The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1465 - The Student Loan Forgiveness Bribe EXPLAINED

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00:00:30.520 With dwindling poll numbers

00:00:31.840 and mounting crises on every political front,

00:00:35.040 the Biden administration is resorting

00:00:36.800 to a tried-and-true Democrat strategy

00:00:39.700 to secure re-election.

00:00:42.340 Bride people.

00:00:43.780 So today then,

00:00:45.220 building on the work that we've done thus far,

00:00:47.440 I'm announcing a new plan to forgive more loans

00:00:50.360 for 25 million more Americans,

00:00:52.880 including millions of our public servants.

00:00:55.920 And that means, for example,

00:00:57.420 if you've paid undergrad loans for 20-plus years

00:01:00.220 or graduate loans for 25 or more years,

00:01:03.160 your loans will be completely forgiven

00:01:05.220 regardless of your income

00:01:07.500 and even if you did not graduate.

00:01:09.940 So I'm going to repeat that.

00:01:11.600 If you've paid undergraduate loans

00:01:13.680 for more than 20 years

00:01:15.440 or graduate loans for more than 25 years,

00:01:18.760 those loans will be completely forgiven

00:01:21.120 regardless of your income

00:01:22.780 and even if you did not graduate.

00:01:26.240 And forgiveness will be automatic

00:01:27.680 for the vast majority of the 25 million people

00:01:30.500 that we believe will benefit from this approach.

00:01:33.200 And to see if you could be eligible,

00:01:34.860 I would urge everyone to go to studentaid.gov.

00:01:38.580 That's studentaid.gov.

00:01:40.160 Now you might be wondering

00:01:41.420 if this is really a smart strategy.

00:01:43.700 After all, the vast majority of Americans

00:01:46.920 are not college graduates.

00:01:49.160 62.3% to be exact.

00:01:51.880 Is it really wise to bribe

00:01:54.700 only a minority of eligible voters

00:01:56.940 and to do so with money from the majority?

00:02:00.040 Well, that's why Biden is paying off the loans

00:02:03.320 of all college attendees,

00:02:06.220 even those who did not graduate.

00:02:08.660 Most Americans attend at least some form of college

00:02:14.040 for some period of time.

00:02:16.300 56.86% of Americans to be precise.

00:02:20.540 But even that doesn't tell the whole story

00:02:22.220 because Joe Biden is not trying

00:02:24.700 to bribe Americans generally.

00:02:27.480 There are some Americans

00:02:28.540 who will never vote for Biden

00:02:30.280 no matter how much money he gives them

00:02:32.560 because they have strongly held beliefs

00:02:35.140 and integrity.

00:02:36.340 They are ride or die conservatives.

00:02:38.940 They're going to vote for Trump no matter what.

00:02:40.940 Joe Biden is not casting a wide net

00:02:42.860 to bribe all Americans

00:02:44.240 and thereby to convince them to vote for him.

00:02:47.420 He is only bribing the people

00:02:49.240 who he has a good chance of winning over.

00:02:53.200 54% of voters who attend graduate school

00:02:56.940 identify consistently or mostly as liberals.

00:03:00.560 An additional 22% have mixed political views.

00:03:04.320 Only 24% are conservative.

00:03:06.800 That's for grad school.

00:03:08.660 Among voters with a college degree,

00:03:11.320 just 29% consider themselves mostly

00:03:15.000 or consistently conservative.

00:03:17.000 Almost the same number, 28% of voters

00:03:19.880 who attended college but have not graduated

00:03:21.620 call themselves conservative.

00:03:24.940 Conservatives and especially libertarians

00:03:26.980 are going to whine and complain

00:03:28.620 that this policy is not fair.

00:03:30.580 The income gap between college

00:03:32.340 and high school graduates

00:03:33.280 just hit a record high.

00:03:35.260 Why college graduates out-earn high school graduates

00:03:37.780 by $22,000 per year?

00:03:39.860 Why is everybody, including the high school grads,

00:03:42.480 going to subsidize the college grads

00:03:44.700 who make more money?

00:03:46.180 It's not fair.

00:03:48.220 Well, this isn't about fairness.

00:03:50.320 This isn't even about indiscriminate bribery.

00:03:53.360 The Biden student loan plan

00:03:55.380 is an example of highly targeted bribery.

00:03:59.740 And you can say it's not fair

00:04:01.560 and you can say it's not right.

00:04:03.460 But in democratic politics,

00:04:05.700 it usually works.

00:04:07.140 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:04:07.860 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:04:08.660 Welcome back to the show.

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00:05:46.340 A ton of libs

00:05:48.940 are about to have

00:05:50.600 their student loans forgiven.

00:05:52.000 They're about to just be given

00:05:53.120 a ton of money.

00:05:55.520 What are they going to do

00:05:57.680 with that money?

00:05:59.420 Congress lady AOC explains.

00:06:02.340 This is huge.

00:06:03.620 This is people getting

00:06:05.240 the student loan forgiveness,

00:06:06.760 their student loans canceled.

00:06:08.640 It means that, you know,

00:06:10.440 it's hope to buy a house

00:06:12.600 or have a kid

00:06:13.700 or travel abroad

00:06:15.560 or maybe even go back to school

00:06:17.920 and, you know,

00:06:19.980 pursue a career

00:06:20.980 that maybe they otherwise

00:06:21.940 wouldn't have.

00:06:22.660 I mean, one of the reasons

00:06:24.020 that's not me now

00:06:25.140 is because I didn't feel

00:06:26.580 like I'd be able

00:06:27.160 to afford medical school.

00:06:29.140 And so hopefully

00:06:32.080 someone else

00:06:32.920 who's at an ISEF competition

00:06:34.900 somewhere

00:06:35.500 will be able to do that

00:06:37.180 because of this.

00:06:38.620 I have never been

00:06:39.880 more grateful

00:06:40.440 to student loans

00:06:41.440 in my life

00:06:42.260 than after finding out

00:06:44.740 that AOC

00:06:45.620 almost became

00:06:46.680 a medical doctor.

00:06:47.700 Could you imagine

00:06:48.200 surgeon AOC?

00:06:50.140 Could you imagine

00:06:50.920 the absolute bloodbath,

00:06:53.320 the number of bodies

00:06:54.920 that would stack up

00:06:56.060 if AOC

00:06:57.080 had become

00:06:58.300 a medical doctor?

00:06:59.200 Actually, you know what?

00:07:00.860 I take that back.

00:07:04.060 Now I actually love

00:07:06.460 student loan forgiveness,

00:07:07.580 I think,

00:07:08.040 and I hate the fact

00:07:09.160 that these student loans

00:07:09.920 stopped her

00:07:10.360 because had AOC

00:07:11.140 become a medical doctor,

00:07:12.080 she might not have become

00:07:12.700 a member of Congress.

00:07:13.800 So actually, all right,

00:07:14.400 I totally take it back.

00:07:15.300 I flip.

00:07:15.960 Biden's plan is great.

00:07:16.880 she's saying

00:07:19.080 that

00:07:20.000 the place

00:07:21.960 they're going to spend

00:07:22.520 the money

00:07:22.840 when they get

00:07:24.000 all this free money,

00:07:24.900 there's no such thing

00:07:25.460 as free money,

00:07:25.940 so it's money coming

00:07:26.700 from someone else,

00:07:28.040 including from

00:07:28.880 non-college graduates

00:07:30.100 who are going to earn

00:07:30.660 less money on average.

00:07:33.060 They're going to use

00:07:33.820 that money to buy a house.

00:07:36.180 Okay, I mean,

00:07:38.020 I still don't see

00:07:39.720 quite why it's fair

00:07:40.680 to buy a house

00:07:41.340 for the college graduates

00:07:42.420 at the expense

00:07:43.180 of the non-college graduates,

00:07:44.460 but okay,

00:07:45.280 buying a house,

00:07:45.900 that's a good investment.

00:07:46.680 I guess it's good

00:07:47.300 for the country

00:07:47.780 to have home ownership

00:07:48.560 or to have kids.

00:07:50.480 That's good.

00:07:51.060 That is good, actually.

00:07:52.000 We need to have kids.

00:07:52.720 We have a dying population.

00:07:54.720 We've had a dying population

00:07:55.940 since 1971.

00:07:57.560 So yeah,

00:07:58.560 we do need to increase

00:07:59.460 the birth rate.

00:08:00.060 Okay, maybe that would help.

00:08:01.180 I'm not convinced

00:08:01.680 that forgiving student loans

00:08:03.980 of college

00:08:05.240 and graduate school

00:08:07.780 loan bearers

00:08:09.340 would actually accomplish that,

00:08:11.580 but okay,

00:08:12.100 whatever,

00:08:12.320 in principle,

00:08:12.760 that's fine.

00:08:13.100 But then

00:08:13.820 travel abroad

00:08:15.800 travel abroad.

00:08:17.920 We are some high school graduate

00:08:19.980 who has been responsible,

00:08:22.320 who's working a job,

00:08:23.260 who hasn't taken out

00:08:23.980 hundreds of thousands

00:08:24.560 of dollars in loans,

00:08:25.460 who's trying to feed his family,

00:08:26.800 which is difficult

00:08:27.360 in the Biden economy.

00:08:29.180 He's going to subsidize

00:08:30.720 some purple-haired

00:08:32.020 gender studies major

00:08:33.260 at Brown University

00:08:35.680 so that

00:08:37.500 aforementioned

00:08:39.060 purple-haired

00:08:40.120 gender studies major

00:08:41.180 can go on vacation

00:08:42.540 to Italy.

00:08:43.620 That's what we're doing

00:08:44.500 this for now.

00:08:45.260 Or, frankly,

00:08:46.060 the fourth thing

00:08:46.860 she mentioned

00:08:47.300 is probably even crazier

00:08:48.540 than the third,

00:08:49.540 than the study abroad,

00:08:50.400 and that is

00:08:50.880 so that they can go

00:08:52.000 to more graduate school,

00:08:53.320 so they can go

00:08:53.780 to more college,

00:08:54.840 so they can be even more

00:08:55.960 irresponsible

00:08:56.640 with their money.

00:08:58.880 What?

00:09:00.680 That doesn't seem

00:09:01.460 like a very good idea.

00:09:02.360 The question

00:09:02.880 you have to ask yourself

00:09:03.840 is,

00:09:06.360 how does this advance

00:09:07.460 the common good?

00:09:09.160 This is why the Libs

00:09:10.720 are so smart

00:09:11.760 politically on this issue.

00:09:13.100 This is why they're

00:09:13.640 running circles

00:09:14.340 around the American right

00:09:15.340 on this issue,

00:09:16.280 is because the American right

00:09:17.400 is stuck with this

00:09:19.500 very narrow libertarian mindset,

00:09:23.100 this very narrow,

00:09:24.660 frankly,

00:09:25.180 ahistorical mindset,

00:09:28.400 which is that we,

00:09:30.140 the politicians have no right

00:09:31.740 to forgive student loans.

00:09:33.660 This is not just,

00:09:35.300 this is not,

00:09:36.200 this is not right

00:09:37.100 because of economic liberty

00:09:40.140 and property rights

00:09:41.440 and the politicians

00:09:42.340 have no right to do this.

00:09:43.360 Look, man,

00:09:43.960 politicians have been

00:09:45.760 redistributing wealth

00:09:46.720 for all of human history.

00:09:49.460 Sometimes it's done

00:09:50.200 in a way that's just,

00:09:51.440 sometimes it's done

00:09:52.280 in a way that's less just,

00:09:53.600 but it's a republic.

00:09:55.800 It's a political community.

00:09:58.600 The government

00:09:59.020 is going to spend money

00:10:00.060 and sometimes

00:10:00.780 you're going to disagree

00:10:01.480 with the way

00:10:01.920 that the government

00:10:02.400 spends money,

00:10:03.240 but government

00:10:03.900 is a natural institution.

00:10:05.560 The state

00:10:06.620 is a natural institution

00:10:08.060 because man

00:10:09.160 is a social creature

00:10:10.020 and it's going to exist

00:10:11.020 and you can bury

00:10:12.020 your head in the sand

00:10:12.820 and read your Hayek

00:10:14.720 and read your Adam Smith

00:10:15.780 and say that it isn't right,

00:10:17.040 but that's not going

00:10:18.380 to affect anything

00:10:19.100 because polities

00:10:19.800 are going to continue

00:10:20.400 to exist

00:10:20.760 as they always have

00:10:21.340 everywhere in the world.

00:10:23.120 The money

00:10:23.800 is going to be spent.

00:10:25.560 The question is,

00:10:27.000 what are we spending

00:10:29.060 the money for?

00:10:30.420 The reason government

00:10:31.360 spends money,

00:10:32.200 the reason the government

00:10:32.820 is supposed to spend money

00:10:33.780 is to advance

00:10:34.780 the common good.

00:10:36.040 The common good

00:10:36.640 is not some commie

00:10:37.740 like, you know,

00:10:38.960 collectivist hodgepodge

00:10:40.480 necessarily.

00:10:41.580 The common good

00:10:42.260 is supposed to

00:10:43.460 conduce to all

00:10:45.560 of our flourishing

00:10:46.400 individually

00:10:47.420 and as families

00:10:48.960 and as townships

00:10:50.320 and as a political body.

00:10:52.880 How does paying

00:10:54.280 for some gender studies

00:10:55.940 majors vacation

00:10:56.860 to Italy

00:10:57.320 advance the common good?

00:10:58.560 It doesn't.

00:11:00.100 That is just a bribe.

00:11:01.460 That is, you know,

00:11:02.840 there's the distinction

00:11:03.820 that we've talked about

00:11:04.520 on this show

00:11:05.040 a number of times

00:11:05.720 that good old

00:11:06.620 Uncle Polybius makes

00:11:07.640 between different

00:11:08.780 kinds of regimes.

00:11:10.060 You have three types

00:11:10.940 of regimes

00:11:11.300 that can be good,

00:11:12.600 monarchy, aristocracy,

00:11:14.120 and democracy,

00:11:15.120 but you've got

00:11:16.460 the dark side

00:11:18.200 of all of those regimes

00:11:19.180 which is quite bad.

00:11:20.980 Tyranny, oligarchy,

00:11:22.200 and mob rule.

00:11:23.200 The founding fathers

00:11:24.040 were quite afraid

00:11:24.980 of this as well

00:11:25.580 and they were certainly

00:11:26.600 aware of this distinction.

00:11:28.180 What's the difference?

00:11:30.040 What's the difference

00:11:30.860 between monarchy

00:11:31.740 and tyranny?

00:11:32.340 A lot of modern Americans

00:11:33.280 would say there's no

00:11:33.840 difference at all.

00:11:34.340 No, there is a difference.

00:11:35.200 The difference,

00:11:35.800 as our founding fathers

00:11:36.520 understood and as

00:11:37.520 classical statesmen

00:11:38.920 have understood,

00:11:39.620 is that the monarch,

00:11:41.240 the good version

00:11:41.880 of this type of regime,

00:11:44.240 governs for the common good

00:11:45.380 and the tyrant governs

00:11:47.940 for his own self-interest.

00:11:49.500 The aristocracy governs

00:11:51.180 for the common good,

00:11:52.040 the oligarchy

00:11:52.560 for their own self-interest.

00:11:53.700 The democracy

00:11:54.500 for the common good,

00:11:55.900 the mob rule

00:11:56.700 for their own petty

00:11:57.560 self-interests.

00:11:59.820 The Biden loan plan

00:12:01.020 is clearly an example

00:12:02.920 of the latter category,

00:12:05.140 the self-interest.

00:12:06.880 Very clearly.

00:12:08.060 If you told me,

00:12:09.260 we're going to forgive

00:12:10.360 student loans

00:12:10.980 because kids have been

00:12:11.720 pushed into this

00:12:12.500 for a long time,

00:12:13.260 I mean,

00:12:13.440 starting in what?

00:12:14.080 In 2009,

00:12:14.860 I think 70%

00:12:15.960 of high school graduates

00:12:17.060 went straight to college.

00:12:18.980 That was an all-time high.

00:12:20.120 It's come down

00:12:20.580 a little bit since then.

00:12:21.280 That's right when I went to college.

00:12:22.480 That's when AOC went to college.

00:12:24.760 So you can understand

00:12:26.140 a lot of people

00:12:26.860 went there.

00:12:27.720 They were just kind of

00:12:28.520 pushed into this

00:12:29.240 by cultural pressures

00:12:30.520 and by some government policy

00:12:32.180 to encourage people to go.

00:12:33.440 And then they look up one day

00:12:34.380 and they got a quarter million dollars

00:12:35.400 in loans

00:12:35.960 that they're never going to pay off.

00:12:37.820 At least in principle,

00:12:38.960 I understand why you could say,

00:12:40.160 hey, maybe it would be a good thing

00:12:41.120 to pay some of this down

00:12:42.140 just to help dig our country

00:12:43.640 out of this debt

00:12:44.540 and to help us all flourish.

00:12:46.820 Okay.

00:12:47.260 Well,

00:12:47.580 if it's to actually help the country,

00:12:50.380 I'm fine for it.

00:12:51.060 If it's to just bribe people

00:12:52.960 to vote for Joe Biden

00:12:54.060 by giving them a trip

00:12:55.240 to the Amalfi Coast,

00:12:56.480 that is dirty.

00:12:58.800 That is low down and dirty.

00:13:00.820 Now,

00:13:01.820 speaking of things

00:13:03.540 that once partook

00:13:05.580 of behaviors

00:13:06.800 that were low down and dirty,

00:13:07.780 but then have come out of it

00:13:08.720 and actually improved potentially,

00:13:11.120 I have got this interview

00:13:12.420 that I just did

00:13:13.220 with Nala Ray

00:13:14.640 that has

00:13:15.740 somewhat unexpectedly

00:13:18.020 taken the internet by storm.

00:13:19.360 I knew it would be a big interview,

00:13:20.840 but it's got now,

00:13:22.200 I think,

00:13:22.740 six million views on X.

00:13:24.560 It has been stymied on YouTube.

00:13:27.400 YouTube has kind of

00:13:28.240 slowed its growth.

00:13:29.480 Even there,

00:13:30.080 it's got many hundreds

00:13:31.600 of thousands of views.

00:13:32.340 I don't think it's hit a million yet.

00:13:34.000 It's an interview

00:13:34.700 with this woman

00:13:35.520 who was

00:13:36.200 one of the top

00:13:37.600 porn performers

00:13:39.140 on OnlyFans.

00:13:40.560 She made something like

00:13:41.440 nine million dollars

00:13:42.400 in four years,

00:13:43.300 and then she gave it up

00:13:44.440 because,

00:13:45.120 as she said,

00:13:45.540 she had a radical conversion

00:13:46.840 to Christianity.

00:13:48.020 And I sat down with her

00:13:48.920 for a long time.

00:13:50.880 I've had these long conversations

00:13:52.160 with all sorts of people,

00:13:54.160 with Father Rehill,

00:13:55.880 The Exorcist,

00:13:57.420 with a ton of different people.

00:13:59.100 You might have seen

00:13:59.480 some of these interviews.

00:14:01.980 This one with Nala Ray,

00:14:03.520 I think,

00:14:04.060 is getting probably

00:14:05.420 the most views,

00:14:06.060 maybe even more

00:14:06.680 than Father Rehill.

00:14:08.420 And it's because

00:14:09.580 people are debating,

00:14:10.540 is she sincere?

00:14:11.840 Is she not sincere?

00:14:13.900 Is there such a thing

00:14:14.820 as redemption?

00:14:15.920 Can even a porn actress

00:14:17.600 or a prostitute?

00:14:18.740 Can even a prostitute

00:14:19.600 be redeemed?

00:14:21.540 There's a debate

00:14:22.380 on the left,

00:14:23.320 on the right.

00:14:23.880 I don't know.

00:14:24.100 Everybody seems to be

00:14:24.760 talking about this.

00:14:25.400 I think it just

00:14:25.880 hit something

00:14:27.240 about our political moment.

00:14:30.100 I previously

00:14:30.640 had a little debate

00:14:32.120 on this series

00:14:32.860 with Pearl Davis.

00:14:34.460 Pearl Davis

00:14:34.900 has been lambasting

00:14:36.260 this girl

00:14:36.900 and me

00:14:37.620 for interviewing her.

00:14:39.040 In any case,

00:14:40.220 here's just a little clip.

00:14:41.060 I was a pastor's kid.

00:14:43.540 It started slow.

00:14:44.700 I started OnlyFans.

00:14:45.760 I made like $85,000

00:14:47.320 the first month.

00:14:48.800 What was it about you

00:14:50.420 that was able to make

00:14:52.620 a million dollars a year?

00:14:53.960 My biggest thing

00:14:54.860 that I sold

00:14:55.660 was that I'm multiple girls.

00:14:57.640 I put all of that energy

00:14:59.520 into creating Nala.

00:15:01.980 How much money

00:15:02.520 do you have at this point?

00:15:03.760 Nine million.

00:15:05.180 My parents kind of

00:15:06.260 disowned me.

00:15:07.700 That sounds catastrophic.

00:15:09.400 I've never really

00:15:13.280 dove into that feeling.

00:15:15.760 Never talked about this.

00:15:17.840 What's the point

00:15:18.520 of all this money

00:15:19.380 when I don't have feelings?

00:15:21.540 Is that the moment

00:15:22.340 where you say,

00:15:22.820 all right,

00:15:23.000 I got to start

00:15:23.740 getting out of this thing?

00:15:24.820 I was sobbing.

00:15:25.880 I was looking at my fireplace.

00:15:27.160 I grabbed the Bible.

00:15:28.320 I was like,

00:15:28.900 God,

00:15:29.540 I need an answer now.

00:15:31.080 I truly need an answer now.

00:15:32.700 And he gave me an answer.

00:15:34.680 What did he say?

00:15:39.400 I really loved

00:15:42.260 sitting down with this girl.

00:15:43.360 She was really terrific.

00:15:44.980 So watch for yourself.

00:15:47.140 The full episode

00:15:47.680 is available

00:15:48.160 on The Michael Knowles Show YouTube.

00:15:50.680 It's available

00:15:51.320 on The Michael Knowles Show X

00:15:53.660 with six million views,

00:15:55.200 soon to be six million

00:15:56.080 and one views

00:15:56.580 once you check it out.

00:15:59.940 Speaking of checking out,

00:16:03.240 young people are checking out

00:16:04.880 of our economy, apparently.

00:16:06.180 That was the greatest segue

00:16:07.660 I think I've ever done.

00:16:08.580 That was amazing.

00:16:09.580 One in three Zoomers,

00:16:11.640 according to a new study

00:16:13.800 conducted by the St. Louis

00:16:14.920 Federal Reserves

00:16:15.900 Institute for Economic Equity,

00:16:17.460 one in three Zoomers

00:16:18.840 has no income

00:16:20.580 and no educational enrollment.

00:16:24.420 Because you might say,

00:16:25.120 well,

00:16:25.420 they have no income

00:16:26.320 because they're in college

00:16:27.240 or something.

00:16:27.780 They're getting a degree

00:16:28.420 and then they're going to go

00:16:29.000 make a lot of money.

00:16:30.180 No,

00:16:30.580 one in three members of Gen Z

00:16:32.760 has neither of those things.

00:16:35.360 They're just checked out.

00:16:36.840 They're just disconnected.

00:16:38.840 Now,

00:16:39.420 how does this compare to the past?

00:16:41.700 Back in 1990,

00:16:43.200 people in the same age range

00:16:45.560 were checked out

00:16:47.320 at a rate of about

00:16:48.040 one in five.

00:16:50.260 So you go from

00:16:51.280 20% of these people,

00:16:53.300 no income,

00:16:53.840 no education,

00:16:54.760 enrollment,

00:16:55.500 to about 33%.

00:16:57.220 That is a huge spike.

00:16:59.680 And it's even worse than that.

00:17:01.540 It's even worse than just

00:17:02.460 not having a job

00:17:03.180 and not being in school

00:17:04.080 because they're dropping out

00:17:05.500 of everything.

00:17:07.840 Additional surveys show

00:17:09.220 that these people

00:17:10.500 increasingly have

00:17:11.440 no religion.

00:17:13.300 They increasingly

00:17:14.400 have no political engagement,

00:17:17.340 very,

00:17:17.720 very little engagement

00:17:18.600 with the actual

00:17:19.400 civil society

00:17:21.180 and public life.

00:17:22.580 They increasingly

00:17:23.640 have no political party.

00:17:25.240 They don't have

00:17:25.880 strongly held

00:17:27.280 partisan beliefs.

00:17:28.380 They have no ideology.

00:17:30.480 And on top of all that,

00:17:31.720 they have little education,

00:17:33.100 period.

00:17:33.480 Not just current enrollment,

00:17:34.520 but they just don't

00:17:35.940 really know much

00:17:36.760 of anything.

00:17:38.060 So the reason

00:17:39.160 that the St. Louis Fed

00:17:40.360 is pushing this survey

00:17:42.920 is they're warning

00:17:45.000 that people are not

00:17:46.820 going to be prepared

00:17:47.380 for retirement.

00:17:48.060 If you don't earn money

00:17:49.780 for a huge part

00:17:50.660 of your life,

00:17:51.180 including your younger years,

00:17:52.960 it's going to be a lot

00:17:53.900 harder to earn money

00:17:54.620 down the road

00:17:55.080 and it's going to be

00:17:55.380 a lot harder to retire.

00:17:56.780 And so that is a worry

00:17:57.600 and people should be

00:17:58.260 concerned about that,

00:17:59.520 the relative lack

00:18:00.760 of assets that they have.

00:18:01.700 That's not my biggest concern.

00:18:04.560 First of all,

00:18:05.220 because young people

00:18:06.640 are about to get

00:18:07.220 super duper rich.

00:18:08.560 Millennials are about

00:18:09.240 to become the richest

00:18:09.920 generation ever

00:18:10.860 because it's not that

00:18:12.340 millennials have made

00:18:13.060 a lot of money

00:18:13.480 themselves.

00:18:14.020 Generally,

00:18:14.800 millennials started

00:18:16.100 going to school

00:18:16.800 during the economic crisis.

00:18:18.620 The economy never

00:18:19.640 totally recovered

00:18:20.420 from that.

00:18:21.220 The reason is because,

00:18:22.680 sorry to say,

00:18:23.320 the boomers are dying

00:18:24.120 and so they're going

00:18:25.100 to get all their money

00:18:25.680 and the boomers

00:18:26.120 have a ton of money.

00:18:26.840 So it's not that

00:18:27.860 they're not going

00:18:28.240 to have assets.

00:18:29.800 That's not,

00:18:30.180 my concern is not

00:18:30.980 that people are not

00:18:31.600 going to be able

00:18:31.900 to retire someday.

00:18:34.580 I'm somewhat concerned

00:18:35.540 that the boomers

00:18:36.080 are not able

00:18:36.500 to retire right now

00:18:37.560 because of all

00:18:38.200 the economic turmoil

00:18:39.660 over the last 20 years.

00:18:41.500 But it's not the retirement.

00:18:43.980 I'm worried about

00:18:44.940 the rest of life.

00:18:47.920 It's not that,

00:18:48.880 maybe,

00:18:49.300 I think the Zoomers

00:18:50.020 will probably figure it out

00:18:51.000 and they'll just get

00:18:51.500 some money at some point,

00:18:53.420 if only because

00:18:54.820 everyone else has died.

00:18:55.660 But if you

00:18:57.760 don't have any education

00:18:59.500 and you don't

00:19:01.540 amass any skills

00:19:02.480 on the job

00:19:03.180 and you don't have

00:19:04.700 anything getting you

00:19:05.600 out of bed in the morning,

00:19:06.720 what are you going to do

00:19:07.560 in the rest of your life?

00:19:08.340 Is it any wonder

00:19:09.000 that anxiety is up,

00:19:11.340 depression is up,

00:19:12.780 suicide is up?

00:19:14.060 All of those things

00:19:14.840 are up even among

00:19:15.600 young people.

00:19:16.480 Why is that?

00:19:17.040 Because they have

00:19:17.480 nothing to live for.

00:19:20.380 I mean,

00:19:20.580 they do have something

00:19:21.220 to live for,

00:19:21.640 they just don't know it.

00:19:23.420 The scariest number here

00:19:24.660 is not that

00:19:25.160 they're not in college.

00:19:26.080 In fact,

00:19:26.400 it's probably a good thing

00:19:27.080 that a lot of them

00:19:27.540 are not in college.

00:19:28.800 It's a little scarier

00:19:29.680 that they don't have jobs

00:19:30.820 because idle hands

00:19:31.780 are the devil's playground.

00:19:33.480 It's not even

00:19:34.400 super scary

00:19:36.240 that they don't have

00:19:37.160 an ideology.

00:19:38.220 I don't love ideology.

00:19:39.260 Having convictions is good,

00:19:40.400 but the fact that

00:19:40.980 they're not radical ideologues,

00:19:42.240 maybe that's even a good thing.

00:19:43.700 But no political engagement?

00:19:45.920 Why not?

00:19:46.560 They don't have

00:19:47.000 political engagement

00:19:47.660 because we've been told

00:19:48.360 we're all just radical individuals

00:19:49.580 and we don't need to engage

00:19:50.940 with other people

00:19:51.520 and we can just do

00:19:52.120 whatever we want

00:19:52.720 and you do you

00:19:53.220 and I'll do me

00:19:53.800 and we don't even need

00:19:55.300 to be able to speak

00:19:55.860 to one another.

00:19:56.480 Maybe the word that I use

00:19:57.920 to mean woman

00:19:58.900 means something different

00:20:00.680 to you

00:20:01.120 and who cares?

00:20:01.880 We don't even need

00:20:02.300 to speak the same language.

00:20:03.300 That's worrying

00:20:03.960 because if you don't

00:20:05.220 have political engagement,

00:20:06.360 pretty soon you're not

00:20:07.000 going to have a body politic.

00:20:08.380 And then the most worrying

00:20:09.160 of all

00:20:09.520 is that they don't have religion.

00:20:11.600 I don't mean to

00:20:12.580 come across

00:20:14.600 as a Bible thumper

00:20:15.900 or to be too

00:20:17.500 reductionist about this,

00:20:19.440 but if you think

00:20:23.220 that there's no such thing

00:20:24.940 as God,

00:20:26.480 you think God doesn't exist

00:20:27.780 and there's really

00:20:28.740 no moral order

00:20:29.680 and nothing really

00:20:30.940 means anything at all,

00:20:32.600 then you are just going

00:20:33.720 to live for idle

00:20:35.100 passing pleasures

00:20:36.020 and then you're going

00:20:37.540 to get depressed

00:20:38.200 and then you're going

00:20:41.060 to either totally check out

00:20:42.520 into apathy

00:20:43.180 or worst case,

00:20:44.920 you're going to kill yourself

00:20:45.660 because you feel

00:20:47.640 that you have nothing

00:20:48.100 to live for.

00:20:49.200 I think it was

00:20:49.840 George Bernard Shaw

00:20:50.580 who said that hell

00:20:51.220 is the place

00:20:51.680 where you have nothing

00:20:52.380 to do but amuse yourself.

00:20:54.500 This is the problem

00:20:55.500 my friend,

00:20:56.840 Father George Rutler,

00:20:57.560 has pointed out.

00:20:58.040 The problem with

00:20:58.400 feel-good religion,

00:20:59.940 kind of spiritual

00:21:00.780 but not religious,

00:21:01.800 it's just about feeling good

00:21:03.080 and doing good vibes, man.

00:21:04.560 The problem with

00:21:04.960 feel-good religion

00:21:05.700 is feeling bad.

00:21:07.900 It's the moment

00:21:08.480 that you feel bad,

00:21:09.400 which we all do

00:21:10.040 from time to time,

00:21:11.400 your feel-good religion

00:21:12.540 is going to collapse

00:21:13.300 and you're going to despair.

00:21:15.000 You're not going

00:21:15.580 to have hope.

00:21:16.780 And then what?

00:21:17.420 How do you even get

00:21:17.980 out of bed in the morning?

00:21:18.780 I don't know.

00:21:19.600 I don't know how you do that.

00:21:21.060 No one seems to know,

00:21:21.860 the Zoomers least of all

00:21:22.680 because they're not

00:21:23.080 getting out of bed

00:21:23.520 in the morning.

00:21:24.560 Not a good sign.

00:21:26.820 You need to re-engage

00:21:28.620 people into society

00:21:30.240 or your society

00:21:30.960 is going to just

00:21:31.480 totally collapse.

00:21:32.520 And how do you do that?

00:21:34.360 You need to convince people

00:21:35.640 that their lives

00:21:37.100 mean something,

00:21:38.620 that our lives together

00:21:39.540 mean something.

00:21:40.620 And the only way

00:21:41.400 to do that,

00:21:42.160 you can try to do that

00:21:43.480 with ideology,

00:21:44.300 ideology which

00:21:44.980 is a substitute

00:21:45.560 for religion

00:21:46.260 in modernity.

00:21:47.680 You can try to do that

00:21:49.100 by convincing people

00:21:52.160 that they've got

00:21:52.860 to get out

00:21:53.300 and touch grass

00:21:54.040 and smell the roses

00:21:54.820 and show up to parties.

00:21:57.480 True, we're living

00:21:58.400 in an age though

00:21:58.920 that's increasingly isolated.

00:22:00.240 It says that the body

00:22:01.000 doesn't matter.

00:22:02.340 That you can hang out

00:22:03.100 on an app

00:22:03.640 or that you can hang out

00:22:04.860 on FaceTime.

00:22:06.320 So we're living

00:22:07.040 in an age

00:22:07.400 that downplays

00:22:08.520 the importance

00:22:09.060 of the material

00:22:09.640 and the incarnate.

00:22:10.840 And then ultimately,

00:22:12.820 you've got to get people

00:22:13.520 at a church.

00:22:14.100 You've got to convince

00:22:14.640 them that God exists

00:22:15.540 because if there's

00:22:16.800 nothing beyond this world,

00:22:17.800 then people are just

00:22:18.480 going to live

00:22:18.780 for temporal pleasure.

00:22:19.940 And ironically,

00:22:20.700 they're not even

00:22:21.100 going to get that

00:22:21.740 because they're going

00:22:22.680 to be living

00:22:23.120 in a way

00:22:23.700 that is undignified

00:22:24.920 and vicious.

00:22:25.700 So that even

00:22:26.320 the passing temporal

00:22:27.300 pleasures,

00:22:27.960 they're not going to get.

00:22:29.140 There's another line

00:22:29.920 from Father Ruttler.

00:22:30.800 He pointed out

00:22:31.620 some years ago

00:22:32.320 that, no, no, no,

00:22:33.320 I'm sorry,

00:22:33.580 this is Chesterton.

00:22:34.800 It's easy to confuse

00:22:35.720 a lot of these.

00:22:36.480 Chesterton,

00:22:37.240 Fulton Sheen,

00:22:38.160 C.S. Lewis

00:22:38.500 and Father Ruttler.

00:22:40.480 Chesterton said

00:22:41.460 that the Carpe Diem

00:22:43.680 religion,

00:22:44.460 the seize the day

00:22:45.220 religion,

00:22:46.100 is not the religion

00:22:47.300 of happy people.

00:22:49.000 Seems like it is.

00:22:49.960 You know,

00:22:50.400 the people who go around

00:22:51.160 seize the day,

00:22:51.860 Carpe Diem,

00:22:52.500 YOLO would be

00:22:53.200 the new way to say it.

00:22:54.280 They seem like

00:22:54.960 the happiest people

00:22:55.660 of all,

00:22:56.020 but they're not.

00:22:56.620 They're very unhappy.

00:22:57.540 They're restless

00:22:58.100 and they're always

00:22:59.140 chasing the next

00:23:00.180 fleeting pleasure.

00:23:01.900 But it's fleeting.

00:23:02.960 That's the problem

00:23:03.620 with it.

00:23:04.000 And eventually,

00:23:04.660 they get exhausted.

00:23:05.420 They run out of DAs

00:23:08.620 to Carpe.

00:23:09.620 So,

00:23:11.200 you know,

00:23:11.580 no one here

00:23:12.200 gets out alive.

00:23:12.900 If you're not pointed

00:23:14.240 in some way

00:23:14.820 at the eternal,

00:23:15.740 even the temporal,

00:23:16.780 you're not going to

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00:24:31.660 Now, meanwhile,

00:24:33.400 a lot of the libs

00:24:34.120 are running to the left.

00:24:35.380 Some libs are moving

00:24:36.340 toward the center.

00:24:37.100 This includes

00:24:37.780 Senator John Fetterman.

00:24:41.120 I won't even

00:24:42.600 make the joke.

00:24:44.600 Okay, I will make the joke.

00:24:45.780 John Fetterman, as you know,

00:24:46.920 has been recovering

00:24:47.680 from a stroke.

00:24:50.860 And the Babylon Bee,

00:24:52.680 I think, pointed out

00:24:53.240 that as this man

00:24:54.180 is recovering

00:24:54.740 from brain trauma,

00:24:56.180 he is becoming

00:24:57.300 more conservative.

00:24:57.960 The brain trauma

00:25:00.060 kind of pushes you

00:25:00.780 a little bit more

00:25:01.740 on to the left

00:25:02.860 and then the recovery

00:25:04.480 a little bit more

00:25:05.020 to the right.

00:25:05.820 So what is he saying

00:25:06.580 that's so conservative?

00:25:07.860 He is saying

00:25:08.540 squatters have no rights.

00:25:13.340 He said this

00:25:14.060 in a recent interview,

00:25:14.780 I think,

00:25:15.040 with the New York Post.

00:25:17.000 Some outlet.

00:25:18.920 Squatters have no rights.

00:25:21.380 How can you pretend

00:25:22.520 that this is anything

00:25:23.400 other than you're

00:25:24.160 just breaking the law?

00:25:25.000 Okay, yeah,

00:25:27.400 I guess that's not

00:25:27.960 the libs.

00:25:29.360 The woke people

00:25:30.020 are saying that

00:25:30.860 if you show up

00:25:32.140 to someone's house

00:25:32.760 and just live there

00:25:33.480 for five seconds,

00:25:34.300 then it's yours

00:25:35.660 and the owner

00:25:36.640 of the house

00:25:37.020 can't evict you.

00:25:37.860 And he's saying

00:25:38.420 that's not true.

00:25:39.400 Okay, so I guess

00:25:39.840 relatively that's conservative.

00:25:41.900 He says,

00:25:42.200 I'm not woke.

00:25:43.480 We always try

00:25:44.180 to push back against that.

00:25:46.140 It's wild.

00:25:47.020 If you go away

00:25:47.800 on a long trip

00:25:48.500 for 30 days

00:25:49.180 and someone breaks

00:25:49.740 into your home,

00:25:50.560 suddenly they have rights.

00:25:52.280 This is crazy.

00:25:52.920 Like if somebody

00:25:53.340 stole your car

00:25:53.960 and then held it

00:25:54.440 for 30 days,

00:25:55.220 then somehow

00:25:55.960 you now have some rights?

00:25:59.720 You know,

00:25:59.980 he actually still has

00:26:01.280 a little bit of problem

00:26:01.800 with language,

00:26:02.280 but you see the point

00:26:02.800 he's trying to make here.

00:26:03.900 You steal somebody's car,

00:26:04.900 you hold it for a month,

00:26:05.640 now all of a sudden

00:26:06.140 it's your car?

00:26:06.600 I don't think so.

00:26:07.940 Then he goes further

00:26:08.780 beyond the squatters.

00:26:09.460 He says,

00:26:09.980 I've gone to police funerals.

00:26:12.140 If this individual

00:26:13.340 who killed a cop

00:26:14.560 is convicted,

00:26:15.340 then he should spend

00:26:16.020 the rest of his life

00:26:16.660 in prison

00:26:17.060 and never have an opportunity

00:26:18.220 to get out.

00:26:19.320 We have to be very smart

00:26:20.580 and aggressive on crime.

00:26:21.860 He's taking heat for this.

00:26:22.780 So we're told

00:26:24.180 this guy,

00:26:24.920 here's John Fetterman,

00:26:25.900 he's moderating,

00:26:26.800 he's a centrist.

00:26:28.040 For goodness sakes,

00:26:28.860 he's going over

00:26:29.760 to the right

00:26:30.220 because he says

00:26:34.040 that criminals

00:26:34.680 can't just

00:26:35.680 take your house.

00:26:38.540 Oh man,

00:26:39.400 you hear that?

00:26:40.360 He's like to the right

00:26:41.200 of Attila the Hun.

00:26:42.060 Here comes Mussolini

00:26:43.020 John Fetterman.

00:26:44.060 He says that criminals

00:26:45.040 can't even just

00:26:45.640 take your house

00:26:46.220 willy-nilly.

00:26:47.620 That's a conservative point of view.

00:26:48.840 That used to be

00:26:49.380 a universally held

00:26:50.220 point of view

00:26:50.680 that was totally

00:26:51.480 incontrovertible.

00:26:53.080 Oh,

00:26:53.260 here's that super right,

00:26:54.900 he's basically a fascist,

00:26:56.000 that John Fetterman.

00:26:56.760 He says you shouldn't

00:26:57.360 be able to murder cops

00:26:58.460 and if you do,

00:26:59.660 you should go to jail

00:27:00.420 for a while.

00:27:02.580 That,

00:27:03.680 about five minutes ago,

00:27:05.580 that was a view held

00:27:06.220 by every single person

00:27:07.260 in the country.

00:27:08.580 It is not that

00:27:09.700 John Fetterman

00:27:10.340 has moved to the right.

00:27:12.040 It is that

00:27:12.860 the left,

00:27:14.240 including the mainstream

00:27:15.360 of the Democratic Party

00:27:16.660 has gone hurtling

00:27:18.680 to the radical left.

00:27:20.460 So Fetterman,

00:27:21.300 who remains just kind of

00:27:22.460 like a Pennsylvania liberal,

00:27:23.880 he seems like he's moved

00:27:25.460 to the right.

00:27:26.160 Bad news.

00:27:26.640 Now,

00:27:27.160 speaking of Democrat politicians,

00:27:29.780 Sheila Jackson Lee,

00:27:30.900 a member of Congress,

00:27:32.000 has a novel theory

00:27:33.200 on the cosmos.

00:27:35.560 Take it away.

00:27:37.040 Sometimes you've heard

00:27:38.000 the word full moon

00:27:39.160 and sometimes you need

00:27:40.940 to take the opportunity

00:27:41.720 just to come out

00:27:42.420 and see a full moon

00:27:43.940 is that complete

00:27:44.820 rounded circle

00:27:45.900 which is made up

00:27:47.300 mostly of gases.

00:27:49.760 And that's why

00:27:50.180 the question is why

00:27:52.280 or how could we

00:27:53.500 as humans

00:27:54.080 live on the moon?

00:27:56.400 Are the gases

00:27:57.220 such that we could do that?

00:28:00.120 The sun is a mighty

00:28:01.700 powerful heat

00:28:02.660 that is almost

00:28:04.220 impossible

00:28:05.800 to go near the sun.

00:28:08.580 The moon is more manageable

00:28:10.160 and you will see

00:28:12.020 in a moment

00:28:14.060 or not a moment,

00:28:15.060 you'll see in a couple

00:28:16.060 of years

00:28:16.560 that NASA

00:28:17.820 is going back

00:28:19.080 to the moon.

00:28:21.660 Our political leaders,

00:28:23.120 ladies and gentlemen,

00:28:23.960 let's have a round

00:28:24.560 of applause.

00:28:25.280 The moon is made

00:28:26.440 of gas.

00:28:28.740 Better, I suppose,

00:28:29.840 than saying that the moon

00:28:30.680 is made of green cheese.

00:28:32.380 Is it?

00:28:32.840 Actually, I guess

00:28:33.260 they're both equally absurd.

00:28:35.280 The moon is made of gas

00:28:37.180 but we're going to go

00:28:37.780 back to the moon.

00:28:39.680 We're probably not going

00:28:40.880 to go to the sun

00:28:41.740 because when you get

00:28:42.820 too close to the sun

00:28:43.880 it gets pretty hot.

00:28:45.960 So we're going to have

00:28:46.780 to avoid that

00:28:47.200 but we're going to live

00:28:48.020 on the ball of gas

00:28:49.120 known as the moon.

00:28:50.120 Hmm.

00:28:51.160 Hmm.

00:28:52.240 Now,

00:28:54.340 that obviously does,

00:28:55.440 the moon is not made

00:28:56.220 of gases.

00:28:57.420 I think you probably

00:28:58.380 knew that.

00:28:59.080 I think probably everyone

00:28:59.940 in America knows that

00:29:00.700 except for Sheila Jackson Lee.

00:29:02.780 She has been mocked

00:29:04.020 for this clip

00:29:04.620 and so she's

00:29:05.880 made a statement

00:29:06.920 about it.

00:29:08.300 Professor,

00:29:08.720 Mr. Davies here

00:29:09.900 just texted me

00:29:10.500 this statement

00:29:10.980 just a moment ago.

00:29:13.640 Her statement is,

00:29:16.140 obviously I misspoke

00:29:17.440 and meant to say the sun

00:29:18.720 but as usual,

00:29:20.660 Republicans are focused

00:29:21.620 on stupid things

00:29:22.560 instead of stuff

00:29:23.160 that really matters.

00:29:24.180 What can I say though?

00:29:24.920 Foolish thinkers

00:29:25.600 lust for stupidity.

00:29:27.080 Okay, so

00:29:27.420 this is unfair.

00:29:29.520 She misspoke.

00:29:30.220 We're taking her

00:29:30.660 out of context.

00:29:31.220 We're foolish.

00:29:32.240 We're foolish thinkers.

00:29:33.780 We lust for stupidity

00:29:34.900 except hold on.

00:29:35.420 If she meant to say

00:29:38.180 the sun

00:29:38.720 but she accidentally

00:29:40.700 said the moon

00:29:41.320 then keeping everything

00:29:43.220 the same

00:29:43.760 in her statement

00:29:44.380 she means that

00:29:45.980 NASA is about

00:29:46.840 to go to the sun.

00:29:49.040 We're going to go down.

00:29:50.380 Not only is NASA

00:29:51.260 going to go to the sun,

00:29:52.780 the United States government

00:29:53.800 is going to try

00:29:54.360 to figure out

00:29:54.940 if we can live

00:29:55.740 on the sun.

00:29:57.260 Can we put a man

00:29:58.660 on the sun?

00:29:59.800 That's the better version

00:30:01.700 of what Sheila Jackson Lee

00:30:03.140 says according to her.

00:30:04.200 She says no,

00:30:04.980 you're misinterpreting.

00:30:06.600 You are being

00:30:08.080 so unfair to me.

00:30:09.940 You know I misspoke.

00:30:11.480 I didn't mean to say

00:30:12.760 that we're going

00:30:13.220 to go to the moon.

00:30:14.060 We're not going

00:30:14.440 to go to the sun

00:30:15.100 and the moon

00:30:15.460 is made of gas.

00:30:16.320 I meant to say

00:30:17.300 that we're going

00:30:17.920 to go to the sun

00:30:18.740 and we're going

00:30:19.440 to live there forever

00:30:20.480 in the sun

00:30:21.840 dancing around.

00:30:26.120 Hmm.

00:30:27.160 I think she was better

00:30:28.140 off with the first statement.

00:30:30.000 These are the people

00:30:30.800 who govern our country.

00:30:31.620 I don't think

00:30:34.600 that Sheila Jackson Lee

00:30:35.780 is the least educated

00:30:37.420 and dimmest member

00:30:38.960 of Congress,

00:30:39.700 certainly on the

00:30:40.200 Democratic side.

00:30:40.960 I think she's,

00:30:42.060 if not average,

00:30:43.440 maybe just a tad

00:30:44.700 below average.

00:30:46.340 This is it.

00:30:47.740 Is it any wonder?

00:30:48.600 You know,

00:30:48.780 we were talking

00:30:49.100 about education earlier

00:30:50.020 because Joe Biden's

00:30:50.780 going to pay

00:30:51.280 for all these student loans.

00:30:52.020 The problem is not

00:30:54.620 that people

00:30:55.100 are very educated

00:30:56.220 but they have

00:30:57.100 a lot of student loan debt.

00:30:58.900 That would be bad enough.

00:31:00.640 The problem is

00:31:01.620 people have

00:31:02.560 a lot of student loan debt.

00:31:04.100 There is more

00:31:04.720 student loan debt

00:31:05.360 today than ever

00:31:06.240 by a country mile.

00:31:07.580 It's not even close.

00:31:09.160 And they also

00:31:10.200 are completely uneducated.

00:31:12.360 That's the worst part of it.

00:31:14.540 It'd be one thing

00:31:15.480 if in exchange

00:31:16.100 for all this debt,

00:31:16.880 people were just

00:31:17.420 really smart,

00:31:18.440 you know,

00:31:18.600 and they really knew

00:31:19.160 a lot of things

00:31:19.700 and our country

00:31:20.720 could be extremely innovative

00:31:22.080 and sharp

00:31:23.440 and educated.

00:31:26.020 It's not.

00:31:26.900 We are dumber

00:31:27.820 and less educated

00:31:29.020 than ever.

00:31:29.780 We think

00:31:30.300 that the moon

00:31:31.340 is made of gas

00:31:32.320 and we're going

00:31:32.840 to go live on the sun

00:31:33.820 and we all have

00:31:35.160 a quarter million dollars

00:31:35.900 in student loans

00:31:36.660 so that we could

00:31:39.820 believe that.

00:31:41.520 Not a good situation.

00:31:43.060 Now,

00:31:43.240 beyond the elected officials,

00:31:44.600 we have more

00:31:45.600 to our government

00:31:46.200 than just the members

00:31:47.120 of Congress,

00:31:48.040 which I guess

00:31:48.880 is a good thing

00:31:49.540 if our members

00:31:50.000 of Congress

00:31:50.560 don't know

00:31:51.060 what the sun is.

00:31:52.080 But it's not so much

00:31:53.220 a good thing

00:31:53.740 in the sense

00:31:54.240 that our permanent government,

00:31:56.920 our deep state,

00:31:57.920 as it is sometimes called,

00:31:58.940 the entrenched bureaucracy,

00:32:00.900 is unaccountable.

00:32:03.120 And very often,

00:32:04.000 they will try to undermine

00:32:04.980 the constitutional order.

00:32:07.060 As sound investigations

00:32:08.540 just discovered,

00:32:10.180 this was part

00:32:10.760 of an investigation

00:32:11.300 that was recorded

00:32:12.120 only about a couple

00:32:13.100 of weeks ago,

00:32:13.800 March 22nd of this year,

00:32:17.320 another one of these

00:32:18.580 fake dinner dates

00:32:19.720 that was used

00:32:21.360 to get information

00:32:22.480 from someone

00:32:23.580 who was a contracting officer

00:32:25.100 with the CIA,

00:32:26.500 also had worked

00:32:27.200 for the FBI,

00:32:27.960 all sorts of the

00:32:28.700 three-letter agencies.

00:32:30.640 This guy,

00:32:31.820 on what he thinks

00:32:32.560 is a dinner date,

00:32:34.300 explaining

00:32:34.900 how the deep state

00:32:38.020 entraps ordinary Americans.

00:32:40.520 As long as the Bureau

00:32:42.080 is able to progress

00:32:43.740 far enough

00:32:44.180 to be able to put

00:32:44.920 pro-lifers in jail

00:32:45.800 whenever they want.

00:32:46.960 Yeah.

00:32:47.880 You think that's

00:32:48.580 on the agenda?

00:32:49.500 We can,

00:32:50.160 we can,

00:32:51.280 you can kind of put

00:32:52.240 anyone in jail

00:32:52.980 if you know what to do.

00:32:53.940 How?

00:32:54.620 You set them up.

00:32:58.180 You create the situation

00:32:59.600 to where they have

00:33:00.280 no choice

00:33:00.760 but to act

00:33:01.280 on their impulse.

00:33:02.240 And once they act

00:33:02.980 on that impulse,

00:33:03.760 then we call that

00:33:04.280 entrapment.

00:33:05.900 It's a fine line.

00:33:07.080 Does the Bureau

00:33:09.880 practice entrapment

00:33:10.800 a lot?

00:33:11.400 Yeah.

00:33:11.880 We get really close.

00:33:13.060 Not officially?

00:33:13.800 No.

00:33:14.300 We get as close

00:33:14.860 as we can.

00:33:16.580 We get as close

00:33:17.400 as we can to it

00:33:18.320 without doing it.

00:33:19.460 So they can entrap

00:33:20.360 some of these pro-lifers

00:33:21.300 into doing things

00:33:22.480 that they don't...

00:33:22.920 Depending.

00:33:23.720 Yeah.

00:33:24.440 We call it a nudge.

00:33:26.200 A nudge.

00:33:27.060 A nudge.

00:33:28.180 Mmm.

00:33:28.800 Sometimes you just

00:33:29.400 gotta get a quick little

00:33:30.180 just to see what happens,

00:33:31.840 right?

00:33:31.980 And how does that happen?

00:33:33.520 You put a post out there

00:33:35.000 or you have someone

00:33:37.060 fake profile

00:33:38.260 say something

00:33:39.140 that triggers...

00:33:40.380 That we know

00:33:40.720 is gonna trigger them,

00:33:41.480 right?

00:33:41.960 Like, we already know

00:33:42.860 your history.

00:33:43.820 If we're to that point,

00:33:44.860 we already know

00:33:45.320 everything about it.

00:33:46.880 There you go.

00:33:48.720 This guy

00:33:49.580 is not saying anything

00:33:51.360 that we don't already know.

00:33:53.100 It is kind of funny

00:33:54.180 that he's talking about,

00:33:55.660 well, it's not really

00:33:56.280 entrapment,

00:33:57.120 but, you know,

00:33:57.780 wink, wink.

00:33:58.760 It's pretty close,

00:34:00.220 isn't it?

00:34:00.720 And yeah,

00:34:01.140 and we just do things.

00:34:03.320 We have fake profiles

00:34:04.660 and fake posts

00:34:05.920 that we know

00:34:06.960 are gonna trigger them

00:34:08.520 and make them engage

00:34:09.760 in certain behavior,

00:34:10.520 and that is exactly

00:34:11.360 what this investigator

00:34:12.180 has done to him.

00:34:13.700 This investigator

00:34:14.620 goes on some dating app,

00:34:16.100 I don't know,

00:34:16.360 I assume it's some

00:34:17.060 kind of dating app,

00:34:18.600 and, you know,

00:34:19.240 posts the right things

00:34:20.440 and nudges the right way,

00:34:21.380 and this guy

00:34:21.720 just blabs it all out.

00:34:23.480 This is really

00:34:24.320 the only argument

00:34:25.120 these days

00:34:25.660 against the ubiquity

00:34:27.860 and omnipotence

00:34:28.820 of the deep state

00:34:29.700 is that these dolts

00:34:30.940 are gullible enough

00:34:33.080 to be taken in by...

00:34:35.120 How many of these videos

00:34:36.020 come out now?

00:34:37.060 We seem to get

00:34:37.740 one of these videos

00:34:38.420 every three weeks,

00:34:39.200 and yet these people

00:34:40.920 keep falling for it.

00:34:42.820 You have the

00:34:43.380 cybersecurity czar,

00:34:45.600 the director over

00:34:46.480 at the White House,

00:34:48.160 blabbing to James O'Keefe

00:34:49.560 on a fake gay date

00:34:50.580 about how Joe Biden's terrible

00:34:52.360 and everyone wants him out.

00:34:53.880 This is the cybersecurity czar,

00:34:55.040 and then this guy,

00:34:56.440 this CIA contracting officer,

00:34:58.140 man,

00:34:58.540 the agency,

00:35:00.720 back 60,

00:35:02.140 70 years ago,

00:35:03.260 Cold War,

00:35:04.100 where are these guys?

00:35:05.100 This is James Bond,

00:35:06.240 Felix Leiter at least,

00:35:07.340 you know?

00:35:08.200 And now this guy,

00:35:09.720 Gavin O'Blennis,

00:35:11.300 giggling about how

00:35:12.200 they entrap pro-lifers.

00:35:14.800 Man,

00:35:15.320 the CIA

00:35:15.820 not sending their best

00:35:17.100 anymore,

00:35:17.440 are they?

00:35:19.000 Good grief.

00:35:20.100 But of course this happens.

00:35:21.180 This is why,

00:35:21.720 by the way,

00:35:22.920 I'm so glad this guy said it

00:35:24.360 because it just confirmed

00:35:25.140 something that I already thought,

00:35:26.320 which is,

00:35:26.920 I go on social media,

00:35:28.720 notably Twitter,

00:35:29.660 now X,

00:35:30.200 and you just get inundated

00:35:32.880 with different kinds of spam.

00:35:35.640 Obviously,

00:35:36.220 there are the porn account,

00:35:37.360 everyone sees the nudes in profile

00:35:39.880 or whatever,

00:35:40.400 you know,

00:35:40.580 that's like on every single

00:35:41.980 popular X post,

00:35:43.300 you see all of these

00:35:44.140 weird porn accounts,

00:35:45.400 then all these weird

00:35:46.180 financial scams,

00:35:47.400 you know,

00:35:47.600 so-and-so made me a billion dollars

00:35:49.660 on Bitcoin or whatever.

00:35:51.020 But then,

00:35:52.420 some are more highly targeted.

00:35:54.540 And so,

00:35:54.920 I'll see certain accounts

00:35:56.300 attacking me.

00:35:57.560 And they'll attack me on,

00:35:59.120 I don't know,

00:35:59.520 something I said,

00:36:00.560 something I did,

00:36:02.280 you know,

00:36:02.560 whatever it is,

00:36:04.040 some,

00:36:04.440 you know,

00:36:04.740 funny picture of me

00:36:06.080 or a meme about me

00:36:07.040 or something.

00:36:07.680 But one thing I'll notice is

00:36:08.900 they're anonymous,

00:36:10.900 pseudonymous accounts,

00:36:11.960 and sometimes

00:36:13.120 it'll be a lot of accounts

00:36:15.020 posting pretty much

00:36:16.280 the exact same thing

00:36:17.200 at the same time.

00:36:18.240 And I think,

00:36:18.720 okay,

00:36:18.940 well,

00:36:19.720 that probably doesn't represent

00:36:21.240 a lot of real people.

00:36:23.600 Maybe it's one person.

00:36:24.920 It could be a private individual

00:36:25.860 who just doesn't like me,

00:36:26.960 who's spamming.

00:36:28.200 It could be

00:36:29.200 a political operation,

00:36:30.840 you know,

00:36:30.980 the Democrats

00:36:31.600 or some other left-wing group,

00:36:33.460 Media Matters.

00:36:34.080 I mean,

00:36:34.200 they've done that kind of thing

00:36:35.060 a lot,

00:36:35.540 obviously.

00:36:37.180 Or,

00:36:38.360 could it be the government?

00:36:40.020 Could it be the government

00:36:40.980 trying to entrap

00:36:41.860 people who are on

00:36:42.940 the political radar?

00:36:44.360 Well,

00:36:44.840 previously I would have said,

00:36:46.160 I don't know,

00:36:46.900 there's not a ton of evidence

00:36:47.880 for that.

00:36:48.360 I don't want to seem conspiratorial.

00:36:49.600 But here we go.

00:36:50.240 The CIA is admitting it.

00:36:51.460 That is exactly

00:36:52.600 what they do.

00:36:53.180 Which is why

00:36:54.240 I really try never

00:36:56.420 to take the bait.

00:36:57.420 I have this rule.

00:36:59.020 If you are on X

00:37:00.500 or any social media

00:37:02.340 and you find yourself

00:37:03.400 getting genuinely angry,

00:37:05.880 back away.

00:37:07.700 People are trying

00:37:08.560 to trigger you.

00:37:09.980 Now,

00:37:10.200 you might say,

00:37:10.700 okay,

00:37:11.720 he's admitting

00:37:12.340 that this is entrapment

00:37:13.520 and that Twitter's

00:37:14.840 not real life,

00:37:15.560 to use a popular phrase.

00:37:17.660 But,

00:37:18.460 the reason this is so insidious

00:37:20.640 is,

00:37:21.980 while Twitter posts

00:37:23.860 might not reflect

00:37:24.820 public opinion,

00:37:25.840 they can help

00:37:27.300 to shape public opinion.

00:37:28.800 Because if you log

00:37:29.840 onto social media,

00:37:30.800 you can't help

00:37:33.100 but believe

00:37:33.720 that this is reflecting

00:37:35.100 real public opinion.

00:37:36.480 Which is why

00:37:37.240 the CIA

00:37:37.680 and the FBI

00:37:38.540 and other

00:37:40.120 bureaucratic

00:37:41.840 deep state institutions

00:37:42.740 use it.

00:37:43.220 It's not that

00:37:45.740 they're accurately

00:37:46.460 reflecting

00:37:47.100 the opinions

00:37:47.860 that people hold,

00:37:48.640 but they are helping

00:37:49.860 to shape those opinions.

00:37:51.560 And they do have

00:37:52.180 about a century

00:37:52.900 of experience

00:37:54.060 at doing that.

00:37:55.380 Usually,

00:37:55.840 that was focused

00:37:56.400 abroad on our enemies.

00:37:58.000 You know,

00:37:58.180 propaganda to the Soviet Union

00:37:59.560 during the Cold War.

00:38:00.600 Unfortunately,

00:38:01.200 now,

00:38:01.580 as we're finding out

00:38:02.380 in these investigations,

00:38:03.620 our own government agencies

00:38:05.000 are using those kinds

00:38:06.040 of war tactics

00:38:07.620 on us.

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00:38:46.660 I have two favorite

00:38:47.340 comments from yesterday.

00:38:48.620 I couldn't limit myself

00:38:49.740 to just one,

00:38:50.300 so we have two.

00:38:51.540 First one from

00:38:52.100 the Drummer's Workshop

00:38:52.700 Norm's Music.

00:38:53.620 Watching the view

00:38:54.340 is worse for your eyes

00:38:56.180 than the eclipse.

00:38:57.020 Very, very true.

00:38:58.080 No question about it.

00:38:59.160 Where's my second comment?

00:39:01.500 There it is.

00:39:02.600 Devin Rossi says,

00:39:04.800 Whoopi being the voice

00:39:05.720 of reason on the view

00:39:07.320 may also be a sign

00:39:08.960 of the rapture.

00:39:09.820 That's true.

00:39:10.800 You see how those

00:39:11.600 were related clips,

00:39:12.720 but when Whoopi Goldberg

00:39:15.420 has to come in to say,

00:39:16.280 Sonny Hauston,

00:39:17.060 you're going too far.

00:39:18.060 Joy Behar,

00:39:18.660 maybe you're going too far.

00:39:20.540 It's much more

00:39:21.840 than the eclipse,

00:39:23.160 much more than

00:39:24.200 the Jewish heifers,

00:39:25.660 much more.

00:39:26.540 That, look,

00:39:28.420 no one knows

00:39:28.860 the day or the hour,

00:39:29.940 no, not even the sun,

00:39:30.980 only the father.

00:39:32.340 If there were

00:39:33.060 to be a sign,

00:39:33.880 that would probably

00:39:34.840 rank among them.

00:39:37.440 Okay, so we know

00:39:39.020 that the feds

00:39:40.180 are entrapping people.

00:39:41.020 They're admitting it.

00:39:41.980 What kind of people

00:39:42.700 are they trying to get?

00:39:44.440 Alex Jones.

00:39:45.140 Yeah, so we were

00:39:46.480 after him.

00:39:47.340 You are?

00:39:48.120 Are you still after him?

00:39:49.520 Why?

00:39:50.160 Because he's broke.

00:39:51.620 He got found guilty

00:39:52.580 and had to pay

00:39:53.680 like $100 million.

00:39:55.100 So why were you after him?

00:39:56.920 We're not anymore.

00:39:58.100 Just to get the money

00:39:58.780 from him?

00:39:59.140 Yeah.

00:39:59.840 Yeah, we're not anymore.

00:40:00.660 We already got him.

00:40:01.280 We already destroyed him.

00:40:02.740 And they did.

00:40:03.360 They did destroy Alex Jones.

00:40:04.540 They bankrupted the guy.

00:40:05.440 So he's still on the air,

00:40:06.420 but he doesn't have

00:40:07.420 the influence

00:40:07.920 that he previously did.

00:40:09.000 And so they just get him.

00:40:10.440 They just got him.

00:40:12.060 And is it just Alex Jones?

00:40:13.600 Probably not.

00:40:15.300 Are they maybe going

00:40:16.260 after some other people too?

00:40:18.240 Probably they are.

00:40:20.660 I don't,

00:40:21.000 are they going after yours truly?

00:40:22.120 I hope not.

00:40:23.140 I don't know.

00:40:23.640 Maybe they,

00:40:24.120 maybe they would,

00:40:24.780 maybe they wouldn't.

00:40:26.160 How extensive

00:40:26.980 is this kind of thing?

00:40:27.980 If they're entrapping

00:40:31.440 ordinary pro-lifers

00:40:33.120 as this former CIA

00:40:37.000 and FBI guy

00:40:37.860 admit that they were doing,

00:40:40.860 probably this is a lot

00:40:42.760 more extensive

00:40:43.440 than just Alex Jones.

00:40:45.540 Probably this is

00:40:46.260 a psychological

00:40:48.560 and propaganda operation

00:40:51.040 geared at,

00:40:52.900 if he's to be believed,

00:40:53.840 geared at

00:40:54.340 many, many, many

00:40:55.820 conservative Americans.

00:40:58.920 So,

00:41:00.040 what about

00:41:02.040 in real life?

00:41:04.180 Is it all just,

00:41:05.960 you know,

00:41:06.500 on Twitter?

00:41:07.140 Is it all just triggering

00:41:08.180 conservative

00:41:09.120 talking heads on Twitter?

00:41:11.240 Or do these guys

00:41:12.260 set up conservatives

00:41:15.360 in the real world too?

00:41:16.940 I think you probably

00:41:18.080 can guess the answer.

00:41:20.200 I thought you said

00:41:20.860 that there were

00:41:21.420 FBI agents

00:41:22.300 in the crowd at J6.

00:41:23.820 There always are

00:41:24.640 when there's a big

00:41:25.120 protest in D.C.

00:41:26.440 Just in case it gets

00:41:27.340 out of him.

00:41:27.700 But there wasn't

00:41:29.200 enough to turn that tight.

00:41:31.580 I mean,

00:41:32.040 I'm talking

00:41:32.500 maybe they have

00:41:33.040 20.

00:41:34.680 You needed

00:41:35.320 1,000

00:41:36.580 to get rid of that crowd.

00:41:38.800 So they had like,

00:41:39.520 oh, that was just 20?

00:41:40.720 Yeah,

00:41:41.000 just go through

00:41:41.540 and see what they

00:41:42.420 could hear,

00:41:43.000 you know,

00:41:43.260 that kind of thing.

00:41:44.620 Wow.

00:41:45.320 Yeah, definitely

00:41:46.000 they needed 1,000

00:41:46.860 at least.

00:41:48.480 Wow.

00:41:48.760 Well, that's also

00:41:49.320 Capitol Police jurisdiction.

00:41:51.280 They're in charge.

00:41:52.100 Why they didn't have

00:41:56.140 more on hand,

00:41:56.980 I don't know.

00:41:57.600 The Bureau didn't

00:41:58.220 really want people

00:41:58.880 knowing that they

00:41:59.360 were in the crowd.

00:41:59.940 Mm-hmm.

00:42:01.620 That would be

00:42:02.400 overstepping their bounds.

00:42:03.580 A little bit.

00:42:04.960 Do people know that?

00:42:06.400 Why?

00:42:07.100 Do people know that

00:42:07.860 the Bureau

00:42:08.320 was in the crowd?

00:42:10.420 Nope,

00:42:10.900 they probably never will.

00:42:12.160 Wow.

00:42:13.320 Do you know

00:42:13.600 agents that were there?

00:42:14.620 Mm-hmm.

00:42:14.880 They probably never will

00:42:20.920 unless I get caught

00:42:22.360 on camera

00:42:22.860 in a honeypot operation.

00:42:27.020 Not only does he say,

00:42:28.560 this is actually

00:42:29.160 pretty brilliant framing

00:42:30.320 by the journalist

00:42:31.880 on the fake date.

00:42:34.280 He says,

00:42:34.480 you said there were

00:42:34.940 some agents in the crowd?

00:42:35.800 Oh, yeah.

00:42:37.400 Only,

00:42:37.920 there were only 20.

00:42:39.500 Right?

00:42:39.680 So he,

00:42:40.060 the FBI guy,

00:42:41.400 CIA guy is downplaying it.

00:42:42.820 He's saying,

00:42:43.200 yeah, it's only,

00:42:43.620 we probably should have

00:42:44.240 had more there.

00:42:45.120 But, you know,

00:42:45.600 it was the Capitol Police

00:42:46.440 jurisdiction,

00:42:47.300 even though they didn't

00:42:47.900 have enough officers on hand.

00:42:49.060 Wonder why that was.

00:42:50.240 He seems to be insinuating

00:42:52.080 that maybe there was

00:42:53.740 more of a political

00:42:54.620 operation going on here.

00:42:56.360 That intentionally

00:42:57.240 the Capitol Police presence

00:42:58.340 was kept down

00:42:58.960 on January 6th.

00:43:00.060 Maybe so that what?

00:43:01.160 So that maybe the crowd

00:43:01.920 got a little out of hand.

00:43:03.640 Well, who was sending

00:43:04.360 the crowd out of hand?

00:43:06.060 Did those 20 FBI agents

00:43:07.540 maybe have something

00:43:08.160 to do with it?

00:43:09.240 I don't know.

00:43:10.360 Were some of the

00:43:11.360 prominent people

00:43:12.680 from January 6th,

00:43:14.400 sorry.

00:43:16.120 January 6th,

00:43:17.060 the worst day

00:43:18.160 of insurrection

00:43:19.000 in the history

00:43:19.760 of republics.

00:43:21.420 Is it possible

00:43:22.340 that some of those

00:43:23.460 FBI agents,

00:43:24.920 that this guy

00:43:26.080 is attesting

00:43:26.700 to knowing

00:43:27.580 were there,

00:43:29.060 that maybe they had

00:43:29.820 something to do

00:43:30.460 with riling the crowd up?

00:43:31.480 I don't know.

00:43:32.900 It's an open question.

00:43:34.500 But maybe this guy

00:43:35.540 is just bluffing.

00:43:36.920 Maybe he just heard

00:43:37.920 a rumor,

00:43:38.600 heard from a friend

00:43:39.420 of a friend

00:43:39.760 that there were

00:43:40.160 FBI guys on January 6th.

00:43:42.000 Well, no.

00:43:42.860 Because the journalist

00:43:43.540 asks him about that.

00:43:45.560 And he says,

00:43:46.620 do you know any agents

00:43:47.920 who were there?

00:43:48.320 He says, oh, yeah.

00:43:49.820 Not only does he say,

00:43:50.700 I know the agents

00:43:51.260 who were there,

00:43:51.520 he says,

00:43:51.740 they work for the CIA now.

00:43:53.000 They work for the agency,

00:43:54.220 not the bureau.

00:43:54.860 I know them

00:43:57.100 and I know

00:43:57.400 where they're

00:43:57.680 currently working now.

00:43:59.460 Right.

00:44:00.820 Right.

00:44:01.420 Nothing particularly

00:44:02.540 new here.

00:44:04.720 I think we all

00:44:05.740 kind of knew this.

00:44:07.120 For goodness sakes,

00:44:07.980 the night before

00:44:08.480 January,

00:44:09.120 January 6th,

00:44:10.140 on January 5th,

00:44:11.700 no, it doesn't,

00:44:12.180 it doesn't quite

00:44:12.660 have the same ring to it.

00:44:13.640 But on January 5th,

00:44:14.680 the night before,

00:44:16.180 you had that guy,

00:44:16.840 Ray Epps,

00:44:18.140 who many believe

00:44:19.420 had some connection

00:44:20.480 to the federal government

00:44:21.220 because he was

00:44:22.260 probably the most

00:44:23.240 prominent instigator

00:44:24.240 of people going

00:44:25.640 into the Capitol

00:44:26.140 that day.

00:44:26.960 And yet,

00:44:28.180 he wasn't arrested

00:44:29.440 for a long time.

00:44:30.080 He was taken off

00:44:30.660 the FBI website.

00:44:31.820 It was just,

00:44:32.260 the whole thing was strange.

00:44:33.080 And he had a little slap

00:44:33.820 on the wrist.

00:44:34.280 He was treated really nicely

00:44:35.640 by the New York Times,

00:44:36.780 was writing puff pieces

00:44:37.660 about him.

00:44:38.300 We're told these are

00:44:38.720 the worst terrorists

00:44:39.500 ever in American history,

00:44:40.620 except for the one guy

00:44:41.560 who instigated all of it.

00:44:42.620 And he's actually

00:44:43.240 a poor, hapless victim.

00:44:44.760 None of it made any sense.

00:44:46.540 But forget about it.

00:44:47.220 Maybe it's,

00:44:47.640 maybe Ray Epps is a Fed,

00:44:48.560 maybe he's not.

00:44:49.200 Regardless,

00:44:50.800 seems pretty clear now

00:44:52.000 there were a number

00:44:53.300 of Feds there.

00:44:54.680 And the night before

00:44:55.140 when Ray Epps was saying,

00:44:55.920 we got to go into the Capitol,

00:44:57.100 all the people around

00:44:57.740 were saying,

00:44:58.220 Fed,

00:44:58.820 Fed,

00:44:59.560 you're a Fed,

00:45:00.460 you're trying to entrap us,

00:45:02.240 trying to give us

00:45:02.680 that little nudge

00:45:03.420 that the FBI

00:45:04.920 and CIA folks

00:45:06.060 are now

00:45:06.700 admitting to.

00:45:09.200 I thought the CIA

00:45:10.080 was supposed to be

00:45:10.780 focused abroad.

00:45:11.920 I thought they weren't

00:45:12.460 supposed to be doing

00:45:13.060 stuff on American soil.

00:45:14.320 Anyway,

00:45:14.620 it's weird.

00:45:14.860 Speaking of foreign affairs,

00:45:17.540 El Salvador,

00:45:19.300 my favorite

00:45:20.180 right-wing

00:45:21.540 Latin American

00:45:22.360 country these days,

00:45:25.060 run by

00:45:25.780 Nayib Bukele,

00:45:26.760 has just announced

00:45:27.760 a new immigration plan.

00:45:29.680 We live in an age

00:45:30.840 where the global elites

00:45:32.760 want more migration

00:45:34.660 and the people

00:45:37.540 tend to want

00:45:38.420 to restrict migration.

00:45:40.080 Here, however,

00:45:41.320 is a new

00:45:42.060 migration expansion plan

00:45:44.760 that I think

00:45:45.620 is really,

00:45:46.240 really good

00:45:46.660 and America

00:45:47.240 should consider.

00:45:47.940 Here's what he says.

00:45:48.500 Bukele says,

00:45:51.200 we are offering

00:45:51.860 5,000 free passports,

00:45:55.020 equivalent to

00:45:55.740 $5 billion

00:45:56.340 in our passport program,

00:45:58.580 to highly skilled

00:45:59.340 scientists,

00:46:00.220 engineers,

00:46:00.800 doctors,

00:46:01.240 artists,

00:46:01.720 and philosophers

00:46:02.500 from abroad.

00:46:03.300 And philosophers.

00:46:05.080 This is a big thinker,

00:46:06.820 Mr. Bukele.

00:46:07.980 Not just trying

00:46:08.740 to get a guy

00:46:09.280 who can,

00:46:09.780 you know,

00:46:10.080 get your

00:46:10.580 air conditioner unit

00:46:12.940 to work a little bit better,

00:46:13.880 but a guy

00:46:14.260 who can get your society

00:46:15.500 to work a little bit better.

00:46:16.480 A philosopher,

00:46:17.220 someone who knows something

00:46:18.140 about eternal questions

00:46:19.520 and applying them

00:46:20.300 to the real world.

00:46:22.180 This represents

00:46:23.120 less than 0.1%

00:46:24.320 of our population,

00:46:25.480 so granting them

00:46:26.180 full citizen status,

00:46:27.780 including voting rights,

00:46:28.780 poses no issue.

00:46:30.880 Despite the small number,

00:46:32.580 their contributions

00:46:33.220 will have a huge impact

00:46:34.320 on our society

00:46:35.120 and the future

00:46:35.680 of our country.

00:46:36.760 Plus,

00:46:37.160 we will facilitate

00:46:37.840 their relocation

00:46:38.520 by ensuring 0% taxes

00:46:39.820 and tariffs

00:46:40.280 on moving families

00:46:41.140 and assets.

00:46:42.140 This includes

00:46:42.520 commercial value items

00:46:43.480 like equipment,

00:46:44.500 software,

00:46:44.920 and intellectual property.

00:46:46.120 Stay tuned

00:46:46.560 for more details.

00:46:48.140 This is smart immigration.

00:46:50.120 I'm all for this.

00:46:52.100 Right now,

00:46:53.200 we have

00:46:53.780 3 to 4 million

00:46:55.660 people

00:46:56.820 indiscriminately

00:46:57.900 pouring into our country

00:46:59.060 every single year.

00:47:01.380 Most of them illegal,

00:47:03.020 about a million of them legal,

00:47:04.660 just pouring in.

00:47:07.500 I would like

00:47:09.100 to restrict that greatly,

00:47:10.560 but I'm not a total

00:47:12.360 immigration

00:47:13.780 eliminationist.

00:47:16.580 I don't know.

00:47:17.440 I don't know

00:47:17.640 what new

00:47:18.000 political jargon

00:47:18.860 to make up

00:47:19.220 because I don't

00:47:20.760 want to go down

00:47:21.220 to zero immigration.

00:47:23.560 I think

00:47:23.980 5,000

00:47:25.760 scientists,

00:47:27.020 engineers,

00:47:27.540 doctors,

00:47:27.960 artists,

00:47:28.340 and philosophers

00:47:29.000 is not a bad idea.

00:47:30.740 I'm okay with that.

00:47:31.380 And you know what?

00:47:31.980 America's a bigger country.

00:47:33.380 Make it 10,000.

00:47:35.180 The issue

00:47:35.940 here now

00:47:36.680 is we're importing

00:47:37.480 a huge

00:47:38.520 percentage

00:47:39.440 of our population

00:47:40.280 every single year.

00:47:41.440 Democrats are doing it

00:47:42.400 because

00:47:43.120 they think

00:47:44.500 it'll give them

00:47:44.860 a permanent electoral majority

00:47:45.860 and the Chamber of Commerce.

00:47:47.100 Republicans are doing it

00:47:47.880 because it gives them

00:47:48.620 basically slave labor

00:47:49.820 and that's what they want.

00:47:52.140 That doesn't help

00:47:53.000 the country at all.

00:47:53.920 That's that

00:47:54.360 self-interested part.

00:47:55.980 That's not the

00:47:56.680 common good kind of regime.

00:47:58.240 What Bukele's talking about,

00:47:59.600 that is for the common good.

00:48:01.400 Bring in people

00:48:02.280 as if this were

00:48:04.040 some novel

00:48:04.740 political idea.

00:48:06.200 This is actually

00:48:06.660 what immigration

00:48:07.160 always was

00:48:08.280 in stable,

00:48:10.040 serious countries

00:48:10.720 until very recently.

00:48:11.580 bring in people

00:48:13.480 who will help

00:48:15.180 all of society.

00:48:17.640 Focus on

00:48:18.700 your national interest

00:48:19.980 and try to

00:48:21.260 improve

00:48:21.980 and advance

00:48:23.680 the common good.

00:48:25.380 Crazy stuff.

00:48:26.460 But in an age

00:48:27.180 that is

00:48:27.880 philosophically,

00:48:30.200 politically,

00:48:31.260 all

00:48:31.500 ignorant on so many levels

00:48:33.320 despite all of our

00:48:34.140 student loans,

00:48:35.380 that

00:48:35.880 basic

00:48:36.780 principle

00:48:37.580 of statecraft

00:48:38.520 seems

00:48:39.540 like a shocking

00:48:41.680 innovation.

00:48:43.180 The rest of the show

00:48:43.960 continues now.

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Ep. 1465 - The Student Loan Forgiveness Bribe EXPLAINED

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