EPISODE 403： NTSB： THE EAST PALESTINE TRAIN CATASTROPHE WAS ＂100 PERCENT PREVENTABLE＂
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The East Palestine train catastrophe was 100% preventable, according to a new report. Next, body cam footage of Keith Moses, the alleged mass shooter arrested in Orlando, has been released. And finally, NATO REJECTS China's 12-Point Peace Plan for Russia and Ukraine. All this and more on today's Human Events Daily!
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Tonight's stories, the East Palestine train catastrophe was 100% preventable, according to a new report.
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Next, body cam footage of Keith Moses, the alleged mass shooter arrested in Orlando, has been released.
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And finally, NATO rejecting China's 12-point peace plan for Russia and Ukraine.
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Over the course of my career, and I have handled rail and pipeline and hazmat for well over 25 years,
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both Rob and I have sat with communities, with residents, after devastating rail, pipeline, hazardous materials releases.
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We've talked to community members who are suffering health effects, have pets who've died, have damage to businesses and homes,
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but I can tell you this much, this was 100% preventable.
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Every single event that we investigate is preventable.
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What you just heard was from the chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, the NTSB.
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The Norfolk Southern Railway train derailment, with subsequent hazardous material release and fires from East Palestine, Ohio.
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On February 3rd, 2023, about 8.45 p.m. local time,
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it's eastbound Norfolk Southern Railway, general merchandise freight train, 32 November N,
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derailed 38 rail cars on Main Track 1 of the Norfolk Southern Fort Wayne line of the Keystone Division in East Palestine, Ohio.
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The derailed equipment included 11 tank cars carrying hazardous materials that subsequently ignited fueling fires that damaged an additional 12 non-derailed cars.
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First responders implemented a one-mile evacuation zone surrounding the derailment site with affected up to 2,000 residents.
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There were no reported fatalities or injuries at the time of the accident.
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The weather was 10 degrees Fahrenheit with no precipitation.
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This is not focused on the response to what was done with the vinyl chloride.
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They're only focused on what actually caused the train derailment.
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And you may remember that on this show, we've specifically put this within the framework of saying that we are viewing the collapse of complex systems.
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The collapse of complex systems means we are now in a time where the very weight of our own society, the very weight of our own industry is now collapsing upon us.
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Because we become so over-reliant to the system that we believe that everything we read is 100% true.
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So, it gets into a little bit more talking about these.
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They have hot bearing detectors for axles along a train.
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So, as you can imagine, the bearings, the axles on a train that's moving at high speed, we're told it was 47 miles an hour in a 50 mile an hour zone,
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So, they have detectors to check the bearings and the axles to make sure that they are not, in fact, on fire.
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Of course, we know that wasn't the case here because it was on fire for miles.
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We're told that the first indicator, the first sensor, said that it was 38 degrees, 38 degrees above the ambient temperature.
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The next sensor was that it showed that it was 103 degrees above temperature.
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So, that means 113, and then finally, 253 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Obviously, at that point, they pulled the train to a stop.
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But here's what I want to get into, and this is what I'd like to say.
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All along this, we're told this train was a mile long.
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And for that mile long train, do you know how many workers were actually on it?
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You know, the Polar Express had, like, 100 Tom Hanks's on it.
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But this train had three, which included hazardous materials.
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Hazardous materials, which later became a toxic threat and danger to the people living in that area.
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At a time where we're in a low workforce participation rate, where we're worried about the threat of automation, have we ever stopped to consider that what happens if we become over-reliant on automation?
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Because, you know, 50 years ago, 100 years ago, this train would have been full of engineers, workers, maintenance workers.
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An old bill would have said, you know what, guys?
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I know it's going to put us a little behind schedule, but we've got to check this thing out.
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But instead, we've decided to turn over all of our safety protocols to these systems in the name of efficiency and in the name of the GDP.
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You make the trains longer and longer, a mile long.
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When he was on shift, he probably wasn't on his phone the entire time either.
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He was actively looking at the cars, actively checking things out.
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And look, I'm not saying that that's what happened here.
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But what I am saying is we have to take an overall look at this.
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We are becoming a country and a society that is over-reliant on automation, over-reliant on these systems.
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And at the same time, it is becoming a detriment to the very people that they are supposed to be serving.
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So what you're watching there is the body cam footage that's now been viewed millions of times
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online of Keith Melvin Moses, 19 years old, Orlando, Florida. This is about 20 minutes
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outside of Walt Disney World, by the way, just so you have an understanding where this is,
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Pine Hills, Florida, Pine Hills neighborhood. He's being arrested for the killing
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of a TV reporter, a woman, and a nine-year-old girl. And in fact, he shot five people in total.
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What did he do? This is just a couple of days ago. He killed a woman in a car who was riding with his
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cousin. He then fled the scene that happened around 11 a.m. on February. Let me check this out.
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February 23rd. He later returned to the scene hours later. This is from NBC News and opened fire
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on a TV reporter and a photojournalist who were doing a story based on the shooting,
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kills the news crew, or at least tries to kill the news crew, kills the reporter, injures the photo
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journalist. He enters the home. There's a woman and her daughter in there. He shoots both of them,
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shoots the mother, kills the nine-year-old daughter. The mother is still in the hospital.
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She may pull through. Then this guy goes and gets arrested for all this, which again, by the way,
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it's on video because we just told you that there was footage of it, a horrific murder of a guy just
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doing his job, reporting on the scene of a crime, being blown away. So who is Keith Melvin Moses?
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This individual, this insane individual who murdered all these people, including a nine-year-old
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little girl, 20 minutes outside of Walt Disney World. He's a known gang member with a lengthy rap
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sheet. Grand theft, domestic violence, burglary. This is somebody who never should have been on
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the street to begin with. All the way back to age 14, he's been involved in and out of jail.
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Let's see, grand theft, battery, domestic violence, armed robbery, grand theft of a motor vehicle that
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was amended to misdemeanor trespassing. Oh, amended to misdemeanor trespassing. Oh,
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that's fun. Which he pleaded no guilty. And he was sentenced to just a year of community control,
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which is essentially house arrest outside other than work, school or public service hours.
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Then he was arrested, charged again, domestic violence, battery, touch or strike. Pleaded no
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contest. Sentenced to a concurrent year of community control. In 2015, burglary, pled not guilty. The
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case was dismissed, was arrested again in 2018. Robbery with a weapon, which is amended in court
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to attempted robbery with a weapon. And get, look at this. Pled not guilty and was ordered to,
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here we go, here we go. A concurrent sentence of low risk, residential restrictiveness, commitment
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level. Do you see what it is? He was never put in jail. He was never put in jail for any of these
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things. Not even juvie. 2021, arrested on a violation of imposed conditions and charged with
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possessing less than 20 grams of marijuana. Misdemeanor case was dropped again and again and
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again. He has brushes with the law brushes with the law. And down there in Florida, this gang member
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was allowed to continue his crime rage until it got to the point
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where he's committing mass shootings. Again and again. How can you look at something like this
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and not get upset at the state of where our country's in?
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This is just 20 minutes away from Walt Disney World. When they used to do CPAC in Orlando,
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okay, this is not far from there. This is in the area where there's, there's hotels around here.
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There's, this is the, you know, when families take their hotels down to Orlando to go to Disney
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World or go to the parks or wherever, um, that's where you stay. Cause you want to save a buck.
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Want to save some money. But what happens when the crime around Disney World,
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the magic kingdom, right? Become so bad that you're now dodging bullets just to get in to see Mickey
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to get your little selfie with the, uh, you know, the princess's castle, Cinderella's castle.
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Gangs running rampant down in Orlando. This is insane. This is absolutely insane. This,
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this country has a crime problem and it's not just Florida.
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But when you see a story like this, somebody who by all rights was asking to be put in jail for a
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long time again and again and again. And I remember when we were talking back about the
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Singapore option and I see a guy like this, which again, this is on video. So at some point in this
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murder trial, if he ends up pleading, not guilty, that video is going to come out. And what does he do?
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He repeats the George Floyd incantation. I wonder where he learned that
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you're killing me. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. No one's even touching him when he says that,
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or if they are, they're not putting pressure on him. It got like one hand. I can't breathe. I can't
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breathe because he understands it's an incantation. This is your get out of jail free card. And from his
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perspective, why not? Because he's been getting out of jail for his entire life, for every single
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crime that he committed right up until this one, the murder essentially of a little girl and her
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And China should not do that, because that will be to support an illegal war of aggression,
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breaching international law and violating the UN Charter. China is a member of the UN Security
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Council, and they have a particular responsibility to protect the UN Charter. And this is a war of
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aggression violating exactly that charter. Then on the proposals and the points presented by China.
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So first of all, China doesn't have much credibility because they have not been able to condemn the
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illegal invasion of Ukraine. And they also signed just days before the invasion, an agreement between
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President Xi and President Putin on limitless partnership with Russia. So I think what we see now in
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Ukraine is that President Putin is not preparing for war, he's preparing for the exact opposite for more war.
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So the CCP is out. And they're calling for a ceasefire between NATO and Russia. Now, what's interesting
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is that the CCP is calling it what it is a war between NATO and Russia, clearly a proxy war between
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NATO and Russia. And it's all but, you know, clearly acknowledged. But here's what's interesting.
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So China puts out their ceasefire deal. Of course, NATO rejects it, obviously, because we know NATO is
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not going to want to do that because they are looking for escalation. Biden already gave them
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their marching orders earlier this week. So look at this. NATO, Biden calling for escalation. Putin
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calling for escalation, says we're not backing down. China comes out, calls for peace. President Biden
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goes and says 12 billion more in spending the new spending package for the war. But who really
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benefits? Think about this. Who actually benefits from Russia and NATO pouring all of their military
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resources and massive amounts of money into Ukraine? And oh, by the way, we have a special on
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Ukraine, Ukraine to stand to mark the entire one year anniversary of this this Sunday. It's going
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to be a Sunday special breaking down everything that's going on. Ukraine, the money, the escalation,
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the possibility of World War Three nuclear war, the fact that we've completely forgotten the rules
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that we learned from the Cold War. And how do we get out of it? So that'll be the Sunday
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Ukrainistan, the battleground of empires. So think about it. You got former Secretary of State Mike
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Pompeo out there today saying the United States should escalate the war in Ukraine. Why? Because
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China and Russia have formed an alliance. This is how stupid the neocons are. He's saying
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that it's a good idea to escalate war with Russia so that we can also escalate war with China at the
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same time. I feel like Mearsheimer's warning was specifically designed for people like Pompeo,
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because what are they doing here? He's saying you're escalating a two front global conflict.
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Pompeo is saying it's actually a good idea to escalate a two front global conflict. It's
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actually this weird type of, I mean, I guess I'll give him honesty points for this because he's
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admitting that's how he looks at the world. Who actually benefits? To answer my question,
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familiar, who actually benefits from the United States and NATO going to war?
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our empire, the globalist American empire versus the Russian empire. China, obviously you have three
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great powers in the world. There's the globalist American empire, Russia and China. Now China is
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economically connected to both of the other two. You can't separate them. That's by design. But China
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wants to be the senior partner in globalism. That's why people like George Soros are freaking out
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because they realize that China doesn't want to be junior partner anymore. They don't want to just be
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the manufacturers of the world. They don't want to just be the factory. They want their own say.
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They want their own power. They're taking it because we sent all our money and all our financial
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capital there. So what do you do? Well, the answer is simple. Economic decoupling. As I've called for
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consistently and publicly since 2016, the way to deter the CCP is through economic decoupling, economic
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action, not military action. It's ridiculous. Getting into a war with China would decimate the
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United States, our population, our military. The amount of money that we'd have to spend through
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that would be insane. They're a nuclear power too. Oh, by the way. So instead of doing something that
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would actually wreck our country, what if we did something that would revitalize our country,
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revitalizing our country by bringing our jobs back on, shoring the jobs that were sent back
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or sent away to China from places like East Palestine, from places like Detroit, from places
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like what's now called the rust belt. You start pulling that back. You start pulling our medicine
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back, our supply lines back or supply chains. Then suddenly what's going to happen? Well,
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a couple of things will happen. Number one, CCP is going to lose. They're going to lose big,
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massive dent in their economy, massive dent in their growth. They will go back to being junior
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partner and there's nothing they can do about it. Number two, what's going to happen? We're going
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to revitalize our country. We're going to actually care about the people who live here, who have
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families here, who work here. We're going to put tariffs. We talked yesterday about what is America
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first. We're going to put tariffs on foreign goods. We're going to put limits on these H-1B programs,
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these guest worker programs, whether high skilled or low skilled. Okay. We are going to have to
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actually do the hard thing. And that means grow our own country, invest in our own people and not
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simply say, well, it's cheaper to get some immigrant from somewhere else in the world.
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And it's cheaper to have something that's made somewhere else in the world. See, those things
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are cheaper. They're better for the GDP. They're better for the GDP. Well, what if, what if we put
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the USA ahead of the GDP? Funny, I know, right? So the USA actually includes the people who live here.
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And if we put those people first, it's doing a little thing called being America first. And it's
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going to be America first from now. So when we look at these policies and I'm sorry, libertarians,
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and I'm sorry to chamber of commerce and everybody who doesn't like these things,
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we are going to put people first. We are going to do it, whether you like it or not.
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And I'm sorry, Mike Pompeo and the neocons, you are not going to get your war.
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Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.