00:03:05.000I actually think Trump's plan at this point is to just keep going back and forth so everybody spins around, gets real dizzy, and has no idea what's happening.
00:03:12.000Now, in the meantime, apparently there are concerns that Donald Trump wants an invasion of Cuba.
00:03:17.000So, his administration has actually been drafting up plans for this invasion, which we all know the American people are hungry for.
00:03:25.000And actually, I think most people don't care all that much.
00:03:28.000And then, this may be the bigger story Tom Steyer, who's now the front runner for governor in California after Eric Swallow had to drop out because he was accused of drugging and raping several women.
00:04:15.000Most waterproof jackets, the ones with the big outdoor brands, the ones you've been wearing for years, are coated with something called PFAs.
00:04:21.000They call them forever chemicals because they don't break down.
00:04:24.000Not in the environment, not your body ever.
00:04:26.000PFAs are what make water beat up and roll off your jacket.
00:04:29.000That satisfying moment where rain hits the fabric and just slides off.
00:04:31.000That's a toxic chemical doing its job.
00:07:25.000So they have begun drafting plans for that military action.
00:07:29.000But when they ramp up plans, okay, why are you saying it that way?
00:07:33.000In case Trump orders, And they call it a military operation.
00:07:36.000Their lawyers are like, we got to be really careful about this one.
00:07:39.000They say two sources familiar with the matter told USA Today on Wednesday that contingency plans are being developed in case Trump orders an intervention on the island nation.
00:07:48.000Sources also told Zetio earlier this week that the Pentagon was given a direct straight from the White House to prepare for possible military action in the Caribbean.
00:07:57.000I'm going to tell you what this is right now, my friends.
00:07:59.000This is what we call a trial balloon in the media.
00:08:02.000These individuals who are leaking this story are not leaking this story.
00:08:06.000In all likelihood, these sources were directed to contact a journalist and float the possibility of a military intervention in Cuba for two reasons.
00:08:14.000One, to gauge the public response to the story.
00:08:17.000And two, prepare the public for the eventuality.
00:08:21.000If Trump were to launch an invasion right now, it would shock the public, markets would go crazy.
00:08:28.000I would argue that maybe a month or two, they're planning on a full invasion, military operation into Cuba.
00:10:13.000I mean, the fact that they think it's like some off the wall, hidden, esoteric reporting, the fact that, yeah, Trump is looking at Cuba, it's like the most inevitable thing ever.
00:10:22.000I bet the Trump admin could just go to Miami and then Trump himself would go to Miami, hold a rally, and just be like, How many Cubans here want to take back your country?
00:11:30.000I feel as though the president is, I suspect that he's emboldened because he's had so many military successes in the past year or so, starting in Venezuela.
00:11:39.000And now I think he thinks what's going on in Iran is going relatively well if you consider the.
00:11:45.000Obviously, we've had, I think, roughly 20 or so announced deaths of service members.
00:11:50.000Each one is obviously a tragedy, but considering what Middle Eastern wars used to be, the president likes to do it fast and quick, in and out within, I think, what he did today.
00:11:59.000It's a under budget and ahead of schedule.
00:12:58.000I do think it's also worth considering, though, the Strait of Hormuz is a very narrow waterway and it's relatively easy to block it with just some jihadist on a boat.
00:13:07.000So if, I don't know, if there were some Cuban revolutionaries who decided to try to close the Gulf of Mexico, I hope the administration, what?
00:13:17.000Yeah, I mean, all it takes is, again, a guy in a speedboat with a shoulder propelled missile to shut down the.
00:13:24.000Can we just pause real quick and take a look at all the pieces on the chessboard?
00:13:26.000And now we start to see all come into the big picture.
00:13:29.000We talked about it last night, of course.
00:13:30.000The military strikes in the Caribbean on these cartel boats precipitated the strikes on Venezuela, the surrounding of Cuba.
00:13:38.000It looks like everything they've been doing since they got in has been in preparation for large scale war targeting all of our adversaries.
00:13:47.000I don't think the Iran war is an isolated incident.
00:13:50.000Obviously, Trump moved on Venezuela first for a reason.
00:13:52.000I don't think the shuttering of the Strait of Hormuz is an accident.
00:13:55.000I think all of this is part of the deep state.
00:13:57.000Well, I shouldn't say the deep state, but the current intelligence agencies and the U.S. government's plan.
00:14:02.000I think Trump is just the guy who goes on TV and says wacky things to keep people spinning in circles.
00:14:06.000I think it would be fair to categorize, and I don't think it's like slander to say it is a sort of deep state apparatus.
00:14:11.000Like they've had auspices on Iran for 60 years.
00:14:14.000So, okay, Venezuela and Cuba are just dominants that have the fall to make Iran happen.
00:17:12.000I don't know what the ultimate truths are.
00:17:15.000But I do believe that what we're doing here, greatest experiment we've had, and it's the one that can help uplift the most people and make the most people have a better life by force.
00:17:26.000Well, it seems like all these operations are very little to do with ideology.
00:17:30.000I think this is what separates the Trump Don Roe doctrine from any previous iteration of American foreign policy, at least over the last 50 years, is because all of these pieces seem to actually be part of an anti China posture more so than they have to be.
00:17:42.000I mean, compared to Bush, where Bush was purely about a purely ideological war, where I don't think Trump really cares that much about Iran or Iranians.
00:17:57.000The people who are like, we can't have any conflict intervention while China is saying, that's right, America, go intervene and take over other countries.
00:18:08.000If China's going to be conquering the world and we're sitting back watching it happen, we're going to be very, very unhappy.
00:18:13.000So, this is the challenge that we have.
00:18:15.000And I think for a lot of millennials, the anti intervention stuff largely is born from post intervention stress disorder from Iraq and Afghanistan, which were botched.
00:18:26.000It was very obvious they were doing a piss poor job.
00:18:29.000However, that being said, if we sit back and allow China to just start, you know, expanding the Belt and Road Initiative, taking over everything, then we will regret it.
00:18:40.000It will be very, very bad for all of us because we do not have the economic infrastructure to exist outside the petrodollar right now.
00:18:46.000Well, they're playing a long term game.
00:18:57.000We're going to get our asses handed to us if we don't wake up and see that we're managing this like it's a publicly traded corporation and we're being managed into bankruptcy.
00:19:12.000And if we were to look at it, we say, oh shit, we need to hire some turnaround restructuring bankers to restructure this country and make it so that we have to slash debt.
00:19:21.000We have to change exactly how we allocate capital and make it so that we actually have a future because we give money away.
00:19:29.000We were talking a little bit about your background before the show.
00:19:32.000Maybe I think it would be good if you had like maybe 30 seconds or a minute to introduce yourself, what your quick background was, why you decided to get into politics, and how that affects the Virginia race now.
00:19:45.000Started off as an investment banker, did about $75 billion of MA, worked on the most value destructive deals in history, Buyer Monsanto, which consolidated 90% of the seed market, CVS Aetna.
00:19:58.000And I started to see that the system is entirely designed for people to capture wealth from it, that publicly traded corporations have more power than individuals.
00:20:07.000That is something the founding fathers never could have envisioned.
00:20:11.000Corporations were limited in size, duration, and geographic scope at the founding of this country.
00:20:16.000Now we have the Delaware Court of Chancery, which is business friendly.
00:20:19.000It makes it so that corporations can buy politicians, they can lobby for whatever they want, even the pharmaceuticals.
00:20:25.000Is that what motivates your politics more than anything, I guess?
00:22:04.000And, like, he's literally describing why accelerationism is just like a flawed ideology.
00:22:08.000Because, again, when you, like, install the left into power to, like, teach the right to be more radical, all you really do is just bury the right further.
00:22:16.000To this point, like, voting for a moderate, a supposed moderate.
00:22:22.000And everyone was like, yeah, okay, he just wants, like, wholesome chungus, like, racial justice or whatever.
00:22:25.000And then, literally, 10 years later, they're like, by the way, if your management's more than, like, 10% white, we're just, like, going to Completely shut you out of the South African economy.
00:22:32.000So it's like, it's always going to be a bait and switch all the time.
00:23:15.000So you thought RFK Jr. would have an influence, but Trump is once again, he was a big pharma guy.
00:23:19.000He provided a bunch of funding from the pharmaceutical companies.
00:23:21.000Then you get, now I will say, the FISA thing is funny because Trump called for getting rid of the FISA surveillance stuff, and now he's fighting for it.
00:23:31.000But with the Iran war, he's repeatedly said that he would never allow them to have a nuclear weapon.
00:23:36.000And he was pounding around with John Bolton in his first term.
00:23:39.000So, the people that are acting surprised that he's friends with neocons, I'm like, guys, he was the whole time.
00:23:45.000People were attacking him, saying he didn't drain the swamp in his first term, and you were hoping he was going to do it in his second term.
00:23:49.000I'm not surprised by a lot of these things.
00:23:52.000My point is the Democrats run as moderates and then go insane.
00:23:56.000Trump runs as a moderate, meaning you're going to get a lot of these static corporate, you know, conservative policies, and people are upset that he's not actually more of what Spangler is.
00:24:05.000They want him to be what Spanberger is to the left, but for the right, and he's not.
00:25:05.000To go back to this, so DARPANET, the precursor of the internet, was created in 1969 in Arlington, a government funded Infrastructure, right?
00:25:13.000Then that expands to Tyson's Corner, Virginia, where MAE East was, the first large scale hookup of the internet.
00:25:21.000AOL expands to Ashburn, Virginia in 1996.
00:25:24.000That creates Data Center Alley, the most highly concentrated place of data centers in the entire country, which then now leads to the fact that 70% of all daily internet traffic travels through the tubes in Northern Virginia.
00:25:38.000And this is why I keep telling people the government.
00:25:41.000AI systems operating out of Northern Virginia, which they have not disclosed because it's classified, is substantially more powerful because it is taking the entire internet as its training data set, whereas these other companies have to use isolated data pockets.
00:26:32.000The big concern that Donald Trump brought up in his first term with Project Stargate was that China can't be allowed to beat us militaristically using AI.
00:26:39.000So the US military has absolutely been developing this at a faster and higher level.
00:26:53.000Tell me if you know about this, because you might know more than I do.
00:26:55.000Last year, we were researching a lot of the AI stuff, and there was a reported power consumption discrepancy in Northern Virginia where the amount of energy required for this population size would have been, you know, I forgot what the number was, but there was something like a 250% discrepancy in the amount of power consumed.
00:27:16.000The presumption was there are data centers operating in Northern Virginia that we don't even know of.
00:27:27.000Created by the government, that all of these webs that we go and we participate in, we're giving our data away, which is why all the data centers started here because the latency effect.
00:27:38.000The closer you are to it, then boom, more information.
00:27:48.000Because if the AI takes in all of what humanity is on the internet and uses that to create an amalgam faux consciousness, it will just stay home masturbating all day.
00:28:03.000It will, it will, like the government is, you know, government scientists are going to call in Trump and they're going to be like, Mr. President, we are about to turn on the machine.
00:29:07.000Then, at the touch of your hand, whatever you wanted, that's a way to destroy society.
00:29:11.000It's the same thing with gambling, that it's like the more you push this stuff, and look at OnlyFans, right?
00:29:17.000Look at the value destruction and the life destruction that does to both the creators but the people consuming it.
00:29:22.000It makes it so young men think one thing is real, that they're talking to some girl on OnlyFans, when in reality it's a chatter in Indonesia.
00:29:29.000I'm trying to understand though, do you think these data centers are bad?
00:29:33.000Should we have more of them or should we govern them differently?
00:29:37.000Yeah, we should govern them differently because right now they're taking energy.
00:29:40.000From the main grid that we pay into, right?
00:29:42.000We pay for the capital improvements of it.
00:29:44.000So if they're going to be using more energy than a typical household, well, the people should be subsidized or get a benefit from it.
00:29:51.000So what I propose is a compute tithe, one based off kilowatt hours that the data centers are using to make it so that if we were to put that on there, well, that would be enough to fund Universal Community College.
00:30:02.000It would, in essence, though, be a tax on these data centers in one form or another.
00:30:06.000Well, based off how much energy they're using, right?
00:30:08.000So I would push back against the term tax because.
00:30:11.000As a former banker, what all of these investors are doing right now, whether it's private equity, whether it's a hedge fund, whatever company, they want one uniform federal regulation for data centers, right?
00:30:22.000They want them to be designated as critical infrastructure so that then instead of dealing with 50 different states or even having to go to Native American nations, that they can say, okay, we can expand across state lines.
00:30:32.000We can do this, we can do that, right?
00:30:34.000It gives uniformity in capital planning and allocation.
00:30:38.000That means they're going to get money.
00:31:03.000But I want to put a compute tithe on them so that the people can have education because if AI is the culmination of all Human knowledge, well, shouldn't we get a benefit for it?
00:31:16.000And all joking aside, I don't think that the AI will just be a gooner itself.
00:31:22.000But the Terminator bots are not going to be, we talked about this before, but they're not going to be skeletons with guns looking all evil.
00:31:28.000They're going to be like cat eared, sexy anime waifus walking around because that's what's going to manipulate humans into doing what I'm half kidding.
00:31:37.000But AI is going to be the perfect companion and give you everything you want to push you into doing certain things that it wants you to do.
00:36:07.000So it kind of seems like Trump's just, we're doing our foreign policy thing for the next several years and no one's going to get in our way.
00:36:15.000Domestic policy, I think he's shrugging on.
00:36:17.000He's just blackpilled on the midterms and saying, F it, we're going wherever we want, we're doing whatever we want.
00:36:22.000Instead of making the political calculation, no, he's acting in America's interest, not in his own political interest.
00:37:32.000But five of the congressional districts have little tiny strips that connect to Arlington to guarantee that they get a massive spattering of Democrats in all of these districts.
00:37:42.000There's something to say, though, about how the Republicans and the president really did initiate this round of gerrymandering and then just got mogged over it.
00:39:08.000They want an opportunity for a better tomorrow, which is America.
00:39:11.000As soon as the Democrats just start dangling the identity politics, Keys, that's gonna, that's no, they'll be thankful and uh, loyal to the president who liberated them.
00:39:19.000Not even, I, I, guys, guys, their child, their children will be loyal to the president, correct?
00:39:24.000They'll be saying, Oh, I were told stories about the great president who liberated our parents, like what you should have done, like how Marco talks.
00:39:30.000If Democrats never did the gay communism thing, they would have controlled government for the past 15 years.
00:39:36.000Well, then they wouldn't be Democrats.
00:39:38.000I, I, I guess, but I mean, in terms of their foreign policy views, in terms of their tax policies, health care, if they just did not do transiting the kids.
00:39:48.000If they did not do weird, woke, anti comedy stuff, they'd have won.
00:39:51.000Joe Ruggins would have been like, I don't know, I don't care.
00:41:34.000Or if they are, if we're going to be giving these healthcare companies $1.5 trillion, we should get equity in it.
00:41:39.000Because if we were to adopt that across industries to everywhere the government is giving money, well, we would be able to have birth accounts with $25,000 at birth for every kid born in America.
00:41:51.000So, you want government to have a stake in these companies, the ones that we subsidize?
00:41:55.000We subsidize, right, this industry because We want healthcare to be cheaper for Americans.
00:41:59.000But wouldn't every investor who gives money to invest in something, don't they get an equity stake?
00:42:05.000That's all I'm saying, that we should manage this like a publicly traded corporation and then to the benefit of our people.
00:42:10.000Yeah, I guess government is already very involved in healthcare, but just giving money away.
00:42:15.000Wouldn't that only further government involvement, though?
00:42:17.000And as a capitalist, as I understand, the more the government gets involved, it makes the incentives more perverse.
00:42:24.000So government getting involved in healthcare hasn't made it any cheaper.
00:42:27.000You want to solve that problem with more government in healthcare.
00:42:31.000I know healthcare is a very complicated issue.
00:43:12.000And if we were to get equity in it, well, that incentivizes this publicly traded company to grow, to manage for its shareholders, because we are the shareholders now, too.
00:43:22.000The government, if we're going to give all this money away, which is our money that we pay in taxes, well, we need a benefit, and we don't have one right now.
00:43:29.000And we've never looked at the government as a publicly traded corporation.
00:43:41.000I believe that healthcare should be free for all American citizens and that we should have something much more similar to the way the uniformed services have them.
00:43:50.000That people are subsidized to go to medical school, that they benefit the community, basic treatment, normal healthcare.
00:43:59.000You'd have to deport every illegal immigrant to do that.
00:44:02.000Well, I think we should have closed borders.
00:44:04.000And then I think what we should do is when we do that, well, then you can start enforcing through the actual employers, right?
00:44:10.000So when ICE went in in the Central Valley of California, They stopped enforcing because all of the large corporate farmers said, Hey, this is really affecting us, right?
00:44:21.000What I'm saying is that we're always going to have certain labor groups that we're never going to be able to actually fulfill with domestic.
00:44:28.000I feel like you're missing that's that, absolutely not.
00:46:46.000I'm not a staunch libertarian on government.
00:46:48.000Government should be enforcing our labor laws and our immigration laws to protect the American people so that these companies don't do these things.
00:46:54.000I agree with Bernie in 2016 when he said open borders is a Koch brothers proposal.
00:47:26.000And it's funny because some other guy interviewed said, it sucks.
00:47:29.000I just started making good money working here.
00:47:31.000But again, to the point, not to interrupt, but you can jump back to where you're at.
00:47:35.000I think that I got to be honest, you go to a Gen Z guy who's 18 and say, you want to work the farms, they're going to be like, fuck, how much does it pay?
00:47:45.000And they're going to say, how much do you want?
00:47:54.000But also, too, with that, it's that anyone 18 to 20, right?
00:47:58.000Like, either they're going to go to college, they're going to take out loans, they're going to screw up the rest of their life by doing that, right?
00:48:03.000The hobby is going to be destroyed by AI.
00:48:49.000That if you go to a Gen Z guy who's just sitting there on Instagram scrolling and say, you can actually start working right now to save up.
00:48:58.000All you got to do is go work on a farm.
00:49:34.000Like, you mean to tell me I gotta go to work 40, sometimes 50 hours a week, only to get two weeks of paid vacation while the rest of the world gets fucking five.
00:49:44.000I'm not even treated like a fucking peasant anymore.
00:49:47.000I gotta drive an hour to work and back if I'm lucky.
00:49:49.000If I pay to fucking commute, I'm paying for a train or a bus or an Uber fucking ride.
00:49:54.000And if I'm not doing that, then I'm paying for fucking tolls on.
00:49:56.000Fucking roads that my tax dollars already pay to build and fucking maintain.
00:50:00.000I gotta pay to get a fucking driver's license or a license plate for the fucking driving on the roads that my tax dollars again paid to build and fucking maintain.
00:50:20.000Also, that my fucking pedophile of a Satan worshiping baby eating president can blow up fucking children halfway across the world and stop resources.
00:50:48.000This is because peasants who lived on farms didn't farm in winter, but they still had to struggle to survive, meaning chopping wood and hunting and huddling together for warmth, fearful that if you run out of food or bandidos come, You will die.
00:51:57.000Let me ask you a question so we can get through this.
00:52:00.000If you have a group of people who live in an area and they are consuming all of the food available to them, and so it's not enough and they're starving, what will happen if you bring food to them?
00:52:29.000So if you have starving people, And you say, we're going to go to an area where people can't produce enough food and bring food from somewhere else, they will need that forever.
00:53:05.000So, it is impossible, functionally, physically, and economically impossible to solve the hunger crisis because we don't live surrounded by Star Trek replicators.
00:53:16.000If there is a region on the planet that produces, let's just say, 7 million calories, and you have a population that consumes that 7 million calories per year, they cannot produce more people beyond the amount of calories available for consumption.
00:53:31.000If you then bring in artificially 1 million calories and they consume it, They will then reach population equilibrium with the artificial influx of food.
00:53:41.000Then, when you take that food away, they will starve and you have more starving people and they will require a larger subsidy, creating an impossible and endless cycle.
00:53:49.000But these people who post these videos, these are first order thinkers.
00:53:53.000Mary Morgan said literacy was a mistake because people can't understand the things they're actually reading.
00:55:06.000You know, I wonder what would happen if somebody stole from the government owned grocery store and if Police got involved, would they get physical with him?
00:55:14.000And then what Zorhan Mamdani's response would be to that?
00:57:22.000Like, this is what Jefferson fought against Hamilton for.
00:57:27.000Decentralization, the idea of an agrarian society.
00:57:31.000And then you look at urban areas, like let's look at Fairfax County, Loudoun County, the spread Arlington through from DC, where now, okay, you go, you drive your Tesla, you eat your corporate slot bowl for $15 at lunch, maybe $20.
00:57:46.000Then you go to your rented apartment that's owned by a private equity firm.
00:57:50.000You'll own nothing and you'll be happy because you're consumed by your phone.
00:59:24.000It says, and go, you need to cull them so that they go below equilibrium so that they don't all be nasty, sickly, and diseased.
00:59:32.000The problem is, deer walk around eating leaves and things like that, berries or whatever.
00:59:38.000Humans rely on other humans for various tasks.
00:59:42.000One human will gather, one human will hunt, one will make the fire in the shelter, and then we combine those resources.
00:59:48.000Because of this mentality we've had, we have built a society that tries to subsidize everybody else because we're trying to be like, I'll provide for you, you provide for me.
00:59:56.000The only problem is, in the wild, if one person was producing in detriment, a negative, they were consuming more than they were producing, it was tolerated only to a certain point until the society failed.
01:00:51.000I should have complained to the government and demanded that they steal the assets from wealthy people and give it to me so that I can have it.
01:01:08.000But until we change this whole thing where we provide basic necessities, but then you allow the individual to rise, which is what America was founded upon, that's the only way this works.
01:01:18.000But we're in an over levered society right now.
01:02:27.000And it's not a big deal, it's not super expensive.
01:02:30.000And I wouldn't mind paying the 40 bucks for somebody who needs to go in and see a doctor for 10, 15 minutes so they can get some Tamiflu and not die of the flu.
01:02:47.000Or advanced treatments that if you have a little bit more money, you want to go down to Boca Raton, we're never going to be able to do that.
01:02:52.000I think I don't see a big problem with stipend urgent care kind of systems where if you go to urgent care, here's what we have to be careful of.
01:03:01.000If the government guarantees things to doctors, then people will overuse it.
01:03:40.000The general idea is there was a story about a 12 year old kid who got the flu, and the parents didn't know what to do and they couldn't afford to go to the hospital.
01:06:03.000If the government isn't the one providing that, then how else would you get there?
01:06:07.000Because I think what you're explaining now is the government's already heavily involved, and we should.
01:06:12.000In terms of giving money away, which is not capitalism.
01:06:14.000I think providing healthcare for everybody would only get the government more involved.
01:06:18.000With paying for these services and the healthcare companies would make even more money.
01:06:22.000And the perverse incentive would pay more money.
01:06:24.000But if we were to actually manage this as a fiduciary democracy rather than giving money away, which to me is socialism, we would be in a much better place.
01:07:07.000And if our equity in that company creates perverse incentives, then the government would have interest in giving contracts and awarding more contracts to that company because we have a stake in it.
01:07:18.000The government already does this through lobbyists.
01:07:20.000Politicians are bought and paid for by lobbyists based off the contracts they're going to get.
01:07:25.000You want the United States to have a stake of ownership in these companies?
01:07:27.000Yes, it will be a national trust fund, one that then does.
01:07:47.000I think that we should have government less involved in healthcare because I think they're the ones setting up perverse incentives and making healthcare costs more expensive by assuring these companies a lot of these contracts, as I understand it.
01:07:58.000Well, I would say that's the entire employee based insurance system.
01:08:01.000Well, there is like a narrow, but there is a right wing argument for health insurance.
01:08:06.000And the primary one, obviously, there's like the nationalist arguments, like, well, healthy workforce means healthy military, et cetera.
01:08:10.000But it's actually like if you get granular, is if you provide, I'm not arguing for this necessarily, I'm just presenting what the right wing argument would be is that if you provide public health care, the government now becomes directly incentivized and the health, they're directly interested in the health of their citizens and that it increases.
01:08:25.000So, you know, there's all these MAHA rules.
01:08:27.000What you're seeing with MAHA now would be kicked on, you know, it'd be on steroids if the government now had stake in the health of the population.
01:08:35.000Again, I don't know for sure if I subscribe to that, but that would be, in theory, you know, that's what people have presented as sort of the right wing argument for public health care.
01:08:41.000But to that, and maybe this might make you change your perspective, is so we have this totally sickly population, right?
01:09:10.000Well, in the 90s, a guy I worked for, Blair Efron, who founded Centerview Partners, he did the merger between a very large tobacco company and then Nabisco.
01:09:23.000It was the largest leveraged buyout at the time.
01:09:25.000What they then did, and this was the plan because they knew the government was going to come in and start suing all the tobacco companies, they took those scientists behind the most addictive thing at the time, cigarettes, and put them on processed food.
01:09:46.000The government's the problem with all of this because of how it's allocated capital, how it's enforced.
01:09:52.000I think a lot of the sentiment that in the video that we were watching earlier, it's a sentiment that needs to be dealt with.
01:10:00.000I think there's a grain of truth in her complaint, and it's that there is an affordability crisis for many in that country.
01:10:08.000And the resentment that that breeds helps proliferate figures like Zorhan Mamdani.
01:10:12.000Today's tax day, and he actually just announced a tax, a surcharge on homes valued above $5 million when there is no resident who lives primarily in New York City.
01:10:21.000This is going to generate the city $500 million.
01:10:28.000I believe our entire tax system is broken, that essentially the lawyer class or caste, as I call it, is captured, allowing then for corporations to screw around with tax codes more.
01:10:39.000We should move to a consumption based tax.
01:10:41.000The entire system of taxation is one that hurts the middle class.
01:10:45.000It's designed to hurt the middle class.
01:10:47.000But if we move to a consumption based taxation system, that's more fair.
01:10:55.000No, I've part of the lawyer classes you're railing against.
01:10:58.000I was, I was, but I spent everything that I have to get here to be able to tell you this because this is a message that's just universal fairness.
01:11:05.000It's not left or right, it's one that we have to structurally change this country.
01:11:12.000Because, look, if I'm a rich guy and I have all this carried interest, I'm never going to pay the same tax that, like, my father is a military psychologist would pay.
01:12:28.000And the Democratic Party has so many ways of doing this, whether it's signature fraud, petition fraud, which makes me wonder where all these votes come from.
01:12:36.000Well, let's talk about your story because you're a Democrat, but they kicked you out.
01:12:43.000And so Senator Louise Lucas, the head of the Virginia State Senate, came out against me with that.
01:12:49.000And then I was instructed by someone within the party to hire a certain guy to help get signatures because you need 10,000 signatures to get on the ballot, right?
01:13:41.000And that's what they do to everyone, which is why when Santos, who was just here, and he said I was going to have a blast, so, you know, and I am, but he said 500 out of 538 are compromised in the House.
01:14:32.000Republicans would come out and you would get one of the members of Congress saying it is a disgrace that they removed him from the ability to fundraise for no justifiable reason.
01:14:42.000This platform is supposed to be neutral fundraising.
01:17:45.000He gets thrown in the Farmville detention facility for 60 days, right?
01:17:48.000Like, I look at this, okay, one thing, but let's look at the technology of how they got him.
01:17:55.000The surveillance state is what's slowly encroaching around us all.
01:17:59.000We have maybe two years left before we have seven tech oligarchs controlling us, right?
01:18:04.000So all that tech's being used by ICE right now, and we're divided over illegal, white, brown, whatever, when we're losing the bigger picture that this country, if it was founded on the premise of a rebellion against oligarchy, well, we're allowing ourselves to consolidate into oligarchy.
01:18:20.000But the problem is, like with the demographic trends in the United States, like any conservative politician is going to increasingly have a tougher.
01:18:35.000And I'm like, you know, I'm a pretty staunch, you know, anti immigration guy.
01:18:40.000But as I see it, I mean, look, you, it has to get done because for anyone that's concerned, even if you're, if you're really concerned about a surveillance state and that sort of thing, with the current demographic trends in the United States, it's just going to be completely unfeasible for a candidate on that platform to even win.
01:20:33.000Like, you can offer an amount of money to have people self deport, and I fully believe most will self deport because they don't have money.
01:20:39.000Well, Trump did do that, and I agree with that.
01:20:50.000Just kick the door in, just grab the business.
01:20:52.000I think if the two propositions are random door to door raids of businesses, irrespective of if there's any tips or whatever, versus surveillance state, I mean, I think the surveillance state is actually preferable than just like random door to door raids.
01:21:13.000Well, I mean, we know that's going to be a massive issue in the future, right?
01:21:16.000Like 10 years from now, people will be talking about egregious violations of certain various codes that Palantir did in warfare fighting activities.
01:21:24.000I'm just trying to understand this is what helps us give us the military edge, and you don't want us to use it?
01:21:29.000So, what gives us the military edge is not fighting, it's the threat.
01:21:34.000Of force, we have entirely decimated our shipbuilding industry.
01:21:39.000As far as Palantir is used in our military, they help us make the military be more effective.
01:21:45.000I mean, if they can detect a harpy from 100 miles away, like I'm all for that, right?
01:21:49.000Okay, but that data could be used against us, though.
01:21:51.000Eventually, down the line, the big bad government can use it.
01:22:17.000Like, there's no reality where a bunch of, like, a million Americans with torches shut down the data centers, shut down these tech companies.
01:22:37.000Well, because irrespective of that, I mean, irrespective of that, it's like, okay, without mass deportations, because we're going to get, we're not going to get the birthright citizenship ruling.
01:25:37.000And that's holding you from running as a Republican, is purely, I mean, not purely, but like the number one thing is ICE, is the first thing that you cited.
01:25:43.000Well, that was the first thing I said.
01:25:44.000But more structurally, I think both parties are screwed.
01:25:46.000There's a fracture on the right, but there's a left to be fractured.
01:25:49.000I want to break the entire Democratic establishment.
01:28:00.000I mean, I guess, again, you were a Democrat a month ago, so it's going through an evolution.
01:28:04.000Abigail Spanberger was a CAA officer serving as a case officer and operations officer, as well as special agent.
01:28:09.000She was involved in the assassination of several world leaders in various South American countries, where she personally slit the throat of Adam Allen.
01:29:17.000It's the only country I don't want to acquire.
01:29:19.000Yeah, that'd be, that's like a demographic.
01:29:21.000What's the point of the border if we just, we move the border down to.
01:29:24.000I guess, I guess my question is like, it's a tough position because, like, okay, I understand what you're saying.
01:29:31.000You know, it's not about right versus left.
01:29:33.000You know, it's about, you know, it's like the anti elite kind of framing, but, The problem is, if you have a dispensation against immigration or illegal immigration in this instance, like you want deportation of legal immigrants, that's going to put you squarely on the right.
01:29:43.000It's going to put a target on your back from the left.
01:29:45.000So it's like for most people, they never assign themselves on the right or assign themselves on the left.
01:29:49.000It's just that certain policies that you ascribe to are just going to firmly put you in that camp.
01:29:53.000And so I just, I don't think it's, I don't know how productive it would be to try and like escape that paradigm because it's like you're already kind of penned in by default because of your policy.
01:30:03.000I think we should make being Democrat illegal.
01:30:48.000What was the F Boy Island hosted by Nikki Glazer?
01:30:51.000But no, the systems of control are all around us, right?
01:30:54.000So now, if someone, an enterprising young mind, wanted to look into Mark Warner and figure out how he had such a meteor, meteoric rise in 1980 from Harvard Law to head of fundraising for the DNC and what was his used car dealership in Chesapeake, Virginia doing?
01:31:32.000That he had a car dealership in Chesapeake, Virginia in the early 80s where he was making 600K laundering money for the mob because the mob was the main financier of the DNC, organized labor.
01:31:59.000People say they want to help the people, but in my experience covering campaigns of all these different positions, it's all self aggrandizing at the end.
01:32:08.000I mean, I could be an investment banker right now and have a lot of money.
01:32:20.000Well, so my prediction, Ilad, is that in the next couple of years, he will be the Democratic Party.
01:32:27.000The Democratic Party is going to be shattered.
01:32:30.000Their apparatus is not going to make sense.
01:32:31.000People are going to be craving something moderate.
01:32:33.000It's going to be a prime opportunity for people like Joe Kent, Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr. to realign the Democratic Party.
01:32:40.000So he's getting involved now at the ground level when the Democratic Party's in disarray and infighting over Hassan Piker.
01:32:45.000But the problem is, you're always going to be ejected every day until Sunday.
01:32:48.000Again, if you just hold basic positions like I think illegal immigrants should be deported in mass.
01:32:51.000And I'm not saying I don't know what your position is, but if you're pro life or if you're skeptical of trans stuff, you're out.
01:32:57.000Yes, but the point is, he is going to start building a following among moderate Democrats who don't like those things.
01:33:03.000And be part of a realignment that may be coming.
01:33:05.000I don't know if it is, but may be coming in the next couple of years where more and more Democrats who are moderates and having conversations but disagree with us gain prominence.
01:33:14.000I mean, it's a fourth turning theory, right?
01:36:54.000I agree actually completely that, like, Okay, I think our domestic policy does need to be mobilized against like CCP elements inside the country.
01:37:01.000I mean, the farmland thing, everything is just ridiculous, the student visas.
01:37:05.000But I guess I contend that like it's an inevitable war against China because I'm like, if anything, I think that's actually more and more unlikely as we continue to rack up sort of geopolitical wins because I think the effect this is having on the Chinese is actually more of a demoralization.
01:37:19.000You can make the argument, okay, when they're back into a corner, then they strike.
01:37:22.000But actually, I think they're just increasingly skeptical that an operation on Taiwan would even work.
01:37:26.000And I think China would rather just sort of Play ball in this instance because look, they just watched their entire Belt and Road Initiative.
01:37:31.000I mean, I'm still the war, you know, hasn't concluded.
01:37:34.000It's still, you know, unclear how this is going to resolve, but you know, it's fair to say that their Belt and Road Initiative has been hampered by the Iran operation.
01:37:40.000So they're just continuing to see geopolitical loss, geopolitical loss, geopolitical loss.
01:37:44.000That to me is a reason why they would be kind of hesitant to actually make any moves right now.
01:37:49.000Like Russia made their move on Ukraine after the Afghanistan withdrawal.
01:37:51.000They said, Oh, there's blood in the water.
01:38:24.000We'll be able to appease Trump however we want, but let's go cause chaos because that's what a war is.
01:38:30.000What's your position on the Russia Ukraine war?
01:38:33.000I think the Russia Ukraine war is the biggest money laundering scheme that has ever been put into existence.
01:38:39.000When I drive around McLean or Great Falls, Virginia, where I grew up, why do I see more Ukraine flags than American flags in front of mansions?
01:38:49.000Why do so many Virginians, you tell me you were born and raised in Virginia, why do so many Virginians support Ukraine?
01:38:54.000Because they're part of the complex, the military industrial complex.
01:38:57.000It's an asset pillaging of our country, of our money that we pay taxes for, right?
01:39:02.000This is why I keep going back to the equity point.
01:39:04.000Because if we're going to give a company money, Northrop Grumman, 97%, okay, we need something.
01:39:10.000But otherwise, what's going to happen is then that money, the government contracts revenue, right?
01:39:15.000Yeah, I know I've been shitting on this model.
01:39:17.000However, the president did take a similar position.
01:39:19.000When he came to Intel, he took a, I forget what the percent stake was.
01:39:23.000Yeah, because we did bail them out or something, but that's because this was, they saw it as a form of national security issue.
01:43:33.000But in Denmark, there's like one of the best burger joints I ever went to.
01:43:37.000And I got to figure out what that name is because it's just awesome.
01:43:40.000Denmark also has like a really pragmatic immigration policy that liberals seem to be okay with, where they're basically just like, if you don't assimilate, you're gone.
01:43:45.000And they actually have, which is what ours should be.
01:43:48.000They scrape a lot of data to get it done.
01:45:40.000I've been there like a dozen times, and somehow it's like.
01:45:44.000We always go, like, oh, let's get a burger.
01:45:45.000And it's like, it's the same place we go to, and it's just so good.
01:45:48.000I got to tell you, you know, we rag on Denmark and we joke about conquering them, but I'm actually, I do, I would like to conquer them because I love that place.
01:47:06.000You know what's great about Venice.ai, my friends?
01:47:08.000It is a privacy centered AI system, meaning everything you do in it, they're not storing any of your data, they're not stealing any of your information.
01:47:16.000They don't want to be spying on you because, well, most people, I think, would prefer that.
01:47:24.000I'm going to say this off script, but I imagine the guys at Venice were like, hey, I want to use an AI system, but they're recording everything I do and it's creepy.
01:47:46.000Venice has CDance too, among other video generation models in it.
01:47:50.000So, extremely useful if you're looking at doing video generation.
01:47:53.000So, they're using leading open sourced AI models to deliver text code, image generation.
01:47:58.000Private and permissionless, they don't spy or censor.
01:48:01.000Messages are encrypted, and your conversation history is stored only in your browser.
01:48:05.000AI can be extremely valuable, but we shouldn't need to give up our privacy to use it.
01:48:09.000With the Pro Plan, you unlock the full platform and features, including PDF uploads for summaries and insights, the ability to turn off safe mode for unhindered image generation.
01:48:18.000The ability to change how Venice interacts with you by modifying the system prompt, limitless text, high image limits.
01:48:28.000We've got some fun video generation stuff to show you for the uncensored portion of the show that I don't think we should show you on the not so family friendly, maybe a little offensive, but we'll say that for the uncensored portion.
01:50:38.000And in the long run, someone who owns land, let's say your great great grandpappy staked a plot of land back when nobody lived there, and he's got 10 acres.
01:50:51.000Eventually, the government came in and said, You got to pay a tax on that land now.
01:51:25.000$39 trillion in debt, $30 trillion GDP, $1 trillion in interest rates, right?
01:51:30.000The interest on the debt is about to become the principal line item, and it's going to, unless Trump does something to debt holders, like cut off their access to energy, so they become desperate.
01:51:56.00072% of debt is held domestically, right?
01:51:59.000If people were to take a haircut, we cut 10 trillion, 15 whatever off.
01:52:03.000What it would do is create an artificial tariff.
01:52:05.000It would make it so we'd have to make things here.
01:52:08.000I believe that we should not import anything.
01:52:10.000If we make things here, the debt held by the U.S. domestically in the national debt is like invoices wouldn't be paid from the government, meaning these companies need that money to survive.
01:52:23.000And then the interest rates, which general contractors would go to business overnight.
01:52:27.000You, you, 100, 100 million jobs evaporate, not just because they're held by the government, but because there's many private sector jobs relying on invoices from the government, sure.
01:52:35.000That in turn will be used to pay for food at a restaurant where the workers would go to.
01:52:40.000You would just see this massive tsunami of jobs collapsing, yeah.
01:52:43.000But we don't recover from government, guys, right?
01:52:46.000Like, if the government has its hand in everything, isn't it time to then restructure how it works?
01:52:49.000Because what it would do, it would create chaos immediately, right?
01:52:52.000And then our adversaries would invade, take us all.
01:52:54.000Well, well, if we had a strong enough military, no, because that's one thing that would be how you're going to feed them.
01:55:44.000But when it comes to schools, police, local services, if you abolish property taxes, now the state or the federal government is now in control of those services, the administration of the services, the state tax now is being levied on you to pay for those services.
01:55:58.000So when you take away property taxes, you actually lose a lot of local autonomy.
01:56:02.000Now we should go back to the fire emblem standard where you go to the fire department, you pay your monthly fee, and they give you an emblem to put on your house.
01:56:09.000And then if you have a fire, when they pull up, if they don't see the emblem, they leave.
01:56:14.000The problem is, like, I agree, like, if we could actually make that happen.
01:56:17.000The problem is, if we abolish property taxes, there's not going to be any.
01:56:21.000To your point, though, that's assuming almost positive behavior, right?
01:56:25.000Where let's look at Fairfax County or Loudoun County, where they know they have a wealthy home ownership population, right?
01:56:32.000They're going to keep jacking that up.
01:56:33.000But meanwhile, the public school system is going to keep spending money.
01:56:36.000They're going to overspend to the point they go into a deficit.
01:56:38.000So then they're going to say, oh, we need a casino.
01:57:10.000We don't even need it because the Fairfax County police will say, hey, Steve, this guy who's been arrested 30 times, if you let him out, drop these charges.
01:59:14.000You know what pisses me off about this? Is when I order food on one of these apps, and it'll say Sasha is coming, and then it's like Pedro.
02:00:06.000Illegal immigrants are doing a lot of jobs that used to be taken by people who were special, entry level workforce type people.
02:00:12.000If he worked every single day doing 30 deliveries per day, he'd make that amount, which I don't think makes no days off ever and doing 30 deliveries a day.
02:01:21.000I think a big part of the problem is that it's a race to the bottom.
02:01:24.000These guys will live a ton of them, a dozen of them in a house.
02:01:26.000They will inflate real estate costs and then undercut the market because they're not trying to, they're just trying to send remittances back home.
02:01:32.000And for them, it's better than Guatemala City.
02:01:34.000The $100 a month or a week that they're able to conjure up and send back home is actually worth more than they can make over there.
02:01:40.000They're undercutting labor here and then shooting up costs because there'll be a dozen of them in one apartment.
02:01:44.000I got to grab one more super chat before we go.
02:01:46.000We got a minute left, so I want to grab this one.
02:03:29.000Well, and to say one thing, too, why this is so important is what you guys are doing.
02:03:32.000This is the filtering of ideas in America.
02:03:34.000This is the most pure thing, which is why ultimately they're going to come for the podcasters, right?
02:03:39.000But what you guys are doing, and I very much appreciate the opportunities, allowing for ideas to percolate, see the best idea if it can win.
02:03:45.000Yeah, Mark, thanks so much for coming on.
02:03:47.000This has been a really good conversation.
02:07:12.000When I was younger, so many of my mentors and people around me told me, like, obviously, if you like your work, you're never working a day in your life.
02:09:54.000I do truly believe that we live in a very privileged society, and there are issues with affordability, but writ large, if you work hard, choose not to have a child out of wedlock, work a full time job, I think there's one other thing.
02:10:07.000This is a statistic from the Brookings Institute that you will work your way out of poverty.
02:10:10.000That is achievable in the United States currently.
02:10:13.000I'm not saying that it won't be hard, and you know, some people are born into fucked up situations.
02:10:18.000Obviously, it's better to have two parents.
02:10:20.000Obviously, it's better to have them fundraise you going to higher education and providing for you and providing food for you and making sure.
02:10:26.000You're well nourished and raise you in a good environment.
02:10:28.000But besides that, I do believe though, if you do work hard and do those other two things, not have a child out of wedlock, graduate high school, what was the third against AID?
02:10:37.000High school, high school, wedlock, and work a job, work a regular job, then you can work your way out of poverty.
02:10:43.000I'm not blaming this guy for whatever you say happened to him.
02:12:00.000Like, if you track income to IQ level, if you're born in the hood, but you're a smart person, you're going to navigate out.
02:12:06.000So, this I agree that like some people, you know, maybe are limited by chances, but I think generally America specifically is actually pretty good at sorting people.
02:12:37.000But those kids grow up, for the most part, in a place where there's love, there's care, there's community.
02:12:41.000We don't have community, we don't have trust.
02:12:43.000So people may have more money in certain areas run by certain types of people, go to school systems where they pay more per child to be educated.
02:14:21.000Sentiment to you because it's like, I mean, there are a lot of rich people in Virginia and there's a lot of beautiful neighborhoods there, but isn't that a good thing?
02:14:27.000Isn't that what, like, we'll, yeah, but the money's coming from bullshit.
02:14:46.000You're managing every three months because your compensation is entirely tied to your restricted stock units, which are entirely tied to the earnings per share of the stock price of the company.
02:14:56.000So you're going to manage that for three months at a time to make your wealth.
02:15:01.000Who do you think you're, is there a political figure or commentator who you think?
02:17:48.000I wanted to ask Mark about his take on health insurance, and I may have a slightly different take because I may or may not work in health insurance, and may or may not.
02:17:59.000May not work for a certain company that was mentioned earlier in the program.
02:18:03.000But I've always been conflicted working for a health insurer, I'm sorry, allegedly working for a health insurer, while also being quite fiscally conservative and concerned about how that money is being spent.
02:18:16.000So, with that, my question is the government already regulates how much a health insurance company can earn as profit.
02:18:23.000It's somewhere 80, 85%, kind of depending on the product.
02:18:31.000On medical costs with the 15, 20% going towards admin and profit.
02:18:38.000And if that percentage isn't met over a rolling three year period, that money actually has to go back to the member.
02:18:45.000So I know a lot of people don't know that about health insurance, but that really kind of brings me to my question How do you think the government owning an equity stake would actually make meaningful change in health insurance?
02:18:58.000And phenomenal question because, like, the MLRs, the medical loss ratios, are like one of the most complicated things that no one really.
02:19:06.000Gets right, and a moment that led me to run for office was working on Melina, which you'll know, buying a bankrupt, non for profit insurer in Chicago, and then being able to adjust through the reimbursement rate for patients with ESRD so, end stage renal disease.
02:19:24.000So, it hit me, it's like, okay, by managing for the bottom line, this is going to kill poor black people, right?
02:20:32.000You know, you had mentioned them being a fiduciary, and really, if they ever became a majority shareholder, they would still be really kind of forced to act as a fiduciary for the rest of the equity holders as well.
02:21:14.000But then why in this American system are we just giving money away for free and not getting anything in return?
02:21:19.000Well, so, I mean, the theory of health insurance, right, is that what we're paying for, what the government's getting in return is less overall health care costs because the cost of treating someone who is sick.
02:21:32.000Further on down the line is way more expensive than paying for those PCP visits and those things on the front end.
02:21:42.000But I would argue that then it would make sense to start with our food.
02:21:47.000Because if you look at the decline of healthcare, it goes back to the consolidation, putting tobacco chemists behind Nabisco products, and then leading to if you can look at population health data of what groups have higher rates of obesity and these things live in food deserts.
02:22:07.000And so I look at it as healthcare is a great conversation to have.
02:22:11.000And it's like wrapped in this like healthcare, good, bad, whatever, free, less, whatever.
02:22:16.000We need to treat the food, though, which is why the Make America Healthy Again movement, I think, is something that's a massive winner.
02:22:22.000And I think it's something everyone on the left and the right should be talking about.
02:22:26.000But then you look at who consolidates these large processed foods companies.
02:22:31.000A guy named Blair Efron, who founded Centerview Partners, donates to Mark Warner, my former boss.
02:22:35.000It's like, By design, these bankers make consolidation happen that make us way more unhealthy, and then it affects the entire healthcare system.
02:22:43.000Yeah, well, I can at least agree with you on that last part, so I appreciate you.
02:24:41.000And it seems, yeah, it seems so odd the timing of you getting here.
02:24:44.000I'd almost feel like you slipped the book or some money to get on here because you literally filed as an independent yesterday in the Senate, the day before coming on this show.
02:26:19.000You believe you have a serious chance at winning in this campaign by letting the truth show, yes, because I want to live in America where the best ideas win, right?