In this episode, I discuss the continuing resolution passed by the House and Senate, and the impact it will have on the $34 trillion dollar national debt. I also talk about the wide open borders debate, and why we should all be concerned about them. I hope you enjoy this mashup, and tweet me if you do! with any thoughts or suggestions on how we can fix it. Tweet Me! Timestamps: 0:00 - Why is it that we keep doing the same stuff? 6:30 - Is it stupid to ask a simple question 7:40 - Why does Congress keep doing stupid stuff 8:20 - Who s the stupidest person in Congress ? 9:15 - Who's sitting in the Speaker's seat or who has the seat or has the majority 11:00- Is it the Speaker, the Speaker or the Minority Leader, or is it the Majority Leader? 13:00 16:20- Why we need to be fiscally responsible 17:10 - Why do we keep spending so much money? 18:10 19:30- What does it matter who s in the chair or who s sitting in it? 21:15 22:15- Why are we paying the price for the problems we're facing? 26:40- What's the problem? 27:30 28:10- How do we need a plan to fix the problem 29:40 32: What are we going to do? 35:00 -- Is it's going to get better? 31:30 -- What is the solution? 36: Does it matter? 37:10 -- What are you want us to fix? 39:40 -- What do we have a plan for the country? 41:00-- Is it better than the problem we're going to fix it? -- How can we fix it, or do we get a plan? 42:00 | Is it enough? 45:30 | What is our country better than we can we have enough money to fix our infrastructure? 47:10 | Is this problem better than it can we can get a grip on the problem better, or are we need more? Theme music by Ian Dorsch? Music by Ian Somerhalder Theme song by my main amigo, Evan Handyside
00:01:05.000Well, because yesterday, the House Republicans, as well as the House Democrats, passed overwhelmingly yet another continuing resolution.
00:01:13.000And this is the way we now fund the government because we're not able to actually have serious negotiations on department-by-department level with regard to spending.
00:01:20.000We're not able to negotiate over how much should be spent on defense or how much should be spent on education.
00:01:24.000Instead, we sort of wrap everything up into a ball.
00:01:27.000And then, when we can't get approval on a year-long budget, Then we go to continuing resolutions, which are these short-form budgets that continue the government spending.
00:01:37.000And, you know, we just kind of keep the train running.
00:01:39.000And the train will run until the train runs completely off those tracks.
00:01:43.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Congress cleared legislation extending government funding into March.
00:01:46.000Because again, the easiest thing in Congress is to get lost in a crowd.
00:01:49.000but does nothing to alleviate underlying political pressures stemming from high US debt levels,
00:01:53.000record crossings at the southern border, and an enduring war in Ukraine.
00:01:56.000The Senate passed that measure 77 to 18, followed by House approval 314 to 108.
00:02:01.000Because again, the easiest thing in Congress is to get lost in a crowd.
00:02:04.000The easiest thing in Congress is to simply side with an overwhelming majority of people who say,
00:02:08.000status quo, let's just keep doing what it is that we are doing right now.
00:02:13.000The two votes sent the measure to President Biden's desk with time to spare ahead of a
00:02:18.000In a replay of recent votes that underscore the fragility of the GOP majority, according to the Wall Street Journal, House Speaker Mike Johnson relied heavily on Democrats to bring that continuing resolution across the finish line.
00:02:27.000In fact, there was a fraught moment when it seemed as though there would not be a majority of Republicans in favor of the continuing resolution.
00:02:33.000As it turns out, he was able to get 107 Republicans to vote for as opposed to 106 against.
00:02:38.000House internal Republican rules prevent any Republican My colleagues on the other side of the aisle have no problem with wide open borders endangering the people that I represent.
00:02:45.000So I came very close to the wire on this particular bill.
00:02:49.000Chip Roy, Republican from Texas, who does in fact take spending seriously.
00:02:52.000He was blasting everybody right, left and center about not only the spending,
00:02:56.000but the fact that nobody in Congress seems to want to solve serious problems anymore.
00:02:59.000My colleagues on the other side of the aisle have no problem with wide open borders
00:03:05.000endangering the people that I represent, none.
00:03:07.000And in my constituents are the ones left holding the bag and the people of Texas are the ones left
00:03:13.000spending 12 and a half billion dollars.
00:03:14.000And my people are the ones who have six kids die from fentanyl poisoning
00:03:18.000in the school district that I represent.
00:03:20.000Yeah, it's not fun to smirk at that, is it, when we're talking about dead children from fentanyl poisoning because of wide-open borders, because of the policies of my Democrat colleagues who refuse to do anything about it.
00:03:55.000I'm addressing the chair on behalf of the people that I represent who are dying in Texas because of Democrats.
00:04:07.000Directly because of Democrat policies!
00:04:10.000Representative Roy then added, it doesn't matter who's sitting in the speaker seat or who has the majority, we keep doing the same stupid stuff.
00:04:16.000Which requires us to ask a pretty simple question.
00:04:19.000Why is it that we keep doing the same stupid stuff?
00:04:21.000Is that a matter of not having the right people in power, or is it just that the American people refuse to recognize the reality about themselves?
00:04:28.000Which is that we constantly say that we want to balance the budget, we constantly say we want to spend less money, and then, as soon as there is a poll asking what we would like to cut, we all run for the hills and we have no idea what it is that we would like to cut.
00:04:40.000The reason being that it's very easy to say broad things about cutting on pork barrel projects here and there.
00:04:46.000And sure, you can cut a post office in West Virginia.
00:04:50.000And sure, you can get rid of a bridge to nowhere in Alaska.
00:04:53.000That is not going to touch the structural entitlement programs that millions and millions of Americans have become dependent upon and who are now unwilling to give that up.
00:05:01.000All the third rails of American politics now form An extraordinary spider web of third rails that no one can touch under any circumstances, which is why you have seen candidates of both major parties basically decide they're no longer going to talk about the single biggest problem facing the United States in future decades.
00:06:03.000Suggesting that Kevin McCarthy had given in too much to the Democrats, despite the fact that the deal that McCarthy was trying to cut was significantly more conservative than the one that actually ended up being cut.
00:06:13.000And then they put in place Mike Johnson, who again, fine guy, good conservative, but is facing the same exact structural problems that Kevin McCarthy was facing in the first place.
00:06:25.000In order for any serious major change to get done, you are going to have to have a unified party control over Congress, Over to the Senate, over to the presidency, and a dedication by that party to take the hit.
00:06:46.000And then they got shellacked at the polls.
00:06:48.000It was a very, very bad midterm for them.
00:06:50.000And they took the hit because they knew that if they could completely restructure the healthcare system, that in the end, these would become entitlements that people relied upon.
00:06:57.000They would rather take the short-term hit for the long-term gain.
00:07:01.000When was the last time Republicans took a short-term hit for the long-term gain?
00:07:05.000When was the last time they passed something other than, say, a tax cut that actually fundamentally restructured how finances work in this country?
00:07:13.000And the reason they don't is because they're afraid they will be tossed out of office.
00:07:17.000And maybe that's just a, again, a structural imbalance in the way that the two parties work.
00:07:21.000It's very easy to get reelected suggesting you're going to spend more money that doesn't exist.
00:07:25.000It's very hard to get reelected suggesting that you're going to cut money from the federal budget, especially from a bunch of people who Say that they need that money in the first place.
00:07:34.000But this is why it's a point of high irritation when people suggest that it's just that Johnson is a bad guy or something.
00:07:39.000The people who are telling you that sort of thing, the people who are telling you that it's Johnson's fault this continuing resolution got passed, that if only he had shut down the government, more government shutdowns.
00:07:47.000Okay, we've done multiple government shutdowns in the past few years.
00:07:49.000Has that changed the trajectory of the spending in any real significant way?
00:07:55.000The people who are on the air right now telling you that the continuing resolution should have been pushed aside in favor of something harsher, in favor of a government shutdown, in favor of a harder bargaining position with Joe Biden.
00:08:06.000Those people are fibbing to you about the incentive structure.
00:08:08.000The incentive structure is what the incentive structure is.
00:08:11.000And unless you have a unified Republican control of the House, the Senate, and the presidency, you're not going to get the kind of spending cuts that make it worthwhile for you to risk your seat.
00:08:22.000You do a government shutdown, you're going to end up passing a continuing resolution anyway, and a bunch more people are going to lose their seats.
00:08:29.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:09:37.000So Johnson is taking all sorts of heat over this, again, from members of the right-wing press.
00:09:43.000Is it really going to do him any damage in the long run?
00:09:45.000I think not, but it just underscores, again, the central problem in American life.
00:09:49.000Politicians make a living by lying to you.
00:09:52.000Your choice is whether you like being lied to until you decide to go along with their lies or whether you don't like being lied to.
00:10:00.000Any politician who says he can save you, save your family, save your society by spending money here or by restructuring a program there is lying to you.
00:10:10.000The vast majority of choices in your life are up to you.
00:10:12.000And when people rely on politicians too much, They end up shooting themselves in the foot.
00:10:16.000And then they buy into the next grifter who comes along and suggests that he's
00:10:19.000going to fix whatever problems are at hand.
00:10:21.000Now, speaking of grifters, the situation on the border continues to be a full-scale
00:10:42.000We recently went down to the border at the very, very beginning of the year, and the end of December had been like a high watermark in terms of number of migrant encounters at the border.
00:10:52.000We're talking hundreds of thousands of people in one month alone.
00:10:56.000And then, beginning of January, you saw kinda not so much.
00:10:59.000One of the theories that was floated by Border Patrol was that basically Joe Biden had cut a deal with Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who is the leader, AMLO, the leader of Mexico, to basically cut down on the illegal immigration in an election year.
00:11:14.000And now this is being pretty openly suggested by Todd Bensman over at the New York Post.
00:11:19.000Again, this would not be the biggest shock in the world.
00:11:21.000Remember, Barack Obama did this with Dmitry Medvedev in 2012.
00:11:23.000Biden has struck a secret deal with the Mexican president to help his campaign.
00:11:25.000Again, this would not be the biggest shock in the world.
00:11:27.000Remember, Barack Obama did this with Dmitry Medvedev in 2012.
00:11:30.000He literally sat next to him and said, tell Vladimir I will have more
00:11:35.000Remember, when Donald Trump tells a foreign country he wants them to do
00:11:38.000something for electoral purposes, that's impeachable.
00:11:40.000When Barack Obama does it in the middle of an election cycle, that's just politics.
00:11:45.000Apparently, according to the New York Post, daily border patrol encounters of illegal immigrants crossing the border was 12,000 to 14,000 per day at the end of December.
00:11:52.000But according to government data confidentially shared with me, it has dropped to a still managerially catastrophic, yet smaller 4,000 to 5,000 per day.
00:12:10.000Quote, Mexican law enforcement officials are rounding up immigrants in the country's north and shipping them by bus and airplane to southern cities like Tapachula in Chiapas State and Villahermosa in Tabasco State.
00:12:20.000They're all expected to go home or stay put alongside those continuing to enter from Guatemala.
00:13:32.000For him to effectively push the far-left open borders line in the face of terrible polling numbers when he is running in an absolute neck-and-neck dogfight with Donald Trump, it makes zero sense whatsoever.
00:13:44.000By the way, the latest polling data has Joe Biden with a very, very slim lead over Donald Trump in a potential presidential contest.
00:13:50.000Now remember, that would be in the popular vote lead.
00:13:53.000Donald Trump, if he's within one point of Joe Biden nationally, good shot, he wins the Electoral College.
00:13:58.000There are a couple of surveys that are out, one from Ipsos and one from YouGov, that give Biden a lead of between one and two percentage points.
00:14:06.000No matter how you slice it, there are zero polls right now, zero polls, that have Joe Biden up on Donald Trump in any significant fashion, any true significant fashion.
00:14:16.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:15:17.000So why exactly wouldn't he go ahead and simply cave on immigration?
00:15:21.000Well, the answer is he's now starting to.
00:15:23.000Now he's finally starting to see political reality, which actually, by the way, for the country is a good thing.
00:15:26.000You want President Biden to govern a lot more from the middle than he has thus far.
00:15:30.000According to the Wall Street Journal, an immigration deal being crafted in the Senate would limit migrants' ability to claim asylum at the southern border.
00:15:35.000A White House concession, some progressives say, shows that President Biden's leftward shift on immigration as a 2020 candidate was a blip in his long political career.
00:15:44.000This, of course, would be paired for new war aid for Ukraine, for Israel, for Taiwan.
00:15:49.000House Speaker Mike Johnson said after a meeting with Joe Biden on Wednesday at the White House, he said we've talked about the necessary elements to solve this problem.
00:15:55.000He said that would require reform to the broken asylum and parole systems.
00:16:00.000Parole is basically where Joe Biden simply declares that a bunch of people who are in the country illegally have been paroled and can thus wander the country freely.
00:16:08.000They haven't been amnestied, but it's fine.
00:16:11.000And as far as asylum, the current asylum system is, you come to the country, you claim, just wave your hand, you say, I fear to go home to my home country, they release you into the country within 72 hours and you're gone.
00:16:20.000Republicans would like Remain in Mexico.
00:16:22.000Biden is not giving them Remain in Mexico so far.
00:16:23.000This is what they should push for, by the way.
00:16:25.000Republicans should push for Remain in Mexico as national immigration policy.
00:16:29.000However, Joe Biden is in fact moving at this point.
00:16:32.000He's moving again because the poll numbers for him are dire.
00:16:36.00068% of those surveyed in a CBS News poll say they disapprove of his border policies.
00:16:41.000So he is now moving and shifting on this particular issue.
00:16:45.000Biden apparently again, he doesn't want remain in Mexico because he's afraid that if he says remain in Mexico, then that will give something for Trump to run on, which is weird.
00:17:03.000Apparently, the president was originally influenced by, wait for it, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden.
00:17:09.000It was originally Dr. Jill Biden who pushed him to the left on immigration because she was very upset with family separations and remain in Mexico.
00:17:15.000She had visited a tent of migrants living just across the southern border in Matamoros.
00:17:20.000One of the most dangerous cities in Mexico.
00:17:21.000So he got rid of Remain in Mexico and all the rest.
00:17:25.000But now it looks as though he's going to have to bring back some of this stuff.
00:17:28.000He's still uncomfortable with bringing back any form of Remain in Mexico, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:17:32.000But advisors are bringing him numerous ideas on ways to run that program that give priority to migrants' safety.
00:17:38.000So maybe he'll bring back Remain in Mexico, which, by the way, according to my friends in Border Patrol, would be the single biggest change he could make that would actually shut down mass migration to the border.
00:17:48.000In fact, he's being pushed to his right, even by Democrats.
00:17:53.000According to the Daily Wire, 14 House Democrats voted to denounce the Biden administration's open borders policies on Wednesday.
00:17:59.000The group of party defectors joined with all voting Republicans in passing a resolution introduced by Representative Nathaniel Moran, Republican of Texas.
00:18:06.00012 Democrats and 9 Republicans did not vote.
00:18:08.000In addition to denouncing Joe Biden's border policies, the resolution condemned the national security and public safety crisis along the southwest border.
00:18:17.000So it'll be interesting to see what exactly happens here.
00:18:20.000Donald Trump, for his part, is doing something somewhat strange.
00:18:24.000Trump has been suggesting that perhaps Republicans should not cut any deal with Joe Biden on immigration whatsoever.
00:18:31.000Because if they cut a deal, then presumably he's going to be able to tout that he's more moderate on immigration than he has heretofore been.
00:18:38.000But honestly, that is not the way the congressional politics typically ought to work.
00:18:41.000If you can get a big concession out of a Democratic president, you do it.
00:19:14.000And we're going to have the largest deportation in the history of this country.
00:19:19.000Again, Trump is not going to get outflanked by Biden on immigration policy.
00:19:22.000So congressional Republicans ought to very seriously push Joe Biden as far as they can and then take a win.
00:19:28.000It is good to take wins from Joe Biden.
00:19:30.000I understand that we now live in a weird universe in which somehow prying giant concessions out of Joe Biden is considered a loss of some sort.
00:20:01.000The fact that Mike Johnson and the Republicans have maneuvered Joe Biden into a bad immigration position is good for them, and if they can get a big concession out of that, they absolutely should.
00:20:11.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:20:32.000Now, speaking of President Trump, I have to say it is truly amazing to see the lengths to which the media will go in order to generate weird stories about him.
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00:23:35.000They don't look actually like syphilis sores.
00:23:36.000Just for the record, I did ask my MD wife doctor what she thought it was, and she said definitely not syphilis, because syphilis is a marking that is smaller and generally all over the hand, not in like a particular area of the hand this way, is my understanding.
00:23:50.000I could be getting that wrong, but that's it.
00:23:53.000The bottom line is that when we are speculating over the marks on Donald Trump's hand, as opposed to, you know, Joe Biden's terrible global policy, Joe Biden is running an uphill battle.
00:24:01.000That's why he ought to be giving ground on the immigration issue.
00:24:04.000As far as Donald Trump, Donald Trump's legal cases, again, it seems to me at this point, you know, this is a weird out-of-the-box call.
00:24:12.000I just don't think they're going to amount to much.
00:24:13.000I think after all this hubbub, it's going to be like pretty much everything else with regard to Donald Trump.
00:24:19.000That every single time they think they got him, they don't got him.
00:24:22.000Every single time they think they have him captured with a butterfly net, there's a giant hole in the butterfly net.
00:24:27.000That is the latest out of Georgia, where according to the Wall Street Journal, Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis is now seeking to avoid being deposed in the divorce proceeding of a colleague she's accused of having an affair with.
00:24:37.000Calling a recent subpoena for her testimony a form of harassment meant to derail her criminal case against former President Donald Trump.
00:24:42.000You'll recall this bizarre case in which apparently Fannie Willis hired a dude to be the lead prosecutor in this case who has barely any prosecutorial experience.
00:24:53.000He is in the middle of a divorce case and apparently she paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars in state money and they were jet-setting around the world and going on cruises together with that money.
00:25:02.000In a Thursday court filing, Willis did not address whether she had a romantic relationship with Wade.
00:25:07.000Instead, it said that because the parties agree the marriage is irretrievably broken and the concept of fault is not at issue, there's no information District Attorney Willis could provide that might prove relevant to granting or denying the divorce.
00:25:17.000So she is trying to avoid having to testify in that particular case.
00:25:21.000Now, Does that mean that there won't be any more shoes to drop on this?
00:26:50.000I have serious doubts about E. Jean Carroll's allegations here.
00:26:54.000She testifies that she was in a Bergman like, I don't know, 25 years ago.
00:27:00.000Can't name the date, can't name the season, can't name the month.
00:27:04.000And that she was raped in a dressing room, with no one hearing her not sc- like nothing.
00:27:11.000When she wrote about this experience, by the way, later, she suggested she had to be talked into the fact that it was a rape by her friend.
00:27:18.000In any case, Donald Trump is out ripping on the judge.
00:28:19.000Donald Trump is a giant mud monster, and the more mud you throw at him, the more he just looks like a giant mud monster.
00:28:25.000Joe Biden, that dude was supposed to be good at this and he is not good at this and it's a very, very real problem.
00:28:31.000Now, meanwhile, the foreign affairs of the United States are in serious trouble.
00:28:38.000If you take a look at the Middle East, obviously they continue to be in very serious trouble.
00:28:42.000Pakistan is now apparently striking inside Iran.
00:28:45.000So it turns out that when you don't contain Iran, Iran lashes out at pretty much everybody.
00:28:49.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Iran's military tested and found a limit to its ability to project power this week as Pakistan responded to a missile attack with the first publicly acknowledged airstrike on Iranian territory in decades.
00:28:59.000The Pakistani retaliation followed Iran's first direct attacks in neighboring countries since Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza began in October.
00:29:06.000So now you have Pakistan, which is an ally of Saudi Arabia, firing at Iran.
00:29:13.000You have continuing rocket fire from Iran back to Hamas into Israel.
00:29:16.000You have rocket fire from Iran back to Hezbollah into Israel.
00:29:19.000You have rocket fire from Iran back to Houthis at shipping in the Red Sea.
00:29:25.000And Joe Biden still has no plan for any of this.
00:29:29.000In fact, it seems like the only sort of plans that are emerging are sporadic strikes on opposing positions that don't seem to be achieving anything like their purpose, and pressure on the Israelis to stop doing what they are doing.
00:29:56.000So again, all of this is just going to continue because the Biden administration doesn't actually have any sort of plan for what a realistic Middle East looks like.
00:30:09.000There's a lot of talk today about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talking about the idea that Israel ought to maintain territorial sovereignty over the entire area from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River in order to maintain security.
00:30:22.000If anyone else has any options, I'm sure people would love to hear them.
00:30:28.000And every time Joe Biden and his team suggest that Israel ought to hand over land in concessions to terrorist groups, all they are doing is fomenting what Iran wants.
00:30:35.000The reality is that terrorism is not motivated by poverty and despair.
00:30:40.000Hope that the other side will be weak enough to leave you alone, to leave you living after you have committed some of the worst atrocities known to man.
00:30:49.000It is totally insane that the Biden administration continues to pressure exactly the wrong side on this sort of thing.
00:30:54.000Now, I will say the Biden administration has provided the military aid so far necessary for Israel to continue its war against Hamas.
00:31:01.000But rhetorically speaking, it does make a rather large difference when you keep signaling Two terrorists in Hamas that all they have to do is stay alive long enough and eventually they will get what they want, which is, namely, to be left alone, survival, so they can continue to plan attacks and murder Jews in the future.
00:31:15.000It also doesn't help when you have dolts like Bernie Sanders doing this routine.
00:31:18.000Bernie Sanders yesterday suggested that Israel is going to war with the entire Palestinian people, which is a weird take, considering, again, that Israel has now sacrificed about 200 of its own men and women in an area where they have complete air superiority and don't need to sacrifice literally any of those men.
00:31:33.000My view from day one, Chris, has been that Israel has the right to respond to Hamas's barbaric attack on October 7th, but they do not have the right to go to war against the entire Palestinian people, which is what we are seeing right now.
00:31:57.000And as you've just mentioned, The humanitarian situation in Gaza now is unbelievably bad, and we're looking at the possibility of hundreds of thousands of children starving.
00:32:10.000Israel is currently attempting to ship in more aid, and there's no one on the other end to pick up the aid.
00:32:14.000Hamas is picking up the aid, and they're stealing the aid.
00:32:17.000And the world is going to continue to be an incredibly fragile place because of Joe Biden.
00:32:22.000Weirdly, though, there is this coterie of people who exist at the top of society in our global institutions who believe that they are doing a good job and that the true threat to international security is Donald Trump.
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00:33:38.000Meanwhile, a coterie of very powerful people globally, they're very afraid of Donald Trump.
00:33:42.000So Joe Biden has basically set the world on fire, because it turns out that the pseudo-sophisticate take on foreign policy, which is basically that you can wish-cast peace into existence, It's false.
00:33:53.000And so what they're mostly afraid of now is that people will expose their stupidity to the public view, which is something that Donald Trump tended to do with actually a shocking amount of alacrity during his first term in office.
00:34:04.000And he would constantly sort of do away with silly shibboleths that have been spoken by the foreign policy elite.
00:34:10.000He would break those idiocies on the wheel of reality.
00:34:13.000And they've been very upset ever since that he did that.
00:34:18.000This, presumably, is why they continue to maintain lie after lie with regard to international politics.
00:34:23.000So over at the Continuing World Economic Forum over at Davos, various dolts, large and small, continue to maintain that Donald Trump is the truest threat to the world order.
00:34:34.000A woman named Vera Jourova, she suggests that the biggest problem that we are about to face is disinformation, because disinformation, of course, might mean that Donald Trump gets elected.
00:35:18.000Yeah, because I don't trust you to be able to distinguish between opinion and fact.
00:35:22.000That was the VP of the European Commission.
00:35:25.000Meanwhile, the World Bank president continues to speak factual falsehoods like we can't eradicate poverty without solving climate change, which is weird since we've done a pretty damned good job over the course of the last 45 years on this planet in eradicating extreme poverty.
00:35:40.000Not only without solving climate change, but according to you guys, by exacerbating climate change, because it turns out that carbon-based fossil fuels are one of the great sources of human wealth ever devised.
00:35:50.000And so merely saying that I've got a new way of thinking about things or announcing policy pronouncements will not change the reality of what we face on the ground every day.
00:36:01.000What we have is an existential climate crisis.
00:36:05.000We cannot think of eradicating poverty without caring about climate.
00:36:10.000We cannot think about eradicating poverty without caring about healthcare.
00:36:14.000We cannot think about eradicating poverty without caring about food insecurity and fragility.
00:36:20.000These are, if you don't like it, tough luck.
00:36:24.000Yeah, well, I mean, what if I don't think that you're right?
00:36:27.000What if I think that you're just speaking nonsense and spouting nonsense?
00:36:31.000What if I think that, in fact, this is a global guise for propping up bad regimes, that very often the climate change talk is about degrading some of the most Productive regimes in the history of mankind, namely places like the United States and Europe, in favor of significantly less productive regimes that are looking for subsidies and handouts.
00:36:48.000That's precisely what is going on with China, by the way.
00:36:50.000According to the Wall Street Journal, China is now doubling down on manufacturing to reboot its economy after a turbulent year.
00:36:56.000The push for new growth drivers comes, as figures showed, the world's second largest economy expanded at 2023 at its weakest rate in decades.
00:37:23.000Those are the places where they're going to earn their money.
00:37:26.000The hope is that growth in what Chinese officials referred to as the new three industries and other favored sectors will help China's economy banish the specters of deflation and Japan-style stagnation as a real estate crunch weighs heavily on construction investment and consumer confidence.
00:37:39.000Longer term, Beijing wants these and other high-tech manufacturing industries to be in the vanguard of its push to eventually unseat the United States as the world's largest economy.
00:37:48.000And the reason it's not going to happen is because they're not actually targeting efficient sectors of the market for growth.
00:37:54.000Instead, what they are doing is finding places that require government subsidization and redistribution in order to have everybody pay them to offshore all of that.
00:38:03.000But again, this is about global financial restructuring and the people of the WF know that.
00:38:07.000And Trump is a threat to that because he actually does like America as opposed to many of these other people who seem to have a peculiar global utopia in mind that they wish to pursue.
00:38:16.000Meanwhile, in breaking news, President Trump apparently, according to Axios, now has a shortlist of his potential VP candidates.
00:38:22.000And apparently, according to Axios, the shortlist is down to three.
00:38:26.000Here are the possibilities for Donald Trump's VP candidate.
00:38:29.000One, Elise Stefanik, Republican of New York.
00:38:32.000She's the chair of the House GOP Conference, and according to Steve Bannon, who really is a lukewarm oniglis, he says that she's at the top.
00:38:40.000Stefanik was the first member of Congress to endorse Trump.
00:38:45.000She recently suggested that the members of the January 6th riot who are in prison, she called them hostages, which is a strange language to use about people who have been criminally convicted.
00:38:53.000Even if you put, like, a hostage means that you have to do something to get the hostage released.
00:38:57.000It's a weird word to use, but she also happens to be very capable.
00:39:02.000Now, all the people on the right who are claiming that Nikki Haley is no good because she is too far to the left, I should point out at this point that Elise Stefanik, her heritage action score is not particularly satisfying.
00:39:45.000If the idea is double down on your strengths, namely, look politically moderate by picking a bunch of positions that are sort of in the middle, a little wishy-washy, but you have some strength on a few of the sort of pro-Trump issues and also on foreign policy, Stefanik isn't too bad a pick.
00:40:00.000Her politics honestly look very, very similar to Nikki Haley's.
00:40:09.000He is, again, one of Trump's most outspoken defenders in a Senate GOP full of people who are not particularly in love with Trump's policies.
00:40:17.000The people who are sort of more Paleocon-oriented, really like JD Vance.
00:40:23.000JD has drawn a very interesting contrast from his early career.
00:40:27.000His early career, he was very much not into the idea of sort of a grievance politics.
00:40:31.000In fact, Hillbilly Elegy is essentially a robust defense of the meritocracy.
00:40:36.000The suggestion is that when you become too dependent on government, it actually enervates you.
00:41:22.000And this is what's freaking out a lot of people who are sort of on that NatCon side of the aisle.
00:41:27.000Nikki is widely perceived, as she is in the primaries right now, as much squishier than Trump on a wide variety of issues.
00:41:32.000She's obviously much more hawkish on foreign policy than Trump has purported to be.
00:41:35.000Although again, one of the weird things about Trump as president is that the stuff he said sounded a lot like Pat Buchanan.
00:41:40.000The stuff that he did looked an awful lot like what Nikki Haley might do.
00:41:44.000Nikki Haley is on that short list because, again, she has good approval ratings, not with Republicans, but with audiences, generally speaking.
00:41:52.000If she were, in fact, the presidential candidate against Biden in virtually every poll, she blows him out.
00:41:56.000She would compete well against somebody like Kamala Harris.