Louder with Crowder - Pope Francis Allows Priests to Bless Gay Couples & Javier Milei Cleans House!

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00:01:37.000 It's going to be a bit of a spicy meatball today.

00:01:41.000 We've got people getting ready to be offended on all sides, and one Englishman getting ready to have his booty handed to him.

00:01:50.000 So, let's jump into it for today, the rundown.

00:01:53.000 We've got the Pope blessing gay couples.

00:01:56.000 Not gay marriage. 1.00

00:01:56.000 He's not saying gay marriage, but gay couples. 1.00

00:01:58.000 I have issues with that.

00:02:00.000 Don't worry, I'm going to bring in the Protestant Church as well.

00:02:02.000 Everybody will be equally offended, but in the hopes of making things better.

00:02:06.000 You know who's making things better?

00:02:08.000 This Argentinian fireball down there.

00:02:10.000 Malay is actually transforming the government. 0.80

00:02:12.000 Doing what he said he was going to do.

00:02:14.000 Fantastic.

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00:02:17.000 Federman doesn't really like that, but let's figure out if that's actually a good or bad thing.

00:02:20.000 And then Mug Club, you get to hear a little bit about Texas, where we're gonna actually be able to arrest people who are here in the country, I don't know, illegally.

00:02:28.000 Good!

00:02:29.000 Can we all do it?

00:02:30.000 Yeah.

00:02:30.000 I guess we could be deputized.

00:02:32.000 I don't know.

00:02:33.000 Do you have a badge?

00:02:33.000 Oh, I have handcuffs.

00:02:34.000 I showed you.

00:02:35.000 Why do you have handcuffs, Tim?

00:02:36.000 Yeah, what do you use them for?

00:02:37.000 Let's dive deeper into this.

00:02:38.000 To detain illegals. 0.98

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00:02:47.000 I know you're going to have questions.

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00:02:52.000 Today is the day.

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00:02:55.000 I'm not sure that spinach and helmets really go together, but whatever.

00:03:00.000 You're going to like it, and you're not going to like it.

00:03:02.000 And trust me, I will be fair.

00:03:03.000 I understand.

00:03:04.000 I'm not here to bash any particular church at all.

00:03:06.000 I'm just saying, don't do what Protestants have done. 1.00

00:03:09.000 And I'll tell you why I mean that.

00:03:10.000 But when you hear this lovely tune, I like it raw.

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00:03:22.000 Josh Feierstein, how are you sir?

00:03:24.000 I'm good.

00:03:24.000 Good morning everybody.

00:03:25.000 Good morning!

00:03:26.000 Josh, you're going to be Friday and Saturday, December 22nd and 23rd, Funny Bone in Columbus, Ohio.

00:03:31.000 Yeah, this weekend with JP Sears.

00:03:32.000 We're going to hang out.

00:03:33.000 With JP?

00:03:33.000 That's going to be awesome.

00:03:35.000 He had a little bit about toilet paper.

00:03:36.000 Somebody asked him about it and he's like, Is it okay to put toilet paper like rolling away from you?

00:03:40.000 And he's like, yes, that's like trying to hand somebody a bottle of water by throwing it across the room.

00:03:46.000 That's good.

00:03:47.000 I appreciate that.

00:03:48.000 And look, because we're going to get a little spot, I probably, I mean, maybe there's not going to be a whole lot of opportunity for this, but maybe there is.

00:03:53.000 But if at any point you see this.

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00:03:59.000 And do me a favor, go to Rumble to begin with.

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00:04:12.000 I'm fine with that.

00:04:13.000 It's a good way to do it.

00:04:14.000 Piss them off, then leave.

00:04:17.000 It'll make everybody happier. 0.58

00:04:19.000 I love it!

00:04:19.000 Alright, so first thing we're going to get into today, and I had not seen this video.

00:04:26.000 I don't know how he's going to justify this.

00:04:31.000 Just watch it with his New York City mayor, Eric Adams.

00:04:33.000 He was asked to describe New York and like what made it great.

00:04:39.000 And he makes a lot of mistakes, but there's one glaring one.

00:04:41.000 See if you can pick it out.

00:04:43.000 Mr. Mayor, we've come to the end of what was a very eventful 2023, right?

00:04:47.000 So, when you look at the totality of the year, if you had to describe it, and it's tough to do, in one word, what would that word be and tell me why?

00:04:54.000 New York.

00:04:55.000 Two words.

00:04:56.000 This is a place where every day you wake up, you could experience everything from a plane

00:05:01.000 crashing into our trade center to a person who's celebrating a new business that's open.

00:05:16.000 Is that the brand of New York that you're trying to promote?

00:05:19.000 Is this real life?

00:05:20.000 Did this happen?

00:05:21.000 I think I remember that in that Frank Sinatra song.

00:05:24.000 I was in New York!

00:05:27.000 I don't know, it's like the missing verse from that song. 1.00

00:05:30.000 Yeah, boy, he's retarded. 1.00

00:05:32.000 Planes are crashing into the buildings! 0.99

00:05:35.000 I don't know that that... I just...

00:05:38.000 I was offended at first because he said one word and he says New York and I'm like, okay, that's two words, but I understand fine.

00:05:45.000 And then he keeps talking and I'm like, okay, this guy doesn't get the rules at all.

00:05:48.000 And then he pulls out, you can see a plane flying into buildings?

00:05:53.000 I forgot about all the issues.

00:05:54.000 Like it's a feature.

00:05:55.000 It is!

00:05:56.000 He said, like, how exciting this city is.

00:05:58.000 One day you could wake up and there's a plane crashing, and all your neighbors are dying, and then the next day a business opens.

00:06:04.000 Isn't that sweet?

00:06:04.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:06:05.000 After we closed it down for COVID.

00:06:06.000 Isn't that sweet?

00:06:08.000 But all the clean-up, the businesses sprouted up to clean up the mess.

00:06:12.000 So that's good for the city.

00:06:14.000 Hey, maybe a helicopter will crash next.

00:06:18.000 Or a plane into the Hudson!

00:06:20.000 Another crane will fall down.

00:06:21.000 Cranes fall down so much.

00:06:22.000 Or it could just be more, you know, mayhem and murder on the subways.

00:06:26.000 But look, imagine like you're Hiroshima.

00:06:30.000 And you're like, you could wake up and be incinerated by a nuclear bomb and then visit our beautiful castle.

00:06:36.000 We've got everything in Japan!

00:06:38.000 We've got it all!

00:06:41.000 Moscow, don't come to us, we'll come to you. 1.00

00:06:44.000 It's the stupidest... 1.00

00:06:48.000 We do it in cities' nicknames. 1.00

00:06:50.000 Yeah, I was like, what is their plan to advertise?

00:06:53.000 You know, like, tell me about New York.

00:06:55.000 You can watch planes fly into our towers.

00:06:59.000 Don't do that!

00:07:01.000 Who elected this guy?

00:07:02.000 New Yorkers! 1.00

00:07:04.000 I mean, that's the stupidest thing I've heard. 1.00

00:07:06.000 What about Jerusalem? 1.00

00:07:07.000 Oh my gosh.

00:07:09.000 Awww.

00:07:10.000 Jerusalem for it.

00:07:14.000 Come for the temple, stay for the buses blowing up. 0.96

00:07:17.000 I don't know.

00:07:18.000 Something like that.

00:07:19.000 You don't put it on the card.

00:07:21.000 Come for the music festival, stay for the Hamas beheadings. 1.00

00:07:24.000 That's not what you're going to say.

00:07:27.000 What in the world is wrong with Eric Adams? 1.00

00:07:29.000 That's the stupidest thing I've seen from him and that is saying something. 1.00

00:07:33.000 He's so confident. 1.00

00:07:34.000 He is.

00:07:35.000 New York!

00:07:36.000 With other things that I'm going to say.

00:07:38.000 And I love how the guy didn't jump in and interrupt him.

00:07:40.000 He's like, well, he's the mayor. 0.98

00:07:41.000 I said one word, but he can say as many words as he, holy crap, he said towers. 0.99

00:07:46.000 Really? 0.79

00:07:47.000 He said our trade center too.

00:07:48.000 Yeah.

00:07:49.000 I really wish the camera had been on his face when he did that.

00:07:52.000 He, I mean, it just like, Yeah, see the ISO of the guy.

00:07:54.000 Yeah, like you're dying inside and you can't show it to the public.

00:08:00.000 But look, we've got a number of different topics that I think are going to be fun to jump into today.

00:08:04.000 And look, I want to lead this off with the question of the day.

00:08:09.000 What are your thoughts on the Pope deciding to bless gay couples?

00:08:14.000 Comment below, let me know.

00:08:15.000 I know that Mug Club chat, you guys are going absolutely nuts with this.

00:08:21.000 Be nice to Kim, I told her to put on a helmet. 1.00

00:08:24.000 But I want to set this up really quickly.

00:08:27.000 Anytime a church—doesn't matter what the church is—anytime a church does something that represents a large group of people, I am necessarily going to have problems one way or the other with a policy, not people, right?

00:08:42.000 Sometimes it's people, a lot of times it's policy.

00:08:44.000 Most of the time, almost all of the time, I don't have a problem with the people that church represents, the people that are going to the church.

00:08:50.000 And so let's just make some clear distinctions like we do with the Chinese Communist Party versus the Chinese people,

00:08:56.000 right? I'm not attacking Chinese people, I'm attacking the leadership of that country and 1.00

00:09:00.000 the bad decisions that they make. 1.00

00:09:02.000 China is asshole! 1.00

00:09:04.000 Exactly. 1.00

00:09:04.000 I didn't say it, he said it. 1.00

00:09:07.000 I said it.

00:09:07.000 So just understand that when I'm talking about this segment, I'm not talking about Catholics,

00:09:12.000 Right?

00:09:12.000 I understand that you guys can get very frustrated by being targeted and that people misconstrue what the Pope says all the time.

00:09:20.000 I completely understand that.

00:09:21.000 Look, I have my issues.

00:09:22.000 I've been very, very transparent about some of the issues that I have with it, but not because I hate Catholicism.

00:09:27.000 I went to Notre Dame.

00:09:29.000 I've had these issues, these disagreements, these questions with Catholicism for a very long time.

00:09:34.000 Totally fine.

00:09:34.000 You guys have questions for me about Protestantism.

00:09:36.000 Totally fine.

00:09:37.000 Everybody's on the same team here, right?

00:09:39.000 We're all trying to push in the same direction, but This is going to be difficult because I don't understand why this happened.

00:09:46.000 Okay, let's jump in.

00:09:47.000 In another move that some would label progressive, I think it's pretty progressive, right?

00:09:52.000 Yeah, it's progressive.

00:09:53.000 I don't know that that's a good thing.

00:09:54.000 Pope Francis will allow Catholic Church leaders to officially bless same-sex couples.

00:10:01.000 You think?

00:10:01.000 is formally allowing priests to bless same-sex couples in what is being called

00:10:07.000 a monumental change for the Roman Catholic Church. The Vatican today

00:10:11.000 included this in a new document that insists people seeking God's love and

00:10:16.000 mercy should not be subject to quote an exhaustive moral analysis to receive it.

00:10:21.000 But the document reaffirms that marriage is a lifelong sacrament between a man

00:10:27.000 and a woman and so it's not like priests can bless marriages or civil reunions.

00:10:33.000 Look, I understand that that's what people are saying, right?

00:10:37.000 I think some people out there are misrepresenting what the Pope said, that he is now blessing gay marriage.

00:10:42.000 He's not blessing gay marriage.

00:10:44.000 He's also not forcing anybody to bless anybody.

00:10:46.000 He is allowing it, which is a different thing, okay?

00:10:48.000 So now that I've set that up correctly, let's read what the Vatican's news arm put out yesterday.

00:10:54.000 When two people request a blessing, even if their situation as a couple is irregular, we'll come back to that.

00:10:59.000 Irregular.

00:10:59.000 It will be possible.

00:11:02.000 For the ordained minister to consent.

00:11:04.000 However, this gesture of pastoral closeness must avoid any elements that remotely resemble a marriage rite.

00:11:11.000 However, they all still end up in the same place.

00:11:13.000 I don't make the rules.

00:11:23.000 I'm gonna make a couple of points here, and one of the points is sure to make people frustrated, and I don't mean it to, but I want you to think deeply about this.

00:11:34.000 To receive God's love and mercy, I would say that the church can't ever get in the way, and it's not the only way to receive God's love and mercy.

00:11:43.000 Throughout reading scripture, I think it's pretty clear that we can receive God's love and mercy in a lot of different ways, and it doesn't necessarily have to be through the church.

00:11:51.000 So when it talks about that, and then that clip said having to go through an exhaustive moral kind of reckoning, so to speak, I don't think you have to do that either, right?

00:12:01.000 I think anybody can come to God and say, God, I am a sinner.

00:12:05.000 The problem is that God, Jesus, when he walked the earth, never allowed for somebody to come to him and Stay where they were.

00:12:12.000 He was winsome and loving, but honest.

00:12:15.000 And that is something that we have to keep in mind here.

00:12:17.000 So there's two different types of blessings.

00:12:20.000 I was looking this up before to make sure I didn't mess this up, but invocative and constitutive.

00:12:24.000 And constitutive is the one where it's basically blessing like a person or a place or something like that, where it's like a holy purpose, right?

00:12:31.000 So that's the higher form of blessing.

00:12:33.000 Invocative is basically like when you bless your child, but it comes with no change in condition required.

00:12:41.000 That's an interesting take on this.

00:12:44.000 What do you mean by that?

00:12:45.000 No change in condition, meaning like it's not saying, hey, you have to acknowledge this or change that to receive this blessing, right?

00:12:52.000 So I'll give you a comparison, but I just want to set this up with one more thing.

00:12:56.000 The Church of England actually came out and just one day ago, officially blessed, or maybe a couple of days ago now, officially blessed their first lesbian couple.

00:13:06.000 The Church of England is in a new place and I'm really pleased with the decisions we've made.

00:13:09.000 Sure you are, buddy.

00:13:10.000 We can tell.

00:13:11.000 Once these prayers are formally commended later this year, the faithful, stable, Christian couples in a civil marriage or a civil partnership can, if they wish, come to church and that You know, their love for each other in that relationship can be acknowledged, celebrated, and the couple can receive a blessing.

00:13:29.000 That's never happened before.

00:13:30.000 I'm pleased about that.

00:13:32.000 But at the same time, I think I need to say, I'm not standing here full of joy, because I think the debate has clearly revealed divisions in the church over these issues, and those divisions cut across, you know, we're a family, and when families disagree, it's always painful.

00:13:48.000 Yeah, there's a reason.

00:13:51.000 Look, again, I don't make the rules, but look, we can only imagine what Sunday morning at

00:13:54.000 church will look like here in a few years.

00:13:58.000 We're a family.

00:14:02.000 That was worse than I thought it was going to be.

00:14:05.000 There you go!

00:14:09.000 And all are welcome, 100%.

00:14:12.000 If somebody comes in who's having an affair, and the church knows that this man has a wife, and he walks in with his weekend fling hand-in-hand, you don't think that the church should be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, brother, what's going on?

00:14:28.000 What are you doing?

00:14:29.000 It's the same kind of thing.

00:14:30.000 I don't understand why this is any different, but I'll get to a bigger point here in just a second.

00:14:34.000 But look, I don't think it's any coincidence.

00:14:38.000 that a volcano erupted the same day the pope decided to bless gay couples.

00:14:42.000 That's the official headline.

00:14:51.000 That actually happened!

00:14:54.000 That was a real thing we saw.

00:14:55.000 Live!

00:14:56.000 Look at the Vatican.

00:14:58.000 Actually, that's Iceland.

00:14:59.000 I'm just kidding.

00:15:02.000 But look, so I have a problem with what the Church has said here, and I have a problem with—when I say the Church, read that to the Pope.

00:15:08.000 The Pope is the head of the Church.

00:15:09.000 Your rules again, not mine.

00:15:11.000 And 84% of you out there have a favorable view of the Church, of Catholics.

00:15:15.000 Just 47% have a favorable view of Pope Francis.

00:15:21.000 You have an issue.

00:15:23.000 In this ruling, I understand where people are coming from when they say, look, we want people who want to find God to be able to find God.

00:15:31.000 Yes.

00:15:32.000 But God never left people in their sin.

00:15:35.000 And saying something isn't sin that God says is sin is not loving.

00:15:41.000 It is not the way that you approach this situation. 0.96

00:15:44.000 Beating somebody because they're gay is also not loving. 0.96

00:15:49.000 That's not how you approach the situation. 0.98

00:15:51.000 Have I clarified on both ends where we shouldn't be?

00:15:55.000 Good.

00:15:55.000 Now, in the middle, when people come to God, it's not an immediate, like, you have to be good enough.

00:16:01.000 You don't go and take, you know, wash your hands before you take a bath.

00:16:04.000 I get it.

00:16:05.000 You don't have to go and clean up your life before you can come to God.

00:16:07.000 That's fantastic.

00:16:09.000 Here's my issue.

00:16:10.000 How do churches end up in apostasy?

00:16:12.000 How do churches go astray?

00:16:15.000 Little by little by little, and you know how I know?

00:16:18.000 Because I'm a Protestant.

00:16:21.000 And I know what you're thinking right now.

00:16:22.000 You're thinking, oh, he's going to talk about how Martin Luther left the church because of these issues.

00:16:27.000 Yes, he did, and we'll get to that another time, but what I'm talking about is we are making these mistakes already in Protestantism.

00:16:33.000 Don't follow our example. 0.95

00:16:36.000 My issue Isn't with homosexuals or homosexuality. 1.00

00:16:41.000 It's with the church not standing on the principles of what scripture says.

00:16:45.000 You can't change what scripture says.

00:16:46.000 I'm sorry if it's inconvenient to tell people truth.

00:16:50.000 Do it as best you can in a loving way and represent God to them.

00:16:53.000 But we have churches right now that say homosexuality is not a sin. 1.00

00:16:59.000 You can't change scripture like that.

00:17:01.000 That's leading people astray and giving them a form of godliness, but denying the power of it.

00:17:06.000 It talks about that in scripture.

00:17:07.000 That is a wolf in sheep's clothing.

00:17:09.000 God doesn't want you to do that.

00:17:11.000 This is how problems arise.

00:17:14.000 Don't be hateful.

00:17:16.000 Welcome everyone.

00:17:18.000 Let everyone experience the love of God.

00:17:20.000 But do not, in any way, shape, or form, convince people that sin is goodness.

00:17:29.000 Because you will have a big problem, and guess who has a... The guy upstairs.

00:17:32.000 He has a problem with that.

00:17:35.000 My...

00:17:38.000 I worry for people because I want them to hear truth in church.

00:17:40.000 That's fantastic.

00:17:41.000 I want gay couples who are out there who believe in God to have an opportunity to find out who God really is, to understand the full counsel of God and understand what sin is and what it's not.

00:17:51.000 But if you allow stuff like this to go on in your church, how far down the road is it until there's so much public pressure put on that now you have to go a little bit further and a little bit further and a little bit further and then ten years from now you look up And the church doesn't look anything like what you think it should, and that 47% view of Pope Francis being favorable among Catholics drops to 10 or 15%.

00:18:12.000 And then you have another schism.

00:18:13.000 This is why we have all of these things, is because one person looks out and says, hey, this is what the Bible says, you guys are doing it a little bit differently.

00:18:19.000 Here's my final question for you, and then we're going to move on.

00:18:23.000 Anybody out there who says that Pope Francis was doing this to try to welcome gays into the church, to make sure that the church had open arms for everyone, every sinner in the world, including people who are having premarital sex. 0.91

00:18:34.000 Yours truly sinned.

00:18:37.000 I repented from that and turned from that.

00:18:38.000 That's the difference.

00:18:40.000 Not everybody does.

00:18:41.000 I understand that.

00:18:42.000 Churches are full of prosperity gospel in Protestant.

00:18:46.000 I understand that.

00:18:48.000 You want to be open.

00:18:49.000 Pope Francis, why couples? 0.78

00:18:53.000 Yeah, why not just individuals?

00:18:54.000 Why not just people?

00:18:56.000 You could have solved this problem in a much different way instead of celebrating gay couples. 1.00

00:19:02.000 Instead of blessing them.

00:19:03.000 Sorry, the Church of English did that.

00:19:06.000 What does the blessing do?

00:19:07.000 Because I want to know, if you don't get a blessing, do you still get to go to heaven?

00:19:12.000 Yeah, so this isn't that.

00:19:14.000 If you're a sinner and you get to go to heaven?

00:19:16.000 This is not anything like that.

00:19:17.000 This is basically something in Catholicism where you can get a blessing from somebody, like the priest, right?

00:19:22.000 Somebody a part of the church.

00:19:24.000 Basically, it's a method of getting love and mercy from God, accessing that.

00:19:28.000 And I understand it's like blessing your child or something like that, you know, like a blessing.

00:19:31.000 There's blessings throughout Scripture.

00:19:32.000 Jesus blessed people, right?

00:19:34.000 God blessed people.

00:19:35.000 I understand that.

00:19:37.000 When the church is doing this in this way, like, it means something.

00:19:41.000 It's an official thing.

00:19:42.000 It may not be the official thing, it may not be the highest form of blessing, but it's a thing.

00:19:47.000 And it's not a right, it's not a part of the marriage, right?

00:19:48.000 I get that.

00:19:49.000 And you're right, it's a slippery slope.

00:19:50.000 Why couples? 0.91

00:19:51.000 Slippery Pope.

00:19:52.000 Yep.

00:19:52.000 Slippery Pope.

00:19:53.000 There you go.

00:19:53.000 I like that.

00:19:54.000 Pope Frank.

00:19:56.000 Look, you guys comment below.

00:19:58.000 Reach out to me on Twitter at GMorganJunior and it's fine.

00:20:01.000 We can have a conversation about this but please don't come at me with, I hate the Catholic Church.

00:20:06.000 I do not.

00:20:07.000 I love everybody out there who professes Christ as Savior and God as God.

00:20:13.000 Fantastic.

00:20:14.000 But that doesn't mean we can't have conversations about disagreements.

00:20:17.000 Okay.

00:20:18.000 If you guys are still interested in winning a truck, because I think a truck is kind of a nice thing to win.

00:20:22.000 Does it come with cash?

00:20:24.000 It does come with cash.

00:20:26.000 $10,000.

00:20:27.000 But in quarters.

00:20:28.000 Oh, I'll take it.

00:20:29.000 It's all in the bed.

00:20:30.000 The entire bed.

00:20:32.000 It's all that would fit, really.

00:20:34.000 10,000 quarters.

00:20:34.000 That's a lot of quarters.

00:20:35.000 Like 40,000 of them.

00:20:36.000 Can you jump into it?

00:20:37.000 I'm not good at math, but... Are you close?

00:20:40.000 I'm exactly.

00:20:41.000 Oh.

00:20:43.000 Look at you.

00:20:43.000 I'm better than that at math, Tim.

00:20:47.000 Brand new Ford Raptor, 2024 edition, $10,000 in cash.

00:20:51.000 Go to CrowderShop.com, grab yourself some sweet merch. 0.94

00:20:54.000 Don't worry, there's not like a, you know, Catholics or bad boo shirt or anything like that on there, I promise.

00:20:59.000 Or Protestants, like I said, I went after Protestantism too, because sometimes we make really bad mistakes.

00:21:04.000 Speaking of a guy who, so far, So good.

00:21:08.000 Hasn't made mistakes yet.

00:21:10.000 Libertarian Javier Mele was sworn in as Argentina's new El Presidente.

00:21:16.000 Por la patria, sobre estos santos evangelios, desempeñar con lealtad y patriotismo el cargo de presidente de la nación argentina y observar y hacer observar fielmente en lo que de mí depende la constitución de la nación argentina.

00:21:31.000 Sí, juro.

00:21:36.000 Why did he, like, did he feel like he was going to burst into flames if he actually touched the Bible?

00:21:40.000 Because the Bible is, I think, that, like, blue-purple-y thing.

00:21:42.000 I don't know.

00:21:43.000 I'm colorblind.

00:21:43.000 Sorry, guys.

00:21:44.000 He reached over towards it and he's like, Afuera! 1.00

00:21:46.000 No, but he said whatever he said.

00:21:48.000 Afuera! 0.99

00:21:48.000 I swear! 0.99

00:21:49.000 Uro.

00:21:49.000 But didn't touch it.

00:21:50.000 Why don't you touch it?

00:21:51.000 Si, uro. 0.97

00:21:52.000 Por qué no?

00:21:53.000 I don't know.

00:21:53.000 I don't speak Spanish.

00:21:54.000 I guess in Argentina, you only have to hover hand the Bible.

00:21:58.000 Really?

00:21:59.000 I guess so.

00:22:00.000 So baptism is just getting close to water.

00:22:02.000 Got it.

00:22:02.000 Okay.

00:22:05.000 A week into his job as El Presidente, he is already making huge moves.

00:22:11.000 He has, do you remember that video that we talked about where he did the Afuera thing?

00:22:15.000 He did it in real life!

00:22:16.000 He cut the number of ministries in half by removing livestock and agriculture, transport, public works, territorial development, I'm not even sure what that means, culture, Science.

00:22:32.000 Tourism.

00:22:33.000 Environment.

00:22:35.000 Women's Affairs. 0.98

00:22:39.000 I'm sorry, women. 1.00

00:22:41.000 We didn't end with you on purpose.

00:22:42.000 It was just the natural order of things.

00:22:44.000 I heard you also get rid of women. 1.00

00:22:46.000 Well, no, no.

00:22:47.000 You don't get rid of Argentinian women. 1.00

00:22:49.000 That's a bad idea.

00:22:53.000 34% of government jobs were eliminated.

00:22:56.000 The number of jobs.

00:22:57.000 He got rid of half the departments.

00:22:58.000 34% of the jobs.

00:23:00.000 Now look, if you were doing one of those jobs, this isn't time for celebrating, but you shouldn't have had it to begin with.

00:23:05.000 The incoming economic minister, Luis Caputo.

00:23:09.000 Hmm.

00:23:10.000 I stuck the landing on that.

00:23:11.000 Sorry if you speak Spanish.

00:23:13.000 Caputo said Malay's government is, quote, facing the worst inheritance in the country's history.

00:23:21.000 That's one way of putting it.

00:23:23.000 He also took other steps to reduce spending and curb inflation.

00:23:25.000 He devalued the peso by 54%.

00:23:28.000 He stopped all government advertising.

00:23:30.000 Public works contracts were canceled. 0.96

00:23:31.000 Kind of sucks for those guys. 0.76

00:23:33.000 And he stopped payments in the provinces. 0.96

00:23:36.000 And I don't really know what provinces actually- Gerald?

00:23:40.000 Yes.

00:23:41.000 Well, hello there.

00:23:42.000 I'm here.

00:23:43.000 No, it's Sam's here.

00:23:44.000 Thanks, Sam.

00:23:45.000 Hi, everybody.

00:23:45.000 We're live, Sam.

00:23:46.000 What's up?

00:23:46.000 You scared us.

00:23:47.000 Well, I'm sorry, but this announcement can't wait.

00:23:50.000 I was inspired by President Emile's announcement.

00:23:54.000 And so I'm implementing my own series of reforms around the ladder with Crowder offices.

00:23:59.000 Geez.

00:23:59.000 All right, whatever.

00:24:00.000 Yes.

00:24:01.000 I know you guys like snacks here.

00:24:03.000 But snacks are a Royce.

00:24:07.000 Wait, what's a Royce?

00:24:10.000 Yiddish for afuera.

00:24:12.000 So, I know you guys like pulling pranks.

00:24:14.000 Pranks are arois. 0.91

00:24:15.000 Come on. 0.92

00:24:16.000 Jewish jokes. 0.80

00:24:17.000 They've all been done.

00:24:18.000 Arois.

00:24:19.000 They haven't all been done.

00:24:20.000 Merry Christmas.

00:24:20.000 We've got plenty more.

00:24:21.000 Arois.

00:24:21.000 No, no, no, no, no.

00:24:22.000 You can't take Christmas from me, Sam.

00:24:25.000 Not on my turf, you short, misspeckled Yiddish wrench. 1.00

00:24:27.000 It's not... No happy Hanukkah or Kwanzaa either.

00:24:29.000 I mean... Afuera! 0.96

00:24:31.000 Afuera! 0.99

00:24:33.000 Afuera! 0.99

00:24:34.000 Frickin' Sam. 0.92

00:24:36.000 Afuera! 0.99

00:24:38.000 Otra vez afuera! 1.00

00:24:39.000 You're an asshole! 1.00

00:24:43.000 Sam. 1.00

00:24:44.000 Excuse me.

00:24:45.000 You can't take Christmas?

00:24:47.000 Try.

00:24:48.000 We're upset about snacks.

00:24:50.000 Or Jewish jokes! 0.98

00:24:51.000 Come on, they haven't all been done.

00:24:52.000 We talked about this.

00:24:53.000 Yeah, I got a few.

00:24:55.000 You want to hear them?

00:24:57.000 How many different people of faith do we want to piss off today? 1.00

00:25:05.000 Anybody want to talk about Scientology?

00:25:06.000 Mormonism?

00:25:11.000 Just gonna piss everybody off.

00:25:14.000 Every encounter I've had with Mormons has been peaceful and polite.

00:25:17.000 They've been very helpful.

00:25:18.000 Mostly peaceful, yeah.

00:25:19.000 I just don't like the theology.

00:25:22.000 Or their shirts.

00:25:22.000 What's up with that?

00:25:24.000 And their mountain bikes.

00:25:24.000 They're always on mountain bikes, these Mormons.

00:25:26.000 Jehovah's Witnesses.

00:25:28.000 Both of them.

00:25:31.000 You're confusing.

00:25:33.000 All right, so look, I love what Millet is doing down in Argentina so far.

00:25:37.000 This is exactly the kind of thing that we thought he would do.

00:25:40.000 And look, we've seen people campaign before and say they're going to do all these great things and then get into office and have trouble doing it or completely do an about-face and be like, ha ha, fooled you, just wanted to be a politician in power.

00:25:50.000 And I would like to come back with that to the United States.

00:25:53.000 Donald Trump has talked about cutting the bureaucracy, cutting debt, and he tried to do a lot of reform in the United States to give him credit.

00:26:00.000 But look, again, It's not always convenient.

00:26:03.000 It's not always easy to hear.

00:26:04.000 There's frustration.

00:26:05.000 I want to hold people accountable to improve, not to get rid of, not to, you know, hurt.

00:26:10.000 But he tried to reform us, but the government workers refused to implement Trump's policies.

00:26:15.000 He didn't get rid of bureaucrats fast enough.

00:26:18.000 And so a lot of the policies that he put in place didn't actually take effect and do what he wanted them to do.

00:26:22.000 January 2017 to January 2021.

00:26:25.000 Hint, that's Donald Trump's presidency.

00:26:27.000 National debt increased by $8 trillion.

00:26:30.000 The first three years without COVID.

00:26:32.000 I know that's what you're saying is COVID was a big player in that.

00:26:34.000 Absolutely was.

00:26:35.000 $4.5 trillion of that was COVID.

00:26:38.000 Without COVID, $3.4 trillion.

00:26:40.000 That's a lot.

00:26:41.000 That is a lot of debt to be adding on when you want to cut debt.

00:26:44.000 Now, I know that's a hard thing to do.

00:26:46.000 There's a lot that goes into that.

00:26:48.000 And you know who else knows it's really hard to cut debt?

00:26:50.000 Who's that?

00:26:51.000 Joseph Robinette Biden, the former vice president himself, 4.7 trillion dollars added to the national debt so far.

00:26:59.000 Seems like he's trying to make some kind of push to records there.

00:27:02.000 And Trump, he made a big deal about draining the swamp the last time, and he's making a big deal again.

00:27:09.000 I don't think that happens this time around.

00:27:11.000 What do you think?

00:27:12.000 I think people are scared.

00:27:12.000 rid of the people that stopped him from being able to do that.

00:27:16.000 Some of the leaders that we had in power just wouldn't do what he said.

00:27:21.000 I don't think that happens this time around.

00:27:22.000 What do you think?

00:27:23.000 I think people are scared.

00:27:24.000 Yeah?

00:27:25.000 Yeah, I think some of these people, they want to...

00:27:29.000 Like the bureaucrats?

00:27:30.000 Yeah.

00:27:31.000 Yeah, they want to do what they're supposed to do.

00:27:34.000 I think this time around, like the bureaucrats, he kind of knows the game a little bit more.

00:27:38.000 The first time around he had to learn, even though he was a businessman, even though he was brash, even though he had the ability to go in and just say what he thought and didn't care what people really thought about him.

00:27:48.000 I don't think he fully understands the corruption and the rot in the system.

00:27:53.000 And so to be able to take it out, he needed a little bit of experience.

00:27:55.000 So I'm hopeful that this time around, and I'm predicting, of course, that this time around he'll be president.

00:27:59.000 The swamp doesn't want to be drained.

00:28:01.000 No.

00:28:02.000 So they're going to do everything to prevent that.

00:28:05.000 Very apparent.

00:28:06.000 Swamp's gonna swamp.

00:28:07.000 They like being swampy.

00:28:08.000 They do.

00:28:09.000 They like being swampy. 0.98

00:28:10.000 Swamp monsters they are. 0.95

00:28:11.000 They are. 0.99

00:28:12.000 I hope he drains it.

00:28:13.000 I hope this is not just another political promise that's broken.

00:28:17.000 I hope a wall gets built.

00:28:19.000 Yes.

00:28:20.000 It's also a different Congress this time around.

00:28:22.000 It is, yeah.

00:28:22.000 Different people are around.

00:28:24.000 He led the way a little bit.

00:28:25.000 So there's a lot of people that have kind of followed the trail that he's blazed, so to speak, right?

00:28:30.000 And gotten into positions of power within Congress and throughout government that might be useful and very helpful for Donald Trump.

00:28:37.000 But it's like, hey, just do it.

00:28:38.000 Build the wall.

00:28:40.000 It's a great idea.

00:28:41.000 Don't make Texas have to make it a crime, like we'll talk about with Mug Club. 1.00

00:28:46.000 But look, Javier Mele, he's cutting government and bureaucracy in Argentina, mostly because they're, I believe, and research, look this up for me if you can, what's the interest rate?

00:28:57.000 I thought it was like 143% or some ridiculous number.

00:29:02.000 Inflation is massive.

00:29:04.000 The interest rate is massive.

00:29:05.000 Maybe I'm converting those two.

00:29:07.000 Maybe it's inflation that's 143%.

00:29:10.000 140 plus percent.

00:29:11.000 It's insane the amount of issues that Argentina has right now.

00:29:16.000 And look, he's made some good moves.

00:29:19.000 We'll see how that plays out.

00:29:21.000 It may end with a bloody coup.

00:29:22.000 Who knows?

00:29:23.000 I hope not.

00:29:23.000 I'm just saying, when you fire giant swaths of government, people can get a little pissed off that you did it, but hopefully... Well, I think it's firing lazy people.

00:29:31.000 I don't think they're going to be out there trying to work hard to... In the environment?

00:29:35.000 People aren't lazy that go into environmental sciences.

00:29:38.000 No?

00:29:40.000 Of course!

00:29:40.000 I'm going to go down this list again.

00:29:42.000 Here, I'll give you a few.

00:29:43.000 Women's Affairs people? 1.00

00:29:46.000 Come on, that's like gender studies. 1.00

00:29:47.000 I don't understand what women... I hope they're doing much. 1.00

00:29:49.000 Look, if women are being mistreated almost as if Islam was in charge over there, fine. 1.00

00:29:54.000 I understand that you would need somebody to be like, hey, we can't do that.

00:29:57.000 That's terrible.

00:29:59.000 It's also interesting too, not all these things are eliminated.

00:30:01.000 The departments are eliminated and dissolved, but they're being consolidated into new ministries.

00:30:08.000 You're right.

00:30:09.000 The services aren't going away.

00:30:10.000 They still care about tourism.

00:30:12.000 It drives economic growth in a lot of countries.

00:30:14.000 And so, of course, that maybe just gets pushed over into another thing.

00:30:17.000 But you've got culture, science.

00:30:19.000 I don't know.

00:30:20.000 What has Argentina contributed to science?

00:30:22.000 I have no idea.

00:30:22.000 But we'll see how this goes, right?

00:30:25.000 I think it's a good move.

00:30:26.000 I mean, you've got to look at the fine print.

00:30:28.000 I'm just saying, like, tell me what you've done.

00:30:29.000 I don't know.

00:30:30.000 You've got an Argentinian football team.

00:30:32.000 That's fine.

00:30:32.000 You've got the Andes Mountains right next door.

00:30:34.000 Great.

00:30:34.000 What have you done science-wise?

00:30:36.000 Great mints.

00:30:37.000 They do.

00:30:37.000 Yeah.

00:30:38.000 I think that's about it.

00:30:39.000 OK.

00:30:40.000 But I like these moves, and we will see what Donald Trump does in the United States.

00:30:45.000 So comment below.

00:30:46.000 Do you think Malay is going to be able to turn Argentina around? 1.00

00:30:50.000 Yay or nay?

00:30:51.000 Look, if you don't care, I understand that, but you should.

00:30:54.000 These kinds of things are happening in other countries right now.

00:30:57.000 Again, we're seeing this stuff play out in other places.

00:31:00.000 Let's learn from their mistakes.

00:31:02.000 Not have to make all of them ourselves.

00:31:04.000 It seems like we love doing that, and I hope Donald Trump, when he comes into office, he fixes the problems that we have here in the United States, and he calls this out.

00:31:13.000 We'll see.

00:31:14.000 I'm hopeful.

00:31:15.000 So... And Gerald, from... Oh, they've got the percentage.

00:31:18.000 From research.

00:31:18.000 Key interest rate, 133%.

00:31:19.000 Inflation, 140%.

00:31:19.000 Well, at least they're catching up to one another.

00:31:22.000 That's ridiculous.

00:31:22.000 Thanks, guys.

00:31:22.000 133%.

00:31:22.000 Well, at least they're catching up to one another.

00:31:24.000 Thanks guys.

00:31:25.000 133%.

00:31:26.000 Can you do me a favor?

00:31:29.000 One more ask and I'll move on to another story and we'll come back to it later on.

00:31:32.000 But just do me a favor.

00:31:33.000 In the United States, I think we had 7% mortgages or 8% mortgages recently, and people were freaking out about that because of what it had.

00:31:38.000 Can you do 133% mortgages, please?

00:31:41.000 Thank you.

00:31:44.000 I'd just like to see what that is.

00:31:46.000 Let's not put that out there in the ether.

00:31:48.000 That's not... Yeah, you're gonna never pay it off.

00:31:50.000 Like, your children's children have to sign on the dotted line.

00:31:53.000 Like a payday loan.

00:31:55.000 Yeah, you're shanty.

00:31:57.000 It's a payday loan.

00:31:59.000 Check cashing places? 0.91

00:32:00.000 Oh my gosh, those people are the worst.

00:32:04.000 At least one of those guys jumped off a building.

00:32:05.000 Anyway, it was in a documentary.

00:32:09.000 I'm just saying it seemed like a fitting end. 0.93

00:32:10.000 He was living high off the hog and, you know, raping and pillaging and decided he didn't want to anymore. 0.96

00:32:17.000 That's good. 0.92

00:32:18.000 I'm just going to let that sit there.

00:32:25.000 Problem solved.

00:32:27.000 Yes, watch out Lone Mart.

00:32:29.000 Yes, that's right.

00:32:31.000 Whatever it's called, the people that promote it, I don't even know what it is anymore.

00:32:34.000 Paycheck cashing services.

00:32:36.000 Anyway, Brian Callen, Mr. Off Limits, is on Tuesdays on Mug Club.

00:32:41.000 He's going to be at the Comedy Zone in North Carolina, December 29th through the 31st.

00:32:46.000 Make sure you go and show him some love if you are in the Charlotte, North Carolina area, or if you'd like to make a drive.

00:32:53.000 I hear it's a fun drive to make over there and see Mr. Brian Callen and see his show on Mug Club.

00:32:58.000 Senior off-limits there.

00:32:59.000 Okay, New Year's Eve shows are good, by the way.

00:33:01.000 They're really cool.

00:33:01.000 I was about to say!

00:33:02.000 It's a really cool experience.

00:33:02.000 Is that a special day, the 31st?

00:33:04.000 Yeah, if you're a comic headlining, you're always working New Year's Eve unless you are... That makes sense.

00:33:09.000 Good enough to not have to do it, but... I'm not.

00:33:14.000 But no, it's always a good show.

00:33:14.000 You work at New Year's Eve?

00:33:17.000 I didn't mean to offend you.

00:33:19.000 No, it's always a good show.

00:33:20.000 They usually have a comedian do a toast, and they'll do a countdown at midnight.

00:33:24.000 That's awesome.

00:33:24.000 The club will give out champagne sometimes and stuff like that, so it's a cool fun.

00:33:27.000 Is one of the jokes ever doing the countdown early?

00:33:30.000 Just to screw with people?

00:33:32.000 Not like an hour early, so they're like, yeah, I'll go ahead and go home, but like 14 minutes early or something like that?

00:33:36.000 I don't know if that's happened before.

00:33:38.000 In Louisville, Kentucky last year, we were doing the countdown, and we were like, we won, we all cheered, and then someone's like, it's not even midnight!

00:33:45.000 And the crowd's like, it's not midnight!

00:33:47.000 Well, we're already playing the song.

00:33:49.000 Drink the champagne.

00:33:50.000 Drink up.

00:33:50.000 We'll drink for 15 more minutes.

00:33:52.000 Let's end the year.

00:33:53.000 You know what?

00:33:53.000 That's awesome.

00:33:54.000 That's something that I've never understood.

00:33:55.000 Like, let's end the year with a hangover and start the new year, like, on the couch.

00:34:00.000 It's like, hmm.

00:34:01.000 And people bang their pots at night, too?

00:34:02.000 Could be a better way to do it.

00:34:04.000 I don't know.

00:34:04.000 But I don't know.

00:34:05.000 Do something productive.

00:34:07.000 Like jump off of buildings if you own a check cash machine.

00:34:10.000 Just kidding.

00:34:11.000 You didn't do that on New Year's.

00:34:12.000 Nobody would do that.

00:34:12.000 What a great resolution.

00:34:13.000 All right.

00:34:14.000 Let's turn to steel.

00:34:18.000 The U.S.

00:34:18.000 Steel Company has agreed to be sold to Japan's Nippon Steel.

00:34:23.000 And, oh, this guy, John Fetterman, is absolutely not happy about it.

00:34:29.000 I'm standing on the roof of my home right here in Braddock, Pennsylvania, right across the street from the Edgar Thompson plant.

00:34:36.000 And I just have to say it's absolutely outrageous that they have sold themselves to a foreign nation and a company can't do that.

00:34:44.000 Steel is always about security as well, too.

00:34:47.000 And I am committed to doing anything I can do from using my platform or my position in order to block this.

00:34:54.000 Hmm.

00:34:55.000 Wow.

00:34:55.000 How did the stroke make him smarter?

00:35:00.000 DeFetterman is one right-wing comment away from an FBI investigation.

00:35:04.000 Yeah, it just happened to suddenly be like, Hey John, we know it's you.

00:35:09.000 We can see the hoodie and shorts.

00:35:12.000 Mr. Carhartt, we hear what you say about China, too.

00:35:15.000 It's five degrees.

00:35:16.000 By the way, when you select backgrounds to talk about industry, smokestacks right here, not the best look because we're like, we probably ought to get rid of those in the first place anyway.

00:35:26.000 I know it was cold there and it was probably mostly steam, but hey, it could be killing people down the street, too.

00:35:26.000 I'm not sure.

00:35:31.000 We don't know.

00:35:32.000 It's Christmas.

00:35:32.000 He's like, how am I supposed to wake up in the morning and After my stroke and smell smoke.

00:35:37.000 What is that?

00:35:38.000 Smoke I'm smelling or am I having a stroke?

00:35:40.000 Keep the smoke, please.

00:35:41.000 I can't live without smoke.

00:35:42.000 But that's the hostess plant. 1.00

00:35:44.000 It smells good.

00:35:46.000 Orville Redenbacher's right down the street.

00:35:47.000 They make ding-dongs and I'm a ding-dong.

00:35:49.000 There we go.

00:35:49.000 Yeah, they can't string sentences together either.

00:35:52.000 Who let him climb on his roof?

00:35:54.000 I don't know, but unfortunately... He doesn't climb.

00:35:56.000 He's such a big Frankenstein.

00:35:59.000 I'm on my roof.

00:36:00.000 I'm like, how'd you get there?

00:36:02.000 I'll let you do that!

00:36:03.000 But look, to your point, unfortunately he couldn't actually find his way down afterwards so his family had to make him part of the Christmas decorations and so it just became a fixture.

00:36:13.000 Hey! 0.99

00:36:14.000 I'm still here, guys!

00:36:16.000 I imagine Fetterman on his roof and it just makes me think of like a mob with pitchforks and fire going, get the monster!

00:36:25.000 No!

00:36:26.000 Don't look at me!

00:36:28.000 Or listen to me.

00:36:30.000 Either one of those things.

00:36:31.000 Nippon Steel outbid the others that were bidding for this, and it's funny to see that other people were bidding for this because when you see their bid amounts, you're like, they weren't really bidding.

00:36:41.000 They outbid others with a $14.9 billion offer, which according to the stock price and the company valuations, 142% premium.

00:36:49.000 Not a bad deal if you're going to buy a company, pay 142% more than it takes to buy all of their shares, but sometimes that happens.

00:36:55.000 That's Argentina money.

00:36:56.000 That's Argentina money.

00:36:57.000 You can buy the whole country.

00:36:58.000 Malay will probably sell it to you for a deal.

00:37:02.000 That's what U.S.

00:37:03.000 We went afuera!

00:37:03.000 Steel went.

00:37:04.000 Afuera! 0.99

00:37:05.000 That's more than two times the next highest bid, though.

00:37:09.000 They see value in it way, way more.

00:37:12.000 S-Mark was $10 billion, I think, something like that, so that's more than twice.

00:37:17.000 That's insane.

00:37:18.000 That's a lot of katanas.

00:37:19.000 Yeah, well, you know, anyway.

00:37:22.000 So here's the thing.

00:37:23.000 Why are people upset?

00:37:24.000 Steel is a matter of national security.

00:37:27.000 We've talked about this before.

00:37:28.000 Having steel production is very important here in the United States.

00:37:31.000 It's used for everything.

00:37:32.000 Cars, ships, construction, wars.

00:37:36.000 You've got to build a ship, you're going to need some steel.

00:37:38.000 World War II, the United States made more than half of the world's steel.

00:37:42.000 Now here's a big problem with people being worried now about steel China, they lead the world in production.

00:37:51.000 More than the rest of the world combined.

00:37:54.000 Oh.

00:37:56.000 We're fourth behind India and Japan.

00:38:00.000 Japan has less land to put steel mills on.

00:38:02.000 And they still produce more than us.

00:38:04.000 Wow.

00:38:05.000 This was a huge, huge problem.

00:38:07.000 I spent some time in Cleveland, after Notre Dame, not against Catholics, not Catholics bad, we have the Hitler bad thing, we're not doing the Catholics bad thing, I'm just saying.

00:38:14.000 But I lived in Cleveland, and all these steel mills and the production, a lot of that stuff was already shut down.

00:38:19.000 This was in 2002, 2003.

00:38:22.000 That was a problem back then, but Donald Trump tried to change that.

00:38:27.000 He put a 25% tariff on Chinese steel to try to protect industries.

00:38:32.000 Now, you can argue whether you think tariffs work, whether protectionism is a thing that you want to dive into, but at the very least, you can see that it has been a problem for a while, and Donald Trump understands that problem.

00:38:43.000 Maybe the potential loss of U.S.

00:38:44.000 jobs is what's pissing people off.

00:38:46.000 Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey had this to say.

00:38:48.000 I'm concerned about what this means for the steel workers and the good union jobs that have supported Pennsylvania

00:38:54.000 families for generations Whatever for the long-term investment in the Commonwealth

00:38:59.000 and for American industrial leadership

00:39:03.000 We haven't led in industry for a while. You have to understand this

00:39:08.000 For him to say the good union jobs that have supported Pennsylvania families for generations, are you going to stand in the way of progress?

00:39:15.000 Probably not.

00:39:16.000 Are you going to be a protectionist?

00:39:17.000 Are you going to be somebody who just tariffs everybody else?

00:39:19.000 What about a country who basically just says we're not buying anything from anybody else or no other companies can buy our stuff?

00:39:26.000 And have plants here.

00:39:27.000 You can't be like, you know, Hyundai or a Honda or anybody else that's producing stuff here in the United States employing American people even though it's a foreign-owned company.

00:39:35.000 I understand why there is some nervousness here.

00:39:39.000 But should we really be upset about this?

00:39:42.000 Is it really a threat?

00:39:44.000 Well, according to X, I think we're all getting comfortable with calling it X now.

00:39:49.000 It's fantastic.

00:39:50.000 It is.

00:39:50.000 DC Drano tweeted, I'm with Federman on this one.

00:39:53.000 Don't allow the sale of U.S.

00:39:54.000 steel to a foreign country.

00:39:55.000 This is a national security risk.

00:39:57.000 We should have already learned our lesson when we outsourced nearly all our antibiotic production to Communist China.

00:40:05.000 Well, respectfully, I disagree.

00:40:06.000 It's not selling to the country, though.

00:40:08.000 It's not like it's Communist China where the companies are run by the government.

00:40:11.000 We're not outsourcing either.

00:40:13.000 You know what they did?

00:40:14.000 They bought the steel mill here.

00:40:19.000 Which, at the very least, means they have to employ people here, in this economy.

00:40:25.000 And they have to help the communities here.

00:40:29.000 Steel production won't move to Japan.

00:40:32.000 In fact, they agreed to keep, Nippon Steel, agreed to keep the headquarters in Pittsburgh.

00:40:36.000 Could have gone anywhere else.

00:40:37.000 They chose Pittsburgh.

00:40:38.000 Oh, I can't wait for the new Steelers uniform.

00:40:40.000 I know, right?

00:40:41.000 The Japanese Steelers uniform.

00:40:43.000 It's going to be like, it's going to be like one of those anime books, right?

00:40:45.000 It's going to be awesome.

00:40:47.000 I never was into anime, but it's going to look a lot better than some of these uniforms.

00:40:47.000 I don't know.

00:40:50.000 But look, they decided to honor the union contracts as well.

00:40:53.000 I don't know why they did that, but they did.

00:40:54.000 And maintain the U.S. 0.63

00:40:55.000 Steel name.

00:40:57.000 Those all seem like really good things to do.

00:41:00.000 Seems like a good business decision, really.

00:41:01.000 It doesn't seem like anything more than that, or malice.

00:41:06.000 Keep the employees happy.

00:41:07.000 Keep the brand name.

00:41:10.000 You know what U.S.

00:41:10.000 Steel is going to do?

00:41:13.000 Go out of business.

00:41:14.000 Afuera! 0.99

00:41:15.000 That was U.S. 0.83

00:41:15.000 Steel. 0.83

00:41:16.000 They were going to try to sell to somebody else who was going to pay half of the value for it.

00:41:22.000 I think that's a problem because they obviously don't see as much potential.

00:41:26.000 Typically when you buy companies like this or you kind of shut down parts of it, you streamline it.

00:41:32.000 That's what they like to say.

00:41:33.000 Streamlining is basically saying, hey, we're going to cut costs.

00:41:35.000 You know what the main cost center is for people?

00:41:39.000 Cut people.

00:41:40.000 Sorry.

00:41:40.000 You're the cost.

00:41:41.000 You're going to get cut out of this deal.

00:41:42.000 So they're going to honor the union contracts.

00:41:44.000 Unions should be fantastic.

00:41:45.000 They should be very happy about this.

00:41:47.000 They're going to maintain the name.

00:41:48.000 They're going to keep it in Pittsburgh.

00:41:50.000 That seems like a pretty good deal.

00:41:51.000 I understand being worried about foreign countries, companies, companies that are in foreign countries,

00:41:58.000 not the countries themselves, buying up things like this in the United States.

00:42:03.000 Especially when people say, well, it's a national security issue.

00:42:06.000 Well, China makes pretty much all the world's steel right now anyway, or at least so much

00:42:11.000 of it that we're buying a lot of it from them.

00:42:12.000 So why isn't that a national security issue that we've solved?

00:42:15.000 I would hope that our national security isn't being protected by steel plant workers too.

00:42:20.000 Well, that's also true.

00:42:21.000 I don't know where the risk is.

00:42:23.000 I think what people are saying is if we need steel in a pinch, we don't want to depend on a country we could be at war with to provide said steel.

00:42:30.000 I understand that.

00:42:31.000 But that's with everything.

00:42:32.000 Should we not have smartphones?

00:42:35.000 Or should we have to put everything here?

00:42:37.000 Okay, so should we not use chips?

00:42:38.000 What if China takes over Taiwan and now we don't get access to the microchips?

00:42:44.000 Most of our way of life changes if China shuts that off.

00:42:46.000 Shouldn't that mean that you're absolutely 100% for protecting Taiwan at any cost and, like Vivek Ramaswamy proposed, even though it was kind of, you know, silly to say that we could do it in the time frame, make sure that we have those capabilities here?

00:43:00.000 But what about this?

00:43:02.000 In a time of war, if Japan's not on our side, we take it back! 0.99

00:43:08.000 If we have to, we can just seize the assets.

00:43:12.000 It's in the Constitution.

00:43:14.000 Article 1, Section 8, Clause 2.

00:43:16.000 I think.

00:43:17.000 Look, and it does remain to be seen what Nippon Steel will do with the operations and, you know, all the jobs and everything, but U.S.

00:43:23.000 Steel hasn't been thriving for a very long time and it's time to acknowledge that.

00:43:27.000 It's not a new issue.

00:43:28.000 At the Granite City Mine in Illinois, local steel worker President Dan Simmons noted this.

00:43:33.000 We know what U.S. 0.97

00:43:34.000 Steel's operations plan was for Granite City and it wasn't positive.

00:43:38.000 So myself and members I represent in this community were ready to embrace a new owner that would like this facility.

00:43:46.000 We make grades of steel that nobody else in this country can match.

00:43:48.000 U.S.

00:43:49.000 Steel didn't take advantage of that.

00:43:50.000 Okay, so you have a problem with management.

00:43:52.000 That's new.

00:43:53.000 But he's right.

00:43:54.000 Nippon Steel, they've had investment in the U.S.

00:43:56.000 since 1984, starting in West Virginia.

00:43:59.000 In 2008, Nippon Steel took full ownership of the Wheeling-Nippon plant in Philansby, West Virginia.

00:44:06.000 And this is exclusive to us.

00:44:07.000 These are our people going out and doing what no one in the media apparently has done.

00:44:11.000 We reached out to the Philansby mayor, Dave...

00:44:14.000 Vologel, sorry if I get that wrong, Dave Vologel, for comment, and he had nothing but praise for the company, saying, they are a tremendous corporate citizen.

00:44:22.000 We couldn't ask for more.

00:44:24.000 Since 1984, they've had this company there.

00:44:27.000 U.S.

00:44:28.000 Steel, I don't know who they bought it from, but Nippon Steel has been operating.

00:44:31.000 He also noted that how Wheeling Nippon donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to initiatives like disaster relief, construction of local baseball fields, community function, and look, Nippon Steel sees a lucrative market here in the United States.

00:44:46.000 Cheap energy costs, growing population, economy that seems like it's trying to get turned around at some point with a new person in office.

00:44:54.000 That's fantastic.

00:44:55.000 Kind of betting on the future a little bit.

00:44:56.000 Increased infrastructure spending.

00:44:59.000 Those things sometimes, if it's more taxes, if it's more debt, I have problems with that.

00:45:03.000 I understand.

00:45:04.000 But maybe they can succeed where U.S.

00:45:07.000 Steel hasn't.

00:45:08.000 And here's my question for you.

00:45:10.000 Final question on this.

00:45:11.000 Would you rather it go out of business?

00:45:14.000 Would you rather it be bought by somebody who can't see the value and can't turn it around?

00:45:19.000 They may be wrong in their bid.

00:45:21.000 They may go bankrupt.

00:45:23.000 We'll see.

00:45:24.000 But I would rather somebody come in that sees the value and sees an opportunity than to have this just shut down anyway and leave yet another town destitute because everybody depended on it on the steel mill for their work.

00:45:38.000 I don't know.

00:45:39.000 That's just me.

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