In this episode of The Culture War Podcast, we discuss immigration, free trade, H-1B, outsourcing, and much more. We are joined by Elijah Schaefer, Brad Palumbo, and Phil Labonte to discuss it all.
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00:00:59.320Welcome, my friends. This is the Culture War Podcast. I am Tim Poole, your host. We're going to debate stuff.
00:01:15.200And we're going to talk about culture, American culture, economics, free trade, etc.
00:01:20.780There was a big debate that happened in December on the internet, and people were talking about H-1B visas,
00:01:27.780whether we should be bringing people in to do these jobs that was marketed as high-skill labor.
00:01:32.780But then people started pulling up H-1B applications, finding that there were like casino dealers and servers
00:01:39.580and Panda Express employees that they were trying to get H-1B visas for.
00:01:43.620Now, these jobs are considered entry-level, meaning if Americans need jobs, then we should be training Americans to do these jobs.
00:01:50.660So this debate got pretty intense. Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk got a lot of flack for this.
00:01:54.840Recently, Donald Trump stated at a press conference that he was in favor of H-1B because we need wine experts and waiters.
00:02:01.740That's right, waiters, like people to serve you food.
00:02:03.800Now, a lot of people did not, the debate did not reignite, which is surprising to me,
00:02:10.020and very few people covered that Donald Trump said this, considering how angry the Trump base was over this.
00:02:14.100But there was a question that arose that, or I should say a point was made by Sam Hyde.
00:02:19.040He released a video on the unquantifiable.
00:02:21.340So what we're going to do is we're going to discuss free trade, H-1B, outsourcing, etc.
00:02:25.980And I believe it will be a lot of discussion, quite a bit of debate, and we're going to get to the root issues around culture, economics, and immigration.
00:02:34.340We've got a handful of really great people joining us today to talk about all of this.
00:36:59.360I fast track through it through an inner city program.
00:37:01.940And then I'm the only white guy hired because I have, you know, two high of credentials, no offense to teachers, but to be like a bachelor's, you know, high school teacher at the time.
00:37:10.020They had to split into groups, right, where, you know, you'd be in the oppressor or the oppressed.
00:37:52.000I'm saying, but I woke up to going, yeah, your credential and your pedigree can easily become completely depleted or not even worth anything if what the cultural mindset and values that are at play are not aligned with what we want.
00:38:07.920And the reason why I say that is right now I was trying to reference Australia.
00:38:12.200Australia is a good example that we can look at if what you're saying is true.
00:38:16.820Because Australia has less people than live in California, less people than live in Florida, in an entire country, the landmass of the United States.
00:38:31.640This is a serious player with multi-trillion dollar GDP.
00:38:34.760Australia right now has taken the mindset that they are a global country, that they are an economic zone, that anybody can come.
00:38:41.900They've made a deal with Modi to bring in a million more, up to a million more Indians per year.
00:38:45.320They have a deal with China to bring in China if they have a certain amount of wealth in their bank.
00:38:49.100And what you're having right now is the most explosive, denigrating destruction of a country we will see in terms of – it is, besides Hong Kong, the second highest housing market in the country.
00:38:58.080Because you're bringing in people that are artificially inflating the home prices.
00:39:02.160You have – but you also have the socialist government, like you said, which I'll agree, that's restricting home building to prevent environmental destruction.
00:39:18.680But eight to ten times last time I read of entry-level salary with a four-year degree just to be able to get an entry-level two-bedroom, one-bathroom house there.
00:39:26.160On top of that, the competition there – like I have three friends there myself who have had to leave cities, move around, and one moved to Poland because they cannot compete with the Indians.
00:39:37.020They're trained at the University of Sydney, the best university there, and they cannot compete because they keep getting lower wages and agreeing to lower wages than they want.
00:39:43.840I've watched that culture get destroyed, and I'm seeing it at such a homogenous level across every major city, Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra.
00:39:54.920It's all being destroyed, and I go – I look at that as an American, and I go, I see that here regionally in some places.
00:40:01.180I just don't want that for the whole country.
00:40:03.100And I know I'm not – sorry, I should say that on YouTube.
00:40:05.380I know I'm not – you know, the R word because it looks like the whole country or at least half the country is seeing what I'm seeing.
00:40:11.140So it just feels like – it feels like I'm talking to a woke person because all I'm hearing is my experience, my truth, my anecdotal evidence.
00:40:20.540What about the overarching trend of the entire nation?
00:40:22.120Everything you just talked about, for example.
00:40:53.940Immigration does not lower wages except for one subgroup of Americans.
00:40:58.420Immigration leads to an increase in jobs for domestic-born Americans, an increase in wages for domestic-born Americans because it's not just an increase in labor.
00:41:08.580It's not just an increase in the supply of labor because if all that changed – and this is kind of the talking point – was, oh, well, now we have more people competing for the jobs, of course then wages would go down.
00:41:17.660But also the demand for all the other goods and services around them in the community also goes up.
00:41:23.300The total productive capacity of the nation and the economy goes up when you have more people who can work and produce.
00:41:30.680And what that means is higher wages and more jobs.
00:41:53.340It's the fact that you cannot import massive amounts of people.
00:41:56.040So, graph, go up and then wonder why it is that your mall no longer has Christmas morning with Santa Claus and they're doing a holiday festival season instead.
00:42:24.980I just feel like you guys live in a different reality than I do.
00:42:28.540I live in a reality where I've watched numerous different subcultures be completely gutted and decimated and industries ripped to shreds by this graph go up mentality of neolibs and libertarians.
00:43:28.920You're both making two different arguments.
00:43:31.280And the real situation is there is a balance between the two.
00:43:36.160Because Tim is talking about the important thing from his perspective is that the society and the culture take precedence over the economy.
00:43:47.300The economy lives to serve the society and the culture because the society and the culture are the people.
00:43:53.240So the reason that you worry about economic, you know, graph go up or however you want to phrase it, the reason you worry about those things is because that is in service to the people.
00:44:03.580The argument that you're making, Brad, sounds like the people are in service to the economy.
00:44:08.800No, it's that the economy is inextricable from people's well-being.
00:44:32.580But Tim is arguing that part of the reason why we see a decline in overall feelings of satisfaction in life, why we see people that have a higher rate of depression in our society,
00:44:44.560why we see all these negative results in people's lives, is because we're focusing only on things like economic prosperity.
00:44:52.020And we're not focusing on having more kids, which is another symptom of the problem that Tim is addressing.
00:44:58.180You're not addressing the problem that Tim is.
00:45:01.220And Tim is, I mean, maybe Tim doesn't understand.
00:45:06.200The argument is literally that graph go up is short-sighted and stupid and leads to civilization collapse.
00:45:13.000A paraplegic, one year after their accident, and a lottery winner, one year after winning, register the same levels of happiness.
00:45:19.540That talking about people are not in poverty today, it's nebulous in that poverty will always exist because poverty is relative to the wealth of a nation.
00:45:30.000There's absolute measures of poverty as well.
00:45:31.580And there are people that care about their traditions, their moral frameworks, and the idea of we're going to take the manufacturing from Michigan and send it to Mexico.
00:45:41.920It's a good thing because overall the numbers go up.
00:45:44.680Tell it to the families in Michigan who are forced to flee as the state collapses because the hard fixed costs of infrastructure don't change and the jobs are gone.
00:45:52.480Meaning for the average person, their share of taxes and services they have to pay for increases as people leave and there are no jobs.
00:45:59.120Do you think the state of Michigan has collapsed?
00:46:01.400Do you know what's going on in Michigan?
00:46:13.920What happened in Flint, Michigan was that the hard cost to run a water infrastructure is the same no matter how many people live there up to a certain point.
00:46:21.440So when Detroit has—let's just use hypothetical numbers—one million people and it costs one million dollars per month to run that, everyone spends a dollar and nobody cares.
00:46:29.840When the jobs were gutted from the state and the state started experiencing a mass net out migration, the share per person for the cost of water increased dramatically to the point where this area had the highest water costs in the country because there were no jobs.
00:46:45.960So what Flint, Michigan did was they said our people are in poverty and can't afford the high cost of water from the Detroit infrastructure.
00:46:53.460And then you end up with Legionnaire's disease and this crisis where people are now suffering and dying and getting sick because they couldn't afford the massive infrastructure as the economy collapsed.
00:47:05.940It's about the decisions the local government made at every step of that process.
00:47:09.880Not being able to afford water from Detroit because the auto manufacturing was gone?
00:47:13.000Much poorer places than Flint, Michigan managed to not poison their own citizens with water.
00:47:17.240They didn't know that their water was bad and they got off the expensive water from Detroit because they couldn't afford the infrastructure anymore.
00:47:23.800And they didn't want to test the water?
00:47:26.020They didn't have the tax base because the jobs are gone and people are fleeing Michigan.
00:47:30.660If you need one million people to sustain a system and half of them jump ship, the cost double for everybody.
00:47:36.520But I feel like we're kind of talking past each other because no one has ever said that free trade doesn't have consequences, that doesn't have downsides, that there aren't winners and losers.
00:47:45.420And so what we're talking about here is –
00:47:47.200Some people are left behind by economic progress.
00:47:49.820The utilitarian argument versus the deontological argument.
00:47:52.040That doesn't mean you try to free society in time.
00:47:54.600You're saying the word progress over and over again because you're making an emotional play as something we should be doing.
00:47:59.220But it's not – progress is a vague term that has no relevance here.
00:48:14.600How do you define these terms real fast for everyone?
00:48:16.280Because also, breaking news, Trump's border czar Tom Homan just said right now that while he's deporting the illegals who have committed heinous crimes after Brad Palumbo said 1950s kitchens were worse than modern kitchens, he's deporting him too.
00:48:39.100I think we're in an era where a lot of terms were defined to meet a culture where it was at, and now they've been abused.
00:48:47.900A good example, I want to juxtapose this.
00:48:50.300We're talking about immigration with birthright citizenship, right?
00:48:53.100We know Trump created this block on birthright citizenship, and people start accusing him as being racist.
00:48:59.240This idea that if you are both illegal parents, and you come to this country, and you have a kid on this solid ground in our borders, that your child can now be an American citizen.
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00:50:33.700Not only that, my wife is a green card permanent resident, and to get her over seven months pregnant with our second child and not get those C-19 jabby-jabbies was also an incredibly difficult thing.
00:50:44.880Just getting a legal resident back in the country was hard.
00:50:46.600But also, I saw this process where even as a citizen, just to get my kid's citizenship in America while I was overseas was so complex and so hard.
00:50:55.000And I go, why is it – I'm an American citizen and it's harder for me to get my kid's citizenship than it is for any legal domestically to get their kid's citizenship.
00:51:02.700Why are they getting easier access to citizenship for their children than I have to mine around the world?
00:51:11.660But I'm saying it's funny because what they said constantly in the interviews at the USCIS was this.
00:51:16.420It's like, well, I kept finding it ironic with the birthright citizenship.
00:51:19.280They kept saying, yeah, well, like if one of the parents isn't an American, then your child's not an American.
00:51:23.100And then I'd be like, well, do I – what other document do you need from – we need an original birth certificate and it's got to be, you know, notarized in the U.S.
00:51:29.640And I'd be like, how do I get something notarized in the U.S. when I'm – do I have to fly back?
00:52:15.520It's like when – what is free trade?
00:52:17.460So like if we are – if me and Tim have Pokemon cards and we're both friends and I know we have a high trust society between us and I have my cards out and he's not going to steal my holographic Charizard.
00:52:46.640We both are – he's in a way higher income bracket than me but we're in high income brackets and so there's some sort of connection.
00:52:52.520But if you brought me that, you know, Walmart Haitian, you know, guy who just came here and we're trading cards and he knows that my Charizard is worth $400, I'm really not going to trust to close my eyes and do a trade because, look, I have reasons to doubt that this guy has my best interest in mind.
00:53:07.760I have reasons to doubt not because he's black, not because he's Haitian, not because he has a low IQ but simply because all those ideas combined plus I don't know him.
00:54:55.160We would have to get it from somewhere that's more expensive or less efficient.
00:54:59.440So let's say, I don't know, like a war broke out and then like trade just shuttered and there's no shipping lanes because they're under attack.
00:55:06.260What would the U.S. do to like, I don't know, build houses and roads and get fuel?
00:55:10.660A war broke out between the U.S. and Canada?
00:56:41.020Free trade because we have no regulations over there and Apple and these other computer manufacturers says we don't care if the employees are 16 people jammed in a 10 by 10 room to the point they can't quit.
00:56:51.380So they go up on top of the building, line up, and just walk off to die.
00:57:10.260When we talk about free trade versus protectionism, it's a spectrum.
00:57:13.860And even the most diehard economists who advocate for free trade have always acknowledged there are certain narrow sub-exceptions where some protection can be appropriate.
00:57:22.500So the things that I am upset about right now, you agree, are actually bad?
00:57:26.200Well, I don't think I agree about the scope of some of the things you're saying, no.
01:05:02.220So you just showed one terrible story from a country with billions of people
01:05:08.280and asked me if we should shut down trade with a whole country based on one anecdotal story from 2010 about one company in horrific conditions.
01:05:38.500Once again, we are now at the utilitarian versus the deontological moral philosophy of...
01:05:43.060I think we as a country, if we are looking at another country, driving people to mass suicide, in any degree, we have to stop and say,
01:05:51.020you are putting our entire trade agreements at risk because of the squalor conditions you have put these people in that's resulting in mass suicide.
01:05:59.080If but one person is living as a slave, I have a problem with that and don't see why graphs go up, why we should make money in any way off of a foreign country that is doing something like this.
01:06:09.040So one person living as a slave in a country of billions of people, what you just said, we should write off trade with the whole country.
01:07:48.580If we were going to cut off trade with every country that's violating human rights in different ways, we couldn't trade with many countries.
01:07:55.160And most countries couldn't trade with us.
01:08:46.380So how about Donald Trump says, if we find out that you continue this process, we are going to put a 30% tariff on all goods and stop selling to you.
01:08:53.660And what happens when they don't stop?
01:09:09.580That's my level of poverty would have increased.
01:09:12.800Now, what we're getting, by the way, is we're getting a super cheapening of our culture.
01:09:16.060And I think what matters to me the most, which might be the greatest point of contention here, is that when you said about free trade, about how important it is, to me, free trade is one of the least of our value sets.
01:09:28.880The core identity is why are we trading in the first place?
01:09:31.460We're trading in the first place to guarantee the success of our current lives, our offspring, and future generations.
01:09:38.520We are to build a strong nation state, right?
01:09:41.420Right now, we are operating in the West like we are on Tatooine in America.
01:09:46.220The world is just a bunch of planets, and everyone has a trading outpost.
01:09:50.000And you go there, and there's aliens of all shapes and sizes, and somehow there's some shadow government, you know, with the stormtroopers and the empire sort of managing it all.
01:09:57.700In reality, that's not how things work.
01:09:59.900That is, our founding fathers created this country to literally, to be a European nation that was free from tyranny, that was free from totalitarian overreach from the crown, that they would have representation.
01:10:12.180And that it would, like from the days, they said, of Moses, the days of Noah, this would be like a rebirth, and a new nation would form, and a new people of European descent.
01:10:20.760Over time, you know, legally, again, my personal opinions aside, after wars were fought, like in 1870, people came together and said, you know, maybe seeing, you know, black people as three-fifths of value, you know, may align with the founding fathers, but we're going to redefine that.
01:10:35.580We're going to give them, you know, their ability to vote and to have full legal citizenship.
01:10:38.920Hold on. The South argued it would be really bad for their economy if they stopped slavery.
01:10:42.380This is what I'm trying to say, is that a lot of this stuff was an economic battle to begin with, that's exactly where I was going, was that there was an economic –
01:10:49.880That's actually not true. Slavery hurt the American economy.
01:10:51.940There was an economic battle here. Look, there was an economic battle here, and at some point, whether you're in the comments and you're a racist and you hate that slavery ended, or you're a radical progressive and that's your favorite time in history, I don't care where you fall on the political spectrum.
01:11:05.360The point was there was an economic disagreement, and that economic disagreement in some ways was about the identity of specific regions.
01:11:12.800That did spark a war. I'm not going down Civil War history chat. We're not doing this. I'm just saying this did.
01:11:18.680And then there was a redefinition of what? Is there an economic – was there an immediate economic benefit per se, you might argue, of making slaves citizens or at least giving them rights?
01:11:28.020Maybe. But the whole – well, not for everyone. The whole point was that there was a moral direction decided by a nation to go outside of just purely economics.
01:11:38.320It was like the ethos of who we are. And so that was added. That being said, the original founders' principles of what they wanted this country to be didn't change.
01:11:47.320And I think people don't realize that just because, like, for instance, if I became a Roman citizen, which even Paul in the Bible, I believe he did, he became a citizen, he doesn't become Latin.
01:11:55.720He doesn't become what we'd call modern-day Italian. He doesn't become a Roman. He's still a Jew, right?
01:12:00.380And that's what he says. Like, I'm a citizen, but at the same time, I'm still a Jew like you, but I also am a citizen.
01:12:05.420Our country, from the original founding of being a European colony, having this ethos, securing our offspring, creating this free state, realized along the way or at least came together and decided they got some things wrong about the value of other races, human life, and things in our country.
01:12:18.660And we've grafted people in legally, like, right there, 1870. Fast forward this and we realize, you know what?
01:12:23.820But actually, besides our benevolence, I always said, I guess you used the R word, so I will too, the greatest threat against right now Protestant Christian Americanism is that people have raped our benevolence.
01:12:33.520Is that, you know, people went, okay, well, we shouldn't be treating black people like they're not human.
01:12:36.520We should give them citizenship, and we'll even fight to make sure they have rights.
01:12:39.940And at the same time in this, people are like, okay, so that means illegals can come over at open border and have anchor babies.
01:12:44.560We got to a point now where it's so corrupt and so distrusted that we're losing our identity of who we are, okay?
01:12:49.920We haven't even dealt with the racial tensions between whites and black people substantially in a way that's even made progress, okay?
01:12:56.300A lot of black people I know hate white people.
01:12:58.040A lot of white people do not really like black people, and they have their reasons.
01:13:01.000We have systemic issues in our nation that need to be solved, and now we're importing Indians?
01:13:06.120And Vivek is supposed to be the example when he's so out of touch with our culture and what we are and what we want.
01:13:10.720Not only that, but he scammed his entire base with his pump-and-dump pharma scam.
01:13:15.140I mean, you know, Indian and scammers, I'm not going to make a comment there.
01:13:53.340So literally, it's European Enlightenment ideas.
01:13:54.340Anyone can hold values or not hold values.
01:13:56.180They can, but that's why they moved here.
01:13:58.300You're going to tell me that the original people didn't move here.
01:14:00.380He's saying that other races have in-group preference.
01:14:02.820Yeah, and people have come here and assimilated.
01:14:04.640But right now what we're having is we're not having very strict immigration from, let's say, an Asian country or an African country where you're like,
01:14:10.960okay, this person obviously may have helped us in a war.
01:14:50.980The actual issue is that white Americans tend to have an out-group preference, but every other race in the world has an in-group preference.
01:16:31.120So, of course, there's like if you go to Sweden, everyone's tall.
01:16:35.020And if you go to Thailand, I've made the point everyone's short.
01:16:36.860Those things do play a role in culture to a degree.
01:16:39.680However, if a Swedish person is born and raised in the United States in an American cultural family, they will largely just be American culture.
01:16:59.180We have an integrative society too as well.
01:17:00.540The point is there's a bit of nature in nurture, but largely nurture takes the forefront.
01:17:05.140The issue that we have in this country is that while we may recognize that as an American country, there can be someone who I grew up with who's black, Asian, Mexican or otherwise, and they love Christmas and they love baseball.
01:17:16.680We're good friends and don't you dare insult my friend over the way they look.
01:17:19.800The problem is white Americans have a net out-group preference, meaning they tend not to like white people, but every other race has a net in-group preference, and that's going to create racial animosity to an extreme degree.
01:17:39.580You were talking about a very small little neighborhood in a city.
01:17:42.480I'm talking about, but the majority black areas at the greater region of Southside Chicago, we could talk about from every country, meaning there is an understanding that we've already seen it with Sierra Leone.
01:17:54.580You can't just take people who fundamentally value different things, like Africans who look to ancestors in the past, where Protestants were to hope in the future.
01:18:01.320No, no, no, but you're talking about cultural regions.
01:18:02.240I know, but I'm saying you can't just throw on, like we sell Sierra Leone, you can't just throw on Liberia and these other places that are now just hotbeds of slavery.
01:18:11.280I think Liberia is the best example of just giving them an American constitution, a parliament.
01:18:44.740There is multiple things involved in this.
01:18:46.640It can also be religion, because I know the Pakistanis don't like them because they're unhygienic.
01:18:50.100So, you know, there's not a lot of dissimilarity and genetic code between the Pakistanis and the Indians.
01:18:54.220Obviously, it's just a line made up by the British Empire.
01:18:57.140But my point of what I'm saying is that there still is a dispensation of these people to where, you know, I'm going to say this in the Bible.
01:19:04.800We can take biblical reference because this is what it is.
01:19:07.620Like when you have Hagar and you have Abram and you go down and you create this, you know, you have the Jewish people coming from like Sarai and going down here.
01:19:14.440And then you have the Hagar, the Arabs, right, coming down from this side.
01:19:17.560And they both think that God's their promise.
01:19:19.160That's why we have the war going on in Israel and Palestine.
01:20:34.920Because he said, no, because he said, you're going to be wild like donkeys.
01:20:38.280We're totally off-train in economics and you're talking about religion in the Bible.
01:20:40.340No, I'm not, I'm not, I'm talking about genetics here.
01:20:43.160I'm saying, he said that you will be wild like donkeys, your hands will be against all people, and people will be at war with you.
01:20:48.120You will be at war with them until the end of time.
01:20:50.000And what do we see with the Arab people?
01:20:51.760It is just constant war with the world, constant tension, and there is something about who they are and what happened with them that they have this problem.
01:20:59.700To this day, it's one of the main issues.
01:21:01.180It's culture, but he thinks he's a race essentialist, I think.
01:21:04.000He thinks people are defined in part by their skin color and their genetics.
01:23:58.140I think that a lot of black kids, a lot of Asian kids, they literally hang out with each other because of their race, but it's a surface-level thing rooted in the remnants of culture.
01:24:08.240So when you have – in Chicago being the obvious example because the history of redlining, which then ended up happening in tons of different cities, the real estate – and blockbusting.
01:24:17.280Real estate markets intentionally isolated certain areas of the city to sell specifically to black people.
01:24:37.220Well, so here's the funny thing about the Civil War and slavery and all this is that we didn't have Loving v. Virginia in 1967.
01:24:45.140So we're talking about the North apparently wanting to end slavery because of – no, no.
01:24:49.440They very much were very racist, and segregation persisted for 100 years or whatever, I could say to the extreme degree.
01:24:56.140And so what ends up happening then is through the actual culture of the United States, the race-based policies, and largely of the slaves wanting to live with each other, you get segregated areas.
01:25:06.300It then gets codified through – or not necessarily codified in the legal sense, but it gets expanded through redlining and blockbusting tactics in the real estate market, which results in literal black neighborhoods in major cities that were put there through covenant.
01:25:22.640And St. Louis largely had this problem.
01:25:24.040What then happens is the grandchildren – not even the grandchildren, because we're talking about the 80s this was going on.
01:25:29.660We're talking about literally 30-something, like 30, 40-year-olds today who were forced by policy to live in areas only with other black people.
01:25:38.080So then there's going to be racial preference due to who they grew up around.
01:25:41.900And when they go to school, they're going to be like, these are the people I know from my community.
01:25:46.500I like to think the United States, as we have abolished these things and made them illegal, and the efforts of crushing DEI have been dramatically resisting this primitive remnants of history of isolating everybody by race.
01:26:11.600Those are all just modern, colloquial terms that have been ingrained into our head through the reimagining and the liberalization post-World War II.
01:26:17.560There's been a reimagining of the West and the world, and it doesn't work.
01:26:20.080Look, I'm not saying that when I say we didn't win World War II, I'm not saying that Hitler was right.
01:53:36.480The story of California is actually quite interesting in that the simple version is Reagan gave amnesty
01:53:42.100to certain young people, and then when they tried passing a law in the 90s that would stop the use of public funds on non-citizens, those children who now had the right to vote voted against it because their family were non-citizens and didn't live here.
01:53:54.680So it's actually quite simple with mass migration.
01:53:57.340I don't care about the ethnic argument.
01:53:59.740I believe about the culture and the moral value argument.
01:54:02.240But when you bring in tons of people and then give them any kind of weight in government, be it through the electoral process for the president or congressional seats, the people like AOC, they'll come out and tell you outright, I represent the undocumented.
01:54:16.980And the undocumented interests are not in this country.
01:54:20.980They're in their family that largely are outside this country, meaning they either want them to come here or they want to send money to them.
01:54:27.420The people in this country who have been here for a long time have interests in, like, my dad used to play at that park when he was a kid with my grandpa.
01:55:49.040It tears away at the unquantifiable things that we care about and want to pass on to our children that we think we're good.
01:55:54.160The reason this is bad in the long run, that we don't maintain these traditions.
01:55:59.360But that primarily relies on the idea of non-citizen voting.
01:56:02.520So just don't allow non-citizen, undocumented people voting.
01:56:05.340I specifically reference how in California they gave amnesty to the children of non-citizens or through, say, birthright citizenship.
01:56:10.920And when those people grew up, they did not recognize why a park where your grandfather played baseball has any value to the community, and they vote against it.
01:56:47.140When some things don't work, they dissolve.
01:56:49.060The Soviet Union lasted only 69 years.
01:56:50.840America is over 250 because good ideas persist, and we want to maintain and preserve those.
01:56:55.740If we erode at those good ideas, say, we now vote.
01:56:59.980You, good sir, your family's been here for 10 years.
01:57:02.820Your children were granted amnesty or they now grant a congressional seat and the member of Congress is voting at the federal level.
01:57:10.020You then end up with voting on interests that don't recognize the moral traditions and values that resulted in the success of this country.
01:57:15.640And then you actually will end up with cultural decay and degradation, moral decay and degradation, crime, etc.
01:57:21.880And we could talk about multiculturalism in the greater sense.
01:57:24.700You end up with, say, Dearborn, Michigan having female genital mutilation at extreme degrees, and the community, they're voting in favor of it, rejecting outside pressures to make it stop.
01:57:33.240Yeah, well, I think that's a unique aspect of that one particular culture that had some pretty toxic ideas.
01:57:39.080It's a specific example of a very extreme bad thing.
01:57:41.760But when I point out that, I'm simply highlighting that extreme bad things have happened, which we should stop, but understand that at the granular level, that may be what we would describe as acute malfeasance through cultural difference.
01:57:53.600Or maybe malfeasance is not the right word, but a unique crisis that we can see right away.
01:58:01.260There are certain things that are below the threshold of reaching national news.
01:58:06.360So when you get a news report about Afghan refugees in Sweden that are raping little boys, and this is a practice in Afghanistan, it's very common, where groups of young boys will capture another young boy and they'll rape them in the ass.
01:58:36.740Female genital mutilation and the raping of small children, shocking to a society, and they say that should be stopped.
01:58:42.260However, if one instance of that happens, you can get a reaction from a society.
01:58:46.500What if you get 100 instances of a community saying, we don't want baseball fields anymore?
01:58:50.880Well, no one's going to publish a national news story saying that the community has voted against a baseball field, but that means the baseball field will be gone.
01:58:57.200If people still want baseball fields, if a lot of people still want them, they'll still be baseball fields.
01:59:01.440So if we can simplify this even further, if me and my roommate every day vote for lunch and we agree pizza is the best lunch, we have pizza every day.
01:59:16.240Then two people are moved in by your landlord with, you know, he's the guy who owns the apartment, says they're going to live here now, and vote for lunch.
01:59:22.720And you guys say pizza and they say cheeseburgers.
01:59:24.460And you go, whoa, whoa, whoa, but we don't want cheeseburgers.
01:59:32.660That is not a national crisis and it's not a wrong opinion.
01:59:35.240It's the loss of our moral tradition and our values, which many people who live here, whose ancestors sacrificed and dedicated their lives to building up this place, we are sad to see these things go.
01:59:47.120It is not wrong that some South Americans who move here don't want a baseball field.
01:59:53.520They're entitled when they're here to express their opinions as what we should allocate funds for.
01:59:58.540And when you get a member of Congress who has 17% or whatever their district be undocumented, illegal, or otherwise, they are going to pursue the interests of that group.
02:00:07.360And that group largely is going to say, I don't know or care why that statue is important.
02:00:11.540But the people who said, that's a statue of my friend's great-grandfather who died in World War II, saving the life of a small child who went on to rescue a bunch of Jews, whatever the story may be.
02:00:23.080The people who don't live here and aren't from here don't know or care.
02:00:26.320I think increasingly a large share of native-born people don't know history or value traditions as well.
02:00:35.760But not because of immigration, because of their own ignorance and lack of education.
02:00:39.280And I think a large component is free trade, which is why I brought the issue up.
02:00:42.940When we have community centers and a requirement for industry to train young people because the industry hub is in that place, but we outsource all that stuff away, there's no longer communal gatherings or cultural gatherings.
02:00:53.680And that's one component of the moral degradation and the degradation of tradition in this country.
02:01:10.760Oh, I brought that up to make a really good example.
02:01:12.580When you guys were talking about billionaires and the powerful elites, Jeff Yass is maintaining Chinese influence and propagandistic control in the United States for his economic interest.
02:01:21.600Can I say with this, okay, so by the way, for people watching this, right, some people are like, oh, win Brad, you know, win Tim, L-Tim, win Elijah, L-Elijah, whatever.
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02:02:35.900Having the conversation that's the more important thing so that people can voice their opinions because we've been silenced for too long.
02:02:41.220There's been too much shutting people down.
02:02:43.060I think that's where sometimes people get, you know, with Tim, they'll be like, either he's, you know, anti-Israel pro, you know, or he's a shill, or he's got too based of a guest on,
02:03:17.340What I meant is like, look, I came on here and I even saw, I see all these conspiracies about things, people in the chat like, oh, Elijah hasn't been mentioned this or that.
02:03:36.340I understand that, you know, this is a platform and that we're talking about, you know, very complicated and contentious topics that if you talk about them the wrong way, it's not Tim that will get mad.
02:03:44.180It's the people at YouTube that are going to get the most angry.