00:00:30.000hey everybody how's it going thanks for joining me this afternoon i've got a great stream with
00:00:42.880a great guest that i think you're really going to enjoy we've got a lot going on today we're
00:00:47.580going to talk about a new survey revealing the truth about boomer luxury communism we have a
00:00:53.640brand new crash out over the indian immigration issue we have democrats announcing pretty openly
00:00:59.820that their entire purpose is to replace the american population with foreigners oh and by
00:01:05.200the way uh breaking news uh they just followed the plot of some kind of muslim guy who's playing
00:01:10.580to shoot up a bunch of people at the mall of america so we're gonna dive into all of that
00:01:15.200with our friend jay burden jay thank you so much for coming on man yeah aaron thanks for having me
00:01:20.200on long time no see yeah yeah yeah we we don't really get to see much about uh jay burden around
00:01:25.800here he's uh it's always nice when he can make the time to join us uh that said uh we have our
00:01:32.220first story it's the new survey that came out from the cato institute along with yougov so it's not
00:01:38.560just cato institute with its uh fun agenda uh however uh cato revealed in this survey that
00:01:45.74089 percent of people on social security said that they would be willing to tax young people
00:01:52.700at a higher rate in order to keep those benefits. Now, the problem, of course, is that we've had to
00:01:59.500hear endlessly from people on the right about the idea that socialism is coming and it's all
00:02:05.480the young people's fault, right? It's all these stupid young people falling for government
00:02:09.620assistance programs, believing that they're entitled to something. Ultimately, the young
00:02:14.160people are falling under the sway of dangerous communists. But by the way, I will steal literally
00:02:19.460all of your money to make sure that i don't have to work that the program that i was promised
00:02:24.560stays funded and that i can continue to receive checks in perpetuity so just this amazing dynamic
00:02:31.560of people running around lecturing lecturing the young people about how they don't do anything
00:02:36.780they're all lazy why won't you just get off welfare brad we all know that brad is the
00:02:41.800stereotypical young white man sitting on welfare playing video games instead of earning a living
00:02:46.880but i need you to go earn that living because ultimately that's how i'm going to pay for all
00:02:51.700of my cruises at the end of my life now i want to be clear here at the beginning because we're
00:02:56.500going to do some boomer bashing but obviously this is not all boomers there are plenty of good
00:03:01.220boomers out there my parents were are you know wonderful about this kind of stuff they were very
00:03:06.260kind to help out me and my sister make sure that we had houses for our families uh before they went
00:03:12.160out. Now they take cruises, but they actually put the order of operations, took care of us.
00:03:17.920So it's not every boomer out there. There are plenty of people who do right by their children,
00:03:22.720do go out there and make sure that they take care of the next generation. But ultimately,
00:03:27.080we can see when you get an 89% response, unfortunately, that's not the norm.
00:03:33.820Oh, 100%. And I mean, look, we understand this is the law of large numbers. There is an exception
00:03:39.620to every rule. But even if this were merely 7 out of 10 or 6 out of 10, it would be statistically
00:03:46.540significant. If we had a political race where one candidate won with 89% of the vote, it would be
00:03:53.240incredibly reasonable to say, this location chose that person. Of course, there are holdouts,
00:03:59.780we understand. And of course, it's the Cato Institute, we don't like them. So even if you
00:04:05.300assume a fairly generous fudge factor, this is a significant trend. And why is this a problem?
00:04:11.080Well, one, because social security has become an albatross around the neck of the American
00:04:16.220Republic. We understand we spend way too much money on fraud, way too much money on other forms
00:04:21.880of welfare, but social security is ever ballooning. It is an incredible burden on both the U.S.
00:04:28.660government and people like you and I are, especially if we're self-employed, who are forced to pay
00:04:34.340social security tax, which we are unlikely to ever receive again. I'm sure you've had a version
00:04:40.540of this conversation. You're out in public with someone who's just recently started drawing on
00:04:45.620social security and they make some sort of joke like, ha, I bet you wish you thought you were
00:04:51.320ever going to get this, right? I bet you wish you thought you were going to have social security
00:04:55.780when you retire. Of course, I'm not mad at that person. They're making a sort of tired,
00:05:00.260hackneyed old joke. But at the same time, they're describing something real. When I went to business
00:05:06.040school not all that long ago, they all told me, save for your own retirement, social security
00:05:11.800will not be there by the time you retire. The mathematics on this has been done. We understand
00:05:17.400this program is continually just a few years away from going completely and totally bust.
00:05:23.020And the idea that we will be able to keep propping up this failing system for that long
00:05:28.400is sort of laughable, but also because where does this wealth come from? Where is it redistributed
00:05:34.620from? Is it just a giant government-sponsored piggy bank where they take your tax, stick it
00:05:40.560in a bank account, and give it back to you at the end? No, that money's gone instantly. What they're
00:05:46.920doing is robbing from people who are working now, the present, young people, in order to soften the
00:05:53.720retirement of old people. And look, you might say, hey, isn't that a pyramid scheme? Oh yeah,
00:06:00.860no, it's totally a pyramid scheme. It just existed where it was built in a time where
00:06:05.840we had a population pyramid. There were more young people than old people. The ratio of workers to
00:06:12.060recipients was about 10 to one. It's nowhere near that now. It has become proportionally a bigger
00:06:18.460and bigger problem. And the devilish part about it is one, it is the political third rail,
00:06:23.240at least in the current political environment we're in. If you touch it, your political career
00:06:27.720is over. But also, the way this spending is allocated is non-discretionary. It doesn't go
00:06:34.140up for a vote in the same way that our traditional budget bills do. It's hard-coded. It's very
00:06:40.220difficult to get out. And sure, I feel sympathy for the people who built their lives on the
00:06:45.900assumption that this program would be there. The government lied to them. Guess what? The
00:06:50.500government lies to everyone. But just because you have been lied to does not grant you the moral
00:06:55.960license to, I don't know, ruin the nation for every generation that comes after you.
00:07:02.280It is truly amazing because as you say, this joke gets made all the time. I've heard it from
00:07:07.220lots of retired people. Well, I guess I was the last one who was going to get this. We're the
00:07:11.860last generation. You guys are never going to see this. And it's incredible that that comes out of
00:07:17.580the mouth of people but then they also feel entitled to that money as you say they say well
00:07:23.100i paid into this and so it's not an entitlement it's me getting my money back now of course we
00:07:28.280all know that's not true as you point out that money is spent immediately it's a ponzi scheme
00:07:33.400that's why they started paying out social security bits benefits as soon as they started collecting
00:07:38.140the tax because the money was not going from you to some savings account that you then unlock
00:07:44.220when you hit a certain age they take your money now you pay for the old people and then in theory
00:07:49.080if they're still you know young people later on they pay for you but as you point out the
00:07:54.380population is going down birth rates are going down we can't expect infinite growth forever
00:08:00.400and that's what the entire program was built on is this idea that the population would always be
00:08:05.660growing we'd always be paying more and more in and so ultimately we know this has to end and
00:08:10.960that's what makes several things very frustrating first if you as a boomer know that your entire
00:08:17.880social security is being paid for by people who won't get social security if we don't have a bunch
00:08:22.760of kids well then at the very least you would think you have some duty to encourage family
00:08:27.600formation to care about the birth rate to care about people having children because if they don't
00:08:33.420then obviously the program is doomed either way but not only do we often get mocked saying hey
00:08:39.320well you're just not going to collect this benefit good thing you're paying it for me now
00:08:43.420and uh you know i guess you're just the one stuck holding you know the potato at the end of the
00:08:47.940game but also you have a scenario where they're not even encouraging or even caring in general
00:08:54.000about the perpetuation of the country the continuation of their heritage but in addition
00:09:00.960they don't even care that the in the decrease in population is going to impact those payments they
00:09:07.620don't even care about the very thing family formation and having children that will ultimately
00:09:11.780allow something like this to continue if that was even possible so there are so many contradictions
00:09:17.180in the way that this is approached and then of course again we have to hear about oh well you
00:09:22.560know if only you were working harder you'd be able to afford a home you know don't don't you
00:09:26.820know buy so much avocado toast or you know rotisserie chickens or whatever luxury uh we
00:09:32.040happen to be uh needing to forego this week in order to buy a basic starter home before the age
00:09:37.380of 50, you're in the scenario where the vast majority of benefits in the economy and from
00:09:44.240the government are going to old people. We have warped the entire housing market around keeping
00:09:51.020housing prices high because so many boomers didn't save for retirement and many of them
00:09:57.520need the housing price to stay high so that they can do a reverse mortgage or sell the thing off
00:10:03.540and pay for their retirement along with the social security and so you have in an artificially
00:10:08.460inflated housing market for this express reason a lot of the reason that we have embraced illegal
00:10:14.680immigration and open borders was to create a large amount of labor arbitrage for older people who
00:10:21.560don't want to mow their lawns and don't want to take care of their homes all of these things are
00:10:26.140being done to benefit older people the entire economy is wrapped around this idea that we
00:10:32.100should bleed the young in order to pay for the old. And the only way that works is if we know
00:10:38.320we're going to continually have a large amount of young people having children. But that is exactly
00:10:43.880what is not encouraged. That is the lowest thing on the totem pole for many people in this
00:10:49.220demographic. And so I think when people look at a number like 89% saying, yes, of course,
00:10:55.560I would be more than happy to take more money from young people to continue to live life the
00:11:00.360way I'm living it, they get pretty fed up hearing about how they're the ones who are embracing
00:11:04.680socialism. So yeah, let's look at that phrase, boomer luxury communism. It's a great term,
00:11:13.320right? When I saw that Russ Green had cornered that, it was sort of one of those, why didn't I
00:11:18.120think of that phrase moments, but it sounds over the top, right? It sounds sort of bombastic,
00:11:22.800but it's really not for a couple of reasons. Let's take the communism element. If you look
00:11:27.520at the rates of wealth distribution. The rate of distribution from the young to the old in the U.S.
00:11:35.360is remarkably higher than first our peer nations, nations like England or New Zealand,
00:11:41.820but it's also significantly higher than China, a nominally communist nation. There is more wealth
00:11:49.860redistribution going on here in the free West than there is in nominally communist countries.
00:11:56.560I realize someone is going to say, China isn't meaningfully communist. One, potato, tomato,
00:12:02.380whatever, but also, graded on a curve, they are more communist than we are, right? Again,
00:12:07.600at least according to the map. Now, the luxury part. Look, I think we all know people on social
00:12:14.100security who are genuinely struggling. I think of my recently departed great-grandmother,
00:12:19.840a woman who had no high school diploma, had a family, had a house, but was very, very poor,
00:12:25.500lived on Social Security. I would not consider her circumstances luxurious at all.
00:12:31.120But we have to understand that the more you pay into Social Security, the more you get out. Now,
00:12:36.960of course, there's an upper bound to that, but it is possible to get over $60,000 a year
00:12:42.220from Social Security. In addition to whatever assets you have, whatever you can sell off to
00:12:49.080fund your lifestyle, which even if that's one person, $60,000 a year and not working,
00:12:55.160that's pretty good. Assuming, of course, you have no other assets left, which if you were at the top
00:13:01.500end of that income bracket throughout your life, you're very unlikely to have spent it all the
00:13:06.680moment you decided to get Social Security. But there's more elements to this. Programs like
00:13:12.140Medicaid Advantage offered an immense amount of benefits that you and I do not have access to.
00:13:18.220Of course, it funds health care, which I'm not sure if you've checked on is kind of expensive. You know, as someone who has a baby on the way, I'm painfully aware of the fact that health care is ruinously expensive. But it also funds things like gym membership, golf fees, horseback riding lessons, pet food, things that, OK, are sure things you might want to do in your life.
00:13:42.780But at the point where the government is funding those, where young working families are funding these luxuries, is this what the program was designed for? Is this the sort of thing that's keeping women like my great-grandmother from starving in her old age?
00:13:57.600No, these programs have gotten absolutely ludicrous.
00:14:01.140And realistically, no one has been talking about this.
00:14:04.240Sure, in Europe, they have had to confront the realities of austerity, largely because
00:14:10.300some of them are real countries and have to deal with economics more so than we do because,
00:14:16.080well, we're in charge of the world and we own the money printing machine.
00:14:20.720But this is an issue that has full bipartisan support.
00:14:24.980There has been no reform to this program. And if anything, the dialogue is increasing the benefits for seniors, reducing tax on Social Security. And look, I don't want old people to be poor and miserable. That's not my point. But what we are doing is mortgaging the future, mortgaging the lives and wealth of young people to let boomers ride horses for free, let them join a golf club. It's completely and totally unreasonable.
00:14:53.020well and as you have said this is the third rail it's untouchable uh donald trump knew this that's
00:15:01.100why the very first thing he did when everybody else was talking about uh you know welfare reform
00:15:06.500or something in the republican primaries he said i'm never touching this stuff social security
00:15:11.100all this like i'm not medicare medicaid it's all safe don't worry about it i'm never going to touch
00:15:15.540it because ultimately donald trump is not ideological he just wants to get elected he
00:15:19.780didn't care so he just came out there and said the obvious which is no one's going to vote for me if
00:15:24.020i say a single thing about cutting this so i'm just not going to the end i don't care whether
00:15:28.700or not the program works or not whether it'll be there later on i don't care about the survivability
00:15:33.720or what it's doing to the united states ultimately i want to be elected talking about this make sure
00:15:39.420you don't get elected so i'm just going to say i'm never going to touch it and move on this creates a
00:15:44.120huge problem because for instance like matt walsh was out there talking about this yesterday and god
00:15:47.900bless him, you know, like Matt and everything. But he was saying, oh, well, you know, no one
00:15:51.960will talk about this. I know it's politically unpopular, so I'll talk about it. And everything
00:15:55.440he said was true, of course. You know, it's an albatross. It's going to end the country. It's
00:16:00.160going to bankrupt us. It's fundamentally unfair. All of these things are true. But ultimately,
00:16:04.980we all know we're not getting rid of this program. It's not happening. There's zero
00:16:09.780reason to even discuss the electoral possibility of removing Social Security. Because in a
00:16:16.920democracy, nobody ever votes for less money. It just doesn't happen. And seniors are the dominant
00:16:23.620voting group in the United States. They have the time that they need to do it. They have nothing
00:16:28.880but time and attention to give to politics to be active in this way. They also are dependent on
00:16:34.940the government in most cases and so are very active in opposing any cuts there and will ensure
00:16:40.080and put pressure on any politician to make sure that that never happens. And so the only way that
00:16:45.960we ever get rid of social security is one we literally in democracy like this is a regime
00:16:51.700complete problem you cannot continue to have a democratic country in america you know we'll have
00:16:57.820a democratic process and get rid of social security it will not happen the only other option is the
00:17:04.080program just sinks the entire country there's no way we're ending this program before it destroys
00:17:09.580us to be very clear and so we have this very strange scenario where everyone can see the edge
00:17:15.160of the cliff. Everyone knows that we're heading towards the edge of the cliff at exactly the same
00:17:19.660rate we've been heading there for the last 30 to 40 years. And yet, we cannot, in our current
00:17:25.880system, address this issue. And this is why I think more and more people are talking about the
00:17:30.900problems of democracy. Because when you look at a scenario like this, where you know the country
00:17:35.520is doomed fiscally, like there's just no way that this program can continue with our current birth
00:17:40.800rates and our current payout rates. It cannot happen. And yet we also know that the issue is
00:17:47.120completely unable to be addressed by the electoral system. We will not get candidates who will ever
00:17:54.380promise to actually do anything. And even if they did, even if they somehow by some miracle got
00:17:59.020elected, Congress would not do this. They would not do this. Supreme Court would find some kind
00:18:04.360of promise was made and ultimately you can't get rid of the program or lower courts would do that
00:18:08.980for them ultimately we know there's just no way to actually solve this problem so while it is
00:18:15.820like absolutely this time bomb in the financial uh life of america like basically you know you've
00:18:22.980just got this bomb vest strapped to you that's ticking ultimately there's literally no way to
00:18:27.880remove it because you have a scenario where every incentive inside your political system says keep
00:18:34.180lying to people keep telling them that you're going to pay it out keep paying it out no matter
00:18:38.120what because these people who are receiving these payments they're the ones who are electing you
00:18:43.420and if you ever tell them anything other than what they want to hear they're completely going
00:18:47.320to abandon you and so we're just it's just an amazing thing it's just a car crash that you
00:18:52.340know is going to happen you can't look away you can't stop it and yet we have to hear the whole
00:18:58.280time how actually it's the young people who are the socialists they're the ones who need to get
00:19:02.500out there and do some work at the end of the day. And I think it's ironic, of course, that many of
00:19:08.500these boomer conservatives came of kind of political awareness during the era of Ronald
00:19:13.260Reagan, because who was the last person to reform social security? It was Ronald Reagan. He increased
00:19:20.000the taxes for it. He raised the age. He limited benefits. He took this seriously. Whatever other
00:19:25.660criticisms we may have of Ronald Reagan, that was a wise move. It has been done. And if this
00:19:32.780program is going to continue, it needs to be done again. There's no way around it. The math simply
00:19:38.140does not work out. And there's this sort of devious cycle of how this system works to affect
00:19:44.980people like you and me are. And it sort of runs like this. So obviously you have the taxes that
00:19:50.500fund seniors taxes on working people. But wait, that doesn't cover the cost. So we need to borrow
00:19:57.840money to transfer even more money to boomers. Of course, these are loans where you and I are
00:20:03.480guaranteeing it. We're the ones paying it back. But wait, there's more because, of course, that
00:20:09.120debt creates inflation, which obviously makes us poorer directly, slows the growth of the economy.
00:20:16.800And over time, look, as someone who's lived through the last several years, that hurts your lifetime income, your effective purchasing power over the course of your life, screwing you over in yet another way.
00:20:30.000And then, don't worry about this, you get taxed again, right?
00:20:34.540Because you have to pay that debt back.
00:20:38.240So really, you're getting hit coming and going.
00:20:41.240It is completely and totally ruinous to young people.
00:20:44.980the people that we need to be at least wealthy enough to have enough children to keep the
00:20:50.160pyramid scheme going, right? We've seen this with, for instance, asset prices on things like homes.
00:20:56.460If you need space to, or you think you need, I'm not looking to get into that discussion,
00:21:00.860enough space to have children. Well, if you can't afford that until you're 35 or 40,
00:21:05.420a discussion for another day, but another very worrying trend. Well, all of a sudden,
00:21:09.960Even if you are just absolutely baby crazy, you got a limited runway there. It is harder to hit replacement, let alone the sort of population pyramid necessary to keep this pyramid scheme going when those four forces are halting the economic empowerment, if we can use sort of a lefty phrasing, to get young people to actually succeed.
00:21:34.960We understand that, right? That needs to be a system in which most people feel that they have
00:21:41.040a stake. Because look, if you think, hey, social security is a program that may benefit me in some
00:21:47.020way, you're probably going to keep it around. But setting aside the attitudes of boomers,
00:21:52.040if we look at the attitudes of everyone else, if everyone else realizes or everyone else fears that
00:21:57.360this is a program that they have no interest in, well, we see exactly what we get. This sort of
00:22:02.960bitter intergenerational fight that even if rational is not particularly healthy. I don't
00:22:08.420want to live in a society where people are bifurcated along an age line. They're mad at
00:22:13.480their grandparents. They're mad at their grandchildren. But social security has created
00:22:17.520a situation in which it's a zero sum game. One group gets richer. The other gets poor.
00:22:22.800And ideally, I don't want those kind of fault lines to be running through the American populace.
00:22:27.960yeah and this is really again one of those scenarios that just democracy seems to make
00:22:34.860inevitable as you point out it seems to make generational warfare inevitable it seems to
00:22:40.580make the war between the sexes inevitable you have this situation where every part of your country
00:22:48.120every aspect of life because it's being negotiated by the government at some level ultimately becomes
00:22:54.400a political project because a political weapon and so you put all these demographics that should
00:22:58.900be working together against each other the young versus the old men versus women in every scenario
00:23:04.580you have this incentive to kind of bifurcate your society and have it go to war over every given
00:23:11.080issue because it generates political energy and so it's just you know there's just no way out of
00:23:16.700this it feels like and this is again why why the problems are regime complete right why you just
00:23:23.020ultimately are not going to see any of this shift unless there is a very, very, very big shakeup
00:23:28.640in the way we do politics in the United States. And I don't know if there's an appetite for that.
00:23:34.540I feel like Trump was a hint that there was an appetite for that. But obviously, the fact that
00:23:40.000what we got was kind of an administration that, to their credit, is trying to run a broken system
00:23:45.120as well as possible instead of one that understood that replacing the system was the goal.
00:23:50.340that's a problem and you hope that the next time around if we get another time around uh that
00:23:56.320ultimately the you know guys totally get the assignment that you know the the job is to go
00:24:00.900with at the the whole thing and find ways to actually solve problems like this because you
00:24:06.240know as we're both saying in this scenario we're just kind of locked out of any possible solution
00:24:10.560through the electoral uh mechanism and so uh i you know as frustrating as the luxury boomer
00:24:16.220communism is it seems like it's just going to be with us until it banks or bank erupts us and then
00:24:21.420we're forced to deal with the issue in some kind of radical way that said there's plenty of else
00:24:27.220uh plenty of other things going on in the news uh i'll just start with the breaking news since
00:24:32.480it's something that we know very little about uh but uh we got uh just before we got went live here
00:24:40.800We heard that there is apparently a attempted attack or there was a plotting of an attack by a guy who was trying to support ISIS with some kind of Star Wars name, Shek Dundun Abdullah Muhammad, that ultimately was planning to shoot up the Mall of America because, of course, it's, you know, it's got to be Minnesota.
00:25:04.800and you have this scenario where they expected to kill 30 to 60 people just one more reminder that
00:25:14.040we should be ending all muslim immigration i just saw ted cruz running around talking about how
00:25:19.760he thinks there could be iranian sleeper cells in the united states planning terror attacks
00:25:24.480well i don't know ted could we end immigration from places like iran that seems like the most
00:34:15.340Clearly, this is a argument based off of a racial angle. Now, I don't in aggregate have a problem
00:34:23.020with that. I don't think that's an inconsiderate or an illegitimate thing to do in certain
00:34:27.600circumstances, but it's a very hard thing to do when you have argued that one, you are just as
00:34:33.400American and assimilated as anyone else. There's nothing especially Indian about you when you leap
00:34:38.580to the defense of your co-ethnics. And also you seem to jump at every chance to disparage the
00:34:44.520people who live here, the people who have 10-year-old children at Republican political rallies
00:34:49.740because they're too fat, inconceivably fat to lift up as an allegedly 5'11 grown man.
00:34:57.300What's going on here? Clearly, this is a man who understands that all politics is identity politics,
00:35:03.600just not for you. That's wrong. It's okay when I do it.
00:35:08.300Well, and here's the even more incredible thing, right? So he turns around,
00:35:12.200and let me see where i put it he turns around and he starts redefining nationalism he starts to say
00:35:22.220that nationalism and patriotism are different things that he ultimately believes in patriotism
00:35:29.540but not in nationalism so now we have to start deconstructing nationalism right like over and
00:35:35.980over again. Very interestingly, Dinesh previously has defended nationalism explicitly. He said that
00:35:44.820George Washington, Abraham Lincoln were great nationalists. He even said that Gandhi was a great
00:35:50.480nationalist. So it turns out that everyone does support nationalism for the people they care
00:35:56.040about. And back when Dinesh was, I guess, identifying himself as American, he thought
00:36:01.460american nationalism was pretty good and defensible too but now because he feels like his co-ethnics
00:36:07.320are under attack dinesh is magically not american and therefore nationalism is bad and we need
00:36:13.320patriotism instead and we see this over and over again the need to have a revolution over american
00:36:20.240identity the minute we think that there might be a question about american identity we need to
00:36:25.880completely make it on something we cannot define something that's out there that's ambient it's
00:36:31.660tied to something like ideas or propositions or you know just your location inside of geography
00:36:37.560all of a sudden we can't have nationalism anymore and it's incredible because again
00:36:42.340Dinesh D'Souza has lived in the United States for decades he is a Christian he intermarried
00:36:49.440his children intermarried in a couple decades you might not even be able to tell ultimately
00:36:55.200in a few generations who Dinesh's descendants were they just might seem like American it seems
00:37:01.440like Dinesh should be the ultimate assimilation case right like I remember reading books by Dinesh
00:37:07.800D'Souza about how great America was when I was young and thinking they were pretty smart and so
00:37:12.740it's incredible to watch the entire case for assimilation almost be dismantled by this man
00:37:18.780in one swoop like before this i i literally gave a speech in texas a few weeks ago where i used
00:37:26.500as a relatively good example of what it looks like to have real assimilation by indians into
00:37:32.920american culture and it appears i was wrong it appears that that assimilation can just
00:37:38.180poof disappear after decades and decades of you know political american political commentary i
00:37:44.200mean how many indians were active in american political commentary two decades ago it was
00:37:49.500dinesh d'Souza right like that was it and so the idea that this guy now seems to care more about
00:37:55.020defending random indian people he doesn't even know instead of you know keeping the same line
00:38:02.540on american identity he's had for decades again like i don't want to believe that it's impossible
00:38:08.040for people to assimilate but when you look at something like this and watch the heel turn like
00:38:12.120the mask just gets ripped off. It's like, wow, okay. Maybe it really is almost impossible for
00:38:18.780people to assimilate when they're this culturally distant. I don't know. Yeah. And I mean, look,
00:38:25.740I think that part of that thought is, well, at least understandable. The idea is, okay, well,
00:38:35.180if someone takes on our culture, if someone marries in, well, maybe that's how we can make
00:38:39.760it work. But Dinesh is basically the ideal test candidate. He did everything you were supposed to.
00:38:46.760He got involved in Republican politics. The American values we're constantly reminded of.
00:38:52.740And what happens? What does it take to get him to sort of revert to factory settings?
00:38:58.700Is it something dramatic? No, it's a minorly embarrassing clip from a political rally.
00:39:06.040right like this wasn't a hate crime it's not like someone went out and murdered a bunch of indians
00:39:10.900because they're indians or scrawled indian go home on the side of a building even or something like
00:39:16.180that it's literally just oh looks like the next kind of week that's it like that's it that's all
00:39:21.800it took for him to go on this crash out like you i don't even understand like what possesses you to
00:39:27.880shred decades and decades of credibility on something well and i'm sure you've seen it's
00:39:33.980not particularly notable enough to bring up, but he's been posting this clip of a kid from Texas
00:39:39.120who is Indian, who's a, you know, talented power lifter. I think he's top 20 in the state for his
00:39:45.140weight and age group saying, look, this proves that Indians can be strong. And it's like,
00:39:51.160dog, I don't know if anyone was denying that there is no single Indian in the world who is strong
00:39:55.980enough to lift up a 10 year old child. I'm sure they've made one or two. There's a, there's a
00:40:00.320billion of them you know just based off of math alone at least some person in that country can
00:40:05.020pick up your average ohioan 10 year old the point is about vivek him in particular embarrassing
00:40:11.840himself on stage and the fact that you are seething to this level that you are completely
00:40:17.220losing all composure burning a political career over what it's incredibly embarrassing even
00:40:24.100setting aside the massive hypocrisy well and you know it's like okay so there's there's one seven
00:40:30.580foot chinese basketball player so in general chinese people must be seven foot tall right
00:40:35.520like all of a sudden we forget what per capita is for the people we care about i guess right like
00:40:40.180that's another another good slogan everyone everyone forgets about per capita for the people
00:40:45.000they actually care about but yeah it is truly bizarre and look here's why this problem is
00:40:49.640becoming more and more salient, right? Because now we see two Indian American guys elected to
00:40:56.980Congress, and what do they want to do? They want to change the H-1B program so that visas can be
00:41:03.920renewed without ever leaving the U.S. Now, why do two Indian men care so much about the H-1B visa?
00:41:09.740Oh, because it's basically just an ethnic visa for Indians. 70% of H-1B visas go to Indians.
00:41:17.060So they're not doing this because they generally care about the situation for H-1B workers or think they're incredibly valuable to the economy or anything like that. They're doing it because their co-ethnics abuse that particular visa. And this is how they can get people who look like them and share their culture into the country so they will vote for them.
00:41:36.680And this is the problem with diaspora politics, okay?
00:41:40.600As soon as people are in the door, their job becomes holding the door open until enough people come in who look like them, think like them, worship what they worship, so that ultimately they can start demanding concessions, extracting concessions.
00:41:54.700This is why I get so frustrated when I have to hear, oh, well, don't you know there's only so many of these type of people, Indians, Somalians, whatever, in the country?
00:42:03.420The problem is they're extremely tribal, and they're going to vote with their people, the people who look like them, share their culture, and they're going to import more of them, and you're not.
00:42:13.100They get to play identity politics, and you don't.
00:42:15.840So they're going to win, because identity politics win in a democracy.
00:42:22.740Just like we know that we're never voting our way out of Social Security, we are never voting our way out of Indian immigration once enough Indians are here.