00:02:19.000Insane videos of car bombs, explosions, fires, gunshots ringing out, people running and screaming in airports.
00:02:29.000All of this in retaliation for killing a cartel leader that some say, well, I should say, according to some reports, was at the behest of Donald Trump, who continued by saying it's only just begun.
00:02:42.00025 Mexican National Guard were killed in these attacks.
00:02:48.000Right now, we're getting reports that security forces are currently still battling cartel members, and it's popping off across the country.
00:02:56.000Now, I would argue it seems the cartel's retaliation is basically we have ended all tourism in Mexico.
00:03:04.000I mean, there's no possibility of you flying down to driving to Tijuana, flying down to Puerto Vallera, and having any kind of relaxing day because people are being told shelter in place.
00:04:40.000And then the U.S. beat Canada in hockey.
00:04:44.000Now, all those other stories are crazy, terrifying, but the one I know most Americans care about is that we gave a thorough trouncing to Canada in their game.
00:04:54.000And there's a viral tweet where, I don't know, Trudeau or somebody was like, you know, you can try and take our country, but you'll never take a game from us.
00:05:36.000They believe that a new era of America First International Assistance is underway and that President Trump has made clear the U.S. will act decisively while ending the practice of providing blank checks.
00:05:47.000According to CAFIA, the U.S. assistance should be strategic, accountable, and tied to measurable results that strengthen American security, including stronger borders, tougher enforcement, and real cooperation to stop illegal immigration and keep deadly drugs out of U.S. communities.
00:06:02.000CAFIA believes that America First Assistance should focus on stabilizing fragile regions before crises reach U.S. shores, strengthening key partners and supporting American farmers, manufacturers, and workers.
00:06:13.000It also cites data from President Trump's pollster showing that 80% of Trump voters support this approach to international assistance.
00:06:20.000The campaign for America First International Assistance believes Trump is sending a message to Beijing stating that the use of foreign aid to buy influence and control will no longer go unchallenged and that the U.S. must lead with strength, purpose, and clear conditions that put American security first.
00:06:35.000You guys can check out more by going to AmericaFirstintl.org.
00:06:56.000You do about 50 milliliters in a glass.
00:06:58.000You fill the rest with some water, maybe some cream if you like it, and you got yourself a glass of cold brew.
00:07:02.000Now, we were trying to figure out ways to sell ready-to-drink cast brew, and the shipping is really difficult when you're dealing with these cans.
00:07:09.000Research that we did found each can would cost like five bucks, $5 for a can, a can of coffee.
00:07:15.000And we were like, ugh, because the shipping weight to and from is pretty brutal for a small company.
00:07:19.000Well, if we concentrate it, you can buy one bottle and get lots of coffee.
00:07:23.000So here's how we're able to pull it off.
00:07:25.000Check out CastBrew.com, pick up your cast brew coffee.
00:07:27.000Don't forget, we got all the other flavors available, including Dr. Alex Stein's big booty Latina love potion.
00:08:09.000Yeah, you leave a memorable impression because it's, I guess you said it's been four years since you've been here, but I feel like I saw you pretty free pretty recently.
00:08:16.000I have thought about nothing but graphene since I last spoke to you, Ian.
00:08:19.000Lighting me up, Andrew, from the inside.
00:08:23.000I mean, when he got here, his hair was perfectly done, but when he saw Ian, he started just shaking the electricity and they both started freaking out.
00:08:30.000And then, you know, they stopped electricity couples, and that's why you get that static shock.
00:08:36.000Hey, go to graphene.movie if you haven't seen that yet.
00:08:56.000Security forces keep up fight with cartel gunmen a day after the Mexican military killed a drug lord.
00:09:03.000This is reported from the APA, in fact.
00:09:05.000They say tourist shops in Tapalpa were open Monday and workers were on the job, but gunshots also rang out.
00:09:11.000And in the street was a dead man lying beside a bullet-pocked vehicle.
00:09:16.000Meanwhile, heavily armed Mexican security forces kept up the battle with cartel gunmen following the killing that sparked a surge in violence and put the country on edge.
00:09:25.000I mean, these videos that are popping up are just absolutely nuts.
00:09:27.000We've got this one allegedly from Tijuana.
00:10:29.000They're burning vehicles in the middle of the street in key tourist destinations.
00:10:34.000They want the Mexican government to look at this and think we are about to go broke because tourism to Puerto Vallerta, to Tijuana, these are very, very important for the Mexican economy.
00:10:45.000Americans love coming down there and partying.
00:11:12.000I imagine Trump's response to this is going to be a brutal, brutal crackdown.
00:11:19.000The reporting is that apparently Trump told Mexico: if you do not take out these guys, we are going to do it.
00:11:25.000The U.S. will launch strikes on Mexico.
00:11:28.000And so Scheinbaum, the president, said, okay, we'll do it.
00:11:30.000Now, reportedly, the U.S. provided the intelligence on the location of El Mencho.
00:11:37.000They went in, and there's conflicting reports.
00:11:40.000I read one report, according to cartel members, apparently, the U.S. went in with the intention to murder, to kill him, not to capture him.
00:11:48.000And I think there was something like 70 dead in the operation.
00:11:51.000The U.S. found out that he was with his romantic partner, a woman, I'm assuming.
00:11:55.000I don't know why I'm assuming they call it Romantic Partner because they're leftists and me.
00:11:58.000Maybe that means mistress is what that means.
00:12:04.000I believe the official narrative is they went in and arrested him.
00:12:08.000And when the cartel moved in to try and get him out, a gunfight ensued and he died in the conflict.
00:12:15.000Now, I don't know for sure, but what I can say is ain't no way Trump is watching this go down and thinking, I'm going to let the cartels do this.
00:12:22.000No, this is what the left is trying to get the American right to do is to start blowing up streets and setting roadblocks and fury.
00:12:31.000They provoked the cartel into flipping out.
00:12:33.000The cartel took the bait and now they're going to get wiped off the victim by the military.
00:14:11.000And for those that aren't familiar, this is a term that means if you're an angel parent, it means your child was killed by an illegal immigrant.
00:14:20.000So Trump declared yesterday as the day to commemorate all those who are killed by illegal immigrants.
00:14:25.000And look, this is the guy, the Jalisco was responsible for the trafficking of fentanyl into the United States.
00:14:31.000I think Trump called up Mexico and said, he's done.
00:16:55.000So I'm going to throw it to Biden for helping kick off the Russia war with Ukraine.
00:16:59.000I blame Russia largely, but Biden's failed foreign policy with Afghanistan and Ukraine helped largely with Ukraine, helped contribute to it.
00:17:07.000And then you have Donald Trump coming in.
00:17:50.000Now, the excuse they give was they were going to give the guns to the cartels, but then track them and see how the guns were being used and who got them.
00:17:59.000Yeah, you always give your enemies a bunch of automatic weapons.
00:18:15.000Tim, do you think that that was a willful action?
00:18:18.000Like, I would read Fast and Furious as just incompetency on behalf of the DOJ, but like, are you inferring that they wanted to arm them rather than entrap them?
00:18:25.000You know, I would typically say something like Hanlon's razor.
00:18:30.000In this capacity, if I were to assume that Barack Obama was just incompetent in handing over thousands of weapons to cartel members, I would have to assume that he was a functional retard.
00:18:41.000Maybe they were like— It's one thing to say incompetence.
00:18:44.000That's like the dude spilled the coffee, and I'm not going to assume he did it on purpose.
00:19:12.000Technically correct in some circumstances.
00:19:14.000The point of ISIS was to get Assad out of power.
00:19:17.000The reason why the U.S. let, under Barack Obama, ISIS expand rapidly was because it was like we couldn't, I mean, we did invade Syria, which is funny because who remember was in that who remembers when that happened?
00:19:27.000Does anybody remember a big declaration of an invasion of Syria?
00:19:30.000Well, they tried in 2013, and I wasn't sure if he spoke high.
00:19:33.000No, not then they didn't because Obama wouldn't do it.
00:20:10.000We provide materials and weapons to the rebels, the Free Syrian Army Associates, which eventually get taken over by ISIS extremists and become a singular faction.
00:20:19.000And the U.S. is happy to let it happen.
00:20:20.000They say, we'll sit back and watch them tear each other apart.
00:20:26.000I don't think that Barack Obama gave those guns as an excuse to invade Mexico.
00:20:31.000I think he gave the guns to the cartels because the cartels are part of what they need to happen for drug trafficking and human smuggling into the United States.
00:20:39.000I think that the interests of the Unit Party, like the Democratic Party, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the neocons has never been, at least in the last 40 years, for the American people.
00:20:49.000And you can criticize Donald Trump for a lot of things.
00:20:51.000In fact, there's so many things it's hard to name, but at least you can look at his plans and what's going on and say, well, that's for the American people.
00:21:16.000Neither of them were going to go in and do ambush, didn't do anything about it.
00:21:19.000Are you familiar with the crack epidemic in the 90s?
00:21:22.000And it was how the CIA was basically facilitating all of this.
00:21:25.000And the reporter who uncovered it committed suicide with two gunshots to his head.
00:21:30.000You have to wonder about what was that all about?
00:21:31.000Well, there's a lot of conspiracy theories, but the reporting is basically the CIA was funneling crack cocaine to black neighborhoods.
00:21:39.000Your guess is as good as mine, I guess.
00:21:41.000Suppress and depress minority populations, maybe.
00:21:44.000I'd have to imagine that with the flow of fentanyl and other drugs and human trafficking, the Democrats have been encouraging, especially in the Biden administration, they would want these groups to be able to operate to do what they want to do.
00:21:55.000Not only that, but it allows the U.S. to do, I would just call it extra-legal things undercover.
00:22:01.000You can't go to the Mexican government and say, we need to transport 2 million people into our country through your border, because that's public record.
00:22:08.000But you can certainly go to the cartels and say, our NGOs will take care of you.
00:22:17.000So you think it was an immigration attempt?
00:22:19.000No, no, no, no, I'm saying there's a multitude of factors involved in why the U.S. has been supporting illegal activity in Mexico.
00:22:28.000If you go back to the 90s, you know that the United States intelligence, CIA largely, was helping funnel crack cocaine from Mexico into the United States.
00:22:38.000And I guess one could only surmise as to the purpose, but they were flooding black neighborhoods, black communities with crack cocaine.
00:22:45.000I believe the working theory is that they were trying to suppress and depress black population.
00:22:54.000As for why he would be giving them guns, it's because they do extra-legal things that the U.S. needs or wants them to do.
00:23:01.000So it's powerful to have these groups who are willing to do anything for money at your behest.
00:23:06.000I think that it's a largely anarcho-state.
00:23:09.000You take a look at Afghanistan, for instance, the United States, where we got soldiers in Afghanistan guarding poppy fields because it's a large portion of their economy pumping out heroin.
00:23:18.000I think that the government of the United States pre-Donald Trump, like, you know, post-World War II, or probably even before that, has not been operating for the betterment of mankind, but for control.
00:23:29.000And you need, as I think Ian brings up quite a bit, the Henry Kissinger's, what is it called?
00:23:46.000I will also say, if I knew exactly what their intentions were, I'd have no problem coming out and say it.
00:23:51.000But the only thing I can say is I don't believe Obama is so stupid that he gave a bunch of automatic weapons to cartel members on accident.
00:24:03.000I think with the Mexico thing, I'm still on Hanlon's Razor, but I share your skepticism of the kind of neocon project that's been going on in the country.
00:25:35.000If Ian walked up to a drug dealer and handed him 10 grand, do you think when they come and arrest Ian and he goes, no, no, you don't understand.
00:25:42.000I gave him the money so that later on I could catch him with the money, they'd say, what?
00:25:56.000I see who they gave the weapons to because they were.
00:25:58.000I just find it I find it incredibly hard to believe that Biden's government, knowing the cartels are murdering people, killing politicians, needed some kind of pretext to go in and do anything about it.
00:26:36.000He said, oops, we were targeting a terror leader.
00:26:39.000We didn't realize that it was the wrong target.
00:26:41.000I don't believe for a second that Obama, when he's, listen, they come to him and they say, okay, president, we want to blow up, we have a target to blow up.
00:27:47.000The only thing I can give for them in incompetence is that they couldn't get Hillary Clinton across the finish line.
00:27:53.000But again, so I look at what the Obama administration does, and I think it's silly to say that giving thousands of guns to cartel members was just an oopsie-daisy because Trump doesn't need any of that pretext.
00:28:06.000He goes to Scheinbaum and says, do it or we will.
00:28:36.000The priorities of the Donald Trump administration as it comes to foreign issues and military issues is about what is going to benefit the United States the most.
00:28:45.000That being said, he's far from perfect.
00:29:19.000Let's get an investigation and make a determination if there was military action that was taken against civilians, for which we will make an attempt to determine what the penalties of that will be.
00:29:42.000It's about actions speaking louder than words.
00:29:44.000When Donald Trump targets boats shuttling drugs to the U.S. or largely to Europe in the Caribbean, they lose their minds over it, but they don't say a damn thing when Barack Obama was murdering Americans.
00:30:01.000So I don't believe for two seconds they actually care.
00:30:04.000Anyway, real quick, your point about Trump's foreign policy is: well, he tried not to be involved in the Ukraine-Russia stuff, but oh boy, he can't figure that one out.
00:30:12.000The Iran stuff is troubling, but Iran is basically shutting down the Red Sea.
00:30:17.000They're funding these terror groups, Houthi rebels in Yemen.
00:30:20.000The Houthis are then firing on ships in the Red Sea.
00:30:23.000And the Red Sea, of course, is a Suez Canal.
00:30:25.000There are three major trade vectors for global trade.
00:30:29.000You've got Panama, which Trump is trying to regain control of.
00:30:31.000The Suez, which we do control, and Trump, the conflict with Iran, is largely around whether or not we can maintain security in that region.
00:30:38.000And then, of course, Greenland and Canada, which is the Northwest Passage.
00:30:41.000So Trump is, I would argue, retracted on liberal economic order worldview, but not abandoning of it, and largely focused on securing American national benefits.
00:30:55.000So the cartels are shuttling fentanyl and drugs in the United States.
00:31:52.000Where I struggle with that analysis of Trump is it does sound like it requires me to sign off an intentionality of looking at what were the intentions of the Obama administration, what are the intentions of the Trump administration.
00:32:23.000said we ain't we ain't backing down yeah so let me let me let me let me grab a uh he's doing a 10 tariff for 150 days as authorized by the 1975 nea act that preceded aipa Let me – where's the – I thought I had that post pulled up where Trump is like, we're going to do it anyway.
00:32:50.000We got the story from the AP following the Supreme Court's decision that Trump cannot enact emergency tariffs under this one particular law.
00:32:59.000Donald Trump has come out and said he's going to increase tariffs anyway, citing three other laws from the 70s.
00:33:05.000He's now warning countries to abide by tariff deals despite the Supreme Court decision.
00:33:11.000Any country that wants to play games, the Supreme Court decision Trump posted, will be met with a much higher tariff and worse than that which they just recently agreed to.
00:33:19.000He said Saturday that he wants a global tariff of 15% up from 10.
00:33:24.000He announced immediately after the ruling.
00:33:25.000The court's decision struck down tariffs Trump had imposed on nearly every country using an emergency powers law, but the Republican president won't let go of his favorite, albeit now more limited, tool for rewriting the rules of global commerce and applying international pressure.
00:33:38.000So I am of the opinion that the tariffs are quite possibly the best thing for the United States.
00:33:45.000I am a huge, huge fan, and I believe that anybody who is truly interested in the betterment of the United States would support this, and anybody who either wants to extract value from the system to its decay would oppose it.
00:33:57.000The people that I view that are, there's two groups of people that I believe are in opposition to the tariffs.
00:34:04.000Those that want to extract the value from this country to its demise, and those who don't understand what is going on in this country.
00:34:11.000I suppose I'd be in the latter camp then.
00:34:13.000You don't understand what's going on in the country?
00:34:15.000If I have to pick one of those two, I think comparative advantage is a thing.
00:34:21.000The best argument that I've heard in terms of the Trump tariffs is that there are situations where we need to use leverage to compel other countries to quit doing bad things.
00:34:31.000And it would be better to use tariffs than to do military interventions.
00:34:35.000Completely disagree with tariffs as a means of military.
00:34:37.000Oh, no, like as a way of avoiding military stuff, right?
00:34:40.000This is the best argument I've heard is that China is doing they've got a predatory IP system.
00:34:49.000We could use punitive tariffs to try to lower it.
00:34:51.000So if you're using tariffs as a temporary leverage to try to get a policy goal, that makes sense to me.
00:34:56.000The idea that we have a kind of zero-sum fixed amount of wealth and that if we are buying things from other countries, they're extracting wealth, I don't think that that's sound on that.
00:35:57.000So when my industry dies because we are spending 10 times as much to ship lumber to China to manufacture it with slave labor, sorry, peasant labor, and send it back to the United States, how is that good for us, our country, and our children?
00:36:18.000I'm talking about people who would otherwise work for better wages with healthcare, but instead are getting paid 50 cents an hour to do this work.
00:36:28.000If we're removing actual slavery from the equation, right?
00:36:52.000Because if you raise the prices on that, you raise the price on the consumer and everything costs more.
00:36:55.000And if everything costs – so are you familiar with the old apocryphal legend of Henry Ford and the Ford factory?
00:37:03.000Yes, I'm familiar with the apocryphal.
00:37:04.000Yeah, where he had to pay people enough.
00:37:05.000He argued that if I pay a higher rate, then the employees actually buy the cars from me on a loan, and then they're paying me back the money I'm paying them and then earning a percentage off the excess cars we produce.
00:37:17.000I haven't heard the loan bit, but I do think it's apocryphal.
00:37:20.000They can't afford to buy the car outright, but they're paid enough to where they can say, okay, I can save up for this, and then a portion of their, they're buying the product back from the guy where they're making it a premium.
00:37:29.000But like, you're familiar with comparative advantage, right?
00:37:31.000Like, you know the basic premise behind that?
00:38:08.000If the Scots go, well, we want to protect our nascent wine industry, so we're going to put tariffs on the French wine industry, then France is going to respond by putting tariffs on wool coming in from Scotland.
00:38:35.000They're not going to be able to produce as much of it.
00:38:37.000So you're going to use both countries in a less productive manner.
00:38:40.000Is it better for the people of Scotland and the generational wine farmers to have their industry destroyed because you, as a consumer, want to save $3 on your wine?
00:38:49.000Or is it fair to say that the bustling wine industry in Scotland, which is storied and has legacy, deserves a chance to survive for its community, for its culture?
00:38:59.000They should absolutely be able to get a lot of people.
00:39:31.000It's an Olympic sport, but it's completely dead.
00:39:33.000I sold, we sold something like 500 boards in a month.
00:39:37.000Shocking industry experts asking me, Tim, how did you sell 500 skateboards?
00:39:42.000And I said, I went on my show and said, go to boonieshq.com and buy the skateboards.
00:39:47.000The pros are now working for Uber Eats.
00:39:50.000They are doing delivery driving for Amazon.
00:39:53.000They no longer have the time or ability, for the most part, to be professionals in their own sport.
00:39:59.000There's videos popping up of some of the best professional skateboarders who Olympic contenders who now work for Home Depot making minimum wage.
00:40:07.000Because the factories that produce skateboards, instead of employing Americans and marketing a product to Americans, offshored all the manufacturing to China, where we cut down wood in Canada, import it to the United States, send it to China.
00:40:21.000Chinese peasants make the boards for pennies on the dollar, send back cheap Chinese crap, and now there's no factories, no employees, and no pro skateboarders.
00:40:28.000If you go to Japan and China, they have skateboarding up the wazoo.
00:40:31.000Every new pro is some 15-year-old Japanese kid, and the country that invented the Olympic global phenomenon has lost control of it because we gave it away.
00:40:41.000Because we told people in this country, which would you rather buy?
00:40:45.000The $50 American-made skateboard or the $30 Chinese-made skateboard.
00:40:49.000And to be honest, when the people walked into the shop to buy a board, they didn't know the difference.
00:40:53.000And they said, $30 sounds good to me if it works.
00:40:56.000Every American worker who grew up whose dad owned a wood shop lost their job and now they don't skate anymore.
00:41:02.000Their kids, the Gen Z, and this is across the board, skateboarding is personal for me.
00:41:05.000I know people probably don't care about it, but it's the perfect example of how we are willing to spend 10 times as much on the energy to send our raw materials to China so peasants can do it and Americans lose their jobs.
00:41:16.000And then when no American has the job, what company is going to promote and market the new product to kids?
00:43:09.000And all the top pros are just little Japanese kids.
00:43:11.000Now I got no beef with the Japanese kids.
00:43:13.000Some of the best skateboarders, they're all Japanese.
00:43:15.000I'm pissed off that the country that made this, that invented it, that inspired the world, gave it all away.
00:43:21.000And now where I live in my home country, I, for the life of me, well, actually, I'll say this.
00:43:26.000One of the advantages to it is that I can go to a pro skateboarder and give them $500 and they'll come and they'll produce content because they're so desperate for money.
00:43:34.000And what I tell all these guys, we stopped doing our games of skate events because of security issues.
00:43:39.000We're working on trying to figure out how to do them again.
00:43:42.000We told the pros you get $3,000 if you win and you get a guarantee just for showing up.
00:43:48.000And they all show up and they beg to come and compete because these guys are working at Home Depot.
00:44:04.000I would like the government to say, if you tell, if you move your factory to China, we will charge you 30% on the way back in so that you will not be competitive in the marketplace.
00:44:36.000There's a famous photo of a man in a suit in the 1960s, I believe it was, riding a little fishboard, one of the OG skateboards in Central Park.
00:44:43.000It's a great mystery to figure out who this man is and no one really knows.
00:44:46.000That event that became iconic where it's like a guy in a suit and he's like cruising was because a company that made skateboards announced they were having an event in Central Park and encouraged everyone to come.
00:44:57.000They told families, they told kids, they went and promoted it in New York City and then everyone showed up.
00:45:01.000Well, not everyone, but a lot of people showed up.
00:45:03.000And skateboarding started to get more and more popular in the United States.
00:45:06.000The factories and the companies are gone.
00:45:09.000And one of the things that's the same thing.
00:45:09.000I just want to make sure I understand this.
00:46:54.000And one of the biggest brands in American skateboard history moved to Japan.
00:46:59.000My guess would be that if you were to buy a keyboard today, like a piano keyboard, you're probably going to get a Casio or something like that.
00:47:05.000I don't think that we've had like a limited amount of people learning piano or to use the woodshop example, like guitars are still abundant.
00:47:14.000It wouldn't surprise me if they're not from the United States.
00:47:17.000I think the issue around something like skateboarding is that it's decently new relative to, say, like piano, which has been around and is global.
00:47:29.000What I would still argue, though, is, as someone who is not a pianist, I can only refer to the things in which I'm involved in, and I can stress the same thing is happening in other industries.
00:47:39.000So I can cite surfing, snowboarding, and skiing as being massively impacted by foreign manufacturing.
00:47:48.000And it's because the boards are lesser quality, so people aren't skating as much?
00:47:52.000It's because there's no culture anymore.
00:48:08.000Yeah, I don't think you should do that.
00:48:09.000And to back up a little bit, I question this whole idea that it's a lack of tariffs and protectionism that's resulted in lack of American manufacturing.
00:48:17.000So you look at like no one does this with farmers.
00:48:20.000Like if you go back to like 1880, 90% of the American workforce was farmers.
00:48:25.000Like it's not because we started importing food that we do.
00:48:27.000It's because we got really, really good at making food.
00:48:46.000So if we stopped allowing companies to move their factories to Mexico or Indonesia or other countries, it would be a little bit more expensive, but there would be a bustling auto industry in Michigan.
00:48:58.000So let's kind of stick with that for a minute.
00:49:01.000Steel is one of the things Trump talks about regularly.
00:49:04.000We export more steel now than we did in the 1980s.
00:49:06.000The difference is we need fewer people to do the steel.
00:49:09.000We came up with better innovations for it, and therefore we have fewer people working in it, but the actual exports are fine.
00:49:14.000With cars, like most of the cars we get in the United States, even if they're foreign, like Kia, Toyota, whatever, they're manufactured here in the United States by American workers.
00:49:24.000No, I mean, Donald Trump's famous, well, I should say Michael Moore's famous speech of Donald Trump in his 2016 campaign was that he went to the auto manufacturers and said, if you move your factories to Mexico or China, I will slap a 30% tariff on your vehicle and no one will buy it.
00:49:38.000And it was the first time someone stood up for the workers.
00:49:41.000We have watched Michigan deteriorate in psychotic ways.
00:49:45.000Flint, Michigan being an amazing example of what happens when you gut the manufacturing base.
00:49:51.000So yes, one could argue with innovations in travel and transport and cheap fuel specifically, we've been able to move manufacturing to other countries through these free trade agreements.
00:50:01.000So what ends up happening is if you're a family who lives in Michigan, hey, it's like that movie Tommy Boy.
00:50:59.000So what happens is in Michigan, you have a water distribution apparatus, the city water supply of Detroit.
00:51:07.000When you divide the fixed cost of water distribution among, say, a million people, I'm going to use vague numbers because actual numbers get wonky.
00:51:15.000Let's say you have a million people and it costs everybody $100 a month for their water bills in their homes.
00:51:23.000I mean, it can be heavy for your house, but it's just $100.
00:51:26.000So if the economy is stable, you're going to be able to afford it.
00:51:29.000Well, the manufacturing leaves, and this means we begin to see a mass exodus from Michigan.
00:51:34.000Something like, I think in the 2000s, it was like 11 families per minute were leaving the state.
00:51:39.000This means the tax base is eroded, but the fixed cost of the water delivery system remains static.
00:51:43.000Overnight, an individual receives double the water bill.
00:51:47.000That's something you just can't afford.
00:51:48.000It's a shock charge, especially when, as the auto manufacturing leaves, there's less money coming into your city, state, or town, less tax revenue for social services and public roads, and less money in general being spent on restaurants and toys, whatever it might be that drives that.
00:52:09.000Why are we paying the most expensive water bill in the country for Detroit water when we can use Flint River water, which was contaminated with Legionnaires' disease and started running water through pipes, which got everybody super sick?
00:52:34.000The issue with Mexico is you have to compete with no union wages.
00:52:38.000You have to compete with no minimum wages.
00:52:40.000You have to compete with no health care.
00:52:42.000And you have to compete with cartels running a lot of sweatshops.
00:52:45.000Or I should just say illegal activities, easy way to explain it.
00:52:47.000At least Louisiana would have to present to the auto manufacturer legal and justified competition to which Michigan.
00:52:55.000My point is just if they were to relocate elsewhere in America, you'd still have that kind of collapse of services because you'd have fewer people.
00:53:13.000And I have no problem with states in a stable system trying to be competitive with one another.
00:53:18.000Do you think it would be preferential if they all had tariffs between each other?
00:53:21.000I mean, if it's going to build up the local economy, wouldn't it be beneficial to have been arguments made, such as in Ithaca, New York, are you familiar with the Ithaca Hour?
00:53:31.000Largely fallen into disuse, but they created a local currency which lasted for about 20 years that could only be used in Ithaca.
00:53:38.000And it was called the Ithaca Hour, representing an hour of labor, and people could be choosed to be paid in hours or in U.S. dollars.
00:53:45.000And in fact, it actually helped boost the economy.
00:53:48.000I would be fine with that if you wanted to have alternate currencies.
00:53:51.000And the point of the currency is that it can't leave the jurisdiction.
00:53:55.000So you can make the argument that Louisiana can offer to compete by going to an auto manufacturer and saying, we're going to cut you 5% on taxes.
00:54:04.000But the one thing you can't compete on is peasant labor, which is impossible, especially with unions.
00:54:10.000So of course, these factories want to generate profits.
00:54:13.000You move the auto manufacturing out of the state, the economy gets depressed.
00:54:16.000This idea that we would be a service sector economy is insane, or even worse, that we would be a cultural economy when we're literally bleeding our culture out across the planet and doing nothing to protect it.
00:54:28.000We're not a service economy or only a service economy.
00:54:31.000We're still a manufacturing powerhouse.
00:54:35.000The difference is that we shifted from like low-wage stuff, the peasant labor that you're talking about, to high-end stuff, like building airplanes, computer parts, things like that.
00:54:44.000I would rather have a high-end manufacturing industry than a low-end manufacturing.
00:54:47.000This is all macro grafted go-up argument that ignores the fact that cultures, families, traditions, and our country is gutted and eroded.
00:54:54.000By all means, if you want to live in a plastic, jumpsuit, shaven-headed society, let's roll, baby.
00:54:59.000We'll all see short-term gains as what makes the soul of our nation function.
00:55:29.000And so instead of building our own aluminum refineries, being more energy efficient, we import aluminum from Canada, who imports their raw materials, bauxite, which refines into alumina and then aluminum in Canada, when the United States very well could have their own very cheap aluminum produced in-country.
00:56:02.000This is, we have gutted our refineries.
00:56:04.000We have gutted our manufacturing base for a fake argument.
00:56:08.000That is, instead of building nuclear reactors and hydroelectric plants so that we can do it here cheap, we're actually spending more for Canada to do it.
00:57:18.000Yeah, and that's what the country was founded on, was classical liberalism and the idea that you are a free citizen.
00:57:22.000You can engage in free activities, whether they're sexual or corporate with whoever you want, as long as you're not hurting anybody else.
00:57:27.000Well, there is a debate long-term over imports and exports and tariffs.
00:57:31.000And more importantly, if we want to get into an argument over what the founding fathers thought when the country had 4 million people in it, 13 colonies, and imports were substantially limited due to the difficulty of travel, we're talking about something entirely different from gigantic cargo vessels traveling the whole world and undercutting the economies and cultures of the countries for which they are.
00:59:00.000So in terms of the rising housing costs, I would say the principal reason that housing is getting more expensive is that we restrict supply.
00:59:07.000Like America doesn't have a housing policy or even investment policy where we want everybody's house to raise in value forever.
00:59:14.000Housing sales, housing prices just went down for the first time in a long time and sales have actually failed.
00:59:52.000Well, we've still got high interest rates.
00:59:54.000And then on top of that, like you're maintaining a property that you think is going to increase in value.
00:59:59.000You may not want to leave in it, right?
01:00:01.000So like I'm not, this is sort of a side argument, but housing, I think, like fairly indisputably is going up largely because of supply problems.
01:00:56.000Consumer goods, gadgets, they've all gone down, right?
01:00:59.000So people are actually earning more than they did in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s across age cohorts.
01:01:05.000But prices for those three things have increased.
01:01:07.000So because of restriction to supply with housing, with healthcare, healthcare is a complicated issue.
01:01:13.000I would say that it's a combination of regulatory malfeasance combined with the fact that we have sort of state-by-state monopolies that we allow rather than competition to exist.
01:01:25.000And it's this huge morass of regulations that are in there.
01:01:29.000In terms of college, I would say that colleges because we went from a college degree is a nice thing to have, and some people are going to have it in 1950.
01:01:38.000Like 2% of people had a graduate degree, maybe 6% had an undergraduate degree.
01:01:43.000But in the 1980s, we went everybody has to get a college degree.
01:01:46.000If you don't get a college degree, you're a loser and you don't get to be part of the social pyramid, right?
01:01:51.000With a college degree, if it's a positional good that's predicated on the value being other people don't have it, you can't equalize it.
01:01:59.000So we pushed everybody into that system.
01:02:02.000You also have a limited amount of college spots that are available, but you have people coming in and you have, excuse me, you have money coming in, capital coming in.
01:02:10.000Too much money chasing too few goods is going to increase the price.
01:02:13.000You're going to cause inflation there.
01:02:14.000So college, we've pumped too much money into it in terms of student loans and things like that.
01:02:19.000The federal government has college is a waste of time and nobody should go.
01:02:45.000Well, technically, yes, but I mean, it's largely based on I'm not paying the blame on anybody over the fact that in order to actually get houses to lower cost, which I wouldn't necessarily call a supply issue, it's more of a question of can Gen Z make enough money to compete with the interests of boomers?
01:03:46.000So I guess my question for you is, ultimately, there is one simple disagreement between us, regardless of what our view on economic policy is.
01:03:54.000I have a vision of America that is rooted in the American tradition, and you don't.
01:04:00.000Not saying that's an insult saying you don't.
01:04:13.000I mean, it'd be great if a Chinese guy got those advantages, right?
01:04:15.000And then he can have a communist party that externally is doing those things you describe.
01:04:19.000That's not what I'm talking about, and that's the point I'm making.
01:04:22.000My view of American tradition is not we have a fiscal policy that the founding fathers agreed with.
01:04:26.000It's that I wake up in the morning with snow falling all around open Christmas presents, and we have apple pie baking sitting on a windowsill, and I go outside and I watch people playing baseball.
01:04:53.000Again, I'm advancing this to the soul of a nation, not the fiscal policy.
01:05:00.000The fiscal policy is a component of the argument, but my point is this.
01:05:03.000We're now switching from policy to sort of ideology.
01:05:07.000The key distinction between us is that I have a view of what makes America America based on its American tradition, and you argued for policies based on American policy tradition.
01:05:17.000I have no interest in the United States becoming an Islamic nation where women have to wear the Kaab.
01:05:34.000I'm going to pause and go low estimate.
01:05:36.000Why did we have 10 million people be allowed to enter this country illegally under the Biden administration?
01:05:42.000Biden screwed up where he decided that there were, hold on, real quick.
01:05:46.000We'll talk about immigration in a moment.
01:05:48.000In terms of the spiritual defending things thing, let's say that there's an industry that, like I work in entertainment, like you're a journalist, but we're kind of broadly in the same media family, right?
01:06:01.000Like if stand-up comedy became less popular, I wouldn't want the government to prop it up.
01:06:12.000And if they're same thing, if there are manufacturers that are making buggy whips or are making saddles and people don't want to ride horses as much, I don't think that there's any onus on the government to protect those industries.
01:07:12.000The short-term benefits you're looking at ignore the cultural ramifications of the world you live in.
01:07:18.000We are in a country right now where you have competing ideologies within our own borders.
01:07:24.000You've got the multicultural democracy largely represented by progressives in the Democratic Party and constitutional republicanism largely represented by not even Republicans, just the MAGA point, a part of it.
01:07:36.000What we end up seeing then is when you go to Dearborn, Michigan, for instance, you have an enclave of Islam and Sharia Patrol.
01:07:44.000You have Chinese communist police departments opening across the United States because the graph go-up argument ignores what makes a people.
01:07:53.000What a constitution is, is the views of the world that constitute its people.
01:07:58.000And when we open our borders, because we say economically, it's great.
01:08:02.00050 years later, you have no free speech, you have no sovereignty, and you now have to contend with a voting bloc that wants your country eroded and destroyed, notably New York, with Zorhan Mamdani, who explicitly stated in his campaign he will advocate for illegal immigrants against federal law.
01:08:22.000This country will not exist if we maintain your description of how things should be run.
01:08:28.000We have to have borders, and we have to have a working body that is able to exist without having to compete with peasants in other countries.
01:08:37.000There is an enclave, Irania, I believe it's called, in South Africa.
01:08:44.000It is a white private landmass that no one can live there.
01:08:49.000It's private unless you come to them and they approve you to live there.
01:08:54.000And they said, we don't allow any hiring of labor from outside the community because what ended up happening was the money started leaving and the trade started slowing down.
01:09:03.000So they realized it may be more expensive to hire a neighbor to do the work, but they have to, otherwise it all starts falling apart.
01:09:10.000I am sick and tired of the laissez-faire libertarian.
01:09:14.000I will squeeze what is left of the American way of living and watch this country become a communist woke cesspool by importing people who don't care for our values and displace our voting blocks because in the short term, the graph goes up.
01:09:29.000So I take umbrage with the idea that me promoting freedom is a communist plot.
01:09:48.000And if you were to compare us to the 1950s, we're more prosperous than we were in the 1950s.
01:09:52.000If the 1950s existed now and it was a separate country we could visit, we would view it like Poland right after the Soviet Union came down.
01:10:35.000The countries that have a pre-distributist economic model, which is kind of what you're advocating for, of let's keep wages higher at the base floor through higher minimum wage, things like that, they're going through the same thing as well.
01:10:48.000So I would infer that that's not an economic.
01:11:39.000Biden made a horrible mistake during his presidency where prior to Biden, if you wanted to seek asylum in the United States, you would come to the United States.
01:12:08.000They were ordered that if a child had a number with them that they knew was to a sex trafficker to ignore it and just send them to the sex trafficker.
01:12:16.000CBP was ordered that if they knew a child was brought across the border for sex slavery to deliver them to the sex slavery.
01:12:25.000Yeah, I'm not here stumping for what Biden did was not an accident where he said, oops, see, I made a thing go wrong.
01:12:31.000It was an intentional plan where they were ferrying illegally trafficked children on planes into various red states for years.
01:12:40.000Tennessee, this erupted a major scandal when a U.S. plane loaded a bunch of child trafficking victims onto a plane and flew them into Tennessee.
01:12:49.000There was one plane that landed in Westchester, New York, and a journalist filmed it coming out and interviewed one of the guys and he's like, they're making us do it.
01:13:41.000In the long term, this country will burn down.
01:13:44.000And a great example of it is, since the ICE operations kicked off, the Republican Party, the polling has shown Latino voters are bleeding from support for Republicans because many of these voters have family and friends who are here illegally.
01:13:58.000And they would advocate by vote for people who are not citizens of this country who are going to receive benefits or at least contribute to the cost of running a nation that comes from the public coffers.
01:14:10.000You will not survive if you have someone in your home voting to give away what you have to people outside.
01:14:17.000That has never made sense and it won't.
01:14:19.000And it's going to keep getting worse because we are a nation of graph go up, give away our manufacturing jobs, open up our borders to illegal immigrants.
01:14:27.000Slowly but surely, you end up with enclaves and voting blocks that say, fuck America.
01:14:32.000Zohran Mamdani being an example of a man who ran for mayor and explicitly stated, I will protect the criminals who broke this country's laws from those in the federal government who seek to enforce these nations' laws.
01:14:46.000When you get to the point where our largest and most prosperous city is now voting for a man who explicitly states we are de facto outside of the federal government, your country is breaking apart.
01:14:59.000So I would describe the political state of affairs in this country as civil strife with the political assassinations and murder.
01:15:04.000I would describe what we're talking about with tariffs and immigration as components of the erosion.
01:15:09.000I do believe that the internet plays a role in that it keeps the masses ignorant and hateful.
01:15:15.000The left, I believe, is substantially more hateful while believing they're not while screaming in people's faces and beating and murdering people.
01:15:24.000And unfortunately, we have liberals and libertarians who could stand up and say, and that's why I like the Mises caucus guys, because they outright say, close the borders.
01:15:33.000And that's like, I mean, Milton Friedman, peace be upon him, said years ago, you can't have a welfare state and an immigration state, right?
01:15:51.000And I could go to the American people and say, the world that you live in will cease to exist, but boy, will it be fun riding that bomb straight out of the out of the Enola Gay?
01:16:04.000I mean, I don't think it's short-term to buy something cheaper.
01:16:08.000Like an attorney that buys things from a grocery store has a trade deficit with his grocery store, but the attorney is still making more money than the grocery.
01:16:14.000The difference between the grocery stores is minimal.
01:16:17.000You're talking about other countries that have peasant labor we cannot compete with.
01:16:22.000And listen, I, as a company owner, when we launched our previous Boone skateboard, it was the, I think it was the Beasts.
01:17:27.000If I want to have an economic relationship with somebody, that's also fine.
01:17:31.000The government shouldn't be stopping me from having economic relationships.
01:17:34.000So if you want to hire only Americans and only have your product made in America, I applaud that.
01:17:40.000And there are a lot of people, as you just pointed out, who would purchase that.
01:17:44.000I mean, like, you just made a case that people will buy American even if it costs more, that you're able to compete within that market despite having cheaper boards.
01:18:23.000So, and I know you'll want to clarify, of course, and you will present the caveats because any reasonable person would, but certainly not an American could have a voluntary relationship with a member of the Chinese Communist Party.
01:18:34.000Could somebody date a member of the Chinese Communist Party?
01:18:36.000I'm talking about an economic relationship with an American and a CCP member.
01:19:40.000Why can't he go to China and take payment from these Chinese people so that the government of China can have access to the same?
01:19:46.000For the same reason that a governor or a member of the executive branch couldn't sell American secrets to the CCB despite the fact that they're an individual.
01:19:53.000See, now what you've described is there are for trade protectionism only when you think so.
01:19:58.000No, if there were a private individual that came up with some kind of IP and they wanted to sell it, that would be fine.
01:20:03.000Like if, I don't know, Elon Musk wanted to sell something to China, we could run it through CFIS.
01:20:10.000Like there are ways to go through in terms of looking at national security, but if an individual within a corporation, within a private part of the sphere, wanted to do trade relations with a communist government.
01:20:20.000So you think there are certain instances where the government should stop a person from voluntarily exchanging with another person?
01:20:26.000Yeah, but the default state is going to be you're allowed to do whatever you want.
01:20:30.000All you've just said to me and everyone else is my ideological worldview supersedes yours, and I respect that you believe that because I think mine supersedes yours.
01:20:42.000If you would assert the government has the authority to stop someone from doing trade, I would agree with you.
01:20:47.000If you want to put restrictions in place on what the government can do with other governments or even other corporations, I'm fine with that.
01:20:53.000But like, yeah, unless you've got a specific...
01:20:56.000American auto manufacturers can't go and cut deals with foreign manufacturers to hire cheap slave labor.
01:21:03.000For the private sphere, I'm all in favor of that.
01:21:06.000Like, where I got hung up was if we're talking about— So Raytheon, a Raytheon employee can go to the CCP and say, I know how to build a nuclear weapon launched from a Hellfire drone.
01:21:28.000You think that I'm saying that there's no appreciable difference between saying you can't have a tariff versus sell nuclear secrets to the CCB?
01:21:36.000What you are missing is that you have in your mind the limiters on when you believe the government should stop voluntary exchange.
01:21:44.000You have already explained scenarios in which the government should stop and even punish voluntary exchange.
01:21:51.000You have made the argument that you disagree on where that line should be in some areas where I agree the line should be a little bit further.
01:21:58.000Yet at the same time, you've argued the government should not do it.
01:22:40.000In terms of you believe the government should stop some economic exchanges of some economic exchanges, but like.
01:22:48.000But just pointing out that I want the government occasionally to do things doesn't justify every instance of government interaction.
01:22:53.000Point is, you said previously you think people should be free to do these things, but you, of course, don't mean it.
01:22:58.000You just think that you should be able to engage in economic behaviors that'll benefit you and how you see the world, and I think you are destroying this country by doing so.
01:23:06.000Now again, we would both agree an individual taking a state secret or general information that would benefit China in destroying this country.
01:23:15.000The government should stop that, right?
01:23:39.000In the short term, I can make a good faith argument and I I would hope you could concede to me that, while I might be wrong, i'm still operating in good faith.
01:23:47.000Yes, and you are wrong because again, my point is simply your.
01:23:50.000The premise of your argument is, government shouldn't restrict voluntary exchange.
01:23:57.000There are going to be exceptions to that.
01:23:59.000In the same way that the government shouldn't kill people, but there are instances where it's going to have to kill people, that doesn't mean, I think, that the sheriff can gun down anyone.
01:24:05.000The only real argument is the sectors in which you believe you should be allowed to trade with foreign countries, and I disagree with you on that.
01:24:12.000I believe that, in the short term, giving away our manufacturing i'm sorry, I believe that in giving away our manufacturing to Mexico or China or other countries will benefit us.
01:24:21.000Benefit us in the short term, as consumers now get a cheaper product and the company gets a higher profit margin.
01:24:28.000In the long term, you eliminate the jobs, you eliminate the culture.
01:24:32.000Cities begin to dry up, families stop happening because they can't buy food and they can't seek shelter anymore, and now we are looking at a population collapse, a financial crisis, an ideologic, ideological conflict.
01:24:43.000Long term, with tariffs, people start to rebuild factories begrudgingly.
01:25:24.000You know, something might be very cheap to order from the Barbarian leader, but then the Barbarian leader gets money and he poisons your Dna and kills you.
01:25:30.000You know, in seven years, because you funded a danger that you didn't, just because it was cheaper, you were actually funding a negative that you didn't let me.
01:25:38.000So you have to ask you, uh, is it good that China is buying up our farmland?
01:25:43.000I'm not terribly bothered by that, like so.
01:25:45.000So there is a thing we've got uh, called a Ciphius, which is the Committee ON International.
01:25:51.000I can't remember what it is, but basically the Senate has a committee where if there's going to be a foreign entity buying some American industry, some kind of company, it has to go through approval for them.
01:25:59.000So, for example, there was a big kerfuffle a few years ago where a Saudi company Wanted to buy, I think, the port of Los Angeles.
01:26:08.000What that basically meant was they were just going to be the company in charge of logistics for it.
01:26:45.000What percentage are we talking about here?
01:26:46.000Because I'm guessing it's less than 1% of American farmland by China.
01:26:50.000Let's pull up the number so we can get it.
01:26:51.000If we're talking about 20%, we can talk.
01:26:52.000But if we're talking about like 1%, that's probably just like investment diversity for the Chinese, in which case, they're spending money over here and we're getting more money.
01:27:36.000So they are producing food in our food supply.
01:27:40.000So the way the food chain works, most people, I assume that this.
01:27:43.000The farmland is going to be the bottom, which means small amounts of that are going to spread out to a much larger amount of our food supply.
01:27:50.000It theoretically could be greater than, depending on what they're growing, you don't know for sure.
01:27:54.000But let's say that 0.02% actually is, it's hard to know.
01:28:03.000Some of the agriculture will be for things that are, you know, animal feed or whatever.
01:28:09.000If China begins genetically engineering or infecting food with something not intended to kill a person overnight, but to say lower their ability to reproduce by 1%, China's on the 100-year, thousand-year plan.
01:28:26.000Why would we allow a foreign adversary?
01:28:29.000We're not at war, but they are an adversary.
01:28:30.000They're listed in federal law as an adversary.
01:29:24.000So again, the bigger picture here that I see is you're sitting in your rocking chair, sipping your delicious sun tea as the Chinese peasant comes over and asks you, Sa, what would you like to eat?
01:31:23.000But with like 0.2%, if I'm like an eight on comparative advantage in terms of how much I care, I'm like a three on this 0.2% farmland thing.
01:31:31.000So like if like I could concede that I'm not as bothered by that one.
01:32:09.000I want there to be good security to make sure that bad actors don't come into the United States, that there aren't gangs coming in, there aren't criminals coming in.
01:32:15.000But I do want there to be a lot of activities.
01:32:45.000So considering the fact that it is still in place and we are experiencing this attack from an adversary, should this woman come to your house and say, let me in so I can give birth?
01:32:54.000Would you want to cut off all immigration?
01:33:31.000I'm asking you, when someone asks you what America is, what would you say?
01:33:35.000The United States of America is a sovereign state in North America based on classical liberalism.
01:33:42.000I would say that America, the description is that what is it, that a nation is a people and a country is its borders or something that affect.
01:33:51.000So I would argue that the United States of America is a people with a long-standing history and tradition and unified culture that was built from rejecting one tyrant 3,000 miles away in exchange for 3,000 tyrants one mile away.
01:34:07.000We have an American tradition built on the wars that we've fought, the things that we've built.
01:34:13.000These things are deeply rooted in a variety of sports and foods.
01:34:18.000We are told now by a large faction of people that we have no culture, and that is rooted in what the left describes as multiculturalism.
01:34:26.000So what I'm seeing happen right now is when I look at this picture of Donald Trump talking about tariffs, he represents the nation of America.
01:34:34.000We are two distinct worldviews, a multicultural democracy, which does not believe in classical liberalism or American tradition.
01:34:42.000And we are a constitutional republic that does.
01:34:45.000Libertarians occupy a weird space where I believe that, and I'm not saying you're libertarian, I'm saying libertarians because they swing the vote a point or two, exist in the space of it should be legal for me to do and I'll vote for it.
01:34:56.000Like the principal moral foundation of libertarianism is my right to liberty.
01:35:21.000And interestingly, Gen Z dropped dramatically from like 2020 to 2022, which is indicative of a couple things.
01:35:27.000One, that there was a cultural shift among Gen Z, which is much harder to accomplish and less likely.
01:35:31.000Or two, younger Gen Z moving into adulthood already held anti-gay marriage views.
01:35:39.000The gay marriage is a great example because the liberals said, let two guys or two women get married and do their thing.
01:35:46.000What's the worst that's going to happen?
01:35:47.000I mean, it's not like they're going to be teaching about sodomy in schools, narrator.
01:35:51.000They started teaching about sodomy in schools.
01:35:53.000So the conservative argument has largely been, okay, we've got to get rid of all of this because we can see that the slippery slope wasn't a fallacy.
01:36:37.000I think part of the reason, pre-Biden, that we had a big influx of immigration over the last 20 years is we basically set the speed limit too low and we're surprised that people are still.
01:36:45.000You want more immigrants than we have now?
01:36:47.000Yeah, but I want them legal and I want to focus it on ways that are going to be productive in America.
01:36:52.000There's an estimate of 50 million non-citizens currently in the United States that are either permanent residents or illegal immigrants.
01:37:01.000So I'd love to get more H-1B visas in.
01:37:05.000I also like, I flew down to the border.
01:37:51.000Farmers are an incredible disadvantage if they want to be legal at the moment because it's incredibly difficult to hire people legally through the process.
01:37:58.000One of the things that we've got in the country is we require if you have legal immigrant labor, it has to be so high as to try to make it competitive for Americans doing it.
01:38:30.000The Ayatollah's largely object to the liberal economic order, the petrodollar system.
01:38:36.000They want to trade oil in other currencies, and they are not letting up on threatening the Red Sea, which, of course, are access to the Suez.
01:38:45.000The United States global hegemony is largely prefaced upon the fact that we control all trade.
01:39:41.000And another easy way to explain it is they estimate that, you know, this, today you need like $150,000 a year to live what was once described as middle-class median.
01:39:51.000So you get two weeks of vacation, you got clean clothes, you got healthcare, you got a place to live, you can have a family.
01:39:55.000Well, if you make $150,000 a year, you're not really saving if you are living comfortably.
01:40:00.000You're going to cut back on some things you might think you need, but you'll save a little bit.
01:40:05.000If you're making $250,000 a year after taxes, you're going to have probably like 50K to invest, allowing you to grow your wealth.
01:40:12.000This is why it's important for countries to sell more than they buy.
01:40:16.000The reason for it is we don't do that, but we will kill you if you don't spend our money for oil.
01:40:23.000So for, let's just say like Russia, back when it was solely the petrodollar system, they would have to use rubles to buy dollars so they could use the dollars to buy oil.
01:40:34.000And the United States exported just the fact that we'll kill you if you don't lose our money.
01:40:41.000If you believe in free trade, open borders, it works perfectly so long as you are willing to blow up other countries and assassinate world leaders who try to build a global order outside of the U.S. dollar.
01:40:52.000As the BRICS nations begin expanding and Iran seeks admittance, I think they may have gotten it with BRICS, the U.S. largely is getting pissed off.
01:41:01.000The war in Syria largely is about the Qatar-Turkey pipeline, where the U.S. said, we want to build this oil pipeline from Qatar through Syria, Turkey, into Europe because Russia is charging too much money.
01:41:12.000They control about 20% of natural gas through Gazprom.
01:41:15.000Syria responded that Vladimir Putin is our ally and for this we won't allow you to do it.
01:41:20.000So the U.S. said, then we will kill you.
01:41:22.000At first, they negotiated and then they refused.
01:41:24.000Simply put, I believe it is fair to say the liberal economic order system, Swift Payment, IMF, big banks, all of that is built around the United States is the world police, the police of the oceans and international trade.
01:41:37.000And for this reason, Americans will live like those in Capitol City, the hunger games, so long as we're willing to drop bombs on the people who try to break that system.
01:41:44.000Notably, Muhammad Margadafi, who wanted to create an African union and trade gold dinars for oil, and Saddam Hussein, who wanted to trade oil for a Euro.
01:41:53.000And so the U.S. said, now you're going to die.
01:42:17.000So I don't want to be bombing other countries if they're socialists.
01:42:20.000If you want to maintain a strong American economy that engages in the trade practices that you believe in, it requires us to blow up anybody who would oppose the petrodollar system.
01:42:32.000In order for me to be in favor of free trade, I have to blow up anybody that is not using dollars.
01:42:43.000Because if you want to give our manufacturing to a foreign country so we become an import nation, we are not producing enough to sell to the rest of the world.
01:42:53.000How do we maintain an economy when we are spending more than we generate?
01:45:02.000And so what happens is the U.S. now has access to Chinese labor for nothing.
01:45:08.000When you do that, you can maintain an import economy.
01:45:13.000I think that, again, I think you're right in terms of the deficit, because if we've got a spending deficit and other people are using our currency, when we inflate it, they bear part of that burden.
01:45:28.000But I'm not talking about any of that.
01:45:30.000I am saying that China has to tithe to the United States in order to buy oil.
01:45:35.000We get access to Chinese labor in exchange for nothing.
01:45:39.000We do not give China anything other than we print a dollar and say, we'll give you a dollar for your wand, which means when you want to, you want to buy that scarf off Ian.
01:45:49.000And I have a gun pointed at you, and I say, you've got it first.
01:45:53.000Give me something of yours before I'll let you trade with Ian.
01:45:56.000And you say, but you haven't done anything.
01:46:23.000My point is, sending our factories overseas and the jobs happening somewhere else means we don't have workers that are going to be producing things and trading amongst themselves.
01:46:33.000So how do we provide a laptop to a person who is providing very little to the rest of the world?
01:46:38.000Would you oppose companies that can automate on those same grounds?
01:46:42.000Like they can have a thousand employees, they can replace half of them with robots.
01:46:58.000First, it would entirely depend on which company, which factory, the degree of necessity for the product, and it would also the sector of the economy and how much it would be damaged.
01:47:08.000So the easy answer is usually automation is great.
01:47:11.000So if we've got little robots that are going to come and make shoes from now on, then we have to have some kind of tapering process by which when a company brings, so yes, government must intervene.
01:47:21.000Otherwise, what you end up with is shantytown slums and depressions.
01:47:24.000So a great example of this is the accusations against Tom's shoes.
01:47:48.000People stopped coming and buying from him because the people all had clean American cheap shoes.
01:47:53.000And so the economy was destroyed by free.
01:47:57.000When a factory says, we're going to fire 100 people and we're going to bring in robots to do the job, you now have 100 people who no longer have customers.
01:48:05.000The customer was the factory who said, we'll pay you in exchange for your labor.
01:48:08.000Now you have a whole bunch of people who can't feed their families.
01:49:45.000So when you lose your job to automation, what job retraining can you get if the only job available is rock star?
01:49:50.000Now, obviously, it's not rock star, but the point is this: a 50-year-old assembly line worker who gets fired because a robot came in is not going to learn to code.
01:50:25.000And this is what I think largely motivates MAGA, the people who understand this.
01:50:31.000Someone says to you, No, no, if we bring in the robots, we create more jobs in the long run.
01:50:37.000And that sounds really good to someone who doesn't know what you just said.
01:50:40.000What you said is 1,000 people will become homeless, destitute, and their families will starve, but 1,000 Indians on H-1Bs will get coding jobs.
01:50:48.000So I'm open to the idea that we need to have things in place to make sure that the transition doesn't happen so rapidly.
01:50:54.000If you were to automate all cars tomorrow, you would have a lot of problems, right?
01:50:57.000The driver is the most common job in America.
01:51:00.000My point was not that, you know, screw them.
01:51:17.000If you were living 100 years ago, we'd all be farmers.
01:51:19.000It's a good thing that we've been able to make those jobs more efficient.
01:51:22.000And I see that as a corollary to the free trade issue, where we're able to get more money, we're able to specialize more, we're able to be more productive.
01:51:29.000I think we hit the nail on the head with this point.
01:51:32.000And it kind of exemplifies everything in that when you give away a job, a factory, what you are saying is 1,000, when that factory decides to close down, 1,000 people work at the factory will now be destitute.
01:51:46.000But don't worry, 1,000 Chinese laborers will make one-tenth of what they were making, and China will be very happy to receive that.
01:51:51.000Is it okay for companies to go bankrupt?
01:52:14.000What would you do to stop the automation?
01:52:16.000You don't stop the automation, but you have to have a tapering plan in place, not just for the sake of the individual whose life would be ruined.
01:52:23.000But for the sake of your own country, so your economy doesn't collapse.
01:52:27.000Pitch me on this, because if you get laid off at 50 and your job no longer exists, it's going to be very difficult to find a job with a comparable income to get training.
01:53:26.000The three of the biggest Chinese AIs basically were just pinging it millions of times, basically stealing the code from you.
01:53:36.000And then I'm sorry, but you're like, I don't care if China owns our land.
01:53:40.000And it's bad that they're having birthright citizenship, but it's happening.
01:53:42.000My general problem with this whole thing is that if it's just like free trade, kind of laissez-faire, like path of least resistance, that insidious machines within government will take advantage of that.
01:53:54.000Easy like yeah, we're just going along to get along, and literally the Chinese will just buy us out and then own us with, like yeah, short-term gain, long-term losses and the.
01:54:04.000Let me ask you this question, if the Chinese Communist Party came to you and said, i'll give you 10 million dollars today to sell out your country no, but this is what so many people are doing, that that that's the whole point.
01:54:16.000If we're looking at the, automation is a great point and and Ian's point is great, if we have free trade at the same time as automation, we're basically saying to the American worker, you'll be left holding an empty bag overnight, learn to code, good luck.
01:54:28.000The only problem is the H-1bs are bringing in, are bringing in the coders, because Americans don't know how AI can code better than a human AI can go.
01:54:42.000Uh it, it just means you can, you can freely purchase goods from other countries and that you're you're not impeded with tariffs.
01:54:49.000Um, so if, if you're gonna sell watermelons for two dollars, I can import the watermelons for two dollars, minus the logistics of getting it from you to me.
01:54:57.000My concern is about corporate corporatocracy and a corporation taking control in a country and then serving as the de facto government, like Amazon.
01:55:04.000And if, if Amazon can do whatever it wants and sell to anyone on the planet because that's my right that they'll just make it cheaper and more robotic and less human and then all of a sudden they'll own the food supplies and they'll own I mean I I i'm, i'm glad Amazon's around.
01:55:20.000Like Amazon's made my life far easier and it it provides tons of jobs.
01:55:30.000So, like I, I don't think like, maybe maybe there are other examples you could give but like Amazon to me is all alphabet taking control of the economy.
01:55:38.000We absolutely got to grab super chats and rumble rants, but this was a lot of fun.
01:55:42.000So you know I, I get wrapped up in it.
01:55:44.000But let's, let's grab this because we can continue in the uncensored platform.
01:55:46.000Yeah, in the after show, go to the Rumble after show, because we're going to keep going.
01:55:49.000All right, let's grab some of your, your comments, and is as well, it's already 953.
01:57:04.000I say we need to tariff Apple by 300 until domestic consumption equals 70 of production.
01:57:09.000Uh, I appreciate the the kind feedback to your listener.
01:57:13.000Um, if you were to look at how much it would cost to manufacture an IPod in the United States, I think it would increase by something like 10,000 or not.
01:57:58.000You know, sometimes I question whether or not we should go to war with Iran, but then I see these TVs and I'm just like, well, you know, we can bomb some of them, right?
01:59:25.000Or cars made in Mexico get sold in other places.
01:59:27.000In the same way that you can automate jobs and you're going to destroy jobs, but you're going to create more jobs in the process by getting cheaper parts and having jobs created in the process of automation.
01:59:38.000Oh, I mean, like what we're doing right now.
01:59:40.000I mean, like, again, if we were to go back to like 1940, more like one of us would be a farmer in the room.
01:59:46.000One of us would probably be doing like ledger sheets that don't exist anymore.
01:59:52.000I definitely wouldn't be able to do my job like a social media manager.
01:59:56.000I question whether or not any of that is a good thing.
02:00:12.000I don't know about going back anywhere, but I think it's a problem that people are fat, lazy, slothful, locked in their houses and don't have anything to do.
02:00:18.000They've become listless and without passion.
02:00:23.000They've sought ideological addiction to fill the holes in their world and they've become violent psychopaths.
02:00:28.000I saw a video of a guy who went to an ICE protest stand in Minnesota where they were giving away hand warmers, gloves, coats, food, hot chocolate.
02:00:39.000And I thought to myself, how incredible that we have such tremendous abundance that people literally don't have to work and can get free food and clothing just for saying an idea outside.
02:00:51.000I think people should actually have to have some attachment to their lives and reality in order to exist.
02:00:56.000But the country right now is at this inflection point where I would argue it's massively detrimental to get to, let me do this because we're talking about Star Trek.
02:01:27.000Dave the Devil Chicken says, Tim, the reason we let Fast and Furious happen is to let the 21st century version of Manifest Destiny happen where we go in and take over.
02:01:36.000So you're making a similar argument that it was to like that Ian said, to create an enemy that we could then say, oh no, now we have no choice.
02:01:42.000It was the first day I ever thought of that in regards to the cartel.
02:01:45.000But yeah, I mean, I think it's because they're running illicit activities for intelligence organizations.
02:01:51.000Yeah, I thought it was they were just trying to track the guns and find who the higher ups were in the org, but now I'm starting to think like, geez, they create the enemy now if they can go conquer.
02:02:02.000SA Federale says, every low-T neckbeard who properly pronounces every foreign word has been steadily screaming, but my Mexican food.
02:06:51.000But I think that was actually a component of the story they told in Star Trek that Earth fell apart, got super violent, people were killing each other.
02:06:59.000But I actually think that, so in Star Trek, you know, Captain Picardy, Next Generation, they all have this, but he goes, tea, Earl Gray, halt.
02:10:02.000And Latinum is an extremely dense metal that is very valuable.
02:10:05.000And they use these things to trade with other non-Federation planets.
02:10:09.000The Federation itself, though, is arguably post-scarcity because of replicators.
02:10:13.000However, there are landed aristocracy on Earth.
02:10:17.000And that means there's no means by which a person born on Earth can ever acquire those land unless somehow you can convince a person to give up their generational wealth, which they have no reason to do because they can replicate anything you can replicate.
02:10:29.000Yeah, it sounds like they're under military control occupancy.
02:10:32.000They would have revolted hard against a permanent set of landowners.
02:10:47.000Like it was able to, like, now you can break apart all these old feudal monopolies.
02:10:50.000One could argue, because it's fiction, we can fill the gaps where the gaps need to be filled.
02:10:57.000And that is, well, they don't use current, when they stated we don't use currency, they meant, generally speaking, for things like food and shelter.
02:11:08.000That being said, there are still things of value that can be performed, which you will get Federation credits for, and credits can be used to acquire land.
02:11:16.000There are probably many things, like you mentioned, with emotion of value for which someone may actually want to use credits.
02:11:21.000So you don't need food, you don't need shelter, but I want that limited edition Ian Crossland guitar autographed by Ian Crossland, and he doesn't want to part with it.
02:11:30.000So there's got to be a way to transfer things that still have value.
02:11:33.000I want to go eat at Benjamin Sisko's dad's restaurant.
02:11:36.000There's a limited amount of seats, so there has to be some way of adjudicating that scarce resource.
02:11:42.000Have you seen what they have done to Benjamin Sisko?
02:13:05.000So like flavor-wise, not talking about political economy, but flavor-wise, the Federation is sort of a combination of Google and the European Union and space.
02:13:13.000Yeah, that's sort of how it comes out.
02:13:18.000There are some fringe instances where like the Cardassians and the Federation go to war and then we end up doing like a swap on territories and that creates like terrorist cells.
02:13:32.000They'll just like they'll do that, but they won't, but they but they believe in the prime directive, so they won't they won't colonize anybody or even make contact with anybody that's pre-warp.
02:13:46.000They acquired warp through trade, not discovery.
02:13:49.000So the core of the argument is the only reason that the Federation engages with societies once they discover warp is because it is inevitable that they will encounter each other.
02:13:59.000And it's best that when they discover a planet on the verge of warp capabilities to make first contact.
02:14:06.000So there's one episode, it's brilliant, where they come to a planet, which is totally an allegory for the United States and Earth.
02:14:12.000A planet where the president of this country is deeply invested in scientific advancement and heavily invests in the development of warp technology, despite the fact they are still very culturally religious, not yet advanced to the point where they would even accept the idea that there is other life in the universe.
02:14:32.000And so the Federation greets them and says, you are about to become warp capable.
02:14:40.000We represent the Federation of Planets.
02:14:42.000And ultimately, the president decides they cannot announce first contact because they pushed too hard technologically without culturally developing first.
02:15:15.000I want to say he hates TNG, but he sees this really strong moral variation that takes place because the original series is all written by World War II veterans.
02:15:25.000Like they're all like, America's good, communists are bad, period.
02:15:30.000And so Kirk, who embodies this, will go down to a planet and go, your God is a lie.
02:16:58.000So anybody that's pre-warped that's not like sufficiently modern, we will refrain from ever letting them know that we exist for fear that it will alter the trajectory of their development.
02:17:31.000But the flip side of it, though, is like there's in one of the, we shan't speak of them too much, but in some of the reboots, at one point, a planet is going to be destroyed.
02:17:59.000And it was the stupidest plot because the way they did it in TNG was substantially better.
02:18:03.000And that was they were investigating a planet with unusual volcanic activity when data receives a simple broadcast transmission from a little girl saying help.
02:18:13.000And then he argues to Picard, the planet, the people are going to be destroyed unless we intervene and we can intervene very easily.
02:18:20.000But they say the prime directive prevents us from intervening in the planet's natural development because they are pre-warp.
02:18:26.000Data then says, I would argue that the transmission to us calling for help gives us a pretext.
02:18:33.000And Picard then makes the argument, we can consider that an SOS for which we can't intervene.
02:18:38.000See, this is one of the other things in Star Trek is it's the prime directive.
02:18:41.000It's meant to be like the highest constitutional law.
02:19:14.000And there's an episode, one of the best episodes ever written, where they accidentally, the Enterprise C accidentally goes through a rift in space-time, appearing briefly in the future.
02:19:27.000And by leaving the attack on Kittemer, it alters the course of history in a way that the Klingons and the Fenterprise, the Federation, never form an alliance.
02:19:39.000And now the Klingons are defeating the Federation in the future.
02:19:44.000When the ship goes through the time rift and history changes, the Enterprise inside turns dimly lit in black with a skeleton crew.
02:19:51.000Guynan, as she is an extra-dimensional being, notices something.
02:20:33.000When he says, he's like, you know, they assassinate a senator in a false flag to trick the Romulans into joining the Federation, joining the war on the side of the Federation.
02:20:42.000And Garrick says, and he says, what should I do?
02:20:45.000And he's like, well, what you need to do is just sleep easy, knowing the Federation has been, or the Alpha Quadrant has been saved, and all it cost was one ship, a Romulan senator, and a Starfleet commander self-respect.
02:20:56.000And it's just so fucking good that it's just such good writing.
02:21:01.000And this is like, what is this, like 2000 or like 99?
02:21:03.000It's like, yeah, that episode, I think, because I think it stops 2001, 2002.
02:21:08.000I think it was like 01 and Voyager went to like 03 or something.
02:21:11.000Oh, sorry to interrupt, but you guys would strip the Prime Directive.
02:21:14.000Wouldn't that have the cataclysmic effects on foreign...
02:21:18.000They must have that directive set up for a reason.
02:21:21.000That's because the idea being if you go to a planet with nation states, limited cultural development, like what would happen right now if aliens landed in the United States?
02:21:33.000If aliens landed in DC, Vladimir Putin would make an announcement.
02:21:38.000We will not tolerate advanced technologies going to our principal adversaries, and we are prepared to fire every nuclear weapon to preserve our existence.
02:21:46.000It throws the balance of power off is what their argument is.
02:21:50.000The reason aliens don't make themselves known and the reason why the powerful elites want a one world government is that you cannot join the Galactic Federation until your planet is unified under one governing authority.
02:22:46.000But Voyager was silly, but Deep Space Nine was basically screaming in the face of these liberals who got fat and happy and just said, we can be in these, you know, we don't need to build space.
02:22:59.000We don't need to build weapons of war.
02:23:01.000Which the only thing I really, really like about the reboot into darkness is that was the premise that the general was secretly building insane weapons, a gigantic black mock of the enterprise.
02:23:15.000And he was like, there are threats out there.
02:23:17.000And the Federation has grown fat and complacent.
02:23:21.000And we are not arming ourselves for these wars, which is funny because considering this takes place in the prequel in an alternate timeline, we know full well he was correct.
02:23:32.000There's an alternate timeline that's explored, I think, and it might be the original series, the Terran Empire.
02:26:09.000There's a handful of trans people who will come on the show periodically that we're friends with and they're good people and they're rational.
02:26:14.000Tim actually lived in Boys or near Boys Town in Chicago where they were having Wrigleyville, but these gay parades.
02:27:02.000He's a problem with when you go to North Halstead, they have mannequins sucking each other's dicks in the glass window and they've got sex toy shops and they've got a bathhouse where guys go and do drugs and have sex.
02:29:04.000No, no, when you have men who have a very who are very not or not very risk-averse, men that have a significantly higher libido, women have a lower libido generally, women have way more consequences when they to the possible negative externalities to having sex, pregnancy, et cetera.
02:29:25.000All these things are built into women that prevent dudes from being able to just have sex whenever they want.
02:29:31.000This is why I'm rooting for that gay pill.
02:29:33.000When you take the women out of it, then you have people that are far more promiscuous.
02:29:40.000And that's why STDs and stuff like that are so rampant in the gay community.
02:29:44.000It's not because it's because they take far more risks because there isn't the moderation of women.
02:29:51.000And women moderate sex because historically, up until the birth control pill and modern medicine, women had a significantly higher chance of dying during childbirth.
02:30:02.000They could get pregnant and they couldn't guarantee that the man was going to take care of them if they had promiscuous sex.
02:30:07.000There were all these external factors that made women very, very concerned about who they had sex with because of all the bad things that could happen.
02:30:16.000Men had none of those bad externalities.
02:30:19.000They just didn't have to worry about them.
02:30:21.000The only thing that men have to worry about is STIs.
02:30:23.000And for the most part, when dudes are horny, they don't think about that stuff.
02:30:28.000Men have always had the ability to, and when I say ability, I mean, you know, they haven't had the same repercussions.
02:30:35.000It's not a big deal for men to have promiscuous sex the same way that women are.
02:30:39.000So when you have men just having sex with men, you have almost no boundaries.
02:30:45.000You don't have the moderating factor of women.
02:30:48.000So men, gay men definitely have way, way more sex.
02:30:53.000It's way more likely that a guy that's a gay guy goes to a gay bar and will bang some other dude in the bathroom than for a guy and a girl to go to the bathroom.
02:31:02.000Not that it doesn't happen with women, but it's way more likely for guys to do that.
02:31:05.000That means there's going to be more sexually transmitted diseases.
02:31:08.000There's going to be more all of the negative externalities that men have to experience when it comes to sex at all.
02:31:15.000They're going to have them on a significantly higher rate.
02:31:18.000There's an Andrew Sullivan article that kind of goes through that as well, Phil.
02:31:21.000And I agree with your assessment that when you look at sex amongst couples, gay men have the highest amount of sex, followed by heterosexual men, followed by lesbian couples.
02:31:32.000And it's just like men in general on an aggregate level have a higher libido.
02:31:35.000And if you have two people that have a higher libido, you're going to have a higher amount of sex.
02:31:41.000Women have been like, so when a woman, if a dude looks at a woman that she's not attracted to, it's not just like a guy when a woman looks at him that he's not attracted to.
02:31:54.000It's like, he's like, whatever, you know, I'm not attracted to her.
02:31:56.000A woman genuinely fears fear, feels fear because it's possible that that guy is going to attack her, right?
02:32:04.000Rape is always, in all of human history, rape has been a thing.
02:32:07.000And for women, it's significantly more dangerous than it's ever been for men.
02:32:12.000So when a man is, when a woman comes up to a man and he doesn't, he's not interested, go away, whatever.