In this episode of the Members Only Uncensored show, host Alex Blumberg is joined by journalist Michael Tracy to discuss the latest in the border crisis, including the vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, the Georgia governor's decision to deploy National Guard troops to the border, and more.
00:00:39.000The reality is nothing will happen after this.
00:00:41.000However, look, with a slim majority in the House, there's not a whole lot more you could ask for other than public statements, symbolic victories, and I do think the fact that Republicans are pushing back against the fails on the border is tremendously good for Republicans in an election year, considering even Democrats have begun to say invasion.
00:00:58.000Now, in terms of real news today, the governor of Georgia announced that they will be deploying National Guard troops to Texas to assist with the border crisis.
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00:03:02.000Joining us tonight to talk about all of this and more is Michael Tracy.
00:03:39.000Well, I don't want to be too pompous or self-aggrandizing.
00:03:41.000Anti-establishment, I mean, depends how you define establishment, I guess.
00:03:44.000I don't associate actively with any establishment.
00:03:47.000But yeah, I mean, there was a time where there was like a formation of people in the media landscape who were seen as maybe a bit more heterodox or were being ostracized more and more from liberal milieus, liberal media milieus were that I had once comfortably inhabited.
00:04:03.000That I was maybe considered amongst that group.
00:04:07.000I think one of the best pieces, some of the best work you've done, one way to put it, was when you traveled around the country and went to all the smaller towns that have been affected by the Summer of Love riots.
00:04:23.000And then you actually wrote this really long piece showing photos from even small towns that were massively impacted by vandalism and destruction.
00:04:30.000And of course, it really angered more establishment actors and, you know, maybe like Democrat personalities who don't want that narrative coming out.
00:04:37.000But I suppose the easiest way to describe it is you actually just did journalism, you know, irrespective of any kind of power structure.
00:04:45.000All I did was just take a nationwide car trip to small, medium, and large-sized cities where there was some rioting or protest activity underway that had been Very conspicuously undercover, like just to give you one example of plenty that I could give.
00:05:02.000I just happened to be passing by Fort Wayne, Indiana, probably not a place that most people would make a point to stop at just because it's not that noteworthy or remarkable, nothing against it, but it's not like a major landmark, right?
00:05:13.000And I went and it turned out that there had been the biggest riots in the living memory of people who lived in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
00:06:36.000So even though I wasn't trying to, like, proffer material for the Republicans necessarily, there were so few people doing that basic journalistic work that I ended up as a source in that way.
00:06:45.000And that's another big story today, too.
00:06:47.000I think it's Paramount just announced mass layoffs, which includes a few prominent journalists like Katherine Harridge.
00:06:52.000So she's been a big thorn in the side of the current administration and establishment.
00:07:38.000Like, I started to become that guy, and I was like, I gotta lay off this blockchain rhetoric, because they kept asking me questions like, well, go deeper on the, damn, I gotta, I can't go deeper.
00:08:18.000He had an organ on stage that he never turned around and played on.
00:08:20.000I didn't know how to develop like an incredible multitasking muscle to just be constantly playing video games no matter what else you're doing.
00:08:39.000They say the results came one week after the stunning loss House Republicans suffered when they tried to impeach Mayorkas and GOP defections and an absence sank the initial House floor vote.
00:08:49.000Last week, the absence of House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and the surprise attendance
00:08:53.000by Texas Democrat Al Green, who had just had surgery and was wheeled into the chamber to
00:09:13.000The embarrassing initial defeat of the Mayorkas impeachment effort was quickly followed up by another floor failure over a standalone Israel aid package.
00:09:20.000Only crystallized the GOP's year-long struggle.
00:09:27.000After this, following the banging of the gavel, celebrations from Republican House members, they will handily hand over their resolution to Mitch McConnell, for which he will promptly put it into the shredder, walk away, and go back to selling out the United States to foreign adversaries and dictators and war machines, etc.
00:09:48.000You guys said nothing's going to happen from it, and Michael, you specified because they needed two-thirds in the Senate for this to go through, and you just think that's DOA?
00:10:17.000So there'll be a lot of debate over what's actually required of Schumer at this juncture, because it's a little bit different, as far as I understand it, from a presidential impeachment.
00:10:26.000Like there are less mandatory steps that kick in once the impeachment takes place.
00:10:31.000Although there was even debate that when Trump was impeached the first time and Republicans controlled the Senate.
00:10:37.000Oh, and the Republicans controlled the Senate, that McConnell might not even be obliged to hold impeachment hearings in that Eventually, so it's like it's open ended as to what is required of anyone here.
00:11:00.000They have a very slim majority in the house.
00:11:03.000They don't have the Senate nor the White House.
00:11:05.000So I don't know what more anyone could expect.
00:11:08.000That being said, in an election year, Republicans getting this declaration that we are actively trying to do something, whether it's effective or not, or whether it's just politicking, is still going to be good for Republicans, because you've got Democrats in every major city freaking out about the illegal immigration crisis, and to the point where I think it was, was it Al Sharpton called it an invasion?
00:11:29.000So when you've got, man it's getting bad in Chicago, The black community coming out, specifically criticizing the mayor over what's going on with illegal immigration.
00:11:39.000They don't care about the Democrat or Republican.
00:11:42.000They're just like, why is this happening?
00:11:44.000Why are our community centers and schools being handed over?
00:11:46.000Why aren't you doing anything about it?
00:12:14.000The average person who is experiencing hardship does not follow the news, does not know who Mayorkas is, does not know what his job is, but they will hear breaking news that Republicans have impeached him over the border crisis.
00:12:32.000And if you go to the average person and ask them, what was Mayorkas' job?
00:12:36.000I mean, many conservatives are gonna be like, I don't know.
00:12:38.000And if you go to the average person who's complaining about illegal immigrants, they're gonna be like, don't know, don't care.
00:12:42.000I mean, look, I can tell you, I can put it this way.
00:12:45.000With all due respect to the average person who may hear this passively, and it may change their mind, I don't expect the majority of the United States, of the average working person, to know the full details of what the DHS secretary is supposed to be doing, what he should have done.
00:13:00.000This is why they vote for people they trust.
00:13:18.000Republicans can come out and say, we tried to fire him, and the Democrats would not follow through because it takes the House and the Senate to move forward with the impeachment.
00:13:25.000And Democrats in the Senate said, we're not interested in firing this guy.
00:13:29.000So if you're concerned about immigration, vote for us.
00:13:32.000But Republicans also say that Mayorkas is simply implementing Biden's immigration policy, so you could swap out anybody to preside over the Department of Homeland Security, and it wouldn't change the ultimate policy if it's coming from the top down.
00:14:44.000And then they're gonna bring in Newsom or somebody else like I don't know Kamala Harris will be like I'm not here you know I stand by Joe or whatever and something happens Republicans don't want to give them the opportunity to swap out their brain-dead president.
00:14:57.000I think there are potentially some reasons to be worried or to raise concerns about the House of Representatives, in particular, increasingly resorting to extreme methods of registering disapproval.
00:15:11.000So this is the first impeachment of a cabinet officer since, what was it, 1876?
00:15:35.000I think once Democrats took the House after the 2018 midterms, they basically immediately launched into a precursor impeachment investigation and a full-fledged investigation.
00:15:43.000There were several attempts under the Democrats, but Pelosi was like, no, no, no, and they kept getting defeated.
00:15:49.000Yeah, there was a push after the Mueller report.
00:15:50.000But they actually introduced articles of impeachment several times.
00:16:00.000But the point is you have that, you have Congress using more and more often censure resolutions, which used to be pretty rare.
00:16:06.000Remember the Democrats in, what was it, 2021 censured Paul Gosar for tweeting a meme clip of AOC and Biden, like in an anime thing, which is ridiculous.
00:16:18.000They claimed that it was like literal violence.
00:16:46.000And I think it's almost a sure thing now that Democrats will retaliate against this and impeach a Republican cabinet official.
00:16:52.000And the problem is it is a pendulum swing with no way to stop it.
00:16:58.000Because if the Republicans say, we're going to take the high road and just keep acting normally, the Democrats will just keep beating the crap out of them.
00:17:05.000So the Republicans respond with, okay, well then we'll swing back.
00:17:26.000The pushback of the pendulum is the people themselves, because if Congress starts to go crazy, if they really start to do that, it's our job to make sure that that doesn't happen as a people.
00:18:08.000If someone gets charged the crime and it's a serious offense, we will put them in jail pending the outcome.
00:18:14.000I'm not a big fan of locking people up who can't like, you know, I actually am a fan of Uh, bail reform.
00:18:20.000I just don't know that the way New York handles it is the appropriate way to do it.
00:18:23.000But I think it's a simple argument that if someone is indicted on a crime, depending on the severity of the crime, we can put them in a box and close the door and lock it until we actually resolve this through a trial.
00:18:44.000Like Robert Menendez, who was indicted a few months ago, he was the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which is one of the most powerful positions in the Senate.
00:18:51.000And he then had to step down once he was indicted, because that's a matter of Senate rules.
00:18:56.000I don't know that the House has a comparable rule.
00:18:58.000But I'm sort of wary of even imposing any punishment on Santos when he's merely indicted.
00:19:02.000That's just a set of accusations by the government.
00:19:04.000That's still imposing a punishment on him absent due process.
00:19:08.000I think they should have done nothing and said prove it or else.
00:19:10.000And by the way, the same goes for Menendez because he was indicted by the DOJ a couple of years ago and went to a hung jury.
00:19:17.000My point is, it is absolutely unreasonable to expel him.
00:19:21.000The compromise could perhaps be in suspending pending an outcome of the indictments.
00:19:26.000And I equate that to, a guy is accused of murder, we lock him up until the resolution of the trial, in which many people get found not guilty and are released.
00:19:34.000I mean, Kyle Rittenhouse spent two months in jail.
00:19:36.000I don't like the fact that it turns out innocent people end up doing time while we're trying to figure things out.
00:19:41.000My point is, in my personal opinion, Santos should be still in Congress, and he should say, prove it or else.
00:19:47.000But my point is, it is completely unreasonable to remove him.
00:19:50.000Yeah, and his alleged offenses are comparatively trivial In relation to what other members of Congress could be theoretically punished for, because Santos was the first member of Congress who was expelled without first being convicted of a crime.
00:20:08.000And most of those in the past, when there was a conviction, had to do with literal treason against the country, meaning they were Confederates.
00:20:17.000We're in a state of literal legal rebellion.
00:20:20.000I mean, in 2002, I think it was, James Traficant was the congressman who was previously expelled before Santos, and he was actually convicted of a crime.
00:20:28.000So if you're going to for some reason make this... That was Ohio, okay.
00:20:33.000If you're going to... I mean, that guy was a character too.
00:20:35.000He died in a truck, a tractor accident.
00:20:38.000But if you're going to sweep aside all precedent and expel Santos without him first being convicted of a crime, and for the conduct to be that he lied about being on a college volleyball team, you're cheapening the tactic.
00:20:52.000So now it's just going to be used even more commonly for lesser and lesser grave offenses.
00:20:57.000To simplify everything, check which district you're in, look at who voted to expel Santos, And campaign against them.
00:21:13.000Because they felt that he would be a political albatross for them when they're running again in 2024, because they're in marginal districts.
00:21:20.000Each and every one that voted to ask him, I think, is ineligible, but you're not going to convince Democrats, so the Republicans need to organize.
00:21:28.000We have this tweet from Justin Barragona.
00:21:30.000A statement from Biden on the Mayorkas impeachment.
00:21:33.000History will not look kindly on House Republicans for their blatant act of unconstitutional partisanship that has targeted an honorable public servant in order to play petty political games.
00:21:45.000He says, he continues, Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas, a Cuban immigrant who came to the U.S.
00:21:50.000with his family as political refugees, has spent more than two decades serving America with integrity in a decorated career in law enforcement and public service.
00:22:00.000attorney to his service as Deputy Secretary and now Secretary of Homeland Security, he has upheld the rule of law faithfully and has demonstrated a deep commitment to the values that make our nation great.
00:22:10.000This impeachment already failed once on a bipartisan vote.
00:22:12.000Instead of staging political stunts like this, Republicans with genuine concerns about the border should want Congress to deliver more border resources and stronger border security.
00:22:22.000Sadly, the same Republicans pushing this baseless impeachment are rejecting bipartisan plans Mayorkas and others in my administration have worked hard on to strengthen border security at this very moment, reversing from years of their own demands to pass stronger border bills.
00:22:35.000Giving up on real solutions right when they are needed most in order to play politics is not what the American people expect from their leaders.
00:22:41.000Congress needs to act to give me, Mayorkas, and my administration the tools and resources needed to address the situation at the border.
00:22:47.000The House also needs to pass Senate's National Security Supplemental right away.
00:22:51.000We will continue pursuing real solutions to the challenges Americans face, and House Republicans have to decide whether to join us to solve the problem or keep playing politics with the border.
00:23:00.000Let me just simplify all of this politically for you guys to understand what's happening.
00:23:05.000They want to open the border to thousands of illegal immigrants every day at a time when even Democrat strongholds have communities in uproar over the illegal immigration crisis.
00:23:15.000They want to send $60 billion to Ukraine.
00:23:18.000They want to send, I think it's what, $14.7 billion to Israel, as well as a portion of that to Taiwan.
00:23:25.000$20 billion of the dollars in the original bill would not go to securing the border.
00:23:30.000It would go to facilitating the invasion.
00:23:33.000It's more judges, it's more border agents, and it's all designed to get people in faster.
00:23:37.000The bill gives Customs and Border Protection, in certain circumstances, the ability to issue work permits and adjudicate asylum claims without a court.
00:23:48.000And, of course, that's the thing about the asylum seekers, right?
00:23:50.000Asylum seekers get work permits faster.
00:23:53.000They get access to, basically, federal and state aid faster.
00:23:57.000And as Joe Rogan pointed out just about a week ago, there are certain jurisdictions that are trying to give illegal immigrants with work permits the right to vote in municipal elections.
00:24:06.000Joe Biden... That was struck down in New York last year, but they can do it again.
00:24:53.000And I was just reading today, in Variety, it turns out that the Inflation Reduction Act made it possible for Travis Kelsey to produce his first Hollywood film with federal credits from the Inflation Reduction Act.
00:25:05.000It raised taxes on pretty much everybody, but you know, Travis Kelsey gets to produce a film.
00:25:09.000The reason this bill was even structured in the way it was in the first place, meaning the bill that was abandoned last week, The bill that was abandoned last week that included the immigration component was because in September or October of last year, Republicans in the House kept saying, and some in the Senate, kept saying that although we might support in principle sending additional funds to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan,
00:25:33.000We're prioritizing the border and immigration policy above all else.
00:25:37.000So that is a required element of any bill that we would vote for.
00:25:41.000So it was Biden was proposing that as an accommodation to Republican complaints.
00:25:49.000And then the Senate Republicans designated James Lankford Who is one of the more conservative members of the caucus, or was seen as one before last week, who came up with a bill that, if you compare it to previous attempts to pass comprehensive immigration reform, and I'm kind of neutral on that anyway, like I don't care one way or the other that much, but like in 2013 and the 2007, when there were these bipartisan attempts to do immigration reform, they included a lot more liberal or democratic priorities, including quote-unquote pathways to citizenship.
00:26:19.000It was strictly border enforcement, so Biden, ironically, was willing to totally spit in the face of the more hardline, progressive immigration activists within the coalition and just go along with almost entirely Republican priorities.
00:26:40.000How could you possibly call it anything other than progressive?
00:26:45.0008,500 non-citizens allowed in per day, CBP getting, in certain circumstances, the right to adjudicate asylum claims outside of the courts, the granting of work permits.
00:26:54.000The problem right now that Democrat voters in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and other major Democrat cities are complaining about is a massive influx of non-citizens sleeping in our airports, in our schools.
00:27:05.000So when they say it's a security bill that facilitates Thousands, million, a million plus per year.
00:27:13.000That's not what Republicans are complaining about.
00:27:17.000That is, that is the only outcome of that proposal was that it would be set that the bill is dead on arrival and then Democrats get to come out and say the security bill was rejected by Republicans.
00:27:28.000Well, what the lead Senate negotiator, James Langford, who I've actually spoken to in the past about Ukraine policy and other stuff, seems like a relatively normal conservative.
00:27:36.000I doubt he would be doing the bidding of the Democrats just in some mischievous or nefarious way.
00:27:44.000Seemed like he was pretty sincere in what he was trying to negotiate, although I stand open to be corrected on that.
00:27:50.000And he was saying that what it would have changed, and again I don't really frankly care that much way or another about immigration policy, it's something I'm kind of agnostic on for better or worse, but he was saying that the the status quo now is that as many as like six or seven or eight thousand per day migrants approach the border and this would be creating a new authority where if it reaches that number on any given day or over the span of a week then Asylum claims aren't even being processed anymore at the border.
00:28:18.000So he said that within the past six months, there would have been only three or four days where the inflow would have been low enough that they would even be processing asylum claims in the first place.
00:28:29.000They were saying that this was going to create authority that Trump had sought.
00:28:32.000That the Congress hadn't even enacted that would have given him the ability to actually shut down the processing of asylum claims, which is otherwise mandated by law.
00:28:41.000And redirect them to ports of entry for an additional $3,500, which is not what any, any person who's been complaining about the border had asked for, and all it was doing was creating a legal path to facilitate the illegal activities they were doing.
00:28:54.000So when we take a look at What Texas is doing with the National Guard, and why Texas is doing it, it's because there is an invasion.
00:29:02.000And those are the words of, I believe it was Al Sharpton, an invasion on our border.
00:29:05.000And you've got New York, as I mentioned, all these major Democrat cities saying we are being invaded.
00:29:10.000If this bill were to pass, it would turn the illegal actions for which Mayorkas has now been impeached into legal actions.
00:29:17.000In fact, A large portion of the people coming through give false ages.
00:29:42.000If Texas thinks the problem is so egregious, they have lined their border with shipping containers covered in concertina wire and have sent in the National Guard to bar CBP access.
00:29:55.000Whatever bill they tried proposing, which would actually strip authority from Texas, should be DOA.
00:30:00.000And that means Lankford and anybody else absolutely sabotaged any effort at border security, and it was predicted by basically every pundit that said, when they actually propose the border bill, and we talked about it on the show, here's what's going to happen.
00:30:16.000It's going to be garbage as it always is.
00:30:18.000I'll put it this way, there's a great meme.
00:30:40.000After 5,000 non-citizens breach the border and Texas and other border states are unable to stop it, they redirect 3,500 to a port of entry for the same thing.
00:30:50.000And to alleviate the courts, because there's too many, they would give CBP certain jurisdiction to issue work permits.
00:30:55.000Then you've got certain jurisdictions across the country, including Maryland, New York tried doing it, they got jammed up in the courts, Grant and California, Sacramento's doing it, San Francisco, granting non-citizens the right to vote in municipal elections and making various excuses why they're allowing them to do this.
00:31:10.000We have to say outright, Maybe we should just stop allowing thousands of non-citizens to pour in through our border every day.
00:31:20.000Because now I can say very plainly to Gen Z, if you're wondering why it is you can't afford an apartment, why it is that eggs are costing you $10, why you have to live in a shoebox with no bathroom with two other people, just take a look at the non-citizens who have been given luxury hotel rooms in New York City and debit cards with $3,000 on it.
00:31:40.000And maybe if we stop spending that money, you might have a better future.
00:31:43.000And now they have a curfew in place, too.
00:31:45.000Adam said to put a curfew on the migrants in those hotels.
00:32:01.000We meant that in terms of commerce, like economic transactions.
00:32:03.000Yeah, but he also meant that in terms of migrants getting shipped from one port of entry to another, like they would close one and open something else.
00:32:10.000I think he more meant that in terms of goods being transported over the border, but I don't know for sure.
00:32:17.000John Thune, who's the second ranking Republican in the Senate, said that this is a list, this bill contained a long list of long sought Republican priorities in terms of border enforcement and that they would never be able to get Democrats to budge on half of these In a Republican administration.
00:32:37.000He was saying that there was much more progress made under a Democratic administration.
00:32:40.000It's like a Nixon going to China thing, right?
00:32:42.000Only Biden or only a Democrat can actually give some concessions to immigration restrictionists in a way that will lead to sort of muted opposition among Democrats.
00:32:53.000Because if Trump was in power, then Democrats would be screaming fascism and this is going to lead straight to concentration camps and whatnot.
00:32:59.000But with Biden, their opposition is a bit more Muted and tempered.
00:33:02.000And so the political logic seemed to me to make sense that Thun was laying out, in that this is the best Republican restrictionists could hope for in terms of a compromise in the Congress.
00:33:11.000Now, if people still don't like it, I get it.
00:33:22.000How about you reduce the inflow by just putting razor wire on the border and using CBP saying, get the F out!
00:33:28.000Well, I mean, they have, I mean, as Langford explained, I actually didn't quite realize this until maybe it was last week.
00:33:33.000Even the places on the border, I think most of Texas where there is wall or where there is fortified border barrier, the barrier itself is like a quarter to a half mile inside United States territory.
00:33:46.000So once a, quote, migrant, even approaches the wall, they're on United States
00:33:50.000territory, and then according to existing law, their asylum claim has to be processed. So what Lankford
00:33:54.000and others who were promoting this bill were saying was that they're going to increase the
00:33:58.000threshold for a valid asylum claim, so they'll be able to turn away more people at that exact point than they're
00:34:04.000able to now. So they're saying the status quo is six or eight thousand encounters a day and
00:34:09.000somebody coming in, X amount coming in to be processed, this will give us the authority to turn away
00:34:14.000more. But that's true, I don't know, but that was the argument. And so the issue is, this is
00:34:19.000exactly what we predicted would happen because it gives the excuse to Democrats to claim we tried
00:34:24.000to secure the border, but there is not a single reasonable person from, I mean, conservatives know
00:34:29.000what's happening, they're paying attention, they're furious, but now you're getting Democrats in major
00:34:33.000cities lighting up and not a single one of them is saying, I wish there was slightly less people
00:34:51.000I'm saying people are asking the government to propose a bill that provides security to
00:34:54.000stop the influx, not whether Trump did or didn't or whether he could have done a better
00:34:58.000The issue right now is a record-breaking influx causing damage to our cities that Joe Biden himself, what, 20 years ago called, what did he say?
00:35:06.000It was turning the cities into ish holes or whatever?
00:35:09.000The point is they were seeking, the Senate was attempting to give the president additional authorities to stem that influx, including authorities that Trump sought and was not able to receive because it wouldn't give him the ability to stem the flow.
00:35:23.000So right now it is illegal what they're doing.
00:35:25.000The bill would have created a legal path for the invasion.
00:35:30.000Right now, when a single person crosses the border, it's a crime.
00:35:33.000And CBP opening the barriers and bringing them in is a criminal act because they know coyotes and cartel members are the ones facilitating this.
00:35:43.000policy as it pertains to kidnappings overseas is not to negotiate with terrorist organizations.
00:35:49.000If someone gets kidnapped in the Middle East, and I don't know if this is true under Biden, but this is true under Trump, Obama, and is, you know, basically my professional career.
00:35:57.000You get kidnapped, the United States will not negotiate with terrorists.
00:36:00.000This meant that typically Americans would be ignored.
00:36:04.000German citizens and Spanish citizens were prized possessions for kidnappers in the Middle East because their governments pay up instantly and negotiate with any terror group who kidnaps their citizens.
00:36:14.000The United States would have a helicopter flying over your compound where a bunch of guys in all black with rifles would come out, kill everybody in the compound, and rescue the Americans.
00:36:23.000The American policy understood that if you negotiate with criminal factions and terrorists, you incentivize their behavior.
00:36:29.000So the best course of action is to tell them all, you touch an American citizen, you die.
00:36:34.000Now, you have CBP and the Biden administration telling the cartels, you bring in trafficked humans, we take care of it for you.
00:36:42.000That is, I think that's a criminal action.
00:36:46.000I think we can say, okay, fine, impeach Joe Biden, whatever, whatever you want to say.
00:36:50.000But the idea, I see a video of CBP lifting up razor wire to bring these people in as coyotes and cartel members with rifles are shuttling them into the country.
00:36:59.000I'm like, we have a humanitarian crisis.
00:37:04.000The amount of young girls being raped by these gangs and cartels.
00:37:08.000And CBP makes it all possible with smiles on their faces to help make it happen.
00:37:12.000And the NGOs that get funded by the federal government as well.
00:37:14.000And the Biden administration says, let's codify this and make it all legal.
00:37:19.000And I say, no, let's put a bunch of shipping containers on the border.
00:37:22.000Let's float things in the river and tell the cartels, when you bring a person, if a human being is standing alongside a coyote and a human trafficker, we consider them to be a part of your gang.
00:37:32.000You want to pay them $3,000 to traffic you through South America and Central America, through Mexico and to our border?
00:37:39.000You are working with enemies of the United States.
00:38:13.0002019 was a record year when Trump was in office, and I think he probably would have closed the border if he had the authority available to him.
00:38:19.000I don't know if it was an all-time record, but it was way over the maybe preceding 10 years or so when, in 2019, So I mean, yeah, I mean, it was a million point one, right, which is a lot of people.
00:38:45.000House Republicans really ought not to be commended for doing this theatrical impeachment of Mayorkas because we've agreed, I think, that it's purely symbolic.
00:38:52.000It will have no substantive impact on the policy grievances that you're laying out.
00:39:02.000It does not address the underlying substance.
00:39:03.000And also, by the way, it's accelerating the passage of this national security supplemental bill with the immigration part severed off.
00:39:11.000That is Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, which will already passed 70 to 29 in the Senate and has majority support in the House.
00:39:18.000So now the House Republicans can say, oh yeah, maybe we use like a legislative maneuver to get this Mammoth, you know, $89 billion, or however many billions it is, national security bill passed.
00:39:30.000But we also, you know, mollified some of your concerns, base, by doing this meaningless impeachment of a cabinet official.
00:39:38.000Ladies and gentlemen, in the wee hours of the morning, pre-dawn, the Senate passed the $95 billion Ukraine-Israel aid package, sending it to the House in, you know, the way I described it early in the morning is that While we were sleeping, the Senate took a blade and pressed it firmly against the back of the American people and then just applied pressure.
00:40:00.000But I think that's unfair because that would imply the Senate was on your side at any point.
00:40:04.000So I guess the easier way to explain it is you were walking down a peaceful street with flowers abound when a member of the Senate showed up and said, I'm going to take all your money and give it to Ukraine and then pulled the knife out.
00:40:16.000So it wasn't that you were being betrayed.
00:40:17.000It's that they were stealing from you in plain view.
00:40:47.000And what I said was, all the money we can.
00:40:49.000And all the money we can is all the money we have left over after our roads are fixed, our schools are fixed, or abolished, our borders are secure, healthcare is solved, the working class have places to live.
00:40:59.000Maybe once we solve all those problems, we can then say, we're so wealthy, let's donate somewhere else.
00:41:03.000Maybe, but with fiat we can print infinite.
00:41:10.000And I hear what you're saying, and that's, that's 70, I would say 75% correct, but I would add...
00:41:16.000When they mass print money, or when they issue loans, creating money upon the issuance of debt, they are stripping the buying power of Americans.
00:41:24.000When you have an insecure border where people are flooding across and they're providing debit cards, and they're using taxpayer dollars to facilitate these people into big cities, suppressing the labor market, you are creating economic conditions where there is extremely limited supply with tremendous demand, making housing Unaffordable for the average person, especially the younger voters, which is no surprise why they're leaning towards Donald Trump.
00:41:48.000When they say, however they end up doing this, people need to understand that they don't take your tax dollars to fund war.
00:41:57.000They create money upon the issuance of debt.
00:42:03.000Spend the money, and that means these corporations, and say Ukraine, where the money is spent on the creation of weapons, paying personnel and PMCs, that gets spent back in the United States, and this suppresses the buying power of the average American citizen, drives prices up.
00:42:16.000You combine that with a porous southern border, and it is almost like they are intentionally destroying this country.
00:42:24.000I hope Gen Z wakes up fast enough to realize it, to do something about it come November.
00:42:31.000One of those amazing parts of this bill is that in the Israel section, it actually goes out of its way to specifically exempt the appropriations to Israel from congressional oversight.
00:42:42.000It specifically allows the Secretary of State, when he approves some of these Transmissions of armaments and stuff to simply bypass ordinary congressional notification requirements.
00:42:54.000Say what you will about Ukraine funding.
00:42:56.000I've been a huge skeptic and critic of it from the beginning, but they actually have been coerced into at least nominally implementing some oversight mechanisms like an inspector general and other IGs that have been part of this like consortium to at least do some oversight.
00:43:12.000The funny bit with Israel, Congress just falls over itself to say, do what you want with this money.
00:43:17.000We're not even going to check anything.
00:43:21.000The total vote count on this bill, 70 to 29, actually under counts.
00:43:26.000The extent to which there is a consensus on this issue, meaning a consensus behind just a never-ending disbursement of these war expenditures into conflict zones, Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, because you had at least a couple of Republican senators who are some of the most ardent interventionists in the entire Senate, like Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, Rick Scott, Tim Scott, they voted actually no Not because they oppose the underlying substance of the bill.
00:43:58.000They're all staunch supporters of funding Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.
00:44:01.000They probably even wanted more of it, frankly, if they had their way.
00:44:05.000It's because they're still making a political point or a procedural point about the lack of prioritization of I think they do do that.
00:44:12.000border aspect, but in voting no, you'll notice it didn't actually hinder passages of the bill.
00:44:17.000So it's a perfect situation for them politically. They can technically register their supposed
00:44:21.000discontent with the passage of the bill, absent some border provision, but their preferred policy
00:44:27.000still gets put into place anyway. Do you think they take turns doing that? Like they're like,
00:44:31.000this time I'm going to vote no, let's just make sure it gets passed. I'm going to say no on this
00:44:33.000one. The next time you get to say no, I'll make sure it gets passed. That way we both look like
00:44:36.000a good guy. I think they do that. Yeah, they definitely do that. Yeah, they have, that's what
00:44:39.000That's what their conference is about.
00:44:41.000It's to coordinate and structure their voting pattern.
00:44:43.000Yeah, this is the vote total if you want to see it.
00:45:38.000The, uh, this is Michael Tracy tweeting, the huge Ukraine-Israel bill got 70 votes, which they can hardly ever get for anything, and several voting nay are huge interventionists who only voted nay for political reasons.
00:45:49.000Knowing it wouldn't impede passage, that's the key point.
00:45:51.000So, uh, some people are pointing out too, because I think it was, um... Like Lindsey Graham didn't have an epiphany and now opposes funding Ukraine.
00:46:09.000I mean, it's possible, but he actually voted no on the final vote.
00:46:11.000He voted no, and a lot of people are saying that voting no was the right move, but he's being accused, and again, this may be unwarranted, of only voting no because he knew it passed, and so he'd score political points by claiming he opposed it when he really was in favor of it.
00:46:23.000That might be true, because he did vote aye or yay On a procedural vote like a day or two ago that led to this final vote early this morning.
00:46:55.000So he's the chair of the Senate Republican Campaign Committee, which is basically the campaign apparatus for the Senate Republicans.
00:47:03.000So he's very involved in the political maneuverings around individual states, Senate races, and he was objecting, he was Justifying his no vote on the basis of wanting to ensure that Republicans who are running in contested Senate seats this year can still say that, you know, they're against the bill in principle because it didn't do the border components.
00:47:27.000So he was outlining the political rationale.
00:47:29.000And it's the same for like a Tim Scott.
00:47:31.000I mean, Tim Scott ran for president, right, from South Carolina.
00:47:34.000And go back and look at some of the debates.
00:47:36.000He would give these fulsome Declarations in favor of oh, there's a roach in front of me.
00:47:45.000Yeah Whenever I go anywhere, I'm just surrounded by stink bugs.
00:47:50.000Maybe I have to look inward to see the reason for that.
00:47:52.000No, that's not true I want to clarify something Tim Scott would give these like soaring oratories in favor of Ukraine funding and Israel funding, etc.
00:48:02.000Because he and several others of these people who voted no are like a bridge to Trump within the Senate Republican caucus.
00:48:08.000Trump is at least nominally opposed to the bill and so they're kind of trying to You know, play this game where they're weighing different political considerations and trying to come to a happy medium that is most to the advantage of Senate Republican candidates in November.
00:48:25.000I want to clarify something, too, because we have a super chat from Brett Tesdale.
00:48:28.000He says, keep in mind the Senate bill contains a provision that should Trump be elected president, he attempts to stop spending the money on Ukraine, it'll trigger immediate impeachment of Trump.
00:48:38.000Vance was saying is that The bill funds Ukraine into the Trump administration, into the first fiscal year of a Trump administration, and should Trump try to stop the funding in negotiations to end the war, it would warrant or give Democrats a reason to impeach.
00:48:59.000That is, the funding goes until September, I think, 25th.
00:49:02.000Imagine Donald Trump gets elected, and in February he says, we're ending this war now.
00:49:07.000Now, I made the prediction That, and it's not necessarily a prediction, but more of like a point, that the day the news comes in, Donald Trump will be your next president, he is president-elect, the war stops.
00:49:20.000There's immediate ceasefire because Ukraine knows their funding's done and Russia knows Trump is going to negotiate and it's going to clean everything up and Putin's not going to want to go up against Trump on the issue.
00:49:30.000Trump would get on the phone as soon as he's president and say, we're ending this.
00:49:41.000With this bill that nullifies that pseudo-prediction, because now funding is secured through September, and if Donald Trump stops the spending that was congressionally approved, they will argue, as they did in the first impeachment, the president has no authority to halt spending that was congressionally approved.
00:50:00.000But that means that Donald Trump will not be able to say to Vladimir Putin, the U.S.
00:50:06.000will no longer fund Ukraine in this conflict, we want an end to the war.
00:50:08.000Putin will say, you have no authority.
00:50:11.000Congress has already approved the funding and you can't stop it.
00:51:17.000Yeah, he acceded to the lobbying of Lindsey Graham and John McCain in 2017,
00:51:23.000and of Poroshenko, the previous president of Ukraine, and started for the first time sending Javelin missiles.
00:51:28.000And then when the war started in 2022, Trump would go on like Sean Hannity's show and brag how many of his Javelin missiles were being used to kill Russian soldiers.
00:51:36.000So this idea that Trump is just gonna, you know, magically end the war, I think that's a lot of wishful thinking.
00:51:40.000He won't give any specifics about what he's actually gonna do on a policy level.
00:51:43.000All he says is, the war never would have started if I was in power, which is unprovable, counterfactual.
00:51:47.000And number two, the war will end in 24 hours because I'll just get everybody to agree and start loving each other.
00:51:52.000I don't know that that's necessarily a realistic proposition.
00:52:05.000My point is the crisis in Ukraine had been bubbling up under Obama.
00:52:11.000The ousting of Yanukovych, but it ended.
00:52:15.000So in 2013, Euromaidan protests erupt, the conflict between the trade agreement with Ukraine, either EU or the loss of the trade agreement with Russia, the ultimate ousting in 2014 of Yanukovych, and the riots and separatist movement.
00:52:30.000By the time Trump had become president and I returned to Ukraine, going back to Kiev, it had simmered down to the point where the locals said, we don't call this civil war, no, it's mostly done, there's just some fighting in the east now.
00:53:03.000But Trump fueled the combat by sending lethal weaponry for the first time.
00:53:07.000And for whatever reason... I mean, that was denounced by the Kremlin when it happened, and they said it was going to make it more likely to precipitate war, which was correct.
00:53:14.000And they waited until Trump was out of office, and then under Biden, we get this massive explosion of war and conflict, a resurgence of troops in the Middle East.
00:53:22.000I do not think I think it is fair to say that if you look at the actions of the Trump administration in terms of no new wars, timelines for removal of troops from the Middle East, trying to get our troops out of Syria despite being lied to, and Abraham Accords as well as other attempts at peace negotiations, the likelihood, be it 51% or otherwise, is that there would likely not be war in Ukraine if Donald Trump was president.
00:53:43.000He also did give an indication of what he would do when he spoke to Maria Bartiromo in July.
00:53:50.000And he said, you know, you could say that this is vague, which it is, but he said, I would tell Zelensky, no more.
00:53:56.000I would tell Putin, if you don't make a deal, we're going to give them a lot.
00:53:59.000We're going to give them more than ever we got.
00:54:02.000So he threatened to give Ukraine more weapons than ever before.
00:54:05.000Right, so what he said was that he would stop all funding to Ukraine if Ukraine didn't make a deal and increase it if Russia wouldn't cover the table.
00:54:14.000Right, which is just basically saying he's going to negotiate with them.
00:54:18.000That's the most that he has said about his plan.
00:54:20.000There really is huge continuity, and I've done pretty in-depth research reporting on this.
00:54:25.000There is a huge amount of continuity between the Trump administration and the Biden administration in terms of Ukraine policy in particular, not on every foreign policy issue.
00:54:33.000We can get into that, if you want, separately.
00:54:36.000But in terms of Ukraine policy, there's a huge amount of continuity.
00:54:39.000Let's give you one very important example.
00:54:42.000In early 2020, Mike Pompeo, who was then Secretary of State in the Trump administration, went to Ukraine, met with Zelensky and Ukrainian leadership, and they agreed upon what was the initial iteration of this new strategic partnership that was going to become operational bilaterally between the US and Ukraine.
00:55:05.000So they were going to start a new There were going to be new parameters to the relationship where it was going to be enhanced bilateral military ties and support and provision of technology and arms and so forth.
00:55:16.000So basically increasing the extent to which Ukraine was becoming a bastion of U.S.
00:55:24.000And then in November 2021, three or so months before the war started in February, the following February, Blinken Pompeo's successor as Secretary of State also goes to Ukraine and codifies that strategic partnership agreement, which, among other things...
00:55:43.000commitment that Ukraine will ultimately formally join NATO.
00:55:47.000So that was reiterated by Pompeo in 2020, reiterated by Blinken in 2021, and that's a core grievance of Putin in launching the invasion.
00:55:56.000A lot of that occurred under the Trump administration.
00:55:58.000Perhaps Tucker should have asked Vladimir Putin specifically on the issue of Trump and Biden, but we'll move on to this story here because I want to cover this one.
00:56:04.000From Savannah Morning News, Georgia National Guard to send members to U.S.-Mexico border, Brian Kemp announces.
00:56:13.000Between 15 and 20 members of the Georgia National Guard will travel to the U.S.-Mexico border this spring to assist Border Patrol agents in Texas, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp announced on Tuesday.
00:56:23.000They will join the 29 members of the Georgia National Guard who are currently stationed in Texas to help set up a command post at the border.
00:56:29.000Kemp's announcement comes in response to what Republican lawmakers in both chambers of the Georgia Legislature are calling a national immigration crisis.
00:56:36.000Kemp's announcement was delivered shortly after resolutions decrying federal immigration policies and pledging support for Texas Governor Greg Abbott passed in the House and Senate.
00:56:53.000They say, though the Georgia National Guard members will be traveling to Texas, Kemp said they will mainly be assisting with engineering and mechanical issues at the command center.
00:57:00.000Our National Guard is not going to be arresting people.
00:57:45.000So, for instance, Taylor Hanson, who has been on this show and reports for Tenet Media, said down there during CBP control, thousands of illegal immigrants, criminal aliens, every day, as soon as Texas takes over, four or five, four to six.
00:58:06.000If they're going down to assist the federal government, that's not what he said.
00:58:11.000Kemp said the crisis on the border is a national problem and it demands a national solution.
00:58:14.000But if the Biden administration continues to fail the American people, then we have no choice but to step in.
00:58:19.000Therefore, in addition to the Georgia guardsmen already stationed at the border, we will send reinforcements to Texas this spring who will assist with the construction of a forward command post on the border with Mexico.
00:58:27.000The question is, This is from Savannah Morning News, and I think what you just said still does not make it clear.
00:58:36.000We need to know exactly who he will be working with.
00:59:15.000Wouldn't any bi-state pact or agreement between, in this case, Georgia and Texas, also probably necessarily include some federal component in that it would become an interstate enterprise and therefore some kind of federal jurisdictional authority kicks in?
00:59:30.000I don't know the specifics, but that would be my intuition as to what this would entail.
00:59:34.000Fox at Lance is reporting that he is assisting Abbott's effort to control illegal crossings on the US-Mexico border, as Abbott pursues a showdown with the Biden administration.
00:59:43.000So, again, allocate resources and assistance to the protection of the southern border does not actually explain who they will be working with.
00:59:54.000Now, to be fair, Kemp was one of 13 governors who joined Abbott at Eagle Pass.
01:00:01.000This is what happened when the Alaska announcement came out that at some point in 2025, Alaskan National Guard would be deployed to assist the federal authorities here.
01:00:10.000A lot of people immediately saw that and assumed this meant Alaska would be deploying National Guard to help Texas at a state level.
01:00:18.000However, when you read further, it's no, to assist the federal government, and people are like, that is not very based.
01:00:23.000So the question now is, who, you know, who, where, which, which command will these individuals fall under?
01:00:30.000What we know right now, the Biden administration border patrol wants to open the border and allow thousands of non, of criminal aliens in every day.
01:00:39.000The Texas state government has made this illegal and wants razor wire blocking these individuals and will not allow, will not allow CBP in.
01:00:47.000Who is Brian Kemp going to be assisting in this?
01:00:55.000I mean, I've heard the argument made that any law enforcement activity that takes place in conjunction with the border is necessarily within the purview of the federal government because it's a national border and it transcends state jurisdiction.
01:01:08.000So that could be what people are referring to.
01:01:10.000And so the issue now is when Texas National Guard came in and secured the area, the argument from the feds was you do not have the authority to do this.
01:01:44.000Every ambitious Republican governor Maybe even some non-ambitious ones.
01:01:48.000End up sending a contingent of whether it's state police or National Guard to Texas or something to engage in certain border enforcement activities.
01:01:56.000Does it make that much of a difference?
01:01:58.000Ultimately, I mean, it gets nice headlines out of it.
01:02:01.000If they have an inconvenient Republican primary challenge or something, maybe it kind of fortifies their position.
01:02:05.000But I don't see what impact We have a quote from Kemp saying their contributions will be outlined by the official request made by the Texas Guard to our own Guard and Director James Stallings at GEMMA.
01:02:26.000Yeah, I mean, I think clearly it's an attempt to have a bi-state arrangement with Texas because they see themselves as in opposition to the national government, at least on this policy.
01:02:39.000We now have several states, I believe 10 states have sent law enforcement, National Guard and law enforcement to Texas to secure the border in defiance of the federal government.
01:02:49.000And we had Trump saying, everyone who can go ahead and do it.
01:02:59.000Well, how much, how much in defiance is it really just by dispatching these, you know, National Guard?
01:03:08.000They're not like, they're not, you know, actively opposing.
01:03:11.000I mean, they're trying to engage in enforcement activity.
01:03:13.000They're not proactively like blunting the influence of the federal government.
01:03:19.000I mean, you could say it's like a political statement against the current federal government policy, but it's not like actively opposing the authority of the federal government.
01:03:31.000The Texas National Guard is, according to the Biden administration, in violation of federal law.
01:03:36.000So if Greg Abbott were to rob a bank and Kemp said, I'm going to send some guys to help you, you'd be like, well, he's not actually working against the government.
01:03:47.000We don't know that the Georgia National Guard are going to be engaging in activities Related to border enforcement that the Biden administration says are illegal.
01:03:54.000I mean, there could be other activities they could engage in that the Biden administration hasn't said that about.
01:03:58.000I think the way that I would put it simply is if a person is robbing a bank and you do anything to help them, like even bring them a cheeseburger, you're an accomplice.
01:04:06.000So if you do anything to help the Texas National Guard at all?
01:04:09.000Well, that's assuming that what they're doing is illegal.
01:04:11.000Like hand out water bottles or something?
01:04:24.000Why would they have the authority to allow our country's military to surrender to an incompetent force?
01:04:29.000They don't have that kind of authority.
01:04:31.000You strip them of command if they're trying to ruin us.
01:04:34.000If the argument is that Texas does not have the authority to remove CBP from an international border and they're violating federal jurisdiction, the only real issue is, like, we have a national-level conflict of law enforcement in a way we've not seen in a very, very long time.
01:04:51.000You know, a lot of people like to bring up the Bundy Ranch stuff, and I'm like, yeah, but that was private citizens versus a federal agency.
01:04:57.000We're looking at state National Guard armed troops who have been deployed with weapons to repel border patrol agents from the border and to place border barriers in front of what the feds are declaring as their jurisdiction.
01:05:09.000And now you have Kemp announcing the deployment of 15 to 20 troops to assist Texas in this effort.
01:05:17.000What do you think would happen if you, Michael, went up to a federal law enforcement agent, say FBI, and told them, get away from this border right now or else.
01:05:28.000Like, you and your buddies got guns, walked up and said, all of you FBI guys have to leave now or else.
01:05:33.000I think you would be violently arrested and you'd go to jail for a long time.
01:05:37.000Oh, I think I'd have a very friendly encounter with the nice agents and everything would work out fine.
01:05:42.000The only reason that's not the case right now is the dramatic escalation that would ensue should federal, I mean, let's just, let's just, we'll slow down.
01:05:49.000To anybody listening, if a group of militiamen, like, just like a bunch of locals who called themselves the border guys or whatever, showed up to the border and started putting up razor wire, told CBP to get the F out, their jurisdiction no longer applies, You know, some wild-ish would go down.
01:06:08.000It really depends on the situation, because if you had a burning city and people were burning to death, and the militia guys went in and they're like, we're going to help all these people survive, but the feds were there being like, no!
01:06:19.000And they're like, get out of my way, we're saving these people, and they did it.
01:06:22.000That would be like, the feds bite back off in that case and be like, alright, alright, there's more of you, you do need to save them morally.
01:06:29.000Your city is burning down, and the feds are setting the fires.
01:06:33.000And a bunch of militia guys come in and say, we're shutting this down.
01:06:37.000Yeah, I would think maybe the command is giving the feds weird orders, but the men themselves would be like, what we're doing here is unreasonable, there's more of them than there are of us, and they're righteous right now, so let's back off.
01:06:50.000I'm pretty sure if non-law enforcement citizens of Texas showed up with guns and tried repelling federal agents, you would have bloodshed and violent arrests, and it would be like a J6 national news story.
01:07:05.000I guess my instinct is that Brian Kemp is a pretty milquetoast Republican, middle of the road, not rocking the boat that much, as you mentioned, opponent of Trump or Trump opposes him and tried to get him primaried actually in 2022 based on 2020 election administration stuff.
01:07:21.000So, I'm a little bit doubtful that Kemp would take such, you know, adventurous action to really engage in any kind of open defiance of the federal government.
01:07:33.000You expect that more of a different kind of cavalier Republican, potentially, other than Kemp.
01:07:37.000Kemp's just like a business-oriented chamber of commerce Republican.
01:07:40.000Unless you're taking a look at the polls, you're taking a look at national sentiment, and you realize Biden's on the wrong side of history.
01:07:45.000Has there been illegal immigrants being shipped into Georgia?
01:08:11.000It's just the tides, it's the whims of public discourse.
01:08:15.000If Kemp is seeing that national polling favors securing the border, the Biden administration is grossly unpopular, Trump is the frontrunner to win, with the polls even among the youth vote, he might be thinking to himself, I don't want to be on the wrong side of history, I better just go along with this.
01:10:03.000And then they can read off a teleprompter.
01:10:05.000It's no original thought about anything.
01:10:07.000Well, it was fascinating too, because I knew someone a long time ago who wanted to be a broadcast journalist.
01:10:11.000And I was like, so you want to stand there and read copy?
01:10:14.000Like, you're not, it's the most brain-dead job imaginable.
01:10:18.000With weird vocal intonations like, tonight on such and such and such I have to talk like I'm a crazy abnormal person and not communicate with you regularly.
01:10:25.000I once asked, it was a kid in college that I knew, and they were like, I want to be a broadcast journalist and I said, Why is it that you talk like this?
01:10:35.000Tonight, we saw a dog run across the street, Jim!
01:10:38.000And I'm like, why do you talk like that?
01:10:50.000It's a specific thing where- It's like cartoonish speech.
01:10:53.000A dog was seen running across the street.
01:10:55.000If you met somebody at like a cafe who was talking like that, you would think that they're out of their minds.
01:10:59.000Actually, Howard Stern became popular because on the radio, he mocked the radio version of that theatrical style of intonation and just sounded like a normal person, more or less.
01:11:09.000So he was kind of, you know, going against the grain.
01:11:11.000And I think, you know, People who are our age now, I mean, the only people who watch these local news stations are, like, petrified 65-year-olds who don't know how to fully work the TV remote, so this is all they can come up with at, like, 6.30 in the evening?
01:11:25.000That's the problem with this vocal intonation, is they're talking with great enunciation, and the tone also is a form of enunciation.
01:11:33.000So you can hear, like, from a distance, in a theater, you can discern what they're saying and when their emotions are changing, even if you're, like, 7,000 feet away.
01:11:56.000It's like an attempt at making yourself seem authoritative by speaking in a way that people associate with, you know, if you talk that way, you're official.
01:12:11.000Like you go on stage and you speak, you know, carefully and with specific intonation.
01:12:16.000That's always what you do when you give a presentation.
01:12:18.000I gotta be honest, like, could you imagine turning on, like, your local news station, and the guy's like, uh, I'm standing here at the corner of 47th and Cicero, uh, a man earlier had crossed the street and a car hit him.
01:12:28.000And said, a man earlier crossed the street.
01:13:25.000But what I love the most about it is that We predicted, with like 80% accuracy, exactly what was going to happen.
01:13:33.000The 49ers would be up in the first half, the Chiefs would slowly get ahead, but then it would—the 49ers would push ahead, it would end up a really close game, and then finally in the last second, with the 49ers ahead, the Chiefs would turn it around, and that's literally what happened.
01:13:49.000They let the guys score the touchdown.
01:14:46.000A story from NBC Boston, Jack Posobek highlighting the rich white woman in New England who took in a family of Haitian migrants who says, it's great, it's like having your own personal chef.
01:14:56.000So, uh, let me, uh, play some of this story for you.
01:15:04.000When she wakes up in the morning she says hi Lisa and everyone starts the day smiling.
01:15:09.000It's a delight and it's really fun having them.
01:15:12.000What I realized is there's so much prejudice against refugees mostly because people don't know them.
01:15:18.000Lisa says she feels like she has her own personal chef, as Woldande loves cooking.
01:15:25.000In fact, her goal is to open up her own restaurant.
01:15:28.000Alright, so the basic narrative here is, a wealthy white woman with extra space took in a family of Haitian migrants, where they cook for her, and it makes them happy.
01:15:42.000I was writing about this today because it really seems like we used to have a word for things like this.
01:15:46.000When rich white people would open their homes and give you their extra space and not pay you anything and then have you do the household chores.
01:16:11.000They can leave and there is a perfectly fine dumpster they can sleep in if they want.
01:16:16.000Or they can choose to live in the rich white lady's home and have shelter for their family so long as they keep giving exchange of their services.
01:16:25.000Don't repairs come from like Sweden and stuff in exchange for room and board and taking care of the children?
01:16:31.000They get paid and they have special immigration status.
01:16:34.000So a few friends of mine 20 years ago were au pairs, and it's a program.
01:16:49.000My friends who did it got a weekly flat rate.
01:16:52.000So you can call it a stipend, but they're getting 500 bucks a week, plus a room in the house, and they just watch the kid and prepare meals for the kid.
01:17:29.000I was writing about this for Human Events today.
01:17:31.000I did an op-ed and I started digging into what's going on in Massachusetts.
01:17:35.000In Massachusetts, in August, you had the lieutenant governor telling Massachusetts, you know, Bay Staters is what they're called pretty much.
01:17:41.000You had her telling everybody to open up their homes and let everybody in.
01:17:44.000They have a vast network of not-for-profits and NGOs that facilitate housing people in the homes of, you know, residents and working out whatever sort of arrangements.
01:17:56.000But you have to imagine that if you're like, you know, essentially homeless in a foreign country
01:18:00.000and you're in somebody's house, you're gonna do whatever you can to try and make it less,
01:18:06.000I think, you know, less of a burden for that person.
01:18:08.000You're gonna like do whatever the chores are.
01:18:10.000The only future I see for this country will have a very dark period
01:18:13.000because there's one of two things that can happen.
01:18:16.000Donald Trump engages in a mass deportation program, which sparks insanity among the left
01:18:22.000or the continued erosion of the American community, which results in this country eventually just breaking
01:19:07.000One by one, they keep voting to add more and more people.
01:19:11.000And eventually, you're just some dude who's living in the basement in your own filth because they keep voting against you to take all your stuff.
01:19:17.000So what's happening now is- I keep wondering like- In the New York election with, to replace Santos.
01:20:01.000What happens is, when Reagan—many people attribute California's turning from red to blue to Reagan.
01:20:07.000Well, Santos actually was pretty right.
01:20:08.000I mean, Santos boasted that he had the most conservative record of any Republican in the House.
01:20:11.000Well, you know, and he was also weird and strange in other ways, but my point is, in California in 94, there was an attempt to pass a resolution that said, they did pass it, federal public funds cannot be given to non-citizens.
01:20:25.000And it caused massive revolt and protests among the left, who were amplified by illegal immigrants, creating such crisis in the state that a bunch of Republicans backed down, Democrats gained a majority and ended up winning.
01:20:38.000Simply put, when you bring someone into your country to live there and they bring their family and they expand and you end up with 10 plus million, they will exert influence on your country.
01:20:48.000Over a long enough period of time, they're not going to vote for your country.
01:21:34.000Often you'll find it's government or universities.
01:21:37.000Like money has to come from somewhere.
01:21:39.000In the instance of Michigan, when the auto manufacturing dried up and left, all of a sudden nothing is generating U.S.
01:21:46.000dollars into this region and so there's no way to economically expand.
01:21:50.000People can't afford the increasing cost of inflation because the state only has, let's say, a million dollars, a hypothetical number, in circulation with no new dollars coming in.
01:22:00.000But dollars are going out through import purchases.
01:22:03.000When you buy a computer from a foreign country, that money goes to that country.
01:22:07.000Figuratively, it's spent in the United States, but it's utilized by them in their country that value leaves.
01:22:12.000Without money coming into an area, it will start to dissolve and fall apart.
01:22:16.000So local jurisdictions have, you know, they tried to create their own currencies to supplement local trade to prevent the issue of dollars leaving the area.
01:22:26.000I think it's no longer in circulation in Ithaca, but it was mimicked in a couple other cities like Wisconsin.
01:22:31.000Not just mimicked, even before the Ithaca Hour.
01:22:33.000But I went there like eight years ago, and people were like, yeah, we have them, we don't really use them anymore.
01:22:37.000The guy who made it work, like, I guess, I don't know if he died or what happened.
01:22:42.000People come to the United States, they earn money at a store, and then they send that money to a foreign country.
01:22:47.000Someone will then use those dollars to buy something not in the United States, not facilitate American trade, Not facilitate American services and it won't go into the hands of young working-class individuals and thus the economy gets depressed by the exporting of cash.
01:22:58.000You combine that with a mass influx of millions of immigrants who begin exerting pressure against your interests and your country collapses.
01:23:07.000It is akin to inviting a stranger into your home and then letting him exert authority over how things are spent and who gets money.
01:23:15.000Over a long enough period of time, simply put, The moment you and your roommate invite a third party in, that third party will subvert your interests.
01:23:25.000Whether it's by just telling your roommate what to do, or by actually getting a say for some reason in how things are done.
01:23:31.000As Democrats have begun the push to allow non-citizens to vote, and they are, Joe Rogan was talking about this like a week ago, New York's trying it, got help in the courts, many jurisdictions are doing this, eventually, Republicans will have to pander to non-citizens in order to get votes.
01:23:45.000So in a city like New York, You'll have a Republican say, no, no, I will not give tax funding from American workers to non-citizens.
01:23:59.000And the end result will be a Republican saying, I'm totally in favor of non-citizens voting, but I'm a Republican who believes in families.
01:24:07.000Yeah, non-citizens should never be able to vote in any election in the United States for any reason.
01:24:11.000And after this cycle of millions, 10 plus million flooding in, There are going to be jurisdictions where no politician would dare say that because there's going to be a large base of the children of these immigrants and those who do have voting power who will say, if you enact policy that in any way makes it harder for me and my family, we'll vote against you.
01:24:34.000And you'll say, but your family aren't citizens.
01:24:36.000And they'll be like, you have to consider them now or else you lose.
01:24:39.000Well, and also they're going to be pushing, the Democrats, you can be sure, are going to be trying to push in some sort of amnesty for people.
01:24:46.000That's going to be coming if they win in the fall.
01:24:49.000I agree, but I think the important thing to understand is amnesty is not needed at all.
01:24:52.000For one, they'll be counted in the census.
01:24:54.000But they could come at it from multiple directions, right?
01:24:56.000Like if they can't get amnesty, they'll get this voting thing.
01:24:59.000If they can't get the voting thing, they'll get the amnesty.
01:25:01.000They're going to push it through one way or another.
01:25:03.000Agreed, but it's important for people to understand whether or not an illegal immigrant votes does not matter and whether or not they get amnesty doesn't matter.
01:25:08.000What matters is they will be counted towards the census, they will create artificial congressional seats and electoral college votes, and they will exert local pressure forcing conservatives to say publicly, like, I'm in favor of illegal immigration because you will not win in a district that has a large percentage of non-citizens.
01:25:27.000Some 20-year-old kid is like, I'm gonna vote this.
01:25:30.000His friend's gonna come to him and say, hey man, I'm undocumented.
01:25:33.000My parents brought me here and we're not citizens.
01:25:36.000If you vote for the Republican, they're gonna deport me and he's gonna go, okay, I won't.
01:25:41.000Don't you think it's a bit of an overstatement, though, to say that any ethnic bloc that ends up getting a foothold within the American populace will inevitably work against the national interest?
01:25:49.000I mean, Cuban emigres have been a huge problem.
01:25:53.000You said that they're going to be a diversion with popular interest, right?
01:26:04.000Where they were not citizens when they arrived.
01:26:06.000So the issue is integration, assimilation.
01:26:08.000And that's some of the most, you know, reliable Republican voters in Florida.
01:26:11.000So what your misunderstanding is, I'm talking about mass influx unchecked migration, where you have people who are not citizens and have no interest in what this country is, represents, or its history, versus legal migrants who came here appropriately, assimilated, took a citizenship test, and have family and connections to the country.
01:26:28.000But Cubans who came over in a boat didn't go through a standard regulated naturalization process.
01:26:39.000It's been a controversial issue, but the point is they became very well integrated into the wider American ethic, including voting overwhelmingly for Republicans.
01:26:48.000And so what you're saying has no bearing on anything I just said, because if people are integrated into the country, they vote for the interests of that country.
01:26:55.000People who are not integrated vote against the interests of the country.
01:26:57.000But they integrated even despite coming illegally.
01:26:59.000What does that have to do with what I'm talking about?
01:27:01.000You're talking about the lack of integration for people who come illegally.
01:27:09.000Right, we're talking about millions of people over the past few years coming in with no ties to the community, who are looking for Buffalo Wild Wings.
01:27:17.000That's an absolute quote from one of the migrants in the migrant caravan.
01:27:33.000The people fleeing... Aren't they basically saying, I want more economic opportunity?
01:27:37.000So let's just say there's a big difference between someone fleeing Cuba because they're being murdered or gulag'd and someone who's like, we're going to get free stuff.
01:28:51.000How do you figure it out whether they're actually, if they're just taking advantage of political upheaval to go to a better place or if they're actually fleeing from the upheaval?
01:28:59.000Well, like with Venezuela, like there's special immigrant visas for Venezuelans and the Biden administration directly flies Venezuelans to the U.S.
01:29:06.000And now there's this whole issue in New York with like Venezuelan gang being connected to like 63 robberies or something like that.
01:29:14.000And now there's some concern that they might be teaming up with MS-13.
01:29:18.000That's another potentially Republican-leaning ethnic demographic, because remember what they're fleeing, they're fleeing a left-wing authoritarian government.
01:29:24.000But I don't care about Republican-leaning or Democrat-leaning.
01:29:26.000No, I'm just saying there's diversity in terms of the political inclinations of people who come to the country.
01:29:36.000But hasn't America always been like a melting pot?
01:29:39.000Well, yeah, I'm descended from people who came from Ireland, Italy, who weren't necessarily thinking, oh, I love the concept of America.
01:29:47.000They were coming for economic opportunity because they were peasants in Europe.
01:29:50.000And there was a restriction on how many could come and when they could come and what they had to do.
01:29:54.000And historically, these people came and were like, we're going to learn the language, we're going to go to school.
01:29:58.000And many of the migrants Uh, stories that, you know, actually was recently told by a very elderly person.
01:30:03.000Their parents refused to teach them their native language.
01:30:05.000They said, you're only going to speak English, which is the opposite of what we're seeing now.
01:30:09.000So I think a better analogy... I think a lot of second, third, fourth generation Spanish-speaking immigrants end up speaking English.
01:30:14.000A better... yeah, because of proximity, not because the parents are like, we're going to integrate.
01:30:19.000I think a better analogy would be like, if you have five members of your family, and you invite, and this lady invites someone in the house, that person will begin to exert influence.
01:30:27.000That person's interests are not going to be the kid going to college, it's going to be, what am I getting?
01:30:32.000Whether they feel they're entitled to a lot or a little, it will be, what do I get?
01:30:36.000This woman is cooking and cleaning... well, let's just say cooking, I don't know, personal chef.
01:30:41.000And so she's gonna eventually be like, look, I appreciate you letting me stay here, but I'm cooking food for you and I get nothing for it.
01:31:34.000The question might be, when are there finite resources?
01:31:37.000Meaning, when does the share get smaller and smaller and smaller, that when more people come in, there's too small a piece of the pie, that it creates upheaval, or... Well, so like, let's... It could happen slowly, or it could happen all at once, if the power goes out, if there's a power down... Well, no, it's right now.
01:31:49.000A grid down thing, it's every man for themselves.
01:31:51.000It's right now, and a carton of eggs is 10 bucks.
01:32:08.000It's spending massive amounts of money and resources through our fractional reserve banking system on a tremendous influx of non-citizens who are being handed debit cards, our tax dollars.
01:33:01.000But the question then becomes, why is it that American citizens, who are trying to start families, get jobs, and get places to live on their own, have to live in 5x10 boxes, and non-citizens are getting luxury apartments?
01:33:13.000Because they had it easy growing up, Tim.
01:33:29.000Well, yeah, the other thing, too, is you hear the government officials in Toronto and New York and Massachusetts all saying to people, hey, if you have extra rooms, just open your homes, open your homes to these, you know, immigrants and have them come live with you.
01:33:41.000It's like, who in Toronto, New York and eastern Massachusetts has extra space?
01:33:49.000That the next thing we hear from this woman is that she gets into a dispute over residency with the migrants who claim that they're legal residents who can't be evicted.
01:33:58.000And then, because look, after I think 28 days, you're a legal resident who can't be evicted, no matter what.
01:34:05.000They can then claim she doesn't pay rent.
01:34:07.000And her argument is going to be, I am a legal resident and our initial agreement included no rent free.
01:34:12.000Well, and the NGOs also that facilitate this kind of thing, they're saying, oh, you can decide how long you want these migrants to be there, but not really, not by actual law and not by tenant law in Toronto, New York or Boston.
01:34:26.000She's going to be like, it was really great having you here.
01:34:28.000I think you guys should find a new place now that you've been here for a long time.
01:34:31.000And they're going to say, we have nowhere to go and we're not leaving.
01:34:34.000Resources have always been finite, but my hunch is that there have been times in American history in the past where economic conditions were worse than they are today, and yet an inflow of immigration was still tolerated.
01:34:49.000Look, I've never actually been ideologically in favor of immigration or really even opposed to it.
01:34:55.000But in the encounters that I have had with people who do immigrate, most of the time If they're coming here, it's for relatively innocuous reasons, not because they have some kind of a nefarious intent to undermine the American project or even a lot of them do want to actively assimilate it.
01:35:13.000That doesn't mean you can't justifiably regulate Those inflows of non-citizens to the country.
01:35:19.000I mean, I think that's perfectly reasonable.
01:35:20.000Which would be much less than two million.
01:35:22.000But I wouldn't necessarily cast such kind of generalized aspersion on the people who do make that trek.
01:35:28.000A lot of times they tend to be more industrious and more entrepreneurial than the average member of their society because they're making this epic journey to come to a brand new I think you find that in particular with the people from Central and South America.
01:35:41.000Keep saying it, and I hope you do, and we can clip this and send it to every Gen Z kid who can't afford an apartment.
01:35:48.000The advocacy of someone to say, these industrious people are enriching the community and are going to get for free what you should have gotten.
01:35:54.000No, I'm not saying they should get for free what you've gotten.
01:35:56.000I'm just saying that in terms of their character traits.
01:36:05.000I mean, they're utilizing the opportunity.
01:36:07.000If there are 10 houses on a street, and there are 10 young people, and you bring in 10 non-citizen criminal immigrants, There is going to be a competition for those Gen Z Americans over which house goes to whom.
01:36:21.000Maybe the answer is just billboard houses.
01:36:34.000We say, hey, the government used to create a huge amount of public housing.
01:36:36.000That was like the housing boom after World War II.
01:36:38.000Let's stop bringing in millions of non-citizens and actually support the younger generation and allow them to live comfortably and inherit the American dream.
01:37:30.000Okay, I just don't think the fact that they're Chinese... It doesn't mean that they're here to destroy us, but it does indicate that they're not.
01:37:36.000Which is an argument that's being made.
01:37:38.000They're saying that the Chinese Communist Party is infiltrating the United States through the southern border by sending all these... Okay, all right, but we have to stop there because you keep doing this where you're making arguments no one made.
01:37:50.000We on this show are pointing out that someone who flew 8,000 miles to Mexico or to Brazil and came through our border is not a refugee or asylum seeker.
01:37:59.000They're seeking to exploit a damaged border and steal from the American people.
01:38:05.000Yeah, if you're coming to the southern border illegally- I don't think it makes them an especially insidious threat like national security.
01:38:10.000No, it's the fact that if you came from China, you are clearly not a refugee.
01:39:10.000I don't know exactly where Silk Road, it could be from anywhere, but designer drugs is this big thing where, I think they've closed the loophole, because drugs were specifically regulated, people could alter the molecular structure of certain drugs, making them a different, non-regulated substance.
01:39:27.000Oh, that's designer drug, that's what you mean by designer drug.
01:39:29.000They haven't changed the loophole though, they just keep making you new genes.
01:39:31.000No, some states have passed laws that say, a substance that does these things, instead of a certain substance.
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01:41:16.000Considering what he's polling at, I'm inclined to agree, not that I want him to be the VP pick, but I think if Trump were to do that, I think it would crush Biden.
01:41:27.000I tweeted out a clip recently from a Trump speech that RFK actually reposted and used it as a basis to directly go after Trump At least more directly than I had seen in a while or maybe ever in terms of RFK attacking Trump.
01:41:42.000So I really doubt that's in the cards.
01:41:46.000I think both parties don't take fondly to independent parties, or both two main parties don't take kindly to third party challengers, because especially in the case of RFK Jr., it's not exactly clear from which candidate he draws more support.
01:42:37.000I think it's slightly more of a democratic lean in terms of who it draws from, but different polls show different things.
01:42:42.000And once polarization kicks in when the election approaches, meaning people who are more um, reticent about supporting one of the two major party
01:42:50.000candidates end up quote unquote coming home because they don't want to so-called
01:42:54.000throw away their vote, then you're going to see probably the third party support
01:42:58.000diminish across the board, not just RFK, but the other candidates. At least that's
01:43:09.000Biden voters are like, I don't want to vote for Joe Biden.
01:43:12.000They don't really know what to do with RFK because the reason why he got so much attention within the past year or so was because he was at least ostensibly supposed to be running against Biden in the Democratic primary.
01:43:21.000We saw a lot of conservative media really giving him a lot of hype, attention, because they wanted to just stick it to Biden, right?
01:43:26.000Because there would be an inconvenience for Biden who wanted to run uncontested.
01:43:30.000Now that he went independent, it's less clear like whose partisan interest he necessarily serves.
01:43:38.000in Trump reconciled their positions on Israel, though, because I think actually RFK is probably more stridently pro-Israel than even Trump, who boasts about being the most pro-Israel president of all time.
01:47:02.000It was like five-some-a-thousand dollars worth of Bitcoin I was going to buy.
01:47:06.000Back then, in order to buy it, it was extremely difficult.
01:47:09.000You had to basically meet someone in person and have them watch them do the transfer.
01:47:13.000Mining was substantially easier and when Bitcoin reached around five bucks I got excited and sold and I had like a couple hundred bucks and I was like, yeah, this is awesome There's no reality in which I would have bought thousands of Bitcoin and then not sold at 20 bucks It would have been insane.
01:47:28.000I would have been like I got 50 grand.
01:47:32.000And if I had it now I'd be like a billionaire or whatever, but I will say this with no advice anybody I am happy Despite the fact it hit $100 and everyone said, you missed the train.
01:48:09.000Now it's at $50,000 and I'm like, wow.
01:48:11.000I think Zuby tweeted out that he expects it to be at $1,000,000, but that that $1,000,000 will be worth what's worth $300,000 today because of inflation.
01:48:43.000That means that the people who are utilizing this will have to spend twice as much money, which means when a product costs more, has to be sold for more, the miners will then hold on to it.
01:48:52.000Then this will cause a strain on the market.
01:48:54.000People who are trying to buy or trade with it, El Salvador as a nation needs to do this, which means there is a weight to the value of Bitcoin.
01:49:57.000It's almost like if the whole world decided Bitcoin was worthless, El Salvador as a nation would still be using it, and it would still have value in El Salvador.
01:50:05.000So there's a weight tied to the value of Bitcoin now, forever basically.
01:50:10.000Does El Salvador, does it still tie its currency or peg its currency to the U.S.
01:50:15.000Because Malay I know, okay, well Malay I know made one of his campaign pledges to remain within the orbit or the ambit of the U.S.
01:50:25.000dollar, as like an ideological principle.
01:50:29.000You know, what happens is, every time Bitcoin does a big spike, it has a drop-off.
01:50:34.000A point when miners and other interested parties are like, okay, the price is up, we're gonna sell and pull our profits, and then it drops down again.
01:50:40.000I remember when it hit $19,000, and people were mortgaging their homes to buy a bunch, and then it dropped down to $10,000, and they were like, my life is ruined!
01:50:49.000And if they just didn't sell, they'd be super rich.
01:50:51.000Unless they took out a loan on margin to buy it.
01:50:54.000People are taking out these loans on margins, so they'll borrow money, and then they'll use that money to buy the Bitcoin, and then if the value of the Bitcoin drops to a certain level, they're going to call a recall on the loan, and they're like, now we're going to use your own crypto that's worth half as much to pay off the loan, so you lose double your money.
01:51:10.000That's what happened during the Great Depression.
01:51:11.000A lot of people have been buying stock on margin.
01:51:13.000They've been taking out loans to buy stock, and when the stock market crashed, they had to pay all those back, and they lost everything.
01:51:19.000Go to, what is it, like, what's the subreddit for stock market gambling, stock market bets, or whatever it's called?
01:52:35.000I was actually thinking of bringing it up that you could argue that the tit-for-tat in terms of employing increasingly extreme or dramatic legislative tactics Arguably did originate with the Bill Clinton impeachment, which was ultimately over a relatively trivial offense.
01:52:49.000I mean, you could argue that he actually did commit a high crime or misdemeanor per the standard that was in use at the time.
01:52:54.000But, you know, underlying the offense was basically having an extramarital affair with a White House intern.
01:53:01.000Whereas now you have people always threatening each other with impeachment over treason or You know, selling out the country to Russia or all these other kind of crazy, much more grandiose accusations.
01:53:11.000It was much more ticky tack stuff under Clinton, but it did accelerate the process whereby Congress became more comfortable using these more extreme measures.
01:53:21.000All right, Void Raptor says, When the new studio is up, will we finally get TimCast in the kitchen cooking show?
01:53:50.000And We got to test things out what what you know it is what it is, but I have to do like testing cameras and Depth of field and how things are gonna look in a but it's it's pretty cool kitchens there Everything's done, but the skatepark construction is starting on Thursday which means I
01:54:08.000It's going to be very noisy for the next two to three weeks, so we could literally go there right now and do the show.
01:54:37.000But we need, we need decorations in the kitchen.
01:54:40.000So we actually, in the meantime, while they're doing skate park construction, we should have, uh, There's an additional studio underneath the new IRL studio, which is going to be like a lounge-style, sofa-style podcast room.
01:54:53.000So we need that to be designed and set up, posters, art, things like that.
01:54:57.000And that has to get done ASAP, so we need someone to do it.
01:55:01.000But in the meantime, we are ready to go.
01:56:00.000I mean, it really flared up in the summer of 2016 and just continued in perpetuity beyond that, where it was just assumed that Trump was going to sell out the NATO alliance to Russia, that he was going to abandon Ukraine, that he didn't actually believe in the integrity of the NATO collective defense pact.
01:56:18.000Trump didn't do a single thing over four years to undermine NATO at all.
01:56:21.000In fact, he brags that he used negotiating tactics to extract additional funding commitments from NATO member states.
01:56:31.000I mean, they should love him, but people get wrapped up in this completely fact-free hysteria that's divorced from what Trump actually did in office.
01:56:37.000That's what drives me crazy about this current Trump campaign.
01:56:40.000People who both hate Trump and love Trump are dealing with like a fantasy version of Trump.
01:56:44.000It's not 2016 where we'll have to speculate about what he would do if he was in power.
01:57:54.000I believe the Supreme Court ruling on the Third Amendment, because we talked about this a long time ago, was that the general concept of the Third Amendment is not quartering soldiers.
01:58:02.000It's the government using the private homes of citizens for its whims.
01:58:07.000Yeah, I think there's only been one ruling on the Third Amendment, and it might have been the one you're talking about.
01:58:24.000I mean, they basically, like, tell you you have to fork over your hotel.
01:58:29.000It's a pretty obscure area of American jurisprudence.
01:58:31.000It'd actually be interesting to see a more full-fledged decision on it.
01:58:36.000Alright, Noah R. says, I'm a 25-year-old male in the Northeast.
01:58:38.000I can barely afford an apartment and my bills.
01:58:41.000But sure, Michael, let's keep bringing these people into the country.
01:58:43.000I didn't say let's keep bringing them in.
01:58:44.000I mean, that's what people misunderstand, I guess.
01:58:47.000Like, I specifically said that I'm not ideologically in favor of immigration.
01:58:50.000But my point is, the praising of people as industrious or good people... Well, they could be industrious.
01:58:54.000Doesn't mean you have to... You're obliged to, therefore, bring them in.
01:58:57.000But they still could be an industrious person.
01:58:59.000Right, the argument that, you know, my argument was basically like, let's stop providing resources to people, they're creating a net detriment that will weaken and dissolve this country, and you argued against that.
01:59:09.000I argued against that in the sense that I don't know that that necessarily could be fairly ascribed to most individual migrants.
01:59:17.000Like that they're seeking to dissolve the country?
01:59:19.000I mean, I don't really see much evidence for that.
01:59:20.000I didn't say seeking to dissolve the country.
01:59:55.000That's why I brought up Ithaca hours and other jurisdictions that created local currencies to prevent the dissolution of their local economies when the U.S.
02:00:02.000dollar was no longer coming into the region.
02:00:20.000I think you're talking about drastically different circumstances.
02:00:25.000We're talking about our government spending hundreds of billions at a time of like coming off mass inflation, mass government spending, the transformation of savings accounts into checking accounts causing a huge spike in the money supply which freaks everybody out.
02:00:45.000And we're like, let's bring in millions of non-citizens and give them taxpayer resources.
02:00:51.000But what do you mean by dissolution of the country?
02:00:54.000Just like a lack of social or cultural cohesion?
02:00:56.000Or are you talking about the actual American government apparatus being dissolved and becoming a failed state?
02:01:02.000I think when you have Marjorie Taylor Greene call for a, you have members of Congress say it's time for a national divorce.
02:01:10.000We're getting dangerously close to these lines.
02:01:13.000When you have California getting, some estimates, as high as five to seven extra electoral college votes and seats in Congress, you're getting to the point where there is shattered confidence in what the United States is and does.
02:01:31.000When was the last time, honest question, when was the last time a National Guard defied federal agents and barred them in defiance of federal jurisdiction?
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02:02:06.000Michael, do you want to shout anything out?