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The silent majority is no longer silent.
This is the war room with Owen Schroyer.
Don't stand by for further details.
alex jones
In the slave manuals, it says, and Julius Caesar wrote in some of his annals back to when he was exiled, you know, to fight the Germans, but finally beat him when nobody else could for 300 years and became his big hero.
They'd roll in and they'd say, you know, to a fortress, it was usually wooden fortresses, to the Germans, all right, you got a week to give up and to give us all this tribute of cattle and horses and a bunch of your men got to go join our legion and you got to give us this tribute.
Or in a week or two, they give them a number.
We're going to burn everything down.
We're going to kill every man down to age 11 and we're going to ship all your women and children off as slaves to Rome.
They just show up and they say, you got a week, you got two, you know, it would vary, you got a month, and then we're going to burn everything down and we're going to kill everybody.
And then they would get all the women together.
So they had all their interpreters and they'd say, listen, some of you are going to be kept here to raise crops and work for us, for our legions, and some of you are going to work in our brothel and be our horse.
We're going to decide which women serve us better, who's going to be in charge.
And if any of you give us any lip, we're just going to start killing your little boys.
So out of love, the white house slaves would be the biggest oppressor.
And then they figured out the psychology.
The Romans had it all down.
And that's the same thing.
So feminism, that's what it is.
It's the house slave.
Every major corporation of the Fortune 100 and almost every major government and the big think tanks and the tax-free foundations are robber barons.
And by the 1880s, they developed out of the theory of eugenics from the 1850s.
The modern update on it came from Plato and the Greeks.
Of social Darwinism.
Meaning, no matter how evil, how destructive, how horrible you are to the general public, you are the apex predator as the globalists, as the robber barons, as the British Empire, as Cecil Rhodes, as J.P. Morgan, as Lord Rothschild.
Anyone you can steal, dominate, manipulate, poison, kill, enslave deserves it, and you're doing a positive thing for society.
It's a twist on that which doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.
But then they sell it through a lovey, squishy, liberal MPR voice of, oh, be nice, be friendly.
Oh, women need to vote.
unidentified
Oh.
Two of the co-founders of Ms. Gloria Steinem and Pat Carbine were guest speakers at this luncheon this afternoon and they're both with me now on fresh air.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
alex jones
Now they're wedded to the state and the system and they're the new bosses just like the Romans did.
unidentified
Gloria Steinem said, if you don't go out to work, you betray the movement of feminism.
You betray the women's rights movement.
Babies will be fine.
Don't worry about them.
Put them into daycare.
Give them to a babysitter.
You need to go out to work.
You need to be soldiers in this war that we're waging.
And women just soaked it up.
Meanwhile, Gloria Steinem never had children.
So she could say that.
That message was very destructive.
alex jones
So they sell the tyranny.
It's liberal and loving, but all of it is to undermine and control.
You see movies like Django Unchained and stuff.
And, you know, it's a black guy in the house and he is the biggest racist and all that.
And that idea of Uncle Tom, it wasn't Uncle Tom's folks.
I'm not putting down black women.
On record, it was black women in charge.
That's called being a house slave.
Now, where'd they get that?
You think that was invented by the colonies?
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No, no.
alex jones
All over the world, including Africa, where they still have slavery.
It was the same institution.
unidentified
In Libya, hundreds of emigrants along North Africa migrants' routes are being bought and sold in an open slave market.
So listen carefully.
Slavery is not dead.
It is very much alive.
alex jones
You'd go capture and take over a tribe.
You'd kill the men, keep some of the boys, and then the women would go under Stockholm Syndrome, almost all of them, and would be your best servants.
And you'd create them as the subclass, but the bosses over the others.
It's the same thing over and over and over again.
So you can talk to a feminist.
You can talk to all these brainwashed people and they feel like they're part of the power structure and they're in the system.
This system is designed to make you stupid and alone and enslaved and finally dead.
Just don't look at me because I'm white and tell me I'm some like superstar slave master.
owen shroyer
In fact, now isn't it ironic?
Special report there, the feminist slave system revealed on band.video and infowars.com.
Isn't it ironic now with the images of the young girl in the UK having to stand up for herself because the men won't do it?
So that's like real powerful feminism that the world has seen now.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is Tuesday, August 26, 2025.
This is the InfoWars War Room.
Fastest three hours on the internet.
Starts now, and we've got a decently loaded news desk here today.
Light video list, only 15 videos on the list, but pretty decent news desk.
But we do have a couple guests that are going to be joining us today on some big news stories.
We're going to be really digging into the truckers story where you recently had this foreign trucker, and it's not the first.
I think there have been five that I can recall in the last year, where you have these foreigners that basically go, they short their way through the process, or it's basically just rigged so that they can get their license and drive these trucks, and they don't actually get the necessary training or skills, and then they're on the road, and then they kill somebody.
And we recently just saw the incident where the man tries to do a U-turn, looks like on an interstate.
And I mean, it's the dumbest maneuver you've ever seen from a non-female driver and gets his truck rammed and the people die.
And then there's other stories like that.
So we're going to be bringing on people that represent a big coalition of truckers to explain what's going on with this and the actions that are being taken to try to address it or their planned actions.
And then we're going to be joined by expert economist Ed Dowd in the final hour to really look at some of this economic news.
Now, I had already planned on getting him on a couple weeks ago because of some things that he was seeing trending in the economy that I was seeing too, that a lot of people don't want to report on or won't report on it or don't see it.
And then there's other big news that I want to get into his opinion on.
Like, I mean, I don't know how else to explain it.
The Trump administration is going fascist.
I mean, it's fashion light is what we're calling it.
I mean, getting a 10% stake in Intel.
Now they're looking at getting stakes in these defense contractors.
So when it comes to applied politics, I am more of a pragmatist than anything else.
I mean, myself personally, I'm a conservative.
Myself personally, I'm on the right, maybe a little socially liberal, but I don't live in a tyranny.
I'm not a dictator.
So you have to be pragmatic.
So I'm not somebody that comes on here as a big anti-fascist, but it certainly is a concerning thing.
Now, I don't see the big Antifa movements out in the streets now, ironically enough.
First time this administration is really going fascist, but I'd like to get Ed Dowd's opinion on that and then some of the other economic things.
Like, I just don't get it.
I really don't.
When Trump comes out and says how great the economy is doing and how all the prices are lowered, and I'm just like, is anybody seeing this?
I'm genuinely asking.
Is anybody seeing this?
It's definitely not here.
Not in here in Austin, Texas.
I mean, gas prices are down a little bit from the Biden administration.
A little bit.
It's not really budget changing.
The grocery bills are certainly not down.
If anything, they might be up, I guess, depending on what you purchase.
And then just generally speaking, energy bills aren't going down here either.
So I don't know what he's talking about with that.
I don't know if that's somebody telling him that that's the case or if somebody's feeding him numbers that are isolated in some area that's doing better.
I don't know.
If it's an average, nobody's telling me this is going on.
So I'm going to get Ed Dowd's opinion.
You know, I'm just going to do this on there.
Hey, guys, I got some weird noise in the studio.
Can somebody just come in here and figure out what this is?
It's bothering the hell out of me.
Don't worry if you're in the background here.
It sounds like it's right behind me.
Sorry to do that.
It sounds like there's a rat running around the screens behind me.
Anyway, that's fun.
Maybe you might catch a rat live on air.
Would you like to do that?
Do you hear that back there?
All right.
Okay, that's always fun.
So we're going to get to that coming up.
And then I've just got all this political news.
So the title of the show is Rabbis Have Now Joined These Massive Protests in Israel.
And As I'm watching this kind of develop, and it's really ramped up in the last month.
I forget, maybe it was a month ago or less when they had the first really massive protest in Tel Aviv.
We're talking probably tens of thousands of people.
There've been pockets of protest against Netanyahu here and there for the last year or so, maybe a couple thousand at best.
And then they had their real biggest one.
It was probably in response, if I'm looking back at the timeline, probably in response to that Al Jazeera crew getting killed.
And, you know, Israel plays the same game with their propaganda.
And it's just, oh, anybody that disagrees with them is Hamas.
You know, just like, oh, everybody that disagrees with you is a racist or everybody that disagrees with you is a sexist.
It's the same trick, which then you sit there and you say, huh, where do these tactics really begin?
Is that Israel using their own tactics that have been adopted by the American left?
Or is that Israel using the tactics from the American left?
Either way, that's what they do.
So they say, oh, look, this reporter had contact with a guy we consider Hamas.
Well, so if somebody decided they were going to kill a journalist for interviewing a president of a foreign country, does that mean you're going to kill them too?
Of course not.
It's ridiculous.
But that was kind of the first thing that I think where many Israelis that might have been on the fence said, this is getting way out of hand now.
And Israel has already lost the moral high ground a long time ago.
Now we're losing the world, you might say.
The world has turned on Israel.
If it wasn't for the backing of the Trump administration, I don't know what Israel would be going through right now.
In fact, Iran, quite frankly, might have flattened Tel Aviv.
If we're being perfectly honest, if it wasn't for the Trump administration, Iran might have flattened Tel Aviv.
You could have tens of thousands of Israelis dead potentially.
Now, they do have the bomb shelters, but that's no fun.
So the whole world is watching this in horror.
So then you saw the story, and now we have the video.
Israel blows up a hospital.
Now, they've blown up 36 of 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip.
There were 36 hospitals.
All 36 are now demolished because every single one of them is Hamas headquarters, don't you know?
It's their excuse for everything.
You know, they see a rabbit running down the road.
Some person just wants to blow them up for fun.
It was a Hamas rabbit.
It's the level that they're at now.
So we have the video.
They blow up the hospital.
Aid workers go in.
Journalists go in.
And then Israel does another strike and kills them.
And we have the footage.
It was captured live on TV.
So is that Hamas?
Israel has gone, with this Netanyahu regime and administration, has gone so far off the deep end of absolute diabolical destruction that there are now tens of thousands of Israelis in the streets protesting against it.
Because they realize, if this continues, and I would say, you know, generally speaking, Israelis, and even people in the Middle East, generally speaking, are a little more geopolitically informed than Americans are.
Because this stuff affects them way more than it does you.
The average American, all of the stuff going on in the Middle East, they'll probably never even hear about it.
But over there, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, I mean, they know what's going on.
They know how it impacts them.
They're well aware.
So the Israelis, can you imagine the pressure?
It's not just here where you see all these people that are just sycophants for Israel, like a Mark Levin, or others in the media, or the Trump administration.
There are, obviously, I don't know, you could look at different poll numbers, but let's say it's 50-50.
You've got at least probably half the nation of Israel that is all on board with Netanyahu, genuinely looks at Palestinians.
As subhumans and could not care less that if they kill women and children.
And they confess to this.
They confess to this in TV interviews.
They confess to this in opinion columns that they write.
So this isn't even a debate.
So can you imagine the pressure now of an Israeli that is against what Netanyahu is doing, but the social taboo of standing against it publicly?
Well...
Well...
after this double tap on the hospital, I think that now people in Israel are saying, okay, this has gone way too far.
And if we don't at least, if we don't at least put on some public display here that show that Israelis are not all on board with this, then this is going to, I mean, then it looks even worse.
It's like the world needs to know, hey, not every Israeli citizen here is supporting what Netanyahu is doing.
Not every Israeli citizen here is celebrating in the bloodlust, bathing in the blood of the innocence of Netanyahu's slaughter in the Gaza Strip.
And now a bunch of rabbis have joined the cause.
Israeli protesters hold day of disruption to demand Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal.
Rabbis emerge as growing voice of criticism of Israel's tactics in Gaza.
Now, what's even crazier, because this, I've never seen this.
Netanyahu is basically now a PR man.
Now, Netanyahu has served in the IDF.
So he is a military man himself.
So it's not like he can't be involved in these military operations or discussions because he doesn't know what's going on.
He knows very well what's going on.
But I've never seen this before.
Netanyahu is now basically 24-7 PR man.
And they obviously set this desk up for him to do multiple interviews every day, press statements like every other day.
We've played a lot of them here.
You know what I'm talking about?
They're all in English, by the way.
Most of the interviews he's doing are in English.
Now, a lot of Israelis speak English, and a small percentage, but a significant amount of people in the Middle East do speak English as well.
But this is not directed at them.
All of this is directed at you, the American people.
Netanyahu is aimed a voice box for the slaughter of the Gaza Strip right now, the complete annihilation of the Gaza Strip.
And now he's just become a propaganda voice box aimed at the American people.
And of course, the why couldn't be more obvious.
Because Netanyahu sees that aside from this Trump administration, there would be no support for what Israel is doing.
There would be no support.
I don't know for Netanyahu, it'd be, I don't know how much support Netanyahu would even have without this Trump administration at this point.
But more importantly, he knows he's losing the American media that normally Israel has had totally under their control, whether literally buying it and running it or just through osmosis.
And maybe even more importantly, he realizes that his legacy is not going to be this great leader of Israel that accomplished the expansion of Israel.
Right now, it's 50-50 whether he can even do it.
But his legacy is now, for people that are alive right now in college, in their 20s, Benjamin Netanyahu is the most evil man to ever exist.
And you might even get into people into their 30s that would agree with that.
Now, you get to people probably in their 40s and 50s.
They've been around a lot longer.
They've seen a lot more evil people.
So it's a little different.
But I would say for people maybe 40 or under, definitely 30 or under, Benjamin Netanyahu is the most evil man ever.
He is a diabolical murderer in their eyes.
So he knows this.
He's well aware.
Without the support of the United States, Israel is in big trouble.
Big trouble financially, big trouble geopolitically, big trouble militarily.
Big trouble.
And maybe even he realizes that if it wasn't for the Trump administration getting involved in his war with Iran, Israel would be in a really bad place today.
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Really bad.
owen shroyer
And they might not be thinking about going into Gaza as they're planning to do in just a couple weeks.
No, they'd be in Tel Aviv picking up rubble, searching for bodies.
Now, I'm glad that that's not happening.
But I'm upset that that's what's happening in Gaza.
And the world now looks at this as Israel gets to do whatever the hell they want, and everybody else is supposed to sit there and let it happen.
And somehow they have the magical authority to just do it.
And you can see they've actually brainwashed a lot of people in America.
And, you know, it's a strange thing, but you call a spade a spade.
You listen to some of the people in the Trump administration.
You listen to some of the people in the conservative media.
They don't hide it.
They say Jews and Israel are the most important people on the world.
They're God's chosen people.
Everyone else is second to them.
Now, that should be extremely offensive as just a general statement.
And for most people, it is.
And if anyone else tried to make this claim, they'd be considered a supremacist.
And that would be considered, you know, bad, let's say, bad culture or a bad social maneuver to say, I'm the supreme being here, so I get to bomb this place and I'm still the victim while I'm doing it.
So Netanyahu knows you lose America, you may lose Israel, quite frankly.
And if you lose the American youth, which they are, it's already a done deal.
They might be scraping and clawing to get him back, but it's a done deal.
It's a done deal, folks.
Under 30, totally anti-Israel.
Under 40, neutral to negative.
Above 40, neutral.
Above 50, still positive.
But we know where the trend goes here.
So Netanyahu is in a total panic.
Now he's going on Patrick Bett David's show.
I mean, it's every day.
He's speaking in English.
All this propaganda is aimed at you, the American people.
All of it.
And then I have to sit here and watch this flood the American discourse now.
Israel, Israel, Israel, Islam, Islam, Islam.
But what about the middle American that's living paycheck to paycheck?
Ah, nothing.
What about the Americans that can't get a job or their jobs don't afford them a livable wage and are going into debt and can't afford a home?
Oh, no, no, no, no.
It's all about Israel.
It's all about Islam.
So you've got all the pro-Israel people telling you, you need to hate Islam.
They're out to get you.
It's the Muslim Brotherhood.
It's the Islamification.
I mean, it's honestly laughable.
It's actually hilarious.
And I could sit here and point out a bunch of different examples.
But it's like Laura Loomer comes out and says, look, it's the Islamification of America.
They have a foot washing station at a DC bathroom.
Oh my gosh.
Oh, uh-oh.
Some Muslims in the DC metro area, some Muslims that work in the government got a foot washing station in the bathroom.
I mean, my God, wow, that's proof.
It's Islamification.
Oh, but the entire United States government and the entire United States military fully backing Israel.
It's basically Israel's government.
It's basically Israel's military for all intents and purposes.
They bark.
The U.S. government, the Trump administration says how loud.
But that's, no, that's Islamification.
Look, some Muslims have a foot washing station in D.C. My God, Islamification.
But Israel getting all the military support, all the government support, all the government money.
Nope, that's nothing, nothing to see here.
That's Qatar.
I mean, it's a joke, folks.
It's honestly embarrassing.
So I don't know what that is.
I don't know if that's these people have sold out.
I don't know if that's a money thing.
I don't know if they actually believe this crap.
I think for some of them, it's just outright hatred of Islam.
They just hate Muslims and they want you to engage in that hatred with them.
But that's not working.
That's not working.
And then they try to invoke 9-11.
Well, guess what?
unidentified
People don't really believe that anymore.
owen shroyer
So, see, you got a big problem.
So as Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, as Israel, is at war with how many countries right now?
How many different groups of people is Israel at war with here, including the American people in a propaganda war and a policy war?
So you got the Gaza Strip, you got the West Bank, you got the Golan Heights, you've got Iran, you've got Jordan, you've got Lebanon, you've got Syria.
So that's seven different groups of people that Israel is at war with right now.
And Netanyahu is going around doing a media tour.
And Netanyahu is going around and doing interview after interview in English for the Western media to try to convince you, don't believe your own eyes.
Oh, Sorry, we didn't mean to blow up that hospital 36 times.
Oh, sorry, we didn't mean to double-tap that hospital and kill more innocents.
Sorry.
No, you're not.
Oh, sorry.
We didn't mean to blow up that Christian church.
Oh, sorry.
We didn't mean to blow up those Christians.
Oh, sorry.
It's embarrassing.
And so now what do you deal with?
Here comes the foreign flags.
Oh, you've got to choose a side.
It's Islam.
It's Jews.
How about it's neither?
How about it's America?
How about it's Christianity?
How about that?
How about take your foreign conflict and take it somewhere else?
How about take your foreign loyalties and take it to wherever they belong?
Because Americans are sick of it.
And Americans are sick of hearing about the problems in the Middle East.
They're sick of having to pay for the problems in the Middle East while Americans are suffering.
And it's like we have this whole campaign about the crime and everything going on in D.C. and Chicago, and it'll be Baltimore, and it'll be St. Louis.
It'll be all of them.
Yeah, no kidding.
Yeah, maybe, maybe we should just take a pause here.
We just had a woman shot in the head, pregnant.
You just had six killed in Chicago, a five-year-old boy killed.
Yeah, maybe we should take a pause on the whole foreign nation foreign entanglement deal, foreigners, and maybe we should actually clean our own house here because it's a little messy.
And then they attack Megan Kelly, and then they say it because she has Marjorie Taylor Greene on for an interview.
And they want Megan Kelly kicked off of Sirius XM.
And Megan Kelly's been loyal to Israel her entire political media career.
She worked at Fox News.
I mean, as pro-Israel as you can get as the standard in the right-wing media.
And she just interviews Marjorie Taylor Greene.
And now they want her kicked off Sirius.
And they're like, well, we don't care if Megan Kelly's been loyal to Israel for 30 years.
She needs to be censored.
She needs to be canceled.
They need to pull her off the airwaves because she interviewed Marjorie Taylor Green.
What are you going to do?
You're going to bomb her?
You're going to bomb her like the journalists that you do in the Gaza Strip.
So can you imagine the situation?
Do you understand why Americans are so pissed off at this?
Imagine your political gravity, your cultural gravity, your moral gravity all depends on whether you support Israel or not.
That's the message here.
Oh, you don't have any political gravity.
You don't have any cultural gravity.
You don't have any moral gravity unless you support Israel.
And the truth is, it's actually the exact opposite now.
All right, let's get all the geopolitical news covered here for the day.
John Bolton wrote a piece for the Washington Examiner, Trump's Utterly Incoherent Ukraine Strategy.
So I guess this is Bolton's revenge for the raid.
And I think it's pretty obvious.
There's one of two, or maybe both, things happening here.
You know, Bolton wrote that book that was, you know, it was an anti-Trump book.
I don't know if that was really the entire thrust of the book, but, you know, of course, anything they can spin is anti-Trump.
That's how they do it.
So Bolton writes a book, pushed as an anti-Trump book, you know, the whole get Trump thing, prove he was the bad guy.
And then the Trump administration is saying, well, they think some of the source material for the book would have been classified information.
So that's what they're doing an investigation on.
But then they have kind of the side story, which is, oh, Bolton is connected to Qatar.
Oh, yeah.
It's the Qatar angle, too.
Of course, Bolton is connected to all these different countries.
He's been in the military-industrial complex blender for decades.
So, yeah, of course, he's connected to all these countries that we're connected to militarily.
So now you've got Bolton and Trump going back and forth.
I would say, I mean, I've seen it before.
Lawyers will give you one piece of advice and you choose to follow it or not.
But I would say Bolton writing this piece is a big middle finger to Trump.
And forget about the content of the piece.
It doesn't even matter.
This is Bolton giving a middle finger to Trump and basically announcing to the American people that he is not afraid of Trump and he anticipates nothing will come of this raid.
That's how I interpret it.
So, boy, that didn't work out so well.
Bringing in Bolton.
So, Levin is the new Bolton.
Trump likes to have a crazed warmongering maniac.
Trump loves to have a guy soaked in blood.
Of course, not a guy who would fight himself, just a guy who likes to go out there and bathe in the blood when everyone else is dead.
So, he brings in Mark Levin to fill that role now, is how I see it.
And we are, of course, waiting for another meeting between Trump and Putin and maybe Zelensky as that war continues to heat up and not slow down.
Unfortunately, Trump was announcing just yesterday the numbers that the White House received was over 7,000 dead in that war just last week alone.
7,000 dead.
So, I mean, that's a serious conflict that is ongoing.
Then you have China.
Satellite images show latest Chinese weapons ahead of military parade.
So I guess they're about to do this giant military parade.
They've got new weapons and aircraft and drones and everything that they're going to be showing off here.
China is preparing to showcase its latest anti-ship missiles, combat drones, and nuclear-capable ballistic missiles in a parade aimed at demonstrating its military prowess and perhaps attracting potential buyers.
Satellite imagery of staging grounds for the September 3rd parade shows scores of weapons that will most likely roll through the streets of Beijing.
Well, they do love to do that over there, show off their military weapons and might.
Communists love to do that, don't they?
It's a big thing for commies.
Oh, wait, we just did that a couple months ago.
Never mind.
Meanwhile, ex-MD Anderson scientist accused of stealing trade secrets for China.
An international investigation is underway after authorities say a local scientist tried to steal cancer-related research from top medical institutes in Houston and then send it to China.
The suspect worked at MD Anderson and is now in custody.
According to the Harris County District Attorney's Office, 35-year-old Yun-hee Lee was charged with theft of trade secrets, which carries a penalty of two to 10 years in prison and fines up to $10,000.
Officials say he was also charged with tampering with a government record, which is punishable with up to one year in jail and a $4,000 fine.
Do you think he'll get sent back to China?
It's too bad for him.
If he would have been caught up in a pedophile sting, and then maybe he could have been sent back to his home country like some others were.
But no, I don't think that'll be happening.
I don't think so.
So another Chinese spy caught, but that doesn't seem to concern President Trump.
Trump to allow 600,000 Chinese students entry for U.S. to U.S. for college as trade talks with China press on.
Is this a real policy deal?
Is it part of the trade negotiations?
Is it a leverage piece?
Because it seems antithetical to his approach on China.
Marjorie Taylor Greene raises red flag after Trump indicates U.S. will accept 600,000 Chinese students.
Trump defense welcoming thousands of Chinese students.
Now, this is an interesting debate to have.
600,000 Chinese students.
Now, is every one of those Chinese nationals a bad person, a spy, or coming here for ulterior motives?
Obviously not.
But you can bet your bottom dollar, 600,000, they're going to sneak a couple in.
You can bet your bottom dollar of that.
So I don't know how you deal with that.
You can either just have a no-tolerance policy or you can raise the stakes as far as if you get caught in foreign espionage or you get caught working for the Chinese communists that, I mean, you're getting 50 years minimum to really, really send a message.
It's like, all right, well, we'll keep taking your students here.
But you try to send a spy over here.
You try to send somebody over here stealing intellectual property or sending something back.
You know, they're gone.
They're not coming back.
So I suppose you could try to play it that way.
But listen to Luttnick, Howard Luttnick on Fox News talking about this.
And I would say, strangely enough, a lot of stuff that you could debate about the Trump administration policy-wise.
And I don't think there's a fair debate here, but this, strangely enough, has been the first issue politically that Fox News is really railing against Trump on.
It's really the only one.
There have been some subtle jabs thrown here or there at the Trump administration, but very friendly jabs, you know, like, oh, I don't really want to hurt you, but I got to at least, you know, show on punching you.
But no real criticism from Fox News.
And there's a reason for that.
No, this has been the first time where there's actually been kind of widespread criticism over the Chinese students issue.
But here's Lutnik, and this explanation really does not make it any better.
Listen to this in clip 12.
unidentified
It's very important.
laura ingraham
Mr. Secretary, with all due respect, how is allowing 600,000 students from the communist country of China putting America first?
howard lutnick
Well, the president's point of view is that what would happen if you didn't have those 600,000 students is that you'd emptied them from the top.
All the students would go up to better schools.
And the bottom 15% of universities and colleges would go out of business in America.
So his view is he's taking a rational economic view, which is classic Donald Trump.
owen shroyer
Pause real quick.
Pause real quick and wind it.
You know what that is, ladies and gentlemen?
unidentified
That's a bailout.
owen shroyer
Yeah, that's a bailout.
The Trump administration is bailing out these universities.
So I can look at both sides and say, okay, let's say they've identified, and I don't know if they've done this deep of a dive, but I bet there's been some surface-level analysis brought to Trump.
And see, this is where it gets really tricky with this administration and Susie Wilson and the people that get access because, and this is why I try to level here and say, you know, Trump, believe it or not, is not at the center of everything.
Like things happen without Trump.
Believe it or not, it's like Trump has this gravity.
It's the call to personality, but stuff happens and Trump really has nothing to do with it, folks.
So somebody could have brought him some intel because that's what happens.
He's up there working all day, managing things.
He's got his own agenda.
And then someone will bring him intel and he doesn't have time to look into it.
He doesn't have time to double check it.
He doesn't have time to really think about the ramifications of a yes or no or whatever.
So somebody brings him some intel and says, well, Mr. President, if we don't keep these Chinese students here, 15 American universities are going to go under.
So Trump says, well, how many employees are we talking here?
What universities?
Do you know them?
It's like, yes, Mr. President, these are the universities and we're looking at maybe 10,000 employees overall.
unidentified
That's not good.
owen shroyer
We want to keep them employed.
So let the Chinese in.
Got to be strong.
We'll let the students back in.
We'll make the announcement today.
unidentified
Okay.
owen shroyer
So I can kind of see how that's going.
So is that somebody bringing him intel with a different motive?
It's kind of like yesterday, somebody brings Trump intel.
I would have actually been pissed.
But again, I understand how this stuff works.
And I imagine working for Trump is a high-pressure situation.
And sometimes when you're in a high-pressure situation to deliver results, you'll just give results because you have to just give results.
So he's about to have the meeting with the South Korean president.
Somebody brings him an intel piece and says, Mr. President, South Korea is raiding churches.
They're persecuting Christians.
So somebody brings this to Donald Trump right before his meeting with the president of South Korea.
And this is why yesterday's press conference with the president of South Korea was just wild.
It was incredible.
Because Trump was like divulging this stuff that he hadn't even had a minute to look at.
And the press is questioning him.
And he keeps going, hey, you know, he just got here.
We haven't really had time to talk about this.
And he looks over.
He's like, you want to talk about this now or do you want to go by?
He's like, no, we can talk about it.
So someone brings Trump intel and says South Korea is raiding Christian churches.
Now, is that just somebody bringing Trump intel because that's their job and they feel they have to deliver?
And they didn't properly vet it to know what's going on?
Or is that somebody maybe that wants to sabotage this meeting?
Because it turns out, and the South Korean president answered the question, he says, yes, that happened in a local jurisdiction.
I have no control over that.
So it'd be like a rogue judge in America or something, a rogue district in America doing something and then somebody blaming Trump for it.
And it's like, I'm the president.
I'm not a local prosecutor in Houston, Texas.
So the South Korean president explains that.
And Trump's like, oh, okay, yeah, that makes sense.
Said, yeah, I heard that intel and it didn't really make sense.
That's not really something you guys do.
So I'm glad you were willing to answer that.
So is that somebody giving Trump intel to sabotage a meeting?
Or is that somebody who's in a high-pressure situation feeling they have to deliver and just bringing him something they saw on the internet?
And I see this happening all the time.
Like there's this story going around about because people want to believe what they want to believe.
There's this story going around about some Indian scam about Walmart and H-1B visas.
And when you go and you find the original source to it, because I have people sending it to me, like, why aren't you covering this?
And I've always said, folks, if there's something like that out there and I'm not covering it and you're wondering why, it's because it's not real.
So you go find the source and it's some troll blog.
It's some troll blog in a foreign country that somebody translated and said, oh my gosh, we found this Indian scam.
And it's just a troll blog.
And then a thousand people share it on X and say, why aren't you covering this?
Well, I went and I found the source.
It's not credible.
So they bring him this intel.
They didn't do the proper research.
They tried to get him to blame the president, make a pressure situation.
So it's like, I can understand how this stuff happens.
And then Trump says, okay, 600,000 Chinese students.
He gets some intel.
He sees it.
Now, tell me by Howard Luttnick's logic that this isn't a bailout.
If these universities are set to go under, why should the U.S. government be bailing them out on a foreign policy issue?
Why?
This is the universities have become so corrupt that they probably belong to go out of business.
They probably belong in the dumpster.
A college degree, many of them are not even worth the cost anymore.
And thanks to the internet now, a lot of these things you can just learn on the internet.
And if you have the intellectual capacity, you can even teach yourself advanced chemistry, engineering, everything.
So, you know, maybe it's the university's problem if they can't remain relevant.
Maybe it's the university's problem if they can't remain affordable.
Maybe that's their problem.
But no, we're going to bail them out by bringing in 600,000 Chinese students.
And then on top of that, because this is really just diversity in a new form, and Luttnick says it.
He says, well, yeah, the Chinese students, they're going to get into the big schools.
But, you know, the Americans that can't get those spots in those schools now because the Chinese nationals, they'll get to go to these other universities that would otherwise be out of business.
Oh, great.
Great.
Here, let's finish Luttnick here.
howard lutnick
Well, the president's point of view is that what would happen if you didn't have those 600,000 students is that you'd emptied them from the top.
All the students would go up to better schools.
And the bottom-up school.
owen shroyer
Oh, yeah.
Wow, Americans would go to a better school.
That's so bad.
howard lutnick
So his view is he's taking a rational economic view, which is classic Donald Trump looking at higher education and saying until we modify that.
laura ingraham
That just helped Harvard and UCLA and UCAL Berkeley.
And y'all help in those schools.
Why?
They're like, you know, basically factories of anti-American propaganda.
Now they're getting a big influx of cash because of the Chinese students.
I mean, I know President Trump has always been very pro-Chinese student.
I just don't understand it for the life of me.
Those are 600,000 spots that American kids won't get.
howard lutnick
Well, I tell you what, I'm involved.
I'm involved in changing the H-1B program, right?
We're going to change that program.
owen shroyer
That's older.
howard lutnick
Because that's terrible, right?
We're going to change the green card.
You know, we give green cards.
The average American makes $75,000 a year.
owen shroyer
That's a nice maneuver there by Luckink.
I mean, you've got to give them credit.
unidentified
$66,000.
owen shroyer
He just totally got it.
howard lutnick
Like, why are we doing that?
That's why Donald Trump is going to change it.
That's the gold card that's coming.
And that's we're going to start picking the best people to come into this country.
It's time for that to change.
laura ingraham
I think we got our American.
owen shroyer
That was nice.
howard lutnick
Dodge.
owen shroyer
I'm not even, you know, he's probably in fairness.
He's probably not the one making the decisions on the Chinese student deal.
And so I think that that's why he dipped dive and dodged the question there because he's probably not the one making decisions.
So he doesn't want the heat over it.
He was just explaining from Trump's standpoint why he made the decision.
And then he's saying, hey, look, here's what I'm working on.
Now, the H-1B visa program is an entirely different disaster.
There's all kinds of scams going on with that.
And then we find out 55 million people are here under a visa.
So can you imagine this?
It's almost incomprehendable, except when you see some of the results like in California, where traffic is down and the hospitals are empty.
55 million visa holders in the United States.
Now, those are active visas.
Active visas, 55 million.
Okay?
So, I mean, those are people taking American jobs.
There's no other way to put it.
Now, are you going to tell me that 55 million people here on a visa are better and more capable than an American?
No.
At best, a million.
At best.
At most, maybe a million would be better at a skill or have more experience, whatever, to have a certain job.
I mean, really, if you're going to be bringing in H-1B visas, it should probably only be doctors, I would say.
I would say that's the thing.
I don't know if we really have a shortage of anything else.
I would say we could probably always use more doctors.
That would be a good thing to bring in if you were going to do it.
So 55 million with active visas.
Imagine how many people are still here with expired visas, plus all the people that are here illegally.
What are we actually looking at?
80 million foreigners?
unidentified
100 million?
owen shroyer
Seriously.
So now I'm looking at the gold card thing, which it's hard to differentiate.
Is this just Trump being an ego marketing guy?
Or is there a rhyme to this reason?
Because I would say, okay, well, if you're going to have 55 million visa holders and it's going to cost $5 million to get a visa, well, at least now the country's making money off the deal.
Right now, it's a giant scam, and it's just costing American jobs.
I would like to know how many foreigners are actually in the United States right now.
Honestly, I bet it's close to 100 million.
I bet it is close to 100 million.
And then it comes out, our new weekend host here, Brandon Morello, frequent guest on the show, she's getting harassed at her apartment by a guy who's in the country as a refugee status.
And she's probably going to break a bunch of news on that.
So I'm not going to break her story here.
But when we were talking about it, it's just like, oh my gosh.
And you realize, folks, they're taking advantage of us.
You think abuse of the American welfare system is bad, which it is.
You think that that's no.
The advantage that people are taking advantage of, our asylum program, our refugee program, our H-1B program, we are our charitable nature as Americans.
We are the most charitable people in the history of this country.
Our charitable nature as Americans, people are taking advantage of it.
It's the same reason.
It's like, I don't even want to play this stuff because I'm so sick of the race crap.
Because you go out and live your life.
Most people don't care what color your skin is, folks.
But I don't even know if I sent the crew like the videos.
It's all these, you know, it's all, oh, look, you know, blacks are attacking whites again, and then it's happening again in Chicago two times, and now it's in New York, and then the Cincinnati deal.
So is it a race thing?
Is it just a crime thing?
It's like, but you see this.
You see this, and it's just like, well, wait a second.
How many of these people are even here in this country legally?
This guy that harassed Brandon Morello, we're going to find out he's basically a giant fraud, probably.
Taking advantage of a refugee program.
He's not a refugee.
Why is a refugee from Egypt even here?
What are we doing?
How many foreigners are in the United States of America right now?
Is it 100 million?
Is it 100 million?
But see, that's what I'm seeing.
I see these videos.
It's like, well, gee, why are white people victims all the time?
Why is America getting victimized with people taking advantage of these welfare programs or taking advantage of our visa programs?
And you realize, like, no, that's how they look at white Americans now.
There isn't the view of the white American, like the strong Texan or the, you know, the rough and rowdy mountaineer.
Like, no, no, no, these days are long gone.
Now, the foreigners and maybe, you know, black Americans that were raised in a rough upbringing, they look at the average white American as a weak, pathetic person that they can take advantage of.
So they just say, well, we're just going to beat you up in the streets.
We're just going to, we're just going to steal from the welfare.
We're just going to take advantage of all your visa programs.
And for the most part, white liberals certainly, but white conservatives too, for the most part, they just lay down.
They just lay down.
A bunch of cowards.
So yeah, they get taken advantage of.
Black person just beats you up in the street, looks at you as a coward.
Bunch of foreigners lie on visa applications.
Look at you as a weak, pathetic moron.
By the way, that's how the entire Middle East is looking at us now.
They look at it and they say, wow, the American people, they don't even care about their own country.
They're more concerned over Israel-Palestine than they are their own country.
Bingo.
And there's the problem.
And there's the problem.
And so then you have that little girl in Scotland, and it's just like, oh, this miraculous thing.
How pathetic is that?
Honestly, it's like the referendum right there on white men.
That's what it is.
White men have been so pathetic that their 12-year-old daughters have to stand up for their countries now.
So, yeah, I'm not surprised that all these foreigners take advantage of people and all these people in the hood take advantage of us.
Of course, they would.
They view you as weak.
By the way, I want to make another point about that young girl in Scotland standing up for herself against the Muslim invaders that, of course, they look at Western nations as weak.
They're like, wow, you're just going to let us come into your country and give us stuff for free?
You're weak and pathetic.
Are you going to give us access to your daughters too?
And then nobody stops them.
Tommy Robinson tries.
He goes to jail for years.
So now this girl obviously knew this was going to happen.
That's why she brought a knife and a hatchet.
She knew it was going to happen.
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You won't even, you won't even get it to half that because that would be illegal, though.
All right, joining me now from American Truckers United is Shannon Everett.
Been a guest on the show before, uh, dealing with some of these issues at ATU Truckers on X or Americantruckers.com.
So, um, Shannon, I'm bringing you on here.
The last time we spoke, I know that you were kind of working on some political stuff dealing with some of the issues that truckers are facing.
But aside from that, this is an issue that Americans are facing now.
We've had multiple deadly incidents in the last 12 months dealing with truckers that I think, quite frankly, I mean, I'll get your stance on this, but to me, quite frankly, seemed like they didn't belong on the road, at least driving a big rig.
And so, you know, all too well this process where foreigners basically to skip the line to get their license to drive these things, and they get out on the road without the proper training.
And we've had multiple deadly incidents now.
So, I mean, what do you make of the latest one where we have the full dash cam video where this guy just tries to do a U-turn in like the middle of a highway or something?
It's the craziest maneuver I've ever seen in my life.
And a car slams into the back of the truck.
It's like, of course, that was going to happen.
So, what do you make of this craziness right now?
And what needs to happen in the trucking industry?
shannon everett
Well, I think America's waking up to the fact that we have this new ecosystem of truck drivers that are now very prevalent on America's highways.
And these accidents have brought that to the surface for the American people to see firsthand.
Unfortunately, it's taken some of these terrible tragedies for it to rise in the media.
But we've started legislating for this stuff last year and asking for our legislators and our state agencies to get involved because our highways are no longer safe.
This incident that just happened here in Florida is a perfect example of a driver that snuck across the border out of Mexico, went into the state of California, received an asylum request.
They granted his asylum, and then he was able to take that asylum grant and go get an EAD card.
He was then able to take the EAD card and get a full-term commercial driver's license from the state of Washington.
He later turned that full-term CDL into a non-domiciled CDL in California.
And then he drove interstate miles.
He drove all the way across the country and then had this terrible tragedy in the state of Florida.
And so what we're seeing is that these sanctuary states like Washington, like California, like Illinois, like New York, like Pennsylvania, they have, you know, corrupted our CDL licensing system and they have started issuing these non-domicile commercial driver's license.
It has a specific name, and that is non-domicile commercial driver's license that they issue to non-citizens.
But here's the kicker: they don't keep those guys in their states, they export them all across the country.
And so California is not paying the price of their bad behavior.
Illinois isn't paying the price of the bad behavior.
Florida is.
Arkansas is.
Tennessee is.
owen shroyer
Texas.
We had a big one here in Texas.
shannon everett
Texas.
That's right.
That's right.
And so we've really got to get a hold of these state agencies issuing these CDLs and the standards by which they're issuing them.
A lot of people don't know that there's not a federal issuance of these commercial driver's license.
Each one of them is done differently at the state.
You know, there's guidelines, but obviously you also have politics and you have ideologies.
And so all of these states are doing it differently.
At American Truckers United, we identified back early in the year that 10 specific states were taking part in a process that we call labor dumping.
And that's where they're taking people from third world countries and they're bringing them into the United States and they're dumping them into specific areas.
And why those specific areas matter is because those specific areas are the sanctuary states where the immigration judges will give them these motions of asylum.
They'll grant their asylum requests.
And so they were able to get all of these immigrants in here.
They were able to grant these asylum requests and then put them in commercial trucks.
You know, there's a lot of talk right now in the trucking industry that we have a parking problem.
Well, if you bring in, you know, our estimates are hundreds of thousands of people.
If you bring in hundreds of thousands of non-citizens and you issue them EAD cards and non-domiciled CDLs, and then you put them out on the highways, they're living in these trucks.
Most of the operators, the carriers that have been involved in the most recent accidents, when you go to their address, they're ghost addresses, they're virtual addresses.
They don't have like a terminal like you would expect with a Texas trucking company, where if a guy has 50 trucks, he has a shop facility and maintenance and safety and dispatch.
No, you pull up a guy, it'll say they have 200 trucks.
It'll be an apartment address.
And that's because not only are these non-citizen truck drivers, it's non-citizen dispatchers.
It's non-citizen owners.
And so like was the case in Terrell, Texas, where five people were killed, I think about two months ago.
The owners, they still haven't tracked them down and arrested them, appear to be from Russia.
The address of the motor carrier for that accident came back to one of these virtual PO boxes.
And then we had several drivers come forward as whistleblowers and talk about all of the egregious behaviors that the carrier was involved in when they were making all of the drivers run beyond their hours of service.
And so it's complete lawlessness.
Secretary Duffy has acknowledged that fact in several statements that he's made.
You know, the trucking has turned into the Wild West.
And so how did all of that happen?
And politics got involved in trucking.
You know, there was the Biden-Harris Trucking Action Plan of 2021 was their response to this supposed driver shortage.
You know, like most other industries, whether it's H-1B or whether it's roofing or some of these other trades, everybody says there's a shortage of workers.
Well, they've been selling that same philosophy for the trucking industry for the last 10 years.
Well, the Biden-Harris administration bought onto that.
And so they tried to help them fix that by allowing these non-domiciled CDLs to be issued.
So this is a new phenomenon.
This is not something that has been the standard operating procedure for the American trucking industry.
And that's why we're getting all these daily blowups.
We're getting all these daily surprises because we have a new ecosystem of truck drivers who are operating on these highways next to your family, next to my family, and it's not okay.
And it doesn't need to be tolerated.
We don't need 12-month investigations or two-year investigations.
We need something done right now to make our highways safe.
owen shroyer
And by the way, this video here, not a recent one, but this was one where this guy, I believe, killed the entire family that was in the car he ran into.
shannon everett
So that's a perfect example because most of the crashes, run that video again.
Most of those, most of the crashes that we're seeing are stalled traffic where the commercial motor vehicle hits the traffic at highway speeds.
And so it's a complete blow up.
And so why is that?
How is that possible?
Well, if you're not concerned with immigration law, if you're not concerned with safety and having a shop and all those things, what makes you think these guys are following hours of service?
Most of these guys are either completely exhausted, they're playing on their phones, there's just no regard whatsoever for highway safety, the same regard that our American truck drivers have for the American people.
And so there is a different culture here with these drivers that we don't need to tolerate.
owen shroyer
Well, and I got a lot of follow-ups there.
You just unpacked a lot.
But I want to get back into the recent one.
And I guess it ties into that video that we just saw there too, where this is kind of basic training stuff, as I understand it.
Like, for example, I mean, even if you just get your basic driver's license, there's a part of that where they'll say, Hey, they'll make sure you know, especially now with cell phones, it's like, hey, you travel, I forget the example they use, but you'll travel 300 feet in whatever small amount of time, like one look down at your cell phone, you can be in the back of a vehicle.
So that's something they bring up.
That's different when you're driving a car versus a truck where you're hauling weight and the brakes can't stop it like you can stop a car.
So you might have a little room for error there if you're in your vehicle.
You're in one of these big rigs, there's no room for error.
The space is going to close fast and your brakes aren't going to stop it.
And it's just like that's a basic thing that they would know, especially if you've logged a bunch of hours on the road and maybe you've had some incidents like that.
You kind of know, okay, this is how much I have time as far as braking is concerned.
But that maneuver, this U-turn maneuver that this guy pulls, I mean, is this not basic stuff that they teach you in order to get your CDL?
I mean, isn't that just like 101?
You don't do that?
shannon everett
Absolutely.
The U-turn thing is a termination event for most trucking companies.
And so they teach the drivers that they will be fired on their first defense if they were to do something like that.
So everyone knows you don't do a U-turn on a highway.
And so that brings into the question: have these guys really been trained?
And so what we found is there's five hotspots across the country.
One of them is the Fresno, California area, Southern California, even.
Then we have the Laredo, Texas area.
You have Chicago, Cincinnati, and the Orlando, Florida area, where there's kind of like Nest where all these carriers are domiciled.
That same area has these CDL schools that are controlled by these same ethnic groups.
And so they're literally paying to get CDLs, these non-domiciled CDLs.
And so it's, I mean, it's just the whole system's complete lawlessness.
But so there is no training.
These guys have no training.
They have no oversight.
They're being dispatched from overseas.
And Duffy describes it best when he says it's the Wild West.
owen shroyer
Well, and I can't even imagine the logistical nightmare of this where you've got, first of all, having people on the road that don't speak English right there.
I can't even imagine like the eye rolling and the headaches.
Then you have the people that are actually running the logistics of it, I guess, in an apartment, not even in a, you know, not even in an actual trucking warehouse or something.
And maybe they don't speak English.
So you've got language barriers.
You've got guys driving trucks that don't have proper training.
They don't have the hours on the road.
But I'm not really hearing about issues with deliveries or not getting out on time.
Is it not making the news?
I mean, are there logistical issues resulting from this aside from just these deadly crashes?
shannon everett
Oh, these guys, these actually guys actually have better service results than American truck drivers do.
I mean, if you don't have to worry about what time you have to go to sleep and what time you have to get up because of hours of service regulations, and you can drive 800 miles a day instead of 400 miles a day, the customers aren't going to complain.
In fact, they're the ones receiving all the benefit.
And so the cost of what's happening to the safety on our highways is profiting several small groups, which would be your shippers and your brokers.
So they're getting better service and they're getting a cheaper cost, but it's at our expense.
owen shroyer
Interesting.
Okay.
Now, I'm looking at this from, let's say, a conspiracy theorist angle now.
Okay.
Maybe you have them trying to get all these foreigners' licenses because they think it's going to do better for them bottom line.
They can hire them cheaper.
They can work longer hours.
Maybe there's ulterior motives because I look at what's going to happen here.
Well, I think I see two kind of outside of the box things.
One, they're going to use this to eventually push for automated trucking.
They're going to use this and it's going to get so bad.
There'll be a 29-pile car pile up from one of these deals and they'll say, okay, we have to have the automated truckers now.
We have to have the automated delivery service, which they do have small cargo box trucks in China now that are fully automated, no drivers happening in China, smaller cargo trucks, so not the big rigs.
So it is happening in China.
I know that there's been some self-driving trucks here in America, but it's still extremely rare and it's highly monitored.
So I could see that being the case.
But I also see something we had an event that got a little momentum during the pandemic.
And then it's happened a couple of times where truckers will basically threaten to go on strike because at the end of the day, the trucking industry still controls a lot of the means and mechanisms of having goods, having goods and products on the shelves.
So there's, you know, there's power in the trucking industry.
Could there be another agenda here to kind of remove that power from truckers and say that's too big of a threat to the political establishment to have a bunch of truckers that someday can just say, hey, we're not delivering today and basically pause like half the economy.
So I'm kind of looking at this.
Is this to bring in the auto-driving trucks?
Is this to take away the power of the truckers as an institution, as a group of people?
Or am I just a conspiracy theorist here?
shannon everett
You know, there's been a lot of talk about the autonomous trucks, which, you know, I do think, unfortunately, it is benefiting that conversation right now to the detriment of our American truck drivers.
But when it comes to taking away the voice, we've had a lot of talk here in the last, I would say in the last two or three months about there being another strike or there being another shutdown.
And unfortunately, yeah, they've taken away that power because it does not make sense, economical sense, for the American truck driver to shut down when we estimate that there's hundreds of thousands of replacement truck drivers willing and ready to do the work.
Just like it would make sense for a union to strike if all of their non-union workers were willing to continue working and they were able to break the picket lines.
And so the American truck driver right now is really on the roads with nowhere to go except out of business unless immediate action is taken to step in by the federal government.
owen shroyer
Shannon Everett, our guest here from American Truckers United.
The one other angle to this story that I want to get info from you on, and I know we've talked about this before, but perhaps maybe you've gotten a little better understanding.
What is the process?
Because people that actually work in the trucking industry know, you know, there's kind of different, there's different levels of being involved and spending a lot of time there.
Like, do you own your own rig?
Do you, do you take a rig from a company?
Do you rent?
Like, there's all kinds of things.
Do the foreigners, where are they at in this process?
Because I doubt they're coming in here and buying their own rig.
Where are they getting the trucks?
shannon everett
That is such a great question.
I'm glad you asked that question.
These guys only work through brokerages almost exclusively.
So they are not going in and contracting directly with these Fortune 500 shippers.
You know, I'm not going to name any of them, but the guys making shoes, the guys making cars, the guys making dog food.
A guy that can't speak English that just snuck across the Mexican border and went in and got an EAD card and then started a trucking company is not walking into one of those companies.
And so what's happened is over the last several years, we've seen the explosion in the number of brokerages and how big our brokerages are, the number of loads and shipments that they're handling, because they have this new captive capacity.
All of these guys are coming into the industry and they're working for these load boards.
It's this gig economy right now.
Everything's done by app or everything's done by the web.
And so the brokers are taking advantage of this preemption, they call it, which is this kind of like this federal immunity that they have where they're not responsible for an accident because they didn't hire the driver.
They hired the motor carrier.
There's actually a Supreme Court ruling coming up soon on this very topic where brokers are trying to get the Supreme Court to rule on their side to allow them to continue utilizing this immunity.
That's what I call it, or this preemption that says they're not responsible for hiring the driver.
I argue that they are entirely responsible for the situation right now on America's highways because they are the ones using the capacity.
They're the ones benefiting.
And it's all going to this one exclusive group.
Now, that's anybody with a brokerage.
So you can have mega carriers, big carriers inside of the American Trucking Association that have a brokerage arm that are just as guilty because they're brokering to these guys too.
owen shroyer
So in other words, the people that are cutting costs here by hiring the foreigners, they own enough trucks that it doesn't really matter to them.
They can have these things on the road.
They don't care who's driving them.
shannon everett
Yeah, because they don't own the truck.
And so, but why would a Fortune 500 company or a Fortune 100 company who buys the cheapest trucks, who has the best safety record, who has the best contracts with customers, why would they be expanding their divisions and adding more of these drivers instead of hiring more American drivers?
And it comes down to labor exploitation.
They're able to exploit the cost of labor by bringing in these people from third world countries.
owen shroyer
Yeah, and I'm curious, and this will be my final question.
So if there's anything you want to add here in the final four minutes, feel free to tack it on after you answer this.
I've seen the impact.
I don't know if you can point to one thing that's a policy from the Trump administration, but the one area where I definitely saw foreigners taking over, at least here in Austin, was in the ride share industry.
You order one of these ride shares on an app.
It used to be, I mean, in the Biden years, like if let's say I ordered 10 rides, eight of them would be foreigners.
I mean, and seven of the eight wouldn't even be able to speak English.
That's what it was like.
And I don't know if that's just an Austin thing.
I've heard similar things in other big cities.
So I think it was more of a blue big city type of thing where that was going on.
Well, since Trump has gotten in, now it's like nine out of 10 speak English and are Americans.
And so that's something I've seen here.
Could you have a similar impact in the trucking industry?
Do you think there's similarities there?
I mean, I see a lot of similarities, but I guess the margins are different.
So the motivation to have the foreigners might be a little more than, say, in the ride shares where the margins are smaller.
shannon everett
Well, the number one company that was responsible for really growing this ecosystem of drivers is one of your largest internet overnight delivery retail giants, right?
And so we believe because it's mostly app-based and it's mostly web-based that they used the model that we saw with Uber and with DoorDash and with all of that and said, hey, we've got all these drivers over here.
We're hiring them for this.
Why can't we just give them CDLs?
And so we see an effort across the entire industry where over 19 states passed state legislation legalizing these non-domiciled CDLs before we finally caught them trying to do it in Arkansas and we were able to stop it in Arkansas.
Up until that point, almost no one in our industry, except for the people abusing it, even knew what a non-domiciled CDL was, Owen.
And so it's really been this huge scandal that's starting to that's starting to surface.
Thank God that God has blessed us with President Trump because he's not going to tolerate it.
He's made that clear.
He's got support for this and he's been pushing the executive order for English proficiency, but also the investigation of these CDLs.
And then Secretary Duffy, huge blessing.
He's all over it.
The problem is.
owen shroyer
The problem is Duffy has its full plate and he needs help.
shannon everett
Exactly.
Exactly.
And so he has to rely on these staffers.
And these staffers are in communication with these career lobbyists.
And that's who you can't trust.
We can trust Duffy.
We can trust Trump, but we've got to get the right people working for Duffy.
And I believe that's our biggest challenge here.
And that's why it's taken so long to affect change.
Trump wants to change things.
Duffy wants to change things, but do the people who were there.
owen shroyer
Has the transportation office been in touch with you?
shannon everett
We made contact with senior officials for the first time two weeks ago.
We delivered about a four-hour presentation, and they were absolutely gobsmacked.
And so we've been in touch with them ever since.
We have not been at the level of Duffy, and I understand why he's very, he's got a lot on his plate, but there's senior officials that know exactly what's going on now, and they're outraged.
owen shroyer
Well, I hope we can get results because if there's not, as you put it about 20 minutes ago, if we don't have immediate change here, I do anticipate we're going to see something really bad.
You know, 29-car pileup type of a deal.
Quite frankly, the one that happened just here locally, I think that was the worst.
I think there was about 17 cars or something in that crash.
That was fatal.
That deal with that U-turn on an interstate, that guy's lucky.
That guy's lucky that there was only one car involved.
I mean, that's the kind of thing that that's a 29-car pileup on the wrong road.
I mean, you're talking who knows how many people dead.
So let's hope it doesn't get to that.
Shannon Everett from American Truckers United.
Follow him on X at ATU Truckers, or you can find out more information.
If you're a trucker listening to this, Americantruckers.com.
Shannon, thank you for your time.
shannon everett
Thank you.
owen shroyer
All right, there you have it, folks.
We're going to be right back with more news from the White House on the other side of this break.
Well, the Kilmar Obrego Garcia story is not quite done yet, if you can believe that.
Trump administration might deport Kilmar Obrego Garcia to Uganda.
Obrego Garcia detained by ICE as possible second deportation looms.
So he was due in court in Tennessee, and then he turned himself in to ICE, where they detained him and are now threatening to send him to Uganda.
Yeah, you know, for the 100 million foreigners that are here, I think it's just time to say you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.
It's not personal.
You know, It's not a personal thing, but we have to take care of our country.
And we got a big problem.
So we got to figure out what the hell's going on.
I'm going to be interested to find out, and I hope we find something out with the Trump administration investigating the 55 million visa holders.
The number is staggering.
The number is staggering.
And it's hard to even comprehend what it actually represents as far as the living experience in America, other than to take what we've learned in California, where the traffic is gone.
People are like, what the hell?
They think they're in the Twilight Zone.
No traffic in California.
Apparently, it's the deportation.
Apparently, it's the self-deportation.
Apparently, that was illegal aliens that are gone now.
Hospitals are empty.
No waiting time.
Wow.
That's a lot better experience.
How about that?
So that continues.
They don't know what to do about that deal.
We should protest him.
We should not protest him.
He's got a history of beating his wife.
He's got gang tattoos everywhere.
Oh my gosh.
He's just a Maryland father.
unidentified
Oh.
owen shroyer
Uganda.
Uganda.
I'll tell you what, Liberal.
This will be fun.
I'll tell you what, Liberal.
You love this guy so much.
Come on over here.
Come here.
In fact, I got a world map behind me.
unidentified
I got a world map over here.
owen shroyer
Show me, Liberal.
Show me Uganda on a map.
And if you can do that, we'll let Kilmar Obrego Garcia stay with you.
That'll be a little gift for you.
Well, a Ukrainian refugee was here.
I support this.
I will admit it.
This is very selfish of me, but can you blame me?
I'm only a man.
Irania Zarutska.
If only she was somewhere else.
Ukrainian refugee, 23 years old, who fled war for safer life in the United States.
Knifed to death by homeless career criminal in North Carolina.
I believe six previous arrests is what I had seen.
Six previous arrests.
And this woman is stabbed to death.
Now, this isn't really ironic.
You say, oh, she leaves a war zone to get stabbed to death in America.
No, that's not really irony, folks.
You know what that is?
That's, we are in a war zone.
You think, oh, my gosh, it's crazy to hear.
Yeah, that is a little disturbing.
That is a little controversial, even.
But hold on a second.
Guys, pull up.
How many homicides are there in the United States every year?
We're talking about just gun violence, knife violence.
I mean, you're talking thousands.
You're in the thousands.
I don't know.
I don't even remember.
I don't even know if I sent the videos to the crew.
I mean, folks, whatever is going on in Chicago right now is crazy.
Crazy.
So, no, it's not ironic that this young Ukrainian woman leaves a war zone to die in America.
No, that's the reality.
You're not safe in a lot of these Democrat cities.
You're not safe.
So it's like, I don't like seeing the military on the streets, but guess what?
There hasn't been a murder in Washington, D.C. 22,000 homicides.
Is that per year?
Yeah.
22,000 homicides per year, folks.
So this poor woman fleeing Ukraine, huh?
And then get stabbed to death here.
Yeah, yeah.
Have you been to some of these Democrat-run cities?
Have you been in some of the bad areas?
You're going to hear gunshots.
Parts of Boston now, you're going to hear gunshots.
unidentified
Yeah.
owen shroyer
So, no, it's not ironic.
It's that's the reality.
And I do think they're going to send him in to Chicago.
So it's the kind of thing where it's like, uh, politically, I don't really support it.
I don't like the police state.
But then it's like, pragmatically, Yeah, you got to do something about this.
And the Democrat leadership in the cities have just abandoned it.
They've abandoned the people.
I got these videos.
Folks, this video out of Chicago, it blows your mind.
Now, again, I don't know.
I don't remember, guys, how many of the videos I sent you with Chicago here, whatever's on the list, you can just put it up on the screen.
But there's videos of just, again, I don't know if you can call it racially motivated violence.
I don't really know, but it's the same story.
Just, you know, black guys beating up white guys, kicking them when they're on the ground.
One guy's knocked out.
He's getting robbed.
I mean, it's just insane scenes happening here.
And it's a, yeah, it's the security guard for the local business there who robs the guy as he's passed out, knocked out on the street.
I mean, these scenes are just insane.
So it's, you know, that thing with Cincinnati, it's like, well, who's rolling the cameras?
Does the thing go viral?
This stuff happens all the time.
So this is a quote from, I'm going to go back to that other video, by the way.
Guys, what number is that on my list just so I can make sure I'm not getting it confused?
Okay, thank you.
So, wait, I'm sorry.
The clip that was just on the screen was that.
Okay, got you, got you.
unidentified
Okay.
owen shroyer
All right.
Thank you.
So I'm going to go back to that video.
This is Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Cooper.
If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it.
The felon does not fear the police.
He fears neither the judge nor the jury.
Therefore, what he must be taught is to fear is his victim.
And that's just the truth.
So you've kind of reached this state of you have three different options.
Option one is to continue as normal.
You're in the wrong place at the wrong time in the wrong city.
You might get stomped out.
You might get beaten out on the streets and robbed.
You'll be lucky if you can escape with your life.
You might get stabbed.
You might get shot.
Again, I can't even, this stuff is so insane right now.
I don't even know what I end up sending the crew and what I don't.
But I mean, crazy videos on the New York City subway, all this stuff happening in Chicago.
So, okay, one option: just continue as it is.
You're in one of these big blue cities.
You're, who knows?
Be careful out there.
You can't carry, by the way.
Okay.
Option two.
This is what we see the Trump administration doing.
Let's send in the military.
Let's militarize the streets and let's show that you can stop crime.
So you can put up a fight about it.
You can say, I don't want to see this military in my streets.
I don't want to see the American military turned in word to the U.S. cities.
It's like, okay, reasonable.
Zero murders in D.C. And most of the D.C. residents support it.
So I say, okay, you know what?
Not my city.
I don't really like it.
I don't like that it's come to this, but it's worked.
The D.C. people like it.
So, all right.
Good job.
So they're going to go into Chicago.
I'd say it's a pretty safe bet they're going to go into Chicago.
Folks, if they stop, if you go into Chicago, when do you think was the last weekend without a homicide in Chicago?
That's a wild stat, if you can find it.
So, okay, so there's option two, militarize the streets.
Then there's option three.
And this is actually the real option.
And this is exactly what Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Cooper is talking about.
You bring back the Second Amendment.
You bring it back.
And I'll tell you right now, see, the problem is now you get in front of these judges, these liberal judges.
And you saw what happened in Austin.
And it's like, oh, well, he's a racist, so we don't care.
We're sending him to jail.
I forget the guy's name.
He's a veteran.
Was that, I forget the guy's name here in Austin?
Is that Daniel Perry?
I got confused because of Penny.
Penny was the New York City subway guy.
Perry was the local guy.
I mean, folks, it's unbelievable.
This guy has a gun pointed at his head.
He's driving in downtown Austin.
A leftist whack job has a gun pointed at his head in his car.
And he shoots the guy.
And he's going to jail.
Maybe, who knows?
He could be in there for his life.
unidentified
That's ridiculous.
owen shroyer
That is insane, but that's where these liberal judges are at.
They don't want you to have the ability to defend yourself.
And if you do, you're the criminal.
So the logical conclusion here, this judge's logic is: no, you're supposed to get shot and die.
No, you're supposed to get stomped out on the streets and robbed.
You're supposed to get stabbed.
You're supposed to get shot.
And if you die, you die.
And if you dare carry a firearm to defend yourself, you're the bad guy.
You're going to jail.
So what is it going to be?
Death or prison?
No.
I look at these videos in Chicago where these people are getting stomped out or Cincinnati.
It's like, again, I don't want to live in the wild, wild west, gunslingers everywhere, shooting's happening all the time.
But you know, these criminals, these ruthless criminals that look at you as an unarmed, weak victim, a couple of them start getting shot or they start to run up on it and they learn, oh, everybody's carrying now?
Everybody's got a gun now?
Everybody's trained on how to shoot now?
unidentified
Okay.
owen shroyer
Crime starts to go down a little bit.
Self-government on the rise.
Self-policing on the rise.
That really is how it should be.
But they've stripped away the Second Amendment.
They've given criminals power in the courts.
So the result is as you see here.
But those are your three options.
Trump administration has chosen option two.
You got to pick one.
You either let the bloodshed in the cities continue, militarize the streets, or go full Second Amendment and say, hey, look, it's wild out there.
You better carry a gun.
And if you use a gun in self-defense, you're going to be all right.
Those are your three options.
It's sad that it's come to this, but that's where it's at.
Or you can be like this girl in Scotland.
Now, I want to do a little deeper analysis on this video, but this is Leonarda Joni here.
She's been a guest of InfoWars before.
And she has kind of a more personal take that I want to read here.
And then we'll do a little analysis of this video.
As someone who is stalked by a pedophile from the ages of 8 to 11, I can tell exactly what point this girl is at.
This isn't the first time Pedo Muslims have harassed her and her sister.
She's exhausted every avenue of pleading to the adults to help her, and they've failed.
They're afraid of the power structure.
They don't know what else to do.
They've essentially told her she's on her own.
That's what you see here.
A 13-year-old girl that knows if she doesn't protect herself and her sister, they're going to end up like all the other girls who got abducted by Pakistani rape gangs.
And she's decided she would rather kill than be a sex slave.
This girl or a victim.
This girl has more courage than the adults who surround her, who won't risk their freedom, actually subservience to the system to stand up for what's right.
I pray that we get to a point where the right people are in charge and every single one of these pedo invaders is hunted down like the dogs that they are.
So you can obviously, the one thing here that's pretty clear is that she anticipated that these people were going to harass her.
She's been through it enough and she's sick of it.
She felt threatened, so she decided to bring out a hatchet and a knife.
And lo and behold, she made a bet and then her bet was right.
And the rest, as they say, is history with the video going viral.
So, you know, I can't help but, you know, this is kind of how my mind operates when I see stuff like this.
I look at the unseen, let's say.
So everybody's obviously paying attention to the girl here, and that's the story of how this girl feels she has to defend herself because nobody else will.
And I guess they're so afraid of, you know, not letting a Muslim rape your young women that you're supposed to let it happen because that's the real crime is standing up to foreigners that want to rape your women.
That's the big crime.
It's like, you want to defend yourself in America?
You're the criminal.
You want to defend your daughters in Europe?
You're the criminal.
I mean, it's insane.
It's crazy.
This is where the world has become, but this is where we're at.
But as I'm sitting here, and guys, let's play the video.
Maybe slow motion or you can pause it when I point this stuff out.
unidentified
But play the video again.
owen shroyer
Because there's more to it than this just little girl here.
So what do we have here as you enter the frame?
What do you see?
You see this apartment complex behind her.
Might as well be a prison.
It's vague.
It's emotionless.
There's no personality to it.
There's no art to it.
It's just a box with windows.
This is the ugliness.
This is the prison society.
You're going to live in a box with windows.
That's it.
We're not going to have ornate architecture.
We're not going to have advanced engineering.
We're not going to have beautiful cities.
You're going to be in an ugly city and you're going to live in an ugly building and you're not going to be able to afford to get out of it.
Then you've got behind her a entire, looks like an entire parking lot of electric vehicle charging stations.
Now, you know what you don't see?
You don't see a single electric vehicle being charged.
Go figure.
You never do.
So here it is.
Here's the ugly architecture forced on them.
Here's the prison lifestyle forced on them.
Then you have the electric vehicle charging stations.
Another thing forced on them.
This is the erasure of culture.
This is the erasure of the free market.
And then you have the little girl.
A little girl there to defend what is left.
What is left of the once great, beautiful nation of Scotland?
Is it the beautiful European architecture?
No.
Is it the beautiful European gas-powered cars?
No.
It's just her.
No strong Scottish men standing up for her.
No beautiful European architecture.
No beautiful European culture.
Just a vague, emotionless, soulless world without a man in sight.
And a 12-year-old girl defending what is left of her once great, beautiful country, her.
She's all that's left.
She's all that's left.
And all she could do was rummage into her kitchen and rummage into their closets or pantries or garages and find a knife and a hatchet to defend herself.
The last remaining relic, the last remaining hope for a once great European nation, Scotland.
She's all that's left.
And that's why the symbology is so powerful.
And that's why you've got people making shirts and they've got these memes all over the internet because that's what it is.
You can see it.
Everything is dead around her.
There is no Scotland anymore.
It's just her.
Yeah, well, you got more of this going on in America.
Syrian migrant arrested for brutal attack on American model John Rudat.
Oh, oh, oh, another career criminal.
Another guy cops let go.
Oh, yeah.
He just, you know, just a Syrian, just slashed his nose off.
It's totally cool stuff.
Probably won't be able to work again.
I'm assuming that, you know, the male modeling industry probably wants you to have a nose on your face.
Just, I don't know.
We've got the B-roll of this in clip five.
Yeah, thank you.
He's bleeding out all over the subway.
Gee, I wonder why there's a Syrian migrant here, guys.
Could anybody figure that one out for me?
Why would there be a Syrian refugee in the United States?
Oh, that's right, because Israel just toppled their government.
That's right.
Our loving, greatest ally.
All the refugees from all their wars and bloodshed all end up here in America, all end up in Europe, and then, you know, rape American women, rape European women, slash our faces.
You know, crash our trucks and everything.
Oh, it's just great.
Thank you so much for that, Israel.
Thank you so much.
We're so glad that we pay for your wars, and then we pay the price of all the refugees you create.
That's our greatest ally.
Thank you so much.
So I think we got another one here in clip six.
Pakistani migrant tries to lure a 12-year-old girl.
Instead, the father shows up.
It's just crazy, man.
Another one.
And so then I've got this new trend.
Let's see what, oh, I got more of the pro-Palestinian Islamicists tries to lynch a man in his vehicle in Minneapolis.
Yeah, this is another leftist protest group here waving the Palestinian flags, blocking traffic.
They start beating this man's car, and then they threaten to lynch him.
So, again, it's like you get back to your three options.
So you can either continue this, you can have military or the streets, or this man in his vehicle, once they start kicking and attacking his vehicle, you pull out the gun and you start firing.
Now, I'm not endorsing that, obviously.
I'm just, it's just, what are you supposed to do?
There's three options.
Three options.
You can either accept that, oh, I'm going to go out and have a bunch of leftists surround my car and bash it, and I just have to accept that.
And then if I try to drive away and one of them gets hit, like James Fields, you're in prison.
You're going to jail.
You're the bad guy.
Or Perry in Austin.
You get a gun pointed at your head while you're driving in downtown.
You're going to jail.
You're the bad guy.
So, okay, you're not allowed to defend yourself.
So that takes out option three.
So either you have to put the military on that or you just have to accept, yeah, you might get killed.
Yeah, you know, you might just get killed.
Just trying to live life.
Didn't think you were in a war zone, but you are.
Yeah, you might just die.
But now there's this new trend of videos.
Have you ever seen, in fact, there's different movies like this.
There's the one movie where Tom Arnold is the bully.
I forget the other actor's name.
I think it's called The Bully.
Or there's another one with Tim Allen.
Forget the name of that one.
Both came out about the same time, some years ago.
But the whole plot is there's a big bully, and then eventually the guy is sick of the bully and stands up and just goes wild, right?
So everybody's kind of seen this dynamic.
It's like, oh, bullied, bullied, bullied, and then one day just pops off.
It's starting to get that way.
It's starting to get that way, folks.
People are sick of being bullied by these radical leftists that get off the hook.
They're sick of being bullied and intimidated by thugs in the streets of their cities.
And they're sick of getting bullied by foreign invaders who are given everything as everything that their ancestors built is being stolen and given away.
We're starting to reach a real point of volatility here.
And this young girl just having a knife and a hatchet, like if this trend continues, that'll be considered like a frolic in the fields.
I mean, you're going to probably start seeing serious fist fights.
People are probably going to start getting shot.
I mean, it's not good.
So this whole bullying, I mean, quite frankly, against Western nations, against white Westerners, they're almost to the point of just blowing up, folks.
It's getting bad.
All right, we're about to be joined by Ed Dowd to really get into some economic news and developments here.
And I want to just kind of pick his brain about what he's seeing and where he thinks things are going.
And we'll kind of tie that into some of the latest news developments here, really dating back for a month or so.
We could even go back to the start of this administration.
But there have been some recent developments I want to get his opinion on.
So that's coming up in five minutes.
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Let me get a couple other stories off my desk here before we go to our guest.
Actually, let's go to this.
This is Curtis Sliwa.
He's running for mayor of New York City again.
And you know what?
Curtis is obviously a great guy.
I've talked to people that know him.
They have nothing but positive things to say about him.
But Curtis, this is such a losing campaign at this point.
Honestly, man.
And this is not helping.
So this is his latest campaign video.
Go ahead and roll clip nine.
curtis sliwa
Crack is whack, as Keith Herring said.
unidentified
We got it to give up the crackpipe.
You know how difficult that is to do?
And now we're going to get us some food and some water.
Something the city of New York and Eric Adams doesn't do, nor with Cuomo or Sora Montague.
curtis sliwa
Promises made, promises kept.
This is in honor of my mother, Francesca, who went to Tilden like you did.
unidentified
What is your first name?
curtis sliwa
My mother went to Tilden.
You went to Tilden, and this is a sandwich, okay?
And without mayor, you're not going to have to live in the subway.
Okay, see?
Good.
unidentified
Very good.
All right.
curtis sliwa
So you enjoy your meal, all right?
owen shroyer
So, look, Curtis is obviously a great steward of the city.
He's got a big heart, and he'd probably be great for the city.
But I mean, crack is whack.
And then you're going and talking to a passed-out homeless woman on the subway.
When you're running the Guardian Angels work, that's great stuff.
When you're running for mayor of New York City, now you're probably going to be behind Cuomo, the grandma killer.
So that's just going to be sad, and it's just going to set Republicans back even further when it comes to politics in New York City.
So great guy, but this campaign is just, it's not good.
All right, joining me now is Ed Dowd, and really great mind when it comes to the economy and really great to have a conversation with when it comes to economic news as well.
And so I do have a bunch of different news stories that I want to get into Ed's mind with.
But let me just kind of start from a general standpoint here, Ed.
And I noticed when I follow your ex account, great follow on X, by the way.
Let me make sure I get it right.
At DowdEdward, I see that you're kind of noticing some of the same things that I'm noticing.
And I don't know if people don't want to talk about it because they're afraid it makes Trump look bad, or I don't know if they don't want to talk about it because it's not making mainstream news.
But you're seeing a lot of the same things that I'm seeing.
And I'll open it like this and just kind of get general remarks before I get specific.
I am advising the Republican Party right now.
You have to stop saying the economy is good.
Just stop it.
Just stop saying the economy is good because you're basically giving a middle finger to everybody that's younger than 30 years old.
You're basically just telling them to eat crap and the world that you're living in doesn't really exist.
The economy is great.
Do you agree with that general political advice?
Or do you think I'm wrong and that the economy really is doing great?
edward dowd
Oh, and I agree with you wholeheartedly.
We can't gaslight the American people.
To say the economy is great, you know, we're only seven, eight months into this administration.
Trump's policies really haven't taken effect.
Unfortunately, he's going to face an AI bubble popping and a real estate recession before things get better again.
He's got his tariffs, which are going to eventually cause earnings squeezes on these corporations.
It'll initially be slightly inflationary, then it'll be deflationary.
It needs to be done long term, but it's going to have economic consequences.
The Fed is keeping interest rates too high.
They'll chase it all the way down once the economy cracks.
And it's going to happen soon.
But this MAGA, the economy is great.
Look at the all-time stock price highs.
Isn't that great?
Look, this stock market has got such concentration risk.
I've never seen it in my life.
It's being held up by 10 stocks, all of which are the digital slave system.
AI is a bubble.
It's going to burst just like the dot-com bubble burst.
And yes, AI is a real thing, but it's not going to really benefit society until five, six, seven years down the road.
We're just building out the infrastructure now.
There's no return on that infrastructure.
Just like there wasn't any return on all that broadband we built out in 99, 2000, that didn't really benefit anybody until Web 2.0, 04, 05, 03.
So this is, we have the same story again.
It's going to be a disaster.
And for everyone to say the economy is great, it's nonsense.
All these deals that have been announced, there's no ground has been broken.
There's no flood of money just yet.
There's been a lot of announcements, and a lot of these trade deals need to still go through the parliaments of Japan and the EU before they get ratified in the law.
owen shroyer
And I would say, too, there's way, if the geopolitical circumstances were a lot calmer, then I'd say the odds of these economic moves working out would be a lot higher.
But the geopolitical tensions are not good right now.
The C's are extremely choppy here.
So you're kind of going into a situation where, okay, you've got Ukraine and Russia.
You've got everything going on in the Middle East with Israel.
China is still kind of an unknown factor of what are they going to do next.
So it's like, if all of these things were smoothed over, then maybe you could sit here and have a lot more confidence in the tariff plan, which I do think has, you know, there is a good means to an end there, but there's way too many obstacles in the way to say for sure that this is going to work.
So when you see things, because I'm just like, I'm just, I'm like, what is he talking about?
Trump comes out and he says energy prices are way down and grocery prices are way down.
Am I missing something here?
Because they're not.
I just don't know what they're just not.
Am I wrong?
edward dowd
No, you're not wrong.
So here's the deal with inflation.
So inflation under Biden exploded and it got to, and so inflation has been coming down, but that's the rate of change.
And that's what the bond markets care about.
But, you know, egg prices are up from where they were years ago.
They're not going back down.
And just the rate of increase is slowing.
Eventually we'll get to a deflationary scare when the credit crisis hits in the housing market, but that'll be temporary because the Fed will come in and do what they do.
But no, we still have inflation.
The rate of inflation has come down.
It started coming down before Trump got into office because of the Fed's raising of interest rates from zero to 5.5%.
But, you know, we effectively, with the COVID war, it was a war, re-inflated the whole system.
We hadn't really had any goods inflation after the great financial crisis.
It was mostly asset inflation.
Now we have goods and services inflation since the Biden and COVID fiasco.
So yes, inflation is coming down, but prices haven't dropped.
They're just going up slower.
owen shroyer
Yeah.
And like we said at the outset here, you're just gaslighting people when you tell them the economy is great.
Now, you might get away with it for people that are still living paycheck to paycheck, but they're paying their bills and nothing, you know, they're not getting foreclosed on.
They're not having their cars taken from them.
They're not defaulting on some of this stuff.
So for them, okay, maybe you can sell it to them.
To Americans that are under 30, you're basically just giving them the middle finger.
And the one thing that I think is the big difference, and I kind of look at it from age ranges.
So we're dealing with 10-year age ranges.
So let's say 40 and under, 30 and under.
For somebody in my age bracket, 40 to 30, yeah, when we were in our 20s and in college, like, okay, it was tough financially.
Maybe it wasn't so much different from other people when they were in college.
You were grinding and you were scraping to get by and working a lot of hours or multiple jobs.
But if you had the means to pay your bills, I had the means to pay my bills, whether it was working a bunch of jobs or a bunch of hours, whatever, I had the means to pay my bills.
And if I wanted to, I could get a little extra cash too.
That's not really the case for 30 and under now.
For 30 and under, they're barely making it.
They're barely making it.
And there are no more hours to work.
There are no new jobs to work.
There isn't any extra income to put into a savings account or have some funny money.
And so that's why I just think it's so politically irresponsible here, especially with the youth leaning more right in like 50 years.
We're talking here with the youth leaning right.
And to sit here and tell them the economy is great when they're struggling, unlike maybe any generation in modern history, it's bad politics.
And it's just not true.
edward dowd
Yeah, this is going to be a problem.
They had a great opportunity to be honest with the American people and pin what's coming on the Biden administration because that's the hangover they're receiving.
Unfortunately, they're now claiming the economy is good.
And for some reason, Howard Luttnick said, hey, don't judge Trump until six months in.
And now they're claiming victory lapse.
I don't see any victory lapse.
And they're about to inherit a turd of stock market bubble and economic numbers rolling over because of a housing recession, which is unavoidable.
It's part of the cycle and it's baked into the cake.
owen shroyer
And it'd be one thing, because, hey, look, Trump has gotten some peace deals done, but those aren't the wars we're really involved in.
We're involved directly in the Russian-Ukraine war.
That thing's ongoing.
We're directly involved in all the wars Israel has going on right now.
That's not stopping.
So it's like, yeah, we've got wars solved that we're not really directly involved in, but the wars that we're financially invested in, these things are still raging.
So it's not like we can sit here and say, okay, the hundreds of billions of dollars that we're spending on war now are still here that we can keep in our country.
That's not happening either.
So I think a lot of this stuff that they were saying, hey, wait six months.
Yeah, we're past six months.
And it's like, oh, the trade war with China, we're still in it.
Oh, the Russian-Ukraine war, we're still in it.
The Middle East, we're still in it.
It's not good.
But I think that you just nailed it.
This is the messaging.
Really, what happened is the economic damage done by COVID is permanent.
I think that that's the realization that people are going to have to accept and that Trump is going to have to accept.
And again, I understand.
People are so afraid.
Like, I don't know what it is, but they don't want to say anything negative about Trump or I don't know.
Or maybe they just believe everything he says.
But no, it's like the damage done to the economy by COVID is permanent.
That is settled now.
If we thought we could get out of it, if we thought there was going to be a recovery, there's not.
There is no recovery.
It's permanent damage.
And so you just have to be honest about that.
edward dowd
Well, not only the economy being damaged, the health of the whole country being damaged from the vaccines.
I've been outspoken on that.
We all know what the score is there.
Unfortunately, today, Trump is praising Operation Warp Speed.
And until we ban those things and have accountability for what went down, there will be no healing.
There's a huge swath of the population who goes into the doctor that is presenting with symptoms and problems, and they're not being told what the root cause is.
So here we go.
We just got another kick the can down the road.
I don't know if you've seen, but U.S. disabilities hit new all-time highs.
owen shroyer
Oh, yeah.
Entitlement programs.
Trump administration, Moll's taking stakes in defense firms, including Lockheed Martin, U.S. considering stake in Lockheed Martin and defense contractors.
Now, Lutnick basically came out and again, it actually is basically true.
He says there's a monstrous discussion about defense.
Lockheed Martin makes 97% of their revenue from the U.S. government.
They are basically an arm of the U.S. government.
So this is where you're kind of getting into the military-industrial complex.
And this is why when I have these debates on Israel and all the foreign aid we give them, and then they'll respond and they'll say, I forget what the number is, but there's some deal where the foreign aid that we send over there, they have to spend a certain percentage of it on arms from U.S. defense contractors, which of course just subsidizes their entire economy because we're sending them money for them to just send back.
So, no, that's what we call the military-industrial complex.
That's what we call money laundering, actually.
So, they think it's this positive thing like, oh, but Israel buys American weapons.
Yeah, that's corrupt.
That's money laundering.
That's the military-industrial complex.
But then, you know, the point Luttnick is making is like, hey, these whole companies are government companies.
It's like, why, why all their money is coming from the U.S. government?
Why shouldn't we have a stake in it?
So, again, I'm not like, I'm not a fascist.
I'm not some big anti-fascist that's going to sit here and cry about everything as being a fascism.
But I mean, this is basically fascism.
I don't know.
This is fascism light is what it is here.
So they already did that with Intel with a 10% stake in that.
So I'm more of a results.
I'm more of a let's see a results when it comes to this stuff because they got to do something.
They got to do something.
But Lutnick is right.
I mean, the entire, and this is the military industrial complex, folks.
It's basically completely funded by the U.S. government.
It's your taxpayer dollars.
I mean, name the defense contractor and then find a percentage of revenue.
It's all from the government.
And then, of course, they have all of their different client states like Ukraine and Israel.
And that's how they launder the money and they launder the weapons.
Trump administration, fascism light.
What is your take?
edward dowd
I agree.
I don't like it.
I don't want to see any investments in corporations and picking of winners and losers.
During the financial crisis, Obama, Obama's government bailed out a bunch of banks.
They took some stakes in these banks and then sold them later.
We don't need this kind of fusion of corporate America with the government.
Let the free markets determine what's going on.
And to hear Howard talk about Palantir, we do business with them.
We need a piece of that.
We do business with Lockheed.
We need a piece of that.
What does that mean?
This is, and you know, we have a $37 trillion deficit.
We don't need to be, you know, giving money to companies.
We can't afford to give money to companies.
owen shroyer
Well, and now they're basically bailing out these universities by bringing in all the Chinese students.
They're basically admitting that that's a bailout of these universities that Luttnick said would otherwise close.
So that's another form of a bailout here.
But I mean, what do you make of the fact?
Because there's an element of truth to the fact that, yeah, these are basically government-funded companies.
I guess they do deliver a product.
So you could argue it's still the free market because they're delivering a product.
Do you think though, because I look at this and I'm like, they're not saying it, but they're admitting it.
We're desperate economically.
To me, that's what this is.
Did Ed Freeze, guys?
unidentified
Oh, we are just heading.
owen shroyer
Okay, we got you back.
I'm sorry about these technical.
It's just, we're having one of those days, apparently.
To me, this is Luttnick saying it without saying it.
Like, we're really desperate economically.
We're looking for anything here.
All right.
Howdy, everybody.
How are we doing?
Ed, can you hear me?
All right.
Well, you know, technology, folks.
edward dowd
Can you hear me?
unidentified
All right.
owen shroyer
I've got you.
This is going to be a fun one.
We'll have to give my editor a little extra time to put this segment together.
That's going to be a fun process for him to edit.
Yeah.
So anyway, as I was saying, to me, this is the Trump administration basically saying we're desperate economically.
We don't want to say so, but we're going to try this angle.
edward dowd
Yeah, you don't bail out companies at the top of a quote-unquote great economy.
There's something, there's a message being sent here, but why does Intel need money?
Well, in a perfect world, Intel would go bankrupt and someone else would buy them and recapitalize it.
But now instead, we're going to give them a zombie, semiconductor company, some money to help them limp along.
I mean, this is a disaster, in my humble opinion.
It's not, the signaling is bad.
It's fascism-like.
We don't need to be doing this, especially at the quote, the top of a great economy.
I can understand getting deals, but they're not even getting deals.
owen shroyer
Yeah, to me, it reeks of economic desperation here.
So it's like, oh, we're telling you how great things are, but now we're kind of going into fascism and bailing out universities.
And, you know, maybe things aren't so great.
We're waiting for the Fed to do what we want them to do.
That's not going well.
So, but let's get into something you brought up, and that's the housing market.
And this is something that I think a lot of people in the audience are probably relatively familiar with just because of their own personal experience.
I mean, I think my experience is probably the average American's experience, where basically I'm at a point now where I've lost all the equity in my house because of the interest rates.
And no matter what deal I would try to make on getting a new house, I'm basically losing my equity.
And then I'm lucky if I can even get a monthly mortgage payment that's lower than the one I have or even even with it.
I imagine that's probably the average American going through that right now.
But so when you talk about interest rates, when you talk about equity, you mentioned the housing bubble, record default on mortgages.
Where is this all going?
edward dowd
Well, so the problem has been we had a huge inflation in prices under the Biden administration during COVID when all the funny money was printed.
And so housing became, and then we had inflation in insurance, inflation in medical expenses, inflation in income taxes, real estate taxes.
So right now, we have inflated home prices, and the average new buyer cannot afford to buy a home.
So we have a record amount of dispersion between homes, the number of homes for sale, and the number of homes sold.
So normally they track each other quite nicely.
We have now a gap that's like this huge.
We've never seen it before in the time series, and it's going to close one way or the other.
My guess is pricing comes down.
And this is not a bad thing for those that don't own homes.
Prices going down will cause a recession, will cause some bank issues, but this needs to be done.
If you want the average American to enjoy the American dream, prices need to come down.
So, you know, I view a recession as bad and good.
When home prices finally come down, we'll have an ability for the economy to truly recover and prosper instead of this gaslighting that we're getting at the moment.
owen shroyer
What about the car, the car loans being defaulted on at record, the credit card debt being defaulted on at record?
I mean, is it the same story?
Is it all just symptoms of a bubble that is about to burst?
edward dowd
It's all symptoms of a consumer that's a, that's literally on its last legs.
And we have seven stocks driving the stock market.
The rest of the stock market isn't doing all that great.
And once this illusion that we're at all-time highs starts to roll over, it'll become apparent to everybody.
The economy's been bad for a while.
And we'll start to see some credit issues in some banks.
We'll see the Fed chase interest rates lower.
And there'll be a lot of grinding and gnashing and blaming of what happened on everybody else.
But the truth, the truth is this is just a cycle that we should have had a recession in 23, 24, but the Biden administration decided to let 20 million illegal immigrants in, which propped up the economy for a short period of time.
So the hangover is going to be epic and it needs to happen.
But we're paying for the spins of bringing in 20 million people in such a short period of time that also helped inflate the housing market.
I mean, that put a bid, that put a floor on rent on the rental market, which put a floor on the housing market.
And that's all reversing out and that's going the wrong way.
New tenant rents have started plummeting before Trump got into office due to self-deportations.
So we think the recession is baked into the cake.
I don't know why the Trump administration didn't articulate this, but they've decided to own this and they'll blame the Fed.
But the Fed's not to blame for the overbuilding and the illegal immigrants.
owen shroyer
Well, and that's it's funny that you say that because those are the two issues now that I continue to hammer home.
People, it's just America needs to understand what's been done.
The damage done to the economy by COVID, it's permanent.
There's no debate.
It's permanent.
It's not going back.
The damage done by the invasion at the southern border, also permanent.
These are two things that we just experienced in the last five years that have done permanent damage to our country.
And until we recognize that, we're not going to be able to deal with it properly.
And so I think that's kind of the frustration here.
It's like, hey, let's admit we've got a broken femur here, right?
Let's admit we have a broken femur.
Let's do what's right.
Let's admit we have gangrene on our right big toe.
Let's do something here.
Instead of just saying, oh, no, it's fine.
We'll go away or, oh, the femur will heal itself.
No, it's not going to heal itself.
The gangrene is not going to go away unless you amputate.
And so I just don't understand why we're kind of playing this game like, oh, no, it's still things as normal.
No, we just had two devastating blows to our economy.
Let's be honest about that.
We'll be right back with Ed Dowd.
unidentified
All right.
owen shroyer
Ed Dowd with us.
We're looking at some of the housing news.
Ed, I want to get a closing statement in on the housing issue if you want before I ask my next question.
You were cut off by the break.
edward dowd
Yeah, on the housing issue, the cracks have already begun.
All our early indicators are rolling.
Even the Federal Reserve in their last FOMC minutes pointed out that they're starting to worry about housing.
So this was an issue we brought up in January.
No one was talking about it.
Now it's starting to become more and more apparent.
So that's kind of, it takes a while for it to manifest into the actual economic numbers, but it's begun.
The great financial crisis started in 07, didn't really culminate until the end of 08, beginning of 09.
So we're in the early stages of this.
So I expect to see this become more of an issue, more talked about over the next six to seven, eight months in the mainstream media, which hasn't talked about it at all.
So that's where we are.
We're at the beginnings of the crisis.
owen shroyer
You know, I'm a simple man.
I'm a simple man, Ed, and I have simple solutions.
And it actually drives me insane.
It's like a core malfunction for me.
The easiest way to help the American right now is to cut taxes.
And, you know, they were bragging about, oh, the big, beautiful bill tax cuts.
Where are they?
What tax cuts, Ed?
It's like the same thing.
The economy is great.
No, it's not.
Huge tax cuts.
Who's getting the tax cuts?
Where are the tax cuts here?
What, the people that are working for tips that's cut at 20,000?
I mean, is my simpleton mind here missing something?
Why won't they just stop taking our money, Ed?
edward dowd
Look, the economy and the tax cuts, these are the tax cuts I believe that were under the first Trump administration.
All they did was extend them, I believe.
I don't think there's any new tax cuts.
So look, you know, if you're not getting any income, tax cuts aren't going to help.
We need people to be getting employed and having good jobs.
And right now we're in this kind of dead zombie economy that we're still waiting to clear out the excess.
And so when we get the housing recession, that'll give an ability for the country to heal.
We need asset prices to go lower before we can heal and have the country do better.
Right now, we're just in a zombie state.
owen shroyer
Yep.
That's it right there is, and that's why I think it's just so politically short-sighted to tell young Americans that the economy is great.
They see no path to the asset column, Ed.
They see no path.
And so they're disenfranchised.
And, you know, that's why I see this New York City's mayor's race as such an important thing.
And you say, well, it's only New York City.
Well, the national press covers New York City for obvious reasons.
But no, I do think that this is a political referendum and a political mandate.
And if conservatives, because I see this, they're making a huge mistake here.
They think this is, oh, it's just politics as normal.
And we're just going to bash commies and, you know, we're going to insult him for this, that, and the other thing.
And they're missing the vote.
People are going to vote for Mom Donnie because he's the only one.
I'm no communist.
I wouldn't vote for him, but he's the only one that's saying, hey, I know you're struggling financially.
I'm going to at least try to pretend like I'm going to help you, whether he can or not, you know, I guess we'll find out because I believe he will win and he probably won't be able to help.
But it's like, this is the political referendum is, yeah, people are going to vote for a communist because young Americans have given up.
They don't believe in the American dream.
They don't see a path to the asset column.
They don't see a path to financial freedom.
So they've given up.
So yeah, they're going to vote for a commie.
He's going to win.
And Republicans are sitting here scratching their head like, oh, well, how come they're voting for a commie?
I don't get it.
What's wrong with these people?
Well, you keep telling them the economy is good and they're feeling financially hopeless.
edward dowd
Yeah, you don't have a good economy when auto delinquencies, mortgage delinquencies, credit card delinquencies are all going up and to the right.
And you don't, and jobs are about to roll over.
The Biden administration created about one and a half million fictitious jobs.
Now that's going to start rolling through the system and we're going to see just how bad the economy has been.
The financial markets will figure this out.
And hopefully, as the financial markets figure this out and we get a cleansing of the system and a lot of bankruptcies, we can begin again with green shoots and a real economy.
Maybe some of the tariff deals take place.
But you don't want to gaslight people that everything's great.
Marie Antoinette gaslit people and it didn't end so well for her.
owen shroyer
Well, and I kind of, if I look at long-term analysis here, and I think maybe you've kind of seen a similar thing, but we haven't really gotten long-term.
So now we'll kind of get long-term.
To me, it looks like, and I don't know if this is something that Trump is doing intentionally or it's just kind of going to be how it ends up going.
But you mentioned like the AI bubble in the stock market.
What I see is, and again, I don't know if Trump realizes this.
What I see is that basically an economic crash is inevitable.
Now, I don't know exactly what it's going to look like, but some form of an economic crash is inevitable.
And so, Trump maybe has already waved the white flag on that.
And he's just saying, look, the dollar's fake.
It's all coming down.
The bubble is unrepairable at this point.
So let's at least try to bring back a manufacturing base.
Let's at least try to have trade deals set up where we're not getting crushed.
And if AI is the future, then let's have the future be here with AI.
But that's like 10 years down the road before you really start to see the impact of that.
And then to just kind of throw a little sugar on top of this, I don't know if you've noticed and maybe you've taken advantage with other people that have noticed, but there's a reason why people are winning in the stock market.
And if you follow the news like I do, you'll notice that magically, there's a huge buy into a stock just hours before Trump comes out with the White House announcing a big deal for certain companies.
So there's definitely people on the inside benefiting big from this.
Now, if you're paying attention, you can kind of ride these waves if you can catch them at the right time.
Otherwise, they're going to collapse on you.
But do you think long term that it's like that's what's kind of going on here?
The people that are in the know, they're positioning themselves, you know, financially right now to be there in 10 years when this hits.
But what?
I think 90% of Americans aren't in the stock market.
So they don't have any idea what's going on.
edward dowd
Well, there's definitely insider trading going on.
Who it is, I don't know.
Hopefully it's not anyone close to the Trump family, because if it is, that'd be bad.
It could be just people, administrative staff hearing and doing bad things.
But look, long term, the stock market is at all-time high valuations.
The Buffett indicators off the charts.
Anytime we've gotten to these valuations historically, when you look at the 10-year forward returns projected, they're abysmal.
It's 0%.
So that implies a huge drawdown if you were to invest all your money at the top here.
So, you know, long term, I think, you know, if the Trump plans are executed and can be done with some forethought and nice planning, it can work.
But unfortunately, this taking the victory lap for this great economy, which isn't great, is setting them up for a bad, bad reality check when the recession happens on his watch, which he could have told people about and blamed the Biden administration.
But I think they've burned that opportunity to take credit.
owen shroyer
And I think, too, it's not, I think that Trump and his team really thought that they could come in here and clear the obstacles and get everything done.
And I think if there's one kind of proof there, it's he said, oh, I'll solve the Russia-Ukraine thing in 24 hours.
Well, now we're sending more weapons and more aid over there.
I don't think Trump wants to.
I think he's kind of forced to as leverage in his negotiations with Russia.
I don't like it, but I think that's the reality.
So I think they just underestimated what they were dealing with.
I think they came in with high hopes and a plan that could have worked.
But I think they ran into these obstacles.
I think the Middle East trouble, I think the Russian-Ukraine trouble, and I think the giant debt bubble and no cooperation from the Fed, I think their plans just kind of stalled out.
I think the engine kind of sputtered, but they're stuck in the loop here, like a record.
They're just stuck on economy is great, economy is great because they had a plan to make it great, but really we're in a stalling pattern.
edward dowd
Well, the other thing that concerns me is China.
There's no trade deal that I can see that's happened yet.
And there's a reason for that.
China is in serious trouble.
We're going to be issuing a research report in a couple weeks, maybe a month or two, that shows that the acceleration of China's problems is really starting in earnest.
It's been bad for a while, but it's potentially accelerating because China's been in perpetual crisis for the last several years, and it may start to affect the rest of the world soon.
They are trying to export their way out of their troubles, and that is in direct conflict with Trump trying to force them to the table.
So they have a big problem with their real estate and their population demographic problem.
And so this is going to be this is not good.
We need to work with China, obviously, because they've got billions of people.
But it seems to me that they don't want to come to the table and do any deals anytime soon because for their own survival, they want to export their way out of their troubles.
owen shroyer
And of course, in the background of all of this, you have BRICS, which is now kind of like, okay, maybe we're not so sure as I think Trump is trying to get that under control.
so i guess my final thing here for you to respond to would be an analogy it sounds like you've got all of these different people coming to the table let's say trump or america let's say uh xi jinping and china and they're kind of coming to the table but they're in like a blow-up muscle suit It's like, oh, these big muscly guys, but really it's just an inflatable muscle suit.
And you pop it and there's really no muscles there.
It seems like that's kind of what's happening here.
edward dowd
Yeah, look, we have all the cards when it comes to trade, but China also, you know, they're not going to go gently into the night.
So this is going to be a really hard deal to get done.
I think we have more leverage with Europe than we do with China.
And China, you know, is willing to suffer longer than I think other people would.
owen shroyer
Well, that's interesting as China is about to have a big military parade and celebration.
So, you know, they're going to try to drum up a lot of support for the Chinese Communist Party.
And I wouldn't be surprised if immediately after that, you don't start to see Xinping and the communists really start to kind of up their strength and messaging towards America, like, hey, you're not going to get what you want from us.
edward dowd
Yeah, it should be interesting.
And look, I feel that after Labor Day weekend, things are going to start to get very interesting again.
We've kind of had this Halcyon, you know, drifting in the stock market.
Everything looks rosy.
I think the fall is going to be very volatile.
And I think we're going to see a lot of news flow on the global geopolitical front as well.
owen shroyer
Well, that aligns with other trends for September, and it aligns with the Chinese military parade.
And, you know, for some reason, they like to do stuff over holiday weekends.
I don't know.
You're out having a hot dog or a barbecue at a ball game, whatever.
And then, you know, something big happens and you get back and you say, what the heck?
What just happened here?
They like to do that to us, Ed.
Where can people follow your work?
You're a great follow on X. I love your analysis there.
You said you got a big report coming out soon.
Where can people follow you?
edward dowd
Yeah, so I'm on X at DowdEdward, D-O-W-D-Edward, financed technologies.com with a PH instead of an F. Basically, that's a website that has a lot of free research and also some economic research that we sell as well.
So you can look there and you can look at the free stuff or you can purchase some of the newer reports.
I'm also on Getter at Edward Dowd as well.
So that's where you can find me.
owen shroyer
All right.
Great stuff as always.
I'll continue to follow your excellent analysis and appreciate your time today.
edward dowd
Thanks, Owen.
Have a great weekend.
owen shroyer
All right.
There goes Ed Dowd.
Wait, is it the weekend already, guys?
No, I wish.
Maybe in Hawaii, it's always the weekend.
All right.
He's in Hawaii.
So it's always the weekend there.
All right.
We've got you, Ed.
We got you.
We got you taken care of here.
All right.
A couple minutes left here for the war room.
I want to get to some other stuff.
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All right.
Let's do this.
Let's do a couple of random cultural stuff here.
So we know about Dildo Gate.
Okay.
We're trying to make the WNBA fun by throwing lime green dildos onto the court and then deciding what color we're going to bet is the next one to hit the floor.
Well, you may or may not have heard, but the NFL is going gay and they're going to have a bunch of, I'm assuming, homosexual men dancing around on the football field this season.
I've never seen a straight man do that.
So I'm assuming they're homosexual.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
And so in response, the fans have decided to start throwing the dildos onto the NFL fields.
So that's where we're at now.
So I can't say that that is a surprise.
Can you imagine?
You're that security guard right there.
I mean, you got to be having a laugh at that.
So yeah, you brought you brought the gay boys out to prance around and wave pom-poms, and now the green dildos are raining down on you.
So, okay.
That's an interesting one.
What is that on the field, Daddy?
Oh, do you want a hot dog, son, a soda?
Yeah, let's go.
Oh, all right.
That's fun.
Snoop Dogg tries to watch a movie with his kids and finds himself in an uncomfortable moment here in Clip 2.
snoop dogg
I took my grandson to see what was the movie with Buzz Light.
unidentified
Toy Story?
snoop dogg
Not that one, but the new Buzz.
unidentified
The Lightyear.
I think it's the Lightyear.
snoop dogg
Kiki Palmer is in that movie.
unidentified
Okay, okay.
snoop dogg
Plays like the daughter.
So we watching it, and the lady, which is Kiki's mama, they move on into the space years.
They move down the line.
They're like, man, she had a baby with a woman.
Or my grandson, in the middle of the movie, like, Papa Sloop, how she have a baby with a woman?
She a woman.
Oh, sh ⁇ .
I didn't come in for this.
I just came to watch the goddamn movie.
Hey, man, watch the movie.
Uh-uh.
unidentified
They just said she and she had a baby.
snoop dogg
They both women.
How does she have a baby?
The movie ain't over with.
So it's like, I'm scared to go to the movies now.
Like, y'all throwing me in the middle of shit that I don't have an answer for.
owen shroyer
You know, they started printing stories when they were getting the data from these streaming companies.
And this is really when some of these programs started to go woke.
And they find out, and I would imagine that this is still the case because you can just kind of follow the trends.
If you have a streaming service, you can just kind of follow the trends and see what they're pushing.
But they came out with stories about four years ago or so was in the headlines how most streamers that watch streaming video services, you know, your Netflix's Amazon Primes, Hulus, whatever else is out there, how most people are watching old shows.
They aren't watching the new stuff.
They're watching old shows from the 90s, early 2000s.
And I'm sure that that had something to do with it.
Maybe it's the quality of the shows too.
But yeah, I mean, how many times would you have to run into a situation like that?
And I'm sure a lot of people, if you try to watch a new TV show on a streaming service, it's like it's usually an episode or two in, or they force it in all of the movies now.
And it's just like, how many times can you go through that and just say, I'm out?
Like, I'm done.
I'm not even going to go.
I'm not even going to go watch any of this new crap anymore because I know, you know, within an hour, I'm going to be hit with some gay propaganda.
So they're just like, I'm out.
It's all this leftist propaganda.
So they're watching old shows.
But, you know, there's a way that you can do it where it's not, like, when you force it into a story and you're really forcing it, that's how you destroy it.
It's like you can do this stuff.
People will get mad about, you know, a white main character getting replaced by a black person or a Latino person.
But that's really not even the case because there was a famous movie.
It's one of my favorite movies growing up called The Magnificent Seven.
And they replaced the main character, I believe it was Ewell Brenner, with Denzel Washington.
Did you hear anybody complain about that?
No, because it wasn't forced.
And Denzel did great in the role.
But, you know, when you try to bring these woke libtards that just want to make a political point instead of give you a good movie or a good TV show, that's when you ruin it.
So people don't watch the new stuff.
They just go watch the old stuff now.
And I mean, it's like, yeah, oh, hey, going to take your grandkids to go see the new Toy Stories.
Oh, great.
I remember Toy Story.
That was fun for everybody.
And then it's just like 30 minutes in.
Oh, yeah, they're all gay.
It's like, oh, mommy, how did two women have a baby?
Oh, here we go.
So they've done it to themselves.
But I don't know.
I actually think it's starting to change.
I do think they're going to have to stop doing this stuff because it's just so bad.
By the way, a couple other things here that are interesting.
Did you see this?
Southwest Airlines changes rules for plus-sized passengers.
Oh, boy.
Starting next January, passengers who take up space in the neighboring seat will have to buy an extra ticket.
Boy, oh boy.
The flying experience, is there anything about it that's improved?
Honestly, even the fatties.
People didn't used to be fat.
You didn't have these fatties going around on flights in the 80s and the 90s.
So you could sit comfortably.
Everything about flying sucks now.
And it's so bad, you wonder if it's not intentional.
The seats suck.
The armrests suck.
The experience sucks.
Everything sucks.
Now, you don't even know if you're going to get a pilot that can fly.
You might have some jumbo sitting to your right gut armpit spilling onto you.
Well, you know, you're going to have to pay for two seats now.
That might stop you.
That might be enough to say, okay.
Burning man, I guess Burning Man has started.
unidentified
Burning Man Orgy Dome.
Burning Man Orgy Dome?
owen shroyer
Okay.
Completely destroyed by winds.
Watch devastation as poles collapse on couches.
So the Orgy Dome, the Orgy Dome has been destroyed.
It didn't make it.
What's that, guys?
What are you talking about?
Is that a thing?
I mean, I may have heard of the Orgy Dome before.
I don't know.
It's not Burning Man anymore.
It's Burning Person.
It says Burning Man in my story here.
unidentified
This is August 6th, 26, 2025.
owen shroyer
So, well, if you were planning on going to the Orgy Dome, you're going to have to change your plans.
Unless you want to go, well, I guess you could still go in there.
I guess you could.
I don't know how that is going to work out for you.
The Orgy Dome.
The Orgy Dome is no more.
unidentified
Honestly, what kind of, I don't even want to know.
owen shroyer
I don't even want to know, folks.
That's something else right there.
The Orgy Dome.
Is this part of, where is Burning Man?
Is it in New Mexico?
Is it in Arizona?
I wonder if it has something to do with this.
Massive dust storm slams Phoenix, causing damage and airport delays and power outages.
Did you see the images from this?
It's like Mad Max.
That was a wild thing to see that going down.
All right, before we sign off, I need to hit these other stories that are very important.
I didn't get to my big fox tease.
Maybe we'll do that tomorrow.
Chairman James Comer provides update on review of the federal government's investigation of Epstein and Maxwell.
Republican-led committee subpoenas documents from Jeffrey Epstein's estate.
Remember how the Epstein estate was still running and paying people off?
Well, Comer's now going to get to the bottom of it.
So this is actually interesting.
And I understand people get frustrated with Congress because nothing ever happens, but that's where the Department of Justice, the FBI, and others are supposed to kick into gear, and they just never do.
Well, obviously the Trump administration is trying to put this thing to bed.
For whatever reason, make up your own mind.
The Trump administration wants the Epstein story put to rest.
Well, James Comer and the House Oversight Committee is saying, not so much.
Not so much.
We actually want to know what's going on here.
So the little stunt that they played with Maxwell, oh, she's one of us.
She likes Trump.
It's all so great.
Oh, she doesn't know anything.
Oh, the whole thing was a hoax.
It didn't work.
And so Comer is going to get the, Comer is going to get the goods.
He always does.
He always does.
All right, we're out of time for today.
Thanks to the audience for tuning in.
Good luck to the editors dealing with that Edward Dowd segment, but they're going to get it right.
Maybe we'll post the whole thing on X Corrected.
And I'll be hosting the Alex Jones show tomorrow.
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