Rex Jones and Tim Tompkins dissect Tucker Carlson’s explosive two-hour interview with Nick Fuentes, where he branded Christian Zionists—including Mike Huckabee, Ted Cruz, and George W. Bush—as "virus-infected" war hawks betraying U.S. interests for Israel, sparking accusations of anti-Semitism. They also expose New York City’s housing crisis, where landlords like Lincoln Eccles lose millions on vacant units due to $1,000 rent caps on properties worth over $2,500, worsened by 2019’s rent law. Amazon’s AI-driven layoffs of 14,000 workers reveal automation’s economic disruption, while reliance on Taiwan’s TSMC for critical chips—with no backup if China invades by 2028—exposes fragile global tech dependencies, warning of a coming collapse unless U.S. production scales fast. [Automatically generated summary]
That's why we encourage people to go to the Rumble and YouTube channel because you can find the very first streams we just started doing.
Of course, like all these streams are kind of the very first streams that we're starting to do.
But you know, you have an interesting topic for today.
We're going to talk about a lot of stuff.
We're going to talk about Tucker and Nick.
We're going to talk about momdani and more New York City election stuff and the Amazon AI stuff.
And we were looking at stories and I was like, oh man, like what is there to talk about today?
Was kind of like I was feeling like it was last week, and like everything we talked about, but then we go on X to kind of look at like just at the news profile in the search bar.
And you got Rhesus monkeys like started the planet of the apes and escaped, and they got like hepatitis C and COVID and all that.
It's more like one of those things that was like, you know, like a concept or they just like pay for the ad space.
And it would actually be like, oh, like this cool project or whatnot.
Apparently, there is a real robot that you can buy and it can like live in your house and stalk over you and put away your books and probably choke you when you're asleep.
So I believe I want to get people crucify me for this in the chat.
I believe it's a Kubrick film.
Basically, it's the whole plot of like the 1950s, like nuclear war stuff.
So it's people in like massive underground cities, and they're basically like acting out the apocalypse that we're seeing kind of form up now.
We both really should re-watch that movie because it was made with a lot of like, you know, like the people involved, a lot of their like lore is in it.
It's one of those movies, you know, like Kubrick, I believe, also did Eyes Wide Shut, which is about like the like Hollywood like sex stuff and whatnot.
So yeah, he's famous for those types of movies.
And they like took the script out of that movie and like wouldn't let him do certain things.
I'm like, yeah, I remember a few months ago, Chase was, I guess, several months, really, I guess Chase was talking to me about this and he's like, methyl red, methylene red.
And I was like, look, just look into the high-quality B vitamins.
A lot of them are red already.
And it's got Cook U10, which I always speak so highly of in it.
It really, it's just a great health tonic, it appears to me.
But, you know, maybe they'll have me come in and plug it.
Maybe they won't.
But either way, it's a cool product from the Alex Jones store.
Let's read this news aggregator from Twitter and check it out.
Tucker Carlson conducted a two-hour interview with far-right activist Nick Fuentes on October 27th, 2025, where he denounced Christian Zionism as a dangerous heresy and expressed strong disdain for supporters, including Mike Huckabee, Ted Cruz, Bolton, Carl Rove, and George Bush.
The discussion occurred amid grief over Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk's assassination, September 10th, and drew widespread condemnation from conservatives who saw it as a betrayal of Kirk's evangelical legacy and the elevation of Fuentes' controversial views.
Reactions included sarcastic responses from Huckabee and accusations of platforming anti-Semitism, blah, So I learned some new things from this.
I mean, honestly, I never really paid attention to Fuentes prior to this, but it was interesting to see like the stuff he was saying at the beginning with his background.
Like, I'm surprised some of these people start super young into the whole politics.
You've got to be like crazy, not crazy, but like, you got to be like, you do really, yeah, you got to have a certain level of like your mental health requiredness to be doing that and you know, going out there and preaching the message of certain people at the age of like 15.
You were also raised in that type of environment too, where you're like, you're just like, just around adults and doing, you know, grown-up shit at that age.
Like, I wish, you know, hypothetically, and you don't get to wish you're in the life you're in, like it or not.
But I was like, I wonder what it would be like to not, you know, have any of this structure as to where, like, there's a mission, there's a goal, and like you're involved in this thing, whether you want to or not.
But he's another guy that, like, you know, like, whether or not I knew about Infowars or anything, I would have always, as a person, have been watching the news and I would have always wanted to be involved in media at the end of the day.
So I have to say this, like, like, it was definitely just such a unique opportunity.
And when you get a unique opportunity, like a real like rare one or like a weird one, you need to like jump on it.
And I recognized that as a kid.
I was like, no one else is doing this.
Like, I want to do this and have a really great time doing it because I believe in it.
Right.
And like, you know, once you find what that thing is for yourself, like for a lot of people, like that's sports, right?
Like, I want to go play an ex-sport.
So they go do that.
And that's how I feel like Fuentes is about politics.
He's like, I want to do this sport.
Right.
So him ending up on Tucker is kind of like the big deal.
I mean, that's the cherry on top of the cake.
He's basically set out.
He's the leader of a political movement in America.
So him going on Tucker, I think the turning point people are going to be really upset about it because Tucker's affiliated with Turning Point and they really, really, really do not like Fuentes.
Yeah, it's so interesting because it's like, as I hear, as you hear, like all of these different terms, you know, neocon and Christian Zionist, it's like, dude, how many, how many buckets are we going to keep creating for different groups of people and what their belief system is?
I think it's right to say that that guy is too Pro-israel, like this, is not talking about drinking the kool-aid.
Yeah, it's pretty insane, but you know, we have the Tucker story.
We like the Tucker story.
Um, it's good to see, because these are titans in media, in a media history really, and There's been a long debate as to why they wouldn't talk and Nick doesn't want to do it with Tucker.
Tucker is afraid of Nick, counteracting language.
I think that this was always destined to happen because we see the political split in the Republican Party taking place.
It will not exist in its current form, just like the Democratic Party won't exist in its current form in the next 10 years.
I truly believe this because on the Republican side, you have the old boomer evangelical, like essentially white pseudo-Christian base.
And these people love the Ted Cruz, like, I want to be a senator for Israel.
You must never criticize Trump because at the end of the day, he's saving the Republican Party.
He is saving the Republican Party, but it's still going to be the Republican Party.
He's just, he's breathed new life into it, right?
So when you see these dissident figures on the right that either like Tucker loves Trump and talks about how much he loves Trump, but he criticizes Trump on his big mistakes, as he should, right?
Fuentes is highly critical of Trump and has even said he'd vote for Gavin Newsome.
You can't do a show like that and not believe what you're saying.
There's no one that's that talented.
He says what he believes.
He is edgy sometimes to a degree.
It doesn't have to be.
But I mean, he's made it very clear.
Here's something I disagree with Nick on a lot.
He likes the projection of American power as long as it makes sense, quote unquote, whatever that means.
So he's like, I'm not even necessarily against the Venezuela stuff.
And I'm like, okay, all right.
Because like he, he just, he sees it as like we've sold out America, primarily for Israel, but also for other people, like the special interest and such.
That's his argument.
Just, he's not necessarily critical of the actions themselves, but he's critical of the rationale behind them, who we're doing it to, and why.
So a big talking point that's emerged about Mr. Mamdani is apparently that he said somewhere or the other that he supported sex work or that he wasn't going to criminalize or like use.
I don't know.
They picked the women up off the street wearing like the fur jacket.
Right.
So like whatever.
And he said he was going to do something about that.
And then like Andrew Cuomo's like, something about sex that isn't me raping somebody?
Like, we got to get on this now.
So like they hop on this and they've just been repeating it ad nauseum.
I just wanted to go to this quote really quick.
I have never supported legalization of prostitution.
And I find it quite ironic to see Andrew Cuomo speaking about betting in a mosque.
So I don't like Mamdani.
I'm not defending Mamdani.
He denies this, but apparently they found a Muslim guy who crashes out about this because he's been told this and he believes it.
And I was watching the Do Dissidence stream, and this is where I'm going to pull it from.
But the Do Dissidence guys, they like Russell Dobular, phenomenal host on that show.
He went down and interviewed a bunch of these people at like anti-Mamdani gathering.
And they brought this Muslim guy out.
It's much like X-City or like small city politicians, councilmen type of dudes out there.
I mean, it's just, and this is a point they kept hitting.
They kept hitting that Momdani wants to legalize prostitution.
He wants to stop prosecuting the women, which I think there are a lot of conservatives who agree with that, who see the women as victims and feel you should prosecute the pimps and the junks to be a prostitute.
Is there more socialists believe in atheists?
Muslims believe in socialists believe in atheists.
Yeah, it's obvious Mamdani's going to win and he's going to win everything.
I mean, when you have, if the opposing side is just people on the street and they're like, we found one guy that legitimately actually hates him for like a non-political reason, and they bring him out there and like, this is, this is the height of what she got, right?
So I think it's very clear he's going to win by like 20 points or whatever, however big it's a landslide type of thing would be in New York.
But I see people talking about this story and kind of refusing to leave it alone.
And if you actually look at it, there's a lot of meat on the bone that hasn't been discussed yet when it comes to the New York election, specifically the thing about the rent freezes.
Well, the thing that he's talking about, where like, I don't think I know what you're saying, but like, I don't think prostitutes should be prosecuted the same way that the pimp should be.
I mean, yeah, they're making money, but the guy does have a lot of influence.
But to go back to what we were talking about, rent stabilization, you know, it's easy to just promise something, but then no one ever talks about the specifics of what goes into doing something like that.
And by the way, this isn't the first time New York has talked about rent stabilizing, rent freezing.
Actually, if you dive into the history, this is the exact reason why New York is in the situation that they are in.
This is, yeah, and we'll, we'll play it in a second here.
But this video here, guys, it puts things in perspective.
And I was just doing research just to back up the claims that are happening in here.
But like, you know, I think people who are voting need to like inform themselves on like some of the major issues that, you know, these politicians preach on.
And they're going to find out very soon that this is going to make things worse.
And they're only worried about their immediate concerns, but they're not worried about the other people who are going to have even more of a hard time once this thing is passed, whatever Mondani does.
Many of the people who come out to these rallies live in rent-regulated apartments, meaning they're already protected from the city's soaring housing costs.
But what about the people who don't already live in one of these apartments, who don't typically come out to rallies or get interviewed on TV?
And then your neighbor is Mr. Cockroach and then Mr. Rat.
And they come out at night and you get to see them.
Well, it's just, I've seen the videos of the roaches.
And I've been to DC a lot.
I've been to DC almost a dozen times.
And at night, if you go to a bar or something, you leave and it's a crackhead with like giant long dreads and then no hair at all on the other side of her head.
And then it's like just a bunch of rats running on the street and going back into like a storm.
So when you're doing it, you're going through like you have a bunch of applications going through, right?
The thing about, you know, when you're a landlord, people just think that you're profiting a bunch of money more often than not, unless you bought that property a really long time ago.
It's not cash flowing like crazy.
And there's a lot of expenses that go into it just to maintain the property.
But essentially, you want to make sure that that person can afford their rent.
The last tenant that I had was late every single month.
And when your tenant is late, no one else is paying.
It's like, we're going to like kill the landlords or we're going to take them out.
I mean, ultimately, someone's going to control the property.
Right.
And you're going to live either in like an anarchy world where it's like Mad Max and that's very unlikely, or you're going to live in like a communist type government where the state, which is just the happy people of the whoever takes over.
The reason why, the reason why you're making 300k is because you're in New York and they're paying you for that.
So all right.
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I come from Europe and when I learned that rent stabilized apartments are not given to people based on their income, but it's just a matter of luck, I was really shocked.
I was shocked, but I capitalized fraud examiner in New York City.
Even in France they don't have laws that are like this.
It's the wealthiest tenants who maybe live full-time in Miami or in the Hamptons.
We had the case of a man who was living in Pennsylvania in a beautiful house, but he would keep his apartment rent controlled near Yankee Stadium so that he could go to the games and not pay for a hotel.
No no, i'm just saying, like you're you you're basically a millionaire already who got the lot like guys, the rent stabilization and these, you know, freezes and stuff.
It's a lottery system.
It's not just like something you go and apply for and you just get it just by the need, because there's millions of people that need this.
You know New York City isn't the the main hub for just that, but that's why La and New York exist.
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For those reasons, It's a very New York situation where having a rent-stabilized apartment is perceived as an asset.
Rent-regulated tenants lucky enough to reside on Manhattan's Upper West Side enjoy some of the steepest discounts in the city.
The neighborhood is known for its massive pre-war apartment buildings and elegant townhouses.
They were grand, beautiful brownstones for doctors, lawyers, bankers.
Landlords like Portrait will sometimes have the same family occupying one of their units for generations.
Although rent-regulated tenants don't own their apartments, the law makes it possible for them to pass their units down to their children or grandchildren.
Now, the thing with this is the ones that are rent stabilized, they're probably living there because it's cheaper than anywhere else.
So if a little Guatemalan breaks into my house, you bet your dollar I'm doing something about it.
Right, right.
So let's skip ahead here to let's go to the real reason why this whole system does not work fast forward here.
Now, now keep in mind, you know, having generational ability, regardless of income and a lottery system, just puts the perfect storm for you to keep the amount of units occupied.
I'm just going to the timestamp that I want to go to.
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But Glazer says rent regulation is one of the main reasons it's so hard to find an affordable place to live in New York.
Rents are artificially high because you've taken all these other units off the market.
Rent control leads to misallocation of units.
Middle-income couples who come to New York with a kid hoping to find a future are priced down because there's somebody who's using the unit as a pied dere.
If you did raise a family in a big apartment and now your children are grown, you don't need a three-bedroom apartment anymore.
But, you know, where are you going to go?
Right?
So there's a mismatch of housing to the occupants, too, because of rent stabilization.
It really distorts the market.
You don't want markets.
Every time we try to turn out price mechanisms, there's only a strange way in which people are going to try and work around it.
And you can't just keep on whack-no-mulling because all sorts of strange and awful things happen.
Rent regulation has caused all sorts of strange and awful things in New York's real estate market since it was first imposed over a century ago.
The most tragic case dates to the 1970s, when rent control was one of a handful of policies that caused the annihilation of the South Bronx.
As economist Asar Lindbeck famously put it, rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city, except for bombing.
Some landlords torched their buildings to collect the insurance money because their rent rolls weren't enough to cover their expenses.
What the landlords are doing now is the units that are rent stabilized, instead of renting those units out, what they do is they keep them unoccupied and they let the unit deteriorate.
So there's a bunch of what they call like zombie apartments.
When you get a loan in real estate, oh, this is my bread and butter.
I love this stuff, I tell you.
When you get a loan in real estate for anything, let's say you want to go buy a multifamily or something, they look at how much rental income that unit makes in order to justify the loan.
Now, if this unit is rent stabilized and let's say you're only able to pay it for a thousand, the bank isn't going to make money off of that.
And they're worried that that asset.
So they won't issue the loan to actually renovate that apartment.
The more you regulate, the more you make a mess and the more you cause the same issues.
Now, I know, just to take the other counter argument and place devil's advocate, there are landlords that abuse, that have abused raising rents, especially during COVID, where you had some people freaking raising their rents like 15, 20% just because they knew the occupancy rates were high and that people really wanted to find units and they could do that.
But look at what happens.
People decide, oh, I'll take a giant sledgehammer to just hammer down a nail and then you mess up the entire system.
Rent stabilizing, guys, is one of the worst things that we can do in this certain situation.
You have to figure out how to subsidize some of these and create new housing.
No, and there's a bunch of landlords that are actually losing money on their properties where there's one guy.
He's got like some of his units is rent stabilized and then he's got some of them as like normal income where it's like four to like three to four grand.
But at the end of the day, when he pays all of his bills and he pays everything it costs to run that building, he's left with $5 in his bank account.
But the long story short is like, it costs a lot of money just to even be a landlord.
And it's not always a very profitable thing because you're just, it's essentially, you're just playing the long game when it comes to holding property.
So you still have to raise the rents in order for you to actually pay for them.
They actually put a lot of these landlords into situations rather than, you know, it's crazy.
Rather than spending the money to like help the Americans, you know, they give the, I sound elitist, but they give the immigrants credit cards to fucking go.
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They give the immigrants credit cards and then they can get the pizza.
He's a very like multicultural, multi-ethnic, really.
Like he's from a bunch of different, he's got a bunch of like the little categorizations they love for the candidates to have so they can say that there's something.
You know, you got all these global cultures and you have the American system, which itself is so weird.
You know, like the way everyone sees race in America, it's, it's like an old history, but it's also not old because it's a very short period of time that everyone's been here.
Whereas you go to some of these other places, like a place like Africa, a place like Europe, a place like Asia, and they've been there for thousands of years, right?
Yeah, let me find the part of this video that shows the slum lords not renting out the units because that, okay, here we go.
Pay attention to this one.
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Let me see.
Franchisement!
Like six years later, the 2019 law has made New York City's housing crisis worse.
Landlords are burning down their buildings to collect the insurance money, but there are parallels to what happened in the South Bronx.
Building owners are keeping properties off the market and allowing them to fall into disrepair because prices are set too low to cover their costs.
These apartments are like mothballed, right?
You know, they're like a ship that can't sail anymore.
Seems foolish, right?
To have a resource that you're unable to use.
A neighborhood deeply impacted by the 2019 rent law is Washington Heights in Upper Manhattan, which is home to New York's Dominican community and was the setting of the hit musical in the Heights.
You know, it's a shame here because this is an apartment that can house a family.
Another community that's been impacted is Crown Heights in Brooklyn, a Black and Caribbean neighborhood that has lately become popular among recent college graduates.
I once shared an apartment here with roommates.
A few blocks from where I lived is a 14-unit building owned by Lincoln Eccles, who is keeping two of his regulated apartments vacant because he'd lose money renovating and renting them out.
My uncle bought this property in the late 50s and he passed it on to my father.
He showed me one of his empty units.
It hasn't been touched since the tenant passed away.
The city has set the rent at about $1,000 a month.
Not just that when I'm talking about from like the buyer-seller side, like as a buyer, I go into the market.
If I find a place that has good tenants already and it's already rented out, that's less work that I have to do to fill those units out.
Okay, so that's that's the logical, the logic behind something like that.
But to sell it as a condo, I don't think that's possible because there's a bunch of like rules and regulations and zoning that you have to certain areas are designated as um certain zones, you can't do it, zone, yeah, dude.
Zoning is one of the craziest things.
There is really good benefits.
Like, you know, you can't build a freaking skyscraper in the middle of this neighborhood here, like it would make no sense and it would just mess up the aesthetics.
But then there's other times where you make zoning and it disincentivizes certain type of building and permits and it keeps an area impoverished.
You know, these are the tech giants that have a bunch of money coming in because they're the ones leading the new technology and they've got a lot of spending.
So like that seven percent, those seven companies are counting for like a third of the stock market right now.
And it seems though we're in the very early innings of it.
The Treasury Secretary a couple of weeks ago said he calls this the third inning, which means there's a lot more to go here as companies learn how to use these tools.
And as these tools change, in some cases, they haven't even been created yet.
The tools that some of these companies are already starting to reposition for.
It's like one of those things that happen in the background that people don't talk about much, but they're always pouring billions of dollars into research for things like these.
You could make it at least look friendly and cute.
It wouldn't be impossible to not have the retina showing, right?
But they do it.
Look at that.
I mean, and get ready because you could have problems with the nursing home or like the assisted living about how they're treating like your old people.
What if it's all these things?
You know, like 10 years, like, well, you know, it's really expensive to pay someone 60 grand to be like a nursing home nurse.
Like, and then what if it like reacts or it does something like too abrupt and it just like breaks grandma's arm from accidentally just like I'm going too fast?
But I actually wasn't all that creaked out by Neo.
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Inside Neo, it really starts with some very, very powerful motors that we have developed here on one X.
These motors are so strong and light that instead of using the classical gears that you see in robots, we can actually pull on tunnels loosely inspired by biology and muscles.
This allows Neo to move around not just quietly and smoothly, but also be very, very light.
The moment you have a robot that can replace a human, the forget up actually, oh, dude, we just scared myself.
I just scared.
I just scared myself.
Yeah, the moment, the moment you have no longer committing human lives to combat, and there's like a movement, like there's these robots that can do human movements and like go in and do missions.
That's when it gets scary because there's really the only incentive that stops people from attacking or committing troops to the ground is the fact that they, the local people are like, no, we don't want our brother or you know, uncle killed in combat.
But then you've got the little robot.
What, what, what's stopping them from putting boots on the ground?
But if you want to watch this video now, so this video, guys, talks about AI and the chips.
Okay.
So just to put some background, okay.
Nvidia is like the main big boy who, you know, has all the chips that go into the AIs that do these crazy things that do all of the computing power and they're coming out with these chips.
But here's the thing.
NVIDIA only owns the intellectual property.
They don't have these massive facilities that produce the chips in order to do a lot of this high-tech work.
It's all in Taiwan and it's between Taiwan and Samsung.
TSMC is the main guy and then you also have Samsung.
But Samsung, as you will find out, doesn't even have the ability to keep up with the same level of quantity and quality that TSMC is.
So this gives a little bit of background into what's going on with that relative to Taiwan, because I know we've mentioned it, but we don't really explain the real importance on how these chips are made and why it's so effective.
And this is like a little mini one, but we'll go even deeper on a later episode.
But just watch this and it will put things into perspective of why it's so hard to get these chips out.
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This sounds logical in theory, but the reality.
Take their designs to another manufacturer.
This sounds logical in theory, but the reality is it's a much tougher problem than people think because the types of chips that Apple and NVIDIA are designing, the three and four nanometer chip generation can really only be manufactured by two companies in the world, TSMC and Samsung.
Why?
Not to get too into the weeds, but the three and four nanometer generations are the most advanced chips in the world.
They will soon be overtaken by the two nanometer generation.
It's a bit of a mess because the naming convention used to be about transistor slides.
Now it's kind of morphed into just marketing speak.
But the idea is the smaller you can make the transistors, the more you can fit onto a chip and the more powerful and efficient the chip becomes.
Now, for scale, a human hair is around 70,000 nanometers thick.
So these transistors are 3,000 to 4,000 times smaller than that.
Like we always talk about like the craziness and the bad things that go on, but just put this in context, guys.
3,000 times smaller than your hair.
Like it is just and it's insane how we even developed the technology.
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This is why, you know, I still pro humanity an insane level of precision.
And there's only one company on earth that even makes those machines, ASML, based in the Netherlands.
Each one of these machines costs around three to four hundred million dollars.
And there are only a few hundred out there in existence.
These machines are owned by various companies around the world, but you've got to buy them.
You've got TSMC and Samsung.
But the kicker is, even if you do have one of these $400 million ASML machines, you still can't make the three nanometer chip unless you have the decades of experience, the software, and the supply chains that go with it.
And then to make these chips at volume, only TSMC and Samsung can do it.
Okay, so send the orders to Samsung instead.
The problem is Samsung, literally the next most advanced foundry, still struggles to match TSMC's production quality.
Their four nanometer process has had big yield issues, meaning a big chunk of their chips come out defective.
And honestly, when you're producing a $30,000 GPU or a $200 iPhone processor at scale, a 20% yield loss is just too painful.
NVIDIA learned this the hard way during the pandemic because it actually did use Samsung's eight nanometer process for its RTX 30 series GPUs, but the yields were so poor that NVIDIA went straight back to TSMC for the next generation.
And that's what makes this whole AI boom so fragile.
And you might say, but hold up.
Isn't there a massive push for chips to be made in the US?
And isn't TSMC building a chip fab in the US?
Yeah, that is correct.
TSMC is building chip fabs in Arizona to pay attention to this one, guys.
But the thing is, just because you build the factory doesn't mean you can instantly start pumping out the world's most advanced chips.
True.
For starters, those new Arizona fabs are years behind schedule.
The first one was supposed to start producing chips in 2024.
That's now been pushed back to late this year or even next year.
And the second site might not be ready until 2028.
These fabs are extremely complex.
I don't know if you've ever seen footage of them, but they are not like a car assembly plant.
These places look like something straight out of a sci-fi.
The air is cleaner than an operating room.
Workers wear full-body bunny suits to avoid shedding a single speck of dust because even a single particle can destroy an entire wafer worth millions of dollars.
We're talking about facilities that require investments of tens of billions of dollars, require thousands of specially trained workers, and need ultra-specialized supply chains of gases, chemicals, and precision machinery that just isn't established locally in the US.
So that's hurdle number one.
And that's not even mentioning the talent problem.
TSMC's engineers in Taiwan have decades of experience working up to the most advanced three nanometer and four nanometer notes.
But when they brought that operation to Arizona, they discovered that the local workforce just doesn't have that level of expertise yet.
Engineers even had to be flown over from Taiwan just to get things working.
Yeah, that's the thing about it's just not possible.
It's not.
That's the thing about manufacturing is it is possible.
It's just, it's not as quick as you can do it, you know, as necessary, right?
Because here's the thing: we're predicting the government's predicting, and intelligence agencies are predicting that somewhere around like 2027 or 2028, that is when the that that is when China is going to make a move on Taiwan.
That's what the that's what their estimates are.
And it's because they're making a bunch of uh different like land units, they're making a bunch of uh equipment to be able to do they do military exercises closer and closer and closer, right?
And there's uh certain, I forget what what what the uh amphibious machines are, but they're building something that's supposed to be done by the end of 2026.
And so, um, you know how you were making that joke about like, oh, they should just like plant bombs and just blow the whole thing.
That wasn't a joke, I was being serious, but they already have that contingency.
I was looking into it.
Like, they, they actually, that is one of the things that they are potentially could do in order to what they're what they'll do is they'll fly the most important personnel.
They have like an evacuation plan, I think, for these people.
But basically, how it works is they have a plan to go and take like the most essential personnel.
You fly them to the United States, basically to protect them from, you know, Taiwan, to protect them from China.
And then you go and you like damage all the equipment.
Like, dude, it's $300 to $400 million just for one of these machines.
Like, that is absolutely insane.
And just to move that operation over here, we've asked TSMC and Taiwan to give us like 50% of the manufacturing capability, but Taiwan refuses that because they know they have, you know, a little bit of a monopoly they own 80 to 90, 90%.
So by the time that we move all this stuff over in Texas, right?
Takes you, they're saying, oh, we were supposed to start this in 2024.
We might get this up and running by 2025, maybe 2026.
That doesn't mean the entire thing is ready to pump out.
I'm an engineer.
I work in manufacturing specific.
When you do manufacturing, you work in phases.
It's not something that you do overnight.
Just because you say, oh, we're able to make this certain capacity in order to get up to full capacity, it actually can take up to, you know, five years to a decade to get the proper process in place to get the speed and the consistency that you need.
Because here's the thing: when you, when you do it the first time, you say, oh, we've got it up, there's always something that goes wrong in manufacturing, especially in automation.
We deal with this on a day-to-day basis where like machine will just go random down and you've got to go and troubleshoot that delays, that delays, that delays.
And so TSMC, because they've been the company that's been doing this for so long and they know exactly and they were able to spend the decades getting the kinks out.
You can't just train Americans like that overnight.
So, you know, what it's looking like, I hate saying this, but it looks like, you know, we're kind of cooked because that is the only place your little iPhone 17, forget that.
That's not, that, that doesn't exist.
There's no Apple products because Apple doesn't produce their own stuff.
They get the same chips from Taiwan.
And we're not going to be able to make the manufacturing quick enough as much as we posture, you know, by the time that they actually have all the money and we're building everything and it's going to be just fine.
He basically was like, hey, we've got, you know, $500 billion that are being invested here in the United States to build these chips here, but like no one's talking about the fine print, which is why we're showing you this.
I heard Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson talk about this on dialogue work today or today, and he made the point of Trump is so incredible at having the truth in one ear and then a lie in the other and blending them together and like telling like the greatest story ever about the thing.
I forget the term he used to describe him, but it was very apt.
We hear about all these investment deals and the manufacturing and the NVIDIA wants to work with us.
All these big companies want to work with us.
But you look at the infrastructure and it's decades and decades and decades of specialized labor, specific supply chain of a way the thing is done, a style, an art form of the way the thing is done.
And then we look at our declining empire, really declined empire.
We look at all the manufacturing that we lost, you know, two generations ago.
All the places that we lost, we're just like, we're just going to bring it back now because we have money.
And I don't think that works.
I don't think you get to run a society that way.
I don't think you get to run a government that way.
I don't think you can reverse three, four, five bad decades of policy with we're just going to do it right this time.
Because, you know, you talked about the person in the field, right?
The person working on some sort of like contract farming job that is here illegally.
And you go, would Americans really want to, what Americans really want, I'm going to move the dog gate so we can't get in.
Would Americans really want to do that job themselves?
Because the narrative that, you know, we hear and the narrative that I would project, I would say they need to raise the amount of money they're making for that job.
But I would say, yes, Americans would take that job.
Now, an American can't take this job.
They absolutely cannot.
The vast majority of them, they don't have the skills to run a place like this.
You're going to learn how to do something that's actually helpful to society and that you're going to actually get paid for.
So bringing it here means that like, yes, we have to take the same personnel because at the same time, we don't have all of the qualified people to actually run that.
These kids are probably hearing at home about the chips when they're like tiny.
Like, this is what we do.
This is what we make.
We basically, we, we power the world with all this technology.
And it's what you're going to get to do too.
And even if you had the smartest person from America or like, you know, just a statistic group, like the smartest people, and you had them try to take on this job, they're not going to have the culture to do it.
But by that time, the Great Depression happens and then the water wars begin.
I mean, look, it's, and we hear, oh, you know, it's all going to be fine.
It's all going to be okay.
Are you done with this topic?
You got any more you want to say?
Okay.
So we say, oh, you know, we're going to figure it out.
It's going to take a while, but one day we'll get there.
We'll get to the promised land.
I'll tell you, we're not going to get to the promised land anytime soon if I keep seeing stories like this.
Trump or Trump truck carrying Tulane University research monkeys overturns on Mississippi Highway.
A truck transporting 21 Rhesus Macaw monkey, I believe that's how you say it, from Tulane University overturned on Interstate 59 while in Jasper County on October 28, allowing six monkeys to escape into nearby woods.
Authorities shot five of the escapees due to their aggressive nature, contained the remaining 15 while one monkey remained at large.
Of course, it's always one.
You know, it's out there.
COVID-20 on the loose.
With warnings for residents to avoid contact, Tulane University clarified that initial reports of diseases like hepatitis C, herpes, and COVID-19 were false, and that animals carry no such pathogens, highlighting risks in lab animal transport.
So they've lost a lot of these like native species, just like toad they brought over and it was brought over to like eat a bug that was causing a problem.
Tim has made some excellent points about the situation in New York and the rent freeze and the real science of like being a landlord and what goes on behind that.
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I agree with that point, though, that he's making.
Thomas Massey was explaining on Kibby how the cattle and AG works.
Yeah, you know, Mark Ripito from Starting Strength, that's a phenomenal YouTube channel.
Y'all should go check it out.
Very important YouTube channel.
He did an episode with people that worked in the beef industry and he talked to them.
And I learned so much from that.
I'm going to definitely, I'm going to repost that on X and I'm definitely going to rewatch that.
It's been a while since I've listened to it.
If you learn how, like even something you think of that might be a little simpler, like, oh, like just farming or raising animals for slaughter, it's infinitely complicated.
It is.
These systems are at the end of the day, so yeah.
I mean, I'd love to check that out from Massey as well.
Okay, the Echo Dot, it doesn't work well depending on what you want it for.
I use it for like basic stuff like the alarm, and I use it to like control the lights in my house.
Like, it is good for that stuff.
And you know, I use it as a speaker.
It's not the worst thing, but there really isn't an alternative to really use that's like that cheap.
So, right, I would still say the Echo Dot is still a buy, it's cheap enough where it's like, okay, but they need to up their game, it's been the same way for the last 10 years.