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But we've made a deal today 17 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:00,159 where we are going to be sending them web and 18 00:01:00,159 --> 00:01:01,600 said they're going to be paying for them. 19 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:05,840 Speaker 4: The United States will not be having any payment. May 20 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:10,400 We are not buying it, but we will manufacture it 21 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:13,120 and they're going to be paying for it. Our last 22 00:01:13,159 --> 00:01:15,159 meeting of a month ago is very successful and that 23 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:18,680 they agreed to five percent, which is more than a trillion. 24 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 3: Dollars a year. So they have a lot of money 25 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,159 and they have These are wealthy nations. 26 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:23,959 Speaker 2: All right, So what he's talking about the five percent 27 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:27,920 there is that the commitment of all NATO countries is 28 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:30,840 supposed to be that you spend I think it's two 29 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:35,519 or two and a half percent of your GDP on military. 30 00:01:36,719 --> 00:01:39,159 And that's the whole point is that everybody agrees to 31 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:40,040 this two percent. 32 00:01:40,519 --> 00:01:41,719 Speaker 1: So you're not getting. 33 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:45,120 Speaker 2: Free loaders in your security umbrella. 34 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 1: Right. 35 00:01:46,599 --> 00:01:50,439 Speaker 2: So NATO countries in Europe, Western Europe, they have not 36 00:01:50,599 --> 00:01:53,920 been meeting that two percent, and they have been meeting 37 00:01:53,959 --> 00:01:57,680 it like my entire life. And so they have been 38 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:01,640 joyed the protection of the United States of America and 39 00:02:01,719 --> 00:02:05,439 our military. They have enjoyed that while not spending the 40 00:02:05,519 --> 00:02:10,000 money on their own militaries, which makes them harder to 41 00:02:10,159 --> 00:02:14,319 defend by America. Right, it's like, hey, guys, we got 42 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:17,319 to go to war. And it's like, whoa, you're driving 43 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:20,159 a truck from the seventies, man, Like, what's happening here? 44 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:20,599 Speaker 1: Right? 45 00:02:22,159 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 2: Well, at the last NATO conference, the NATO countries agreed 46 00:02:26,439 --> 00:02:29,520 to boost their GDP and some of them have actually 47 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:32,879 gotten to the two percent now, but now they're going 48 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:34,280 to take it all the way at a five percent, 49 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:38,400 which I got to tell you, makes. 50 00:02:38,199 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 1: Me wonder. 51 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 2: If they're thinking something is coming. I don't know that, 52 00:02:46,199 --> 00:02:48,919 I'm just but the fact that all of a sudden, 53 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,759 Europe is like, man, we really need to spend on 54 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:57,919 military after all this time. So they're going to buy 55 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:03,280 the military weapon. They're going to buy stuff from America. 56 00:03:04,879 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 3: They have a lot of money and they want to 57 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:08,199 do it. They feel very strongly about it, and we 58 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:11,199 feel strongly about it too. But we're in for a 59 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:13,400 lot of money and we just we don't want to 60 00:03:13,439 --> 00:03:16,199 do it anymore. And we can, but we make the 61 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:17,960 best and we're going to be sending the best to 62 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:21,879 NATO and in some cases too, maybe at Mark suggestion, 63 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,759 if we go to Germany where they're going to send 64 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:29,199 early on missiles and they'll be replaced and NATO is 65 00:03:29,199 --> 00:03:31,120 going to take care of it's going to be coordinated 66 00:03:31,759 --> 00:03:34,199 by NATO, and they're going to work very much with 67 00:03:34,319 --> 00:03:37,240 Matt Whitaker, who's right here, is a great ambassador, and 68 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:40,039 Matt's going to be coordinat you better do a good job, Mat, 69 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:43,520 but Matt's going to coordinate. He's a very talented guy. 70 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:44,840 He's going to coordinate. 71 00:03:44,439 --> 00:03:46,039 Speaker 1: Everything, all right, So there he goes. 72 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:49,280 Speaker 2: That was from the Oval Office. This is Philip Wegman. 73 00:03:50,319 --> 00:03:53,000 He is a White House reporter for Real Clear Politics. 74 00:03:53,439 --> 00:03:53,759 Speaker 1: He said. 75 00:03:53,759 --> 00:03:59,120 Speaker 2: Trump also announced new tariff threats against Russia. Trump said 76 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:03,280 he is quote, I'm very disappointed in President Putin because 77 00:04:03,319 --> 00:04:07,039 he believed the US would have a deal on the 78 00:04:07,159 --> 00:04:10,840 Ukraine ceasefire. He thought we would have this deal two 79 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:16,000 months ago. The new tariff threat is as follows. If 80 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:20,279 there is not a deal in fifty days, there will 81 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:25,600 be a one hundred percent tariff, which I think is 82 00:04:25,639 --> 00:04:29,360 actually lower than what we slept on like our ally 83 00:04:29,519 --> 00:04:33,240 Canada I think has been uh no, I'm kidding. But 84 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:36,399 this is in addition to the tariffs that are I 85 00:04:36,439 --> 00:04:40,000 think already it were sanctions and stuff on Russia. But whatever, 86 00:04:40,199 --> 00:04:42,720 that's the thread. So get to the table. You got 87 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:46,720 fifty days or we're going to slap more tariffs on Russia. 88 00:04:46,759 --> 00:04:49,920 But also anybody that is buying Russian oil. I believe 89 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:52,959 that was part of the threat too, So anybody does 90 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,720 business with Russia is going to get hit with this tariff. Also, 91 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:01,120 I don't know if it'll work. We shall see. I 92 00:05:01,199 --> 00:05:06,120 guess the NATO Secretary General Mark Rutt called Trump's demand 93 00:05:06,319 --> 00:05:10,399 that Europe pay for new weapons for Ukraine, which was 94 00:05:10,439 --> 00:05:13,439 another aspect of this. Trump's like, if you guys want 95 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:19,600 Ukraine to be armed up, send them your stuff. So now, okay, 96 00:05:19,639 --> 00:05:22,199 so you or NATO countries are now going to buy 97 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:25,160 American made weaponry and then they're going to give it 98 00:05:25,199 --> 00:05:30,199 to Ukraine. So it's kind of like we're doing it, 99 00:05:30,959 --> 00:05:34,639 but we're not. We're just selling the weapons to NATO allies. 100 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:37,839 Now what they do with them after that, that's totally 101 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:44,680 up to them. But the NATO Secretary General he said, 102 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:51,120 this is a quote totally logical demand by Trump. So okay, 103 00:05:52,079 --> 00:05:55,079 I guess that's what's going to happen. That was the 104 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:57,279 news that broke shortly before the program began. 105 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:01,759 Speaker 1: Also, this. 106 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:09,439 Speaker 2: Employment is up since President Donald Trump took office. Overall, 107 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:13,079 the number of employed people in the United States has 108 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:17,279 increased by one point five million since January of this 109 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:23,959 year one point five million, But that number includes both 110 00:06:24,079 --> 00:06:28,199 foreign born and American born workers. When you look at 111 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:34,879 just American born workers, the Trump job boom is even better. 112 00:06:36,399 --> 00:06:40,120 Over two million more American born workers are working today 113 00:06:40,639 --> 00:06:46,360 than we're working in January so American born workers saw 114 00:06:46,439 --> 00:06:51,959 two million more jobs. The foreign born workers has fallen 115 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:53,240 by half a million. 116 00:06:55,199 --> 00:07:01,839 Speaker 1: That gives you your one point five total something something 117 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,240 something jobs Americans won't do. Right. 118 00:07:07,759 --> 00:07:10,879 Speaker 2: The number of employed people in the United States did 119 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:15,279 not get back to its pre COVID peak until July 120 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:19,199 of twenty twenty two when Joe Biden was president, right, 121 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:21,240 and that number was at one hundred and fifty nine 122 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:23,000 million Americans employed. 123 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:25,720 Speaker 1: Since then. 124 00:07:26,399 --> 00:07:28,959 Speaker 2: So if you're if you just like try and the 125 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,040 reason why this is con Carol is doing this at 126 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:36,279 the Washington Examiner, and he's bracketing the COVID numbers because 127 00:07:36,439 --> 00:07:39,079 obviously when you shut everything down and close all the businesses, 128 00:07:39,079 --> 00:07:41,680 people are out of work, right, And so you then 129 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,160 find out when did we get back to pre COVID 130 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:47,519 the pre COVID number, and that was in July of 131 00:07:47,519 --> 00:07:49,759 twenty twenty two. And then if you look at that 132 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:55,639 point forward, the Biden economy added three point three million jobs, 133 00:07:56,319 --> 00:08:00,879 but only one hundred eighty nine thousand thousand of them 134 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:06,480 went to American born workers. Out of three point three million, 135 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:11,120 one hundred eighty nine thousand went to American born workers. 136 00:08:11,519 --> 00:08:14,319 The remaining three point one million new jobs under the 137 00:08:14,319 --> 00:08:20,199 Biden economy all went to foreign born workers. Not only 138 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:24,639 have over two million American workers gained jobs since Trump 139 00:08:24,639 --> 00:08:28,160 took office, but over the same time period, real wages 140 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:34,200 are up and inflation is down. It's a pretty good 141 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:40,720 economic record right there. That's a pretty good data point. Again, 142 00:08:40,879 --> 00:08:44,480 this is all part of what Trump promised, right, and 143 00:08:44,919 --> 00:08:47,480 he is fulfilling it. And if you have people that 144 00:08:47,639 --> 00:08:50,279 are being deported, and you have people that are self 145 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:55,200 deporting because they're afraid of being deported, it frees. 146 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:56,159 Speaker 1: Up the job market. 147 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,799 Speaker 2: It's also, by the way I've said this, you know, 148 00:09:00,159 --> 00:09:03,840 I don't know five years now, there's also going to 149 00:09:03,879 --> 00:09:08,399 probably be downward pressure on home prices, more available stock 150 00:09:09,519 --> 00:09:13,080 if there are fewer people here illegally, and the number 151 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:16,759 could be anywhere from fifteen to twenty to forty million people, 152 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:20,240 whatever it is. If a lot of these people leave, 153 00:09:21,799 --> 00:09:24,759 you know, voluntarily, or they get deported, then that's going 154 00:09:24,799 --> 00:09:26,039 to free up housing stock. 155 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:26,960 Speaker 1: All right. 156 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:28,799 Speaker 2: If you're listening to this show, you know I try 157 00:09:28,799 --> 00:09:30,600 to keep up with all sorts of current events, and 158 00:09:30,639 --> 00:09:32,960 I know you do too, and you've probably heard me say, 159 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:37,120 get your news from multiple sources. Why well, because it's 160 00:09:37,159 --> 00:09:39,840 how you detect media bias, which is why I've been 161 00:09:39,879 --> 00:09:43,440 so impressed with ground News. 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After a lifetime of 180 00:10:52,039 --> 00:10:56,919 being tickled, he finally broke and U or no. Somebody 181 00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:03,320 hacked his Twitter account and began posting anti Semitic and 182 00:11:03,519 --> 00:11:10,279 anti Trump stuff, saying kill all the Jews, demanding Donald 183 00:11:10,279 --> 00:11:14,720 Trump release the Epstein files, calling him a defender of 184 00:11:15,799 --> 00:11:21,039 Epstein and all this, and then hang on a second, 185 00:11:21,039 --> 00:11:24,919 I'm seeing this. Tucker Carlson has booked Elmo for his 186 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:25,799 next podcast. 187 00:11:25,879 --> 00:11:28,399 Speaker 1: Oh that's okay, that's not true. 188 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:35,440 Speaker 2: The the account posted also a photo of Elmo wearing 189 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:38,120 what appeared to be a tinfoil hat as well as 190 00:11:38,159 --> 00:11:44,440 a spacesuit whilst on the moon and promoting cryptocurrency. So 191 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:50,759 just just checking all of the boxes. There a spokesperson 192 00:11:50,799 --> 00:11:53,679 for Sesame Street. How do you get that gig? Is 193 00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:57,080 that your only gig? Like you wake up every day 194 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:01,039 and you're like, you go over to I guess there's 195 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:04,600 an office on Sesame Street. Do they have an actual street? 196 00:12:04,639 --> 00:12:08,000 I feel like they built an actual street, right, So 197 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:10,960 maybe you've got like an office there on Sesame Street. 198 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:13,480 And so you go to the office and you just 199 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:18,399 sit there all day being a spokesperson for Sesame Street. 200 00:12:18,919 --> 00:12:20,039 Speaker 1: What does that gig pay? 201 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:23,399 Speaker 2: I gotta feel like there's not a lot that you're doing, 202 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:27,360 you know, I mean aside from days like today, when 203 00:12:28,639 --> 00:12:30,759 like the whole world is on fire, much like the 204 00:12:30,799 --> 00:12:34,440 Elmo meme where he's you know, standing there and there's 205 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:40,360 all these flames behind him. But that Yeah, the spokesperson said, 206 00:12:40,399 --> 00:12:45,559 Elmo's x account was compromised today by an unknown hacker 207 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:50,440 who posted disgusting messages, including anti Semitic and racist posts. 208 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:55,679 If this sounds familiar, it's because the same thing happened 209 00:12:55,679 --> 00:13:00,639 to Ford Motor Company. Nobody was ever caught in that either. 210 00:13:01,799 --> 00:13:04,559 And I do not know what the process is to 211 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:06,320 get back your account or something like that. 212 00:13:06,399 --> 00:13:07,120 Speaker 1: I'm not sure. 213 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:11,879 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure how long this takes or I mean, 214 00:13:11,919 --> 00:13:15,879 obviously Twitter has got to be aware of the of 215 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:20,039 what has transpired now, so maybe they'll help, you know, 216 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:22,320 speed that along, or you know, give access back to 217 00:13:22,399 --> 00:13:25,279 the spokesperson who I assume runs the Elmo account. 218 00:13:25,279 --> 00:13:25,799 Speaker 1: But maybe not. 219 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:29,039 Speaker 2: Maybe there's an Elmo spokesperson. Do all of the characters 220 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:34,600 have their own spokes muppets, m But I will say this, 221 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:41,600 there really is a great opportunity for Elmo here, Like 222 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:45,559 if he comes back on and his first tweets are 223 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:51,120 like Internet gold, like, it could really do wonders for 224 00:13:52,039 --> 00:13:54,480 you know, Elmo's Q score, and. 225 00:13:55,879 --> 00:13:57,360 Speaker 1: But I don't know, we'll see how it plays out. 226 00:13:57,360 --> 00:13:58,759 Like you could go the Wendy's route. 227 00:13:58,799 --> 00:14:02,879 Speaker 2: You ever follow the Wendy's Twitter account, which apparently like 228 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:07,360 started like some random intern just started trash talking somebody 229 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:10,519 years ago. I used to read Wendy's tweets on a 230 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:14,600 regular basis because they were hilarious. And then they teamed 231 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:18,840 up at some point years ago with the what was it, 232 00:14:18,879 --> 00:14:25,919 the who makes the beef? They're not steaks? Steak them, yeah, 233 00:14:26,039 --> 00:14:30,480 steak them's with these beef cold cut whatever. 234 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:31,679 Speaker 1: The thing is. I don't know, you even know what 235 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:32,399 you call that thing? 236 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 2: Pressed meat slice, right, And those two formed like this 237 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:40,840 alliance kind of and they would just savage all of 238 00:14:40,879 --> 00:14:44,080 the other fast food places and stuff, and. 239 00:14:44,519 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 1: They were pretty funny. I don't know what happened to them. 240 00:14:46,799 --> 00:14:50,279 Speaker 2: Maybe yeah, maybe they got rid of the spokesperson or 241 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:51,559 whoever is running the Twitter account. 242 00:14:51,559 --> 00:14:51,919 Speaker 1: So there you go. 243 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:54,559 Speaker 2: That's why Elmo is an anti semi it's not real. 244 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:56,840 It was a hacked account. But if you see anything 245 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:58,159 about Elmo in the news. 246 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:00,759 Speaker 1: That is why. 247 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:06,240 Speaker 2: Mark says Elmo wants the Epstein list released because he 248 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:08,639 knows Kermit is on it and he's tired of playing 249 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:15,600 second banana. That's oh, maybe that's maybe that's it. 250 00:15:16,559 --> 00:15:21,879 Speaker 1: Maybe that is it? What else? Oh? 251 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 2: In an ironic twist of epic proportions, a protest was 252 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:35,840 held in Mexico City against gringos who are moving to 253 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:41,960 Mexico City and they are not happy. They violently protested, 254 00:15:42,039 --> 00:15:45,960 They vandalized their city. I guess to make it less attractive. Like, dude, 255 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:49,000 we come from America. All of our cities are tagged, like, 256 00:15:49,039 --> 00:15:51,799 we got graffiti everywhere. That's not going to dissuade people 257 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:56,360 from moving to Mexico City. Hundreds of people protested against 258 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:04,399 gentrification and mass tourism. So mass tourism, so you just 259 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:06,919 don't even want people visiting. Wait a minute, are you guys? 260 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,000 Are you guys like Ashville? Are you like South Ashville, 261 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:15,279 like Mexican Ashville or something, because that's what Asheville hates tourists, 262 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:18,360 the people that move there and they get there for 263 00:16:18,399 --> 00:16:20,559 like five years or so, and then they're like, nobody 264 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:21,559 else gets to come here. 265 00:16:21,759 --> 00:16:22,240 Speaker 1: I'm here. 266 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:25,879 Speaker 2: Everybody else just you know, don't come. Just send us 267 00:16:25,879 --> 00:16:30,080 your money. That's why I came up with the Cardipult idea, 268 00:16:30,639 --> 00:16:33,240 which was to fling the vehicles over the city as 269 00:16:33,279 --> 00:16:35,440 they were approaching on the interstate. You flip the vehicle 270 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:38,080 and you just fling it over the city and then 271 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:39,840 as the car is like tumbling through the air, the 272 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:43,080 money falls out lands on the streets in Ashville. I 273 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:45,559 haven't worked on the landing part of the equation yet, 274 00:16:45,559 --> 00:16:47,240 but that was the idea of the car to Pult. 275 00:16:47,799 --> 00:16:49,600 Speaker 1: City leaders never took me up on it, though I 276 00:16:49,639 --> 00:16:50,200 don't know why. 277 00:16:50,559 --> 00:16:52,919 Speaker 2: You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense 278 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:56,399 of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the 279 00:16:56,399 --> 00:16:59,519 people of our past while transcending generations. 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Videos 290 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:37,319 for rehearsal, dinners, weddings, graduations, Christmas, family vacations, birthdays, or 291 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:41,160 just your family stories all told through images. That's what 292 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:44,720 your photos and videos are. They are your life told 293 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:47,279 through the eyes of everyone around you and all who 294 00:17:47,319 --> 00:17:49,519 came before you, and they will tell others to come 295 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:53,599 who you are. Visit creative video dot com. 296 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:54,440 Speaker 1: Here's a peat. 297 00:17:54,319 --> 00:17:59,519 Speaker 2: Mail from John who says gentrification and tourism in Mexico 298 00:17:59,599 --> 00:18:02,359 City take out tourism and their main source of revenue 299 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:07,759 is exporting illegal drugs. Yeah, it does raise the question. 300 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:11,920 It is actually a very important part of their local 301 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:17,480 economy in Mexico City, so important that they feel like 302 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:20,279 they're being overrun by white people. 303 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:27,079 Speaker 1: Man, that must think, that's just you. 304 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:33,640 Speaker 2: Literally are having a protest over gentrification and mass tourism 305 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:39,880 in Mexico City. And of course it was mostly peaceful. 306 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:41,920 Speaker 1: But then sometimes fiery. 307 00:18:43,119 --> 00:18:46,680 Speaker 2: Yes, it evolved into violence when a small number of 308 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:53,839 people began smashing storefronts and harassing foreigners. Masked protesters smashed 309 00:18:53,839 --> 00:18:57,440 through the windows and looted high end businesses in the 310 00:18:57,599 --> 00:19:03,240 tourist areas of Condessa, Roma, and then they began screaming 311 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:09,400 at tourists in the area graffiti and by the way, 312 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:14,599 this is how you destroy your tourism economy. Like if 313 00:19:15,559 --> 00:19:17,440 just in case anybody was wondering, like why would they 314 00:19:17,519 --> 00:19:19,759 do that, Like, this is how you do it. Absolutely, 315 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:23,960 if tourists think that they're going to be assaulted when 316 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:25,759 they show up in your city, they're not going to 317 00:19:25,839 --> 00:19:34,319 come to your city to graffiti on glass, shattered glass 318 00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:39,240 being smashed through with rocks, graffiti said get out of Mexico. 319 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:46,759 Protesters held signs reading Gringos, stop stealing our home and 320 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:52,079 demanding local legislation to better regulate tourism levels and stricter 321 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:55,160 housing laws. Oh, they didn't put this in the NBC 322 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:57,519 News report, but I did see some of the video 323 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:01,119 and one of the popular messages was kill gringo. So 324 00:20:02,279 --> 00:20:04,960 but it's not like Mexico has any kind of a 325 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:09,359 reputation for that kind of violence. So it's probably just words. 326 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:12,279 It's probably you know, they don't mean anything by it. 327 00:20:12,279 --> 00:20:14,759 It's like the whole death to America thing that Iranians 328 00:20:14,839 --> 00:20:18,400 chant literally every single day as part of their forced brainwashing. 329 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:22,720 You know, it's just they love Americans. They just say 330 00:20:22,799 --> 00:20:25,440 death to America. It's just something that they do, you know. 331 00:20:26,559 --> 00:20:30,519 Marchers then continued on to protest outside of the US 332 00:20:30,559 --> 00:20:35,119 embassy and chanted down into the city's metro system, which 333 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:36,599 I believe is their subway. 334 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:37,759 Speaker 1: I guess the train system. 335 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:43,839 Speaker 2: They are mad about masses of mostly American tourists who 336 00:20:43,839 --> 00:20:49,000 have flooded into Mexico's capital in recent years. Were you 337 00:20:49,079 --> 00:20:52,279 aware of this? Did you know that Mexico City has 338 00:20:52,319 --> 00:20:57,200 become a tourist destination for Americans. I've never been to Mexico. 339 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:01,039 I have never been there. People I know who have been, 340 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:05,039 they have enjoyed themselves. But as I understand it, they're 341 00:21:05,079 --> 00:21:08,880 always on like they're like on a resort property. And 342 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:13,400 again my understanding reading different stories over the years, is 343 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:19,000 that the cartels recognize that this is a very lucrative 344 00:21:20,279 --> 00:21:25,960 source of revenue, and so everybody is under orders. You know, 345 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:30,039 you leave these tourist areas alone, these resort areas, you 346 00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:33,200 don't touch them, because it just it takes in so 347 00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:36,119 much money, and it just keeps all the tourists in 348 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:40,319 this one zone. And we won't mess with them. They'll 349 00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:44,559 keep giving us money. And if any local gangs get 350 00:21:44,599 --> 00:21:47,839 it in their heads to go and make an attack 351 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:50,680 on a resort area. Then they'll have the cartels to 352 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:53,759 answer to. Right, that's my understanding of it. I don't 353 00:21:53,759 --> 00:21:56,359 know if that's true. I just remember reading a story 354 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:59,960 about that years ago. Maybe it's changed. I'm just kidding. 355 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:02,680 Oh no, maybe, Okay, maybe it has. I don't know. 356 00:22:04,319 --> 00:22:04,759 Speaker 1: I doubt it. 357 00:22:04,759 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 2: Though. Tension had been mounting in the city since US 358 00:22:09,559 --> 00:22:16,680 digital nomads, they are called digital nomads. They began going 359 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:24,240 to Mexico City in twenty twenty. Hm, twenty twenty. That 360 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:32,160 date sounds familiar. Something important happened twenty twenty. 361 00:22:33,279 --> 00:22:34,839 Speaker 1: Many of them went to escape. 362 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:40,000 Speaker 2: Oh yes, the Corona virus lockdowns in the US. So 363 00:22:40,079 --> 00:22:44,920 this is when people moved to Mexico City because they 364 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:47,880 could work from home and so all they needed was 365 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:50,319 an Internet connection. So they moved down to Mexico City. 366 00:22:50,799 --> 00:22:55,400 And this created pressure on the housing supply. And obviously 367 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:58,240 if they're working remotely out of Mexico City, but for 368 00:22:58,279 --> 00:23:01,839 an American company, they're pulling in an American salary. And 369 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:04,680 now they were able to afford the nicest places in 370 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:08,920 Mexico City. Right, that's now putting pressure on the local 371 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:14,839 housing stock. Also, they fled there to take advantage of 372 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:21,000 cheaper rent prices. Did you see the video that went viral. 373 00:23:20,599 --> 00:23:21,160 Speaker 1: The other day. 374 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,160 Speaker 2: I was on vacation, so I don't remember what day 375 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,000 it was, but it was some woman. I think she 376 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,680 had moved to like Iceland, and she was complaining that 377 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:33,960 she had to It was something like she had to 378 00:23:34,799 --> 00:23:36,480 leave once a year. 379 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:37,799 Speaker 1: And this is true, by the way. 380 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:39,559 Speaker 2: Like I don't know if people are aware of this, 381 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:42,480 or Americans may not be aware of this, but other 382 00:23:42,519 --> 00:23:45,920 countries have immigration law and they really do enforce it, 383 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,279 like you have to leave their country after a certain 384 00:23:48,279 --> 00:23:48,839 amount of time. 385 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:50,039 Speaker 1: You don't just get. 386 00:23:49,839 --> 00:23:54,200 Speaker 2: To overstay your visa like everybody does here, Like they 387 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:58,000 actually have enforcement. This woman was all upset and she's like, 388 00:23:58,599 --> 00:24:01,559 you know, I'm not welcomed in the Icelandic society. 389 00:24:01,599 --> 00:24:03,480 Speaker 1: They look down on me and all this stuff. 390 00:24:03,599 --> 00:24:10,599 Speaker 2: It's like, this is the this is the cultural narcissism 391 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:16,039 of Americans. And I think people in the West, it's 392 00:24:16,079 --> 00:24:19,880 like you think everybody else is like us, and they're not. 393 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:25,880 People are different, Different societies are different. So since twenty twenty, 394 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:30,160 rents have soared and locals have increasingly gotten pushed out 395 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:34,039 of their neighborhoods, particularly in areas like Condessa and Roma, 396 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:40,920 lush areas packed with coffee shops and restaurants. No, so 397 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:45,319 it's the okay, so these it's the swanky places, the 398 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:52,039 swankier places that are getting mobbed by digital nomads and tourists. 399 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:55,799 So am I to understand then that these are like 400 00:24:55,839 --> 00:25:01,680 the wealthier Mexican citizens who are mad like they're wealthy 401 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,839 by Mexican standards, but they can't compete with the wealth 402 00:25:04,839 --> 00:25:08,160 of Americans coming in and they're being forced out of 403 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:13,559 their swankier places. And gosh, it's almost like they got 404 00:25:13,599 --> 00:25:14,839 awfuls down there too. 405 00:25:15,559 --> 00:25:20,359 Speaker 1: But they wouldn't be awfuls. They would be affluent Mexican. 406 00:25:22,559 --> 00:25:24,400 Speaker 2: I don't know about liberals or females either, but I 407 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:25,920 saw a bunch of dudes, so I don't know. 408 00:25:26,079 --> 00:25:27,240 Speaker 1: The Mexico City. 409 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:32,599 Speaker 2: Protests follow others in European cities like Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, 410 00:25:32,799 --> 00:25:41,640 and Rome, all against mass tourism. Okay, duly noted Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, Rome, 411 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,279 Mexico City, you are off my list. I got a 412 00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:47,279 passport a couple months back. 413 00:25:47,319 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 1: I got it renewed. Actually, so you're off my list 414 00:25:50,559 --> 00:25:51,559 of places to see. 415 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:54,319 Speaker 2: Here's a great idea. 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I don't 444 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:33,839 know if it needs to be like a Hamas to 445 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,359 you know, Israeli hostage swap, like where you get like 446 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,480 a million Hamas fighters for everyone Israeli or something. But 447 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:43,559 we could work on the details. We could get Trump 448 00:27:43,559 --> 00:27:45,680 on that. He could make this deal. I think Trump 449 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:52,240 could make this deal. Speaking of illegal immigration, which by 450 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:53,880 the way, is always a word. You know, you never 451 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:57,000 see illegal in any of these immigration stories anymore. They've 452 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:01,240 cleansed this out of the language. Has the media. One 453 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:05,359 of the other things that Beckett Adams noted at National Review, 454 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:10,000 this media trend to report on ICE arrests and deportations 455 00:28:10,319 --> 00:28:13,960 in a way that causes maximum reputational damage to the 456 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:18,480 federal agency ICE, while also saying as little as possible, 457 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:22,079 either at the front of the news story or at 458 00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:25,640 all in the rest of the story about why the 459 00:28:25,799 --> 00:28:30,000 arrests and deportations were made. And that's why you end 460 00:28:30,079 --> 00:28:33,319 up with headlines such as this from the Cincinnati Enquirer. 461 00:28:34,039 --> 00:28:41,839 Cincinnati children's chaplain detained by ICE. Okay, what the headline 462 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:46,680 doesn't says, Oh, just a Cincinnati chaplain. A children's chaplain. 463 00:28:48,039 --> 00:28:51,599 He was an Egyptian national whose asylum status was revoked 464 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:56,359 under the Biden administration, and he was flagged on the 465 00:28:56,440 --> 00:29:02,079 FBI's terror watch list during a background check. But just 466 00:29:02,079 --> 00:29:09,119 a Cincinnati children's chaplain. Beckett Adams says, it's a larger, 467 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:13,200 if unspoken effort to underreport the seriousness of the charges 468 00:29:13,519 --> 00:29:17,960 against certain illegal immigrants and foreign nationals and to oversell 469 00:29:18,079 --> 00:29:22,039 their deportations, all in service of a larger narrative that 470 00:29:22,119 --> 00:29:28,079 says the Trump administration's immigration enforcement efforts are sloppy, random, cruel, 471 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:33,400 and haphazard. Nowhere is this apparent attempt at obfuscation and 472 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:38,319 partisan advocacy clearer than in the press's psychotic insistence on 473 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:41,759 referring to foreign nationals and illegal immigrants by the states 474 00:29:41,799 --> 00:29:46,559 in which they are apprehended. The Indiana man, the Athens 475 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,400 man who happened to be a Venezuelan national who murdered 476 00:29:49,799 --> 00:29:53,000 Lake and Riley May. They called him an Athens man. 477 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:58,440 Or this one ice cream man. Yeah, the ice cream man. 478 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:01,640 He was a seventy one year old national who was 479 00:30:01,759 --> 00:30:05,920 deported to Beyroot from Michigan for alleged war crimes. But 480 00:30:06,039 --> 00:30:11,039 he was just the ice cream man. Harvard researcher. That 481 00:30:11,119 --> 00:30:16,559 was another one, Harvard researcher. That's actually a Russian national 482 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:22,440 who was caught smuggling undeclared petri dishes into the United States. 483 00:30:23,039 --> 00:30:24,039 Speaker 1: What could go wrong with that? 484 00:30:26,359 --> 00:30:30,079 Speaker 2: There was the Georgetown scholar used to refer to an 485 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:33,759 Indian national whose father in law is a former high 486 00:30:33,799 --> 00:30:38,160 ranking HAMAS official. Then there was the veteran who has 487 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,480 been in the US since he was four years old 488 00:30:40,759 --> 00:30:46,200 and faces deportation. But you got to read seventeen paragraphs 489 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:48,400 into the story before you find out that in two 490 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:51,480 thousand and eight, this veteran opened fire on a house 491 00:30:51,559 --> 00:30:56,559 party crowded house party in Colorado Springs, striking a nineteen 492 00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:02,480 year old who was five months pregnant. These deportation cases 493 00:31:03,119 --> 00:31:05,720 are complex enough as they are, and there are strong 494 00:31:05,799 --> 00:31:10,039 legal arguments for and against the various efforts that the 495 00:31:10,079 --> 00:31:13,240 administration is undertaking, but it helps nobody to obscure the 496 00:31:13,279 --> 00:31:17,440 facts of the matter by downplaying alleged criminal offenses and 497 00:31:17,559 --> 00:31:22,519 legal statuses and all while offhandedly referring to illegal immigrants 498 00:31:22,559 --> 00:31:25,039 and foreign nationals by the names of the US states 499 00:31:25,039 --> 00:31:28,720 and universities and cities where they happened to be residing. 500 00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:32,759 Speaker 1: This is how you ended up with the. 501 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:38,799 Speaker 2: Insane response from the media about this raid on that 502 00:31:39,039 --> 00:31:46,440 farm in California where they had child slave labor. If 503 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:50,720 you can't call that out, if you can't recognize that 504 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:52,079 that is a bad thing. 505 00:31:52,519 --> 00:31:54,039 Speaker 1: You do not want to have. 506 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:59,000 Speaker 2: Children working illegally in the country like those kids were 507 00:31:59,079 --> 00:32:02,880 trafficked here to work on a farm. Do you what 508 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,079 kind of life do you think they are having there? 509 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:07,680 But no, no, you're going to go out there and 510 00:32:07,759 --> 00:32:12,839 virtue signal and throw rocks at the cops. All right, 511 00:32:12,839 --> 00:32:15,200 that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much 512 00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,279 for listening. 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