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00:04:02.220There is a website I want you to go to.
00:04:03.980It's called RestoreAmericanSchools.com.
00:04:07.640And it is a partnership with the American Journey Experience.
00:04:11.000If you don't know what the American Journey Experience, that is an offshoot of Mercury One.
00:04:16.020It is our history department, and you're going to be hearing a lot about the American Journey Experience soon.
00:04:22.320But this is the one that we are collecting all of the documents, we're preserving history, and we're teaching history.
00:04:30.280So we put a partnership together with Patriot Mobile, American Journey Experience, and Wall Builders, plus the Pro Family Legislative Network, which is an amazing organization.
00:04:40.680Ten other groups have all gotten together, and this is a movement to restore the Ten Commandments back into public school classrooms.
00:05:33.740This doesn't have to be about theological differences, okay?
00:05:38.960This is a warning against idolatry in all of its forms.
00:05:42.560When we make the state, or money, or race, or creed, or technology, anything, the ultimate authority, we create a God that will consume us, okay?
00:05:55.600This commandment teaches us that the truth comes from something much, much higher.
00:06:01.220It's the beginning of limits on power, limits on government, because they are not a god.
00:06:09.040I want to show you how the Ten Commandments alone can restore our republic.
00:06:14.160You just have to know how to read them without just focusing on the religious aspect of it.
00:06:24.140So, no God before me, no king, no mob, no party, no job, nothing, nothing.
00:06:36.580You shall not make yourself a carved image.
00:07:12.580We are full of images in the media, manufactured images, and its relevance with AI, which is now creating images that will be your partner, your lover, your friend.
00:07:53.640This is about the misuse of moral authority, and I learned that we have now at American Journey Experience, we have the largest collection of Jamestown and Pilgrim documents and artifacts in the world.
00:08:06.440And one of the things that the pilgrims printed right before the king went and tried to get him was a little pamphlet almost, and it was going to their church in Perth, England.
00:08:25.600And they printed it and said, don't do these things.
00:09:09.900That is, I mean, that's an amazing thing.
00:09:13.860If you could live that one so much where your testimony is, I know that, I know the commandment not to take the Lord's God, the Lord God's name in vain.
00:09:24.500Number four, remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy.
00:09:38.340Now, where would the progressive movement be if they couldn't stop child labor?
00:09:46.800Well, not in pot farms, but if they couldn't stop child labor under Teddy Roosevelt, do you think we would have a, do they have, do they have seven day work weeks or do they have weekends off, you know, in China?
00:10:02.460Did it, when slaves were around, did, did they have weekends off?
00:10:06.580They're like, hey, you can whip me, but not on a Saturday or a Sunday because I'm not working today.
00:10:13.340This, this is something radical, dignity for workers, the right to rest, the rhythm of renewal.
00:10:22.080In a world that never sleeps, we forget the human soul needs time, unmonetized, unplugged, rest one day.
00:10:34.600Do you see, are you beginning to see how these are the reason why we have lost our way as a society is because we've forgotten the Ten Commandments and it really doesn't.
00:10:43.740I've said this for a year, if Moses would have come down and said, these are the Ten Commandments and God commanding, we get what we get.
00:10:52.220When you go into an amoral society and nobody cares about God, everybody forgets it.
00:10:56.520But if we would just repackage it as Moe's top ten tips and we put it into a slick Instagram thing and Moe was there going, hey, hey, I got something cool to tell you about, everybody would live it.
00:11:10.020Because it's what builds civilizations.
00:28:19.940And my job is not to help him get elected.
00:28:22.840Even though I think I, you know, my personal time, I think I did that because I so believed this is the end of the country without him.
00:28:32.340And I still believe he's, he is moving towards the best president in the history of the country, absent George Washington, Abraham Lincoln.
00:28:46.600And he might, if we go through what I think we're going to go through, he might actually rival Abraham Lincoln.
00:28:55.140So I, I have tremendous respect for what he's doing.
00:28:59.320Only time will tell if any of that is true and history will judge, but on the pace that he's at right now and the things that he has done, it is remarkable.
00:35:34.060They have the fingerprints of 1,000 people on it.
00:35:37.020They have, it sat around at the Justice Department on God knows whose desk or in what vault and who had access to it for at least four years under the Democratic control.
00:39:02.440So, the really incredible thing, though, is the more you look at the numbers, the more obvious it is that this does not prove inflation at all.
00:39:11.400For starters, these numbers are lower than what the numbers were in December and January, before Trump was president, and before we had any talk of tariffs at all.
00:39:20.540So, that is a big red flag right from the very beginning.
00:39:24.220When you dive even deeper into the numbers, what you see is that there's all kinds of parts of the consumer price index that track specific industries or kinds of goods and services that should be showing inflation if inflation is being caused by tariffs but isn't.
00:39:41.180So, for example, clothing and apparel, 97%, basically, about 97%, according to one report, of clothing and apparel comes from overseas, is imported into the United States.
00:40:04.960Obviously, there were huge tariffs put on foreign vehicles, not on domestic vehicles, so it's a little bit more mixed.
00:40:12.480But new vehicle prices are staying basically flat.
00:40:16.920They haven't gone up at all, even though there's a 25% tariff on imported cars and car parts.
00:40:22.500And then when you just look at the overall import prices, just sort of in an index, which the government tracks, what we're seeing is that prices are basically staying the same from what they were a year ago.
00:40:37.720There's very, very little movement overall.
00:41:09.580Is it possible they're just doing this right now to get past because they know if they jack up their price, you know, they're not going to be able to sell anything?
00:41:26.920Well, there's a few ways this could be happening.
00:41:29.860I think the most likely scenario is that they are passing it along to consumers.
00:41:35.160They're just not passing it along to American consumers.
00:41:38.680In other words, they're raising prices elsewhere to try to protect the competitiveness with the American market because the American market is the most important consumer market in the world.
00:41:49.000And they probably don't want to piss off Donald Trump either by jacking up prices and then potentially having tariffs go up even more as a punishment for doing that because that's a real option.
00:41:59.940And so I think that's what's happening right now.
00:42:03.000Now, it's possible that we're going to see a huge increase in inflation in six months.
00:42:11.800But as of right now, all the data is suggesting that recent inflation is not coming from consumer goods being imported or anything like that.
00:42:22.560That's not where the inflation is coming.
00:43:04.580And then they try to use rent data as a way of calculating how much you would have to pay if you owned a house, but you had to rent the same kind of house.
00:43:13.140And that's how they come up with this category.
00:43:16.200That's where most of the inflation is coming from.
00:43:50.840So because I promised the president, if I was wrong and I had the data that I was wrong, I would tell him, do I have to, out of all the days to do this, do I have to call him today and do that?
00:44:06.760Are we still, are we still looking at this going, well, maybe?
00:44:12.940I think there's a, I think there is a really solid argument that you don't need to make the phone call.
00:44:24.240And the reason why is because we need, we probably do need more data over a longer period of time to see if corporations are doing something in order to try to push these costs off into the future for some reason, maybe in the hopes that the tariffs go down.
00:44:42.020Or maybe they're, you know, there's all sorts of ways they could play with it to try to avoid paying those costs today.
00:44:48.360So it's possible that's what's going on.
00:44:50.380But as of right now, that is not at all what is happening, as far as I can tell from the data.
00:44:56.140But isn't the other side of this, because everybody else said, you know, oh, and it's not going to pay for anything.
00:45:03.240Didn't we last month have the first surplus since, I don't know, Abraham Lincoln?
00:45:34.080And if it works, and you and I have talked about this before, I actually think there is an argument to be made
00:45:39.480that this whole strategy could work if American manufacturers can dramatically bring down their costs to produce goods and services so that they can be competitive.
00:45:51.460And I think that advancements in artificial intelligence and automation is going to open the door to that being a reality.
00:45:59.920And if you listen to the Trump administration talk, people like Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce, they have said that this is the plan.
00:46:06.680The plan is go all in on artificial intelligence, automation.
00:46:10.640That's going to make us competitive with manufacturers overseas.
00:46:27.660What happens to the people that now don't have a job here?
00:46:32.220How do they afford the clothes that are now much, much cheaper?
00:46:34.920Well, I think the answer to that is there's going to be significantly more wealth, trillions of dollars that we send overseas every year, now in the American economy.
00:46:47.060And that's going to go into other things.
00:46:49.260It's not as though when new technology comes along, it's not as though people just lose their jobs and then that's it.
00:46:57.260The real danger here is not that new markets won't arise in that situation.
00:47:02.340The problem, and jobs with it, the problem is I think there's a real opportunity here.
00:47:08.400And I think this is going to be the fight of the next election, potentially, presidential election.
00:47:12.740And going forward, next 10, 20 years, this is going to be a huge issue.
00:47:17.200Democrats are going to have the opportunity when the AI revolution truly goes into full force, they're going to have the opportunity like they've never had before to say, you know what?
00:47:29.220We're just going to take all of the corporate money and all of rich people's money, and we're going to print trillions of dollars more, and you can sit on your couch forever, and we'll just pay you because this whole system is rigged, and it's unfair, and you don't have a job anymore because of AI, and there's nothing you can do.
00:47:48.320I think that is coming, and it's going to be really hard for free market people to fight back against that.
00:47:53.960Well, I tend to agree with you because I thought about this.
00:48:03.720I wargamed this probably 2006, and I'm thinking, okay, if the tech is going to grow and grow and grow, and they're going to start – they'll be responsible for taking the jobs.
00:48:14.900They won't be real popular, so they're going to need some people that will allow them to stay in business and to protect them, so they're going to need to be in with the politicians.
00:48:26.980And if the politicians are overseeing the decrease of jobs, they're going to need the PR arm of things like social media and what can be done now.
00:48:43.500I was thinking at the time like what Google can do, but they need each other.
00:49:11.180This time period is going to be remembered for transformation, and he is transforming the world, but the one that will make the lasting difference will be power and AI.
00:49:44.680And if America becomes the epicenter of this new technology, they will be talking about it 1,000 years from now, about how Americans were the ones that really developed this, that they're the ones that promoted it, that they're the ones that took advantage of it.
00:49:58.620That's why this AI race with China is so important that we win it.
00:50:03.300And it's one of the reasons why, and I do think it's a defining moment for his presence.
00:50:07.480Of course, the problem with all this is AI could kill us all, and so, you know, you have to weigh that in.