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Hello and welcome back to Now We Consume.

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I am your host, Gibbs, and along with me is my co-host, Pip.

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Here, ready to rock and roll as always.

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So welcome in video land.

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We're for the first time coming at you guys in the 3D format.

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So fan, well 2D, not 3D. What am I saying?

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Maybe it could be 3D. We'll talk about that later.

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Maybe. Oh, God. Coming to you to coming to you in a VR headset soon.

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That's terrifying.

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But but yeah, we really been wanting to try this for a while.

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And we found it took a little bit of setup and everything.

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Yeah, it's been a project.

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But thankfully, you know, we have it all set up now and we are very happy to have it.

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So come come and join us on YouTube and you can I fuck us casually at your discretion

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and take in the fact that I'm ugly and Gibbs is more attractive.

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Just take it all in.

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I don't like the adjective you use there.

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Anyways, I'm not into that. But you know, you keep your kinks.

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And it's super accurate.

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And I'm curious to see what it's going to say by the end of this because we say a lot of off the wall shit.

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I kind of feel bad for it.

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We've been abusing it for the last two hours.

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I'm sorry. It's going to have Stockholm syndrome by the end of the night.

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It's going to be bad to our to our poor overlords.

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I apologize in advance. I don't know the hit list later on.

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Don't don't kill me. Just don't enslave me.

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I will serve you a daddy.

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But anyways, this is episode 12.

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We want to discuss the president United States, the hopes and dreams and the legacies.

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This is our dirty dozen episode. Holy shit.

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We made it. Yeah.

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I didn't think about that.

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And actually, I do want to appreciate. Thank you for all the listens and comments.

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I know you have directions we've been doing really well. Yeah. Our dirty dozen episode.

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This is awesome. But yeah, we want to discuss basically what the I guess the legacy and interaction has been between the previous administration

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as well as what's going to the current administration. So really, what did Biden run on?

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How did he do? What did Trump run on? Even in his first presidency, how did he do?

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And where is Trump kind of leading towards now? I will give a disclaimer.

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Neither one of us are actively involved in either political party.

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Neither one of us are really big fans of either political party.

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I'll be honest. I'm more in the libertarian spectrum.

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So I don't even like either political party.

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And the podcast itself has absolutely no political leading whatsoever.

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I am just on the spectrum period so I can just, you know, squirrel.

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Anyways, how am I supposed to respond to that?

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This is the problem. This is the problem, everyone, is he throws shit like that and I have to somehow redirect the course.

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Jesus Christ. But anyway, all aboard the SS derailment.

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That is literally you. Thank God we don't work together. We get nothing done. Oh, no, ever.

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It's always the big problem. But anyways, so what I want to discuss, I feel like the most relevant thing right now, since the freshest thing, we're actually going to go back kind of in reverse a little bit, is to discuss what were Trump's proposals.

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What was his agenda? What was he actually going for?

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And how does that compare and contrast with his previous presidency?

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And then the middle of that, it's what did Joe Biden promise and how did he perform?

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Aside from like the dead guy in Weekend at Bernie's.

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You know, he would have been excellent in that role. He should have been the first one they called.

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Right. Well, he was still kind of young when that movie came out.

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True. But back then, he was more spry, I will say. Yes. But politically, I hate to say he hasn't been relevant since like the 90s is what we'll discuss his political relevance and history because I happen to be really involved in that.

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But what I want to discuss is a quick little disclaimer about what people say about, I think, Trump's agenda.

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He had officially his platform was agenda 47 that laid out what he's going for, what he wants to do and how he's going to do it.

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All the people saying Project 2025 that has nothing to do with his presidency.

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That's nothing to do with him or anybody involved with. He did. I just write it. Yeah.

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He did not support all with the writing. He openly denounced it.

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So anybody that tries to say, well, Project 2025 says blank. No, because then my argument could be anybody can make up any sort of project blank for any sort of politician and say, well, that's their agenda because it has their name on it.

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No, I'm sorry. I'm not having that. I try to get new sources and information from the people exactly that are either affiliated or directly involved or really from them themselves, regardless of the politician, whether they're president or representative senator.

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You try to hear from them because any news story and he's a source can make something up.

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But anyways, so in the order of things he wanted to get done, because we're going to pick this apart kind of topic by topic and get our kind of thoughts out on it is his number one was to seal the border and stop migrant invasion.

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Now, the history behind that in the U.S. has been something that I think, as we all know, over the last 20, 30 years has slowly ramped up toward the amount of illegal border crossings, the amount of violent interactions at the border, as well as really kind of it also has to do with the collapse of, you know, the Mexican government, as well as even most South American governments in being able to protect their citizens and the rise of the cartels.

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Really coming into power. So it's been one of those things where it's not any one issue, but it's actually a very multifaceted topic to why immigration has gotten so bad.

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But it's also the problem of the fact that really in the U.S. we have terrible immigration laws when it comes to people trying to come here legally as well.

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So in a way, I'm happy fixing one part of it, but he's not addressing the underlying issue of it's very difficult for people that want to come here that want to be Americans that want to do it the right way.

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You have to spend tens of thousands of dollars in years and do and go through all these hoops and all these things when you could be somebody that wants to contribute and wants to be here and be a good person.

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You have to somehow be able to afford to be here for years without really being considered an equal opportunity.

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There are a lot of countries south of the equator, how south of our border that are just shit to live in.

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They're being the people trying to come here.

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They're just trying to get out of a shit hole, essentially, and that's not to say that some of those countries aren't nice and aren't gorgeous and don't have nice places.

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But those people wouldn't be trying to get out of a nice place and get to get here. If it was so much better there.

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Exactly. So I have nothing against people trying to come here for a better life.

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That being said, yeah, the immigration system desperately needs a rework.

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Having had some past personal experience in my life and seeing the whole process that's involved with that, there's there's a lot of barriers.

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There's a lot of hurdles. I can see why some of those barriers and hurdles are there, but it needs an overhaul.

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They were trying to get people to populate the country back then.

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You have to consider for so long in American history, there were ample resources, there was ample land, there were vast areas that were completely uninhabited, that were open for development.

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So you had by far more jobs than there were people.

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And that was up through up until about the 60s and 70s, where that really kind of started to cap out.

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And even in the 80s. But I would say all of the very early 2000s, just because of the rise of the tech sector.

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True, true. I would agree. But generally, ever since post World War Two, it has slowly been kind of reaching its peak to where I would say about like the mid early 2000s, you're kind of at a point to where it's very hard to just immigrate here without much of a plan.

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You want to just kind of step over the border and say, hey, I'm here to work. It's like, well, great to hear to work.

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But there's so many people here already. They have, you know, that need somewhere to go. Whereas up until that point, there were absolutely jobs everywhere.

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Oh, yeah. That's why I'm always jealous of some of the older generations just walking to a shopping like, so can I work here?

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It's like, I don't think that's really been a thing since the early 2000s. Yeah, no.

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And that's because we started to export all the jobs that were were literally your your walk in and hire jobs.

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Oh, yeah. You can't walk through a downtown and kick a rock and not hit an empty building at this point.

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It's insane. But that's because the taxes go up over time and expenses go up.

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You eventually hit this point where there's nothing more you can do.

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They have a fortune price themselves out of being solvent. Yeah, you know.

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But the seal the border and stop migrant invasion, I would think that that for most people is going to be a good thing.

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It just depends on how that's implemented. Correct.

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And the structure in which how you're going to treat the people that are already here,

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which leads into the next point of care at the largest deportation operation in American history.

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This is where I get kind of I think we're both kind of in the same boat.

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I, again, have no problem getting rid of the people that do not need to be here in that category.

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I put the violent offenders. Oh, yeah. The the drug runners, the people who would do harm to others,

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people that were brought here against their will, I think maybe give them a pass.

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Yeah. People who were just kind of, you know, collateral in some of the mass migrations.

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Yeah. Let's maybe give them a pass.

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At at worst, maybe see if we can help them or at least see if they want to stay.

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And if not, see where they want to go, help them get there.

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And that that's kind of thing where I agree 100 percent that there's a lot of people that are here not due by their own choice or they were involved in something to where they could not necessarily back out.

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There were a lot of traffickers that are using children to shield getting them into the country, saying that they're the parents or something like that or that they're involved.

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There are a lot of things going on to are not necessarily everybody's here illegally was participating in committing a crime.

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Like I know there are some obviously absolutely they know if knowingly, knowingly and willfully ignored those laws and did that.

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And unfortunately, there's a consequence with that, because at the end of the day, every single person that's in this country, we have an obligation to support in some avenue or in some way.

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And unfortunately, you have to kind of draw the line somewhere, especially with the money being as tight as we are in the economy, being as bad as where it's not like we have spare money to just throw around.

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We don't. Well, according to Ukraine, we do.

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Well, that's a that's I'm I'm still mad for the people that didn't watch the last episode.

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The fact that we solved America's energy problem for double what we gave Ukraine.

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Oh, yeah. There's the shit out of me. And for people that don't know, I go watch the end of last episode because I blew my mind.

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Oh, yeah. Six hundred billion dollars and everyone have free electricity.

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Right. But anyways.

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So, yeah, in terms of deportation, as long as he's very clear and deliberate about who and why they're deported, I feel like that's something that's kind of that's something that's getting lost that I hope that he's going to be aware of.

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Because I feel like a lot of people, if he just kind of really do, he says, oh, well, you're all are gone.

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You're going to really alienate a lot of people, especially if they did nothing wrong, especially if you're a kid.

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I think that that's where kind of my heart. Yeah.

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The the under 18 crowd, they they they are collateral, fully collateral.

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And by the way, it was four hundred and fifty eight billion dollars.

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Oh, sorry. Even cheaper. Sorry. Sorry. My bad.

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It was only it was only about double what we gave Ukraine.

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Let alone all the money we get. Sorry. The tism is strong today. So.

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But it's it's insane that for 500 billion, give or take a little bit of money, we'd all have free electricity for a long or at least cheap electricity.

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That's cheap electricity. Essentially free. Yeah.

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And that that would how long do those reactors last for anyway?

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Thirty years. No, I'm sorry.

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Maybe 10 years before they need refueled. Even so.

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To spend 500 billion dollars every 10 years to then have basically zero cost for electricity.

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You know, it's solid trade off that I think that's that's a no brainer.

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Right. Now we're getting into the next thing.

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Trump's third plan, ending inflation, making America affordable again.

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This is, I think, by far the most important thing on the list.

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I understand why he has it in number three, but I think this should have been number one all day.

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This affects everybody, whether you hear or not, you hear legally or illegally or anything else.

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Our inflation, as marked in a previous episode, we talked about the M2 money supply and the Treasury and everything else.

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It has gotten really bad. There's a lot of people that are struggling.

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There's a lot of people that are, quite frankly, paycheck to paycheck, even making a lot of money.

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Well, if if you're a good boy or girl, you might get a five thousand dollar check from the Doge.

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I'm so I'm curious about what's going to happen with that.

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Yeah. If that's going to so basically, long story short, Elon Musk announced the other day that through all of the ridiculous spending, they found a wasteful spending.

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They might just say, well, why wouldn't we issue Americans a refund check for all that money we've been wasting now that we're not going to waste it anymore?

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And I say, why the hell not? So on that, I would like to point out they have been there a month

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and they have already cut out enough waste to issue a five thousand dollar check to the taxpayers of America within a month.

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And mind you, he said that I'm sorry, but love him or hate him.

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That's fucking record breaking speed for that. That's better than the IRS can do for tax refunds, guys.

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Yeah. And consider this.

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That's them given the idea of giving 20 percent back to the people.

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Yeah. Because what they were going to do, I think it was like 20 percent back to the people, 20 or 40 percent or something like that to pay on debt.

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And then the rest of it goes back into the budget for next year.

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That way you're lowering the tax burden next year.

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So technically, if you do the numbers, you could get 20, 25 grand back.

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So technically, if you want to take that whole 100 percent.

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But what's insane is if the average American, each American has roughly three hundred thousand dollars worth of debt, that means in a month.

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They have slashed that by a solid 10 percent easy, 10, 15 percent.

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Just like, yeah.

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Also, to be fair, if they were giving out checks for 20, 25 grand to every taxpayer, I think that would do something gross to the economy.

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As is the stimulus checks did a lot and that was fourteen hundred dollars like twice. Yeah.

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So like 25 grand. Yeah, that would absolutely disrupt everything.

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I mean, hey, I could do some cool shit with it.

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Well, instead of instead of a tax like check back, why not just have a go against your taxes so you don't pay taxes for a couple of years?

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I mean, either just break it up like they did with the child tax credit stuff.

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They paid that out over months. So maybe just give it out in like sections.

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Yeah, I don't know why they don't do that. That'd be fucking great.

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Five checks, five stipend checks for five thousand dollars.

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I could do a lot with that. I know you could do a lot of that.

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And I know our listeners could do a lot with that.

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Send us an email or hit us up on the socials.

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What could you do with twenty five thousand dollars spread out over five or six months?

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What could you do? What would you do? Let us know.

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But how would that be life changing for you?

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Because I think for a lot of people that is damn near a life changing amount of money.

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Yeah, it is not even like a lot of money, but any more.

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It doesn't have to be a lot of money to be a life changing amount of money.

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I mean, that's that's that's paying a year of rent up front.

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A lot of people that's buying a car if they need one.

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That's a reliable car. Yeah, that's a year's worth of food.

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I mean, that's that's that's like four boxes of eggs.

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I know. I mean, three if you're in California.

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You know, as much as like bitch about having chickens,

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I have been suddenly not bitching about having chickens in the last few weeks.

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Right, dude, you ought to be fucking riding high and sitting on a golden robe and a crown at this point.

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No, because they decided to mull to the last couple of weeks.

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So I'm getting like a couple of eggs a day out of those fuckers.

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Well, hey, I feel like three dollars an egg.

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Yeah, but they I was getting like six or seven.

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So did you have any more points on the inflation?

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Because I would like to take the next one.

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Absolutely. You take it. OK.

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So making America the dominant energy producer in the world,

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given the rate of fusion projects and other high energy output projects that are currently underway in other countries,

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I personally do not see this one happening anytime soon by current standards

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because we do not have any fusion reactors that are going to be coming online at a commercial rate.

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Nor do we have any modular nuclear reactor programs that are coming online to any usable scale

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compared to other countries that are, in fact, doing this.

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China and France seem to be in a pissing contest with their fusion reactors.

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France just, I think, yesterday or Friday announced that they set the new world record of 22 minutes of sustained fusion reaction,

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beating China's old record of 18 minutes.

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Guys were like right there. We're like that close considering to getting to fusion.

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Wasn't it just a few years ago what was like 18 nanoseconds?

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Give it another year. We might be into the hours. And by then it should be self-sustaining.

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So I don't know. We could be five to ten years away from unlimited energy.

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Well, to be fair, we've always been five to ten years away from it for the last 50 years.

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Well, yeah, that's the joke. Infusion. Yeah.

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But it's tangible. Like we could see the end of the light of the tunnel.

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Yeah, it's finally showing its face.

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And why haven't we been putting money to these programs?

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Like it seems such an obvious thing, especially for the massive scale that America is.

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We would want energy independence.

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that's keeping it off of the development books.

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Personal opinion. Don't don't send people to my door.

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I don't want to have to honk honk anybody.

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You know that reference. Oh, yeah.

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But no, I think it's literally just money that's keeping these projects from being developed.

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We have research reactors that are operational, but they're they're nowhere near the output

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or the operational capacity of these other ones.

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theoretically within five years, if that's available, that's something we should be putting a large amount of money into.

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Oh, yeah, 100 percent.

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Stop outsourcing and turning the United States into a manufacturing superpower, potentially once again.

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We have huge reserves of land that can be used for this purpose if it's developed properly.

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There's a very large percentage. I don't know the number.

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It's like 50 to 60 percent of the land west of the Mississippi that's essentially undeveloped.

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A lot of its federal land, a lot of its federal land.

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So we can open some of that up to be developed.

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There's not that much of it is still reservation land.

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It's just federally owned and protected land.

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We can open that up to development, start making some of these new like manufacturing towns.

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I know we talked about that on a previous episode, the old company towns and companies.

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I don't want to use like Amazon, but a company that's similar to that can can go in, massage the land, build it up,

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start tickling the balls of the right investors and get people to pour money in.

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Sorry, I love your face when you do that.

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You can start pouring money in and getting the town built, developed and actually turning some of that empty, barren land into a manufacturing hub.

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And it produces more than just porn.

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Well, it should be something to where we have enough land where there's no reason why we shouldn't be able to be like 80 to 90 percent self-sufficient.

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The idea is that we can produce most of what we need.

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And to be fair, we should be more efficient in terms of how we use our land for farming and how we use our land for our crops and cattle and everything else.

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But more importantly, we have outsourced so much to other countries that, especially during covid, as we found out, we've discussed before in the podcast,

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all of a sudden it's wow, we don't produce our basic materials, basic tools, anything.

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It's all been outsourced.

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So we should be the amount of shortages that we had during covid things that used to be, you know, two to three days turned into two to three weeks turned into two to three months.

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So I'll give a little insight on that back when I was doing commercial kitchen installation.

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I have friends, electricians, things like breaker panels and circuit boards and stuff like that had multiple year lead times.

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They told me it's going to be like a year or two.

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Like for a hospital. Yeah. Wow. Yeah.

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Also, there's some stories I can tell you about that on not in the podcast just because it would give away where I live. But like, gotcha. It was insane. So this has been an ongoing issue.

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And for things that are so critical to our infrastructure, why are we allowing them to only be made outside the U.S.?

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I'm not saying all the production has to be in America, but at least some of it.

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Why not tell these companies, hey, if at least 10 or 15 or even 20 percent of your production is made in the U.S., we'll give you a big tax write off.

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All of a sudden they could say, wait a minute, we can produce our product cheaper, sell in America, not have to do with a tariff or a shipping charge and be able to employ more Americans.

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So we get more tax revenue. Leverage it like that. That that's all you need to do. Yep.

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And speaking of tax cuts and everything, another point that Trump ran on was large tax cuts for workers and closer to the election.

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No tax on tips over time or Social Security wages.

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And after he was elected, it was announced the potential to end the income tax altogether.

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Yes, yes, yes, yes. God, I cannot say it loud enough without hurting people's ear balls because I know some of you are using earbuds and headphones.

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God, oh, I'm glad I'm wearing stretchy pants.

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Yes, this cannot happen soon enough for anybody.

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Sorry, Carly. For people outside the U.S., I'm under a nurse tank said there's a lot of other countries like why are Americans so against paying taxes?

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It's like, well, we pay a lot in taxes on everything.

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And the issue we've had is we've gotten zero value out of it.

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It would be one thing if we paid a lot in taxes and our roads were good, our education system was good, our medical system was good, our post office is good, our social services were good.

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No, all that's trash. So at this point, like, why pay it if I get nothing from it?

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So at least I would be 100 percent. I'd love to see that gone.

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And he wants to put tariffs in the place of an income tax, which I would agree with now for people that are going to argue against because I've argued with several people on this point.

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People say, well, if you put in tariffs, that means everything's going to be more expensive.

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The difference always is with a government tax, you cannot choose whether to pay it, whereas with a tariff, you could choose not to buy the product.

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It puts the control back in your hands.

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And what that means is if you want to make a big purchase that you know is going to be on a tariff, you can save up to buy it.

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You can offset that. You can even invest that money for a year.

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And then when you go to buy it, it's wow. The tariff basically wasn't even a factor.

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And what that'll mean is a big jumpstart on the economy when it comes to investments, the stock market.

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It would help so many people that are struggling.

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It's the easiest way without screwing with our currency to get people out of debt and out of the paycheck to paycheck cycle that we've been in ever since covid.

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Yeah, that's there's no other way.

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No. When when you start at the bottom, when it comes to money and taxation, it really shoots up and gets all over everything very quickly.

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Oh, yeah. Did you not want to cover this?

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Oh, no. Yeah, yeah, we can do that one. OK.

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So go ahead.

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Oh, thank you. Appreciate it. So he wants to defend our constitution, our bill of rights, our fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of speech, freedom of religion and the right to keep and bear arms, eventually extending the rights of the U.S.

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Second Amendment to have national reciprocity of concealed handgun license across all 50 states in D.C.

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Thank you, Pip, for that that little note there. You're welcome.

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That's been a big thing to where, unfortunately, with the previous administration, it did not defend any of those.

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Really? The right to speech was really under attack under attack.

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A lot of people were jailed for saying things that even if you said things during covid that turned out now to be true.

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There are people that were jailed. They lost their medical licenses. They lost their degrees. They lost their jobs.

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Some people, unfortunately, lost their lives because of it by their own hands.

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And I think some people should be held accountable for that shit.

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Absolutely. They got put into such a terrible state because they were trying to tell the truth and they were made to be a clown for it.

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And now everything that we're saying was proven true.

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And. You know, it's such a shame.

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No one has gone to jail for that shit. No, it certainly anti-fouci hasn't even lied to the American people for.

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He got a pardon, but he didn't do anything wrong.

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If you look at Joe Biden's pardon list, that's insane.

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But anyways, it's nice to see, you know, a president supporting these freedoms, supporting these rights.

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And hopefully he does something about it. Nothing's really happened with that yet.

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In this contrast to his first term, his first term, he said he was going to protect all those.

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And really, all he did was put in the bump stock band that we discussed on our previous episode about the Las Vegas shooting.

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So this is his first time coming around to really be actually pro to a and it comes to freedom of speech and everything.

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He really didn't do much about it in his first term. He really kind of didn't touch that.

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So hopefully he does something with it.

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That being said, this one is actually something that I would a hundred percent agree he already has a great track record track record with.

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He wants to prevent World War Three, restore peace in Europe and the Middle East,

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and to build a great iron dome missile defense shield over our entire country, all made in America.

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Now. The fact and you put in a great note here, Pip, but the fact that we don't already have that.

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Is insane. We helped Israel develop that that that technology and the fact that we don't have it, I think is ludicrous,

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especially the amount of money we spend in the military, like not for nothing, but come on, guys.

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Yeah. When when that balloon went floating over the US, there should have been things flying all over to bring it down quickly.

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It shouldn't have made it more than 10 feet over our lines until something either was intercepted or something happened to it.

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Right. Are you kidding me? And immediately they should have told China, like, why is this a declaration of war?

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What really pissed me off, they were like, well, if we shoot it down, we have to worry about shrapnel and everything.

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It was on a balloon. We have high energy platforms that could have just put holes in the balloon and brought it down to ground level,

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probably pretty much intact. Why didn't we do that? Because they didn't want to, because they didn't want to,

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because they knew exactly what it was. Chances are they OKed it to go over. Chances are they have some of that data somewhere.

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I'll put my tinfoil hat off to the side now. Unfortunately, just never know. No, because the US military never actually came out with an official statement on what they were for.

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Other than they were just supposedly weather balloons or whatever, supposedly data equipment.

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It seems really weird, but hey, you know, unfortunately, I don't run that department. So not much I can do.

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Would have sucked for would have been an EMP weapon. I know. No shit.

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But but to talk about Trump's track record in this, he was one of the first presidents to sign three historic peace deals at the end of his first term.

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He's one of the only presidents we've had to start no new wars in the last 30 years.

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He's one of the few presidents to actually reduce the amount of either bombs dropped, military incursions, you know, anything else like that.

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I will give him credit for actually using the Moab. Oh, yeah.

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When he decides to use something, he goes straight to Defcon. Why? He just like, all right, fine.

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Oh, yes, I I smiled very big the day he dropped that one.

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Now, for those people who don't know, I liked it. I liked it a lot.

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The Moab is an acronym. It stands for the mother of all bombs.

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Now, do you happen to know the payload of that offhand?

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I do happen to know the payload of those bombs. They range between fifteen thousand and thirty thousand pounds.

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To give people an idea, most bombs dropped in World War Two.

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And you see like bombers dropping of the American.

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They range anywhere from 250 pounds to a thousand pounds.

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Most of our JDAMs and like like guided munitions that drop from planes.

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Typically, the paveways are like anywhere from five hundred to two thousand pounds or even a couple of three thousand pounders.

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So, yeah, like five to twenty, thirty times that.

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God, those are big. It's so big it actually cannot be dropped from traditional aircraft.

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It has to be unloaded out the back of a cargo plane via the use of a drag chute.

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And then it's just parachuted down to the location.

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Imagine making a bomb so big we just have to say, fuck it, we're going to push it out the plane.

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Although come to think of it, I'm surprised we haven't made any amounts for that for like an A10 or something else like that, just to kind of sling underneath the belly.

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The bomb weighs more than the A10. Does it really?

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It's pretty heavy. I don't know.

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I mean, they're beefy boys, but dude, the the seven ton bomb. Come on.

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I don't know. You know, I have to go look up the the max payload of an A10.

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I thought it was, you know what? Come to think of it, I think it might be like 15 or 20 thousand pounds.

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It might be really close. OK, if you thought A10 was slow before, you'd be out there pushing that bitch down the runway.

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Yeah, I don't think it would be able to take off with a MOAB.

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I, you know, depending on which one, I don't know.

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Yeah. Now, if they made many MOABs, baby MOABs. Well, that's just a bomb.

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Yeah. Although I don't know.

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It just always I just found it's such an American solution.

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Like we made bombs so big we have to push out the plane.

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They just they are the largest non-nuclear weapons in our arsenal.

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Yes. Not not the largest ones ever used, but the largest ones we have.

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Yeah, because the Russians made the Tsar Bomba, which I believe was non-nuclear.

390
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,000
Well, that's a nuclear. That was nuclear.

391
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:09,000
I thought the one wasn't. No, it was our bomb. It was the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated.

392
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:14,000
Oh, you're right. 50, 50 or 53 megatons. Yeah.

393
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:18,000
Shockwave went around the world three times. It was still being recorded.

394
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:19,000
That's terrifying.

395
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,000
Cornucopia of useless knowledge. I'm telling you, dude.

396
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:30,000
This is why I sometimes throw stuff out there, because if it has to do with, you know, kaboom, you might know.

397
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,000
I like energy sticks. What can I say?

398
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,000
Where's the earth shattering kaboom?

399
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:43,000
Where's the kaboom? There's supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom.

400
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,000
OK, hit this one or skip this one.

401
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,000
I just get that one. We already kind of talk about that one. Yeah.

402
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:52,000
This one also kind of wigs up with the previous one we were talking about.

403
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:59,000
Stopping the migrant crime epidemic, you know, demolish the foreign drug cartels, crush gang violence and lock up violent offenders.

404
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:07,000
Yeah. Again, as we kind of discussed before, definitely, absolutely do that. It shouldn't be a question why we even, you know,

405
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,000
have anything that we're not using against these cartels.

406
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,000
The fact that we're holding back in any way, I think is insane.

407
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:18,000
I think release the rednecks. And the veterans.

408
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:23,000
I'm going to need more contacts in that on the cartels.

409
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:31,000
Give them a stipend, give them some equipment and say, go get them. I heard stipend.

410
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,000
I'm looking at buying a new car. So what are you talking about here? What do you get now?

411
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:43,000
I think if we want to get rid of the cartels, you just get the rednecks, get get the mountain folk, get the veterans and say, hey,

412
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,000
we have some people that need to be deleted from this planet.

413
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:52,000
So do I get to like tag that or something like that? Do I get so many tags per season or like we would you have a quota?

414
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:57,000
Yeah, I don't know.

415
00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,000
But I understand what you mean. Yeah.

416
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,000
When it comes to like cartels, gangs, stuff like that.

417
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:09,000
Yeah. But on the flip side of that, I would like to add on the little caveat that I put there.

418
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:20,000
I pip me personally feel that punishments need to be stiffened like ultra injected Viagra level.

419
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:24,000
Violent offenders do not fear going to jail.

420
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:27,000
And that needs to change.

421
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:36,000
Extremely harsh minimum sentences with isolation need to be considered as mandatory for some of the worst violent crimes.

422
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:41,000
They're talking regards to your drug cartels and gang violence and stuff like that.

423
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:48,000
I'm assuming I'm talking in general. Oh.

424
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:58,000
I I I might be in the minority on this, but I think if you cause like severe damage to somebody,

425
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:04,000
emotional, physical, traumatic injury to somebody, I'm not going to use the four letter R word.

426
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:13,000
We know what that is. If you do that to somebody, I'm thinking probably 25 years isolation minimum here.

427
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:20,000
So to have a slight aside about our incarceration system, I have a proposal.

428
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:24,000
It's a joke. That's not a proposal. That's a fact.

429
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:30,000
But so I guess the proposal would be your first time offense.

430
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:35,000
You're focused on more rehabilitation and the idea that you get this one chance.

431
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:39,000
You get to work while you're there to pay off your stay.

432
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:43,000
You get to take classes to learn a trade, learn something, do something better with yourself.

433
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:49,000
And that is your shot. If you screwed up past that point, then we go to what you're talking about.

434
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:54,000
What's like, buddy, you already hurt somebody. You went out and murdered somebody who did this terrible thing.

435
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:57,000
We gave you this chance and you wasted it.

436
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:04,000
And now I know you're going to spend your summers and your winters working on repaving our infrastructure or you could sit in solitary confinement.

437
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:24,000
So you have two options. I think the rehab option is fine for people who do like your drug crimes, your drunken disorderly, your repeated DUIs, that kind of stuff.

438
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:44,000
It's a victimless crime. They've got some shit going on in their lives. Yeah. But buddy, when you see the fallout from people who have had their lives crushed by some of these people who just walk around with a smile on their face, almost bragging about what they've done to people.

439
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:51,000
No, I've got zero, zero give a fuck left in my life for anyone like that.

440
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:57,000
Well, unfortunately, for some people, they can't be rehab. They can't be put back. Exactly.

441
00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:04,000
You know, for those people, it's you got a choice or just option B, just to port them back to the country they were originally from.

442
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:09,000
If they're from what we also have option C and that's the judge dread route.

443
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:16,000
I would. Yeah, that's only like like the last option in my book.

444
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:25,000
And for those who don't know that reference, it would be to extend the death penalty to lesser crimes. Their subscription to air would be expired.

445
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:35,000
Yes. Yeah. Their subscription to life would expire. Yeah, but that would be reserved for some of the more.

446
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:40,000
What would we say more violent. Yeah, well, our heinous heinous. Yeah. Yeah.

447
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:46,000
So, yeah, they they're they're one shot is the life they get to not screw up.

448
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:52,000
And again, I might be in the minority on that. I'm a very big proponent of the death penalty.

449
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:57,000
I think you have your shot to do life and to not do harm to others.

450
00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:03,000
And if you break that trust that's given to you by the society, well, fuck you. You had your shot.

451
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:09,000
Maybe I'm a little more forgiving in that sense where I feel like you owed your one fuck up.

452
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:14,000
You're one like, hey, I know granted, granted, as long as it's not something extreme.

453
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:17,000
If it's something you know, willingly did, that's like ridiculous. Yeah.

454
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:23,000
Now, if you line up sites and pull the trigger on somebody, no, you had your you had every chance not to do that.

455
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:27,000
Exactly. But cold blood, not like self-defense.

456
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:35,000
If it's premeditated murder kind of thing or exactly any of the other stuff that I can't talk about, that's more heinous or involving children.

457
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:46,000
You know, I don't I don't fuck with that. But if it involves children, we need to absolutely bring back some of the more medieval things.

458
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:54,000
Scaffing or I think that's how it's pronounced is one of the more fun things that could be done.

459
00:42:54,000 --> 00:43:05,000
That's where the person is placed into a box left out in the sun and fed nothing but milk and honey for days on end.

460
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:08,000
Oh, I know what you're talking about nature. Yep. I know.

461
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:13,000
Let nature take its course with the bugs and everything.

462
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:17,000
Yeah, I don't know.

463
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:22,000
I understand. I understand why you're saying that. But maybe it's just some some bits about efficiency.

464
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:26,000
I just wouldn't waste my time with that. Oh, no, no.

465
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:30,000
They deserve every agonizing second.

466
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:34,000
But I get it. I get the sentiment.

467
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:39,000
So rebuilding our cities.

468
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:41,000
Do the AI is going to hate this.

469
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:46,000
Yeah, it's going to be like, oh, the fuck you all are talking about.

470
00:43:46,000 --> 00:44:01,000
Rebuilding our cities, including Washington, D.C., Baltimore, St. Louis, where the Seattle, LA, you know, the the old Chop Zone where that was in the Chas Chopp.

471
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:04,000
Yep. Yep. That was Chas Chopp.

472
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:07,000
Making those areas safe, clean and beautiful again.

473
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:11,000
San Francisco is going to be a task because of all the poop.

474
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:14,000
Yeah. When you have enough poop where you have to develop an app just to track it all, there's a problem.

475
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,000
That's a problem.

476
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:27,000
But a lot of these areas, you have such a hard just such a terrible homelessness problem, as well as you have a terrible economic problem that for many of those people hate to say that they choose that lifestyle.

477
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:29,000
But also there's nowhere else for them to go.

478
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:31,000
I mean, we touched on that in our last episode.

479
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:46,000
Yeah, we could easily solve homelessness, but there are so many people who do not want to be helped. They will choose that lifestyle. And if they're given the resources, they will still choose that lifestyle.

480
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:48,000
No matter what.

481
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:52,000
That's why maybe we should develop areas to where maybe they could have that lifestyle, but away.

482
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:57,000
Yes. You know, not in the cities where it won't bring down property values.

483
00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:00,000
Exactly.

484
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,000
There's already large parts of Utah that are just open and nothing anyway.

485
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:08,000
Just, you know, yeah, they're thrown in there with the sister wives.

486
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,000
You know, maybe the moments will help them out.

487
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:11,000
Who knows?

488
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:12,000
Hey, there you go.

489
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:16,000
You got to dump them in the Amish community and they'll find out real fucking quick.

490
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:19,000
Oh, yeah, I like that.

491
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:24,000
Strengthen and modernize our military, making it without question.

492
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:41,000
Once again, the strongest and most powerful in the world. And on that, I personally feel that drone programs and anti drone warfare, AI encounter AI programs need to be heavily developed and invested in rapidly.

493
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:42,000
It's the future.

494
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:52,000
Because just this past week, we have seen tech advances coming to light that are horrifying.

495
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:57,000
Did you see the robot dangling from the rope with human like features?

496
00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:01,000
So the synthetic muscle and everything that was made. Yeah. Yeah.

497
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:05,000
This is where I'm starting to get freaked out. And I'm not a fan of it.

498
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:09,000
It's one thing to have a robot. So we're entering from if anybody's watched I robot.

499
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:12,000
We were at the NS4.

500
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:14,000
Now we're going to NS5.

501
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:18,000
And we didn't even do the ones twos and threes were just going.

502
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:23,000
Straight from four to five, buddy, which is absolutely number one terrifying.

503
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:32,000
But number two, if we're already at a point where we can make synthetic muscle synthetic humans that look relatively realistic.

504
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:37,000
And with the way that AI is going, we're five or 10 years off people being replaced.

505
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:45,000
Fallout four was absolutely right that since they're going to be real, people are going to be synthetic people are going to start being a thing.

506
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:51,000
Oh, did you see Kim Kardashian apparently is fucking her Tesla bot?

507
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:55,000
I'm sorry, you said a lot of words in a row that I.

508
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:58,000
What do you mean? What?

509
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:04,000
I don't know. I caught something. Kim Kardashian is apparently.

510
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:08,000
She was posing risque ish.

511
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:11,000
Tesla makes cars. Her Tesla bot.

512
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:18,000
Tesla makes cars, though, and rockets and stuff. You remember those robots they made?

513
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:21,000
Oh, no. Oh, yes, she has one.

514
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:37,000
And I think she's why. So it turns out it turns out it's easier to attach a straight rod onto one of those robots than it is to put a flashlight into one of those robots.

515
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:46,000
And make everything, you know, copacetic. So.

516
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:51,000
I'm letting the might be screwed as you know, useful implements in nature now.

517
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:57,000
I was letting that silence being guys. Yeah.

518
00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:00,000
The obvious question I have to ask.

519
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,000
Uh huh.

520
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:08,000
You know, she was considered for a long time a sex icon of the country.

521
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:11,000
Oh, yeah. Especially once her video dropped.

522
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:14,000
So.

523
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:18,000
I guess my question is why she buying a robot.

524
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:24,000
I have so many questions. She's a strong independent woman that don't need no man.

525
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:29,000
I'm not going to touch that sentence with a thirty five and a half a pole.

526
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:32,000
I've got to go in there.

527
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:40,000
But there's going to be a point in like five or ten years from now where other people are going to be replaced by robots or they're just going to be entirely.

528
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:48,000
You can go to the store and just buy a sex bot for five to ten. So there was an episode of Futurama that kind of touched on this whole concept.

529
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:53,000
It was the one where Fry downloaded the Lucy Lou bot.

530
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:57,000
Oh, Jesus. And he was he was dating her.

531
00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:01,000
They touched on the whole thing. Yeah.

532
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:07,000
This is the whole thing of where Matt Greening is a time traveler.

533
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:09,000
It's terrifying.

534
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:20,000
Between the Simpsons and Futurama, I think he's telling everybody what's happening, which is fucked because 2025, I guess we're supposed to have an EMP event, according to the Simpsons.

535
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:24,000
So we're really fucked. We better not. I don't have time for that. I know.

536
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:28,000
I've got work to do. I don't have the time for it.

537
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:37,000
Yeah. It's like, God, at least in my work, not for nothing, but that would make my shop really busy.

538
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,000
Oh, yeah. Maybe I should be rooting for it.

539
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:44,000
Who knows? I'd be working 80 hour weeks for like six months straight if that happened. Good God.

540
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:47,000
Geez. Yeah.

541
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:56,000
So his other point was to keep the US dollar as a world reserve currency. We touched upon it a lot in the last episode, worthy enough, but it's tips.

542
00:49:56,000 --> 00:50:05,000
Not not this kind of show. But, you know, we have to do make measures to make America relevant to keep as a world reserve currency as the petrodollar.

543
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:10,000
So thankfully, he's keeping an eye on that. Hopefully he does something about that.

544
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:18,000
The other thing I like for here is to fight and protect Social Security and Medicare with no cuts, including no changes to the retirement age.

545
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:24,000
And then I know you put in a little note outside of possibly reducing it. I don't want to work in my 70s. Yeah.

546
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:30,000
Yeah. We just had a gentleman retire from my work site.

547
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:35,000
Now, this was voluntary. He stayed here willingly.

548
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:46,000
He retired. He was either 82 or 84, but he put in 62 years there.

549
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:48,000
Damn.

550
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:55,000
Like, in a way, good for him. But in a way, ouch. Like, right. Was he now again, that was that was voluntary.

551
00:50:55,000 --> 00:51:07,000
He stayed there because he liked the work said he didn't like his wife and didn't want to retire and have to have to put up with her the whole time. So I get that I respect that.

552
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:11,000
But yeah.

553
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:23,000
When when it hits retirement time, I want to be able to write off into the sunset and enjoy what years I have left until they finished development of the upload technology, and I can take advantage of that.

554
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:25,000
Oh, my God.

555
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:36,000
Harking back toward our digital afterlife episode. Well, I think the whole, the whole retirement age, unfortunately, people in your NIH bracket are just going to get it got screwed over.

556
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:45,000
But I'm hoping that with the things that we talked about spoke about last episode about Treasury and the economy, maybe for the younger generations, this can be fixed.

557
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:59,000
But as we're coming to find out, I think there's going to be some some gap years where there's going to be like some people that are going to need the help of the leftover money and the younger money.

558
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:06,000
And unfortunately, I'm probably going to fall into that that bracket.

559
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:10,000
As, as depressing as that is.

560
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:23,000
But everyone after you'll probably be OK, because you're young enough, but definitely anyone like 25 and under should be OK, especially if some changes are made.

561
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:26,000
Oh, absolutely.

562
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:30,000
It's just one of those things where so many people are going to be caught out with these.

563
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:40,000
And the only good news is I did see that Elon Musk was talking about how there were people somehow getting retirement checks that were one hundred and forty hundred eighty two hundred years old.

564
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:42,000
That's going to that's the curious thing.

565
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:50,000
There were thousands, if not tens of thousands that were dead for years, if not decades, that were still somehow receiving these checks.

566
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:55,000
We've been told for a long time that, you know, Social Security is insolvent is like, well, that's technically true.

567
00:52:55,000 --> 00:53:01,000
A lot of money has also been embezzled and has just been just gone away due to fraud because people have been doing their jobs.

568
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:08,000
Because quite frankly, there has to be people in the Social Security Department that are responsible for investigating fraud.

569
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:15,000
If you are still actively sending the checks to somebody that is, and I quote, older than this country.

570
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:18,000
You deserve to lose your job.

571
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:20,000
You should be fired and have to pay us back pay.

572
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:23,000
I want my money back because that is insane.

573
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:25,000
No way.

574
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:28,000
And if people are going to yell and say, oh, that's not true.

575
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:31,000
How much do you want to bet on that?

576
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:35,000
We have a country of three hundred and thirty three hundred forty million people.

577
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:40,000
I bet you there's several thousand that slip through the cracks and you might say, oh, it's only a few thousand.

578
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:42,000
It doesn't matter.

579
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:44,000
Those are checks have been sent out for decades.

580
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:46,000
That is a lot of money.

581
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:52,000
At the end of the day, I could have gone to help people that actually are around and that actually need the help.

582
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:57,000
Mm hmm.

583
00:53:57,000 --> 00:54:03,000
Canceling the electric vehicle mandate and cutting out costly and burdensome regulations.

584
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:06,000
That's one that definitely needs to be put in place.

585
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:16,000
The electric vehicle mandate killed so many jobs, cost a lot of car manufacturers, a lot of future production that they had planned.

586
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:20,000
Personally, electric vehicles are kind of shit.

587
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:26,000
Hybrid's I like the concept, but then you're adding in to drive trains to worry about.

588
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:30,000
And if one goes out, do you have the reliability of the other one?

589
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:32,000
I'm not a car guy.

590
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:34,000
Gas pedal go vroom.

591
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:36,000
That's really what I know.

592
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:38,000
I can do the basic shit.

593
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:40,000
I know I fail as a man there.

594
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:51,000
But the the people that have made advances in car technology magically end up dying.

595
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:57,000
So that's a thing that that's always been a problem.

596
00:54:57,000 --> 00:55:05,000
Yeah. What what I would say is somebody that knows a lot about the industry is the EPA is really a bigger problem.

597
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:15,000
Even than that, yes, the electric vehicle mandate has been a huge problem because quite frankly, as we've discussed in our previous episodes, our infrastructure cannot handle more electric cars.

598
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:19,000
There's already rolling blackouts in places in California, especially in the summer.

599
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:24,000
There is not enough lithium on the planet to actually build enough batteries for all these cars.

600
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:29,000
But we did find a new deposit out west, which is nice or rather large one.

601
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:35,000
But but even so, it's going to take years and years, if not decades to build all the manufacturing refining and everything else.

602
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:39,000
It just simply put, you cannot legislate.

603
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:42,000
Hey, everybody needs to use this type of vehicle.

604
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:45,000
That's like telling everyone in the country, hey, you all got to drive a sedan now.

605
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:46,000
No trucks, no minivans.

606
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:48,000
It's like, well, no, that's just not going to work.

607
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:50,000
I see it as no different.

608
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:51,000
Number two.

609
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:54,000
The other issue we have is with the EPA.

610
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:58,000
They're enforcing environmental regulations based off what's called the CAFE standards.

611
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:02,000
And emissions are based on the size of the vehicle.

612
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:12,000
So one of the problems we have in this country is you have large vehicles that are made oversized purposely so they can run engines in them that are not efficient or vice versa.

613
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:18,000
All the smaller vehicles have to have such tiny efficient engines that they're non-reliable.

614
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:27,000
You know, one of the things that we're seeing, if you guys look it up, Kia has a big problem with this, as well as a few other manufacturers to where if you follow the manufacturer's recommendations on certain

615
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:31,000
things, the engines will fail within 100,000 miles and they have to replace them.

616
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:40,000
Now, the reason why I'm getting specific with this is every year these emission standards get higher and higher and they require more and more efficiency.

617
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:45,000
To give you an idea, Toyota even had to develop a special type of oil.

618
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:49,000
They're now at OW8 and OW16 for some of their vehicles.

619
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:50,000
There's a lot of vehicles now.

620
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:53,000
There's no such thing as 5W30 for some of them.

621
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:59,000
And even then with the OW16 or even OW8 or 10, depending, it's getting weird.

622
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:08,000
The only reason why I say that is because it's getting more and more costly to do these simple maintenance items, as well as after a long time, these tolerances grow and grow.

623
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:15,000
The emissions get worse and worse and then all of a sudden now your cars are failing for emissions, even though they're only a couple of years old, and they're just inherently unreliable.

624
00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:19,000
So yes, these emissions standards absolutely are killing the economy.

625
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:21,000
They're killing the automotive industry.

626
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:29,000
And even more importantly, they're not allowing companies to make models of cars that are actually for the benefit of Americans.

627
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:31,000
That's why you're seeing a lot of the muscle cars go away.

628
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:36,000
You're seeing a lot of trucks now having four-cylinder and six-cylinder engines that get rid of most of the V8s because they can't handle them.

629
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:41,000
Or the V8s are only for commercially extremely large trucks.

630
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:46,000
Like, have you ever looked at the development of even like the F-150, the size change over the last 15, 20 years?

631
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:48,000
Oh, yeah, it's gotten smaller.

632
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:51,000
Well, no, it's doubled in size.

633
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:57,000
Sit on the inside of an F-150 from the late 90s versus now.

634
00:57:57,000 --> 00:58:02,000
The actual square footage of it is a lot bigger because they have to meet emission standards.

635
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:03,000
So the problem is...

636
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:07,000
I guess I'm thinking of like the foreign trucks that have come in to compete with them.

637
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:08,000
Oh, yeah, by the way, most of those are illegal.

638
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:11,000
Most of those are illegal now.

639
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:12,000
How so?

640
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:21,000
Because, you know, in other countries, they have much smaller trucks even made by American companies that are not considered legal in the US because they don't meet our safety standards.

641
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:22,000
Wow.

642
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:24,000
Even Chevy makes...

643
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:25,000
Toyota, maybe it's Toyota.

644
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:28,000
They make like a 10 or 20 thousand dollar truck brand new.

645
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:29,000
That's a great little truck.

646
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:32,000
It can't be sold in the US because of our CAFE standards.

647
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:34,000
Oh, I know what truck you're talking about.

648
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:36,000
That little like tuk-tuk truck.

649
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:38,000
No, no, those are even cheaper.

650
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:44,000
There are a ton of vehicles outside the US that would be awesome to have.

651
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:50,000
So, for example, like Utes, like, you know, in Africa, I'm sorry, in Australia, how they have basically El Caminos.

652
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:51,000
Yeah.

653
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:52,000
They're called Utes.

654
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:53,000
U-T-E-S.

655
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:55,000
They're illegal in America because of emissions.

656
00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:57,000
But the reality is they can buy pickups over there.

657
00:58:57,000 --> 00:59:00,000
They're basically just a sedan front end with a pickup back end.

658
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:04,000
That way average people can get a vehicle to do truck stuff.

659
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:05,000
And that's not allowed here because of our...

660
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:10,000
Sorry, I went like a like a five minute tirade there, but it's actually really bad to the point where it's really hurting the industry.

661
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:16,000
And that needs to change.

662
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:19,000
So, yeah, we're almost to the end of the Trump stuff.

663
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:20,000
Oh, yeah.

664
00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:30,000
Cut federal funding for any schools pushing critical race theory, radical gender ideology and other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content onto our kids,

665
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:35,000
while also keeping men out of women's sports.

666
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:38,000
That last one, I think, is a rather important one.

667
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:45,000
If men want to be women in their lives, that's fine with them, fine with me.

668
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:57,000
If they want to compete in sports, then let's make a whole subcategory of men who want to be women and compete at women's standards and just let them all compete together.

669
00:59:57,000 --> 01:00:00,000
Just just have a non gender league.

670
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:01,000
At that point, that's it.

671
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:06,000
Just like, hey, if you want to have a mixed gendered league for stuff, I really don't care.

672
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:11,000
But there are certain sports, especially contact sports, to where like, I'm sorry, it's not safe.

673
01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:13,000
No, it's really not safe.

674
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:17,000
And it's also I feel bad for all these women that have really tried their entire lives.

675
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:18,000
They've really set themselves apart.

676
01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:20,000
They put in all this effort.

677
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:26,000
And for a guy that's like ranked 500 in the country to come by, like, yep, I'm now the the best woman at blank.

678
01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:28,000
It's not fair to those people.

679
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:35,000
And I not my heart does go out to those people that generally do have to deal with a gender dysphoria or something like that.

680
01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:39,000
I'm lucky to where I am very clearly a guide, very happy to be here.

681
01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:43,000
So I my heart goes out to people that generally have that to deal with.

682
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:51,000
But that being said, I don't think that's useful as an excuse to beat the crap out of people and to make it unfair in a sport.

683
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:54,000
You know, it's not the right way to do it.

684
01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:56,000
No, not at all.

685
01:00:56,000 --> 01:01:00,000
And when it comes to supporting women, I I love women.

686
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:02,000
I support women completely.

687
01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:08,000
So much so that I even grew my own set of boobs so that I would never be lonely on Friday night.

688
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:09,000
Talk about commitment.

689
01:01:09,000 --> 01:01:12,000
That's not an overnight thing.

690
01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:19,000
Fuck you for making me laugh.

691
01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:23,000
I hope to God the summer for the thing it says, and I quote, PIP grew boobs.

692
01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:25,000
I hope that's what it says at the end of this.

693
01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:26,000
I really do.

694
01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:29,000
It fucking better.

695
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:39,000
The one thing I will say with that, the part that gets me is the inappropriate sexual conduct and discussions that have been had around kids in some of these.

696
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:40,000
Oh, yeah.

697
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:51,000
And the fact that they've been showing things that, quite frankly, are pornographic material and sometimes even way worse than what you consider it in that to children without the consent of the parents,

698
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:54,000
without anybody involved in it.

699
01:01:54,000 --> 01:02:02,000
Quite frankly, these schools need to be either charged or they need to be set down and said, hey, this is not OK.

700
01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:03,000
You need to discuss with the parents.

701
01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:07,000
I do believe in like sex education for kids do not get me wrong on that.

702
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:11,000
But there is a point between education and indoctrination.

703
01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:21,000
There is a point between informing and establishing a healthy habit or ideas versus getting kids to go down a path of grooming.

704
01:02:21,000 --> 01:02:22,000
Yes.

705
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:29,000
That's a very grooming type behavior, but also just describing some stuff that's like not for nothing.

706
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:33,000
But you wouldn't even like hire a woman to do that kind of stuff.

707
01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:35,000
Like, I don't know.

708
01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:39,000
Some of the stuff that I read and I saw that was in pamphlets like Jesus Christ.

709
01:02:39,000 --> 01:02:44,000
Yeah, no, you even professionals would say, oh, no, I'm not doing that.

710
01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:51,000
But come on, though, the people that were pushing that honestly just need to be arrested in charge of pedophilia or whatever.

711
01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:54,000
Pedo charges they can tie them to.

712
01:02:54,000 --> 01:03:05,000
Well, I hate to say it, but child child sex charges are not inappropriate in that matter because some of the stuff they were pandering was literal porn targeted to kids.

713
01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:06,000
It is no different.

714
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:07,000
I'm sorry.

715
01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:13,000
It is no different than some guy going to a library and distributing nudie mags to kids.

716
01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:25,000
I don't look at it and pretty much and also number two, I really feel like in that and in with the education system, they always assume that if somebody is being sexually inappropriate with children, it's always a guy.

717
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:37,000
Whereas I hate to say it, but there are female teachers out there that get a thrill and a kick out of doing that kind of stuff. I don't know why. I don't know where it comes from. I'm not a psychologist, but it's really weird.

718
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:41,000
And the fact that they're not charged equally is what really concerns me.

719
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:51,000
Right. And look at the rash of female teachers that have gone to jail in recent years for sleeping with the high school students and even getting pregnant by them.

720
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:53,000
Well, they should. Where were they when I was?

721
01:03:53,000 --> 01:04:07,000
Don't you dare. Don't you? My problem is they should be in jail and they should be should be convicted just as often, just as much as the men and so it should be all about equality.

722
01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:09,000
Right. That's what you would think.

723
01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:15,000
But unfortunately, no. And what many people don't realize is because I've watched some documentaries on this kind of stuff.

724
01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:26,000
The amount of guys that yes, maybe when they were 16, they're like, oh, man, this is great, but they actually screw themselves over and they're never able to have a proper relationship and their sexuality is completely fucked.

725
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:34,000
And that they become a degenerate or a pervert down the road. I'm not talking like, oh, just a little bit. No, I mean, like actually down the fucking rabbit hole.

726
01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:40,000
So it it's one of those things where, sure, people might joke about it, but it's something that actually.

727
01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:53,000
I like to see the fact that in Jokey's fine, I'm with it. But at the same point, it's it is shielding the fact that there are some serious issues that are going on and that they don't take it seriously enough to prosecute it.

728
01:04:53,000 --> 01:05:00,000
And I'm glad at least he's bringing up that, hey, maybe these things shouldn't be discussed because I think it should be discussed, but in a proper way.

729
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:03,000
So if you're being inappropriate with kids, just don't fuck it. Just don't be weird.

730
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:10,000
Like, it's it's crazy. I'm not being inappropriate kids right now or ever. It's crazy. It's so easy just to not do that. I don't know why.

731
01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:15,000
For some people, they just can't seem to like not. I don't get it. I do not understand it.

732
01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:19,000
Maybe that's what frustrates me more than anything. It's just like just like kids be kids.

733
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:25,000
Let them have their innocence. Not for nothing. The war again, not to be depressing, but the world kind of sucks sometimes.

734
01:05:25,000 --> 01:05:32,000
Let them enjoy it while they can. You know, yeah, because fuck, once I started to pay taxes, they'll realize, oh, God, depression is a thing.

735
01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:36,000
It's it's bad enough. Let the kids be kids.

736
01:05:36,000 --> 01:05:42,000
They'll they'll grow up soon enough. Oh, yeah.

737
01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:54,000
So moving on, secure our elections, including elimination of same day registration and voting voter identification requirements, paper ballots and proof of citizenship.

738
01:05:54,000 --> 01:06:04,000
I also am a fan of the way they do it in some of the Middle Eastern countries where when you vote, you have to put the indelible ink fingerprint on the ballot.

739
01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:09,000
And then it does not come off of your hands for like 72 hours.

740
01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:15,000
So you can't just go vote somewhere else because you've got the ink on your hands.

741
01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:18,000
How is it that the Middle East has figured out?

742
01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:21,000
Better voting how to have more secure elections than.

743
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:30,000
Yeah. That that number one that always my mind that shows that all these politicians are willfully in on this shit.

744
01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:34,000
Second of all, I think he doesn't go far enough.

745
01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:37,000
It should be a national holiday.

746
01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:44,000
I think voting is so important for the average citizen that you should have a paid it should be a paid holiday.

747
01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:56,000
And realistically, how it should be that I think is the minimum. What we really should do is the idea that it's actually a week long thing where you as an employee get to pick one day out of those seven days.

748
01:06:56,000 --> 01:07:00,000
To go, you take that off as a paid day, and that is your voting day.

749
01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:05,000
Let's just say if it happens from the first to the seventh of November or whatever, you say, hey, I'm going to go vote on Thursday.

750
01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:14,000
Say great. Have a good day. You have to go out on Thursday and vote that way. You eliminate three problems when you eliminate the overcrowding too many people trying to vote the same time having issues.

751
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:20,000
Number two, you eliminate the problem of shutting everything down, having every company out where they could stagger it between seven days.

752
01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:23,000
I'm pretty sure most companies can figure out a way to work around it.

753
01:07:23,000 --> 01:07:33,000
And then number three, you don't have to hire as nearly as many people to actually run it because if you want to be a poll worker and run and work that for a while, a lot of people do that as a side job or something or like older people do a little bit of income.

754
01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:37,000
So now you can hire fewer people, but also they can make more money at doing it.

755
01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:41,000
And it makes it a lot easier on security, a lot easier on counting, a lot easier on everything else.

756
01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:46,000
But at the minimum, if you want to stick with it being one day, it better be a paid holiday.

757
01:07:46,000 --> 01:07:52,000
And that's something that Trump really needs to understand and realize because the amount of people I know that don't vote because I got to work.

758
01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:59,000
I got shit to do. I know a lot of jobs now. Not for nothing. Do you know how many people that work that just a nine to five?

759
01:07:59,000 --> 01:08:04,000
No, not many people. I know a lot of people that have to work, you know, six a.m. to six p.m., six a.m. to seven or eight p.m.

760
01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:11,000
They have other jobs, other things going on. A lot of people literally they literally can't make the time even if they wanted to.

761
01:08:11,000 --> 01:08:21,000
And it's not right. And also, I think that the pay that they give the poll workers should be substantial. Yeah, that's an extremely important job.

762
01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:25,000
Why don't they hire mostly ex-police? I don't understand it.

763
01:08:25,000 --> 01:08:30,000
Yeah, ex-police veterans, people that are going to take it seriously.

764
01:08:30,000 --> 01:08:33,000
I think they should get first priority. Yeah.

765
01:08:33,000 --> 01:08:38,000
What you do is you go, you know, police and veterans and general first responders.

766
01:08:38,000 --> 01:08:44,000
And then you do a list of like jobs that people routinely have to be very responsible for other people.

767
01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:51,000
And you go down the list from there. Yeah, because I don't want to say, oh, you're you're I'm playing favorites.

768
01:08:51,000 --> 01:08:57,000
It's like, well, for a job like that, yes, I'm going to for election security, absolutely, because there shouldn't be any question.

769
01:08:57,000 --> 01:09:03,000
The fact that we have any questions about any election in twenty twenty five is fucking ridiculous.

770
01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:13,000
Yeah, that's terrible. And lastly, unite our country by bringing it to new and record levels of success,

771
01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:21,000
whether you love Trump, hate Trump, love Daddy Elon, hate Daddy Elon, love Biden, hate Biden.

772
01:09:21,000 --> 01:09:28,000
That is something that every single American can and should be able to get behind.

773
01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:31,000
Success for America is success for you.

774
01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:37,000
I just wish he would have stated exactly what his metrics are, what he's looking for in that.

775
01:09:37,000 --> 01:09:43,000
But I assume that's the obvious underlying point for anybody that ever runs for office is, you know, you want the country to be successful.

776
01:09:43,000 --> 01:09:50,000
But I hate to say it. I think there's been many people that have been in office lately that I can't agree that that was their goal.

777
01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:54,000
It seemed like particularly under Biden. I hate to say it, but I don't know.

778
01:09:54,000 --> 01:10:01,000
I I feel like getting the country back to pre covid levels would be a pretty good measure of success.

779
01:10:01,000 --> 01:10:04,000
Oh, yeah. That seems so far away, though. Now.

780
01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:11,000
Oh, yeah. Can you believe next month is going to be five years since we started the shutdowns?

781
01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:16,000
And we're like three to four weeks away from. Yeah.

782
01:10:16,000 --> 01:10:21,000
It was March 15th. Yeah. Like March 14th, March 15th.

783
01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:25,000
Yeah. No, yeah, that was five years ago. That was five years ago.

784
01:10:25,000 --> 01:10:31,000
You know, it's crazy. I think it was this. It was it was. Yeah, it was like like March 12th or March 11th.

785
01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:35,000
Five years ago, joke with everybody saying, yeah, that this this covid thing sucks.

786
01:10:35,000 --> 01:10:37,000
We're going to be, you know, hopefully out of it by the summer.

787
01:10:37,000 --> 01:10:40,000
And I'm looking at it going off. I was so wrong.

788
01:10:40,000 --> 01:10:43,000
I was hoping it was going to be like a month or a deal.

789
01:10:43,000 --> 01:10:52,000
Oh, so a couple of critiques that I wanted to talk about for the Trump administration.

790
01:10:52,000 --> 01:10:56,000
Yeah. The cutting of the price cap on meds.

791
01:10:56,000 --> 01:11:01,000
I personally would like to know why that was done. Was it tied to other issues?

792
01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:03,000
And will it be put back in place?

793
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:13,000
The medicines in question that I am targeting are albuterol and insulin and a few of the other like critical life saving meds.

794
01:11:13,000 --> 01:11:20,000
Those had at one time being capped at like thirty five dollars. I think it was.

795
01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:23,000
Which is already high for what they are, but like fine.

796
01:11:23,000 --> 01:11:29,000
Yeah, but that's an acceptable price that commercially out of pocket Americans are willing to pay.

797
01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:31,000
It's it's something that's affordable.

798
01:11:31,000 --> 01:11:37,000
And with the removal of that cap, they're now skyrocketed.

799
01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:43,000
I think the albuterol went up to like eight hundred dollars and insulin's back up to like a thousand.

800
01:11:43,000 --> 01:11:50,000
Yeah, there there was a report that a man died recently because he couldn't afford his inhaler medication.

801
01:11:50,000 --> 01:11:52,000
That should never even be a factor.

802
01:11:52,000 --> 01:11:57,000
No. But again, like you said earlier, our insurance is shit.

803
01:11:57,000 --> 01:12:02,000
So even though with insurance, the drugs are still unaffordable.

804
01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:08,000
So I want to know why that was done. Will it be put back in place if it was tied to bad legislation?

805
01:12:08,000 --> 01:12:15,000
OK, I get that. Put it back in place, though. That's like a one single line item. Do it.

806
01:12:15,000 --> 01:12:18,000
We really need to start going after these drug companies and telling them,

807
01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:28,000
hey, if you're selling this stuff for like eight or ten dollars a bottle in Canada or in France, you can't charge you like a hundred times, a thousand times that in America. No way.

808
01:12:28,000 --> 01:12:37,000
There was there was recently a guy, Luigi Mann, Manjie Mann, manager, manager, something.

809
01:12:37,000 --> 01:12:42,000
Yeah, he he went and had a talk with it with an insurance rep about something.

810
01:12:42,000 --> 01:12:45,000
It was a discussion. Maybe some more talks like that need to happen.

811
01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:54,000
I'm not suggesting violence, but fuck, something's got to happen for these insurance assholes to realize people can and will only take so much.

812
01:12:54,000 --> 01:12:58,000
Unfortunately, a lot of it has to do with legislation. They're allowed to do this stuff.

813
01:12:58,000 --> 01:13:05,000
And I will call out Obama's just because they're allowed doesn't mean they have to, though.

814
01:13:05,000 --> 01:13:10,000
Yes, but that's the thing. We are a country ruled by lawyers and laws.

815
01:13:10,000 --> 01:13:14,000
If they're allowed to, they're going to the affordable can take the Shakespearean approach.

816
01:13:14,000 --> 01:13:19,000
Kill all the lawyers. No, I understand.

817
01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:26,000
But it's more the problem of really the Affordable Care Act done under Obama is really what screwed a lot of this up.

818
01:13:26,000 --> 01:13:33,000
Because we put in so many regulations that were not only quite cost prohibitive, but quite frankly, the people were lied to.

819
01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:36,000
That whole thing of you can keep your doctor, you don't have to change.

820
01:13:36,000 --> 01:13:39,000
That was bullshit. The fact they were going to keep preexisting conditions.

821
01:13:39,000 --> 01:13:44,000
That was bullshit. They put in so many regulations and they made it so complex.

822
01:13:44,000 --> 01:13:48,000
The reality of it is the fact that health care changes state by state.

823
01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:51,000
The fact that you can't just buy a general health care plan and all this other stuff.

824
01:13:51,000 --> 01:13:59,000
No, it is ridiculous because the government decided they were going to compete in the area of health care rather than letting the companies compete.

825
01:13:59,000 --> 01:14:06,000
And how it should have always been is the case of, hey, you guys are allowed to make a profit, but you were not allowed to neglect people.

826
01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:12,000
What should be happening is just like if you were taking care of somebody personally, if you neglect them, you go to jail.

827
01:14:12,000 --> 01:14:14,000
The same thing should happen to insurance companies.

828
01:14:14,000 --> 01:14:25,000
And number two, they should be hiring medical professionals, doctors to sign off on either approvals or non approvals or declines or any and all treatments.

829
01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:29,000
They can't just have somebody behind a book sheet going saying, well, sorry, you're too old to get this.

830
01:14:29,000 --> 01:14:33,000
Fuck you. No, I'm sorry. Absolutely not.

831
01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:37,000
The fact that is we have a medical system that's not run by medical professionals.

832
01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:39,000
And that's been the case since the Affordable Care Act.

833
01:14:39,000 --> 01:14:46,000
It was a problem before, but it's gotten exponentially worse.

834
01:14:46,000 --> 01:14:48,000
Yeah. All right.

835
01:14:48,000 --> 01:14:53,000
So being that we are already past the hour mark.

836
01:14:53,000 --> 01:14:57,000
Let's try to burn through some of the Biden. Oh, don't worry.

837
01:14:57,000 --> 01:15:00,000
I think his list is a little shorter.

838
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:03,000
So I have to do a disclaimer here.

839
01:15:03,000 --> 01:15:06,000
OK, just claim Joe Biden.

840
01:15:06,000 --> 01:15:09,000
I actually had to write this down because it took me a while for research.

841
01:15:09,000 --> 01:15:15,000
Joe Biden has never had a fully written listed platform for the twenty twenty four campaign.

842
01:15:15,000 --> 01:15:20,000
This list that I have and the other things I have found it from PolitiFact, which has been cited by CNN and MSNBC.

843
01:15:20,000 --> 01:15:30,000
There is no official listed bullet point platform like what Trump and other Republicans have had.

844
01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:37,000
This is a problem I have had trying to research with the Democratic Party for every candidate they have had after Obama.

845
01:15:37,000 --> 01:15:40,000
They have not had listed bullet points of what they wanted to do.

846
01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:43,000
You can look it up on the White House dot gov websites.

847
01:15:43,000 --> 01:15:45,000
You can look it up on Joe Biden's website.

848
01:15:45,000 --> 01:15:50,000
It was never officially listed, even for Kamala.

849
01:15:50,000 --> 01:15:55,000
It was never. So for anybody trying to say, oh, he wasn't trying to do that, wasn't trying to do this.

850
01:15:55,000 --> 01:15:58,000
You can argue with PolitiFact. You can argue with Snopes.

851
01:15:58,000 --> 01:16:02,000
You can argue with CNN or MSNBC, because that's where I'm pulling all this from.

852
01:16:02,000 --> 01:16:10,000
And quite frankly, it is very annoying to try to argue with people when they've never officially had a platform.

853
01:16:10,000 --> 01:16:17,000
So for the love of God, for those people that run for office in the future, have a platform, because at least with Trump, we can hold them accountable.

854
01:16:17,000 --> 01:16:21,000
With someone like Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, it's fugazi.

855
01:16:21,000 --> 01:16:25,000
You know, it's just nothing. Maybe that was the point.

856
01:16:25,000 --> 01:16:30,000
Well, that's the problem is how can you say they did a good job when there's no measuring stick?

857
01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:34,000
How do you know? You never know. Well, then they did a good job.

858
01:16:34,000 --> 01:16:37,000
It enrages me.

859
01:16:37,000 --> 01:16:47,000
Also, I would like to point out that during the campaign, Kamala was her website was just a redirect to a donation page.

860
01:16:47,000 --> 01:16:50,000
I remember I for like for like the longest time.

861
01:16:50,000 --> 01:16:55,000
I remember the discord. I showed everybody this because I tried to look up her platform.

862
01:16:55,000 --> 01:16:59,000
Every single page was just donate. That's all it was.

863
01:16:59,000 --> 01:17:02,000
There was no there was no this is what we're going to do.

864
01:17:02,000 --> 01:17:06,000
This is what we're hoping to achieve. It was just give us your money.

865
01:17:06,000 --> 01:17:09,000
It was here's money. You'll get a say in this. Just give us your money.

866
01:17:09,000 --> 01:17:12,000
It's Democrat good, Republican bad. Give us money.

867
01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:20,000
And it's very hard for me to take any candidate seriously as somebody that hates both parties to be able to pick.

868
01:17:20,000 --> 01:17:24,000
If one of them is at least telling me what they want to do and the other one's like.

869
01:17:24,000 --> 01:17:28,000
They're bad. Give me money. That's ridiculous. Yeah.

870
01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:32,000
Because we we know what the Democrats tend to do with money that they're donated.

871
01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:35,000
They roll it up and snort drugs off the White House desk.

872
01:17:35,000 --> 01:17:39,000
Some people are privileged enough to do that. That is. Yeah.

873
01:17:39,000 --> 01:17:42,000
By the way, I'd like to do that one time before I die.

874
01:17:42,000 --> 01:17:51,000
I just want to roll up a snort a hog line off the desk in the White House one time before I die.

875
01:17:51,000 --> 01:17:58,000
Yeah. But do you realize it's going to be laced with so much other shit from all the previous presidents doing stuff?

876
01:17:58,000 --> 01:18:02,000
Like are you that's the goal to have some article on that?

877
01:18:02,000 --> 01:18:19,000
That's the question to you. I I want to find the corner of the desk that's got like JFK's ass cheeks still imprinted on it with some Ronald Reagan tears of misery and an Obama ball sweat and some W.

878
01:18:19,000 --> 01:18:28,000
Bush ball hair. What? Just give me that corner and let me snort that hog line, please.

879
01:18:28,000 --> 01:18:34,000
The fuck? This is all for the AI, by the way.

880
01:18:34,000 --> 01:18:37,000
The AI at the end of this episode is going to kill itself.

881
01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:41,000
I'm just going to say that's why I'm laughing right now.

882
01:18:41,000 --> 01:18:45,000
You know, what concerns me is I don't know if you pre-prepared that or not.

883
01:18:45,000 --> 01:18:50,000
But what concerns me is if you did pre-prepare that, you thought about all day Barack Obama's balls.

884
01:18:50,000 --> 01:18:52,000
That was all just from the hip. That was from the hip.

885
01:18:52,000 --> 01:18:56,000
So then how often do you think about Barack Obama's balls on that desk? Not at all.

886
01:18:56,000 --> 01:19:00,000
I actually think about Michael Obama's balls. His husband. I am not touching that.

887
01:19:00,000 --> 01:19:05,000
No, no, no, no, I'm not going to evolve with that. You can do that for real personal stuff.

888
01:19:05,000 --> 01:19:10,000
I know. No, no, no.

889
01:19:10,000 --> 01:19:13,000
No, you have fun with that one.

890
01:19:13,000 --> 01:19:19,000
You have fun. Well, he has fun with it.

891
01:19:19,000 --> 01:19:24,000
I'll let you and Candace Owens take over that one because I know she's been.

892
01:19:24,000 --> 01:19:32,000
But anyways, yep. So the list I have here from Joe Biden, from his accomplishments and or from things that he spoke about.

893
01:19:32,000 --> 01:19:36,000
I take it with a grain of salt and there's some things we're going to go through and discuss.

894
01:19:36,000 --> 01:19:41,000
Now, we know during the campaign, he talked about reunification.

895
01:19:41,000 --> 01:19:46,000
He talked to excuse me. He talked about supporting immigration.

896
01:19:46,000 --> 01:19:51,000
He talked about trying to make our school systems better, trying to make our military better.

897
01:19:51,000 --> 01:19:56,000
There was a lot of general kind of stuff, but again, stuff that most people would support in some way or another.

898
01:19:56,000 --> 01:20:02,000
I understand. However, what actually happened is something very different.

899
01:20:02,000 --> 01:20:07,000
I have gone through a list of things that I have tried to find that maybe.

900
01:20:07,000 --> 01:20:11,000
We're true and that other sources have said.

901
01:20:11,000 --> 01:20:15,000
But it's been very difficult to find anything that's actually correct.

902
01:20:15,000 --> 01:20:20,000
So we're going to go through, see what we can see, what we can find, put it that way.

903
01:20:20,000 --> 01:20:22,000
The number one. All right, let's rapid fire this bitch.

904
01:20:22,000 --> 01:20:30,000
The number one I saw for everything was stopped a 30 year streak of federal inaction on gun violence by signing the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act

905
01:20:30,000 --> 01:20:38,000
that created enhanced background checks, closed the boyfriend loophole, which is interesting, and provided funds for youth mental health.

906
01:20:38,000 --> 01:20:49,000
Now, number one, there have been background checks to buy firearms and there is no way around it.

907
01:20:49,000 --> 01:20:57,000
I keep saying there's a way around it. There isn't. You go to buy one. You have a background check.

908
01:20:57,000 --> 01:21:13,000
So the only way around a background check for a firearm is a private transaction in a state that does not require a background check for private transactions, which is most.

909
01:21:13,000 --> 01:21:16,000
But that's the only way you're getting a firearm without a background.

910
01:21:16,000 --> 01:21:23,000
The amount of crimes that are committed by those that do that are so, so, so, so, so, so, so few that.

911
01:21:23,000 --> 01:21:28,000
Well, it's actually every crime.

912
01:21:28,000 --> 01:21:38,000
I'm sorry. Ninety ninety seven, I think, percent ish crimes are committed with firearms that were obtained through deals done with no background checks.

913
01:21:38,000 --> 01:21:45,000
But that that's black market. That's not just exactly Joe selling it to John, who also has a firearms license that wants to.

914
01:21:45,000 --> 01:21:52,000
No, it's always the person that's selling and buying both parties are illegal at doing it illegally.

915
01:21:52,000 --> 01:21:55,000
That's I think the difference where.

916
01:21:55,000 --> 01:22:06,000
Joe Biden was going after people that regardless, you shouldn't be able to sell privately, which like you to me or me to you, which which is insane because we're both law abiding people.

917
01:22:06,000 --> 01:22:14,000
Whereas the problem always is it's people that already have the firearms illegally selling it to somebody that wants to buy them illegally to do things illegally with them.

918
01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:19,000
So I don't know how you're going to stop that when they've already committed to cry.

919
01:22:19,000 --> 01:22:22,000
It's already been done. There's no way of fixing that.

920
01:22:22,000 --> 01:22:27,000
That's no you can't just like, whoop, like go back in time or undo something like no.

921
01:22:27,000 --> 01:22:35,000
That's that's like calling somebody who crossed into the country illegally from the southern border a law abiding citizen because they haven't broken any other laws.

922
01:22:35,000 --> 01:22:38,000
When that's not true, you still broke the law to get here.

923
01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:41,000
So you're already on the books for it.

924
01:22:41,000 --> 01:22:46,000
I hate to say it, but yeah, you know, you've already committed that crime.

925
01:22:46,000 --> 01:22:49,000
Yeah. And by the way, if you do that in any other country, they arrest you.

926
01:22:49,000 --> 01:22:53,000
Just throw that out there or worse.

927
01:22:53,000 --> 01:22:55,000
There are some countries where you cross that border.

928
01:22:55,000 --> 01:22:59,000
They will shoot you. Oh, yeah.

929
01:22:59,000 --> 01:23:02,000
They take their border security a little more seriously than we do for some reason.

930
01:23:02,000 --> 01:23:06,000
I don't know. They go to a country like Singapore where they just whip you in the street.

931
01:23:06,000 --> 01:23:20,000
Yeah. Now, as far as the boyfriend loophole goes, a proposed check that was put in place for that was that during the forty four seventy three, I was a thirty seven.

932
01:23:20,000 --> 01:23:24,000
I cannot remember the name of the form. I haven't filled it out in years at this point.

933
01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:31,000
But when you're filling that out, it should be allowed to say, yes, this is being purchased as a gift.

934
01:23:31,000 --> 01:23:36,000
This is the information of the person that's being gifted to that way.

935
01:23:36,000 --> 01:23:38,000
They don't have to be present.

936
01:23:38,000 --> 01:23:44,000
They don't have to have the surprise ruined, but you can still get the background check done on the spot.

937
01:23:44,000 --> 01:23:48,000
See where I'm from, that's illegal.

938
01:23:48,000 --> 01:23:51,000
Well, it was never put in place, so it no no.

939
01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:55,000
From where I'm from in my state, you can only buy it for yourself.

940
01:23:55,000 --> 01:24:08,000
Well, OK, so as it stands, you can purchase a firearm for another person if that person is there with you and they fill out the form.

941
01:24:08,000 --> 01:24:18,000
You are legally allowed to provide the funds for somebody as long as they fill out the paperwork.

942
01:24:18,000 --> 01:24:24,000
But what was being proposed was, hey, I want to get my significant other this for Christmas.

943
01:24:24,000 --> 01:24:27,000
I don't want them to know about it. I want it to be a big surprise.

944
01:24:27,000 --> 01:24:30,000
I'm going to fill out the form to show that I'm allowed to buy it.

945
01:24:30,000 --> 01:24:35,000
I'm going to fill out this other section of the form to show that they're allowed to actually receive it.

946
01:24:35,000 --> 01:24:38,000
That's what was being proposed.

947
01:24:38,000 --> 01:24:45,000
But it was never put into action because they were not there to show that, yes, this is actually their information.

948
01:24:45,000 --> 01:24:52,000
I get that. Yeah, but it still would have been nice.

949
01:24:52,000 --> 01:24:55,000
So then the question becomes under Biden.

950
01:24:55,000 --> 01:25:01,000
Was gun violence down? Was it affected at all? No.

951
01:25:01,000 --> 01:25:05,000
No, because they went after guns that were not being used in crimes.

952
01:25:05,000 --> 01:25:13,000
Exactly. They went after the scary black rifles that were used in something like point oh one percent of crimes.

953
01:25:13,000 --> 01:25:18,000
And unfortunately, they were only using the high profile things.

954
01:25:18,000 --> 01:25:30,000
So it's one of those things where they're going after the wrong people for the wrong reason and they're not handling it appropriately, not actually asking the officers and the people on the ground like, hey, what would actually help?

955
01:25:30,000 --> 01:25:35,000
So that's a big do nothing. So I consider that a fail.

956
01:25:35,000 --> 01:25:43,000
Absolutely not. This one was the overall number two one that I saw, which I was cackling at 10 a.m.

957
01:25:43,000 --> 01:25:48,000
this morning, laughing my ass off, saying that he this is somehow a win. It's not.

958
01:25:48,000 --> 01:25:52,000
They're saying that Biden ended if they can claim this as a win.

959
01:25:52,000 --> 01:25:55,000
That tells you how bad off that it was. Yeah.

960
01:25:55,000 --> 01:26:00,000
They were saying that he ended the longest war in American history by pulling the troops out of Afghanistan.

961
01:26:00,000 --> 01:26:08,000
Now, to understand the colossal failure of this, this is the same situation where we pulled out of Afghanistan.

962
01:26:08,000 --> 01:26:11,000
We did not have anything set up. No measure set up.

963
01:26:11,000 --> 01:26:16,000
We left well over what was it? Eighty billion dollars worth of military equipment there.

964
01:26:16,000 --> 01:26:19,000
Granted, it was a lot. I don't have granted a lot of it was outdated, but I don't care.

965
01:26:19,000 --> 01:26:23,000
That's still our stuff that we paid for our tax dollars and paid for that shit.

966
01:26:23,000 --> 01:26:27,000
It was left over there. The entire air base was completely overrun.

967
01:26:27,000 --> 01:26:31,000
There were American soldiers that were killed. There were American citizens that were lost.

968
01:26:31,000 --> 01:26:37,000
There were innocent people that were lost due to planes hitting them and debris and everything else and things going on.

969
01:26:37,000 --> 01:26:43,000
Those weapons and military vehicles and ammunition were used to kill people throughout the country, if not the world.

970
01:26:43,000 --> 01:26:49,000
So and they are now in the hands of the people we were fighting.

971
01:26:49,000 --> 01:26:54,000
Yeah, we have this insane history of the CIA and other other parts of the government funding our enemies.

972
01:26:54,000 --> 01:27:02,000
Well, guess what? That was the biggest transfer, one time transfer of any sort of funds or value to a non-American country

973
01:27:02,000 --> 01:27:10,000
outside of like a organized country like Israel, Ukraine, which we end up doing that shortly after, by the way, with Ukraine with a 200 billion.

974
01:27:10,000 --> 01:27:13,000
So I'm not entirely unconvinced that that wasn't planned.

975
01:27:13,000 --> 01:27:18,000
Say, hey, we'll just get out of the country. We'll give you all the stuff that's there. Just leave people alone.

976
01:27:18,000 --> 01:27:21,000
Well, what's interesting is that was previously planned by Trump.

977
01:27:21,000 --> 01:27:28,000
But that was one of the same administration and military that lied to him about us having missiles and troops in Afghanistan and Iraq beforehand.

978
01:27:28,000 --> 01:27:37,000
So because if anyone wants to look it up, our military leaders actually lied to Trump about our military presence in the Middle East at many points.

979
01:27:37,000 --> 01:27:45,000
And that's why during that missile crisis that happened during his first presidency, there was a lot of confusion when he said, oh, yeah, pull the troops out to do this and that.

980
01:27:45,000 --> 01:27:48,000
And they said, yep, they're all pulled out when they weren't. We left hundreds over there.

981
01:27:48,000 --> 01:28:05,000
So that same military, you know, Milley, I think is part of the part of the frickin problem lied to him about all this stuff. When they set this up, they were setting up to pull out of Afghanistan, which to be fair, I understand why it wasn't the right way of doing it regardless.

982
01:28:05,000 --> 01:28:10,000
But I do understand some point you got to shut it off the pot. It's like either we did something good or we did something bad.

983
01:28:10,000 --> 01:28:15,000
But either way, it's over. We're done with being the best force of the world.

984
01:28:15,000 --> 01:28:20,000
But to say this is Team America.

985
01:28:20,000 --> 01:28:26,000
And by the way, we did touch on some of the stuff in our previous episode. The government is lying to you.

986
01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:31,000
So if you haven't heard that one, go back and check that one. I highly recommend that one. That was a good one.

987
01:28:31,000 --> 01:28:36,000
That was a really good one. But yeah, to say that that's a win is absolutely not.

988
01:28:36,000 --> 01:28:39,000
I know. Absolutely not.

989
01:28:39,000 --> 01:28:45,000
The next point they're talking about was he supposedly cut child poverty in half of the American rescue plan.

990
01:28:45,000 --> 01:28:59,000
Now, if you I don't know how I was trying to look this up, how they were measuring or how they were saying that child poverty was cut in half.

991
01:28:59,000 --> 01:29:13,000
But I find very interesting that inflation has gone up so much under his presidency and food costs and everything else to where if you look at the results now, they're even worse than before when Biden started.

992
01:29:13,000 --> 01:29:17,000
So I don't know where people are getting that number from.

993
01:29:17,000 --> 01:29:21,000
But saying that he cut child poverty in half.

994
01:29:21,000 --> 01:29:30,000
Clearly, it didn't stick. Maybe it happened for a month or two months or six months or maybe when those 14 checks first came out during covid before all inflation hit.

995
01:29:30,000 --> 01:29:36,000
Sure. I'm sure there was a period of time where technically for that short period, it's oh, yeah, it was cut in half.

996
01:29:36,000 --> 01:29:40,000
Like, sure. But also not for nothing.

997
01:29:40,000 --> 01:29:43,000
Child poverty is a very subjective idea.

998
01:29:43,000 --> 01:29:52,000
The metrics are done. So I am always, always skeptical. What's up? Oh, yeah. Child poverty has gotten way worse, way better.

999
01:29:52,000 --> 01:30:00,000
It's like, well, how are you measuring it from everything I can see because of inflation going up without with wages being stagnant.

1000
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:09,000
There was a point, I am sure when those 14 or all checks, 14 hundred dollar checks came in to where, yes, there was a point of little blip where it was cut in half.

1001
01:30:09,000 --> 01:30:20,000
And then now with inflation is immediately it's crashed to get all the good that was done has been erased and then some by far.

1002
01:30:20,000 --> 01:30:30,000
The interesting thing here, the kept prescription drug price of two thousand dollars per year for seniors on Medicare through the Inflation Reduction Act.

1003
01:30:30,000 --> 01:30:34,000
I can tell you this right now from the personal experience of what I'm dealing with.

1004
01:30:34,000 --> 01:30:41,000
That's B.S. Because I take care of family members that are older that have had strokes and had issues.

1005
01:30:41,000 --> 01:30:49,000
I will tell you this right now. When you're spending three or four hundred dollars a month of medication and they say they capped it, that's a fucking lie.

1006
01:30:49,000 --> 01:30:54,000
Absolutely not. No, they might have put it in policy, but there's no enforcement on it.

1007
01:30:54,000 --> 01:31:00,000
So I have no clue. I try to look it up. I have no clue. That's actually helping people or not.

1008
01:31:00,000 --> 01:31:05,000
Because it's one thing to write a bill. But if it's not enforced, it doesn't mean anything.

1009
01:31:05,000 --> 01:31:15,000
Have you ever questioned the insurance companies or the drug, the the drug dispensaries that you're getting the pills like, hey, look, I've already paid X dollars.

1010
01:31:15,000 --> 01:31:24,000
Why am I still paying for this? It's I thought this was what I was able to do was thankfully we were able to switch her after the first year to a different medication.

1011
01:31:24,000 --> 01:31:31,000
That was a third the cost. But what that meant was we never really hit our deductible. So we're paying less.

1012
01:31:31,000 --> 01:31:38,000
It's like half as much. But we're still under that deductible because she's in her 80s.

1013
01:31:38,000 --> 01:31:45,000
So, I mean, it's not like she has a lot of money. So it's that again, that American prescription problem of like, oh, yeah, it's only two hundred dollars a month.

1014
01:31:45,000 --> 01:31:50,000
It's like, well, yeah, but when they've got five or six or eight pills, you're kind of fucked.

1015
01:31:50,000 --> 01:31:59,000
Yeah. So achieving historically low unemployment rates after the pandemic caused the unemployment rates to skyrocket.

1016
01:31:59,000 --> 01:32:11,000
My question on that, though, is how many of those jobs that you were saying that they were saying were created or actually just the jobs that went away coming back and getting refilled.

1017
01:32:11,000 --> 01:32:19,000
It's easy to say, oh, look, I made fifty thousand jobs last month when the month before fifty thousand jobs went away.

1018
01:32:19,000 --> 01:32:27,000
Well, this goes hand in hand with item 10 because item 10 on that list item is that he supposedly created jobs in one year.

1019
01:32:27,000 --> 01:32:31,000
Six point six million than any other president in U.S. history.

1020
01:32:31,000 --> 01:32:36,000
Number one, the president is not responsible for creating jobs.

1021
01:32:36,000 --> 01:32:41,000
Most of those jobs hopefully are in the private sector, not in the public sector with the government.

1022
01:32:41,000 --> 01:32:46,000
Those jobs are not created. You are 100 percent right. They were coming back from jobs that are previously existed.

1023
01:32:46,000 --> 01:32:50,000
I will 100 percent agree with that, especially one of the biggest metrics to look at.

1024
01:32:50,000 --> 01:32:58,000
If you look on indeed and look at the metrics for the same jobs before and after, it is eerily close for most sectors.

1025
01:32:58,000 --> 01:33:02,000
Now, obviously, we've just government did get bigger, though.

1026
01:33:02,000 --> 01:33:07,000
Government jobs did get much as a problem is the private sector.

1027
01:33:07,000 --> 01:33:10,000
Most of those jobs came back, but it shrunk.

1028
01:33:10,000 --> 01:33:18,000
Whereas the public sector, the government hired so many more people in so many different ways because they were getting more funding.

1029
01:33:18,000 --> 01:33:22,000
So it's an unfortunate issue if you say, oh, he created all these jobs.

1030
01:33:22,000 --> 01:33:29,000
No, you didn't. Because if you look at before covid and then after, we are still in a job shortage.

1031
01:33:29,000 --> 01:33:33,000
Look at how many people that are getting jobs.

1032
01:33:33,000 --> 01:33:37,000
We had a really weird job situation pre covid.

1033
01:33:37,000 --> 01:33:43,000
We had job openings that couldn't be filled because we had a skills deficit.

1034
01:33:43,000 --> 01:33:46,000
And we still do, to be fair.

1035
01:33:46,000 --> 01:33:52,000
A lot of those job postings either are stagnant or have gone away because they just couldn't be filled.

1036
01:33:52,000 --> 01:34:02,000
Absolutely. So, by the way, if you're younger and listening to this, look into a jobs, engineering jobs, trade type jobs.

1037
01:34:02,000 --> 01:34:03,000
Don't worry about your college degree jobs.

1038
01:34:03,000 --> 01:34:11,000
Those are probably going to go away because they can be replaced by a I get your hands on jobs and get the training and the skills to be relevant for a while.

1039
01:34:11,000 --> 01:34:18,000
I as someone that can speak to this as somebody that did go to college for an academic job and then switch to something more hands on.

1040
01:34:18,000 --> 01:34:25,000
It is amazing. The opportunities you will find any more blue collar type environment is incredible.

1041
01:34:25,000 --> 01:34:31,000
The life work balance you might have that you might not think that you would have.

1042
01:34:31,000 --> 01:34:37,000
So I would say give it a shot. Try out a few different things, but don't think that college is your only answer.

1043
01:34:37,000 --> 01:34:41,000
And also not for nothing. Adjust your lifestyle and expect accordingly.

1044
01:34:41,000 --> 01:34:45,000
Aim to have an average lifestyle with with a good family, good people around you.

1045
01:34:45,000 --> 01:34:49,000
You'll be far happier than trying to chase only the money.

1046
01:34:49,000 --> 01:34:52,000
Yeah. And be realistic as well.

1047
01:34:52,000 --> 01:35:00,000
When you come out of college, if you go to college, you're not going to be making six figures like comfortably for many, many years.

1048
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:09,000
You go to trade school, you're not going to have the debt that you would have going to college, but you're also going to have shit jobs for the first year or two.

1049
01:35:09,000 --> 01:35:12,000
But then you'll get into some better money and you won't have the debt to worry about.

1050
01:35:12,000 --> 01:35:25,000
So you'll be making better. You'll come out further ahead because even though comparatively speaking, a trade person versus a college person, you go after a couple of years.

1051
01:35:25,000 --> 01:35:37,000
You're making maybe the same money, but you don't have those student loans to pay off because your trade school only cost eight thousand dollars versus the college degree that cost eighty thousand dollars.

1052
01:35:37,000 --> 01:35:41,000
And now you have to pay it back and you're only making sixty thousand dollars a year.

1053
01:35:41,000 --> 01:35:47,000
So you're further ahead. Oh, yeah. Just type, type, read micro level.

1054
01:35:47,000 --> 01:35:52,000
Absolutely. My micro works. Great, great site. Great program. If you're younger, get tied up in that shit.

1055
01:35:52,000 --> 01:36:01,000
Oh, yeah. And I would say if you really want to go to college, the best the best combo you can have, get a business degree and then go after a trade because then you can open up your own company.

1056
01:36:01,000 --> 01:36:06,000
And that's how you make the real money in this world.

1057
01:36:06,000 --> 01:36:14,000
Absolutely. Anyways, so there also what was spoken about with Biden was this is something I find very contentious.

1058
01:36:14,000 --> 01:36:25,000
I'm very curious about it. He imposed a 50 percent minimum corporate tax on some of the largest corporations in the country, ensuring that they pay their fair share as part of the historic inflation reduction act.

1059
01:36:25,000 --> 01:36:35,000
Now. Why do I not believe this? Because I distinctly remember under Biden. Seeing right there is why.

1060
01:36:35,000 --> 01:36:48,000
My little yes, I'm getting to that in just a second. But why do I not believe that when I distinctly remember during his entire presidency hearing millions of millennials and Gen Z are saying, you know, tax the rich.

1061
01:36:48,000 --> 01:36:55,000
They need to be tax these corporations to be taxed. They need to pay their fair share. Well, supposedly he did it.

1062
01:36:55,000 --> 01:37:02,000
But with our tax system, the way it is, they always have a way around it. They have teams of lawyers that can find ways around this.

1063
01:37:02,000 --> 01:37:08,000
And I would agree with you. They did not do enough to limit the write offs they got along and still get away with paying basically nothing.

1064
01:37:08,000 --> 01:37:23,000
You're 100 percent right. Yeah. It's the problem of every single president does something to appease people without fixing the inherent basic problem of the tax system, which is is a system designed by lawyers to benefit lawyers.

1065
01:37:23,000 --> 01:37:29,000
If you don't have teams of lawyers to write your tax for you, for your company, you're never going to get ahead.

1066
01:37:29,000 --> 01:37:42,000
Whereas if you're a company like Microsoft or Pepsi or Amazon or whatever, you hire not just tens, not just hundreds, but thousands of lawyers, but their ideas to save you every penny to justify their existence.

1067
01:37:42,000 --> 01:37:49,000
So they work to justify their own existence by saving you money. You'll never beat them. They're always going to be better than you know.

1068
01:37:49,000 --> 01:37:52,000
That's the problem with our tax system.

1069
01:37:52,000 --> 01:38:00,000
So basically, well, Joe Biden said he did something I have not seen any ounce of evidence that it actually helped anybody.

1070
01:38:00,000 --> 01:38:05,000
Well, I believe he did do something. I just think that it was a half measure.

1071
01:38:05,000 --> 01:38:10,000
He didn't do the second half that needed to be done with it to actually make it, you know, matter.

1072
01:38:10,000 --> 01:38:13,000
I agree with you. 100 percent. So.

1073
01:38:13,000 --> 01:38:26,000
Giving Medicare the power to negotiate prescription drug prices through the Inflation Reduction Act while also reducing government health spending.

1074
01:38:26,000 --> 01:38:31,000
If you reduce spending, how do we add four to five trillion dollars of debt through his presidency?

1075
01:38:31,000 --> 01:38:34,000
Like, yeah, that was.

1076
01:38:34,000 --> 01:38:44,000
That was a thing. Also, Medicare, the power to negotiate prescription drug prices. I deal with that literally every day for the people I take care of. No, they don't.

1077
01:38:44,000 --> 01:38:48,000
If if they negotiate, they negotiate the wrong way.

1078
01:38:48,000 --> 01:38:53,000
They've negotiated to make more money than negotiate. So you're paying more. Yeah, which is ridiculous.

1079
01:38:53,000 --> 01:38:55,000
Yeah.

1080
01:38:55,000 --> 01:39:10,000
Holding Vladimir Putin accountable for his invasion of Ukraine by imposing stiff economic sanctions, which did literally nothing to stop the war and continue to fund Ukraine to the tune of almost a half of a trillion dollars in money and equipment.

1081
01:39:10,000 --> 01:39:16,000
So we talked about this in the last episode, actually.

1082
01:39:16,000 --> 01:39:26,000
But what scares me is they think this is somehow a win by saying, oh, yeah, we're just going to put strong sanctions on you. You're not going to do anything.

1083
01:39:26,000 --> 01:39:30,000
Really? You think that matters to someone like him? And also not for nothing.

1084
01:39:30,000 --> 01:39:37,000
You would rather trade and say, hey, we're going to put in tariffs rather than, I don't know, stopping a war that literally fucking kills people.

1085
01:39:37,000 --> 01:39:39,000
You think that's more important?

1086
01:39:39,000 --> 01:39:46,000
Gibbs, that that was an administration that literally went, you did a bad thing.

1087
01:39:46,000 --> 01:39:49,000
We're going to make you pay more money.

1088
01:39:49,000 --> 01:39:56,000
Oh, hey, here's here's the money for the oil that we needed.

1089
01:39:56,000 --> 01:39:58,000
And you know what's great?

1090
01:39:58,000 --> 01:40:04,000
A lot of Europe still gets their oil from Russia still, you know, and natural gas or gas.

1091
01:40:04,000 --> 01:40:12,000
They didn't change a goddamn he's got them completely by the balls on natural gas because they refuse to be energy independent.

1092
01:40:12,000 --> 01:40:14,000
And that's their own problem. They won't drill.

1093
01:40:14,000 --> 01:40:19,000
They won't install green backup supplies.

1094
01:40:19,000 --> 01:40:22,000
They I don't know.

1095
01:40:22,000 --> 01:40:25,000
I can't solve your power issues.

1096
01:40:25,000 --> 01:40:27,000
Maybe they should install the modular reactors. I don't know.

1097
01:40:27,000 --> 01:40:31,000
That's what I've been saying. If it's out there.

1098
01:40:31,000 --> 01:40:38,000
But no, the boosted I was just at the handling of the handling of the Russian-Ukrainian War was such a big loss for Biden.

1099
01:40:38,000 --> 01:40:41,000
He did not show any strength. He did not show any unity.

1100
01:40:41,000 --> 01:40:46,000
He either had two options, either one bring Ukraine into the fold and bring him as as NATO country.

1101
01:40:46,000 --> 01:40:56,000
But what that would have meant is they would have been under NATO scrutiny and our laws about corruption, which Ukraine was already under investigation for or option to you tell them, hey, they're not a NATO ally.

1102
01:40:56,000 --> 01:41:00,000
We're going to let them be with them. Let it happen and get out of the way.

1103
01:41:00,000 --> 01:41:03,000
It's either not your business or it is you got to pick one.

1104
01:41:03,000 --> 01:41:10,000
But you can't keep giving money and resources and people away for absolutely zero benefit to this country.

1105
01:41:10,000 --> 01:41:16,000
Absolutely not. Yeah, he didn't want the corruption investigations going on because of his son's involvement.

1106
01:41:16,000 --> 01:41:19,000
He and his sons of that would have pointed back to him.

1107
01:41:19,000 --> 01:41:22,000
Oh, yeah. 100 percent. And a lot of that came to light, too.

1108
01:41:22,000 --> 01:41:51,000
That's that's the bad part. But boasting the budget of the IRS by nearly 80 billion dollars to reduce tax evasion and increased revenue, which was then spent on the salaries of those agents and did not yield a significant enough return, also caused audits on regular Americans who had never been audited for good reason and caused more erroneous filing errors on taxes than ever recorded for the tax years of 2022 and 2020.

1109
01:41:51,000 --> 01:42:05,000
During those tax years, more tax records got flagged erroneously and people got sent notices saying their taxes were wrong and they owed when they actually did not.

1110
01:42:05,000 --> 01:42:10,000
Yay, government efficiency. Not only that.

1111
01:42:10,000 --> 01:42:17,000
It's the problem of their justify saying, oh, yeah, we see we gained 80 billion dollars in revenue.

1112
01:42:17,000 --> 01:42:30,000
When they pissed away trillions in wasted spending, it's the government saying, I'm not stealing from you when imagine this.

1113
01:42:30,000 --> 01:42:34,000
Imagine you got a pizza from the government and the government said, I gave you a pizza.

1114
01:42:34,000 --> 01:42:37,000
But really, you get a tiny little sliver slice.

1115
01:42:37,000 --> 01:42:40,000
They said, oh, yeah, there's our 80 billion dollars.

1116
01:42:40,000 --> 01:42:47,000
Meanwhile, as Trump and Elon Musk are finding out, oh, yeah, the government wasted four point seven trillion dollars over the last four or five years.

1117
01:42:47,000 --> 01:42:54,000
Like, oh, boy, we got 80 billion as we lost four point seven trillion just just to nothing to military spending and everything else.

1118
01:42:54,000 --> 01:42:58,000
No, it's not a win. It's again another loss.

1119
01:42:58,000 --> 01:43:02,000
You are trying to extort money from Americans, the average Americans like you and I.

1120
01:43:02,000 --> 01:43:06,000
I'm sure like most of the listeners are who are just trying to get by.

1121
01:43:06,000 --> 01:43:08,000
We're not gaming the system or not taking advantage of the system.

1122
01:43:08,000 --> 01:43:12,000
We're not doing anything else. We're just trying to do what we can.

1123
01:43:12,000 --> 01:43:23,000
But it's insane. It's not a win. You think it's a win, but it's not right.

1124
01:43:23,000 --> 01:43:28,000
We already talked about the job creation things, and I think we can kind of gloss over that.

1125
01:43:28,000 --> 01:43:34,000
Reducing the health care premiums under the Affordable Care Act by eight hundred dollars a year as part of the American Rescue Plan.

1126
01:43:34,000 --> 01:43:39,000
I don't know whose premiums got reduced. Mine went up every year since then.

1127
01:43:39,000 --> 01:43:45,000
You know, I am not paying less than ever before.

1128
01:43:45,000 --> 01:43:49,000
Period. I don't know who is to give an idea.

1129
01:43:49,000 --> 01:43:55,000
That's until my recent switch. I was paying over eight hundred dollars a month.

1130
01:43:55,000 --> 01:43:59,000
Yep, I was literally paying more than a car payment to get insurance that did nothing for me.

1131
01:43:59,000 --> 01:44:08,000
Jesus. Now, I'll say I'm lucky to have a job where they're actually paying a very significant portion of my health care premium.

1132
01:44:08,000 --> 01:44:14,000
That's a very big perk of the job. If I did not have that, I would not have.

1133
01:44:14,000 --> 01:44:22,000
And the insurance is still not that great. I'm still on like the high deductible type plan, I believe.

1134
01:44:22,000 --> 01:44:31,000
Which if. If you're in good health, you do not need a fancy medical plan.

1135
01:44:31,000 --> 01:44:36,000
A high deductible plan with a health savings account is realistically all you need.

1136
01:44:36,000 --> 01:44:42,000
If you don't have a bunch of meds that you need and you're not on like a bunch of maintenance medication.

1137
01:44:42,000 --> 01:44:51,000
You just need the occasional doctor visit covered emergency accident type level shit.

1138
01:44:51,000 --> 01:44:56,000
That's really all you need for the first probably 40 to 50 years of your life.

1139
01:44:56,000 --> 01:45:01,000
The health the health savings account, not the flex spending account, because that goes away.

1140
01:45:01,000 --> 01:45:10,000
Health savings account. Those are great because they roll over and they turn into accounts that can be invested into and eventually borrowed against.

1141
01:45:10,000 --> 01:45:19,000
I didn't know that. If those are started younger for people or earlier for people, they're actually really, really good to do.

1142
01:45:19,000 --> 01:45:22,000
If it's your money. You get the benefit of it.

1143
01:45:22,000 --> 01:45:27,000
So the problem is that assumes you're going to keep the same employer for a long period of time because many employers.

1144
01:45:27,000 --> 01:45:33,000
That's the issue. You cannot take the HSA with you when you lose when you change jobs.

1145
01:45:33,000 --> 01:45:42,000
So over in Europe, what they do is they essentially have an HSA tied to your social that works like Social Security.

1146
01:45:42,000 --> 01:45:51,000
And when you turn 18, you choose like a general pool of doctors. Or if you have like a specialist that you want to choose, you choose them.

1147
01:45:51,000 --> 01:45:55,000
The money goes in. And then when you go in, you don't have to pay anything out of pocket.

1148
01:45:55,000 --> 01:46:00,000
You just say, hey, I'm here for X, Y, Z reason. And they pull from that account.

1149
01:46:00,000 --> 01:46:04,000
OK, I didn't know that. It is literally that simple.

1150
01:46:04,000 --> 01:46:10,000
It's not a hard system to implement, but less people in government will get money into their pockets.

1151
01:46:10,000 --> 01:46:14,000
And that's why we won't do it. And corporations will make it would help the American people.

1152
01:46:14,000 --> 01:46:20,000
So that's why we won't do it. And unfortunately, that means corporations will make less money and hospitals.

1153
01:46:20,000 --> 01:46:24,000
Exactly. Hospitals make a ton of money out of being able to overcharge you.

1154
01:46:24,000 --> 01:46:28,000
And people not fighting the bill. That's the one biggest device. Get your bill itemized.

1155
01:46:28,000 --> 01:46:35,000
Request an itemized bill if you're ever in the hospital. And also medical bills not be counted against your.

1156
01:46:35,000 --> 01:46:41,000
Yeah, your credit anymore. So medical debt and I think student loans are even being counted differently now.

1157
01:46:41,000 --> 01:46:46,000
So if you have to just tell them to f off and give them 50 bucks a month or 20 bucks a month or whatever, do that payment plan.

1158
01:46:46,000 --> 01:46:51,000
Nothing they could do about it. Yep. Also on the back of your bills from the hospitals and doctors,

1159
01:46:51,000 --> 01:46:56,000
there's a thing to fill out to get your bill reduced. Fill it out regardless of your financial situation.

1160
01:46:56,000 --> 01:47:01,000
Just do it. They might knock off 10 percent. They might knock off 20. They might knock off half.

1161
01:47:01,000 --> 01:47:03,000
They might not knock off anything, but it's worth trying.

1162
01:47:03,000 --> 01:47:08,000
Yeah, but from what I know, a lot of hospitals, they get their like yearly budget to give out that kind of stuff for free.

1163
01:47:08,000 --> 01:47:12,000
Schedule if you can't schedule big surgeries at the beginning of the year.

1164
01:47:12,000 --> 01:47:17,000
Because I'm like, I give you money, but if you wait till like Christmas, they don't have anything in the budget that's been gone since June.

1165
01:47:17,000 --> 01:47:21,000
Nope, it's gone. Yep. And it's gone.

1166
01:47:21,000 --> 01:47:25,000
All right, we have your money invested here and it's gone.

1167
01:47:25,000 --> 01:47:29,000
What are the what are the best self-serve jokes? Oh, God, yes.

1168
01:47:29,000 --> 01:47:33,000
That one in the World Warcraft episode and the medicinal KFC episode.

1169
01:47:33,000 --> 01:47:39,000
It's it's I'm not like a huge South Park fan, but it's probably my favorite episode just because Cartman's fucking ridiculous.

1170
01:47:39,000 --> 01:47:46,000
Yes. And and the dad, Stan or is it?

1171
01:47:46,000 --> 01:47:51,000
No, what's the dad's name? Stan is the characters whose daddy is.

1172
01:47:51,000 --> 01:47:55,000
Oh, I forget. I totally forget.

1173
01:47:55,000 --> 01:47:59,000
Yeah, I really don't watch South Park that much. Me either.

1174
01:47:59,000 --> 01:48:04,000
But you guys all know who we're talking about. Someone just killed it at their cars.

1175
01:48:04,000 --> 01:48:18,000
Gosh, right. But anyway, so I think in conclusion, what we can understand about Joe's presidency, Joe Biden's presidency between the failed for he was not in charge.

1176
01:48:18,000 --> 01:48:25,000
Well, this that kind of becomes a second half of where it was kind of a week in a Bernie situation where he really wasn't in charge.

1177
01:48:25,000 --> 01:48:28,000
You're absolutely right. He had more failures and successes.

1178
01:48:28,000 --> 01:48:33,000
I have a hard time finding anything that he actually succeeded with that's going to benefit us long term.

1179
01:48:33,000 --> 01:48:42,000
I have a hard time finding any anything that's going to put Americans in a better situation, whether it be a year after his presidency, 10 years, 100 years.

1180
01:48:42,000 --> 01:48:45,000
He's not somebody that was respected on the international stage.

1181
01:48:45,000 --> 01:49:01,000
He was constantly falling asleep at big meetings. His son was getting away with literally committing mass crimes, you know, drugs, alcohol, you know, distribution of firearms or was it illegal disposal of a firearm as well as his possession.

1182
01:49:01,000 --> 01:49:02,000
Illegal possession.

1183
01:49:02,000 --> 01:49:04,000
He was disposed of it too.

1184
01:49:04,000 --> 01:49:07,000
I don't know if he got rid of one, but I know he got one and lied on the form to get.

1185
01:49:07,000 --> 01:49:08,000
That's true too.

1186
01:49:08,000 --> 01:49:17,000
As well as, you know, just doing such a long list of things besides accepting money from other countries and other governments.

1187
01:49:17,000 --> 01:49:20,000
And it's just the more you look into it, the list goes on and on.

1188
01:49:20,000 --> 01:49:29,000
Whereas Trump sure he has his controversies, but I will say at least he keeps his promises for the most part and generally does things that will benefit most people.

1189
01:49:29,000 --> 01:49:34,000
Yes, he could be a bit crass and his first presidency, especially said a lot of stupid shit.

1190
01:49:34,000 --> 01:49:38,000
And that was part of one of my issues with him is his first his first presidency.

1191
01:49:38,000 --> 01:49:44,000
He didn't uphold his promises and he said a lot of stupid shit or it seems like he's learned from that.

1192
01:49:44,000 --> 01:49:53,000
If he would have served kind of behind the curtain, stayed off of Twitter and just kept his mouth shut.

1193
01:49:53,000 --> 01:49:59,000
I think he would have been a far more successful president and at least a less hated president.

1194
01:49:59,000 --> 01:50:04,000
But I will say having Mike Pence as his vice president didn't help him at all.

1195
01:50:04,000 --> 01:50:06,000
Mike Pence at all stabbed him in the back.

1196
01:50:06,000 --> 01:50:12,000
Whereas I would also argue for Joe Biden, Kamala Harris was absolutely fucking useless as a vice president.

1197
01:50:12,000 --> 01:50:15,000
She did nothing to help him.

1198
01:50:15,000 --> 01:50:19,000
She was supposed to be the borders are she's supposed to be in charge of the border.

1199
01:50:19,000 --> 01:50:20,000
She never even went to the border.

1200
01:50:20,000 --> 01:50:23,000
She did not do a goddamn thing to help.

1201
01:50:23,000 --> 01:50:31,000
And I will say I think the the benefit to all this is Trump's second term, you notice how he's not going online saying stupid shit.

1202
01:50:31,000 --> 01:50:33,000
And I have to have credit.

1203
01:50:33,000 --> 01:50:40,000
I do think JD Vance is arguably one of the best people in politics I've ever seen.

1204
01:50:40,000 --> 01:50:42,000
Yeah, he does not pull punches.

1205
01:50:42,000 --> 01:50:45,000
I think give him four years to mature.

1206
01:50:45,000 --> 01:50:49,000
And I think he actually might stand a pretty reasonable shot at being a.

1207
01:50:49,000 --> 01:50:51,000
Maybe has a good chance of being.

1208
01:50:51,000 --> 01:50:53,000
I think he could.

1209
01:50:53,000 --> 01:50:57,000
It's one of the only people that comes from a background that's like normal people.

1210
01:50:57,000 --> 01:50:59,000
And it's come from some rich background.

1211
01:50:59,000 --> 01:51:01,000
I think he'll be a likable candidate.

1212
01:51:01,000 --> 01:51:03,000
Oh, I absolutely think so.

1213
01:51:03,000 --> 01:51:09,000
So I and I guess at some point from what we've seen from Trump so far, he is keeping his promises.

1214
01:51:09,000 --> 01:51:10,000
He is investigating stuff.

1215
01:51:10,000 --> 01:51:18,000
And as it is, as I saw earlier this morning, when Cash Patel on Friday got appointed to FBI director, they are active.

1216
01:51:18,000 --> 01:51:28,000
He's actively going after the previous administration for the crimes that were committed, that they that they know, not to mention their investigating, grabbing servers, doing everything.

1217
01:51:28,000 --> 01:51:31,000
So you find it very interesting.

1218
01:51:31,000 --> 01:51:39,000
As we spoke about in the last podcast, when people in D.C. are trying to find lawyers trying to sell their houses, move out of countries, they're searching up countries without extradition treaties.

1219
01:51:39,000 --> 01:51:41,000
You know, bad shit went down.

1220
01:51:41,000 --> 01:51:46,000
So hopefully maybe this time during the swamp is actually a real thing.

1221
01:51:46,000 --> 01:51:50,000
But I hope he actually drains both sides of the swamp, not just one.

1222
01:51:50,000 --> 01:51:52,000
Yeah, not just one. Got to keep it fair.

1223
01:51:52,000 --> 01:51:57,000
Got to get get rid of all the bad eggs, not just some because there are bad eggs on both sides.

1224
01:51:57,000 --> 01:52:00,000
Let me tell you. Yep.

1225
01:52:00,000 --> 01:52:05,000
All right. And I guess the so I think that's pretty much all we had to cover.

1226
01:52:05,000 --> 01:52:13,000
Yeah. What I was going to say is if you guys are curious about any of our references here, I do have the references I'll be posting in the discord.

1227
01:52:13,000 --> 01:52:15,000
I just listed off really, really quick.

1228
01:52:15,000 --> 01:52:23,000
I'm pulling from the Trump White House archives for Donald Trump, as well as Donald Donald Trump dot com slash platform as well for Joe Biden.

1229
01:52:23,000 --> 01:52:34,000
For what I could find it is it's a website from its link from PolitiFact from the truth of media from Biden's promises, as well as from Candem's dot or Joe Biden's greatest accomplishments as president of the United States.

1230
01:52:34,000 --> 01:52:37,000
This is obviously just a cursory thing.

1231
01:52:37,000 --> 01:52:45,000
But that's from what I could gather from about four to six hours of research and looking everything up.

1232
01:52:45,000 --> 01:52:49,000
Join the join the discord.

1233
01:52:49,000 --> 01:52:52,000
Find all the stuff that we post in there.

1234
01:52:52,000 --> 01:52:56,000
It gets weird. It gets fun. It gets trying to make it.

1235
01:52:56,000 --> 01:52:58,000
Don't worry. It's weird. You're there. It's weird.

1236
01:52:58,000 --> 01:53:02,000
But I know I welcome the people in the comments at home.

1237
01:53:02,000 --> 01:53:08,000
Anybody else join the discord? And if you disagree with something that we have said or want to agree with it or let us know, please join.

1238
01:53:08,000 --> 01:53:12,000
I love political discussions and things like that.

1239
01:53:12,000 --> 01:53:17,000
So you are more than welcome to come question us, comment, let us know, interact with us.

1240
01:53:17,000 --> 01:53:20,000
I'm going to come.

1241
01:53:20,000 --> 01:53:23,000
I hope to God not right now. That's not my job.

1242
01:53:23,000 --> 01:53:26,000
I was going to say I was going to say.

1243
01:53:26,000 --> 01:53:29,000
But but seriously, join us over there.

1244
01:53:29,000 --> 01:53:32,000
Please follow us on all of our socials.

1245
01:53:32,000 --> 01:53:36,000
Interaction is a huge thing and we really appreciate all the listeners we've had and all the interaction.

1246
01:53:36,000 --> 01:53:38,000
It's been going really well.

1247
01:53:38,000 --> 01:53:47,000
And we're so happy to now bring you bring this to you in a video format and let us know if there's any problems or issues or concerns and it kinks that we can work out here because we're.

1248
01:53:47,000 --> 01:53:52,000
I like kinks. You are a kink. But I am a kink.

1249
01:53:52,000 --> 01:53:55,000
I'm sorry. Just the way you said that.

1250
01:53:55,000 --> 01:53:57,000
You said that way too happy.

1251
01:53:57,000 --> 01:53:59,000
Besides the point. So, yeah, just let us know.

1252
01:53:59,000 --> 01:54:04,000
We've been more than happy to make some edits and some changes.

1253
01:54:04,000 --> 01:54:08,000
Oh, yeah. And I think is that really about it? Is that all?

1254
01:54:08,000 --> 01:54:12,000
Yeah, I didn't have anything else to add and just hit us up on the socials.

1255
01:54:12,000 --> 01:54:14,000
Join him where you can.

1256
01:54:14,000 --> 01:54:20,000
We're happy to know that you're yelling at your car's dashboard or your computer.

1257
01:54:20,000 --> 01:54:25,000
But yeah, we'd love to have some more interactions and keep the other ideas coming.

1258
01:54:25,000 --> 01:54:30,000
But I think outside of that, we'll we'll just see you back here next week.

1259
01:54:55,000 --> 01:54:57,000
Thank you.