Timcast IRL - Tim Pool - SHOTS at Southern Border, Cartels FIRE On US Border Patrol Agents w- Josh Seiter | Timcast IRL

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00:00:58.000 whether it be the cartels in Mexico or Colombia.

00:01:01.000 But we've got all that tonight.

00:01:02.000 We're going to start by talking about the gunfights at the border.

00:01:07.000 The U.S. Border Patrol is exchanging gunfire with the Mexican cartels.

00:01:12.000 Something 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.

00:01:25.000 That kind of stuff actually will seep into the rest of the country if we're not careful.

00:01:31.000 Colombia 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.

00:01:43.000 And 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.

00:01:54.000 But to see that kind of behavior work so well and so quickly speaks about the previous administration.

00:02:04.000 We're going to talk about that.

00:02:05.000 J.D. Vance got into a wonderfully heated debate with Margaret Brennan over the weekend.

00:02:15.000 And we'll talk about that a little bit.

00:02:18.000 Andy Ngo was reporting about the trans, I guess, trans German person that killed a Vermont Border Patrol officer.

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00:02:31.000 Selena Gomez was crying and had to delete some Instagram story because of it.

00:02:39.000 Nick Sorter was talking about...

00:02:41.000 Donald Trump has mentioned, again, at the, I guess, a GOP... Uh-oh.

00:02:51.000 Donald Trump was talking about getting rid of the income tax again, so we're going to talk about that.

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00:06:07.000 U.S. Border Patrol agents exchange gunfire with Mexico drug cartels.

00:06:13.000 This actual video here, this was taken a few days ago.

00:06:17.000 This is a U.S. citizen that was shot by the cartels.

00:06:21.000 And if I understand correctly, he was just hiking and just caught astray.

00:06:25.000 I 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.

00:06:40.000 There were no injuries in the incident near Fronten Island, an uninhabited island in the Rio Grande in Star County, Texas, according to reports.

00:06:48.000 The island is a disputed territory about which Texas and Mexico have made conflicting ownership claims.

00:06:55.000 Newsweek 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.

00:07:03.000 News 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.

00:07:19.000 So if they're receiving orders from the cartels, which...

00:07:23.000 I 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.

00:07:32.000 If 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?

00:07:48.000 They've been designated terrorists.

00:07:50.000 You know, do they have to start worrying about, you know, Airstrikes.

00:07:54.000 Because, honestly, it's not like Mexico can stop us.

00:07:58.000 Well, it's interesting.

00:07:59.000 It 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.

00:08:08.000 But 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.

00:08:22.000 And I think it just shows the type of people that are there on the other side of the border, and it justifies.

00:08:30.000 We don't know who these people are that are flooding into our country from this dangerous country, and we should get rid of them. 1.00

00:08:38.000 And so I think it just proves that what Trump's doing is the right thing.

00:08:42.000 The people coming over aren't a bunch of innocent model citizens.

00:08:45.000 Yeah, I think that's interesting, too.

00:08:47.000 And 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?

00:08:55.000 They're all just people seeking a better life.

00:08:57.000 And 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.

00:09:08.000 And they're coming from all over the world with nefarious purposes.

00:09:11.000 There were already people coming across with terrorist plots.

00:09:14.000 J.D. Vance was talking about that yesterday on CBS. There was somebody who was trying to do a terror attack in Oklahoma.

00:09:23.000 So I think that we've seen that it makes a lot of sense for Trump to refer to the cartels as terrorists.

00:09:29.000 And the terrorists...

00:09:30.000 The terrorist cartels think of themselves that way, too.

00:09:33.000 The 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.

00:09:45.000 That's part of it.

00:09:46.000 That's part of what they're doing.

00:09:48.000 And 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.

00:09:57.000 Of course they are.

00:09:58.000 We had an open border policy.

00:10:00.000 You better bet they're sending tons of people over into our country. 1.00

00:10:03.000 I've talked to some people on Twitter about this, or on X about this, and I've, you know...

00:10:08.000 Essentially floated the idea that the United States has spent the past 20 years dealing with terrorist organizations like this.

00:10:16.000 Now, the U.S. is exceedingly good at dismantling terrorist organizations like this.

00:10:20.000 When 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.

00:10:33.000 And then you're like, okay, well, there were problems afterwards.

00:10:36.000 And 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.

00:10:51.000 The United States can, and also what the United States did to ISIS, the Islamic State, completely... 0.53

00:10:59.000 You know, annihilated, like took them out almost entirely.

00:11:03.000 But when the U.S. leaves, then you have a power vacuum.

00:11:07.000 Then these organizations can come back.

00:11:08.000 But 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.

00:11:15.000 Like 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.

00:11:29.000 The United States is still right there.

00:11:32.000 If they're sending people over the border, the U.S. is not going anywhere. 0.85

00:11:37.000 So 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.

00:11:52.000 The 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.

00:12:07.000 I mean, the whole war on terror started because 3,000 people died on 9-11.

00:12:11.000 That'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.

00:12:22.000 The Pulse nightclub comes to mind.

00:12:24.000 And then most of them were random individuals like Lone Wolf stuff.

00:12:29.000 Do you guys think that the United States, first of all, should actually get into that kind of action with the...

00:12:39.000 With 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.

00:12:52.000 Half a million of them are kids, you know, that are being raped multiple times a day. 0.99

00:12:58.000 Is 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?

00:13:12.000 I think they definitely should, but it's silly to do anything in...

00:13:15.000 In 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? 0.99

00:13:31.000 Why are our soldiers fighting anywhere if we're just going to leave our border open?

00:13:35.000 So 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.

00:13:45.000 Do you think that the Trump administration is going to put the effort in to do what it wasn't capable of doing?

00:13:52.000 I think, personally, I think that there's a mandate from the American people, right?

00:13:56.000 The American people are significantly aware.

00:13:59.000 Like, 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.

00:14:05.000 And the border is a real problem.

00:14:08.000 Do you think that the Trump administration is going to do this?

00:14:15.000 Troops with military-grade weapons and airplanes and helicopters over to the border.

00:14:20.000 So that right there says, yes, he's going to do something.

00:14:22.000 We're only seven days into his presidency.

00:14:24.000 Have they sent artillery down there yet?

00:14:26.000 Well, I don't know that artillery is actually the right piece of equipment.

00:14:31.000 If you do need something that's...

00:14:33.000 Because artillery is really...

00:14:35.000 Artillery 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.

00:14:49.000 It would be more likely that they would have drones, AC-130s, and that kind of something that's more precise than artillery.

00:14:59.000 Because artillery...

00:15:00.000 Takes out large areas.

00:15:01.000 Like 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.

00:15:10.000 Or until it's just like, take the area out, level it.

00:15:13.000 I mean, I can see this thing escalating really, really fast.

00:15:17.000 And the rest of the world, people that don't like the United States, getting involved through the Mexican side.

00:15:22.000 It becoming an all-out war on our border.

00:15:24.000 30 miles, 180 miles away from the border is just no man's land.

00:15:29.000 I would not want to be living near the border right now if this thing is looking like a war is about to open up.

00:15:35.000 On our southern border, we haven't had a border war since 1812, I think.

00:15:39.000 I think that's right.

00:15:40.000 Before the age of artillery, really, it was like cannons and stuff.

00:15:44.000 Now we've got like, I don't know how long-range these artillery are. 1.00

00:15:47.000 You could probably shoot a thousand miles with these stupid rockets. 0.99

00:15:49.000 No, artillery, if you're talking about guns, if you're talking about artillery, they top out around 20, 30 miles, if I understand. 1.00

00:15:55.000 And then you've got like rocket artillery.

00:15:56.000 Rockets are different, and cruise missiles and stuff like that.

00:16:00.000 I feel the fervor of 9-11 right now, where people are like, go get the terrorists!

00:16:04.000 Go get them, go get them, but it's on the border.

00:16:06.000 It's not like it's over there where the collateral damage that we create is actually to our benefit.

00:16:11.000 I don't know, man.

00:16:11.000 It's...

00:16:13.000 I don't know that collateral damage was to our benefit.

00:16:15.000 I feel like collateral damage is generally to our detriment because nobody wants to see...

00:16:18.000 This might be the first war against terror that is actually beneficial domestically.

00:16:25.000 You know, because we would be preventing massive gangs.

00:16:25.000 Yeah.

00:16:31.000 From coming in and destroying the U.S. population with fentanyl and other drugs.

00:16:37.000 Bringing children across who really shouldn't be anywhere near this situation from all of the rapes, all of this stuff, all of the extortion.

00:16:44.000 And 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.

00:16:57.000 And that's how they're pressed into domestic servitude, which is a big problem that no one ever talks about.

00:17:03.000 I mean, everyone talks about sex slavery and prostitution and forced prostitution, but there's a lot of domestic entrapment as well.

00:17:12.000 I 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. 0.63

00:17:20.000 That was a few years ago.

00:17:21.000 I remember that story.

00:17:22.000 So I think that it would be useful.

00:17:24.000 I don't know that the government of Mexico is particularly open to working with Trump at this point.

00:17:31.000 You know, they've balked at the tariffs, so is the Canadian government.

00:17:34.000 But I think that...

00:17:36.000 I 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.

00:17:45.000 And he said, you're not treating these people with dignity.

00:17:47.000 Well, you know what's not treating them with dignity is making it so that people don't feel comfortable to stay in Colombia, right? 0.94

00:17:54.000 And the U.S. enacted a free trade agreement with Colombia under George W. Bush that...

00:18:01.000 Reduced tariffs on the U.S. for exports to Colombia.

00:18:06.000 And the U.S., I think there was like a 35% tariff on American goods going to Colombia.

00:18:10.000 That got reduced.

00:18:11.000 And part of the deal was to revitalize the Colombian economy so that people wanted to stay there. 0.80

00:18:17.000 So what has Colombia done in the past 15 or so years?

00:18:21.000 Have they done anything to help that situation?

00:18:23.000 Have they done anything to make their citizens want to stay there and revitalize their own country?

00:18:28.000 Just speaking as an American, I don't...

00:18:33.000 I really just want my country to be better.

00:18:37.000 That's a little overly patriotic and simplistic, but that's what I'm interested in.

00:18:41.000 And I feel like if I were from some other country, that's what I would want, too.

00:18:46.000 You know, if I were Colombian, I'd be like, that's right.

00:18:48.000 I'm Colombian.

00:18:49.000 This is my nation.

00:18:50.000 I want it to be awesome.

00:18:51.000 Why would you not want that?

00:18:53.000 And so the president of Colombia said, you know, you're sending people back on military flights.

00:18:58.000 That's so undignified.

00:18:59.000 How could you do that?

00:19:00.000 You have to treat our people with more dignity.

00:19:02.000 He hasn't treated them with any dignity when they cross the border illegally.

00:19:07.000 And 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.

00:19:15.000 And so when Trump was just like, fine, you don't want to do it?

00:19:18.000 That's a 25% tariff.

00:19:20.000 Oh, you're going to talk back some more?

00:19:21.000 Now that's 50%.

00:19:22.000 Oh, you still won't accept your own people back to their home? 1.00

00:19:26.000 To their country where they were born. 0.97

00:19:29.000 Now we're not going to issue diplomatic visas.

00:19:32.000 You know, get your people out of the country. 1.00

00:19:33.000 Oh, you still don't want to do it?

00:19:34.000 Now there's sanctions on your family.

00:19:36.000 And so the next thing that the president of Colombia did was he said, oh, okay, do you need my plane?

00:19:42.000 To help you.

00:19:43.000 And he offered his presidential plane to help.

00:19:45.000 You mentioned the Columbia president and Donald Trump's sparring.

00:19:51.000 So why don't we talk about that?

00:19:52.000 Go to the story.

00:19:54.000 Columbia backs down on accepting deportees on military planes after Trump's tariff threats.

00:20:01.000 Colombia 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.

00:20:16.000 Colombia 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.

00:20:30.000 We will continue to receive Colombians and Colombian women who return as deportees, guaranteeing them decent conditions as citizens subject to rights.

00:20:40.000 Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murello said in a televised statement.

00:20:45.000 He added that U.S. deportation flights had resumed and the Colombian presidential plane was being prepared.

00:20:51.000 To assist in repatriating citizens.

00:20:54.000 The idea that the Colombian president actually meant the problem is the digs that they are flying in is they're not good enough.

00:21:05.000 I don't buy it for a second.

00:21:07.000 But I do think that this speaks to how influential the United States is.

00:21:12.000 People in the U.S. don't realize.

00:21:18.000 We don't have to threaten combat with everybody.

00:21:22.000 Now, the leftists on X will go ahead and get into a tizzy every time Donald Trump makes any kind of threat.

00:21:29.000 But these threats are...

00:21:32.000 Are heated and the other countries that are being threatened actually move because the United States is still the economic powerhouse.

00:21:43.000 The United States still has the reserve currency of the world.

00:21:46.000 So they have to move.

00:21:49.000 Well, Phil, it's carrots and sticks, and I feel like everyone's forgotten about that in the last three or four decades.

00:21:54.000 We used to use carrots and sticks, and guess what?

00:21:57.000 It'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.

00:22:09.000 And I think Trump is really showing, like you said, we are the greatest superpower on Earth.

00:22:14.000 It's okay for us to flex a little bit of muscle and use that stick from time to time.

00:22:20.000 And this is the apotheosis of it.

00:22:22.000 And it shows that it works and it's effective.

00:22:24.000 And I hope he keeps doing it.

00:22:26.000 Yeah.

00:22:26.000 I mean, the idea that the United States shouldn't try to get better deals out of other countries because it might offend someone.

00:22:35.000 I mean, that's – So detrimental to the United States.

00:22:40.000 That's not really America first.

00:22:41.000 It's not just not America first.

00:22:43.000 It'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.

00:22:53.000 It's as if the Democrats believe that we are wrong for being as powerful as we are.

00:22:57.000 We are wrong for when we try to be a world leader.

00:23:00.000 We are wrong whenever we do things that benefit the United States because we're so rich and so powerful.

00:23:05.000 Everything to the left is some type of Marxist power dynamic.

00:23:10.000 And 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.

00:23:21.000 But 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.

00:23:32.000 And now these just taking back your – I don't know.

00:23:38.000 I assume they're all criminals to some degree because that's the people that are getting sent back right away.

00:23:43.000 Just taking back your criminals, that is not something that the United States is out of line for saying, hey, take back your criminals.

00:23:50.000 And I feel like the left always has paralysis by analysis.

00:23:54.000 They'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.

00:24:04.000 We need to stop thinking like that.

00:24:07.000 We have an objective.

00:24:08.000 We need to achieve the objective.

00:24:10.000 What's the most efficient way we can achieve that objective?

00:24:13.000 And stop overanalyzing everything.

00:24:16.000 But I feel like that's all the left does.

00:24:18.000 And like you said, they seem to be...

00:24:20.000 Hell-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.

00:24:27.000 It's not that hard.

00:24:28.000 You also said something about when the U.S. tries to use, like, soft measures to get changes.

00:24:34.000 When we use soft measures, they call us Satan.

00:24:38.000 So we, like, you know, whenever we, like, try and do something, like, play little games and do things diplomatically, everyone hates us anyway.

00:24:45.000 Yes, okay, yes, absolutely.

00:24:47.000 Like, 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.

00:24:47.000 You know what I mean?

00:24:57.000 And 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.

00:25:09.000 Yeah, I mean, considering the way that...

00:25:10.000 They hate us now.

00:25:11.000 They hate us anyway.

00:25:12.000 Like, just do it.

00:25:14.000 I mean, the successes that the Donald Trump administration has had in this past week have been remarkable.

00:25:14.000 Yeah.

00:25:21.000 Like, 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.

00:25:32.000 And so I think that this is a ringing endorsement of the policies that he wants.

00:25:39.000 And it hasn't...

00:25:40.000 It hasn't even taken tariffs.

00:25:43.000 All it's taken is negotiation.

00:25:44.000 But the left and the Democrats don't even have the stomach for negotiation.

00:25:49.000 What's great, too, is Trump doesn't have to negotiate.

00:25:52.000 He doesn't have to even take very much action at all.

00:25:55.000 All he has to do is spout off.

00:25:57.000 He doesn't even have to spout off on Twitter.

00:25:59.000 He just has to spout off on Truth Social and say stuff.

00:26:05.000 Everyone goes crazy and he gets his way without having to do anything.

00:26:10.000 Yeah.

00:26:11.000 He just has to say stuff.

00:26:12.000 I mean, I do miss him on X though.

00:26:14.000 I wish he'd come back to X, too.

00:26:14.000 Well, sure.

00:26:16.000 I mean, we have the new Rapid Response team now.

00:26:18.000 They're back on X. That's going to be an interesting...

00:26:20.000 That'll be interesting.

00:26:22.000 Speaking of X, I saw a great quote on there today.

00:26:24.000 It was by someone named Antonin Scalia, but I thought he passed away.

00:26:28.000 But it said, everyone's so afraid of offending their enemies.

00:26:32.000 Why do you care if you offend your enemies?

00:26:32.000 Why?

00:26:34.000 It said you should be doing what's going to...

00:26:36.000 Garner you the respect of your peers and just do the right thing.

00:26:41.000 Why are we so afraid of offending our enemies?

00:26:43.000 I don't know, but the left seems obsessed with it.

00:26:46.000 Yeah, or like Steve Bannon says, pray for your enemies, you know?

00:26:50.000 But don't try to get them to like you.

00:26:50.000 Yeah.

00:26:52.000 Why are we always trying to get our enemies to like us?

00:26:56.000 It's such an odd thing.

00:26:58.000 A 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.

00:27:07.000 The tide may shift and you may become very quickly no longer a superpower.

00:27:11.000 Like, if there were an invasion from the North and the South and the East and the West, nuclear... 0.73

00:27:17.000 No.

00:27:18.000 It would go nuclear.

00:27:19.000 But how would that happen?

00:27:20.000 If there was, like, Chinese attacks, missiles fired...

00:27:25.000 Like, if cities got hit all at once, like in a night, and we lost New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles...

00:27:30.000 Yeah, but all of those places would get instantly nuked.

00:27:33.000 If we lost all those cities in a moment, like overnight, that would be...

00:27:37.000 All of our nuclear sites are elsewhere, though, or not even in there.

00:27:39.000 But we would still fight back.

00:27:41.000 That's the thing, is the deterrence of force would probably make that not happen, but we would no longer be the superpower after that.

00:27:46.000 What is the positive result for any country that initiates a nuclear war with the United States, in your mind?

00:27:53.000 False flag, like if you make it look like someone else did it.

00:27:57.000 Get the US to strike back at the wrong person.

00:27:59.000 What I'm saying is, whatever country...

00:28:03.000 I don't know how...

00:28:05.000 You can't do a false flag with an all-out nuclear exchange.

00:28:10.000 China can't shoot all of its missiles and be like, it was Russia! 0.82

00:28:13.000 And either way, that's just not possible.

00:28:17.000 The logistics of attacking the United States because of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, there is no...

00:28:25.000 You can't...

00:28:26.000 Be like, you can't do it undercover of darkness and hide it.

00:28:29.000 Well, you have nuclear submarines off the coast.

00:28:32.000 Nobody has enough nuclear submarines to take out the United States.

00:28:36.000 And there's...

00:28:37.000 It's not about...

00:28:38.000 Oh, sorry to interrupt, man.

00:28:38.000 Well, and nuclear submarines...

00:28:40.000 Like, a lot of times, nuclear submarines are shadowed by other nuclear submarines.

00:28:44.000 So they're hunter-killer class submarines that all their job is to do is follow behind the nuclear submarines of other countries.

00:28:52.000 Like, I don't think...

00:28:54.000 That 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.

00:29:02.000 But because we're all still on really good trade relations with a lot of the world.

00:29:06.000 But that would be the concern is if we pissed off even our European allies, our South American allies.

00:29:13.000 Obviously, Russia's ready to go for the throat. 0.97

00:29:15.000 The Chinese would be happy to see the United States fall and trip over its own shoelaces. 1.00

00:29:18.000 Do you think that Russia is actually a threat, considering how much damage they've taken just fighting Ukraine?

00:29:27.000 I don't think they're a direct threat at all.

00:29:30.000 The amount of money that we owe to China, there's no incentive for China to actually...

00:29:35.000 Also, we're their biggest exporter.

00:29:37.000 Without the United States buying their... 0.99

00:29:41.000 It's all the crap we buy. 0.98

00:29:43.000 Yeah, like, without the U.S. buying them, they go into a recession and possibly a depression. 0.99

00:29:48.000 And they've got one and a half billion people in that country.

00:29:51.000 So, like, the Chinese Communist Party has to keep the population subdued to a certain degree.

00:29:56.000 They don't have the military to actually suppress the population.

00:30:00.000 They have to do it economically.

00:30:01.000 I feel like a lot of problems and even more problems result when you try to appease everybody.

00:30:06.000 That's why we have a fentanyl crisis in this country.

00:30:08.000 That's why we have over 11 million undocumented migrants in this country.

00:30:12.000 There's that's why we have a border war going on almost.

00:30:15.000 There's a lot of problems that result when you try to appease everyone.

00:30:19.000 And I think Donald Trump's definitely taking the route of breaking away from what the Democrats have been doing for the last four years.

00:30:25.000 And I think it's working.

00:30:26.000 The 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.

00:30:35.000 I'm trying to, like...

00:30:36.000 Allay 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.

00:30:51.000 Every 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.

00:31:03.000 And take it over because the government's incapable of doing anything for us, so we have to establish our own puppet government.

00:31:09.000 That might piss off the rest of the world to the point where they're like, this country has overstepped.

00:31:14.000 I don't think anyone would care if we invaded Mexico. 0.60

00:31:17.000 I agree.

00:31:19.000 I don't think so.

00:31:19.000 I think if we took over Canada...

00:31:22.000 That would probably be a little more problematic.

00:31:24.000 That's a British kingdom.

00:31:25.000 I think the UK would be mad.

00:31:27.000 If we took over Canada and they might come at us with their little stabby knives or something, you know?

00:31:31.000 But hasn't Mexico invaded us effectively? 0.99

00:31:36.000 Yeah, 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.

00:31:44.000 You know, what's next?

00:31:45.000 I think you're...

00:31:46.000 I do kind of think you're right.

00:31:48.000 The rest of the world, at the very least...

00:31:51.000 I mean, when was the last time that Mexico was involved in something international?

00:31:55.000 Wasn't that memo?

00:31:56.000 Wasn't there like a...

00:31:57.000 You know, the last time they almost...

00:31:59.000 I forget the memo.

00:32:00.000 The last time they almost did was World War II. Right, with that memo.

00:32:02.000 The Germans were talking, like, yeah, we're going to come over there. 0.52

00:32:05.000 And that was the last time.

00:32:07.000 Yeah, that's it.

00:32:07.000 I mean, Mexico doesn't have any...

00:32:10.000 Any type of military that could stand up to the United States.

00:32:13.000 They can't even stand up to the cartels.

00:32:15.000 And 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...

00:32:34.000 That 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.

00:32:44.000 Just because of proximity.

00:32:46.000 There are southern neighbor.

00:32:47.000 How much more important could it be?

00:32:49.000 The primacy of that is evident.

00:32:51.000 There are southern neighbors.

00:32:53.000 They're continuously attacking our population.

00:32:56.000 The government of Mexico does not stop.

00:33:00.000 People that are traveling through the country to invade the United States when it comes to immigration. 0.98

00:33:06.000 Illegal immigrants, they've done nothing to stop it. 1.00

00:33:08.000 They've helped. 0.99

00:33:11.000 They have a government that is entirely corrupt.

00:33:14.000 The cartels are in control. 0.99

00:33:17.000 They kill journalists. 0.99

00:33:18.000 They kill mayors. 0.98

00:33:21.000 Not even just big... 0.98

00:33:22.000 People in the federal government, but if the mayor of a town the cartel wants to control doesn't comply, they'll kill him. 0.74

00:33:30.000 They're brutal, absolutely brutal, at least as brutal as the terrorists in ISIS or what have you.

00:33:38.000 So 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...

00:33:49.000 They're not a real government ousting that government than the argument made for going into Iraq.

00:33:55.000 Mexico, they acknowledged that they got 4,000 deportees back during the first week.

00:34:01.000 And they're concerned about it, but I don't think that there's anything that they can really do about it.

00:34:09.000 And 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.

00:34:17.000 That's what's happening to us.

00:34:19.000 And it's like, oh, okay.

00:34:19.000 Is that not fair?

00:34:20.000 Super don't care. 1.00

00:34:22.000 Super don't care. 1.00

00:34:23.000 I really don't care, Margaret.

00:34:24.000 I really don't care, Margaret.

00:34:27.000 But it's funny because...

00:34:28.000 We've got 4,000 people.

00:34:29.000 We get like...

00:34:30.000 We quadruple that in an afternoon.

00:34:33.000 10 million in four years.

00:34:34.000 At least 10 million.

00:34:35.000 Probably 15 million in four years.

00:34:37.000 It's over 2 million every year and that's just the people who were accounted for.

00:34:41.000 That'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.

00:34:50.000 I feel like it's always rules for thee and not for me.

00:34:53.000 Like, they always want us to abide by these things, and the hypocrisy of it is, what do you mean we can't do that?

00:34:59.000 They've been invading us for the last four years by the millions, and that's okay?

00:35:03.000 And all these nations don't care.

00:35:05.000 You know, Claudia Scheinbaum, president of Mexico, she said, what we ask for is respect for human rights.

00:35:10.000 What have you been doing, girl?

00:35:12.000 They've been bringing fentanyl into our country.

00:35:14.000 Where's the respect for our children's human rights?

00:35:16.000 No one cares about our kids' human rights.

00:35:18.000 Or Americans' human rights.

00:35:19.000 Like any of that.

00:35:20.000 Yeah, 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.

00:35:36.000 Most of them have basket-case governments.

00:35:38.000 Most of them can barely handle their own population.

00:35:43.000 They're very, very frequently some...

00:35:47.000 Crazy form of socialism that just doesn't work. 0.58

00:35:50.000 They rewrite their constitutions every decade or so because people are miserable.

00:35:55.000 They have constitutions that are hundreds of pages long because they're just essentially giving.

00:36:01.000 They'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.

00:36:10.000 Wait, socialism hasn't worked a single time?

00:36:12.000 That's weird.

00:36:13.000 I thought it was the best thing ever.

00:36:15.000 I know, this is a surprise to me too.

00:36:16.000 This speaks to an actual, a real phenomenon, is that there is such a strong leftward, left-leaning in most of the world.

00:36:26.000 There are very, very few, if any, right-wing governments.

00:36:31.000 Well, Germany might. 0.86

00:36:33.000 Might be looking at one of those soon.

00:36:34.000 It's possible that they might.

00:36:36.000 But if you think about the past 20 years...

00:36:39.000 Would you call Islamic extremists right-wing?

00:36:43.000 Maybe.

00:36:44.000 So Saudi Arabia might be right-wing because it's a monarchy.

00:36:50.000 There are a handful of legitimate monarchies in the world still.

00:36:57.000 And I think that those probably would be the clear...

00:37:01.000 Right-wing governments, but the ones that make all the noise complaining about the United States, they're all leftists.

00:37:08.000 And the arguments they make are always leftist arguments.

00:37:12.000 Oh, you're oppressing us, you're so powerful, and we're so weak, and it's always a Marxist power dynamic.

00:37:18.000 And 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.

00:37:31.000 We don't need to get into, you know, conflicts with other countries most of the time.

00:37:40.000 The U.S. has plenty of power to influence just with, essentially with carrots.

00:37:44.000 You know, hey, look, we won't do this.

00:37:46.000 And maybe it is a little of the stick, but it's not like, you know, not combat.

00:37:51.000 Well, and I think it's interesting, too, that, you know, leftist ideology, in theory, sounds appealing.

00:37:58.000 Yes.

00:37:58.000 But, 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.

00:38:10.000 So it's interesting that leftist ideology still has such a hold on people's minds, even here in America.

00:38:18.000 In 2024, when we've seen throughout history that it just doesn't work.

00:38:23.000 It's good in theory, but in reality, we know what really works and we keep rejecting it.

00:38:27.000 And I think Donald Trump is going back to what really works.

00:38:30.000 And I think it's time we ditch the kind of leftist head in the clouds thinking.

00:38:35.000 It seems like capitalism is pretty awesome.

00:38:37.000 Least worst system ever been tried by humanity that I can tell economically.

00:38:41.000 Except, and it's not perfect, I'm not saying just get rid of it, but like generational wealth.

00:38:47.000 Unfettered capitalism can be pernicious and is not good either.

00:38:51.000 That can lead to a lot of corruption.

00:38:52.000 Yeah, so you tax the wealthy families more, but like, okay, wealthy family has a kid.

00:38:56.000 They give their kid all their wealth.

00:38:58.000 It makes sense.

00:38:58.000 You want to give your kid your money.

00:39:00.000 Poor family has a kid.

00:39:01.000 The kid's eating dirt, picking through feces for seeds so he doesn't starve to death.

00:39:05.000 Wealthy family has a kid, gives him the best education, the best food.

00:39:08.000 He has the greatest IQ because he's healthy.

00:39:10.000 And then that all of a sudden creates this like...

00:39:13.000 This disparity between humans and you're like, how come that guy over there is nine and he gets a bicycle and I don't?

00:39:20.000 And so that's, I think, where this ideal, this leftism comes from.

00:39:23.000 Adam Smith noted that in Wealth of the Nations and noted that unfettered capitalism could lead to some really bad things.

00:39:30.000 And so that was laid out there.

00:39:32.000 And 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.

00:39:42.000 But at its base, it works a lot better than these leftists.

00:39:46.000 We also have, in America, we have...

00:39:49.000 I 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.

00:40:03.000 So even with generational wealth, if you look at the way that that wealth works, it usually only lasts like three generations.

00:40:11.000 That's why in the UK you have all of these aristocrats who are broke.

00:40:14.000 That's like a thing.

00:40:18.000 A joke.

00:40:19.000 It's a joke.

00:40:20.000 It's a joke in the UK because that happens.

00:40:22.000 But here in the US, you can be poor, you can grow up poor, and you can rise to the top.

00:40:28.000 And I think that's something that we don't see anywhere else.

00:40:31.000 It's something that we see with the benefit of the social contract.

00:40:35.000 We see that with the benefit of capitalism and with a lot of the social programs that we do have in this country.

00:40:42.000 For a long time, before it got totally infiltrated, a really good public education system.

00:40:48.000 You know, I think about my grandparents who were the children of immigrants.

00:40:52.000 My grandmother went to public school in Brooklyn, New York. 0.86

00:40:57.000 And in public school, she learned opera.

00:41:00.000 She learned Italian.

00:41:01.000 She learned French.

00:41:02.000 She learned all of these things.

00:41:04.000 She graduated early and ended up going to Hunter College, another public school.

00:41:07.000 And she graduated that to become a teacher in Brownsville, Brooklyn.

00:41:12.000 You know, her parents were, they owned a grocery shop.

00:41:15.000 They had immigrated.

00:41:16.000 They got here with nothing, and they managed to end up owning a grocery shop.

00:41:20.000 One thing that happened was my great-grandfather opened his grocery shop on 34th Street, well, in Manhattan.

00:41:26.000 And when Macy's came in, Macy's wanted to buy out the whole block.

00:41:30.000 So they bought his grocery shop.

00:41:32.000 He got money from that because, you know, he had something he could sell.

00:41:35.000 He moved to Brooklyn, opened a new shop, and then, you know.

00:41:39.000 The 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.

00:41:48.000 And 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.

00:41:57.000 But I also think that we do have a fix for that here that we haven't seen anywhere else.

00:42:03.000 We can probably keep making it better, but I don't think that we can make it better.

00:42:08.000 By pushing equity so that just every kid gets a bike.

00:42:12.000 Because that kid eating dirt who wants the bike, maybe he's going to get a summer job.

00:42:17.000 Maybe he's going to get a summer job working at 7-Eleven, save up for that bike.

00:42:20.000 He's going to like getting paid every other week.

00:42:23.000 And he's going to work hard his whole life.

00:42:25.000 And so that's something, too, that we're seeing.

00:42:27.000 If we, you know, there's a lot of hardworking illegal immigrants in this country.

00:42:34.000 Should they all be getting the jobs instead of that poor kid eating dirt?

00:42:38.000 You know, who was, like, born in Detroit, raised there.

00:42:41.000 And there's also something to be said.

00:42:42.000 This is a question, too.

00:42:43.000 Like, can we do better for our citizens by prioritizing them?

00:42:48.000 And, you know, we are the culmination of our experiences, too.

00:42:52.000 So 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...

00:43:09.000 Like MC Hammer.

00:43:11.000 If 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.

00:43:18.000 And kids that are just handed things, they don't see the same value as when they have to work for it.

00:43:24.000 So I do think that you've got a lot of...

00:43:27.000 There's substance to your point, but I think that, like you said, it's the least bad system that's ever been...

00:43:35.000 And I think that it's the only system that really does allow upward mobility.

00:43:39.000 The public education system has evolved now, I think, to the internet.

00:43:44.000 Like, it used to be you kind of feel like the education was given to you.

00:43:48.000 You're sent to a spot, and then it's given to you by the teacher.

00:43:51.000 Now you have to go get it.

00:43:53.000 You have to seek it out.

00:43:54.000 And it's there.

00:43:55.000 All the data, it's available to learn for kids.

00:43:58.000 And you don't have to wait for everyone else in your class to figure it out because you can do it as fast as you want now.

00:44:03.000 But you have to go get it.

00:44:04.000 You can't wait for it to be given to you.

00:44:07.000 I don't know.

00:44:07.000 I think that's true.

00:44:08.000 You don't think that...

00:44:09.000 I mean, public school still has lesson programs, and if you go to school...

00:44:14.000 No, they don't.

00:44:15.000 No.

00:44:15.000 I mean, not really.

00:44:16.000 One thing that public schools have are Chromebooks.

00:44:19.000 Just 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...

00:44:34.000 A Chromebook and their homework is IXL or any of these programs where you have the computer teach you.

00:44:44.000 One thing that I think is really missing, and I was talking to my son about this the other day, is I had teachers, right?

00:44:51.000 Like, I remember my teachers and what they taught me.

00:44:54.000 I remember my fourth grade teacher and the way she taught me multiplication tables, you know, Mrs. Fife.

00:44:59.000 It was very difficult.

00:45:01.000 But 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.

00:45:14.000 I 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.

00:45:21.000 It wasn't just...

00:45:23.000 Do this for my class.

00:45:24.000 Pass the test.

00:45:25.000 It was these books.

00:45:26.000 And I'll never forget what he told us.

00:45:28.000 He was in World War II. He was a soldier in World War II. And he loved paperback books.

00:45:33.000 He always had a paperback in his back pocket.

00:45:35.000 And he said they fit perfectly.

00:45:37.000 And he was never without a paperback book.

00:45:39.000 This is like this kind of teacher who is just passionate.

00:45:44.000 They are...

00:45:46.000 I'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.

00:45:56.000 And it's hard for kids to find their passion when they're being taught by...

00:46:02.000 Well, and they're also being taught propaganda.

00:46:04.000 Me and my brothers were homeschooled our whole lives.

00:46:07.000 So my brothers were yanked out of elementary school.

00:46:09.000 I was like two or three years old, and I was homeschooled my whole life along with my brothers.

00:46:13.000 And 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.

00:46:21.000 And 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.

00:46:31.000 And they said, nope, we're teaching you at home.

00:46:33.000 We've had enough of this.

00:46:34.000 So we were homeschooled our whole life until college.

00:46:36.000 I went to high school for one year, my sophomore year, because I begged my parents to let me go.

00:46:41.000 And think about it.

00:46:42.000 That was 20 years ago.

00:46:43.000 And think how far the public education system has fallen since even then.

00:46:49.000 And this all started in the late 80s and early 90s, and it's just going to keep getting worse.

00:46:53.000 We're going to jump to this story here.

00:46:55.000 Vance clashes with CBS host Margaret Brennan during fire.

00:47:02.000 Go ahead and play this.

00:47:04.000 this.

00:47:04.000 It's very short, but it's worth watching.

00:47:06.000 I don't think we should abandon anybody who's been properly vetted and helped us.

00:47:11.000 Do you stand by that?

00:47:12.000 Well, Margaret, I don't agree that all these immigrants or all these refugees have been properly vetted. 1.00

00:47:17.000 In fact, we know that there are cases of people who allegedly were properly vetted and then were literally planning terrorist attacks on our country.

00:47:25.000 That happened during the campaign, if you may remember.

00:47:28.000 Oh, did they cut it out?

00:47:31.000 I sent you the clip.

00:47:33.000 You sent it.

00:47:33.000 Was that not the same one?

00:47:35.000 I sent you a longer clip.

00:47:37.000 There are so many good moments from this interview.

00:47:39.000 It was awesome.

00:47:40.000 JD just holds the line.

00:47:42.000 I think Asmongold, if you follow, he's a gaming streamer.

00:47:45.000 He's probably the most famous gamer streamer online.

00:47:47.000 He was saying, this is the video.

00:47:48.000 This interview is an exemplification of why Vance will be president in 2028. I just sent it to you again.

00:47:55.000 Well, 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.

00:48:07.000 And the interviewer said, don't you think some people would find that offensive?

00:48:14.000 And Matt Gatz said, No, but there are 30,000 people in the pipeline.

00:48:37.000 Afghan refugees.

00:48:38.000 But my primary concern as the Vice President, Margaret, is to look after the American people.

00:48:43.000 And 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. 1.00

00:48:52.000 It's not good.

00:48:53.000 These people are vetted.

00:48:54.000 Just like the guy who planned a terrorist attack in Oklahoma a few months ago, he was allegedly properly vetted.

00:48:59.000 And many people in the media and the Democratic Party said that he was properly vetted.

00:49:03.000 Clearly he wasn't.

00:49:04.000 I don't want my children to share a neighborhood with people who are not properly vetted.

00:49:09.000 And because I don't want it for my kids, I'm not going to force any other American citizens' kids to do that either.

00:49:14.000 No, and that was a very particular case.

00:49:16.000 It wasn't clear if he was radicalized when he got here or...

00:49:18.000 While he was living there.

00:49:20.000 I don't really care, Margaret.

00:49:21.000 I don't want that person in my country.

00:49:22.000 And I think most Americans agree with me.

00:49:24.000 So the I don't really care, Margaret, has already become a meme.

00:49:29.000 I actually retweeted one of the better memes about it.

00:49:35.000 But I think that that is...

00:49:37.000 It speaks...

00:49:38.000 To the opinion of a lot of people in the U.S. nowadays.

00:49:42.000 They 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.

00:49:52.000 They don't want to hear your excuses.

00:49:55.000 They don't care about you rationalizing this or saying, well, you know, if you look at it this way, then crime is down.

00:50:02.000 Or if you look at it this way, then blah, blah, blah.

00:50:04.000 They don't care.

00:50:06.000 And I think J.D. Vance really kind of has his finger on the pulse of America.

00:50:12.000 I 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.

00:50:26.000 And so I think, again, Trump is kind of setting the standard with his administration of just doing something and making no apologies for it.

00:50:34.000 And 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.

00:50:42.000 Yeah, 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.

00:50:50.000 Yep.

00:50:51.000 And I think it's working.

00:50:52.000 And I love it.

00:50:53.000 I love that J.D. Vance is doing that.

00:50:55.000 And Trump, I mean, Trump does it on another level, too.

00:50:58.000 People have a...

00:51:00.000 Can you bring that up, Serge?

00:51:03.000 So people are sharing things like this.

00:51:06.000 And honestly, like I said, I think that this is going to be a meme that's going to have legs.

00:51:12.000 There'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.

00:51:24.000 You'll see it all over X already.

00:51:27.000 But yeah, I think that, look, you know.

00:51:31.000 Nobody wants to hear the left anymore.

00:51:33.000 They lost big in the election.

00:51:36.000 They lost the presidency, the electoral college.

00:51:39.000 They lost both the House and the Senate.

00:51:41.000 They don't have the court, the Supreme Court anymore.

00:51:45.000 And almost every single...

00:51:48.000 Kamala Harris picked up zero counties.

00:51:53.000 I don't think she picked up one county.

00:51:55.000 I don't think so.

00:51:57.000 She lost stuff that Biden had gained.

00:52:00.000 Oh, yeah.

00:52:00.000 I mean, I think it was something like 11 counties in California went Republican.

00:52:05.000 There was one that hadn't been Republican since 1890 and it finally went Republican.

00:52:10.000 If that doesn't show you how ineffective Kamala was.

00:52:12.000 But these people want us to shed tears over the migrants.

00:52:16.000 And it's like there is literally a fentanyl epidemic in our country.

00:52:20.000 People are dying.

00:52:21.000 Families are being torn apart.

00:52:23.000 11 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.

00:52:39.000 And you want me to make apologies for the fact that we're sending them back?

00:52:44.000 Again, I just don't play their shame game.

00:52:47.000 Don't feel guilted by them.

00:52:48.000 The only people that should feel guilty are the ones that are saying these people should be able to come into our country and destroy it.

00:52:55.000 They're the ones that should apologize.

00:52:57.000 They're the ones that should feel guilty for the fentanyl epidemic, not us.

00:53:01.000 Yeah, I don't see the types of things that the left has been so adamantly pushing on.

00:53:10.000 I don't see them being persuasive anymore.

00:53:12.000 I think not only is it something that your average normie, and by normie I mean the kind of person that...

00:53:21.000 You know, consumes maybe an hour of news per week.

00:53:24.000 You know, they grab their news while they're grabbing breakfast as they're also trying to get the kids ready for school or whatever.

00:53:31.000 That person has kind of noticed, hey, this is...

00:53:34.000 The situation that's going on with illegal immigration is bad, and the Republicans' messaging has really gotten through.

00:53:41.000 So I think that the average normie is already on the MAGA side, as it is, first of all.

00:53:48.000 And then second of all, Gen Z is really strongly...

00:53:55.000 At least the Gen Z young men are strongly right wing. 1.00

00:53:59.000 How post-election is the mainstream media still so out of touch with the average person?

00:54:05.000 A lot of us thought they were going to realize the error of their ways and go, you know what?

00:54:09.000 People don't want propaganda.

00:54:10.000 They just want facts.

00:54:11.000 They want us to report the news objectively.

00:54:13.000 How, going back to your normie, how is the mainstream media still so out of touch with everyday Americans?

00:54:20.000 It's kind of like if there's a bunch of little...

00:54:22.000 I don't know what to call it.

00:54:23.000 Leeches sucking off of a fish.

00:54:25.000 And then the fish dies.

00:54:27.000 There's a little period of time where the leeches continue to suck off of the dead fish.

00:54:31.000 That's a good analogy.

00:54:32.000 Yeah.

00:54:32.000 They're trying to...

00:54:33.000 They're like...

00:54:34.000 They're not...

00:54:35.000 Yeah.

00:54:35.000 When will they see the error of their ways?

00:54:37.000 Do you think the mainstream media will ever get that they are out of touch with the average American?

00:54:42.000 Probably like seven months.

00:54:42.000 Do you...

00:54:43.000 So I feel like, you know...

00:54:46.000 Legacy media like MSNBC, look, they're not changing.

00:54:49.000 They're always going to be the left.

00:54:50.000 Even if viewership drops 50% like it has been, they're still going to peddle the same lies.

00:54:56.000 Well, they cut the salaries of Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid and some other people instead.

00:55:01.000 So when are they going to realize that it's not working?

00:55:06.000 There is always going to be some market for that perspective, even if it's not...

00:55:12.000 You know, the dominant message, right?

00:55:14.000 And I think it's probably likely that, you know, they're going to live in that space, you know, indefinitely.

00:55:22.000 They made their brand the left.

00:55:25.000 They're the cable news left.

00:55:27.000 And I think it's possible that CNN... We'll move away.

00:55:31.000 I don't know.

00:55:31.000 It might take a little more time.

00:55:33.000 I think CNN doesn't have the same kind of commitment to the left the way MSNBC does.

00:55:41.000 They've been trying a little harder, CNN. They've got Scott Jennings out there.

00:55:44.000 They've got...

00:55:45.000 What's his name?

00:55:48.000 I forget his name.

00:55:49.000 But anyway, they have a couple of people out there.

00:55:52.000 But then you have people like Chank and Anna from the Young Turks who have come around and they're like, you know what?

00:55:58.000 No, I'm not with the left anymore.

00:56:00.000 And I think more journalists would do that.

00:56:03.000 Sure, Michael Singleton.

00:56:04.000 Yeah.

00:56:05.000 So when it comes to Cenk and Anna, I feel like Anna might actually become more of a normie. 0.96

00:56:12.000 I'm not sure if Cenk is.

00:56:13.000 I think Cenk sees the writing on the wall monetarily.

00:56:19.000 I think...

00:56:19.000 Anna, because Anna has a personal experience.

00:56:21.000 Yes, she does.

00:56:22.000 Very personal.

00:56:23.000 The whole birthing person thing and getting attacked for just saying that. 0.97

00:56:29.000 She was getting the whole, you're a Nazi, because the left just goes straight to, you're a Nazi.

00:56:34.000 There's two speeds. 0.98

00:56:35.000 They love-bomb you, and then as soon as you do something they don't like, well, then you're a Nazi.

00:56:40.000 You're literally hilarious.

00:56:41.000 So who are the normies now?

00:56:43.000 People that don't watch news.

00:56:44.000 People that don't watch news are the normies.

00:56:46.000 I think that it's normal to not be wrapped up in the news.

00:56:51.000 We live in a bubble.

00:56:53.000 It's really a pleasure, though.

00:56:55.000 I take Saturdays pretty much entirely off, and it's such a pleasure to just breathe normally.

00:57:02.000 I think the people that have normal jobs and live normal lives and aren't constantly...

00:57:08.000 Maybe they watch sports, but I mean...

00:57:12.000 I don't know.

00:57:13.000 I 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.

00:57:23.000 Maybe they're here.

00:57:24.000 I don't think that there's been a significant expansion of the people with a political appetite, has there?

00:57:33.000 I don't know.

00:57:34.000 I mean, remember when Trump was campaigning and he said, if you vote this time, you don't have to vote again?

00:57:38.000 He was like, they wigged out.

00:57:41.000 But what he meant was, I'll get the country back on track, and you can just chill.

00:57:44.000 You don't have to worry about it. 0.93

00:57:45.000 But the left said he wanted to establish a monarchy with those remarks, which was ridiculous. 0.72

00:57:50.000 I don't think that's what he meant. 0.70

00:57:51.000 He didn't.

00:57:52.000 It's exactly what you said.

00:57:54.000 Yeah.

00:57:55.000 The left is, you know, histrionic about everything.

00:57:58.000 And I think that most people want that.

00:58:01.000 I really think that people got...

00:58:03.000 Part 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... 0.98

00:58:16.000 The spawn of Satan. 0.99

00:58:17.000 You're a racist, you're a bigot, you're transphobic for thinking a man can't magically become a woman because he threw on a dress. 1.00

00:58:25.000 It's lame. 1.00

00:58:27.000 It's like you said, it's not working anymore.

00:58:29.000 It's not effective.

00:58:31.000 So 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.

00:58:40.000 I don't know when the left's going to learn their lesson, but the...

00:58:43.000 They're still doing the same thing.

00:58:45.000 We'll probably pull this article.

00:58:46.000 Selena 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. 0.99

00:58:57.000 When 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.

00:59:19.000 But that makes you think, realize, like, okay, let's slow down this illegal immigration. 0.61

00:59:25.000 I'm going on a little much.

00:59:27.000 Phil's got the video pulled up.

00:59:28.000 This might be worth watching, actually.

00:59:29.000 Yeah, so from the Post Millennial, Selena Gomez cries for Mexicans illegally in the U.S. facing deportation and now deleted Post. 0.93

00:59:37.000 All my people are getting attacked.

00:59:40.000 The children, I don't understand.

00:59:41.000 I'm so sorry.

00:59:43.000 It's because they were here illegally, Selena. 0.98

00:59:47.000 Pop star Selena Gomez took to Instagram in a now deleted video to lament the deportations of illegal immigrants under the Trump administration.

00:59:56.000 Tom 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.

01:00:07.000 Selena Gomez, what are you doing hanging out with criminals? titles. 1.00

01:00:11.000 I just wanted to say that I'm so sorry.

01:00:15.000 All my people are getting attacked.

01:00:17.000 The children, I don't understand.

01:00:18.000 I'm so sorry.

01:00:19.000 I wish I could do something, but I can't.

01:00:21.000 I don't know what to do.

01:00:22.000 I'll try everything, I promise.

01:00:24.000 Look. 0.96

01:00:24.000 Again, the people that are being deported at this point, right, they are criminals. 0.96

01:00:30.000 They are going and rounding up people that have criminal records, that have committed crimes in the United States.

01:00:36.000 And we're not doing the whole, you know, they're here illegally, so that makes them a criminal. 0.92

01:00:41.000 I'm talking about, you know, they have said that they're getting the worst first.

01:00:46.000 Like, they're getting the people that have committed serious crimes, that have been...

01:00:52.000 You know, committed larceny, theft, assault, murder.

01:00:56.000 They'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?

01:01:05.000 And they're rounding those people up and shipping them out first.

01:01:09.000 So the people that are getting sent away, if they are Selena Gomez's people, Selena, you are hanging out with the wrong crowd.

01:01:15.000 So let's see if we can take a listen to this here.

01:01:20.000 I'm so sorry.

01:01:24.000 All my people are getting attacked.

01:01:28.000 The children.

01:01:32.000 They don't understand.

01:01:35.000 I'm so sorry.

01:01:37.000 I wish I could do something, but I can't.

01:01:40.000 I don't know what to do.

01:01:43.000 I'll try everything, I promise.

01:01:48.000 I mean...

01:01:49.000 Yeah, all my people are getting attacked, the children.

01:01:52.000 Hyperbole.

01:01:53.000 That's a lot of hyperbole.

01:01:54.000 High-paid actors?

01:01:55.000 She's a singer and was pretty, so she became famous.

01:01:59.000 She dated Justin Bieber, so she became famous.

01:02:01.000 That's who she is.

01:02:01.000 Is that how she got famous?

01:02:02.000 Yeah, she was Justin's girlfriend when they were like 15 or something.

01:02:05.000 And she's obviously not very intelligent if she says things like, all my people are getting attacked.

01:02:11.000 It's not true.

01:02:12.000 It's hyperbole. 0.96

01:02:13.000 It's ridiculous. 0.98

01:02:14.000 And she's emotionally out of control. 0.99

01:02:16.000 So just a disturbing, disturbing expression from this person.

01:02:20.000 I'm glad she took it down.

01:02:21.000 Legally?

01:02:35.000 Well, I would hope so.

01:02:37.000 I assume so.

01:02:38.000 I imagine legally. 0.80

01:02:39.000 Savannah 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...

01:02:54.000 Hold on a second here. 0.90

01:02:56.000 Hands of...

01:02:57.000 Her people, and is now crying from the comfort of her mansion about how we're all horrible people are waiting for wanting a safer country. 0.99

01:03:05.000 Disgusting behavior. 0.64

01:03:06.000 To think my people are the Germans, because I'm of German ancestry, for instance. 0.93

01:03:11.000 To think that those German people are... 1.00

01:03:12.000 My people are my neighbors, are the people that I wake up and see and talk to.

01:03:16.000 Those are my people.

01:03:17.000 The people I'm surrounded by.

01:03:20.000 Bloodline doesn't mean jack, man. 0.99

01:03:22.000 You gotta get over that crap. 0.98

01:03:24.000 Well, 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. 0.99

01:03:32.000 We have to deal with the repercussions of these people.

01:03:35.000 I live in Chicago.

01:03:36.000 I see them outside my Whole Foods, outside my Juul, outside my Mariano's, and outside my Target.

01:03:42.000 I 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.

01:03:49.000 I see all of this stuff.

01:03:50.000 I'm affected by it.

01:03:51.000 A lot of people listening are affected by it.

01:03:54.000 Selena Gomez in her mansion in Calabasas isn't affected by it.

01:03:59.000 So 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. 0.56

01:04:08.000 And again, I just think it's...

01:04:11.000 Exactly.

01:04:12.000 They're just so out of touch.

01:04:14.000 Peachy Keenan posted on Twitter that somebody she knows Nanny got deported. 0.51

01:04:19.000 So, I mean, I get that.

01:04:22.000 I 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.

01:04:31.000 She disappeared one day and everyone was like, did she get deported?

01:04:33.000 What happened?

01:04:34.000 She just left, but she didn't say anything.

01:04:36.000 It was weird.

01:04:37.000 But yeah, so I think the other thing about the Selena Gomez video is she's saying all the children.

01:04:45.000 Yeah.

01:04:46.000 And exactly all the children.

01:04:48.000 Like, exactly.

01:04:49.000 The Biden administration lost, what, 340,000 children in the system?

01:04:54.000 DHS doesn't know where they are.

01:04:56.000 HHS doesn't know where they are.

01:04:57.000 They haven't necessarily been sending out court notices for these people.

01:05:01.000 You 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.

01:05:13.000 They were warehouses.

01:05:14.000 They were nothing.

01:05:15.000 So, yes, all the children, Selena Gomez.

01:05:18.000 Where are all the children?

01:05:19.000 That's the real question.

01:05:21.000 They've been smuggled across the border.

01:05:22.000 They've been bought and sold.

01:05:23.000 Everybody around this table has probably seen The Sound of Freedom.

01:05:28.000 Have you guys all seen it?

01:05:29.000 Yeah.

01:05:31.000 I 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.

01:05:41.000 And they're talking about kids.

01:05:45.000 Four, five, six, seven years old, getting sexually abused multiple times a day, and that's the reality of the situation at the border.

01:05:57.000 Never 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.

01:06:15.000 But, like, even if you were to get rid of the drug aspect, you still got, like, half a million kids that are being trafficked.

01:06:26.000 That's half a million kids that are getting sexually assaulted multiple times a day.

01:06:30.000 Well, where's her tears for Lake and Riley?

01:06:33.000 Where's her tears for, like you said, all the...

01:06:35.000 Jocelyn Nungary.

01:06:37.000 The children of parents that have died of fentanyl.

01:06:39.000 Where'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?

01:06:48.000 It's so performative, I think.

01:06:50.000 I think it's all virtue signaling.

01:06:52.000 I don't think there's anything genuine about it.

01:06:55.000 And it almost looks scripted.

01:06:56.000 I mean, it looked like she was trying to cry, but she couldn't really cry and she was about to laugh in between the sobs.

01:07:01.000 I just think it was totally performative and she thought it would get her some likes.

01:07:06.000 To yell out, oh, the children.

01:07:08.000 The children.

01:07:09.000 That's like when the Hindenburg was coming out, and they're like, oh, the humanity!

01:07:12.000 And it's become a meme.

01:07:14.000 Think of the children.

01:07:16.000 That was an early meme.

01:07:17.000 Yeah, oh, the humanity.

01:07:20.000 I'm glad she deleted the poet.

01:07:21.000 What happened?

01:07:22.000 Her crowd was like, Selena, this is really bad.

01:07:25.000 Well, she got mocked a lot, because honestly, this is something that we've talked about here.

01:07:30.000 The United States, the people of the United States, want...

01:07:34.000 To see people, criminals deported.

01:07:37.000 It's a huge number of people.

01:07:39.000 Deporting criminals is like a hundred percent.

01:07:42.000 Just deporting illegals in general is like 60 or 70 percent of the population want to see illegals deported.

01:07:51.000 When it comes to like actual criminal aliens.

01:07:54.000 It's approaching 100% of the American people.

01:07:57.000 And everybody that pays any attention...

01:07:59.000 We can commit crimes ourselves.

01:08:00.000 The only people who don't think they should be deported is literally the mainstream media.

01:08:04.000 That's the only people.

01:08:05.000 The MSNBC crowd.

01:08:06.000 Well, it's the mainstream media, but it's the leftists.

01:08:09.000 Because there are two groups, right?

01:08:11.000 First 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?

01:08:20.000 So it's not your fault.

01:08:22.000 It's the system that we...

01:08:23.000 We live in.

01:08:23.000 It's capitalism.

01:08:24.000 It's blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

01:08:26.000 And then there are the other group that don't want to have a successful society because we're capitalist.

01:08:33.000 And like Marcuse says, capitalism delivers the goods.

01:08:37.000 So they want to see as much...

01:08:40.000 As 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.

01:08:50.000 And it's not a conspiracy.

01:08:52.000 I 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.

01:09:07.000 So, I mean, it's not a conspiracy to say that.

01:09:10.000 Walensky in Rules for Radicals talked about how you can sow discord and dissonance and stuff.

01:09:17.000 So all of this stuff is straight out of the playbook.

01:09:20.000 And like you said, the left has a vested interest in ruining this country.

01:09:24.000 Yep, absolutely.

01:09:27.000 I mean, we've been talking about immigration a lot.

01:09:30.000 Why don't we go ahead and move on to this one here?

01:09:32.000 Nick Sorter was posting on Twitter, President Trump is calling for an end to the federal income tax.

01:09:38.000 He gives the yes.

01:09:41.000 He gives a stamp of approval.

01:09:42.000 Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich foreign nations, we should be tariffing and taxing foreign nations to enrich our citizens. 0.76

01:09:49.000 America was great well before the federal government took 30-plus percent of every dollar we earn.

01:09:54.000 End it.

01:09:54.000 We're going to go ahead and take a listen to what President Trump had to say.

01:09:56.000 America is going to be very rich again, and it's going to happen very quickly.

01:10:00.000 It's time for the United States to return to the system that made us richer and more powerful than ever before.

01:10:06.000 Do 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.

01:10:17.000 In other words, relatively.

01:10:19.000 And they set up the Great Tariff Commission of 1887. And this commission had one function, what to do with all the money that we took in.

01:10:31.000 It was so enormous that they had no idea.

01:10:34.000 It was a Blue Ribbon Committee. 0.88

01:10:36.000 It was set up 1887. And what to do with all of the money that we had.

01:10:41.000 And again, Teddy Roosevelt was a beneficiary because when McKinley was killed...

01:10:48.000 He took over this vast sum of money, and he did all of those national parks and all of the other things.

01:10:54.000 And I'm not knocking him, but he was given a vast amount of money.

01:10:57.000 And that was all made through tariffs.

01:10:59.000 We had no income tax.

01:11:01.000 The 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.

01:11:13.000 Does that make sense, right?

01:11:17.000 That would be so awesome.

01:11:18.000 Yeah, so what is the panel's opinion on this?

01:11:22.000 I love it.

01:11:22.000 Although there's one, I mean, yes, I personally would like to not pay any income tax at all.

01:11:29.000 That would be so nice.

01:11:31.000 They take so much money.

01:11:33.000 They're so mean.

01:11:34.000 So not fair.

01:11:36.000 And 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.

01:11:54.000 Like, why am I doing this?

01:11:55.000 It'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. 0.66

01:12:03.000 It's ridiculous. 0.83

01:12:05.000 It's not fair. 0.93

01:12:06.000 So on that level, that would be great.

01:12:08.000 On the other hand, it makes sense that Trump loves the Gilded Age, which was really bad for labor.

01:12:14.000 I 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.

01:12:32.000 And here in West Virginia, of course, like with the coal miners, you know, that was a big issue too. 0.98

01:12:37.000 Like coal miners had, they worked in the coal mines. 0.99

01:12:41.000 They lived in housing provided by the company.

01:12:43.000 They 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.

01:12:57.000 You sound so communist right now.

01:12:59.000 I know.

01:13:01.000 I think private sector unions are worthwhile.

01:13:05.000 Ooh, not public sector unions.

01:13:07.000 But if we could...

01:13:08.000 Obliterate income tax by making foreign countries pay all of our bills.

01:13:14.000 That would be cool.

01:13:16.000 So long as we don't just exploit a bunch of American workers.

01:13:19.000 I heard someone talking about a consumption tax as well.

01:13:24.000 Is that something that you guys think?

01:13:25.000 What's a consumption tax?

01:13:26.000 Like you buy a boat?

01:13:27.000 Like Lux tax?

01:13:28.000 No, no, no, no.

01:13:29.000 So instead of having a tax on making money, there's a federal tax on spending money.

01:13:36.000 There's a sales tax on everything?

01:13:38.000 So it's like a sales tax on everything.

01:13:40.000 There should still not be sales tax on food.

01:13:44.000 Well...

01:13:45.000 What do you guys think?

01:13:46.000 I don't like any kind of tax.

01:13:48.000 Well, of course not!

01:13:49.000 Who likes taxes?

01:13:50.000 But it's a little socialistic to take away 25-30% of our income.

01:13:55.000 So I'm not a big fan of it.

01:13:57.000 I don't like it.

01:13:58.000 And it disincentivizes people to work hard.

01:14:01.000 You see it all the time in your personal life.

01:14:05.000 Why work harder when you're going to go up and just end up paying more?

01:14:11.000 And then they just take more.

01:14:12.000 Do you ever get a raise?

01:14:13.000 And then you get your raise and you're like, There's $2 more in my paycheck.

01:14:16.000 I got like a $10,000 raise.

01:14:18.000 That's the thing.

01:14:19.000 As you're approaching the next tax bracket, you're actually incentivized to work less because if you go...

01:14:25.000 You 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.

01:14:42.000 I have a friend who owns a small business.

01:14:44.000 He's a veteran.

01:14:45.000 It's a veteran-owned small business.

01:14:46.000 His 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.

01:14:53.000 losing 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.

01:15:02.000 But he was scared, as you said, Phil, to go up into the next tax bracket.

01:15:06.000 He said, there's no reason for me.

01:15:08.000 I'm just going to get hit harder.

01:15:09.000 So, 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.

01:15:22.000 And 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.

01:15:37.000 Just for people, we had fewer people on the crew on this tour because we were doing a support.

01:15:49.000 We spent more money on overhead on this tour than we did on the previous tour.

01:15:55.000 In the previous tour, I think we had like six people on our crew and on this one we had four.

01:16:02.000 Wow.

01:16:02.000 And we didn't have a lighting rig on this one.

01:16:05.000 We had a lighting rig on the other one.

01:16:06.000 So, I mean, it was drastically more expensive on this most recent one.

01:16:11.000 He said the cost of his materials went up 400% under Biden.

01:16:14.000 He said, I can't make a profit, dude.

01:16:16.000 He said, I'm doing all of these big commercial buildings.

01:16:18.000 He does power cleaning.

01:16:20.000 He goes, I can't even make a profit.

01:16:21.000 Insane.

01:16:22.000 Insane.

01:16:23.000 But I think that, I mean, you know, the libertarian in me is going to say, of course.

01:16:28.000 Taxation's bad.

01:16:29.000 You know, taxation is actually theft.

01:16:31.000 It's theft of your time.

01:16:33.000 And so, you know, there's not a bit of getting rid of taxes that I'm going to complain about.

01:16:39.000 I 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.

01:16:53.000 They have that ingrained in their head, and that is just not the way the system works anymore.

01:16:58.000 The taxation that you pay, the tax money that you pay is destroyed.

01:17:03.000 You don't pay taxes so that way the government can fund something.

01:17:07.000 You pay taxes to manage inflation.

01:17:10.000 If the government wants to do something, the government just prints the money.

01:17:15.000 Congress passes a law that says, okay, we're going to appropriate this much money.

01:17:19.000 The Federal Reserve prints it up and just pays for it.

01:17:22.000 So the government doesn't need to actually tax you.

01:17:26.000 To pay for things.

01:17:28.000 The taxation is used to manage inflation.

01:17:31.000 The government has two tools.

01:17:32.000 They use the interest rate and they use taxation to manage the money supply.

01:17:39.000 So the government doesn't need...

01:17:41.000 To tax you to pay for anything.

01:17:44.000 So the reason they tax is so you have less money because they need to take money out of circulation.

01:17:51.000 So literally, there's no reason for it other than to make the American people poorer.

01:17:57.000 So I'm all for getting rid of the income tax because they actually don't need it.

01:18:03.000 They just print money when they want to spend money.

01:18:06.000 But then it might exacerbate inflation.

01:18:09.000 I 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.

01:18:23.000 If you increase the interest rate...

01:18:26.000 Then that'll actually become inflationary at some point.

01:18:31.000 So it's really difficult to get rid of inflation once you've got that ball rolling.

01:18:36.000 That's why they stopped cutting the interest rates.

01:18:41.000 There'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.

01:18:56.000 These 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.

01:19:03.000 It can make it worse.

01:19:04.000 And 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.

01:19:23.000 Tangible profitable things in the country.

01:19:27.000 That's a better use of the money supply than for the government to take it just to destroy it to try to control inflation.

01:19:36.000 That's real trickle-down economics.

01:19:38.000 I mean, look, you know, trickle-down...

01:19:40.000 Phrase trickle-down economics bothers me because that's something that the left came up with.

01:19:45.000 Supply-side economics is a real thing.

01:19:47.000 People 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.

01:19:57.000 Most people in here remember before they had a smartphone, they didn't need a smartphone.

01:20:03.000 Now everybody that got a smartphone...

01:20:06.000 The smartphone has become an absolute necessity.

01:20:09.000 Some people can remember a time before they had a laptop and they didn't need it.

01:20:13.000 Now that they have a laptop, they absolutely couldn't live without it.

01:20:17.000 So that right there is evidence that supply-side economics works.

01:20:20.000 Just 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.

01:20:31.000 When I was a kid, my mom had all these cigar boxes.

01:20:36.000 I don't know why she had them, but she had all these cigar boxes. 1.00

01:20:38.000 And 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.

01:20:47.000 And this was in like the mid-80s before laptops existed.

01:20:51.000 And we would pretend we were on a spaceship and that these were our portable computers and we would like do stuff.

01:20:56.000 Look at you, visionary.

01:20:58.000 But I don't think it was...

01:21:01.000 My story indicates that it wasn't all that visionary for laptops to be created.

01:21:05.000 Me and Julia wanted laptops long before they were actually invented.

01:21:09.000 And so when finally there were computers and all I wanted was a laptop, and I got my first laptop in 1994, and I was like, finally!

01:21:18.000 Where have you been my whole life?

01:21:20.000 I got an Acer Anywhere little laptop.

01:21:23.000 My dad got it for me.

01:21:24.000 And I was stoked because I'd wanted one since I was like...

01:21:27.000 Eight years old.

01:21:28.000 Since it was imaginary.

01:21:30.000 Steve Jobs, you're not that smart, buddy.

01:21:32.000 We all wanted it.

01:21:34.000 And then also, when the iPods came out, I was like, I'm waiting for this in phone form.

01:21:45.000 Because I think there are some technological advancements that we are all just waiting for.

01:21:53.000 Like, we're all just waiting for proper jetpacks.

01:21:56.000 You know, like we still kind of want them.

01:21:59.000 I mean, I like the idea, but the...

01:22:02.000 Flying cars.

01:22:03.000 There's a lot of stuff I think that we have collectively imagined that we're all just kind of like ready for that to be the next thing.

01:22:11.000 I mean, I... I want a flying car more than I want a driverless car.

01:22:15.000 I like the idea of a flying car.

01:22:17.000 I mean, the traffic would get worse and the crashes would be more difficult.

01:22:21.000 I don't know that the traffic would get worse, but I wonder how...

01:22:25.000 See, the thing is, everyone that drives now, 99% of the people that drive only know three rules of the road.

01:22:32.000 They know the red light means stop.

01:22:36.000 Yellow means fast.

01:22:37.000 Yeah, and that's like all.

01:22:39.000 Nobody knows what the word yield even means.

01:22:42.000 No one knows how to merge.

01:22:43.000 No one knows how to merge.

01:22:44.000 No one knows what the word yield means.

01:22:47.000 I guarantee 9 out of 10 people don't know what the difference between yellow lines and white lines are.

01:22:54.000 They don't know the difference between...

01:22:56.000 This is a benefit to having learned how to drive in my 40s.

01:23:00.000 What?

01:23:01.000 Oh yeah, New York.

01:23:03.000 I took my driving test just a couple years ago, so I remember all of that stuff.

01:23:09.000 And because I learned how to drive in Brooklyn, my first highway driving was the BQE. It's like I know the rules inside and out.

01:23:19.000 People can't even...

01:23:21.000 I may not be a great driver, but I at least know the rules.

01:23:23.000 There's so many people that can't even deal with a roundabout or a rotary.

01:23:28.000 Roundabouts are confusing, though.

01:23:29.000 They are bad.

01:23:30.000 Even I almost got into an accident.

01:23:32.000 You're both wrong.

01:23:33.000 They're terrible.

01:23:34.000 They're way better than a four-way stop.

01:23:37.000 Or a light?

01:23:38.000 It depends what city you're in.

01:23:39.000 In Boston, there's roundabouts.

01:23:41.000 Actually, in Cape Cod, and those are easy to navigate.

01:23:44.000 But whenever I'm in Wisconsin and I get on one, I always get turned around.

01:23:48.000 My GPS kind of freaks out.

01:23:50.000 Well, the GPS says, take the third exit. 0.98

01:23:53.000 And you're like, but I don't even know how many exits there are on this damn thing. 0.97

01:23:56.000 Where do I start counting? 0.96

01:23:57.000 Do I start counting right now?

01:23:59.000 Or do I start counting at the first one I hit?

01:24:01.000 I want to know who invented the roundabout.

01:24:03.000 I've ended up just going around for a while before.

01:24:07.000 My Tesla navigates the roundabouts without a problem at all.

01:24:11.000 It's incredible.

01:24:12.000 Well, I just drive a normal car, so I have to figure it out with my own brain.

01:24:17.000 You should be able to figure it out.

01:24:18.000 You can do things like write pieces for the post-millennial.

01:24:22.000 You should be able to do this.

01:24:24.000 Writing is easy.

01:24:25.000 Roundabouts are annoying. 1.00

01:24:27.000 No, they're not.

01:24:27.000 You're wrong.

01:24:29.000 Who's the Pierre L'Alfant?

01:24:31.000 French guy? 0.81

01:24:33.000 1790s.

01:24:35.000 I don't like that guy.

01:24:37.000 History of the roundabout?

01:24:39.000 The nice thing about the roundabout is you don't have to exit.

01:24:41.000 You can just stay on the roundabout so you can't really miss your exit.

01:24:45.000 You just don't want to take one too soon.

01:24:47.000 So take your time.

01:24:48.000 Get familiar with the roundabout.

01:24:50.000 Read the signs.

01:24:52.000 Let everyone else just yield and merge in.

01:24:55.000 Alright, so we're going to go to this last little bit here to kind of wrap it up.

01:25:03.000 is 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.

01:25:17.000 Look, man, you can just do things when you're the President of the United States, and the world complies.

01:25:24.000 Personally, I think this speaks to what we were talking about earlier, how like...

01:25:28.000 If you just say, no, we're going to do this, you can really shift the Overton window about what is and is not possible.

01:25:37.000 Because to be honest with you, when I heard the Gulf of America, I laughed.

01:25:41.000 And I was like, that would be hilarious.

01:25:43.000 So did Hillary Clinton. 0.89

01:25:43.000 Yeah, so did Hillary Clinton. 0.89

01:25:44.000 Yeah, I love that.

01:25:45.000 But at the same time, like...

01:25:48.000 Nobody's laughing anymore because there you go.

01:25:50.000 Google Maps is going to do it.

01:25:52.000 And 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?

01:25:59.000 But 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...

01:26:10.000 Oh, okay.

01:26:11.000 Maybe it does make sense.

01:26:12.000 You know, Greenland is in North America, not in Europe.

01:26:15.000 In 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.

01:26:24.000 Never mind Denmark.

01:26:24.000 Yeah, I mean, well, Denmark doesn't have the military to do it.

01:26:27.000 It's the United States that has to do it. 0.93

01:26:29.000 In fact...

01:26:30.000 In 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. 0.55

01:26:38.000 That was a real risk.

01:26:40.000 So, 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.

01:26:52.000 I love Gulf of America.

01:26:53.000 I love it.

01:26:54.000 Sounds better.

01:26:55.000 I want some Gulf of America merch.

01:26:56.000 The only downside is it's four syllables instead of three.

01:27:00.000 Mexico, it's easier to say it, but I get the meaning, I guess.

01:27:04.000 Every time Trump does something, I'm like, why hasn't anyone done that before?

01:27:08.000 It was kind of easy and simple.

01:27:11.000 It's because he just doesn't...

01:27:12.000 I don't care who he offends, and I think we needed a leader like that.

01:27:16.000 I don't really care, Margaret.

01:27:18.000 I think he's running in 2028, and I think that solidifies it.

01:27:24.000 That would be great.

01:27:25.000 Where's my I don't really care Margaret shirt?

01:27:27.000 I would be enthusiastically vote for J.D. Vance if he ran in 2028. He's a very smart guy.

01:27:34.000 But I mean, again, the idea that...

01:27:37.000 The world does bend to the will of the leader that says, I'm gonna do this.

01:27:44.000 Particularly when it's, literally, it's small stuff.

01:27:47.000 Like, so, in the United States, we call it the Gulf of America.

01:27:51.000 Another, like, Mexico might continue to call it the Gulf of Mexico, like, as long as Mexico gets to remain a sovereign nation.

01:27:59.000 But who knows how long that's going to be, you know?

01:28:03.000 And it doesn't matter if other countries call it other things.

01:28:06.000 The United States can say, hey, this is what we call it here.

01:28:09.000 I think we're the biggest superpower in the world, economically and militarily, and I think we should act like it.

01:28:16.000 And I'm actually proud to be American.

01:28:18.000 I feel like there's actually...

01:28:20.000 Pride 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.

01:28:29.000 I 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.

01:28:38.000 It's the North-South American Gulf.

01:28:41.000 You can think that, but I think that most of America thinks, you know, if...

01:28:45.000 If President Trump had said we're going to call it the Gulf of the United States, I think Americans would have been like, yeah.

01:28:52.000 Yeah, Mexico's official name is the United States of Mexico.

01:28:55.000 That's the official name of their country.

01:28:57.000 Is it really?

01:28:57.000 Yeah, it's the U.S. of them.

01:28:58.000 I'm glad that they don't tell people that because that's encroaching on our...

01:29:02.000 Yeah, our IP, our national IP. So I'm open to this.

01:29:06.000 I'm going to frame it as we've done it for the continent.

01:29:08.000 That way people will lay off.

01:29:10.000 If we keep saying it's our golf now, it belongs to the United States of America.

01:29:14.000 We're all Americans here.

01:29:15.000 The Mexicans are Americans.

01:29:17.000 The South Americans are all Americans.

01:29:19.000 South America.

01:29:20.000 They act like it.

01:29:21.000 They keep coming into our country like they own it. 1.00

01:29:24.000 I disagree with you, and the point that Josh makes is exactly why I disagree.

01:29:31.000 Which point?

01:29:31.000 That we're not all Americans because...

01:29:36.000 Because South America and North America.

01:29:39.000 And 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.

01:30:03.000 Yeah, that's like Germans or European. 0.72

01:30:05.000 But you don't have a right to go illegally immigrate to Germany from France.

01:30:09.000 Like, you need to go through the proper channels.

01:30:10.000 It 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.

01:30:19.000 We're the ones of America.

01:30:21.000 We started calling ourselves the United States of America, like...

01:30:24.000 Before there was any other country, like Mexico wasn't a country at the time and Canada wasn't a country at the time either.

01:30:30.000 They were all, you know, they were colonies.

01:30:32.000 There was still back when Mexico was a colony of Spain and Canada was a colony of Britain.

01:30:38.000 There was an offer to Canada to join the United States.

01:30:43.000 So the United States of America, we united against the British because we were the colonies of America.

01:30:51.000 And then we were like, yo.

01:30:53.000 We're the United States of America.

01:30:55.000 So we were the United States before anyone else.

01:30:58.000 That's a good point.

01:30:59.000 Yeah, not only that, if anybody recognized somewhere else as America, we'd know about it, but they don't.

01:31:06.000 Like we're...

01:31:07.000 What, like in Chile?

01:31:08.000 Well, like, if you say America anywhere in the world, what do people think you're talking about?

01:31:13.000 United States of America?

01:31:14.000 Well, there you go.

01:31:14.000 So that's what we are.

01:31:15.000 But it's still, it's not accurate.

01:31:17.000 It doesn't matter.

01:31:18.000 You know, might makes right sometimes.

01:31:20.000 Just be literal with it.

01:31:22.000 French people are Europeans.

01:31:23.000 It's not an insult.

01:31:25.000 But there's no place where they think of themselves as Europeans.

01:31:31.000 They think of themselves as French or German or Polish or whatever.

01:31:36.000 They're all like...

01:31:38.000 The United States is the only place where we call ourselves Americans.

01:31:42.000 It's not like...

01:31:43.000 People in Europe call themselves European.

01:31:47.000 They call themselves whatever their respective country is.

01:31:49.000 They're Italians or French. 0.64

01:31:50.000 And they're allowed to do that, but if we're proud to be an American, we're just a nationalistic Nazi.

01:31:56.000 I mean...

01:31:58.000 I know you're being facetious.

01:32:00.000 I don't think that being a nationalist means you're a Nazi at all.

01:32:06.000 I think that's a leftist meme.

01:32:09.000 I 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.

01:32:18.000 The left has a problem all the time.

01:32:21.000 Hey, you guys want to go to Super Chats?

01:32:23.000 Every day, dude.

01:32:24.000 Every day.

01:32:25.000 We're going to go to Super Chats.

01:32:27.000 So smash the like button.

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01:32:37.000 But right now, we're going to go to some super chats.

01:32:41.000 And we're going to start with...

01:32:43.000 The 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.

01:32:53.000 Can you explain what the A-10 is exactly?

01:32:54.000 A-10 is a flying tank.

01:32:57.000 It's an airplane built around a gun, and the Bert is the sound the gun makes.

01:33:04.000 Because I think it's something like 4,000 rounds per minute.

01:33:07.000 This is the Thunderbolt 2. The Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt 2. It is...

01:33:12.000 Single-seat, twin-turbofan, straight-wing, subsonic attack aircraft.

01:33:16.000 I feel like the pilot's going to feel the kickback on that one.

01:33:20.000 Well, the main gun slows the plane down.

01:33:23.000 Wow.

01:33:24.000 No joke.

01:33:24.000 That is insane.

01:33:26.000 Oh, this is the Warthog.

01:33:27.000 Okay.

01:33:27.000 Yeah, the Warthog.

01:33:29.000 When they let go of the...

01:33:31.000 A burst from the main gun, it actually slows the forward momentum of the plane down.

01:33:36.000 Whoa! 0.71

01:33:36.000 You said that's an A-10, Phil? 0.71

01:33:38.000 A-10 Thunderbolt II, the Warthog.

01:33:41.000 It's a tank killer.

01:33:41.000 Awesome.

01:33:42.000 Shooting depleted uranium rounds.

01:33:45.000 I think it's a 30 or 40 millimeter cannon.

01:33:47.000 We should have been using this five years ago.

01:33:49.000 30. 30 millimeter.

01:33:51.000 GAU, G-A-U, 8 Avenger Rotary Autocamp.

01:33:54.000 It was literally like it was built around the gun.

01:33:57.000 They built the gun, and then they're like, let's make this gun fly.

01:34:00.000 That's crazy.

01:34:01.000 They were like, all right.

01:34:03.000 1977 is when they built this thing.

01:34:04.000 Yeah, and that's the, I mean, ground troops love that thing because it's such an amazing air support fighter.

01:34:13.000 Attack plane.

01:34:14.000 How do you have so much military knowledge?

01:34:16.000 Were you in the military?

01:34:17.000 I just watch a lot of stuff.

01:34:17.000 Man, your knowledge is crazy.

01:34:19.000 I just watch a lot of stuff.

01:34:20.000 It's just cool stuff, man.

01:34:21.000 History channel?

01:34:23.000 Oh, YouTube, too.

01:34:24.000 Okay.

01:34:24.000 So it's an air support attack?

01:34:26.000 Is it air-to-air?

01:34:27.000 Do they use it?

01:34:27.000 Not really.

01:34:28.000 I mean, I believe that it can carry hellfires, so it ostensibly could, but it wouldn't take on jet fighters because they're...

01:34:40.000 Like, they don't have the maneuverability and the speed that, you know, like, actual, like, fighter jets have.

01:34:46.000 So, like, if it had, like, hellfires on it, it would probably use them to take out helicopters.

01:34:52.000 But, 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.

01:35:03.000 Just Cause I'm Free says HR 38 of the 119th Congress is in committee.

01:35:10.000 For a national constitutional carry, call your senators and representatives, folks. 0.55

01:35:15.000 Let's legally carry everywhere.

01:35:17.000 The Constitution says that you have the right to keep and bear arms and that right shall not be infringed.

01:35:24.000 The Constitution has the supremacy clause saying that everything that's in the Constitution takes supremacy over any state laws.

01:35:32.000 And so that means that the Second Amendment takes precedent over any state prohibitions.

01:35:38.000 The prohibitions are infringements.

01:35:41.000 So call your representative and tell them to support H.R. 38 national constitutional carry because it's your right.

01:35:51.000 And the states have no right to infringe upon your right to carry a weapon to defend yourself.

01:35:57.000 There you go.

01:36:00.000 Joe Fiotta says, Phil, it's my son Roman's 10th birthday this weekend.

01:36:07.000 Ask to listen to Know Tomorrow every morning on the way to school.

01:36:10.000 Can you wish him a happy birthday, please?

01:36:12.000 Roman, happy birthday!

01:36:13.000 You have absolutely impeccable taste in heavy metal.

01:36:17.000 I am so happy to hear that you enjoy All That Remains music.

01:36:21.000 I really appreciate you, man.

01:36:23.000 So, let's see what we got here.

01:36:28.000 Jason Dixon says, Ian saw you on the It's Based Gaming Jamcast the other day.

01:36:33.000 P.S. No?

01:36:36.000 What?

01:36:37.000 P.S., don't say it. 0.96

01:36:40.000 Andrew is an a-hole.

01:36:42.000 Oh, Andrew Wilson.

01:36:43.000 Well, I mean, maybe.

01:36:44.000 I don't know.

01:36:44.000 I love the guy.

01:36:45.000 Yeah, we had a good time doing It's Base Game Jam every few months.

01:36:49.000 We'll do a...

01:36:50.000 A session where a bunch of developers will get together, build video games.

01:36:53.000 We had 40 entries this time, this month.

01:36:56.000 And they go through a series of judges and people judging the games.

01:37:00.000 And then they come to the finals where Andrew and I were both judges.

01:37:04.000 And we judged the top five finalists.

01:37:06.000 It was a lot of fun.

01:37:07.000 It's based Jam Gaming.

01:37:10.000 If you want to check it out, highly recommend it.

01:37:12.000 Super fun to be a part of it.

01:37:13.000 And we'll be doing it again, too.

01:37:15.000 So keep your eyes on it.

01:37:16.000 And I tweeted it out.

01:37:17.000 If you want to link directly to the show, it's on my Twitter.

01:37:19.000 Isaiah S. says, Asking for prayers for my daughter again.

01:37:22.000 We've been in the ICU for 273 days.

01:37:26.000 She was extubated for the first time two months ago and was re-intubated today.

01:37:32.000 It's been a long, scary day.

01:37:34.000 More in the Discord, religion general.

01:37:37.000 So yeah, if you are of the praying type, give a...

01:37:42.000 Keep Isaiah S.'s daughter in your thoughts and prayers.

01:37:46.000 We're rooting for you.

01:37:47.000 I've had a lung infection for about two weeks.

01:37:51.000 I don't know about you guys.

01:37:51.000 If you've been feeling under the weather at all, I see a lot of people tweeting about it.

01:37:55.000 When I was flying here, I was just talking outside the studio.

01:37:59.000 Everybody was wearing masks and everybody was coughing at the airport.

01:38:02.000 And my brother was just sick, as was my nephew.

01:38:05.000 So I think something's going around.

01:38:07.000 I wonder if it's stress.

01:38:08.000 I wonder if people are feeling stress and their immune systems are...

01:38:11.000 They shouldn't.

01:38:12.000 Donald Trump's president.

01:38:13.000 I'm really allergic to my cat.

01:38:14.000 And I keep forgetting to take allergy pills.

01:38:16.000 And then I'll be sneezing and I'll have trouble breathing and I'll be like, oh right.

01:38:19.000 I couldn't get enough water.

01:38:21.000 You can't get rid of your kid's cat.

01:38:23.000 Oh, it's your kid's cat.

01:38:24.000 Yeah.

01:38:25.000 But of course she sleeps in my room.

01:38:28.000 You can't get rid of any cat. 1.00

01:38:30.000 No, it's my dumb cat. 0.92

01:38:32.000 JRG Project says, Ice should start playing the classic Pokemon theme at their HQ. Gotta catch them all. 0.92

01:38:39.000 A wild cartel member appeared.

01:38:43.000 CBP used raids.

01:38:45.000 It's super effective.

01:38:47.000 Or bring back the Iraqi regime card deck back in the aughts. 0.77

01:38:51.000 This cannon should be fun. 0.99

01:38:53.000 You are a malicious, malicious young man. 1.00

01:38:56.000 I forgot about the Iraqi cards. 0.99

01:38:59.000 My dad had Osama Bin Laden toilet paper that we used after 9-11. 0.62

01:39:04.000 And I was a kid.

01:39:05.000 I was like, I don't know, 13 years old?

01:39:08.000 And I remember using it.

01:39:10.000 Well, he's dead, so...

01:39:12.000 When I was a kid.

01:39:12.000 I thought you meant my dad, because my dad died.

01:39:15.000 I thought you were talking about my dad.

01:39:17.000 I was like, I mean, he wasn't that bogus for doing that.

01:39:20.000 It was Osama Bin Laden.

01:39:21.000 I didn't know your father had passed away.

01:39:24.000 He did, but it's fine.

01:39:25.000 Rest in peace, Henry.

01:39:27.000 I love you.

01:39:27.000 Henry.

01:39:28.000 That's a good name.

01:39:29.000 Yeah, he's a junior.

01:39:31.000 And they just named a gun range after him in Danville, Illinois.

01:39:35.000 So I'm from Champaign-Urbana.

01:39:36.000 And they just named the gun range Henry John Sider Jr. Gun range.

01:39:41.000 It's like 100 to 200 yard rifle range.

01:39:44.000 So they just named it after my father.

01:39:45.000 I didn't realize that they had gun ranges in Illinois.

01:39:49.000 I thought guns were all elite.

01:39:49.000 So they had St. Joe, Illinois, which is just one town over.

01:39:53.000 And then Danville is where my dad liked to go in the latter part of his life.

01:39:56.000 So he'd go there like every other day.

01:39:59.000 Nice.

01:40:00.000 Let's see.

01:40:02.000 Wyatt Caldenberg says, Well, I don't know if it means that the Mexican government is too,

01:40:23.000 but 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...

01:40:35.000 Could persuade the Mexican government to side with the United States as opposed to siding with the cartels if it really, really wanted to.

01:40:46.000 So whether the government currently is, I do think that the United States could eventually, over time, clean up Mexico significantly. 1.00

01:40:59.000 It 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.

01:41:13.000 So, let's see.

01:41:15.000 Glory Farm Knox says, I posted in the Discord and wanted to post here too.

01:41:20.000 Our farm is having a seed kit giveaway.

01:41:24.000 Head over to our YouTube and fill out the form and select the kits you're interested in.

01:41:29.000 Thanks, y'all, for the support.

01:41:31.000 So that's Glory Farm.

01:41:34.000 What is it?

01:41:35.000 Glory Farm?

01:41:37.000 Glory Farm Knox.

01:41:40.000 So, yeah, if you're interested in getting a kit, seed kit for growing, I assume it's growing vegetables.

01:41:51.000 I don't know if they're heirloom vegetables or if they're...

01:41:53.000 I assume that it's probably heirloom vegetables.

01:41:56.000 It's not the Monsanto ones that don't reproduce.

01:42:00.000 That's just evil.

01:42:02.000 It is kind of evil, I agree.

01:42:04.000 But you can still find heirloom stuff out there.

01:42:08.000 I mean, if you go and buy your regular seeds from whatever nursery that's around, you might end up with Monsanto zombie seeds.

01:42:20.000 But if you do a little digging on the internet, I'm sure that you can find some seeds that are not Monsanto-ized.

01:42:26.000 That's so nuts that a company...

01:42:28.000 It was so influential.

01:42:30.000 They genetically modified seeds to grow vegetables that don't have seeds so that they have the control of the supply.

01:42:35.000 That is...

01:42:36.000 It's so cruel. 0.60

01:42:37.000 Devil.

01:42:37.000 And then people like farmers would take the free seeds and then grow them and it would not be sustaining.

01:42:44.000 They couldn't grow anymore.

01:42:45.000 It's so cruel.

01:42:47.000 My grandpa actually worked for them and he was part of a class action lawsuit against them.

01:42:51.000 For a long time.

01:42:52.000 Really?

01:42:52.000 What happened?

01:42:53.000 It was something that he was poisoned.

01:42:56.000 Henry Sr.?

01:42:56.000 Yes, Sr. Exactly.

01:42:58.000 Still alive.

01:42:59.000 Turned 95 last Saturday.

01:43:01.000 And he was exposed to some toxicity from working through Monsanto.

01:43:06.000 So while I was a young kid, we'd always get letters from him talking about this class action lawsuit that was happening against them.

01:43:13.000 Wow.

01:43:15.000 All right.

01:43:18.000 Let's see.

01:43:19.000 Hal Gailey says, Capitalism only causes trouble when the state discounts rights to support corporate profiteering.

01:43:26.000 True capitalism respects rights as it's built on them.

01:43:30.000 Well, I do think that for the most part, that's generally right.

01:43:35.000 There are times where I think that there might be some incentives that need to be adjusted.

01:43:46.000 But 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.

01:44:03.000 Libby made a good point earlier about the script when the companies were completely...

01:44:08.000 I 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.

01:44:13.000 And they would pay their employees in their own currency that they would create.

01:44:17.000 So, like, think crypto these days.

01:44:18.000 And you could only spend that currency at the company's store.

01:44:21.000 It was like slave labor they had, basically, through capitalism.

01:44:24.000 So I do agree that at the time that was a problem, but I don't think that that kind of problem is possible nowadays.

01:44:33.000 Again, you mentioned cryptocurrency.

01:44:35.000 The 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.

01:44:50.000 You know, back in the late 1800s.

01:44:51.000 And so the conditions in the late 1800s, I think, were unique.

01:44:56.000 Because if a company offered you crypto...

01:44:58.000 They're a company crypto.

01:44:59.000 You could trade it on the blockchain, hopefully, ideally.

01:45:03.000 But I do think incentives run in both directions.

01:45:05.000 And not only do corporations and owners need to be incentivized, but so do workers.

01:45:10.000 And 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.

01:45:22.000 And I think we're kind of seeing that.

01:45:24.000 So I do think it's important to not only incentivize business.

01:45:27.000 Thank you.

01:45:33.000 Thank you.

01:45:40.000 But the workers are incentivized.

01:45:42.000 I think we could kind of work something out.

01:45:44.000 And some companies have started sharing profits with the workers, and it seems to be working.

01:45:49.000 You 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.

01:46:01.000 So companies were trying to figure out how to incentivize workers.

01:46:05.000 And so they were like, we'll give you health insurance benefits.

01:46:07.000 And now that's how it got stuck to them.

01:46:13.000 It's literally FDR's fault that you can't afford to get your teeth cleaned or to get your bones set or whatever. 0.67

01:46:24.000 It's literally FDR's fault. 0.59

01:46:25.000 It's because of the Democrats.

01:46:27.000 Isn't that wild?

01:46:29.000 Everything's the Democrats' fault.

01:46:31.000 It generally is, yeah.

01:46:33.000 Ben Hickson says, When things are getting better.

01:46:41.000 Last episode was great.

01:46:42.000 I have not read that.

01:46:44.000 But I am interested now.

01:46:46.000 So tweet that at me and I'll take a look.

01:46:50.000 Dante's Inferno says, I am a legal Mexican citizen-zen. 0.93

01:46:55.000 Citizen-zen. 1.00

01:46:56.000 That's literally how he spelled it.

01:46:58.000 In 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.

01:47:05.000 And that's a legitimate...

01:47:08.000 The 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...

01:47:26.000 With the problems and having to deal with that, that is absolutely terrible, and it's something that I wish that we could fix immediately.

01:47:34.000 Well, they've even done polls, and the majority of legal Mexican immigrants and Mexican-Americans want us to deport the migrants.

01:47:42.000 The 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. 0.95

01:47:56.000 So that kind of speaks volumes.

01:47:59.000 Yeah, 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. 0.84

01:48:15.000 Let's see.

01:48:16.000 Dr. Phil, we need you in Chicago.

01:48:19.000 Stay there a couple weeks, buddy.

01:48:20.000 Dr. Phil and Tom home, kicking in doors.

01:48:23.000 Kenneth Hart says, My wife immigrated from Philippines last year.

01:48:27.000 She heard Filipinos were making a hasty retreat back home.

01:48:30.000 When asked how she fell about countrymen overstays, she shrugged, commenting, Back of the line is over there, people.

01:48:38.000 Good for her.

01:48:38.000 Love it.

01:48:39.000 Good for her.

01:48:40.000 You know, the more you have people coming here legally and pushing the illegals out, the better I like it. 1.00

01:48:53.000 Let's see.

01:48:56.000 Let's see here.

01:48:57.000 Super Chats. 0.91

01:48:58.000 Invader J says, Freedom Tunes needs to make a tune of JD prank calling Margaret with the name Willard McBain.

01:49:07.000 It's me again, Margaret.

01:49:08.000 I think that would be great.

01:49:10.000 Seamus, if you're watching, that would be an absolutely wonderful episode.

01:49:14.000 And you could, you know, toss Margaret into the crystals at the end, too.

01:49:20.000 Are you there, JD? It's me, Margaret.

01:49:23.000 Into the crystal.

01:49:25.000 Nunya B says, haven't watched mainstream sports really since 2020. Instead, watched the DW and Timcast mostly.

01:49:32.000 Well, we appreciate that.

01:49:34.000 Thank you.

01:49:34.000 Hopefully you're a member at Timcast.com.

01:49:37.000 Hopefully you smashed the like button and share the show with your friends as well.

01:49:41.000 Let's see here.

01:49:46.000 Jason Hutchinson says, Production creates wealth.

01:49:49.000 Production of things to buy that people want to buy because it makes life more efficient, makes the dollar more valuable.

01:49:56.000 Yeah.

01:49:58.000 It's the supply side.

01:50:00.000 You 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.

01:50:21.000 And a lot of people complain that, well, capitalism can't fix these great inequalities in wealth.

01:50:26.000 Well, neither can socialism.

01:50:27.000 Nope.

01:50:28.000 So I want to see where socialism has a panacea for poverty and inequalities and wealth.

01:50:33.000 So just because capitalism can't fix it perfectly, you need to show me a system that can do it better.

01:50:39.000 Criticisms 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.

01:50:53.000 Like, the idea that, oh, well, capitalism did this and that, especially...

01:50:59.000 One 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.

01:51:18.000 And so in response...

01:51:20.000 Communists 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.

01:51:30.000 And it ends up being what they're saying is, well, capitalism hasn't solved all of the problems of the human condition.

01:51:37.000 So, you know, there is starvation that still happens, even though capitalism has just about solved abject poverty, right?

01:51:46.000 I think that there's...

01:51:47.000 Fossil fuels helped with that.

01:51:49.000 Well, yeah, sure, absolutely.

01:51:50.000 But the idea that we're almost to the point where nobody lives by what the UN considers abject poverty anymore.

01:52:03.000 Everyone on Earth, I think it's like less than 10% of the Earth's population is actually that poor nowadays.

01:52:10.000 And it's all because of markets.

01:52:11.000 It's because of markets and because of trade.

01:52:14.000 Because of being able to fertilize crops with petroleum fertilizers, petroleum-based fertilizers and stuff, petrochemicals and stuff.

01:52:25.000 So 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...

01:52:41.000 Communists don't have the solution either.

01:52:44.000 I wanted to add a little nuance to the super chatter who said production, I believe what he said was production, increasing production increases wealth.

01:52:51.000 It was a direct correlation, but you need to run an opportunity cost of production.

01:52:55.000 So 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.

01:53:08.000 So like...

01:53:09.000 At what cost?

01:53:10.000 Always ask yourself that when you're dealing with how you're producing things.

01:53:13.000 At what cost?

01:53:14.000 It's called opportunity cost in microeconomics.

01:53:16.000 That's a good point, man.

01:53:18.000 I like that.

01:53:19.000 Deadeye says, Phil, roundabouts are un-American.

01:53:21.000 Still love you, though.

01:53:22.000 No!

01:53:23.000 They are not un-American.

01:53:25.000 I have been a roundabout fan as long as I've been driving cars, and that's longer than I want to admit because I am an old man.

01:53:34.000 What's your favorite thing about the roundabout?

01:53:35.000 The fact that there's no stop sign.

01:53:38.000 There's a yield.

01:53:39.000 There's a yield everywhere.

01:53:41.000 Yield means that you can go ahead and ease your way in.

01:53:44.000 You don't have to stop and sit there and wait.

01:53:46.000 People get confused by that yield sign in the roundabout, though.

01:53:49.000 People get confused by a lot of things.

01:53:51.000 People get confused by push doors or pull doors.

01:53:54.000 Or who a man is and who a woman is.

01:53:56.000 You never know. 0.99

01:53:57.000 They get confused about what a penis is for. 1.00

01:53:59.000 Yeah, you never know. 0.99

01:54:00.000 But no, I will stand by this.

01:54:04.000 Roundabouts are a net good for society. 1.00

01:54:07.000 And even if they're not from America, they're still a great idea.

01:54:15.000 They're better than four-way stops.

01:54:17.000 Kay Spencer Jones with more of the roundabout blasphemy.

01:54:21.000 Roundabouts are communism. 0.83

01:54:22.000 No, they're not.

01:54:23.000 No, they're not.

01:54:25.000 Everybody working together for common good.

01:54:27.000 Take over the means of production.

01:54:29.000 It is communism. 0.98

01:54:30.000 Ian Kenny says roundabouts only suck for people who can't drive. 0.99

01:54:34.000 Yes! 0.98

01:54:35.000 My brother!

01:54:37.000 You sounded like Hulk Hogan there.

01:54:39.000 Let me tell you, brother.

01:54:40.000 I like him.

01:54:41.000 Every once in a while you come up on a roundabout, it's hard to see.

01:54:43.000 Have you ever experienced that?

01:54:44.000 Like at night, it's dark, it's not lit very well, and it's like there's no sign, there's no stop sign, so...

01:54:50.000 I was recently going around a roundabout, and I saw...

01:54:54.000 It's been snowing a lot, right?

01:54:56.000 And it was just tire tracks directly across the roundabout.

01:54:59.000 And I was like, oh, someone missed there.

01:55:02.000 That kind of guy.

01:55:03.000 Yeah, just directly across.

01:55:04.000 So you like the roundabout, but you'd rather just drive through it?

01:55:08.000 Well, I wouldn't want...

01:55:09.000 I mean, it depends on what I'm driving.

01:55:10.000 If I'm driving the Jeep, I'll just drive through it.

01:55:12.000 It's fine.

01:55:12.000 I've got plenty of clearance.

01:55:13.000 If I'm driving the Tesla, it's low to the ground.

01:55:14.000 I wouldn't just drive through it.

01:55:16.000 But the Jeep, you know.

01:55:18.000 I don't know what anybody was driving.

01:55:20.000 So I didn't see him.

01:55:21.000 Just saw the tracks.

01:55:22.000 JT says roundabouts are superior.

01:55:24.000 Wow, a lot of roundabouts.

01:55:25.000 I'm getting a lot of roundabouts.

01:55:26.000 Are you influencing the super chat choices tonight?

01:55:28.000 Look, man, Serge is actually selecting them for me.

01:55:32.000 People bullish on roundabouts.

01:55:34.000 We're doing a lot of super chats tonight.

01:55:37.000 Roundabouts are glorious, I'm just going to say.

01:55:40.000 The full stop, if you don't come to a complete stop, the cops can pull you over.

01:55:44.000 Keep that in mind.

01:55:45.000 I mean, a total and complete stop.

01:55:46.000 That stop sign.

01:55:47.000 Yeah, that rolling stop condition.

01:55:49.000 Exactly, yeah.

01:55:50.000 So you don't have to worry about that.

01:55:52.000 In Chicago, it's okay, though.

01:55:54.000 In Chicago, it's always a rolling stop.

01:55:56.000 In Chicago, it's dangerous to actually stop, right?

01:56:00.000 Half of them don't have driver's license because they snuck in anyways.

01:56:05.000 RD says, Biden's last moves in office made it illegal to drill for oil in the Gulf of America, in the Gulf of Mexico.

01:56:13.000 It's not illegal to drill in the Gulf of America.

01:56:15.000 And I heard someone make this statement.

01:56:18.000 It is possible that the change of name...

01:56:23.000 Was to get around Biden's executive order.

01:56:26.000 You don't think it designated a specific geographic area and that's what it's tied to?

01:56:31.000 I 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.

01:56:42.000 It's the Gulf of America.

01:56:44.000 So, I mean, look, I mean, maybe I would love that.

01:56:48.000 For 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.

01:56:56.000 If 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...

01:57:12.000 Was comprehensive, and it would cause a lot of legal problems for the Trump administration to actually start drilling in the Gulf. 0.73

01:57:23.000 So, if it is true that that...

01:57:27.000 Executive order was problematic for the administration and they just changed the name to get around it.

01:57:34.000 That is probably...

01:57:36.000 I mean, I want to believe.

01:57:38.000 It would make it make sense because I was like, why is that like Trump's top priority, renaming the Gulf of Mexico?

01:57:43.000 But now it kind of makes sense.

01:57:45.000 Also, if they could develop a tool other than a drill to get in there and dig out the oil.

01:57:50.000 Space laser?

01:57:51.000 Yeah, like lasers.

01:57:52.000 Then we're not actually drilling.

01:57:53.000 We're just cutting it open.

01:57:54.000 Oh, yeah.

01:57:55.000 Yeah.

01:57:55.000 That's true.

01:57:56.000 I'm looking at this, and it does have a map, the Biden executive order.

01:58:00.000 Oh, that's unfortunate.

01:58:02.000 Attached to it.

01:58:03.000 You're thinking ahead.

01:58:04.000 Yeah, 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.

01:58:17.000 The boundaries of the withdrawn areas are more specifically delineated in the attached map.

01:58:22.000 Dude, 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.

01:58:31.000 I don't think it was years.

01:58:32.000 It was gruesome.

01:58:33.000 There was a camera down there.

01:58:34.000 They couldn't figure out how to close it.

01:58:36.000 Yeah, that was crazy.

01:58:40.000 Swimping became a problem.

01:58:42.000 Yeah, on a short term.

01:58:45.000 If I understand correctly, there were no long-term negative results.

01:58:49.000 It was a problem while the oil was dumping out of there, but once they capped it, there are microbes that actually eat the petroleum.

01:58:58.000 That's interesting.

01:58:59.000 If I understand correctly, the Gulf is not some dead zone.

01:59:05.000 That is no longer, you know, life doesn't exist anymore, if I understand correctly.

01:59:09.000 I'd have to take a look to make sure.

01:59:11.000 You figured out how to put iron oxide dust into oil spills, and then you use a magnet to pull the oil out.

01:59:18.000 All the oil, it bonds with the iron, and then it'll come up on your magnet.

01:59:22.000 Wow, that's super.

01:59:23.000 Yeah, there's videos of it in action.

01:59:24.000 Super arcane knowledge.

01:59:26.000 You guys impress me with the esoteric knowledge you come up with.

01:59:29.000 The internet's a portal.

01:59:31.000 It's like, wow, I didn't know you could do that with that stuff.

01:59:34.000 It's a palantir.

01:59:35.000 I didn't know there was bacteria that eats oil.

01:59:37.000 Yeah, that's crazy.

01:59:38.000 I bet that's not true of lithium batteries.

01:59:41.000 There's probably not bacteria that eats lithium batteries.

01:59:43.000 Things evolve to do that.

01:59:44.000 The last thing you want to do is put lithium in contact with salt water.

01:59:47.000 Well, for sure, but, you know, stuff gets dumped.

01:59:50.000 There's also fungus that eats petroleum, or plastic, rather.

01:59:53.000 What about that eats the, what do you call them, the wind turbines?

01:59:57.000 Once those fall apart, you can't recycle them.

02:00:00.000 Those things are such a terrible idea.

02:00:02.000 Terrible idea.

02:00:03.000 Dustin Campbell says, Ian, if you did make it snow in the Gulf, I thank you, sir.

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