On this week's episode of the podcast, we have a special guest on the show to talk about hate in New York City, Joe Lewis breaking into his own home, and the longshoreman strike. We also have a new segment, Fact Checking the Fact Checkers.
00:08:24.000If you're not in Mug Club, you don't get to see this, but it's Whistleblower 50-something.
00:08:28.000Talking about our build-the-wall, change-my-mind billboard.
00:08:30.000It's kind of a reverse change-my-mind.
00:08:32.000I apologize that Whistleblower is kind of an ass, but it's a lot of fun.
00:08:37.000All 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.
00:08:47.000They didn't fact-check Wall's I don't think at all.
00:08:51.000And if they did, it certainly wasn't to this degree.
00:08:54.000And this fact check was over Haitian migrants, Haitian illegals.
00:08:58.000And this term, this is very important for you to understand.
00:09:17.000It's fun. Let's first go to this claim.
00:09:20.000Let'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.
00:09:33.000Hmm. 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.
00:09:43.000Just to clarify for our viewers, Springfield, Ohio, does have a large number of Haitian migrants who have legal status, temporary, protected.
00:09:53.000Shut up, Ms. Pink, is what you were thinking.
00:09:56.000So here's a tweet after that from the associate editor of Vox.
00:10:00.000We've had a few run-ins with him. Aaron Rupar saying, Trump's mass deportation will include legal immigrants.
00:10:07.000And of course, all references available, link in the description.
00:10:38.000It's just that they're shielded from deportation.
00:10:41.000It'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.
00:10:47.000He was talking about presidential immunity.
00:10:49.000Right? 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.
00:10:57.000In any other scenario, outside of the elites, trying to replace giant percentages of an entire American city outside of that very limited scope...
00:11:23.000Keep going. No, that's almost worse to me than turning a blind eye to it.
00:11:27.000It'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.
00:11:36.000Right. That's the fact check problem that you have there.
00:12:56.000They're project cars. It's good to have a hobby.
00:12:59.000This isn't just about the poll, meaning a majority of Americans.
00:13:03.000It reflects a shift because people understand there is a problem.
00:13:07.000That 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.
00:13:18.000So the left can say racism, wall is racist, deportation is racist.
00:13:24.000Americans are not buying it, and I think that they'll...
00:14:23.000It'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.
00:14:30.000The 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?
00:14:42.000It shows up as something tempting. Doesn't show up as something that scares you.
00:14:47.000You think of the elite as eyes wide shut parties.
00:14:50.000No, the elite are, of course, you see the moderators right there.
00:14:55.000They're not affected by 20,000 illegal Haitian migrants in a city of 60,000 people.
00:15:02.000They're not affected by those living in southern border towns that are riddled with crime.
00:15:06.000Same thing when you talk about the elite. You don't think of FEMA. Well, hold on a second.
00:15:12.000They'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.
00:15:21.000We'll talk about this. Helicopters trying to help people.
00:15:23.000No, no. They're not the ones affected. They get to tell you the rules.
00:15:25.000Hey, you don't think of the elite as union workers on the docks.
00:15:30.000But they're not the ones whose goods and products are more expensive.
00:15:34.000They'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.
00:15:45.000I 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.
00:15:53.000Hey, I don't know if you know this. Satanism takes place in broad daylight in front of you.
00:15:57.000It's the idolatry of self. It's the seeking out of pleasure.
00:16:01.000And satisfying your own greed without thinking of the greater moral good.
00:16:08.000If you're a Christian, which I am, but, you know, maybe you're not.
00:16:10.000A lot of people aren't. You know, hell sucks.
00:16:16.000And none of this happens, by the way, when we're talking about the elite.
00:16:19.000There's no one who represents that more than the media, legacy media.
00:16:22.000And yeah, a lot of people in big tech.
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00:17:20.000Let's talk about this. Because I will tell you this, I always am pretty hesitant to get into blaming with natural disasters.
00:17:28.000You 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.
00:17:37.000It's easy to just finger point, right?
00:17:39.000But sometimes you do have very clear-cut examples of red tape bureaucracy or ideology actually harming people and taking lives.
00:17:50.000And I think we've reached that point here with this hurricane in this administration.
00:17:55.000So, three days after Trump had gone to survey the destruction of Hurricane Helene, which is very...
00:18:16.000Yeah. Well, I think Dutch is when the hurricane just splits in two evenly.
00:18:19.000Yeah, 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.
00:18:29.000Today, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris both traveled to states affected by Hurricane Helene.
00:18:35.000Former President Trump went to Georgia on Monday to get a first-hand look at the damage and help distribute supplies.
00:18:58.000It's an ideology based on equity that kills actual people.
00:19:04.000The 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.
00:19:25.000It 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.
00:19:40.000Absolutely. And so we have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity.
00:20:41.000Oh, 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?
00:22:03.000We know that. I believe, just an update on that, I do believe that Elon did come through for Starlink.
00:22:09.000So 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.
00:22:15.000So he's been able to kind of like geo, kind of lock it to where it's in these areas.
00:22:20.000Starlink will work no matter if you've paid for it or not.
00:22:23.000So if you have it or have access to one, and they can get those out, people will have access to communications.
00:22:28.000That's great. It's fantastic. And if you're with Cricket, kiss your ass goodbye.
00:22:31.000Yeah, you're done. Try to book a flight on Spirit Airlines, too.
00:23:16.000For hurricane relief? No, it's for the campaign.
00:23:19.000You think, could you toss a few mil to the people who are dying?
00:23:24.000I 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.
00:23:33.000And, of course, Kamala Harris couldn't be bothered to do that for a good long while, too.
00:23:39.000$700 million to beat the guy who was going down and helping?
00:23:45.000Nothing can just be given to these people.
00:23:47.000Oh, that's right. You want our tax dollars to go to it.
00:23:50.000And then let's see how that works out because our tax dollars aren't going directly to help people.
00:23:53.000Our tax dollars are being laundered through FEMA and government bureaucracy in the name of equity.
00:24:00.000Don't know if you know this. People are dying.
00:24:02.000Yeah. 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.
00:24:09.000They don't have enough money to be able to do what they need to do.
00:24:58.000Working 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.
00:25:07.000It'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.
00:26:36.000I've only read it. But this was a man who said, you know what?
00:26:40.000I'm going to take my helicopter, bring supplies to these areas that are inaccessible, and hey, isn't that wonderful?
00:26:45.000But 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.
00:26:52.000Stories 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.
00:27:01.000He 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.
00:27:10.000Jordan Sidham piled food and water into his helicopter Saturday and headed up toward Benner Elk.
00:27:15.000The only way through, a mountain gap in Lake Lure.
00:27:19.000I 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.
00:27:29.000And 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.
00:28:04.000He said, I cannot confirm the reasons why in North Carolina, but I can tell you the reasons in other storms I have worked.
00:28:08.000I 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.
00:28:18.000The reason they gave us was that these donations were not from companies on their preferred vendors list.
00:28:25.000So, 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.
00:28:51.000Equity. Not equal opportunity, but equity, meaning ensured equal outcomes.
00:28:56.000We usually refer to that when we're talking about the job space or school affirmative action.
00:29:01.000In 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.
00:29:13.000There should, hey, hey, Was your house destroyed?
00:29:17.000Are you in the area of the natural disaster?
00:29:20.000Are you in the danger zone? Guess what?
00:29:22.000You get help and you're allowed to help your fellow citizens.
00:29:25.000There you go. That's equity. Could you think of anything less relevant than race or sexual orientation at a time like this?
00:29:36.000Well, the government certainly sees it that way.
00:29:39.000Can't even help your neighbor, you know?
00:29:41.000Yeah. What's that old Tim Walls saying?
00:29:43.000One person's neighborly is another person's illegal?
00:29:46.000Yes. Yeah, exactly. Apparently, neighborliness is great right up until you try to help people in a disaster.
00:31:08.000Let's put this in contact. You think people in North Carolina, you think those people pay taxes, a good portion of them pay taxes?
00:31:12.000Probably. 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.
00:31:23.000So, they spent money to send that over there.
00:31:25.000Yeah. They get $750 right now, and they pay for the government to block their neighbor from helping them with tractors and helicopters.
00:31:41.000And I want to make one more point, too, here.
00:31:43.000They're talking about climate change during the debate in relation to this natural disaster.
00:31:49.000I was in Cancun back when they had the Cancun Climate Summit.
00:31:52.000It was still the Kyoto Protocol, I believe, before it became the Paris, the Kyoto Accord, before it became the Paris Agreement.
00:31:58.000I always forget. I went Montreal, Kyoto, Paris.
00:32:00.000All right. I was there. Alright, let's put it this way.
00:32:04.000These people in North Carolina facing this tragedy, they have been thrust into a scenario where they're temporarily in the third world.
00:32:12.000It's a microcosm of the third world, right?
00:32:14.000They don't have access to energy, supplies, food, communication, electricity.
00:32:18.000And 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.
00:32:30.000Okay, so it's terrible. What about the rest of the globe that is in the third world every day?
00:32:38.000When those people are struggling for food, for energy, natural gas, and you sit on your podium talking about climate change.
00:32:46.000People 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.
00:32:56.000Let's be really clear. Here in the United States in your day-to-day gas prices go up.
00:33:05.000In 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.
00:33:14.000They can't eat their food. They don't have access to food.
00:33:18.000Clean water. So I just want to put that into context.
00:33:21.000You 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.
00:33:27.000We've created better, and yes, we deserve better.
00:33:36.000And the climate change based policies are catastrophic and murderous.
00:33:42.000You 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.
00:33:51.000You know what? Call it 4 degrees. I don't care.
00:33:53.000Here's what I was talking about with the FEMA funds, too.
00:33:55.000Look at that. $110 million emergency food and shelter program.
00:37:54.000Yeah, 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?
00:38:02.000Because it absolutely can, in different ways, different disasters, different areas.
00:38:04.000areas you can have stuff happen. So just make sure you're prepared. I've heard stories about
00:38:09.000what they need right now and it breaks my heart because it's diapers, it's baby formula,
00:38:14.000it's food, it's bottled water. Those are kind of the necessities, those staples that you
00:38:17.000guys should have. And obviously these guys don't sell diapers or baby formula. Make sure
00:38:21.000if you have kids, have some of that extra laying around that you're not touching in
00:41:42.000Is 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?
00:41:54.000So Tuesday, the International Longshoremen's Association, the ILA, they went on strike for the first time in nearly 50 years.
00:42:07.000Tonight, 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.
00:42:19.000The International Longshoremen's Association and the U.S. Maritime Alliance failing to reach a deal.
00:45:20.000J.P. Morgan has estimated that it could cost the American economy $3.5 to $4.5 billion a day.
00:45:27.000Of 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.
00:45:34.000They urged the U.S. Maritime Alliance to come to a Fair deal, because 50% pay increase in triple employer contributions wouldn't suffice.
00:45:42.000It's not very fair. It's an insult, really.
00:45:46.000When you're talking about 95% of the ILA political contributions, they've gone to Democrats.
00:45:52.00013 of the top 25 political donors of all time are unions, some of which are public sector unions, just to be clear.
00:45:59.000So 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.
00:46:07.000That's why they feel so bold in demanding a 75% pay rate.
00:46:38.000And 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.
00:46:45.000And that is not... It's an easy mistake to make.
00:47:02.000Their claim is that the ILA, they're protecting the downtrodden workers.
00:47:07.000Our 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.
00:47:16.000Here's the truth, and it's not even within the realm of argument.
00:47:20.000These ILA workers are incredibly well compensated.
00:50:48.000By 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.
00:50:56.000Can you imagine an American worker getting that?
00:50:58.000By the way, don't forget the pension part of that, which is about $100,000 per year.
00:51:03.000After you do not work anymore for them.
00:51:42.000So 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.
00:51:55.000So they are claiming that these demands will actually safeguard future jobs.
00:52:00.000We 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.
00:52:11.000Everything is hyperbole with these 24 hours a day.
00:52:16.000Yeah. So every person is going to be dead within two weeks because they don't sleep?
00:52:21.000Yeah, I feel like a union might have negotiated non-24 hour work days a long time ago.
00:52:27.000No, no, you don't understand. They get six weeks paid vacation if they work 24 hours a day for the rest of the year.
00:52:32.000Oh, I see. That's not a bad deal for the company then, I guess.
00:53:02.000It resulted in guaranteed annual income.
00:53:05.000Six figures when adjusted for inflation.
00:53:07.000So 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.
00:53:16.000So the result between 1964, that was right after the strike ended, guaranteed annual income.
00:53:23.00064 to 1977, not one new longshoreman was hired.
00:55:38.000In this case it's no. It will cost them their jobs.
00:55:41.000The ILA is fighting for respect, appreciation, and fairness in a world in which corporations are dead set on replacing hard-working people with automation.
00:55:54.000Employers push automation under the guise of safety.
00:55:58.000But it is really about cutting labor costs to increase...
00:56:02.000I can barely read. They're already exceptionally high profits.
01:00:28.000And 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.
01:00:42.000But, you know, they're looking out for you.
01:00:45.000The truth is, In many circumstances, automation can be good for people.
01:00:51.000So let me give you an example. In 2019...
01:01:17.000Automation 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.
01:01:25.000I love how he plays all the dock workers and be like, boom!
01:01:28.000Well, 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.
01:01:34.000Well, one second. I thought the idea was to be unionized, right?
01:01:38.000But 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.
01:01:46.000They're all trying to get their piece of the pie, as opposed to baking more pies.
01:01:51.000And by the way, you get none of the pie if you are not a union worker.
01:01:54.000And I know so many people say, yeah, but we should just all be union.
01:01:57.000States should not be allowed to be right to work.
01:02:01.000States should require that everybody join a union.
01:02:04.000But 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?
01:02:11.00050 of the top ports in the world, we're not even...
01:02:18.000You want to apply that to every other industry?
01:02:21.000So 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.
01:02:32.000And we actually do need to look at the numbers.
01:02:34.000And we actually do need to look how technology can be used to serve humanity.
01:02:38.000Yes. In this case, they're preventing it.
01:02:43.000They're forbidding it. And here's the thing.
01:02:45.000If they had their way, there wouldn't be any innovation.
01:02:49.000I gave you the example of the elevators, right, and the guaranteed income for the long, and no people were hired.
01:02:55.000This one I just wanted to save to the very end of the segment because it's beyond funny.
01:03:05.000In 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.
01:03:20.000I have plenty of experience with unions.
01:03:22.000I know these types. Not all, but certainly the representation.
01:03:25.000So 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.
01:03:33.000All right. And you would say that I'm joking or being misleading.
01:03:39.000That's why checking the reference is important.
01:03:41.000In 1977, the ILA went on strike to oppose the use of containers.
01:04:33.000Hey, 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?
01:04:55.000Also, keep in mind that Biden's bipartisan infrastructure bill, it prohibited using any funds to automate ports.
01:05:01.000What? So, what I would say is consider privatizing ports.
01:05:07.000Let'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.
01:05:21.000Sort of like automobiles compared to horse and buggies.
01:05:25.000Sort of like bulldozers compared to whatever they had to use, blunt heavy objects before bulldozers.
01:05:33.000Everything advances, and we need to focus on using technology to serve humanity, not to replace humanity.
01:05:40.000There are plenty of examples of that having taken place.
01:05:43.000You could probably offer some early retirement packages for the older workers.
01:05:46.000They did that in Rotterdam when it was automated.
01:05:54.000People are not going to like this. Breaking up the power of these unions.
01:05:57.000If 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.
01:06:11.000Then 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.
01:06:41.000I don't know, maybe it could be something comparable to, if we had a direct comparison.
01:06:45.000Oh 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.
01:07:02.000And I don't know if you know this, they're happier and have a better quality of life.
01:07:06.000The unions won't tell you that, but let's just split the difference.
01:07:10.000Is that reasonable? You can comment below.
01:07:13.000That's a starting point. But you won't hear that.