Louder with Crowder - Kamala Abandons America: Dockworker Strike & Hurricane Helene Devastation

00:00:04.000 Hey, this is Whistleblower 52 for Open Minds of America, talking with marginalized communities on why hate

00:00:11.000 has no place in Texas, or America, or on Earth.

00:00:17.000 ["Hate is a Bad Thing"]

00:00:32.000 Do you think that has any place in the city?

00:00:35.000 That kind of hate? Can you believe this?

00:00:37.000 You don't think it should be taken down in the city?

00:00:40.000 They shouldn't allow this kind of hate?

00:00:42.000 I find it repulsive.

00:00:43.000 We're from Newfoundland, we're from Canada, but we're Polish, too.

00:00:46.000 Like, they came over because of the Holocaust. 0.97

00:00:49.000 So what was worse for them? Was it the Holocaust or Newfoundland?

00:00:51.000 But you think it should be allowed to stay up?

00:00:53.000 Yes, yes, I think so.

00:00:55.000 Yes, even though I find it repulsive.

00:00:56.000 No, I want the city to take it down.

00:00:58.000 Yeah. It's been there for a while, too.

00:01:00.000 Oh, it's been there for a while? Yeah.

00:01:02.000 It's changed my mind, so I kind of like it because it gets people talking.

00:01:07.000 Tune in for the extended conversation tomorrow at 10 a.m.

00:01:10.000 Eastern.

00:01:12.000 Oh, I don't know.

00:01:41.000 Glad to be with you, even though I'm a little bit out of it today.

00:01:53.000 Joe Lewis barged in, and he actually has broken the lock on my master bedroom.

00:01:59.000 He uses his head as a battering ram, and he just, boom!

00:02:01.000 Comes in in the morning because he wants pets, and then goes back to bed.

00:02:04.000 So I woke up in the middle of a dream.

00:02:06.000 You ever get that? Comment below.

00:02:07.000 You wake up in that weird zone of sleep, and I still feel that way.

00:02:11.000 That's the worst. And now I've got to replace the lock on my door.

00:02:14.000 Again. It's just a great dog, but he's...

00:02:17.000 He's just going to keep knocking. He just, boom!

00:02:19.000 No, he busts open the door.

00:02:20.000 I'm saying, you replace it, he's just gonna...

00:02:22.000 Yeah, it's gonna happen. You gotta deadbolt that thing.

00:02:24.000 Get one of those New York City secret seven-locked doors.

00:02:27.000 Yeah. Open it with a chain.

00:02:28.000 Yeah. Who is it?

00:02:30.000 All right. Hey, we have a lot to get to today.

00:02:33.000 We are going to be fact-checking the fact-checkers.

00:02:35.000 Last we were with you, it was debate night, the VP debate night.

00:02:38.000 Thank you. You guys, by the way, set a record stream.

00:02:40.000 We appreciate it. And like I kind of thought would happen, they're not trying to address it a whole lot in the media.

00:02:47.000 All they've done is try and say, you know what, he didn't answer in the 2020 election, and, you know, that's it.

00:02:54.000 But they have been circulating this sort of fact check on J.D. Vance, and it's wrong as it relates to Haitians being here illegally.

00:03:03.000 And we'll explain that to you. I don't know if you know this, there's been a hurricane, and it's been an unbelievable tragedy.

00:03:10.000 And what we're looking at right now is the difference between the people and the elite.

00:03:15.000 The people want to help.

00:03:17.000 They want to help their fellow neighbor.

00:03:19.000 They can't because FEMA says, no, no, no, no, you have to help this way.

00:03:24.000 Donald Trump is helping and has set up a GoFundMe with the people.

00:03:28.000 Kamala Harris wants the help to be provided in an equitable way.

00:03:32.000 Way. When you follow the dogmatic religion of leftism, you fail to see the people right before you who need help.

00:03:39.000 Because everything is an ism.

00:03:41.000 Also a huge segment on the longshoreman strike, also known as the mafia.

00:03:48.000 You'll see the mob. Yeah, you will see.

00:03:51.000 Let me ask you, picture what you think of working class union member in your head.

00:03:55.000 Yeah, it's not that.

00:03:58.000 Now add a six million dollar house.

00:04:00.000 Now add a 76 foot yacht.

00:04:02.000 Now, at a six-figure salary plus benefits, these people...

00:04:06.000 There was a relevant time for unions, you know, with women being chained to a loom for like 12 hours. 0.91

00:04:13.000 But these days, they're living off of, in most cases, your tax paradigm, too, when you look at public sector unions.

00:04:20.000 So, if at some point today, because, you know, I don't really like what we say about unions, you see this on YouTube...

00:04:26.000 Head over to Rumble. It's a live show weekdays, 10 a.m.

00:04:29.000 Eastern. And let me ask you this.

00:04:30.000 What's the balance of automation versus corrupt union jobs?

00:04:35.000 And is there a middle ground of, you know, right to work and using efficient technology to maybe improve quality of life?

00:04:43.000 Where do you strike that balance?

00:04:44.000 Comment below. I think you're probably quite reasonable in comparison to a mob boss who makes millions a year.

00:04:49.000 Number two, CEO, how are you?

00:04:51.000 I'm doing well, though I am more pro-automation on docs than I used to be.

00:04:55.000 Yes. I see the strike and I'm like, oh, yeah, definitely.

00:04:59.000 You need to be automated out of a job.

00:05:01.000 Thank you very much. How are you? I'm doing okay.

00:05:03.000 You know, at some point this will be automated.

00:05:05.000 Well, it'll just be AI. And I don't fully mean, I don't want everybody to lose their jobs.

00:05:09.000 No, of course not. When we get into the numbers, I'm like, you've got to be kidding me.

00:05:12.000 There's no other place on the planet where you can have that much money and demand that much of a raise and still strike.

00:05:18.000 The United States is nowhere near the top as far as efficiency reports.

00:05:21.000 We'll give you some numbers here. A lot of facts to get to today as to remove all doubt.

00:05:25.000 And in third chair, when you hear this, know him, you'll love him.

00:05:28.000 October 26th in Oklahoma City, Bricktown Comedy Club, Josh Feierstein.

00:05:33.000 How are you? Good, good.

00:05:34.000 My favorite baseball team just won a playoff series.

00:05:37.000 The Rangers? No, the Padres.

00:05:38.000 Oh, they're not in. Rangers are in.

00:05:40.000 I'm going to ride that high for a couple days.

00:05:41.000 Good. I don't speak Spanish, so I don't understand.

00:05:42.000 Also, glad to know there's no longshoremen in Oklahoma City.

00:05:46.000 I'm safe. Yeah, yeah. There you go.

00:05:47.000 Well, there's no shore. There are tornadoes.

00:05:51.000 Sure. Hey, in sad news, and guys, this is breaking news.

00:05:58.000 We often see people as worthy political adversaries.

00:06:02.000 It never stems from a place of hate.

00:06:04.000 And sadly, Jimmy Carter has passed away.

00:06:08.000 Oh, no, no, sorry.

00:06:18.000 He turned 100.

00:06:20.000 Oh, okay. Though I think he's also dead at the same time.

00:06:25.000 Well, I don't know. We'll have to go to the tail of the tape.

00:06:28.000 Here's a clip. His head's up there.

00:06:34.000 There's a pillow behind it.

00:06:36.000 Now I want you to watch him right now in this clip.

00:06:48.000 What?

00:06:48.000 Bye!

00:06:49.000 Watch him, remember this.

00:06:53.000 Because it is relevant.

00:06:55.000 Yep, that man.

00:06:57.000 That man. Hold on.

00:06:59.000 That man, according to his grandson, also Jimmy, said, I'm really excited to vote for Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:07:09.000 That's crap. And we, of course... 0.99

00:07:11.000 Did he do it in Morse code? How do you tell him?

00:07:13.000 Well, we reached him for comment on hitting 100, and he had this to say.

00:07:22.000 Well, that's not helpful. No.

00:07:23.000 I don't know what to do with that.

00:07:25.000 I don't know how to translate it. Direct quote?

00:07:27.000 You don't. They don't even try and hide their lying anymore.

00:07:30.000 Like, he's sitting there and he's... I'll tell you one thing.

00:07:32.000 I really want to vote for that colored lady. 1.00

00:07:34.000 Exactly. You know what it looks like?

00:07:35.000 It looks like they brought him in to, like, do a book signing or something.

00:07:39.000 Some guy's just taking photos.

00:07:41.000 Get a selfie with Jimmy Carter.

00:07:42.000 Yeah. How would he sign books?

00:07:44.000 Do they just, like, put ink on his nose and just...

00:07:48.000 Unless he's mesmerized by a SpaceX launch, the guy's dead in the chair, okay?

00:07:54.000 No, no. He's extremely excited to vote for Kamala Harris with great vigor.

00:07:59.000 How does he do it? He can't even lift his hand.

00:08:03.000 That's the oldest president of all time.

00:08:05.000 And to be honest, I might sound ignorant here, but I thought Bill Clinton was like 110.

00:08:10.000 Yeah, that's easy to make that mistake.

00:08:12.000 78 is great. Well, he's like 110 in demon years.

00:08:15.000 Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you, tomorrow at 10 a.m.

00:08:18.000 Eastern, we do have a video that will be actually here.

00:08:22.000 Friday often, you know...

00:08:24.000 If you're not in Mug Club, you don't get to see this, but it's Whistleblower 50-something.

00:08:28.000 Talking about our build-the-wall, change-my-mind billboard.

00:08:30.000 It's kind of a reverse change-my-mind. 0.97

00:08:32.000 I apologize that Whistleblower is kind of an ass, but it's a lot of fun. 0.74

00:08:37.000 All right, let's go to fact-checking the fact-checkers, because Tuesday, the VP debate, thank you for being with us, one of the moderators fact-checked Vans. 0.95

00:08:47.000 They didn't fact-check Wall's I don't think at all.

00:08:51.000 And if they did, it certainly wasn't to this degree.

00:08:54.000 And this fact check was over Haitian migrants, Haitian illegals.

00:08:58.000 And this term, this is very important for you to understand.

00:09:01.000 Temporary protected status.

00:09:03.000 The media wants you and hopes that you don't know what that means.

00:09:08.000 So let's fact check the fact checkers.

00:09:10.000 Tweet check. Fact Trump.

00:09:12.000 Trump fact check tweet.

00:09:13.000 Fact check. News.

00:09:17.000 It's fun. Let's first go to this claim.

00:09:20.000 Let's set this up. The claim, the fact check in the media, and of course now the water's been carried by those on social media, that Haitians in Springfield, they actually, actually by the way, they have complete legal status.

00:09:33.000 Hmm. The people that I'm most worried about in Springfield, Ohio, are the American citizens who have had their lives destroyed by Kamala Harris's open border.

00:09:41.000 It is a disgrace, Tim.

00:09:43.000 Just to clarify for our viewers, Springfield, Ohio, does have a large number of Haitian migrants who have legal status, temporary, protected. 0.99

00:09:53.000 Shut up, Ms. Pink, is what you were thinking. 0.94

00:09:56.000 So here's a tweet after that from the associate editor of Vox.

00:10:00.000 We've had a few run-ins with him. Aaron Rupar saying, Trump's mass deportation will include legal immigrants.

00:10:07.000 And of course, all references available, link in the description.

00:10:10.000 Go to ladderwithcredit.com every day.

00:10:12.000 Call us out if we're wrong.

00:10:14.000 Here's the truth. The Haitians in Springfield are, in fact, illegal. 0.91

00:10:19.000 They are illegal immigrants. 0.99

00:10:20.000 Well, that. The technicalities, they've been granted temporary protection, right?

00:10:26.000 Let's just use the term TPS. That's the term that they were talking about.

00:10:30.000 Temporary protection status.

00:10:32.000 Because of the Biden-Harris open border policy.

00:10:36.000 Basically, they're still illegal.

00:10:38.000 It's just that they're shielded from deportation.

00:10:41.000 It's funny because the left gets so mad, you know, the famous Nixon quote where he said, I'm saying when the president does it, it's not illegal.

00:10:46.000 Here's the thing. That's true.

00:10:47.000 He was talking about presidential immunity.

00:10:49.000 Right? What they're doing here is saying, yeah, yeah, if people come here illegally, if people have not gone through the process, it's not illegal if we just say they're protected.

00:10:57.000 In any other scenario, outside of the elites, trying to replace giant percentages of an entire American city outside of that very limited scope...

00:11:11.000 They would be illegal.

00:11:12.000 Not just in the U.S., by the way. Anywhere in the history of mankind.

00:11:15.000 Yeah. By the way, that's almost worse to me.

00:11:18.000 Oh, sorry. Fact check!

00:11:20.000 You can be a little quicker. Sorry.

00:11:22.000 I don't want to have to say it.

00:11:23.000 Keep going. No, that's almost worse to me than turning a blind eye to it.

00:11:27.000 It's segmenting a group of people and saying, yes, we know you're here illegally, but we're not going to let anybody do anything about it, and everybody's going to be treating you like an American citizen when you're not. 0.60

00:11:36.000 Right. That's the fact check problem that you have there.

00:11:38.000 Here's the silver lining, though.

00:11:41.000 I don't know why I was moving like Woody from Toy Story.

00:11:42.000 Yeah, I have no idea. Mars!

00:11:45.000 All right. Snake in my boot. 0.99

00:11:47.000 I don't know. Like a marionette puppet.

00:11:49.000 The truth is that because it was done through basically presidential powers, they're not illegal, but they were.

00:11:58.000 Yeah, but they're not. But they were.

00:12:00.000 But they're not. That means that another president can move in and just say, oh, sorry, we were wrong about that.

00:12:07.000 They are illegal. Springfield is such a beautiful place.

00:12:11.000 Have you seen what's happened to it?

00:12:12.000 It's been overrun.

00:12:14.000 You can't do that to people.

00:12:16.000 They have to be removed.

00:12:17.000 So you would revoke the temporary protected status?

00:12:20.000 Absolutely. I'd revoke it and I'd bring them back to their country. 1.00

00:12:23.000 Do you remember in 2016 where that statement would have been shocking?

00:12:27.000 I don't know if you know this, for the first time in history, a majority of Americans actually support deportation.

00:12:32.000 That's 54% of Americans support it.

00:12:35.000 And 53% of Hispanics, granted a lot of them have annoying cousins who they don't want to see anymore, Come on. 1.00

00:12:41.000 How many cars do you need in one driveway?

00:12:45.000 Eight. You've been in that neighborhood, too.

00:12:49.000 Hey, come on. Only two of them work.

00:12:51.000 Well, there's one in the yard, too, so don't worry about it.

00:12:54.000 This has been my house, too.

00:12:56.000 They're project cars. It's good to have a hobby.

00:12:59.000 This isn't just about the poll, meaning a majority of Americans.

00:13:03.000 It reflects a shift because people understand there is a problem.

00:13:07.000 That means that, including a significant percentage of Democrats, of people who would identify as liberal, have recognized how their neighborhoods and how their neighbors have been affected by this abysmal policy.

00:13:18.000 So the left can say racism, wall is racist, deportation is racist.

00:13:24.000 Americans are not buying it, and I think that they'll... 0.99

00:13:27.000 They'll be less and less convinced.

00:13:29.000 That number 54, I would expect that if we don't actually see serious deportation programs, it'll be over 60 within two years.

00:13:37.000 Yeah, absolutely. I mean, everything that they do surrounding this debate is actually pushing in Vance's favor, right?

00:13:44.000 So one thing I wanted to highlight, right after that, Vance said something that they clipped, and they did it out of context.

00:13:49.000 He said, and you saw him put his hand up, he goes, hold on, I thought the rules were that you weren't going to fact check.

00:13:54.000 And that's what people put out, like, oh, Vance is afraid of a fact check!

00:13:58.000 But he goes, I thought you weren't going to fact check, but since you are, I'll go ahead and set you straight on this.

00:14:02.000 And he basically made the same point that we just made on temporary protected status being given by Kamala Harris.

00:14:07.000 Right. And how that doesn't serve the American people at all.

00:14:10.000 So instead of focusing on the issue, they're going, no, no, no, no, no, technicality.

00:14:14.000 And not helping people. And when we get to the hurricane story in a minute, no, no, no, no, no, technicality.

00:14:18.000 And not helping people. It's the same playbook on every single issue.

00:14:22.000 It's the elites versus you.

00:14:23.000 It's just the elites don't, like we've always talked about this, the devil doesn't show up in a creaky coffin with a bunch of cobwebs.

00:14:30.000 The devil shows up as an extra bottle of booze, as maybe a secretary you shouldn't be hanging around too much, as maybe the wrong nightclub, as maybe that baggy, whatever it is, drugs, booze, right? 0.99

00:14:42.000 It shows up as something tempting. Doesn't show up as something that scares you.

00:14:47.000 You think of the elite as eyes wide shut parties.

00:14:50.000 No, the elite are, of course, you see the moderators right there.

00:14:55.000 They're not affected by 20,000 illegal Haitian migrants in a city of 60,000 people.

00:15:02.000 They're not affected by those living in southern border towns that are riddled with crime.

00:15:06.000 Same thing when you talk about the elite. You don't think of FEMA. Well, hold on a second.

00:15:12.000 They're not the ones who can't get the help because they're stopping people from bringing in supplies if they're not from preferred vendors or people being threatened with arrest.

00:15:21.000 We'll talk about this. Helicopters trying to help people.

00:15:23.000 No, no. They're not the ones affected. They get to tell you the rules.

00:15:25.000 Hey, you don't think of the elite as union workers on the docks.

00:15:30.000 But they're not the ones whose goods and products are more expensive.

00:15:34.000 They're not the ones who are going to suffer as you do to the tune of $4 billion daily potential damage to the American economy if they don't get their 77% pay increase.

00:15:45.000 I want you to just reframe, because you think swamp or elite, and this is what is very dangerous with people out there saying, you know, they have these secret satanic parties.

00:15:53.000 Hey, I don't know if you know this. Satanism takes place in broad daylight in front of you.

00:15:57.000 It's the idolatry of self. It's the seeking out of pleasure.

00:16:01.000 And satisfying your own greed without thinking of the greater moral good.

00:16:07.000 Or, of course, seeking God.

00:16:08.000 If you're a Christian, which I am, but, you know, maybe you're not.

00:16:10.000 A lot of people aren't. You know, hell sucks. 1.00

00:16:16.000 And none of this happens, by the way, when we're talking about the elite. 0.98

00:16:19.000 There's no one who represents that more than the media, legacy media.

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00:17:08.000 Yes. It's more than that.

00:17:10.000 what that don't worry about the talk about our vendors that were good moving

00:17:13.000 on shoot the ports haha self

00:17:17.000 Oh, no. Air freight.

00:17:19.000 Let's go on to the hurricane.

00:17:20.000 Let's talk about this. Because I will tell you this, I always am pretty hesitant to get into blaming with natural disasters.

00:17:28.000 You know, they did it with Bush and Katrina saying, you know, or Kanye, George Bush does not care about black people for the greatest reaction in television history by Mike Myers.

00:17:37.000 It's easy to just finger point, right?

00:17:39.000 But sometimes you do have very clear-cut examples of red tape bureaucracy or ideology actually harming people and taking lives.

00:17:50.000 And I think we've reached that point here with this hurricane in this administration.

00:17:55.000 So, three days after Trump had gone to survey the destruction of Hurricane Helene, which is very...

00:18:03.000 I've never heard that name.

00:18:04.000 It's like Helena, Helen, Helene, but Helene.

00:18:08.000 Helene. Yeah, I think it's Dutch.

00:18:11.000 It could be. I hope that explains it.

00:18:16.000 Yeah. Well, I think Dutch is when the hurricane just splits in two evenly.

00:18:19.000 Yeah, I know. So Kamala Biden finally traveled to the area, three days after Trump, and I don't know if you know, Biden is still allegedly former vice president.

00:18:29.000 Today, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris both traveled to states affected by Hurricane Helene.

00:18:35.000 Former President Trump went to Georgia on Monday to get a first-hand look at the damage and help distribute supplies.

00:18:40.000 He criticized Ms. 1.00

00:18:42.000 Harris for not coming to the area immediately.

00:18:45.000 Okay, so you can just play the blame game.

00:18:47.000 They didn't get here early enough.

00:18:49.000 These people came later. Okay, but we do have a serious problem here.

00:18:52.000 And you can comment below if you know what it is.

00:18:56.000 I'll tell you exactly what it is.

00:18:58.000 It's an ideology based on equity that kills actual people.

00:19:04.000 The idea here, and if you see Kamala Harris, the administration, and FEMA under their watch have made it clear that as we're dealing with natural disasters, and it doesn't matter what it is, by the way, natural disasters, if we're dealing with strikes, if we are dealing with public education, everything has to be done looking through the lens of equity.

00:19:25.000 It is our lowest-income communities and our communities of color that are most impacted by these extreme conditions and impacted by issues that are not of their own making.

00:19:40.000 Absolutely. And so we have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity.

00:19:50.000 So, you hear that? Based on equity.

00:19:53.000 Based on equity.

00:19:55.000 That matters, because then you're going to be able to make sense of some of this red tape.

00:19:59.000 Let me be really clear. Mother Nature is a cruel mistress, okay? 0.80

00:20:03.000 I understand that. But right now, people have been dying.

00:20:08.000 In the United States of America, while at the debate, they were harping about climate change.

00:20:17.000 Scientists say climate change makes these hurricanes larger, stronger, and more deadly because of the historic rainfall.

00:20:25.000 So the solution for us is to continue to move forward that climate change is real.

00:20:32.000 Reducing our impact is absolutely critical.

00:20:34.000 The overwhelming consensus among scientists is that the Earth's climate is warming at an unprecedented rate.

00:20:39.000 Margaret. Thank you, Norah.

00:20:41.000 Oh, well thank you for that relevant fact check because I guess the overwhelming consensus among scientists is that this hurricane was caused by climate change?

00:20:48.000 No, no, no. It just made it stronger.

00:20:50.000 Apparently we never had Category 4 hurricanes.

00:20:52.000 You know what? Hey, everyone shut up. 0.98

00:20:53.000 People are dying. Sorry, that was just symbolic. 0.99

00:20:58.000 No, no, yeah. I love you.

00:21:00.000 People are dying. Want to talk about a 1.6 degree rise?

00:21:05.000 Yeah. Follow up.

00:21:06.000 Go look at yourself. How about that?

00:21:08.000 People are dying right now and they can't get food.

00:21:10.000 They don't have access to water, electricity.

00:21:13.000 Oh, okay. We want to talk about polar bears?

00:21:15.000 This is a gross exaggeration to make a point, but you understand.

00:21:18.000 What you're seeing here is the people who suffer and the elite who enact policy to protect themselves At the cost of your suffering.

00:21:29.000 And I would say that with the people here, certainly in this election, you do have a very clear standout in Donald Trump.

00:21:35.000 So, let's look first at the hurricane.

00:21:38.000 Donald Trump has done a lot, by the way.

00:21:40.000 He started a GoFundMe, which raised, I believe, it was somewhere over $4 million.

00:21:45.000 We can bring up that link. And he's also worked with Elon Musk to try and, you know, mobilize Starlink to help these people.

00:21:52.000 We're trying to... I just spoke to Elon.

00:21:54.000 I'm getting him.

00:21:55.000 We want to get Starlink hooked up because they have no communication whatsoever.

00:22:01.000 And Elon will always come through.

00:22:03.000 We know that. I believe, just an update on that, I do believe that Elon did come through for Starlink.

00:22:09.000 So anybody who has Starlink in the affected area, and there's a map of this, it's actually going to work whether you've paid for it or not.

00:22:15.000 So he's been able to kind of like geo, kind of lock it to where it's in these areas.

00:22:20.000 Starlink will work no matter if you've paid for it or not.

00:22:23.000 So if you have it or have access to one, and they can get those out, people will have access to communications.

00:22:28.000 That's great. It's fantastic. And if you're with Cricket, kiss your ass goodbye.

00:22:31.000 Yeah, you're done. Try to book a flight on Spirit Airlines, too. 1.00

00:22:36.000 Be sure to ziplock your weave.

00:22:40.000 Oh, come on. So, here's the crazy thing.

00:22:46.000 Okay, Donald Trump raised, with a GoFundMe, over $4 million.

00:22:49.000 And I suggest you go and help them out.

00:22:51.000 Donate whatever you can. Think about this for a second.

00:22:55.000 And this is what's so perverse about someone who is currently in office, running for re-election.

00:23:01.000 They basically, it's like senioritis.

00:23:04.000 They just sort of leave the last year.

00:23:06.000 I don't know if you know this, but the Harris-Biden campaign, and now Harris-Walls, they've already raised $700 million.

00:23:14.000 $700 million.

00:23:16.000 For hurricane relief? No, it's for the campaign.

00:23:19.000 You think, could you toss a few mil to the people who are dying?

00:23:24.000 I know it's not my place to say, but you have someone who's not even in office who's raising millions of dollars and also giving his time, which, by the way, is very valuable for him.

00:23:33.000 And, of course, Kamala Harris couldn't be bothered to do that for a good long while, too. 1.00

00:23:39.000 $700 million to beat the guy who was going down and helping?

00:23:45.000 Nothing can just be given to these people.

00:23:47.000 Oh, that's right. You want our tax dollars to go to it. 0.98

00:23:50.000 And then let's see how that works out because our tax dollars aren't going directly to help people.

00:23:53.000 Our tax dollars are being laundered through FEMA and government bureaucracy in the name of equity.

00:24:00.000 Don't know if you know this. People are dying.

00:24:02.000 Yeah. By the way, when we talk about FEMA, and we'll get to it in a minute, I just saw some lower thirds saying basically FEMA is running out of money.

00:24:09.000 They don't have enough money to be able to do what they need to do.

00:24:11.000 Do me a favor, research, pull up.

00:24:13.000 There's a couple of charts going around on our pictures of what FEMA has been giving money to recently.

00:24:18.000 Hint, not American citizens.

00:24:21.000 We'll see why. Maybe they run short of funds here to help American citizens when they're displaced and hurting.

00:24:27.000 Right. Well, she was nowhere to be found.

00:24:30.000 And then you have former Vice President Biden, who was at his beach house in Delaware when he was asked about his absence.

00:24:37.000 You know, Joe Biden is as Joe Biden does.

00:24:41.000 In retrospect, do you wish that you had put more resources in North Carolina,

00:24:45.000 knowing what you know now?

00:24:46.000 And do you wish that you spent the weekend here in Washington rather than Delaware?

00:24:50.000 Come on, 17.

00:24:52.000 When you have, rather than Delaware, it's 90 miles from here, okay?

00:24:55.000 I was on the phone the whole time.

00:24:58.000 Working on that. And the resources, the question is not whether we get more, this is a list of every resource we're getting in there, but the question is how to get it in.

00:25:07.000 It's hard to get it from point A to point B. It's hard to get if some of these roads are wiped out, communities are wiped out, there's no ability to land, there's no ability to get trucks through, there's no ability to get a whole range of things through.

00:25:20.000 So, I mean, anyway.

00:25:22.000 If I sound frustrated, I am.

00:25:25.000 Yeah. Here's the thing, though.

00:25:27.000 You're wrong about that.

00:25:30.000 You're wrong about that.

00:25:31.000 We'll show you people who've actually been able to go, locals who have done work.

00:25:34.000 Yeah. Including, by the way, someone who was threatened with arrest if he did use a helicopter.

00:25:38.000 So it's not that there's no place to land, there's no place to do good.

00:25:40.000 It's that the government can't do it, and so they want to make sure that nobody else does because they don't want to look bad.

00:25:45.000 So let's again compare the people versus the elite.

00:25:48.000 In this case, the people are the locals.

00:25:50.000 Here's a man who borrowed a tractor and started clearing a path for emergency responders instead of, you know, government officials.

00:25:57.000 Well, I don't know who these are, but I'm about to get to work and I'll ask for forgiveness later.

00:26:03.000 🎵 Good for him. You know, that's what you want to see, right?

00:26:19.000 If ever you watch a film, it's the community coming together to help one another.

00:26:23.000 These people are most affected. They know their neighbors best.

00:26:25.000 It's almost like limited government and local government is more effective than federal government.

00:26:29.000 Here's another good Samaritan.

00:26:30.000 This man is Jordan.

00:26:32.000 I want to make sure I get his name right.

00:26:34.000 Sidem. Sidem. I don't know his name.

00:26:36.000 I've only read it. But this was a man who said, you know what?

00:26:40.000 I'm going to take my helicopter, bring supplies to these areas that are inaccessible, and hey, isn't that wonderful?

00:26:45.000 But instead, I don't know if you know this, the government stepped in and said, no, no, no, do that, and you'll actually get arrested.

00:26:52.000 Stories of survival are now being shared days after Helene wreaked havoc in North Carolina, but one Pageland man's efforts to help are now the source of controversy.

00:27:01.000 He flew his own chopper on his own dime to help stranded victims, but that man says he abandoned his rescue missions after a fire official threatened to have him thrown in jail.

00:27:10.000 Jordan Sidham piled food and water into his helicopter Saturday and headed up toward Benner Elk.

00:27:15.000 The only way through, a mountain gap in Lake Lure.

00:27:19.000 I was greeted by the, at that time I didn't know, but Lake Lure fire chief or assistant chief maybe, and he shut down the whole operation.

00:27:27.000 He said, I'm letting you know.

00:27:29.000 And at that point he waved for two law enforcement officers to come over and told me that again, if I go back up the mountain I would be arrested.

00:27:37.000 Just think about that for a second.

00:27:40.000 You want to talk about the legitimate role of government?

00:27:43.000 Arresting a citizen who's trying to bring supplies to people who could die?

00:27:51.000 That's the role of your government?

00:27:52.000 Yes, they're the government.

00:27:53.000 They're here to help, right? Also, this isn't just something that exists in a vacuum.

00:27:57.000 So here's someone from Twitter, his name is Ryan Tire, talking about FEMA in this situation.

00:28:03.000 This is the rule, not the exception.

00:28:04.000 He said, I cannot confirm the reasons why in North Carolina, but I can tell you the reasons in other storms I have worked.

00:28:08.000 I was able to coordinate several trucks full of supplies to be brought down, but I was informed in that meeting that All the semi-trucks full of food, water and hygiene supplies were to be turned around.

00:28:18.000 The reason they gave us was that these donations were not from companies on their preferred vendors list.

00:28:25.000 So, the good news is, though, FEMA and these people while stopping citizens from being actual neighbors, they're giving a whopping $750 to victims, so that'll handle your house repairs.

00:28:37.000 And why is this happening?

00:28:40.000 Goal number one on FEMA's website is instill equity as a foundation of emergency management.

00:28:48.000 Ah, ah, equity.

00:28:50.000 That's where we are.

00:28:51.000 Equity. Not equal opportunity, but equity, meaning ensured equal outcomes.

00:28:56.000 We usually refer to that when we're talking about the job space or school affirmative action.

00:29:01.000 In this case, because it's a religion, leftism, and a huge portion of it is equity, we've actually injected that dogma into natural disaster relief.

00:29:13.000 There should, hey, hey, Was your house destroyed?

00:29:17.000 Are you in the area of the natural disaster?

00:29:20.000 Are you in the danger zone? Guess what?

00:29:22.000 You get help and you're allowed to help your fellow citizens.

00:29:25.000 There you go. That's equity. Could you think of anything less relevant than race or sexual orientation at a time like this?

00:29:36.000 Well, the government certainly sees it that way.

00:29:39.000 Can't even help your neighbor, you know?

00:29:41.000 Yeah. What's that old Tim Walls saying?

00:29:43.000 One person's neighborly is another person's illegal?

00:29:46.000 Yes. Yeah, exactly. Apparently, neighborliness is great right up until you try to help people in a disaster.

00:29:51.000 Now, I was talking to Mr.

00:29:53.000 Mr. Gunzinger yesterday.

00:29:55.000 He's getting some information out of North Carolina and I believe maybe Tennessee area

00:29:59.000 that he's like this is really, really, really troubling information.

00:30:02.000 He's trying to corroborate it.

00:30:03.000 So I connected him with Mug Club Undercover.

00:30:05.000 Hopefully we'll have an update for you guys on that.

00:30:07.000 But nothing about this seems like it's being handled correctly is the main point.

00:30:12.000 The problem with that is that people's lives are on the line.

00:30:14.000 People's lives literally are on the line right now.

00:30:17.000 Unfortunately a lot of times our attention gets redirected somewhere else.

00:30:22.000 It's election or it's Israel or it's something else right now when you have people in your own backyard

00:30:27.000 not being taken care of.

00:30:28.000 And this is exactly who Donald Trump is on every single issue.

00:30:32.000 America first is not saying America and nobody else.

00:30:34.000 It's saying America first. 0.96

00:30:36.000 Yeah. Yeah. Make them arrest you.

00:30:58.000 Yeah. I'm sorry, just make them arrest you.

00:31:00.000 I'm in a helicopter, sir.

00:31:01.000 I'm going to do exactly what you say until I'm 15 feet off the ground, then I'm flicking you off and I'm going to help some people.

00:31:06.000 Sorry, I'm doing it. So, find me.

00:31:08.000 Let's put this in contact. You think people in North Carolina, you think those people pay taxes, a good portion of them pay taxes?

00:31:12.000 Probably. Yeah. So, they helped fund over, I don't know what the number is now, over $100 billion at least pledged to Ukraine, I believe over $150 billion pledged at this point.

00:31:23.000 So, they spent money to send that over there.

00:31:25.000 Yeah. They get $750 right now, and they pay for the government to block their neighbor from helping them with tractors and helicopters.

00:31:33.000 Does that seem like a government...

00:31:37.000 That is looking out for the people at that point.

00:31:39.000 How many more signs do you need?

00:31:41.000 And I want to make one more point, too, here.

00:31:43.000 They're talking about climate change during the debate in relation to this natural disaster.

00:31:49.000 I was in Cancun back when they had the Cancun Climate Summit.

00:31:52.000 It was still the Kyoto Protocol, I believe, before it became the Paris, the Kyoto Accord, before it became the Paris Agreement.

00:31:58.000 I always forget. I went Montreal, Kyoto, Paris.

00:32:00.000 All right. I was there. Alright, let's put it this way.

00:32:04.000 These people in North Carolina facing this tragedy, they have been thrust into a scenario where they're temporarily in the third world.

00:32:12.000 It's a microcosm of the third world, right? 0.93

00:32:14.000 They don't have access to energy, supplies, food, communication, electricity.

00:32:18.000 And you see how disastrous it is in that scenario, right, if they don't have access to basic energy, clean food, which of course also, by the way, requires energy to transport.

00:32:30.000 Okay, so it's terrible. What about the rest of the globe that is in the third world every day? 0.99

00:32:38.000 When those people are struggling for food, for energy, natural gas, and you sit on your podium talking about climate change. 0.82

00:32:46.000 People in the third world die every single day so that you can drive your shitty white guilt symbol of a Prius and act like you're helping them. 0.93

00:32:56.000 Let's be really clear. Here in the United States in your day-to-day gas prices go up. 0.95

00:33:00.000 All right, maybe we're eating Chuck roast tonight.

00:33:05.000 In an area like Mexico, outside of the tourist areas that rich white people from the States get to visit, energy goes up that same price, it's inconvenient for you, they die. 0.99

00:33:14.000 They can't eat their food. They don't have access to food.

00:33:18.000 Clean water. So I just want to put that into context.

00:33:21.000 You think of what these Americans are going through right now, and by the way, they shouldn't, because this is the United States of America.

00:33:27.000 We've created better, and yes, we deserve better.

00:33:31.000 But that is the rest of the world.

00:33:33.000 On a daily basis.

00:33:36.000 And the climate change based policies are catastrophic and murderous.

00:33:42.000 You can let me know if you disagree. If you think it's more important to, you know, ensure, if you believe, that we could prevent a 1.6 degree temperature rise.

00:33:51.000 You know what? Call it 4 degrees. I don't care.

00:33:53.000 Here's what I was talking about with the FEMA funds, too.

00:33:55.000 Look at that. $110 million emergency food and shelter program.

00:33:59.000 Migrants, migrants, migrants, migrants, migrants, migrants.

00:34:02.000 Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars.

00:34:07.000 Okay. For the people.

00:34:10.000 It's not that I don't have a heart, but it's America first.

00:34:12.000 For the people, by the people.

00:34:13.000 It doesn't make sense that it's coming from FEMA, like the disaster relief.

00:34:18.000 Yeah. That's a disaster?

00:34:20.000 I mean, I guess it is a disaster.

00:34:21.000 That they created.

00:34:23.000 The border is a disaster.

00:34:25.000 That's a great point, Josh.

00:34:27.000 I walked myself right into that one. It certainly is for Lime Scooter in New York.

00:34:30.000 The Harris administration has admitted that the border problem is a disaster because they've used FEMA to try to solve it.

00:34:35.000 Dang, look at that. I thought of that, and I really...

00:34:38.000 That was a concept...

00:34:39.000 I really thought...

00:34:40.000 Premeditated. Yeah, but...

00:34:43.000 I don't understand what's happening.

00:34:44.000 I don't either. And it does help to be prepared.

00:35:03.000 I've talked about this with you.

00:35:05.000 Having some food that can be stored for an indefinite amount of time, having some clean water, having an ability to heat it.

00:35:12.000 I've often said that Everclear is something very useful not to drink.

00:35:15.000 You'll burn your esophagus, but it can be an antiseptic.

00:35:17.000 It also can be used as a fuel for some of these cooking.

00:35:21.000 And for thirst. What was that?

00:35:22.000 And for thirst. And for thirst.

00:35:24.000 Well, you can certainly trade it with the drunken marauders.

00:35:28.000 So, ever clear.

00:35:31.000 If you're underage, of course, absolutely not.

00:35:33.000 Food, water, a way to prepare these things.

00:35:36.000 Ideally, some kind of emergency generator.

00:35:39.000 You know, just be prepared ahead of time if you can.

00:35:44.000 Hey, what's that? Looks like a hatch.

00:35:47.000 Should we open it? I think we have to.

00:35:51.000 It looks old. Listen.

00:35:58.000 You smell something?

00:35:59.000 I can't see a thing.

00:36:00.000 It's too dark. Hello? Well, hello, boys.

00:36:05.000 Is it all clear out there?

00:36:07.000 Clear? How long have you been down there?

00:36:10.000 Since Y2K. Did the computers destroy the world?

00:36:14.000 No. Not the way you think.

00:36:17.000 Yeah, it's a long story. Wait, how have you been surviving down there since before 2000?

00:36:23.000 Can, beans, and pickles.

00:36:26.000 How have you survived 20 plus years on pickles?

00:36:29.000 Pickles was my German Shepherd.

00:36:32.000 God, gross!

00:36:34.000 Is there anything you need that we can maybe help you with? 1.00

00:36:38.000 A fresh bucket of s**t. 0.98

00:36:41.000 Yeah, we don't have... Did she say s**t? 0.99

00:36:42.000 Did she say s**t bucket? 0.96

00:36:44.000 Like a bucket to s**t in? 0.99

00:36:46.000 Or should it be like a bucket of s**t? 0.97

00:36:47.000 There's no way. Do you say... 0.99

00:36:48.000 Do you say s**t? 1.00

00:36:50.000 Like a sh** bucket to sh** in? 1.00

00:36:54.000 No. You want a fresh bucket of sh**? 1.00

00:36:57.000 Yes. I don't think we should help this lady. 1.00

00:37:00.000 I don't feel good about it.

00:37:01.000 God, she's eating her dog. 1.00

00:37:03.000 She's also eating sh**. 1.00

00:37:04.000 You don't know that. She could be doing other things with the sh**. 1.00

00:37:07.000 It's not a sh** bucket. She corrected me and said it's a bucket of sh**. 1.00

00:37:10.000 Maybe she's building another... 0.99

00:37:12.000 She's not building stairs. 0.99

00:37:15.000 Look, we can't get you a bucket of sh**, but I think I can do you one better. 0.98

00:37:19.000 How about... A three-month supply emergency food kit from Patriot Supply. 0.97

00:37:23.000 They're the leading brand in emergency food supplies.

00:37:25.000 And if you go to prepwithcrowder.com...

00:37:27.000 Like on a computer?

00:37:29.000 Yeah. Come back when you've got a fresh bucket of s***! 0.99

00:37:37.000 Go to prepwithcrowder.com... 0.98

00:37:39.000 prepwithcrowder.com...

00:37:41.000 It is prepwithcrowder.com.

00:37:45.000 I'm supposed to say it three times, I think.

00:37:47.000 And actually, right now, there's a special $50 off a four-week emergency food kit.

00:37:52.000 Yeah. Very nice people, too.

00:37:54.000 Yeah, they are. And look, I know that there's a disaster going on right now, and hopefully people are motivated to think, like, this could happen to me, right?

00:38:02.000 Because it absolutely can, in different ways, different disasters, different areas.

00:38:04.000 areas you can have stuff happen. So just make sure you're prepared. I've heard stories about

00:38:09.000 what they need right now and it breaks my heart because it's diapers, it's baby formula,

00:38:14.000 it's food, it's bottled water. Those are kind of the necessities, those staples that you

00:38:17.000 guys should have. And obviously these guys don't sell diapers or baby formula. Make sure 0.99

00:38:21.000 if you have kids, have some of that extra laying around that you're not touching in

00:38:25.000 case something happens.

00:38:26.000 Also, by the way, if you don't have toilet paper, do not try and cobble together a makeshift bidet with a siphon hose.

00:38:32.000 That water will actually make you more infected.

00:38:35.000 Really? Yeah. I had no idea.

00:38:37.000 Yeah. Careful. Though, bidet is not the first thing on my mind if, you know, all hell breaks loose, but thank you for that.

00:38:42.000 Well, that's because you're an unsanitary cretin. 1.00

00:38:44.000 That's not true. Now we know something gross about you. 1.00

00:38:46.000 Yes. Oh, you use a bidet, Josh? 0.91

00:38:49.000 You use a bidet? I do.

00:38:50.000 It's heated and everything. You do not.

00:38:52.000 I have a mobile one.

00:38:54.000 I bring it with me places. I bring it with me to the bathroom here, actually.

00:38:56.000 You don't. I do. I sit down to pee and I use it then, too.

00:38:59.000 Yes, he does. But you know what, Gerald?

00:39:00.000 What? I've lost it.

00:39:05.000 Is it a foot pump? Gerald needs a bidet and de-lousing powder.

00:39:09.000 Oh yeah, he needs two bidets.

00:39:11.000 You need two bidets because we know how hairy you are. 0.97

00:39:14.000 That's true. I'm sure it's not trimmed anywhere else.

00:39:16.000 How would your second bidet help? It's just to save time at that point.

00:39:19.000 He doesn't know how to use it.

00:39:21.000 Two streams are better than one, I think.

00:39:22.000 Yeah, two streams are better than one. Gotta get it from both ankles. 1.00

00:39:26.000 Speaking of disaster, let's get to the strike of the Longshoremen.

00:39:32.000 So, the bravest among us.

00:39:34.000 The bravest among us. I have to say it, by the way.

00:39:37.000 Longshoremen! My father was a longshoreman!

00:39:41.000 I'll be a longshoreman!

00:39:44.000 My entire family tree will be a longshoreman! 1.00

00:39:47.000 Why are you saying it like that? I don't know.

00:39:49.000 I'm trying to make it fun. So, again, the theme today is the people versus the elite.

00:39:56.000 You may not think of the elite as massive unions, but I assure you they are.

00:40:03.000 The bosses. Yeah, the management of the unions.

00:40:07.000 But I'm going to tell you, even in this case, when you're talking about the longshoremen, the base salary and the benefits.

00:40:13.000 Yeah, that's true. Yeah, it's not even close to the average American.

00:40:16.000 So this idea that this is being done to ensure American job sustainability.

00:40:22.000 No, no, it's not true.

00:40:24.000 And I understand, yeah, that automation is an issue, and I don't necessarily know how we solve all of it, but everyone has a line.

00:40:31.000 And I'll get to the automation point.

00:40:33.000 Let me just lay this out for you, okay?

00:40:36.000 You ever go, I don't know, if you ever go on a road trip and you see a bunch of road construction?

00:40:41.000 You don't look at it and think, that's a beacon of government efficiency, right?

00:40:46.000 Especially not five years later when it's still there.

00:40:48.000 Especially in New Jersey. But you see them with bulldozers.

00:40:52.000 You see them with steamrollers.

00:40:53.000 Okay, well, here's the thing.

00:40:55.000 Those are all forms of automation to some degree.

00:40:58.000 I don't know if you know this, you could employ more people through the taxpayer dime if you

00:41:01.000 only gave them shovels and rakes, like we did at one point in time.

00:41:06.000 Hey, you could employ even more people if you just use spoons, which I don't know if

00:41:10.000 you know, we did that during the Great Depression FDR, right?

00:41:14.000 Unemployment, all of a sudden that went down and we just said, hey, let's just give people

00:41:17.000 shovel-ready jobs.

00:41:18.000 Go to northern Michigan, see the up north trees as we know them.

00:41:21.000 They just had people that say, hey, go plant trees.

00:41:23.000 They planted them in rows so you'll see these either pine or cedar trees that are sticks

00:41:28.000 with a mushroom tip at the top and nothing else.

00:41:31.000 Why? Well, it was employment!

00:41:33.000 Isn't that... But is it a useful job?

00:41:35.000 So everyone has a line as far as automation.

00:41:37.000 Is it the automobile?

00:41:40.000 Is it a tractor?

00:41:42.000 Is it planes? Or is it, you know, just automating certain portions, for example, of our ports here in the United States to be up to speed with the rest of the world as they began to do this in 1993?

00:41:54.000 So Tuesday, the International Longshoremen's Association, the ILA, they went on strike for the first time in nearly 50 years.

00:42:03.000 Today's going to be a history lesson.

00:42:04.000 It's a lot of fun and angering.

00:42:07.000 Tonight, crucial ports that fuel the American economy from New England to the Gulf Coast at a standstill after tens of thousands of union dock workers walked off the job.

00:42:19.000 The International Longshoremen's Association and the U.S. Maritime Alliance failing to reach a deal.

00:42:27.000 Ah, yes, failing to reach a deal.

00:42:29.000 And again, just poor guys.

00:42:30.000 Just hear me out here. What you think of as the union workers and management, it's not that.

00:42:37.000 So the ILA president, Harold Daggett, he actually threatened—he's an old-school break-your-legs guy—to cripple America. 0.99

00:42:45.000 I'm going to stab you through the heart with a f***ing pencil. 0.99

00:42:47.000 Do you understand me? Sorry, right clip, but here's another clip. 1.00

00:42:51.000 When my men hit the streets from Maine to Texas, every single port will lock down.

00:42:57.000 You know what's going to happen?

00:42:59.000 Tell us. First week— Be all over the news every nine, boom, boom.

00:43:05.000 Second week, guys who sell cars can't sell cars because the cars ain't coming in off the ships.

00:43:12.000 They get laid off.

00:43:14.000 Third week, malls start closing down.

00:43:18.000 They can't get the goods from China.

00:43:19.000 They can't sell clothes.

00:43:21.000 They can't do this. Everything in the United States comes on a ship.

00:43:25.000 They go out of business.

00:43:27.000 They're going to be like this.

00:43:29.000 Who's going to win here in the long run?

00:43:31.000 You'll be joking. You're better off sitting down, and let's get a contract, and let's move on with this world.

00:43:36.000 In today's world, I'll cripple you. 0.57

00:43:39.000 I will cripple you, and you have no idea what that means. 0.96

00:43:43.000 Nobody does. You mean you'll pay someone else to cripple us because I don't think you could waddle my way quickly enough? 0.94

00:43:50.000 Now, I want to make this...

00:43:52.000 Looks like the snowman from the old school Christmas movies.

00:43:55.000 Silver and gold!

00:43:59.000 On my Christmas tree.

00:44:00.000 Love that chain too, by the way.

00:44:02.000 Everything you've been told...

00:44:03.000 Now, it would be one thing if you believed, hey, these are people who are underpaid.

00:44:07.000 This is the backbone of America.

00:44:09.000 And the offers that have been made have been cutbacks and basically no concessions.

00:44:16.000 None of what you have been led to believe with the working class hero bullcrap, name that movie line, is true. 0.99

00:44:24.000 Here's what the ILA has been offered.

00:44:26.000 A 50% pay raise.

00:44:30.000 More employer contributions to these retirement plans.

00:44:33.000 Actually the employer contributions have tripled.

00:44:37.000 And retaining the status quo on port automation.

00:44:40.000 That's what has been offered.

00:44:41.000 50% pay raise!

00:44:42.000 50% pay raise.

00:44:43.000 What?

00:44:44.000 Now you may be thinking, hey, that's just like people working the factories 7 days a

00:44:50.000 week for 12 hours without a piss break.

00:44:52.000 Granted, 50% it's paltry.

00:44:55.000 I know you, if you're not a union worker out there in the rest of the private sector, you probably see that every six months.

00:45:00.000 What their demands include, 77% pay raise over five years and less automation in ports.

00:45:10.000 Less than exists now, which has put us behind the rest of the world in basic management of our ports.

00:45:17.000 So, 45,000 people on strike.

00:45:20.000 J.P. Morgan has estimated that it could cost the American economy $3.5 to $4.5 billion a day.

00:45:27.000 Of course, the Kamala and Biden administration took the side of the ILA, even though a lot of union workers don't like them at this point anyway.

00:45:34.000 They urged the U.S. Maritime Alliance to come to a Fair deal, because 50% pay increase in triple employer contributions wouldn't suffice.

00:45:42.000 It's not very fair. It's an insult, really.

00:45:44.000 Yeah. And let's be really clear, too.

00:45:46.000 When you're talking about 95% of the ILA political contributions, they've gone to Democrats.

00:45:52.000 13 of the top 25 political donors of all time are unions, some of which are public sector unions, just to be clear.

00:45:59.000 So when you think, oh, you think big oil, you think big pharma, yep, there's corruption, of course, with lobbyists across the board, but a lot of people overlook the unions.

00:46:07.000 That's why they feel so bold in demanding a 75% pay rate.

00:46:12.000 77% over five years.

00:46:15.000 Are you kidding me?

00:46:17.000 Well, hold on. They must not be being paid all that much.

00:46:21.000 Exactly. They're not being paid very well.

00:46:23.000 We've got to stand with our brothers and sisters.

00:46:24.000 Yeah, because if they're being paid super well, if they own things like that, you'd think racketeering.

00:46:29.000 The raise they want is more than most people's annual salary.

00:46:32.000 Yes. Exactly.

00:46:33.000 That's insane, dude. That is fair.

00:46:35.000 I have a hard time getting on board with that.

00:46:36.000 It's a very good point.

00:46:38.000 And former Vice President Biden, of course, was actually set to speak with the union leader of the Longshoremen, but he went to the wrong place.

00:46:45.000 And that is not... It's an easy mistake to make.

00:46:47.000 Oh, come on, Joe. What is democracy?

00:46:51.000 So let's go through...

00:46:52.000 I could picture him saying that in a drive-thru.

00:46:57.000 Sir, that's not on the menu.

00:47:00.000 Let's go through the claims here.

00:47:02.000 Their claim is that the ILA, they're protecting the downtrodden workers.

00:47:07.000 Our ILA brothers and sisters play a critical role in keeping the American economy running, and they deserve industry-leading wages and robust job protections for the vital work they perform.

00:47:16.000 Here's the truth, and it's not even within the realm of argument.

00:47:20.000 These ILA workers are incredibly well compensated.

00:47:26.000 They're holding you hostage.

00:47:28.000 So that they can get fatter.

00:47:30.000 Let me be really clear. It would be one thing if they wanted what a fair market price would offer them.

00:47:37.000 What you make. Make no mistake, there's kind of three tiers in the United States as far as employees.

00:47:44.000 There is public employees, namely federal government workers.

00:47:49.000 They get the Cadillac benefits right.

00:47:51.000 They have the kind of job security that you could only pray for.

00:47:54.000 Then you have giant-ass union workers, and then you have the rest of you. 0.97

00:47:59.000 And some of you may look at that and say, well, then I want to be in the giant-ass union pool.

00:48:04.000 Sure, but then we would have no industry left because it's entirely unsustainable.

00:48:08.000 For proof, look to any major industry that is dominated or controlled by these unions.

00:48:13.000 Also selective. Yes.

00:48:14.000 The unions are very selective, and you can't just get in.

00:48:17.000 Oh, we'll get to that. Yeah.

00:48:18.000 Son and a son of a son of a son of a son of a son.

00:48:20.000 So let me write this, or sorry, lay this out for you.

00:48:25.000 All references available every day.

00:48:26.000 Link in the description. The base salary for ILA members, okay?

00:48:29.000 Not including overtime. The base salary is $81,000.

00:48:35.000 Most ILA officers make base salary over $200,000 a year.

00:48:41.000 So base, base, base, $81,000.

00:48:43.000 I doubt many people are making that.

00:48:45.000 And then the officers make over $200,000.

00:48:48.000 Now that's not even to consider.

00:48:51.000 Six weeks vacation?

00:48:53.000 Wow. I'm sure you watching right now, you get that, right?

00:48:57.000 And you think the solution is you need six weeks vacation if you don't have it.

00:49:01.000 Or you think maybe split the difference.

00:49:03.000 They have unbelievable health insurance, pensions, the kind that, of course, you could never imagine.

00:49:08.000 But they don't pay for, yeah. Right.

00:49:10.000 And you know what that guy, Daggett?

00:49:12.000 I don't know if you know this. He makes over $700,000 a year.

00:49:18.000 In just his annual salary, he has a $6 million house in New Jersey and a 76-foot yacht.

00:49:26.000 Well, he sold it. We're the backbone.

00:49:29.000 Yeah. We're the backbone of society.

00:49:32.000 We're going to cripple your economy.

00:49:35.000 Really, Mr. $6 million house?

00:49:37.000 Hey, I don't talk about my sale and money is pretty vulgar, but I will tell you this.

00:49:42.000 I've decided to run a business.

00:49:44.000 I haven't made anywhere close to this guy.

00:49:49.000 He doesn't own anything.

00:49:51.000 He's a shakedown artist.

00:49:53.000 And by the way, his two sons...

00:49:55.000 Make over $200,000 a year as ILA officers.

00:50:00.000 There's a picture of his house going around.

00:50:02.000 You just need to see it to believe it.

00:50:05.000 Well, that's not good for him. And you can go back and look at his history.

00:50:09.000 I know you're thinking, does this guy have mob connections?

00:50:11.000 Of course he does.

00:50:12.000 Here you go from the NY Post.

00:50:15.000 He was actually a co-defendant during this.

00:50:17.000 It was like a 2005 RICO trial.

00:50:19.000 Someone was dead. I don't know.

00:50:20.000 You can go and read up on it. The point is...

00:50:21.000 The co-defendant, he was found dead in the trunk.

00:50:23.000 Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Point is, people found dead.

00:50:26.000 He has a $6 million house, 76-foot yacht, and a $700,000 annual salary, plus unbelievable benefits, and that money stays in the family.

00:50:34.000 Holy cow. Looks like a bit of a, almost like a penis. 0.99

00:50:37.000 Yes. A little bit. 1.00

00:50:39.000 You see what you want to see, Gerald?

00:50:41.000 Yeah, I wasn't thinking that at all, actually.

00:50:43.000 You told me that earlier, and I was like, that's great.

00:50:45.000 No, you're the one that told me that, Josh.

00:50:47.000 No, that looks like a splatter.

00:50:48.000 By the way, if you add up some of that compensation that we were talking about to that base salary, $150,000 plus for those people with overtime and some of the benefits added in.

00:50:56.000 Can you imagine an American worker getting that?

00:50:58.000 By the way, don't forget the pension part of that, which is about $100,000 per year.

00:51:03.000 After you do not work anymore for them.

00:51:07.000 Yeah. That's current.

00:51:08.000 And they want 77% increase over five years, have been offered 50.

00:51:14.000 At what point do you say, hey, hey, maybe unions aren't looking out for the American worker, they're looking out for the unions.

00:51:21.000 And here's another claim that they'll make, because you don't want to focus on Daggett.

00:51:25.000 He's very easy to dislike.

00:51:26.000 It would be hard to like him.

00:51:28.000 I mean, it's hard to imagine somebody with that kind of goatee living in that kind of house.

00:51:31.000 Yes, exactly. You think they're servants?

00:51:34.000 Like, all right, shave my full man, chew. 0.70

00:51:37.000 No, he does that himself.

00:51:39.000 Because I'm a working man.

00:51:42.000 So they're also claiming that the ILA's demands, and this is an important thing, and you'll see some of these populists on the right say, well, yeah, and I agree, automation, we are reaching an unprecedented time where almost everything could be automated through AI, but that's not what we're talking about here.

00:51:55.000 So they are claiming that these demands will actually safeguard future jobs.

00:52:00.000 We want to protect these good American jobs for the people that work 24 hours a day to preserve America's economy and keep moving America's commerce moving.

00:52:11.000 Everything is hyperbole with these 24 hours a day.

00:52:16.000 Yeah. So every person is going to be dead within two weeks because they don't sleep?

00:52:21.000 Yeah, I feel like a union might have negotiated non-24 hour work days a long time ago.

00:52:27.000 No, no, you don't understand. They get six weeks paid vacation if they work 24 hours a day for the rest of the year.

00:52:32.000 Oh, I see. That's not a bad deal for the company then, I guess.

00:52:36.000 It's four hour shifts, so...

00:52:38.000 Yeah, well that's why I better thank a union member.

00:52:40.000 Better thank a union member.

00:52:42.000 Here's the truth. Stop it.

00:52:45.000 The demands that they're making will accelerate job losses unbelievably.

00:52:49.000 So let me give you some very...

00:52:51.000 The more I dove into this and the more that Lane in the Brain dove into this, it was funny.

00:52:56.000 Yeah. A little history lesson.

00:52:58.000 1964, the ILA, they went on strike.

00:53:02.000 It resulted in guaranteed annual income.

00:53:05.000 Six figures when adjusted for inflation.

00:53:07.000 So this idea that if you go back to the 60s, again, they were still living very high on the hog compared to the rest of the American workforce at that point in time.

00:53:16.000 So the result between 1964, that was right after the strike ended, guaranteed annual income.

00:53:23.000 64 to 1977, not one new longshoreman was hired.

00:53:28.000 Yeah. Wow.

00:53:31.000 So they got what they wanted and then closed the door.

00:53:34.000 Pulled the ladder up behind him.

00:53:35.000 We're looking out for the American worker. 0.76

00:53:37.000 Really? Oh, so this idea is that you want all Americans to be... 0.99

00:53:40.000 Oh, no, no. Sorry, we're full.

00:53:44.000 Let me give you another example.

00:53:47.000 Elevators. In 1945, the New York City elevator operators, they were unionized, they went on strike.

00:53:54.000 The city lost $100 million.

00:53:56.000 Okay. 1945, city lost $100 million.

00:53:59.000 Okay. So you would think, alright, alright, so this is a good example.

00:54:02.000 Back then, of course, unions were relevant.

00:54:05.000 They went to bat for their workers.

00:54:06.000 And they came out on top.

00:54:09.000 Well, what happened is by 1950, the automatic elevator was standard.

00:54:15.000 And by 1970, there were no more elevator operators.

00:54:18.000 Oh, Dallas, Texas was the first one to get one.

00:54:21.000 That's nice. Nice.

00:54:23.000 It's also a bold time to go on strike.

00:54:26.000 1945? I was going to say, is it like after August-ish or what?

00:54:30.000 You get home from the Pacific and there's a guy, nope.

00:54:35.000 Can't do it. Won't do it, pal.

00:54:36.000 Take the stairs. This is what you fought for.

00:54:38.000 Get up the stairs. Hey, don't worry.

00:54:41.000 Look, they can't replace this.

00:54:43.000 No. They're going to feel the pain.

00:54:47.000 What? What do you mean? You can replace it with godforsaken numbers?

00:54:51.000 Well, shit, I didn't see that happening. 0.99

00:54:53.000 Yeah, just push a button now, Chief. 0.99

00:54:55.000 You think an elevator, a computer, is going to be able to remember how many numbers are going to go up?

00:54:59.000 Yeah, come on. Ah, no, can't do it.

00:55:01.000 There's like 20 floors here.

00:55:02.000 And even then, you think you're going to get a computer to know that you can't have a 13th floor?

00:55:09.000 What do you want? 0.99

00:55:10.000 I have to answer a damn ghost? 1.00

00:55:13.000 Is that a New York thing? There's no 13th floor? 1.00

00:55:15.000 No, that's everywhere. What?

00:55:17.000 That's not right. I've seen 13th floors all over the place.

00:55:20.000 You went to unlucky places, and that's probably what happened to you.

00:55:22.000 You're just haunted, Gerald. Yes, you are.

00:55:26.000 Here's another... Here's another claim that they're making.

00:55:30.000 This is for the worker. That the U.S. ports need to ban automation because...

00:55:35.000 And you'll hear those workers saying that it will cost...

00:55:37.000 And in some cases it's true. 0.94

00:55:38.000 In this case it's no. It will cost them their jobs.

00:55:41.000 The ILA is fighting for respect, appreciation, and fairness in a world in which corporations are dead set on replacing hard-working people with automation.

00:55:54.000 Employers push automation under the guise of safety.

00:55:58.000 But it is really about cutting labor costs to increase...

00:56:02.000 I can barely read. They're already exceptionally high profits.

00:56:06.000 The truth is robots do not pay taxes.

00:56:09.000 Oh yeah, tell that to Robot Snipes. 0.78

00:56:11.000 Which, yep. Yep, he should have done it.

00:56:18.000 Pay your taxes, Robot Snipes.

00:56:21.000 That came out better than I thought.

00:56:24.000 Record profits.

00:56:26.000 How much are you making?

00:56:27.000 About $300,000 plus six weeks paid vacation and benefits, but it's the corporations that are greedy.

00:56:33.000 Measly. Measly $300,000.

00:56:36.000 Lane sent in that that guy was Bronx John Oliver.

00:56:42.000 And here's that President Daggett, the criminal alleged, added...

00:56:49.000 We want absolute airtight language that there will be no automation or semi-automation.

00:56:54.000 Okay, let me give you...

00:56:55.000 No, no, no. That means basically you want your workers who reek of Benson Hedges and Bengay to be perpetually employed. 0.98

00:57:08.000 The truth here is that...

00:57:10.000 The lack of automation, we have an apples-to-apples comparison.

00:57:14.000 Yes. Hertz American ports.

00:57:16.000 So, only three terminals in the United States, all in California, are actually fully automated.

00:57:21.000 Only three on the East Coast are semi-automated.

00:57:25.000 Okay. Now, I'm not just going to compare us to China here.

00:57:29.000 Because, by the way, I don't know if you know this, but the overly representative power and influence of the unions empowers China.

00:57:39.000 Because that's what makes things so unaffordable here. 0.99

00:57:41.000 And unfortunately, made in America often now means crap. 0.98

00:57:46.000 And that's because of union workers. 0.97

00:57:48.000 I mean, American auto manufacturing has fallen behind.

00:57:51.000 Anyone who tells you American auto is still the best is lying to you.

00:57:54.000 It's just not true. They make better cars in the United States at the Toyota hub.

00:58:01.000 And I would love to see that change.

00:58:04.000 It can't change if you have the kind of influence that you see here from the unions who do so at your expense.

00:58:09.000 They are elite. The rest of you are not.

00:58:12.000 There's a split the difference. So China has 18 fully automated ports.

00:58:16.000 So what do you think happens when American union workers say, no automated ports, and China has 18?

00:58:23.000 And they have 27 more under construction.

00:58:25.000 Now, I know what you're thinking.

00:58:26.000 It's not fair, for example, to compare slave labor of China.

00:58:29.000 Sure, in this case, that's not really what we're doing.

00:58:31.000 We're talking about basic technology being used to not only make things more efficient but enhance security measures.

00:58:36.000 But let's go to another country.

00:58:39.000 Rotterdam Port, Netherlands, has been automated since 1993.

00:58:45.000 Seriously? These unions have been resisting basic improvements in technology since 1993.

00:58:53.000 And here's a look at what that port in the Netherlands looks like.

00:58:57.000 Like again, since 1993.

00:59:19.000 Yeah, it looks nice. Do you pay for that?

00:59:21.000 And we've done this since 93 and the Americans only got a couple.

00:59:25.000 Yeah. And I asked you a trick question.

00:59:28.000 Yeah, I don't know. What was that? We've been doing this since 1993.

00:59:31.000 It's the same boss over there, okay?

00:59:32.000 Yeah. We're not the same as your Feta Union workers?

00:59:35.000 So I asked you a trick question because I already know the answer, and you can research the answer, go to the references.

00:59:41.000 We make them available every day.

00:59:44.000 The result is I know what you're thinking.

00:59:46.000 Okay, we're probably not as competitive as we could be with the rest of the world as it relates to ports.

00:59:54.000 Close. Out of the top 50 most efficient ports in the world, zero American ones make the list.

01:00:03.000 Union made, American made, American quality.

01:00:06.000 Not one out of the top 50.

01:00:09.000 The United States of America, for God's sake.

01:00:12.000 You starting to get the picture?

01:00:13.000 You think we can't do better than the Netherlands at anything? 0.66

01:00:18.000 That's because we're shooting ourselves in the foot.

01:00:20.000 We're allowing guys like Daggett to break our legs.

01:00:23.000 And here's the thing.

01:00:24.000 Yes, I understand that there is a balance.

01:00:26.000 There is a balance.

01:00:28.000 And yeah, if you just allow corporations to automate everything at the expense of workers, at the expense of the middle class, you know, kind of like you saw during COVID, the greatest wealth transfer in American history at the behest of Democrats.

01:00:42.000 But, you know, they're looking out for you.

01:00:45.000 The truth is, In many circumstances, automation can be good for people.

01:00:51.000 So let me give you an example. In 2019...

01:00:54.000 I think it was a port.

01:00:56.000 Was it LA? Yeah.

01:01:00.000 It was automated. It immediately made supply chains work more efficiently.

01:01:04.000 Ships were sitting at sea for shorter periods of time.

01:01:07.000 And you may not realize this, but the truck schedules were more consistent.

01:01:11.000 So truck drivers actually earned more money.

01:01:14.000 One truck driver actually wrote this.

01:01:16.000 This comes from Reason Magazine.

01:01:17.000 Automation meant no longer having to wait hours and hours in long lines because the dock workers decided to leave early to go to lunch and come back late.

01:01:25.000 I love how he plays all the dock workers and be like, boom!

01:01:28.000 Well, and that's the problem is you'll have a union here that only cares about themselves and a union here that only cares about themselves.

01:01:34.000 Well, one second. I thought the idea was to be unionized, right?

01:01:38.000 But the truck workers are at odds with the dock workers, and the dock workers are at odds with the truck workers, and I'm sure that they're at odds with the UAW. They don't all come together.

01:01:46.000 They're all trying to get their piece of the pie, as opposed to baking more pies.

01:01:51.000 And by the way, you get none of the pie if you are not a union worker.

01:01:54.000 And I know so many people say, yeah, but we should just all be union.

01:01:57.000 States should not be allowed to be right to work.

01:02:01.000 States should require that everybody join a union.

01:02:03.000 That's the solution to some people.

01:02:04.000 But let me ask you this. Do you actually think that these kinds of salaries, these kinds of benefits are sustainable for the rest of the country?

01:02:11.000 50 of the top ports in the world, we're not even...

01:02:15.000 One of those spots.

01:02:17.000 Zero out of 50 spots.

01:02:18.000 You want to apply that to every other industry?

01:02:21.000 So let's stop with the working class hero BS that people use as a talking point to sort of perpetuate, I would say, in a phony way, populism.

01:02:32.000 And we actually do need to look at the numbers.

01:02:34.000 And we actually do need to look how technology can be used to serve humanity.

01:02:38.000 Yes. In this case, they're preventing it.

01:02:43.000 They're forbidding it. And here's the thing.

01:02:45.000 If they had their way, there wouldn't be any innovation.

01:02:49.000 I gave you the example of the elevators, right, and the guaranteed income for the long, and no people were hired.

01:02:55.000 This one I just wanted to save to the very end of the segment because it's beyond funny.

01:03:04.000 The cherry on top of funny.

01:03:05.000 In 1977, and no matter what I say today, you'll say that's hyperbole, and believe me, I mean, I've been physically assaulted by unions and then had to have armed security because they followed me to my car with guns telling me they would kill me in Michigan when it went right to work.

01:03:20.000 I have plenty of experience with unions.

01:03:22.000 I know these types. Not all, but certainly the representation.

01:03:25.000 So no matter what I say, you will have people try and dismiss me as working for the elite even though we are funded by you, Mug Club.

01:03:33.000 All right. And you would say that I'm joking or being misleading.

01:03:39.000 That's why checking the reference is important.

01:03:41.000 In 1977, the ILA went on strike to oppose the use of containers.

01:03:50.000 I'm sorry, what?

01:03:52.000 Containers! We're not talking about AI. We're not talking about typewriters.

01:03:59.000 We're not talking about forklifts.

01:04:01.000 We're talking about containers.

01:04:04.000 Like shipping containers?

01:04:05.000 Yes, the steel shipping containers.

01:04:08.000 They were hoping for different containers or no containers at all?

01:04:11.000 What you got to do is you got to have that rope netting thing.

01:04:14.000 You got the rope thing because, look, you got to have a guy tie the rope.

01:04:17.000 And then you got to have a guy double check the rope.

01:04:19.000 Then you got to have a guy smoke for 19 minutes.

01:04:22.000 And then, you know, you got to have a guy who makes sure he gets six weeks paid vacation with rollover days.

01:04:29.000 Containers. They oppose containers.

01:04:33.000 Hey, anyone out there who's not working in one of these massive unions, I don't know, you think you'd be able to, if you work a desk job, oppose pens?

01:04:42.000 Email. Anti-email.

01:04:46.000 Big pen. It's a giant racket.

01:04:48.000 That's what it is. So what's the solution here?

01:04:50.000 Okay, well, first off, you stop kowtowing to unions.

01:04:52.000 I think that's step number one.

01:04:55.000 Also, keep in mind that Biden's bipartisan infrastructure bill, it prohibited using any funds to automate ports.

01:05:01.000 What? So, what I would say is consider privatizing ports.

01:05:07.000 Let's consider maybe training programs for people who are working at these ports so they're not displaced, but they can actually go to a new job where technology serves as a net added benefit, and then you can go and work another job because this is something that has reached the point of automation.

01:05:21.000 Sort of like automobiles compared to horse and buggies.

01:05:25.000 Sort of like bulldozers compared to whatever they had to use, blunt heavy objects before bulldozers.

01:05:33.000 Everything advances, and we need to focus on using technology to serve humanity, not to replace humanity.

01:05:40.000 There are plenty of examples of that having taken place.

01:05:43.000 You could probably offer some early retirement packages for the older workers.

01:05:46.000 They did that in Rotterdam when it was automated.

01:05:51.000 Let's actually look at...

01:05:54.000 People are not going to like this. Breaking up the power of these unions.

01:05:57.000 If there could be some kind of a policy that just requires it to be within striking distance of the national average for a comparable job as it relates to salary, benefits, vacation, then maybe you could split the difference.

01:06:11.000 Then maybe people who are actually in poor states or municipalities who feel as though they're being taken advantage of, and that does happen, maybe their quality of life could be brought up If the unions are just willing to share a little bit of a piece of their pie, maybe there could be some kind of averaging on a national or state-by-state level so that there isn't this discrepancy of people like Daggett, who you see, and someone working for a private company who, by the way, is making a good living as much as their employer can afford, but isn't living as high on the hog.

01:06:41.000 I don't know, maybe it could be something comparable to, if we had a direct comparison.

01:06:45.000 Oh yeah, that's right. UAW, the big three, how much they make and cost, of course, the American taxpayer, versus American auto workers for Toyota here in the United States, or Hyundai, who still make very, very good wages, but work outside of some of these union constraints.

01:07:02.000 And I don't know if you know this, they're happier and have a better quality of life.

01:07:06.000 The unions won't tell you that, but let's just split the difference.

01:07:10.000 Is that reasonable? You can comment below.

01:07:13.000 That's a starting point. But you won't hear that.

01:07:16.000 I believe actually right now it's...

01:07:18.000 We're supposed to go to Chat Thursday?

01:07:20.000 Yeah, Chat Thursday. We went long.

Louder with Crowder - October 03, 2024

Kamala Abandons America: Dockworker Strike & Hurricane Helene Devastation

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