Louder with Crowder's episode on Trump's China meeting critiques Zohran Mamdani's NYC budget claims, highlights an 87% drop in H-1B visas via a $100k fee, and debunks Kash Patel's drinking allegations. The host attributes declining marriage rates to Marxism, Title IX, no-fault divorce, and soaring student debt, arguing these policies trap women while men disengage. Ultimately, the discussion frames Trump's upcoming summit as a strategic pivot against China's leverage points like Iran ties and Taiwan, contrasting his current "carrot" approach with historical hardline stances. [Automatically generated summary]
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Trump's China Trip Explained00:03:44
I've never had a fun party ride that says someday I'm going to free you, Janey.
I ran away and I am not going back.
And I am not going back.
You should, you should.
I ran away.
And I am not going back.
Let's make some magic!
Who's this girl?
I've never fun.
I've been that says someday a boon.
There's no time in my life without you.
I've never fun.
Sorry.
Welcome to the.
There's nothing on tortoise.
I use this hand sanitizer to use my iPad, and then there was a film.
Welcome to the lineup live.
Wait, is Noodles not here today?
He'll be in.
Oh, I'm not the only one who was late.
True.
This is what happens when President Trump goes to China.
He's running on Chinese time, I guess.
We're going to talk about a lot today.
I don't know if you know this, Mamdani said he balanced the budget.
No.
We talked about this yesterday with Nick Fuentes, and it was news to, I guess, a lot of you as well.
H1Bs.
President Trump, what has been done with H1Bs?
Running on Chinese Time00:02:58
The reduction.
It's the single biggest monumental shift that we have seen in this policy, really ever, since it's existed.
It's not perfect yet, but some huge wins.
So we want to talk about that and highlight it because hopefully we have fewer Hajis coming over.
Also, the decline in marriage rates.
Well, we have an explanation for that.
Multiple, actually.
We're going to put up a graph for you so you can see all the confounding factors and how that has resulted in the destruction of the American nuclear family.
And of course, President Trump is in China.
I hate speculating, but everyone does that.
When we're dealing with the Chinese, and we have four things that you can expect there'll be some good Trump, not so great Trump, and bad Trump.
Let me ask you what do you think is best Trump, and what do you think is worst Trump?
And would you marry worse Trump?
On with the show.
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Kash Patel Receipts Exposed00:15:03
That's the fell asleep and then woke up again.
Is it?
Yeah.
I'm working on some new techniques.
All of them equally off putting.
I would die.
Speaking of which, hi, Jelt.
How are you?
I'm good.
How are you?
I'm good.
Are you?
Don't do it yet.
You can't.
I didn't say.
No, I know.
See, he missed the transition.
I know.
Off putting.
And Thursday, May 22nd at Hyenas Comedy Club in Dallas, Texas.
Mr. Josh Firestine.
How are you?
Yeah.
May 21st.
Did I say 22nd?
Yeah, that's okay.
I screwed up.
That's all right.
I'll be there in 22nd too.
Why not?
Whoa, whoops.
Hit me with the admonisher.
Oh, yeah, right off the bat.
It's better than a cup of coffee.
Gerald loves it.
Also better than a good spanking.
Nothing's better than a good spanking.
Depends on who's doing the spanking.
That's true, actually.
Which heart are you, Gerald?
So, we're going to get to.
We have a theme today.
Alcoholism.
Doing well, Gerald?
And.
No, no.
He just has a.
He just has the most expensive, largest capacity wine fridge in his office.
Well, you never know.
That locks.
It does lock.
I've been trying to get some of that.
Yeah.
No, you can't.
You can't.
He treats it like the Hope Diamond.
You're supposed to drink it, though.
I do.
I know.
Same with the Hope Diamond.
You're supposed to put it in your butt.
Yeah, you're not supposed to just hook it straight to your veins.
Yeah.
That's what you do.
You put it up there and you hope it comes out.
You thought he was doing one of those recovery IVs.
No, it's just a nice Chianti.
You knew that for a second.
I'm pretty sure it's Chianti.
That's the only reason.
All right.
Okay, so yesterday, speaking of alcoholism, this is the line of attack that you see from the left.
Now, Kash Patel may or may not be a booze hound.
I genuinely have no idea.
I only know that there's hearsay out there right now.
And I know that in the past, the hearsay has been verifiably false or, at the very least, greatly exaggerated.
Remember Brett Kavanaugh?
Tried to do the same thing with Pete Higseth, that kind of went away.
Doesn't mean that I think Kash Patel is a great director, to use the term.
So Senator Chris Van Hollen was asking Kash Patel.
About having a drinking problem, but the tables were turned.
Game respects game.
So, there have been no occasions during your tenure when FBI personnel were unable to promptly reach you?
Absolutely not.
You can ask my entire workforce.
They hear from me at every single hour of the day, as do these great gentlemen here, as do the men and women of the interagency and state and local law enforcement and the White House.
And so, there have been no occasions when your security detail had difficulty waking or locating you, is that right?
Nope, it's a total farce.
I don't even know where you get this stuff, but it doesn't make it credible because you say so.
I'm not saying it, Director Patel.
It's been written and documented.
You are literally saying it.
No, I'm saying that these are reports, Director Patel.
Unlike your baseless reports, the only person that was slinging margaritas in El Salvador on the taxpayer dollar with a convicted gangbanging rapist was you.
Oh, he's a parenthet.
The only person that ran up a $100,000 bar tab in Washington, D.C. at the lobby shop was you.
The only individual in this room that had been drinking on taxpayer dime during the day was you.
Director Patel, come on.
It's five o'clock somewhere.
Come on.
I'm a well known parrot head, which is a reason in and of itself to hate me.
If you're a parrot head, I think you're worse than ISIS.
Some people might not know what that is.
You educated me.
It is a Jimmy Buffett fan.
It is a Jimmy Buffett fan who goes out of his way to purchase a wardrobe and refer to himself or herself, though let's be honest, very rarely, as a parrot head.
Look, before I go on to the point here about the great exchange that we just saw, this is the point.
To me, remember Noodle?
You remember when people used to be like, ah, that band sold out?
You know?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Jimmy Buffett woke up and he drafted a plan.
How can I sell out?
At no point did he say, Hey, I really want this music to be authentic, representative of my.
It's how can I sell margarita makers and live on an island?
Yeah.
Let me write those songs and make people feel like they're in some part of a middle aged, underachieving pseudo motorcycle shit club.
So you don't like island life.
Okay, got it.
You're a mountains man.
I got it.
And then Kenny Chesney said, Hold my beer.
And you're like, You're doing the same thing.
Same thing with your sleeveless shirts and your fraudulent marriages.
Now, you're homosexual.
Kenny Chesney is selling beer bongs.
It's just anally.
By the way, Kash Patel.
What?
You're going to skip right over that, Steven?
I think you're using beer bongs wrong, Gerald.
No, we were clipping it.
It was clean.
I think in his weird, degenerate subculture, he's using them exactly right.
Welcome to Margaritaville, boys.
Woohoo!
He bent over Steve O. That's Gerald.
Pegging away in Margaritaville.
I know.
Jesse was doing that.
It's SM somewhere.
All right.
Cash.
This is the point.
This is all this is the point.
No, the point, like, look, this is one of those things where everyone's like, what do you think?
We'll get a lot of credits.
Like, what do you think about Cash Patrol drinking?
I don't think he's a great FBI director, just to be clear.
I don't care.
And I don't know that any of this is true.
Can we get off of this, guys?
Can we stop with everything just?
Being the gossip and everyone developing an opinion because half of this country is 100% convinced that Kash Patel, Pete Hegseth, and well, that they're alcoholics, so is Brett Kavanaugh, by the way, and a gang rapist.
People believe that all because of some hearsay.
Some people still believe that Donald Trump, President Trump, jerked the wheel from the Secret Service as they were going back because bitch Cassidy said so.
And then when questioned on it, Andre, oh, like, okay, that didn't happen.
So that's why it descends into silliness.
By the way, Kash Patel even backed this up with a receipt later on on X. You guys can go check that out.
Now, it doesn't refute all of them.
It just refutes at least one of them.
Because the truth is, this is what happens.
People make as many accusations as they can against their political opposition, and there's no way to defend against all of them.
That's the play.
And so the only way to win is to not play the game.
Some machine that takes us all over at some point told Matthew Broderick that.
This is not new.
Democrats have been doing this for a very long time.
Guys, all I want you, please, please recognize the playbook and sidestep it.
So, you're saying there's never been a case where you drank so much that you didn't remember what happened the night before or part of what happened?
You're asking about blackout.
I don't know, have you?
You recently promised some of my Republican colleagues that you stopped drinking and won't drink if confirmed, correct?
Absolutely.
Will you resign as Secretary of Defense if you drink on the job?
Judge Kavanaugh, you drink on weekdays as well in high school, not just weekends.
In high school?
On weekdays?
Yes, sir.
I'd say that's rare.
Remember that?
Gotcha.
Because remember, here's how it starts.
Hey, you've been accused of rape, I believe, if it was gang rape.
And then say, well, that's not true.
Well, you've been accused of maybe unwanted advances.
Well, that's not true.
Well, you've been accused of being an alcoholic.
No, that's not true.
Do you like beer sometimes on Tuesday?
How about you go crawl into a hole and die figuratively?
Okay?
Okay, that works for me.
I hope it works for you, secretly, not so secretly gay Cory Booker.
Yeah, what are you, the drug rehab, drug and alcohol rehab intake questionnaire?
Yeah, yeah.
Oh my God, he had a Coors Light on a Tuesday.
Let's send him to rehab.
It's just, they used to pay farmhands in beer.
Look, if you don't drink, great, good on you.
Better to not drink.
Don't start.
But they apply this standard because they've got nothing.
Nothing.
And FBI agents, I should be clear, waited for Senator Van Hollen after the hearing for questioning, but he was nowhere to be found.
Luckily, one reporter was able to track him down.
Just pretend like we're talking until the cops leave.
It's uncanny.
That's him, right?
Yeah, only without the likability, Senator.
Oh, yeah.
He has some likability.
So, and by the way, you can check it.
If you don't know where to go find those receipts or you don't have an X, we provide the references.
Link in the description, as we do every weekday.
We live stream 11 a.m. Eastern.
Here's the next segment.
And I know you're going to say, look, why even spend time on this?
Because the idea that a socialist could balance a budget is silly.
People are buying it, though.
Yeah.
That's why I'm saying that.
Literally buying it.
They have to pay for it.
They ought to pay for it.
It is silly, but Mamdani is claiming just that.
It's time for Claim Truth.
Yeah.
So we don't need to spend a whole lot of time on this, but I'll make the links, references available as we do every show, like I just said, in the description.
11 a.m.
Go check them out.
It's a pretty good little bibliography.
Yesterday, Zorhan Mamdani, I throw up in my mouth when I say it.
A little bit, yeah.
He made this claim in his video celebrating his.
Fiscal success.
Yeah, a democratic socialist, a socialist, a Marxist.
Fiscal success, the hallmark of the communist in New York City.
New York, it's executive budget season.
And I'm proud to announce that our city's budget is fully balanced.
This budget isn't just about numbers on a page.
It determines if our libraries get funded, if a street is safe to cross, if snow is actually shoveled after a storm.
And you deserve that.
If I can make this video, he's just naming all the things he hasn't done.
Yes, that's true.
Snow being shoveled.
Like your own people literally have.
There's hours and hours of footage of your government not being able to shovel snow to the point where you guys now have to shovel trash.
But it's just amazing how these people lie straight to your face.
Let's continue.
How we got here.
We inherited a $12 billion budget deficit.
We are speaking about a fiscal crisis at the scale greater than the Great Recession.
Was the Great Recession?
Great Recession.
Many said the only way out of this was slashing services and passing an austerity budget.
We rejected that.
After months of painstaking work, that deficit is now zero.
Our city is now on firm financial ground.
Okay, so just in case you want us to cut through the fog here a little bit, here's the claim that he's making there.
Mamdani is claiming that he balanced the budget.
Okay, okay, cool.
Here's the truth Kathy Hochul balanced the budget.
She gave him like $8 billion, $4 billion each year for two years.
Oh, and Mamdani delayed funding pensions for like five years.
Like, well, we're going to get to it.
That's it.
Eventually.
There's no more fat check than we balance the budget.
You mean someone gave you money?
And you actually just decided that you'd write an IOU for one of your biggest line items?
Okay, let's extol the virtues of socialism in New York City.
Some people will buy it.
New Yorkers who are watching right now, you tell me, are your neighbors buying it?
If you're watching, you probably don't.
Do people there actually buy this?
Are there people actually going out with a talking point?
Well, Mamdani, you know, got to give it to him.
That commie prick balanced the budget.
Yeah, these were all the bullets in his gun, and he has a $7 billion shortfall.
Next year.
He just pushed things a year.
That was it.
I know.
I know.
Enjoy your grocery stores.
Good luck.
So they're going to cut those pensions, or sorry, they're going to delay the funding of the pensions for five years.
Also, increasing tolls on roadways, the handicap being exempt, which was great news for the ghost of Stephen Hawking.
This is fucking awesome.
I will save so much on tolls.
He can move when he wants to.
Nice one.
Just need the right motivation.
He does.
He really does.
Play the theme from the Breakfast Club.
I can do it.
I will do it.
Amazed.
Amazed.
Look, everyone's.
The power of friendship.
He's a physicist care bear.
Everyone is taking a hit financially.
I understand that.
And it's not lost on me, especially when we're talking about the Iran conflict and gas prices.
Everyone's taking a hit.
And I get it.
This needs to be corrected, or President Trump is going to be facing some problems.
But you don't have to take a hit on your mortgage.
And there I was.
Laying in a puddle of my own filth.
I got a cat licking my anus inside my rental.
And that's what I knew.
I knew that I needed something better.
We've all been there.
But just remember this it's always darkest right before the dawn.
I know.
I just need to make better choices.
Well, it's the first day of the rest of your life, bud.
Got plenty of time for that.
Nick, I noticed you haven't said anything in a while.
Anything you'd like to share with the group?
Yeah, yeah, I'm actually in a really good place.
Since our last meeting, I think my life's done a complete 180.
Yeah, how so?
I found a new plug.
No, that's not what this is about.
You don't move from one thing to another.
That's not helping.
No, no, it really is.
Tell us, how is it helping you?
Well, they gave me a great deal, and they helped me regain control.
That's not control, though, Nick.
It's not control if you're letting something else take over.
You can't place one with the other.
That's not how it works.
It's not like that at all.
It's like I'm saving over $800 a month.
Think about it, that's like an extra $10,000 raise a year.
Well, that's certainly an interesting way to look at it.
Yeah, I mean, there's no upfront costs, there's no hidden fees, and it's salary based, so they're not going to push you into a deal that doesn't make sense for you.
I think you actually might be onto something.
Who's your guy?
H-1B Cap Lottery Issues00:15:07
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No problem.
Yeah, now what do you guys say we go to his new house and do some drones?
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Let's get messed up.
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Nah, just kidding, dude.
Screw you.
I'm out of here.
I'm going to go to your house and do some drugs.
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They took my keys.
I just got the carpets cleaned.
We just keep trying to think up ways to offend sponsors here, and it doesn't happen.
Yes, Noodles.
We will do it.
Oh, I was just responding to your question.
Oh, from earlier?
Yes, good.
About how you.
No chlamydia.
Totally fine.
How you walk with that thing?
All clear.
It's important to know.
Truth is, he doesn't.
He wheels.
Now.
He's got a wide stance.
Guys, people are like, oh, that's childish.
Look, we can't.
Hey, he has been touched by the fist of God, son.
Yeah, the only thing that's not childish is the size of his midnight hammer.
He uses the kid's urinal for extra death.
Look.
Guys, this is an aside.
You guys know, right?
You comment below.
Women, if you don't understand it, it's one of those things.
It does not come up in conversations.
It's not like the Call Her Daddy podcast where they get really salacious, but when there's an outlier, guys go, Well, that's what it's like to have that.
Okay.
Yeah, it's not a bad thing.
It's a good thing.
It's celebrated.
I went fishing with him.
The motor went out.
noodles, goes to the back, whips it out.
We're good to go.
What, the Indian sunburn to wind it up?
Whatever you got to do to get off the lake, Steve.
All right.
Helicopter, helicopter.
And then we had to stop.
We used it as an anchor.
It's multi purpose.
It's like a firefighter throws it over your shoulder to control the hose, you know?
You killed it.
Now, this is a big one.
This is a big one because we were all, Gerald.
I mean, a lot of people here weren't aware of this.
No, not at all.
On the H 1Bs.
And that's my question to you before we get into this.
H 1Bs was discussed yesterday with Nick Fuentes.
Now, of course, I'm not going to say that the problem is solved.
I mean, a problem that has been created by design from the left.
And by the way, it's been exacerbated, of course, by the right.
There really, before Donald Trump, wasn't anyone who was.
Who's doing anything about this?
I mean, that's why you heard Marjorie Taylor Greene, for example, say, like, wow, I know we want to deal with illegal immigrants, but we need them for construction companies.
So it's nice to see someone actually within their authority doing something of significance.
H 1B's numbers are in this year, and they're possibly going to be revised.
We see that with every jobs report, you see it with deportations.
It's time for another claim truth.
Two stingers in claim truth today.
So, all the references, I know this will be a little nerdy, but I'll try and make this as streamlined as I can for you.
Check the references, link in the description.
11 a.m. Eastern is when we stream.
We give them every day.
First claim that you will see is that the annual visa lottery, the cap, is still being maxed out.
We're going to get more.
And so the implication is that basically there's no improvement.
They hit the cap.
They hit the cap every year.
And by the way, we're going to get more.
I mean, Elon Musk and Little Tech are lobbying this administration.
So.
And for those of you who don't know, the H 1B annual cap is like $85,000.
It's $65,000, which are the regular ones, plus $20,000 for master's degrees or higher.
Here's the truth.
Yeah, the cap, sure.
Congress sets the cap, not the president.
And this is important because President Trump doesn't get credit when he does things through executive order or things that he can do, taking action under the presidential powers.
And he gets blamed simultaneously.
People go, and he also hasn't.
Place at his feet the fact that Democrats are blocking something specifically.
So it's a damned if he does, damned if he doesn't.
So Congress sets the cap.
And those of you who are familiar with the Immigration Act of 1990 know that.
There have been bills that have been kind of put forward to lower it.
Congress hasn't acted.
And this is because of 100% of Democrats and anywhere from call it five to 20 on a really bad day Republicans.
And you should know them by name and they should be ousted.
But it's 100% of Democrats.
The president cannot change the cap.
That's not in his purview.
Here's the truth that's really important.
President Trump, through direct action, has reduced dramatically H 1B, specifically those who are coming in new H 1Bs from overseas.
So he imposed a $100,000 fee on all new H 1B applications from outside the United States.
That's its own separate category because a lot of them, most of them, are renewals.
Okay?
So outside of the U.S., they're down about 87%.
Total issuances.
Are down about 25%, just to be clear.
The cap may not be hit when you understand how this can work long term.
That means that up to 50,000 fewer H1Bs in America this year, and that number can continue to go down.
The number that can be affected, new H1Bs from outside of the country, meaning people coming here from India, well, that's actually under the presidential powers.
Why?
Because he can control who comes into the country.
He doesn't need to actually go through Congress for that.
In order to change the cap or in order to deal with those who are already here as legal residents, not citizens, that would require an act of Congress.
There's another sort of bureaucratic process that can go through.
Effectively, you need an alliance to do that.
And it takes time for these processes to really kind of take effect, right?
So we won't really know the numbers.
We will get some results basically in December, roughly.
I'm just kind of calling roughly when it'll come out for fiscal year for the next year, right?
And we'll know, okay, here's a little bit more of the impact that you will have on race.
Right now, we have numbers from last year essentially that we're playing with.
So the one thing that he did, okay, now $100,000.
You want to bring someone in who's not in the United States, a new H 1B, you're going to pay $100,000.
That has had such an effect, I guess you'd say, upstream.
Because H 1Bs, there's kind of, you know, not everyone gets them.
There's the application, right?
That's down about 25%, I believe.
Issuances, down 25%.
So between 25% and 27%, check the references.
I mean, there are people who apply, that's down.
The people who get them total, that includes people who are here, that's down.
New people getting here with H 1Bs, coming here and replacing your job, down 87%.
That's 2026.
We are not the same.
To be clear, that is not the same as the increase that we saw under Joe Biden.
We saw an increase depending on the category you use here, anywhere from 10 to 90%.
By the way, the denial rates under Biden were like 1% or 2%.
It was H1B, everyone come on in, everyone gets renewed.
Apply, you got it.
Stamp, The one thing under President Trump's control right away, a $100,000 fee.
The other thing is he's also imposed a wage sort of weighted system for these lottery applicants and enforced some anti fraud measures.
So, what does that mean?
That there are better.
Lottery odds for higher skilled workers.
That would mean someone's, okay, boss is paying $100,000, and the likelihood of someone actually getting approved, getting this issuance, is going to be a highly paid, highly skilled individual.
Otherwise, it doesn't make sense.
The problem, the primary problem, morally, it's a problem across the board, but the primary problem for the American middle class is someone coming in here, consequence free, and doing a job for $60,000, living in a house with 18 other Bangladeshis that an American would be paid $120,000 for.
That doesn't happen if we continue on this path of, well, it's going to cost you six figures to bring them in, and we're going to make sure that these people are what you said they are.
They're the next Mr. Toyota.
They're the next, you know, Haji Nikolai Tesla.
It also means we're not going to see right now, if you look at these changes, fake duplicate entries, gaming the system.
That's something of significance.
Like I said, the lottery registrations, they're down.
It was 26.9%.
They just sent that to me.
Another truth that's important.
Keep this in mind 87% of new H1.
You guys think that's small?
It's most.
Yeah, it's most in the one area where he can go, okay, stroke of a pen.
Right.
Same thing, what can he do with the border?
Boom.
Don't let people in.
Building the wall requires Congress, right?
It requires going through a budgetary measure, and now we are building the wall again.
It's going to take time, but the things that he can do right under his purview, he is reversed very, very quickly, gets no credit for it because they can be undone.
It's a valid criticism as far as the method, or it's a valid concern.
It doesn't mean that he hasn't tried.
To blame him for things that cannot be done.
Like, for example, we talked about this with Comey, talked about it with Doge in some examples.
They go, well, people haven't been arrested and perp walked.
Okay, Comey indicted from a grand jury, right?
It takes time sometimes.
It takes time.
Well, he might walk.
Okay, do you think the president can just sign a paper and go, and anyone I don't like is a criminal?
That is fascism.
Yeah, that can't actually be done.
You look at what he's doing with the SPLC, these investigations.
There are a lot of things that can be done, and there are things that cannot.
Here's another truth President Trump has cracked down on fraudulent employers.
September, I believe in 2025, was when they implemented Project Firewall.
So, what that does is it specifically targets employers.
By the way, this is also dealing with the corporate interests.
So, when people say, well, they don't care because they have the corporate interests, this is dealing with the policy at a government level as it relates to national entry, 87% reduction, and going after the corporate interests who would stand to gain from cheap labor.
This targets corporations, employers paying less than what they reported on H 1B applications.
So, we've seen a 48% increase in investigations into H 1Bs, millions in underpaid wages.
Have been discovered.
It's going to take some time, but now we're going to see a shifting of the Overton window.
It used to be, well, Americans, you know, from people like Vivek, from people like Elon Musk, who we criticize.
There aren't enough skilled people in the States, right?
That's why you guys are just going to fall behind.
No, it turns out that, first off, they're fraudulent degree mills, and people are getting placed into jobs where they are not more qualified or capable than Americans.
They're just doing it a whole lot cheaper.
And now we're going to make sure that we know if that's the case, and you have to pay the piper $100,000.
Shouldn't mean all that much if it's some kind of new VP of marketing, coding, whatever it is, technology being paid $500,000, $750,000 a year.
You're not going to pay it if it's actually just cheap third world labor.
That's what this targets.
Yeah.
And by the way, a lot of people are using the argument of it's the trust me, bro mentality that they've seen in the past.
And I'm like, no, it's not.
Donald Trump is taking very active steps.
He's already achieving results with his actions and will do more.
He's saying, hey, I'm working on it.
You can see the results.
Trust me, more is coming.
By the way, another stat that was thrown in there in that Cato study the number of foreign students coming visas issued to foreign students to come to the United States to take the place of American students in institutions to get those STEM field jobs is down significantly.
I'm going by memory, but I think it was close to 40%.
It was a huge, huge decrease.
So to say the president is not doing anything and is just doing the same thing as every other president has done with the trust me, I'll get to it is an absolute lie.
You're just not paying attention to what he's actually doing.
You may want more, and so do we, but there is a process to get there, and I want to win.
I don't want to burn things down to try to get it done in one day.
I want to win.
Let's say you have a backyard kiddie pool.
Okay.
And someone filled it with, let's say, 50% poop.
Oh, that's good.
And then you got a new pool guy.
And he came in.
He's like, you know what?
This is a lot of poop.
And he says, I don't think you want this here.
So he reduces it by 87%.
He goes, look, I did everything that I can do.
But for the rest of it, I'm going to have to get a pump.
There's going to be a process.
I'm going to get you a bill.
Now, would you say that that is nothing?
You'd still be concerned about the poop.
But your alternative is picking the guy who is guaranteed going to put in 50% more poop, so your pool is now, congratulations, 100% poop.
What do you pick?
Minus 87 or plus?
100, 200?
Plus, by the way, would you take 99% border reduction, which, by the way, can be undone until the wall's entirely completed, not as inconsequentially as people have made it seem, or plus 10 to 20 million illegal aliens in three and a half years?
They are not comparable.
And this isn't even saying the perfect is the enemy of the good.
This is saying huge, historically significant wins and steps in a direction that people said would never be taken, right?
No one's going to go up against the corporate interests.
$100,000 fee, and we're going to make sure that there's no fraud and you aren't underpaying people.
There you go.
I would just, on that one, hey, thank you.
And we're going to get to some good Trump, bad Trump.
By the way, this is also in line with what we've been proposing for a long time.
I issued a policy prescription specifically on H 1Bs not that long ago.
Five steps.
Number one, all right?
There's a minimum salary for H 1B visas.
Starts at $150,000.
Let's pick that number.
You can argue with me, say it should start at $130,000, $200,000.
Again, broad stroke number.
Step two have an additional tax on those working on H 1Bs.
Why?
Because you want to come to the greatest country in the world.
You're leaving a place like India, and you should pay for that luxury.
And there would be a huge tax on any money being sent back home to home countries.
In other words, we're not going to deal with the problem of people coming here, going to school, making money, taking a job from an American worker, and sending all that money back to India, back to Mexico.
Jail time.
And revoking the ability, the right to practice business in any capacity forever for any company or person caught engaging in resume or degree fraud.
The punishments have to be so terrifying that people won't even think of it.
Step four H 1B.
Beneficiaries here must pass a civics test, a language test, and provide proof of community service, charity.
Again, prove that they're benefiting American society at large.
Any staffing or third party company caught skimming money off the top, taking a commission, engaging in fraud of any kind is never allowed to conduct business in this country again or receive federal funding in any capacity whatsoever.
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And I believe it was actually you afterwards who said maybe just a one time fee initially.
Yeah.
Where frankly, we thought that might be unrealistic.
It'd be too hard to push through, so you could start with a base salary as a requirement.
They went right for $100,000.
Yeah.
They went way higher than I thought they were actually going to go.
And that was in response to Elon Musk and I believe maybe Jack Dorsey and a couple of others chiming in over our kind of Christmas break time saying they needed to uncap H1Bs.
Yeah.
So the push was that's what people have to remember.
The moment Donald Trump steps in office, what's the push?
The push is to uncap H1Bs from some of your biggest companies in the country.
Yeah.
And he goes the opposite direction.
So to say that Trump is either controlled by other people, is not doing enough, totally messes all of the context and all of the results.
So you only get there if you want to get there.
By the way, here's something else you could say.
Uh, I would say, yeah, you know what?
Sure, uncap it.
Make the fee $250,000.
Guess what?
The cap is no longer relevant.
The rate limiting factor on businesses trying to scam the American worker in the system is it cost effective?
Same thing when we're talking about single family housing units, to be clear.
48% increase in investigations.
Seems like someone's taking that pretty seriously.
So here's the thing, guys.
This show, this platform, but you, many of you went online and many of you wrote your representatives to talk about H 1Bs when we heard that from Vivek, from Elon Musk.
And yes, Donald Trump, oh, we have to uncap H 1Bs.
Guess what?
They're responsive.
But people won't continue to be responsive if you just don't acknowledge these wins.
And it's amazing to me that more people are not talking about an 87% reduction.
Also, a bonus here they are cracking down not just on employers, but fraudulent music and bootlegging.
And this bootlegger has finally had his misdeeds catch up to him.
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Boy, Aziz Ansari has really fallen on tough times.
I want to close the spaces in between us.
That's weird.
What is he?
Is he playing rock, paper, scissors with his cameraman?
No, you did paper.
No, they're like 20, 30 years behind.
He's telling them to cut it out.
He just found Full House for the first time.
How rude.
That was very rude.
That was very rude.
Uh oh.
I don't know what other tagline structure.
Did I do that?
Ah, there you go.
Got any cheese?
Where's the beef?
Where's the beef?
We worship it.
That's right.
We don't have it.
We don't eat the beef.
We don't eat it.
You will say, Where's the beef?
Everywhere in India because there's no beef.
I will go on.
But if you ask, Where's the beef dung?
I am taking a bath in it.
Right.
And I also just can't wait to be king.
Why are you doing the Disney thing?
In West New Delhi.
Yeah.
Also, you know, here's the one thing that I will say that I appreciate about India.
As I understand it, they do belly dancing, but they don't have strippers.
So, they've managed to preserve some decency.
There you go.
Good job.
I mean, when they're not busy gang raping water monitor lizards.
That happened.
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Do it.
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Because Gerald doesn't listen.
Link in the description, guys.
Sing her out.
There's a link.
Why?
Where's the link?
In the description, Josh.
I hope that Gerald can be my guest to kiss my ass.
I thought you were going to say be your hero.
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No.
Pakistan.
I do blame Pakistan.
Also, if you look up Pakistan in.
Merriam Webster, a synonym is Gerald.
They're one and the same.
Blame Gerald or Pakistan.
Or Pakistan?
Yeah, either one.
Thank you for the raid, Dan.
We appreciate it.
Welcome.
We are actually now going to be discussing something I would say is the most important issue facing the United States.
And I've said this many times I think that cultural issues have much more significance than a lot of our political institutions.
And it doesn't mean that political institutions don't determine a lot of what takes place in culture, but many Americans, you know, politics is kind of a team sport, how people view it, or they view it as something that is just dirty no matter what.
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So they often don't pay attention to it, but they are constantly affected by and they are constantly inundated with whatever the culture deems acceptable or whatever the culture deems necessary to propagandize people with, which we have seen.
We've seen one specific worldview being thrust upon the American public.
Since the 1960s.
That's how they've achieved power over our institutions.
It really began, you can go back to the 30s, 40s, but 1960s was that tipping point, came to fruition in the 70s, thanks to Marxism, thanks to feminism.
And by the way, feminism cannot exist without Marxism.
We're not talking about a woman who wants to go be a nurse.
No, that was never a problem.
We're talking about the idea that men and women are fundamentally interchangeable, and there's no ideal scenario in which to rear children.
That's what we're talking about when we're talking about feminism.
And it does follow in Marxism.
We now have marriage rates, and we now have A fundamentally different American society because the central building block is not families.
Now, for those of you who may not be aware of the history, and you can go through all the feminists, Rachel Wilson is very good on this.
You can go through even sort of pseudo existentialists, Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler.
All of them either expressed subversely or blatantly the need to destroy the American nuclear family.
So this comes from 1970.
The American feminist Kate Millett said that.
The complete destruction of traditional marriage in the nuclear family is the revolutionary or utopian goal of feminism.
Noted feminist, often cited, by the way, I'm using the ones who are cited by those on the left.
If you go to their blogs, if you go to their websites, Shulamith Firestone wrote, Yeah, unless revolution uproots the basic social organization, the biological family, the vacuum through which the psychology of power can always be smuggled, the tapeworm of exploitation will never be.
Wow.
Then you have another feminist, Linda Gordon, said the nuclear family must be destroyed and we must find a different way of living together.
And think about that.
It must be destroyed.
The biological family must find a different way of living together.
That's hard and it wasn't super palatable.
And so it changes to, well, did we say a different way?
We meant to say it takes a village.
And what do we have now?
Well, people aren't getting married anymore.
No.
Okay.
So I want to ask you a few fundamental questions here before I make the case for you and give you some historical data.
Do you believe that for Western civilization, and certainly Christian Western civilization, right, the United States says we want to conserve, that's what we mean by conservatism.
Do you mean for that to exist?
Do you believe that marriage, or at least maybe we're not talking about state marriage, but the covenant between husband and wife, Is important.
Do you believe that that is central to raising children and creating a stable family?
And ultimately, those are the building blocks to create a stable community.
Do you believe that that central building block, the nuclear family, is an incredibly effective safeguard against government overreach, of course, reliance on government and being indoctrinated by the leftist elites?
Now, I will tell you that last objectively is true.
But how important do you think it is?
Okay, now you understand.
The catastrophe that we are facing.
And it couldn't have been engineered more effectively over the long game, which is what the left has played.
You've probably seen this out there, this table that shows marriage.
Can you guys bring it up?
People being married by 30.
So it was on Twitter.
Someone posted, I'm sorry, I can't give credit, but it was shared everywhere, but it didn't actually have a source.
Well, we confirmed it.
It is legitimate.
So in 1975, most women in this country, 91%, were married by the age 30.
2025, that's down to 25 point something percent.
Wow.
Men, 1975, 81 percent were married.
It's always been a smaller percentage of the population.
Today or 2025, 16 and a half percent.
So we've gone respectively from 91 and 81 down to 25 and 16.
Look behind you, that's the tipping point.
Yeah.
Do you, does anyone honestly think that you will not have?
A not just fundamentally different society, an unrecognizable society.
When you compare a society where the vast majority of people under the age of 30 are married and having families, and then the vast majority are not getting married or having children, that's the difference that has taken place in really 40, 50 years.
Those are two intact.
Just imagine how different it is in your neighborhood, even whether you're renting or owning.
You go out, what are you going to see?
Nine times out of ten, you're going to see a married woman, probably with some kids, and probably a father who's there and in the house.
And those kids are going to have a mommy and daddy.
When you go to work, the water cooler conversation is mostly going to center around families and those events and perhaps Little League.
Today, there is not that commonality.
The conversations, if you are one of those, you'd be an outlier.
It's actually more difficult to find people to connect with if you are a young married parent.
That is not a small change.
That is the biggest change that America has seen.
And it is what has been the catalyst or really removed as guards at the gates that's allowed the rest of this change.
So let's look at some other potential correlations.
You just heard those quotes from feminists, and you could even go back to, of course, Marx.
We see that.
You saw that chart.
Yeah, it changes dramatically, right?
Really from the 70s when it starts going down.
Okay.
No fault divorce, right?
Before the 1970s, divorce was difficult.
Divorce was discouraged.
When you had a majority of the citizenry married and centering their life around being married and raising children, guess what?
They were likely to discourage divorce.
They were likely to support your marriage.
You had more people you could rely on.
You had a larger circle of those who may be older and wiser.
No fault.
1969.
Huge screw up from Reagan.
It was pushed, though, to be clear, really was early pushed by people like Hugh Hefner or Kinsey because they didn't want men to be punished for cheating.
And then it got co opted by feminists.
Well, divorces went up 50%.
Okay.
It just skyrocketed after that.
The history of that is pornographers, because before no fault divorce, basically there are three faults either infidelity, that was a fault, primary one.
Physical abuse was a fault.
And if those weren't the reasons listed, abandonment was a fault.
Meaning, what we now use is breakdown in communications, growing apart, finding it difficult to get along.
That was filed under the general umbrella of abandonment.
Quit.
So if a guy cheated, you've been told guys used to cheat with their secretaries and leave them with nothing.
Now, if a guy cheated, he paid.
That's why Hugh Hefner and people like that said, well, we actually understand man as a sexual animal.
So if we have no fault divorce, The man can cheat and not be punished.
That then got mutated into, you know what?
No fault divorce is just going to be we will punish the primary earner regardless of context.
Anyone can leave at any time and you split it up.
I can't believe they didn't see that coming though.
You say mutated, but I can't believe they didn't see it coming.
They didn't expect women to use this.
They called it no fault.
Right.
How many faults?
Well, none.
They were primarily thinking no fault on the cheating.
Right.
And then it became no fault at all, at all, at all, at all, including if you just quit because you're bored in your marriage.
And we see the rates of divorce and who files for divorce most often, anywhere from 60 to 70% of the time, it's women.
Let's look at something else.
Antidepressant use up dramatically.
97%, these are the numbers that we have because it doesn't go back that far reliably.
7%, up over 15%.
That's more than doubled in 28 years.
I bet that graph goes on, though.
I bet that same trend, I bet we only have since the 90s.
I bet if you go back to the 70s, 60s, I bet that antidepressant use is way down.
Yeah, well, I mean, it didn't exist.
We're gonna just so you know, we're gonna be putting all these graphs together so you haven't, and then we'll see if we could perhaps see some kind of a pattern or correlation doesn't equal causation.
I get that, but like five or six, oh, okay, maybe you start to recognize this pattern here.
And all of these, of course, have been pushed by the left as progress.
Antidepressant use a big reason, by the way, is of course the most likely to use them young liberal women, and a big part of that is young liberal women who are atheists, they're more likely to use antidepressants.
Liberal women have abandoned God more than any other group, and you see that in psychiatric drug use.
I'm not saying there's never an appropriate circumstance for them.
I am saying that the usage therein has gone up dramatically.
Coincidentally, I should note, pro depressant use is also up as well.
So to have you doing something that is forcing you to be like in your body, leading with your body, and what's like the end goal of the samurai training?
No one knows.
Also, the use of pro psychotic drugs.
You don't get to ask those questions.
What's wrong with you, Mom?
Are you so scared?
Come on.
Come on.
Come on, gals.
Life's out there.
You don't need a pill or a screen to feel.
So crazy.
Not Photoshopped.
Here's another one.
And people will say, well, isn't that a good thing on its surface?
Well, no.
Just no.
Because this has been the women with college degrees, women with bachelor's.
So in 1975, it was about 20%.
Now, I believe it's 40 something, 47%.
And you see a correlation there.
That's a separate graph where the more women who get college degrees, bachelor's degrees, the less likely they are to be married.
Now, why?
A couple of reasons as to why.
It's not that the degree in and of itself is bad.
It's that that degree is being pursued during a time where women, understanding that those were their most fertile years, they were deciding to pursue families.
Women used to pursue families, and then often once the kids were raised and old enough, that's when they would frequently go to college.
If you look at women in the labor force, it's been consistently high.
This idea that they were only allowed to be pregnant and barefoot.
Well, it's not true.
They just often went into careers later, should they so choose to do so.
So it's a timing equation, and then it also results in.
Stat after stat shows us that women, not all, not all, not all, not all, I have to say it, don't want to hitch themselves to a spouse who makes less than them.
So you've now reduced the pool of suitors.
Now that'd be fine if women were happier.
They're more miserable than ever.
So they're getting their degree, they're not having families, they find it harder to find a man because they spend their time pursuing a profession, and they tend to be making more in those instances than the men who they would consider to be mates.
And so they're discounted, they're disqualified.
And so women are lonelier and more miserable, and men are checking out.
Big part of this is Title IX enforcement since 1972.
It led to a huge surge in women's college enrollment.
Again, this was the goal.
You can look at the rhetoric.
Go to school, get a degree, all the while, no nuclear family.
That's the ultimate goal, right?
Is to destroy the nuclear family.
Then they implemented the strategy.
Yeah, yeah, go to school, be a boss, babe.
That's going to fulfill you more.
You're a slave.
They called it slave labor if you were a stay at home wife or mom.
And this brings us to women in the workforce.
75 is about 46%.
Hey, it's a far cry from no women were allowed to work.
Yeah.
Now it's 57%, which isn't as big of an increase.
It's the time at which they are working.
Because again, if you look back, women were working later and often jobs that allowed for more flexibility.
Again, second wave feminism, if we want to use those terms, I almost feel like those terms, it's just feminism.
They stigmatized domestic life.
They told women that you were a slave if you were staying at home.
So you go, you pursue a bachelor's degree, you go into the workforce, and oh my gosh, now there's no guy for you and you can't start a family.
You're not a slave to that college debt, which we'll get to?
Yeah.
You're not a slave to that boss?
Yeah.
Who's literally paying you to work for them in comparison?
Cost of housing.
Britney Spears was a millionaire.
She was a slave for me.
That's true.
She was a slave for everybody.
That's true.
She also really knew how to wield that umbrella.
She was like the penguin.
Now, cost of housing.
This is a big one.
And you might say, well, what does this have to do with the progressive left?
Well, in 1975, I believe the average price was around $38,000.
Now it's $403,000.
That's a 1,000% increase, not accounting for inflation.
Let's look at, and if you look at that graph, you see some notable spikes.
It consistently goes up.
But if you get more granular, you will see there were some notable policies that led to it.
You look at the overhaul of the Community Reinvestment Act under Clinton.
This is where people talk about Barney Frank.
Then, of course, you look at the subprime loan market.
That increased the housing prices dramatically because anyone could get a home regardless of money down.
Then you look at the bailouts afterwards.
These people got a home, they didn't put money down on with incredibly low interest rates.
It should be foreclosed upon, but instead, those people were kept in the houses.
So people who had saved.
While banks were no longer taking the risk, couldn't afford the down payment, boom, boom, prices go up, let alone COVID.
We have had an engineered society as far as the housing market.
Why?
To look out for the underprivileged, to look out for the single moms, the leftist creation, to be clear.
Let's look at student debt.
That's a big one.
1975, overall, it was $8 billion.
Today, it's $1.6 trillion.
And a lot of people say, oh, this is the problem because Republicans.
No, you guys need to know this.
We've talked about it quite a bit in depth.
Go check out those previous segments.
Link in the description, 11 a.m. Eastern.
We always provide them.
You can see university prices, tuitions going up as government aid increased.
So tuition outpaced inflation by over 300%.
The markets that outpaced inflation by a number that defies reason and occurs nowhere in nature, you'll see the same thing in healthcare costs.
You will find the industries that have been subject to the most amount of government meddling out of all.
You see it with airlines, you see it with insurance.
You see it with big banks.
You see it with housing.
You see it with tuition.
The really simple way of understanding this is schools are incentivized to make school unaffordable.
Why?
Because Uncle Sam makes up the gap.
So you actually want to charge a price that nobody can pay.
Otherwise, Uncle Sam doesn't give you that grant, doesn't give you that scholarship.
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If you don't say, ah, tuition's $50K for a student to say, well, I can't afford that.
Well, guess what?
You're UT, AM is going to do that.
And guess who's going to make up the $40K?
Uncle Sam.
So, you're actually precluded from conducting a school in most instances if you make it affordable and you don't rely on grants and subsidies.
It's unbelievable.
And when you add all this up, all of this, right?
Let's subsidize school.
Let's subsidize housing.
Let's send women into school, tell them that they should pursue college immediately and they should pursue a career throughout their fertile years.
And also, let's create no fault divorce so we make this a contract that's a no win situation for a primary earner.
All of these policies.
Spearheaded and championed by the left.
Do we see a correlation when we put it all together here and the marriage rates?
Here we go.
You got them coming onto the chart there?
It just looks like.
There you go.
Okay.
Second.
Let's add it up.
All right.
Let's look at these.
Uh huh.
Uh huh.
Ah.
Seems like we're seeing a pretty consistent right there that intersect, that tipping point.
And it's one we can't come back from.
We need another tipping point.
Do it the opposite way.
Do it the opposite way.
And people say this is so scary.
How could we do this?
How could we encourage young people, not get married young at all costs, but how could we tell them, hey, it's what's most fulfilling in life?
It's actually a very important metric or indicator as far as economic outcome for both you and the child, as far as mental health, as far as personal happiness, as far as drug abuse, as far as financial stability, which might mean you need to plan on working as a team with someone where one of you goes to college while one of you stays home when you pursue it later.
You know, Traditional male female dynamics.
Because if we don't try and create another tipping point in this country, and if we don't reform divorce laws, if we don't make the marital contract something that makes sense to people, by the way, who would love to be monogamous and find a life partner, I will tell you this I, as a conservative Christian, believe that the nuclear family and the covenant of marriage is central.
It's a bedrock to the foundation of America.
Without it, we don't have a country.
And it's difficult for me.
On a logistical level, to advocate that a successful young man sign that contract as it exists, we have a problem.
We have a problem.
There's a separation between a biblical covenant, what a marriage is, and what the state has made it.
And we've got to reverse course.
Yeah.
And kind of like you were talking about the housing market, there were several moments along the way that really increased the prices.
It seems like there was this tipping point in the late 60s, early 70s, when no fault divorce, you're pushing women into colleges through Title IX, all of those things, and kind of this feminist revolution happened that really set the track.
And then multiple things after that just keep.
Pushing the marriage rate down over and over and over.
Our policies throughout history on this have been horrible.
And we've talked about this not just with women, but with men.
Not all men need to go to college and have $400,000 in college debt that they now have to go into the workforce and work a job that they hate just to try to pay off and be under that shackle as well.
But certainly not women exchanging.
And it is an exchange.
You are exchanging your most fertile years, not just for four years, but for the debt afterwards, for the career after that.
Because why did I go to college in the first place if I'm not going to pursue a career?
For the possibility that now you probably will have less chance of finding a husband because I'm focused on this.
I don't want to settle down right now.
And then at 30, that comes along.
How can you possibly have a decent sized family if everybody's waiting into their 30s?
All of the problems that we've discussed with fertility go up massively.
I think a geriatric pregnancy is 35 or 34.
It's not, people don't understand.
Like it is really, really rough.
Yeah.
Now do the timing.
How long do you want to be married before you have kids?
Now do all that.
How do we expect society to have any other result than what we see today?
Right.
It's terrible.
The left sees this as a victory.
People need to get over the, well, feminism and women.
You guys don't, it's not that we don't like women.
We love women.
We want society to flourish, and it isn't working the way we're doing it.
Get over yourselves on men, women.
It's both in some cases, but the feminism thing has got to end.
It's got to go away.
The culture's got to change because there is pathways that you, you know, I know it's the most fertile years, but you go to four years of college, six if you're getting a master's or something like that.
You come out at 24 years old, you work a Couple years, you meet somebody in school, you meet somebody in your job space, in your neighborhood, or whatever, then you fall in love and you're married before it can happen.
Yeah.
What the problem is, the biggest problem is culture.
Right.
Yeah.
You turn on the radio, unless it's a country, even country music these days is celebrating singlehood, celebrating girl bosses.
Yeah.
Even single motherhood is like, yeah, just push that.
Celebrating, I chose fishing over my girlfriend.
Right.
Whatever Brad Paisley song is on at the time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It starts with culture.
It really does.
I mean, there are mistakes, and we've shown those, and there are, Legal mistakes.
But those have all been pushed, and that is the culture.
I just watched it.
I couldn't watch it because some conservatives out there have been saying, like, oh, yeah, you know, was it so and so has money troubles on Apple TV?
What is it?
Margot has money troubles?
Whatever it's called.
It's basically like an OnlyFans thing.
But a lot of conservatives are like, this is great, actually, because she chooses, spoiler alert, first episode, not to abort a baby.
She's sleeping with her college professor.
He doesn't want to raise the child, and she rejects the idea of an abortion.
Okay.
Got it.
And they'll give you those slight wins that, oh, a baby is great, but literally the messaging is, You are destroying your life, and I am mourning the life that you never get to experience by having this baby.
Do you mean the life of dorm rooms and glorified alcoholism and working as an intern?
If you're lucky, maybe making a decent salary at a job.
The idea that foregoing that for the joy and miracle of creating and raising life is asinine on its face when I say it like that, but that's what people believe, and all of us have been affected by it to some degree.
How does it end?
I won't watch it.
I was like, after episode two, I was like, I can't do this.
Well, hopefully, you know, I hope it ends in a story of, wow, look at how rough this was, but look how worth it it was.
They'll always give some moments of that, but it's always like 90%, oh, it's miserable, and the baby throws up on you, and the baby is screaming, and you have no friends, and you lose your.
But it's really nice because you share an ice cream with it on a park bench or some shit.
It's like, how about you talk about the meaning of life and finding purpose?
If feminism and if leftism, if Marxism, and they are inextricably tied, by the way, the same Marxists back then are the same Marxists today.
That's why.
Black Lives Matter had destroying the nuclear family, the destruction of the nuclear family in its charter.
If feminism helped women, we wouldn't have women today fatter, sicker, and more unhappy than ever.
There you go.
Those are the results.
All right.
Speaking of results, let's get to President Trump.
He's going to be spending some time in China with the Chinese.
And by the way, this is what I think a lot of these moves, we've talked about this, have been made with the express sort of, they're sort of always top of mind, China.
When you look at Iran, you look at Venezuela, you look at Canada, you look at Greenland, all of them have one thing in common, and that is.
The Chinese.
So he is going to be having a meeting.
It hasn't taken place right now.
There aren't that many developments as of this moment, but there are four things that we believe or people are planning to be discussed.
And there's some speculation and our thoughts.
Here you go.
Here's a setup clip.
I forgot what it is.
This looks like a larger crowd than what I saw from 2017 for his arrival.
And again, look, President Xi knows what President Trump wants.
He knows that he wants a show, and he is getting one.
I mean, you can see right there the coordination with the flag.
It's not just 300 Chinese youths.
They have a coordinated flag movement with the Chinese youths there.
And in this moment, Kristen just.
Let's just pause.
So we'll wait and see until everyone takes it.
Was that lady wearing the Vans checkered off the wall skirt pattern?
So, some eyebrows have been raised, and I would say rightfully so.
Those who are joining him on his trip are all very much on the pro Chinese bandwagon.
Elon Musk, obviously, you know, Tesla, Larry Fink, Tim Cook, Tim Apple, as he referred to him.
That's right.
Jensen Huang, Nvidia, Brian Sykes, Marco Rubio rocking a new look.
So that's kind of cool.
He's kind of the one outlier looking.
It's exhausted dad chic.
It is, yeah.
There's even a movie regarding this trip in the works.
China.
So that looks fun.
The negotiation is going to be taking place.
And let me just sort of lay out for you what are viewed as the leverage points against the United States and China.
Against the United States, right?
They're occupied right now, pretty busy in Iran, and the perceptions they're in, the economic headwinds directly attached to Iran in many ways, and that they're going into midterms.
Right.
So China is aware of that.
They're going to probably be using that.
On the other side of this equation, China, you know, will probably be recognized by this administration as they have trade energy instability due to Iran.
Right.
They're far more reliant on it.
They have some serious economic problems.
And domestically, there's a lot of unrest and a lot of apathy.
And the Chinese citizens are not that happy with what's going on.
So yesterday, the Chinese embassy put out four red lines that must not be challenged the Taiwan question.
Oh, you got to read it like them.
The Taiwan question, the democracy and human rights.
Don't you just love how they're like, okay, okay, we'll sit down and we'll have a cup, we'll dish tea.
But off limits are human rights.
Off limits, anything bad we do.
Yeah, off limits.
Don't talk about my misfortune.
Well, look, I wasn't going to talk about it, but the fact that you say it's off limits makes me think you're violating human rights.
No, Off limits because they're perfect.
No need to improve.
No need to look over there.
Let's talk about chips.
Chips.
So, the Taiwan question democracy, human rights, paths, and political systems, the development rights of China.
You know, the things that actually matter because they want to act like they have a leg to stand on.
Now, I will say this I don't like the group of people who are going, and I don't like some of what I'm hearing.
But President Trump historically has usually struck a tone.
This is the carrot phase.
Right before spending time with China, talking about how he has a good relationship.
But there has been no president harder on China as a matter of policy than Donald Trump.
So there's the carrot and there's the stick.
I thought it was an amazing meeting.
He's a great leader, a great leader of a very powerful, very strong country, China.
I look forward to seeing President Xi.
I've always had his wife, he's fantastic.
He's an amazing guy.
And I've always had a great relationship.
President Xi of China.
Thank you very much.
It's a great honor to be with a friend of mine, really for a long time now, if you think about it.
The very, very distinguished and respected president of China.
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