Speaker 1: A conservative worldview would take account of what people actually
Speaker 1: want as expressed by what they do, not by what
Speaker 1: they should want. And I feel like everything has gotten
Speaker 1: think tank world is so abstract, you literally have and
Speaker 1: I've worked in think tank world. I mean, I've been
Speaker 1: here for thirty four years, so i know the way
Speaker 1: the city works. And I've seen people have debates like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, that's inconsistent with the tenets of capitalism. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't worship capitalism. I worship God, like whatever. I'm
Speaker 1: a Christian, but leaving outside this is not a religion.
Speaker 1: It's a mechanical you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: People can have better ructure exactly right.
Speaker 1: But if your system is making it impossible for my
Speaker 1: children to get married, then I am totally happy to
Speaker 1: set your system on fire and blow it up, because
Speaker 1: what is the point to serve the system. I'm not
Speaker 1: serving a system. I'm serving my children.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not playing U Tucker cross and to start
Speaker 2: the show off because I agree with what he's saying there,
Speaker 2: but I am playing it because that is a sentiment.
Speaker 2: Obviously that was older, probably fifteen years ago that he
Speaker 2: said that, but that idea has become extraordinarily popular. Really,
Speaker 2: what he's describing is not he's saying conservatism ought to
Speaker 2: deal with this, but what he's really describing as populism.
Speaker 2: What he's really describing is how do the people feel
Speaker 2: about your policies? How are your policies changing their feeling
Speaker 2: about the ruling class. I think that the most profound
Speaker 2: thing he said there, and something that I relate to,
Speaker 2: even though I disagree with some of his policy proposals
Speaker 2: to remedy these issues, that we do agree on is
Speaker 2: that if your system makes it impossible for my child
Speaker 2: to buy a home, I will burn it down. I
Speaker 2: will burn it down. This is coming from a pretty
Speaker 2: pretty passive guy. You know, you don't see Tucker going
Speaker 2: crazy too often, So for him to say that is profound.
Speaker 2: And there's a ton of people in America that feel
Speaker 2: that way all walks of life. Probably i'd say half
Speaker 2: of the people at this point, maybe more feel that way.
Speaker 2: This system's Unjust burn it down. I don't care what
Speaker 2: comes next. What is is bad. This is a very
Speaker 2: revolutionary mindset. This is the mindset that really lights embers
Speaker 2: in the hearts of Marxists oftentimes, but as you've seen
Speaker 2: with the rise of Donald Trump. This is not a
Speaker 2: sentiment that's exclusive to the left. This is a very
Speaker 2: popular feeling, and I don't blame them. In many ways,
Speaker 2: I feel the same, and I'm sure many of you
Speaker 2: feel the same too, But oftentimes libertarians fail to communicate
Speaker 2: our ideas in a way that actually reaches them, in
Speaker 2: a way that lets them know that we actually agree
Speaker 2: with what they're saying, that yes, the system is fucked up,
Speaker 2: and yes we see your pain, we feel it, and
Speaker 2: we share it with you, but we have policy proposals
Speaker 2: that may differ from yours or from your political leaders.
Speaker 2: And the reason I bring this up in the reason
Speaker 2: and I played that clip is because Donald Trump announced
Speaker 2: today the Great re Emergence of America. I forget the
Speaker 2: exact phraseology that he applied to it, but what he's
Speaker 2: doing is he's applying tariffs broad based to almost every
Speaker 2: country on Earth. I mean, any country that we have
Speaker 2: a trade deficit with, Boom, you get a tariff. Before
Speaker 2: I get there, let me explain kind of how it works.
Speaker 2: What he had initially campaigned on, and what he talked
Speaker 2: about often was reciprocal tariffs. That if you're applying tariffs
Speaker 2: to us boom, you get the same in return, And
Speaker 2: I said, as you can go back when I first
Speaker 2: talked about this, I don't actually think that's necessarily a
Speaker 2: bad idea, because I think given our consumer market, there's
Speaker 2: so much desire to sell goods into America that it'll
Speaker 2: probably force a tremendous amount of countries to remove their
Speaker 2: tariffs to avoid our reciprocal tariffs. So like game theory,
Speaker 2: it makes sense they sell more stuff to us US
Speaker 2: the tariffs will hurt their industry more than it will
Speaker 2: hurt us. Therefore they'll probably back off. Well, his policy
Speaker 2: proposal today looked quite a bit different. It's not at
Speaker 2: all reflective of the tariffs that they have placed on us,
Speaker 2: which is not a good idea in my opinion. I
Speaker 2: don't think I need to explain this to most people
Speaker 2: in my audience, but I am not of the belief
Speaker 2: that trade deficits are inherently bad. Through division of labor
Speaker 2: and economies of scale, there are other factors that make
Speaker 2: it make sense that some goods are going to be
Speaker 2: purchased from other countries and it's not going to be equal.
Speaker 2: We're not going to sell them just as many goods
Speaker 2: as they as they sell to us like, it's not
Speaker 2: going to be perfectly even, and to expect it to
Speaker 2: be perfectly even as kind of ridiculous. I mean, how
Speaker 2: often would you expect, like, do you expect, I don't know,
Speaker 2: Guyana to buy as much from us as we like,
Speaker 2: the exact same amount as we buy from them. It's
Speaker 2: kind of ridiculous. So I don't think the trade deficits
Speaker 2: per se are the problem. Sometimes they can get out
Speaker 2: of hand, but I think the real problem was the
Speaker 2: unfair trade practices that we were dealing with that so
Speaker 2: many countries, and this is a problem that I don't
Speaker 2: think enough libertarians talk about. Our country was being tariffed
Speaker 2: just bloody nose level to much of the rest of
Speaker 2: the world. EU Canada tariffing us into oblivion. We're talking
Speaker 2: triple digit tariffs on some goods like astronomical levels, and
Speaker 2: we weren't responding. We were just like cool, our industry
Speaker 2: can't sell to you, you can sell to us, and
Speaker 2: that's just how the world works. Well, I don't think
Speaker 2: that's fair, and I think that a reciprocal tariff policy
Speaker 2: where hey, you terrify us, we're gonna we're gonna return
Speaker 2: the favor. Maybe you don't want to do that. That's
Speaker 2: probably a good negotiating chip given how big our consumer
Speaker 2: market is. Unfortunately, that's not what I'm doing. He is
Speaker 2: just trying to deal with trade deficits and doing so
Speaker 2: with tariffs. And I'll just be honest with you, for
Speaker 2: the life of me, I can't understand. I cannot, just
Speaker 2: to be clear, cannot understand why you would formulate it
Speaker 2: that way. And just to give you an example of
Speaker 2: what I'm talking about, Ford, I think he was the
Speaker 2: mayor of Ontario. He said earlier today that they're prepared
Speaker 2: to get rid of all Canadian tariffs if we won't
Speaker 2: implement ours against theirs. That you have tariffs on a
Speaker 2: whole number of products.
Speaker 1: And we'd be willing to take those off tomorrow if
Speaker 1: he took all the tariffs off.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, hooray, your plan worked. Trump Your reciprocal
Speaker 2: tariff threats scared the shit out of them. They backed off,
Speaker 2: signed the deal. They don't tariff us, we don't tear
Speaker 2: if tariff them. That's actually free free market trading. Boom Bob,
Speaker 2: your uncle, let's go now. It doesn't look as if
Speaker 2: it's going to play that way, and I think that's
Speaker 2: a big mistake. This now appears to me not to
Speaker 2: be what he campaigned on in terms of this is
Speaker 2: going to be reciprocal on it, to negotiate tariffs to
Speaker 2: be as low as possible to help free up the
Speaker 2: free market, to actually make the market free. That's not
Speaker 2: what he's doing. Now. What he's trying to do is
Speaker 2: essentially make so much money from tariffs that he can
Speaker 2: then reduce the income tax. Now, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 2: I like that idea a lot. I would love more
Speaker 2: than anything, and I would absolutely trade a thousand times
Speaker 2: out of a thousand, you get rid of the income
Speaker 2: tax on the American people, charge tariffs on the rest
Speaker 2: of the world to offset it if you can. Awesome,
Speaker 2: But here's the truth. Mathematically, it just doesn't work, folks.
Speaker 2: You would have to bring in north of five or
Speaker 2: six trillion dollars annually from tariffs. There's just no way
Speaker 2: you're going to be able to get that much from tariffs.
Speaker 2: There's no way. I mean, I'd love to be proven wrong,
Speaker 2: but it's not going to happen. Like the income tax,
Speaker 2: what they take in is not going to be replaced
Speaker 2: entirely from tariffs. So what we're going to end up
Speaker 2: with is probably some income tax cuts, which is good,
Speaker 2: but then we're gonna also have to bear the cost
Speaker 2: of the tariffs that are placed on the goods that
Speaker 2: we import, so we're gonna end up paying it kind of. Anyways,
Speaker 2: now you can buy American and that's all good, but overall,
Speaker 2: I think that it's probably not gonna work out. Now.
Speaker 2: As I said to start this off, I think that
Speaker 2: there's a chance that they find a glide path if
Speaker 2: they use these as negotiating chips. Doesn't look like that's
Speaker 2: what he's doing. It looks as if he is genuinely
Speaker 2: trying to generate trillions of dollars in revenue via tariffs.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is a level, it's a scale of
Speaker 2: trade war that I don't think can be successful. Like,
Speaker 2: I don't know how you can do this and not
Speaker 2: end up in a severe recession. It's gonna be very hard.
Speaker 2: I'll just say it like that, like it's not impossible,
Speaker 2: but it's gonna be challenging. And I just think that
Speaker 2: it's very important that people understand this that like what
Speaker 2: he is doing is essentially taking the game of monopoly
Speaker 2: and changing the rules, like, he's not just moving the
Speaker 2: pieces around a little bit. He's not rolling doubles, he's
Speaker 2: not landing on free parking and picking the cash up
Speaker 2: out of the middle. I don't know if you played
Speaker 2: that way, That's how I played. Always put five hundred
Speaker 2: to midle. He is changing the rules of the game.
Speaker 2: He's basically putting a cost on every space that you
Speaker 2: land on for foreigners, and he's hoping or expecting that
Speaker 2: they're not going to return that favor in kind. And
Speaker 2: the truth is many of them are going to. Now
Speaker 2: his threat is, well, if you respond, then our tariffs
Speaker 2: go higher. Okay, Well, now you're in a full blown
Speaker 2: trade war. Who blinks first? Now everyone assumes me included,
Speaker 2: that it's going to be the other countries, not America,
Speaker 2: because we're the biggest consumer economy. Everybody wants to sell
Speaker 2: to us. They're going to blink first. But some of
Speaker 2: them are going to some of them are not going
Speaker 2: to behave rationally, some of them are going to go
Speaker 2: to the mat. Some of them are gonna realign their
Speaker 2: trading relationships with the rest of their neighbors as opposed
Speaker 2: to America. Canada is trying to realign itself with Europe.
Speaker 2: Obviously you've got the Bricks Alliance. It's just going to
Speaker 2: be it's going to strain our relationships with the rest
Speaker 2: of the world. Now. I am not interested in being
Speaker 2: the whipping boy of the rest of the world anymore.
Speaker 2: I'm not interested in being the policeman of the world anymore.
Speaker 2: I'm not interested in providing military service for the rest
Speaker 2: of the world, or welfare via USAID or handouts, none
Speaker 2: of that. So a lot of that is going to
Speaker 2: put a strain on our relationship with the rest of
Speaker 2: the world. I'm not interested in being in the UN,
Speaker 2: I'm not interested in being in the WHO, the World
Speaker 2: Health Organization. I'm not interested in being in NATO. I'm
Speaker 2: not interested in having much to do with the rest
Speaker 2: of the world, aside from trading with them. I think
Speaker 2: that is the one thing that we genuinely benefit from.
Speaker 2: They produce goods at a cheaper cost than we can
Speaker 2: in certain industries. We produce goods at a higher quality
Speaker 2: or cheaper costs in an industry that they can't provide.
Speaker 2: We then trade. I think that these things, broadly speaking,
Speaker 2: that lowers consumer costs, and it increases our standard of
Speaker 2: living and it benefits us on net. Now, here's the
Speaker 2: area that libertarians get wrong. Oftentimes, when someone starts to
Speaker 2: bitch about the de industrialization of America, they'll just explain
Speaker 2: to them. They'll start to talk to them about federal reserve,
Speaker 2: fractional reserve, banking, inflation, like, you can take it a
Speaker 2: lot of different directions from just a free market, libertarian,
Speaker 2: capitalist kind of mentality. To explain away much of this,
Speaker 2: you can talk about as I already did with division
Speaker 2: of labor, and how this ultimately is a net benefit
Speaker 2: to us. But the mistake, the mistake that people make
Speaker 2: all the fucking time, is that they do not actually
Speaker 2: address how justifiably pissed off they are. That, yes, your
Speaker 2: birthright as an American coming up in an economy that
Speaker 2: was blossoming throughout most of your life and has now
Speaker 2: gone to shit, is in fact shitty and is in
Speaker 2: fact something that you ought to be pissed off about.
Speaker 2: And we are as as much, if not more so,
Speaker 2: pissed at everything that's happened. And also you ought to
Speaker 2: add in, hey, I also get your gripe. Like, think
Speaker 2: about this, there's approximately fifty million men in this country
Speaker 2: that are adults eighteen up, but under forty fifty million
Speaker 2: that never had a good economy that came up right
Speaker 2: into the teeth of eight the recession there then had
Speaker 2: basically a shit economy throughout the twenty teens. Then they
Speaker 2: had COVID and lockdowns and inflation. On top of that.
Speaker 2: They're also the generation that came up where men were
Speaker 2: the bane of everyone's existence. They were the whipping boy
Speaker 2: for all of civilization they had. And then and then
Speaker 2: on top of that there was HR and DEI departments
Speaker 2: that said you must hire women before you hire any
Speaker 2: of these men. I don't give a fuck if they're
Speaker 2: more qualified, I don't care. Do you think it helps
Speaker 2: if you just go to that guy and you say, yeah,
Speaker 2: well it's inflation in the Federal Reserve and blah blah blah, Like,
Speaker 2: do you think he wants to hear any of that
Speaker 2: or do you think he wants to hear from Donald
Speaker 2: Trump going I'm gonna bring job I'm gonna bring your
Speaker 2: jobs back. You know that job that your grandpa had
Speaker 2: in that factory, that he was able to afford a
Speaker 2: home and get married and have kids and afforded a retirement.
Speaker 2: Oh what an idea? A vacation every once in a
Speaker 2: while a Rolex when he retires. I'm bringing that back
Speaker 2: for you. If you can't understand why that's appealing to
Speaker 2: this immense wave of young men, well you're never going
Speaker 2: to reach them. You have to grapple with that fact
Speaker 2: that it sounds great, and they're going to obviously like
Speaker 2: what he has to say here. It doesn't necessarily matter
Speaker 2: whether or not he's going to successfully deliver on it,
Speaker 2: because he's already got their votes, including mine, which I'll
Speaker 2: get into in a second. If you can't actually deal
Speaker 2: with their genuine grievances, they're going to disregard what you
Speaker 2: have to say, and honestly, they probably should. They probably
Speaker 2: shouldn't listen to you because you're not actually listening to them.
Speaker 2: You're not actually hearing what they're saying. They're pissed, they've
Speaker 2: been rug pulled their entire fucking lives, and they're looking
Speaker 2: for revolutionary change to remedy it. And I don't blame them.
Speaker 2: I think only then might they listen to your free
Speaker 2: market economic explanation to everything that's going on in the world,
Speaker 2: and only then maybe they'll consider the solutions that you
Speaker 2: might recommend. Versus the one that Trump is offering. And
Speaker 2: a good example of this is Batiya Ungar Sargon. I
Speaker 2: think I pronounced that right. She went on Piers Morgan today.
Speaker 2: I don't want to play this clip for you.
Speaker 3: What I find so frustrating about the conversation around tariffs
Speaker 3: is that we all agree on the problem.
Speaker 2: We all agree.
Speaker 3: That the de industrialization of America led to the downward
Speaker 3: mobility of the American working class, deaths of despair, people
Speaker 3: working multiple jobs and not.
Speaker 2: Being able to afford the American dream.
Speaker 3: We all agree that it is deeply unfair for the
Speaker 3: American middle class to be bearing the burden of unfair
Speaker 3: tariffs from other countries. We all agree that it is
Speaker 3: great for the president to have leverage in order to
Speaker 3: demand reasonable things like that country stop allowing Fentanel to
Speaker 3: murder one hundred thousand Americans every year, and that Mexico
Speaker 3: do its part to police its own border. And yet
Speaker 3: when somebody has the courage to show up and stay
Speaker 3: at Wall Street, screw you. I am waging war. I'm
Speaker 3: waging class warfare on behalf of the American working class.
Speaker 3: And you elites and Wall Street, you do what you
Speaker 3: need to do because I'm not going to stop fighting
Speaker 3: for the American working class. Suddenly everybody is sitting around going,
Speaker 3: oh no, the stock market, Yeah, the stock market looks
Speaker 3: like that because the rich are punishing Trump for siding
Speaker 3: with the neglected and humiliated American working class over them.
Speaker 2: So you get the idea, passion, understanding, sympathy, sympathy for
Speaker 2: the plight of these young people. That's all good. Here's
Speaker 2: where she goes astray. She's an economic ignoratus. Sorry, I'm
Speaker 2: just gonna say it. I'm sure she's a nice gal.
Speaker 2: I'm sure she's very nice. But she's a socialist at
Speaker 2: the end of the day, and she's a maximal protectionist.
Speaker 2: And she's totally not telling you the truth. And that's
Speaker 2: probably what I should lead with as opposed to being
Speaker 2: just a dick about it. She's not telling you the truth.
Speaker 2: She's saying these This is the capitalist punishing Trump. Excuse me, hello,
Speaker 2: hi Clint.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 2: Actually Trump is fighting to assist Blackrock, the largest money
Speaker 2: manager on planet Earth in human history, in acquiring the
Speaker 2: Panama Canal over the CCP. Now, I will say I'd
Speaker 2: probably prefer Blackrock to own it than the CCP. Sure, whatever.
Speaker 2: It's not a huge difference to me, to be honest,
Speaker 2: But yeah, I guess I would prefer it to be
Speaker 2: an American company that we can apply leverage to. But
Speaker 2: that is not fighting Wall Street. Batya, you liar. That's
Speaker 2: not fight that's not fighting for the little guy. It's
Speaker 2: really not. It's fighting for Wall Street. It's fighting on
Speaker 2: behalf of Wall Street in a massive way, an astronomical
Speaker 2: cool way. But you see how how compelling a rant
Speaker 2: like that is. If you set aside your brain, and
Speaker 2: you set aside all of the facts that she gets wrong,
Speaker 2: you just go, that sounds great. Look at it. She
Speaker 2: is fired up. She's fighting for the little guy, the
Speaker 2: middle class, the poor against Wall Street. That sounds great
Speaker 2: if you don't have, you know, a chicken in the
Speaker 2: pot and a pot to piss and you're like, fuck, yeah,
Speaker 2: this lady rocks. And Trump is my guy. And I'm
Speaker 2: not saying Trump shouldn't be your guy. I'm not saying that.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying it's really important that you actually tell
Speaker 2: the truth, that you actually say who's gonna benefit from
Speaker 2: this stuff? And I made a post a little bit
Speaker 2: earlier tonight. I said a potentially grim prediction for you,
Speaker 2: deporting illegals while simultaneously adding tariffs ostensibly to create factory jobs,
Speaker 2: will end up creating major labor shortages. Now, the reason
Speaker 2: I said that is because I don't think that we
Speaker 2: have enough people that actually want those jobs, or more importantly,
Speaker 2: are capable of doing industrial level labor, at least not
Speaker 2: in the short term. It's going to take a year's
Speaker 2: to ramp up and train all these people anyways, And
Speaker 2: I said that void will likely be filled by robots,
Speaker 2: not people. I hope I'll be proven wrong on this.
Speaker 2: And I just want to read you a reply that
Speaker 2: I got because it was so over the top. This
Speaker 2: is exactly the energy or the audience that someone like
Speaker 2: Batya and Trump speaks to and resonates with tremendously. He said,
Speaker 2: you are right, Clint, we should embrace the complete destruction
Speaker 2: of the middle class. I'm sure your children will appreciate
Speaker 2: the fact that you stood up for the globalists while
Speaker 2: they struggle to figure out what service economy job they
Speaker 2: prefer Maurista or gas station sales click while renting from
Speaker 2: either Black Rock or Vanguard. After they gobble up all
Speaker 2: the homes that have gone into foreclosure, when the market collapses,
Speaker 2: no worries though. They can order uber eats that they
Speaker 2: finance at thirty two percent interest, which is currently the
Speaker 2: grim reality of the current status quo. Someday the grift
Speaker 2: YouTube money will dry up. I look forward to you
Speaker 2: ringing up my pack of smokes. So, yeah, I got
Speaker 2: under his skin. I don't really know why, but I
Speaker 2: wanted to break some of this down, and you know,
Speaker 2: sitting inside the fact that he was a total asshole
Speaker 2: to me. Some funny one liners in there, some funny zingers,
Speaker 2: here's the real issue. I agree with his analysis of
Speaker 2: the current paradigm. We just we just differ on the solution.
Speaker 2: I think that just to give you some actual solutions
Speaker 2: that I think would help us tremendously. Yeah, we need
Speaker 2: to go back to sound money. That's all true. Like
Speaker 2: it's not going to happen anytime in the near future.
Speaker 2: Just being honest, it's not gonna happen. So in the interim,
Speaker 2: what are some things that could happen. Well, you could
Speaker 2: cut back on federal spending. Trump allegedly is doing that
Speaker 2: via DOGE. I hope that it is ultimately cemented by Congress,
Speaker 2: and in fact, they do cut back at least to
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen spending levels. For the love of god, I
Speaker 2: realized it's like forty percent cuts, But it's just twenty
Speaker 2: nineteen levels. Like, if we can't survive off of that,
Speaker 2: something's terribly fucked up, and we shouldn't be spending at
Speaker 2: pandemic lockdown levels for the rest of eternity. We're going
Speaker 2: to go bankrupt, obviously, So that would be a good start.
Speaker 2: That would reduce the inflationary pressure that we've been dealing with.
Speaker 2: Probably the biggest second thing he can do aside from that,
Speaker 2: would be to cut the regulatory tape to free up
Speaker 2: the economy. Well, actually that's either the second or the
Speaker 2: third thing. Probably the second thing plummet income taxes, even
Speaker 2: if you still have to keep this absurd progressive income
Speaker 2: tax where you tax the rich very aggressively, even though
Speaker 2: most of them at the highest levels end up getting
Speaker 2: their tax burden reduced a lot. If you could, if
Speaker 2: you could bring down income taxes on the middle class
Speaker 2: and the upper middle class or upper middle class like
Speaker 2: as much as possible, that would help a lot. So
Speaker 2: those would be the things that I would prescribe to
Speaker 2: deal with some of this gentleman's very over the top
Speaker 2: gripes against me, which I don't even know why he
Speaker 2: was mad. I'm just I'm literally just analyzing and saying, like,
Speaker 2: I don't think that we're going to have enough people
Speaker 2: to fill these jobs, and I'm guessing that many of
Speaker 2: these jobs are going to be filled by robots and automation.
Speaker 2: And guess what, I'm probably going to be right, because
Speaker 2: that's already happening. Like, you already have robots and automation
Speaker 2: taking a lot of industrial labor across the rest of
Speaker 2: the world. The reason we don't pay attention to it
Speaker 2: is because we've already outsourced most of our industry to
Speaker 2: the rest of the world. But once it's brought back here,
Speaker 2: a lot of it's going to be done by robots.
Speaker 2: That's just true. Now, all that being said, I think
Speaker 2: that it would be good if we could produce more
Speaker 2: physical goods here so that we aren't as reliant on
Speaker 2: the rest of the world. I think that would be good.
Speaker 2: That doesn't mean that I support everything that Trump does
Speaker 2: to make that come to pass. I think that the
Speaker 2: primary reason that we have we have ultimately outsourced so
Speaker 2: much of our labor in our production is simply because
Speaker 2: our standard of living is much higher and people aren't
Speaker 2: willing to work for as little as the rest of
Speaker 2: the world, and therefore you can produce these items cheaper elsewhere,
Speaker 2: so corporations do.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 2: Trump says to himself, Okay, well we're going to apply
Speaker 2: tariffs to make it so it's an even playing field. Well,
Speaker 2: it's not really making it eat and even now, is it.
Speaker 2: It's actually tilting it towards America, which is fine. He's
Speaker 2: the president of the United States and he ought to
Speaker 2: favor America. But the ultimate outcome, like what really matters
Speaker 2: here is does it actually increase the standard of living
Speaker 2: for Americans? Does it actually alleviate all of those gripes
Speaker 2: that the gentleman had that lit me on fire. Does
Speaker 2: it actually allow for you not to be using Uber
Speaker 2: eats and for you not to be a Barisa for
Speaker 2: the rest of your life and paying twenty two percent
Speaker 2: on credit to buyer uber it's on debt. What else?
Speaker 2: Does it allow your children or you for that matter,
Speaker 2: to buy a home. Do his policies create that future?
Speaker 2: Does it bring us back to nineteen sixty five or
Speaker 2: whatever I'm arguing now? I don't think it will. Now
Speaker 2: that does not mean that it won't have some positive results.
Speaker 2: It undoubtedly will. I mean, as I said earlier, what
Speaker 2: he's doing is such a change to the function, like
Speaker 2: to how things have been. It's such a just the
Speaker 2: status quo is being obliterated by these policies. So it's
Speaker 2: going to change a lot, and some of the changes
Speaker 2: will be good some but on net I'm not so sure.
Speaker 2: And this is another thing that I think both Republicans
Speaker 2: right now are getting wrong and libertarians almost always get wrong,
Speaker 2: is that they don't think about how the electorate is
Speaker 2: going to respond to what you're doing. Now, let me explain.
Speaker 2: I think that there is a chance that Trump's policies,
Speaker 2: if given a decade, could actually really change things for
Speaker 2: the better. Let me go into further detail and explain
Speaker 2: this further, because it's necessary if you actually do what
Speaker 2: he's what he's claiming he's going to do, and you
Speaker 2: increase these tariffs and you basically you have this full
Speaker 2: on trade war with the rest of the world, and
Speaker 2: you stay the course and you finally get it to
Speaker 2: like calm down and let things start to settle and
Speaker 2: corporations start to settle and acclimate to the tariffs structure
Speaker 2: and taxation structure and everything else, and train up the
Speaker 2: local labor force to take some of these jobs, to
Speaker 2: build up robots and automation to take some of these jobs,
Speaker 2: or to fill some of these some of this demand.
Speaker 2: And you allow for that to all play out over years,
Speaker 2: four or five years from now, you might be to
Speaker 2: a point of oh and sorry. The biggest key is
Speaker 2: because of the tariff and the revenues that you're creating,
Speaker 2: you then just bury the income tax. You take it
Speaker 2: from thirty five percent down to ten or fifteen percent. Okay,
Speaker 2: now we're talking. Now. The GOP may be re elected,
Speaker 2: now beloved, third presidential term may be a possibility. I'm
Speaker 2: not coming on that, by the way, I don't support it.
Speaker 2: But in the interim, what he's doing is going to
Speaker 2: create so much tumult I mean, it's going to be
Speaker 2: so chaotic that I think that there's a real chance
Speaker 2: that you never see that, that you lose in the
Speaker 2: mid terms, then you have a Democrat majority. They fucking
Speaker 2: constantly thrown up even more roadblocks than they already are,
Speaker 2: even though they're in the minority. You already tonight, you
Speaker 2: already had some of the tariffs against Canada got overturned
Speaker 2: by the Senate because Rand Paul a bunch of handful
Speaker 2: of other Republican senators cross the aisle and voted against
Speaker 2: the tariffs on Canada. What I'm saying is, if you
Speaker 2: can't convince the American people that this is not going
Speaker 2: to be a quick fix, this is going to suck
Speaker 2: for a couple of years. But if you stick with me,
Speaker 2: here's my vision, here's where we're going. Give me five years.
Speaker 2: And he's only got a four year presidential turn, so
Speaker 2: that's kind of a hard sell. But you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying, Like it's going to take a long time.
Speaker 2: It might take longer than five years, honestly, Like this
Speaker 2: transition could take ten. Especially with AI and automation all
Speaker 2: coming online and robots all coming lines online simultaneously, it's
Speaker 2: going to be such upheaval for people. I think that
Speaker 2: his framework might be able to work if you had
Speaker 2: a decade, but you don't. And if this is as
Speaker 2: painful as I think it can be or could be
Speaker 2: near term, you're definitely not going to be able to
Speaker 2: implement this. And JD Vance in twenty eight doesn't have
Speaker 2: a shot and then you end up with Gavin Newsom
Speaker 2: with VPAOC. Like, this is what I'm talking about that
Speaker 2: libertarians get wrong. It's like we're so accustomed to never
Speaker 2: having political power that we just like we just prescribe
Speaker 2: things based off of our principles and don't consider the
Speaker 2: fact that like, oh, yeah, but you'd be well I'm
Speaker 2: not saying all of you, but some of you. You
Speaker 2: just don't consider the fact that, like, you're never going
Speaker 2: to be able to implement this, and you're going to
Speaker 2: be thrown out office immediately. If not assassinated, it's not
Speaker 2: gonna happen. Dude, Like, would you like to end the
Speaker 2: Federal Reserve? Yeah, me too. Well, if you were to
Speaker 2: end it overnight, you would plummet, plummet the economy into
Speaker 2: a depression the likes of what you've never seen before,
Speaker 2: and you would be voted out and people would never
Speaker 2: vote for you again. Now that's assuming that you actually
Speaker 2: survive long enough to end the Federal Reserve, which you
Speaker 2: probably wouldn't. But this is what I'm saying, is like
Speaker 2: you have to think about practicality. Can I actually accomplish
Speaker 2: this or can't I? And I think that's I guess
Speaker 2: That's what I'm trying to appeal to Trump voters to consider,
Speaker 2: is do you think that if I'm right, that these
Speaker 2: tariffs actually add to the prices rising domestically because some
Speaker 2: of the goods we're not going to be able to
Speaker 2: replace domestically, or we're going to still continue to buy
Speaker 2: imported goods and we're going to end up paying those tariffs,
Speaker 2: which means that you end up paying more out of pocket,
Speaker 2: so you feel as if you're more poorer. Now, if
Speaker 2: you're one of the people that gets an industrial job
Speaker 2: twelve months from now and you're making one hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty k a year, you may be like, yeah, my
Speaker 2: life's better and this is all good, But how many
Speaker 2: voters are actually going to end up benefiting short term,
Speaker 2: near term as a consequence of trumps policies. It's not
Speaker 2: going to be everybody, It's not going to be half
Speaker 2: of people. It's going to be a fraction of the population. Basically,
Speaker 2: what I'm trying to explain is I think, honestly that
Speaker 2: near term this is going to create so much pain
Speaker 2: that it's going to make it almost impossible for the
Speaker 2: GOP to prevail moving forward, and as a consequence, the
Speaker 2: lunatics get back in power, and I don't want to
Speaker 2: see that. So I'm reaching out out of love to
Speaker 2: explain why I think this may be a problem. Now,
Speaker 2: let me say, I do hope that I'm wrong, and
Speaker 2: I do hope that Trump's bomb bass negotiating style is
Speaker 2: ultimately going to settle in the land of the Seine
Speaker 2: where Yeah, I talked crazy shit to Canada and then
Speaker 2: the Senate shot me down, and now we're just we're
Speaker 2: mutually lowering our tariffs and now the market's free and
Speaker 2: the Clint Russells of the world get their wish toada.
Speaker 2: I think that'd be fantastic, And maybe that's how this
Speaker 2: all plays out ultimately, that all of these threats of
Speaker 2: tariffs get Mexico to treat us better and Canada to
Speaker 2: treat us more fairly, and many other countries do the same,
Speaker 2: and ultimately there's a net reduction in tariffs on global
Speaker 2: trade and ultimately an increase on net in free market trade.
Speaker 2: All good, then I think the economy could blossom. If
Speaker 2: you do that while simultaneously lowering income taxes and lowering
Speaker 2: the regulatory bodies, you could actually turn this economy back
Speaker 2: on quite a bit, especially if you get rid of
Speaker 2: ESG and DEI and you start to actually bring back
Speaker 2: in all of these abandoned young men into the workforce.
Speaker 2: And by the way, ladies, this is not hate that
Speaker 2: I'm not talking about you. I'm just saying that for
Speaker 2: the past fifteen years, men have been alienated in a
Speaker 2: way that you have not been. Can we agree on that?
Speaker 2: I hope we can agree on that. So that's the
Speaker 2: reason I'm speaking to the concerns of young men right now.
Speaker 2: And that's why I think that it's going to be
Speaker 2: really interesting to see. It's going to be really interesting
Speaker 2: to see. And just to circle back to that very
Speaker 2: angry response that I got, I understand the anger. I
Speaker 2: feel the anger myself. I'm mad as hell that the
Speaker 2: economy does not work well at all. I had to
Speaker 2: shut down my fuck and million dollar company as a
Speaker 2: consequence of the government. I am more upset than you.
Speaker 2: Probably I'm very fucking pissed too, Okay, so you know
Speaker 2: in the Oppression Olympics, I'm right there with you, Bud,
Speaker 2: I'm just as pissed. But it just doesn't change reality,
Speaker 2: Like it doesn't change how economics work, like how I
Speaker 2: feel about this is secondary to what his policies will create.
Speaker 2: It's not enough to just be a revolutionary. You have
Speaker 2: to have an ideas that match the revolution and create
Speaker 2: a better future. If you just roll forward with your
Speaker 2: passion and you light everything on fire with no plans
Speaker 2: on how to rebuild, well, then you're just a chaos agent.
Speaker 2: You're not actually a reformer or a revolutionary that leads
Speaker 2: to a brighter tomorrow. You're a revolutionary that leads to ashes,
Speaker 2: like most Marxist revolutionaries have throughout him history, in fact,
Speaker 2: basically all of them. So I guess that's my main
Speaker 2: appeal to you guys, is that I hope that you'll
Speaker 2: think this through. Despite all of the genuine inks that
Speaker 2: you're dealing with and I share, try and be rational
Speaker 2: in your analysis as to how this plays out and
Speaker 2: what creates the best future not just for you in
Speaker 2: two to four to five years, but for your grandkids
Speaker 2: and your prog need there after.
Speaker 4: Coming days. There will be complaints from the globalists and
Speaker 4: the outsources and special interests and the fake news always
Speaker 4: fake news, will always complain, But never forget. Every prediction
Speaker 4: our opponent's made about trade for the last thirty years
Speaker 4: has been proven totally wrong. They were wrong about NAFTA,
Speaker 4: they were wrong about China. They were wrong about the
Speaker 4: Transpecific Partnership, which would have been a disaster. If I
Speaker 4: didn't terminate it. If I didn't turn that terminate that
Speaker 4: United Auto Workers, you would have had no oh jobs
Speaker 4: in this country. You would have had no jobs. I
Speaker 4: was all going to other countries in my first term.
Speaker 4: They said tariffs would crash the economy. Instead we built
Speaker 4: the greatest economy in the history of the world. And again,
Speaker 4: I have great respect for presidency of China, great respect
Speaker 4: for China. But they were taking tremendous advantage of them
Speaker 4: of us, and I commend them for that. I say, hey,
Speaker 4: if you can get away with it, that's okay. But
Speaker 4: you know, they understand exactly what's happening, and they probably
Speaker 4: most of them are saying it's about time they did something.
Speaker 4: But and they're gonna fight, and they're gonna fight for
Speaker 4: everyone's gonna fight. You know. It's like I say to
Speaker 4: the leaders, look, you got to take care of your country,
Speaker 4: but we have to start taking care of our country now.
Speaker 4: We can't do what we've been doing for the last
Speaker 4: fifty years.
Speaker 2: So Trump's as I've said many times, Trump's sales pitch
Speaker 2: sounds very reasonable. They've been taking advantage of us. I'm
Speaker 2: ending it. That's all there is to it. Not exactly
Speaker 2: what he's doing. Given that the tariffs are not reciprocal tariffs,
Speaker 2: they're based off of trade deficits. That's a little different.
Speaker 2: Here's the other thing, and this is something that's a
Speaker 2: little bit wonky, So stick with me on this, especially
Speaker 2: if you're not ensconced in Austrian economics. But the trade
Speaker 2: deficits are a product of us being the reserve currency
Speaker 2: of the world, that they they take our dollars, we
Speaker 2: take their goods like that's how it works. And then
Speaker 2: as a consequence of that, the US dollar has become
Speaker 2: the global reserve currency that so many central banks and
Speaker 2: corporations all throughout the world use the US dollar to
Speaker 2: settle their trade agreements. And that has been to our
Speaker 2: benefit because it has allowed us, well, in this one arena,
Speaker 2: it's been to our benefit. It has allowed us to
Speaker 2: live way above our means and borrow way more. I'm
Speaker 2: talking from the governmental level, not from the personal level.
Speaker 2: It's been to our destruction largely, but from the governmental level,
Speaker 2: it has allowed them to spend and borrow and print
Speaker 2: and do all sorts of insane fucking shit that has
Speaker 2: made us feel rich while we were buried in debt
Speaker 2: on net. Not a good thing for the people, but
Speaker 2: for the government. Like, if you lose that ability, which
Speaker 2: this trade war does have the capacity to do, I
Speaker 2: want to be very clear about that, it could, well,
Speaker 2: then we're in for a lot of trouble. And that's
Speaker 2: what brings me to kind of the more theoretical conspiracy theorizing,
Speaker 2: you know, part of the show. And it makes me wonder, honestly,
Speaker 2: if Trump is is, if he's circling away from the dollar,
Speaker 2: if like they've been talking about doing stable coins, and
Speaker 2: I'll just be honest with you, I don't understand it enough.
Speaker 2: I need to bring on I don't know, Guy Swann
Speaker 2: or somebody to talk this through. But it does make
Speaker 2: me wonder if they're going to try and get away
Speaker 2: from the US dollar in some way replace it. I
Speaker 2: don't know how if Jubilee wipe out the national debt,
Speaker 2: I don't know what the fuck they're thinking, But you
Speaker 2: have to maintain I think you have to maintain trade
Speaker 2: deficits so that there's enough US dollars throughout the rest
Speaker 2: of the world by which they can settle their uh,
Speaker 2: you know, their their deals. And if you don't do that,
Speaker 2: I just think that they're going to have to start
Speaker 2: to trade in a different currency, in which case you
Speaker 2: lose that ability to borrow in print and spend into
Speaker 2: oblivion like you have been. And I guess maybe that
Speaker 2: that process is coming to its its natural end anyways,
Speaker 2: because we're thirty six, thirty seven, you know, trillion in debt,
Speaker 2: We're already paying more than a trillion in interest, and
Speaker 2: maybe Trump's economic advisors are saying, look, this house of
Speaker 2: cars is over anyways, and we've got to we've got
Speaker 2: to rip the band aid off and it can either
Speaker 2: happen naturally or we can try and do it on
Speaker 2: our own. Sorry. As you can tell, I'm thinking this
Speaker 2: through as I talk about it, but as I do
Speaker 2: with the show, to be honest, But I just think
Speaker 2: it's a really it's a really interesting, you know question
Speaker 2: that we should all be asking ourselves, like what is
Speaker 2: the real game plan here? Like there's big, big changes happening.
Speaker 2: I mean, for instance, Elon, you know, Elon kind of
Speaker 2: has this huge one eighty politically goes hardcore Democrat, becomes
Speaker 2: Republican aka you know the dark Maga. The biggest Trump
Speaker 2: supporter on the planet. Well, he is actively creating these,
Speaker 2: you know, unbelievable robots through I don't know if it's
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's Tesla, I don't know what
Speaker 2: one of his companies, one of his four you know,
Speaker 2: Fortune five hundred companies. He's creating these really amazing, like
Speaker 2: lifelog lifelike robots that are uh. He thinks there's gonna
Speaker 2: be hundreds of thousands of them in a couple of years,
Speaker 2: millions of them in a decade, and basically it's going
Speaker 2: to replace so much of the labor force. And I'm like,
Speaker 2: I'm just thinking to myself, like, if I want to
Speaker 2: put on my very black pilled I hate everybody and
Speaker 2: everybody's out to get me, hat, I can do that.
Speaker 2: And He's just thinking like, yeah, well, I'm gonna get
Speaker 2: in bed with Trump because I'm going to ultimately like, yes,
Speaker 2: we're gonna bring back industry domestically, but we're not gonna
Speaker 2: actually give those jobs to Trump supporters. We're gonna basically
Speaker 2: just replace industry domestically with these robots which I'm producing
Speaker 2: to the tune of you know, billions and billions of
Speaker 2: dollars into my pockets. It's possible. I'm just saying it's
Speaker 2: very possible. You know. There's just a lot of a
Speaker 2: lot of weirdness here, a lot of a lot of
Speaker 2: things that you gotta you gotta really think deeply about,
Speaker 2: like what what is the actual what is the actual
Speaker 2: game plan here? Like where is this really headed? Setting
Speaker 2: aside all of the advertising spin and I'm just here
Speaker 2: to look out for the little guy, like like Batia
Speaker 2: tried to do. It's like you're getting the Panama Canal
Speaker 2: for Black Rock. Spare me that this is for the
Speaker 2: little guy. It's the biggest corporation ever. Oh god, it's
Speaker 2: just very dangerous. And anyways, now that I'm done black
Speaker 2: pilling for a second, I want to address something because
Speaker 2: I got into a big, you know, ex spat with
Speaker 2: Michael Tracy, who is a perennially disheveled gentlemen never looks
Speaker 2: as if he's seen a shower in his life. And yes,
Speaker 2: I'm starting off with ad hominem because I he came
Speaker 2: at me sideways and I have no idea why er
Speaker 2: I'll pull it up. I really don't even understand what
Speaker 2: this guy's beef is with me, to be honest, but
Speaker 2: this is what he had to say. So I posted
Speaker 2: this yesterday because there's been a lot of crazy Israel
Speaker 2: stuff and you know, crazy war drum beating when it
Speaker 2: comes to Iran. I said, yes, I voted for Trump. No,
Speaker 2: I will not support Lindsey Graham. Trump endorsed Lindsey Graham
Speaker 2: and Randy Fine. I said, no, I will not support
Speaker 2: Lindsey Graham, Randy Fine, hate speech laws for Aziel or
Speaker 2: or with Iran. None of you have to support shitty
Speaker 2: ideas just because Trump told you to. And I think
Speaker 2: that my reasoning for having said that is fairly obvious, right.
Speaker 2: It's like, I'm just trying to basically give voice to
Speaker 2: not the voiceless, but the Trump supporters that disagree with
Speaker 2: some of the nonsense, that are in fact opposed to
Speaker 2: another war in the Middle East, which I know, my opinion,
Speaker 2: way more than half of Trump supporters are totally adamantly
Speaker 2: opposed to another war in the Middle East. So I
Speaker 2: don't think I'm talking out of school here. But it's like,
Speaker 2: if you saw these endorsements for Randy Fine, who's this
Speaker 2: fucking bloodthirsty psychopath who just run who just won his
Speaker 2: congressional seat in central Florida. This guy fucking sucks. But
Speaker 2: as a consequence of that win, you've got every other
Speaker 2: MAGA influencer, not other, just every mega influencer saying, fucking
Speaker 2: Democrats spent ten million dollars trying to win this house
Speaker 2: race in Florida and they got beat by ten points,
Speaker 2: and blah blah blah, and they're all just celebrating, totally,
Speaker 2: totally ignoring the fact that Randy Fine fucking is a psychopath,
Speaker 2: like a legitimate psychopath. He's got these other tweets where
Speaker 2: he's celebrating the death and destruction of the Palestinians, saying, basically,
Speaker 2: I want to see the streets of Gaza overflow with blood,
Speaker 2: like he's a fucking blood soaked psychopath for real, just dark,
Speaker 2: dark human being. I just wanted to as someone who
Speaker 2: did vote for Trump, I just wanted to like let
Speaker 2: people know, yeah, it's okay to vote for fucking Trump
Speaker 2: and to still support Trump and to say I don't
Speaker 2: agree with some of these endorsements and know the fuck
Speaker 2: we are not fighting a war for Israel against Iran.
Speaker 2: We're not gonna do it. So Michael Tracy responds, He says, quote,
Speaker 2: he's Matt. You know, he's quoting me to joke about
Speaker 2: or to clown on me. He says, Yes, I voted
Speaker 2: for Trump, but I don't support the core initiatives of
Speaker 2: his administration. I'm somehow not embarrassed by this, which I
Speaker 2: found very funny and I immediately lit him on fire.
Speaker 2: But that's setting that aside. Those aren't the core initiatives. Okay,
Speaker 2: like you can you can pretend as if Trump campaigned
Speaker 2: on starting a war with Iran, but he didn't. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he said some off the cuff remarks that definitely gave
Speaker 2: me pause when it came to Iran. I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: lie about that. But he also said I want the
Speaker 2: best thing, you know, best thing for the Iranians, and
Speaker 2: I want peace. I'm the president of peace. He would
Speaker 2: say that too, and he would say I'm going to
Speaker 2: negotiate peace for you know, with Russia in Ukraine. That
Speaker 2: was that was the primary message. He was saying, I
Speaker 2: don't want to continue I don't want to see people
Speaker 2: keep dying. How many times do you say that on
Speaker 2: campaign trail. So to say that, you know, Lindsey Graham
Speaker 2: and Randy Fine and going to war with Iran are
Speaker 2: the primary tenants of his campaign is just a lie. Michael,
Speaker 2: You lying, disheveled son of a gun. You what are
Speaker 2: you talking about.
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 2: I just want to be very clear, and you can
Speaker 2: actually go back and watch this, and I would encourage
Speaker 2: you to do so. When I think that I titled
Speaker 2: it something like why I'm voting, Why I'm voting for
Speaker 2: Donald Trump. I did it the week before the election,
Speaker 2: and I explained very explicitly that my biggest concern about
Speaker 2: Donald Trump's second presidency was the inordinate amount of campaign
Speaker 2: donations that he receives from Israel, his relationship with Israel broadly,
Speaker 2: and whether or not he would actually go to that
Speaker 2: level of starting war with Iran. I said it explicitly.
Speaker 2: I said that was the biggest danger in voting for
Speaker 2: Donald Trump. But given the binary nature of our elections,
Speaker 2: I also said that we are on the precipice of
Speaker 2: World War three against the largest nuclear power on Earth
Speaker 2: in Russia. Trump is campaigning on negotiating peace, while Kamala
Speaker 2: Harris is campaigning on the exact same policy of no
Speaker 2: communications with the largest nuclear power on Earth while we
Speaker 2: ramp up a proxy war on their southern border. Not
Speaker 2: to mention, on top of that, she was also campaigning
Speaker 2: on the continuation of DEI and race, Marxism, and essentially
Speaker 2: everything that sucks. There was one percent, maybe of her
Speaker 2: campaign promises that I agree with, and I'm being gracious,
Speaker 2: probably closer to zero percent. I hated everything that she
Speaker 2: had to say, and I hate everything about the Democrats,
Speaker 2: and I like about sixty percent of what Trump has
Speaker 2: to say, just being honest. So I came to the conclusion, yes,
Speaker 2: sometimes the lesser of two evils in an existential moment
Speaker 2: is better. And I voted for Trump. And obviously the
Speaker 2: connotations that are the insinuation that mister Tracy is making
Speaker 2: towards me is that I ought to be ashamed of it,
Speaker 2: and I just wanted to be very clear. I'm not.
Speaker 2: I'm absolutely not. And there's a lot of anarchists and
Speaker 2: a lot of libertarians that are still fucking furious with
Speaker 2: me for voting for Trump. Sorry, I'm not sorry. I'm
Speaker 2: still not sorry. Now. I will say this just to
Speaker 2: give you your due. If if he drives us into
Speaker 2: a depression, and starts a war against Iran or a
Speaker 2: wider war, World War three. Well, then you get to
Speaker 2: have your victory lap where you go Haha, Clint was
Speaker 2: so stupid. Hey, you voted for this, Well we all
Speaker 2: die in a nuclear fucking fireball. Congrats to you. You
Speaker 2: get to be right in that moment. Until then, though,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna let this thing play out. And yes, i
Speaker 2: still believe that Trump was the better option available. And yes,
Speaker 2: I'm still thrilled with much of what he's done. The
Speaker 2: USAID funding freeze and then shut down and then ninety
Speaker 2: percent headcount cut and then merging the rest of them
Speaker 2: into the State Department is a big step in the
Speaker 2: right direction. And by the way, mister Tracy, he didn't
Speaker 2: campaign on that. That just happened, And that was fucking
Speaker 2: like a wish list item that I didn't even know
Speaker 2: was a possibility. So I'm very happy about that. Yes,
Speaker 2: he freed Ross Albert. Yes he's an ending the Department
Speaker 2: of Education. Things that I would have never imagined that
Speaker 2: i'd see in my lifetime, they happened. I'm thrilled about that. Okay. Also,
Speaker 2: Bobby Kennedy today, despite all of my concerns and his
Speaker 2: weird allegiance to Israel fired some somewhere in the neighborhood
Speaker 2: of ten or twenty thousand employees from HHS today. Fucking awesome.
Speaker 2: This is fantastic. That's so good. So what I have
Speaker 2: seen from Trump's second term as of now, in terms
Speaker 2: of positives, is the biggest cut in the administrative state
Speaker 2: in my lifetime. And it's not close. So do I
Speaker 2: regret that? Should I be ashamed of it? No, and
Speaker 2: fuck you for thinking that I should. I'm thrilled it's
Speaker 2: it is. I mean, if you just look at the good,
Speaker 2: it is so much better than any fucking presidency in
Speaker 2: my lifetime. It's not even close. So no, I don't
Speaker 2: regret it now. That is not to say that the
Speaker 2: good can't be outweighed by the bad if he goes
Speaker 2: to war with Iran and China gets involved and Russia
Speaker 2: gets involve and we end up in a fucking huge war. Yeah, dude,
Speaker 2: I fucking made a huge mistake. I picked the wrong guy.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, it could have happened under Kamala.
Speaker 2: Let's not be fucking ridiculous here. Of course it could
Speaker 2: have happened with her. So what whatever, like I'm just
Speaker 2: so tired of the fucking the purity spiraling. I really
Speaker 2: really am, especially because it's just it's just so obvious
Speaker 2: to me that what We've seen in the first one
Speaker 2: hundred days of Trump's presidency have been the best things
Speaker 2: I've ever seen in the first hundred days of a
Speaker 2: presidency ever. It has been the best by far. And
Speaker 2: maybe it gets a lot better. Maybe Cash Mattel and
Speaker 2: Dan Bongino actually fucking go out for the Epstein people,
Speaker 2: and maybe we actually get the real deal truth about
Speaker 2: the JFK and RFK and MLK stuff. Maybe I don't
Speaker 2: know those are all TBD, but justin the now, just
Speaker 2: in what we do know, Yeah, it's been fucking good, dude,
Speaker 2: It's been pretty fucking good. And if he ultimately replaces
Speaker 2: the income tax with the External Revenue Service as he
Speaker 2: continues to promise, that's a fucking huge win, huge huge win. Okay,
Speaker 2: none of that could happen, and maybe it won't, but
Speaker 2: if it doesn't, it was still the better of the
Speaker 2: two options. So to answer your question, mister Tracy and
Speaker 2: everybody that bombarded me with hate, no I don't regret it,
Speaker 2: and no I'm not ashamed and no, I don't care
Speaker 2: how you feel about it. I don't. I'm only addressing
Speaker 2: it publicly because I thought it'd be fun to, you know,
Speaker 2: tell you to fuck off. I'm sure I'm gonna pisslotter
Speaker 2: you off by saying this, But I don't care because
Speaker 2: that's how I feel. And I think I'm right. I
Speaker 2: think that if you actually analyze this in any sort
Speaker 2: of impartial fashion, it's very hard to say that I
Speaker 2: was wrong, that this wasn't the better of the two
Speaker 2: paths that we had in front of us. So we'll see.
Speaker 2: And if I end up being proven wrong, well then
Speaker 2: we all die anyways. So I don't know, man, I
Speaker 2: hope we don't. I really don't. And and just to
Speaker 2: be very clear, there's a chance that I got duped.
Speaker 2: And that's the whole plan. Like I just to put
Speaker 2: on my again black pailt about everything, Maximell, you know,
Speaker 2: Whitney Web conspiracizing, Like there's a real chance there is.
Speaker 2: She could be right that this is all you know,
Speaker 2: We're gonna bring in AI, We're gonna bring in robots,
Speaker 2: We're gonna replace the labor force. Then we're gonna bring
Speaker 2: in UBI to keep people you know, keep the useless
Speaker 2: eaters happy in full and then and then we're gonna
Speaker 2: bring in CBDCs, and then we're gonna go to war
Speaker 2: against Iran, create the Greater Israel project, and then we're
Speaker 2: gonna take over you know, Canada and Greenland and basically
Speaker 2: implement the NWL. You know, I can I can do this.
Speaker 2: I can do it when he does, like sure, it's
Speaker 2: all possible. It's all possible. I just choose to be optimistic,
Speaker 2: and I choose to use what little influence I have
Speaker 2: to try and course correct and to try and galvanize
Speaker 2: what I know exists, which is a genuine anti war
Speaker 2: spirit that exists amongst MAGA and Maha for that matter,
Speaker 2: to try and get these fucking scumbag politicians to do
Speaker 2: our bidding. That's the only power we have, Folks. Once
Speaker 2: you cast a vote for him, or if you don't
Speaker 2: cast to vote for him, doesn't really matter. The only
Speaker 2: power you have at this junction is your voice is
Speaker 2: to say I don't like this, I do like that,
Speaker 2: And that's all I do every day. That's my old job.
Speaker 2: At this point, I go, that's good, this sucks, and
Speaker 2: then it goes viral. One way or the other, and
Speaker 2: believe it or not, a lot of the shit that
Speaker 2: we say on the Internet, especially when it creates trends,
Speaker 2: it does change their policy making. I've seen it happen
Speaker 2: in real time. They have proposed stuff and then backed off.
Speaker 2: They've delivered things that they didn't plan on delivering because
Speaker 2: we were so pissed about X, Y or Z like this.
Speaker 2: This White House absolutely does listen to the Internet. It does,
Speaker 2: and Twitter in particular, Akax, I don't make the rules.
Speaker 2: I'm just telling you the truth. We have real fucking
Speaker 2: influence over there, and I'm going to use it as
Speaker 2: best I can because guess what, when I was tweeting,
Speaker 2: Biden administration didn't give a fuck what I had to say.
Speaker 2: I apprompch you that. So yeah, I like having a
Speaker 2: little influence. And Dave's got the fucking phone number. Actually
Speaker 2: I do too. But don't tell anybody of Bobby Kennedy.
Speaker 2: For God's sakes, he's got a relationship with the guy
Speaker 2: and Donald Trump Junior and all these other people, and
Speaker 2: they all follow us and they see our shit go
Speaker 2: viral all the time. I'm just saying, like, if you
Speaker 2: think that I'm the problem, the guy who's spending all
Speaker 2: day every day going do not go to war with Iran.
Speaker 2: Don't fucking do it. Don't do it. This is everything
Speaker 2: you ran against. If you fucking do this, your legacy
Speaker 2: is garbage. You are done for and midterms are done.
Speaker 2: Vance is done. The entire GOP's done. Like that's the
Speaker 2: that's the fucking bell im ringing. And if you hear
Speaker 2: me doing that and your first thought is, see, you
Speaker 2: fucking idiot. You shouldn't have voted for him as opposed
Speaker 2: to Hey, thanks Clint for trying to keep us out
Speaker 2: of World War three. I don't know what your fucking
Speaker 2: goals are here, Like, I'm trying. What else can I
Speaker 2: do here? There's we're pretty fucking powerless, but we got
Speaker 2: like this as much power and I'm trying, man, I'm trying.
Speaker 2: So for those that appreciate it, and I know there's
Speaker 2: many of you out there, thank you. And for those
Speaker 2: that would rather you know, purity spiral and dunk on me,
Speaker 2: fuck your mother. Okay, what a fun way to end
Speaker 2: an episode. Anyways, If you enjoyed this, uh, hit the
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Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: The real best way though, as I've said before, pick
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Speaker 2: your wife, your husband's phone right now and go to
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Speaker 2: fucking word, but make sure it has auto update, and
Speaker 2: then put their phone back down. Don't tell them anything,
Speaker 2: and then when they start to sound like a libertarian
Speaker 2: or some lunatic, then you'll know that it's worked. And
Speaker 2: that's the best way to about the show. I want
Speaker 2: to see if this works. It'll be so funny if
Speaker 2: I start to have people in the comments going, like,
Speaker 2: my wife just put your fucking your podcast in my
Speaker 2: phone one day and now I listen to every episode
Speaker 2: and now I'm a bass savage. That'd be cool. It'll happen,
Speaker 2: It'll work. I have a feeling this is the long
Speaker 2: con on con to success.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 2: By the way, very upset with the guy who's saying
Speaker 2: this YouTube grift dude, do you know how much money
Speaker 2: I make from YouTube? Like four hundred bucks a month.
Speaker 2: Calm the fuck down. If you think I would grift
Speaker 2: my way into four hundred dollars a month, Jesus Christ,
Speaker 2: I'm a way more expensive prostitute than that, you scum
Speaker 2: back all right, love you guys, Base, Welcome to liberty lockdown.
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Speaker 2: it's alcohol. It's whetty to come from. And where did
Speaker 2: he