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April 21, 2025 - Louder with Crowder
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🔴 Globalist Cities: A New World Order 2025-04-21 17:11
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Put an end to some ridiculous DEI initiatives, powerful city leaders across the globe are doubling down, pushing this agenda harder than ever, all the way from Texas to Ohio to the UK.
Anti-DEI to me is anti-American.
It is not just three words, diversity, equity, inclusion.
It's not just policies.
It is the very ethos.
of the city of Cincinnati.
Inclusivity is a part of our charter or our city.
And now I'm being told that if we don't get rid of the words like inclusive and equality, that we're not going to get any money from the federal government.
We're not going to get any money from the state government.
We're not going to do anything like that.
We believe that immigrants and diversity are part of the one reason we have the fastest growing economy in the Midwest.
We believe that our diversity is a strength.
And we're going to continue to be a safe and welcoming place to people from all walks of life.
Because we think that's a huge competitive.
The same initiatives can be found in mayor's offices in cities like London, Munich, Paris, Gothenburg, Sweden, and maybe...
Most egregious of all, Belfast, Ireland, which is headed up by Mayor Mickey Murray.
This guy.
As the first citizen of Belfast, and the very first openly gay Lord Mayor of Belfast, I'm extremely excited to be leading this year's parade.
The theme of this year's festival is Love Your Mind, a message that is so incredibly important to our LGBTQIA plus community.
You're disproportionately affected by mental health issues.
The ladies love him.
And if you think that DEI precludes actual, well, I don't know.
Equality? Then f*** you.
at least according to Arlington Mayor Jim Ross.
Why can't you have excellence with equity?
Why can't the Asian American get into school because there are too many Asians in the school?
Why can't an Asian American get into school because there's too many Asians in the school?
Yes, there's a quota at your Ivy Leagues, and the Supreme Court literally struck it down because Asians were not being admitted based on their race.
So am I going to convince you of anything one way or the other on DEI?
I didn't think I would.
Hey, listen, I appreciate you coming out.
I knew you were going to get a little sound bite on this.
Here's the reality.
I gave you a real answer that there is nothing about DEI that's going to preclude anybody from being an excellent.
Tell me why the plane helicopter crash was based on DEI.
It wasn't.
All right.
Thanks for coming out.
Any other questions?
And what would a good globalist overlord be without a dash of climate policy?
At the local level, meeting specific needs and addressing the long-term needs.
Things like how we're going to address climate.
So will you be deflected?
I suppose I'm asking, would you be deflected in any way from Austin's net zero?
Or no?
No, no.
In fact, I anticipate that what you...
No, no.
Climate change is real.
We see it every day of the year.
I can paint a picture that climate change is as real as we are sitting up here.
And if you're convinced, contrary to that, you're not going to buy a damn thing I'm saying.
You're not.
So how do we address...
Those issues of climate change, do we just throw our hands up and say, well, it is what it is, we're just going to deal with it?
No, we don't.
We continue to educate those who are coming after us.
We are, number one, working to educate our citizens really around, you know, what is climate change.
Being as resilient as we can in our built environment.
And it's also looking to the future and understanding how climate change is going to affect migration and business investment.
So on the protection side, Cincinnati is proud to have the largest city-led solar farm in the country.
In fact, our city is actually net carbon neutral because we create from that solar farm and put into the grid as much, if not more, energy than our city buildings actually are used to consume.
We are one of seven cities in the world that got investments from Bloomberg Philanthropies to operationalized biochar, which is an entirely renewable resource that not only helps with stormwater mitigation, but also fertilizer,
and it's a carbon capture tool as well.
I can go on and on about biochar, but I see the eyes blazing over.
We also did the very hard work of rezoning our city in advance of Bus Rapid Transit, which will be coming to Cincinnati, which we're very excited about.
And so along our transit routes and in our neighborhood business districts, we have increased density and height and legalized multi-families in an extraordinary way, which we are hopeful will not just create more housing stability, but also over time,
particularly for a Midwest city, this is hard.
We're doing a lot.
We have a Green Cincinnati plan with very ambitious goals and we're on par to hit that.
Cities can do a profound amount of work.
The other thing we did was reformed our residential tax payment program to prioritize LEED certification because we know that 40% of the carbon emissions are coming from buildings.
A majority of people in the United States live in cities.
And so if cities are on the cutting edge of mitigating these climate impacts, we can make a profound change.
But on the flip side of that, you know, Ohio and Cincinnati in particular really benefit from our geographic location.
We're not seeing the wildfires and the droughts and the earthquakes and the hurricanes that a lot of other parts of our community are seeing.
But the Ohio River, we have a huge amount of fresh water that is accessible to us.
We believe that in the future, those two things are going to be competitive advantages, distinguishing us from other communities, which will make us a destination for climate migrants and other natural migrants, which we hope will continue to build our growth.
And so we're seeding investments right now to make sure that happens.
And you already see, you know, the insurance industry is basically upside down in the Gulf states.
It's going to get much more expensive to live in those communities.
And so we want to be a destination for folks who are looking to make a move.
Really quickly, I want you to focus on that last man, Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pirival.
His accomplishments include a failed run for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018.
He was elected as Cincinnati mayor in 2021 with 65% of the vote and spoke at the 2024 DNC in support of Kamala Harris and is generally seen as a rising star within the party with all of the hallmarks of a young Obama type.
He is going to be a major player.
Now, we really know that initiatives like DEI and Climate Change Action, we know what they're actually about, right?
Ensuring predetermined outcomes and controlling what you can say, who you can criticize, what you can drive, where you can drive, and how often or when you can drive, even what you can eat for dinner.
What we're actually here to say is that you'll soon be eating crickets because, well, you have no choice.
But now we have the irrefutable proof that these mayors and city leaders around the world are pushing these agendas.
So what is the actual goal?
What do they want to achieve through all of this?
Well, like I just said, it's control.
And their plan to achieve that control outside of what we understand to be our democratic republic.
It's actually quite a brilliant plan.
little outright evil.
Cosmopolitanism. That's the endgame.
And the Bible.
You're an angel.
No, not that, though.
That would actually be preferable in this case.
Cosmo Magazine serves a preferable.
I didn't know what a frenulum was.
I'm talking about the ideology.
Of cosmopolitanism, which is defined by the Oxford Review as: Meaning
the citizen of the world, which highlights the notion of global citizenship.
What does it mean to be a global citizen?
To me, being a global citizen is understanding that everything's connected.
Making decisions based on the good of everyone, not just ourselves.
I am a global citizen.
Only one planet.
Walking people is the best way for you to be a global citizen.
We can't...
That is the world we're fighting for.
Because the world we want and the world we're envisioning is the world we're going to make, and it's going to be beautiful.
Now, the idea of the cosmopolitan, or the global citizen, which sounds nice to the uninitiated, but in practice is awful.
It's been promoted for a long time by the WDEF, the UN, the WHO, and world leaders like EU President Ursula von der Leyen.
And even record long hot streak day traders like Nancy Pelosi.
- This is something you can get through the mail.
- Okay.- You can run out.
- Oh my, wow.
It all sounds so nice though, doesn't it?
A better world where everyone gets along.
So why wouldn't people willingly submit?
To this ideology?
Well, because cosmopolitanism, or the idea of a global citizen, requires an adherence to another sociological concept.
Cultural relativism, or the idea that all cultures are created equal.
If all cultures are equal and all humans want the same thing, then achieving a utopia...
Should be a walk in the park.
But what if, in the real world, in something that you know, what if they're not?
What if not all cultures are created equal?
What if there's actually good and evil?
What if there's bad and good, or just okay and better?
What if it's a spectrum?
We'll get to that.
See, this is where the D in DEI really comes into play.
As the mayors at South by Southwest were all too happy to share
There's a whole lot of shit I don't know.
A whole lot that I don't know.
And one of the things I don't know is what it's like to be black.
Or what it's like to be Muslim.
Or what it's like to be a woman.
Or what it's like to be gay.
For a city like Cincinnati, which is a black city, 45% of my city is black.
That is inconsistent with our lived experience.
What all these prospective employers wanted to see.
Do you have a place where my Muslim, my black, my Latino, my Asian, my gay...
Employees are going to feel welcome and loved in your community?
You know, in Ohio, I've never met another Tibetan I wasn't related to.
So it's not, you know, there's not a lot of representation just of Asians and politics.
So, you know, if you see it, you can believe it.
I didn't really see it.
And so I didn't really take that passion that seriously until, you know, President Obama.
And without question, a historic figure, our first black president.
But I really identified with him because he was our first president with an ethnic name.
And kind of inspire me that no matter what you look like or where you're from.
I get what it's like to be a black man dating a white woman, holding hands with somebody walking down the street and seeing the looks that I get.
I don't get it because it's never happened to me.
A divisive form of politics.
Come in and set people one against another.
Sort of make people, working class people, hate each other.
Immigrants have helped make America great.
They've helped make...
Columbus is special and unique.
And we're going to continue to be a safe and welcoming place to people from all walks of life because we think that's a huge competitive advantage.
We think unlocking units, getting more units in the pipeline is the best way to fight homelessness.
It's the best way to address affordability.
And we think that's due to land use and incentives, not demonizing certain groups of people who are blaming our problems.
What you're thinking and you should be ashamed.
Hasn't the diversity shtick kind of ruined some cities?
Which ones?
Oh yeah, almost all of them?
Of 31 suspects following a crime spree in Cologne on New Year's Eve, more than half are asylum seekers.
Trying to cross at any price.
Migrants regularly tried to climb into trucks on the highway near Cali.
Allah is welcome.
Over the course of 24 hours, around 6,800 migrants disembarked from 120 boats.
That's a few hundred people more than Lampedusa's full-time population.
It wasn't students in classes, but migrants in the gym today at James Madison High School in Midwood.
And that did not sit well with parents who felt the administration put the shelter needs of asylum seekers ahead of the educational needs of kids.
It's been two days since they've been in the hospital with their children, who sleep outside.
*gunshot*
So yes, it could be argued that cosmopolitanism has been a mixed bag.
If that bag is mixed of flaming s**t, which is exactly why you've seen a sharp rise of staunch nationalist movements, like some would argue President Trump's MAGA, Germany's AFD, France's national rally,
Britain's reform, and especially Giorgio Maloney's pro-West brothers of Italy party.
But we are not of the codes.
We are people and we will defend our identity.
I am Giorgio.
I am a woman.
I am a mother.
I am Italian.
I am Christian.
You will not remove it.
Yeah, you can see why the cosmopolitans wouldn't be too fond of her.
This shows that nationalist movements Can win, right?
The globalist regime is in retreat in capitals from DC to Berlin, Paris to Rome.
The scary part is that globalism has really just morphed into a strategy controlled by metropolitan centers, like the aforementioned Berlin's, Paris's, other Western metropolises,
that then extend.
All of that influence and power to the country and the globe at large.
And surprisingly, the poster child for the whole thing might just be Manchester, UK, as described quite aptly by Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham.
And I think this is a new, to the UK, this is a new way of doing politics.
And I think it is an antidote to the turbulence and the division and the...
Kind of hate we see spewed out at a national level in countries around the world.
And I go very much with what Mayor Watson said at the end.
You know, if the 20th century was about the United Nations, the 21st should be about United Cities.
A network of cities who think place first before politics, who think how do we make progress together, dealing with the same challenges.
The network of cities, I think, needs to be a counterpoint to dysfunctional national politics that's overly tribal, overly divided.
And I absolutely believe, to answer your question, this is the right future of politics going forward.
There it is.
There it is.
The 21st century will be all about united cities.
Let me translate.
For those still struggling with this.
A group of interconnected cities run by elites with nothing in common with the average citizen and no allegiance to the state or its people will control the future of the world.
And what will that future look like if cities like Manchester have their say?
And in this world we're in right now, this becomes massively important.
Cities as places of equality, of progress, but progress with unity, with people together.
And sticking with that kind of notion of a place that is all about standing up for people, never walking on by on the other side.
And I think that's why this Austin-Manchester partnership...
Absolutely. It works economically, socially, politically.
And we are going to make it more than a piece of paper, aren't we?
But I think also, though, they want to live in a city that doesn't attack diversity policies, doesn't attack net zero, as we're hearing in the political space.
We won't be ever going in that direction.
In fact, we lean more into that in this moment because we think that that's important.
And we believe...
That is the kind of place that the coming generation wants to live in.
And that, I think, makes it an attractive place for investors.
Truthfully, I think we need to start building cities with public transport at the heart of it more than necessary.
We've had a car-dominated city, and I think there's a generation who may not want to own a car.
Sad, but that last part sounds familiar.
*music*
Don't worry, Mr. Burnham assured us his city is growing super fast and super equitably.
We're very proud of that fact, growing in 3% a year last decade.
I think though, the challenge ahead of Austin and the Manchester...
Is to keep growing and bringing more prosperity to our residents without selling our soul, without becoming soulless.
The next chapter for me, I think what we've done, and maybe Austin has done this as well, Kurt, what we've done is bring a lot of people into our city who weren't investing there before.
The BBC, the Bank of New York, Booking.com, Cloud Imperium we were talking to just the other day.
I think we've largely, not completely, but largely relocated people to kind of live in Manchester.
The next chapter for me is doing exactly what you are doing with Austin Beauty College.
So, where are all these new investments and transplants coming from?
Mostly the Gulf states and Saudi Arabia.
Also, Gulf royalty is buying up a lot of Manchester sports scene.
So in 2008, Man City was purchased by an Abu Dhabi-based investment firm owned by Sheikh Mansour.
And now, Qatar's Sheikh Yassim is actively trying to buy Manchester United.
It even, by the way, extends to residential properties, which are becoming increasingly expensive and unaffordable for Manchester natives.
Gentrification. It's fine when the Saudis and Qatari do it.
In 2019, a BBC investigation identified the ownership Of a new 77-unit complex in Manchester City Center.
Here are the numbers.
48 are owned by foreign buyers based in countries including Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia.
24 are owned by companies registered in the British Virgin Islands, which have no or pretty much no tax.
20 are owned by British property companies or buy-to-let landlords.
And finally, about nine.
Oh, and Burnham doesn't just outsource his cultural enrichment to the Middle East.
In September 2024, Burnham traveled to Beijing to promote partnerships between Northern English cities and China.
Ah, a friendship as old as time.
Good morning, my neighbours!
So high and low-low!
So really, this development is just courting rich foreigners, mostly from the Middle East, and is of no benefit to the Manchester public pretty much whatsoever.
At the same time, unsurprisingly, the city's demographics have changed.
The Christian population in 2011 was around 48.7%.
Ten years later, 2021, 36.2%.
In contrast, the Muslim population in 2011 was around 15.8%.
Ten years later, in 2021, 22.3%.
And this is reflective of Britain as a whole, where the most common name for newborn boys is Muhammad, which wouldn't even be top six.
Of my names for a newborn baby boy.
Now, you would think, or one could argue, that after years of evidence, it seems Islamic culture and Western culture may be irreconcilable.
Maybe British leaders should reconsider their stance.
Lucky for us, we were able to pose this exact question to Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham.
It's a super interesting panel.
I wasn't actually planning to ask any questions, but I do political coverage all over the world, and I just got back from Germany covering their elections.
And what I noticed in Germany, like with the AFD's rise, it's all driven off of immigration policy.
And actually, when I landed there, there was a stabbing at the Holocaust Memorial, and that has really driven Germany far to the right.
Or at least that's how people might describe it.
So I was hearing the population growth in your city.
I was wondering if you thought, like, because so much of that seems to mirror, like, an Islamic growth or Muslim growth is contributing to a lot of that.
Do you think there's going to be a point where there's like a compatibility issue with that population and the native British population, like we've seen in Germany and Italy and Hungary?
Well, it's obviously a kind of divisive climate that's out there in national politics around the world.
Are where the harm comes if politicians are making those kind of statements where, you know, they are, I don't know, creating hate between different people.
You know, hate crime is rising in cities.
But so are the terror attacks, right, from those groups exponentially.
I think you have to...
Work hard to build bridges between people.
People have to live together at the end of the day.
And we are lucky in that we've traditionally had a strong community cohesion that has stood us in good stead.
And it is about talking to communities all the time.
We have a large Jewish community.
We have a large Muslim community.
But we have a Jewish Muslim forum and there's dialogue.
We work with both sides.
It's also, though, about, you know, there's difficult issues not turning away from them.
So there's been an issue in the UK around the sexual exploitation of children, girls.
And when I came in as mayor, I said, we're going to have a review.
We're going to have an inquiry into how this was handled in the past.
Was it handled in the wrong way because of fear about upsetting communities?
Because that can never be the case when it comes to crime and sexual exploitation.
You can't let any concerns about community relations stop you investigating and prosecuting and convicting criminals.
What a lot of Europeans I've talked to would say though is we're importing that willingly.
We know.
That this is a culture that doesn't necessarily reflect our values and we're trying to integrate them.
I don't know personally where you're going with that.
I just want to know, are these people crazy or what's driving this narrative?
I think there's a lot of Islamophobia out there.
The Muslim community has lived in Greater Manchester for decades and we do it peacefully because all communities have...
Criminals and people who divide us.
We are, I would say, a pretty good model of people living side by side with each other.
And I don't accept the premise that one community is a problem and all the others are not.
I think that's a narrative that I'm not...
Yeah, I don't know.
Okay. Well, thank you.
I appreciate you taking the time.
Yes, sir.
Don't be tricked.
This problem isn't unique to the UK.
Leaders in middle America are all too happy to ignore the plight of their own citizens, too.
My question is for you, Mayor Ginter.
I'd like if you could clarify something or reaffirm some things for me.
The Columbus Dispatch yesterday reported apartment construction plummeted in 2024 in your city, and despite this ongoing housing crisis.
I know you say you're not a sanctuary city, but just in January you affirmed that all are welcome in Columbus, and I'd like to know, especially if we're talking about disruptions, what would you say to your citizens with this housing
crisis? Is this not a way that you can sort of prioritize them and their housing needs, especially since it's mostly minorities and young people that are disproportionately affected by the housing crisis?
Yeah, Columbus is America's opportunity city.
We believe that our diversity is in strength.
And if you talk to major employers, whether they're public like the Ohio State University or health systems or private companies, immigrants have helped make America great.
They helped make Columbus special and unique.
And we're going to continue to be a safe and welcoming place to people from all walks of life because we think that's a huge competitive advantage.
Units, getting more units in the pipeline is the best way to fight homelessness.
It's the best way to address affordability.
And we think that's through land use and incentives, not demonizing certain groups of people who are laying in our problems.
These issues existed before folks came to the United States and before they came to Columbus.
As I mentioned, there are systemic issues.
lot of our zoning codes and land use policies were based on the second iteration of redlining based on race and keeping certain people out so as we talk about all these issues I think it's important to make sure there's being accurate
complete and thorough and calling things what they are but Columbus is going to continue to thrive and succeed because we welcome the best and the brightest from all over
I understand, and I certainly appreciate that, especially when we're talking about immigrants.
It's a very broad category.
Specifically, though, I'm honing in on the undocumented issue, and I just want clarity on this specific point.
You've been married since 2016, good for growing the city, but you're still falling at almost half the rate of the apartments you need to grow.
Housing prices for single-family homes are up 52% since 2020 alone.
Is this not one area where your citizens can more quickly be prioritized?
If you do even, I know you say you're not single-family homes, but even assist with that, in the deep end of the book, here's a smart, ready answer.
We prioritize people and families, and we don't pick and choose winners and losers.
Columbus's future is big enough and bright enough for everybody.
So what does this all mean and what can we do about it?
Okay, what you have is a group of elites controlled by interests outside of the state instituting anti-nationalist globalist policies.
These elites and those doing their bidding are in direct competition, opposition to citizens of the Western world who have said time and time again, through their votes,
through their voices on public platforms, that enough is enough and that you don't want globalism, that you don't want unfettered immigration, and you don't want these elites consistently pushing their version of cultural What they have failed to do at the national level,
they're repackaging and planning for the city level.
And when you consider the disproportionate power that these cities have, it's actually not an insane plan.
It's actually kind of clever.
And that's the worst part.
These people, and I want to clearly define them, those on the left in positions of power, Internationally or locally, as we now understand, they view you as nothing more than an economic unit.
Who you are, your culture, your nation's history, your values, your ideals, the way you see the world, the way you see your country, the way you see other countries, the way you see all of these countries in relation to each other.
citizen of your country is
Country. Could not interest them less.
In fact, those qualities, those attributes that make you who you are, and maybe at one point have made up what your country is supposed to be, are in diametric opposition to achieving their end goal,
which is total control.
They know better than you.
What you need.
They know better than you when you need it.
They know better than you why you need it.
They know better than you why you may think you don't need it or want it, but they know that you actually need it or want it.
They just know better than you.
And they certainly are going to exercise that knowledge that they have regardless.
Of the votes, regardless of how your nation has spoken on, in fact, a national stage, they are going to find a way to exercise what is better for you.
You and all that makes you, you?
Who cares?
Now, eat the bugs.
Live in a big city.
Be happy and shut up.
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We know it's a pretty important topic with a lot of people.
I mean, you know, you say globalism and you get, I mean, Alex Jones will find himself in ecstasy, pure glee, that everyone else is using it as a mainstream term right now.
But it actually is something that I know a lot of you...
Have encountered, and it's affected you directly.
So, we actually asked you some questions earlier, I believe this week or last week, about how globalism has affected you.
And here are a couple of the comments and questions that we actually want to share.
And coming up after this, of course, will be the Poolmeister, Timmy Sun.
Hey! Tim Pool.
After, you can just keep watching.
It's just me, guys.
Just me today.
I mean, you know, you got Tool Man, you got Noodles and stuff.
All right.
You wrote, I will be unironically studying human rights law and freedom of expression at Oxford.
And though I enthusiastically side with J.D. Vance on the issue of Europeistan's take on free speech slash thought, I like how you took Europe and added theistan to imply that it's sort of a theocratic oligarchy.
Because we know it's not usually Europe.
It's not usually Europeistan, it's Europe.
Europa's take on free speech thought and would probably withhold any and all foreign money until the EU codified something like a free speech amendment into law.
Should I stick to my guns on the issue if that's too extremist, in quotes, and might genuinely get me kicked out of the country almost immediately?
Wouldn't it be worth it to learn as much as I could right now so as to be able to help in the fight for free speech in countries where it's currently just a facade?
Is there any hope for any kind of transformation in Europe?
Could withholding money from countries like Germany until they stop banning free speech work?
Well, thank you for the question.
I appreciate it.
It's relevant.
I will say this.
Should have thought of this quandary before you signed up to study human rights, law, and freedom of expression in Oxford.
Because now you have a choice to make.
You either have to live a lie for a little bit, and it's for the greater good, Or be authentic, right?
Keep it real.
The blacks say.
The problem with that is then you're going to be kicked out of Oxford and that doesn't do any good to anybody.
I get it.
It's tough.
I would say your first mistake was deciding to go there.
There's no real reason to, but I will say this.
I used to answer this question.
There was a group.
I think we can talk about it now.
I won't give the name, but it was basically like an Alcoholics Anonymous for people in Hollywood, conservatives in Hollywood, where we would meet, and you'd be surprised as to the folks who would show up.
I mean, I'm talking A-listers, people who you would know who are conservative, you know, people like Gary Sinise, your James Woods, your Clint Eastwoods, I'm trying to think, John Voight, Kelsey Grammer, people like that.
It's really kind of awkward sitting at a table with them and me.
But there are a lot of people who would surprise you, and they had to keep their views under wraps.
And I used to tell kids, if they were going to college, and they would ask me about this, and say, hey, if I'm planning on going into the entertainment industry, for example, this school, should I keep my views to myself?
And I said, you know what?
You don't need to be loud about your views.
Kind of, yeah, keep your head down, get your work done, make it through, and then we'll see you on the other side where you can do some good.
I don't think that it was wrong.
At the time, it might have been misguided.
I will tell you that my advice now, for whatever it's worth, is very different.
There's just no way to keep it hidden, especially in the era of social media and the way the classes are run in higher education.
It's really designed to root it out.
They will find out.
And you no longer have the option to remain silent and polite because they back you into a corner.
So... That's a little bit more significant ask of you, right?
Not, hey, just sort of be quiet.
You're going to be pressed, and you're very likely going to have to lie if you want to keep this facade up.
Is that really something that you think you can live with?
I would weigh that.
I weigh it against, okay, how much good can you do, right, if you make it through this institution, versus how much can you do if you don't?
Do you really need to go to this specific institution?
And do you really think you'll be able to live with yourself for whatever it is, let's say four years?
Do you think it's more of a statement to simply not commit any kind of a cardinal sin, be yourself, and be kicked out?
If enough people do that, guess what?
The other students start seeing this happen, and we saw in the United States, stateside, right, funds being withheld from higher education, some institutions.
I believe Columbia was one of them.
I don't have the full list in front of me.
Then you actually end up affecting policy.
And there's a cultural shift where people realize that the left has gone too far.
You now see people who were formerly liberals, or they're still liberals, saying, yeah, but I can't be on board with this kind of totalitarian silencing of free speech.
That was a very long uphill climb for many people who came before you.
So if I were to give you advice, I'd say let your freak flag fly.
Also, appeasing crocodiles is futile.
There is nothing that you can do that will be enough.
For these people, if I'm not familiar with your program or the professors, but I certainly know when I was in college, and I certainly know having relatives and my closest friends who've gone to, I mean, everywhere from UT, Brown, Harvard, it's never enough.
And if you think you're tolerant enough today, and if you think you're amicable enough today, well, just wait until tomorrow.
In other words, you have people who, gosh, maybe four or five years ago.
Yeah, you can change your name and I'll call you whatever gender you want.
If those people decided, well, hold on a second, I'm not going to cross this line with, you know, transitioning children.
I'm not going to cross this line.
Come on, we always said we weren't talking about biological men in sports.
Now they are ostracized.
Now they're cut out of the clique.
At some point, you're going to come up against that line.
And I think it'll happen sooner than you think.
And I hate to tell you this, but more often than not, I've seen people who kind of keep their head down, do their work, they go and work in entertainment, you know, production companies, or even in media.
Even, by the way, when I was at Fox News for a long time, they live in New York, they live in LA, or they go to San Francisco, they work in big tech companies, and they just compromise.
That seems to be, in my experience, the more likely outcome than you keeping your head down, coming out the other side.
And having all of the gusto and the zeal for life to change the world.
Usually, they chip away at your values, they chip away at your self-worth, and you just go, man, this is an unwinnable fight.
I better just keep my head down through my first job.
Let me just keep it down until I get that promotion.
Let me just keep my head...
Oh, wait, you know what?
Now, I don't know, I've made partner.
Oh, but now I'm actually...
The one carrying the name for this firm.
I better just not rock the boat.
There's always a reason to compromise.
And I think there's no time like the president to decide that you won't.
But it's your life.
Do whatever you want.
Does that help?
Hopefully it wasn't too depressing.
All right.
This one comes from, and Mr. Tim Pool is going to be coming up in a few minutes here.
It's fun to crumple papers.
The Mississippi Gentleman.
Writes, I work in forestry and have a globalism story with a nice dovetail into Mug Club mugs.
Oh. So America currently has Canadian pine imported to America for home building by the largest timber companies.
I don't know how I feel about that.
Because as I learned from the first iteration of my desk, pine is a soft wood.
You want like an oak or solid fruit wood.
I don't know if we use briar for anything but pipes, but I know briars are really hardwood.
Can someone let me know, does briar use for anything but pipes?
Because it seems like we're very much underusing briar.
The reason it's because it's cheaper for Canadians to cut timber, ship it to China, mill it, and kiln dry it, then ship it back here.
Okay, you're saying that's the reason, is it's cheaper even though you do all that.
The main reason is China is using Canada as a backdoor to undercut American timber.
You know, it's funny, that's actually...
How Canada is referred to on the global stage.
Canada, America's backdoor.
Their energy costs are so low that they save money at scale by shipping it across the ocean.
The dovetail here is kilns.
Those have become so hard to get permitted and so expensive to operate, basically no new ones are coming online across America.
Kilns are the rate limit on producing any ceramic.
Oh, okay, that makes sense.
They're also the rate limit on lumber and timber.
So my question is, do you guys think Americans will take their medicine short term to help American manufacturers grow and thrive?
This is the same question that can be kind of applied across a lot of industries right now, as we're seeing.
I do know that there's an additional wrinkle, I would imagine, when you're dealing with timber, when you're dealing with lumber, because of all the environmental regulations.
I mean, I can remember when I was a kid, and there were PSAs regarding clear cutting.
You know, there'd always be like some bird that would fly and it would go to land on a tree and it would stumble because the tree wasn't there.
And then it would, you know, camera would just sort of like pan or zoom out and you would see it was a bunch of trees that weren't there.
I never show you, of course, when the Native Americans just decide to debone that bird alive and pass it among the tribes while scalping women and children.
But I digress.
I would imagine there's also some environmental regulations that have to be worked through.
Outside of that, it's the same principle as with any other industry, right?
Either we believe there is some value in being a sovereign nation and being able to rely on our own resources to the best of our ability.
Like, there's an exception, for example, some rare earth minerals.
We don't really have a lot of that.
That's kind of the only gift that God gave China, which sounds weird coming out of my mouth.
I mean, God's not going to give China gifts.
They're godless people.
But they have like rare earth minerals.
There are some other countries where you might have to engage in some, of course, fair trade.
And I'm not against actual fair and free trade.
But if it's something that can be created, that can be manufactured here in the United States of America, is it worth doing?
Now, is that going to be more expensive than, I don't understand this entire process fully, but obviously China is in the mix.
Is it going to be more expensive than slave labor that's subsidized by the Chinese government?
Yeah. Yeah, of course it is.
But does the net benefit, the positive outweigh the negative?
And there's usually something somewhere in the middle, right?
You don't necessarily...
Well, a good example would be cars.
You could have an American-made, UAW-made rattlebox that basically has no warranty.
I found this out.
I have an American car only because during COVID I needed a car.
My car broke down, and it was the only one that was available in a full size that I needed for my family.
And basically...
The auto on, off button, you know, it starts and stops at the stoplight, the gayest feature in all of modern cars.
It stopped working or just kept jumping.
And my car only had 27,000 miles on it.
And they said, well, it's not under warranty.
I said, well, if it's not, then there is no warranty.
There is no warranty.
It's not tires.
It's not brakes.
This is a fundamental, but you put it in, you piece of shit.
I didn't want the auto on, auto stop.
This wasn't me.
So, the point is, American cars, not always that great, but a middle ground.
You have Americans who are employed by Hyundai, Toyota, Nissan, I believe Honda, Toyota set up one of their new headquarters in Texas, where there are, actually I believe it's the Camry, or the Highlander, one of these Toyotas is one of the most American cars out there as far as percentage of American.
Pieces being used and the amount of assembly being done in the United States.
Outside of Tesla, I believe that's the most American car on the road.
And they make good livings.
They make good livings in these states.
And they're not beholden to the UAW in their Cadillac pension benefit packages.
So that's a good middle ground between, okay, a piece of crap GM and never-ending American bailout dollars, or, you know, some kind of a Chinese EV that's a...
Likely this sort of amalgamate of a gross violation of intellectual property rights and slave labor.
Okay, you can get a car that's more American that's a Toyota manufactured in the United States with more American parts than most Fords.
Great. If American car companies could do that and some of these special interests could maybe release or we'd force them to release their stranglehold, like special interests like unions, yeah, would it be more expensive than if we just imported cheap Chinese cars?
Sure. That's what happens with a lot of Europe.
You may not know this.
They just flood the market with Chinese EVs.
Yeah, but it doesn't have to be as expensive as we think it does.
And there's the net benefit of us being reliant on our own industries here.
If we can apply that to timber and lumber, and I've got to imagine, if anything, it might be easier because if you just stop some of these regulations with milling, I would imagine right away there would be people who see opportunities.
I don't know.
The flip side is, I mean, it might be tough to compete with Canada because you have a country that's much larger than the United States, significantly larger as far as a landmass, with a tenth of the population, and what the hell else are you going to do with it?
It's basically like, I mean, obviously I told you this, the technical term is Canada internationally is known as America's backdoor.
But basically, it should be our treehouse.
They should just be a timber and lumber reserve for the United States.
We get the profits.
We get to cut down your trees.
We get to use the wood.
And Canadians, you should be grateful to take it.
Why? Because your Air Force is a guy in a prop plane with a.32 caliber.
Handgun. Like an old C-Camp.
So, could we do this here in the United States?
Probably. Can we do it more effectively than we are currently doing it?
Yes. And I'd like to see that across all industries.
However, as it relates to lumber, Canada is largely a useless place filled with mostly, not all, useless people, but rich and natural resources.
So I say we take the resources and, you know, the few good people left?
We'll say a few prayers and hopefully you're not turned into a pillar of salt.
Tim Pool.
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