Nov. 13, 2025 - Timcast IRL - Tim Pool
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| We got a story tonight for you about the Epstein files, about the economy, whether it's good or bad, and whether or not we have talented enough people in the United States to not need to import H-1Bs. | ||
| I think some of us are a little bit disappointed by what we heard from the Trump administration on that, all that and more. | ||
| But before we get into it, I have something I really need to mention tonight. | ||
| It is impossible to maintain your civilization if all of the stories in your civilization are told by people who hate it and want to destroy it. | ||
| And that's why I started Freedom Tunes 11 years ago because I knew we couldn't win the culture war without producing culture, that we needed to fight back in this landscape. | ||
| And several weeks ago, I announced Twisted Plots, which is an animated anthology series, which we are going to use to tell good, entertaining, funny stories to push back against the left's dominance on entertainment. | ||
| They're going to express a right-wing perspective, not through ham-fisted monologues and not through boring preaching, but through good stories and entertaining concepts. | ||
| Well, tonight, I am humbled, proud, and excited to tell all of you that we have reached 100% in our funding. | ||
| We have reached our $500,000 goal to produce our first season. | ||
| Thank you all so much. | ||
| Any additional funds at this point, we're just going to invest into developing additional content for the show. | ||
| I want to thank you all so much. | ||
| The campaign's still going for another day. | ||
| So if you want the perks or anything like that, you still can. | ||
| We've still got a bit over a day left, but we've reached our funding goal. | ||
| We're 100% funded. | ||
| So God bless you guys. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| A lot of prayers have been said. | ||
| A lot of hard work has gone into this. | ||
| I'm on the seventh day of Novena to St. Joseph right now. | ||
| So thank you, St. Mother Teresa, St. Joseph, and St. Jude. | ||
| And thank you, Sister Cecilia, for praying for this. | ||
| And thank you to my wonderful wife, who I could not have done this without, and my incredible team. | ||
| And now we're going to get into it, but I just had to issue that statement. | ||
| And I had to thank all. | ||
| And of course, thank you to Tim for giving me this platform to continue to promote it and to allow me to launch from this platform because that was huge. | ||
| Now, to dive into it, today we have with us Noah Wall. | ||
| It's great to be on. | ||
| I'm the president and founder of State Leadership Initiative. | ||
| And I'm just a guy on a mission trying to make Republican state governance match what the citizens actually vote for every single opportunity. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| You mentioned the NGOs that are behind the scenes. | ||
| You call it like a shadow government just twisting these Republican states as if they're any other state. | ||
| Like it's almost irrelevant. | ||
| It is. | ||
| It is an incredible thing. | ||
| And hopefully we get to talk about that tonight. | ||
| Man, I'm at Ian Crossland here. | ||
| I'm back from Rice University where I went down there to do a documentary on graphene. | ||
| It ended up being a wild nanotechnology documentary. | ||
| I tell you, man, you spend time around scientists at the pioneering edge of reality and you will be white-pilled over and over and over. | ||
| And if you spend time with politicians, I feel like you tend to get black pilled. | ||
| So it's important to do both and take the gray one, take the gray. | ||
| I'm happy to be back. | ||
| It is a blessing and an honor to be here with you guys. | ||
| Thank you so much for having me. | ||
| Dude, I'm so glad to have you back. | ||
| It's crazy because we used to do the show together like every single night when I was out here. | ||
| And I know you don't do the show as often. | ||
| So it's always good when you're here and rebel to chat. | ||
| Yeah, dude, I feel like you're in my pocket. | ||
| I feel like I reach in my pocket and I'm like, oh, Seamus. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, I forgot I was in my pocket. | ||
| Feels normal. | ||
| Thanks for having me, Seamus. | ||
| So glad. | ||
| Listen, I didn't make the casting decision, but if I did, you would still be here because I would have wanted to see you. | ||
| You're so nice. | ||
| Guys, what is going on? | ||
| It is Brett. | ||
| Normally, I'm doing Pop Culture Crisis Monday through Friday at 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. | ||
| How are you doing, Phil? | ||
| Hello, everybody. | ||
| My name is Phil Labonte. | ||
| I'm the lead singer of the Heavy Metal Van All That Rains. | ||
| I'm an anti-communist and a counter-revolutionary. | ||
| Let's get into it. | ||
| All right, let's get into it. | ||
| Our first story tonight. | ||
| The Trump administration is from CNN Politics. | ||
| I've been forgetting to announce the names of the articles, so we're going to make sure that I do that. | ||
| All right, yeah. | ||
| But you guys can all see him if you're watching. | ||
| I'm not plagiarizing. | ||
| I'm not pretending I made this story up. | ||
| Trump administration holds a situation room meeting over a House effort to force release of all of DOJ's Epstein files. | ||
| The top Trump, excuse me, top Trump administration officials met Wednesday with a key GOP lawmaker about an effort in the U.S. House to force a vote on releasing Justice Department case files related to Jeffrey Epstein, according to multiple sources familiar with the meeting. | ||
| White House Press Secretary Karen Leavitt acknowledged that meeting later Wednesday when asked about reporting that administration officials were huddling up with GOP rep Lord Boebert. | ||
| Doesn't that show the level of transparency when we are willing to sit down with members of Congress and address their concerns? | ||
| She told reporters at press briefings. | ||
| Maybe not enough transparency. | ||
| Maybe not the exact kind of transparency we've all been looking for. | ||
| I'm going to turn it over to the rest of the panel. | ||
| How do you guys feel about this? | ||
| Is this what we voted for? | ||
| Well, I'll start off and tell you that that headline is the type of thing that we always find out three months later, never actually happened. | ||
| Fair enough. | ||
| So I'll just throw that bone in Trump's way. | ||
| And what reference? | ||
| Oh, just, you know, situation room meeting on Epstein. | ||
| I mean, sounds like maybe there's a situation room meeting where Epstein's name got mentioned, but that's usually the type of thing that, you know, did they actually, okay, guys, let's go talk about this right now in the situation room. | ||
| Mike got up. | ||
| I've got a steelman the situation, right? | ||
| For a steel man. | ||
| I would hope that the meeting where Epstein was discussed was the administration saying, okay, we need to get all of the information we have out there, get in front of this, because that's what an adult and responsible administration would do. | ||
| Because as long as there are questions, and there have been questions since before he took the oath of office in his second term, as long as there are questions, there are going to be people that are going to say, this is bad, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| This is going on. | ||
| And Trump's, there's all sorts of accusations being thrown around. | ||
| The only option the administration has is getting as much information out as exists. | ||
| There can be no more redactions. | ||
| There can be no more, no more trying to tell people that the topic doesn't matter. | ||
| There can be no more of that. | ||
| He has to release all of the information. | ||
| And again, this is just a steel man. | ||
| Hopefully, that's what they were talking about. | ||
| If not, this is going to continue to haunt him and people are going to continue to make accusations. | ||
| And at this point, honestly, it is kind of a situation where because they've taken so long and because they've tried to deflect and stuff, there are people out there that are never going to believe whatever comes out. | ||
| When they say, okay, all of the information. | ||
| So say all of the information, just for sake of argument, say all the information is put out, there will be a group of people that are going to say, there's more because there's no, if they don't hear what they want to hear, they're going to say, he didn't release it all. | ||
| There's blah, blah, this is blah, blah, blah. | ||
| And it's going to haunt him the rest of his presidency. | ||
| That's the nature of these types of political attacks now in a lot of ways, not an attack on him, but in general, when it comes to information needing to be released and there's a hesitancy to do so, what you'll find is that most people in these spaces, they're waiting until they hear the exact thing that they want to hear about that topic. | ||
| And if they don't do it, they're just going to keep saying that you're putting it off. | ||
| But we've had so much corruption in government for so long. | ||
| It's like when people talk about not trusting the media anymore. | ||
| There are times that the media actually tells you the truth, but nobody wants to believe it anymore because they've lied so many times. | ||
| It's like you could have gone six months without hearing a lie. | ||
| And then you see that thing on the BBC about lying about Trump in a documentary. | ||
| And you're like, you're just doing it all over again. | ||
| You can't stop yourselves. | ||
| You can't help yourselves. | ||
| And there's no way for the media to regain their credibility. | ||
| And it's fast becoming true that Trump is losing any chance he has of returning his credibility with issues like this. | ||
| And that's not even to say, like they were saying, they leaked, like Democrats leaked like, what, three pages, right? | ||
| And they crossed out Virginia Guffery's name or whatever. | ||
| And so the whole point was to tie him to it without actually putting the name out there. | ||
| If they actually wanted transparency, they wouldn't have blacked out the name at all, but they knew it didn't fit their narrative. | ||
| It's just lying all around because that's what politicians do. | ||
| And by lying, I mean half-truths, which is the worst type. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So was I hallucinating earlier or was there a story circulating about Trump calling the Epstein files a hoax? | ||
| Or was he saying that what is being claimed about his involvement is a hoax? | ||
| Well, that depends on who you ask. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| It depends on what their opinion is on him. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| If you ask people that are aligned with Trump, they're going to say that it wasn't, that Trump wasn't saying the Epstein files themselves are a hoax. | ||
| It's the way that the Democrats are framing it that's a hoax if you are a hoax. | ||
| If you ask Democrats, they're going to say that Trump is saying that the whole thing is a hoax and he's trying to lie to you. | ||
| So it all depends on who you ask and what's convenient for the argument that they're trying to make. | ||
| Yeah, well, and so this is just me musing, as they say. | ||
| But why wouldn't Trump just say that these files were destroyed by the last administration and there's no way we can release? | ||
| Because this is one argument you're hearing from a lot of people. | ||
| Well, the reason Trump doesn't have the files is because they're destroyed. | ||
| I'm sympathetic to that. | ||
| I think that's probably true. | ||
| But then why wouldn't he just say that? | ||
| This confuses me. | ||
| Meaning that you think that it would just come across as a, like I said earlier, if people don't hear what they want to hear, they're going to assume that he's lying. | ||
| So if he says they don't exist anymore, people are going to be like, the government redundancy, that doesn't sound plausible to me. | ||
| And if they're not destroyed, that's an easy one to disprove. | ||
| And if he gets caught with his pants down, oh, so you think it's possible that they actually weren't destroyed? | ||
| Okay, that's I think they were backed up and given to people and are being used as blackmail right now by Trump's administration and others to go after the deep state and prevent them from killing him, basically. | ||
| It's not the 60s. | ||
| Yeah, it's not the 60s anymore. | ||
| Like destroying is not destroying something is not putting the files themselves through a shredder. | ||
| If they existed, then there are still files on computers somewhere. | ||
| The idea that they can destroy them totally nowadays, I really don't think that it's that. | ||
| I don't think that's realistic. | ||
| I think you're right that it would be nearly impossible to completely get rid of the files, especially with the interest that people have in them. | ||
| But I do think it would be possible for them to make the files inaccessible to the administration. | ||
| That I could believe. | ||
| Oh, he had that meeting with Gheelane. | ||
| Sorry, Bob. | ||
| Yeah, go ahead. | ||
| Well, he met up with Gheelane Trump, or somebody did, about six months ago at this point. | ||
| And they, after a conversation, they moved Gheelane to a minimum security prison. | ||
| And she was like the ringleader of this Epstein operation. | ||
| They moved her to a minimum security. | ||
| And then a couple weeks later, they let some time go by. | ||
| And then she said, Trump did nothing untoward. | ||
| So maybe in that meeting. | ||
| Wait, let me say this last thing. | ||
| Maybe in that meeting, they got the keys from Gheelane, the final piece to unlock the files so that they have them. | ||
| And that's her reward as they put her in minimum security. | ||
| Virginia Guthrie said the same thing that Ghylaine said. | ||
| Virginia Guthrie said that Trump had never done anything untoward. | ||
| And there's also. | ||
| Which is why they blacked out her name in the file release. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| And also there was, I forget, I heard it today, someone talking about the, I think it was on the morning meeting, Mark Halperin was talking about it, that the argument that Trump made, or Epstein said that he spoke to Ghillain, Trump spoke to Ghillain, and knew about the young girls. | ||
| And Trump told Ghillain, you guys have to stop this. | ||
| Yes, that did come out in the files today. | ||
| And it's one of those things. | ||
| The interesting part about this is we hear, whenever we hear something new, it usually does not transpire that it was Trump actually doing anything untoward, which is what makes the whole like, why not release such a puzzle. | ||
| Because like, again, like these files today were clearly timed by the Democrats. | ||
| The release was set up to, you know, to impact this vote that the House is going to take, put, you know, how they're going to handle the release of the files. | ||
| And in these files, Trump is like telling Ghillain, like, hey, you need to not do this. | ||
| Yeah, one thing, he might have been working with the FBI. | ||
| This has come up before in thought experiments is that he was actually turning these dudes into the FBI and like sided with them. | ||
| You heard, yeah, that he was like a secret agent man. | ||
| Yeah, and if he publicly came out with that now, how would that look? | ||
| And just as a matter of framing, all it takes is a headline that says Trump is in the files. | ||
| It doesn't matter what is actually, you know, in the actual documents themselves because it ties it to him as guilt by association for people that don't want to look deeper into whatever they're doing. | ||
| And he's already at a disadvantage right now because he's pissed off his base to cuss right there. | ||
| But he's like, with the H-1B stuff and the students from China, he's angering a lot of the people that would at least usually go to bat with a reasonable argument to the contrary for whatever people are coming at him with. | ||
| Yeah, so and the idea that he is is Trump, that he is in the files. | ||
| Again, this is something that what that means is going to depend on who you're talking to. | ||
| If you're talking to someone in Trump world, in the files means that he's referenced, he's talked about in the files, et cetera. | ||
| If you're talking to someone that doesn't like Donald Trump, in the files means he was videotaped having sex with a six-year-old is what they're going to say. | ||
| If he was secret agent man and he worked with the FBI and started turning in these dudes that were trafficking 13, 14 year old girls, and he came out and told everyone that, I feel like that would make him a superhero in the minds of most humans. | ||
| Maybe the people that he's not going to be able to do that. | ||
| Most normal people, yeah, if that were true. | ||
| But then maybe the businessmen that he had turned in or gave information on would turn on him. | ||
| Maybe they're some of his supporters. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| The media would still find a bad way to spend that. | ||
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| If that were to have happened, which I'm not saying to me, that, listen, I would love if that were true. | ||
| I would love if that was the case, that he was secret agent man and he was turning these people. | ||
| That would be one of the most incredible stories ever. | ||
| I would absolutely love it. | ||
| I'm saying I'd have to see some evidence for that. | ||
| I would need to see some evidence. | ||
| It would. | ||
| That is something I want to have happened. | ||
| That's something that I want to be the case genuinely. | ||
| But that's also why I got to say, show me some evidence. | ||
| I just can't buy into it because it would be convenient based on my worldview. | ||
| I hope he sees this show and he's like, I was secret agent, man. | ||
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I did it. | |
| I had a little, my watch fired a laser. | ||
| It was W8, not W7. | ||
| What else could it be that they're not, that they're, I mean, it sounds like he's lying, that he's just blatantly, or he's like trying to evaporate this thing that's obviously there. | ||
| My gut instinct from all of the information that I have is that Trump is in the files as in like he's talked about because he was friends with Epstein and Trump is running from Epstein and has been. | ||
| And that's why he's saying, no, we were not friends. | ||
| Who is he? | ||
| Blah, blah, blah. | ||
| We had a falling out. | ||
| I used to be friends with him. | ||
| He's made all of these, all of these statements to distance himself because he's referenced in the files and he knows that it looks bad. | ||
| It doesn't matter that he's, or it would not matter that he didn't do anything. | ||
| The point that he has is I don't want to be associated with it because I know it's bad. | ||
| But because he's done all this denial, it's only made it worse. | ||
| Yeah, I get what you're saying. | ||
| There's also part of me that thinks that if he was in the files, we would have known by now. | ||
| I mean, they looked into him so deeply. | ||
| They investigated him so thoroughly. | ||
| He's the most investigated. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| I mean, if they could have got him on that, they would have got him on that. | ||
| Instead of some trumped up real estate nonsense. | ||
| Well, no, that's exactly right. | ||
| I mean, they spent, I mean, you know, we may talk about Arctic Frost later, but they spent like thousands of agent man hours finding, unturning every single rock, you know, in every possible jurisdiction to get this guy on something. | ||
| The idea that they would have this information and not use it is insane. | ||
| The craziest version of the story is they get into the files and somehow they find out that he actually did lie in his taxes. | ||
| He did lie to him. | ||
| I know, I know. | ||
| Right? | ||
| You know, he told, he direct came right out and said that he told Hillary. | ||
| Don't they say he kicked Epstein and he banned him from Mar-a-Lago? | ||
| Yeah, that's what I know from what I've heard is that Epstein, like Trump has these like young, you know, 16, 17, 18-year-old women working at Mar-a-Lago, you know, hot waitresses or whatever. | ||
| And then Epstein comes down there and mooch takes a bunch of them to go be his models. | ||
| And then Trump was pissed. | ||
| And then that was when their falling out happened. | ||
| Wouldn't surprise me then if he was like, I'm going all out on this guy. | ||
| I'm getting him busted. | ||
| I'm going to take him to court or take him to the FBI. | ||
| It's kind of a masterclass in not handling a story about your political career well, given the fact that he was able to avoid this in 2016 and 2020. | ||
| And it just doesn't seem, it seems like he's taken every wrong step when it comes to handling the situation. | ||
| And it's confirmation bias for the people that don't like him. | ||
| If anybody's seen the tweet from somebody'll quote tweet Stephen King when he said the Epstein files are fake and now he's saying release the Epstein files. | ||
| Like that's what you're dealing with. | ||
| But you're never going to convince those people anyway. | ||
| I think he described the Epstein files in his book, It. | ||
| Yeah, Stephen King's a freaky guy. | ||
| Like for him to sit there and anyway. | ||
| My point is, I don't want to hear Stephen King moralize about anything. | ||
| But yeah, I agree with you. | ||
| I have no idea why he's saying the things he's saying or taking the tone that he's taking. | ||
| Again, I don't think he's in the files, but that's also why this is so perplexing to me. | ||
| And it's not like I just don't think he's in the files because I love him so much and I couldn't believe it. | ||
| It's because we would have known by now. | ||
| They would have told us. | ||
| It doesn't make sense. | ||
| None of this makes sense. | ||
| That was like my point. | ||
| It came up earlier because we were talking about Jimmy Kimmel talking about Trump and all of these things. | ||
| I said, the reason why nobody takes you seriously is because you've never had a nuanced opinion on the man in any way, shape, or form. | ||
| And I pulled up Clint Russell's tweet about the stuff that Trump has failed with recently. | ||
| I said, if you're trying to tell me that I should take my opinions on Trump from empty suit liberals in Hollywood or somebody who was at least willing to hear him out in the past, had good things to say about him at one time and now is saying you're chalking up loss after loss after loss. | ||
| I'm going to take that guy's opinion with a lot more certainty than I am anybody from Hollywood. | ||
| But the people Trump is playing to is that he's still expecting to win over people that he used to run with. | ||
| Well, I also heard the argument made when this initially reared its ugly head when Trump got elected and first really disappointed us on this issue. | ||
| I heard people saying, well, maybe it's the case that too many powerful people were involved and society would collapse. | ||
| Now, in my mind, if your society is going to collapse when pedophiles go to jail, your society should probably collapse. | ||
| Right. | ||
| What is the argument? | ||
| Is the argument that like, what, they're the heads of every company, like there isn't some second in command that's going to just take over the company when that guy eventually goes down? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, that's why we need all the H-1Bs, Brett. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| There are just no competent Americans who aren't on the Epstein list. | ||
| And then actually wants to bring all the H-1Bs in. | ||
| We're actually bringing them in to be CEOs. | ||
| We're actually bringing them in to be CEOs, not programmers. | ||
| Tabula Rossa. | ||
| Well, we have this article here from KCRA 3. | ||
| Speaker Johnson says House will vote next week on whether to release the Epstein files. | ||
| Speaker Mike Johnson announced to reporters on Wednesday that he will put a bill compelling the Department of Justice to release all of its Jeffrey Epstein case files on the House floor next week earlier than expected. | ||
| We're going to put that on the floor for a full vote when we get back next week, Johnson said. | ||
| In the meantime, I'll remind everyone that the House Oversight Committee has been working around the clock on its own investigation, the speaker said. | ||
| Johnson is required to put the bill from Democratic rep RoCana and GOP Representative Thomas Massey on the floor soon. | ||
| Now that their discharge petition has reached 218 signatures, but he has some leeway to do so. | ||
| And Johnson suggested Wednesday he would not use that extra time. | ||
| The story's breaking and will be updated. | ||
| What do you all think? | ||
| The idea that there would be anyone at all that would vote no is just gut-wrenching to me. | ||
| There is no justification for voting no to not release. | ||
| Because at the very least, because this does nothing good for Donald Trump, and it does nothing good for conservatives and Republicans. | ||
| If Donald Trump has done something illegal or has done something wrong, better for the Republicans to put that out. | ||
| Get Trump out of office, have JD Vance finish out the term and put this behind us. | ||
| Because I don't care how many people like Donald Trump. | ||
| I don't care how many people hate Donald Trump. | ||
| The fact of the matter is, the Republicans overall are going to be better than the Democrats. | ||
| And so if Donald Trump is causing problems, get him out. | ||
| Get him out of the way. | ||
| Put JD Vance in. | ||
| JD Vance will be a perfectly fine president. | ||
| I know that he wouldn't be able to run for two more terms. | ||
| He'd only be able to run for another one. | ||
| That's fine. | ||
| But if Donald Trump has done something illegal, then get him out because it's only causing problems for the United States. | ||
| And again, like I said, I don't think he's in the files based on the reasons we discussed earlier, but it wouldn't even matter. | ||
| If he is, or if there's something that's trying to be covered up, the whole Republican Party should not let itself go down over this. | ||
| That's insane. | ||
| It's an absolute strategy. | ||
| And obviously, if the Democrats were voting for it and they voted against it, which again, I think you're going to have people from both parties who will vote against releasing the files because of how ugly the unit party is. | ||
| But it's horrifying. | ||
| And what's so horrifying about it is not just the reasons you mentioned, Phil, but also the fact that they know on some level that they could do that and still get re-elected. | ||
| That's the really scary part. | ||
| So the insane thing is the House has been basically out of session since the shutdown started. | ||
| Why? | ||
| This bill. | ||
| They have been out of session because they have not, they didn't want to swear in the new guy because once they start back up, that's why they had to force the vote on this. | ||
| It's an absolutely insane situation. | ||
| The Epstein stuff? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| They're gridlocked over the Epstein stuff, and that's what stopped them from re-that's not that's not why the government shut down. | ||
| They have used the government shutdown as an excuse. | ||
| I think it's a convenient excuse, yeah. | ||
| Because when they reconvene, they have to take this up because it's a privilege motion. | ||
| You know, I guess I'll take a devil's advocate here. | ||
| I'm not a Satanist, I promise you that. | ||
| Thinking about using evil to establish order and power to make a better world. | ||
| Like, if this is the one ring, this information, it's so powerful. | ||
| They're like, we need to release the files, which is like, destroy the one ring. | ||
| It must be cast into Mount Doom. | ||
| It's a Lord of the Rings reference. | ||
| We know it's a Lord of the Rings reference. | ||
| You might know. | ||
| But then the guy's like, no, I'm going to use the ring to destroy Sauron. | ||
| And they've got this powerful blackmail. | ||
| If they're blackmailing like the Saudi princes and the royal family of England and the Israeli government, if they have this control over foreign people diplomatically because of this tech, this technology or this info, and they were just to give that all up. | ||
| So just to push back on that, I don't think Saudi princes would care, right? | ||
| Their royalty in Saudi Arabia. | ||
| They're buying up half of America anyway. | ||
| Their culture is totally different. | ||
| So they wouldn't have the same repercussions as the United States. | ||
| And then as for the royal family in England, was it Philip? | ||
| Is the guy that got his all over? | ||
| Andrews. | ||
| Andrew's got all of his titles stripped and everything, and he's still feeling the heat currently. | ||
| So I imagine this is something that he's the royal that was involved with this. | ||
| If I understand correctly, there are no other royals that we know of. | ||
| If there were in the files, I imagine they would have come out. | ||
| But again, I'm not saying for sure, but I just don't think that I don't think that the idea that it's to protect powerful people is compelling. | ||
| No, it's to have power over the powerful people. | ||
| Yeah, you're saying it's a blackmail operation, basically. | ||
| Yeah, yeah. | ||
| So, but I don't think that I don't, I don't think that it's a blackmail operation, personally. | ||
| It's impossible to know. | ||
| I don't think it is. | ||
| I'm just wondering if that's why it seems like they're holding data and they're pretending like it doesn't exist. | ||
| I think it's all about Donald Trump doesn't want it to come out because he doesn't want his name associated with it. | ||
| You think it's purely Trump's ego in this one? | ||
| Yeah, I think so. | ||
| Trump has got a big ego. | ||
| Well, Democrats are doing everything to associate his name with it. | ||
| From Newsweek, we have Jeffrey Epstein emails Trump named in new emails released by House Democrats live updates. | ||
| Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released a second tranche of emails on Wednesday, including communications between Jeffrey Epstein, Steve Bannon, and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. | ||
| The explosive emails raise a fresh question over what U.S. President Trump knew about Epstein's sexual misconduct. | ||
| The first series of emails released earlier this morning included communications showing Epstein calling Trump the quote dog that hasn't barked unquote. | ||
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| And that the president has asked Epstein to resign his membership at the Mar-a-Lago Club. | ||
| One email sent by Epstein said, of course, Trump knew about the girls because he asked Elaine Maxwell to stop. | ||
| I don't like how much of this is broken up by the quotes. | ||
| And I'm also a little confused about the narrative here. | ||
| They're saying that Trump, they're saying that Trump knew and wanted them to stop and kicked Epstein out of his club. | ||
| So the whole point is it's media framing. | ||
| You use the most innocuous headline that uses Epstein, Trump, and files in one article title. | ||
| And you have convinced a bunch of midwits, you know, I'm a midwit, but different midwits, what to believe because they're not going to get past the headline. | ||
| This is why people hate the media now. | ||
| Yeah, this is. | ||
| One of the other reasons, yeah. | ||
| One of the many reasons. | ||
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| You're better than your average midwip, by the way. | ||
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| I appreciate that. | ||
| I'm like Tate, 85 IQ. | ||
| Like Midwip plus plus plus. | ||
| Well, this is part of what's confusing about this. | ||
| Like I've said, he's been extremely investigated. | ||
| We've also, there have been so many phony scandals surrounding him. | ||
| They've tried everything that they can to incriminate him or smear his name. | ||
| So I'm very hesitant. | ||
| He's just believing himself. | ||
| It's him talking. | ||
| That's the problem. | ||
| He could have said nothing. | ||
| No, I agree. | ||
| It's his wallet or the floor. | ||
| The things that bother me are the things that he says. | ||
| It's not, but whenever these accusations are made by the media, I'm like, I don't know what that means. | ||
| And the response, the absolute weariness that everybody has to this type of stuff is kind of an indictment of just how much stuff has been said about him over the last 12 to 10 to 12 years. | ||
| And people just, they don't have the bandwidth to take you at your word anymore. | ||
| If maybe you had, you know, the first time it was the, what was it, the Russian hookers, right? | ||
| Like, if maybe you gotten it right the first time or before, the steel dossier or any of this stuff, maybe more people would be willing to take you seriously. | ||
| But now you have to just beat everybody over the head with it. | ||
| And all you had to do was do a more honest title to this article, but it wouldn't sell copy. | ||
| Well, that's exactly right. | ||
| And so ultimately, they've cried Wolf many, many times. | ||
| And if this time it turns out there was a Wolf, no one's going to believe him, and it's going to be their fault. | ||
| People have picked their sides anyways. | ||
| So, I mean, that's what I like about people on the right who are calling this stuff out now, who may have voted for him in 2024 and saying, look, he's screwing up on a lot of things. | ||
| If he's bad, get him out of office. | ||
| And I appreciate, you know, don't subscribe to a party and don't subscribe to, especially to any one person, be it a politician or anybody else, because you should not hold anybody in that level of esteem, especially if they have power over you. | ||
| Just hold his feet to the fire, and if he's in the files, then get him out of there. | ||
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| No, not really on that story. | ||
| Well, let's talk about our next story. | ||
| Trump says H-1B visas are needed because of the lack of U.S. talent. | ||
| I was told America's got talent, but I guess that's not the case. | ||
| President Donald Trump ignited a wave of MAGA criticism in defending the use of the H-1B visa program, telling a reviewer in the United States. | ||
| By the way, I disagree with him with the clips hilarious, telling an interview with the United States needs to bring in talent and pushing back on the idea that the country already has enough talented workers. | ||
| Fox News host Laura Ingram questioned Trump on H-1B visas this week, saying they hurt wages for American workers. | ||
| I agree with you, but I agree, but you do also have to bring in talent, Trump said when Ingram countered that we have plenty of talent. | ||
| Trump responded, No, you don't. | ||
| It's brutal. | ||
| But then he followed up and he said, You don't have certain talents. | ||
| So I think this is Trump being blunt, but ultimately, I don't think that that was a great thing for him to say. | ||
| He's like, Look, we're going to make America great again, but we're just going to have to start elsewhere. | ||
| Yeah, yeah, exactly. | ||
| Literally the worst thing he could have said. | ||
| Well, let me play this clip of him real quick. | ||
| Republicans have to talk about it like that. | ||
| And does that mean the H-1B visa thing will not be a big priority for your administration? | ||
| Because if you want to raise wages for American workers, you can't flood the country with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of foreign workers. | ||
| We also do have to bring in talent when the country. | ||
| We have plenty of talent and they're not. | ||
| No, you don't. | ||
| No, you don't. | ||
| We don't have talented people in there. | ||
| No, you don't have certain talents, and people have to learn. | ||
| You can't take people off an unemployment, like an unemployment line, and say, I'm going to put you into a factory where we're going to make missiles, or I'm going to put you in the middle of the market. | ||
| How did we ever do it before? | ||
| Well, let me tell you. | ||
| When you and I were in the middle of the day, I'll give you an example. | ||
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| Because they wanted illegal immigrants out. | ||
| They had people from South Korea that made batteries all their lives. | ||
| You know, making batteries are very complicated. | ||
| It's not an easy thing. | ||
| It's very dangerous. | ||
| A lot of explosions, a lot of problems. | ||
| They had like 500 or 600 people, early stages, to make batteries and to teach people how to do it. | ||
| Well, they wanted them to get out of the country. | ||
| You're going to need that, Laura. | ||
| I mean, I know you and I disagree on this. | ||
| You can't just say a country's coming in, going to invest $10 billion to build a plant and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven't worked in five years, and they're going to start making missiles. | ||
| It doesn't work that way. | ||
| All right. | ||
| So there's a couple issues here. | ||
| Firstly, the way the H-1B issue is always framed is that we just don't have the proper talent in the United States and American workers aren't competent enough to fulfill certain duties and fill certain positions. | ||
| Here's the problem with that. | ||
| You could potentially make the argument that when you are dealing with once-in-a-generation brilliance, which yes, certain very exclusive, high-level jobs do require, that maybe in some circumstances, you might have to start hunting in other countries because the United States just doesn't have anyone who fits the requirements of this very important position. | ||
| There's a conversation there. | ||
| That is not how H-1B visas are used the vast majority of the time. | ||
| You look at these H-1B listings and they've got people driving trucks on H-1Bs who don't even speak English and they're like running their bot farm and cooking at the same time as they're behind the wheel, like running over families in their minivans. | ||
| The whole argument is ridiculous. | ||
| We can't allow them to frame it this way. | ||
| It is obvious that the purpose of H-1B visas is a handout to companies that make billions of dollars annually off of high-skilled workers, but don't want to pay them high-skilled wages. | ||
| He's a CEO at heart. | ||
| Like he really is. | ||
| And we kind of get into this a lot of times. | ||
| You think about it. | ||
| It's like what's going on in Hollywood right now, not to derail, but you know, people are losing their jobs because AI is streamlining the creative process for a lot of them there. | ||
| And you're just, I don't expect personally, I don't expect a CEO to look at the creatives and value them the ways perhaps a manager would, or somebody who worked in the creative fields before them. | ||
| The guy who went to business school isn't going to see them with the same value. | ||
| And Trump, at his heart, is a businessman and he's not going to look at the American jobs as the value that he claims to because this clearly proves that that's not true. | ||
| So, first of all, so H-1B is so there's actually a separate category of visa for exceptional talents called the O-1 visa. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's not what H-1B is. | ||
| The second problem that I have with this is all summer we were inundated with case after case of H-1B violations getting exposed. | ||
| To be able to qualify for an H-1B, you cannot have an American qualified candidate apply for the job. | ||
| We're finding out that they've been listing these H-1B positions in the back of newspapers that no one reads to technically legally qualify for having advertised the job and then just shipping it out to an H-1B. | ||
| The problem that I have with this as well is that we have public universities around the country that are hiring H-1Bs by the tens of thousands. | ||
| These are state universities that are required. | ||
| They're set up to educate the people of that state in a fiscally responsible, like make it like a cheap university for the residents of that state. | ||
| And what are they doing? | ||
| They're going out and hiring H-1Bs with state government taxpayer dollars. | ||
| I mean, this is, it's an absolutely insane problem all the way around. | ||
| But, you know, quite frankly, I think there's a lot of confusion going on. | ||
| So universities are hiring foreign workers to like work as staff and administrators. | ||
| Is that where they're coming from? | ||
| Teachers, staff, administrators. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| So in fiscal year 2025, 17,000 H1, this year, 17,000 H-1B visas were granted for universities around the country. | ||
| Man, it's an interesting combo because if they're not exceptional talent, but they're better than average, and they're not. | ||
| The teacher is like a foreign teacher. | ||
| They're getting like a Chinese teacher to come in and teach mathematics at like some private publications over the summer when President Trump came out with this announcement with Luttnick that they were going to be placing a $100,000 price tag associated to H-1Bs. | ||
| There's an article in the Houston Chronicle talking about hundreds of Houston teachers are going to be not able to qualify anymore because they have K through 12 teachers in Texas on H-1Bs. | ||
| We can't even hire teachers. | ||
| They need to end the H-1B visa program entirely. | ||
| I don't see the point. | ||
| Like for H-1Bs, if you want to talk about the O ones, that's a totally different topic. | ||
| But this has been my position for a long time. | ||
| And the H-1B visa program entirely. | ||
| Well, you don't need to keep importing people. | ||
| We need to focus on the Americans that are here, the people that are here. | ||
| We need to encourage them to have children. | ||
| We need to have policies that encourage people to have families and encourage people to stay together when they get married. | ||
| Like that should be a focus by the government. | ||
| Yeah, my problem with the H-1B program, and if you asked me four years ago, it would like I would not have told you this, but this year I've been absolutely blackpilled on the program understanding. | ||
| So you can go through the list of jobs that people have for the H-1B. | ||
| I mentioned the, you know, the universities, state governments around the country are hiring H-1Bs. | ||
| What we are seeing as well, like you can go through the list of applicants in your like area, you'll see 7-Eleven managers. | ||
| Like, we don't have people who can manage 7-Eleven. | ||
| And at the same time, what we're seeing as well, in addition to the fraud I mentioned earlier, what we're seeing is like we're seeing college graduates, American students graduating universities with technical STEM degrees unable to get jobs. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| That's a very serious problem because we will never be able to solve the problem of Americans not being quote unquote talented enough to fill these roles. | ||
| We'll never be able to solve that problem if we're just giving those jobs away because people will stop pursuing those degrees and we're essentially going to import an upper class. | ||
| Now, another huge part of this is you mentioned that there were a lot of companies that were putting ads for jobs in the backs of obscure papers and magazines that no one was reading. | ||
| And I remember reading about this and I can't remember the name of it. | ||
| Someone either made an app or a website that was exposing this. | ||
| Do you remember the name of that? | ||
| I forget it. | ||
| I'll have to look it up, but there's an X account where they're exposing this and they've done an amazing job. | ||
| And what the backlash was hilarious because they got angry that Americans were calling and applying for it. | ||
| And so Americans, like, so you see the job will come up on the X account and you'd like, just go apply. | ||
| The second you apply, that job can no longer be filled by an H-1B person. | ||
| That's yeah, exactly. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| So just the act of applying caused them to no longer be able to fill that position with H-1B because of the regulation. | ||
| You had to call in. | ||
| The thing is, if you really wanted to get seen for an interview, you needed to call in and talk with an accent. | ||
| I'm like, yes, I want the software job. | ||
| And they bring you in. | ||
| You're like, hey, guys, how are you? | ||
| No, I am the guy who talked to you on the phone. | ||
| That's just how I sound on the phone. | ||
| Yeah, cold. | ||
| I don't know what you're talking about. | ||
| I thought I. In regards to this interview with Laura Ingram and Donald Trump, I think that Trump generally is a disagreeable personality type. | ||
| There's agreeability on a scale, and he's just made a living being disagreeable. | ||
| If you come at him, especially emotionally charged, he'll say, no, you're wrong. | ||
| No, stop. | ||
| No. | ||
| And then when she said, don't we have talent here? | ||
| He's like, no, we don't. | ||
| He's probably sitting there thinking, oh my God, of course we do and we can. | ||
| But it's not that I don't think that he's intending to stunt the growth of the town of the American people or he's not saying that just because he hasn't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. | ||
| The problem is to his base right now, it feels like he's chosen the donor class over actual American citizens. | ||
| I think he needs a longer platform to talk about this because that was a one-minute high-powered emotional charge that he barely got any coherent message out talking about like, why? | ||
| What's so important about the H-1Bs? | ||
| I really want to hear him go on that. | ||
| He needs to let Stephen Miller write the press relief and then sign it, Donald Trump, is what he needs to do. | ||
| That's what he should do. | ||
| He should say, Stephen, what am I going to say to the American people about this topic? | ||
| And then Stephen's going to tell him, and then he should do exactly what Stephen says. | ||
| And he and Stephen could do a press, like a conference where they sit together and talk about it. | ||
| If Miller's the guy that has the info and like Miller's the guy that he has the best idea when it the best ideas in my opinion when it comes to immigration and stuff like that basically no immigration is he not pro H1B is Miller not pro H1B I know that he's he's not pro immigration I don't Know his specific take on H-1Bs because there's not just H-1B. | ||
| It's like there's all kinds of subcategories as well. | ||
| So I don't know, he would know the specifics, obviously, better than I would. | ||
| But I know that he's very pro-American worker and he's a very anti-immigrant. | ||
| The other flip side in trying to steel man Trump's perspective is that if you bring in a Chinese teacher to a college and they're a really good teacher, they're not like exceptional 0-1, then they can teach the kids and make the American students better. | ||
| We shouldn't. | ||
| And if we didn't have a great teacher, we shouldn't take any Chinese at all. | ||
| Or then India, whatever country. | ||
| It's a big foreign country, you know? | ||
| Well, okay, fair enough. | ||
| But at least because we've talked, like, there's talk about Trump was mentioning taking 600,000 Chinese students. | ||
| Every single Chinese person that comes to the United States is a possible spy, is a likely spy. | ||
| Because if a Chinese student comes here, the Chinese government will then apply pressure to that student's family and say, you need to do this for us. | ||
| You need to do that for us. | ||
| So every single Chinese student, every single Chinese person that comes here is a liability. | ||
| There should be zero Chinese students led into the United States. | ||
| Liability doesn't mean you have to get rid of the thing. | ||
| If some things can have liabilities that are worth, they're still worth having. | ||
| It depends on the liability, though. | ||
| You're dealing with a foreign spy who try to sell your country. | ||
| And you look at the industries that China has their students focus on, right? | ||
| And you look at the way that China produces or the way that China treats intellectual property and stuff like that. | ||
| They just steal everything. | ||
| They don't really die. | ||
| Everything. | ||
| So there is no benefit to having Chinese people come to the United States, help develop things in the United States, and then send it back to China. | ||
| That's a different conversation than H-1Bs because we're talking about students. | ||
| No, but it's my experience with Chinese students. | ||
| I was just at Rice at the Nanotechnology Lab. | ||
| There's Chinese students developing material science like new batteries. | ||
| It's going back to China. | ||
| No, no, they're starting corporations in the United States and made CEOs of these corporations to hire American workers. | ||
| Maybe they're doing that, but the information is still going back to China. | ||
| But it's also going to the United States. | ||
| If they go to China, it's just going to go to China. | ||
| But that's why we don't bring them in. | ||
| And they're using our resources to develop it. | ||
| I mean, these not, these, they're not like pro. | ||
| A lot of these people are not like pro-communist dictatorships like that. | ||
| But Ian, the point isn't whether or not they're pro. | ||
| The point is they have family in China, and China will put their family in a hole that is put them in jail and say they get out when you start doing what we say. | ||
| Like China, China has, like, there are actual like police departments in America that police the Chinese population in the United States. | ||
| The FBI has actually found them and broken up some of them. | ||
| But the point is, China, if you're a Chinese student, if you're a Chinese person from China, and you have family in China, they're going to use you against whatever your host country is. | ||
| And the United States has a responsibility to prevent that. | ||
| Does it also say something about what Trump thinks about the American people's station in life? | ||
| Because I did a video this week about Trump, the Trump administration, like customs and border protection, were like using shots of the Batman advertising deportations and stuff like that. | ||
| So is the idea supposed to be that we free up lower wage jobs by deporting illegal immigrants? | ||
| Americans can have those jobs, but anything higher than that, no, we're going to import H-1B visas. | ||
| So there's no upward mobility. | ||
| You can get those jobs because we're going to deport illegal aliens fine. | ||
| But you're not going to have any upward mobility because we legally bring in people which will benefit the corporations because they can give them those jobs at a lower cost. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Well, and also it's just disheartening and confusing that Trump has gone back and forth on this so much. | ||
| We were all white pilling because he said, oh, actually, we're going to make them pay $100,000 for each H-1B. | ||
| And then some were saying it was going to be annually reoccurring, which, you know, if you really need to import this talent from other places in the world and you're not just doing it because you want to cut down wages, then surely you should be willing to pay a premium for that. | ||
| This is somebody who is the top 1% of the top 1% talent-wise. | ||
| Oh, but as it turns out, they're not willing to do that because we all know that that's not what they're looking for. | ||
| So I'm curious, why do you guys think Trump keeps going back and forth on this? | ||
| Is it just a question of him being caught between trying to please his base and trying to please some of the business people around him or what? | ||
| His advisors? | ||
| Is he getting bad information and input from the people who surround him? | ||
| I think he at first was idealistic and like, we're just going to go with what feels right. | ||
| And now he's being utilitarian and realizing I don't want to gut, you know, 6% of our economy by stripping out the H-1Bs. | ||
| I saw a tweet with somebody saying that Charlie Kirk was somebody who would have been able to tell him that ideas like this are bad and that your base isn't going to support it. | ||
| And without Charlie there to kind of give him that information that his administration is suffering right now. | ||
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| And one of the good things about Donald Trump is Donald Trump is very pragmatic. | ||
| Like if there is a policy that he presents and it gets a lot of pushback, he will change. | ||
| He's not. | ||
| Always change. | ||
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| I said always change. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Always freak out. | ||
| That's why. | ||
| Because Donald Trump will respond. | ||
| And that is something that honestly, in my opinion, is good. | ||
| So like if. | ||
| I think that Trump has been on the road for the last six weeks in foreign countries. | ||
| I think he's been hearing from a lot of CEOs. | ||
| I think he's back. | ||
| I think we need to tell him what the American people think very clearly on this. | ||
| Totally agreed. | ||
| And one thing we got to remember about Trump, we admire him because he realizes you can just do things. | ||
| We get upset with him because he also realizes you can just say things. | ||
| And Trump will just say things sometimes. | ||
| And we got to call him out and say, not what we voted for. | ||
| Not what we're looking for. | ||
| Not what we're interested in. | ||
| He's not an ideology. | ||
| He doesn't have some kind of idea. | ||
| He doesn't have an ideological plan for what's going on. | ||
| He wants to do things that are going to make him look good. | ||
| And the things that will make him look good as a president is having a successful country. | ||
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| And I'll say this. | ||
| If there's any shot of Donald Trump ever hearing this or anyone hearing this who's near him or who speaks to him, the people who are telling you that we need more H-1Bs, the people who are telling you we need more IVF, the people who are telling you that we need more immigrants, the people who are telling you to abandon your base, just remember this. | ||
| Your base loves you even when they're disappointed in you and unhappy about these things. | ||
| These people telling you to do this stuff, they hate you even when you do what they want. | ||
| You can't go along with them. | ||
| You got to give the voters what they voted for. | ||
| I don't think that American equals better. | ||
| That's not the way it works. | ||
| If you're not going to be in America with foreign workers. | ||
| No, no, no. | ||
| It's not a question of, does American equal better? | ||
| Like is in our Americans intrinsically more valuable as human beings? | ||
| It's who are you rooting for? | ||
| Are you rooting for the people who elected you and the people you were elected to govern or are you rooting for foreigners? | ||
| Well, if I get the president, if I could get you a tutor and it was the best tutor was like an Indian guy, why wouldn't I get you the Indian guy? | ||
| And we have a single precedent for it. | ||
| If you could give me the best tutorial. | ||
| Well, this is an argument for meritocracy, but the The reality is it's just not the case that you're automatically going to find a better person who's not American to do the job. | ||
| Automatically when we found all like the last six months, the amount of H-1B fraud is showing that the companies that are using this program are cheating the system that was set up to allow for H-1Bs to fill jobs that there were not Americans to do. | ||
| The fact that they have to cheat shows that there are Americans to do it. | ||
| So to be quite frank, I think that is an argument. | ||
| for, you know, if you want to change, like if you want to change the immigration system and set up, you know, there's a lot of other immigration programs other than H-1B, but quite frankly, like the fact that they're cheating on this is showing, you know, I mean, Palmer Lucky talked about the amount of fraud that he's seen in San Francisco and in Silicon Valley on this. | ||
| The fact that they're cheating on it shows that it is not as being presented. | ||
| And one thing we have to keep in mind about H-1Bs, the H-1B visa is tied to a job. | ||
| So if a person gets brought in on an H-1B visa, the employer has a lot of power over the person. | ||
| So if you're on an H-1B visa and you're like, I don't, you know, I'm, I, and your boss comes and says, we need you to work this weekend. | ||
| You're not going to say no. | ||
| You say, okay. | ||
| And that even if you're on salary, right? | ||
| You're going to do what they say because if your boss gets bummed out with you, he's going to be like, all right, well, you're fired. | ||
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| And then you'll have to go back to wherever you're from. | ||
| Unless you're an intrinsic part of the company. | ||
| Pardon me? | ||
| Unless you're an intrinsic part of the company, like a good software developer. | ||
| No, hold on, hold on one second. | ||
| Again, you're talking about H-1Bs as if they're 0-1s. | ||
| No, no, software developers, for instance. | ||
| You can just fire your developers. | ||
| Oh, yeah, you can. | ||
| I mean, you're good luck if you want to take six months off and afford it. | ||
| You can and replace them with someone else. | ||
| If they're not skilled, it's easy, though. | ||
| Have you run a company, a software company? | ||
| Not a software company, but I've run companies. | ||
| And yes, you absolutely can. | ||
| If you're a big company, you can. | ||
| And I ran a software company for them. | ||
| Ian, even Ian, the point is it's the leverage. | ||
| It's the threat. | ||
| You're going to have this person that's like, oh, man, if I don't do what he says, I could lose my job. | ||
| And if I lose my job, I'll get sent home. | ||
| It's more than just losing the job to the person that you're talking about. | ||
| You're talking about they're losing their income and being sent out of the U.S. | ||
| And so it doesn't matter if they actually do get fired and if they have to replace them. | ||
| The point is he has far more leverage than a boss does over an employee that's already an American citizen. | ||
| And that leverage is what will make the person say, well, I got to do what they say, even whether they want to or not. | ||
| It's the same leverage they're talking about when they were talking about illegal aliens getting deported because they work for these companies under the table and they have no rights because they don't have the same protections that you or I do. | ||
| It's just giving the, it's just another layer of giving the companies power over their employees. | ||
| You're making a good point, Phil, that it does kind of put the worker at a disadvantage, even more so. | ||
| And you're also making an extremely good point, Noah, that it's being defrauded. | ||
| The system's being defrauded. | ||
| That's like what? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Not just shut. | ||
| I'm not just saying just shut it down, but what them? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| My problem with all of my problem with the immigration and like the reason that I side with, frankly, the American people who keep, every time they have an opportunity, they vote for the guy who wants to restrict immigration. | ||
| And I don't think that it's the American people are xenophobic. | ||
| I don't think it's that the American people have a problem with immigrants. | ||
| I think it's the fact that they've been lied to by every person on the immigration debate for the last 40 years. | ||
| They keep getting promised, okay, we'll do this amnesty and then we'll build the wall. | ||
| We will do, you know, we'll do amnesty first and then we'll do border security second. | ||
| And they have been lied to over and over and over again. | ||
| And I think the dishonesty has led to what we have now, which is like, hey, guys, like, come on. | ||
| Like, finally, like, we've got to stop. | ||
| And it's because of the dishonesty. | ||
| And so, like, because the American people are like God, like God-loving, amazing people. | ||
| And the fact that what we're going through right now is a result of blatant dishonesty through the entire system. | ||
| And I think that's what the people want fixed more than anything else. | ||
| Not just dishonesty, but they've actually been made to be seen as bad people if they don't do this. | ||
| That's the worst way. | ||
| Not only have they been lied to for the last 40 years, now the argument has gotten so bad that if you believe in borders at all, you're a bad person. | ||
| Racist. | ||
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A racist. | |
| 100%. | ||
| That's the argument the left has done consistently. | ||
| Every policy. | ||
| And Republicans before Trump. | ||
| Yeah, fair enough. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| But that's because the Republicans are afraid of step out of line because the Democrats are going to call them racists. | ||
| The fact that the American people cannot engage in argument because the Democrats are just going to say, well, you're a bad person. | ||
| This is a moral argument, et cetera. | ||
| That's a terrible thing for the country because then you can't actually get people that will debate ideas. | ||
| It's all about just ad hominem attacks. | ||
| You don't like this policy? | ||
| You want to kill children. | ||
| You don't like this policy? | ||
| It's because you're a racist. | ||
| You don't like this policy? | ||
| It's because you're an Islamophobia. | ||
| You don't like this policy? | ||
| It's because it's always these attacks against these ad hominem attacks, as opposed to saying, well, what are the actual arguments here? | ||
| Nobody steel mans anyone's arguments when it comes to policymaking. | ||
| And that is bad for America. | ||
| You know, I think Trump went in America first this second term particularly and the first term, but then now he's more liberal economic order first. | ||
| Like he's really trying to preserve Israel, our hegemony over the Suez, that whole Middle East thing. | ||
| Not that he wants war, but that he's more global mind right now. | ||
| And this H-1B thing has been used for 40 years for the world to disrupt and destroy liberalism in the United States. | ||
| It sounds like they've really corrupted this thing, and they want to use people's compassion to be like, what do you, you can't just get rid of visas. | ||
| That would destroy our heritage, what we've built our ethos upon. | ||
| But he's more like, bro, we're a world government. | ||
| Like this is a world, the economics is everywhere. | ||
| You can't just like borders. | ||
| Yeah, you can set up machine gun nests, but like you can't, you know, it's like you can call him on the phone across the, you can video chat. | ||
| You can, you can, you know, video conference. | ||
| That's what it seems like is that he's more globally mindseted right now. | ||
| Do you think, all right, here's a question. | ||
| Do you think when some of these things come out, it's because Trump is trying to pick his battles and he doesn't think he's going to be able to achieve something or wants to focus on something else, but he needs to brand everything as a victory. | ||
| So he just says, I wanted this the whole time. | ||
| I mean, that speaks to his ego, if that's true. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| No, I'm just serious. | ||
| I'm spitballing you. | ||
| I'm just musing as they say. | ||
| He does like saying that he's always, he does like promoting himself as not making mistakes and getting it right. | ||
| Like the COVID stuff, he did a lot of that with COVID, the way that was handled. | ||
| I mean, they printed, what, $7 trillion? | ||
| Maybe it wasn't his administration, but the stuff he had set up and kind of green lighted. | ||
| And he, he, yeah, he, he, but I don't know. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| To answer your question, I can't really think for him. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, speaking of COVID and a lot of extra cash being injected into the economy and some of the fallout from that, Trump, according to Yahoo News, is downplaying economic woes as partisans spin saying costs are way down. | ||
| President Donald Trump said the U.S. economy is strong and insisted polls showing Americans are feeling economic pain are fake during an interview on Fox News that aired on Monday night. | ||
| Trump said bad news about the economy amounted to a conjob by the Democrats, adding Democrats feed major news network anchors with the message the economy is bad. | ||
| And then every anchor does exactly what they say. | ||
| That is cope. | ||
| That is 110% correct. | ||
| So there's, yeah, there's, well, there's two things here because he is right about the way that news is presented regarding his administration and the way news is presented regarding anything, basically anything Donald Trump touches. | ||
| But at the same time, the idea that you can argue with people that are suffering, that are struggling, people that can't pay their bills, people that can't afford groceries. | ||
| If I understand correctly, defaults are going up on credit card bills. | ||
| There's record highs on defaults on car loans. | ||
| People are starting to default on their rent and their mortgages and stuff like that. | ||
| That kind of stuff, you can't argue with. | ||
| You can't say the economy is great and then look at the numbers and say, look, defaults are going up. | ||
| People aren't able to pay their bills. | ||
| These statistics do not lie. | ||
| And so if Donald Trump is just going to say, hey, they're wrong, the American people are going to say, he doesn't give a crap about us. | ||
| We'll also know what's actually going on. | ||
| He doesn't care about us. | ||
| Well, and you also can't say the economy is great after you've been talking about the need for 50-year mortgages and 15-year auto loans and everyone receiving a $2,000 stimulus check. | ||
| Listen, the stimulus check thing, at the very least, maybe you can make the argument, well, we've been robbed by these other countries and the tariffs have delivered some of the money back to us. | ||
| So I'll give it back to the people. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Maybe that's a separate conversation. | ||
| But when you're talking about needing to make people debt slaves to banks for far longer periods of time than they've ever had to be to purchase things that people were able to purchase without having to give that kind of interest money to banks and burn that kind of capital. | ||
| No, you can't turn around and say the economy is actually great. | ||
| Speaking of him giving $2,000 checks, stimulus checks with tariff money, that's wealth distribution. | ||
| That's him taking my money because prices have been jacked up due to tariffs and giving it to somebody else. | ||
| That's communist socialist behavior. | ||
| It's disgusting. | ||
| It's shocking that he even thought of it. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| That's been the standard for ever and ever, to be honest with you. | ||
| I mean, like the unemployment taxes. | ||
| Exactly what that's what they did when they started printing all the money that has created the income inequality that everyone's experiencing. | ||
| Well, you know, Ian wants to end the 20,000. | ||
| What? | ||
| Well, you know, Ian wants to end the feds. | ||
| He's going to agree with you. | ||
| And then suddenly. | ||
| But I mean, I am actually fond of the idea of ending the Federal Reserve as well. | ||
| But, you know, when they start printing money and people that have things, you know, they can take out, they have good credit, they have assets. | ||
| They can take out loans at 0%, 1%, 2%, and then they put it into the stock market and the stock market returns are 10%, 15% per year. | ||
| They're making 12%, 13% on this money that they borrowed. | ||
| And all it's doing is sitting in the stock market because they bought stock with it and they just make a bunch of money off of this loan because the government kept interest rates on cheap. | ||
| I want Noah to have a chance because he's been trying to get in here. | ||
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| Well, so this takes me, you know, we talked, we mentioned earlier the loss of Charlie Kirk. | ||
| Charlie's last interview that he did with Tucker Carlson, he went on there with a single message. | ||
| That message was the American youth are suffering. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| They are facing challenges that no other generation has faced. | ||
| And this is a crisis and we need to make this our top priority as a nation. | ||
| And he didn't bring that because everything was going well. | ||
| He brought that because he, you know, he actually frustrated, like he, he talked about and he was visibly frustrated on that in that conversation with Tucker where he's like, I try to tell boomers this and they will not listen. | ||
| And he broke down, you know, the fact that, you know, this was just out the other day. | ||
| We had a news story. | ||
| The median age of first time, I mean, so first-time home buyers are now 40 years old. | ||
| The median age of all home buyers is 60. | ||
| And I mean, so like we're talking, like, that is an insane statistic. | ||
| The amount of debt that kids are getting into when they get out of college is, I mean, it's absolutely astonishing. | ||
| But then you go down the fact that, I mean, you know, they're doing buy now, pay later. | ||
| I'm buying, you know, Chipotle. | ||
| I mean, it's absolutely, so he brought this. | ||
| He felt that it was a critical issue. | ||
| I think that we owe it to Charlie to keep talking about that because, I mean, that crisis is not going away until we solve it. | ||
| And government caused basically every single problem that Charlie listed. | ||
| And this is one of those things that I've brought up a bunch of times: being that, like, first of all, they have a problem because they don't really have somebody to take over after Trump leaves office. | ||
| There isn't a guaranteed candidate that really feels like he's waiting in the wings. | ||
| And the youth are upset, and it feels like a race against. | ||
| So, right now, men and women are voting on party lines in a lot of ways. | ||
| Men have been voting conservative because they feel like or are voting Republican because they feel like the Democrats have absolutely nothing for them. | ||
| But that only lasts so long if the economy gets so bad. | ||
| All it takes is one very charismatic Democrat to pull men who are desperate back to that side of the aisle. | ||
| If all they do is gather enough power and enough influence within the party to be able to stave off the anti-men, anti-white part of the coalition there. | ||
| And that could happen. | ||
| Now, maybe we're talking about Mamdani in New York City. | ||
| And if you don't think that it's possible that you get another charismatic Mamdani type that can run for government, you know, can run for president because he can't, it's very much possible. | ||
| And that could happen. | ||
| And they don't have an argument against that. | ||
| I made a joke last, I'm like half joking when I say something like this. | ||
| You just run Fetterman because everybody, like, he, you know, like, I saw something today saying like he's considering switching parties, and people are like, you know, he should. | ||
| And even if he doesn't, we need at least one sane Democrat. | ||
| Like literally all they need is like one sane Democrat. | ||
| And there is a whole bunch of people in the middle who would be very willing to vote the other way because they're not getting what they want right now from the Republicans. | ||
| Well, here's the problem. | ||
| And this is something the Democrats have been wrestling with to an extent since Trump's first election, but especially since his last election. | ||
| They keep saying, how do we reach young men? | ||
| How do we reach young men? | ||
| How do we reach young men? | ||
| And of course, what they're saying is, how do we continue to treat young men this way and still get them to vote for us? | ||
| And now the right is actually starting to ask that exact same question. | ||
| This occurred to me just the other day that basically anytime you hear the question, how do we reach young men? | ||
| What you're really being asked is, how do I get young men to obey? | ||
| Not how do I give them a message that works? | ||
| Not how do I change circumstances to make the world friendlier to them so they can start families? | ||
| And not how do we genuinely change our policies in such a way that appeals to them? | ||
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But what kind of language should we use to get them over? | |
| Like, how do we get around Joe Rogan? | ||
| How do we get someone who appeals to them? | ||
| Young men know that they're going to have more trouble starting families than their parents, that they're going to have more trouble getting homes. | ||
| As you mentioned, the median home buyer is 40 years old. | ||
| That age has only gone up and up over the years. | ||
| So the Democrats are fundamentally incapable of offering up any solutions that are going to appeal to young men because they all hate their dad a lot. | ||
| And that's actually what they see in the young men that they talk to. | ||
| I'm serious. | ||
| Any young man who wants to start a family, they see their father and him and they hate him. | ||
| And so even on an abstract political level, they have to do things that are fundamentally anti-man. | ||
| The Republicans are like 50-50 there. | ||
| We've widened the tent, so there's like a lot of dad haters in the party now, too, to be totally blunt. | ||
| And so I think we need to try to rescue the Republican Party from that mentality and from that, how do we make the green line go up, even at the expense of human well-being and new families getting started? | ||
| I think the problem is that the economy can get bad enough where it doesn't matter anymore, where they'll vote for their financial well-being in the future rather than on gendered lines if things get bad enough the way things are. | ||
| And what is the Republican solution to that right now? | ||
| 50-year mortgages? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Lying about grocery prices going down when everybody knows that that's not true and pretending like everything's hunky-dory when it's definitely not. | ||
| Like there aren't solutions there from either side. | ||
| They're basically surviving on the fact that the left is freaking awful. | ||
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That's right. | |
| That's speaking to men. | ||
| But that eventually won't keep if things go. | ||
| Well, and it won't keep next year. | ||
| I mean, we have midterm elections coming up. | ||
| We all know that Trump voters don't come out to vote in midterm elections. | ||
| We already know that. | ||
| They're especially not going to come out if Republicans are putting off. | ||
| You know, I mean, the problem and the reason that we have not seen Republicans take action, you know, and I'm not going to be fair to them, but I will for a second. | ||
| These, the solutions are hard, right? | ||
| So, like, why are home prices up so much? | ||
| Because, you know, New York City, where Mamdani just got elected, one-third of rented apartments in that city are price controlled. | ||
| I mean, so we are talking about either people who are part of like Section 8 housing, whatever the state and local version is of Section 8, plus rent control departments. | ||
| Those are one-third of all units. | ||
| You want to lower prices? | ||
| You got to get rid of that welfare. | ||
| I mean, like, so, you know, because the people that are suffering are the people who like are just above, you know, that, you know, being qualified for those programs. | ||
| We have got to tackle the hard problems that frankly are causing the unaffordability. | ||
| Republicans, I don't think, have the guts. | ||
| And that's what's really concerning. | ||
| Well, I think you're right. | ||
| Any problem that is going to require short-term pain to solve and will take more than four years to sort itself out is something no politician is going to actually touch. | ||
| And they'll just throw band-aids over it. | ||
| And that's the exact case with the housing market. | ||
| Look, man, this is going to be dark. | ||
| And I hate saying this. | ||
| I'm not trying to upset or offend anyone, you know, and I know I never do that, but there is basically no way to ensure that young men can buy houses and start families other than allowing for an actual market correction to happen, which on paper is going to look awful for the economy and which everyone is going to say is a bad thing, but is probably an important step in promoting the growth of new American families. | ||
| And I'm not saying, I'm not, and by the way, I'm not saying we go out of way to engineer that or do anything that would negatively affect the prices of housing. | ||
| I think we just have to let the market sort itself out. | ||
| And if the prices come down, you let them come down instead of saying, oh my gosh, we need to allow for there to be these 50-year mortgages so that we can extend buying power so that people can purchase more house than they're able to afford traditionally based on their income level. | ||
| Well, then what's the result of that? | ||
| Prices don't come down. | ||
| The other thing other than a market correction that would solve the problem is a reduction in cost. | ||
| Well, that's what a market correction is. | ||
| No, just buy cheaper fuel, like going to a hydrogen fuel system. | ||
| Something like that. | ||
| Oh, yeah, yeah, that's fair. | ||
| Free opens. | ||
| A correction would be like a market crash, and then the dollar, it requires a million dollars to buy a hamburger. | ||
| And everyone with Bitcoin now becomes the norm. | ||
| And all these other, it'd be like 120 million people on the street begging for food. | ||
| And then the Bitcoin would be the one world currency where they track you. | ||
| So the market correction would be a very bad thing for society right now. | ||
| I think reducing cost with technology and another industrial revolution, but you don't see a lot of that talk in politics because a lot of times maybe they're just not at the intellectual level or they're just too focused on getting votes. | ||
| Like you were saying, the system doesn't get people into getting, how do we get young men to vote for me? | ||
| It's rather, how do I actually inspire young men? | ||
| Well, show them the solution. | ||
| Well, that's exactly right. | ||
| And like I mentioned, we just don't have a system that's conducive to solving problems that take more than four years to solve and that require short-term pain. | ||
| And just a slight disagreement/slash correction. | ||
| A market correction wouldn't necessarily mean a crash, just a reduction. | ||
| But I think you're right that there's other... | ||
| What do you mean? | ||
| Well, it wouldn't have to be a total crash of the prices in the housing market. | ||
| It would just be a decrease. | ||
| And it could even be a gradual decrease, but it probably needs to happen. | ||
| I'm not saying it will. | ||
| I'm skeptical that a correction would not lead to a crash. | ||
| I agree with you. | ||
| I'm just saying it's not impossible. | ||
| I'm saying they're not the same thing. | ||
| Talking about a crash of just a housing market, right? | ||
| Right now, we've got a dollar bubble, like it's an everything bubble. | ||
| The stock market is in a bubble because of all of the money that's been printed. | ||
| All the people are just buying stock with free money. | ||
| Like, there's an everything bubble right now. | ||
| So, a correction in the housing market could turn into an economy-wide crash. | ||
| It's very, very dangerous. | ||
| And just for semantic, a crash would be a type of correction. | ||
| Not all corrections are correct. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I think that's fair. | ||
| Well, speaking of which, speaking of economic crashes, from the post-millennial, socialist Katie Wilson wins election for Seattle mayor, defeating Democratic incumbent Bruce Harrell after a late vote count. | ||
| Hilson describes herself as a socialist, and her win is a rejection of the moderate leadership that the city once saw. | ||
| Socialist Katie Wilson has defeated Democratic incumbent Bruce Harrell to become Seattle's next mayor. | ||
| The election, which occurred on November 4th, saw Harrell in the lead by seven points, but Wilson redistributed his vote. | ||
| Now, Wilson gained ground over a week later as Mallon ballots continued. | ||
| So we got, okay, so maybe she did redistribute. | ||
| No, I don't know. | ||
| That's a joke, YouTube. | ||
| We're just joshing around here, just a bunch of fellas making jokes. | ||
| The latest ballot count on November 12th showed Wilson leading by nearly 2,000 votes, enough for the race to be called for the socialist barista with 50.08% to Harrel's 49.59%. | ||
| So what do you guys think of this? | ||
| You big fans? | ||
| This just speaks to the argument that we've been making. | ||
| Like, if you don't have an economy that works for people, specifically for young people, then they're not going to think, oh, I can buy into a capitalist society. | ||
| The reason this is the second major city in this particular election season that has elected a socialist who said, you know, at least has said, I am going to institute policies that are supposed to help you. | ||
| And it's not like they defeated a Republican. | ||
| Both of them defeated Democrats. | ||
| Cuomo, even though he was running as an independent, he was a Democrat, and he'd been a Democrat, I believe, all of his life. | ||
| And the socialist defeated the Democrat in Seattle. | ||
| These elections bode very, very badly for the United States. | ||
| Young people do not buy into our system, and we need to fix that. | ||
| We need to do something. | ||
| The federal government needs to do something to make sure that young people feel like they can actually engage in our system and will come out better for it. | ||
| This is like a pendulum swing from corporatocracy where I don't know how much richer Amazon, Google got during the pandemic, how much richer Alphabet, these, you know, what is it, Nvidia, and BlackRock buying housing. | ||
| Now, these mega, you know, global mega corps own houses that should probably be owned by American citizens so that people are like, just give me some socialism to fix this. | ||
| I mean, if you can't stop corporations, what do you do? | ||
| You have to band together as a society, and that's kind of communistic, you know? | ||
| So, well, the problem is like, so for somebody like me, like I get grossed out when people talk about wealth redistribution. | ||
| I hate the idea that you think you should have any say over what somebody else does with their money. | ||
| And even worse, the idea that you can take money from them and imagine yourself the good guy. | ||
| But for a lot of these people, they don't see a way out. | ||
| And I understand, like, I'm in a lot of ways, I'm in the same boat. | ||
| I'm, it's not like I live in a world now where the idea of owning a house is almost ridiculous. | ||
| And you're like, look, I don't believe in it because at my core value, I don't believe in taking from somebody else and then imagining that I'm the good guy. | ||
| But for a lot of these people, they don't see any other path forward. | ||
| And you're going to get more elections like this in the future because they don't see a world where capitalism actually works. | ||
| Well, I guess I have a, I don't know, you know, devil's advocate question here. | ||
| What does a socialist mean in Seattle? | ||
| I mean, the city that has she the moderate. | ||
| Yeah, like like what you know Mamdani was like so we knew with him it was the he's gonna have the government grocery stores. | ||
| I think people understand like that's that seems like a pretty dumb idea. | ||
| But like Seattle, like I've visited in the last five years, like it seemed to me pretty socialist already. | ||
| So I'm actually curious what that means. | ||
| Yeah, it just means they're going to accelerate the collapse. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| I'm wondering the same thing. | ||
| When I say capitalism, I'm not even necessarily referencing that specifically because we just had a whole discussion about how government and big business get together and do things like H-1B visas, right? | ||
| That's not capitalism. | ||
| That's cronyism at best, but they don't understand that. | ||
| They don't understand that there's a difference between those ideals. | ||
| All they see is a media where a bunch of millionaires have othered the idea of the billionaire and turned them into a class of person that's worthy of disdain because that's the haves and the have-nots and they're going to keep fighting about it. | ||
| The idea that property is something that is attainable has to be an idea that's tangible and real to you. | ||
| Yes, hold on. | ||
| That's the point, right? | ||
| Young people nowadays don't ever expect to own their own home. | ||
| If you live in a city, you don't own a car. | ||
| You probably have some kind of public, rely on public transit or whatever. | ||
| So the idea of property has to be something that young people can actually. | ||
| And like, and yes, ownership. | ||
| I mean, because if you're financing a burrito, it means that you like legit, like you must not really think money's real at that time. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I think this must all be like a game. | ||
| You know, like, I mean, you have no investment in like accumulation in like, you know, like long term. | ||
| Like at that point, I mean, you're dealing with, you know, I think a really sad state of affairs that like we morally, like if we have the power to do it, we have got to change course, even if it's painful. | ||
| Phil, when you're talking about property ownership and how important that is to give young people hope to own property, I agree. | ||
| But the problem I'm seeing is if BlackRock owns 10 million houses, like I'm kind of open to the idea of seizing the property from BlackRock and giving it back to the American people. | ||
| I'm not. | ||
| And the reason I'm not is because if you seize property, you destroy investment. | ||
| But if you're going to seize property from either companies or from people, then people that have capital are not going to invest their capital. | ||
| And this is what happens in socialist societies. | ||
| When you nationalize things, when the government takes property from private ownership, then people that have capital are like, I'm not going to invest my money because the government will take it. | ||
| So that was the argument that was made in New York. | ||
| Kevin Leary made the argument. | ||
| Why am I going to try to build something when I know that the government is likely to just take it? | ||
| It's just a difference between, I wouldn't advocate taking it from a person or a small business or something, but a mega, these corporatocracy is like, it's a new function that is like, how do you prevent? | ||
| Because if BlackRock owned every house in the United States, what I would say about BlackRock, what I'd say about BlackRock, I know a thing or two about the company. | ||
| I've been, you know, my job, I've been going after them for years. | ||
| There are multiple federal court cases at this point that have labeled BlackRock a monopoly. | ||
| So I think that there is a strong case to be made to break BlackRock up. | ||
| BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, those three have an absurd percentage of all of the investment, like pension fund and other investment, you know, money in this country. | ||
| We do have antitrust laws on the books. | ||
| Those are longstanding. | ||
| And if we feel that they have exceeded, you know, the scale and they are a monopolistic actor, that there are laws on the books to deal with that. | ||
| So that's like one way that you can do it legally with like within the current framework of law. | ||
| Can an American antitrust suit be brought against a global corporation with headquarters in like Mumbai or something? | ||
| I mean, it's a U.S. corporation. | ||
| Like at the end of the day, I think it's headquartered in Delaware. | ||
| Like we can, they have branches over. | ||
| I got a spicy question for you. | ||
| Was that corporation that got bought? | ||
| It got bought by Bayer, which is a British company because they had such bad press in the U.S. | ||
| To your point, Ian, I would be far more, I like the idea of antitrust laws and breaking a company up far more than I like the idea of seizing property. | ||
| The problem with breaking up a company is what they did with Standard Oil, Rockefeller, Standard Oil. | ||
| They broke it up into like six or eight other oil companies, but Rockefeller still owned all those other companies. | ||
| It just made them richer. | ||
| So if you did that to BlackRock and now there's eight companies that own 30% of the housing, what's the difference? | ||
| Well, here's the question. | ||
| But Ian, hold on, I got a spicy question. | ||
| It's owned by itself. | ||
| It's owned by its own investors, which it's crazy. | ||
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Then it's very spicy about this. | |
| So let's say that BlackRock only has a small percentage of real estate, and a huge reason the price was driven up was because there were foreigners who were given handouts from taxpayers to be able to purchase houses. | ||
| Would you be okay with seizing those houses to bring prices down? | ||
| Say that again, foreigners do. | ||
| If it were the case that there were many people in our country who were non-citizens who were receiving specific benefits or were migrants who were naturalized by activist judges or whatever, who received houses or benefits at the expense of taxpayers and that drove the price of housing up, would you be okay with seizing their houses? | ||
| No, I'm talking about mega corporations. | ||
| So only mega corporations. | ||
| At this moment, BlackRock buying the housing in the United States is a lot of people who are going to be able to do that. | ||
| I think like 3 to 8% of homes are owned by corporations in this country. | ||
| I see absolutely no reason why a city can't, and I think they should put an ordinance in. | ||
| In my understanding, there's no constitutional barrier reason why a city, county, or even state government couldn't say that, you know, because a residential home is a particular like designation that, you know, residential homes could not be purchased by, you know, you could say an out-of-state corporation. | ||
| I mean, you could play some sort of cat. | ||
| I mean, there's no reason why you couldn't pass a law to say that. | ||
| And when you ban BlackRock from doing that or like to ban them from doing it in the future so they can't gain more. | ||
| Like those are the types of things that are completely legal and constitutional that we could do. | ||
| Would you put liquidate their assets, i.e. take their corporations and put them on like a public market for sale? | ||
| They're already publicly owned. | ||
| No, no, take the apartment, take the houses from BlackRock. | ||
| You could prevent them from buying any more, which would like, if you prevented them from buying any more, that would negate their entire business strategy and they'd probably end up selling. | ||
| And their strategy is to get like, you know, to get a massive supply. | ||
| You brought up the idea of monopoly and breaking these companies up. | ||
| Well, one of the things that David Zaslav said when the 2024 election was going on was that he, you know, he wasn't talking about who he was going to vote for, but he did say that Trump was pro-business and pro-acquisition for companies. | ||
| One of the reasons why David Ellison was able to make Skydance and Paramount a reality. | ||
| And one of the reasons they're considered a frontrunner for buying Warner Brothers is because that family has a strong relationship with Donald Trump, who is going to be pro-business and allowing them to merge their companies, even if there are actual monopolistic concerns there. | ||
| So again, that's more him playing to his donor class than his base. | ||
| And like, would you become one with the Borg? | ||
| Would you become one with the demon to preserve yourself? | ||
| Oracle, the Oracle demon, Larry, Larry Ellison. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, Ian, just the mass conglomeration as like the demon, you know. | ||
| When you talk about just, you know, just BlackRock or just the big companies, I can't help but think of the fact that like when the income tax was instituted, it was only 1%. | ||
| You were like, no, no, we're not going to worry about small businesses and stuff. | ||
| And we wouldn't take the property from them. | ||
| But when the income tax was created, it was 1% or 2% only on the top, top, top earners. | ||
| Now everybody pays 40%. | ||
| So it's not a situation where you can just say, oh, this will actually be limited. | ||
| You're saying the government is, if you allow the government to seize property just because you're going to see the government trying to seize more property. | ||
| The Intel buying into 10% of Intel, like the government just bought 10% of Intel. | ||
| That's like pure communism, right there. | ||
| No, that's not pure communism. | ||
| You don't want your communism to be all of Intel and then all of the other things. | ||
| Okay, it's a step towards pure communism. | ||
| You're saying the slippery slope. | ||
| But the government has already done that. | ||
| And the government has done that historically as well. | ||
| Taking an interest in a particular industry because of national security is different than saying we're going to expropriate all of your property because you own too much. | ||
| I think that BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard are a unique formation on the planet that needs to be dealt with. | ||
| It's not just a corporation. | ||
| You could call it something other than corporation. | ||
| You know, they're hiding behind that term and legal function right now. | ||
| But how can three companies own 22% of the stock market? | ||
| Who owns those companies? | ||
| Who are those people? | ||
| Their names aren't even public. | ||
| People that own it. | ||
| So, yeah, I mean, so the people who, yeah, who owns them? | ||
| I mean, so if you actually look at, you know, where, like, where's, you know, they're like, they manage something like BlackRock's like 11 trillion now. | ||
| It is pension funds globally. | ||
| Like they have a massive, and pension funds are where all the biggest pools of capital on the planet are. | ||
| You know, like Republican states have like a couple trillion dollars of investment fund. | ||
| You know, you have California, New York, and other blue states are another two or three trillion dollars. | ||
| European governments, their pension funds are another five or six trillion dollars. | ||
| So, I mean, like, where the biggest pools of capital are literally public pension funds. | ||
| And the funny thing about it is because none of the individuals who have their pensions really have any idea where their money's invested. | ||
| It's just in a pension. | ||
| So it creates this thing where, like, you know, yes, it's all like invested in the stock market, but none of the individuals who own that money understand it, which is why you end up with the situation that you described with Black Rock. | ||
| Well, who owns BlackRock? | ||
| The pensioners who have no idea what they own. | ||
| It's a very weird situation. | ||
| I do think, you know, getting back to the point I made before, I think that they're like, you know, there was a Houston judge earlier this year called BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, I mean, essentially monopolistic actors. | ||
| And I think we're in a situation where, you know, it's pretty clear, I think we do need to be calling for something like that. | ||
| We have to, because otherwise we're going to see communism and socialism in an actual seizure of properties eventually. | ||
| Like if people are homeless on the street and some corporation owns 90% of the houses on a block, those people are just going to go break into the houses and squat and take them. | ||
| So like we could do it. | ||
| If we can do it legally and peacefully, I think that's important. | ||
| I mean, if your argument is use a little socialism to prevent a lot of socialism, I do think that the I do think that the situation will eventually devolve into socialism either way. | ||
| Like anti-socialism. | ||
| You can consider anti-spring. | ||
| That makes sense. | ||
| Don't you think there's some level of regulation that's like you were saying, like, like we were saying, the idea of using existing antitrust laws, I'm comfortable with that. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Breaking up a company. | ||
| I think that that's something that's a multinational aspect that's new that makes antitrust laws almost malfunct. | ||
| I don't agree with you. | ||
| But domestically, they are effectively, I mean, there's like three actors that control a massive percentage of the market domestic. | ||
| I think you can make an antitrust case for it. | ||
| I'm not like an trust attorney. | ||
| Like, you know, like that's not, that's not my specialty. | ||
| But, you know, my point is there have been judges who've referred to them that way. | ||
| I think that they, you know, I think that we need to, I think the American people need to start raising the alarm on that. | ||
| And the thing is, I think what the point is, like, you're, you're talking about a fast solution. | ||
| That's a little bit of socialism. | ||
| But the problem is, is the slow solution like antitrust takes forever. | ||
| And these companies have unlimited money to bury it in lawsuits. | ||
| They're the only ones that have the possibility of taking on the U.S. government and possibly winning. | ||
| I mean, you know, so the ESG pension fund issue, like there have been lawsuits that have gone against, you know, corporations on that. | ||
| So I, you know, I'm not, I'm not a black pillar on this. | ||
| I think we can solve it. | ||
| I think, but we need to actually like we need to collectively like start saying this, you know, consistently. | ||
| We need to raise that alarm. | ||
| And there's a cultural issue around this here where, you know, the young people who are upset about all these things, they go back and forth, especially on social media, with people from older generations who tell them to drink, you know, make your coffee at home and you'll be able to buy a house one day. | ||
| Completely divorced from the reality of the world we live in now. | ||
| Even if you're going to college route, you know, what it costs to send somebody to college for debt that they're never going to be able to repay while they get their 50-year mortgage, like I said before, there's just, there is so much blackpilling amongst the youth because they're getting like every generation before them said we need to make the world better for our children. | ||
| And the kids growing up now are being told by those that came before them, deal with it and, you know, pick yourself up by the bootstraps. | ||
| And the reality is there was a time when that was good advice. | ||
| They're operating in a completely different world. | ||
| Like that, that generation is used to a completely different world where that advice made really good sense. | ||
| It's like that meme, the world you were raised to grow up in no longer exists or whatever. | ||
| I mean, that's true. | ||
| There was a time when, yes, just setting aside some extra money from luxuries you might have purchased instead could probably save you enough for a down payment for a house or whatever. | ||
| It's just, that's not the case anymore. | ||
| But we do get to go to the next story. | ||
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Okay, cool. | |
| Sorry, we really got to go to the next story here. | ||
| This is a fun one. | ||
| A judge orders the release of 600 migrants swept up in ICE's Midway Blitz operating in Chicago. | ||
| So we just saw yesterday that Trump was informing us that crime had dropped because, believe it or not, putting the people who commit crimes in cages stops them from being able to commit crimes outside those cages. | ||
| And the socioeconomic factors didn't grab other people and force them to commit the crimes. | ||
| But some judge decided that they were going to release a bunch of the people who were swept up in that blitz. | ||
| And by the way, you might claim these things are unrelated. | ||
| And, you know, yes, this is Midway Blitz, but these are migrants and not necessarily people who are out breaking the law. | ||
| No, come on. | ||
| These are, in many cases, the same people. | ||
| People who come into the country illegally don't respect our nation's laws. | ||
| We also know that most crimes are committed by repeat offenders, or at the very least, that a huge percentage of crime is committed by repeat offenders. | ||
| And if you lock those people up, they stop. | ||
| Or if you send them out of your country, they stop. | ||
| But we're going to read the opening of this article. | ||
| More than 600 people who are arrested by ICE as part of its Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago are to be released. | ||
| A federal judge has ordered. | ||
| District Judge Jeff Cummings issued the release order on Wednesday morning following a lawsuit brought by civil rights groups against ICE and a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol. | ||
| I mean, in the civil rights regime, it is just insane. | ||
| Literally anything anyone does to try to protect the country can somehow be called racism by someone and they're going to claim it's a civil rights violation. | ||
| This idea of the left calling everything racist when they don't like it, it has broader implications than rhetorical effectiveness or ineffectiveness once the words lose their power. | ||
| This is actually something that's brought to a matter of law. | ||
| At least 615 people are to be released by Friday, November 15th, and must make bond by November 21st, the order stated. | ||
| The lawsuit brought by the National Immigrant Justice Center. | ||
| They're not immigrants. | ||
| They're illegal alien invaders, but I digress. | ||
| And the ACLU alleged that federal agents violated a 2022 settlement agreement over warrantless arrests in Chicago and the surrounding area. | ||
| What do you guys think of this story? | ||
| What do you think is going to happen to Chicago as a result of these migrants being released or these illegal aliens that ICE arrested being, I mean, alleged illegal aliens, I suppose. | ||
| To be clear, allegedly, maybe there's someone who was, or some of them were, I don't know the legal status of the people arrested is what I'm saying. | ||
| I assume that ICE goes out and arrests people who aren't here legally. | ||
| I don't know the basis for the lawsuit. | ||
| Trump has like a fantastic argument to the people calling him racist now. | ||
| They're like, you know, you're a racist. | ||
| You're having all these people arrested. | ||
| He's like, have you seen how many H-1B visas I'm bringing in? | ||
| Like, how can you like that would blow their minds, right? | ||
| The average Democrats is like, oh my gosh, he's actually bringing people in from other countries. | ||
| They must all be from Eastern Europe because he would only bring white people in. | ||
| This is the real great replacement is just replacing the people they deport with H-1Bs. | ||
| Like, all right, you go, you come in. | ||
| You were wrong the whole time. | ||
| That's right. | ||
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| Well, what I will say about, you know, I think there's two major points. | ||
| The people who file these lawsuits, the National Immigration Justice Center and the ACLU, these people do not care one lick, you know, the status of the people. | ||
| Their point, their strategy is coordinated. | ||
| We knew what the strategy was going to be. | ||
| It's the same strategy they always have to slow Trump down, to nick at him with a thousand lawsuits in every single jurisdiction he's doing this in. | ||
| Their goal is to do this day in and day out to break down their resolve. | ||
| And I hope Tom Homan and Stephen Miller and the good people in the Trump administration wake up tomorrow more, you know, more fired up than ever to keep this going because their strategy is to use the NGO swarm on the left that I bet we could look up and see a ton of government money going to the National Immigration Justice Center. | ||
| We are funding our own demise here. | ||
| And I think that we need to do a better job of keeping up the pressure. | ||
| Well, one question I have is like when we're talking about the immigration issue and people who didn't come here legally, like, are they illegal aliens or are they just friends we haven't made yet? | ||
| They're illegal aliens. | ||
| It depends on what reality you step into. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Different dimensions. | ||
| There's different answers. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| I guess it's a fair point. | ||
| Well, yeah, federal judge from alternate dimension rules that Trump must halt arrests of illegal aliens. | ||
| Yeah, like you said, they're just going to do death by a thousand paper cuts. | ||
| They're going to try to prevent the administration from operating or governing with any level of effectiveness. | ||
| Very frustrating, Talos all this time. | ||
| I think I couldn't have said it better than you did. | ||
| We just hope that some of the people in his administration who are known for being bulldogs actually stand up against this and get something done because this is getting really ridiculous. | ||
| Do you think there's justification for martial law in situations like this? | ||
| I guess it depends on what you mean. | ||
| Like, do I like the idea of martial law? | ||
| No. | ||
| But also, does the federal government have a right or role or responsibility to prevent states that are literally usurping the role of the federal government by disobeying its laws? | ||
| We've literally done this before. | ||
| I mean, you know, so we had some states in the South, not West Virginia, but other states that decided that they didn't want to listen to the president of the United States. | ||
| And there were some pretty big repercussions for that. | ||
| You know, one of them being, you know, actually, you know, actually going in, you know, I mean, the entire 20, 30-year period of Reconstruction was an effort to resolve a lot of these problems. | ||
| More recently, in the 1950s and 1960s, during the civil rights era, you know, we had Eisenhower, we had JFK sent tons. | ||
| I mean, he sent, he mobilized the National Guard, sent them in. | ||
| They had cities that were doing things far less subversive than what Chicago and a bunch of these other cities have done. | ||
| There's a ton of legal precedent for the president to do exactly what he's doing. | ||
| In fact, to escalate it. | ||
| And I guess that wasn't really martial law when they were sending the National Council. | ||
| Not martial law, but I mean, but using federal authority when cities were, you know, just straight up, you know, disobeying, you know, federal law. | ||
| Martial law, I guess I shouldn't soften that term because that would be like curfew at 6 p.m. | ||
| If you're out, you might get shot if you're out after six. | ||
| That kind of energy. | ||
| I don't want that world to be like that. | ||
| I don't feel like. | ||
| It hasn't been that way since COVID when the Democrat, when Tim Walz put in a curfew in Minneapolis. | ||
| There's those videos. | ||
| Do you remember these? | ||
| Like of the cops walking down the street during COVID, telling people to get back inside. | ||
| In China, they had, I think they had China and Minneapolis. | ||
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Oh, did they? | |
| Yeah. | ||
| And the hotline you could call to rat out your neighbors. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, man. | ||
| That was only a few years ago. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| I mean, nothing that Trump could do. | ||
| I mean, I won't say nothing, all right? | ||
| And I'll end up being surprised. | ||
| But there isn't that much that Trump could conceivably do that would be more draconian than the COVID lockdowns. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I used to call them shutdowns because we never were forced to stay inside. | ||
| They just told us to stay inside. | ||
| You kind of stayed forced to stay inside. | ||
| Some states had curfews. | ||
| I mean, the Democrats, I mean, the Democrats, they were, I mean, Newsom was arresting people going to the beach. | ||
| They were actually doing it in the blue states. | ||
| I mean, I think lockdown was appropriate there. | ||
| Like in China, from what I heard, they would weld people into their houses, like literally lock them inside. | ||
| Britain was, I think, like, it's, you know, I mean, there's been a lot that's been said about that. | ||
| But in the UK, I mean, they had people, they had to download an app. | ||
| And if they went more than three blocks from their house, like for like, they were only allowed outside their house for like 90 minutes a day. | ||
| So would you be comfortable with that for a situation of like getting illegal immigrants out of the country? | ||
| Yeah, we wouldn't need a lot of people. | ||
| I don't think we need to do that. | ||
| No, I don't think, I don't think, no, I don't, I mean, I don't think that's appropriate. | ||
| I don't think you need to. | ||
| I think that, I think that when you do have blue states, blue city specifically, I mean, Mamdani is already talking about like refusing to comply in New York. | ||
| I think that the president has an absolute right to go in and enforce federal immigration laws. | ||
| I mean, he was elected with a mandate to do this. | ||
| I think he's being overly cautious in his implementation of it. | ||
| I don't think that martial law is necessary. | ||
| I do think that stronger use of force is absolutely appropriate. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And of course, any attempt Trump makes at enforcing any federal law is going to be called martial law by the left. | ||
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That's it. | |
| Well, that's the point, right? | ||
| Like the question they keep asking is like, why does he keep half-stepping it when they're going to call him names and tell him that he's a fascist anyways? | ||
| He's got to resist it. | ||
| That's the, it's a rules for radicals, Saul Olinski. | ||
| They call you fascist until you actually become one. | ||
| They, they, you know, it's, it's a goal of theirs is to keep saying you're the demon. | ||
| And then finally, when you're like, okay, you want to play the game? | ||
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Fine. | |
| I'll be the demon. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And the other aspect of this that I think is really interesting. | ||
| And I actually wouldn't be surprised if this is going on in Memphis and some of the, you know, so like there's like Memphis is an interesting case where it's clearly a Republican state, but a blue city where, you know, the president has gone in and has been very aggressive. | ||
| I think that they're, I think that what we're seeing, so, you know, we mentioned the NGOs there. | ||
| There's very clearly, you know, super strong coordination amongst these NGOs, which we saw during the Biden era and that we're seeing in tons of other areas of state governance. | ||
| You know, it's the area I like to call the shadow government of NGO networks that effectively run these state governments, whether they're red states, blue states. | ||
| These are government entities, you know, that are funded by the government, but are separate private organizations that effectively will come in and run government departments, whether you're talking about, you know, the civil rights era or whether you're talking about transportation, education, the shadow government of the states is a real thing and they coordinate very effectively. | ||
| This is like your specialty line of work, actually. | ||
| It is. | ||
| Covered a bunch of NGOs that are funding states to do what? | ||
| Get on board with like uniform thought. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| So, you know, it's really interesting. | ||
| So, you know, we're here in West Virginia. | ||
| You have, you know, everyone knows California and New York are super liberal. | ||
| People think that, you know, Texas, Florida are super conservative. | ||
| When you actually get into it, these NGOs that I'm talking about, the shadow government, which you can find on our website, stateleadership.org. | ||
| These organizations that we itemize in here represent every single function of state government. | ||
| Local government as well. | ||
| We're focusing on the state level. | ||
| Every single department of every single state government has an organization that represents that function that is national and operates as a coordinating mechanism between all the states that ends up creating, you know, so why you have DEI in Texas the same way you have DEI, you know, in Illinois. | ||
| It's because of these national coordinating organizations. | ||
| Is it federally funding NGOs to create a problem that they can solve? | ||
| Like sometimes they say the homeless epidemic, if they you don't really want to solve it because you're making so much money. | ||
| Is it the same thing with immigration? | ||
| No. | ||
| So, you know, it's really interesting. | ||
| It's actually all, I mean, most of these are state-funded organizations. | ||
| So the state is paying membership dues, these organizations, and they end up, they end up causing this, you know, they end up coordinating and they end up furthering their radical left agenda and they end up actually like increasing, you know, funding for themselves. | ||
| I mean, it's like the self-licking ice cream cone problem. | ||
| But that's what these organizations do. | ||
| What, you know, and whenever we're clear, to be clear about this, you know, we have the organizations focused on civil rights. | ||
| They have these organizations focused on state parks, you know, making sure that state parks are welcoming to immigrants. | ||
| Like that's like an actual program that they have like an NGO focused on. | ||
| That sounds like one of those USAID programs that we were hearing about. | ||
| It's that level of silliest, most like NPR sounding thing you've ever heard in your life. | ||
| It absolutely is. | ||
| Oh, but it's state, but they've broken it apart into smaller things. | ||
| So people are like. | ||
| There are literally hundreds of separate orgs that do all of this stuff, really super niche so that you would never have any reason to ever remember it. | ||
| Oh, it's so tempting to think this stuff's boring and irrelevant. | ||
| It's actually the Hydra. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's literally, there are, there's probably a thousand of them. | ||
| Like if you were to add them all up, you know, our website, we have 25 the biggest offenders, you know, transportation department, Medicaid. | ||
| No one ever thinks of like the Medicaid department, the Medicaid director. | ||
| Literally, you know, have an organization of every single Medicaid director. | ||
| You know, this is a bureaucrat. | ||
| He's not even a political appointee in most states. | ||
| Medicaid director in every single state in America, they all meet up. | ||
| They all talk about and strategize how to insert DEI racial quotas into like they actually coordinate, you know, put this stuff out. | ||
| It's all public, but it's so boring, no one ever pays attention to it. | ||
| Do they do it slow? | ||
| Like, we're going to do it in Texas this month, next month. | ||
| Let's wait two weeks and then we'll implement it over here. | ||
| It'll make it look like a lot of people. | ||
| These have been going on for 100 years. | ||
| So most of these organizations have literally been around since like Woodrow Wilson. | ||
| So this is Federal Reserve, like fat. | ||
| This is how the fascists were trying to control. | ||
| This is like, this is, this is a, this is all progressive era organizations that were created by like Woodrow Wilson. | ||
| It's like a super wacky history. | ||
| What's the website? | ||
| People are like stateleadership.org. | ||
| You can download the reports right on the banner. | ||
| You know, and if you follow us at Red States Lead, like we talk about this every day. | ||
| So like this, I nerd out on this subject all the time. | ||
| So awesome. | ||
| Awesome. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Definitely check that out. | ||
| And wow, did you hear my, you hear that voice crack? | ||
| Most hosts would have just glazed over that, but I'm honestly glad it was. | ||
| I was like, hey, hi, go to the webinar. | ||
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All right. | |
| Check out. | ||
| I only know how that happens. | ||
| And look into it. | ||
| Now we've got to go over to Super Chats. | ||
| And Ian, you need to get out of here. | ||
| You need to look at it. | ||
| Screw you too. | ||
| Leave out that door. | ||
| I've had enough of you, Seamus. | ||
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Yeah, crap. | |
| Yeah, bro. | ||
| I'm going to do Inverted World. | ||
| Shane Cashman will be taking the night off. | ||
| I'm going to be going live with Brandon Miner at 10 p.m. | ||
| It's been 30 minutes. | ||
| So check us out. | ||
| If you stick around, if you're on YouTube, it's going to kick you over to that show. | ||
| Course, you got the after show with these fine gentlemen, but I think I'm, I think, I think my charisma speaks for itself, sir. | ||
| Oh, Federal 20. | ||
| Hey, guys, catch me on Inverted World Live. | ||
| I'll see you later. | ||
| Thanks, Sheamus. | ||
| Love you, big dog. | ||
| Good seeing you. | ||
| Always love having you on, man. | ||
| Really good to see you too, Noah. | ||
| That was awesome. | ||
| It was great to meet you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
| The John Falcone channel said, Yeah, we did it, Sheamus. | ||
| Congrats from the Madcap Falcone parody band. | ||
| Glad to help. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| It's incredible. | ||
| I'm again, I'm very humbled. | ||
| And God bless you guys. | ||
| And thank you so much for getting us there. | ||
| I mean, this is the best audience. | ||
| I have the best audience on YouTube, and there's a lot of overlap with the Tim Cast audience here. | ||
| You guys are awesome. | ||
| You guys are awesome. | ||
| Thank you for this. | ||
| Lurch 687 says, Trump has been such a disappointment in 2.0 that I don't think Republicans deserve to maintain the majority. | ||
| At least the left shows us who they are. | ||
| So here's the thing. | ||
| Even if you feel that way right now, and I get you. | ||
| I get where you're coming from. | ||
| The Republicans kind of have us in a bind because we know that the Democrats are so much worse. | ||
| And so it's like, all right, do you want to deal with a lighter version of what they're doing? | ||
| Or do you want to have to deal with us being feckless weaklings, basically, or not doing enough? | ||
| But I hear you. | ||
| I'm certainly sympathetic. | ||
| Hold on a second. | ||
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Read both. | |
| All right. | ||
| Love you, bro. | ||
| You need to massage, Seamus. | ||
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All right. | |
| SANZY on the way out. | ||
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File the report, Sheamus. | |
| Good seeing you. | ||
| SA Federale says, of course, an Arch Con silverware thief. | ||
| Let me read this. | ||
| Am I seeing this right? | ||
| Of course, an Arch Con silverware thief thinks it's possible to make files inaccessible to the executive administration of those powerful country in history. | ||
| This isn't Shimcast, it's Sheamcast. | ||
| Firstly, firstly, I'm trying to give him the benefit of the doubt here. | ||
| And I'm saying, maybe something happened. | ||
| Listen, we know that generals were lying to Trump about stuff. | ||
| We know that a lot was kept from him in his last administration. | ||
| It was almost as if there wasn't a true transfer of power. | ||
| So it's not so much the executive administration. | ||
| It's the executive himself and whether or not he's being told what he needs to be told. | ||
| But that's just one side of it. | ||
| That's just one potential explanation. | ||
| Split says, Seamus, it's the Shim Cool show. | ||
| That is, is that better than Shimcast? | ||
| That might be what we have to go with. | ||
| Shim Cool is actually better, yes. | ||
| I like Shim Cool a lot. | ||
| I do. | ||
| David Toronto says, if it wasn't for Trump, nothing would get done. | ||
| How do you guys feel about that? | ||
| Look, I mean, whether or not Trump is delivering presently doesn't change the fact that the reason that Roe versus Wade got overturned is because Donald Trump's appointments. | ||
| The reason that the Voting Rights Act is in front of the Supreme Court is because of Donald Trump. | ||
| The reason that the affirmative action stuff got overturned is because of Donald Trump. | ||
| The reason that the border is closed is because of Donald Trump. | ||
| Every single criticism that people have about Donald Trump not doing enough, I understand and I hear you. | ||
| But the idea that things would be better without Donald Trump, that is completely wrong. | ||
| So I'll take it a step further than that. | ||
| We would all be in jail if President Trump did not win. | ||
| Don't worry, we would lose. | ||
| Yeah, well, maybe we will, but we would definitely be in jail right now if President Trump was not saved by God in Butler, Pennsylvania last summer. | ||
| And like, or I guess summer before last at this point. | ||
| But, you know, God bless Donald Trump. | ||
| We have like we before Donald Trump, we went through the doldrums, man. | ||
| I mean, you remember the time of Romney, McCain, like, like, that is not, like, that was, that was a miserable time to be a young Republican. | ||
| And God bless Trump for doing everything that he can. | ||
| I believe he's trying. | ||
| Damon Walker says, I want Tim back. | ||
| He's not coming back. | ||
| He left. | ||
| You think this is a fairytale world? | ||
| Tim's gone. | ||
| Stop thinking about him. | ||
| This is Shimcast. | ||
| Now, you're watching Shim Cool. | ||
| Don't worry about it, okay? | ||
| Grow up. | ||
| Get over it. | ||
| He's gone. | ||
| He's not gone. | ||
| The truth A. You don't think he's gone? | ||
| He's not gone. | ||
| We'll just see about that. | ||
| The truth A says the 400 Koreans, 400 plus Koreans, I'm sorry, weren't building batteries. | ||
| They were building the Hyundai battery factory. | ||
| Huge difference. | ||
| Americans can build a factory. | ||
| I agree with you. | ||
| And also, I know when you say Americans can build a factory, you mean Americans. | ||
| Because you'll see these videos home inspectors will do of new builds where they show you what these alien laborers have made and you go, oh, ooh, that play's going to fall apart in a couple of years. | ||
| Guy who is nailing in the screws. | ||
| C says Kofe. | ||
| Fair. | ||
| Fair point. | ||
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I agree with that. | |
| That was my favorite. | ||
| That was my favorite response to the 50-year mortgage. | ||
| People just started saying that. | ||
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Yeah, during that video, be hammering houses for the last 50 years. | |
| Maybe I don't want to own a home. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| I'm going through a couple more of these. | ||
| Ooh, everything. | ||
| So Kick the Ball says everything we bring up or every everything we bring up, the horrors of Epstein. | ||
| We need to bring up the 320,000 children trafficked by our tax dollars under Biden. | ||
| Fair. | ||
| And here's the thing. | ||
| We don't want to engage in whataboutism. | ||
| So we can just talk about Epstein with talking about Epstein. | ||
| And we don't want to see the territory that this is like a right versus left issue. | ||
| Like the left is one. | ||
| We know how things were under Biden. | ||
| Don't let them turn this into Epstein is Trump's dirty laundry. | ||
| Now we have to talk about Biden's dirty laundry. | ||
| It's all of their dirty laundry. | ||
| It's all of their dirty laundry. | ||
| But you're right. | ||
| We should talk about what happened with the children moved around under Biden. | ||
| I think we should get to the bottom of that. | ||
| K to the Swiss says, Seamus, why didn't you talk with Andrew Wilson about the crystal prisons? | ||
| It's a thing on the Crucible directly referencing your 2024 election outcome video. | ||
| And then he has a thinking emoji. | ||
| What is there to wonder about? | ||
| Maybe I just didn't know that. | ||
| You haven't caught me in some grand conspiracy. | ||
| I wasn't aware of that. | ||
| But thank you for watching. | ||
| Thank you for being a fan. | ||
| I'm giving you a hard time. | ||
| Yeah, I didn't know that he talked about that. | ||
| That's funny. | ||
| It's unfortunate it didn't come up. | ||
| What's that? | ||
| I got something to say for this one right here. | ||
| Right here. | ||
| Oh, sorry. | ||
| We got to refresh. | ||
| We got to refresh. | ||
| We're going to read something. | ||
| That's why I stopped working. | ||
| I couldn't figure out what I was doing. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Don't worry. | ||
| Like this one here. | ||
| So should I read this? | ||
| Eric Shaver. | ||
| I'm not sure what he's saying. | ||
| He says, all these fake content creators love to hate on crime. | ||
| Yet they all skew their views for sponsorship, which is advertisement revenue flaw fraud. | ||
| Exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point. | ||
| Listen, you've made a pretty significant accusation against us with absolutely zero evidence. | ||
| Secondly, even if that was the case, which it's not, this is ridiculous. | ||
| But even if that was the case, when you're alone in the middle of the night at an ATM, you're not checking over your shoulder to see if someone is like violating an advertisement law. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| This is an annoying thing. | ||
| When people bring Trump, when people go, you say you believe in law and order. | ||
| Well, Trump's a felon. | ||
| Bro, when I'm talking about law and order, I'm talking about violent crime. | ||
| I'm talking about the fact that people don't feel safe walking around at night in this country. | ||
| And it's not because they are afraid that there's someone nearby potentially committing a campaign finance violation. | ||
| Possibly. | ||
| Because they don't want someone to stab them. | ||
| You're at the ATM and Tim is behind you, like talking about Beam Dream. | ||
| And you're like, I don't know. | ||
| Tim is pretending to like Beam Dream more than he actually does. | ||
| What's going on with this city? | ||
| He's going to bed. | ||
| He's drinking something else. | ||
| I don't think he's drinking the Beam Dream, and that's not good. | ||
| James Johnson says we need a federal law requiring proof of citizenship to rent our own property. | ||
| I like that. | ||
| Yeah, I like that. | ||
| I think that's pretty good. | ||
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| And there should also be a situation where if you don't have some kind of proof that you're a citizen and you are renting property, the owner of that property loses said property. | ||
| I'm a big fan of the people that hire illegal immigrants, people that rent illegal immigrants. | ||
| They should pay a penalty as well because that is an extreme, that would be an extremely effective means of keeping illegal immigrants out of the United States. | ||
| I think that's, I think it's an underrated point, particularly in, I think that when you look at where a lot of these, you know, these ICE raids have happened, I think that like you need to make sure that it's not like small businesses paying the price and you're just letting the Home Depots of the world go or wherever. | ||
| I mean, like, you know, not that, you know, not making any accusations to any particular company. | ||
| My point being, like, you need to make sure that large corporations are not like being given protection. | ||
| You're screwing over small businesses. | ||
| That's like, that's a major problem. | ||
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| Yeah, that was the first thing I was going to say, actually, when he said that I like a law like that, but you know, certain companies are going to be able to exempt themselves from that essentially by just having better lawyers and knowing how to find the loopholes, et cetera. | ||
| Jordan Buford is a very, very nice chap. | ||
| They said, Seamus, I believe you with the spoons, man. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I wouldn't do that. | ||
| He says, he said, Seamus, I believe you with the spoons, man. | ||
| You wouldn't do that. | ||
| We know you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I was an atheist for over 10 years and you helped steer me to OCIA and I'm currently seeking baptism. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| Thank you so much for that comment. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| That's huge. | ||
| This one. | ||
| Are we allowed to read this? | ||
| Is this like YouTube TOS? | ||
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I don't know. | |
| I don't see why I wouldn't. | ||
| I know, no, listen. | ||
| I'm fine. | ||
| I just want to make sure because I don't want Tim to come back and be aware of it. | ||
| I know. | ||
| I know. | ||
| But the thing is, I would make a joke like this on my channel. | ||
| I just am being a good steward over Tim's channel and I don't want him to get in trouble. | ||
| But if you don't, if that's not a TOS violation, I'm fine. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Coupagon says, Haitians won't feel welcome in your parks unless you keep them stocked with geese, which is, listen, that's what they, that's their personal opinion. | ||
| Tim didn't say that. | ||
| Forced name change. | ||
| Oh, no, that's not really. | ||
| Hold on a second. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Do we have Rumble? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Sorry, there's a little, there's a couple issues with the interface here as we're trying to read some of these chats. | ||
| We apologize. | ||
| What's the one came up? | ||
| Rofflo 1804 said, Rip Beanie Man, long live Shimcast, long live Spoon Man. | ||
| Well, I'm not a Spoon man. | ||
| You know me, you know I wouldn't do that, but thank you so much for the long live Shimcast. | ||
| This is not the quiet part. | ||
| How can I read this? | ||
| Libels me. | ||
| This libel me. | ||
| Expect me to read this out loud when he's accusing me of a crime. | ||
| How many times am I going to be accused of a crime by a super chatter tonight, bro? | ||
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Hold on. | |
| No, no, no, no, no. | ||
| I'll read it. | ||
| I'll read it just so you guys know what I'm subjected to when I host this show. | ||
| The quiet part pod said, it's okay. | ||
| By the way, great aim. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| It's okay to tell the truth, Seamus. | ||
| Tim is in the same place you hid the spoons. | ||
| Yeah, Tim is with his spoons in his own house there of his own volition. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| You know me. | ||
| You know I wouldn't do that. | ||
| This is crazy. | ||
| The way that I'm smeared, I just come here to bring you guys joy. | ||
| I come here to bring you guys joy, and I just get insulted and made fun of. | ||
| It's because you're a guy, Seamus. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| That's a fair point. | ||
| Women have it so easy. | ||
| That's what I always say. | ||
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That's right. | |
| Let me draw for a second. | ||
| Yeah, I just want to read this chat here. | ||
| AJ said, I say federally, anyone who gets a driver's license must be able to speak English and also demonstrate that they have a Y chromosome. | ||
| Well, that's really sexist. | ||
| No, they didn't say that. | ||
| They just said the English thing. | ||
| They said, I say federally, everyone who gets driver and gets a driver's license must be able to speak English. | ||
| And like, maybe, maybe even not, depending on the accent they speak English with. | ||
| There's like 50 years of propaganda from Hollywood that says that if you call into question the idea that somebody would speak English in America and that you would be upset by the fact that you couldn't understand them, that you're a bad person. | ||
| You know, when in reality, the real example of that in public is like somebody doesn't speak English and you feel bad, but you're like, look, I don't know what you're saying. | ||
| But if you were to be at a store and somebody's speaking to you and you don't know what they're saying, that guy in the movie is always portrayed as like, speak English, dude. | ||
| He's bad guy. | ||
| He's just some ignorant douchebag. | ||
| Well, this is, but this is, again, this is why we're making twisted plots because you have to have stories that reinforce positive values instead of trying to destroy your society's values. | ||
| And thank you guys so much for getting us funded. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| And this is going to make sure the guy telling you to speak English is cool. | ||
| Speak English. | ||
| So this is the thing. | ||
| Yeah, no, I agree. | ||
| And that is a huge, huge part of the problem. | ||
| It's the way that the media portrays these things. | ||
| We all know. | ||
| We're all aware. | ||
| The real ones know. | ||
| If you want a functioning country, the people there need to be able to speak the language. | ||
| Stevie Smoo says the stock market don't represent our pockets. | ||
| Again, I agree with you. | ||
| I agree with you to an extent. | ||
| Obviously, it's like, I don't like this idea that GDP and stock market prices have zero correlation to well-being, but I think you're right that it's getting increasingly out of step, and especially for young people who don't have these assets. | ||
| So I totally hear you. | ||
| And I agree with you. | ||
| A lot of young people aren't able to buy in. | ||
| They're not able to get a house. | ||
| It's true with all the things we've been talking about tonight. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| James Johnson says the economy is in a neutral state. | ||
| The bleeding is being stopped, but the blood loss from the past is still there. | ||
| People are belly up from four plus years of paying their bills on credit and can't spare more. | ||
| Well, those were very violent analogies, and I found that a little upsetting. | ||
| But I'm curious what you guys think of this idea that they ultimately, James Johnson, thank you for chatting. | ||
| I think that's an interesting thought. | ||
| I haven't really heard it expressed that way, that we're in a neutral state. | ||
| What do you guys think of that? | ||
| I mean, maybe you could look at it like that, because like I've said before, inflation is a leader, and then wages have to catch up to inflation. | ||
| And that's why inflation is such a bad, such a excessive inflation. | ||
| And I use the term excessive in the context of the Federal Reserve looks at some inflation as normal. | ||
| Whether or not it should be is up for debate, but for the purposes of this conversation, excessive inflation is very bad because it takes so long for wages to raise to the point where people feel like they can afford things again. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| If you get 10% inflation for a couple years, you know, that's a massive increase in your spending. | ||
| And it takes time for the people that are working normal jobs to get the pay raises that they need so that way they can feel the way they felt before the inflation. | ||
| Kevin, in parentheses, syndrome six says Ian is partially right. | ||
| Reducing costs would help. | ||
| It's simpler than fuel, reduce regulation, simple as that. | ||
| Yeah, I think that's true. | ||
| There's some truth to it. | ||
| Obviously, it doesn't tell the full story, but I would agree. | ||
| We have a chat from Miss Kay saying, congrats, Seamus, on getting Twisted Plots funded. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| Thank you guys so much. | ||
| God bless you all. | ||
| And this was the accomplishment of a lot of different people. | ||
| So thank all of you. | ||
| Patrick Bendig says not all corrections are crashes, but many corrections can lead to crashes. | ||
| What looks good on paper can fail in practice. | ||
| Idealism versus realism. | ||
| 100%. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
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Interesting. | |
| See if I'm over here. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Unrumble. | ||
| Yeah, sorry. | ||
| See, can you try to find a chat that doesn't accuse me of some kind of crime? | ||
| Change it to just fan funding on YouTube if you're still looking for super checks. | ||
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Hold on, hold on. | |
| The quiet part pod says, it's not my fault you took it the wrong way, Seamus. | ||
| If you stole no spoons, then you clearly aren't responsible for Tim being gone either. | ||
| So this is what narcissists do when they insult you or accuse you. | ||
| They try to gaslight you into thinking that you were the problem the entire time. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Follow me for more healthy relationship tips. | ||
| You cannot let an audience bully you like that. | ||
| It's not good for you. | ||
| It's not good for your mental health. | ||
| You got to maintain frame and stand your ground. | ||
| AJ says during a government shutdown, people about to lose their food stamps. | ||
| NYC literally voted who they voted for. | ||
| This is literally socialism failing before them. | ||
| Anyone have any thoughts on that? | ||
| It's true. | ||
| I mean, if you give the government the power to provide you with all of the things that you need to survive, you're giving the government the power to take away all of the things that you need to survive. | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
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That's exactly right. | |
| Trust me. | ||
| Let me see. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| I am. | ||
| I'm curious. | ||
| The truth A says I'm a co-owner in a small construction company. | ||
| Trust me, I know what these failures do on. | ||
| They also drive down the cost of labor, but we double it when we're called to fix things. | ||
| That's right, man. | ||
| Buy once, cry once. | ||
| If you try to go for the cheapest version of something and it falls apart, you end up spending way more money in the long run. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| And we're just doing that on an entire economic scale. | ||
| Rascal1223 says Hood County, Texas veteran arrested by sheriff for posting a political meme. | ||
| Okay, I heard about this a day or two ago on Inverted World. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| I don't remember the details of the story. | ||
| I wish I had. | ||
| I wish it had come to mind earlier so we could have brought it up on air and talked about it a little bit more. | ||
| Just pull it up right here. | ||
| Yeah, this is from the Texas scorecard. | ||
| After meme arrest, Hood County Sheriff solicits more social media complaints. | ||
| Sheriff Deeds' announcement comes days after a citizen was arrested for a social media post. | ||
| Nah, good. | ||
| Crazy, dude. | ||
| He's here now. | ||
| What was that? | ||
| Let's read this home. | ||
| Well, the crime that he was arrested for. | ||
| From what I heard last night, it's actually ridiculous that this person's arrested. | ||
| But let's read this just to see if there's context in it. | ||
| But that gives me seen context. | ||
| Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds encouraged citizens to come forward if they felt they had been victimized by social media posts. | ||
| This followed the sheriff's arrest of a citizen for posting a meme. | ||
| In his November 10th announcement, Sheriff Deeds wrote that much of what is posted online is protected by the First Amendment. | ||
| Gotta have that book. | ||
| I took a trip to the UK and was just like, let's go. | ||
| Yeah, let's do it. | ||
| Yeah, these acts may sometimes constitute a criminal offense, such as the example below from a recent notable case. | ||
| All right. | ||
| I hope you guys are ready for this because this was explained to me by a wonderful caller on Shane Cashman's show the other day, and it's wild. | ||
| Deeds cited Texas Penal Code 33.07, which criminalizes impersonating someone online without obtaining the person's consent and with the intent to harm, defraud, intimidate, or threaten any person. | ||
| Last week, his office charged local activist Colton Krottinger with felonious online impersonation. | ||
| So this is a felony. | ||
| One of his bond conditions banned him from using social media. | ||
| And from what the caller said, that's how he makes his living is on social media. | ||
| Krottinger's attorney, Robert Christian, said his client was arrested for posting a meme that he'd never seen anyone get arrested for engaging in political speech in his 25 years serving as both a prosecutor and defense attorney. | ||
| Nate Criswell, former Hood County chair, said that Krödinger's post was satirical and the arrest was politically motivated. | ||
| In his November 10th announcement, Sheriff Deeds encouraged any pay, blah, blah, blah. | ||
| This, we keep hearing about the sheriff said. | ||
| I want to find the actual crime because I remember what this was, but I want to read it from the article so I can be sure. | ||
| What I was told, again, what I was told by the caller was as a joke, this guy photoshopped some politician endorsing someone they didn't actually like, and they're calling it felony impersonation. | ||
| That's let me double-check. | ||
| Let me see if this article actually mentions basically what happens to anybody when they get caught holding up a sign and then people just write different things. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
| They just write, yeah, it's a meme. | ||
| If that's the case, then the precedent was when what's his name was arrested for the Hillary Clinton, you know, the Hillary Clinton meme. | ||
| And that is terrible. | ||
| And we're going to see more of this as time progresses because of that precedent. | ||
| That's insane. | ||
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| Mulgara85 says, what do you think about Trump going after Massey in particular for trying to release the Epstein files? | ||
| Don't love that. | ||
| Yeah, I don't like that. | ||
| Don't love that at all. | ||
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| Hance, 1PK, says a lot of young people would rather get a $5 Starbuck each day than invest or get a house. | ||
| I disagree. | ||
| I think that that was good advice in the past. | ||
| I think with where the housing market is at now, listen, by the way, I encourage people to save. | ||
| I encourage people to put that money in your pocket or invest it instead of going to Starbucks because it's overpriced and it's crazy. | ||
| But where the housing market is relative to inflation and where it was 40, 50 years ago, it's just ridiculous. | ||
| It's much more difficult. | ||
| The level of income you have to have and where that income puts you percentage-wise with respect to the rest of the population to buy a house today is much higher. | ||
| And it's not, so it's not just young people who are like getting $5 Starbucks. | ||
| I don't think that that's the case. | ||
| But by the way, you, I mean, it's hard for, again, I can understand that advice, even like 20, even just 10 years ago, actually, before the COVID bailouts inflated all the housing costs and interest rates went down to zero and the prices shot up. | ||
| But I'm curious how you could hold to that opinion after seeing what happened to housing prices and interest rates in just the past five years. | ||
| Because now the interest payments on a just the interest payments on your loan are significantly higher for the same house, but the house is also twice as much money. | ||
| So do I have to like not buy twice as much Starbucks? | ||
| I just, I don't get it. | ||
| I don't get it. | ||
| Yeah, well, I think, I think like the real metric that you have to look at, which really shows just the insane level of the housing market, it's income. | ||
| So median income to median house price. | ||
| So you go back to like 1980 and it was like, you know, three to four times your house costs like, you know, four years worth of salary. | ||
| Now it's like nine to 11 years salary in some parts of the country is what the median home costs. | ||
| That's absolutely crazy. | ||
| You can't not Starbucks your way out of that. | ||
| Right. | ||
| That's exactly that's that's the I think that is the technical term. | ||
| So what it is what it's done to the next generation is like the you can't even visualize a world where you can afford it. | ||
| And that's what you get with Gen Z. We've covered this on the channel. | ||
| Like it's literally called treat culture. | ||
| They're like, look, I'm never going to own a home. | ||
| My life is miserable. | ||
| So I'm going to buy a sweet treat because I have to have something to look forward to so that I don't come home and just die of depression. | ||
| Well, I think that's when people don't have meaning, they seek out these short-term pleasures. | ||
| So I don't think it's the case that these young people are spending their money in stupid ways and that's why they don't have houses. | ||
| I think they're spending money in stupid ways because they don't have houses because they know that that market is closing. | ||
| And it doesn't make the advice you gave bad. | ||
| Like it doesn't make the advice to make your coffee at home and be frugal bad. | ||
| It's not. | ||
| It's absolutely good advice. | ||
| And these young adults just got done spending $50,000 a year going to college. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| Graduating with $200,000 in debt that they have no prospect, and then they're not getting a job, you know, even though they did what every boomer in the world told them to do, which is go get a STEM degree. | ||
| I mean, somebody with an H-1BVs is going to get it. | ||
| And to be clear, it's a jet-like, I know we dump on boomers sometimes. | ||
| My parents are super awesome boomers. | ||
| The reality is, the advice that boomers are giving, it was good advice when they were growing up. | ||
| That's the only advice you can give. | ||
| You can give people advice for the world that they grew up in. | ||
| The reality is, that advice doesn't work anymore. | ||
| Some of it does, but a lot of it doesn't. | ||
| Little do you guys know? | ||
| I just showed up here one day with my resume and I gave Tim a firm handshake. | ||
| That's exactly right. | ||
| He's like, I like the cut of this guy's jib. | ||
| I'm going to hire him. | ||
| Yeah, that, my friends, is what you do in a healthy economy. | ||
| All right, guys, it was great having you all here. | ||
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| Yeah. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| Yeah, we were talking about Sonic Fox, he's like a furry esports pro who Nike hired for an ad campaign. | ||
| And we had a whole argument about whether esports is a sport or not. | ||
| Is professional gaming a sport? | ||
| Phil? | ||
| What? | ||
| Is professional gaming a sport? | ||
| No, it's gaming. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| It's professional and it's legitimate, but that doesn't mean that it's actually a sport. | ||
| Mary was like, I was being the contrarian, like, you know what? | ||
| Great hand-eye coordination, strong reflexes. | ||
| It's a sport. | ||
| They're called esports. | ||
| Technically. | ||
| So I think Formula One, so like racing apparently is the most like the closest to the actual sport because you're doing the same body movements. | ||
| It's like, you know, so they've actually transitioned people from gaming to the actual sport. | ||
| There was a movie called Gran Turismo based on the real world tournament that turned somebody into a pro driver. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| That's great. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| It's happened to me. | ||
| That's the closest. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah, I know people are going to take issue with this, but I mean, I think that auto racing is very loosely a sport. | ||
| I mean, like, so I've talked to Cam a lot about it, and he's talked about the physical intensity of doing what he does, meaning that you have to be able to control your breathing, you have to have strong, you have to be very much Formula One drivers are Olympic-level athletes. | ||
| Yes, yeah, they are. | ||
| I mean, and like, you know, they're spending two hours at, I mean, they're going five G's lateral, you know, that entire time. | ||
| They come out, they've lost two pounds of water weight, you know, over the course of an entire race. | ||
| Like, you know, I think that is, I think, probably the rest of racing probably isn't nearly like that. | ||
| Doing incline treadmill for two hours, except for you could die at any moment going 200 miles an hour. | ||
| I have to read this chat. | ||
| Brettling said driving race cars is extremely physical and more of a sport than baseball. | ||
| And then in the parentheses, they say, which is not a sport. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| I've heard a lot about this. | ||
| Like, their heart rate can go up. | ||
| Like, here it says 170 BPM. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| This bullshit saying recovering, you shouldn't include that. | ||
| Yeah, but that's like, that's what happens when I talk to a girl. | ||
| Isn't that a sport? | ||
| Yeah, but it's not only that. | ||
| It's like it's keeping yourself focused on what you're doing and controlling the car and everything like that. | ||
| So the thing is, but here's what you guys got to understand. | ||
| I have anxiety issues, and making a phone call puts me in the same physical state that Formula One kids with some of these. | ||
| You guys don't call. | ||
| Because you don't understand. | ||
| You judge what you can't understand. | ||
| And when I have to make a phone call, it puts me in the exact same physical discomfort that Formula One earth. | ||
| And who can tell me that I'm wrong? | ||
| How on earth do you get talked into a microphone to literally tens of thousands of people here doing that? | ||
| And then talk back. | ||
| I can't make a phone call. | ||
| But it's different, you know? | ||
| Yay! | ||
| How about a sport where it's car racing, except for you're just a guy and the woman is driving, and you have to watch all the time? | ||
| It's really funny. | ||
| Oh, my gosh. |
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