Donald Trump has endorsed Andrew Cuomo for mayor of New York City.
Kind of.
He said you must vote for him because we don't want Kami Zorhan Mamdani.
Now, here's where it gets really interesting.
Tomorrow we got this big election coming up in New York.
Will our greatest city succumb to the communists?
I'm not so convinced.
In fact, I'll say this.
I am trading on Cuomo winning personally.
Not something I typically do, but the data internally in New York not only shows in the polling data, it's neck and neck and Cuomo really could win, but according to Kalshi, Cuomo is actually the favorite inside of New York.
Outside of New York, Mamdani is the favorite nine to one.
So we don't know exactly what's going to happen.
I think it's fair to say that Mamdani does win, but it is not a sure thing.
Now, Barack Obama is refusing to endorse, which is interesting.
So we will talk about that.
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We did not see people storming the gates and stealing, but there have been some videos of people complaining.
Ultimately, it wasn't the apocalypse just yet.
And then Donald Trump says, okay, we're going to send it out at half the rate.
So, okay, we'll see what happens.
We've got fear of war with Trump talking about sending in drones and military against cartels, a potential strike on Venezuela, and this story that is kind of crazy, an explosion at Harvard.
We don't know why.
It may be nothing, but considering the escalation of political violence, as I said this morning, to a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Now, I'm not saying this is a guarantee that's political violence, but as long as we don't know what's going on, we'll talk about this the same as we'll talk about any other act in such a way with the caveat of maybe it's nothing.
Maybe it's two ski-masked individuals who set up a bomb for no reason at all.
I don't know.
We'll talk about that more before we get started.
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Well, I mean, this is my life is, do you like, look at how corrupt the liberal economic order is.
And then, you know what the option is is communism.
And I'm like, bro, I don't want communism, but I'm not voting for corrupt corporatocracy.
Same way with Cuomo, who put elderly people from nursing homes or put them in nursing homes during COVID and got a bunch of people COVID patients in nursing homes and killed 15,000 elderly people.
We've used the term murder.
I mean, many times the word murder has been thrown around for what he did to those people.
And now that they're running this guy, I don't know.
I mean, I don't think that it's realistic to think that any kind of Republican can win in any kind of, you know, modern Republican can win in New York.
I feel like what's going on in the city is similar to what's going on in the U.K., right?
Like even the people in the U.K. that are considered conservative would be considered Democrats by the U.S. standards, right?
None of them actually say things like that would be considered conservative by U.S. standards.
None of them want a smaller government.
None of them want to limit the NHS.
They want to expand the NHS.
They want their National Health Service to take care of more people.
They want to continue funding.
They don't want to actually make the government smaller.
And that's, you know, at least by, again, by American standards, conservatives want to make the government smaller.
They want to limit the amount of programs that people are on, you know, government programs that people are on.
Because if the government is paying for your food, the government can prevent you from eating.
It was Vanderbilt controlled all the men who made America, you know, the richest man in America, controlled the railroads and decided one day, we're not going to ship food into New York anymore and held the government by the balls.
And there's a big part of the reason why they started like antitrust breaking up monopolies because these corporations can get way too powerful.
But that's more of an aside.
Living in a city, you garner a different mindset because you really are reliant on like your protector to make sure that the guy doesn't snap and stab you.
You just can't, it's hard to take care of yourself in the city.
If you shoot and the bullet misses and hits somebody else, you're liable.
Now in New York, I mean, this has been this way in New York for a long time.
Luke Rakowski had that video from like a decade ago where a guy went on a stabbing rampage in the subway and the cops were like, we are under no obligation to save lives.
And so they stood back and watched as a dude was stabbing people and some passenger intervened and stopped this murderous dude.
And then after subduing the guy and this dude gets all stabbed up, the cops intervene.
And apparently there was a lawsuit over and the courts ruled.
Yeah, cops don't have to protect you.
So now you end up in cities like New York with gangbangers and criminals and mom Donnie saying release all the inmates from Rikers.
And so he said he wants new borough jails in every borough and that he would close down Rikers and release these inmates.
But while he tries to defend himself on the campaign trail now saying, I'm not for releasing all these prisoners, he has in the past said crime is a social construct.
We need criminal deferral programs instead, where instead of going to jail, you get released with an ankle monitor or something.
And he's called for replacing cops as social workers and defunding the police.
So we know what he actually wants.
Now he's saying what he has to say to get elected.
Man, I'm thinking about Shea's rebellion after the American government was formed.
And basically, the farmers, after they went off and fought the revolution, they came back and they owed all this debt because they hadn't been able to run their farms to the cities.
And the city's like, we don't want your soft currency anymore.
We don't want your food.
We want hard currency.
We need money because we need to pay back the French.
So they try to take money from the farmers that they didn't have.
And the farmers just revolted and went to the city and like stood outside courthouses, basically ready to serve a real revolution again because the cities were trying to control the outlying territory.
Probably since the dawn of man, that's been happening.
They congregate, they get centralized power, and then they try and take over everything else.
I don't want to talk out of hand about the Chinese because I don't really know how they're doing their central planning, but with the right technology, you can sort of try and take over your environment.
Well, I mean, Trent has a really good job, or China has done a really good job of intruding into just about every aspect of the Chinese people's lives.
I wouldn't say that there are a bunch of crazy accusations about NGOs that have been funneling money.
This is a big story.
Apparently, Soros is accused of funneling some 40 million or whatever through various NGOs that propped up Mamdani.
I am not convinced he is popular as people outside of New York think he is.
And so there's a lot of questions about this election, not just the polling, but the question of whether or not the Democrat machine will allow these far leftists to actually take over.
Well, I mean, this is a conversation that we've had a lot, right?
The kind of the energy of the base is with the far left, but the Democrats have had as much influence and success as they have because they've been getting donations from people that are, you know, left-leaning, but they're capitalists.
They have money.
They're, you know, millionaires and billionaires that have given tons of money to Democrat candidates.
I mean, look, you look at Hillary Clinton's campaign, raised over a, over a, you know, raised a billion dollars to run her campaign.
Barack Obama spent a billion dollars on his campaign.
I'm not sure what Joe Biden spent, but it was more than Donald Trump.
Yeah, but the Democrats are with the civil war that's going on in the Democrat Party.
They're trying to figure out if they're going to have the support of these billionaires that were Democrats or if they're going to continue to leave the Democrat Party because the Democrat Party is becoming more hostile to people that have money.
The more the Democrats focus on class warfare, the less actual big donors they're going to have because those people are going to be like, well, I'm, I mean, I want to give money to Democrats because it makes me feel good because they're the nice party, but I'm not going to give money to Democrats if they're going to make policies like, you know, you have to pay a wealth tax every year on whatever money or whatever assets you have.
That's a good point because if the liberal economic order is really a corporatocracy, which it seems like it's run by corporate giants, they don't want to empower a communist or a socialist because that guy will try and take away power from corporations and give it to the state.
So I can only imagine that they don't want him to be mayor, but maybe they want just the U.S. to fall.
I'm thinking about like global money power, like Bank for International settlements, bankers.
They want the U.S. to fumble so that a new system, a corporatocracy with a technocracy can come in through the World Economic Forum, corporate governance.
They would like to see the U.S. fail, but I don't know if installing a guy that's semi-communist, socialist, I don't know what is how he finds it.
He's literally tweeted from each according to their need to each according to their ability.
Let's pull up this story from the New York Post.
Bombshell.
New York City election eve poll predicts Zoran Mandani and Andrew Cuomo mayoral race will come down to the wire.
Now, we got this from Kalshi.
The New York City mayor election has got Zorhan Mamdani at 90%, Andrew Cuomo at 11%, and Curtis Liwa at one, which of course is greater than 100% for whatever reason.
And I will say this: full disclosure at this today: I traded in, I purchased shares of yes for Andrew Cuomo, the independent, for two big reasons.
First is this: from Caul She breaking Cuomo holds significantly more support inside of NYC than Mamdani per Kaul Shi data.
What you are seeing in the Caul Shi trading data, 90% for Mamdani, these are people who are purchasing shares, meaning they are predicting Zoran wins.
However, that's outside the city.
According to Caul Shi's data, inside the city, among people who can actually vote and who know, Cuomo is ahead by 9%.
Now, based on that alone, I looked at the 9 to 1 odds, Zoran versus Cuomo, and I said, that is not correct.
Cuomo certainly is losing in the polls for the most part, but it is way closer than that.
Now, this just means 90% of people outside and well, combined with people inside New York and outside, they believe Zoran's going to win.
Not that the polls reflect Cuomo may win.
Cuomo may be down by one point, and so everybody just says Mamdani is going to win.
But here's what I think: I think all that matters to the people inside New York, and they're giving an edge to Cuomo by 9%.
Additionally, the question is: will the Democrat establishment allow a Zoran Mandani upstart to actually win against someone like Cuomo?
I mean, if you got $100 to spare instead of wagering on Mamdani, you should buy like some kind of stock that's doing well or something because that'll probably get you a little more profit than two bucks.
I do think that there's going to be significant pushback against Mamdani.
Even if he wins, there's going to be a lot of people that are going to be working against whatever his policy, you know, whatever policies he's trying to implement in New York, because there's a lot of people with a lot of money that don't want to see the kind of taxation that Mamdani would be likely to implement.
It's already super expensive to live in New York.
There's already a municipal tax for living in New York.
The people that make money in New York, I don't think that there's like a New York income tax, is there?
But I mean, like, you know, I mean, I don't imagine that the people that are making a lot, you know, the people that make a lot of money are going to be, are going to look too fondly on that.
You have to definitely not going to be like, oh, I want to get out of here right away.
I think they're going to try to use their resources and their connections to try to limit his ability to implement his policy.
You have the highest income tax combo rate in New York City for the entire country because they've got federal, state, and city income tax.
And I think the city income tax is like 3% or something.
And so it's just nuts how much money they take from you.
And then Mamdani is just a lunatic.
It was funny because he's like, we're going to make the buses faster and we're going to make them free.
And I was talking to my wife earlier because we're watching the news and she's like, has Zoran mentioned where the money is going to come from for making the buses free?
But the guys up in Rochester, they're flipping out like this is the accelerationist part of my brain, but like maybe it would be good if Mom Dami became, I was going to say president, mayor.
In Toronto during COVID, you know, people started working from home and they said, hey, we're going to move a couple hours outside the city of Toronto.
But like, I think I feel like in New Jersey, like that part of 95 in New Jersey smells uniquely bad because of the oil refinery and stuff that are going on there.
So look, I'm not particularly a fan of New Jersey.
I was just getting hell from Michael Knowles on X because I was making jokes about New Jersey.
Yeah, they're getting basically this stuff for free.
I mean, if people give you free, you're going to love the guy.
And I remember during, I forget, I was down the southern border when I forget what station was interviewing the people coming across the border, the immigrants coming across, and they're saying, who would you vote for?
And they're going, oh, Joe Biden, Joe Biden.
Of course, they're letting you in.
They're giving you money.
Get on a bus.
We're going to fly you to New York.
We're going to fly you to St. Louis.
We're going to fly you to Wisconsin.
Of course they're going to fully fit.
They're going to love you.
You come to the country, they're giving you, you know, put you on a plane.
The poll highlighted the alarm many feel is Mamdani may become the next mayor of the Big Apple and has previously called for defunding the police, has vowed to increase taxes on the wealthy and other businesses, a $30 minimum wage, as well as vowed to implement a number of other left-wing policies.
The poll also asked what people thought the state of the city would be in in four years if Mamdani was elected.
Some of the terms they used were disaster, hell, chaos, destroyed, and ish hole.
Those something from Mamdani, however, used the following for terms they thought the city would be like, affordable, improved, hopeful, and changed.
Additionally, 7% of those earning $250,000 or more a year would also definitely leave under a potential Mamdani term, meaning a loss of tax base as the top 1% of earners in the Big Apple pay around half the tax base for the city.
Okay, I will say this.
Part of me does hope he wins.
I know that we've learned our lesson with Brandon Johnson.
I just, I just kind of want to see it because he's talking about increasing the minimum wage to 30 bucks, which is the stupidest thing imaginable.
It's something a seven-year-old comes up with.
Why don't we just give him more money than they have money for food?
Oh, gee, why don't we think of that?
That this guy's a retard.
Then you're taxing the top 1%.
They will leave.
It's funny when the U.S. government tries to raise taxes on the billionaires and then they all go to St. Kitts and Nevis and renounce their U.S. citizenship and then become island dwellers with passports that can go anywhere.
But it's a bit harder to do.
It's extremely easy to leave a city, especially if you're a billionaire.
So what's going to happen?
Every single billionaire with real estate, every millionaire with real estate, even people who make half a million, probably going to switch their residency to Florida.
And as long as they spend more than half the year in Florida, they don't got to pay New York City taxes or New York state taxes.
And I think we're going to see that.
They'll still fly to New York periodically for business.
They'll still own property, but they are going to GTFO.
I am willing to bet that if Mamdani is elected mayor, he will increase taxes.
He will work with the city council to raise taxes.
And then their tax revenue is going to drop because they don't understand the Laffer curve.
Like, you just need to rely on the corporation, the corporatocracy, to run your cities.
I know that sounds horrible because we're supposed to be for the people, by the people governance.
But if the corporations leave your big city, your big city is going to be a big, open, smelly, rotting cesspool without economy, and no one's going to want to go there because there's not going to be money to pay people to clean it up.
It does feel like we are held hostage by the corporate corporate democracy, but they're creating the jobs.
If you could put all your traffic underground, like Elon's boring company building these tunnels, so all the Manhattan Roads, if they were underground, I know we have the subway, that'd be hard to do.
But if the surface was like grass and you could walk out of those buildings and it was clean and there wasn't traffic, honking, smelling.
Well, no, but the point that Tim's making is that, like, if, because of how close this is likely to be, so even if Cuomo does win, there will be someone coming that has the same, has similar policy proposals to Mamdani, even if it's not Mamdani.
It would be likely that Mamdani would run again, like, you know, whenever they have another mayoral election.
But this sentiment is something that is widespread in the U.S.
It's not just in New York, right?
Like this sentiment is the reason why AOC has the influence that she does.
This sentiment is the reason why Bernie had the influence that he did because people like that kind of left-leaning populism.
Neither is good, but government substantially worse because they're the ones that monitor you in your homes and force you to do things you don't want to do and they don't let you leave either like we saw in East Germany.
Governments have, in my opinion, governments should have a very limited amount of power and there should be a very few specific things that they are allowed to do.
And breaking up monopolies, to me, generally, is not something that they should be doing.
There's another funny point that somebody made is that far-right governments tend to slowly dissolve and far left, go nuclear, kill a bunch of people, and then go belly up.
So like, you know, you look at Spain and it's like the far right took over and then he died and they're like, I guess we'll have elections.
The far left runs everyone to the ground, massacres millions, and then implodes from lack of human capability.
The problem with the left, Michael Malis put it succinctly a couple years ago.
Do you think some people are better than others?
The left says no.
The right says yes.
The view on the left is that billionaires are the same as they are.
I mean, this is really the arrogance of the left.
They look at Elon Musk and Donald Trump and they say, those people are stupid.
And I'm sitting here being like, listen, you can call Donald Trump a lot of things.
You can call him brash, but the man became a billionaire because he understood something.
And these people, you ask these leftists, why aren't you a billionaire?
And they go, because I'm not willing to be evil.
Like, no, it's because you're too stupid to navigate the system to make yourself wealthy and successful.
That's the reality.
You know what the funny thing is about the right?
The right recognizes their own limitations.
Not every single person.
It's not absolute.
Because a guy's a plumber and he goes, listen, I'm just a plumber.
Okay.
I understand what I can do with my job.
I understand how much money I'm going to make.
I'm not going to be Elon Musk.
The left says, I'm a plumber.
Why aren't I a billionaire?
It's like, well, because you're a plumber, dude.
Some people are these crazy intellects and workhorses that do things and some people just aren't.
Some people are really dumb, but work really hard and find success.
The number one factor was always perseverance.
That's the problem with the left.
They genuinely believe in a communist utopia where if it weren't for these parasite billionaires, everything would be perfect because they've never actually tried to manage a business.
And they don't understand why HR exists.
You know what I love is the people who complain about HR and they'll be like, isn't it annoying that they make you watch these workplace guideline videos about sexual harassment or whatever?
And they think the corporations are just doing it.
It's actually the law.
And so they're like, we're legally obligated to have these.
Our insurance company is requiring it.
We're legally required to have insurance.
So the people who run the companies only have limited control as it is.
And my favorite thing about this is having tried to run, or literally having run numerous businesses even to this day, yo, I got to tell you, there are people with gumption and vision, and there are people who don't, and to varying degrees, are capable of doing certain jobs.
I guarantee you, if you got rid of the billionaires, the entire country goes Mad Max.
They're not billionaires because they're evil parasites.
And there are evil parasites that become billionaires and they can do immense amount of damage because when you have that amount of power, your actions are amplified.
But that doesn't mean that it's the richness that's doing.
People think, and this is one of the things that I think separates at least there's a scale of capability in running a business.
If you live in the world where you're like, if it's written on paper and signed, it's law, you are going to hold yourself back because the people that are running systems aren't thinking in these terms and these terms are not correct.
Elon Musk doesn't sit there and say, I am bound by these walls.
Elon says, what must you do to get to point A, from point A to point B?
But I'll put it this way.
If you trick someone into signing a contract, you know what's going to happen?
And you're dealing with someone else who is on a similar level with you, that guy has a team of lawyers that's going to deal with his, with any kind of contracts.
When they're talking about the, or when we were talking about the, the situation that Donald Trump was in, right?
So when he, he, uh, he did the, the, what's it called?
The, the deal in Florida, right, for Mar-a-Lago.
And there was the, the company, the, the bank that he did the deal with, right?
If you are working with another company, you're trying to do a deal with a company and you know, shit, if they sign with that other company, I'm not going to be able to get this deal.
So you don't tell them about that other company.
You just get them to sign your contract really fast.
And then later they find out there was another opportunity that you knew about.
I'm just arguing in the simple of so often a lot of people enter into contracts that they, you know, I just watched this movie called Dead Money with Emil Hirsch.
And there's a really interesting legal question that arises at the end of the movie.
Spoiler alert.
So the movie's only a year old, but get a spoiler.
I'll keep it light.
Basically, there's two bad guys, and they're trying to steal.
I'll use an arbitrary amount of money so I don't spoil the movie for you guys.
Let's say there's a million dollars and they say, he's like, hey, I'm going to pay you $100,000 to do this job.
The guy says, I want half.
And he goes, half, are you nuts?
Okay, fine.
You can have half.
$500,000.
Later, when they rob the joint, they come back with $3 million.
And he goes, okay, now I'm going to give you your half a million.
And the guy says, no, no, I said half.
And he goes, no, half of the first number, we got extra.
I'm giving you $100,000.
Now he wants, you know, he, or I'm sorry, he wanted $500,000.
Now he's asking for $1.5 million.
And there's an argument over what was the actual terms.
So that was an interesting way to look at the legal issue.
The guy, the stupid guy is like, you said half.
And he goes, no, you said half.
And then I offered you 100.
You said yes.
So you get 100.
Or I'm sorry, 500, whatever.
You get the point.
I'm going to say this before we move on to the next subject.
The main point of this is when you say things like, someone entered into a contract because they didn't understand it.
And that's not a real thing.
If you enter into a contract and I put something malicious or untoward or even unreasonable in it, the judge will rip that contract up in two seconds.
If I said, Ian, if I made you sign a contract for music that also granted me power of attorney, the whole thing is going to get torn up in court.
Judge is going to say that's a ridiculous contract.
And they weren't talking about, they weren't going to their citizens and stealing from them.
They were just going to foreign countries and invading.
You're talking about war in foreign countries versus contract law.
They're completely different things.
In the United States, we have constitutional protections and rights.
Sure, they're eroding, but it is still always going to be better to have a corporation as opposed to a government, despite the fact the corporations are still bad.
They do business with like 300, like they service like 300 million people worldwide.
They have a couple million employees.
Google is unique in that it is a technology company and it's got so much access to information because of the security, because people trust it with security things like, so that way they can do banking and so that way they can have access to passwords and stuff like that.
But technology companies like that are unique compared to just about every other type of corporation in the world.
The Trump administration will provide only half of usual food stamp benefits in November.
It has been announced, ladies and gentlemen, some $4.65 billion from the SNAP contingency fund will be obligated to cover 50% of eligible households' current allotments for November, according to a sworn statement.
Hey, that's the weaning off of the system that we had talked about.
The decision came after a federal judge in Rhode Island ordered the USDA last week to either start providing full November benefits to recipients or partial benefits if the agency opts to only draw on SNAP's contingency fund.
I will add, the court order literally says if they choose to do it.
So the court didn't actually give a hard order.
It said the funds are available and if they choose, they can pull these funds and pay it.
It did, however, say if they are going to do it, they have to do it now.
So here's the question.
Do we think the government will open?
Now, I've talked to some people in government, and they think it's going to be till Christmas that it may remain shut down.
And if that actually happens, it ain't going to open after Christmas because Congress is going to go on vacation.
So then what happens?
They're not calling a session in to negotiate this.
Trump is saying end the filibuster.
Democrats won't budge.
There is a decent probability that the government remains shut down into the new year.
People who really need it can go to their local food banks, NGOs, or churches, or stand outside of a supermarket and ask for help from those willing to provide it.
Like food stamps are just like, me telling people to go stand in front of a supermarket and beg is very different from a government program that takes my money with a gun to my.
You flee the city for I would rather, I would rather, no, because what you're talking about are, I, you, so hold on, hold on.
You, you would rather be forced by the government taking your money than just have people standing outside the supermarket asking you to please give it.
Well, what do you, when you say, I mean, I've had people beg, and when you say no, this is why you ignore them when they ask you, because if you look at them and say no, they get it, they can get aggressive.
And then you're like, oh shit, I'm going to get it.
I mean, maybe we see this stuff in West Virginia, but if people, I love this argument that Democrats proposed, paying criminals.
Have you guys remember this one?
They were saying one of the policies proposed by the left was to pay criminals not to commit crimes.
That if you get convicted of a crime, upon release, they would say, we'll give you 500 bucks a month if you don't commit another crime.
If you get caught for any crime, you'll lose these benefits and go to jail.
And the reason why was they said it costs more money to incarcerate them.
So we actually save money by offering them cash not to be criminals.
And it's just like, yes, that's called perverse incentive.
And that means you'll convince a lot of people to at least commit one crime so they can get on the on the on the no crime program and go back to not committing crimes and getting paid forever.
And then once the no crime benefits run out, they'll commit a crime again and then get free money.
I ain't playing that.
And so this is where we're currently at.
There are people who genuinely need food stamps.
I recognize that.
And I'm for food stamps.
I am.
Right now, I am not for the corruption.
And we've got way too many morbidly obese people getting welfare.
So right now I'm saying purge the system, start it all over.
If you look into the WIC program, it's for mothers basically with baby women, infants, and children, and it's only for eggs, bread, cheese, milk, things like that.
For Phil and I can say I did not see any schools that did breakfast because with the breakfast programs, which is, you know, to me, that's pretty important for the kids, right?
You know what the secret was to Chicago Public Schools?
They say that he saved a billion lives because he, I believe he was researching wheat, and he figured out how through artificial selection to increase crop yield by four times or something that effect.
However, the increase in crop yield does not increase nutrition because soil nutrition remains the same.
And so what ends up happening is you get an increase in starches with no increase in nutritional value.
What happens then?
People have to slam boxes of craft macaroni and cheese just to feel full.
People need to eat whole boxes of cereal and they still don't feel full because you're not getting the actual nutrition your body needs.
So now people are getting fatter and fatter and fatter and they're hungrier and hungrier and hungrier.
Meanwhile, for me, where I'm able to buy real food and healthy food and organic food, I got to tell you, man, my wife, she made pork belly.
I don't know what you call it, fried pork belly or baked, baked it.
So there's Eleanor Holmes, Norton, 88-year-old, delegate, non-voting member from D.C. She's 88.
She filed to run again in 2026, and the D.C. police report listed her as having early stages of dementia and noted she has a house manager with power of attorney.
And, you know, people are getting ticked off in Canada.
I said, you know, you may think it's very small, but all the border states, you know, like in Buffalo and Kingston, Niagara Falls, all across the border, across this country, they rely on Canadians coming across.
Now, I cross the border quite a bit, and there is nobody.
There's lineups to cross.
There's nobody crossing the border.
I was talking to somebody in Florida at the TD Bank.
I was telling Charlie before we came in here.
They're selling their places in Florida.
People are just, they're really ticked off about what's going on.
And listen, you know, it's Canada and the United States have been friends for a very long time.
And I go back to, you guys are all too young for this, the Canadian Caper.
Back in Tehran in 1979, Iran was coming into your embassy, and we took six of your embassy workers, hid them in our embassy for three months, had them lose their American accents.
We worked with the CIA.
We came up with this crazy movie, this called Argo.
So what's the argument for the U.S. to say, instead of developing our own aluminum industry, we'll trade with Canada and then have to have these negotiations.
If there is an invasion from China, you better believe the battle is gonna happen in Canada guys guys, Canada's not produced, does not mine aluminum ore bauxite.
It imports every single ton from Guinea Brazil, Australia and China.
Okay, the United States has Arkansas to mine but still requires imports beyond that.
Why are we dependent on Canada to import From Guinea, Brazil, Australia, or China?
We need to crank the tariffs up 10x.
This is insanity.
We got a middleman with a foreign country for our aluminum when we could be going straight to Brazil.
This is the biggest problem I've had the whole time and why I've supported the Trump tariffs.
Skateboards is a really great example.
And I don't care if you don't care about skateboarding.
It's an example of industry.
We get lumber from the Pacific Northwest and from Canada, North American rock maple.
We put it on ships and send it to China so that Chinese peasants can make skateboards and send them back to the United States so we can sell them $5 cheaper.
It is the stupidest thing imaginable because companies knew that Chinese peasant labor was cheaper and they didn't want to pay American workers.
So they exported all of these products in the stupidest way.
It's actually more expensive to do with a labor is dirt cheap.
The idea that we're going to import bauxite, I'm sorry, that Canada imports it, so it goes to Canada, then gets refunded, then sent to us, it's stupid.
So maybe if the U.S. builds its own refineries, mines in Arkansas where it can, and imports the rest directly from the miners in Guinea, Brazil, Australia, or China, we will save money in the long run.
And this will, how insane is it that Canada imports bauxite than the U.S. imports from Canada instead of us importing directly?
And so this argument that tariffs are a tax on the people is a meaningless statement.
The issue is free trade has been detrimental to the self-sufficiency of every nation that's engaged in it.
And now we are wasting a ridiculous amount of fossil fuel energy to ship all of this garbage all over the world for no reason other than creating dependencies.
I'm opposed to that.
I think we should have our own steel plants, our own aluminum plants.
I think that we should have our own skateboard factories and we should have things inside the United States so we can be self-sufficient.
The point of the tariffs is to say, if you want this product made by Chinese peasants or from Brazil or whatever, it's going to be more expensive than if people in the United States do it.
And so if people want to buy their Timu products, by all means, face your tariff.
Or what will happen in the short term is a lot of new investment into new factories in the United States.
And within 10 to 15 years, we could replace Canada as the producer of aluminum for the United States.
I don't see an argument for being dependent and forced into negotiations with another country, especially when you've got Canada in, what was it, was it Ontario where they're running these commercials attacking Trump and Reagan?
That's why the UK and his mom and his family has imported the third world just endlessly and why they lock up anyone who dares speak out because you have a king.
And that's his ideology.
And I talk to people from the UK and they say, oh, yeah, King Charles is totally on board with Islam and bringing these people in.
And then you look at Canada and they're very much doing the same thing.
And so I'm like, is it a coincidence that your king wants it and it's happening?
It's crazy to be like, no, no, no, the king has no control, despite the fact we are doing exactly what he wants.
Canada-U.S. relations should be, you know, not the way it's going now.
And I'll tell you, like I said, a lot of these border towns, Buffalo, Lewiston, Kingston, you go right across this country, this border, they rely on the Canadians that come over.
They come over.
Canadians are over there every weekend, every, you know, the tourism dollars, the Canadian pilots.
So what we need to do is I think the U.S. shouldn't be able to rely on Chinese peasants or cheap products from Canada, Mexico, or otherwise, because we now have, we have, we have two phenomenon.
We have a fat, lazy, entitled millennial generation and a near non-existent alpha generation.
Gen Z is somewhere in between.
Gen X's are doing all right.
Boomers, they got their issues.
But here's my prediction.
My prediction is, you know, all these people right now are let's do this, actually.
Let's do this.
Let's jump to the story.
We got this from the New York Post.
Heritage Foundation in revolt over Tucker Carlson defense at the controversial Nick Fuentes interview.
Footsie with literal Nazis.
Apparently, I think they're like reassigning one of these guys.
They say internal chats review by the post show: high-ranking members of the Heritage Foundation told each other privately how embarrassed and disgusted they were by Kevin Roberts' ridiculous decision to come to Carlson's defense over the sit-down with Fuentes, who has expressed anti-Semitic views and denied the Holocaust happen.
I'm disgusted by this and don't understand how this premeditated and orchestrated response could come out of one of the biggest think tanks in the world.
One wrote, well, I'm going to tell you this.
I think I was talking to some older guys.
I'll put it this way.
And this old boomer guy asked him if you ever heard of the phrase Zumerwaffen.
They're basically the growing faction of Groipers.
Yeah, Groipers, white nationalists, or otherwise.
And it's a large faction of the young male Gen Z population and some female.
And I think that's the direction it's going because a lot of the younger guys I meet are Fuentes fans.
A lot of the younger guys.
I'm not suggesting that he's the most popular or most prominent or anything like that.
But when I meet younger political guys, they like Nick Fuentes and they're wrong about a lot of things.
But the reason why is we've been lied to.
We know we've been lied to.
And no one is offering up a rebuttal without trying to lie more.
So what happens is Nick Fuentes goes on Tucker Carlson's show and they start screaming all of these things to try and get him banned.
He pops up on Spotify.
They ban him.
They ban him from YouTube.
Young people are sick and tired of being lied to.
And if no one's offering up a real argument against Nick Fuentes, then young people are going to assume he must be correct because no one else will tell them the truth.
I'm not saying Nick is telling them the truth.
Saying, if Nick says X, and instead of arguing that the media says ban him for saying it, they go, Wow, it must be true.
It used to be called Holocaust revisionism because people were like, Well, let's like look at the data and see if they were wrong about any of the numbers.
And I heard this interesting concept that the Allies, when they were finishing World War II and they were doing bombing runs in Germany, blowing up roads, blowing up train stations, they didn't know there were camps yet.
They blew up the transport and the Germans couldn't get food into the camps anymore.
And so for weeks, these people started starving, and then the Allies rolled in.
And that aspect of it is so touchy for the Allies.
So, you know, I'm not here to talk about World War II.
My point is, young people are looking at this.
We were just talking a moment ago about tariffs and aluminum in Canada.
So young people are going, why can't I get a job?
And what do they see?
Well, we shut down our processing plants for steel and now we're importing from China for slave labor.
And they're going, so I could have worked in a steel mill like my grandpa did, but instead they shut it down and now they're importing from China, which is more expensive to do, but they don't got to pay Chinese labor.
That's why I can't have a job?
Yes.
What about aluminum refining?
We get it from Canada.
Where's the aluminum come from?
Guinea, Brazil.
And they go, why don't we do it here?
Nah.
We're going to outsource it anyway.
So these young people get pissed off and they say, I can't have a family.
I can't buy a house.
I can't get a job.
We've outsourced all these jobs.
Then Trump comes and says, I'm going to put tariffs on these countries so that this forces American industry to start rebuilding in America.
And these young guys go, Thank you, Donald Trump, for finally sticking up for me.
Yeah, well, they ultimately, I think, did roll out their censored search.
Movie industry says we want to put movies in China.
You got to censor certain things.
And they do.
If Donald Trump says we're going to have tariffs on imports, then what happens?
Honda will build a factory in the United States and employ Americans to work on these cars to avoid paying the tariffs.
Then American young people get those jobs and we can start to rebuild our community, our culture, and our industry.
Instead, you've got people arguing in favor of continued extraction of the American economy and culture.
One of the examples I'll give with Nick Fuentes is one I've given before where he's got a viral, viral clip with probably tens of millions of views, where he says he doesn't want to live near black people.
And he says it's not because he has a problem with individual black people.
He's actually, and this is funny, a lot of people know this.
He said, what did he say?
Racism is low IQ or something like that.
Something like that.
And he said, the issue is those communities, the crime rates.
Everybody knows they don't want to live next to black people and they're lying.
Now, here's the thing.
All these young white guys will look at the crime rates.
They'll look at their own neighborhoods and they'll be like, yep, tends to be a lot of young black men committing a lot of the crime.
You bring it up on social media, you get banned.
You advocate for it, and every liberal and every Democrat is going to give you a justification and a lie and an excuse, even though these same liberals sell their property when black families move in.
So what do they do?
They say, wow, Nick's the only one telling the truth.
I would agree, but skin color does create the first impression.
Racism does exist.
And the bigger issue, I argue, is culture and community, which is why Hyde Park is safe and luxurious and black.
And Leclerc Courts is black, but also impoverished, dangerous, and gang-infested.
The point is your equivocation and your desperate attempt to try and downplay the obvious reality of young black men committed a disproportionate amount of the crime results in these 20-year-old white dudes being like Ian's lying.
No, no, you could argue that certain cultures are more likely to commit crimes in other cultures.
Like if you took me, who's a free speech advocate, and sent me to Saudi Arabia, you better believe I'd talk shit about the king and that's a crime over there.
Don't just keep saying the same thing over and over again.
Let me finish my point.
To a young person who grows up in these suburbs and sees white liberals being racist and then publicly lying about why they actually don't want to live in these neighborhoods.
You go into the suburbs of Chicago, you go into the white neighborhoods and everyone will say under their breath bad things about the black areas while publicly acting like the poor black communities are oppressed and it's not their fault they're committing crimes.
Nick will then in the suburbs of Chicago say the exact opposite and say, it's because they commit crimes and they're criminals.
And the young people go, everybody says it, but no one says it publicly except Nick.
And then when Nick comes out and praises Hitler, they say he must be telling the truth because you won't have a real conversation about what's going on in Chicago.
That's my problem with all the people attacking Tucker Carlson.
All of these people, it's laughable because it's one issue that they're obsessed with, Israel.
And of course, Nick also has his issues with Israel.
But the pro-Israel people are attacking Tucker and Nick and Candace specifically over Israel while ignoring their other positions on other issues and why young people want to follow them.
So maybe, and I was talking with Gavin McInnes, who I said, he's a Zionist.
He's pro-Israel.
And he was like, oh, he said he loves Nick.
He's like, talks to him all the time.
And I said, right, Gavin, you're not the person I'm talking about.
He's like, maybe I'm one of these pro-Israel people.
I was like, no, no, no.
The fact that you're willing to have your argument and express why you support Israel and why you're pro-Israel with someone like Nick is actually how we alleviate the pressure.
The problem is, young people are getting screwed over, and there's too many institutional politicians lying to them for political power, and they're sick of being lied to.
The problem then is Nick is wrong about quite a bit, but he's saying loud what a lot of people are unwilling to say.
And so it's convincing them that he must be right about everything else.
Yeah, he's got a genuine, even if he's wrong, sometimes he'll say, I mean, I've seen him, sometimes he'll smile when he talks, and I can tell he's pulling one over on people, but he is genuine often.
And whether he's right or wrong, people are drawn to genuine beliefs because at least you can challenge it and they're not going to lie to you about it.
Well, when someone says they like Hitler, you're probably going to be like, he's probably telling me what he actually thinks because who would ever admit to it?
I think that what we're going to see is young people moving to the further, further.
I don't know if far right makes sense.
Far right is a term created by leftists to smear people of various disparate ideologies.
A governmental, a command economy with racial identitarianism is not far right because depending on the race, they'll call it left or right.
Like ADL calls left identity, I'm sorry, black identitarianism left-wing.
And I'm like, what is left-wing about that?
It's not progressive.
It's regressive.
And what is their economic or cultural standpoint?
It's just identitarianism.
Well, race identitarianism is regressive.
So I wouldn't call it far right.
Woke right is a stupid, made-up garbage term by the same thing, leftists and liberals trying to smear people on the right.
But I think you're going to find a, I guess I would describe it as white identitarianism among young people because they're sick of being attacked for being white and they're sick of being lied to by an establishment as to the cause of these of crime in this country.
Additionally, one thing that's really going viral right now are these DOJ documents that show black and Latino people listed as white people in the crime stats.
This is what these manipulations and lies should not happen.
And it's going to drive people to someone like Nick.
And Hitler was not a good dude, nor was he cool in any way.
He was a genocidal maniac.
But they lie about so much, they're making it easy for someone like Nick to build a follow-up.
If acknowledging the crime stats and say there's a disproportionate amount of crime coming out of the black communities is different than saying because they're black, they're causing crime.
He says it's not to blame individual black people.
However, the issue is liberals won't admit it, but look at the property values in their cities and the property values drop, the less white an area becomes.
And these are liberals in cities that vote Democrat.
Everybody knows they're lying about what they actually think.
That's the issue.
And now you can talk about all of the reasons why there's crime or whatever your argument might be, but this is people are sick of being lied to.
But like, I love talking about the differences in genetics because then you can actually have normal conversations, not freak people out and make them run towards the nation.
The important thing to understand is that the question of skin color is the problem.
Because when we talk about race, people often whittle it down to skin color.
But then you end up with someone calling Elad, what do they call him, Indian?
Yeah.
Shawn called him that, right?
He thought Elad was Indian.
And I'll say this: Somalis are short and Haitians are tall.
Like, just because they have dark skin doesn't make them the same thing.
That's the problem with racism is that people will say white people, black people, Hispanics, or whatever.
And you're like, man, you could have a problem with Irish people, but like the French.
You could love Haitians and not like Sudanese or whatever.
You know what I mean?
Like Myron Gaines talks a bit about this because he's literally black, but in the United States, they say he's not black because he's Sudanese in America.
So despite the fact that he's literally African, they're like, that's not what it means to be black.
So that's the problem with like racism and whatever you want to call it.
People with like webbed feet that can swim in the Southeast Pacific, you know, those Pacific Islanders with they can hold their breath for like eight minutes underwater.
He's like the policy of eliminating everything and just like I said, if I were to actually run for office, I would just say all of these really horrible things that would guarantee I never get elected.
This is why I, you know, I'm actually, maybe, maybe at some point I should run for the presidency just so that I can say all of these things and people will be like, I will never vote for that man.
Run as a Republican and say, I'll say things like church is good and you definitely need to go.
And we need a culture that prioritizes local community.
If not church, something, but church is good, where people can come together and their community bonds together.
Oh, then we're buying billions off the, we're buying billions off you guys.
We're buying like close to 400 billion every year back and forth.
The trade's almost equal.
We have the L CBO, the liquor control board of Ontario, where you have to go to a store to buy, you know, liquor, vodka, bourbon, whatever.
The liquor control board of Ontario, the LCBO is the largest buyer of alcohol in the world.
Our premier has taken all the U.S. booze off the shelf.
You don't think that's hurting the people?
Like, you can't get bourbon now in Canada.
You don't think it's hurting all the people in California, all the California wine that comes into the country, all the bourbon that comes out of Kentucky into our country?
It's senseless.
We have to sit down, close the door, and negotiate this thing out.
Like I said, Canada and United, we had long-standing relations.
Agree with Tim.
Let's get on our own feet.
You guys do what you got to do.
But that's years away, right?
That's years away before that's going to happen.
But I said there's a tremendous amount of trade that goes back and forth that is beneficial to the United States and to Canada, right?
But the way, you know, it's being portrayed up there, there's some long-standing ramifications.
It's going to happen.
Like you said, people are coming out of Florida, not going.
You don't think it's 3 million Canadians?
DeSantis come out and said, oh, that's insignificant, 3 million Canadians.
Let's sit down and figure things out and get back to where we are.
Like I said, Canada and U.S. are better together.
And I'll stand here and defend that to the end.
But we probably relied way too much on the U.S.
And I think we've realized that.
But again, there's a tremendous amount of trade that we buy off the U.S. that come in.
I think it's $360 billion a year that goes back and forth between the two countries.
We're your largest trading partner.
it's ludicrous did you say your buddy is buddies with the pm or the my good friend doug ford is our premier which is like a governor to you he's Are you friends with Doug Ford?
Shaddav says, to be honest, Tim, if the long game is to give a Cassus belly for invading Canada, you should support the tariffs.
If you tariff us, our treasonous PM will make massive security threats by bringing the Chinese in.
Love to Tim Cast from BC.
I saw in, what was it, in British Columbia, they gave the land back to the Native Americans.
You see that?
In Richmond, I think it was.
There's a large swath of land and a court ruled that because it was a fishing village 300 years ago, all of these homes are now subject to the jurisdiction of the Choctaw or something like that.
Native Americans.
So as far, you know, look, when I say stuff like that, I'm like, I got to be honest.
If that continues, and King Charles came in and said that Canada was the unwanted unceded land of the Anishibag Algonquin.
It's a bad idea for anyone to make those kind of remarks.
These land acknowledgements and stuff, it's a terrible idea to even play at the idea that it's unceded land.
Because then you're calling into question the sovereignty of the government and you're calling into question whether or not the government's legitimate.
Let's grab one last point before we go to the uncensored portion of the show.
The Canadian royalty, King Charles III, as the head of state, represented day to day by the governor general, almost always acts on the advice of the elected prime minister.
The last outright refusal of prime ministerial advice was 1926.
The King Bing affair.
The last time a viceroy withheld royal assent was 1961.
And the recent interventions, prorogation, suspending parliament, January 6, 2025.
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So what I asked it was: what was the rat melanin experiment?
And it says the rat melanin experiment, most people mean today, was not about melanin.
It was racist rats.
An empathy study from 2019 to 2021.
It went viral as proof that rats are racist.
One rat is free, one rat is trapped.
The free rat can open the door in five seconds.
Rats always free a cage mate, even strangers.
A white lab rat will only free another white rat if that's all it's ever seen.
Put a black rat in the cage, a high melanin rat, in the cage for two weeks, and the white rat now frees any black rat, friend, or stranger.
The Mowgli test raised baby white rats with black foster moms.
They grew up helping black rats first.
So the interesting thing is, if you have white rats that have never seen a black rat before, they will not free them.
That's because they're racist.
But that's not the actual study I wanted.
I said, no, no, the study where the guy bred rats and aggression dropped as rats turned white.
Yes, you're thinking of the Siberian tame rat experiment from 1972 till the present.
The rat version of the famous Belyev Silver Fox study.
Dmitry Belyev, fox guy, started it in 1972.
They caught wild gray rats around Siberia.
Every generation, they tested pups at 45 days old.
Reach in with a gloved hand.
A score of zero was a vicious bite to four licking hands and begging to be held.
They only breed the top 5% friendliest.
And the aggressive line, they only breed the top 5% that attack the hardest.
What did they find?
At generation 10, a tiny white belly spots.
By generation 30, 50% have big white blazes, paws, or full hoods.
By generation 60, 18% are half white, never selected for whiteness.
Aggressive line stays solid gray.
So the aggressive rats stayed dark, and the tame rats started to turn white.
An aggression drop from 100% to 0% in generation 20.
White patches appearing, floppy ears, curly tail, a baby face, and they were bred year-round.
Why white fur appears?
Same domestication syndrome.
Lower adrenaline, fewer neural crest cells.
Neural crest cells make both melanin pigment and fight or flight nerves.
Selects for calm, accidentally deleting pigment in patches.
The bottom line is that breed rats for no aggression.
In 10 to 15 generations, they turn partly white and act like puppies.
The aggressive cage next door still looks and bites like a sewer rat.
Exactly the mean you saw.
Select for niceness, you get albino, but it's pie bald, not full albino, meaning just white, not albino.
What's the fox experiment?
Exact same thing.
Breed wild foxes for friendliness.
In six generations, they wag their tails, whine for pets, and turn white, floppy-eared, and baby-faced.
Why?
Because when they breed out high adrenaline and aggression, the gene that produces high melanin goes along with it.
For these reasons, you will get many people arguing.
Certainly then with rats and foxes, there would be another mammalian correlation with white people.
Lower adrenaline and a correlation for lesser pigmentation.
And all of the systems and all of the AIs and all of the Democrats will tell you, and all the Republicans as well, no.
Rats and foxes will lose pigmentation and turn white when become less aggressive, but humans are completely unrelated and this phenomenon makes no sense as it pertains to humans.