On this week's episode of the BONUS EPISODE, we discuss the gunfights at the border between the U.S. Border Patrol and the Mexican cartels, the Google Maps problem, and whether or not the snow is the fault of the weather, or if it's the weatherman's fault.
00:01:02.000We're going to start by talking about the gunfights at the border.
00:01:07.000The U.S. Border Patrol is exchanging gunfire with the Mexican cartels.
00:01:12.000Something that I think every American should care about because these are things that actually can spill over into the rest of the United States because cartels and organized crime.
00:01:25.000That kind of stuff actually will seep into the rest of the country if we're not careful.
00:01:31.000Colombia got into a beef with the United States because we were sending Colombian illegal migrants back to Colombia and the Colombian president was not going to receive the planes.
00:01:43.000And that lasted for like 10 hours because the United States just flexed a little bit of economic power over them, which is a little soft power, which is something the United States should be doing.
00:01:54.000But to see that kind of behavior work so well and so quickly speaks about the previous administration.
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00:06:07.000U.S. Border Patrol agents exchange gunfire with Mexico drug cartels.
00:06:13.000This actual video here, this was taken a few days ago.
00:06:17.000This is a U.S. citizen that was shot by the cartels.
00:06:21.000And if I understand correctly, he was just hiking and just caught astray.
00:06:25.000I don't know if they were shooting at him or if they were just being buck wild and shooting, but Newsweek reports U.S. Border Patrol agents near Fronten, Texas reportedly exchanged gunfire at the southern border with suspected drug cartel gunmen from Mexico.
00:06:40.000There were no injuries in the incident near Fronten Island, an uninhabited island in the Rio Grande in Star County, Texas, according to reports.
00:06:48.000The island is a disputed territory about which Texas and Mexico have made conflicting ownership claims.
00:06:55.000Newsweek reached out to U.S. Customs, the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Border Patrol, and the Texas Department of Public Safety via email for comment.
00:07:03.000News Nation's Ali Bradley reported that while the suspected cartel has fired shots from the Mexican side of the territory for years, things in the area have escalated in unprecedented ways since President Donald Trump was elected, even giving orders to shoot at agents recently.
00:07:19.000So if they're receiving orders from the cartels, which...
00:07:23.000I mean, ostensibly, the guys that are, you know, the foot soldiers or what have you, they're the guys that are taking orders from the higher-ups.
00:07:32.000If the higher-ups are actually giving orders to shoot at American, you know, Border Patrol, and likely in the future, American soldiers and Marines, I mean, what does that say about the U.S. posture towards the cartels?
00:07:59.000It shows how silly the whole situation is, especially what the left is saying, that everyone coming here is just, you know, innocent, and that there's nothing we should be afraid of.
00:08:08.000But at the same time, they're tacitly admitting that it's very dangerous there, there's violent people there, but we're supposed to believe that everyone coming and flooding into America are going to be model citizens and are completely innocent.
00:08:22.000And I think it just shows the type of people that are there on the other side of the border, and it justifies.
00:08:30.000We don't know who these people are that are flooding into our country from this dangerous country, and we should get rid of them.
00:08:38.000And so I think it just proves that what Trump's doing is the right thing.
00:08:42.000The people coming over aren't a bunch of innocent model citizens.
00:08:45.000Yeah, I think that's interesting, too.
00:08:47.000And that's something that I think a lot of the Democrats are pressing, is that there's this idea that the people who are crossing the border are all innocents, right?
00:08:55.000They're all just people seeking a better life.
00:08:57.000And I think that that is so, you know, that's so poorly thought out because these are people also that are paying human smugglers, you know, the cartels to bring people across.
00:09:08.000And they're coming from all over the world with nefarious purposes.
00:09:11.000There were already people coming across with terrorist plots.
00:09:14.000J.D. Vance was talking about that yesterday on CBS. There was somebody who was trying to do a terror attack in Oklahoma.
00:09:23.000So I think that we've seen that it makes a lot of sense for Trump to refer to the cartels as terrorists.
00:09:30.000The terrorist cartels think of themselves that way, too.
00:09:33.000The gang, what is it, the Venezuelan gang, Trendy Aragua, they have an open policy that you can, if you're part of that gang, you can go ahead and shoot law enforcement.
00:09:48.000And to think that they're not also sending some of their cartel members in as just migrants, to think that they wouldn't do that is beyond naive.
00:10:00.000You better bet they're sending tons of people over into our country.
00:10:03.000I've talked to some people on Twitter about this, or on X about this, and I've, you know...
00:10:08.000Essentially floated the idea that the United States has spent the past 20 years dealing with terrorist organizations like this.
00:10:16.000Now, the U.S. is exceedingly good at dismantling terrorist organizations like this.
00:10:20.000When it comes to the action of dismantling, the politics aside, right, you talk about what happened in Afghanistan after the Taliban was, you know, expelled.
00:10:33.000And then you're like, okay, well, there were problems afterwards.
00:10:36.000And then you talk about what happened in Iraq after the Iraqi government was taken apart, and then they basically subdued Iraq to a large degree, but then the politics got involved and the rules of engagement became a problem.
00:10:51.000The United States can, and also what the United States did to ISIS, the Islamic State, completely...
00:10:59.000You know, annihilated, like took them out almost entirely.
00:11:03.000But when the U.S. leaves, then you have a power vacuum.
00:11:07.000Then these organizations can come back.
00:11:08.000But with a situation where the U.S. isn't going anywhere, you know, it's not like the U.S. is going to go back.
00:11:15.000Like if the U.S. were to begin operations in Mexico and work with the Mexican government to actually route out the cartels, it's not like the U.S. is going to leave.
00:11:29.000The United States is still right there.
00:11:32.000If they're sending people over the border, the U.S. is not going anywhere.
00:11:37.000So the idea that the U.S. could leave and essentially fumble the ball on the piece is what usually is how it's characterized, that's not really an option this time.
00:11:52.000The thing that people bring up is, well, you know, we're going to see terrorist attacks by the cartels in the U.S. And while that's totally possible, it's not like that wasn't a possibility when you were dealing with other terrorist organizations.
00:12:07.000I mean, the whole war on terror started because 3,000 people died on 9-11.
00:12:11.000That's what set the whole thing off, an actual terror attack in the U.S. And there were a handful of attempts, and some that were actually successful.
00:12:24.000And then most of them were random individuals like Lone Wolf stuff.
00:12:29.000Do you guys think that the United States, first of all, should actually get into that kind of action with the...
00:12:39.000With the cartels, because if you think of it, like, 100,000 people a year or something like that die of fentanyl, and there's probably a million people in some kind of being trafficked somehow over the border.
00:12:52.000Half a million of them are kids, you know, that are being raped multiple times a day.
00:12:58.000Is this something that the U.S. should actually start to do to start to work with the Mexican government, try to get them to actually clean up their government because they're all in bed with the cartels, and actually start taking out the upper echelon of the cartels?
00:13:12.000I think they definitely should, but it's silly to do anything in...
00:13:15.000In another country, if you're not going to protect your own border and prevent them from coming over here, why are we sending soldiers to other countries to fight and die if we are just going to allow them to come into our country carte blanche with zero repercussions?
00:13:31.000Why are our soldiers fighting anywhere if we're just going to leave our border open?
00:13:35.000So first, we need to secure our border, and then yeah, Phil, I think absolutely, if we have to send them over into Mexico to do some kind of operations, then do that too.
00:13:45.000Do you think that the Trump administration is going to put the effort in to do what it wasn't capable of doing?
00:13:52.000I think, personally, I think that there's a mandate from the American people, right?
00:13:56.000The American people are significantly aware.
00:13:59.000Like, there's a general awareness that there's, you know, at least 10 million, probably 20 million illegal immigrants that have come over the border.
00:14:35.000Artillery generally tends to be like area denial, so you'll shoot artillery rounds and those will explode over an area meant to take out large groups of infantry.
00:14:49.000It would be more likely that they would have drones, AC-130s, and that kind of something that's more precise than artillery.
00:15:01.000Like with this gunfire, if a foreign country is firing across our border at American citizens, that might go on for a little while until the artillery strikes begin.
00:15:10.000Or until it's just like, take the area out, level it.
00:15:13.000I mean, I can see this thing escalating really, really fast.
00:15:17.000And the rest of the world, people that don't like the United States, getting involved through the Mexican side.
00:15:22.000It becoming an all-out war on our border.
00:15:24.00030 miles, 180 miles away from the border is just no man's land.
00:15:29.000I would not want to be living near the border right now if this thing is looking like a war is about to open up.
00:15:35.000On our southern border, we haven't had a border war since 1812, I think.
00:16:31.000From coming in and destroying the U.S. population with fentanyl and other drugs.
00:16:37.000Bringing children across who really shouldn't be anywhere near this situation from all of the rapes, all of this stuff, all of the extortion.
00:16:44.000And there's lots of reports, too, of people, once they get to the U.S., being forced to pay back the money that the cartels spent to get them across the border.
00:16:57.000And that's how they're pressed into domestic servitude, which is a big problem that no one ever talks about.
00:17:03.000I mean, everyone talks about sex slavery and prostitution and forced prostitution, but there's a lot of domestic entrapment as well.
00:17:12.000I mean, there were a group of people in Queens that were like deaf, illegal immigrants working in a hotel room in Queens, and they were not allowed to leave.
00:17:36.000I think that what we've seen with this whole situation with Colombia, too, where, you know, the president of Colombia refused to take back a plane of illegal immigrants.
00:17:45.000And he said, you're not treating these people with dignity.
00:17:47.000Well, you know what's not treating them with dignity is making it so that people don't feel comfortable to stay in Colombia, right?
00:17:54.000And the U.S. enacted a free trade agreement with Colombia under George W. Bush that...
00:18:01.000Reduced tariffs on the U.S. for exports to Colombia.
00:18:06.000And the U.S., I think there was like a 35% tariff on American goods going to Colombia.
00:19:00.000You have to treat our people with more dignity.
00:19:02.000He hasn't treated them with any dignity when they cross the border illegally.
00:19:07.000And come into other countries and ditch their passports at the border or whatever else they do to try and claim that they're asylum seekers or whatever else.
00:19:15.000And so when Trump was just like, fine, you don't want to do it?
00:19:54.000Columbia backs down on accepting deportees on military planes after Trump's tariff threats.
00:20:01.000Colombia has walked back from the brink of a damaging trade war with the United States, reaching an agreement on accepting deported migrants being returned on military planes after a flurry of threats from President Donald Trump that included steep tariffs.
00:20:16.000Colombia said Sunday evening it had agreed to all of President Trump's terms, including the unrestricted acceptance of immigrants who entered the US illegally after two US military planes carrying deportees were blocked from entering the country.
00:20:30.000We will continue to receive Colombians and Colombian women who return as deportees, guaranteeing them decent conditions as citizens subject to rights.
00:20:40.000Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murello said in a televised statement.
00:20:45.000He added that U.S. deportation flights had resumed and the Colombian presidential plane was being prepared.
00:21:49.000Well, Phil, it's carrots and sticks, and I feel like everyone's forgotten about that in the last three or four decades.
00:21:54.000We used to use carrots and sticks, and guess what?
00:21:57.000It's okay to use sticks sometimes, but I feel like the left, that woke virus, has ruined people's brains where they think they can't do anything that might offend somebody, so they're always too afraid to use a stick.
00:22:09.000And I think Trump is really showing, like you said, we are the greatest superpower on Earth.
00:22:14.000It's okay for us to flex a little bit of muscle and use that stick from time to time.
00:22:43.000It's America last, which is, you know, that was a meme idea going around the internet, but that's really the way that the Democrats have behaved.
00:22:53.000It's as if the Democrats believe that we are wrong for being as powerful as we are.
00:22:57.000We are wrong for when we try to be a world leader.
00:23:00.000We are wrong whenever we do things that benefit the United States because we're so rich and so powerful.
00:23:05.000Everything to the left is some type of Marxist power dynamic.
00:23:10.000And because the United States is the dominant power in the world, anytime the U.S. uses that power, even soft power, again, I'm not talking about getting into military conflicts.
00:23:21.000But when the United States uses the soft power, the United States is the bad guy for having the audacity to try to get deals that are beneficial to the United States.
00:23:32.000And now these just taking back your – I don't know.
00:23:38.000I assume they're all criminals to some degree because that's the people that are getting sent back right away.
00:23:43.000Just taking back your criminals, that is not something that the United States is out of line for saying, hey, take back your criminals.
00:23:50.000And I feel like the left always has paralysis by analysis.
00:23:54.000They're so busy thinking about how this thing might offend somebody and how this might percolate out and it might, you know, disparately affect some marginalized group.
00:24:20.000Hell-bent on putting us last, and I'm glad that we finally have a president that seems to show how easy it is to actually just put us first.
00:24:28.000You also said something about when the U.S. tries to use, like, soft measures to get changes.
00:24:34.000When we use soft measures, they call us Satan.
00:24:38.000So we, like, you know, whenever we, like, try and do something, like, play little games and do things diplomatically, everyone hates us anyway.
00:24:47.000Like, they'll call us the godless Satan of the United States because we, like, tried to do something diplomatic here in Lebanon or we tried to do something sort of conciliatory over here in South America.
00:24:57.000And so if we're going to be, if we're going to just be evil Satan anyway, we may as well just go for it and, like, do everything the right way and just get it done as quickly as possible.
00:25:09.000Yeah, I mean, considering the way that...
00:25:21.000Like, he's really, really made some moves and things have all turned out just the way that Donald Trump and, by extension, the American people want.
00:25:32.000And so I think that this is a ringing endorsement of the policies that he wants.
00:26:58.000A concern I have in that vein, I guess maybe I can see it from their perspective for a moment, is that if you make too many people Hate you.
00:27:07.000The tide may shift and you may become very quickly no longer a superpower.
00:27:11.000Like, if there were an invasion from the North and the South and the East and the West, nuclear...
00:28:54.000That it has happened by any means that too many people have been pissed off where they're like, all right, the liberal economic order is now done at 12.07 a.m.
00:29:02.000But because we're all still on really good trade relations with a lot of the world.
00:29:06.000But that would be the concern is if we pissed off even our European allies, our South American allies.
00:29:13.000Obviously, Russia's ready to go for the throat.
00:29:15.000The Chinese would be happy to see the United States fall and trip over its own shoelaces.
00:29:18.000Do you think that Russia is actually a threat, considering how much damage they've taken just fighting Ukraine?
00:29:27.000I don't think they're a direct threat at all.
00:29:30.000The amount of money that we owe to China, there's no incentive for China to actually...
00:30:26.000The only reason I'm asking Ian this question is because I want I really do think that your your concerns are are not really something you have to worry a whole lot about.
00:30:36.000Allay your fears and stuff, because really, the United States is, like, there's not, there are no countries that have an incentive to actually get into a confrontation with the United States.
00:30:51.000Every country on Earth will do whatever they can to avoid a confrontation with the U.S. What I've been thinking is, like, if we went to blows with the cartels in Mexico and it turned into, like, an Afghanistan where we just invade.
00:31:03.000And take it over because the government's incapable of doing anything for us, so we have to establish our own puppet government.
00:31:09.000That might piss off the rest of the world to the point where they're like, this country has overstepped.
00:31:14.000I don't think anyone would care if we invaded Mexico.
00:31:27.000If we took over Canada and they might come at us with their little stabby knives or something, you know?
00:31:31.000But hasn't Mexico invaded us effectively?
00:31:36.000Yeah, I mean, but I think also if we took over Mexico and we subdued those cartels, everyone would be like, oh, I guess America's getting a little testy.
00:32:10.000Any type of military that could stand up to the United States.
00:32:13.000They can't even stand up to the cartels.
00:32:15.000And so I think that if the United States decided that they wanted to go into Mexico, get rid of the people in government because of corruption, and actually prop up a government and go after the cartels, I think that the argument that the...
00:32:34.000That the United States government could make is at least as compelling as the argument, actually probably more compelling than the argument the government made going into Iraq.
00:33:22.000People in the federal government, but if the mayor of a town the cartel wants to control doesn't comply, they'll kill him.
00:33:30.000They're brutal, absolutely brutal, at least as brutal as the terrorists in ISIS or what have you.
00:33:38.000So the argument that, not that I'm endorsing this, but if the United States decided they were going to, I think the United States could make a better argument for invading Mexico, ousting the government, saying they're not...
00:33:49.000They're not a real government ousting that government than the argument made for going into Iraq.
00:33:55.000Mexico, they acknowledged that they got 4,000 deportees back during the first week.
00:34:01.000And they're concerned about it, but I don't think that there's anything that they can really do about it.
00:34:09.000And what's interesting, too, is I saw this journalist saying, like, it's not fair to these other countries to just drop a whole bunch of people on them, unexpected.
00:34:37.000It's over 2 million every year and that's just the people who were accounted for.
00:34:41.000That's not the people who never came into contact with anybody or didn't surrender themselves or didn't apply for asylum or any of those other CBP1 app or any of that stuff.
00:34:50.000I feel like it's always rules for thee and not for me.
00:34:53.000Like, they always want us to abide by these things, and the hypocrisy of it is, what do you mean we can't do that?
00:34:59.000They've been invading us for the last four years by the millions, and that's okay?
00:35:20.000Yeah, I think that the idea that any other country, particularly in South America and south of the U.S. border, I don't think that any of those countries are in any position to criticize the United States at all.
00:35:36.000Most of them have basket-case governments.
00:35:38.000Most of them can barely handle their own population.
00:35:47.000Crazy form of socialism that just doesn't work.
00:35:50.000They rewrite their constitutions every decade or so because people are miserable.
00:35:55.000They have constitutions that are hundreds of pages long because they're just essentially giving.
00:36:01.000They're saying that everybody has a right to everything, and they quickly realize that just putting a right on paper doesn't make it materialize in the world.
00:36:10.000Wait, socialism hasn't worked a single time?
00:36:44.000So Saudi Arabia might be right-wing because it's a monarchy.
00:36:50.000There are a handful of legitimate monarchies in the world still.
00:36:57.000And I think that those probably would be the clear...
00:37:01.000Right-wing governments, but the ones that make all the noise complaining about the United States, they're all leftists.
00:37:08.000And the arguments they make are always leftist arguments.
00:37:12.000Oh, you're oppressing us, you're so powerful, and we're so weak, and it's always a Marxist power dynamic.
00:37:18.000And the United States needs to just ignore that stuff and behave as the superpower that it is because the U.S. Does have the ability to influence other countries just with soft power.
00:37:31.000We don't need to get into, you know, conflicts with other countries most of the time.
00:37:40.000The U.S. has plenty of power to influence just with, essentially with carrots.
00:37:44.000You know, hey, look, we won't do this.
00:37:46.000And maybe it is a little of the stick, but it's not like, you know, not combat.
00:37:51.000Well, and I think it's interesting, too, that, you know, leftist ideology, in theory, sounds appealing.
00:37:58.000But, you know, a few centuries ago, with Adam Smith writing Wealth of the Nations, and then later Ayn Rand, we understood that capitalism was the way reality needs to work because all the incentives run in the right direction.
00:38:10.000So it's interesting that leftist ideology still has such a hold on people's minds, even here in America.
00:38:18.000In 2024, when we've seen throughout history that it just doesn't work.
00:38:23.000It's good in theory, but in reality, we know what really works and we keep rejecting it.
00:38:27.000And I think Donald Trump is going back to what really works.
00:38:30.000And I think it's time we ditch the kind of leftist head in the clouds thinking.
00:38:35.000It seems like capitalism is pretty awesome.
00:38:37.000Least worst system ever been tried by humanity that I can tell economically.
00:38:41.000Except, and it's not perfect, I'm not saying just get rid of it, but like generational wealth.
00:38:47.000Unfettered capitalism can be pernicious and is not good either.
00:39:32.000And so, no, I don't think anyone's advocating, even Milton Friedman or Thomas Sowell or anyone would advocate for completely laissez-faire unfettered capitalism.
00:39:42.000But at its base, it works a lot better than these leftists.
00:39:49.000I would say the only country in the world where you can start out eating dirt, envying your friend's bike, and rise to be a rich man, rise to be president, rise to be captain of industry.
00:40:03.000So even with generational wealth, if you look at the way that that wealth works, it usually only lasts like three generations.
00:40:11.000That's why in the UK you have all of these aristocrats who are broke.
00:41:32.000He got money from that because, you know, he had something he could sell.
00:41:35.000He moved to Brooklyn, opened a new shop, and then, you know.
00:41:39.000The next thing, his granddaughter is an attorney, you know, working for the SEC. You can work your way up in this country like nowhere else on earth.
00:41:48.000And so I think that while what you're saying is true about, you know, poverty and all of that stuff and that being a problem with capitalism, I think that's true.
00:41:57.000But I also think that we do have a fix for that here that we haven't seen anywhere else.
00:42:03.000We can probably keep making it better, but I don't think that we can make it better.
00:42:08.000By pushing equity so that just every kid gets a bike.
00:42:12.000Because that kid eating dirt who wants the bike, maybe he's going to get a summer job.
00:42:17.000Maybe he's going to get a summer job working at 7-Eleven, save up for that bike.
00:42:20.000He's going to like getting paid every other week.
00:42:23.000And he's going to work hard his whole life.
00:42:25.000And so that's something, too, that we're seeing.
00:42:27.000If we, you know, there's a lot of hardworking illegal immigrants in this country.
00:42:34.000Should they all be getting the jobs instead of that poor kid eating dirt?
00:42:38.000You know, who was, like, born in Detroit, raised there.
00:42:41.000And there's also something to be said.
00:42:43.000Like, can we do better for our citizens by prioritizing them?
00:42:48.000And, you know, we are the culmination of our experiences, too.
00:42:52.000So the idea of kids have to learn to go to work and learn to save and learn to do things, if you just give them stuff, and we see this happen a lot with...
00:43:11.000If you're bad with money, if you don't learn how to manage your money and you're just handed a boatload of money, you'll squander it and stuff.
00:43:18.000And kids that are just handed things, they don't see the same value as when they have to work for it.
00:43:24.000So I do think that you've got a lot of...
00:43:27.000There's substance to your point, but I think that, like you said, it's the least bad system that's ever been...
00:43:35.000And I think that it's the only system that really does allow upward mobility.
00:43:39.000The public education system has evolved now, I think, to the internet.
00:43:44.000Like, it used to be you kind of feel like the education was given to you.
00:43:48.000You're sent to a spot, and then it's given to you by the teacher.
00:44:16.000One thing that public schools have are Chromebooks.
00:44:19.000Just like Ford infiltrated LA to make sure that they never had a decent public transit system, you have had Google Chromebooks infiltrating public schools so that every kid comes home with...
00:44:34.000A Chromebook and their homework is IXL or any of these programs where you have the computer teach you.
00:44:44.000One thing that I think is really missing, and I was talking to my son about this the other day, is I had teachers, right?
00:44:51.000Like, I remember my teachers and what they taught me.
00:44:54.000I remember my fourth grade teacher and the way she taught me multiplication tables, you know, Mrs. Fife.
00:45:01.000But I remember these teachers that I had who were passionate about teaching and passionate about the information they had and the knowledge that they had and, you know, the books that they loved.
00:45:14.000I had a teacher in high school, Peter Renka, and he gave us this list of books that were like, you need to read all these books in your life.
00:45:46.000I'm sure out there, but in a lot of ways, they're stifled by this common core, computer-generated educational programming that it's hard to break out of.
00:45:56.000And it's hard for kids to find their passion when they're being taught by...
00:46:02.000Well, and they're also being taught propaganda.
00:46:04.000Me and my brothers were homeschooled our whole lives.
00:46:07.000So my brothers were yanked out of elementary school.
00:46:09.000I was like two or three years old, and I was homeschooled my whole life along with my brothers.
00:46:13.000And that's because in the late 80s and early 90s, I was born in 87, my brothers were already being sent home with propaganda books.
00:46:21.000And my parents saw the writing on the wall, and they knew what was happening, and they were having disputes with the elementary schools called Thomas Paine in Urbana, Illinois.
00:46:31.000And they said, nope, we're teaching you at home.
00:47:12.000Well, Margaret, I don't agree that all these immigrants or all these refugees have been properly vetted.
00:47:17.000In fact, we know that there are cases of people who allegedly were properly vetted and then were literally planning terrorist attacks on our country.
00:47:25.000That happened during the campaign, if you may remember.
00:47:48.000This interview is an exemplification of why Vance will be president in 2028. I just sent it to you again.
00:47:55.000Well, I told someone, it reminds me of when Matt Gatz was confronted about why he made comments saying that all the people at anti-abortion or pro-abortion rallies were fat and overweight.
00:48:07.000And the interviewer said, don't you think some people would find that offensive?
00:48:14.000And Matt Gatz said, No, but there are 30,000 people in the pipeline.
00:48:38.000But my primary concern as the Vice President, Margaret, is to look after the American people.
00:48:43.000And now that we know that we have vetting problems with a lot of these refugee programs, we absolutely cannot unleash thousands of unvetted people into our country.
00:49:38.000To the opinion of a lot of people in the U.S. nowadays.
00:49:42.000They don't really want to hear the excuses from people on the left, the media, who've absolutely destroyed their credibility over the past five years or so.
00:50:06.000And I think J.D. Vance really kind of has his finger on the pulse of America.
00:50:12.000I think the media and the left in general are so used to everyone kowtowing to them that they're always shocked when someone's like, no, you're not going to guilt me into anything, and I'm just going to tell you the truth, and I don't care if people are mad about it or you're upset about it.
00:50:26.000And so I think, again, Trump is kind of setting the standard with his administration of just doing something and making no apologies for it.
00:50:34.000And I think if you don't play the blame game and the guilt game with the left, they lose a lot of power over you.
00:50:42.000Yeah, that's the thing about shame is it doesn't do anything if you don't feel guilty about what they're trying to shame you over.
00:51:03.000So people are sharing things like this.
00:51:06.000And honestly, like I said, I think that this is going to be a meme that's going to have legs.
00:51:12.000There's a handful of them that have really caught on, and I really think, I don't really care, Margaret, is something that you're going to hear a lot from people when it comes to criticizing stuff.
00:52:23.00011 million plus migrants here, hundreds of thousands of missing migrant children, 50,000 illegal migrants in Chicago since August of 2022 and up to 200,000 in Chicago, my city right now.
00:52:39.000And you want me to make apologies for the fact that we're sending them back?
00:52:44.000Again, I just don't play their shame game.
00:57:13.000I know that just overall sports viewership is down, and I'm not sure where those people have gone, but I do think that the normies are the people.
00:58:03.000Part of the reason why the left got beat so badly is people are tired of hearing that everyone's a Nazi, everyone's evil, that the people that disagree are...
00:58:31.000So I think the left needs to find, maybe debate people on the merits and the facts instead of trying to guilt them with ad hominem attacks all the time.
00:58:40.000I don't know when the left's going to learn their lesson, but the...
00:58:46.000Selena Gomez leaned on her emotions with this crying video and then deleted it within, I don't know, six hours or whatever because apparently her fans had some backlash.
00:58:57.000When you see the waves of violence perpetrated by illegal immigration, by particularly people that have come into the country illegally, maybe even claiming asylums from somewhere, but just getting in here and then taking over a hotel or killing a girl, Talks to the normies and the people that aren't, like, they're just kind of, they feel instead of think their way through life.
00:59:19.000But that makes you think, realize, like, okay, let's slow down this illegal immigration.
00:59:43.000It's because they were here illegally, Selena.
00:59:47.000Pop star Selena Gomez took to Instagram in a now deleted video to lament the deportations of illegal immigrants under the Trump administration.
00:59:56.000Tom Homan, Trump's anointed border czar, has implemented a mass deportation program to remove illegal immigrants who have gone on to commit additional crimes during their time in the United States.
01:00:07.000Selena Gomez, what are you doing hanging out with criminals? titles.
01:00:11.000I just wanted to say that I'm so sorry.
01:00:56.000They're getting those people because those people are in lockup and they're going to the jails and they're saying, do you have any illegals in here?
01:01:05.000And they're rounding those people up and shipping them out first.
01:01:09.000So the people that are getting sent away, if they are Selena Gomez's people, Selena, you are hanging out with the wrong crowd.
01:01:15.000So let's see if we can take a listen to this here.
01:02:39.000Savannah Hernandez says, Selena Gomez is a billionaire who is surrounded by security, has zero idea of how dangerous the country has become due to illegal immigration, doesn't care enough about American women or children to say, to know they've been getting raped and murdered at the hands of...
01:03:24.000Well, and it's symptomatic of the brain rot on the left, like we were talking about earlier, where they don't understand what the normal person's going through.
01:03:32.000We have to deal with the repercussions of these people.
01:03:36.000I see them outside my Whole Foods, outside my Juul, outside my Mariano's, and outside my Target.
01:03:42.000I saw a girl who couldn't have been more than 11 or 12 years old who was about 8 months pregnant, a migrant, begging with her entire family.
01:03:51.000A lot of people listening are affected by it.
01:03:54.000Selena Gomez in her mansion in Calabasas isn't affected by it.
01:03:59.000So she can sit there and pontificate and tell us that we're all a bunch of narrow-minded xenophobic bigots, but we're the ones who have to deal with it.
01:04:22.000I remember when I was in high school and my little brother had a nanny and she was from Poland and she was here illegally and there was all kinds of kids.
01:04:31.000She disappeared one day and everyone was like, did she get deported?
01:04:57.000They haven't necessarily been sending out court notices for these people.
01:05:01.000You saw with the CBP1 app and the asylum seekers that a lot of asylum seekers coming across with children and whatever else used the same addresses to say that this is where they were going in the U.S. And they were vacant lots.
01:05:31.000I saw it for the first time recently, and it's rough watching the movie because apparently all the stuff except for some of the dialogue is all true.
01:05:45.000Four, five, six, seven years old, getting sexually abused multiple times a day, and that's the reality of the situation at the border.
01:05:57.000Never mind the fact that 100,000 or whatever Americans have died from fentanyl, from fentanyl overdoses that have been shipped in by the cartels, that they get the fentanyl from China, and they ship it into the U.S., the cartels run it in because it's profitable.
01:06:15.000But, like, even if you were to get rid of the drug aspect, you still got, like, half a million kids that are being trafficked.
01:06:26.000That's half a million kids that are getting sexually assaulted multiple times a day.
01:06:30.000Well, where's her tears for Lake and Riley?
01:06:33.000Where's her tears for, like you said, all the...
01:06:37.000The children of parents that have died of fentanyl.
01:06:39.000Where's her tears for the people that have to, you know, live with the effects of higher crimes in their city and violent essays that are happening because of this?
01:08:11.000First of all, they're the leftists that think that if you cause crime or if you commit crime, you did it because of your circumstances, right?
01:08:40.000As much volatility, as many problems in society as possible, so that way people will engage in revolutionary activities, because happy people do not engage in revolutionary activities.
01:08:52.000I mean, George Soros literally funds DAs for that exact purpose, to wreak havoc and sow discord in civilized societies, not just in America, but he's also ruined the economies of, you know, 10 other countries by shorting against it.
01:09:07.000So, I mean, it's not a conspiracy to say that.
01:09:10.000Walensky in Rules for Radicals talked about how you can sow discord and dissonance and stuff.
01:09:17.000So all of this stuff is straight out of the playbook.
01:09:20.000And like you said, the left has a vested interest in ruining this country.
01:09:54.000We're going to go ahead and take a listen to what President Trump had to say.
01:09:56.000America is going to be very rich again, and it's going to happen very quickly.
01:10:00.000It's time for the United States to return to the system that made us richer and more powerful than ever before.
01:10:06.000Do you know, the United States in 1870 to 1913, all tariffs, and that was the richest period in the history of the United States, relatively speaking.
01:11:01.000The income tax came in in 1913. As I said in my speech last week, instead of taxing our citizens to enrich foreign nations, we should be tariffing and taxing foreign nations to enrich our citizens.
01:11:36.000And then even when you file your taxes and you get an accountant and you pay the accountant to file your taxes because taxes are too complicated a lot of times to file yourself, which also it shouldn't be so complicated that you have to pay somebody else to do it for you, especially when the government knows how much you owe.
01:11:55.000It's like $700 to pay the accountant and then they file the taxes and then the IRS gets back to me and they're like, um, actually you owe us another $5 million.
01:12:06.000So on that level, that would be great.
01:12:08.000On the other hand, it makes sense that Trump loves the Gilded Age, which was really bad for labor.
01:12:14.000I mean, all the Carnegie's and the Rockefeller's and all of the robber barons and the train companies, they all got rich off of the backs of people eating dirt and being their friends' bicycles and not being able to make a decent living.
01:12:32.000And here in West Virginia, of course, like with the coal miners, you know, that was a big issue too.
01:12:37.000Like coal miners had, they worked in the coal mines.
01:12:41.000They lived in housing provided by the company.
01:12:43.000They paid rent to their landlord, which was their boss, and they got paid a lot of times in script, which they could only spend at the company store, which is why we needed labor unions in the first place, was to liberate people from this indentured servitude.
01:14:19.000As you're approaching the next tax bracket, you're actually incentivized to work less because if you go...
01:14:25.000You have to go significantly into the next tax bracket to actually make money because you'll go into the next tax bracket by, you know, say you go in by $10,000 or whatever, and it's like, oh, look, you owe an extra $25,000 in taxes, so you literally will take home less because you went into another tax.
01:14:42.000I have a friend who owns a small business.
01:14:46.000His name's Ben Wanzer in San Antonio, and they do commercial buildings, and he was telling me not only how much money he was losing.
01:14:53.000losing because overhead has gone up exponentially in the last four years under Biden to the point that he thought he was going to have to close a successful business down.
01:15:02.000But he was scared, as you said, Phil, to go up into the next tax bracket.
01:15:09.000So, I mean, my band, All It Remains, we did a tour in 2022 and then we did another tour just this past in August and September.
01:15:22.000And the overhead, the expense of the tour in 2024 was significantly more than the expense in 2022. I was looking at some of the prices that we were paying for things.
01:15:37.000Just for people, we had fewer people on the crew on this tour because we were doing a support.
01:15:49.000We spent more money on overhead on this tour than we did on the previous tour.
01:15:55.000In the previous tour, I think we had like six people on our crew and on this one we had four.
01:16:33.000And so, you know, there's not a bit of getting rid of taxes that I'm going to complain about.
01:16:39.000I do like the idea of using tariffs, but this is something that I continuously say that people have – they have the idea that taxes pay for things the government wants to do.
01:16:53.000They have that ingrained in their head, and that is just not the way the system works anymore.
01:16:58.000The taxation that you pay, the tax money that you pay is destroyed.
01:17:03.000You don't pay taxes so that way the government can fund something.
01:17:44.000So the reason they tax is so you have less money because they need to take money out of circulation.
01:17:51.000So literally, there's no reason for it other than to make the American people poorer.
01:17:57.000So I'm all for getting rid of the income tax because they actually don't need it.
01:18:03.000They just print money when they want to spend money.
01:18:06.000But then it might exacerbate inflation.
01:18:09.000I mean, look, there is that possibility, but right now, inflation is a problem that's sticky because it gets to the point where whatever you do exacerbates inflation.
01:18:26.000Then that'll actually become inflationary at some point.
01:18:31.000So it's really difficult to get rid of inflation once you've got that ball rolling.
01:18:36.000That's why they stopped cutting the interest rates.
01:18:41.000There's actually a lot of economists in a school of thought that argue exactly that, that you actually make inflation worse when you raise the Fed fund rate, and it's actually not making inflation any better, and you actually prolong inflation when you raise the rate.
01:18:56.000These two schools of thought, and a lot of people think it's a settled issue, that if you raise the rate, it's going to curtail inflation, and that's not the case.
01:19:04.000And I'm not an economist, but it seems to me that the best option is to allow the American people to hold on to their money and actually invest it in their own businesses, in their own lives, go out and do things that spur growth and actually create.
01:19:23.000Tangible profitable things in the country.
01:19:27.000That's a better use of the money supply than for the government to take it just to destroy it to try to control inflation.
01:19:38.000I mean, look, you know, trickle-down...
01:19:40.000Phrase trickle-down economics bothers me because that's something that the left came up with.
01:19:45.000Supply-side economics is a real thing.
01:19:47.000People say supply-side economics is BS, but they're all walking around with the most clear evidence that supply-side economics works, and that's a smartphone.
01:19:57.000Most people in here remember before they had a smartphone, they didn't need a smartphone.
01:20:03.000Now everybody that got a smartphone...
01:20:06.000The smartphone has become an absolute necessity.
01:20:09.000Some people can remember a time before they had a laptop and they didn't need it.
01:20:13.000Now that they have a laptop, they absolutely couldn't live without it.
01:20:17.000So that right there is evidence that supply-side economics works.
01:20:20.000Just because you don't think you need a new thing doesn't mean that a new thing that gets developed isn't going to become the most useful thing in your life.
01:20:31.000When I was a kid, my mom had all these cigar boxes.
01:20:36.000I don't know why she had them, but she had all these cigar boxes.
01:20:38.000And me and my friend Julia, who lived next door, we used to take tinfoil and all this other stuff and we would make laptops out of them.
01:20:47.000And this was in like the mid-80s before laptops existed.
01:20:51.000And we would pretend we were on a spaceship and that these were our portable computers and we would like do stuff.
01:24:52.000Let everyone else just yield and merge in.
01:24:55.000Alright, so we're going to go to this last little bit here to kind of wrap it up.
01:25:03.000is saying that breaking Google Maps has announced it will update its platform to reflect changes introduced by President Trump, renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, and displaying Mountain McKinley instead of Denali.
01:25:17.000Look, man, you can just do things when you're the President of the United States, and the world complies.
01:25:24.000Personally, I think this speaks to what we were talking about earlier, how like...
01:25:28.000If you just say, no, we're going to do this, you can really shift the Overton window about what is and is not possible.
01:25:37.000Because to be honest with you, when I heard the Gulf of America, I laughed.
01:25:41.000And I was like, that would be hilarious.
01:25:52.000And to be honest with you, when you hear a lot of the stuff that Donald Trump says, at first glance, you're kind of like, what?
01:25:59.000But then you hear about the reasoning behind it and you're like, oh, whether it be Greenland or whether it be the Panama Canal and you hear the situation surrounding both of those, you're like...
01:26:12.000You know, Greenland is in North America, not in Europe.
01:26:15.000In Greenland, the ice sheets are melting and the U.S. is really going to, you know, you don't want China and Russia controlling those waterways.
01:26:30.000In World War II, the United States was like, Denmark, this is yours, but actually it's ours for now because we don't want the Nazis taking it.
01:26:40.000So, I mean, the idea that you can't do things like, especially something simple like changing Denali back to Mount McKinley and changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
01:28:20.000Pride in something to be proud of now, because we actually act like the superpower we are, and I'm just kind of disappointed that it took us this long to act this way.
01:28:29.000I like this, because it's taking it away from the nationalistic aspect of the Gulf, that it belongs to a country, and it's reestablishing it as a continental Gulf.
01:29:31.000That we're not all Americans because...
01:29:36.000Because South America and North America.
01:29:39.000And the reason I disagree with that is because when people think of America, the United States, like that, when they think that, oh, it's just two Americas, everybody in America is allowed to go to America, then you get a rationalization that says, oh, we can just travel to the United States and get in for no reason because we just want to be there because we're all the same.
01:30:03.000Yeah, that's like Germans or European.
01:30:05.000But you don't have a right to go illegally immigrate to Germany from France.
01:30:09.000Like, you need to go through the proper channels.
01:30:10.000It was a little egotistical of us in the United States or somebody to call ourselves, we are the United States of America, and those other people in North America can call themselves something else.
01:32:09.000I just think it's interesting that everyone else should be proud of where they live and of their country, but if we are proud of it, the left seems to have a problem with it.
01:32:43.000The Emperor's Champion says it's all fun and games for the cartels until the A-10 shows up and goes, and it's a big long one, so that's why I held it.
01:32:53.000Can you explain what the A-10 is exactly?
01:34:28.000I mean, I believe that it can carry hellfires, so it ostensibly could, but it wouldn't take on jet fighters because they're...
01:34:40.000Like, they don't have the maneuverability and the speed that, you know, like, actual, like, fighter jets have.
01:34:46.000So, like, if it had, like, hellfires on it, it would probably use them to take out helicopters.
01:34:52.000But, like, I don't think that it could actually take out a fighter jet, like an actual jet designed for air-to-air combat, like an interceptor or something like that.
01:35:03.000Just Cause I'm Free says HR 38 of the 119th Congress is in committee.
01:35:10.000For a national constitutional carry, call your senators and representatives, folks.
01:40:02.000Wyatt Caldenberg says, Well, I don't know if it means that the Mexican government is too,
01:40:23.000but the United States does have many levers of power at its disposal, and it is quite influential, and I do think that the United States...
01:40:35.000Could persuade the Mexican government to side with the United States as opposed to siding with the cartels if it really, really wanted to.
01:40:46.000So whether the government currently is, I do think that the United States could eventually, over time, clean up Mexico significantly.
01:40:59.000It might take more, I guess, U.S. involvement in Mexico's politics than the average American is thinking that we should, but I do think that it's possible.
01:43:19.000Hal Gailey says, Capitalism only causes trouble when the state discounts rights to support corporate profiteering.
01:43:26.000True capitalism respects rights as it's built on them.
01:43:30.000Well, I do think that for the most part, that's generally right.
01:43:35.000There are times where I think that there might be some incentives that need to be adjusted.
01:43:46.000But generally, I do think that property rights really do cover a lot of things, especially when you don't have the ability to influence legislators to infringe on other people's property rights in your favor.
01:44:03.000Libby made a good point earlier about the script when the companies were completely...
01:44:08.000I mean, you could say out of control or in control, maybe, is the way to look at it, like at the end of the 1800s.
01:44:13.000And they would pay their employees in their own currency that they would create.
01:44:35.000The ability to purchase other forms of currency and to move around and leave and go to a different place and stuff, that's something that they didn't have.
01:44:59.000You could trade it on the blockchain, hopefully, ideally.
01:45:03.000But I do think incentives run in both directions.
01:45:05.000And not only do corporations and owners need to be incentivized, but so do workers.
01:45:10.000And if their wages aren't keeping up with corporate profits, and corporate profits are up by a multiple of a thousand and worker wages have stayed stagnant, they're not going to be incentivized to want to work or join the labor force.
01:45:22.000And I think we're kind of seeing that.
01:45:24.000So I do think it's important to not only incentivize business.
01:45:42.000I think we could kind of work something out.
01:45:44.000And some companies have started sharing profits with the workers, and it seems to be working.
01:45:49.000You know what's funny is the only reason that health insurance benefits became part of an employment package is because FDR froze wages and said you couldn't have any raises.
01:46:01.000So companies were trying to figure out how to incentivize workers.
01:46:05.000And so they were like, we'll give you health insurance benefits.
01:46:07.000And now that's how it got stuck to them.
01:46:13.000It's literally FDR's fault that you can't afford to get your teeth cleaned or to get your bones set or whatever.
01:46:58.000In the U.S. And I hate that because of those who refuse to respect the law of the U.S. My chances of naturalization may eventually be jeopardized.
01:47:08.000The people that have come to the United States legally that are trying to do the things the right way, the fact that they're getting pushed back and they have to wait and the other people jump the line and people that come here the right way end up with the...
01:47:26.000With the problems and having to deal with that, that is absolutely terrible, and it's something that I wish that we could fix immediately.
01:47:34.000Well, they've even done polls, and the majority of legal Mexican immigrants and Mexican-Americans want us to deport the migrants.
01:47:42.000The majority of them voted for Trump for that exact reason, and of course the Democrats want to discount them and would never put them on TV or in a news article, but the majority of legal Mexican-Americans want us to deport.
01:47:59.000Yeah, I do think that, you know, it would be beneficial to America if you got the people that want to be here and that would go about it the right way, if you got them into the U.S. first, and hopefully the deportations continue.
01:50:00.000You know, supply-side economics argument, the idea that the pie is not a finite pie, the pie can be grown, that it's not a zero-sum game, that it's better to create things, and in that creation, sometimes you'll destroy other industries, but that's better overall for everybody, generally.
01:50:21.000And a lot of people complain that, well, capitalism can't fix these great inequalities in wealth.
01:50:28.000So I want to see where socialism has a panacea for poverty and inequalities and wealth.
01:50:33.000So just because capitalism can't fix it perfectly, you need to show me a system that can do it better.
01:50:39.000Criticisms of capitalism are always based—they're always— Comparing capitalism to a perfect society that has never existed and that actually can't exist because we are limited humans in the real world.
01:50:53.000Like, the idea that, oh, well, capitalism did this and that, especially...
01:50:59.000One of the memes that you see a lot is the deaths under capitalism, which was in response to the deaths under socialism, because socialists have been killed by their own governments, by famines created by the actions of their own governments, the top-down decrees of their own governments.
01:51:20.000Communists say things like, oh, a bajillion guerrillion people have been killed because there's not clean water and a guerrillion people have been killed by curable diseases and blah, blah, blah.
01:51:30.000And it ends up being what they're saying is, well, capitalism hasn't solved all of the problems of the human condition.
01:51:37.000So, you know, there is starvation that still happens, even though capitalism has just about solved abject poverty, right?
01:52:11.000It's because of markets and because of trade.
01:52:14.000Because of being able to fertilize crops with petroleum fertilizers, petroleum-based fertilizers and stuff, petrochemicals and stuff.
01:52:25.000So even though capitalism isn't perfect and doesn't solve the fact that human existence means you're going to suffer, but it's like the...
01:52:41.000Communists don't have the solution either.
01:52:44.000I wanted to add a little nuance to the super chatter who said production, I believe what he said was production, increasing production increases wealth.
01:52:51.000It was a direct correlation, but you need to run an opportunity cost of production.
01:52:55.000So if you build a factory that builds paperclips or whatever, if the cost and destruction of your surroundings in order to create that factory outweighs the value of the factory itself, then the production actually reduced wealth.
01:55:54.000In Chicago, it's always a rolling stop.
01:55:56.000In Chicago, it's dangerous to actually stop, right?
01:56:00.000Half of them don't have driver's license because they snuck in anyways.
01:56:05.000RD says, Biden's last moves in office made it illegal to drill for oil in the Gulf of America, in the Gulf of Mexico.
01:56:13.000It's not illegal to drill in the Gulf of America.
01:56:15.000And I heard someone make this statement.
01:56:18.000It is possible that the change of name...
01:56:23.000Was to get around Biden's executive order.
01:56:26.000You don't think it designated a specific geographic area and that's what it's tied to?
01:56:31.000I mean, look, I didn't read the executive order that Biden put out, but if they said the Gulf of Mexico, then technically it doesn't exist anymore.
01:56:44.000So, I mean, look, I mean, maybe I would love that.
01:56:48.000For it to be that much of a pedantic issue, like just, oh, well, you thought that you were going to do this, we're just going to go ahead and change the name.
01:56:56.000If I understand correctly, and again, this is only Wavetop's understanding, I didn't read into it or anything, but if I understand correctly, the executive order that Biden made regarding drilling in the Gulf of Mexico...
01:57:12.000Was comprehensive, and it would cause a lot of legal problems for the Trump administration to actually start drilling in the Gulf.
01:58:04.000Yeah, it says the areas designated by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management as the North Atlantic, Mid-Atlantic, the areas of the Outer Continental Shelf designated by Section 104A of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act.
01:58:17.000The boundaries of the withdrawn areas are more specifically delineated in the attached map.
01:58:22.000Dude, I remember that deep water horizon spill, I guess you would call it, where the drill broke, and then for months and months, maybe even years, it was just pouring.