On today's episode of The Nod, we discuss the latest trade deal between the United States and the European Union, a new prison in Abu Dhabi, and why the DOJ is doing what they do best. Plus, we have a special guest on the show to talk about his favorite Trump cabinet pick so far.
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00:06:13.000At Goodnight's Comedy Club in Raleigh, North Carolina, Friday, Saturday, May 23rd and 24th, and Flying Frontier, that'll make sense in a minute, Josh Feierstein, how are you?
00:07:33.000Did not check in online, so they charge a $25 service fee, I believe is the term, some assistant service fee for people at the airport to do what they're paid to do.
00:07:44.000So he arrived within 13 minutes of his flight.
00:07:54.000They have a 60-minute cutoff, so the kiosk walks up, has a bit of an altercation with them about doing this, but then this is where they start recording.
00:08:01.000And then this lady is very rude to this, as I understand it, slightly older man.
00:09:18.000If races were reversed and a white person was laughing at a black lady, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, make me check you in, make me check you in, make me check you, it would be entirely seen as a racial thing.
00:09:30.000He's slightly frustrated, but again, it sounds like he might be a white male, and so that is seen as, of course, violence, abuse, coercive control, narcissism.
00:09:40.000You know all the pop psychology buzzwords of the day that the woke will use.
00:09:42.000Let's continue with these horrible cackling bitches.
00:09:47.000I'm here 30 minutes before the flight.
00:10:00.000So this is, and this is the problem where we don't have the same definitions of words, and this is how people get falsely accused of abuse.
00:11:49.00050 minutes with a carry-on is well within the bounds of reason, by the way.
00:11:52.000I've showed up to an airport on accident because I went to the wrong airport like an idiot because one airline, I didn't think they flew out of that airport and I just went there and I was like, oh no.
00:12:00.000Probably Durham's not that big of an airport.
00:12:40.000Frontier did apparently come out, because this is very bad PR for them, and refund the guy's ticket that he had to purchase for the next flight, apparently.
00:13:31.000Show up 61 minutes before and claim I was...
00:13:34.000Even though the process isn't completed.
00:13:36.000Well, to be fair, I do usually show up an hour and a half early and I use my phone to check in so I don't have to worry about a check agent.
00:15:07.000Because we stream live and then the next day you upload a clip.
00:15:10.000Just go let Paramount know you hate them, and anyone who's watching any of these clips on YouTube, which will likely happen right now, it's not live, head on over to Rumble.
00:15:18.000It's a weekday show, 11 a.m. Eastern, on Rumble.
00:16:03.000And so they made you, many people, partners where you could actually make a living creating content because the audience had spoken and more people were watching you.
00:16:10.000Then they decided to say, well, hold on a second.
00:16:12.000CNN, ABC, Disney, NBC, Universal, Paramount, they all want to make more money and they're upset.
00:16:26.000You need to upload two, three times a day.
00:16:28.000So they went from a system that said, hey, we're going to err on the side of...
00:16:32.000You know, how our legal system works, innocent until proven guilty, where they need to prove copyright.
00:16:37.000Then they realize that that favored independent creators.
00:16:41.000And so they said, no, no, now we're going to favor the big boys and just automatically assume guilt and strip you of your views.
00:16:46.000It is all by design because they want legacy media.
00:16:52.000I mean, Rumble really is the only major player that doesn't do that.
00:16:56.000Let's go on to other major players internationally.
00:17:00.000Donald Trump has been pretty clear here in this second term as far as trade.
00:17:05.000And it's always funny when libertarians say tariffs are a tax and, you know, they never work.
00:17:10.000Okay, every single nation, let me be clear about this, every single nation uses tariffs and they use them as a tool.
00:17:18.000And pretty much every single nation, but certainly every nation with significant trade between them and the United States, uses tariffs on us.
00:17:33.000Every single nation uses tariffs, and they use them more than us.
00:17:39.000So let's not act as though it's unfair.
00:17:41.000This is just the first time where we're doing what everybody else is doing.
00:17:44.000And the position of this administration is, okay, if you're going to engage in trade with us, you are either with us or you are against us.
00:19:06.000Do you guys know how much of your beef in grocery stores comes from places like China and comes from other nations when there's no need for that to be the case?
00:19:16.000What she just said is true, that our beef is safer.
00:19:18.000And I don't have people who talk about GMOs and they'll talk about corn, but you can get grass-fed.
00:19:21.000You can get American-raised Wagyu beef, too, also in Australia.
00:19:24.000But a lot of the beef you get in the grocery store does not come from this country.
00:19:36.000Actually, before we go live, I guess just a few minutes ago, President Trump did lay out some details of this plan in a call with Keir Starmer.
00:19:44.000This deal, the UK joins the United States in affirming that reciprocity and fairness is an essential and vital principle of international trade.
00:19:55.000The deal includes billions of dollars of increased market access for American exports, especially in agriculture, dramatically increasing access for American beef, ethanol, and virtually all of the products produced by our great farmers and our secretary, as you know, of agriculture is here, Brooke.
00:21:36.000To give you an idea of the change in overall tariffs on the UK to the United States, they were around 5.1 and it's going to be going to 1.8.
00:21:44.000The United States on UK, and I think this is taking into account the retaliatory tariffs are going to go from 10 to 3.4.
00:21:51.000We already had pretty balanced trade, so it makes sense.
00:21:54.000This does kind of create a blueprint where people go, oh my gosh, he wants to throw the world into economic turmoil.
00:22:57.000And my team as well, two negotiating teams have worked at Pace now for a number of weeks to bring in this deal today.
00:23:07.000And you know, you can almost apply broken windows theory here, where, okay, if people just sort of see around them, oh yeah, we're all rimming the United States on trade, sure, that's how we live.
00:23:17.000If people see, wait a second, folks around us are actually trying to sort of equalize the playing field, they're going to start being fair, not just taking advantage of the United States.
00:24:36.000Now, in this, we've talked about this before, those who don't, in other words, your choice right now to the rest of the world, and I know that a lot of people watch internationally.
00:25:09.000remember playing tough guy, letting everyone know we're going to be assholes.
00:25:13.000China is fully prepared to fight to the very end because the world is big enough that the United States is not the totality of the market in the world.
00:25:23.000So if the United States wants to go in that direction of completely shutting itself out of the China market, be my guest.
00:26:04.000For all the ancient Chinese traditions, the current communist Chinese regime is younger than Donald Trump, let alone our constitutional republic.
00:26:14.000Our constitutional republic is the oldest of its kind.
00:26:19.000It's the oldest democracy currently in the world without a fundamental overhaul.
00:26:23.000So these people who want to act like they have the benefit of being from the old world and they've been around a lot longer, no they haven't.
00:26:30.000They screw it up and they have to change.
00:26:40.000We have many, many factories, car plants being built or going to be built very soon.
00:26:48.000I think we can say that we'll be close to $10 trillion of investment.
00:26:54.000I think we're actually at that number now, if you add up some of the ones we haven't heard about yet.
00:26:59.000I mean, we have some going up right now.
00:27:01.000have plans going up and they haven't even spoken to us they're doing it because of the tariffs and tariffs have always been used against us and i never understood i used to sit back as you know china paid hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs when i was president but until then china never paid anything.
00:27:18.000One of the few policies Biden kept just didn't want to tell you.
00:27:34.000If you look at the past administration, and we're talking about essentially two months, because we could say three, but it took a little while to get the office in perfect shape, right?
00:27:44.000It took a little while to get things done.
00:29:14.000He's like the leader of that silly place.
00:29:16.000He pledged to go toe-to-toe with the United States on tariffs.
00:29:22.000And our response to these latest tariffs is to fight, to protect, and to build.
00:29:30.000We will fight the U.S. tariffs with retaliatory trade actions of our own that will have maximum impact in the United States and minimum impacts here in Canada.
00:29:43.000Ooh, he's putting his fighting gloves on.
00:29:45.000Congratulations, you're the toughest guy at a 14-year-old girl's slumber party, Carney.
00:33:00.000In other words, let's assume there was some kind of colonization or takeover.
00:33:06.000The United States, okay, if you were under our thumb, every single country, meaning if we said you're following our laws now, every single country would have more freedom than the day we took them over.
00:33:19.000If it's Canada, you don't need to worry about us arresting you for criticizing the government.
00:33:23.000You don't need to worry about us jailing you.
00:33:54.000And before we get to Disney, You know, Disney has had a real problem.
00:33:58.000They're something like $40 billion in debt because of their subscriptions, but they have so, so many subscriptions, and they waste it, right?
00:34:04.000These companies have billions and billions and billions of dollars, and they're still in the red.
00:35:19.000It's Disney's seventh destination around the world, and the first in the Middle East.
00:35:24.000So throughout this whole region, although we've catered to these guests before, we haven't been able to serve them in an approximate way, and we're going to be able to do that now.
00:35:55.000Just like the creators of Aladdin always imagined it.
00:36:00.000A whole new world I wonder if they'll let in choose Prayer roads from near to far A terrorist too far And jihadis on the tilt The funny thing is, terrorist Jafar didn't take that much work.
00:37:05.000I've talked about, I've used the cologne example where any celebrity who claims to be environmentalist who puts their name or logo or branding on a perfume or cologne, a completely unnecessary product for a few extra bucks, means they don't care about anything.
00:37:16.000So in this case, Disney, it's not just that they're hypocritical.
00:37:21.000It's that they clearly don't believe their own values.
00:38:11.000I called Governor DeSantis this morning to express our disappointment and concern that if legislation becomes law, it could be used to unfairly target gay, lesbian, non-binary, and transgender kids and families.
00:38:25.000The governor heard our concerns and agreed with me and LGBTQ plus members of our senior team in Florida to discuss ways to address them.
00:38:37.000Chapek also said Disney is signing a human rights campaign petition against such bills that are being proposed across the country.
00:38:44.000He's also donating $5 million to work to protect the LGBTQ plus community.
00:40:24.000Just to be clear, like Disney, you went straight to the place that you knew you could squeeze out more money because there's more wealth there that you know is from ill-gotten gain and people who have raped their citizens of their rightful resources and personal property.
00:43:48.000And at what point do you guys just say, okay, I'm not giving them any more money?
00:43:53.000It's crazy to think that your subscription to Disney, it is really crazy to think that your money to Disney goes to both supporting gay pornography in kids' schools in Florida and the government that kills homos.
00:44:09.000Just think about that with your one Disney subscription.
00:44:58.000Doesn't mean you agree with everyone there.
00:45:01.000We never covered Pan Bondi, and there's a reason for that.
00:45:05.000And I've always tried, you know, when you have inside baseball, if it's not my place, I try to not get into it, but just comment on what is publicly available and tell you why I may be hesitant or may be distrustful.
00:45:21.000And we have been doing this for a long time before we get to this DOJ report card with Pam Bondi.
00:46:43.000We're going to go through the good, and there has been a lot of good, and we're going to go through the bad.
00:46:48.000But it's a real problem when you campaign.
00:46:54.000The reason that you have this job, and I know these people are appointed, but they did campaign.
00:46:58.000They were all appearing on different shows saying, hey, we are going to fundamentally dismantle and root out the corruption of these three-letter agencies because faith in them is at an all-time low.
00:47:32.000And whether you think they need more time, yes, but it's bad optics to go out, act like none of that happened, and be like, isn't this good?
00:47:42.000Look, the FBI is doing what the FBI does.
00:47:43.000It's like, yeah, yeah, we want you to stop what the FBI does and start, in other words, don't look out with the FBI.
00:50:12.000So, you heard me say, are you doing what you were, you're not supposed to be looking out with these departments, you're supposed to be looking in.
00:50:20.000What did people like Bondi and Patel, and I will say, I separate Bondi from the rest of them because of the bungles, I guess to use a term that have taken place with Bondi, but hey, why are they in office?
00:52:46.000If Joe Biden's administration had arrested around 500 people just...
00:52:52.000Just surrounding the January 6th events alone, which we now know were largely a lie, this is where it would be appropriate to say some people did some things, but hundreds of thousands of people were peaceful, and even many of the people who were arrested committed no felonies at all.
00:53:42.000So we're more than two months out now.
00:53:44.000Remember from when A.G. Bondi hung some influencers out to dry some people didn't know?
00:53:49.000Here, like we talked about libs of TikTok, and then there were some influencers who were all too happy to try and pull the wool over your eyes with the Epstein binders that included less information than was already publicly available.
00:56:07.000In other words, this isn't just something as far as knowing, you know, for posterity's sake, but there's still...
00:56:14.000Do you honestly think that everyone involved with the, according to her, hundreds of sex slaves at Epstein Island, by the way, connected to many politically elite, including royalty, you think that everyone involved in facilitating the child sex trafficking has since straightened up and decided to fly right?
00:56:36.000And Pam Bondi didn't just say this in her confirmation hearing.
00:56:38.000She didn't just say on day one in confirmation.
00:56:40.000She went on Fox News and said tomorrow.
00:56:43.000And then what we got tomorrow was the binders full of information that everybody already had and in some cases less information because they redacted some stuff that was publicly available already.
00:57:11.000They can say, hey, we've had two months.
00:57:13.000Here's at least one page of information that we can release that we've gone through to make sure nobody is harmed that's a victim in this case.
00:57:20.000And no child pornography is being distributed by the FBI because we keep that on their computers apparently.
00:57:28.000I'm going to make a statement here that I'm sure will piss a lot of people off.
00:57:31.000And by the way, it's the reason that many of these folks don't appear on the show.
00:57:34.000Many people who would seem like natural fits.
00:57:38.000To be fair, I would never sandbag anybody.
00:57:40.000And I, of course, support a lot of these folks, and I'm happy, and I would love to give them a platform, you know, the only platform that has as many of you watching live in existence.
00:58:14.000It's like, you ever do that when you were a kid where you jump off the diving board or you jump off in the deep end and you see if you can swim the length of the pool, right, holding your breath?
00:59:30.000It's important to me because I had the candidates I did have on.
00:59:33.000I said, if you will not dismantle or at the very least fundamentally restructure in short order our three-letter agencies, that for me is a close-handed issue and you won't get my vote.
00:59:47.000Because there were Republicans in the primaries who were saying, and think about that too, you chose Donald Trump.
00:59:54.000Because during the primaries, many Republicans, in case you've forgotten, said, well, we don't want, we need people to trust our institutions.
01:00:00.000We don't want to completely, most people are doing great work at the FBI and our DOJ and CIA.
01:01:44.000We've been working on that, and we're doing it in a way that protects victims and also doesn't put out into the ether information that is irrelevant for production of the public, such as CSAM.
01:02:41.000It's another for the guy saying, gonna turn it into a museum to say, no, no, the main talking point that the majority of Americans, Democrats and Republicans, do not believe.
01:03:05.000I have to be very careful with the information, especially in today's news climate, to make sure that we aim once and aim right, but we are going to be releasing all this, and the answer will leave no doubt.
01:03:17.000I just can't give that to you right now because of some sensitivities.
01:05:56.000We're going to be covering a 12 foot tall statue of a fat black broad called Grounded in the Stars was erected in Times Square and I know you're going to watch it.
01:06:06.000And you're saying, hmm, what am I supposed to see?