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- 0:00Speaker 1: I hope it is agreed that both Europe and the
- 0:03Speaker 1: United States should move ideally in my view, to a
- 0:07Speaker 1: zero tariff situation, effectively creating a free trade zone between
- 0:11Speaker 1: Europe and North America.
- 0:12Speaker 2: I think radical.
- 0:13Speaker 1: Deregulation is necessary in Europe, and if that means leaving
- 0:17Speaker 1: the EU, it means leaving the EU. The attacks, the terrorism,
- 0:21Speaker 1: the killing of innocent people is rising every week. There's more,
- 0:25Speaker 1: it's more and more, and eventually I think we're.
- 0:28Speaker 2: Going to see widespread slaughter.
- 0:32Speaker 1: It's very difficult to reduce the size of the bureaucracy
- 0:35Speaker 1: and government spending.
- 0:36Speaker 2: It comes with immense opposition.
- 0:39Speaker 1: Even when the things that we're cutting make no sense
- 0:42Speaker 1: at all, it still gets a lot of opposition. But
- 0:46Speaker 1: we're very transparent with the Department of governm Efficiency. So
- 0:50Speaker 1: any action that we make we post on the dose
- 0:54Speaker 1: dot gov website and we post on our x account,
- 0:58Speaker 1: so it's extreme transparency. But nonetheless we get accused of
- 1:01Speaker 1: all sorts of things. But we are extremely transparent and
- 1:04Speaker 1: we're only cutting the most obvious, terrible expenses that make
- 1:09Speaker 1: no sense, But nonetheless we get attacked like crazy. As
- 1:13Speaker 1: a general rule, you can tell who which side is
- 1:16Speaker 1: the good side, and which side is the bad side?
- 1:19Speaker 1: By which side wishes to restrict freedom of speech? The
- 1:23Speaker 1: side that is restricting freedom of speech. That would have
- 1:26Speaker 1: been the Hitler Stalin Mussolini's of the world. They had
- 1:30Speaker 1: very strong censorship, very strong restrictions on speech. How that's
- 1:35Speaker 1: one of the signs that they are the bad guys.
- 1:38Speaker 1: And in fact, a restriction on speech and large government
- 1:43Speaker 1: is fundamentally fascist. Obviously, so ironically, in pushing for censorship,
- 1:51Speaker 1: it makes it very clear that the lift is the
- 1:54Speaker 1: side that is against freedom, and freedom of speech is
- 1:57Speaker 1: simply one of many freedoms that we should have as
- 2:00Speaker 1: a civil society because ideas should win on the strength
- 2:04Speaker 1: of their arguments. They should not win because they are suppressed.
- 2:10Speaker 1: The mass immigration is insane and will lead to the
- 2:13Speaker 1: destruction of any country that allows unfettered mass immigration. That
- 2:18Speaker 1: country will simply cease to exist at the end of
- 2:21Speaker 1: the day. It is a number, a number situation. If
- 2:24Speaker 1: there are eight billion people in the world, and let's
- 2:28Speaker 1: say you're a country of fifty million, sixty million, or
- 2:33Speaker 1: for medium sized country, or but even for a country
- 2:35Speaker 1: like the United States, which is three hundred and fifty million,
- 2:38Speaker 1: given that there are eight billion people in the world.
- 2:40Speaker 2: It only takes a few percent of.
- 2:43Speaker 1: The rest of the world to move to the country
- 2:45Speaker 1: to where it is no longer that country. A country
- 2:48Speaker 1: is not its geography. A country is its people. This
- 2:52Speaker 1: is a fundamental concept that is preally obvious. If you
- 2:56Speaker 1: took the people of Italy and you teleported the people
- 3:00Speaker 1: Italy to say, some part of the United States, it
- 3:04Speaker 1: would still be Italy. But if you teleported a bunch
- 3:07Speaker 1: of people from some other part of the world to Italy,
- 3:11Speaker 1: where they're telling people are no longer because they've been
- 3:13Speaker 1: teleported to America, then the geographic region would no longer
- 3:18Speaker 1: be Italy, it would be that other country. A country
- 3:21Speaker 1: is its people, not its geography. You're clearly seeing a
- 3:25Speaker 1: massive increase in the number of attacks in Italy and
- 3:28Speaker 1: broadly in Europe, and the media, the legacy media downplaced
- 3:32Speaker 1: these attacks. But the attacks, the terrorism, the killing of
- 3:36Speaker 1: innocent people is rising every week. There's more and it's
- 3:40Speaker 1: more and more, and eventually I think we're.
- 3:43Speaker 2: Going to see widespread slaughter in Europe. That is the trend.
- 3:47Speaker 1: But if you simply extrapolate the trend of how of
- 3:50Speaker 1: what is the rate at which the terrorist attacks are
- 3:53Speaker 1: occurring in Europe, and put those points, it's basically deadly
- 3:59Speaker 1: attacks versus time. I am on a graph and extrapolate
- 4:02Speaker 1: that graph. It leads to the slaughter of Europe. Your friends,
- 4:07Speaker 1: your family, your children, your parents. That's where it leads.
- 4:10Speaker 1: The numbers are clear. I have no respect for the
- 4:12Speaker 1: warmongers and the war profiteers and those who want the
- 4:16Speaker 1: war to continue forever for their own purposes. This is,
- 4:20Speaker 1: in my view, an evil thing because I'll talk to
- 4:23Speaker 1: someone on the left and they'll say, we must not
- 4:25Speaker 1: give in too Russia. I'm like, but you have no
- 4:26Speaker 1: plan for success. So what you're suggesting then, is that
- 4:30Speaker 1: we send these poor kids into the meat grinder every
- 4:34Speaker 1: day for nothing, with no end in sight forever. That
- 4:38Speaker 1: is cruel, inhumane, and senseless. So President Trump is right
- 4:44Speaker 1: in this regard. But they must be peace and it's
- 4:46Speaker 1: time for the slaughter of the young men and old
- 4:50Speaker 1: men to stop, while it's time to stop this senseless
- 4:55Speaker 1: death machine.
- 4:56Speaker 2: That's really what it comes down to.
- 4:57Speaker 1: There are those who like to have the appearance of
- 5:01Speaker 1: empathy I but then they are, but they don't have
- 5:04Speaker 1: the reality of empathy.
- 5:07Speaker 2: Those who are pro war. They have the appearance of empathy.
- 5:10Speaker 2: They're hypocrites and liars.
- 5:12Speaker 1: If you want the reality of empathy, we miss stop
- 5:15Speaker 1: the senseless, everyday death that last forever.
- 5:18Speaker 2: That's what true empathy is.
- 5:20Speaker 1: We should care about those men who are dying in
- 5:23Speaker 1: the trenches on in Ukraine and Russia, who didn't want.
- 5:27Speaker 2: To be there. They're conscripted, They're forced to be there.
- 5:29Speaker 1: They're forced to be the Ukraine conscripted, Russia conscripted.
- 5:33Speaker 2: They're forced to kill each other. Why for how long?
- 5:36Speaker 1: It's time to stop? I hope that the United States
- 5:39Speaker 1: and Europe can establish a very close partnership. We obviously are,
- 5:45Speaker 1: there's an alliance already, but I'm hopeful that there can
- 5:48Speaker 1: be a very close relationship with America and Europe. And
- 5:52Speaker 1: I'm hopeful, for example, with the tariffs that at the
- 5:55Speaker 1: end of the day, I hope it is greed that
- 5:58Speaker 1: both Europe and the Unit of States should move ideally
- 6:02Speaker 1: in my view, to a zero tariff situation, effectively creating
- 6:06Speaker 1: a free trade zone between Europe and North America, and.
- 6:10Speaker 2: That would be my That's what I hope occurs.
- 6:13Speaker 1: And also a more freedom of people to move between
- 6:16Speaker 1: Europe and North America. If they wish to work in Europe,
- 6:18Speaker 1: who wish to work in America, they should be allowed
- 6:22Speaker 1: to do so. In my view, so that has certainly
- 6:24Speaker 1: been my advice to the President.
- 6:26Speaker 2: I think starting a company.
- 6:28Speaker 1: Building a company is like steering glass, and it's like
- 6:31Speaker 1: eating glass and steering into the abyss.
- 6:33Speaker 2: It's very painful and difficult.
- 6:35Speaker 1: If you need encouragement for starting a company, I recommend
- 6:38Speaker 1: that you do not start a company. That said, the
- 6:41Speaker 1: irregulations in Europe is overregulated. There are too many rules
- 6:44Speaker 1: and regulations that make it very difficult to create a
- 6:46Speaker 1: company and do too much to protect large companies at
- 6:50Speaker 1: the expense of small to medium sized companies. The net
- 6:53Speaker 1: result is you have a bunch of very small companies
- 6:55Speaker 1: in Europe, and then it's a small number of very
- 6:57Speaker 1: large companies, but then not much in the middle. So
- 7:01Speaker 1: there needs to be a way to go from being
- 7:03Speaker 1: a small company if you're making great products and services,
- 7:06Speaker 1: to be able to scale to ultimately become a big company.
- 7:09Speaker 1: But you have effectively regulatory capture by the large corporations
- 7:14Speaker 1: in Europe. They don't really want to reduce the regulatory
- 7:17Speaker 1: burden and they like the fact that the regulations effectively
- 7:22Speaker 1: protect their.
- 7:23Speaker 2: Duopolies or monopolies in some cases.
- 7:26Speaker 1: So really, I think it's up to the government to say, no,
- 7:29Speaker 1: we have to foster small companies and allow them to
- 7:32Speaker 1: compete and reduce regulations, because the regulatory situation in Europe
- 7:37Speaker 1: is stifling and Brussels is amplifying that greatly.
- 7:41Speaker 2: So you have both the local.
- 7:44Speaker 1: Regulations, the country regulations, and then you have the EU regulations.
- 7:49Speaker 1: There's so many regulations in Europe it makes it extremely
- 7:53Speaker 1: difficult to start a company and be successful. So I
- 7:57Speaker 1: think radical deregulation is necessary in Europe, and and if
- 8:01Speaker 1: that means leaving the EU, it means leaving the EU
- 8:03Speaker 1: than well. Of Italy, I look forward to visit again