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Cliff Notes: Is Democracy Overrated? · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 3: I want to ask you know, when a political climate
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  Speaker 3: that's you know, very turbulent right now, to say the least,
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  Speaker 3: and it is an election coming up next year, So
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  Speaker 3: is democracy overrated?
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  Speaker 4: Yes? Well, we don't live in a democratic state. We
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  Speaker 4: live in republic.
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  Speaker 3: Well, is the concept of democracy over is American?
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  Speaker 5: Oh? Yeah, democracy overrated. Yes, it's overrated. The trickle down
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  Speaker 5: effect is overrated. It's never worked well for us specifically,
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  Speaker 5: it's never worked well. But I think the concept of
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  Speaker 5: democracy is a noble one, but one does not have
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  Speaker 5: been executed well and it's never been favorable. We wouldn't
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  Speaker 5: have a lot of the injustices that we have. And
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  Speaker 5: like we've said before, a lot of the issues that
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  Speaker 5: White America is still in right now, with the opioid epidemic,
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  Speaker 5: crime going up, the issues in San Francisco, pay being
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  Speaker 5: lower than ever, that stuff we've been going through the
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  Speaker 5: last hundred years. It's now just on the doorstep. If
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  Speaker 5: democracy worked, we wouldn't have some of these issues. So, yes,
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  Speaker 5: democracy is overrated, and it's never really worked for us anyway.
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  Speaker 6: For sure.
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  Speaker 3: I think democracy is it's overrated. For sure, it's overrated
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  Speaker 3: for vari different things. As you said, is it's really
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  Speaker 3: not set. It's not the idea of everybody has equal
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  Speaker 3: power and we can. Yeah, it's a good idea in theory,
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  Speaker 3: but that's not the case right which you have more
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  Speaker 3: power lobbyists control the government.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you can control.
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  Speaker 3: TV, so nobody really has there's no equal power shared.
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  Speaker 3: So that's kind of like a myth. And I feel
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  Speaker 3: that this idea of democracy is a European idea that
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  Speaker 3: has been posterized by America and shipped and forced all
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  Speaker 3: over the world. Once again, it's a lot of different
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  Speaker 3: things that American culture has normalized, and we think that
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  Speaker 3: anybody that does anything separate from that is uncivilized or
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  Speaker 3: not you know, modern society. But somebody like I was
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  Speaker 3: throken before and it was just like even if you
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  Speaker 3: look at Africa, democracy is not something that's native to
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  Speaker 3: Africa's kingdoms monarchies, right, And it was like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: when the West came and they actually purposely destroyed the
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  Speaker 3: monarchies and forced a system of democracy or on African nations,
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  Speaker 3: but that was really just to you know, break down
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  Speaker 3: a power structure and to make sure that the European
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  Speaker 3: countries in America maintained control in Africa, right, because they
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  Speaker 3: could prop up corrupt leaders and they could have cools
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  Speaker 3: and they can kind of replace whoever they did. They
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  Speaker 3: felt wasn't going to you know, be best for their interest,
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  Speaker 3: so they systematically, uh deepowered the kings and kingdoms and
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  Speaker 3: they empowered a system of democracy, but that hasn't worked
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  Speaker 3: for any country in Africa for the most part. So
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  Speaker 3: and then you look at other countries, like I said,
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  Speaker 3: we'll talk about the power ranking, but you look at
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  Speaker 3: countries like the UAE, and you know, we have a
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  Speaker 3: monarchy in place and it's working. So you know, it's like, okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know, if you have absolute power, that's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: that's gonna be extremely dangerous if somebody is a bad leader,
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  Speaker 3: but nobody's ever talked about what if they're a good leader,
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  Speaker 3: then it's actually beneficial, right, because like you can't get
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  Speaker 3: anything done in a system where you just constantly have
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  Speaker 3: to fight amongst each other and then somebody has to
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  Speaker 3: pay you, and then you can't say what you really
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  Speaker 3: want to say because if you say what you want
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  Speaker 3: to say, then the lobbyists are gonna run ads against
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  Speaker 3: you and cancel you. And so now you're kind of
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  Speaker 3: beholding to whoever has the most money. And so it's
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  Speaker 3: like in that system, we might as well just not
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  Speaker 3: even have politicians, just have the businessman. It's like, just
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  Speaker 3: have a race whoever has the most money, just run
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  Speaker 3: the country. Yeah, that's what That's what it is now anyway,
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  Speaker 3: So just have like a small table of the of
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  Speaker 3: the richest people in America and in the world and
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  Speaker 3: just have them run the country, because that's already what's
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  Speaker 3: currently happening right with the gaze of that the people
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  Speaker 3: elect free elections and it's really not even electoral college
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  Speaker 3: it actually.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like, you know, it's so many different things.
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  Speaker 3: And once again, it's I think it's important just to
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  Speaker 3: kind of have these conversations because I just feel like
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  Speaker 3: a lot of times we are we live in a
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  Speaker 3: bubble in America, and once again we think our way
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  Speaker 3: is the only way and it's really not, and that
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  Speaker 3: that leads to us trying to force our culture and
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  Speaker 3: force what we have or actually what's been forced on
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  Speaker 3: us to other people. And you know, I think it's
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  Speaker 3: just it's important to maintain open mind and not be
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  Speaker 3: so quick to criticize things, especially things that we don't
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  Speaker 3: fully understand, especially if our country is broken mm hm.
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  Speaker 5: Behind we can, like you said, we can argue the
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  Speaker 5: hedge funds, banks and farmer runs the country right now,
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  Speaker 5: it's just a veneer of democracy and elections, but they
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  Speaker 5: really run a table, like when you have people who
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  Speaker 5: are afraid that In an interview with Carrie's mom, like,
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  Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
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  Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy Noman, the United States
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: are here illegally, your next you will be fined nearly
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned, and deported. You will
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: never return. But if you register using our CBP home
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  Speaker 1: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.
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  Speaker 1: Do what's right. Leave now. Under President Trump, America's laws,
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  Speaker 2: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security.
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  Speaker 3: Not looking good for America, and it's it's becoming more
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  Speaker 3: and more obvious. And you know, from political leadership, to
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  Speaker 3: corruption to a variety of different things. And I think
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  Speaker 3: social media has provided a platform for more and more
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  Speaker 3: people to see different things outside of just traditional media.
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  Speaker 3: And now you can see how how biased and and
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  Speaker 3: how corrupt traditional media is too. So this is a
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  Speaker 3: very you know, interesting time in world history. It's a
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  Speaker 3: very embarrassing time for America for a variety of different reasons.
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  Speaker 3: And it's it's it's falling apart, be honest with you,
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  Speaker 3: it's definitely falling apart because the infrastructure is literally falling apart.
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  Speaker 3: Our respect in the world is decaying, our influence is decaying.
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  Speaker 3: And it's only so long that you can rely on
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  Speaker 3: on your military might and your power when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to monetary money, because we still have the strongest military,
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  Speaker 3: still have the strongest economic system. So it's kind of
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  Speaker 3: like it's kind of like a bully approach where you
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  Speaker 3: can just kind of muscle your way through. Even if
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  Speaker 3: people don't like you, they'll still deal with you. But
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  Speaker 3: it's only so long that that that can that can last.
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  Speaker 3: That's not really the best way to go about it. Eventually,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to have to have some people that actually
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  Speaker 3: do like you, like some real allies. And I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if we have too many.
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  Speaker 6: What if you're able to innovate at the level that
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  Speaker 6: forces people to not even like you, but have to
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  Speaker 6: tolerate you. Right. So when you look at the wealthiest
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  Speaker 6: companies in the world, if you look at the top ten,
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  Speaker 6: how many of them American outside of Saudi Aramica?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 6: So if you think, yeah, in the next twenty to
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  Speaker 6: fifty years, can we see a reversal or other countries
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  Speaker 6: coming inside of that that top ten or top five?
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  Speaker 6: Like once this?
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  Speaker 4: Right? I believe so you think, yeah, yeah, maybe tenth.
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  Speaker 5: And I think that's why Brooks is so important, because
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  Speaker 5: if you begin to put your resources together, then you
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  Speaker 5: can begin to begin to build something. Tel Aviv's startup
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  Speaker 5: market is very interesting as well. Got to keep your
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  Speaker 5: eyes there. I know spotify Ha's has some issues, but
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  Speaker 5: what Daniel created at Spotify was interesting before the labels
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  Speaker 5: took it over and got thirty percent of that business.
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  Speaker 5: I think if we don't get our affairs in order
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  Speaker 5: and start to do better business and take care of
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  Speaker 5: our citizens, there would be room. And I'm seeing a
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  Speaker 5: lot of people start to say, hey, you don't think
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  Speaker 5: you they're crazy to go to Mexico or to live.
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  Speaker 4: Somewhere else primarily and then come back.
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  Speaker 5: Those conversations that happened a lot more amongst our community
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  Speaker 5: more now than ever.
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  Speaker 6: I think we even probably two weeks ago, I sent
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  Speaker 6: you an article. I think we had just came back
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  Speaker 6: from the Youe and we heard Ray Dallio speak and
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  Speaker 6: he was like, they've got it right here. It's hard
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  Speaker 6: for me to say, but over the past thirty years,
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  Speaker 6: there's a few places in the world that are getting
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  Speaker 6: it right. They're getting it right here. And he was
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  Speaker 6: talking about the summit, the financial something U. But then
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  Speaker 6: aak later, you see Morgan Stanley, you see the roth Child.
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  Speaker 6: They're going into Abu Dhabi and trying to figure out
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  Speaker 6: how they can set up up and begin banking in
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  Speaker 6: these areas. And now it's like, all right, well they're
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  Speaker 6: in Abu Dhabi. Well there's a race who's going to
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  Speaker 6: go to Riyat Saudi Arabia because that's the next place
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  Speaker 6: we have to go. And so Saudi one, last one,
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  Speaker 6: last thing. It was now we look at what Apple's
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  Speaker 6: now done with India, right right, Well, horror of our phones,
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  Speaker 6: which is the main market driver for our business, we're
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  Speaker 6: going to have made there. So you're starting to see
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  Speaker 6: we're spreading this thing out from a well, businesses for sure,
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  Speaker 6: and financialstitutions are starting to spread this thing out from
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  Speaker 6: a global aspect rather than saying we're just going to
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  Speaker 6: rely on our American dominance.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you outside of Arabia all for thirty years tax
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  Speaker 3: free exactly for any company that relocates their their Middle
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  Speaker 3: Eastern division to so Saudi. So I don't necessarily know
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  Speaker 3: if it's gonna be difficult for us for company to
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  Speaker 3: just take over that top ten spot. But all these
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  Speaker 3: companies are global companies, so they could be an American
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  Speaker 3: based company, but I mean if they're based in another
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  Speaker 3: country at the major workforces, which is already kind of
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  Speaker 3: the place now even you know Tim Cook when he
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  Speaker 3: said before, as far as you know, they asked him
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  Speaker 3: about this is another reason it doesn't really matter if
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  Speaker 3: if an Apple is an Apple, an American company, if their
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  Speaker 3: workers are in China, and they ask them in front
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  Speaker 3: of Congress, they say, but what's it going to take
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  Speaker 3: for you to bring your workforce back to America's It's
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  Speaker 3: impossible that can happen. When you look at the cost
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  Speaker 3: of labor, when you look at unions, when you look
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  Speaker 3: at so many different things, health insurance, variety of different stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Is like the cost that it will cost to No,
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  Speaker 3: it's not eaves like, it's not gonna happen. So it's like,
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  Speaker 3: all right, yeah to American companies, and they still pay
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  Speaker 3: taxes in America, but they're going to be you know,
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  Speaker 3: more more workers in other countries. It's going to be
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  Speaker 3: more headquarters in other countries. There's going to be a
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  Speaker 3: variety of different things. So the American company thing will
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  Speaker 3: probably still stay because it's difficult to kind of take
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  Speaker 3: that way. But I don't think that that's a determining fact.
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  Speaker 6: Inside is that? Is that another way to spread dominance?
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  Speaker 4: Ways?
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  Speaker 6: Putting your flag in different countries? Obviously you have to
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  Speaker 6: you're spreading. You're spreading from a global aspect, right, because
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  Speaker 6: it's a global economy. But you're planning inside of your business.
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  Speaker 6: There'll be infrastructure, there'll be customs that will become Americanized, Right,
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  Speaker 6: so we're talking about the playing field. What does that
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  Speaker 6: look like when you're now in India and now it's right,
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  Speaker 6: well we're doing it this way, right, this customs that
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  Speaker 6: were accustomed to things that are happening in this country.
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  Speaker 6: But now we have our business here. Here's a new
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  Speaker 6: way to spread dominance.
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  Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christine, the United States Secretary
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border crossings
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over one
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: hundred thousand illegal aliens.
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: Have been arrested.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: If you are here illegally, your next you will be
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: fine nearly one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned and deported,
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: you will never return. But if you register using our
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: CBP home app and leave now, you could be allowed
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: to return legally. Do what's right. Leave now. Under President Trump,
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: America's laws, border and families will be protected.
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  Speaker 2: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security,