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Oct. 3, 2024 - Louder with Crowder
01:07:21
Kamala Abandons America: Dockworker Strike & Hurricane Helene Devastation
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Hey, this is Whistleblower 52 for Open Minds of America, talking with marginalized communities on why hate
has no place in Texas, or America, or on Earth.
["Hate is a Bad Thing"]
Do you think that has any place in the city?
That kind of hate? Can you believe this?
You don't think it should be taken down in the city?
They shouldn't allow this kind of hate?
I find it repulsive.
We're from Newfoundland, we're from Canada, but we're Polish, too.
Like, they came over because of the Holocaust.
So what was worse for them? Was it the Holocaust or Newfoundland?
But you think it should be allowed to stay up?
Yes, yes, I think so.
Yes, even though I find it repulsive.
No, I want the city to take it down.
Yeah. It's been there for a while, too.
Oh, it's been there for a while? Yeah.
It's changed my mind, so I kind of like it because it gets people talking.
Tune in for the extended conversation tomorrow at 10 a.m.
Eastern.
Oh, I don't know.
Glad to be with you, even though I'm a little bit out of it today.
Joe Lewis barged in, and he actually has broken the lock on my master bedroom.
He uses his head as a battering ram, and he just, boom!
Comes in in the morning because he wants pets, and then goes back to bed.
So I woke up in the middle of a dream.
You ever get that? Comment below.
You wake up in that weird zone of sleep, and I still feel that way.
That's the worst. And now I've got to replace the lock on my door.
Again. It's just a great dog, but he's...
He's just going to keep knocking. He just, boom!
No, he busts open the door.
I'm saying, you replace it, he's just gonna...
Yeah, it's gonna happen. You gotta deadbolt that thing.
Get one of those New York City secret seven-locked doors.
Yeah. Open it with a chain.
Yeah. Who is it?
All right. Hey, we have a lot to get to today.
We are going to be fact-checking the fact-checkers.
Last we were with you, it was debate night, the VP debate night.
Thank you. You guys, by the way, set a record stream.
We appreciate it. And like I kind of thought would happen, they're not trying to address it a whole lot in the media.
All they've done is try and say, you know what, he didn't answer in the 2020 election, and, you know, that's it.
But they have been circulating this sort of fact check on J.D. Vance, and it's wrong as it relates to Haitians being here illegally.
And we'll explain that to you. I don't know if you know this, there's been a hurricane, and it's been an unbelievable tragedy.
And what we're looking at right now is the difference between the people and the elite.
The people want to help.
They want to help their fellow neighbor.
They can't because FEMA says, no, no, no, no, you have to help this way.
Donald Trump is helping and has set up a GoFundMe with the people.
Kamala Harris wants the help to be provided in an equitable way.
Way. When you follow the dogmatic religion of leftism, you fail to see the people right before you who need help.
Because everything is an ism.
Also a huge segment on the longshoreman strike, also known as the mafia.
You'll see the mob. Yeah, you will see.
Let me ask you, picture what you think of working class union member in your head.
Yeah, it's not that.
Now add a six million dollar house.
Now add a 76 foot yacht.
Now, at a six-figure salary plus benefits, these people...
There was a relevant time for unions, you know, with women being chained to a loom for like 12 hours.
But these days, they're living off of, in most cases, your tax paradigm, too, when you look at public sector unions.
So, if at some point today, because, you know, I don't really like what we say about unions, you see this on YouTube...
Head over to Rumble. It's a live show weekdays, 10 a.m.
Eastern. And let me ask you this.
What's the balance of automation versus corrupt union jobs?
And is there a middle ground of, you know, right to work and using efficient technology to maybe improve quality of life?
Where do you strike that balance?
Comment below. I think you're probably quite reasonable in comparison to a mob boss who makes millions a year.
Number two, CEO, how are you?
I'm doing well, though I am more pro-automation on docs than I used to be.
Yes. I see the strike and I'm like, oh, yeah, definitely.
You need to be automated out of a job.
Thank you very much. How are you? I'm doing okay.
You know, at some point this will be automated.
Well, it'll just be AI. And I don't fully mean, I don't want everybody to lose their jobs.
No, of course not. When we get into the numbers, I'm like, you've got to be kidding me.
There's no other place on the planet where you can have that much money and demand that much of a raise and still strike.
The United States is nowhere near the top as far as efficiency reports.
We'll give you some numbers here. A lot of facts to get to today as to remove all doubt.
And in third chair, when you hear this, know him, you'll love him.
October 26th in Oklahoma City, Bricktown Comedy Club, Josh Feierstein.
How are you? Good, good.
My favorite baseball team just won a playoff series.
The Rangers? No, the Padres.
Oh, they're not in. Rangers are in.
I'm going to ride that high for a couple days.
Good. I don't speak Spanish, so I don't understand.
Also, glad to know there's no longshoremen in Oklahoma City.
I'm safe. Yeah, yeah. There you go.
Well, there's no shore. There are tornadoes.
Sure. Hey, in sad news, and guys, this is breaking news.
We often see people as worthy political adversaries.
It never stems from a place of hate.
And sadly, Jimmy Carter has passed away.
Oh, no, no, sorry.
He turned 100.
Oh, okay. Though I think he's also dead at the same time.
Well, I don't know. We'll have to go to the tail of the tape.
Here's a clip. His head's up there.
There's a pillow behind it.
Now I want you to watch him right now in this clip.
What?
Bye!
Watch him, remember this.
Because it is relevant.
Yep, that man.
That man. Hold on.
That man, according to his grandson, also Jimmy, said, I'm really excited to vote for Kamala Harris.
That's crap. And we, of course...
Did he do it in Morse code? How do you tell him?
Well, we reached him for comment on hitting 100, and he had this to say.
Well, that's not helpful. No.
I don't know what to do with that.
I don't know how to translate it. Direct quote?
You don't. They don't even try and hide their lying anymore.
Like, he's sitting there and he's... I'll tell you one thing.
I really want to vote for that colored lady.
Exactly. You know what it looks like?
It looks like they brought him in to, like, do a book signing or something.
Some guy's just taking photos.
Get a selfie with Jimmy Carter.
Yeah. How would he sign books?
Do they just, like, put ink on his nose and just...
Unless he's mesmerized by a SpaceX launch, the guy's dead in the chair, okay?
No, no. He's extremely excited to vote for Kamala Harris with great vigor.
How does he do it? He can't even lift his hand.
That's the oldest president of all time.
And to be honest, I might sound ignorant here, but I thought Bill Clinton was like 110.
Yeah, that's easy to make that mistake.
78 is great. Well, he's like 110 in demon years.
Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you, tomorrow at 10 a.m.
Eastern, we do have a video that will be actually here.
Friday often, you know...
If you're not in Mug Club, you don't get to see this, but it's Whistleblower 50-something.
Talking about our build-the-wall, change-my-mind billboard.
It's kind of a reverse change-my-mind.
I apologize that Whistleblower is kind of an ass, but it's a lot of fun.
All right, let's go to fact-checking the fact-checkers, because Tuesday, the VP debate, thank you for being with us, one of the moderators fact-checked Vans.
They didn't fact-check Wall's I don't think at all.
And if they did, it certainly wasn't to this degree.
And this fact check was over Haitian migrants, Haitian illegals.
And this term, this is very important for you to understand.
Temporary protected status.
The media wants you and hopes that you don't know what that means.
So let's fact check the fact checkers.
Tweet check. Fact Trump.
Trump fact check tweet.
Fact check. News.
It's fun. Let's first go to this claim.
Let's set this up. The claim, the fact check in the media, and of course now the water's been carried by those on social media, that Haitians in Springfield, they actually, actually by the way, they have complete legal status.
Hmm. The people that I'm most worried about in Springfield, Ohio, are the American citizens who have had their lives destroyed by Kamala Harris's open border.
It is a disgrace, Tim.
Just to clarify for our viewers, Springfield, Ohio, does have a large number of Haitian migrants who have legal status, temporary, protected.
Shut up, Ms. Pink, is what you were thinking.
So here's a tweet after that from the associate editor of Vox.
We've had a few run-ins with him. Aaron Rupar saying, Trump's mass deportation will include legal immigrants.
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Here's the truth. The Haitians in Springfield are, in fact, illegal.
They are illegal immigrants.
Well, that. The technicalities, they've been granted temporary protection, right?
Let's just use the term TPS. That's the term that they were talking about.
Temporary protection status.
Because of the Biden-Harris open border policy.
Basically, they're still illegal.
It's just that they're shielded from deportation.
It's funny because the left gets so mad, you know, the famous Nixon quote where he said, I'm saying when the president does it, it's not illegal.
Here's the thing. That's true.
He was talking about presidential immunity.
Right? What they're doing here is saying, yeah, yeah, if people come here illegally, if people have not gone through the process, it's not illegal if we just say they're protected.
In any other scenario, outside of the elites, trying to replace giant percentages of an entire American city outside of that very limited scope...
They would be illegal.
Not just in the U.S., by the way. Anywhere in the history of mankind.
Yeah. By the way, that's almost worse to me.
Oh, sorry. Fact check!
You can be a little quicker. Sorry.
I don't want to have to say it.
Keep going. No, that's almost worse to me than turning a blind eye to it.
It's segmenting a group of people and saying, yes, we know you're here illegally, but we're not going to let anybody do anything about it, and everybody's going to be treating you like an American citizen when you're not.
Right. That's the fact check problem that you have there.
Here's the silver lining, though.
I don't know why I was moving like Woody from Toy Story.
Yeah, I have no idea. Mars!
All right. Snake in my boot.
I don't know. Like a marionette puppet.
The truth is that because it was done through basically presidential powers, they're not illegal, but they were.
Yeah, but they're not. But they were.
But they're not. That means that another president can move in and just say, oh, sorry, we were wrong about that.
They are illegal. Springfield is such a beautiful place.
Have you seen what's happened to it?
It's been overrun.
You can't do that to people.
They have to be removed.
So you would revoke the temporary protected status?
Absolutely. I'd revoke it and I'd bring them back to their country.
Do you remember in 2016 where that statement would have been shocking?
I don't know if you know this, for the first time in history, a majority of Americans actually support deportation.
That's 54% of Americans support it.
And 53% of Hispanics, granted a lot of them have annoying cousins who they don't want to see anymore, Come on.
How many cars do you need in one driveway?
Eight. You've been in that neighborhood, too.
Hey, come on. Only two of them work.
Well, there's one in the yard, too, so don't worry about it.
This has been my house, too.
They're project cars. It's good to have a hobby.
This isn't just about the poll, meaning a majority of Americans.
It reflects a shift because people understand there is a problem.
That means that, including a significant percentage of Democrats, of people who would identify as liberal, have recognized how their neighborhoods and how their neighbors have been affected by this abysmal policy.
So the left can say racism, wall is racist, deportation is racist.
Americans are not buying it, and I think that they'll...
They'll be less and less convinced.
That number 54, I would expect that if we don't actually see serious deportation programs, it'll be over 60 within two years.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, everything that they do surrounding this debate is actually pushing in Vance's favor, right?
So one thing I wanted to highlight, right after that, Vance said something that they clipped, and they did it out of context.
He said, and you saw him put his hand up, he goes, hold on, I thought the rules were that you weren't going to fact check.
And that's what people put out, like, oh, Vance is afraid of a fact check!
But he goes, I thought you weren't going to fact check, but since you are, I'll go ahead and set you straight on this.
And he basically made the same point that we just made on temporary protected status being given by Kamala Harris.
Right. And how that doesn't serve the American people at all.
So instead of focusing on the issue, they're going, no, no, no, no, no, technicality.
And not helping people. And when we get to the hurricane story in a minute, no, no, no, no, no, technicality.
And not helping people. It's the same playbook on every single issue.
It's the elites versus you.
It's just the elites don't, like we've always talked about this, the devil doesn't show up in a creaky coffin with a bunch of cobwebs.
The devil shows up as an extra bottle of booze, as maybe a secretary you shouldn't be hanging around too much, as maybe the wrong nightclub, as maybe that baggy, whatever it is, drugs, booze, right?
It shows up as something tempting. Doesn't show up as something that scares you.
You think of the elite as eyes wide shut parties.
No, the elite are, of course, you see the moderators right there.
They're not affected by 20,000 illegal Haitian migrants in a city of 60,000 people.
They're not affected by those living in southern border towns that are riddled with crime.
Same thing when you talk about the elite. You don't think of FEMA. Well, hold on a second.
They're not the ones who can't get the help because they're stopping people from bringing in supplies if they're not from preferred vendors or people being threatened with arrest.
We'll talk about this. Helicopters trying to help people.
No, no. They're not the ones affected. They get to tell you the rules.
Hey, you don't think of the elite as union workers on the docks.
But they're not the ones whose goods and products are more expensive.
They're not the ones who are going to suffer as you do to the tune of $4 billion daily potential damage to the American economy if they don't get their 77% pay increase.
I want you to just reframe, because you think swamp or elite, and this is what is very dangerous with people out there saying, you know, they have these secret satanic parties.
Hey, I don't know if you know this. Satanism takes place in broad daylight in front of you.
It's the idolatry of self. It's the seeking out of pleasure.
And satisfying your own greed without thinking of the greater moral good.
Or, of course, seeking God.
If you're a Christian, which I am, but, you know, maybe you're not.
A lot of people aren't. You know, hell sucks.
And none of this happens, by the way, when we're talking about the elite.
There's no one who represents that more than the media, legacy media.
And yeah, a lot of people in big tech.
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Oh, no. Air freight.
Let's go on to the hurricane.
Let's talk about this. Because I will tell you this, I always am pretty hesitant to get into blaming with natural disasters.
You know, they did it with Bush and Katrina saying, you know, or Kanye, George Bush does not care about black people for the greatest reaction in television history by Mike Myers.
It's easy to just finger point, right?
But sometimes you do have very clear-cut examples of red tape bureaucracy or ideology actually harming people and taking lives.
And I think we've reached that point here with this hurricane in this administration.
So, three days after Trump had gone to survey the destruction of Hurricane Helene, which is very...
I've never heard that name.
It's like Helena, Helen, Helene, but Helene.
Helene. Yeah, I think it's Dutch.
It could be. I hope that explains it.
Yeah. Well, I think Dutch is when the hurricane just splits in two evenly.
Yeah, I know. So Kamala Biden finally traveled to the area, three days after Trump, and I don't know if you know, Biden is still allegedly former vice president.
Today, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris both traveled to states affected by Hurricane Helene.
Former President Trump went to Georgia on Monday to get a first-hand look at the damage and help distribute supplies.
He criticized Ms.
Harris for not coming to the area immediately.
Okay, so you can just play the blame game.
They didn't get here early enough.
These people came later. Okay, but we do have a serious problem here.
And you can comment below if you know what it is.
I'll tell you exactly what it is.
It's an ideology based on equity that kills actual people.
The idea here, and if you see Kamala Harris, the administration, and FEMA under their watch have made it clear that as we're dealing with natural disasters, and it doesn't matter what it is, by the way, natural disasters, if we're dealing with strikes, if we are dealing with public education, everything has to be done looking through the lens of equity.
It is our lowest-income communities and our communities of color that are most impacted by these extreme conditions and impacted by issues that are not of their own making.
Absolutely. And so we have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity.
So, you hear that? Based on equity.
Based on equity.
That matters, because then you're going to be able to make sense of some of this red tape.
Let me be really clear. Mother Nature is a cruel mistress, okay?
I understand that. But right now, people have been dying.
In the United States of America, while at the debate, they were harping about climate change.
Scientists say climate change makes these hurricanes larger, stronger, and more deadly because of the historic rainfall.
So the solution for us is to continue to move forward that climate change is real.
Reducing our impact is absolutely critical.
The overwhelming consensus among scientists is that the Earth's climate is warming at an unprecedented rate.
Margaret. Thank you, Norah.
Oh, well thank you for that relevant fact check because I guess the overwhelming consensus among scientists is that this hurricane was caused by climate change?
No, no, no. It just made it stronger.
Apparently we never had Category 4 hurricanes.
You know what? Hey, everyone shut up.
People are dying. Sorry, that was just symbolic.
No, no, yeah. I love you.
People are dying. Want to talk about a 1.6 degree rise?
Yeah. Follow up.
Go look at yourself. How about that?
People are dying right now and they can't get food.
They don't have access to water, electricity.
Oh, okay. We want to talk about polar bears?
This is a gross exaggeration to make a point, but you understand.
What you're seeing here is the people who suffer and the elite who enact policy to protect themselves At the cost of your suffering.
And I would say that with the people here, certainly in this election, you do have a very clear standout in Donald Trump.
So, let's look first at the hurricane.
Donald Trump has done a lot, by the way.
He started a GoFundMe, which raised, I believe, it was somewhere over $4 million.
We can bring up that link. And he's also worked with Elon Musk to try and, you know, mobilize Starlink to help these people.
We're trying to... I just spoke to Elon.
I'm getting him.
We want to get Starlink hooked up because they have no communication whatsoever.
And Elon will always come through.
We know that. I believe, just an update on that, I do believe that Elon did come through for Starlink.
So anybody who has Starlink in the affected area, and there's a map of this, it's actually going to work whether you've paid for it or not.
So he's been able to kind of like geo, kind of lock it to where it's in these areas.
Starlink will work no matter if you've paid for it or not.
So if you have it or have access to one, and they can get those out, people will have access to communications.
That's great. It's fantastic. And if you're with Cricket, kiss your ass goodbye.
Yeah, you're done. Try to book a flight on Spirit Airlines, too.
Be sure to ziplock your weave.
Oh, come on. So, here's the crazy thing.
Okay, Donald Trump raised, with a GoFundMe, over $4 million.
And I suggest you go and help them out.
Donate whatever you can. Think about this for a second.
And this is what's so perverse about someone who is currently in office, running for re-election.
They basically, it's like senioritis.
They just sort of leave the last year.
I don't know if you know this, but the Harris-Biden campaign, and now Harris-Walls, they've already raised $700 million.
$700 million.
For hurricane relief? No, it's for the campaign.
You think, could you toss a few mil to the people who are dying?
I know it's not my place to say, but you have someone who's not even in office who's raising millions of dollars and also giving his time, which, by the way, is very valuable for him.
And, of course, Kamala Harris couldn't be bothered to do that for a good long while, too.
$700 million to beat the guy who was going down and helping?
Nothing can just be given to these people.
Oh, that's right. You want our tax dollars to go to it.
And then let's see how that works out because our tax dollars aren't going directly to help people.
Our tax dollars are being laundered through FEMA and government bureaucracy in the name of equity.
Don't know if you know this. People are dying.
Yeah. By the way, when we talk about FEMA, and we'll get to it in a minute, I just saw some lower thirds saying basically FEMA is running out of money.
They don't have enough money to be able to do what they need to do.
Do me a favor, research, pull up.
There's a couple of charts going around on our pictures of what FEMA has been giving money to recently.
Hint, not American citizens.
We'll see why. Maybe they run short of funds here to help American citizens when they're displaced and hurting.
Right. Well, she was nowhere to be found.
And then you have former Vice President Biden, who was at his beach house in Delaware when he was asked about his absence.
You know, Joe Biden is as Joe Biden does.
In retrospect, do you wish that you had put more resources in North Carolina,
knowing what you know now?
And do you wish that you spent the weekend here in Washington rather than Delaware?
Come on, 17.
When you have, rather than Delaware, it's 90 miles from here, okay?
I was on the phone the whole time.
Working on that. And the resources, the question is not whether we get more, this is a list of every resource we're getting in there, but the question is how to get it in.
It's hard to get it from point A to point B. It's hard to get if some of these roads are wiped out, communities are wiped out, there's no ability to land, there's no ability to get trucks through, there's no ability to get a whole range of things through.
So, I mean, anyway.
If I sound frustrated, I am.
Yeah. Here's the thing, though.
You're wrong about that.
You're wrong about that.
We'll show you people who've actually been able to go, locals who have done work.
Yeah. Including, by the way, someone who was threatened with arrest if he did use a helicopter.
So it's not that there's no place to land, there's no place to do good.
It's that the government can't do it, and so they want to make sure that nobody else does because they don't want to look bad.
So let's again compare the people versus the elite.
In this case, the people are the locals.
Here's a man who borrowed a tractor and started clearing a path for emergency responders instead of, you know, government officials.
Well, I don't know who these are, but I'm about to get to work and I'll ask for forgiveness later.
🎵 Good for him. You know, that's what you want to see, right?
If ever you watch a film, it's the community coming together to help one another.
These people are most affected. They know their neighbors best.
It's almost like limited government and local government is more effective than federal government.
Here's another good Samaritan.
This man is Jordan.
I want to make sure I get his name right.
Sidem. Sidem. I don't know his name.
I've only read it. But this was a man who said, you know what?
I'm going to take my helicopter, bring supplies to these areas that are inaccessible, and hey, isn't that wonderful?
But instead, I don't know if you know this, the government stepped in and said, no, no, no, do that, and you'll actually get arrested.
Stories of survival are now being shared days after Helene wreaked havoc in North Carolina, but one Pageland man's efforts to help are now the source of controversy.
He flew his own chopper on his own dime to help stranded victims, but that man says he abandoned his rescue missions after a fire official threatened to have him thrown in jail.
Jordan Sidham piled food and water into his helicopter Saturday and headed up toward Benner Elk.
The only way through, a mountain gap in Lake Lure.
I was greeted by the, at that time I didn't know, but Lake Lure fire chief or assistant chief maybe, and he shut down the whole operation.
He said, I'm letting you know.
And at that point he waved for two law enforcement officers to come over and told me that again, if I go back up the mountain I would be arrested.
Just think about that for a second.
You want to talk about the legitimate role of government?
Arresting a citizen who's trying to bring supplies to people who could die?
That's the role of your government?
Yes, they're the government.
They're here to help, right? Also, this isn't just something that exists in a vacuum.
So here's someone from Twitter, his name is Ryan Tire, talking about FEMA in this situation.
This is the rule, not the exception.
He said, I cannot confirm the reasons why in North Carolina, but I can tell you the reasons in other storms I have worked.
I was able to coordinate several trucks full of supplies to be brought down, but I was informed in that meeting that All the semi-trucks full of food, water and hygiene supplies were to be turned around.
The reason they gave us was that these donations were not from companies on their preferred vendors list.
So, the good news is, though, FEMA and these people while stopping citizens from being actual neighbors, they're giving a whopping $750 to victims, so that'll handle your house repairs.
And why is this happening?
Goal number one on FEMA's website is instill equity as a foundation of emergency management.
Ah, ah, equity.
That's where we are.
Equity. Not equal opportunity, but equity, meaning ensured equal outcomes.
We usually refer to that when we're talking about the job space or school affirmative action.
In this case, because it's a religion, leftism, and a huge portion of it is equity, we've actually injected that dogma into natural disaster relief.
There should, hey, hey, Was your house destroyed?
Are you in the area of the natural disaster?
Are you in the danger zone? Guess what?
You get help and you're allowed to help your fellow citizens.
There you go. That's equity. Could you think of anything less relevant than race or sexual orientation at a time like this?
Well, the government certainly sees it that way.
Can't even help your neighbor, you know?
Yeah. What's that old Tim Walls saying?
One person's neighborly is another person's illegal?
Yes. Yeah, exactly. Apparently, neighborliness is great right up until you try to help people in a disaster.
Now, I was talking to Mr.
Mr. Gunzinger yesterday.
He's getting some information out of North Carolina and I believe maybe Tennessee area
that he's like this is really, really, really troubling information.
He's trying to corroborate it.
So I connected him with Mug Club Undercover.
Hopefully we'll have an update for you guys on that.
But nothing about this seems like it's being handled correctly is the main point.
The problem with that is that people's lives are on the line.
People's lives literally are on the line right now.
Unfortunately a lot of times our attention gets redirected somewhere else.
It's election or it's Israel or it's something else right now when you have people in your own backyard
not being taken care of.
And this is exactly who Donald Trump is on every single issue.
America first is not saying America and nobody else.
It's saying America first.
Yeah. Yeah. Make them arrest you.
Yeah. I'm sorry, just make them arrest you.
I'm in a helicopter, sir.
I'm going to do exactly what you say until I'm 15 feet off the ground, then I'm flicking you off and I'm going to help some people.
Sorry, I'm doing it. So, find me.
Let's put this in contact. You think people in North Carolina, you think those people pay taxes, a good portion of them pay taxes?
Probably. Yeah. So, they helped fund over, I don't know what the number is now, over $100 billion at least pledged to Ukraine, I believe over $150 billion pledged at this point.
So, they spent money to send that over there.
Yeah. They get $750 right now, and they pay for the government to block their neighbor from helping them with tractors and helicopters.
Does that seem like a government...
That is looking out for the people at that point.
How many more signs do you need?
And I want to make one more point, too, here.
They're talking about climate change during the debate in relation to this natural disaster.
I was in Cancun back when they had the Cancun Climate Summit.
It was still the Kyoto Protocol, I believe, before it became the Paris, the Kyoto Accord, before it became the Paris Agreement.
I always forget. I went Montreal, Kyoto, Paris.
All right. I was there. Alright, let's put it this way.
These people in North Carolina facing this tragedy, they have been thrust into a scenario where they're temporarily in the third world.
It's a microcosm of the third world, right?
They don't have access to energy, supplies, food, communication, electricity.
And you see how disastrous it is in that scenario, right, if they don't have access to basic energy, clean food, which of course also, by the way, requires energy to transport.
Okay, so it's terrible. What about the rest of the globe that is in the third world every day?
When those people are struggling for food, for energy, natural gas, and you sit on your podium talking about climate change.
People in the third world die every single day so that you can drive your shitty white guilt symbol of a Prius and act like you're helping them.
Let's be really clear. Here in the United States in your day-to-day gas prices go up.
All right, maybe we're eating Chuck roast tonight.
In an area like Mexico, outside of the tourist areas that rich white people from the States get to visit, energy goes up that same price, it's inconvenient for you, they die.
They can't eat their food. They don't have access to food.
Clean water. So I just want to put that into context.
You think of what these Americans are going through right now, and by the way, they shouldn't, because this is the United States of America.
We've created better, and yes, we deserve better.
But that is the rest of the world.
On a daily basis.
And the climate change based policies are catastrophic and murderous.
You can let me know if you disagree. If you think it's more important to, you know, ensure, if you believe, that we could prevent a 1.6 degree temperature rise.
You know what? Call it 4 degrees. I don't care.
Here's what I was talking about with the FEMA funds, too.
Look at that. $110 million emergency food and shelter program.
Migrants, migrants, migrants, migrants, migrants, migrants.
Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars.
Okay. For the people.
It's not that I don't have a heart, but it's America first.
For the people, by the people.
It doesn't make sense that it's coming from FEMA, like the disaster relief.
Yeah. That's a disaster?
I mean, I guess it is a disaster.
That they created.
The border is a disaster.
That's a great point, Josh.
I walked myself right into that one. It certainly is for Lime Scooter in New York.
The Harris administration has admitted that the border problem is a disaster because they've used FEMA to try to solve it.
Dang, look at that. I thought of that, and I really...
That was a concept...
I really thought...
Premeditated. Yeah, but...
I don't understand what's happening.
I don't either. And it does help to be prepared.
I've talked about this with you.
Having some food that can be stored for an indefinite amount of time, having some clean water, having an ability to heat it.
I've often said that Everclear is something very useful not to drink.
You'll burn your esophagus, but it can be an antiseptic.
It also can be used as a fuel for some of these cooking.
And for thirst. What was that?
And for thirst. And for thirst.
Well, you can certainly trade it with the drunken marauders.
So, ever clear.
If you're underage, of course, absolutely not.
Food, water, a way to prepare these things.
Ideally, some kind of emergency generator.
You know, just be prepared ahead of time if you can.
Hey, what's that? Looks like a hatch.
Should we open it? I think we have to.
It looks old. Listen.
You smell something?
I can't see a thing.
It's too dark. Hello? Well, hello, boys.
Is it all clear out there?
Clear? How long have you been down there?
Since Y2K. Did the computers destroy the world?
No. Not the way you think.
Yeah, it's a long story. Wait, how have you been surviving down there since before 2000?
Can, beans, and pickles.
How have you survived 20 plus years on pickles?
Pickles was my German Shepherd.
God, gross!
Is there anything you need that we can maybe help you with?
A fresh bucket of s**t.
Yeah, we don't have... Did she say s**t?
Did she say s**t bucket?
Like a bucket to s**t in?
Or should it be like a bucket of s**t?
There's no way. Do you say...
Do you say s**t?
Like a sh** bucket to sh** in?
No. You want a fresh bucket of sh**?
Yes. I don't think we should help this lady.
I don't feel good about it.
God, she's eating her dog.
She's also eating sh**.
You don't know that. She could be doing other things with the sh**.
It's not a sh** bucket. She corrected me and said it's a bucket of sh**.
Maybe she's building another...
She's not building stairs.
Look, we can't get you a bucket of sh**, but I think I can do you one better.
How about... A three-month supply emergency food kit from Patriot Supply.
They're the leading brand in emergency food supplies.
And if you go to prepwithcrowder.com...
Like on a computer?
Yeah. Come back when you've got a fresh bucket of s***!
Go to prepwithcrowder.com...
prepwithcrowder.com...
It is prepwithcrowder.com.
I'm supposed to say it three times, I think.
And actually, right now, there's a special $50 off a four-week emergency food kit.
Yeah. Very nice people, too.
Yeah, they are. And look, I know that there's a disaster going on right now, and hopefully people are motivated to think, like, this could happen to me, right?
Because it absolutely can, in different ways, different disasters, different areas.
areas you can have stuff happen. So just make sure you're prepared. I've heard stories about
what they need right now and it breaks my heart because it's diapers, it's baby formula,
it's food, it's bottled water. Those are kind of the necessities, those staples that you
guys should have. And obviously these guys don't sell diapers or baby formula. Make sure
if you have kids, have some of that extra laying around that you're not touching in
case something happens.
Also, by the way, if you don't have toilet paper, do not try and cobble together a makeshift bidet with a siphon hose.
That water will actually make you more infected.
Really? Yeah. I had no idea.
Yeah. Careful. Though, bidet is not the first thing on my mind if, you know, all hell breaks loose, but thank you for that.
Well, that's because you're an unsanitary cretin.
That's not true. Now we know something gross about you.
Yes. Oh, you use a bidet, Josh?
You use a bidet? I do.
It's heated and everything. You do not.
I have a mobile one.
I bring it with me places. I bring it with me to the bathroom here, actually.
You don't. I do. I sit down to pee and I use it then, too.
Yes, he does. But you know what, Gerald?
What? I've lost it.
Is it a foot pump? Gerald needs a bidet and de-lousing powder.
Oh yeah, he needs two bidets.
You need two bidets because we know how hairy you are.
That's true. I'm sure it's not trimmed anywhere else.
How would your second bidet help? It's just to save time at that point.
He doesn't know how to use it.
Two streams are better than one, I think.
Yeah, two streams are better than one. Gotta get it from both ankles.
Speaking of disaster, let's get to the strike of the Longshoremen.
So, the bravest among us.
The bravest among us. I have to say it, by the way.
Longshoremen! My father was a longshoreman!
I'll be a longshoreman!
My entire family tree will be a longshoreman!
Why are you saying it like that? I don't know.
I'm trying to make it fun. So, again, the theme today is the people versus the elite.
You may not think of the elite as massive unions, but I assure you they are.
The bosses. Yeah, the management of the unions.
But I'm going to tell you, even in this case, when you're talking about the longshoremen, the base salary and the benefits.
Yeah, that's true. Yeah, it's not even close to the average American.
So this idea that this is being done to ensure American job sustainability.
No, no, it's not true.
And I understand, yeah, that automation is an issue, and I don't necessarily know how we solve all of it, but everyone has a line.
And I'll get to the automation point.
Let me just lay this out for you, okay?
You ever go, I don't know, if you ever go on a road trip and you see a bunch of road construction?
You don't look at it and think, that's a beacon of government efficiency, right?
Especially not five years later when it's still there.
Especially in New Jersey. But you see them with bulldozers.
You see them with steamrollers.
Okay, well, here's the thing.
Those are all forms of automation to some degree.
I don't know if you know this, you could employ more people through the taxpayer dime if you
only gave them shovels and rakes, like we did at one point in time.
Hey, you could employ even more people if you just use spoons, which I don't know if
you know, we did that during the Great Depression FDR, right?
Unemployment, all of a sudden that went down and we just said, hey, let's just give people
shovel-ready jobs.
Go to northern Michigan, see the up north trees as we know them.
They just had people that say, hey, go plant trees.
They planted them in rows so you'll see these either pine or cedar trees that are sticks
with a mushroom tip at the top and nothing else.
Why? Well, it was employment!
Isn't that... But is it a useful job?
So everyone has a line as far as automation.
Is it the automobile?
Is it a tractor?
Is it planes? Or is it, you know, just automating certain portions, for example, of our ports here in the United States to be up to speed with the rest of the world as they began to do this in 1993?
So Tuesday, the International Longshoremen's Association, the ILA, they went on strike for the first time in nearly 50 years.
Today's going to be a history lesson.
It's a lot of fun and angering.
Tonight, crucial ports that fuel the American economy from New England to the Gulf Coast at a standstill after tens of thousands of union dock workers walked off the job.
The International Longshoremen's Association and the U.S. Maritime Alliance failing to reach a deal.
Ah, yes, failing to reach a deal.
And again, just poor guys.
Just hear me out here. What you think of as the union workers and management, it's not that.
So the ILA president, Harold Daggett, he actually threatened—he's an old-school break-your-legs guy—to cripple America.
I'm going to stab you through the heart with a f***ing pencil.
Do you understand me? Sorry, right clip, but here's another clip.
When my men hit the streets from Maine to Texas, every single port will lock down.
You know what's going to happen?
Tell us. First week— Be all over the news every nine, boom, boom.
Second week, guys who sell cars can't sell cars because the cars ain't coming in off the ships.
They get laid off.
Third week, malls start closing down.
They can't get the goods from China.
They can't sell clothes.
They can't do this. Everything in the United States comes on a ship.
They go out of business.
They're going to be like this.
Who's going to win here in the long run?
You'll be joking. You're better off sitting down, and let's get a contract, and let's move on with this world.
In today's world, I'll cripple you.
I will cripple you, and you have no idea what that means.
Nobody does. You mean you'll pay someone else to cripple us because I don't think you could waddle my way quickly enough?
Now, I want to make this...
Looks like the snowman from the old school Christmas movies.
Silver and gold!
On my Christmas tree.
Love that chain too, by the way.
Everything you've been told...
Now, it would be one thing if you believed, hey, these are people who are underpaid.
This is the backbone of America.
And the offers that have been made have been cutbacks and basically no concessions.
None of what you have been led to believe with the working class hero bullcrap, name that movie line, is true.
Here's what the ILA has been offered.
A 50% pay raise.
More employer contributions to these retirement plans.
Actually the employer contributions have tripled.
And retaining the status quo on port automation.
That's what has been offered.
50% pay raise!
50% pay raise.
What?
Now you may be thinking, hey, that's just like people working the factories 7 days a
week for 12 hours without a piss break.
Granted, 50% it's paltry.
I know you, if you're not a union worker out there in the rest of the private sector, you probably see that every six months.
What their demands include, 77% pay raise over five years and less automation in ports.
Less than exists now, which has put us behind the rest of the world in basic management of our ports.
So, 45,000 people on strike.
J.P. Morgan has estimated that it could cost the American economy $3.5 to $4.5 billion a day.
Of course, the Kamala and Biden administration took the side of the ILA, even though a lot of union workers don't like them at this point anyway.
They urged the U.S. Maritime Alliance to come to a Fair deal, because 50% pay increase in triple employer contributions wouldn't suffice.
It's not very fair. It's an insult, really.
Yeah. And let's be really clear, too.
When you're talking about 95% of the ILA political contributions, they've gone to Democrats.
13 of the top 25 political donors of all time are unions, some of which are public sector unions, just to be clear.
So when you think, oh, you think big oil, you think big pharma, yep, there's corruption, of course, with lobbyists across the board, but a lot of people overlook the unions.
That's why they feel so bold in demanding a 75% pay rate.
77% over five years.
Are you kidding me?
Well, hold on. They must not be being paid all that much.
Exactly. They're not being paid very well.
We've got to stand with our brothers and sisters.
Yeah, because if they're being paid super well, if they own things like that, you'd think racketeering.
The raise they want is more than most people's annual salary.
Yes. Exactly.
That's insane, dude. That is fair.
I have a hard time getting on board with that.
It's a very good point.
And former Vice President Biden, of course, was actually set to speak with the union leader of the Longshoremen, but he went to the wrong place.
And that is not... It's an easy mistake to make.
Oh, come on, Joe. What is democracy?
So let's go through...
I could picture him saying that in a drive-thru.
Sir, that's not on the menu.
Let's go through the claims here.
Their claim is that the ILA, they're protecting the downtrodden workers.
Our ILA brothers and sisters play a critical role in keeping the American economy running, and they deserve industry-leading wages and robust job protections for the vital work they perform.
Here's the truth, and it's not even within the realm of argument.
These ILA workers are incredibly well compensated.
They're holding you hostage.
So that they can get fatter.
Let me be really clear. It would be one thing if they wanted what a fair market price would offer them.
What you make. Make no mistake, there's kind of three tiers in the United States as far as employees.
There is public employees, namely federal government workers.
They get the Cadillac benefits right.
They have the kind of job security that you could only pray for.
Then you have giant-ass union workers, and then you have the rest of you.
And some of you may look at that and say, well, then I want to be in the giant-ass union pool.
Sure, but then we would have no industry left because it's entirely unsustainable.
For proof, look to any major industry that is dominated or controlled by these unions.
Also selective. Yes.
The unions are very selective, and you can't just get in.
Oh, we'll get to that. Yeah.
Son and a son of a son of a son of a son of a son.
So let me write this, or sorry, lay this out for you.
All references available every day.
Link in the description. The base salary for ILA members, okay?
Not including overtime. The base salary is $81,000.
Most ILA officers make base salary over $200,000 a year.
So base, base, base, $81,000.
I doubt many people are making that.
And then the officers make over $200,000.
Now that's not even to consider.
Six weeks vacation?
Wow. I'm sure you watching right now, you get that, right?
And you think the solution is you need six weeks vacation if you don't have it.
Or you think maybe split the difference.
They have unbelievable health insurance, pensions, the kind that, of course, you could never imagine.
But they don't pay for, yeah. Right.
And you know what that guy, Daggett?
I don't know if you know this. He makes over $700,000 a year.
In just his annual salary, he has a $6 million house in New Jersey and a 76-foot yacht.
Well, he sold it. We're the backbone.
Yeah. We're the backbone of society.
We're going to cripple your economy.
Really, Mr. $6 million house?
Hey, I don't talk about my sale and money is pretty vulgar, but I will tell you this.
I've decided to run a business.
I haven't made anywhere close to this guy.
He doesn't own anything.
He's a shakedown artist.
And by the way, his two sons...
Make over $200,000 a year as ILA officers.
There's a picture of his house going around.
You just need to see it to believe it.
Well, that's not good for him. And you can go back and look at his history.
I know you're thinking, does this guy have mob connections?
Of course he does.
Here you go from the NY Post.
He was actually a co-defendant during this.
It was like a 2005 RICO trial.
Someone was dead. I don't know.
You can go and read up on it. The point is...
The co-defendant, he was found dead in the trunk.
Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Point is, people found dead.
He has a $6 million house, 76-foot yacht, and a $700,000 annual salary, plus unbelievable benefits, and that money stays in the family.
Holy cow. Looks like a bit of a, almost like a penis.
Yes. A little bit.
You see what you want to see, Gerald?
Yeah, I wasn't thinking that at all, actually.
You told me that earlier, and I was like, that's great.
No, you're the one that told me that, Josh.
No, that looks like a splatter.
By the way, if you add up some of that compensation that we were talking about to that base salary, $150,000 plus for those people with overtime and some of the benefits added in.
Can you imagine an American worker getting that?
By the way, don't forget the pension part of that, which is about $100,000 per year.
After you do not work anymore for them.
Yeah. That's current.
And they want 77% increase over five years, have been offered 50.
At what point do you say, hey, hey, maybe unions aren't looking out for the American worker, they're looking out for the unions.
And here's another claim that they'll make, because you don't want to focus on Daggett.
He's very easy to dislike.
It would be hard to like him.
I mean, it's hard to imagine somebody with that kind of goatee living in that kind of house.
Yes, exactly. You think they're servants?
Like, all right, shave my full man, chew.
No, he does that himself.
Because I'm a working man.
So they're also claiming that the ILA's demands, and this is an important thing, and you'll see some of these populists on the right say, well, yeah, and I agree, automation, we are reaching an unprecedented time where almost everything could be automated through AI, but that's not what we're talking about here.
So they are claiming that these demands will actually safeguard future jobs.
We want to protect these good American jobs for the people that work 24 hours a day to preserve America's economy and keep moving America's commerce moving.
Everything is hyperbole with these 24 hours a day.
Yeah. So every person is going to be dead within two weeks because they don't sleep?
Yeah, I feel like a union might have negotiated non-24 hour work days a long time ago.
No, no, you don't understand. They get six weeks paid vacation if they work 24 hours a day for the rest of the year.
Oh, I see. That's not a bad deal for the company then, I guess.
It's four hour shifts, so...
Yeah, well that's why I better thank a union member.
Better thank a union member.
Here's the truth. Stop it.
The demands that they're making will accelerate job losses unbelievably.
So let me give you some very...
The more I dove into this and the more that Lane in the Brain dove into this, it was funny.
Yeah. A little history lesson.
1964, the ILA, they went on strike.
It resulted in guaranteed annual income.
Six figures when adjusted for inflation.
So this idea that if you go back to the 60s, again, they were still living very high on the hog compared to the rest of the American workforce at that point in time.
So the result between 1964, that was right after the strike ended, guaranteed annual income.
64 to 1977, not one new longshoreman was hired.
Yeah. Wow.
So they got what they wanted and then closed the door.
Pulled the ladder up behind him.
We're looking out for the American worker.
Really? Oh, so this idea is that you want all Americans to be...
Oh, no, no. Sorry, we're full.
Let me give you another example.
Elevators. In 1945, the New York City elevator operators, they were unionized, they went on strike.
The city lost $100 million.
Okay. 1945, city lost $100 million.
Okay. So you would think, alright, alright, so this is a good example.
Back then, of course, unions were relevant.
They went to bat for their workers.
And they came out on top.
Well, what happened is by 1950, the automatic elevator was standard.
And by 1970, there were no more elevator operators.
Oh, Dallas, Texas was the first one to get one.
That's nice. Nice.
It's also a bold time to go on strike.
1945? I was going to say, is it like after August-ish or what?
You get home from the Pacific and there's a guy, nope.
Can't do it. Won't do it, pal.
Take the stairs. This is what you fought for.
Get up the stairs. Hey, don't worry.
Look, they can't replace this.
No. They're going to feel the pain.
What? What do you mean? You can replace it with godforsaken numbers?
Well, shit, I didn't see that happening.
Yeah, just push a button now, Chief.
You think an elevator, a computer, is going to be able to remember how many numbers are going to go up?
Yeah, come on. Ah, no, can't do it.
There's like 20 floors here.
And even then, you think you're going to get a computer to know that you can't have a 13th floor?
What do you want?
I have to answer a damn ghost?
Is that a New York thing? There's no 13th floor?
No, that's everywhere. What?
That's not right. I've seen 13th floors all over the place.
You went to unlucky places, and that's probably what happened to you.
You're just haunted, Gerald. Yes, you are.
Here's another... Here's another claim that they're making.
This is for the worker. That the U.S. ports need to ban automation because...
And you'll hear those workers saying that it will cost...
And in some cases it's true.
In this case it's no. It will cost them their jobs.
The ILA is fighting for respect, appreciation, and fairness in a world in which corporations are dead set on replacing hard-working people with automation.
Employers push automation under the guise of safety.
But it is really about cutting labor costs to increase...
I can barely read. They're already exceptionally high profits.
The truth is robots do not pay taxes.
Oh yeah, tell that to Robot Snipes.
Which, yep. Yep, he should have done it.
Pay your taxes, Robot Snipes.
That came out better than I thought.
Record profits.
How much are you making?
About $300,000 plus six weeks paid vacation and benefits, but it's the corporations that are greedy.
Measly. Measly $300,000.
Lane sent in that that guy was Bronx John Oliver.
And here's that President Daggett, the criminal alleged, added...
We want absolute airtight language that there will be no automation or semi-automation.
Okay, let me give you...
No, no, no. That means basically you want your workers who reek of Benson Hedges and Bengay to be perpetually employed.
The truth here is that...
The lack of automation, we have an apples-to-apples comparison.
Yes. Hertz American ports.
So, only three terminals in the United States, all in California, are actually fully automated.
Only three on the East Coast are semi-automated.
Okay. Now, I'm not just going to compare us to China here.
Because, by the way, I don't know if you know this, but the overly representative power and influence of the unions empowers China.
Because that's what makes things so unaffordable here.
And unfortunately, made in America often now means crap.
And that's because of union workers.
I mean, American auto manufacturing has fallen behind.
Anyone who tells you American auto is still the best is lying to you.
It's just not true. They make better cars in the United States at the Toyota hub.
And I would love to see that change.
It can't change if you have the kind of influence that you see here from the unions who do so at your expense.
They are elite. The rest of you are not.
There's a split the difference. So China has 18 fully automated ports.
So what do you think happens when American union workers say, no automated ports, and China has 18?
And they have 27 more under construction.
Now, I know what you're thinking.
It's not fair, for example, to compare slave labor of China.
Sure, in this case, that's not really what we're doing.
We're talking about basic technology being used to not only make things more efficient but enhance security measures.
But let's go to another country.
Rotterdam Port, Netherlands, has been automated since 1993.
Seriously? These unions have been resisting basic improvements in technology since 1993.
And here's a look at what that port in the Netherlands looks like.
Like again, since 1993.
Yeah, it looks nice. Do you pay for that?
And we've done this since 93 and the Americans only got a couple.
Yeah. And I asked you a trick question.
Yeah, I don't know. What was that? We've been doing this since 1993.
It's the same boss over there, okay?
Yeah. We're not the same as your Feta Union workers?
So I asked you a trick question because I already know the answer, and you can research the answer, go to the references.
We make them available every day.
The result is I know what you're thinking.
Okay, we're probably not as competitive as we could be with the rest of the world as it relates to ports.
Close. Out of the top 50 most efficient ports in the world, zero American ones make the list.
Union made, American made, American quality.
Not one out of the top 50.
The United States of America, for God's sake.
You starting to get the picture?
You think we can't do better than the Netherlands at anything?
That's because we're shooting ourselves in the foot.
We're allowing guys like Daggett to break our legs.
And here's the thing.
Yes, I understand that there is a balance.
There is a balance.
And yeah, if you just allow corporations to automate everything at the expense of workers, at the expense of the middle class, you know, kind of like you saw during COVID, the greatest wealth transfer in American history at the behest of Democrats.
But, you know, they're looking out for you.
The truth is, In many circumstances, automation can be good for people.
So let me give you an example. In 2019...
I think it was a port.
Was it LA? Yeah.
It was automated. It immediately made supply chains work more efficiently.
Ships were sitting at sea for shorter periods of time.
And you may not realize this, but the truck schedules were more consistent.
So truck drivers actually earned more money.
One truck driver actually wrote this.
This comes from Reason Magazine.
Automation meant no longer having to wait hours and hours in long lines because the dock workers decided to leave early to go to lunch and come back late.
I love how he plays all the dock workers and be like, boom!
Well, and that's the problem is you'll have a union here that only cares about themselves and a union here that only cares about themselves.
Well, one second. I thought the idea was to be unionized, right?
But the truck workers are at odds with the dock workers, and the dock workers are at odds with the truck workers, and I'm sure that they're at odds with the UAW. They don't all come together.
They're all trying to get their piece of the pie, as opposed to baking more pies.
And by the way, you get none of the pie if you are not a union worker.
And I know so many people say, yeah, but we should just all be union.
States should not be allowed to be right to work.
States should require that everybody join a union.
That's the solution to some people.
But let me ask you this. Do you actually think that these kinds of salaries, these kinds of benefits are sustainable for the rest of the country?
50 of the top ports in the world, we're not even...
One of those spots.
Zero out of 50 spots.
You want to apply that to every other industry?
So let's stop with the working class hero BS that people use as a talking point to sort of perpetuate, I would say, in a phony way, populism.
And we actually do need to look at the numbers.
And we actually do need to look how technology can be used to serve humanity.
Yes. In this case, they're preventing it.
They're forbidding it. And here's the thing.
If they had their way, there wouldn't be any innovation.
I gave you the example of the elevators, right, and the guaranteed income for the long, and no people were hired.
This one I just wanted to save to the very end of the segment because it's beyond funny.
The cherry on top of funny.
In 1977, and no matter what I say today, you'll say that's hyperbole, and believe me, I mean, I've been physically assaulted by unions and then had to have armed security because they followed me to my car with guns telling me they would kill me in Michigan when it went right to work.
I have plenty of experience with unions.
I know these types. Not all, but certainly the representation.
So no matter what I say, you will have people try and dismiss me as working for the elite even though we are funded by you, Mug Club.
All right. And you would say that I'm joking or being misleading.
That's why checking the reference is important.
In 1977, the ILA went on strike to oppose the use of containers.
I'm sorry, what?
Containers! We're not talking about AI. We're not talking about typewriters.
We're not talking about forklifts.
We're talking about containers.
Like shipping containers?
Yes, the steel shipping containers.
They were hoping for different containers or no containers at all?
What you got to do is you got to have that rope netting thing.
You got the rope thing because, look, you got to have a guy tie the rope.
And then you got to have a guy double check the rope.
Then you got to have a guy smoke for 19 minutes.
And then, you know, you got to have a guy who makes sure he gets six weeks paid vacation with rollover days.
Containers. They oppose containers.
Hey, anyone out there who's not working in one of these massive unions, I don't know, you think you'd be able to, if you work a desk job, oppose pens?
Email. Anti-email.
Big pen. It's a giant racket.
That's what it is. So what's the solution here?
Okay, well, first off, you stop kowtowing to unions.
I think that's step number one.
Also, keep in mind that Biden's bipartisan infrastructure bill, it prohibited using any funds to automate ports.
What? So, what I would say is consider privatizing ports.
Let's consider maybe training programs for people who are working at these ports so they're not displaced, but they can actually go to a new job where technology serves as a net added benefit, and then you can go and work another job because this is something that has reached the point of automation.
Sort of like automobiles compared to horse and buggies.
Sort of like bulldozers compared to whatever they had to use, blunt heavy objects before bulldozers.
Everything advances, and we need to focus on using technology to serve humanity, not to replace humanity.
There are plenty of examples of that having taken place.
You could probably offer some early retirement packages for the older workers.
They did that in Rotterdam when it was automated.
Let's actually look at...
People are not going to like this. Breaking up the power of these unions.
If there could be some kind of a policy that just requires it to be within striking distance of the national average for a comparable job as it relates to salary, benefits, vacation, then maybe you could split the difference.
Then maybe people who are actually in poor states or municipalities who feel as though they're being taken advantage of, and that does happen, maybe their quality of life could be brought up If the unions are just willing to share a little bit of a piece of their pie, maybe there could be some kind of averaging on a national or state-by-state level so that there isn't this discrepancy of people like Daggett, who you see, and someone working for a private company who, by the way, is making a good living as much as their employer can afford, but isn't living as high on the hog.
I don't know, maybe it could be something comparable to, if we had a direct comparison.
Oh yeah, that's right. UAW, the big three, how much they make and cost, of course, the American taxpayer, versus American auto workers for Toyota here in the United States, or Hyundai, who still make very, very good wages, but work outside of some of these union constraints.
And I don't know if you know this, they're happier and have a better quality of life.
The unions won't tell you that, but let's just split the difference.
Is that reasonable? You can comment below.
That's a starting point. But you won't hear that.
I believe actually right now it's...
We're supposed to go to Chat Thursday?
Yeah, Chat Thursday. We went long.
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