On this week's episode of Thick & Thin, the boys are joined by special guest Steven Crowder ( ) to discuss all things YouTube. They talk about how to deal with hate speech, how to deplatform someone who's under your skin, and what it means to be a "tolerant" person.
00:01:43.000You got a free platform, we let you build your mug club, and now you have millions of viewers who will watch your boring, informative crap.
00:01:50.000I mean, didn't you notice when you showed me your latest video that eventually I had to go reference the policy guidelines?
00:01:57.000Didn't you sense some sort of clue that, like, maybe this guy's not enjoying it?
00:02:03.000You know, not every story is worth providing references, okay?
00:04:04.000You know what I say, to heck with the highfalutin big tech execs.
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00:04:34.000I'd say that's a great deal, but that's me, Mr. Vegas.
00:06:05.000Hence Donald Trump, that's a lot of fun.
00:06:06.000And Americans now, to the tune of 70-something, 70-something percent, guess that last number, actually want deportations effective immediately.
00:06:16.000So what happened, I think, is Donald Trump won, and before it was about 50, I think it was 56% of Americans, and now that he's going to be president, most Americans are going...
00:07:43.000Actually, we do have a show this Friday.
00:07:45.000Limited because some people are on the road.
00:07:47.000We have the Scrapyard, the behind-the-scenes show that we often do on Fridays where the content that absolutely should not make air here to the general population is available to you.
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00:08:00.000What are you cooking this Thanksgiving?
00:10:15.000Campaigns are authoritarian by their nature.
00:10:19.000And if I were running a 2028 campaign and I had some little snot-nosed 23-year-old saying, I'm going to resign if you don't do this, not only would I fire that motherfucker on the spot, I would find out who hired them and fire that person on the spot.
00:10:37.000And they'd find their mom and I'd slap her too.
00:10:39.000I'm really not interested in your uninformed, stupid, jackass opinion as to whether you go on Joe Rogan or not.
00:10:47.000But I guess the progressives now have their dream.
00:10:50.000We're more of a coastal party, and we've gotten rid of these moderates, and maybe you can all sit around some coffee house in lower Manhattan and celebrate how f***ing smart you all are.
00:15:15.000Thanksgiving is obviously Thursday, but today is actually an important day in its own right.
00:15:20.000Today in history, in 1789, George Washington issued a proclamation for Thanksgiving.
00:15:26.000He said, Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November, next to be devoted by the people of these states to the service of that great and glorious being, Who is the beneficent author of all the good that was,
00:15:43.000that is, or that will be, you know, like Bret Hart, that we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks for his kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation.
00:15:58.000And on his way out, he coughed on a few redskins.
00:16:02.000Luckily, his slaves couldn't read this.
00:16:07.000Which is, by the way, he liked his potatoes as he liked his slaves.
00:18:49.000It says, you may not know it by looking at sticker prices and grocery items, but Thanksgiving dinner is more affordable than it has been in years.
00:19:58.000According to LendingTree, not a bastion of conservatism, just to be clear, Thanksgiving for $10, this year actually costs about $392.
00:20:07.000So what they do is they survey accounts for food, drinks, decor, all of that.
00:20:11.000The Farm Bureau analysis, it doesn't factor in any of that, by the way.
00:20:15.000I didn't see in there it doesn't factor in butter, it doesn't factor in seasoning, it doesn't factor in drinks aside from one gallon of milk.
00:20:20.000There's a lot that they don't factor in.
00:20:22.000And all of those, of course, you have experienced.
00:20:24.000So let's look at the actual Thanksgiving dinner inflation.
00:20:27.000Farm Bureau, this article that NBC is circulating, right, that comes from Farm Bureau, but the NBC article is the one that's catching fire.
00:20:33.000They said the prices are up 19% since 2019. LendingTree says it's up 19% since last year.
00:20:40.000Which is really important because this administration has been telling you that inflation is under control and it's down under 4% right now.
00:21:10.000So, the survey, by the way, also found that due to costs, you have a bunch of people who are reconsidering hosting others for Thanksgiving, and you have people who outright regret hosting Thanksgiving this year, especially, by the way, if you're hosting this bitch.
00:21:23.000They're not thrilled with it, and yeah, that's going to be...
00:21:50.000And again, taking the totality, all references available, as we do every day.
00:21:55.000I encourage every other program to do this.
00:21:57.000Even high-income households, meaning over $100,000 a year in earnings, they're affected.
00:22:02.000So you see this because a lot of more sort of budget-minded stores, like Walmart, they're seeing record earnings Partially because of higher-income households now trading down, now shopping at these places, now not shopping at the higher-end stores.
00:22:15.000So $100,000, this is more proof, doesn't get you what it used to.
00:22:19.000The idea of a six-figure income really now is distinctly middle class.
00:23:21.000Certainly probably more than a day or two or five days before Thanksgiving because it takes about, depending, four or five days to thaw, let's say, a 20-pound turkey.
00:23:31.000So what happens is the clearance takes place right before Thanksgiving with these stores.
00:23:46.000No, so I purchased a frozen turkey then, and then just yesterday was buying another turkey, and I saw the prices of the frozen turkey versus thawed turkey.
00:23:55.000And that matters because right now the thawed turkey prices are what frozen turkey prices were just a little bit ago.
00:24:00.000So the prices come down because after Thanksgiving, they're not going to be selling a bunch of 20-pound turkeys, certainly not nearly as much.
00:24:06.000So what you see right now actually is cheaper than they've said.
00:25:10.000The only role of the media, of the press, I've talked about this many times, but certainly when you're looking at Farm Bureau, when you're looking at any government agencies trying to give you the cost of goods and services, they should be arming you, they should be providing you with information so that you can make more informed decisions.
00:27:55.000Obviously we had a great year, and I think that's a little corny in the spirit of giving thanks, we could all go around the table and just list what it is we're most grateful for.
00:28:45.000Okay, yeah, I know that, but the point is that Billy went through all the trouble of making this meal for us, so for Thanksgiving, break bread together and give thanks as a family.
00:29:11.000Oh my god, his turkey's dry, okay, his stuffing has fruit in it for some reason, his gravy looks like my last oil change, and would you believe it?
00:29:20.000He makes his mashed potatoes with a ricer instead of mashing them.
00:30:48.000I think I can guess with the election.
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00:31:39.000And as are most Americans, because according to a YouGov poll that was just released, 73% of Americans now think deporting illegals should be a priority for Donald Trump.
00:31:51.00073% think it should be a high priority or at least a medium priority, which I don't understand how you answer that.
00:32:02.000Yeah, it's still like, absolutely do it.
00:32:03.000And something else interesting, this includes 68% of people under the age of 30. 68% of people under the age of 30 believe that it should be a high priority or a medium priority to deport illegals and even 51% of Democrats.
00:32:18.000I know it's a bit surprising for some of us, but I feel like it should be like that.
00:32:21.000Young people should be wanting to have this country to themselves, for crying out loud.
00:32:25.000Yeah, to have the same opportunities that the baby boomer generation had.
00:32:28.000They're not competing in the same kind of work environment.
00:32:30.000I get it, especially if you look at housing prices.
00:32:38.000And they cited a different question in this poll.
00:32:40.000The question was, would you approve or disapprove of Donald Trump starting a national program to find and deport all illegal immigrants, sorry, all immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally?
00:33:15.000Even right there, you would get some libertarians who disapprove going like, their reflex is just, no, no, no, don't start a national program.
00:35:33.000I'm not saying that you're, as a left would, you're just ignorant or uninformed.
00:35:36.000If you understand that it's not about tariffs, and a lot of Americans may not know this, that a lot of tariffs were threatened in the first Trump administration.
00:35:44.000Some were implemented, but not all of them.
00:35:47.000So you're hearing economists say, these tariffs, it's going to be an increase in costs in goods and services.
00:36:25.000And when we saw the rest of the world, I mean, the tariffs that we have right now in other countries, like, protecting their own interests and making sure, like, good example, Boeing, and we talked about car dealers, like, it's insane the amount of tariffs that people have on us, and we're just like, oh, we're supposed to just play along with it.
00:37:05.000- Yeah. - And then of course they started back up, they find a way around it.
00:37:07.000You just have to make it something that can't be worked around.
00:37:09.000So Monday, Donald Trump, I need to take a sip of water here, dropped this hammer. - Good. - Announced the plan for sweeping tariffs And by the way, he understands that his posts in the public affect markets and affect global leadership.
00:37:27.000Remember we used to say, like, what do you think is going to happen once we have presidents or once we have representatives who grew up in the era of social media?
00:37:45.000As everyone is aware, thousands of people are pouring through Mexico and Canada bringing crime and drugs at levels never seen before.
00:37:54.000Right now a caravan coming from Mexico, not Dodge, composed of thousands of people.
00:38:02.000Pacifica, as well, seemed to be unstoppable in its quest to come through our currently open border on January 20th as one of my many first executive orders.
00:38:12.000I will sign all necessary legal documents to charge Mexico and Canada A 25% tariff on all products coming into the USA and its ridiculous open borders.
00:38:26.000And it'll stay in effect until drugs and illegal influx, until that stops.
00:38:32.000And upon hearing the news, I should be clear, Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada had this to say.
00:42:16.000Representatives of China told me that they would institute their maximum penalty, that of death, for any drug dealers caught doing this, but unfortunately they never followed through and drugs are still pouring into our country, mostly through Mexico at levels never seen before until such time as they stop.
00:42:35.000We will be charging China an additional 10% tariff above any additional tariffs on all of their many products coming into the United States of America.
00:42:45.000Thank you for your attention to this matter.
00:43:26.000It said, no one will win in a trade war or a tariff war than the idea of China knowingly allowing fentanyl precursors to flow to the United States runs completely counter to facts and reality.
00:43:35.000So, not quite the, I'll stop the caravans!
00:44:30.000You can go back and just watch our installment on the Chinese foreign nationals buying up weed farms in Oklahoma, for example.
00:44:38.000I mean, they have an unbelievable network, not to mention Chinese nationals on campus in the United States.
00:44:43.000If you believe that they're not producing fentanyl, if you believe that in China they're not taxing and putting tariffs on American goods, if you believe there's no foul play, then you would have to be a Democrat today.
00:44:57.000You'd have to be the same person who believed that, oh, it came from a bat sandwich, COVID. So, of course, CNN did what CNN did.
00:45:08.000If you voted for Trump because you thought he was going to bring down the cost of housing, a lot of our lumber, cement, other materials comes from Canada, which means that construction costs are going to go up.
00:45:19.000Not to mention all of the ways he's going to royal the U.S. auto industry because a lot of autos cross borders in North America multiple times before they're ultimately finished and sold to consumers.
00:45:30.000Not to mention the fact that a lot of U.S. manufacturers purchase inputs, intermediate goods like metals and cement and other things from Canada, from Mexico, and not to mention even the retaliation that we should expect, all of which is going to be very bad for consumers, not to mention, again, many of the U.S. workers that Trump allegedly wants to help.
00:45:53.000Yeah, yeah, it'd be bad for consumers.
00:45:54.000Almost like she's echoing some of the sentiments from China.
00:45:57.000Can you bring up that statement again?
00:46:29.000And it's especially hard to take when that apparatus is coming from a communist country.
00:46:36.000So anyone who actually believes China, what are we supposed to do?
00:46:39.000Just a piece communist fascists across the world because consumers don't want to pay anything?
00:46:47.000And I don't know if you know this, but that also hurts the consumer because American businesses can't actually export their goods internationally.
00:46:53.000A lot of the market is blocked out for American goods and services.
00:47:35.000So, in a shocking turn of events, CNN contributor Rana Ferrujar, professional Daniel Stern lookalike, admitted that this was a negotiating tactic as well.
00:47:47.000I don't want to say that, alright, this is going to be the way it's going to be from day one.
00:47:53.000I think that what's happening fundamentally now that's different under this president is that the U.S. market will be used as a chit on a gambling table that is the global economy.
00:48:07.000I mean, that is the way you have to look at it.
00:48:17.000So even look, for example, I just gave you the China numbers, but if you look at the EU tariff on American cars, it's 10%, whereas ours is only 2.5%.
00:48:34.000They're not getting a lot of the American cars.
00:48:35.000Not that all American cars are great, don't get me wrong, it's not lost to me, but there are certainly some cars like large sedans that are really kind of unavailable, and not everyone in the EU can afford European cars.
00:48:44.000So they have cars that are like Brio and bullcrap you never heard of in the United States.
00:48:48.000I'm sure they're all begging for PT Cruisers and Avalanches.
00:50:21.000What I mean is, all right, you've harmed Americans, and so we're not going to allow you to do it anymore, and we're going to make it sting.
00:51:41.000So yeah, the president, this is the lippy part you were talking about.
00:51:43.000If a percentage of what the United States spends on war were dedicated to peace and development, that would address the underlying causes of migration.
00:51:51.000It wouldn't address the underlying cause that your country sucks.
00:53:36.000But what we are saying is, look at what happened in Ohio.
00:53:39.0008,000 people in a summer from a country that shares nothing in common with our values, our culture, our society, does not assimilation make.
00:54:45.000And by the way, CBC News, which is government-funded in Canada, a lot of people here don't realize the corporate media, and yes, corporate media sucks, but thank God we have new media, which they also try and crack down on in Canada because they have speech laws.
00:54:57.000CBC News used to be the only source of news in Canada, government-funded, by the way.
00:55:02.000They couldn't seem to grasp at all Trump's policy on this.
00:55:07.000I think this is going to bring a really big challenge if we look at Canada specifically here.
00:55:12.000If you're going to associate illegal immigrants and drugs crossing the border with tariffs that are two completely unrelated, there's no connection between the two.
00:55:23.000You're creating a real challenge here because the government does not control necessarily people who are trying to move things illegally.
00:55:30.000And people will always try to do that.
00:55:32.000So I think this is a really bold move on him and it can potentially be extremely dangerous for the economy.
00:55:38.000I mean, yeah, I guess he's paying attention to Canada.
00:56:07.000I think maybe they should have some jobs.
00:56:09.000That's literally what the government is supposed to do.
00:56:11.000It's one of the very few things government...
00:56:13.000Find the craziest pseudo-anarchist libertarian...
00:56:18.000By the way, should the government make sure that dangerous people, criminals, and cartels, should they make sure that we're safe at the border?
00:56:27.000I don't believe in no government whatsoever.
00:56:30.000For her to say it's dangerous for the government to try and enforce The border?
00:56:35.000I don't even know what world I'm living in.
00:56:37.000You want to act like it's 1984 because we believe that we should have a border?
00:56:41.000You believe that people should be kicked off of all public platforms for saying that boys shouldn't beat the shit out of girls in sports.
00:56:49.000And you want to act like it's this dystopian future where we're just saying, hey, let's just have a line around our country like has always existed.
00:56:58.000Let's go to China because I'm done with this guy.
00:57:01.000China, they produce 97% of all fentanyl precursor chemicals.
00:57:30.000Or keep having tens of thousands of fentanyl overdoses every year in this country and violence and Lincoln-Riley situations at the border and Aurora, Colorado.
00:58:33.000People in China, most of the people living in rural China can't afford all these electronics and goods and services.
00:58:39.000So if you have someone, you know, whipping you, chained to a loom in China or in some kind of sneaker factory, well, you want to sell them to American kids.
00:58:47.000So to the tune of, I mean, with Canada and Mexico, 78%.
00:58:50.000It's like, all right, okay, so now that huge market share that you want, you want to take advantage of, well, we're going to charge you exactly what you charge us.
00:58:57.000And we're going to do it because you're allowing drugs that kill Americans to come over and you're allowing cartels to come over.
00:59:03.000And until you stop it, I think it's really fair, you're just going to experience what we experience with your tariffs.
01:01:09.000He's gonna handle it like a businessman.
01:01:11.000He's gonna handle it like a guy who's run a multi-billion dollar enterprise and has had to negotiate with people across the globe on a regular basis.
01:02:04.000Yeah, you think Joe Biden's going to be harsh on China when he talks about what great friends they are and may have business dealings going on there?
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01:04:56.000Top spokesman, one of the top people in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan, and was quoted exactly, quote, Honestly, I think this case is nonsense.
01:05:05.000Now, every real estate person in New York does what Trump did.
01:05:09.000Nobody's ever been charged with this before.
01:05:19.000Goes on to say that he thinks that the slew of criminal charges against Trump is part of a larger political maneuver designed to derail his political candidacy and to make him a convicted felon.
01:05:31.000I thought we lived in a democratic republic where we get to elect the president, not you guys get to throw him in jail when he looks like he's gonna win.