Import The 3rd World, Become The 3rd World
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What happens when the Fourth Turning meets 5th Generation Warfare? A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran, Jack Posobrand, joins host Jack to discuss what happens when a radical Muslim candidate wins the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City.
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This is what happens when the fourth turning meets fifth generation warfare.
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A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.
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This is Human Events with your host, Jack Poso.
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Look, we just ended a war in 12 days that was simmering for 30 years.
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But maybe the most important of all, India and Pakistan.
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And that wasn't whether or not they may someday have nukes, like we're talking about in the Middle East,
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I ended that with a series of phone calls on trade.
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The Supreme Court has ruled the Trump administration can deport migrants to countries other than their own.
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It's the latest ruling in favor of the president's push for mass deportations.
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Zoran Mamdani coming out on top over a career politician.
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily here live, Washington, D.C.
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It's another hot day, a scorcher in Washington, D.C.
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Folks, I've got a new piece up at humanevents.com,
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and I highly encourage everyone to go and check that out.
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We're going to be going through this right now.
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And this is actually an issue that directly affects every single American citizen.
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a radical Muslim mayor may be elected to New York City,
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Last night, it witnessed a seismic shift that should send a wake-up call to everyone in America.
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Last night, Zoran Mamdani, a foreign-born Muslim cultural Marxist,
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clinched the Democratic primary for mayor setting the stage
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for what could be a radical transformation of the city we once knew,
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a city that was at one point synonymous with America.
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Our demographics are shifting as we import more and more of the third world.
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And as we import more of the third world, we become more of the third world.
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It's the people who believe in those policies being increased here,
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and that number increasing their support levels.
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Ilhan Omar, Alejandro Mayorkas, Tanya Chutkin, Ahmet Mehta, right?
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Alejandro Mayorkas, the guy who oversaw this massive border invasion,
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I want to bring on now Libby Emmons, the editor-in-chief of the Postmillennial and HumanEvents.com,
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herself a New Yorker, I should say former New Yorker.
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Libby, we're going to the break here for a minute,
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but can I just get your quick reaction to all of this?
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Yeah, I'm absolutely horrified that the people of New York would go so far as to elect a communist
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who plans to completely destroy the city by depleting the tax base
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and getting rid of all of the things that make the city worthwhile.
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The working class, people who make under $50,000, they voted for Cuomo.
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And the people who can afford to sit on their laptops and have everything delivered to them
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and don't have to take the subways, they voted for Mamdani.
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Mamdani, it was queer liberation, defund the police, free food, free stuff everywhere.
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And you're right in the sense that you have this mass,
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I saw 80-20 in terms of South Asian immigrants, the South Asian community voting for Mamdani.
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But you also saw Hispanics and Blacks voting against Mamdani, as well as working class whites.
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And so suddenly people are realizing, wait a minute,
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this is an ethnic shift that's playing out in a class shift in terms of the politics.
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We're going to break down more Libby Emmons when we return.
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All right, Jack Posobiec, here we are back live, Human Events Daily, Washington, D.C.
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We're on with Libby Emmons, and we're talking about this victory, which has come as a shock to many.
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But for those of us who have been focused on the mass immigration and the mass migration tactics of the left
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over the last 15 to 20 years, it doesn't come as a shock at all.
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If you look at New York City and the New York City metro area's demographic shift,
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the skyrocketing numbers of South Asians, Middle Easterners,
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it doesn't come as a shock at all that the recent immigrants are voting for one of their own,
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that there are progressive, college-educated liberals who are joining them,
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and Gen Z who are totally going on board with this as well.
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And what you do see are ethnic whites, working-class whites,
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as well as Hispanics and Blacks voting against Mamdani and Libby.
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I think a lot of this is being driven by some of it is, a lot of it, of course, is immigration.
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It can't be talked about the effect of immigration on all of our politics nationwide.
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But what we're also seeing here is that it's a class shift that's playing out.
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which is a section of Brooklyn that is historically an immigrant community.
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It was Norwegian, it was Greek, it was Italian, it was Chinese.
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And the biggest difference, I think, between previous groups of immigrants
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and the current groups of immigrants is that the previous groups of immigrants
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When my great-grandparents came here from Naples and from Sicily and also from Norway,
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You could not say a word against America to them and have them be quiet about it.
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My great-grandmother taught herself to read by reading the New York Times in the 1920s,
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not by watching TikTok and hearing about how Osama bin Laden is the greatest guy ever.
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I mean, it's just a totally different kind of cultural immersion that they're getting now.
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People are coming to this country and they're hearing that America sucks and that has got to stop.
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When you had immigration during the height of Ellis Island,
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you had, I think, 12 million people over 60 years come in.
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That's 200,000 people a year and that's legal immigration.
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Under Joe Biden, we had 200,000 illegal immigrants coming in every month.
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And what you have here is a situation where the wealthy people in New York City,
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the laptop class, the people who get delivery, the people who can afford to take taxis,
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primarily Asians and whites, they were voting for Mom Donnie.
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When you had essentially Blacks and Hispanics and people who had been in the city for a long time
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and are working class people saying, no, please don't make the city worse.
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And what everyone forgets is that once you start voting in communist policies,
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Look at a lot of the communist policies that came into the U.S., like the ACA, for example.
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There is no way to get Obamacare out at this point,
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despite how poorly it has really done or the welfare state or any of these things.
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And you look at Mom Donnie and he is one of these laptop class people.
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He went to a liberal arts college, went to Bowdoin.
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His dad teaches anti-colonialism at Columbia University.
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He absolutely is not representative of the people of New York.
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He's representative of luxury values that have absolutely no place in reality.
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And the things that he wants to do to the city, he plans to do, as you said before,
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free buses, free child care, city-run grocery stores.
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He wants to replace the subway patrols with community policing.
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He wants all this health care stuff for illegal immigrants.
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And he also wants to take over vacant commercial spaces and turn them into health clinics.
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And he is opposed to the Trump administration entirely.
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He wants to create a legal fund, a la California and Gavin Newsom,
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to fight Trump, to fight ICE, and all of this other stuff.
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He wants to take a page from Joe Biden's book and tax the 1%.
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He wants to tax the millionaires and the corporations that are making lots of money.
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But the only problem is, as I looked up this morning,
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there are 345,000 millionaires in the city of New York.
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Now, that may seem like a lot of people, but you have to remember that the population
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And you also have to remember that during COVID, 400,000 people, I think, left New York City.
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Does he really think that 345,000 people aren't capable of picking up,
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It is complete and utter destruction of one of the greatest cities,
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probably the greatest city in American history, New York City.
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Well, I say this as a guy from the Philly area, so I always have to, you know,
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And even though Philadelphia is, of course, America's most historic city.
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We know that, of course, New York City is or was the new Rome.
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And in the same way that Rome was overrun, well, it seems as though New York City is being overrun
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as well, as America seems totally focused on things going on far beyond our borders
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and totally ignorant of the things that are happening domestically.
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Or at least they are if you listen to the mainstream media narrative on all of this.
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Do you think New York still has the wherewithal to reject this?
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And the current mayor, Eric Adams, is running out of the independent ticket.
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So, you know, people should probably go out and vote for the mayor because he is much less bad
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He's willing to clean up the situation with illegal immigration.
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And Mom Donnie is just going to destroy it all.
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This is, I think, his second time running for mayor.
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And I would entreat, I would implore, rather, the GOP to not abandon New York City.
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New York City's two best mayors in the modern memory were Rudy Giuliani, who, of course,
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was a Republican and also Michael Bloomberg, who ran as a Republican when he first took
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So I would ask the GOP, respectfully, to get back into New York City, fund some candidates
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and get that city back on track, because the city works best with conservative local leadership.
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Well, I'll certainly always say that I definitely think that Bloomberg did the right thing when
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Libby, it's humanevents.com and thepostmillennial.com.
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I want to bring on now as well, we've got Sean Davis, the CEO and co-founder of The Federalist,
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Sean, let me ask you, you know, having obviously written about these issues for a long time,
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does the New York City mayoral primary actually surprise you?
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I was having a conversation with a colleague this morning, and, you know, there's a little
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bit of debate on the right, you know, should we be cheering what appears to be the impending
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demise of New York City with this candidate coming in, or should we be lamenting it?
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You know, a part of it is when you see these leftist policies and these leftist voters,
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you kind of want to tell them, you've sown and now you're going to reap.
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And you can kind of pat yourself on the back and get a certain amount of satisfaction about
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But like you said in the earlier segment, New York City is the crown jewel of America.
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It's the greatest city that America ever created.
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And to see it go in this direction, you know, nations follow the trajectory of their great
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So when you see what's happened to Detroit, what's happened to Chicago, what's happened
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to New Orleans, what happened to Philly and Baltimore, and then you see it now happening
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to New York, I think it is a moment for like sadness and grief.
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And I hope the people of New York understand this.
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And, you know, maybe it's going to take some really bad government happening and even more
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I want it to be a great city once again, because you can't be a great country without great cities.
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And that's something where, you know, I've been to different parts of the world and people
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People go to Japan and it's become a meme at this point.
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They go and they say, wow, look at all the cities and Tokyo and it's so nice and all of
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Because they actually take care of their crime.
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They actually don't put up with any of the crap that goes on out there.
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They want to actually put their best face forward.
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And if you break the law, they actually punish you.
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Mass immigration because they keep the country full of people who love their country.
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It can be done and it will be done here in the United States of America.
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We're on with CEO and co-founder of The Federalist, Sean Davis.
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Sean, we're talking about these New York City results.
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But a lot of people are pointing out that, you know, it may not be a surprise or it may
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not be as unexpected as people were thinking because this has been the warning of a lot
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of people who, let's just say it faced a lot of crap for talking about the impacts of mass
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immigration and saying, look, it's really simple that when you import people from parts
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of the world that don't have this Jeffersonian idea of a republic and the constitution and what
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the social contract is and all of these different ideals and instead look at government
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as simply a way to redistribute resources, then that's eventually what you're going to get
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And it shouldn't really surprise us when one of their own is elected or in this case at least
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nominated as the leader of a major area, in this case, New York City, not only our greatest
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city, but in a sense, economically speaking, far above, you know, it's almost like a governor
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So, Sean, what are some of the ways that Americans should be thinking about this?
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And when we talk about this immigration issue, I mean, I'm just going to say it.
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I think the most important thing is to admit it, right?
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We, it's like, it's like, it's like we're addicted to, uh, we're, you know, we're addicted
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to cheap labor and the Democrats are addicted to cheap, uh, you know, cheap votes.
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So the first step is admitting you have a problem.
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And I think this is a wake up call for a lot of people and it shows what a lie, uh, so much
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of the propaganda surrounding mass immigration was.
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And it's, it's been that way for 30, 40, 50 years.
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Uh, we were told that mass immigration made America richer, culturally more healthy.
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And what we're finding out is that actually mass immigration, especially when it includes
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people from countries and cultures, uh, with beliefs that are really antithetical to our
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So rather than bringing in people who can become great Americans, we're allowing to come in
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And, you know, it's, it's showing what a problem that is when you treat a country, uh,
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as if it's just an international Costco, anyone can be a member.
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You just got to come in, get all the cheap stuff you want, leave whenever you like.
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That's a total lie in America is not a business park.
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And as soon as you, you adopt this lie that it is that as soon as you adopt the lie that
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America is not a unique culture, uh, with its own language, with its own history and traditions.
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If you reject that, you are rejecting the entire purpose of America.
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And you shouldn't be surprised when people who come in who don't believe in America or ideals
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begin to radically transform it deliberately as soon as they get here.
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And this is what so many people have been warning about.
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I totally love that line, international Costco, by the way, that it's, it's, it's, you know,
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we're not just a place that's completely defined by our GDP.
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And, you know, one of my favorite moments of, and I think it's not talked about as much,
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my favorite moments of all of 2024 was J.D. Vance and his, not his nomination speech at
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He talked about the grave on the hillside that his family has this, this plot in Kentucky
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where his ancestors are buried, where, and where one day he too knows that he himself will
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That means something that means, and then his whole family came out on stage around his
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extended cousins and have his mom and everyone come out.
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And that means something to, I think, a group of people that really has gotten the raw end
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of the deal and has been totally overlooked for so many years prior to Trump and Vance
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Last minute before we have to go to you, Sean Davis.
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Um, uh, America is not just a place where we go shop.
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It's in our blood and it's in our bones and it's in every fiber of our being.
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I very much want other people to be able to experience that same thing.
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But the reality is that having a card that says you're a citizen, it may entitle you to
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the, to the same rights and privileges, but there is a real difference between someone
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who is an American and understands and love this culture and her people and our land and
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And I wish we would get back to understanding and inculcating in people that America is
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America is the greatest civilization in history and it's something to be preserved and loved.
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And as soon as we get back to that, we can actually get back to restoring America.
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And if we don't get back to that, America is just going to continue to decline.
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Having a country that people care about and a country that people actually feel, literally
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feel that connection to Sean, where can people go to follow you and everything you're putting
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And of course, check out the federal list on line.
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Jack Tobik, Human Events Daily, Real American Report.
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We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys and these are the
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All right, Jack, here we are back live, Human Events Daily, Real America's Voice.
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We are here in Washington, D.C., and we are once again honored to have on the program Senator
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Now, Senator, all of last week, there was this raging debate online on X.
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But I noticed that while I was focused, you know, very much so on Iran and these military
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strikes and what was going to come left and regime change and all this other stuff, you
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were embroiled in a totally separate conversation that I'll admit I wasn't able to plug in as
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much on that given everything that was going on during, I guess we're calling it the 12-day
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And so I wanted to redirect my attention to this now.
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And we wanted to bring you on because I had so many people reaching out to me saying, so
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many of our viewers and listeners saying, you got to get the senator on.
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I understand the bill as of right now has been essentially taken off the shelf or I should
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say put back on the shelf because of the parliamentarian and the reconciliation.
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So I wanted to bring you on to give us your side of it as well as sort of an overall view
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of how this got started and then where it stands now.
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The debate is ongoing, by the way, in part because the parliamentarian is revisiting the
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issue today in light of some new information that she didn't have and some new language
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But let me summarize the problem that we're addressing here and then I'll describe the
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There's a nationwide shortage that some estimate to be about 7 million homes.
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Americans deserve the chance to be able to buy a home and they need land to do so.
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Now, coincidentally, the U.S. government happens to own about 640 million acres, nearly a third
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between a fourth and a third of all the land in the United States, most of which goes unused
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and is often mismanaged badly by the government.
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There are a number of pieces of that land, that portfolio of real estate that has zero
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It doesn't have significant conservation value, value for hunting, fishing, grazing, hiking,
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And for that specific land and the land I'm talking about here, think vacant lots next to
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existing residential developments, not national parks.
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In fact, you can't even have it considered for sale under these provisions if you fit
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into any of the 15 or so categories of protected federal land from national monuments, national
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forest, wilderness areas, national recreation areas, wild and scenic rivers, trails, conservation
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The solution involves allowing the U.S. government to sell off a limited number of these parcels
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of land at an affordable price to allow people to build homes with preference toward single
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And this has all kinds of protections in it that make sure that we're not selling off the
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Again, think vacant lots next to existing residential neighborhoods, and that's what we're talking
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There has been associated with this effort a lot of attempts to provide misinformation.
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There have been maps that have been put out there that are badly misleading about what
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this bill actually does, suggesting that it would sell all the land listed on a map.
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It's impossible to come up with a map that describes what is going to be sold, what could
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There's no way of communicating that accurately.
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There are instead criteria and a number of processes that people would have to follow.
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I would note also that a lot of the housing shortage that we're trying to address exists
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Remember, the U.S. government owns less than 15% of every state to the east of Colorado.
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From Colorado's eastern slope to the west, the U.S. government owns at least 15% of the
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In my state, it's more like two-thirds of the land that's owned by the U.S. government.
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That's where a lot of our housing shortages tend to be the most acute.
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And that's where we have a lot of existing residential neighborhoods where there are vacant
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federal lots right next door in places people already live next to utility hookups where
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We should allow that and do so understanding that we would cap this at no more than a fraction
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Less than one-half of 1% of federal land could even be considered for this.
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I try to do my job around here because actual journalists don't do any work.
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It's something a lot of conservatives have talked about for years.
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President Trump has talked about drilling in Alaska, ANWR, for a long, long time.
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I've been to ANWR, by the way, something that a lot of people can say.
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It is not a place where it is very – it's muddy, it's oily, which makes sense because
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And so – and the wildlife is very, very sparse.
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And so, Senator, what would be, I suppose, your response to some of the claims that I've
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seen out there where people are saying that, well, hold on a second, isn't this just a
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backdoor way for BlackRock and Blackstone and the World Economic Forum type organizations
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to come in and buy up all this land and then rent it back to people, you know, if they
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can't afford it, to, you know, mass, you know, mass ownership from private equity and
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then get to that WEF slogan of you'll own nothing and you'll be happy.
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Are there provisions that would prevent things like that from happening?
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Yeah, it's one of the most commonly raised arguments, one being that entities like BlackRock
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will buy up all this land and another being that the Chinese Communist Party and business
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enterprises associated with it or owned by it will gobble all this up.
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We're working on solutions right now to make sure that that never happens.
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I don't believe that it would happen under the language.
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We're also working on additional solutions to make sure that it doesn't happen, that it
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And there are all kinds of existing protections in existing law, some state law, some federal
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We're going to even go even further than that to make sure that people understand this is
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It's not going to be an opportunity for anyone other than individual families who want a place
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We're going to keep out CCP ownership and we're going to keep out BlackRock ownership, large
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And so what would you say then, I guess, just one of the, I'm actually reading some of the
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What would you say to the hunter in Idaho who grew up hunting on this land and is worried
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that his land might qualify for one of these sales?
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If you're hunting on land, if you've got any activity like that, hunting, grazing, fishing,
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It's not going to be deemed suitable for housing.
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And in all probability, in fact, with a virtual certainty, if there's land on which you've hunted,
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that it's not going to be adjacent to existing residential developments, nor will it be suitable
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So that's, this is not going to be part of that, but you can always identify some theoretical
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basis on which bad decisions could be made under any piece of legislation, but you can't
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just go throwing that around without looking at what the law actually says and what looking
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at what the proposed legislative text that's before the Senate parliamentarian right now being
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When you read the text and understand the existing law behind that, these things are
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Many of the people, not all of them, but many of the people making these arguments are the
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same people who, when pushed, will push back on any effort to reduce the federal land footprint
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by even one hundredth of one percent or even an acre.
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They're absolutists in this regard, and that's folly to assume that a U.S. government that
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owns between a fourth and a third of all landmass in the United States cannot shed even a single
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lot or two to allow hardworking Americans, families, to build their family home.
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And, you know, this is something that I've been considering as well.
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You know, I've spent a lot of time out there either just traveling or, you know, for various
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military trainings that I've done, and there's huge swaths of the West that are, really, they're
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just not, you know, we're not talking about the national parks, but it's just huge swaths
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of kind of nothing, where there's just really nothing there.
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And, you know, call me whatever you want for saying that, but it's just true, where
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it could be put, it seems like it could be put to better use.
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And it seems as though there are ways that this could be used.
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And I've done hours and hours driving, you know, through this area for various things.
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And so when it comes down to this, you know, I think you do hear a lot of people, and it
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does become emotional because of, and by the way, this comes up in the context of the Alaska
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debate so much, where people have this image of Alaska, that it's just this massive national
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And there are incredible, the glaciers and the national park.
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By the way, we are Mount McKinley users around here, not Mount Denali.
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And, and so people miss the fact, though, that there are also vast swaths of Alaska that
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are completely untouched, they have drilling under them, and it wouldn't affect anything,
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but the environmentalists or other lobbies use that to prevent access to those resources.
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And look, if you've spent any time in Utah, I would encourage you to consider a drive between
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St. George in the south, up to Ogden in the north on I-15.
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Now, driving on I-15 during that expanse, you'll travel most of the length of the state.
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You'll drive through a number of cities and towns.
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You won't drive through any wilderness areas or national parks, because that's not how the
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But you will drive through countless cities and towns, countless neighborhoods, communities
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Immediately next to those will be countless vacant lots, many of which are owned by the
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They're not part of a national forest or any other protected federal land status category.
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They are most naturally and most beneficially used by the American people as housing, because
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they're right next to housing, and should be available for consideration for the construction
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By the way, I was trying to think of what the name of it was.
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Pebble Mine up in Alaska is one of these great deposits that I've talked about, where it's
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just, it's, you go there and they flew us out on a helicopter and we landed right out and
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they said, well, you know, believe our feet is a trillion dollars in copper.
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And what's preventing it is a lot of this red tape.
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So there are instances where I could find myself in agreement, but I also think that
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there are serious questions and serious concerns as well, because we do want to keep our public
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And he's been my friend right from the beginning of this whole beautiful event.
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And we're going to turn it around and make our country great to get to him.
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We're continuing our interview with Senator Mike Lee.
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And we're asking questions about this, this public land deal, this public land bill, which
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and now the current status of which is that it's not going to be in the reconciliation
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or potentially not in the reconciliation bill because the Senate parliamentarian has put
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However, that might be reopened or revisited at another time.
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And, you know, I'm looking at the chat and I see people in the chat and Senator, I'm sure
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That there are some people who say, I like it because it helps with the debt, helps with
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I see a lot of other people saying, hey, wait a minute.
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This land is there for, you know, throwing Teddy Roosevelt quotes in.
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This is for our beautiful lands for hunting and fishing and hiking and selling it off to
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I'm sure you've heard all of these criticisms as well.
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Walk me through how these federal plots that you're talking about are different from these
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national park areas that people are so concerned about.
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National parks and national wilderness areas, forests, things like that.
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They've been designated and set aside for non-use in the case of wilderness areas and national
00:37:14.340
parks, for example, normally they have some type of unique quality that makes them especially
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beautiful and they tend to be remote and detached from where people are living.
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Nothing like that, nothing included within that could even be considered under this proposal.
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This proposal deals with, again, it's best to think of these as vacant lots next to existing
00:37:42.000
And so an individual, anyone could nominate this.
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It's patterned after a law that's been around for decades called the Recreation and Public
00:37:48.540
Purposes Act that allows for purposes of establishing a trail or anything else deemed to be a public
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You can sell some federal land as appropriate for those purposes.
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In this circumstance, when somebody nominates a parcel, it initiates a review process within
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And if the land is deemed suitable and appropriate for housing and it doesn't run afoul of any of
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the many exemptions and protections that are in there, then it could ultimately be placed
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for sale and could be transferred to a unit of local government in that area, which would
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in turn oversee the process by which that could be developed into single family residential
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housing would be the preference under the bill.
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And they could do so at a, what we sometimes refer to as an affordable rate.
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And it would allow individual families to purchase land for purposes of building a home.
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So when we look at what this does, rather than just listen to the scare monitoring tactics
00:38:55.940
of those who say you're going to destroy the national park system, look at the facts.
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This doesn't hit national parks or any of the other protected areas.
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These are vacant lots next to where people already live, next to utility hookups and connections,
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This is not something that you should worry about in terms of destroying the legacy of
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Now, look, if you're one of those people who believes as if a matter of first principles,
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as if an article of faith, that the current land footprint of the United States government
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is somehow written onto stone tablets and handed down from on high and designated to be perpetually
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in federal ownership, you're not going to like this bill if that's what you believe.
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But if you do believe that, I think that is a mistake.
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If on the other hand, you believe that it could be good for housing to allow families to be able
00:39:52.120
to afford housing, to have a greater supply, particularly in areas where the federal government
00:39:57.740
In the case of my state, this family ownership or would that be codified into the bill, this
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maybe preferential treatment for families going along with some of the family policies that
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President Trump and J.D. Vance have put out there as well?
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Yes. And in that respect, it's good to think of these as freedom zone housing opportunities
00:40:18.440
for families because of this preference built into the text for single family housing.
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Well, I think built into the text, that's something that a lot of people and I can see
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are asking for. And people remember 40 acres and a mule. And this is sort of how the West was
00:40:35.880
was founded, how the West was won. And I think that people understandably have concerns when
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whenever the federal government is talking about doing something like this. But I appreciate
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you coming on. I appreciate you sharing with us. Where can people go to follow you and get
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all the information that you're putting out from your side of this as well?
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I think you can always go to lee.senate.gov where we have up to date information on this bill
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and what it does and where it's going. Lee.senate.gov. Senator, thank you so much for joining us
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once again, Human Events Daily. Thank you. All right, folks. And ladies and gentlemen,
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as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.