The Government Cannot Have It Both Ways

Labor Day or not, we’re still up early with the Peasants Perspective, and we jump straight into the uncomfortable stuff people say out loud now. Would you really hand over 75% of your income in taxes if it meant everyone gets health care, and do you trust a government drowning in debt to manage it? That single question opens a bigger one: what does “public good” mean when the bill always lands on regular working people.

Then we follow the trail through today’s biggest narratives and contradictions. We break down a January 5 pipe bomber courtroom fight where the government calls an alternative theory “baseless” while also admitting it investigated a different suspect with massive resources, and we connect that to the way legacy media plays defense with a constant worst-case “nuke card” framing. From there we hit energy independence, refinery capacity, and why Venezuela keeps showing up as a talking point, including the moral and strategic tension of dealing with an illegitimate regime while still chasing lower gas and diesel prices.

We also talk accountability and information warfare at home: the FCC’s view of broadcast obligations, fake polls, political ad pricing, and how public airwaves are not the same as podcasts. On the global side, we unpack Iran oil blockade and sanctions strategy, plus the Canada tariff standoff and what leverage looks like when a smaller economy overplays its hand.

Finally, we get into the trade you can’t undo: surveillance and control. We debate Flock cameras and license plate readers, how “real crimes only” promises tend to expand, and how AI data centers can bring wealth while also raising the stakes around power, infrastructure, and who gets to pull the plug. We wrap with the generational squeeze on housing and family formation, and JD Vance’s push to make raising kids cheaper, including paying moms to stay home.

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Labor Day Banter And The Sip

SPEAKER_21 0:36

The revolution's gonna be kids for sure. It's a little gun, it's a little gummy take every peasants, ma'am. We're just peasants. Every one of us. You watch those old movies? You see the peasants in the background with the kings and kings walking around? We're those people. We're those people. Good morning, peasants. Welcome to another episode of the Peasants Perspective on Labor Day. This one's for you. I know you have an addiction, so I wanted to make sure we got an episode up for you. Bread the Rosary Daily doing a show today. Yay! Yes, yes, yes. Pony boy, good morning. No rest for the oil field man over there. No rest at all. How's your weekend, Ron?

SPEAKER_07 1:27

Uh, it was pretty awesome. Um, well, I mean, I did go to another funeral.

SPEAKER_21 1:35

By good riddance, right? What's going on? What do you mean by that? I went to another funeral. It was a great weekend. I went to another funeral.

SPEAKER_07 1:43

I just kind of forgot about that half of it. I was like thinking about Sunday, and then I was like, well, wait a second. Saturday, I did go to a funeral.

SPEAKER_21 1:50

Saturday, I cried. Oh well, I'm sorry to hear about that. Was it someone close?

SPEAKER_07 1:58

No, he's just a member of the ward, you know, older guy.

SPEAKER_21 2:02

Okay, okay. Well, you know, it's just life, I guess. Yeah, another member of the family. Go in sequence. As we say in equity, the discharge follows the charge of wizard. Turns out the only thing certain is death. Not even taxes are certain. All right, yeah, it's Labor Day. What's Labor Day all about? It's isn't like the the celebration of unions over the lawyer or something. I don't know. Right to work. Right to work. Yeah, I'm not exactly certain what Labor Day is all about.

SPEAKER_07 2:37

I think it's like it always confused me the most because it's like, well, I mean, we labor all the time, but on the Labor Day we don't.

SPEAKER_21 2:45

I just know that I think you're allowed to wear, you're not supposed to wear white after Labor Day or something. I don't know. I don't know. Something. Something, something. All right. I know you why you guys show up here bright and early every morning, including federal holidays. Too many of those. This is costing the country big time.

SPEAKER_07 3:02

Yeah, when they get our bill.

SPEAKER_21 3:05

You're here for the simultaneous sip. And all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice of stein, a canteen, jug, or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Ron's got a Dr. Pepper over there. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better, the simultaneous sip, and it starts right now.

Taxes, Health Care, And Anger

SPEAKER_08 3:26

I'll tell you a little quick story, Megan. I had somebody look me in the face and said, I don't give a damn if I have to pay 75% of my money in taxes. As long as everybody in the country has health care, I'm good. I looked at that person and said, You lost your damn mind. Get the hell away from me. I want to talk to you. I want to listen to you. 75% of my money going to taxes to a government that's accumulated over $39 trillion in debt, and I'm supposed to believe they're gonna know what to do with my money. You must be on drugs. I told the person to get the hell out of my face. I don't even want to talk to you. I don't even want to talk to them, right? And I walked away from it. And it was at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills. I almost cussed them out damn in the hotel lobby. That's how bad it was.

SPEAKER_21 4:07

I think it might have actually happened. 75%? You we're not even gonna talk. We're not even gonna

Voting, Complaining, And Consequences

SPEAKER_21 4:14

talk. Someone this weekend said, you know, I'm not gonna vote the midterms. All the Republicans I know know we're not voting. I was like, well, then you forgo your right to complain. Well, what do you mean I forgo my right to complain? I'm like, what do you some of these people, man? Like the Alex Joneses over the world, would you rather Kamala? Like, I'm pretty sure you'd still owe the billion dollars and you'd probably already be in jail. You know, it's like, wow, some of these guys.

Pipe Bomber Case And Doubt

SPEAKER_21 4:38

Yeah, and the government always wants to have its cake and eat it too. This is an example from the Brian Cole trial. Brian Cole is the alleged January 5th pipe bomber. So there was an investigation into the Capitol Hill police officer, turned CIA officer, and the Brian Cole defense is going with a defense strategy called an alternative theory claim. Okay. There's another theory that needs to be explored that kind of this other theory causes enough doubt on our client that he needs to be acquitted. This sounds like a magic bullet theory. Uh, it's not, I don't wouldn't call it a magic bullet theory. It's more like, hey, there's you know, it's our client's a patzy theory. So this is from Brian Cole's defense. The government claims that Mr. Cole's alternative perpetrator defense is, quote, a baseless conspiracy theory and in and not in quote good faith. Yet the government does not and cannot reconcile that claim with its own investigation into Mrs. Kirchhoff, the pipe bomber. More than 100 FBI agents investigated Miss Kirchhoff for months. 100 Ron. 100. Searching her home and her vehicle, administering a polygraph examination to her, obtaining surveillance footage of her walking for analysis by a gay expert, and surveilling her covertly for weeks, among other investigative tactics. Ms. Kirchhoff was also interviewed by AUSA Ballantyne, a prosecutor in this case against Mr. Cole. Taking the government's word and its response as true, you're saying there's no basis. It's a baseless conspiracy theory. Because the Keystone cops checked it out. That's true, would mean that the government conducted this months-long invasive investigation into Mr. Mrs. Kirchhoff on a baseline conspiracy theory. Either the government investigated Ms. Kirchhoff on a theory it knew was a baseless conspiracy, or the theory was not a baseless conspiracy. The government cannot have it both ways.

SPEAKER_07 6:51

For real.

SPEAKER_21 6:53

Yes, exactly. You don't get to have your cake and eat it too, ladies and gentlemen. So that's I just that's just another one of those things. It's like, listen, this whole January 5th pipe bomber nonsense is garbage. All right.

The Media Nuke Card Mindset

SPEAKER_21 7:09

So let's see, what's his uh Chris Wright, he's the United States, he's the Trump's energy secretary, was was on with CNN and Dana Bash, who has does nothing but bash America, it seems like, right? She's one of these, she was married to one of the 51 intelligence officers that signed the letter that said that the Hunter Biden laptop looked like Russian disinformation. They've since separated, but she's kept the name. But nonetheless, she's in this mocking bird media kind of loose affiliation, like pretty much looks like she's a kind of talking points you we want. And right now, Mockingbird Media, aka the deep state mouthpieces, are just all lined up against Trump, right? Nothing he does is good. And it's because agenda-wise, they oppose globalism. One of the things I learned in high school debate was we had this, we we I did policy debate. And so you tote around these big totes with all these research points, and as the uh you know, people who go first present their case, your job as defense is to punch some holes in it, and you know, if this, then this, and a whole bunch of that stuff. And we had this card, we called it the nuke card. And what it was uh when we would debate school choice around vouchers, right? Remember, this is back in the Bush administration, and the No Child Left Behind Act was being debated and kind of was in the zeitgeist. And one of the ways to fund education is with vouchers, right? You give the parents the money that you would otherwise give to any other public school and they can go shop around for a private school, use it to subsidize, it was just give the money to the parents and let the parents find in a free market the best education for their kids. So if they would argue that point, which by the way, I agree with, if they would argue that point, we would eventually get to the point where we'd bring out the nuke card. And what we would say is that if President Bush gets enough political capital by passing something that causes success, he will use that political capital to bomb Iraq. Okay, that was or some other you know, country unknown, okay, and that that political capital would basically lean into his totalitarian dictatorial, you know, leanings and that the presidency would become too powerful. So therefore, you must oppose something that is good for the education of your child for fear that President Bush might get the political capital to do something even worse, right? That was the the nuke card. That was the we can't let President Bush have any legislative successes because no matter and it didn't matter the topic, no matter what, it ends with Bush using a nuke. That was the debate, and it was a valid chess piece to play. Okay, completely irrelevant in the real world. Would you not agree? Right. So what's going on right now is everybody in mocking murder media is playing a nuke card. Any political capital that Donald Trump gets, anything that could possibly be good for you, lower your price, uh help with healthcare, help with childcare, make a better system. We oppose it. We oppose it, we oppose it, we oppose it. Why? Because Trump might get rid of drag time story hour, and that would just be horrible. Trump might get rid of DEI or environmental environmental protections, and that would be horrible. Trump might use a nuclear weapon, and that would be horrible. So here's Dana Bash pulling out a nuke card when it comes to American oil

Energy Dominance And Refinery Reality

SPEAKER_21 10:36

production. So what's happening now is they're taking Trump's, you know, bragging that America is now one of the top oil-producing nations in the world, and they're saying, oh, this Venezuela deal, though, I mean, isn't that bad for America now?

SPEAKER_18 10:48

The Ukrainian destruction of Russian refineries. Russia was a meaningful exporter of diesel throughout the last several decades. Today they've banned any exports of diesel. China has also dramatically throttled back exports of diesel. And in fact, Russia is importing gasoline where they have historically been a net exporter of that. So the refining market has become very tight. Uh the Biden administration closed over a dozen refineries in the United States. Kevin Newsome in California closed two significant refineries just in the last 12 months. We, of course, are rowing in the opposite direction. The Trump administration is working with our refiners to expand our capacity. In fact, our efforts in Venezuela will also bring on not just oil production, but ultimately a rise in refinery capacity in Venezuela to supply the world. So the world's had a lot of things rowing against the diesel market. Um, and and democratic policies for the last 15 years to crimp the production of hydrocarbons in the United States has certainly taken a toll, but we're rolling in the other direction, and we'll see that expanded.

SPEAKER_02 11:56

On Venezuela, the administration so training.

SPEAKER_21 11:59

Okay, so this was the wrong clip. This was one that was more associated with Iran, but they talk about Venezuela, and Dana Bash starts saying, but the Venezuela, but the Venezuela. And the clip ends. We're gonna go to a completely different news channel. This is the clip I was thinking of.

Venezuela Oil Deal Pushback

SPEAKER_21 12:13

It's not Dana Bash, it's over on on Face the Nation. That Venezuela talking point, Mockingbird Media, okay, Mockingbird Media, they are all saying the same things. We're jumping to a completely different news hour, a completely different program, and they're almost going to pick up the conversation right where that led off. Venezuela.

SPEAKER_00 12:34

How is US investment in Venezuelan oil production consistent with American energy dominance and independence?

SPEAKER_21 12:44

Which he just got done explaining in the previous hour. Democrats have been getting rid of American energy dominance. They've closed refineries. Gavin Newsom just closed some. Biden closed 12. Okay. So that was the status quo. Get rid of American energy dominance. But now that Trump's pumping it up, this is exactly what I'm talking about. They're using it to be like, oh, well, if you're getting oil anywhere else.

SPEAKER_18 13:09

Well, first of all, it's the Western Hemisphere, it's America's. And the great thing about this deal, the United States did, no cost, zero cost to American taxpayers, but we're gonna we're gonna get massive amounts of discounted oil price and ownership interest in some production there. But it's a win for Venezuela as well, because it helps the investment climate to draw more and more foreign capital in, mostly American capital, but from elsewhere around the world, to grow their production, lift the incomes and job oppos opportunities for Venezuelans, and lower energy prices for the United States. A classic win-win business deal.

SPEAKER_21 13:48

It's win-win for America. What is the perspective from Venezuela, though? So, do you think the Venezuelan government, the current regime under Delcy Rodriguez is like the democratically elected representation of the people of Venezuela? No, no. Yeah, you guys missed Ron Space. No, of course not. So Mer uh Machado, the Nobel Prize winner recently, she gave a speech this week basically saying, um, we love America. I love Donald Trump, but this deal is being struck with an illegitimate regime. Don't you think maybe we should have some elections first and then strike a deal? Right? That's the concern here, right? I mean, I think the oil, as far as I'm concerned, take it, bro. Like, get it. Go get some, okay? And if they got oil on Mars, let's go. So seriously team player one, right? So I I'm I get that. But at the same time, I also understand the criticism where it's like, um, you're cutting a deal with someone who we don't really believe is elected. In fact, we believe she's part of the cartel. Installed. Installed. And I guess what Trump is looking at going, hey, well, we can extradite you too. So play along. And it seems like they're uh it kind of feels like Venezuela is becoming a colony. I'm sure that's premature to say that. I'm sure you've got Chevron crawling all over their oil pumps and their oil wells and stuff like that. But I I don't think I could go so far as to say they're a colony, but clearly there's been some resource carving up here. So we'll see how that all turns

Ukraine Russia Ceasefire Updates

SPEAKER_21 15:24

out. Meanwhile, as of as of right now, there is currently a ceasefire going on between Ukraine and Russia. This is great news. So Steve Wickhoff and Jared Kushner headed over to Russia and they struck a three-deal ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia. Here's Putin talking about the deal. Alright, so he goes on to say, you know, this deal is very difficult to come to, and he thanks Steve Wickoff and Jared Kushner for helping broker the deal, and he hopes that it will lead to more lasting peace. This is not the first ceasefire they've had, but this one feels a little bit different. There's a little bit more like the the we want to get to the finish line going on here. This is Putin. Uh he did his little press conference and he's being asked about the CIA director flew out to Moscow to beat with the equivalent intelligence head over there. And so he's being asked about that and kind of asked about the negotiating dynamics. But one of the things he talks about is Jared Kushner and Steve Wickoff, they have the trust of president, the president, and that's critical for negotiations. That was what was missing under the Biden administration is the negotiators didn't really have the trust of the president. So they may negotiate something, and then the president, through his own political manipulation, would do or say something completely different. This is not unlike what happened between Canada and the United States for trade. The trade representatives get a negotiated deal and then Kearney blows it up, right? So same thing has happened multiple times.

SPEAKER_09 17:26

Today any contacts we have with the US are attracting a lot of attention. Perhaps new mediators, including among the Americans?

SPEAKER_21 17:45

Okay. New mediators. They're talking about Jared Kusher and Wickoff. Again, anything Trump does that's does that's good, they want to criticize. Wickoff and Kushner were behind the Abraham Accords, they've been behind eight settled global clock conflicts. And the zeitgeist right now, what the main with the mockingbird media is putting out as they're incompetent negotiators, they can't get this across the finish line. Look at how many bad deals they've made in Iran, right? Nothing about the successes, nothing about the fact that you can't win unless you try, right? They're trying to disrupt that relationship between the President Wickoff and Jared Kushner.

SPEAKER_09 18:22

First of all, contacts between intelligence representatives always take place. And as you may have noticed, very recently we handed over an American citizen to the US side who was serving a sentence here. Well, we handed him over on health and humanitarian grounds. Plus, he's just a regular guy, a bit of a drinker, a brawler, and his health is poor. So let him go home and get treatment. So that's the first point. Contacts are always there and have always existed even during the most difficult times of the Cold War, and even more so now. But if someone is in a position to bring something positive to this negotiation process, which as we understand is frozen to a certain degree today, then on the whole, we are not opposed. These are people close to President Trump. In my view, they are sincere people. And President Trump trusts them, which is very important. Without that, it is impossible to conduct any negotiations at all. Because if they agree on something with us, and then the top leader filters everything they say and divides it by a thousand or more, uh then it becomes pointless. But as it stands, we understand that he trusts them. That is why both Mr. Kushner and Mr. Whitkop are always welcome guests here. And we are pleased to work with them. Wow.

SPEAKER_21 20:42

In Trump's first term, the White House biographer, I can't remember his name, I have his book at home. And when I got the book, I ordered it, right? I just opened it up to just some random page. I have to admit, I haven't read it cover to cover. Opened it up to some random page, and it was about Jared Kushner. And it was saying that Jared Kushner is Trump's primary negotiator, and he's accepted worldwide. When he goes to negotiate with a Saudi prince, remember, House of Saud, right? They're all family. When he goes and negotiate with anybody internationally, it's well understood. We're talking millennia of kings and queens negotiating through their siblings, brothers, sons, right? Diplomats, the best diplomat is family because there's a tie there that is very strong. Obviously, Jared Kushner being Trump's son-in-law. And in the book, it's it was commented by some foreign diplomat. We love it when we talk to Jared Kushner because we know we're talking to Trump. Right. We know that Jared will be loyal to Trump and that understands Trump. And that when Trump is out of power, they will have dinner together. And that they're like they're not, they're not politically at odds in that regard. And that is the way the world negotiates. And America hasn't negotiated that way because of our meritocracy and there's no nepotism, right? You have a lot of competing political interest, a secretary of state who wants to be president, who might sabotage negotiations so that he can come back around after he becomes president to get the deal done. Do you see what I'm saying? That political intrigue, that Game of Thrones powers thing that happens in the United States, does stunt uh true high-level diplomatic work. It works great for grift graft and corruption at the lower levels. You know what I mean? It works great.

SPEAKER_07 22:28

But when it comes to the wrong thing, or on a short-term basis, if you want to hose somebody.

SPEAKER_21 22:32

Yes, but when it comes to the kind of things where you need the fiat of the king, the so let it be written, so let it be done, you've got to negotiate with someone that can be trusted president to president, not through a bunch of diplomats that then filter it through. You know what I mean? So Sky News in England reported on this weekend's talks, and I don't know, I mean, kind of mixed reviews. It's it's another one of those sounds like they don't really want Trump to be successful, but you can't say that out loud because then people keep getting killed.

SPEAKER_12 23:01

The Russian government just reacting ever so slightly to the visit by Steve Withoff and Jared Kushner envoys from the United States to both Moscow and then also to Kyiv. It was the American uh envoy's first uh trip to the Ukrainian capital. Well, following that uh shuttle diplomacy between the two nations that are, of course, continuing to be at war. The Kremlin are saying in Russia that they do not rule out Russia, USA, Ukraine talks resuming. They say it's too early to speak about a time in a venue, but they don't rule out the resumption of trilateral talks. They also say they do not rule out Putin and Trump having a call, holding a conversation. They've held many calls. So that uh would be uh uh hardly surprising if they had to rule out uh calls because they've had many, and saying that they're grateful for Trump's commitment to peace, uh saying that trilateral talks haven't received information about the contacts in Kyiv, but they don't rule out making contact. We'll follow those developments closely.

SPEAKER_21 23:58

The Russian are they are they wanting not contact or no? Like I mean, Trump is a Russian stooge. That's probably why he's talking to him, right? Carl Leeds, good morning, this Labor Day Monday. Yes, yes, yes. Pony Boy says Mars needs some freedom. I bet the per diem there would be nice. You would want the per diem. Guess what though? Only paid in Bitcoin. They found out that a Bitcoin transaction can clear in Mars in three minutes, which would be the fastest known technology. So Bitcoin is Mars money. All right, another thing that happened this weekend, which was kind of interesting, and and we're gonna we're gonna cover the story kind of in two parts.

Fox News, Loyalty, And Censorship

SPEAKER_21 24:35

But one of the things that is going on is the legacy media news channels. I had a discussion with my dad, he's in town, and uh had a discussion with my dad about mocking bird media and Fox News and Maria Bartolomo. And my dad pulled out the card. Dad, I'm not you know waving any confidences, but my dad is very much like, listen, you know, you you agreed to something, you follow the rules. You follow the rules. And Maria Bartolomo was fired because she sent a screenshot of the email from the Murdoch saying, Don't cover the election fraud. And I had to clarify with my dad, this isn't from 2020. This is like the speech Trump gave in July. They were told not to cover it the next day. So, Fox News, as I put on my pose, it was like they were in on it, you know, they were in on the election fraud, that's why they don't want to talk about it. They settled with Dominion. If Dominion really can be hacked, why'd you settle and pay 700 billion or 700 million dollars to Dominion? You know what I mean? So it's one of those, like, eh, where is your real loyalty? Is your loyalty to your employer or is your loyalty to the country? The entire employer contract is only upheld because the country can enforce the laws. If the country starts having two-tiered systems of justice, that's a problem. So, at what point does your loyalty, you know what I mean? Like, if you have a contract that says hurt people and you don't hurt people, are you in violation of your contract? Is that the moral wrong? Do they have the right to hurt you, or maybe the whole company should be examined? That's my you know, extreme example take. But Brendan Carr was is was on the news and he's being asked by Peter Ducey about um about a decision that the I want to make sure I get this right because there's two clips here. Okay, so he was being asked about a report when when the legacy media has been reporting on this Iran talk, there's been a whole lot of or on Trump's endorsements. He's had a 97% endorsement success rate, and they said it's mixed, you know, some are, some out. It was just a false statement. Like it's no, it's the majority. Like there's no the way the way Kristen Welker downplayed his endorsements was really kind of an abhorrent abject falsity. Does that make sense? So Trump post posted on truth. I want us to refer her to the FCC for investigation. Like that's fake news. The legacy media has a different burden. So here is Brendan Carr, chairman of the FCC, explaining to Peter Ducey how legacy media has a different burden than say us here at the peasants' perspective. We can say whatever we want, right? We don't have a contract. We don't, we're not using public airwaves. Like this is just a free First Amendment type of thing. Now, of course, journalists are covered by the First Amendment and things like that, but they also have a contract. Remember, Dad? They have a contract. They have a contract with the government to broadcast on these public airways with certain terms and conditions. One of those things being fairness. You can't call something you know to be abjectly false news because you're given a license to broadcast on airways to disseminate information and let people decide. That's how it was set up, that's how it was designed. None of them honor that.

SPEAKER_19 27:44

One more thing I do want

FCC Standards And Fake Polls

SPEAKER_19 27:45

to ask you about. President Trump was watching Meet the Press last Sunday. He did not like that the moderator said his record on endorsements was mixed. He said he was going to report Kristen Welker to the FCC for rebuke or punishment. Uh, you are the FCC. Have you received this report?

SPEAKER_17 28:01

Well, the one thing that President Trump gets fundamentally is that broadcast TV is completely different than other forms of distribution, including cable. And so many broadcasters right now, they want to break the deal that they cut with the American people. They get billions of dollars in taxpayer effectively subsidized distribution. And what they're supposed to do in exchange is operate in the public interest, not some sort of narrow partisan interest. So I think President Trump is over the target. And we're looking at a lot of actions. For instance, there's a lot of interest right now in fake polls that are out there. And so the FCC may put guidance out soon to remind broadcasters about their obligations with respect to not airing fake polls, particularly if they're done to suppress uh suppress people heading into the fall. You got a lot. That's pretty significant. Fake polls.

SPEAKER_21 28:49

Fake polls. Fake polls, fake polls. No, but we had that one, was it called the Guardian or Median that was putting out fake polls in Iowa and then in California, just as a social experiment. Yet the news was running with it as if these guys were legitimately doing, you know, like large enough survey samples to be real, totally false. A lot of these polls are fake. I mean, they are. And so I think it, I think, I think that's exactly right. Listen, you're using public airways, essentially being subsidized billions of dollars to do that. You have to report truth. Now, you could be wrong, but you can't be knowingly wrong, right? You can't put out memos that when the president, no matter the president, does a primetime speech and Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, releases unclassified documents showing and validating what the presidents say. You can't say, Don't cover it. That's not in the public interest.

SPEAKER_07 29:43

Or vote good on Wednesday or something like that.

SPEAKER_21 29:46

Yeah, exactly, exactly. Like you can't do that. The other thing,

Political Ads And Supreme Court Shift

SPEAKER_21 29:50

too, is this concept of earned media, right? You do something and then you get on the media shows. And so there's there's been there used to be a rule, and I think Reagan got rid of it, but there used to be a rule that you had to give both candidates equal time. 50% for the Democrat, 50 cent for the Republican. If there's an independent, you had to give them equal time. But that got that kind of went away. CNN could load up with Democrats, Fox News could load up with Republicans, and kind of created these two large primary echo chambers, the right ecosystem and the left ecosystem. Well, this has extended into a lot of different things. And one of the things that also extended into was advertising. So, in a weird situation, candidates get a preferred rate for advertising, but the political parties don't. And so the political parties will then fund candidates directly who can then spend it. But then there's also a disparity between what the political parties will do. So, for example, the Democrats figured out this motto, and this is their motto vote blue no matter who. They would run crappy candidates because they created a brand. This was Barack Obama's thing. He was like he wanted to create a brand. The Democrat Party previous to this was like the Republican Party. Every candidate ran on their own brand, whether they were Democrat or Republican or whatever. The Democrats consolidated power and said, Everybody who runs is going to run as a Democrat. This is your platform. Get in line, no personal opinions. Blue, blue, blue, blue. So they could drop into your town, Houston, San, you know, uh Greensboro, North Carolina. They could drop in and they could run Democrat advertising. You know, this is where the George Clooney commercials would come in, or you know, the sexy people commercials. Blue, blue, make it cool, have concerts. Very good at this. What they also did was they started to negotiate discounted rates for advertising, whereas the Republicans were paying full rate because, well, you're Republicans. So the Supreme Court heard a case that switched this and said that the political parties now have to have the same preferred pricing, both of them, as the Democrat Party. Here's the problem: Democrats are in a panic, they're out of money, they can't fund anything, they're not going to be able to buy that much advertising in the first place. They were counting on the discount, they were counting on the fact that one of their dollars would be the equivalent of two Republican dollars for the same 30-second commercial. Does that make sense? The Supreme Court interjected and put a stop to that. Some people trying to discredit this as a robbers court. You guys probably want to see the video on your side. I don't know why I did that on my laptop. All right, here we go. Back back to the beginning here.

SPEAKER_17 32:27

I saw some people trying to discredit this as a robbers court and, you know, a conservative court, but to your point, uh, this was an eight-to-one win. So Democrats are describing this as a huge setback for them going into this fall. The reality is, uh, Democrats are saying that Republicans have a massive cash advantage. And so they tried through lawfare to block that. They wanted to change the law right on the eve of this election. The Supreme Court has not allowed that. So Democrats now fear that Republicans are going to be able to blanket the airwaves with advertisements describing presumably President Trump's successful record. Will they be able to? Well, there's a great record to run on. I mean, look at the recent jobs report, things are going through the roof there. Uh, we're working a tremendous amount on onshoring. We're seeing new investments happen all across the country. The FCC, for instance, we got wireless speeds are up something like 50% since Trump has taken office. And importantly, prices are down. They're down about 10% on the wireless side. So the Trump administration has a tremendous amount to be proud about uh going into this fall. That's fun.

SPEAKER_21 33:31

A lot to be proud about and a lot to advertise. And they have a huge funding advantage. God's Army Bratt says, I once read a book by a man with the last name Christensen who walked people through such a dilemma. The dilemma of, you know, working in a business and to keep your job, you have to do the bad thing for the business, but the good thing for the country. Um, thank God for those who will break their employment agreement and get the truth out. Yeah, no kidding. You know, you you do have to kind of pick your loyalties. And I think sometimes this is the classic, you know, virtue projection. You know, well, I'm gonna honor the contract and whatever. Well, what about what if you the contract is with the bad guys? You know what I mean? Do you have a contract with the devil? I mean, that's kind of how I would view something like that.

SPEAKER_07 34:13

It provides perfect cover for it, though.

SPEAKER_21 34:15

You know, it provides perfect cover. You can you can sleep at night because you did your and you're honorable, even though you're doing completely dishonorable things on behalf of a dishonorable employer. Right. Okay, awesome. You know, I think the devil makes you sign a contract.

Iran Blockade And Economic Isolation

SPEAKER_21 34:32

So over in Iran, the blockade is working. Scott Besson, who wow, this guy gets the media going. He's like all over the place. But Scott Bessant was talking about the blockade in Iran and how successful it's been, and that China is not buying oil from Iran currently.

SPEAKER_06 34:53

So we we are running operation economic outcast right now, and this is the greatest economic isolation uh operation in the history of the world. We are going to asphyxiate this regime. Now we have the blockade, and because of the blockade, the uh oil is not getting out. So there's probably only about thirty million barrels of Iranian crude oil left that China hasn't bought. So that will run out soon. And there there will be no problem with China buying because they have no product. So the blockade is is blo the blockade's working, it's working like nothing we've ever seen. And the combination, you know, everyone says, Oh, sanctions don't work. I can tell you, blockade and sanctions are one of the most powerful one-two punches in the history of economic isolation.

SPEAKER_21 35:49

Did you ever imagine as Treasury Secretary, the blockade and sanction? Why is that? Because the sanctions would get ignored, but when you have the blockade, now you have the legal right to confiscate a boat, shoot it, to blow it up in place, right? It's a very good combo. I would say blockades are probably the solution there. The sanction just gives you legal cover to pull the trigger, you know what I'm saying? I mean, has that not been like I'm sure Sugzu has some chapter in there, like, you know, seizing a town is a good idea. You know what I mean? If you can make it longer than the town you're seizing, is that what you call blockading? The siege, siege, you know, then you will win. Yeah. So the other thing, too, that to God Bessant's been involved with is this the negotiation with Canada.

Canada Tariffs And Trade Leverage

SPEAKER_21 36:38

I find this to be the the longer this goes, the more I think it's very interesting. And I think it is one of those deals where Canada has kind of overplayed its hand here. Canada is the big nice north. They're practically Americans. There's only 30 million of them. They have very similar resources to the United States, but a lot more of them because they're just not as populated and it's all up there. And nobody wants to live up there where the resources are. So it's not like you're it's not like you're clearing forests where people are trying to live or whatever the case is. I just I think it's got a lot of potential. Obviously, it's connected to the north, blah, blah, blah. But they've overplayed their hand over the last number of decades, probably century, there's been a trade imbalance. They buy more from us than we buy from them, but yet the negotiations on how they've done that has advantage, you know, made it advantageous for them by getting free trade in and they've tariffed our goods going north. That's classic protectionism. So all we've done is we've held the mirror up. We said, okay, well, if you're gonna block our cheese, then we're gonna block your cheese. And all of a sudden they're like, Yeah, well, we can't eat all our cheese. That's the problem. Okay, well, that's fine, you know, just as long as our farmers can compete with your cheese farmers. Yeah, but your farmers make more cheese than our farmers. Yeah, well, I mean, it'd be cheaper for Canadians if they bought our cheese. Well, that's why we tear a few. Okay, well, we're gonna tear a few too. Yeah, but then who would eat our cheese? It's that same conversation over every product they make. Well, well, don't you need our lumber? No, we have upper Minnesota, we have the Pacific Northwest, we're good. Well, we don't need all this lumber. Yeah, I know. So, you know, you're happy to sell it here, but you know, if a shipment of lumber come north, you're gonna have to take it for free. Sucks to be a good one. But then we but then we have too much lumber, and we already have do like they're in a bad pickle here. Yeah, so Scott Bessett describes this perfectly.

SPEAKER_06 38:38

You know, Laura, the uh I had a German Shepherd, and the uh there was a Dachshund that used to antagonize her at the play at the playground, and it kind of reminds me of that. It kind of kind of kind of reminds me of that. And the this little little yippie dog, the uh used to just like bark away, and you know, for for a long time, a 110-pound German Shepherd was it was ignoring uh the dochin, and then one day she'd had enough. And unfortunately, Prime Minister Kearney did walk away. They were given a the opportunity for a great trade deal, and that they didn't want it, and it looks like it's for political reasons, but the the the US it is the not much of a hit to us, you know, Laura.

SPEAKER_21 39:25

The uh that's just it. It's not much of a hit to us. It's the dash it biting the 110 pound German shepherd. Eventually, it's like, hey, get out of here, you know, like I don't know, man. I mean, uh I was spent time up on the Strait of San Juan Jafuca this weekend. You could look up to see Canada, which we can pretty much see anyways, and Dust is like, they're screwed, man. Like if the tariffs really, if it if it stays the way it is for let's say a year, let's say Trump just absolutely they're done. They're done. Like Matt, I've I've watched enough little clips and videos, and you know, I'm not familiar enough with every little element of their market, but it's like they're done, like they don't have the staying power for this. Uh, it makes you really wonder. So, do you do you know who Ann Coulter is?

SPEAKER_07 40:09

Um, yes, I feel like I do. Um, that I can't tell you who she is, but yeah, she's a journalist, isn't she?

SPEAKER_21 40:17

Sort of, sort of. So she is an attorney, and back in the 90s, she was one of the attorneys that kind of worked behind the scenes to for the impeachment of Bill Clinton. I guess I don't know who she is then. Okay, so she's an attorney, and back in the day, she she was one of the we'll call them attorney operatives, like a Mike Davis kind of a person who was behind the scenes basically creating the legal strategy to impeach President Clinton, you know, because he didn't get impeached for the affair, he got impeached about lying about what is or is not sex, right? So it was the whole deal there. So she was kind of one of the younger attorneys at the time that was kind of architecting that behind the scenes. And she has remained a prominent political pundit for the upper crust of the Republican Party. She really has well, her whole persona is that. Let's just put it that way. A lot of people like her, a lot of people don't like her. She's written a lot of books. She was one of the first ones that say that Donald Trump was the best candidate because he was focusing on closing the border. She does have a lot of Milo Yanopoulos type stances, except she's not Milo. You know, she's kind of the original Christian woman, Milo. She says the says that the xenophobic things, you know, that everybody's thinking, but nobody wants to say. That's her. Well, she split from Donald Trump a handful of years ago. I think it was, you know, he didn't build enough of the wall or he didn't do enough of something. Again, not acknowledging the fact that you have this huge bureaucracy and you know, to turn a cruise ship, it takes two miles, two square miles to get there. Yeah, but there's a whole bunch of people in that group. Whole bunch of people. Basically, like, what do you want? You want Kamala Harris over Trump? Is that, you know, did you want Biden over Trump? Like, that's the thing. She split with Trump because he didn't build enough wall, wouldn't campaign for him in 2020. Biden gets elected, opens the border, and now she's like, see, Trump, I told you you should have won. You know, it's like, okay, like you've you lost the right to vote and criticize Trump for what Biden has done. Oh, you want mass deportations? Hey, why where were you in 2020 before we needed mass deportations? You know what I'm saying? Like, that's kind of the deal here. Well, she had a little tie-in here for flock cameras.

Flock Cameras And Surveillance Creep

SPEAKER_21 42:31

I want to pick this apart, okay? Flock cameras, are they good or bad?

SPEAKER_15 42:35

Okay, my fourth one, um, story for you. You're all gonna disagree with me. I look forward to chatting with you in the comment section about it. Maybe you can change my mind. Uh but I am totally for flock cameras. I think this is nuts, this opposition to it, though there's some things that do need to be watched very closely.

SPEAKER_21 42:54

Um, I'm totally for flock cameras. There's nuts, there's opposition to it. I'm already out. But there's some things we need to watch closely. Okay.

SPEAKER_15 43:03

And also I I want to mention that no one can be opposed to flock cameras unless you are also totally in favor of enforcing the criminal laws to to the mo top extent of the law, no releasing them before trial, and long jails or prison sentences. Lock them up for a long time. And if you are not for that, okay.

SPEAKER_21 43:29

That's it right there. She's anti-crime in all its forms. She's taken the she's never spent a day in jail or a day in prison. She has she's never suffered from a false allegation.

SPEAKER_07 43:41

She thinks these cameras only point at current criminals.

SPEAKER_21 43:44

Well, we'll let her explain a little bit more. But she's like, if you oppose flawed cameras, you have to be hardcore, punish everybody, accuse, and figure it out later.

SPEAKER_05 43:53

Okay.

SPEAKER_21 43:54

Okay. I agree on hard on crime, I agree on deterrence, yeah, but the same. Same problems arise over and over and over again.

SPEAKER_15 44:05

Then I don't want to hear about how you don't want cameras because we need we need something out there if you're not going to lock up the criminals. Now, if we lock up the criminals, if we could go back to Giuliani Bloomberg days, we'd need a lot less of this stuff. Okay. What people don't like about flock cameras, oh, they their cities police have asked for them, and they can read license plates. So you can catch child kidnappers, you can catch someone carjacker, you can catch all kinds of people, police departments, at least. I mean, the police departments say that they're helping solve crimes. What you want the flock cameras for isn't to enforce parking laws or oh, you were in New York State more days than you said, we're gonna nail you for taxes. No, we want it for crimes. We want it for real crimes. Limit it to using it for real crimes.

SPEAKER_21 44:56

Okay, that sounds great. Let's do that. Let's let's limit it to using it for real crimes, Ron. Do you think that we can just say that? Hey, how about we put it in law? What do we put it in law? Do you think they'll respect the law? Do you think they will?

SPEAKER_07 45:12

Oh man.

SPEAKER_21 45:13

See, this comes down to realism. So I'm not saying Ann Coulter's not a realist. I'm not saying she wouldn't even agree with everything I'm saying because clearly she's paged her opinion on well, we need flock cameras because the kidnappers and the carjackings I've said this same thing. It's like, well, that's the what they're that's what your local sheriff wants them for. What does your secretary of state want them for? What does your state tax revenue agency want them for? Once they have the tool, they've got the tool.

SPEAKER_07 45:41

Would you not agree? Sure. I'm not even sure about are are the police departments the ones that are actually requesting these systems? I haven't heard anybody request them.

SPEAKER_21 45:49

Oh no, totally. Keith Flank down in Tacoma, he I believe he decided to keep the contract with Flock because they use it. I mean, this is how they find stolen cars. This is how they locally, the local sheriff is using it for exactly what we want them to use it for. The problem is that database, I'm sure there's a login to it from the attorney general's office. He's a very partisan political actor. You know, he's not really connected to your local constituency. He's going to use those flock cameras to see where Brandy Cruz is going or Ari Hoffman is going or Glenn Morgan is traveling around, right? They abuse those powers all the time. Knowing some of the local activists, they get their license suspended on a regular basis for no reason. It's just a wrench in their lives that forces them to drive around with caution, makes them fearful, increases the likelihood of an incident with officers on the side of the road, and that inconveniences them over and over and over again. Now you have flock cameras. Now, now they're getting tagged as they're just driving to the grocery store. They're getting accosted by police officers. It's a tool that can be misused.

SPEAKER_07 47:03

Now, the fear with the flock cameras, obviously to me, to me, it feels like that that was the primary purpose, and that this whole, oh well, the the local sheriff wanted it was is like, what really?

SPEAKER_21 47:15

Yeah, uh it makes perfect sense. It makes perfect sense why the local sheriff would want it. The problem is it's not the local sheriff that's like she said, Washington state, right? It next year when the millionaire tax, if it stays on the books, if you spend more than 30 days in Washington, then you have to file here, whether or not you made over a million dollars or not. 30 days isn't a long time, right? And how could they verify that? And it says in the list of how they'll verify it by traveling and you know, doing all these things. Well, flock, if you've got a car here, you know, like say you move to Idaho, say you live in Spokane and you move to Court d'Alain, right? But you still do some work in Washington. Say you're a contractor, like I was.

SPEAKER_07 47:58

Man, I hadn't even thought of this type of a thing.

SPEAKER_21 48:00

That's they have it right there on the books. Any way that they can prove you're here for 30 days, they'll say you owe a tax here. So this coupled with AI, the the illusion here that this will create clean streets and safe streets is not an illusion. It's true. Look at China, right? You jaywalk, you get a ticket. You're not gonna jaywalk, you know what I'm saying? You're not gonna do a lot of things that you might otherwise do forced compliance simply because you're being watched. So, on one hand, the block cameras, the AI data centers can lead to a lot of prosperity, safe streets, and whatever. But is it the kind of safe we want? Freedom. Is it safe because we have a culture that's high trust? Or is it safe because we're all scared of our shadow?

SPEAKER_11 48:48

And the right to build their own power plant, so they don't have to use the

AI Data Centers And The Power Switch

SPEAKER_11 48:52

grid. They're actually taking their excess energy and they're building some incredible plants along with the building. So they're building their own generation plant, and the excess is going back into the grid. So we're actually Okay.

SPEAKER_21 49:04

The this is if you need AI centers to come online, great, they're building their own power because that's the shortfall. But it's also the kill switch. If the government has control of electricity production and you have a data center that gets out of control, what can they do? Same thing they would do to your bank account. Pull the plug. But if the AI data center has its own power source, you see what I'm saying? Even if they pull the license, we're not turning off the generators.

SPEAKER_11 49:30

So making money on that is gonna bring energy costs down. Uh the the uh data centers, you want to pay them in the right location, but if you want to get rich as a state or as a town, and if you want to pay lower taxes, if you want to create tremendous wealth, if you want your house to be more valuable and everything else, you're gonna want a data center. If you want to go through poverty crime and squalor, I would say don't approve data centers, you know, because you have your choice.

SPEAKER_21 49:57

Poverty climber squalor. That seems to be the sales pitch on why we want flock cameras. Do you see what I'm saying? There's there's a tie-in here.

SPEAKER_11 50:05

So I'm all for people approving them or not, but if you look at places that have really gotten wealthy and rich and lower taxes, and it it's where properly approved data centers have have been allowed to go up. Now, if they don't approve them, there's a lot of places that want them.

SPEAKER_21 50:23

And those would be China. So AI is a good thing.

SPEAKER_07 50:26

Is there enough historical data to to back up the claim that he just made there that you know if data centers go in, your your prosperity goes up?

SPEAKER_21 50:34

Absolutely. Okay, yeah, absolutely. In fact, one of our um listeners and 1776 Live community members, they're putting a data center in her county. And when she told me, I was like, that's great. Your property's gonna like quadruple in value. You've got a hundred acres far enough away that you're not impacted, but close enough that you'll definitely be impacted by the increase in property values. And she was like, Well, uh how is that? You know, what about the water? I was like, Look it up, it's a closed loop water system. Like, yeah, they'll take water, but then they're gonna basically gonna mix it with you know glycerin and anti-freeze, and they're just gonna run it in a loop. It's not even gonna evaporate that much. Oh, well, I thought it was. Well, that's the AI crosstalk there. You know, that's the a that's the China doesn't want us to have data centers, so they're they've got you out there saying things that Greta Thunberg would say. Now, I'm not saying there are not environmental impacts. I'm not saying that. I'm saying much of the hype and the fervor is false information. When you get down to the real information, it's probably mitigatable. There's probably a discussion about what is this data center going to do? Who's it computing for? Those are probably better discussions than you're gonna use the water.

SPEAKER_07 51:48

You said I'm saying well, and the guy at your city council meeting that's yelling that may or may not live there and may or may not getting be getting paid to yell that.

SPEAKER_21 51:56

Yeah, these are not, these are not always the best debates, you know what I mean? And I don't, yes, of course I do not support um hold on, I'm not plugged in.

SPEAKER_02 52:09

Let me hold on a sec, guys.

SPEAKER_07 52:17

Got some uh interlude music here. What are you not plugged in?

SPEAKER_21 52:26

Right in the middle of the show. It's like we're plugged in now.

SPEAKER_02 52:30

That's weird. I'm not getting much charge though. All right, it says it's plugged in.

SPEAKER_21 52:36

Okay, so anyways, I think the I think the AI data center thing is one of those, it's here, it's coming. I don't support some farmer's field getting plowed up to put one in. It's like, dude, you have a farm, let's keep it a farm. But on the same regard, some of those farmer fields are done for crops because of big ag and what it's done, you know. So it's like it's not always not the best place because you might have some unproductive land. You know what I'm like details matter. But but this we can't forget. RFK has given this warning over and over and over again. And it applies to flock cameras, it applies, it applies to AI data centers, it applies to everything.

SPEAKER_13 53:21

And I would tell you there there are three rules that we should all remember. One is that when a government takes a power from us, a right from us, it will never voluntarily relinquish it. Number two, any power the government takes from us, it will ultimately abuse to the maximum extent possible. Number three, nobody ever complied their way. We need to resist, resist, resist.

SPEAKER_21 53:56

Exactly. Right. So it is important that we resist, but we resist on the right terms, right? If flock cameras are coming and if they're beneficial, then the the resist should be you have two choices, local council member, city commissioner. You have two choices either no flock cameras or the contract itself needs to say there are criminal penalties for people illegally accessing the database without a warrant signed by a normal judge. None of the secret stuff, none of the secret stuff, no direct access by the attorney general's office. No, you know what I mean. They should only be used with warrants, only with warrants. That's the compromise, and it is a compromise. It is a compromise. If you live in some, if you live in downtown Chicago, south side of Chicago, flock can't flock cameras might be the salvation of your neighborhood. Yeah, right. But it could be the absolute destruction of a rural community of people who have no need to have the local crime fighters monitoring every traffic intersection. You know what I'm saying? So they must have that built in. If we get the conversation in the right direction, you can probably build some guardrails for this. Or the other option is none. I'd rather have my scary liberty and my my freedom where I'm responsible and a strong Second Amendment than flock cameras and me being a weak sheep that needs a sheepdog all the time. You know what I'm saying?

Housing, Immigration, And Family Subsidies

SPEAKER_21 55:26

Another interesting thing, too, is JD Vance came out over the weekend and he talked about two critical things for millennials and gen Y. Okay. The first thing is housing prices juxtaposed with immigration.

SPEAKER_16 55:42

Houses that ought to go by right to American citizens, that's going to increase the cost of housing for everybody else. Well, it's 18 months, ladies and gentlemen, and the verdict is in. Where housing doubled under the leadership of Joe Biden, rents are falling for the first time in a decade under the leadership of Donald Trump because we got people who shouldn't be here the hell out of our country.

SPEAKER_04 56:05

It's very simple.

SPEAKER_02 56:10

That seems like a really good thing, right?

SPEAKER_21 56:13

Deport people, deportation, bueno. Housing prices and housing rents coming down for the younger generations, bueno. Is it bueno for a boomer that owns their home? No. In some markets, in some markets, you've already lost 10% of your peak market value. It's not going to feel very good. This is a societal rift, right? I've talked about it many times. The under 40 crowd, the over 40 crowd, totally different incentives. The over 40 crowd mostly we was weasled their way into asset classes. The under 40 crowd is still in the wage it class where pricing matters, right? Boomers don't care about rents because they care about home values, and home values drive rents. So there's a there's a kind of confluence here. The other thing is spending, right? Universally, people can say government spending is bad, but on the younger end of the spectrum, oh I'm gonna have to go and find it now because I just deleted dang it. So on the younger end of the spectrum, housing costs are all are are coupled with a two-edged sword of raising kids, right? If housing costs are so high that it requires two incomes to pay for the house, it's hard for the two to have kids. And if they do, then you've got child care considerations, which can be very significant, right? Over and over and over again, you see like Caleb Hammer will do this, and others will do this. The cost of outsourcing child rearing is the second income, right? It sucks up the entire second income. So JD Vance over the weekend in the rallies that he attended, he proposed a policy shift and a social spending increase when it comes to uh paying mothers to stay home with their kids. So this is different from subsidizing childcare so the parent can work. This takes the opposite tack where it pays the parent not to work. And the way he presented it is it will be directed to married families. So single mothers wouldn't qualify for this, only married families would qualify for it.

SPEAKER_20 58:21

Families that are are functioning as a family. Why not help stop them? And it's a very, very strong argument what's going on.

SPEAKER_01 58:34

Married women are a huge um voting block. By the way, I'm gonna show you a clip from the martial life.

SPEAKER_07 58:40

This is a tech what in the heck is going on over there? I'm turning the sound off. That's that's what I wanted you to do. Oh, sorry.

SPEAKER_02 58:49

Hold on. I don't know. I I kind of have a feeling what's going on here as far as too much data.

SPEAKER_03 59:00

Oh, my internet just went down. My wifi's on. I'm connected to my Wi-Fi now.

SPEAKER_04 59:10

Really? You weren't before? You got that fixed?

SPEAKER_03 59:14

Yeah. Well I thought I did.

SPEAKER_02 59:18

Sorry guys, we're having like like uh a freeze down here on my deal.

SPEAKER_03 59:26

Turn your Wi-Fi on, maybe?

SPEAKER_02 59:29

Wi-Fi's on.

SPEAKER_03 59:30

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 59:31

Okay, we should be good now. Should be good now. Well, hold on. This is frustrating. There we go.

SPEAKER_20 59:41

I don't, you know, the federal government pays all kinds of people to stay home. Why not use money that allows stay-at-home moms to stay at home? Families that are uh are are are functioning as a family. Why not help them? And it's a very, very strong argument.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:02

Very strong argument. Married women are a huge um voting block. By the way, I'm gonna show you a clip from the March to Life, but before that, here's a quote from JD Vance. Um, young children are clearly happier and healthier when they spend the day at home with the parent. And those are, by the way, for liberals, those are fighting words. Yeah, and only in this world is this is that a radical situation. Exactly. This is absolutely anybody who knows who's raised children knows this is true. Um, they're fighting words with um with uh Democrats and and and especially um liberal women, they don't like to hear that. And um and JD Vance is weighing into this, and I think it's it it bodes well for him in his his obvious apparent um you know place as the next potential candidate on the GOP. Here he is back in January 2025. I was at the March for Life. He um made his first public event as vice president at this march, and here's what he said.

SPEAKER_16 1:01:04

Our society has failed to recognize the obligation that one generation has to another is a core part of living in a society to begin with. But let me say very simply, I want more babies in the United States of America. I want more happy children in our country, and I want and I want beautiful young men and women who are eager to welcome them into the world and eager to raise them. And it is the task of our government to make it easier for young moms and dads to afford to have kids, to bring them into the world and to welcome them as the blessings that we know they are here at the March for Life.

SPEAKER_21 1:01:50

So that is a very pro-family stance. That is great. How you achieve that, the policy now that he's presenting, and it's probably gonna be his key mark thing as he kind of slowly makes his way to you know a presidential run, is socialism for nuclear families, right? Paying the mother to stay home. This is hard. This is really hard. You can't keep the boomers happy with their home values and make sure that they don't become a more significant drain on younger generations who already can't afford to even buy their own houses, right? So, how do you keep asset class asset prices high while subsidizing the low labor costs that people under 40 are victim to? This is how you do it. This is the big print. It's just printing money instead of you know to build windmills and solar panels and grift graft and learning centers. This is printing money to pay parents to have one of the parents, particularly the mother, stay at home. So the outcome is probably good. The outcome is more births, the outcome is more happy kids. The cost is those kids are indebted to it. Right now, Trump has done a bunch of little things. How do you make those little children asset holders? As they hit the big print, how do you get those kids to be stable? Right? How do you get them Trump accounts? That's the point of the Trump accounts. So you're kind of seeing it all line up. Even on the conservative side, the most conservative side, the Christian nationalists, the trad wives who want to stay at home, you're now offering a government benefit. Up till now, they've mostly been locked out. Up till now, finance pressure has forced who would decide to be trad wives to go to work, right? And then they get caught in the trap of paying for childcare. So this would reverse that, but it doesn't stop the printing which caused the problem in the first place.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:53

What's a trad wife?

SPEAKER_21 1:03:54

Traditional wife. Oh a stay-at-home wife, a trad wife. This is like an Instagram thing now, right?

SPEAKER_03 1:04:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_21 1:04:00

Exactly. Fab Letty says, Hey kids, glad you made it. Okay.

Tech Trouble And Outdoor Detours

SPEAKER_21 1:04:05

So having said that, here, this is, I always forget his name. He's this is one of these uh financial planner advisors. I listen to him frequently. I used to say, remember the names, remember the names. I was kind of echoing the Dan Bongino thing, but I don't know. At some point I just stopped caring. I don't I know who these people are, I don't have to know their names.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:27

I really should. Well, we don't really need to uh know who the people are, we need to know, you know, what the qualities and the content. Yeah.

SPEAKER_21 1:04:35

Exactly. Exactly. And I think that's part of it. I remember the names when it's criminals. I know who some auto is, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:04:42

So this is what is the deal here? What happened? Uh-oh. Like, it's like everything's it's Monday, man.

SPEAKER_21 1:04:52

You know what? I think my you know that whole I think my battery's dying thing. I think it happened.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:57

Uh-oh. I think it happened. Happened for reels.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:02

Well, that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_21 1:05:09

Give me a minute here.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:10

Try this. Wow, it's looking pretty misty out today.

SPEAKER_21 1:05:15

Yeah, it was time for the weather. I went out to the Devil's Cauldron yesterday. Have you ever been there on Lake Crescent? It was the coolest little spot. There's this little cove in Lake Crescent. They have a little bridge. You can jump off the bridge, and there's some cliff diving. I've never seen cliff diving like here. And it was right into Lake Crescent. It was awesome. And of course, it's about as warm as Lake Crescent ever gets. So all my kids got into it. It was really neat. So I got to see that. That's up in the uh up in the near the Pis the Olympic National Park. It's north of that little lake, a big lake called Lake Crescent.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:51

Is it at the west end?

SPEAKER_21 1:05:53

Um you take like East Beach and go up on the north side, and then there's like a reflection. Right along the Olympic trail.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:02

I've never been on that side.

SPEAKER_21 1:06:05

Oh man, come on, turn on.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:15

Watch me do my morning workout.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:19

Lift another world.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:37

This is quite frustrating.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:43

Right here. Straight to Wannafuca, right up here. Canada. Right. Right up there.

SPEAKER_21 1:06:59

The whole show depends on a laptop working for me. There's totally no content on eclips.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:06

This is really weird. Spent a lot of time over here in the uh Olympics as a youth. Boy Scout trips hiking across here.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:17

Oh.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:20

We started up here at Shai Shy B. Oh, can't quite see it. Let me just show the bottom of it. Right up here down the coast. Actually, off the map down here too. So we walked that whole coastline with some scouts.

SPEAKER_21 1:07:39

That was awesome.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_21 1:07:41

Good old days. We also went down the Columbia River, 119 miles of it. Yeah, that's not on the map at all. That was fun though. Yeah. I'll never I'll never forget. We were we stayed on one of those uh we stayed on some camp right where the Willamette meets the Columbia. There's a state park right there. Oh yeah. It's closed dawn to dusk. Well, we just pulled up on the beach and slept there all night long. Like you're not totally not supposed to do that. We also had, I can't remember if it was Rooster Rock or whatever, but there was some Rooster Rock State Park.

SPEAKER_07 1:08:12

We stayed on the north end of the island there in the middle of the river and realized that there was a nudist park. Huge nudist party on the south side of the island. Probably like, I don't know what, 3,000 people. Uh it wasn't that big. There was a lot of people. It seems like a lot of people when they're all naked.

SPEAKER_21 1:08:31

Yeah, so we we're like, okay, beach right there, and I had the rowboat with a motor, so I took off one just to sculp it out, like see what we were dealing with. And so I'm going down the little channel, I'm looking over in the bushes, I'm like, oh, that guy looks like he doesn't have a shirt on. Oh, that guy doesn't have pants on. Oh my gosh, that guy's completely nude. And then it was like another person stands up out of the bushes nude. Another person's laid up. Next thing I know, I'm like, oh my gosh. It's like, oh, there's people hiking. They're all naked. It's like late enough in the evening we can't go on. Like that we can't just we can't keep going. Like there's nowhere else to go. This is the spot on the map. We've gone like three miles today. We have to stop here. But like nobody leaves the beach. We're standing up on the north of the beach.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:12

Oh, that was that worked out fine. That could have been a total disaster for us. Dude, the scouts didn't even know it was happening.

SPEAKER_21 1:09:19

I know. It was much later we kind of told them, Oh, that was a that was a nude state park. Oh, that was pretty funny. I just remember coming out uh towards after we got past Willamette that one day, the we started seeing the sea lions, and they were as big as the canoes the kids were. Oh, yeah. It was like this basketball floating in the water, you know, bigger than a basketball head. I can't remember his name, but he was really uh athletic and kind of scrappy, hardly ever showed up to weak to weak scouts. And uh he sees the he sees the uh sea lion. What is that? It's a sea lion. He's like, there's monsters in here, and he put his pad, he was totally defeated, like, not gonna go swimming anymore. I can't get in the water. There's monsters in the water. There's monsters in the water. All right, guys. Looks like my laptop is completely powered off. It is what it is. We will have to continue with all the great financial stuff tomorrow. I I was really excited for the last half of the show today. It was really gonna kick butt, but I just apparently I'm not not a hundred percent sure what my it's okay, Taylor.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:22

We've been on for over an hour.

SPEAKER_21 1:10:24

All right. We'll talk to you guys again tomorrow. Bye.

Peasants, Kings, And Political Satire

SPEAKER_14 1:10:53

What the make lives in that coming to over there? I'm 37. What? I'm 37, I'm not old. Well, I can't just call you ma'am. You could say Dennis. I didn't know you were called Dennis. Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you? I did say sorry about the old woman, but from behind, you look what my objective is they automatically treat me like an inferior. Well, I am king. Oh king, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers, by hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society. If there's ever going to be any progress. How'd you do? How do you do, good lady? I'm Arthur, King of the Britons. Whose castle is that? King of the Who? The Britons. Who are the Britons? But we all are. We are all Britons. And I am your king. No, we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective. You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship, a self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes. Oh, there you go. Bringing classes with a game. That's what it's all about. If only people would please good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle? No one lives there. Then who is your lord? We don't have a lord. What? I told you. We're in a narco-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. Yes. But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting. Yes, I see. By a civil majority in the case of purely internal affairs. Be quacked, but by a two-thirds majority in the case of quack. I order you to be quacked. I'm your king. I didn't vote for you? You don't vote for kings? Why do you become king then? The lady of the lake. Her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water. Signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I'm your king. Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derived from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. Bequ! I mean, you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tarp through a sword is shut up! I mean, if I went round saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bitch had lobbed a scimitar at me, they put me away! Shut up, will you? Shut up! Now we see the violence inherent in the system. Shut up! Have we seen a violence inherent in the system? Help, help! I'm being repressed, bloody peasant! Oh, what a giveaway! Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:36

Do you see repressing me? You saw it, didn't you?