Donald Trump will impose a 104% tariff on China, taking effect at 12:01am on Thursday morning. The Supreme Court has ruled that the President has the authority to deport people under the Alien Enemy Act, but every single individual must get a hearing, which means it will be impossible to deport 10 million people. The deep state and influence operations are back at it again.
00:01:52.000Donald Trump will impose a 104% tariff on China, taking effect at 12.01 a.m.
00:02:01.000Ladies and gentlemen, this is apocalyptic levels of tariffs on China.
00:02:06.000This basically means that all these Chinese made goods in the United States, good luck getting them.
00:02:10.000It's not just more than doubling the cost of goods imported from China.
00:02:15.000But if any components go to China and back or any resources bounce between the two countries, it's going to be even more expensive than that.
00:02:23.000Understand, a large portion of the products we have in the United States we do not make here.
00:02:44.000We'll talk about that, plus the Supreme Court has technically sided with Trump.
00:02:49.000They said that he can deport people under the Alien Enemies Act, but every single individual must get a hearing, which means it's going to be impossible to deport 10 million people.
00:03:00.000Now, the big controversy here is that Amy Coney Barrett has sided with the liberals once again, and Ann Coulter is now saying to stop voting for women and stop appointing women to anything ever, and sure.
00:03:12.000Plus, ladies and gentlemen, last night I was not here.
00:03:15.000The show was hosted by Phil as I was in a meeting with the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:03:19.000There were several other personalities there.
00:03:22.000Many of their names have been released, and considering that is the fact, people such as Molly Hemingway, Bethany Mandel, Dave Rubin were there as well.
00:03:31.000And, you know, I want to say it was supposed to be what's called Chatham House Rules.
00:03:35.000But when they do these White House influencer meetings, And none of these people know what Chatham House rules means.
00:03:42.000Don't be surprised when the entire meeting is leaked to the press and everything's all wrong.
00:03:47.000So for those that aren't familiar, it basically means you don't talk about whoever's there.
00:03:51.000Whatever information you get is on background and you do not attribute it to anyone.
00:03:55.000If you need an on the record source, they provide one to you where they say we will get a statement to you from an official who can clarify what this means and give you a different quote, but effectively expressing that idea.
00:04:33.000But we'll get into all that, my friends.
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00:07:33.000I'm willing to bet that if you walk into your kitchen, if you walk into your bathroom and you look at everything, it's all made in China.
00:07:40.000CBS News reports starting tomorrow, the White House will begin collecting steep levies on imported goods from China as President Trump follows through on a threat issued against Beijing on Truth Social Monday.
00:07:52.000Mr. Trump on Monday threatened to slap an additional 50 percent tariff on all imports from China if the nation said it would impose a 34 percent import fee on American products.
00:08:02.000China's retaliatory move came after Mr.
00:08:05.000Trump said China would face a 34 percent tariff on all goods imported to the U.S., a rate tailored specifically to China.
00:08:09.000Trump also said in his Truth Social post the U.S.
00:08:30.000They say 13.4% of all products, all goods in the U.S. were made in China or sourced from China.
00:08:37.000That seems pretty low, but I suppose with over the past 10 or 20 years, you've started to see stuff get made in Vietnam or Bangladesh or some of these other countries, so perhaps it's not as much as we realize, but still a large portion of our goods are made in China.
00:08:54.000You might buy a bicycle, and they say made in the U.S.A.
00:08:58.000If they don't tell you, all the parts came from China.
00:09:01.000And then it comes to a factory or an assembly line where they physically screw the wheels together, put the chain on and say, "Made in America." They don't tell you where the parts are sourced from.
00:09:09.000So there have been NGOs, there have been activists who have been trying to source, they've been trying to create a trail, as it were, saying, "When you buy this computer, here's where all the parts actually come from."
00:09:21.000This is a nuclear So think about computer components.
00:09:49.000Think about vitamin C. Washcloths, t-shirts, whatever it might be that's made in China, it's going to come to shore.
00:09:56.000The company that imports it is going to be told double the cost of that right now.
00:09:59.000A lot of them are going to say they can't do it.
00:10:01.000So I think we're going to see a lot of companies go out of business very quickly.
00:10:06.000But you know, what's funny, Trump's attitude is, I will sacrifice so much to destroy the Chinese economy.
00:10:16.000I think China's going to be well, well, way more Damaged by this than the United States will be.
00:10:23.000And Trump's not somebody you want to play chicken with.
00:10:28.000Yeah, I mean, so if I understand correctly, the number of products that are coming in from China that go into all the type of things that are manufactured here.
00:10:47.000It's going to have significant damage.
00:10:49.000I really do think that one of the things we should have learned from COVID was we should have realized our government should have realized and moved to encourage the U.S. manufacturing base to start We were selling PPE stuff to China, or we were buying PPE stuff from China, and China just shut it down.
00:11:13.000Everyone knows that the vast majority of our pharmaceuticals are made in China.
00:11:18.000There's all kinds of necessary products that are made in China, and whether or not you consider China a rival or openly hostile to the United States doesn't matter.
00:11:32.000These things are things that Americans need, and we shouldn't have to source them from one country.
00:11:38.000Now, granted, we talk about Taiwan and the need for semiconductors for national security because of the military's reliance on them.
00:14:05.000They say that textiles, furniture, bedding, lamps, toys, games, sports equipment, and other miscellaneous manufactured items amounted to about half.
00:14:14.00053.2 of U.S. imports for that genre of commodities.
00:14:19.000In the United States, if you're selling baseballs, and Trump says 104% tariff on China, Simple.
00:14:25.000You call up a company in Vietnam and say, can you make baseballs?
00:16:41.000So we can talk about what we want Trump to do, but you have to remember the reality in Congress.
00:16:48.000People vote, the voting majority, it's not big, and Republicans do not get in line the way Democrats do.
00:16:58.000Well, I think like Tim said, a lot of people are going to outsource to Vietnam or other countries like that.
00:17:04.000And I also think that there's going to be a lot of skirting of the system.
00:17:06.000I don't know how Trump's going to respond to it, but we just saw Apple fly in five planes full of iPhones from India to skirt the tariffs.
00:17:16.000And then, in addition, I just think this whole problem just wouldn't even exist if in the 1970s and 80s when all of our corporations started moving to China, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, whatever country it is, if we just said, all right.
00:17:28.000So you guys are moving there for slave labor, basically.
00:17:30.000You want to pay people 10 cents an hour to produce whatever you have in a sweatshop.
00:17:34.000If we just said, all right, so let's implement a tariff on these countries that is a counterweight to whatever the difference in labor cost is, but we didn't do that.
00:17:44.000But now it is too late, and now we have the gun.
00:17:48.000What I would say is I think you look back at the 1970s and 80s and it's like, shoulda, woulda, coulda, but the reason we didn't do it is because we were afraid of protectionism.
00:17:56.000I'm not this huge Raha protectionism guy, but I think that we shouldn't look at a problem that could have been solved with this exact procedure in the past and say, well, we shouldn't do it now because of the implications, because that's what they did in the 1970s and 80s.
00:18:13.000Obviously, I don't know what's going to happen.
00:18:14.000I do think that Donald Trump is going to stick to his guns.
00:18:17.000It's just my big concern, or most immediate concern, is will Congress allow this to happen?
00:18:24.000Because if people are going to be voting against Donald Trump and people are bummed, if it has a massive effect on the economy, and people are going to vote against Republicans in the midterms because of it, people have a long memory, and if this sets the country into a recession, people are going to be upset.
00:18:41.000I don't think their memory's that long.
00:18:42.000They say that a month is an attorney in politics.
00:18:44.000So if Trump does everything he's doing now and then starts changing the policies a year from now and things start getting better, he wins.
00:21:58.000And the American liberal is making fun of these people with AI-generated memes, mocking the idea that Americans would want to work a job that pays well.
00:22:08.000Well, I mean, I don't think that Americans would not want to work a job that pays well, but I do think that the idea of returning the factory jobs...
00:22:18.000I mean, you were talking about this the other night.
00:23:00.000I think the issue with with Gen Z is even if you were to work one of these jobs, your ability to buy a house to own stocks or any kind of wealth building doesn't exist.
00:23:12.000I mean, it is it is it has been largely wiped out.
00:23:16.000The challenge is if you're if you're a boomer right now and I know not all boomers are wealthy.
00:23:22.000I think like boomers all typically own their house.
00:23:29.000they own about 60% of corporate equities stocks and mutual funds and things like this why are they going to sell it?
00:23:37.000so what happens is a Gen Z kid might get a job at this factory maybe it pays him $50,000, $60,000 a year and then he says okay I've got some money I want to buy some stocks and the boomer is like I ain't selling for that I want more money I don't need to sell it.
00:24:35.000I've not seen anybody talk about the impending wealth collapse and monetary collapse of the United States.
00:24:42.000When boomers transfer their houses, when they die, and millennials and older Gen Z begin to inherit these homes, the value of those homes will drop by 70% or so.
00:26:11.000And Gen Z, they have something like 5,000, if they do even have one.
00:26:15.000I think only 30% actually do, and it's microscopic.
00:26:18.000So how are they, look, millennials are 40 years old, and half of them own.
00:26:25.000And I mean that with no disrespect, but when they start aging out and passing on.
00:26:39.000the properties and the equities and everything they hold transfer to the younger generation, that is erased overnight because no one can buy it.
00:26:48.000And if there's no demand and no ability Right. It reminds me of these practically ghost towns in Japan where they're outside of the city because this is mostly because of their low birth rates.
00:27:01.000They... These older people die and they own homes outside of cities and they either don't have children to inherit them or the children they had, the one or two children they had, are not interested in owning those homes.
00:27:17.000And now they're just ghost towns and a lot of Westerners are interested in buying those homes because they're incredibly cheap.
00:27:24.000The solution is providing them jobs like this.
00:27:27.000I actually think a lot of Gen Zers will take jobs like this, especially the further out from the city you get.
00:27:33.000I also think there's a problem with not teaching Gen Zers fiscal responsibility or now even younger kids.
00:27:41.000I have a lot of friends, I'm Gen Z, so I have a lot of friends who just have either no job or screw around jobs where they're not actually real jobs.
00:27:49.000But if you provide them jobs like this, I mean, I'm from like the sticks in upstate New York on the Canadian border and everybody wants to work up there.
00:27:58.000When I was in high school, everybody wanted to work on a farm when they're 14, like they're itching to work.
00:28:02.000And that's not the same for the cities.
00:28:04.000And the closer you get to the cities, it's not so much like this, but there are definitely Gen Zers, like I think a high number of them that would take factory jobs.
00:28:14.000When the millennials inherit the homes and then put them on the market, BlackRock buys them up.
00:28:20.000Right. And then you will own nothing and you will live in the pods and you will eat the bugs.
00:28:24.000You're talking about the factories being in the right places.
00:28:26.000The problem is Gen Z wants to live in either suburban or urban areas so that they can have opportunities for consumption that are actually accessible to them because obviously they don't have the capital to buy homes and make investments.
00:28:41.000The only consumption that's accessible to them is...
00:28:45.000Basically DoorDash and streaming services.
00:28:49.000So they want to live in or near cities.
00:28:53.000So are the factories going to be in or near cities?
00:29:03.000But a lot of people, when they get to like a legal working age, like 18 to, you know, they're out of high school, 18 to 25, whatever, they go and work in the mines.
00:29:12.000And they're happy to do that and they love it because they're making good money, whatever.
00:29:16.000So you have to put them in places where the culture is to work.
00:29:19.000And I think when you put the factories in those places, the town around it will develop on its own.
00:29:25.000And it's not like a mine where I'm from.
00:29:27.000The mine dries up, the town goes to crap.
00:29:29.000You know, I think the issue largely is that Younger generations, starting with probably to a smaller degree Gen X, to a greater degree Millennials, to a great degree Millennials, and then to an even greater degree Gen Z, the older generation continually treats the younger generation like incompetent children incapable of doing anything.
00:29:53.000So whereas a 22-year-old man should be either running his own shop, Or the manager of a business, or doing a mid-level position with starting out as family, buying his first home, having kids.
00:30:09.000Today, in the news, in the media, in our culture, they will say a 22-year-old is a child.
00:30:14.000Like a 22-year-old, fully grown adult human being, and they treat him like a child.
00:31:08.000So, look, my view is when you see these stories of 30-year-old virgins, we had a movie that came out, what was it, 10, 15 years ago called The 40-Year-Old Virgin?
00:31:21.000And it was like, ha ha ha, how funny of this guy who, like, never had it happen for him.
00:31:26.000Now we have increasing reports that young men have isolated themselves, and there's, like, early 30s virgin men.
00:31:32.000You know, and again, I always mention this because Seamus Coughlin said, based at that story, because he's thinking it from a religious perspective, and I'm like, bro, no.
00:31:40.000They should have been married at 22. Only one?
00:31:43.000Only Maxwell Frost, who's a Democrat from Florida's 10th congressional district.
00:32:47.000Another problem is Gen Zers do have some degree of money.
00:32:52.000It's not a lot, but they're also not taking any of their money and investing it.
00:32:56.000They're not taking any of their money and doing anything with it that will cause that money to grow over time because they're not taught to do that, which is a problem.
00:33:02.000Because if you don't start saving for retirement until you're 45 years old, you're probably not going to be retiring at the age of 65. Look, Let me just round out this segment by saying millennials can't retire.
00:33:15.000There's no reality where a millennial retires.
00:33:20.000I imagine I'll end up like 80 years old doing some kind of show to a bunch of other 80-year-olds going like, yeah, I was watching the news on the virtual thing today.
00:33:29.000I mean, we're already complaining about the kids, so I'd be complaining about the kids.
00:33:33.000But look, man, when I pulled up the data today, because I was looking at the left.
00:33:39.000The youth left overwhelmingly pro-violence.
00:33:42.000And I saw that the median 401k for a millennial is $15,000 to $20,000.
00:33:48.000I was like, alright, let's put that into wealth management with a historic return of 7%, where you can extract about 3% without hurting your principal.
00:33:56.0003%. So you're going to have a couple hundred, $600?
00:34:17.000And I got to tell you, it's going to be really weird.
00:34:23.000Although one thing that could happen is a slingshot effect where when the boomers start passing on and millennials all start absorbing.
00:34:35.000All of this wealth, instantly, all at once, in a tidal wave, and they're all going to be probably 65 years old, because, let's be real, I mean, people are living longer.
00:34:46.000Instantly, overnight, they're going to have access to all of this stuff.
00:34:48.000They can trade it amongst themselves, I guess, and then they'll just hold it, but then they're not long for this mortal coil, and then it's going to be just wealth continually accrued by the older and older generations until the whole thing just breaks.
00:35:05.000Yeah. Let's jump to this next story from NPR.
00:35:09.000Supreme Court backs Trump in controversial deportations case.
00:35:13.000The gist of the story is that Trump can deport these, uh, Trend de Aragua and whatever under the Alien Enemies Act.
00:35:21.000However, anyone being deported must at least be able to get a habeas hearing, meaning they can challenge their detention, which is, uh, weird.
00:39:40.000They just talk about this, blah, blah, blah.
00:39:42.000As Ress joined the Trump Organization in 1980 and then worked for Trump over the course of 18 years as a vice president, senior vice president and executive vice president.
00:39:50.000Ress was hired by Trump to lead construction on Trump Tower as vice president in charge of construction when she was 31 years old and helped build Trump Tower between 1980 and 1984.
00:40:00.000Ress was the first woman to oversee a major New York City construction site and worked with Trump on some of its biggest projects, including renovation of New York's Plaza Hotel.
00:40:09.000Now, how did she reward two decades of service helping Donald Trump build all of these things?
00:40:15.000She has spoken out publicly against Donald Trump, particularly about his treatment of women.
00:40:22.000She released a memoir, Tower of Lies, what my 18 years of working with Trump reveals about him.
00:40:28.000Indeed. She apparently has gone on speaking publicly against Trump and his treatment of women in opinion articles in the New York Daily News, The Guardian, CNN, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, appearing on MSNBC.
00:40:42.000Did she say that Trump mistreated her?
00:40:45.000She described, let's see, the Washington Post described how Russ's description of her experience at the Trump Organization offered support for Bob Woodward's book, Fear.
00:40:53.000And at the time, blah, blah, blah, both works to grab the president, a president whose orders are not always carried out by those around him.
00:41:15.000Like I said the other day, if the Democrats had kissed his butt when he got into office in 2016, he would have switched sides in a second because he's a people pleaser.
00:41:26.000It's not that he has some kind of deep, or at least it's not my sense that he has some kind of deep belief that women have been oppressed and he needs to do this and blah blah blah.
00:41:59.000I can't remember exactly how it went, but he was at a meeting and like his lawyer walks in the room and it's this young busty woman or whatever.
00:42:05.000And the guys were like they asked him something about if she was good at her job.
00:42:09.000And then he made a comment about her looks.
00:42:37.000But I think what's happened is over the past couple of years, she's terrified of being murdered and that, you know, some guy showed up to kill Kavanaugh.
00:42:45.000I think she's freaked out by it and she doesn't want to do it anymore.
00:42:48.000I think, you know, maybe she should resign right now.
00:49:59.000They're against Trump, but the younger people are leftists.
00:50:01.000I did a lot of work like inside these anti-Israel protest encampments, and the second most common symbol inside of all of them, I went to Berkeley, Irvine, UCLA, Georgia, and I think those are all the encampments I went to.
00:50:14.000The most common symbol on the inside of these encampments is the hammer and sickle, other than the Palestinian flag.
00:50:19.000That's the most common, second most common symbol.
00:50:21.000Well, how long until we start seeing people on the right join them?
00:50:28.000Under the hammer and sickle, you think?
00:50:31.000Well, I mean, the interesting thing is the anti-Israel sentiment we're starting to see from a lot of prominent personalities.
00:50:36.000So at what point do members of their audience say, I'm going to go out and actually join these protests?
00:50:40.000I think that anti-Israel sentiment has bled into sympathy for the left, actually.
00:50:47.000Maybe not sympathy, but a lot of right-wingers, right-wingers, who have started being anti-Israel have become, have adopted sort of like leftist tendencies, I think.
00:50:57.000They start to steer their audience in the direction of leftism.
00:51:00.000Yeah, I mean, you do get a lot of the same kind of...
00:51:26.000Candace Owens, on her podcast, she debated, I forget who it was, but they were talking about East Jerusalem.
00:51:33.000They're talking about the difference between the Muslim, Arab, Jewish, and why am I blanking, Armenian quarters.
00:51:41.000Four quarters of the Old City of East Jerusalem, and she's basically like, I was there with the rabbi who took me around, and the signs say, no, Arabs can't leave.
00:52:06.000She was corrected on that by whoever she was debating and basically told that she was lying.
00:52:11.000She continued to parrot that talking point afterwards.
00:52:14.000But what she appealed to is, and by the way, this is the woman who built her career on the whole Blexit, racism isn't real, don't let people convince you you're a victim.
00:52:24.000Well, I just see that and I think of the Jim Crow South and my grandparents built up in that.
00:52:29.000It's like, that's not necessarily a left or right issue because left and right is an economic axis, not a social one.
00:52:36.000So, I didn't interrupt you, and I don't mean to be disrespectful, but left and right refers to the cultural tribes.
00:52:44.000There's left economics and right economics, but typically in this country when they say left and right, it incorporates the components of the umbrella factions.
00:53:02.000I actually tend to believe that there's no such thing as a libertarian left.
00:53:05.000And I think that like – so when you look at like the actual axis of authoritarian, libertarian, right and left, and we probably won't get anywhere with this conversation.
00:53:15.000But like generally in the past at least – and I agree with you when we talk about right and left in the United States, we're referring to tribes.
00:53:24.000Yes. But, like, traditionally, right and left is an economic axis.
00:53:27.000The further left you go, the closer to communism are.
00:53:29.000The further right you go, the closer to anarcho-capitalism.
00:54:09.000The problem was when they started massing into large numbers and then start demanding you join the commune, which you don't want to do, then they become tankies.
00:54:15.000Sure. But, you know, the action never really made sense left and right economically because the authoritarian far right has nothing to do with free markets.
00:54:25.000And also, conversely, the libertarian left, you cannot have communism or socialism, whatever you want to call it, because depending on what parts of Marx you've read.
00:54:37.000You can't have socialism and libertarianism.
00:54:39.000You can't have free markets or, I guess, liberalism in socialism.
00:54:43.000Because in order to uphold a socialist system, you need authority to prevent capitalists from going in the woods and starting markets in your country.
00:55:06.000I didn't see the debate between Candace and whoever she was debating.
00:55:11.000But the interesting thing is, the modern left today wants the Jim Crow self.
00:55:19.000Yeah. That's the problem that we all have with the left.
00:55:22.000So, you know, if Candace is saying, I don't know if she, look, I don't know exactly what she said about the separation or whatever, but in a general manner, saying, I look at separation and I think of the Jim Crow self is a critique of the left today.
00:55:57.000He's the civil rights activist lawyer who was one of the principal authors of critical race theory who argued that Plessy versus Ferguson was decided wrong and that...
00:56:08.000Yeah, segregation should remain and all of those things.
00:56:10.000Many of these individuals have argued that during the BLM protests, during the Michael Brown protests before all the Trayvon Martin stuff, they had a letter they were circulating that outright said the end of segregation was a mistake because it forced black-owned businesses, which were smaller in wealth, underneath the white industries.
00:56:31.000And segregation was better because they had their own wealth, their own luxuries.
00:56:35.000The most common context I've heard it in is like, we want a black space where we eliminate whites from the space, and it seems almost like when you see that photo of the water fountains in Jim Crow era, the black one is obviously crappier, and it seems like they want that to be the white one.
00:56:50.000That's what I see the most common, but...
00:56:52.000I mean, I'm sure there are people who want benefits for themselves, but we just had Trevor Noah a couple months ago, I think it was, or, you know, he was arguing that segregation was a good thing.
00:57:03.000And he said the problem with American segregation was that the black people had lesser.
00:57:08.000But if you had true equality in segregation, he was for it.
00:57:11.000And that's the problem with these woke leftists.
00:57:14.000That's something that there have been a lot of college campuses that have groups that are saying, well, we need spaces that are specifically for POC.
00:57:26.000There was the Day of Absence at Evergreen College in, I think it was Oregon.
00:57:32.000And the point was to say it used to be where...
00:57:36.000People of color and black students wouldn't go to school, so that way the white students would notice their absence.
00:57:43.000But it turned into they didn't want white people going to school on those days.
00:57:49.000And this was happening in, I think, 2017, 18, 19. This was before your average normie knew what woke was.
00:57:57.000So the idea of segregation on the left is absolutely real.
00:58:01.000There are a lot of people that want it.
00:58:03.000They're the quote unquote progressives.
00:58:05.000And they're the people that, you know, if they're not moderated by government or whatever, they would they would be all for any kind of discrimination against white people because they they look at it as what's his name?
00:58:50.000But what I'm saying is, like, I think most commonly what I see is sort of like a rebranding of segregation.
00:58:57.000They want this new segregation that's really the same thing, but then they always beckon back to, At least I'm talking about, like, the whatever, like, Gen Z leftists, right?
00:59:07.000But they always still beckon back to the Jim Crow South or slavery or whatever it was, past oppressions, to justify what they want to do now.
00:59:14.000And that's kind of a big problem I have with what Candace was saying and appealing to.
00:59:19.000Look at how terrible, you know, people that look like me were treated in America, and now they're doing it in Israel, which just isn't true.
00:59:26.000And she's lying about it to push, you know, propaganda.
00:59:28.000Well, let's jump this story, because currently there is fake news about me, so last night I wasn't here.
00:59:32.000I got a late word that I was invited to a private roundtable meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:59:42.000It was under what's called Chatham House rules.
00:59:45.000For those that are not familiar, this means that you cannot reveal anybody who attended nor attribute anything to any one individual as they can deny it.
00:59:55.000However, what I love about what the White House is currently doing, when you bring together a bunch of influencers and podcasters who don't know much about journalism, culture, whatever you want to call it, not that we respect it tremendously, most people didn't know what Chatham House meant.
01:00:09.000So with all due respect, it's funny because they bring us into the Blair House, which is where Netanyahu was staying.
01:00:15.000And immediately people are walking around with their cameras, their phones up.
01:00:18.000They actually took our phones from us.
01:00:20.000And I legit thought they would maintain Chatham House rules, meaning – If you wanted an official quote on a specific matter, you would then ask an official once the meeting was wrapped and they'd provide you the exact quote.
01:00:39.000Or they would just say outright, like, we ain't putting our quotes on that one.
01:00:42.000So the story that comes out, which basically violated whatever, I was going to talk about what we, like, we went there for a reason.
01:00:48.000This story from Jewish Insider says, Netanyahu pushes back on anti-Israel trends in a meeting with podcasters.
01:00:53.000I don't know if the individual who wrote this, Lahav Harkov, was actually there, but this is wrong.
01:00:59.000And people are now spreading fake news about me because I'm going to go ahead and say as arrogantly as I can to everyone else who was there.
01:01:06.000I hope you all hear me because I'm saying this somewhat facetiously.
01:01:09.000I think I was the only one that asked a real question.
01:01:13.000Now that I've pissed off all the other journalists and individuals who were there, Most people were asking what I would describe as, I don't know, I felt like pretty obvious questions.
01:01:32.000What's going on with your prime ministership or whatever?
01:01:35.000And you get these answers that I really felt like you could have just got a Fox News.
01:01:39.000You know, the prime minister is going to get asked about this stuff.
01:01:42.000He's going to say, I can't speak too much on the nuclear deals, blah, blah, blah.
01:01:45.000Considering this was Chatham House and it was expected whatever he said was going to come out, I didn't see anything really substantive.
01:01:52.000However, in the story they say, Poole expressed concerns about increased anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the pro-Trump podcasting space, according to sources in the room.
01:02:01.000Poole famously had Kanye West on his podcast and the rapper walked out mid-interview after Poole pushed back against anti-Semitic comments.
01:02:07.000Responding to Poole, Netanyahu said that the reason he invited the group is to meet with him.
01:02:12.000Poole argued that there is a Qatari op to manipulate social media algorithms to make anti-Semitic and anti-Israel episodes appear to receive far more views than, say, tips for picking up women in order to incentivize podcasters and YouTubers to produce more anti-Semitic content.
01:02:25.000Netanyahu, however, was noncommittal in his response, saying that's only possible.
01:02:32.000It's close to reality, but this is what they do, okay?
01:02:34.000First, the person who was there clearly wasn't there.
01:02:36.000Ask somebody who then conveyed incorrectly what I actually said.
01:02:40.000I said there has been a report released from pro-Israel sources alleging Qatar is funding bots and operations to promote anti-Israel content.
01:03:13.000So my concern was, and I will say this too, speaking about the meeting, how they discussed Iran, the threat, and all of these things, I feel, based on that meeting, and I don't know if this was their intention or otherwise, that they are absolutely clueless as to what is going on in this country.
01:03:33.000They are too heavily focused on kinetic, on-the-ground Israel issues, which I can understand, I guess.
01:03:41.000And my attitude, and I'll tell you one thing I said to them, to these officials.
01:03:48.000In 10 years, your support from the U.S. will be evaporating.
01:03:56.000And in 20 years, you will not have U.S. support.
01:04:25.000Iran wants to crush Israel, and they want to crush the United States.
01:04:29.000The sentiment being conveyed was whether the U.S. wants it or not, we will be in a war with Iran, whether we start it or they start it.
01:04:36.000I'm not entirely convinced that's true.
01:04:37.000And the point I brought up when I mentioned the allegations, which they're allegations of, I don't know there's evidence of this, which is why I asked, about Qatari.
01:04:54.000FDD. There are people that are saying that Tucker Carlson is being funded by Qatar as well.
01:04:59.000I don't believe that anyone's being funded by Qatar.
01:05:01.000So FDD, this is the Foundation for Defense of Democracy, says Al Jazeera allegedly using bots to spread propaganda while skirting U.S. law.
01:05:26.000Who are scared to call for the suspension of TikTok largely because of the anti-Israel cohort.
01:05:34.000So typically the conversations go, the only reason Democrats and Republicans want to ban TikTok is because of Israel, which is true and correct.
01:05:42.000But there's a bunch of other reasons why we should force TikTok to divest as well.
01:05:47.000I see the younger protesters are largely anti-Israel, and I see right now there is no message conveyed to young people why they should support Israel, and I'm not saying that I do.
01:05:56.000I'm asking them, what are you paying attention to?
01:06:13.000The trends that I see are Younger people are increasingly anti-Israel, and on the right, they're relatively neutral or don't care.
01:06:22.000My prediction, as I made over a year ago, is that with the anti-war elements of the populist movement on the right and the anti-Israel section of the left, not to mention there is a smaller but still prominent anti-Israel right, Israel's not going to have support from this country in 20 years.
01:06:39.000The U.S. is going to say, we've got two factions.
01:06:42.000Young people on the right who are following in the footsteps of MAGA, the populist movement, who don't want to fund foreign wars, they vote no on Israel.
01:06:49.000The far left that hates Israel, they vote no on Israel.
01:06:52.000Israel, you've got no funding anymore.
01:07:15.000I think it comes from a lack of education on how foreign policy actually works and the fact that you literally cannot survive in this world without...
01:07:43.000But the other issue to what you're talking about with like the lack of Gen Z support for Israel is there are no like pro Israel champions that I really see.
01:09:34.000Anyone who's on the right who's like, oh, this guy's really good at defending Israel, he's also like a terrible He's an absolute horrible person.
01:10:19.000I look at, you know, Sam Harris was ragging on Joe Rogan recently, and people have been ragging on Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson, saying that they're entertaining these positions, blah, blah, blah.
01:10:59.000The argument for funding Israel is that almost all of the money we give Israel goes into their military.
01:11:05.000So first of all, from a capitalist perspective, the best part of that is you're taking public dollars and re-injecting them into the private sector.
01:12:58.000If that's the case, that the wars the U.S. is engaging in the Middle East are for Israel, and then you tack that money in, then you're talking about significant expenditures.
01:13:37.000They're off their rocker and they don't know anything effectively.
01:13:39.000They're definitely not holding us back.
01:13:42.000They are a very strong ally that gives us a lot of benefits whether it's on the political, the military – In 2024, they got $6.8 billion.
01:14:38.000We take all of the money we give to all these countries and give it to random firefighters.
01:14:42.000Just put on a big pool and then just...
01:14:45.000Dish out a million bucks to every firefighter we can until we run out.
01:14:47.000But a lot of this money is also to prevent, like, to put U.S. influence over these countries, take a drop in the foreign aid bucket, give it to these countries so they're dependent on the United States and China doesn't swoop in and take them.
01:16:33.000Interesting. And then before that, it was obviously the Ottoman Empire.
01:16:35.000We were talking about this a while ago, that there are people who are intentionally trying to create the circumstances by which Revelation happens.
01:16:42.000Yep. So, we talked about the red heifers.
01:16:46.000They're intentionally trying to breed them so that they can have them.
01:16:49.000And some people, I watched this interesting little mini-documentary about Armageddon, and they were saying that there's some people who believe that, it's the book of Revelation, right?
01:17:25.000Instructions. Right, it's instructive, there you go.
01:17:28.000And some people are a mix of all of these things.
01:17:30.000And there are people with power that are trying to intentionally bring about the circumstances from the book of Revelation so that they can force the coming of the Messiah, or they believe that when they accomplish these tasks, it will happen.
01:18:58.000I don't think they know what that word means.
01:19:00.000Their charter literally says that their day of judgment, so whatever, the rapture, says the day of judgment will not come about until the Muslims fight the Jews, killing the Jews.
01:19:14.000It says that until the Muslims fight the Jews and every rock and tree will say, oh, Muslim, come, there's a Jew hiding behind me, come kill him.
01:19:21.000There's a Jew behind me, come and kill him.
01:19:30.000Yeah, you know, that one really bothers me because, like, all of these rules you get on social media companies about hate speech, and I'm like, bro, there's a religion that has, like, a tenet that says they have to kill another religion.
01:19:41.000We're not going to respect all religions here, dude.
01:19:44.000Part of it also is that they have to lie to non-believers about what they believe in order to make them join Islam.
01:21:08.000Well, I mean, the way they behave, they would say they don't.
01:21:10.000But to an outsider, it looks the same as the way that...
01:21:15.000You know, people treat Christianity when it comes to the way that Christ and God and the Holy Spirit are one, you know?
01:21:21.000And there are different degrees of Hadiths, which is based on, I believe, like the, how strong the belief is that Muhammad actually said this thing.
01:21:29.000So I don't know what degree that Hadith that says the Day of Judgment will come about, the Muslims fight the Jews, killing the Jews, is, but it doesn't matter because there is a group that, what was it, 24% of Gen Zers said that they support that does believe that.
01:21:52.000It says, Harvard Harris Poll, 40% of Americans aged 24 say they would support Hamas over the Jewish state, making them the only age demographic for which Israel did not enjoy at least a double-digit support over the terror group in the Gaza Strip.
01:22:01.000Yeah, I mean, look, at the end of the day, Hamas is a terrorist organization.
01:22:05.000And guess what's legal in the Gaza Strip, by the way?
01:22:07.000Actually, every other Muslim country that I can think of except Jordan.
01:23:20.000But if these nuclear talks don't go well and they begin to work towards a nuclear weapon, they never said anything like there's going to be war, but that was the general vibe of like, yo, no one's going to let Iran get a nuclear weapon.
01:23:35.000I don't have any good answers for you guys.
01:23:36.000Sorry. The US is going to do weird, crazy stuff and they're going to lie to us the whole time.
01:23:41.000Yeah, I was surprised when I read that the US was going to go back into Bagram.
01:23:44.000It only makes the Abbey Gate and the pullout that much more infuriating that, you know, the Biden administration pulls out and we gave the Taliban a boatload of weapons.
01:23:56.000I'm not sure what the agreement is or how the Taliban plans to guarantee that there won't be attacks on Bagram other than massive amounts of U.S. military hardware pointed outward from the airbase.
01:24:48.000Yeah, according to a poll done by the Network Contagion Research Institute, a growing number of people are fine justifying or even celebrate Yeah, this is what I'm saying.
01:24:59.000Look, we were talking about Gen Z, whether they would work in factories or not.
01:25:04.000And we were talking about how I think the younger generations largely look up to the older generations, like they're in charge and they know it's best, even though 22-year-olds should be running businesses.
01:25:24.000I think that there's a general lack of purpose.
01:25:28.000And what's going to happen is the younger generation becoming increasingly radicalized are going to get increasingly violent because there's no path.
01:25:38.000And it's not so much about opportunity or the American dream.
01:27:44.000Over time, the left and the right start to move away from each other.
01:27:48.000What people don't understand is that the bifurcation among the younger generation is night and day, and the bifurcation among the older generation is, they're fairly similar, it's not that big a deal.
01:28:00.000Voting patterns right now reflect an older generation in boomers, Gen Xers, and some millennials that are still somewhat Close in worldview.
01:28:10.000But as you get millennial, you know, so some millennials, you get millennial, Gen Z, and younger, the distance between ideologies is a chasm.
01:28:21.000When the older generations that agree with each other die and pass on, they will no longer be voting.
01:28:27.000That means you are going to have increasing hyperpolarization as the younger generations begin to take over these principal voting blocks and become the only voters.
01:28:38.000Ten years from now, boomers are not going to be voting.
01:28:41.000So their shared worldview among Democrat and Republican boomers?
01:28:44.000Gone. Then you're going to have far-left young people, or I mean far-left middle-aged people, and conservative moderate right-wing people, and they're going to be voting for insanely different things.
01:28:56.000To the point where voting don't matter.
01:28:58.000They're going to be like, I will not let you do that no matter what.
01:29:01.000It's one thing when in the 90s everybody agreed.
01:29:04.000In the 90s, like, Everybody agreed on almost every single policy except, like, should the taxes be 1% higher or 1% lower?
01:29:11.000And should abortion be 15 weeks or 16 weeks?
01:29:14.000Now it's abortion for everybody no matter what or no abortions at all.
01:29:19.000It is Marxism, it is DEI, or it is anti-woke, anti-Marxist, whatever.
01:29:25.000The only thing holding everything together is boomers, for the most part, and Gen X. When boomers stop voting, Hyperpolarization is going to jump the left-leaning Americans when they include elderly people who are anti-violence.
01:29:42.000Look, another poll that we pulled up a year or so ago was that they polled whether or not people thought a civil war would happen in this country.
01:29:49.000Boomers overwhelmingly said it will not.
01:29:51.000Gen X, it was 2 to 1 that it won't happen.
01:29:55.000Millennials were split 50-50, and Gen Z was 2 to 1 it will happen.
01:29:59.000So just carry that sentiment as Gen Z ages and becomes older and starts entering the age where they should be controlling industry.
01:30:08.000I guess the only saving grace that I can think of with that is the fact that young people are the ones that actually engage in revolutionary activities generally.
01:30:19.000Usually if there's a revolution or a civil war or something, it's young men that are doing it.
01:30:59.000So the reason why millennials are split pretty close to thinking there will be is because we grew up with a constant battle between left and right in a way that boomers did not.
01:31:12.000There was certainly far left, but it wasn't as pronounced in the mainstream.
01:31:16.000So when millennials are growing up, it was mainstream for the left to make prominent videos attacking the right.
01:31:23.000It was mainstream for Green Day to make a whole album saying, screw America, F you.
01:31:28.000So, I mean, I know that there was punk rock stuff and there was criticism of the government, but the mainstream was largely not this.
01:31:34.000I mean, look, people that liked Rage Against the Machine in the 90s, 95% of them didn't know what Rage Against the Machine was singing about.
01:31:43.000That's why there's that video that's really funny of a bunch of middle-aged white people dancing to the song Killing in the Name.
01:31:57.000I mean, I was never a Green Day fan, but I still listen to Rage Against the Machine.
01:32:00.000If they come on the radio, I'm not turning them off.
01:32:02.000I like Rage Against the Machine, even though I know that ideologically we couldn't be further apart.
01:32:07.000I still listen to Green Day, rarely on occasion.
01:32:10.000In the 90s, the 2000s, the 2010s, I think millennials also believed that political solutions existed because the left was ascendant and it was like, That could very well be.
01:32:28.000Which is probably why there are so many people that are, you know, young people that are That look at the situation and freak out if they're on the left.
01:32:46.000If they're leftists like people like Hassan and stuff.
01:32:48.000There's not a whole lot of moderation coming from these guys.
01:32:55.000Because they thought they had a permanent victory.
01:33:00.000And that was kind of the vibe that people had.
01:33:03.000Now that Obama's won, now we can look at the Republicans as a regional I think the
01:33:34.000one thing that people just don't consider, and I'll say it again, is that Look, somebody right now who's 17 years old will be voting in 2028.
01:33:44.000Somebody right now who is 28 years old, who's never voted before and doesn't care because young people don't vote, will be voting in 2028 for the first time because it's beginning to impact their retirements or something like this.
01:33:56.000It's funny to me that whenever it comes to elections, people say things like, how do we convince more people to vote Republican?
01:34:01.000How do we register more Republican voters?
01:34:03.000And it's like, go to a freshman college class?
01:34:07.000They'll register tons of Republicans there.
01:34:13.000People aren't considering that a large portion of the people who voted for Donald Trump the first time are dead.
01:34:22.000In 2016, when Trump ran for the first time, how many voters did he get that were elderly?
01:34:28.000And it's been 10 years and they ain't here anymore.
01:34:30.000So he needs to find voters somewhere else.
01:34:32.000Which is another point which is interesting in the 2024 election.
01:34:35.000Because this means Trump A substantial, a large number of new voters, considering many of the older voters of a Republican are aging out, as we call it.
01:34:48.000So how many, so he actually won bigger than people realize because they're thinking of it like the body politic is a static thing.
01:34:57.000Yeah. Not that it's constantly changing.
01:35:00.000So Trump is winning bigly with young people.
01:35:02.000That's an era that I feel is Every group kind of makes.
01:35:06.000People think that time doesn't progress.
01:35:11.000They almost forget that there's going to be changes.
01:35:16.000Like I was just saying earlier, the Democrats thought that they were going to be in control forever.
01:35:21.000They couldn't imagine someone like Donald Trump.
01:35:25.000Taking over the Republican Party and really changing what a Republican is.
01:35:31.000The left thought the Republicans were people like John McCain and Mitt Romney.
01:35:40.000And then Donald Trump came in and changed everything.
01:35:43.000And that's why the other day we were talking.
01:35:47.000Williams was here, and I was like, look, man, you don't know who can pop their head up.
01:35:52.000There may not be someone obvious now on the Democrat side, but there is no guarantee that the Republicans or America First is going to be in control for the next 30 years.
01:36:02.000There's going to be someone that could...
01:36:04.000Or there could very well be someone that will pop up on the Democrat side and be, you know, a fiery speaker or have influence and could really, and you can't tell what's going to happen in the world either.
01:36:17.000I don't think, so there was a poll that came out for who's the, for the 2028 election, who do you got?
01:36:25.000J.D. Vance had like 40-something percent, and Stephen A. Smith had the Democrat ticket.
01:36:28.000Yeah. I mean, there's no one right now.
01:36:30.000What? There's 100% no one right now that's obviously ascendant.
01:36:34.000I'm just saying that it could be in four years or six years that someone decides, because, you know, someone that's 25 now that's not in politics, in five, six, seven years, they could be like, hey.
01:36:46.000What I can say is Terrence sent me a box of sweet potato pancake mix, which I've been using to make waffles with.
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01:38:06.000With a new study of more and more leftists being okay with deleting their political opponents, I can't see an off-ramp unless they win it all.
01:42:17.000I don't think that you're just born with or without talent, but it is true that you're born with the kind of personality that feels like, oh, I can do this, or oh, no, I can't do this.
01:49:07.000I heard somebody say this the other day.
01:49:08.000Probably the best I've ever put it is, like, do you think the rich Jews in Los Angeles and New York actually want the shekels coming from Israel?
01:49:56.000Lurch685 says, Cam, how do you feel about the IDF executing 15 medics or burying the bodies in a mass grave to cover it up?
01:50:03.000Yeah, so I haven't looked into this story.
01:50:06.000I've been preoccupied with other things.
01:50:08.000I have a debate with USS Liberty Survivor coming up on April 19th, so I've been preoccupied with that.
01:50:13.000That's Phil Turney from The Candace Owens Show.
01:50:15.000So I haven't been up to date with this, but if it's anything like the World Central Kitchen thing, then I would just be happy to condemn it, but while also acknowledging the nuance of the situation, like the World Central Kitchen people didn't have the IR strobe they're supposed to have on their trucks, they were driving armored vehicles in the middle of the night, Israel blew them up, Israel should have taken further steps to identify them and make sure they weren't killing innocent people, but to be fair, it probably did look like a military convoy in the middle of the night.
01:50:37.000If it's anything like that, then I would just be happy to condemn it and say that Israel are not infallible and they do things wrong sometimes, but I think that when you look at who we should I've heard none of that's true.
01:51:13.000Ultimately, these are things that most militaries do not practice.
01:51:16.000Israel does it because they're so hyper-cautious about killing civilians and the narrative that's going to surround it that they do it anyway.
01:52:03.000You want to come to me, ask me, ask me, Tim, are you upset about Israel blowing up, you know, a food truck?
01:52:09.000I'll be like, I guess as much as I am upset about the aid workers killed in Sudan and the oppression in Eritrea and the journalists that are killed in Turkey and Thailand and all the other places where governments are massacring people where you won't, like these people, guys, other countries exist.
01:52:25.000I don't know what world you'll live in.
01:52:56.000I don't buy that they're going to get us entangled in foreign wars, because we don't have a mutual defense pact with Israel.
01:53:00.000We're not obligated to go fight for them if they get into a war.
01:53:03.000And on top of that, it is ultimately, at the end of the day, the decision of the United States whether or not they're going to enter into a war.
01:53:08.000You know, and there's one other thing that people kind of neglect.
01:53:11.000Like, we struck, the United States struck Iran when Trump was in office and killed Soleimani when he was in the first time.
01:53:21.000The idea that the United States, should the United States carry out a strike on Iran in order to take out a nuclear program, that does not inherently mean the whole world falls into a war.
01:53:41.000In order for Iran to fight the United States, they're going to have to fly over the airspace of all of our allies and somehow make it to the United States for a bombing campaign.
01:55:25.000Israel has used the intelligence that they gather because they're constantly spying on jihadists who, by the way, have legal child rape in their countries, chant death to America every single day.
01:55:32.000They are constantly gathering intelligence in those people, those people who, by the way, want to kill you.
01:55:36.000So Israel has thwarted at least three major terrorist attacks in the United States by giving us intelligence that otherwise wouldn't happen.
01:55:44.000There was a huge terrorist attack that was planned for our diplomatic missions to Europe.
01:55:49.000They coordinated with European intelligence to prevent that terrorist attack.
01:55:51.000ISIS wanted to disguise bombs as laptops to murder Americans on airplanes.
01:56:06.000We talked about the Leviathan and the Tamar oil fields earlier, which thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of gallons of natural gas were extracted from Israel, sold to Arab countries, regularizing our relations with those countries, bringing profit to American companies. In addition to that, like I said earlier, number four place in the world.
01:56:48.000the funniest thing about all this is that, like, Some of the biggest podcasts in the world are hosting conversations critical of Israel or outright anti-Israel and outright anti-Jew.
01:57:03.000And the narrative is still that Israel is secretly controlling it.
01:57:08.000Well, I'm wondering, I'm like, the argument is that Israel is secretly paying podcasters or whatever, and I'm like, Bro, the biggest podcasts in the world are all pretty critical of Israel, or at least entertaining those conversations.
01:57:57.000But people always say things like, no, no, it's the government they're doing, the people, we want to, you know, but whatever.
01:58:02.000My point is, when, when, honest question, when was Israel running social media to the degree that they claim when you had all of these big prominent leftists and the biggest Gen Z streamers outright Just saying, like, they hate Israel and arguing against it all day, every day. I've always argued for Israel.
01:58:19.000I was banned at a million and a half followers on TikTok.
01:59:44.000When Dave makes his arguments from a pro-America or libertarian standpoint and he's critical of Israel, it's in a way that is personable, logical, calmly explained, and he's your friend as he does it.
02:01:26.000This fervent Israel derangement syndrome really irks me.
02:01:29.000You can literally come on this show, as I have and libertarians, and say the U.S. should taper off its support, no longer provide military support for Israel, and break away from this, and they'll say, so you think Israel exists, huh?
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