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00:01:44.000She's actually going to be joining us tomorrow to discuss this in more detail.
00:01:48.000But breaking, new account linked to Thomas Matthew Crooks shows a furry fetish and transgender ideology interest at least, referred to himself as they them.
00:02:02.000And obviously, Thomas Matthew Crooks is the attempted assassin of President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
00:02:09.000Who had no, we were told, no digital trail whatsoever.
00:02:12.000He's the only person under 30 in the entirety of America who had nothing about him online.
00:02:17.000But now we're finding out that there is more to it.
00:02:19.000Now, this corresponds certainly with some of the reporting that Tucker Carlson has recently done, although this they, them, and furry fetish is new.
00:02:30.000And I think why this is so eye-raising is simply because of what happened to Charlie.
00:02:38.000The alleged assassin of the monster who killed Charlie also had a furry fetish and allegedly and had a boyfriend that was trans.
00:02:52.000There certainly seems to be some of the similar ideologies that are circulating between the two instances.
00:04:50.000It could be he started registering for new accounts with a new email we don't know of.
00:04:55.000There's sites you can use like 10-Minute Mail to sign up for websites with a throwaway email that no one will ever link to you.
00:05:00.000There's a lot of stuff that you can do.
00:05:02.000Now, today we have the New York Post, which essentially did the same thing Tucker did, but with the added caveat that they found his deviant article.
00:05:31.000So because on July 13th, 2024, FBI Director Chris Ray told Congress that the Bureau had found nothing in Crooks' online history, okay, that pointed to motive or political ideology.
00:05:44.000A week later, Ray's deputy, Paul Abate, and I'm reading from Miranda's report here, Paul Abate told Congress that comments posted on one of Crooks' social media accounts appear to reflect anti-Semitic and anti-immigration themes to espouse political violence.
00:06:01.000This left out a huge chunk of the timeline, right?
00:06:05.000Where it seems to indicate a pivot from what you would consider, I guess, more right-leaning ideology, I guess, because of the immigration stuff, to anti-Trump rhetoric, anti-government rhetoric.
00:06:24.000It left an entire section out from January to August 2020 when he did an ideological backflip and went from rapidly pro-Trump to rapidly anti-Trump.
00:06:35.000And then he went dark, seemingly never to post again.
00:06:41.000Now, like in August 2020, one of his last things that we had was, in my opinion, the only way to fight the gov is with terrorism-style attacks.
00:06:49.000Sneak a bomb into an essential building and set it off before anyone sees you.
00:06:54.000Track down any important people, politicians, military leaders, et cetera, and try to assassinate them.
00:07:01.000And he it seems, you know, the truth is a lot of people who become violent assassins or terrorists often are all over the map.
00:07:10.000And that's why it's so frustrating it goes cold in 2020 because 16 to 20, if you're already an unstable guy, is going to be an absolute rocket ship of potential ideological changes.
00:07:21.000I know someone, there was a guy I knew in high school, not even an extremist.
00:07:24.000I shouldn't say he was not a violent guy, but I knew a guy who, when he was a sophomore in high school, he was an Ayn Rand fan objectivist.
00:07:31.000And then by the time he was a freshman in college, he was a full, like Lenin did nothing wrong communist.
00:07:40.000And then for a while, his ideology was whatever gets us to space fastest.
00:07:43.000And last time I checked, he was a MAGA supporter.
00:07:46.000So some people just whip all over the place when they're young adults.
00:07:50.000And obviously this guy was very unstable.
00:08:04.000And then, so, but by early 2020, Crooks is he had flipped 180, became very critical of Trump, Fox News, and Republican complaints about mail-in voting.
00:08:16.000So he said, keep in mind the only reason we know about any of this, this was a comment in January 23rd, 2020.
00:08:24.000So this is from, what did I say, July 20th, 2019 to January 23rd, 2020.
00:08:51.000He went from anti-immigrant screeds about killing immigrants to describing Trump as racist.
00:08:57.000But anyway, what we have from the New York Post this morning, in addition to that, which they kind of reaffirmed what was on Tucker's segment, is they found the Devi Arns art account.
00:09:05.000And they say, and I'm very frustrated with this because they say he appears to have been interested in, quote, furries and exploring gender identity.
00:09:12.000First, apparently he used the pronouns they, them as his default undeviant art.
00:09:17.000And also, they say it had an obsession with scantily clad cartoon characters that had muscle-bound male bodies and female heads.
00:12:33.000I think on that line down, Danny will find out for us here.
00:12:35.000I mean, they were probably a little odd.
00:12:36.000I mean, I was going to say, you know, but what is really disconcerting here is that it seems to be something where you have unstable people that get into an ideology that basically unmoors them from reality.
00:12:53.000And what I believe happens, now I'm not a psychologist, but it seems to fit that when you become unmoored from your physical God-given attributes or believe that you can become disassociated with them in some way, that you become unmoored from morality, good and evil, right and wrong, these binaries that bind humanity and societies together.
00:13:14.000And if you have an unstable proclivity, then guess what's going to happen?
00:13:18.000You're going to be tapped into a whole ideology that basically says up is not up, down is not down, right is not wrong.
00:13:31.000The transgenderism wave in general is pretty recent.
00:13:33.000It exploded really just in the past 10 years, and it's among young people.
00:13:37.000So you're looking, we're really just having people aging into their late teens, early 20s who were really blasted by this psychological contagion when they were social contagion.
00:13:52.000Yeah, the social contagion when they were in middle school age, early high school age.
00:13:56.000Now these people are aging into where they're old enough, they're autonomous enough to really potentially do things.
00:14:02.000And it's as you say, it's like there's a bit of the denial of reality.
00:14:05.000I think another thing is if you're if you've been exposed to these communities, you know they can be very out.
00:14:14.000They're very indulging of like extreme wild rhetoric.
00:14:17.000So if you hear, I mean, for example, I saw when people were reacting to Charlie's death, I routinely saw people with, you know, LGBT flag, trans flags be like, Charlie Kirk wanted me dead.
00:14:29.000Charlie Kirk wanted everyone like me dead.
00:14:31.000They really indulge a lot of that hysterical rhetoric.
00:14:34.000So there's an entire subcommunity of people who are not mentally well in the first place that is also constantly feeding them.
00:14:41.000There are people who want to commit genocide against you.
00:14:44.000There are people who specifically want to kill you.
00:14:47.000And it's like you, an unstable person, should think that this person is a full genocidal Nazi and will kill you if you don't do something about it.
00:14:56.000So it's feeding unstable people the justification for extreme acts of violence.
00:15:03.000And you put on top of that, Blake, a lot of drug use, whether that's simple things like vaping THC all the time or harder drugs.
00:15:12.000Or the hormonal replacement drugs or testosterone replacement.
00:15:16.000Yeah, if you read, so again, this is background, but if you look into someone's been posting, claims he's been getting like Discord messages and such, that he was in the Discord group that Charlie's alleged shooter was in.
00:15:27.000And he's been saying that his boyfriend was like on tons of drugs all of the time.
00:15:38.000And, you know, it's all speculative how much that actually affected everyone else, but it's just there's a lot of well, I mean, just think about what we're doing.
00:15:47.000Taking people who are unwell, pumping them potentially full of hormones, pumping them full of other drugs.
00:15:52.000None of these have remotely been studied for how they intersect with each other.
00:15:55.000There's a total unwillingness to take that question seriously, especially during peak woke.
00:16:00.000And, you know, you're just, it's like taking a bunch of random chemicals and putting them in a jar and shaking it as hard as you can and then throwing it somewhere.
00:16:08.000And we don't know the ramifications long term for a lot of this stuff, but let's go ahead and I saw this image go up, but let's throw it up again.
00:16:28.000So presumably that number would be higher now, although we have seen a reversal of some of these trends just because we've been actually winning, fighting, and winning cultural battles.
00:18:46.000And we, you know, I used to talk about this with Charlie, just how much we loved having you on the show because you have such an optimistic air to you.
00:18:55.000You know, if there's doom and gloom out there, like you come on and you kind of make sense of it and you kind of steady everybody's nerves and you say, hey, listen, guys, look at this piece of data.
00:19:06.000And so this was, I think, one of the key points in videos that I saw floating around this weekend because you're talking about this affordability crisis that has become front and center, partly because some of Charlie's tweets have become gone viral and everybody's talking about the housing affordability and things like that.
00:19:42.000And again, it's my first time on the show since I was talking to Charlie.
00:19:46.000And one of the things I remember best about him is how much he started to love economics.
00:19:51.000I think you probably remember some of the conversations I had with him after the show, like when we weren't on tape.
00:19:57.000But, you know, I think that the bottom line is that under Joe Biden, they spent like drunken sailors.
00:20:05.000And the Fed basically printed the money to let them do that.
00:20:09.000And, you know, everybody knows that that causes inflation.
00:20:12.000Inflation went up almost to 10%, averaged 5% a year.
00:20:16.000And then interest rates went up a lot.
00:20:18.000And so if you wanted, for example, to buy a new home, the typical homeowner would see their mortgage payment double.
00:20:25.000And meanwhile, grocery prices went up.
00:20:28.000And so, for example, a typical month's groceries for the average family was about $400 when President Trump took office.
00:20:35.000It's about $515 when President Trump came back again.
00:20:40.000And so people rightly look back at those numbers and say, geez, I'm really having a hard time keeping ahead.
00:20:48.000Now we've got mortgage rates down, and so the monthly payments are going down.
00:20:51.000We're making it easier to buy a car because we're letting you deduct the interest.
00:20:56.000And inflation itself has dropped down to about 2.5% right now.
00:21:01.000But if Joe Biden doubles your mortgage payment and then it goes down a little bit, and if prices go from $400 to $515 for a typical bag of groceries, then getting inflation to slow is not the same as reversing the situation.
00:21:17.000And the way we reverse the situation is we continue to go after every little thing we can to reduce inflation.
00:21:24.000The most important is at the macro level that we're cutting the deficit by about $600 billion this year, which will put downward pressure on everybody's prices.
00:21:33.000But then we're going thing by thing to try to come up with policies that help that as well.
00:21:38.000But the bottom line is that this is a situation that was caused by democratic policies.
00:21:44.000And this is a situation that we're fixing.
00:21:47.000And somehow the fact that prices went up a lot under Joe Biden is suddenly a good talking point for President Trump.
00:22:02.000No, I just, I kind of wanted to, you know, highlight just, I love this, one of the, actually one of the last things Charlie was tweeting about.
00:22:09.000He just talked about he really was fixating on that falling home ownership rate, especially for people about 30 years old when they're in that marrying, getting, having kids range.
00:22:18.000And he just said, you know, you mentioned it's like left-wing policies.
00:22:21.000And he says, we need to restore the social compact.
00:22:24.000And his six parts were deportations, stop the H-1B scam, cut legal immigration and chain migration, build 10 million homes, crush the college cartel.
00:22:33.000And you think like each of those is really a pillar of, you know, Biden era policy of we're not going to deport anybody.
00:22:40.000We're going to give endless money to the college cartel with no change whatsoever.
00:22:44.000We're going to have, you know, endless H-1Bs, you know, whatever the right amount we can debate, but it was basically just more and more and more and more.
00:22:52.000And of course, you can't build any homes because we have endless regulation to strangle it.
00:22:57.000And dismantling that is such a basic step towards making America a functional society for more of the people in it.
00:23:07.000And we could throw that image up 59, Kevin, just so you could take a look at it.
00:23:10.000He was responding to a graph that had been going around.
00:23:12.000This is about a month before he was killed that said that the percentage of 30-year-olds that were both married and owned a home had dropped below 15%.
00:23:23.000And in the, it looks like 1960s, it was over 50%.
00:23:37.000I mean, I don't know if you want to put your macroeconomic hat on.
00:23:40.000If you had to isolate what happened around 1990 from a macroeconomic standpoint or from a societal standpoint that caused that steep decline, what would you identify as the main drivers?
00:23:52.000Well, I think that the steepest decline is really over the last three or four years where the mortgage rate went through the roof.
00:23:58.000But I think that the thing that you guys have been talking about, and Charlie talked about forever, the declining rate of marriage is a really big deal.
00:24:08.000You know, that people get married and then they buy a house and usually people don't do it before then.
00:24:13.000And so I think that if you look at the sort of declining marriage rates over time, that they explain a lot of the declining homeownership.
00:24:22.000And the other thing that you just mentioned about like stop throwing all the money at the colleges so that they could just jack up tuition and everything.
00:24:31.000There's another thing on the affordability question that is underappreciated.
00:24:35.000I just would like to highlight with you guys, which is remember that, so Obamacare was supposed to be Affordable Care Act, right?
00:24:44.000And so all of this stuff, all the fights of the shutdown and everything about the Affordable Care Act, first of all, all those policies were crafted by Democrats.
00:24:51.000Every single one of them, like barely, if ever, got a Republican vote.
00:24:55.000And so if somebody's got a problem with the Affordable Care Act, Dow, then they should blame the Democrats.
00:24:59.000And somehow the Affordable Care Act, if you look at the mainstream media, is President Trump's fault.
00:25:04.000But then the other thing is, and this goes back to your point that you just made so cleverly about the colleges and universities, and something that Charlie highlighted, is that so what happened was that in the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare started giving lots of subsidies to people to buy health insurance.
00:25:20.000And so there is sort of like you get subsidies for going to college.
00:25:24.000And then what happened was that the insurance companies, which give lots of campaign contributions to the Democrats, jacked up their prices.
00:25:30.000And so if you look at the Obamacare insurance programs, the insurance policies, they've increased a rate of inflation of about twice what it is for ordinary private players.
00:25:41.000And so it's a classic case of throwing government money at stuff and then having the people who get the money jacking up the price and giving a worse deal to the American citizen.
00:25:50.000And that's something that Charlie would, of course, spoken up a lot about.
00:25:54.000And it's something that we're paying attention to right now.
00:25:57.000I mean, you could look at universities.
00:25:58.000As soon as we federalize student loans as opposed to private loans, one of our sponsors is YReFi, that actually helps with private student loans.
00:26:06.000You saw a ballooning of college administrative classes.
00:26:09.000I mean, the ratio of teachers to students drops off a clip, but the ratio of administrators to students, I mean, it's ballooned at an astronomical rate.
00:26:22.000And of course, we see building new stadiums, new buildings go through the roof starting the late 90s, early 2000s, and on to today.
00:26:31.000But the quality of the actual education teaching and professors goes down.
00:26:36.000So there is kind of a very interesting parallel to when government gets involved, whether it be in healthcare or in our higher education institutions, a massive decrease in quality.
00:26:47.000Yeah, you know, my sons both went to Columbia University, and I can remember that when my youngest son was going through his classes, one of the required classes he had was critical race theory.
00:27:02.000Columbia, our guys went there because they thought that Columbia was this place where they had the great books program and they still celebrated Western civilization and something, but they squeezed in critical theory as one of the top courses, a required course for everybody at Columbia.
00:27:16.000And so that's the kind of stuff that isn't going to get you a job, I guess, unless the governments are putting you in charge of that for some poor company.
00:27:24.000But that's the kind of thing that's made education less valuable.
00:28:47.000You saw that NBC poll that basically suggested that young men want to get married, start a career, and have kids, and young women want a career, make money, be financially independent.
00:28:57.000Down was 11 out of 13 on the list was have kids and get married.
00:29:01.000I mean, so you're seeing a real societal breakdown when it comes to basic things like, you know, procreating, creating the next generation, and why that's so important.
00:31:41.000And also that chart that you just showed with Peter, the fact is that what the left is doing right now is they're looking at, say, that 24% increase and saying, well, you're down 5%, but you're still up.
00:31:56.000And the bottom line is that they have this massive hole that was dug by Joe Biden and we're filling the hole really fast.
00:32:03.000But the fact that the hole still exists is what they're blaming President Trump for, which is just logically ridiculous.
00:32:09.000And so, you know, my view is that the way that we move forward is that we have a big supply side positive shock for the economy, which we are having because of the Big Beautiful Bill.
00:32:21.000So we're, you know, building factories, we're cutting taxes on overtime and taxes on tips so that people work harder.
00:32:29.000And that increases growth, but it doesn't increase inflation, but it gives you enough growth so that you shouldn't worry about deflation.
00:32:35.000I want to talk about this idea of deflation, right?
00:32:38.000So we've known that this has been a dog of a problem for so many countries like Japan went through a massive deflationary crisis.
00:32:49.000I think that's what people think they're getting, actually, when they think Trump's going to fix the economy, Trump's going to fix what Biden started.
00:32:56.000I think they think that they're getting deflation, but that's bad.
00:32:59.000So what we really need to do is you're talking about the supply side shock.
00:33:03.000President Trump's talking about $16, $17, $18, $19 trillion of investment into the economy.
00:33:12.000You get a tightening job market when you deport illegal immigrants, when you, frankly, when you have a net migration outflow out of the country, right?
00:33:21.000So you tighten the labor supply, then you get wages going up, you get investment, you get this one-year amortization, which is in the accelerated amortization of things like, you know, a restaurant wants to build a kitchen and they can amortize all that in a single year or bigger investments.
00:33:38.000When are we going to start seeing that supply side shock?
00:33:40.000Because I know $19 trillion comes to the economy.
00:33:43.000If that materializes, that's going to be huge, but it's going to take a little while.
00:33:47.000How do you predict the next six to 12 months going?
00:33:54.000If you look at capital spending this year, it's pretty much up by almost as much as we saw all four years for Joe Biden.
00:34:01.000There's been a capital spending boom because people want to build factories and create jobs in the U.S.
00:34:06.000And in fact, it was one of my favorite little footnotes about the State of the Union address.
00:34:10.000I guess we're supposed to call it something else, the joint session of Congress.
00:34:13.000But when we were editing the final draft, one of the nerdy things that the economic team asked the president to stick in was that whenever we pass the Big Beautiful Bill, we're going to make the accelerated depreciation, the expensing of new equipment and new factories retroactive to his address that night.
00:34:31.000And then what we saw was that there was an explosion of investment already because people knew we were going to pass the big beautiful bill and we gave them this massive tax incentive to do it.
00:34:39.000And so it's really underway, a big part of it.
00:34:42.000But one of the things that happens in terms of the big wage effects that we're going to see is that people tend to get their wage adjusted if they're not changing jobs in January.
00:34:52.000And so there's going to be really big salary increases.
00:34:54.000They're already underway this year, but when do you see January?
00:34:57.000And the other thing is, because it takes a while for the IRS to do the forums, the no tax on tips, the no tax on overtime, a lot of people aren't going to see that until April when they get their refunds.
00:35:06.000And so the bottom line is there's a lot of really good after-tax news coming for next year, and it won't be deflationary.
00:35:12.000The way you get deflationary is you remember they called it the new normal under Obama.
00:35:16.000You just can't grow very much and you got like really, really low price inflation, even deflation.
00:35:22.000Well, that's because they put a straitjacket around the economy.
00:35:43.000I know this isn't necessarily in your portfolio, but I saw Stephen Moran.
00:35:47.000He went on, I don't remember one of the networks and said that he believes that deportations, mass deportations, are deflationary, meaning they actually do drop prices or reduce the rate of inflation potentially.
00:36:04.000Do you think that the U.S. economy still needs 1 to 1.2 million green cards, including H-1Bs and all that stuff, given AI is coming down the pike?
00:36:13.000We got this job insecurity with new grads.