In today's Ask Me Anything episode, we talk about what it's going to take to rebuild Los Angeles, USAID, South Carolina gets mentioned, and so much more including Austrian economics. Plus, Trey, the Chapter President for the University of South Carolina chapter of Turning Point USA, joins us to talk about why the Gamecocks are doing so well.
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00:00:02.000We talk about what it's going to take to rebuild Los Angeles, USAID, South Carolina gets mentioned, and so much more, including Austrian economics.
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00:02:01.000And two years ago, you said to the field rep, Dylan Baldessar, that Clemson was going to beat Carolina, but I don't think that's what happened back in November.
00:03:06.000I was just curious, are you familiar with Data Republican at all?
00:03:09.000Oh, not only am I familiar, we just did a whole show on her last night on ThoughtCrime, and I speak to her regularly, and also, she's incredibly bright.
00:03:20.000She was kind of our silent helper on election night and the days that were coming into election day.
00:03:27.000Three weeks ahead of the election, she was looking at all the early voting data, and I was in this.
00:03:34.000Chat with her, and she said, Trump is going to win Nevada.
00:04:06.000So my dad sent me a link for Data Republican the other day, pretty much going over where all the money is going as far as where all of our taxpayer dollars are going and funneling back into Clinton's.
00:04:28.000I gotta say, like, I was honestly sick to my stomach after reading, you know, Benny Johnson's post about, you know, $40 million going to Wuhan, like we were talking about two weeks ago with the Fauci pardon.
00:04:41.000And it was just, it got me sick to my stomach.
00:04:45.000And just yesterday, Congresswoman Nancy Mace announced that apparently $10 million were going to funding transgender animals.
00:04:58.000So I'm just curious, what's the possibility that we're going to see a clawback for taxpayer dollars that have been wasted through USAID? I mean, this is ridiculous.
00:05:13.000So the first point, we have to find an answer, and I have Data Republican working on this.
00:05:18.000Did Congress underwrite it, or did Congress appropriate it?
00:05:23.000And if the answer is yes, then the clawback is harder, but we could do that through the reconciliation process.
00:05:30.000Chances are that a lot of this was left at the discretion of USAID or the agency, meaning that the USAID got a bucket of money from Congress, let's say $25 billion, and they could spend it on whatever they want.
00:05:49.000We can totally cut these contracts, we can cut them off, and we can spend it wherever we want.
00:05:54.000We could spend it either on deportations, we could spend it on aid to 501c3s that we want to assist, colleges, or we don't have to spend it all and just send it back to Congress.
00:06:06.000And that's kind of the question of the looming impoundment act issue that is going to be coming around the corner.
00:06:11.000So I feel very optimistic that we're going to be able...
00:06:18.000In fact, President Trump just had an amazing dialogue with the Japanese Prime Minister and basically said, look, USAID is the most disgusting waste I've ever seen.
00:07:11.000How is that allowed, especially when California politicians really didn't do anything to help prevent these fires?
00:07:18.000How can you tell a person that they must rebuild like this when they cause more problems to the leaders?
00:07:23.000Yeah, look, I want to just explain how underwater this situation has made some people.
00:07:30.000So one person who's on our team, you all know who it is, but I'm not going to say her name to respect her privacy.
00:07:36.000Her house burned down in the Palisades, and she had a very, very tough year.
00:07:40.000And so I'll just approximate some of these numbers.
00:07:44.000Let's just say the house was worth $5 or $6 million as it was built, but then you have a mortgage for like $1.5 million, and then insurance comes and says, we're only going to write you a check for a million bucks.
00:07:57.000So you're underwater with the mortgage before you even get out of the gate.
00:08:02.000When you talk to a subcontractor, they say it's going to take three to five years to rebuild the home.
00:09:22.000And so you basically have 10,000, 15,000 people that are without a home for the next half of a decade, and their entire piggy bank, their net worth, has completely disappeared.
00:09:34.000And investors are going to be far less likely to go build and to develop in that area because they might completely lose their development.
00:09:43.000I could tell you on first-hand authority, the housing market in Scottsdale, in Orange County, in Vegas, has skyrocketed in the last couple of weeks.
00:09:54.000People are leaving the Palisades, they're leaving Los Angeles, and they're bringing their capital with them.
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00:14:08.000I mean, you read Ludwig von Mises, you read Murray Rothbard, you read Hayek, you read Henry Hazlitt, a lot of the foundational observations that they make.
00:14:19.000But then we start to observe, in actuality, what's happening in our country.
00:14:26.000So, for example, the Austrian School of Economics thinks that there was nothing wrong, in fact, everything really good about sending American manufacturing jobs to China.
00:14:34.000They say, well, it's the lowest cost of good.
00:14:36.000Those people in Ohio and Pennsylvania can go find other work.
00:14:39.000Americans get piles of plastic that they otherwise would not be able to get at a low cost.
00:15:17.000And of course, we love the free market and we think it's beautiful.
00:15:20.000But I don't think it's beautiful when I drive through rural America and they've been vastly de-industrialized and we've been told that's a good thing.
00:15:27.000I don't think it's a good thing where we have everyone just flee to urban centers and the small town communities that we're focused on, faith and family, are good.
00:15:37.000And finally, the last thing on Austrian economics that I would mention is that embedded within Austrian economics is no borders.
00:15:45.000Allow anybody to come into your country under any circumstances at any time, and the prevention or limitation of such people into your country is an act of violence and is an act of the state.
00:15:56.000And so they believe in pure immigration arbitrage, which is a core pillar of libertarian philosophy.
00:16:04.000And I'd also say Austrian economics don't always see the value that there is merit to having a diverse economy or...
00:16:12.000Having America diversified in certain sectors.
00:16:15.000And so, what are your thoughts on that, Caleb?
00:16:17.000I know that I talked ad nauseum there.
00:16:22.000Yeah, the only thing maybe about would be on immigration.
00:16:27.000And from what I've heard from, I don't know if you follow the Mises Institute, they got good podcasts and stuff like that.
00:16:34.000In one of them, they explained certain like the libertarian perspective on immigration and how while they would want to have a free flow of labor, so to speak, they do understand the political and cultural limitations to that and thus understand they do understand the political and cultural limitations to that and thus understand that you have Well, that's promising.
00:16:57.000That is a huge development, because that never used to be the case.
00:17:01.000If you look at pure libertarianism at the Cato Institute...
00:17:05.000That has never been their perspective.
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00:18:43.000It's sad to see, but we still live in a beautiful, wonderful state.
00:18:49.000We're pretty angry about the incident that happened yesterday, but with the mass deportations and all, two questions related to the same thing, related to the missing children.
00:19:02.000What's the best way to keep up to date on locating all the missing children, the location of all the missing children?
00:19:54.000And so I think that we need to do anything that the law allows to be able to go after these illegal leakers and people that have been doing this.
00:20:04.000On the first part of your question, there's an entire task force, Kristi Noem, we have Tom Homan, that are all coming together to find these missing kids and to get them back to their parents or to better hands or to find out what's going on.
00:22:04.000I've been a Trump supporter through and through.
00:22:06.000I was at one of the first rallies back before the 2016 election, and I just loved seeing everything that he's doing.
00:22:14.000But one of the things that I was concerned about and that I've seen other Trump supporters concerned about is his intention to take over Gaza.
00:22:22.000Two of his biggest talking points were, you know, no new wars in the last election and then America first.
00:22:28.000And so, like, even though I think Gaza could be a good idea down the road, it just seems, you know, so early in the presidency to be talking about spending American, potentially lives and tax dollars on another nation.
00:22:41.000So I just want to see, like, what's your perspective on this?
00:22:45.000And, you know, how do we find common ground between the two camps of conservatives over this issue?
00:23:43.000By owning Gaza, I think it's becoming more and more clear what the president was saying is a metaphorical own of Gaza, meaning we're going to expand the Abraham Accords.
00:23:53.000We are going to make sure that regional partners actually accept the people of Gaza.
00:23:57.000But let me make clear what the stance on this program is, because we want peace in all places.
00:24:02.000But the number one and number two clear red lines.
00:24:06.000That we've said that, by the way, are not even red lines because the president has said this and agrees with us.
00:25:20.000And people would make fun of him, but it's actually a very profound point, which is why do we spend all this blood, all this money, all this life, and we get nothing in return?
00:25:30.000It's one of his greatest points, actually.
00:25:32.000And he was mocked relentlessly, and he kind of got away from that in 2019-2021.
00:25:37.000But now he's right back to original Trump in that regard.
00:25:41.000So I wouldn't jump to any conclusions.
00:25:59.000Well, my question is, with all the DEI hires that are already in place, people who are already working, they were hired under the DEI idea, is there any plan or any way to get those people out of those positions, or are they there to stay?
00:26:20.000My husband is an airline pilot, and it's just disheartening to know that maybe some of the people that are there...
00:26:30.000First of all, Lisa, you just brought up a great point that I have never thought of.
00:26:37.000Mechanics that are DEI. That's very smart, and I've got to give you credit for that.
00:26:42.000You know, because air traffic control, by the way, we know air traffic control is full of DEI hires.
00:26:46.000That's not a Charlie Kirk speculation.
00:27:06.000ATC, air traffic control, is FAA jurisdiction.
00:27:11.000Delta is continuing DEI. But that is a really profound point that I'm going to have to think of.
00:27:16.000Because we think of the pilots, but imagine if there's some DEI mechanic.
00:27:21.000Imagine if there's some person hired because of the color of their skin who doesn't have merit, doesn't know what they're doing, and just signs off on some engine renewal.
00:28:58.000There's a lot of excitement in Washington, D.C. as we start the year, but I wanted to talk to you about something just as exciting happening outside the D.C. Beltway, a revolution in the States.
00:29:10.000It's growing and growing because some states, as they should, are putting parents in charge of the education of their kids.
00:29:17.000Everyone knows education has the power to change a kid's life, and anyone who raised a child knows each has different needs, learning styles, and God-given talents.
00:29:27.000The fact is, parents know their own children best, knows what's best for their development.
00:29:31.000And future education freedom legislation puts parents, not zip codes, and politicians in charge of these important family decisions.
00:29:41.000It's why I strongly support making universal education freedom a reality for every parent in every state.
00:29:47.000To find out where your state legislature stands and to make sure your voice is heard, go to educationfreedomusa.com now, educationfreedomusa.com.
00:30:34.000I do, however, or am concerned about the fact that, from my understanding, we do not have the refining capacity to be able to truly be independent.
00:30:50.000And so, unless there's an equal push for building and upgrading new refineries, It does not seem we're going to be able to get there.
00:31:04.000Have you heard of any push and plans for that so that we will be able to be independent?
00:31:28.000We need to have a massive public-private partnership to have more refineries and can incentivize more refinery development through tax credits, subsidies, and even expanded permanence.
00:31:39.000So this is the other thought of OMB with Russ Vogt.
00:31:42.000The problem we don't have more refineries is the amount of regulation it takes to get refineries built because of the EPA and environmental stuff.
00:31:50.000And so we also just need to make it more economically viable.
00:31:52.000If we want to be energy independent, we have to not just extract our oil and then send it overseas to be refined.
00:31:58.000We need to be the energy refining capital in the world.
00:32:02.000Very good point, Avery, and thank you for being a member.
00:33:31.000That the government was a co-conspirator in the murder of JFK. I think that is totally the truth.
00:33:37.000I don't think the files are going to show that.
00:33:38.000I think the files are probably going to be really boring.
00:33:42.000I think the files are going to tell us things we already know, and that will show that we over-classify information in Washington, D.C. to justify jobs and titles of people that should never have those jobs and titles, and it's going to be a big dud.
00:33:56.000There could be something in the middle where we learn something, and we will probably, at the very least, we'll probably learn about a cover-up.
00:34:05.000We probably won't learn that, you know...
00:34:10.000The files also might show that the CIA should have known about Oswald but missed it, and they covered it up to avoid showing that there were screw-ups leading to that.
00:34:20.000Do I think we're going to find conclusive evidence like, oh yes, we at the Central Intelligence Agency had two armed gunmen on the grassy knoll, and we fired repeated shots that...
00:34:32.000Struck the governor of Texas, and then the head went back into the left, and then we covered it up.
00:34:36.000There's almost no likelihood that if those things happen, there would be a paper record.
00:34:40.000If anything, it will show an active cover-up.
00:34:45.000And then it begs the question, why have they been classified for so long?
00:34:48.000But nothing I can see can convince me otherwise.
00:34:52.000The burden of proof is on the government to prove themselves that they didn't know and they weren't involved in the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
00:35:01.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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