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The World Must Choose: America or China (Ep.179) · V

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  Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bongina Report. Early edition, Trump
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  Speaker 1: hikes tariffs on China to 125%. Kevin O'Leary calls for
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  Speaker 1: a 400% China tariff. A former Meta exec says Facebook
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  Speaker 1: secretly helped China censor dissidents and access American user data.
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  Speaker 1: Biden officials are exposed for hiding the Chinese spy balloon
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  Speaker 1: to protect talks with Beijing. Trump orders the DOJ to
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  Speaker 1: investigate a former CISA agent the former assistant director Christopher Krebs.
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  Speaker 1: AOC still drives the Tesla, but she just won't admit it.
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  Speaker 2: Trump's White House.
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  Speaker 1: Won't respond to journalists who put pronouns in their emails.
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  Speaker 1: Trump makes showers great again. And a viral photo of
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  Speaker 1: a cozy kitchen sparks discussion about what America is fighting
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  Speaker 1: to save.
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  Speaker 2: All this on Bongina Report, early edition.
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  Speaker 3: Many of you in the media clearly missed the art
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  Speaker 3: of the deal. You clearly failed to see what President
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  Speaker 3: Trump is doing here. You tried to say that the
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  Speaker 3: rest of the world would be moved closer to China when,
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  Speaker 3: in fact, we've seen the opposite effect. The entire world
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  Speaker 3: is calling the United States of America, not China, because
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  Speaker 3: they need our markets, they need our consumers, and they
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  Speaker 3: need this president in the Oval Office to talk to them.
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  Speaker 3: And that's exactly why more than 75 countries have called,
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  Speaker 3: because the United States of America is the best place
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  Speaker 3: in the world to do business. And as the president
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  Speaker 3: has shown great courage, as the secretary has said, in
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  Speaker 3: choosing to retaliate against China even higher.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday, President Trump announced a major tariff hike on China,
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  Speaker 1: raising tariffs to 125 percent in response to China's 84
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  Speaker 1: percent retaliatory tariff on U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Goods.
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  Speaker 1: At the same time, he lowered tariffs to 10 percent
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  Speaker 1: for over 75 other countries, for 90 days to encourage cooperation,
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  Speaker 1: to encourage a deal-making process. And Trump stated that this
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  Speaker 1: was necessary because China's behavior toward global markets was unsustainable.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, they are the most unfair and unreasonable
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  Speaker 1: of all countries when it comes to global trade. Trump
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  Speaker 1: tweeted yesterday in his announcement, at some point, hopefully in
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  Speaker 1: the near future, China will realize that the days of
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  Speaker 1: ripping off the US and other countries is no longer
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  Speaker 1: sustainable or acceptable. Now, the stock market reacted immediately and
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  Speaker 1: positively to this update, and the Dow surged 2,900 points,
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  Speaker 1: and the S & P 500 posted its biggest gain
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  Speaker 1: since 2008.
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  Speaker 2: Now, a lot of.
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  Speaker 1: People are saying that President Trump is backing down. The
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  Speaker 1: argument is that the president disrupted global supply chains, sent
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  Speaker 1: American companies into a panic, tanked global markets, alienated key allies,
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  Speaker 1: triggered retaliatory tariffs, and then the president freaked out because
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  Speaker 1: everybody else was freaking out. He pulled back, and now
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  Speaker 1: he looks very weak, and that somehow he's now declaring
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  Speaker 1: a victory, even though clearly he capitulated.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying that.
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  Speaker 1: This is the narrative being presented by the left, and
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  Speaker 1: also some Republicans who are very critical of the president. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Carolyn Leavitt, of course, is saying that this is the
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  Speaker 1: art of the deal, that this was all.
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  Speaker 2: Part of the plan.
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  Speaker 1: This was always a plan the president had to sort
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  Speaker 1: of turn the whole world against China. And likewise, Treasury
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  Speaker 1: Secretary Scott Besson is saying it's a strategic move to
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  Speaker 1: reveal China as the aggressor while, of course, rewarding cooperative countries.
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  Speaker 1: Here was Scott Besson.
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  Speaker 5: This was driven by the president's strategy.
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  Speaker 6: He and I had a long talk on Sunday, and
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  Speaker 6: this was his strategy all along. And you might even
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  Speaker 6: say that he goaded China into a bad position. They responded.
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  Speaker 6: They have shown themselves to the world to be the
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  Speaker 6: bad actors. And we are willing to cooperate with our allies.
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  Speaker 6: And with our trading partners who did not retaliate, it
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  Speaker 6: wasn't a hard message. Don't retaliate. Things will turn out well.
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  Speaker 1: What does Dan always say when we're in a situation
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  Speaker 1: like this? Somebody just commented it. Hold.
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  Speaker 7: Hold.
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  Speaker 2: What does Dan always say?
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  Speaker 1: Hold. What's the other phrase that Dan says, Mikey, in
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  Speaker 1: addition to hold, when he's saying just like, wait, let's
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  Speaker 1: keep our cool? 48-hour rule. 48-hour rule, right. You guys
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  Speaker 1: are always telling me, oh, you don't do the 48-hour rule. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I agree with Dan on this one. I think we
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  Speaker 1: got a hold. Trump tweeted this yesterday. Be cool. Let's
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  Speaker 1: stay frosty on this for a second.
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  Speaker 2: He has a 90-day pause. Let's be cool.
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  Speaker 1: Let's wait before accepting left-wing framing of retreat. Trump is
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  Speaker 1: clearly trying to punish China, who is the big dog
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  Speaker 1: in this fight. And I will say on trusting Trump,
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  Speaker 1: the president said by stock yesterday, He wrote early on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: this is a great time to buy. And it turns
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  Speaker 1: out that it was a pretty good time to invest.
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  Speaker 1: That was pretty sound financial advice. Here is more from
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  Speaker 1: the president calling out the panikins and the yippies, as
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  Speaker 1: he says.
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  Speaker 8: You started the morning saying, be cool.
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  Speaker 9: And just a few hours later, there was a pause
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  Speaker 9: put in on the terrace.
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  Speaker 10: Can you walk us through your thinking about why you
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  Speaker 10: decided to put a 90-day pause?
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  Speaker 11: Well, I thought that people were jumping a little bit
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  Speaker 11: out of line. They were getting yippy, you know? They
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  Speaker 11: were getting a little bit yippy, a little bit afraid,
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  Speaker 11: unlike these champions. Because we have a big job to do.
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  Speaker 11: No other president would have done what I did. No
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  Speaker 11: other president. I know the presidents. They wouldn't have done it.
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  Speaker 11: And it had to be done. What was happening to
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  Speaker 11: us on trade, not only with, you know, if you
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  Speaker 11: look at it, not only with China, but China was
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  Speaker 11: by far the biggest abuser in history and others also.
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  Speaker 11: But somebody had to do it. They had to stop
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  Speaker 11: because it was not sustainable.
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  Speaker 1: So one argument right now against the president is that
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  Speaker 1: he is creating a situation where people industry doesn't know
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  Speaker 1: if they really are going to be forced to bring
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  Speaker 1: their companies to the United States if they want to
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  Speaker 1: have access to the U.S. market. Because there is this
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  Speaker 1: narrative that Trump capitulated and he's not really serious about
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  Speaker 1: these tariffs. And so that means if you want to
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  Speaker 1: have access to the U.S. market, the only thing that
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  Speaker 1: you'll have to do is not have your industry in China.
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  Speaker 1: But you can do it in Vietnam and you can
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  Speaker 1: do it in India and it's not going to be
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  Speaker 1: a problem because Trump is capitulating on these tariffs. Trump
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  Speaker 1: is not serious about these tariffs. And again, you guys,
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  Speaker 1: my take here is let's just hold.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps that's right.
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  Speaker 1: But this battle that he is currently waging on China
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  Speaker 1: is truly a very important one, one that is not
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  Speaker 1: just about economics, it's not just about American industry, but
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  Speaker 1: it also is about national security and what ideology is
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  Speaker 1: going to be the prevailing one in this world. Is
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  Speaker 1: America going to be at the forefront. Is America going
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  Speaker 1: to be the superpower or is it.
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  Speaker 2: Going to be China?
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  Speaker 1: And so while I'm going to hold on whether Trump
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  Speaker 1: is actually capitulating or not on these other tariffs and
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  Speaker 1: if this is going to be a sign that other
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  Speaker 1: companies don't really have to bring their business to the U.S.,
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  Speaker 1: I will say that what he's doing with China is
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  Speaker 1: unprecedented and so necessary. I read this piece yesterday. It
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  Speaker 1: was by Freddie Gray in The Spectator, I believe. And
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  Speaker 1: he had some, yes, The Spectator, he had some really
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  Speaker 1: thoughtful insights. It's titled Orange Swan versus Red Dragon, why
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  Speaker 1: Liberation Day is all about confronting China. And in the piece,
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  Speaker 1: he argues that at the heart of Trump's aggressive new
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  Speaker 1: trade strategy is a stark unavoidable choice for the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the world, side with America's bold new protectionist stance,
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  Speaker 1: symbolized by the unpredictable orange swan, or continue deepening ties
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  Speaker 1: with China's authoritarian economic empire.
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  Speaker 2: The red dragon.
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  Speaker 1: See, Trump has set up a situation now where the
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  Speaker 1: world has to choose. Tariffs against China are not just
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  Speaker 1: about economics, like I said, They represent a broader ideological
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  Speaker 1: and geopolitical realignment. Trump sees China not just as a
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  Speaker 1: trade rival, but as a fundamental threat to American sovereignty
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  Speaker 1: and the free world. So by ratcheting up tariffs to
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  Speaker 1: historic levels and signaling a full economic decoupling, he is
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  Speaker 1: forcing America's traditional allies, including Europe and Britain, Japan, to
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  Speaker 1: rethink their cozy financial relationships with Beijing. Gray also highlights
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  Speaker 1: that this confrontation is happening at a moment when many
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  Speaker 1: Western countries are already wary of China's growing influence over
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  Speaker 1: critical industries, technology, infrastructure. So it's coming at a really important,
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  Speaker 1: and frankly, perfect time. For nations and corporations alike, neutrality
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  Speaker 1: is becoming less of an option with China. Allying with
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  Speaker 1: the orange swan means accepting a period of economic disruption
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  Speaker 1: and adopting to a world where America protectionism shapes global trade,
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  Speaker 1: and siding with the red dragon means betting on the
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  Speaker 1: continued rise of China's model of state-driven capitalism. And the
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  Speaker 1: political compromises that come with that. So what's happening is
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  Speaker 1: Trump is redrawing the global economic map, and everyone's got
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  Speaker 1: to pick a side. It strikes directly at the heart
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  Speaker 1: of globalism and a communist regime that will never, ever
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  Speaker 1: play fair. Here was billionaire Shark Tank investor Kevin O'Leary
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  Speaker 1: yesterday calling for a 400% tariff on Chinese goods.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 4: 104% tariffs on China are not enough.
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  Speaker 2: I'm advocating 400%.
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  Speaker 4: I do business in China. They don't play by the rules.
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  Speaker 4: They've been in the WTO for decades. They have never
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  Speaker 4: abided by any of the rules they agreed to when
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  Speaker 4: they came in for decades.
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  Speaker 8: They cheat.
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  Speaker 12: They steal.
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  Speaker 2: They steal IP.
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  Speaker 4: I can't litigate in their courts. They take product, technology.
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  Speaker 2: They steal it.
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  Speaker 4: They manufacture it and sell it back here. Never has
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  Speaker 4: an administration.
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  Speaker 13: Can America withstand 400% tariffs?
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  Speaker 1: What would that look like?
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  Speaker 4: I want Xi on an airplane to Washington to level
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  Speaker 4: the playing field. This is not about tariffs anymore. Nobody
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  Speaker 4: has taken on China yet, not the Europeans, no administration
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  Speaker 4: for decades. As someone who actually does business there, I've
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  Speaker 4: had enough. And finally, an administration, you may not like Trump,
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  Speaker 4: you may not like his style or his rhetoric. Finally,
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  Speaker 4: an administration that puts up and says enough, 400% tariffs
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  Speaker 4: tomorrow morning. He'll tell you why. Xi can only stay
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  Speaker 4: the Supreme Leader if people are employed. If we wipe
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  Speaker 4: out any business there because we are still 39% of
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  Speaker 4: all consumables on earth and 25% of the world's GDP,
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  Speaker 4: America is the number one economy on earth with all
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  Speaker 4: the cards. We will not have that forever. It's time
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  Speaker 4: to squeeze Chinese heads into the wall now.
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  Speaker 2: They don't play fair. They never played fair.
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  Speaker 1: They steal and cheat and hollow out American industry and
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  Speaker 1: threaten American national security. This is a fight worth having
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  Speaker 1: with China. And by the way, somebody noted that we
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  Speaker 1: still have a 10% baseline on these other countries. We're
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  Speaker 1: having 90 days to have them come to the table.
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  Speaker 1: Trump doesn't want to destroy the world economy. Trump doesn't
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  Speaker 1: want to spark a global depression.
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  Speaker 2: He's fighting the big dog.
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  Speaker 1: And now we have 90 days for everyone else to
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  Speaker 1: come to the table and negotiate. And like I said,
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  Speaker 1: we just got to hold. We have to wait and
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  Speaker 1: see how this plays out. Many of you didn't trust
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  Speaker 1: President Trump to buy stock yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Michael was one of them.
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  Speaker 1: He did not buy stock when President Trump told him to.
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  Speaker 1: And I asked him, I said this morning, I said,
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  Speaker 1: last night, I said, Michael, did you buy stock when
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  Speaker 1: the president told you to? And Michael said, no, I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: And this was a very unfortunate thing for the Alfonso
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  Speaker 1: Duffy finances because.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump was right.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to say, hold, stay long in America,
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  Speaker 1: stay long on President Trump. Let's wait on this. The
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  Speaker 1: China fight is so crucial. This is a fight worth having.
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  Speaker 1: I want to play a video for you. This is
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  Speaker 1: a skyscraper pig factory farm in China. A skyscraper pig
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  Speaker 1: factory farm. If you're listening, this, even the building looks
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  Speaker 1: disgusting from the outside.
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  Speaker 2: It is nasty.
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  Speaker 1: What you're looking at is a vast, brutal facility stacking
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  Speaker 1: thousands of animals into concrete towers. This is a grim
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  Speaker 1: symbol of everything wrong with the globalist model of production.
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  Speaker 1: These industrial horrors are not only grotesquely abusive toward animals,
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  Speaker 1: confining sentient creatures into these cramped, inhumane conditions, antibiotics pumped
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  Speaker 1: en masse, just to keep them alive long enough to
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  Speaker 1: be slaughtered. This is a public health threat. Consuming unhealthy
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  Speaker 1: animals creates unhealthy people. Leftists shriek about Trump's tariffs, and
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  Speaker 1: yet they're silent when it comes to China's flagrant abuse
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  Speaker 1: of people, of.
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  Speaker 2: Animals, of the earth. What kind of environmentalists are they?
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  Speaker 1: You have no problem filling their homes with Chinese-made goods
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  Speaker 1: produced under the most abhorrent conditions with slave labor. And
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  Speaker 1: they lecture about sustainability while turning a blind eye to
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  Speaker 1: a regime that demolishes forests, poisons rivers, operates factory farms,
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  Speaker 1: treats living beings like widgets on an assembly line. Do
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  Speaker 1: you want to know why the ocean is not so great?
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  Speaker 2: It's not America. It's not Canada. It's not Great Britain.
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  Speaker 2: It is India. It is China. It's Vietnam. Mostly China, though.
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  Speaker 1: This is the reality behind cheap imports, goods made without
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  Speaker 1: respect for human dignity, animal welfare, the natural world. Chinese
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  Speaker 1: industrial practices are not only improper, they are fundamentally unsustainable.
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  Speaker 1: And Trump is challenging an immoral and broken system that
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  Speaker 1: has polluted our planet, endangered global health, eroded the basic
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  Speaker 1: standards of decency. I think, frankly, Trump taking on China
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  Speaker 1: means he's the greatest environmentalist of our time. Trump is
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  Speaker 1: bringing the Green New Deal, the real Green New Deal.
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  Speaker 1: Let's actually take on China, which is the greatest threat
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  Speaker 1: to the world environment. They're poisoning the earth, and they're
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  Speaker 1: poisoning people, and they're abusing people. Trump is taking that
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  Speaker 1: head on, this evil regime, and the left is mad
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  Speaker 1: at Trump? The real environmental movement should start by acknowledging
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  Speaker 1: that a sustainable ethical economy cannot be built on China.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, at the heart of it is America.
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  Speaker 1: And this is really what this is all about. It
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  Speaker 1: is about not just the environment or the earth or
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  Speaker 1: whether we're consuming disgusting pigs who are in these skyscraper
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  Speaker 1: towers that are poisoned and then therefore poisoning us, but
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  Speaker 1: it is about the American people. It is about protecting
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  Speaker 1: Main Street. Here is Scott Besson.
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  Speaker 12: For the last four decades, basically since I began my
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  Speaker 12: career in Wall Street, Wall Street has grown wealthier than
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  Speaker 12: ever before, and it can continue to grow and do well.
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  Speaker 12: But for the next four years, the Trump agenda is
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  Speaker 12: focused on Main Street. It's Main Street's turn. It's Main
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  Speaker 12: Street's turn to hire workers. It's Main Street's turn to
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  Speaker 12: drive investment. And it's Main Street's turn to restore the
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  Speaker 12: American dream.
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  Speaker 1: At the dawn of the American century, one of President
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  Speaker 1: Trump's favorite presidents, President William McKinley, understood a simple truth,
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  Speaker 1: that a nation that depends on others for its prosperity
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  Speaker 1: is a nation in decline. McKinley championed the working man,
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  Speaker 1: believing that America's strength came not from chasing foreign markets,
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  Speaker 1: but from building its own industries, protecting its own labor,
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  Speaker 1: keeping its destiny in its own hands. McKinley warned that
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  Speaker 1: free trade results in controlling the markets of the United
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  Speaker 1: States in the interests of foreign nations. Protection results in
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  Speaker 1: controlling these markets in the interests of our own people.
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  Speaker 1: So McKinley saw free trade for what it is. Not
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  Speaker 1: a tool for peace, but a weapon of empire designed
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  Speaker 1: to keep America weak and dependent. Through high tariffs, sound money,
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  Speaker 1: national pride, McKinley set America on a course toward unmatched prosperity.
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  Speaker 1: After his unfortunate assassination, and especially after the rise of
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  Speaker 1: the administrative state under FDR, McKinley's system was dismantled. Tariffs fell,
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  Speaker 1: bureaucracies grew. America's great industrial cities withered, sacrificed on the
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  Speaker 1: altar of globalization. And today, after decades of decline, Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump is picking up McKinley's forgotten banner. All right, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to take a quick break. When we come back,
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  Speaker 1: I have a lot more to tell you guys about China.
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  Speaker 1: There's so much more here.
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  Speaker 2: Don't go anywhere. As I was looking at the chat
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  Speaker 2: right now, I was reading some of your comments. I
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  Speaker 2: am very curious.
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  Speaker 1: About What are the ages of people who tune into
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: the live stream? If you guys could just comment, if
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: you are a Zoomer, a Boomer, if you're a millennial,
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  Speaker 1: if you're Gen X, comment what your generation is just
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  Speaker 1: so I can get an idea. I'll have Michael look
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  Speaker 1: and tell me what's like the most prevalent one. My
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  Speaker 1: theory is that the most people listening to me are
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  Speaker 1: Gen X.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's a lot of Gen Xers.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that's what I thought.
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  Speaker 1: You got, I love Gen X.
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  Speaker 2: I've talked about it before.
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  Speaker 1: Gen X is like the greatest generation. Oh, some millennials
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  Speaker 1: in here. We gotta get some more Zoomers in here.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta, I gotta, who, somebody said 19? The Gen
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  Speaker 1: Alphas in the chat, they're all my siblings. They listen
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  Speaker 1: in the summertime when they're not at school. The little
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Gen Alphas, boomer, boomer, late boomer, Gen Xer, a couple
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  Speaker 1: Gen Zs, some millennials. Seems like mostly Gen X, Michael,
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  Speaker 1: is that right?
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  Speaker 2: Mostly Gen X. That's kind of what I thought. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I love you guys. I love Gen X.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are an amazing generation. But all right, we
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: are not done with China just yet because yesterday, Sarah
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Wynn Williams, a former Meta executive, testified before the Senate
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Judiciary Crime and Counterterrorism Subcommittee, where she alleged that Meta
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  Speaker 1: collaborated with the Chinese Communist Party to develop and test
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: censorship tools aimed at silencing critics of The party, Wynne Williams,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: also claimed that Meta complied with CCP demands who delete
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: the account of a Chinese dissident and provide the CCP
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: with access to user data, including American user data. Here
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: she is being questioned by committee chairman Josh Hawley.
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: So I want to just be clear about this. Here
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: in this document... Facebook is talking about making Chinese user
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: data available to the Chinese government because they're going to
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: store that data in China. Is that correct?
• 19:21
  Speaker 13: Correct.
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: But when you store that data in China, Americans who
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: exchange messages or other information with Chinese Facebook users, that
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: would mean the Chinese government could get access to the
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: American data as well. Is that correct?
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Through the pop servers, potentially, yes.
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: And Facebook was willing to take that risk?
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: There was a lot of discussion about this and ultimately, yes.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: I mean, this is extraordinary. This is exactly contrary to
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: what Facebook has represented for years. Here, they're willing to
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: build data centers, store data in China. They are willing
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: explicitly to give the Chinese government access to it. And
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: if that means that American user data is also compromised,
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: they're willing to do that too. All for profits in China,
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: there was virtually nothing they weren't willing to do.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: So Mark Zuckerberg lied about Facebook's collusion with the CCP,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: according to this whistleblower. Facebook actually apparently helped the CCP
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: censor political dissidents and win the AI arms race. Guys,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: this is just a reminder that economic competition is inseparable
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: from national security. Tariffs aren't just about steel, semiconductors, manufacturing.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: They are about safeguarding the very infrastructure of freedom itself.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: When American corporations prioritize profits and global market share over
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: loyalty to their own people, to the people of the
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: country that they're from, they become complicit in empowering regimes
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: that actively undermine this country. Real economic decoupling isn't just
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: necessary for jobs. It's essential for preserving the safety and
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: privacy of this country in the face of the authoritarian regime,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: that is China, having to reach into our technology, our markets,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: and even our civil discourse. By the way, we're probably
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: going to talk about this a little bit tomorrow, a
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: little more in depth. But Pete Hexeth went to Panama yesterday,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: and he is dealing with the way China has embedded
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: itself in South America, not just controlling the Panama Canal,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: but they have bases all over South America.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, what happened to carrying a big stick?
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: We don't want any foreign influence in this hemisphere. We
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: don't want anybody in this continent and South America influencing China.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: These other countries that, again, pose a huge threat to
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: American safety. If we have Chinese bases in South America,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: what does that mean for the U.S.? It can't be happening.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: So again, like I said, this is beyond just American
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: industry that we're doing with China. This is national security
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: as well. And it's not just META that's guilty of
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: capitulating to China.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: It's our own leaders.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Let's be clear about that. Who remembers the Chinese spy balloon?
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Anybody remember the Chinese spy balloon? I kind of forgot
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: about it until yesterday. I was like, oh yeah, we
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: had this Chinese spy balloon fly over the entire continental U.S. Yesterday,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: we learned that the internal State Department documents show that
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Biden officials secretly discussed the balloon with Chinese counterparts before
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: informing the American public, fearing that public discourse would harm
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: the U.S.-China relationship. So despite knowing about the balloon on
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: January 28th, the administration had administration waited until February 2nd
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: to notify the public. And only after civilians spotted it
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: did officials like then Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Try to acknowledge it.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: But they were actually worried that exposure could disrupt diplomatic
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: efforts and Blinken's planned trip to China. So it wasn't
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: national security. It wasn't the way that we appear extremely
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: weak with China. They were just worried about Blinken's little
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: trip and, of course, having a good relationship with China.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: It wasn't until February 4th that the balloon was finally
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: shot down, long after it had completed its surveillance mission.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: So to recap, while a Chinese surveillance device drifted across
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: the United States, collecting who knows what kind of intelligence
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: on America, Biden officials were more worried about sparing Beijing's
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: feelings and salvaging an Anthony Blinken trip than defending American territory. Clearly,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: America's economic entanglement with China has created dangerous political incentives.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Officials are are more concerned with maintaining stability for global
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: markets in diplomatic photo ops than confronting real threats. It's
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: the same mentality that led American corporations to collaborate with
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: the CCP and that has hollowed out our industrial base
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: in the name of efficiency. Tariffs and economic protections aren't
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: just economic tools.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: They are tools of national defense.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: If we are so financially tied to China that our
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: leaders Hesitate to defend our airspace. How can we possibly
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: defend our citizens' job, data, or freedoms? Rebuilding sovereignty means
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: taking action, securing our industries, cutting dependence on hostile powers,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: and ensuring that no foreign government can hold sway over
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: our decisions, whether in.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: The economy, diplomacy, or the skies above our soil.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk about CISA. Yes, the Cybersecurity... an infrastructure
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: security agency. This is a subsidiary agency of DHS. And
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: CISA is probably the agency that I hate the most
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: in the federal government.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: I flippin' hate CISA. Michael, do I hate CISA?
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: She talks about it all the time. I saw it.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: It's kind of funny.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: We went to a friend's wedding over the weekend. And
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: it was a beautiful wedding, by the way. But when
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: you go to a wedding, you sit by people that
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: you don't know oftentimes. And the person that I was
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: sitting to happened to be working in national security. And
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: he was, to me of all people, defending Jenny Sturley,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: the director of CISA, defending CISA, saying that we need
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: to curtail certain civil liberties because you have no idea
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: what I've seen. You don't know what CISA is uncovering,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: the kind of terrorism plots that they're undoing. And we
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: need the surveillance and the suppression of free speech from
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: CISA because national security and He just, he was having
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: this argument with the wrong person. He was having this
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: argument with the wrong person. I think CISA needs to
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: be abolished. They were responsible for massive amounts of censorship
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: under the Biden admin, and even before the Biden admin,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: but especially under Biden. They censored everything from election integrity
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: to vaccines, Hunter Biden laptop, all because CISA explicitly started
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: viewing its job as protecting America's cognitive infrastructure, which means
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: people's minds. their job is to protect physical infrastructure in
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: this country from terrorism. But they said, oh, now our
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: job is to control what you think. That's literally what
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Jennings really said. So to this good news yesterday, President
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Trump signed an executive order revoking former assistant director Christopher
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Krebs' security clearance and directing the DOJ to investigate him
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: And the investigation targets his role in the 2020 presidential election,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: which he declared almost immediately after it happened to be
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: the most secure election in American history. Now, today, Krebs
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: is the chief intelligence and public policy officer at a
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: cybersecurity company called Sentinel-1. And Trump's order also suspends any
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: security clearances held by anyone at Sentinel-1.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Who works with Krebs.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Here was President Trump in the Oval Office yesterday, citing
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: this order.
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: This guy sat back saying, well, I'm a member or
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: like he's a Republican or something.
• 27:11
  Speaker 14: And right almost right from the beginning. And he he's
• 27:15
  Speaker 14: tried to make the case that this election was a
• 27:19
  Speaker 14: safe election. I think he said this is the safest
• 27:22
  Speaker 14: election we've ever had. And yet every day you read
• 27:26
  Speaker 14: in the papers about more and more fraud that's discovered.
• 27:29
  Speaker 8: He's the fraud.
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: He's a disgrace. So we'll find out whether or not
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: it was a safe election. And if it wasn't, he's
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: got a big price to pay. And he's a bad guy.
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: Here's another one. I have no idea who he is.
• 27:43
  Speaker 8: Krebs.
• 27:44
  Speaker 14: No idea who he is. I'm sure he was in
• 27:47
  Speaker 14: the room at some point, just like you're all in
• 27:49
  Speaker 14: the room. But I have no idea who he was.
• 27:51
  Speaker 14: So thank you very much.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Now, Krebs was the head of CISA during the 2020 election.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: And during and after that time, under Krebs' predecessor, Jen Easterly,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: but also someone under Krebs. CISA, along with other government agencies,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: worked overtime to censor any American who questioned the 2020 election.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Speech questioning the election was simply not allowed. It was
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: just a brazen violation of the First Amendment. Things like
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: mass mail-in balloting, suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: were off the table. You could not talk about it
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: because that meant that you were attacking the democratic infrastructure
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: of this country. So you can't possibly have free discourse
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: on these subjects because that would be attacking.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: The democratic infrastructure of the country.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: And CISA directed social media companies to de-boost and even
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: ban users guilty of these soft crimes. And again, CISA
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: is supposed to be protecting us from terrorists, not violating
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: the First Amendment. Now Politico reported on this story, and
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: I just want to read to you what this Politico
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: report says. And you guys comment, and you tell me
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: if you know why this is so insanely absurd. A
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: president ordering investigations of specific individuals whom he considers to
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: be his political enemies is a remarkable breach of the
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: traditional wall of separation between the White House and the
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Justice Department. Such a remarkable separation, and it's just a
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: breach of this wall. The irony here is unbelievable. The
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: same people shrieking about Trump weaponizing the DOJ are the
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: ones who've spent years weaponizing the DUJ against President Trump
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: from the Russia collusion hoax, bogus impeachments, endless prosecutions, popping up,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: of course, in blue cities to get Trump. They've made
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: it clear that lawfare is their go-to strategy when they
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: can't beat him in the ballot box. But now anytime
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Trump uses executive power, suddenly it's a constitutional crisis.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? Politico, you are a joke.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: And Christopher Krebs, you're getting everything you deserve. And I
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: hope they fire Jen Easterly too. She should have been
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: fired a long time ago. And the entire agency needs
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: to go, actually. All of you should be out of jobs.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: You guys are an illegal, destructive agency. You have no
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: right to exist. The DHS, frankly, has no right to exist,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: but especially CISA.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Okay, can we react to.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Some AOC stupidity for a second? I'm sorry to do
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: this to you guys, but we have to play this clip.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: This is just amazing.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: So somebody asked AOC in Washington, D.C., if she still
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: has a Tesla, because of course, Elon Musk is Hitler,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: he's a Nazi, and he is helping the orange Hitler, Nazi,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump, and so therefore, no one can have a
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Tesla anymore, we have to burn all the Teslas, even
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: though we loved Teslas five seconds ago. Here is AOC
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: being asked if she has a Tesla still. Listen to
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: what she says.
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: Congressman, do you still have your Tesla?
• 30:46
  Speaker 11: I was just wondering if you.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Still have your Tesla.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, for security reasons. I'm not going to tell you
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: if I have a Tesla or not. What does that mean,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: you guys?
• 31:00
  Speaker 12: She's a liar.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: She has a Tesla.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Of course she still has a Tesla. If she didn't
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: have her Tesla still, she would say it loud and proud.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: But for security reasons, she's not going to tell us
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: that she still has a Tesla because she knows that
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: her base would be mad to know she still has
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: a Tesla. Leftists like AOC loved Tesla literally five seconds ago.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: They worshipped Elon Musk.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: He was their poster boy for the green energy revolution.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Tesla was everything they said they wanted. No gas, cutting
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: edge technology, saving the planet. But the second Elon Musk
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: started criticizing the regime, calling out censorship, endorsing Trump, the
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: left turned on him overnight. And suddenly Tesla wasn't a
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: climate hero anymore. That was somehow evil. white supremacist technology,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: whatever ridiculous way they want to push this week, Nazi technology.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: And again, I talked about this at the start of
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: the show. For these people, it was never about principles.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: It was never about the environment or protecting democracy. It's
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: always been about political power. Stay in line and they'll
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: praise you. Step out of line and you are the enemy.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: An AOC is going to not admit that she has
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: a Tesla and her friends are going to burn down
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: the dealerships. I was actually at home laughing out loud
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: by myself watching this next clip on repeat from Senator
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: John Kennedy, just torching AOC when asked about the future
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: I swear, you guys, just laughing out loud. Take a
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: listen to this.
• 32:26
  Speaker 7: What do you think of the new leadership, Jasmine, AOC,
• 32:29
  Speaker 7: and Bernie?
• 32:31
  Speaker 13: I consider Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez to be the leader of the
• 32:35
  Speaker 13: Democratic Party. She's entitled to her opinion. I'm entitled to mine.
• 32:40
  Speaker 13: As I've said about her before, I think she's the
• 32:43
  Speaker 13: reason there are directions on a shampoo bottle. Our plan
• 32:53
  Speaker 13: for dealing with her is called Operation Let Her Speak.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: I think she's the reason there are directions on a
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: shampoo bottle.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: That's amazing.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: This guy, he's like a walking comedian. He needs to
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: just go to stand-up. Like, quit Congress, sir. You can
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: just be a stand-up comedian.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: And I love it.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Operation Let Her Speak.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: It's brilliant.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: And I actually agree with him that AOC is the
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: future of the Democratic Party. And Kennedy's strategy for dealing
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: with AOC is basically do nothing.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Just let her talk. Because every time she opens her mouth,
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: she ends up putting her foot in it.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Whether it's her meltdown over gas stoves or a fantasy
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: about the world ending in 12 years, she makes the
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: case against herself better than anyone else ever could. This
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: is honestly the smartest approach. When someone is this clueless,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: the best thing you can do is hand them the
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: microphone and Take a step back. She's the reason we
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: have directions on a shampoo bottle. All right, this next
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: story I am obsessed with. The second best news of
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: the day, right after the CISA news. Yesterday, the Trump
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: admin implemented a policy where White House officials, well, I
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: think it was a pre-standing policy, but they confirmed the
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: policy yesterday. The policy is that White House officials including
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Press Secretary Carolyn Leavitt, will not respond to emails from
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: journalists who include pronouns in their signatures. So this all
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: started because a New York Times reporter complained that the
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: press office had rejected emails on three recent occasions from
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: reporters who display pronouns. So Caroline told this New York
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Times reporter, that people who deny biological reality cannot be
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: trusted to write honest stories. And I think that is
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: very fair, a very fair thing to say. And so
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: then a New York Times spokesperson stated that in response,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: refusing to answer a straightforward request to explain the administration's
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: policies because of the formatting of an email signature is
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: both a concerning and baffling choice, especially.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: From the highest press office in the U.S.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Government. So White House communications director Stephen Chung said on
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: this topic, if the New York Times spent the same
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: amount of time actually reporting the truth as they do
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: being obsessed with pronouns, maybe they would be a half-decent publication.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: This whole story is just amazing.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: I love it. Never play around with pronouns. Don't. Somebody
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: asks you for them, don't give them. This is just stupid.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: Obviously, I'm a woman.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Or if you're Michael, obviously, I'm a man. And don't
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: use people's stupid pronouns if they don't actually align with
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: their actual sex.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: It's dumb.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: I'm not playing into these delusions. And to have the
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: admin saying, we're not going to play into these delusions,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: it's amazing. We don't have to accommodate lunatics. And in fact,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: we shouldn't accommodate them.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: It's bad for them. It's bad for society.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: I think for too long, right-wingers have played defense. We're
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: tiptoeing around these ridiculous demands to be inclusive of fantasy land.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: But now.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Trump's team is setting a tone. If you reject basic
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: truths like male and female, you don't get to pretend
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: like you're a serious journalist.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: You're mentally ill. And the freak out.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: From the New York Times proves how fragile these people are.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: They're not mad because they care about journalism. They're mad
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: because they're finally facing consequences for living in delusion.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: This is the way forward.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Clear lines, zero apologies, no negotiating with crazy. And by
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: the way, these people are still crazy. They learned nothing.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: from the 2024 presidential election. This is just last night,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: CNN's Anderson Cooper getting corrected publicly, humiliated for misgendering a
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: civil rights attorney in a town hall event with Bernie Sanders.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: Take a listen to this.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Paul, we're back with Senator Bernie Sanders.
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: I want to introduce Grace Thomas. She's a local civil
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: rights attorney. She's a Democrat, right?
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: It's they, them pronouns, actually.
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 36:53
  Speaker 8: Good evening, Senator Sanders.
• 36:55
  Speaker 10: Polling and turnout data indicate that men of all racial
• 36:58
  Speaker 10: demographics are turning away from the Democratic Party.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: This is the most amazing thing ever. Michael just pointed
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: this out. It's such a great point. She corrects him
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: on the pronouns.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: She humiliates him. Oh, it's actually, it's they, them.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: And the question she asks, the question she asks is, why.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: Are men leaving the Democratic Party?
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: You, you're the reason men are leaving the Democratic Party.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: You're insane. You're insane. Like they actually, it's they, them like, no,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: you're a woman.
• 37:26
  Speaker 13: She, her, hers.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: You're a girl. Stop, stop, stop this insanity. And men
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: are sick of this crap.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: This woke stuff. They're just done with it. Especially Gen
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Z men. They have seen the fruits of radical feminism
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: of radical gender ideology. They've seen their country fall apart
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: because woke ism has destroyed us internally, emotionally, spiritually. And
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: they're turning away from the Democratic Party in droves. Black, white, brown,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. What doesn't matter to the demo? Men are
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: done with this. And you want to know why men
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: are done with it? Because of this woman.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Because of you. Don't ask the question. Look at yourself.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: You're the answer. You're why no one wants to be
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: part of the Democratic Party.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Can you imagine the layers of irony here? Anderson Cooper,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: one of the most committed regime mouthpieces, does everything he
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: can to keep up with the woke world's And he
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: still gets publicly shamed for it because his own side
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: is impossible to keep up with. I don't even know
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: how Bernie Sanders does it. This is all brand new
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: to him. Bernie Sanders is like a million years old.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: He's barely had to deal with these pronouns in the
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: span of his life. And he's having to accommodate this insanity.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: And it's honestly hilarious.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Because no matter how much these people bend the knee,
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: it is never enough. They created this monster and now
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: they're stuck trying to survive it. And the moral of
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: the story is, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: Is that a Dan quote? No, I don't know.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: It seemed like a Dan quote. Play stupid games, win
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: stupid prizes. And that is what the left has done.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: You know what's not a stupid prize? Making America's showers
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: great again. And the left is apparently mad about this.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: I don't know why, but I'm pretty happy Because this week,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: President Trump signed an executive order to roll back ridiculous
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: water pressure limits on showerheads.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: You know, the ones that, well, I'll just say.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: The people who are criticized. him, it's like he can
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: never do anything right. And something as simple as standing
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: in a shower for 15 minutes to try and get
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: your hair wet and you have no water pressure is
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: something that actually impacts people's daily lives. It's something people
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: care about. And then the left is just like, oh yeah, no,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. Trump's move kills a 13,000-word Obama-Biden-era regulation
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: and frees Americans from what he calls weak and worthless showers.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Here was President Trump yesterday, or two days ago.
• 40:00
  Speaker 10: Certain regulations that basically killed the water pressure of showers
• 40:05
  Speaker 10: and other water appliances.
• 40:07
  Speaker 8: You can say it. Go ahead. What are the appliances?
• 40:12
  Speaker 10: I mean, it's everything, sir. Dishwashers, boilers. But the shower
• 40:18
  Speaker 10: heads are a huge deal.
• 40:19
  Speaker 8: There's no water. You don't get water. It's ridiculous.
• 40:22
  Speaker 10: So with this executive order, we're effectively going to be
• 40:25
  Speaker 10: reversing that set of regulations to ensure that Americans have
• 40:28
  Speaker 10: choice in the consumer market.
• 40:30
  Speaker 8: If they want a low-flow shower head, they can buy one.
• 40:32
  Speaker 8: If they want a real deal shower head, they don't
• 40:35
  Speaker 8: have to.
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: You buy a new house, you pay a lot of money,
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: and the developers, you're not allowed to do anything more.
• 40:43
  Speaker 8: They put restrictors on.
• 40:44
  Speaker 9: They used to have a restrictor where you could take
• 40:46
  Speaker 9: it out, but now they weld it in, and you
• 40:49
  Speaker 9: take a shower or wash your hands, whatever you do,
• 40:51
  Speaker 9: including dishwashers when no water comes out, but you wash
• 40:55
  Speaker 9: your hands and In my case, I like to take
• 40:57
  Speaker 9: a nice shower to take care of my beautiful hair.
• 41:01
  Speaker 9: I have to stand in the shower for 15 minutes
• 41:04
  Speaker 9: until it gets wet.
• 41:05
  Speaker 8: It comes out drip, drip, drip.
• 41:07
  Speaker 12: It's ridiculous.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: He said he likes to take care of his beautiful hair.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: Drip, drip, drip.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: So naturally, like I said, leftists have lost their minds.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Journalists are mocking the president for only tackling the big issues.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: They're saying this sarcastically.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: Actually, I do care.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: About stupid environmental regulations ruining the water pressure. And actually,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: this is one of my mom's biggest complaints. She has said,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: ever since the Obama era, the dishwasher doesn't work as well.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: And my mom is a mom of nine.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: And when you're the mom of nine, you don't have
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: time to be washing dishes by hand.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: Nobody understands this.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Michael knows because he comes home to visit for holidays
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: and other things. There are a lot of dishes when
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: you have nine children, two adults.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: A husband, Michael.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of dishes at dinnertime.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: Nobody has time to be washing these things by hand.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: And the dishwashers aren't as good.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: They were better before Obama took office years ago, when
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: I was like, what, seven years old? And people are
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: sick of the government micromanaging every single corner.
• 42:13
  Speaker 13: Of our lives.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: I think for years, bureaucrats decided that saving a few
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: drops of water was more important than letting Americans have showers, dishwashers,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: and toilets that actually work They pushed these regulations in
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: the name of saving the planet.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: But the real result was.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: Weak showers, dirty dishes, broken appliances, plus people wasting water
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: and electricity just to get the job done. We are
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: just done letting out-of-hut elites dictate our lives right down
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: to how we take showers.
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: It is crazy.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: And by the way, again, I will say, if the
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: left really cared about the environment, they would be doing
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: something about China. And instead, they're angry at Trump for
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: taking on China. All right. I want to show you
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: guys a photo that has gone viral on X.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: Take a look at this.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Drop a comment and tell me what this makes you feel.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: And I know that if you're listening, you can't actually
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: see this photo. I'm going to describe it to you.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: Like I said, this photo has gone a little viral
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: on X. It's a living room area. Wood paneled cabinets,
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: magnet covered fridge, worn leather recliner. There's also a simple
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: wooden dining table with four matching chairs in the middle
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: of the room, framed family pictures, decorative plates hanging on
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: the wall. There's a tall floor lamp providing a warm,
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: soft light in the room. The space feels frozen in time, cozy,
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: a little rough around the edges, like a place where
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: family photos line the walls and the coffee's always on.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: There's a snapshot of pure unpretentious Americana. The photo was
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: shared with no caption by an account called mytho America.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: The X account is also a substack and this substack is, yes,
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: somebody said homey.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: That's exactly how I would describe it.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: Homey.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: This substack is incredible.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: One of the pieces is titled the aesthetics of the end.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: The photo I showed you is part of the aesthetics
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: of the end. The author describes in the essay the
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: aesthetics of the end, and you see how this photo
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: captures exactly what the author is describing, the quiet, almost
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: sacred decay of ordinary American life. The worn wood cabinets,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: cluttered fridge, covered in magnets, the heavy black recliner slumped
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: near a simple dining table.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: It's not just a cozy, lived-in space.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: It's an artifact of a world slowly slipping away. A
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: reminder that every inch of American life is both sacred
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: and profane.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: That's a quote from the piece.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: Like the essay says, the wear and the sighting of
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: our homes, the plastic bottles that litter our dwellings, the
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: musty carpet with the accumulated remains of decades of life
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: are not just signs of use, but signs of a
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: people reaching their twilight. still carrying out their rituals of living,
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: still blind to the inevitable end that looms just beyond
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: the walls. This room, humble and unchanging, feels like a
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: snapshot of the final breaths of a dream. The essay reads,
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: the bittersweet fantasy that when we one day meet the
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: end of the road, wondering how we got to this
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: final point, we will see that the answers have been
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: there from the start. And maybe that's the clearest sign
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: of what we're losing. In place of worn kitchens, cluttered fridges,
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: and sagging recliners, the places that held real life were
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: getting sterile beige rentals, fake wood floors, open concept layouts,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: mass-produced materials that look the same in every city, homes
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: built not for living but for passing through. It's the
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: architecture of a renter's economy, a system where nobody owns anything,
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: Nobody stays anywhere long enough to make it their own.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: And permanence itself is treated like a burden. A life
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: designed to be portable, disposable, interchangeable. And it mirrors exactly
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: what's happening to the country. A hollowed out America, sold
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: off piece by piece with no roots deep enough to
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: hold on to. I think of this sub stack reminds
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: me a lot of Lana Del Rey's music. She articulates
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: the same kind of haunting truth as the myth of
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: America essay, that America is a fading dream we are
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: living through without fully realizing it. Lana, of course, is
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: a famous artist who recently married an alligator to her guide,
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: and her songs are beloved but always sad as she
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: mourns a country slipping quietly toward its end while still
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: revering the beauty that once made it so magical. Lana
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: doesn't just indulge in nostalgia. She shows how the things
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: we once loved are now hollowed out and cheapened, yet
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: somehow still sacred. In songs like Born to Die and
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: Ride and West Coast, she captures the same bittersweet tension
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: the essay describes, a profound love for the mythic America
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: of highways, diners, the open skies, shadowed by an unshakable
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: awareness that it's all collapsing. Her appeal is powerful because
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: she doesn't lie about it. She sings from the heart
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: of a civilization already in its twilight, offering no solutions,
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: only the aching beauty of witnessing its end. Lana really
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: gives a voice to a generation that still longs for wonder,
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: even as it watches the lights go out. She is
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: the soundtrack to the myth of America's final revelation. And
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: in that little kitchen, in the sagging couch, in the light-worn,
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: thin-against-wood paneling, the ghost of America lingers, And we sit
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: almost in reverence among its fading warmth, grabbing onto it
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: before it's gone. Mytho America's essay and Lana's music suggest
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: that this country is a nation that once thrived but
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: is now fading without even realizing it. The essay reads,
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: we stumble blindly through another autumn and Christmas at the
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: final days of the year, failing to ever contemplate the
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: reality that everything eventually meets its end. For a lot
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: of us, this feels like the reality, or at least
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: it has felt that way for a long time, even
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: if subconsciously. But it's that quiet decline that Trump's new
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: tariff war is trying to confront. For decades, America mortgaged
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: its future to China and globalism, selling out its industries,
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: its workers, sovereignty for cheap.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: Goods and hollow promises.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: We lived off the comforts of an unsustainable system just
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: like the photo shows a home still standing but aging
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: and worn, cursed to wither and cheapen, as the essay
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: puts it. Trump's aggressive tariffs are a disruption of that sleepwalking.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: They are a call to wake up, up, to recognize
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: that America cannot survive if it keeps trading away its
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: soul for convenience. And just like the essay warrants, if
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: we stay blind and complacent, believing tomorrow will always come,
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: we will wake up one day and find that it's
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: all gone. So again, Trump's move isn't about short-term market reactions.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: It's about fighting to preserve what's left before.
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: It's too late.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: And in the end, the humble homes, simple kitchens, the
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: memories that still linger in places like the one in.
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: The photo, these are what he's trying to save.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: Because if we lose them, we lose everything. And maybe
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: deep down, we already know we're losing it. And that's
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: part of what makes these moments and these memories even
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: more precious. Not because they last forever, but because they don't.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: Because they're slipping through our fingers And we're just now
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: waking up enough to notice. When you see a photo
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: like that, little kitchen, you hear a song like Ride,
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: it hits you somewhere deep because you know you've lived
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: those moments. You've sat at that table. You've laughed in
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: a house like that. What Trump's fighting for, what this
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: whole struggle is really about, isn't some abstract idea of America.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: It's these small forgotten corners of life. The kitchens still
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: filled with family photos, the worn chairs, the quiet places,
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: where the soul of a country once lived. Maybe we
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: can't stop everything from fading, but we can remember what mattered.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: We can choose not to go quietly into the systems
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: and false promises.
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: That hollowed all of it out.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: We can choose to hold on to what's real, even
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: as the lights dim. And that is all I have
• 51:00
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