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Extinct Dire Wolves Are Back (Kinda) — But Should They Be? (Ep.177) · V

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  Speaker 1: All right, let's get into this show today. The EU
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  Speaker 1: offers Trump a zero tariff deal. Trump threatens a 104%
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  Speaker 1: tariff on China. Why all the tariff backlash is simply
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  Speaker 1: a word spell. Young people are opting out of the
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  Speaker 1: Democrat revolution. SCOTUS backs Trump on deportations. A judge blocks
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  Speaker 1: Trump's military gender orders. San Francisco finds drivers by income.
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  Speaker 1: And scientists resurrect the so-called dire wolf. All this on
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  Speaker 2: We stand ready to negotiate with the United States. Indeed,
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  Speaker 2: we have offered zero for zero tariffs for industrial goods,
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  Speaker 2: as we have successfully done with many other trading partners,
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  Speaker 2: because Europe is always ready for a good deal. So
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  Speaker 2: we keep it on the table. But we are also
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  Speaker 2: prepared to respond through countermeasures and defend our interests.
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  Speaker 1: That was the European Commission president offering President Trump a
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  Speaker 1: zero for zero tariff deal. And the EU Trade Commissioner
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  Speaker 1: explained that this arrangement would apply to chemicals, pharmaceuticals, rubber, plastic, machinery,
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  Speaker 1: and cars. And this offer comes just after Washington imposed
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  Speaker 1: a 20% import tariff on the EU last week. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it's unclear if President Trump is going to agree to this,
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  Speaker 1: to the ire of Elon Musk, of course, because he
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  Speaker 1: has a financial interest in working with the EU, selling
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  Speaker 1: cars in the EU. So to the ire of Elon Musk,
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  Speaker 1: President Trump, it seems, is not going to accept this
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  Speaker 1: deal because just yesterday, the Trump admin rejected a similar
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  Speaker 1: offer from Vietnam to reduce tariffs to zero. As Trump
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  Speaker 1: trade advisor Peter Navarro explained, Vietnam's offer was meaningless to
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  Speaker 1: the United States because of their non-tariff trade practices, meaning
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  Speaker 1: dumping intellectual property theft, and their value-added tax, or VAT,
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  Speaker 1: all of which still disadvantage U.S. businesses, according to the admin.
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  Speaker 1: So Liberation Day, as we were told last week, is
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  Speaker 1: about confronting non-tariff barriers as well as real tariffs. Here
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  Speaker 1: was Peter Navarro yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Will the president willing to negotiate? What we have here
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  Speaker 3: is a national emergency based on massive chronic trade deficits
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  Speaker 3: caused by systematically higher tariffs and non-tariff barriers. So when
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  Speaker 3: you ask if we're willing to negotiate, the president will
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  Speaker 3: always listen. But let's understand what the problem is. When
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  Speaker 3: you have a country like Vietnam, let's take Vietnam. When
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  Speaker 3: they come to us and say, we'll go to zero tariffs,
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  Speaker 3: that means nothing to us because it's It's the non-tariff
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  Speaker 3: cheating that matters. Let's do Vietnam, Joe. They sell us
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  Speaker 3: $ 15 for every $ 1 we sell them. About $ 5 of
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  Speaker 3: that $ 15 is China transshipping to Vietnam to evade They're tariffs.
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  Speaker 3: What does Vietnam do? They dump into our markets, killing
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  Speaker 3: our shrimpers, our people who make metal brackets, kitchen cabinets,
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  Speaker 3: agricultural products. They engage in intellectual property theft. They have
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  Speaker 3: the biggest number of cases, aside from China, at the
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  Speaker 3: Department of Commerce on the dumping. So the point is,
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  Speaker 3: the point is, Anybody who wants to come to talk
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  Speaker 3: to us, talk to us about lowering your non-tariff barriers.
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  Speaker 3: Vietnam has a 10% VAT. Europe has a 19% VAT.
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  Speaker 3: We can't compete against that.
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  Speaker 1: Highlighting the partnership with China is fascinating and so important.
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  Speaker 1: And this also gets to the European question. Is Trump
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  Speaker 1: going to accept this non-tariff deal from Europe? But I
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  Speaker 1: think the answer is going to be no.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: Because Navarro highlights that Europe imposes a 19% VAT. Non-tariff
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  Speaker 1: barriers are just as critical to this admin as the
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  Speaker 1: actual tariffs themselves. And let's talk about Europe more broadly
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  Speaker 1: for a second, because like I said, this moment is
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  Speaker 1: about more than tariffs. It is about an imbalance that
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  Speaker 1: has been festering for decades. The U.S. has heavily subsidized Europe.
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  Speaker 1: America saved Europe twice during the 20th century. Without U.S.
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  Speaker 1: support for NATO, Western Europe would have fallen to the Soviets.
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  Speaker 1: Since the Cold War ended, Europe underinvested by nearly a
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  Speaker 1: trillion dollars in defense, heavily relying on the US for protection.
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  Speaker 1: Even in, say, pharmaceuticals, Americans bear the cost of innovation
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  Speaker 1: while Europeans enjoy cheaper drugs. Trump understands this reality and
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  Speaker 1: isn't afraid to use it to America's advantage, even if
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  Speaker 1: it bruises European pride. And at the same time, Europe
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  Speaker 1: has hardly acted like an ally, at least in the
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  Speaker 1: last few years. European leaders are constantly campaigning for Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer sent over Labour Party officials
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  Speaker 1: to America to support Kamala Harris. Blatant foreign election meddling,
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  Speaker 1: but that didn't matter to them. The UK has also
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  Speaker 1: threatened to arrest Americans over free speech. And of course,
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  Speaker 1: European elites in general bully our tech companies into political censorship,
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  Speaker 1: slaps them with these astronomical fines while sneering at our values.
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  Speaker 1: sneering at JD Vance as he came to Europe and said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: why are we abandoning basic Western Christian values? Why are
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  Speaker 1: we subsidizing people who I would hardly define as allies
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  Speaker 1: given their behavior? A 19% VAT from countries that are
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  Speaker 1: existentially dependent on the United States is absurd. And all
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  Speaker 1: the fear-mongering about a massive trade war, it has been
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  Speaker 1: proven to be seriously pure hysteria. The National Economic Council advisor,
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Hassett, announced that more than 50 countries have reached
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  Speaker 1: out to the president to begin a negotiation. So people
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  Speaker 1: want to get this resolved with the United States. People
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  Speaker 1: are willing to come to the table and actually work
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  Speaker 1: out a fair trade deal with President Trump. Now, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about China. China is the one place
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  Speaker 1: where they're saying we are going to fight the United
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  Speaker 1: States on these tariffs tooth and nail. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: talk about China in just a second. But first, let's
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  Speaker 1: go to a break. Last week, China announced a 34%
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  Speaker 1: retaliatory tariff on all American goods after President Trump declared,
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  Speaker 1: of course, Liberation Day, a 10% baseline tariff on all
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  Speaker 1: imports to finally demand fairness in the global trade market.
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  Speaker 1: and rebuild American industry. So in response, President Trump said
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  Speaker 1: yesterday that he will be adding on an additional 50%
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  Speaker 1: tariff on Chinese goods beginning April 9th, so tomorrow, if
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  Speaker 1: China does not withdraw its retaliatory tariff by today. If
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  Speaker 1: China refuses, the total tariff on Chinese goods will rise
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  Speaker 1: to 104%. And this is an update from just a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes ago. AP reported that China says it will
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  Speaker 1: fight to the end and take countermeasures against the United
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  Speaker 1: States to safeguard its own interests after this increase of
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  Speaker 1: 50% tariffs on Chinese imports starting tomorrow. So China is
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  Speaker 1: not backing down. And right now, China is standing alone.
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  Speaker 1: And this is what's pretty interesting about the situation and
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  Speaker 1: why I don't think it's going to last long. I
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  Speaker 1: do think that China will have to capitulate because Michael
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  Speaker 1: said it best yesterday. President Trump is a reasonable psychopath.
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  Speaker 1: He's a reasonable psychopath. He wants trade and commerce. He
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  Speaker 1: doesn't want a global depression. But if you square up
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  Speaker 1: to President Trump, he'll tear up your goods by 104%.
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  Speaker 1: He will never be the one to de-escalate what American
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  Speaker 1: prosperity is at stake. This is a guy who is
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  Speaker 1: full alpha male energy. He is not somebody who to
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  Speaker 1: take a step back, to look weak in any way.
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  Speaker 1: And crucially, again, in situations like this, the messenger matters.
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  Speaker 1: You have to believe that whoever is squaring up to
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  Speaker 1: you with a potential trade conflict is going to actually
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  Speaker 1: follow through. And I think people will believe that President
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  Speaker 1: Trump is going to follow through on these 104% tariffs
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  Speaker 1: on China, because this is President Trump. you know he's serious.
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  Speaker 1: He's been consistent on his vibrato in this specific area
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  Speaker 1: for decades. For decades. People know that he'll actually do it.
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  Speaker 1: Here was President Trump 13 years ago. Somebody said, well,
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  Speaker 1: what would you do?
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  Speaker 5: What can you do?
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  Speaker 1: So easy.
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  Speaker 5: I drop a 25% tax on China. And And, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I said to somebody that is really the messenger. The
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  Speaker 5: messenger is important. I could have one man say, we're
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  Speaker 5: going to tax you 25%. And I could say another, listen,
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  Speaker 5: you motherfuckers, we're going to tax you 25%.
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  Speaker 1: So this is, this is what I mean by reasonable psychopath.
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  Speaker 1: Like he's, he's always willing to cut a deal. Like
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  Speaker 1: he wrote a whole book about it, right? The art
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  Speaker 1: of the deal. But if you square up to him,
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  Speaker 1: if you start acting unreasonable and Trump is not going
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  Speaker 1: to look weak. That's not his style. Not his style.
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  Speaker 1: And America is still the largest, most lucrative market in
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  Speaker 1: the world. So Trump's 104% tariff will annihilate China. It
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  Speaker 1: won't be good for us. It won't be good for anybody.
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  Speaker 1: But China is going to be decimated by this. And
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  Speaker 1: all other countries are already capitulating, like I said. China
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  Speaker 1: has no real allies to fall back on in this fight.
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  Speaker 6: Now, not only.
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  Speaker 1: Trump supporters are thrilled about the tariffs. I mentioned Elon
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  Speaker 1: Musk at the beginning. Also, billionaire Bill Ackman has flipped
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  Speaker 1: out on President Trump. He wrote yesterday in a very
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  Speaker 1: long tweet that by imposing massive tariffs on both friends
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  Speaker 1: and foes simultaneously, that Trump is risking destroying America's reputation
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  Speaker 1: as a trusted trading partner, halting business investment, collapsing consumer spending,
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  Speaker 1: causing long-term damage. She's got kind of an apocalyptic prediction
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  Speaker 1: for what this is going to lead to. And so
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  Speaker 1: he urged President Trump to take a 90-day timeout to
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  Speaker 1: negotiate fair deals, warning that otherwise we risk descending into a,
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  Speaker 1: and this is a quote, global economic nuclear war. He
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  Speaker 1: writes that the consequences for our country and the millions
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  Speaker 1: of citizens who have supported the president, particularly low-income consumers,
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  Speaker 1: already under a huge amount of economic stress, are going
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  Speaker 1: to be severely negative. This is not what we voted for.
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  Speaker 1: It's so nice, I think, of Bill Ackman, one of
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  Speaker 1: the wealthiest men on the planet, to be so concerned
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  Speaker 1: for the low-income Americans out there. It's just such a
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  Speaker 1: nice thing for him to care about, to be so
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  Speaker 1: concerned with. Here's Treasury Secretary Scott Besant on that point.
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  Speaker 7: The top 10% of Americans own 88% of equities. 88%
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  Speaker 7: of the stock market. The next 40% owns 12% of
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  Speaker 7: the stock market. The bottom 50 has debt. They have
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  Speaker 7: credit card bills. They rent their homes. They have auto loans.
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  Speaker 7: And we've got to give them some relief. We have
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  Speaker 7: President Trump's previous term when everyone said none of this
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  Speaker 7: was going to work. Oh, the China tariffs are going
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  Speaker 7: to do this. They're going to cause inflation. They didn't.
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  Speaker 7: Hourly workers did better than supervisory workers. The bottom 50%
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  Speaker 7: of households, their net worth increased faster than the top
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  Speaker 7: 10% of households.
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  Speaker 1: So these are really fascinating numbers. And it gets to
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  Speaker 1: why I don't trust Bill Ackman or Elon Musk on
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  Speaker 1: this issue. The top 10% of Americans own 88% of
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  Speaker 1: the stock market. Next 40% own the remaining 12%. The
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  Speaker 1: bottom 50% buried under debt. They don't know anything. They're negative.
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  Speaker 1: Credit cards, mortgages, auto loans. So forgive me if I'm
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  Speaker 1: not panicking like Bill Ackman this morning over the stock
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  Speaker 1: market reacting to tariffs. Stocks are a long-term investment. What's
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  Speaker 1: truly alarming is that America can no longer produce its
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  Speaker 1: own food, fertilizer, energy, weapons, medicine, vehicles, clothing, computers. We
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  Speaker 1: don't produce anything anymore. Depending on adversaries like China for
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  Speaker 1: basic survival is a very foolish and a very dangerous strategy.
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  Speaker 1: stands to take. It is a national security threat. Exporting
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  Speaker 1: every American industry has hollowed out the working class. Protecting
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  Speaker 1: American industry isn't just smart economics. It's about preserving national
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  Speaker 1: strength and sovereignty. And if you're Gen Z, you're a
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  Speaker 1: young person like myself, tariffs are actually great news. Most
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  Speaker 1: of us can't afford a home. We don't drive luxury cars.
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  Speaker 1: We don't own any stock, or if we do, we
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  Speaker 1: own very little. Tariffs shift focus away from protecting Wall
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  Speaker 1: Street portfolios and toward rebuilding American industry, which long-term is
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  Speaker 1: great for young people who are looking to the future,
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  Speaker 1: creating jobs, raising wages, bringing manufacturing back home. For a
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  Speaker 1: generation priced out of the American dream, tariffs offer a
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  Speaker 1: way to fight back against decades of outsourcing that's gutted
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  Speaker 1: the working middle class. They're about giving Gen Z a future,
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  Speaker 1: one where we can actually build, own, and thrive, not
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  Speaker 1: just watch billionaires get richer off of cheap Chinese imports. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: the president coined a new world, panicking. I think we're
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  Speaker 1: calling it out, panicking. Trump posted that the United States
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  Speaker 1: has a chance to do something that should have been
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  Speaker 1: done decades ago. Don't be weak. Don't be stupid. Don't
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  Speaker 1: be a panicking. A new party based on weak and
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  Speaker 1: stupid people. Be strong, courageous, and patient, and greatness will
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  Speaker 1: be the result. So he's calling out the people who
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  Speaker 1: are flipping out. You have Elon Musk. He's not Elon
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  Speaker 1: Musk is critical. I wouldn't say he's flipping out. Bill
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  Speaker 1: Ackman's flipping out. Ben Shapiro is flipping out. The left
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  Speaker 1: is obviously flipping out. Trump can do no right if
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  Speaker 1: you're a Democrat. It doesn't even matter. I saw this
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  Speaker 1: amazing video of Chuck Schumer calling for massive tariffs on
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  Speaker 1: China just two decades ago. 2005, he was calling for this.
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  Speaker 1: And now suddenly, Chuck Schumer's like, no, we can't have tariffs.
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  Speaker 4: And why?
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  Speaker 1: It was just because the mean orange man implemented them.
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  Speaker 1: These people are so unserious. There's been incredible backlash to
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  Speaker 1: the president on both sides of the political aisle when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to these tariffs. But Trump isn't backing down
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  Speaker 1: despite the hysteria. And I want to talk about the
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  Speaker 1: hysteria because yesterday I read a substack written by my
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  Speaker 1: former medievalist professor, Rachel Fulton Brown. She is an incredible woman,
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  Speaker 1: very smart lady. And the article is titled, Free Trade
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  Speaker 1: and the Language of Power. You can read it on
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  Speaker 1: her substack. And I encourage you all to go to
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  Speaker 1: her substack. She also has a YouTube channel called mosaic arc.
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  Speaker 1: This is an incredible piece by, again, someone with a
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  Speaker 1: very deep knowledge of centuries of world history. And in it,
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  Speaker 1: Professor Fulton Brown explains that the immediate backlash to Trump's
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  Speaker 1: tariffs can be traced back to centuries of word spells.
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  Speaker 1: What do I mean by word spells? I mean the
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  Speaker 1: powerful illusions spun by empires, phrases like free trade, designed
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  Speaker 1: to maintain control over global resources and while pretending to
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  Speaker 1: stand for freedom and progress. This is really what the
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  Speaker 1: American Revolution was fought over. Colonialists weren't colonists, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Colonial leaders like George Washington, Ben Franklin, they weren't just
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  Speaker 1: upset about taxes. They were fighting a deeper battle over
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  Speaker 1: who would control America's trade and wealth in the future
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  Speaker 1: in the global economy. Slogans like no taxation without representation
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  Speaker 1: signaled a rebellion against against British monopolies, particularly the kind
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  Speaker 1: enforced by the East India Trading Company. Fast forward a
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  Speaker 1: few decades, and the same economic war continued during the
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  Speaker 1: American Civil War. If you listen to the show daily,
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  Speaker 1: you already know that Britain meddled in the American Civil
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  Speaker 1: War by aiding the South, not out of some sort
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  Speaker 1: of principle, but to weaken an emerging America and regain
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  Speaker 1: access to the raw resources and markets it lost after
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  Speaker 1: the revolution. Today's panicked from elites like Bill Ackman isn't
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  Speaker 1: about protecting everyday Americans. It's about preserving that same global
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  Speaker 1: system that benefits the top 10% who own nearly all
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  Speaker 1: the stocks, all the wealth. Drop a comment if you
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  Speaker 1: have seen Pirates of the Caribbean. In the third movie,
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  Speaker 1: what happens in Pirates of the Caribbean? Drop a comment
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  Speaker 1: if you know. Maybe we'll throw the comments up there.
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  Speaker 4: In a second.
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  Speaker 1: But It is the East India Trading Company versus the pirates.
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  Speaker 1: And the non-fictional East India Trading Company wasn't just a
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  Speaker 1: trading business. I want to talk about this for a
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  Speaker 1: second before we talk about the pirates movie, because it
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  Speaker 1: was one of the first multinational corporations, and it was
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  Speaker 1: one of the deadliest. The East India Trading Company, chartered
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  Speaker 1: by Queen Elizabeth I in 1600, grew from a small
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  Speaker 1: merchant venture into a global empire. Yes, thank you. Everybody's
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  Speaker 1: heard of Pirates of the Caribbean. We're going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about Pirates of the Caribbean today. But first, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to give you a little rundown of the East India
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  Speaker 1: Trading Company because it built its own private armies. It
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  Speaker 1: waged wars, toppled governments, crushed local economies, extracted wealth on
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  Speaker 1: a scale the world had never seen before, all under
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  Speaker 1: the banner of free trade. The company committed mass murder,
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  Speaker 1: imposed brutal taxes, and wiped out entire industries that competed
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  Speaker 1: with British goods. In India, for instance, the company forced
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  Speaker 1: farmers to abandon food crops to grow opium and cotton
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  Speaker 1: for British profit, and this caused mass starvation. In America,
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  Speaker 1: they used political influence to force the colonies to buy
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  Speaker 1: only British tea, leading directly to the Boston Tea Party
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  Speaker 1: and the American Revolution. The East India Trading Company called
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  Speaker 1: itself the face of civilization and order. But in reality,
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  Speaker 1: it operated like a mafia cartel, backed by the full
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  Speaker 1: military power of the British crown. It pioneered modern corporate imperialism,
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  Speaker 1: a private company protected by government power, looting the world
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  Speaker 1: while pretending it's doing everybody a favor. And this history
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  Speaker 1: is exactly what the Pirates of the Caribbean movies are channeling. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I know that the pirate movies are actually hinting at
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  Speaker 1: a deeper history whose legacy lives on today. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to watch this scene. Again, this is a fictional story.
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  Speaker 1: But this scene is showing the brutal crackdown at the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of the third Pirates movie, where the East India
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  Speaker 1: Trading Company, now acting as the official arm of the
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  Speaker 1: British government, led by fictional Lord Cutler Beckett, has been
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  Speaker 1: granted near absolute power to eliminate piracy and control the seas.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 8: By decree of Lord Cutler-Beckett, duly appointed representative of His
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  Speaker 8: Majesty the King. By decree, according to martial law, the
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  Speaker 8: following statutes are temporarily amended. Right to assembly, suspended. Right
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  Speaker 8: to habeas corpus, suspended.
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  Speaker 1: If you're listening, all these men are being hung. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: not just men. Women and children, too.
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  Speaker 8: By decree, all persons found guilty of piracy or aiding
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  Speaker 8: a person convicted of piracy or associating with a person
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  Speaker 8: convicted of piracy shall be sentenced to hang by the
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  Speaker 8: neck until dead.
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  Speaker 6: You're listening to this little boy who's about to be hung,
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  Speaker 6: and he starts to sing.
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  Speaker 9: Where we will, we'll roam.
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  Speaker 10: Your whole arm has hoisted the colors high. Keep all
• 21:02
  Speaker 10: these things.
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  Speaker 4: Never shall we die.
• 21:13
  Speaker 10: Go home.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: All together.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: For it's the last time.
• 21:24
  Speaker 10: They've started to sing, sir.
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: Finally. Thieves and beggars.
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  Speaker 4: Alright, we're good with that.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Obviously, it was a very dramatic scene. It was pretty
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: horrific because they're killing civilians, including women and children, just
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: for knowing of pirates. They suspend all rights, no trial,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: no defense, no freedom of assembly. And they claim it's
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: all lawful, right? They're using the law, however, as a
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: weapon to crush anyone who resists the East India Trading
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Company's monopoly. Even though the East India Trading Company wears
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: fancy uniforms and uses official language, their actions are no
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: different from a pirate ship raiding and killing for profit.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: They're legal pirates, pirates with paperwork. And again, the Pirates
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: movies are fictional, but they're playing off of a true history.
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  Speaker 1: The East India Trading Company was doing piracy, just hiding
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  Speaker 1: behind words like order and civilization. And the same pattern
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: happens today, just in different clothes. You have big corporations
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: and governments using words like security and freedom and public
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: health and climate change and democracy to justify taking massive
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: control over people's lives. Giant financial institutions rigging markets and
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: stealing wealth from regular people, but it's legal because they
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: wrote the rules. Leaders cracking down on freedom of speech
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: or property rights, claiming it's for safety or equality, but
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: really just consolidating power. And like Beckett, Today's elites claim
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: to be civilizing or protecting people, but in reality, they
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: are just pirates in suits, stealing control while pretending it's
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: for your own good. This is the point of Pirates
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: of the Caribbean. This is why viewers sympathize with Jack Sparrow.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: The pirates are bad, but the company pirates are worse
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: because it's systematic evil disguised as virtue. One is honest
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: about being bad. The other lies and calls their violence order.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Remember this scene?
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: It turns out you're a hard man to predict.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: Me, I'm dishonest.
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: Honestly.
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: It's the honest ones you want to watch out for.
• 23:53
  Speaker 8: Because you can never predict.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: They're going to do something incredibly stupid.
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  Speaker 1: It's the honest ones you want to watch out for.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: I think that's kind of like the ethos of the
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: entire movie. The message of pirates isn't that the pirates
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: are necessarily good guys. It's that the East India Trading
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Company and people like Lord Beckett pretend to be honorable
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: and civilized and lawful while committing the worst treacheries behind
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: the mask of legitimacy. Mass hangings, oppression, wiping out free peoples,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: they weaponize the appearance of morality to consolidate power. And
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Trump's tariffs are like the pirates fight in the third movie,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: threaten the empire's dominance by challenging the system of cheap
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: foreign production that has gutted American industry and hollowed out
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: the working class. I think at its core, this backlash
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: is like the Wizard of Oz, that moment at the
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: end of the movie where you have the man behind
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: the curtain. The man behind the curtain is the free
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: trade ideology itself, a carefully crafted smokescreen. Today's economic elites
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: use linguistic magic to I said at the beginning, word spells,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: slogans of global corporations and open markets and saving democracy
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: to distract from their real project, which is controlling resources
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: and weakening nation's self-sufficiency and ensuring that power stays in
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: the hands of very few. And tariffs challenge this ancient
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: con by forcing Americans to rethink dependence on hostile powers
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: for essentials like food and medicine and energy. Tariffs start
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: to rip away the curtains Here's Batia Ungar Sargon.
• 25:33
  Speaker 9: There's one other group that's feeling as angry as the
• 25:36
  Speaker 9: Democrats are, and it's Wall Street. Because Wall Street, of course,
• 25:40
  Speaker 9: is now a Democrat backer.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 25:44
  Speaker 9: The rage that you see on Wall Street, what they
• 25:46
  Speaker 9: are trying to do here is they are shorting the
• 25:50
  Speaker 9: president's agenda. Because Wall Street thinks after 60 years of
• 25:55
  Speaker 9: being utterly catered to, that they control this country and
• 25:58
  Speaker 9: that they should control the president and all of our
• 26:01
  Speaker 9: elected officials. And of course, they think that because that
• 26:04
  Speaker 9: has been the case for so long.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: So the real reason elites are panicking is not because
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: tariffs will hurt average Americans, as Bill Ackman is saying.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: It's because tariffs reveal the truth that free trade was
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: never free, or at least in the way it's iterated
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: today and for centuries, and that economic stability has always
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: been for the few. and that the real pirates have
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: long been hiding in plain sight. Tariffs aren't just an
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: economic policy, they're a declaration of independence. They're a first
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: step toward a future where nations control their own destinies,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: where free peoples aren't ruled by pirates in suits. Make
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: sure to check out Rachel Fulton Brown's Substack, her YouTube channel,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Mosaic Arc. She is a very brilliant woman and the
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: catalyst of that segment.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: This is really, of course, a people's movement that long-term
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: benefits are going to help young people the most. Former
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: leftist Sasha Stone, I have another sub-stack to share with
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: you all. She wrote this sub-stack. It's titled, The Worst
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Thing to Happen to Democrats is Democracy. What does she
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: mean by the worst thing to happen to Democrats is democracy?
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: She means that The American people continue to reject this
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: narrative about Donald Trump being a threat to democracy. Despite
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: years of extreme accusations calling Trump a racist and a
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: fascist and a criminal, even after impeachments and indictments, Trump
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: still wins popular support. And it's leaving Democrats very bitter
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: and very confused. How can people not support our defense
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: of democracy? Democracy as this good, this ideal. And she's
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: asking them to just let it go. Because she describes
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Democrats as living in this bubble they need to free
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: themselves from, losing touch with reality, becoming a delusional, performative
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: drama club, obsessed with fantasies about Hitler and Trump and
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Nazis and Elon Musk. And nothing illustrates this point that
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: she's making better than the hands-off protests over the weekend
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and Providence. The
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: footage from these protests was so bizarre and at times
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: even grotesque. We had a Nazi Statue of Liberty in
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: chains with saying F Donald Trump. I mean, it was
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: very bizarre. It looks like the Statue of Liberty is
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: also dying. She's like a skull, like a Dio de
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: los Muertos skull. And then we had Trump with his
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: fake decapitated head on a stick. Also, This is a
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Statue of Liberty person, somebody dressed up as a Statue
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: of Liberty. You also had somebody dressed up as a
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: penis and a vagina for some reason. Again, I don't
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: know what point we're trying to make with this little costume.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I don't understand it. Obviously, it's very grotesque and bizarre.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: The next one we have, oh, do we have, yes,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: whatever this is. I don't even know how to describe
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: this photo to the viewers. An upside down flag. Trump
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: is being... led on a leash, crawling on the ground.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: You have some obese person in a wheelchair. I don't even, honestly,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: you just have to watch the real show. You have
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: to watch the video version because I can't even describe
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: what's happening here. It's just crazy. But what's most interesting
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: about these protests over the weekend is what Sasha writes,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: that they were mostly lumpy aging hippies and retirees banging
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: the damn and screaming about Hitler. That's the quote. There
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: were no young people there. Here is one Gen Z-er
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: who actually showed up and here are her observations. If
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: you voted for this, I don't forgive you. Oh, this
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: is not the video. I won't forgive you in 20
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: years when you fight. All right, we don't have the video.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: That's okay. Mikey might have grabbed the wrong one. But
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: this video is essentially a young woman in a pro-Palestine,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: is it a kifah? Is that what they call it? Anyways,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: she was very angry that young people had not showed
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: up to this protest. She said, all I'm seeing is people,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: like young moms, or I'm sorry, like millennial moms with
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: their children, boomers, a few Gen Xers. There are no
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Gen Zers here. This is a movement of older people
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: for some reason, also a very unattractive movement. I mean,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: I just showed you the video and the pictures from
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: this event. It was very bizarre. And at the end
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: of this piece, Sasha quotes Macbeth to kind of explain
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: this hands-off protest. It reads, life's but a walking shadow,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: the stage. and then is heard no more. It is
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: signifying nothing. That was that protest. Full of sound and fury,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: signifying nothing. The same thing with Cory Booker's 24-hour speech
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: on the Senate floor. What was the point of that?
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: There was nothing. And this seems to be the theme
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: with Democrats right now. There's nothing going on. They're just angry,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: and they're gross, and they're loud. But nobody knows what
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: the plan is. There's nothing inspiring about this movement. There
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: really is no movement. To be a movement that's grassroots
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: and authentic, you need young people there, and there are
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: no young people. You guys know I've talked about this
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: so many times. 30% of Gen Z males went into
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: the political right in the last four years. Every single group, black, white, women, men,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter, are more right-wing than their millennial counterparts. There's
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: something happening. The resistance and the power And the energy
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: is not with Democrats at this time. The so-called resistance,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: whether on the streets or on a billionaire's Twitter account.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Say that again, Mikey? Oh, we have the video. Let's
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: play that video. You guys can see what I'm talking about.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: This is just a young leftist woman observing what the
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: type of people who showed up to this protest over
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: the weekend.
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  Speaker 6: I'm at the protest right now in New York City, anti-Trump,
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: anti-fascist protest. And I have one question. Where the f
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: * * * is Gen Z? These people are cheering.
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: They're talking like it's just the 60s. It's just like
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: the 60s. And they're having conversations and walking slowly. There's
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: no fight here. There's no youth here. It's all 30-somethings
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: and their children and then seniors. And God bless everybody
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: who showed up today. But I'm really disappointed in the
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: youth turnout. Where is the youth turnout? This is your
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: future that is going to be impacted by the actions
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: of the Trump administration. And it's really this easy to
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: show up in numbers and show your government that they're outnumbered.
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: That is the point of a protest, to show your
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: government that they are outnumbered.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: And this protest, like I said on the streets, on
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Bill Ackman's Twitter account, isn't fighting for the people anymore.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Young people register this, and that's why they're not showing up.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: This is a desperate performance to cling to a global
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: order that benefits aging elites at the expense of everyone else.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: This is a populist revolution that President Trump is spearheading,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: one that threatens the fake morality of these performers by
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: prioritizing real sovereignty, real industry, real futures for especially young Americans.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: And that's why the backlash is so hysterical. This isn't
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: just about trade. It's about who controls the stage. And
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: for the first time in a long time, it's not them. Okay,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: let's talk about the Supreme Court. Because yesterday, SCOTUS ruled
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: in favor of the Trump administration on the usage of
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Now, what is the
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Alien Enemies Act? The Alien Enemies Act is a law
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: that gives the president broad authority to apprehend, restrain, secure,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: and remove nationals of hostile foreign nations during times of conflict.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: And Trump has very rightfully argued that the mass illegal
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: immigration in this country... on the foreign criminal organizations that
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: have flooded in, pose a modern national security threat. And
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: the Supreme Court didn't necessarily agree with that, but the
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Supreme Court did agree to lift a lower court's stay
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: rejecting Democrat judges. And one of whom actually compared the
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: deportations of violent criminals to the Nazis' treatment of prisoners.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, again, you guys, this is how hysterical and
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: absurd these people have become. Like, really? We're deporting Trendy Aragua?
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: And you're like, this is like Nazis, Nazi style. Nobody's
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: putting them in internment camps. Nobody's putting them in camps.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: We want them out. We're trying to get rid of them.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Just leave. Now, the reason, well, actually, if you are
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: a real violent criminal, you've committed real serious crimes, you
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: will be going to South America and put in a prison.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: But you probably shouldn't have come to this country in
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: the first place. And the reason the Supreme Court lifted
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Judge Boasberg's stay is because Boasberg never had the jurisdiction
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: to issue the stay in the first place. Because the
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: detained Venezuelan gang members are being held in Texas. So
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Judge Boesberg in D.C. was the wrong venue to hear
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: this kind of challenge. It made no sense. The Supreme
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Court was like, yeah, it makes no sense. If you're
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: a Texas judge, maybe, but D.C.? Makes no sense. Completely
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: the wrong venue. So here was White House Deputy Chief
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller yesterday in reaction to
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: this very good news.
• 35:47
  Speaker 11: This was a huge, I mean, a monumental victory for
• 35:51
  Speaker 11: President Trump, the biggest legal win of this administration so far.
• 35:56
  Speaker 11: A total embarrassment for crazy Judge Boasberg, who's been trying
• 36:00
  Speaker 11: to force this president to bring foreign alien terrorists back
• 36:04
  Speaker 11: onto American soil, trying to turn our planes around, trying
• 36:08
  Speaker 11: to empty prisons in foreign countries and bring them back
• 36:10
  Speaker 11: to our soil. This is a monumental, colossal victory for
• 36:16
  Speaker 11: the rule of law, for the Constitution, for our founding generation,
• 36:20
  Speaker 11: John Adams, who signed this law into effect in 1798,
• 36:24
  Speaker 11: and for President Trump in.
• 36:26
  Speaker 12: Fulfilling his mandate and campaign pledge. What does this mean
• 36:29
  Speaker 12: for you and your family watching at home tonight? It
• 36:32
  Speaker 12: means that the Department of Justice, FBI, DEA, ATF, the U.S.
• 36:37
  Speaker 12: Marshal Service, Customs and Border Protection, Border Patrol, and Immigration
• 36:41
  Speaker 12: and Customs Enforcement now have maximum authority to find and
• 36:46
  Speaker 12: remove illegal alien gang members from Venezuela that have been
• 36:50
  Speaker 12: responsible for so much misery in this country, for the
• 36:54
  Speaker 12: torture and murder of Jocelyn Nunguri, for the brutal slaying
• 36:58
  Speaker 12: of Lake and Riley. Those monsters can now be hunted
• 37:02
  Speaker 12: down and expelled from this country with speed, force and efficiency.
• 37:07
  Speaker 11: This is a great day for America.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: President Trump is attempting to enforce the law. This is
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: what he was elected to do. The idea that the
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: United States should be forced by its own courts to
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: shelter gang members and who have raped and murdered and
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: brutalized Americans is not just insane, it is a gross
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: betrayal of the American people. The first duty of government
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: is to protect its own people, not to import danger
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: under the guise of compassion. And I want to bring up,
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: somebody was commenting about Amy Coney Barrett. Let's talk about
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Amy Coney Barrett for a second, because she did side
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: with the leftists on this court. And we had a
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: couple days ago on the show, well, on Friday, my
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: friend Jack Posobiec, And Jack Posobiec, when Amy Coney Barrett
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: was going through this process, was actually one of the
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: only people to say, I'm not so sure about this woman.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: I'm not so sure. And Democrats have been installing activist
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: judges at all levels of the legal system, but especially
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. When they pick somebody to serve on
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: the high court, they are picking radical leftists, activist judges.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: And there's this theory that, well, we can pick judges
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: who do good things and and who just want to
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: follow the Constitution. They're constitutionalists, and we'll get the right results,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: even if they're not explicitly right-wing or conservative, if they're
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: not also activist judges. And clearly that's not the case.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Amy Coney Barrett has sided with the leftists on a
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: lot of cases, very stupidly. And we have to pick— somebody
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: says she's scared. You know, maybe that's a fine theory.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: It could be that she's afraid that her family will
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: be under threat, although she did side with the conservatives
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: on the Roe v. Wade decision, so I'm not sure
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: that's true. I think really she's just not that strong
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: of a Supreme Court justice. And I think we have
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: to meet those who are selected by left-wing presidents with
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: the same type of energy. We have to install right-wing
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Supreme Court justices because this is what they're doing on
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: the left. They are installing left-wing ones. So we really
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: need to, I think, get stronger. and be more intentional
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: about who we're picking to the court because they serve
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: for life. And obviously Amy Coney Barrett was a huge disappointment.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: By the way, speaking of insane judges, three law have
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: been filed so far to stop President Trump's executive orders
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: restoring biological reality to military standards and removing radical gender
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: ideology from military policy. So Trump ordered a ban on
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: males accessing women's facilities and reinstating gender dysphoria as a
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: disqualifying condition for service. because it is a serious problem
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: that you would have if you think you're in the
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: wrong gender. That's probably a sign that you shouldn't be serving.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: And he also ended Biden-era mandates for taxpayer-funded gender transition
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: surgeries and treatments in the military. But Judge Ana Reyes,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: a Democrat-appointed activist and the first openly gay Latina judge
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: in D.C., has blocked President Trump's executive order. And she
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: just flat-out ignored Defense Department data showing that service members
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: with gender dysphoria and had almost tripled the medical costs
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: of other troops and made 30,000 mental health visits in
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: one year with high suicide risks even after surgeries. She
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: just ignores the data and she issues a nationwide injunction
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: accusing Trump's policy of being, and this is the quote,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: soaked in animus. What does soaked in animus mean? That
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: means that she thought Trump was being mean Yep, that's
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: how we're deciding what injunctions to put on the president,
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: on presidential executive orders. Just, it was mean. It was
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: not nice to trans people. It wasn't a kind thing
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: to do. Never mind the data. Never mind preparedness and
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: security of this country and the taxpayers and funding apparently
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: transgender surgeries for military service members. It just wasn't very nice.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: Apparently that's how we're handling national security these days. This
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: could be tangled up in court for a very long time, unfortunately,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: which is why Elaine Donnelly made a great point in
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: The Federalist. She said, Congress needs to embed biological reality
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: and sanity into the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, such
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: as defining male and female in law, mandating merit-based personnel policies,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: and dismantling ideological power centers within the Pentagon. And this
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: is what Congress really does need to do. It's a
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: great point. You have the We have to act now
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: and actually install these Trump policies, make them much more
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: difficult to get rid of. We can have an executive
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: order and it'll last for four years, be a Democrat
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: after Trump, and it goes away immediately. There needs to
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: be some permanency to these executive orders, and this is
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: just one example of where it needs to happen. By
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: the way, speaking of Democrats doing things nobody wants or
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: asks for, San Francisco has launched equity speed cameras. Yes,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: San Francisco driver's caught in traffic violations face fines, but
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: low-income residents pay significantly less, sometimes as little as $ 5,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: while others face fines of up to $ 500. So instead
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: of treating all citizens equally, San Francisco is now punishing
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: people differently based on how much money they make. A,
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: of course, direct assault on the basic American principle that
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: the law should apply equally to everyone. In this case,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: it explicitly does not apply equally to everyone. A wealthier
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: drive or and a low-income driver could break the same
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: exact law at the same exact speed and face radically
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: different punishments. So this is not justice. It's legalized discrimination.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: Fines are supposed to deter dangerous behavior, not become a
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: political tool for social engineering based on income. Speeding is
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: either dangerous or it is not dangerous, and a rich
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: person speeding doesn't endanger lives more than a poor person's.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: And really, this is sort of a hallmark of collectivist
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: regimes in the Soviet Union, Citizens were treated differently based
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: on their social class origins. Class enemies, like successful farmers
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: called the kulaks, were targeted for heavier taxes, confiscations, brutal punishments,
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: regardless of their individual behavior. And in Mao Zedong's China
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: during the Cultural Revolution, people were labeled as part of
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: bad or privileged classes, and they were humiliated and fined
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: and imprisoned, even killed, simply because of who they were,
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: not because they had committed any kind of crime. In Spain,
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: we've talked about it on Friday with Jack Posobiec, the
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: commie Republicans stole people's belongings and property. And the logic
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: has always been the same. Punish certain groups to redistribute
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: equity and enforce ideological purity, not to maintain real justice.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about the dire wolf. I want
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: to get to the dire wolf because that is- Guy's
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: been waiting for this all day. Guy's been waiting for
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: the dire wolf. Okay, we'll talk about the dire wolf. Oh,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: you guys are ready for this one?
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: Yes, we have to talk about the dire wolf. Scientists-
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: have genetically modified gray wolves to resemble the extinct dire wolf.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: These are modified wolves named Romulus and Remus. They were
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: born October 1st, 2024. So not resurrecting the extinct dire
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: wolf as it is being labeled by this company that
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: did this. They are actually just genetically modified gray wolves.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: Here are the fake dire wolves. I mean, they're pretty cute.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: If you're listening on Apple or Spotify, they look like
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: little stuffed animals, super white and fluffy. Yeah, it's pretty cute.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: They're pretty cute. But again, like I said, they're modified wolves.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Everybody's saying, oh, the dire wolf, it's back. Oh, Game
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: of Thrones, it's awesome. It's really not a dire wolf.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: These wolves are engineered to phenotypically mimic what scientists believe
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: dire wolves looked like. Now, the project, led by Colossal Biosciences,
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: a private Dallas company, claims it is continuing to broaden
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: conservation efforts by restoring species that play a vital role
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: in ecosystems. But let's talk about it. Should we actually
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: be doing this? The same company is also in the
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: process of bringing back woolly mammoths. We talked about how
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: they actually created a woolly mammoth mouse a while ago
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: on this process to bringing back the woolly mammoth. There's
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: an obsession now in science and technology that we can
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: transcend the limits of nature. We can be like gods ourselves.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: But the fact that we can do something doesn't necessarily
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: mean that we should. And this is, of course, going
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: to be my point today here. Because That's pretty much
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: the entire plot of Jurassic Park. I don't know why
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: nobody learned their lesson from Jurassic Park. Let's bring back
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: the dinosaurs and it'll be so fun. And then of course,
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: like everybody dies and it's horrific. Like I think that
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: we have, thank you. Yeah, those are the woolly mammoth mice.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: I would think that we'd have learned our lesson from
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: those movies, but I apparently not. I think the line
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: between stewarding creation and playing God gets dangerously blurred when
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: we start redesigning life itself to fit our desires of
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: or our nostalgic fantasies. And it's important to remember that
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: creation has an inherent order and dignity given by God.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: And when we manipulate life on this scale, we risk
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: severing it from its creator, turning it into a human
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: project rather than a divine gift. Technologies like de-extinction may
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: sound really exciting, but they reflect the same pride, the
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: same temptation as the serpent's promise in Eden, that we
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: can be like God's. I think real conservation is honors
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: what God has made. It doesn't try to re-engineer it
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: according to our fallen imaginations. And let's talk about one
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: of the dire wolves' biggest fans right now. Of course,
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: Elon Musk. Elon Musk tweeted this in response to the
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: dire wolves. He said, please make a miniature pet woolly mammoth.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: And this excitement, to be predicted, this excitement over engineering
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: life is consistent with Elon Musk's broader view that treats
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: nature as something provisional, something to be modified and enhanced
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: and even replaced. And while Elon's contributions to technology and
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: space exploration have rekindled a spirit of American problem solving,
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: this perspective often conflicts with the root of conservative thought,
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: which emphasizes gratitude for the created order rather than relentless
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: desire to transcend it. I think Elon Musk's vision of
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: humanity is literally, and this.
• 47:52
  Speaker 10: Is actually a quote.
• 47:52
  Speaker 11: But the team at Colossal says their mission to restore extinct.
• 47:55
  Speaker 7: I'm hearing.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: Something in my ear, Mikey.
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: This is the Elon Musk quote that I think kind
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: of highlights exactly what his worldview is. He says, humanity
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: should be a biological bootloader for the digital superintelligence. Of course,
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: he's talking about AI. And there's no respect for God-giving
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: nature in this worldview. It's just simply progress. And the
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: real battle that we are living through is between those
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: who still believe in honoring limits and the natural law,
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: the created order, the sovereignty of nations, and those who
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: believe in limitless manipulation. And whether that's economies, populations, even
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: life itself, tariffs, border security, biological reality, fair laws, these
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: aren't isolated fights in my view. They're all fronts in
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: the same deeper struggle. Will we accept the gift of reality?
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: with all its duties and protections, or will they continue
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: to chase the fantasy that human pride can reshape the
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: world without consequence? There are so many who try to
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: reshape the world and do not build but destroy. They
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: break families, they erase borders, they deny basic truths like
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: male and female, bankrupt nations, desecrate the environment, and unleash
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: technologies that they cannot control. And they promise liberation every time.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: And yet they constantly deliver slavery to debt, to despair,
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: artificial systems, that collapse under their own weight, we need
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: this messy, necessary, declaration that the world isn't a playground
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: for elites and their experiments. It belongs to the people
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: who build, who defend, who create families and futures, not
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: to those who think that they can play God. And
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: that's all that I have today.
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: Are we good, Mikey? Yeah. All right.
• 49:38
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• 49:52
  Speaker 10: No, he does not.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: He doesn't have any guests today? Any this week? He'll
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: have a bunch this week. He'll have a bunch this week.
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: Well, make sure to tune in to Vince. After that,
• 50:00
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