue states that
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they straight up decided not to help East Palestine because of their political affiliation.
00:46:22.780
This was a county, of course, that voted for Trump by 70%.
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And you have that directly from inside of the building.
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But, ladies and gentlemen, this Department of Transportation employee wasn't done yet.
00:46:38.460
Right away, they're quick to blame the railroad.
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It's the government that told them to blow it up.
00:46:46.520
I don't know if you know this, but years ago, they made a big plus about trains carrying these chemicals that go through these urban areas.
00:46:55.820
So now they reroute them through all these little towns.
00:47:00.140
A lot of people, the press doesn't bring any of this up.
00:47:08.100
So all these little towns, they shat these little towns, these trains go rolling through.
00:47:17.840
More stuff probably comes off the railroad than the pipelines.
00:47:28.220
They're saying the railments are down 15% since COVID.
00:47:36.640
They're trying to paint that picture so as not to bring the harsh light.
00:47:40.720
If you normalize it, there were less railroads running during COVID.
00:47:47.100
There were fewer freight trains running because of supplies.
00:47:51.760
So they're trying to say, hey, the railments are down.
00:48:03.440
Because if you normalize that, actually, the number per mile was up.
00:48:10.420
And then Pete was saying, oh, look, they didn't have the brakes.
00:48:14.760
The brake rule would not have been applicable here.
00:48:21.680
And now they're just trying to cover their asses.
00:48:30.020
What blows me away as someone who's not, I don't consider myself particularly intelligent,
00:48:36.660
But they ignore one of the largest man-made environmental catastrophes.
00:48:51.820
But these trains are rolling through Middle America, Terry, and all kinds of s***.
00:48:57.820
Those people don't have any political power, right?
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So, twice weekly, the regulation requires a human being to walk the tracks
00:49:15.840
or ride a vehicle over the track and look for defects.
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hey, you know, we can do that better with automatic inspection systems, computers.
00:49:28.380
On vehicles, they measure, they shoot laser beams.
00:49:35.160
This administration put a hold on all that because it takes away union jobs.
00:49:42.320
So now it's coming out that, hey, wouldn't have this enrollment maybe if it had been truck
00:49:48.080
caused, maybe an automatic system would have found that versus human eyes, probably.
00:49:54.780
This administration is evidence for the labor union.
00:50:01.940
I can tell you this unofficially, but that's how it is.
00:50:05.380
Listen, there are people who still believe in, like, the mission,
00:50:07.940
and it gets destroyed by the ambitions of bad men and women.
00:50:21.100
I see that the government's printed up a lot of money.
00:50:27.440
Why are we handing these people, these big corporations, money?
00:50:30.760
I thought you were supposed to have an infrastructure bill or something, right?
00:50:37.780
If you're standing out here, you're going to be, you know,
00:50:55.720
Here's a summary of what we learned from our Department of Transportation whistleblower.
00:50:59.100
The Department of Transportation was cripplingly slow to respond to the tragedy in East Palestine.
00:51:03.880
DOT employees are humiliated by this, and they know why it happened.
00:51:07.600
The lack of urgency in East Palestine was purely political,
00:51:10.340
based on the tragedy being in a red state and not a blue state.
00:51:13.400
Essentially, the Biden administration viewed the toxic train derailment
00:51:16.320
as less important because of how these people vote.
00:51:19.480
Moreover, we learned the Department of Transportation allocates funding based purely on politics.
00:51:28.340
The Department of Transportation prioritizes servitude to union jobs over safety,
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holding back technology that might have prevented the train crash in East Palestine
00:51:36.100
and lowering regulations to appease union paymasters.
00:51:39.620
The mission of the DOT has become hyper-politicized.
00:51:48.060
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is not well-liked in the building
00:51:51.200
due to his absentee, weak, politically ambitious leadership.
00:51:55.040
Ultimately, under Buttigieg, morale is critically low inside of the Department of Transportation.
00:52:00.280
It is an empty building with employees looking for the door.
00:52:03.540
Now, this would be what you would call a whistleblower.
00:52:06.800
This would be why Republicans should immediately begin to subpoena people
00:52:12.560
from inside of the Department of Transportation
00:52:14.220
because clearly they're covering up something here.
00:52:20.720
The people of East Palestine may never get their town back.
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