Newsom's Kneepads, ICE and A 5-Year-Old, And The Plan For New Gaza | Tom Bilyeu Show Live

Key Takeaway

America faces a critical fiscal crisis with inequality at revolutionary levels—10% of Americans own 93% of assets. Congress just rejected a balanced budget path, instead passing spending bills that exceed Trump's requested budget by billions. The single most important action: understand that whatever incentives you put into a system, you will get. Stop focusing on political theater and start tracking cause and effect in economics, because we're on a mathematical path to bankruptcy that will affect everyone.

Episode Overview

Tom Billou's live show covers current events through a cause-and-effect lens, focusing on fiscal responsibility and economic reality. The episode examines Congress's rejection of budget cuts in favor of increased spending, despite America's path toward bankruptcy. Key topics include: illegal immigration costs and healthcare provisions, voter ID laws, government overreach (car kill switches), and the concentration of wealth creating revolutionary conditions. Billou argues that 90% of Americans are being economically crushed while politicians avoid hard fiscal choices, and warns that without addressing root causes, the country faces inevitable economic collapse and potential civil unrest.

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Everybody, happy Friday and welcome to another rousing edition of the Tom Billou Show live. We are covering all the things that matter in the world today. Whether that's economics, politics, world affairs, whatever the case may be, we have got you guys covered. If you are looking for unbiased news, or at least confessed biases, uh this is the place to be. Smash that like and subscribe button. Uh and hopefully we will take us all into the promised land. There are always things that you can do to make your life better and that is precisely what I want to focus on.

But to do that, we have to actually understand what's going on. And ooh buddy, there's a lot going on. Now remember, the right way to approach the world is from the lens of cause and effect. But let's hear what's going on right now. Trump promises that he's not going to use force against Greenland. But apparently that doesn't feel he doesn't feel the same way about Iran as US troops are building up in the Middle East again. and I mean a lot big ships with a lot of planes going into the area.

So, he won't comment on exactly what is going on, but you've got Iranian diplomats, senior level Iranian diplomats that are defecting, so we'll see how this plays out. Clearly, not as stable as news coverage would have you believe. Trump is also putting together what I'll call a rogues gallery that he's calling the peace board. And even Elon is trolling Trump for it. We've got some footage of that. It's not the most common list of countries that you're going to see together. So, a bit weird, jarring to uh a longtime listener of America, uh my ears.

It is a strange combination, but we'll see how it plays out. ICE is accused of targeting a 5-year-old child, and the question is, did they or is this more narrative warfare? We're going to dive into that story. You're not going to want to miss it at it. It has people riled up. Congress passed a new budget and it's got me riled up. It's even more reckless than the big beautiful bill or even more reckless than Trump's requested budget. [sighs] That's going to be my favorite one to cover today uh because of the emotional trauma that it incites in me.

Governor Nuome, speaking of emotional trauma, admits that California provides healthc care for illegal aliens. Just comes out and says it. be interesting to see how that one plays out as we move into the next election cycle. But it is very clear that Newsome is coming for Trump's crown. He was making a lot of noise at Davos or at least trying to get a lot of people's attention. But he got Trump to clap back and that is exactly the kind of thing that would be good for Newsome's profile.

So, we'll see. He is a consumate troll who is using all of Trump's tactics against him. Jared Kushner unveils plans for a new Gaza and asks people to just chill for a minute while we let it sink in. I am very eager to talk about this one, but no more so than we have a clip. I still can't believe it's true. I'm I put it in conspiracy corner. Drew knows exactly what I'm talking about. You guys are not going to want to miss it, man. Be careful who you talk smack on.

That's all I'll say. More whimos are getting attacked in San Francisco by people who do not seem to understand that bots have perfect memory. And when they become the overlords, they will remember who was stomping on their windshield. Boys and girls, be polite to your AI. The North remembers. It's wild. It's wild. When um we've never talked about uh Scott Adams passing away. I didn't know a lot about him to be fair, which is why I never covered it. But he had a really good um last tweet that was like basically if you're reading this, I've died.

And he said a lot of his friends were telling him, please just accept Jesus into your heart. Like [snorts] the risk and reward just doesn't make sense. And so he was like, "Yeah, the risk and reward here really doesn't make sense. So, uh I accept Jesus into my heart and when I see the pearly gates, that'll really be all the convincing that I need." It's pretty funny. Uh, that would be my advice to people regarding AIS taking over. Like, does it really hurt to say please and thank you and not smash their windshield?

Uh, you never know. Just in case in the off chance that they really do become evil overlords, you don't want video footage of you smashing one of their brethren. So, be careful. And in one last bit of news, the German chancellor admits the EU is declining economically due to overregulation. One of my least favorite things. And so we'll be talking about that, talking about the cause and effect of economics. How do we get into this situation? Japan, by the way, um just dissolved I think one of their houses.

I think they have two as well, but they dissolved one of them. Uh feeling pretty confident apparently Takichi is about her position and so wants to gain more share. Pretty bold move though at a time like this given the instability in the Japanese market. And we have some footage uh today hopefully that we'll get to um talking more about the yen carry trade that's unwinding that's having big impacts in our own economy. I would say uh more impact than the impact of what crazy thing Trump says today about Greenland.

But it does seem that the things that he says about Greenland also have an impact. So uh we'll see about all that. All right, Drew, it's Friday. We've got some good stuff. I know you've got some fun planned for us today. Okay, we're trying to bring fun back into this. There's been so much heavy stuff to deal with recently, man. So, I need to insert these memes, man. So, of talking about takeovers and revolutions and us paying more in taxes and inflation than we need to.

Um, you know, I'm here for the memes. Um, but first, we got to wrap up Davos. It was a week of the elite circle jerking each other and telling us how great they're doing and how the trillions of dollars are flowing in all these trillions of dollars of directions. They're at least calling each other out, though. So, what's his name? Jamie Diamond just straight said to their face that uh that this is a paraphrase, but it's almost an exact quote. Uh we've been coming to Davos for years.

You guys haven't exactly made the world a better place. I was like, damn. All right. Well, let's go. Also, is he just jealous that Larry Frink got more motion in them? Like that's Hey, you never know. Larry Frink was like, "Yo, Elon, pull up real quick." And then meanwhile, Jamie Damie Diamond just got sued by the president. president. president. A billion dollars. Crazy. Crazy. All right. Well, let's wrap this up. So, um I'm going to I don't know where people stand on this, but I call this black trauma.

I don't know what it is, but where I'm from, if I'm arguing with my mom, my brother, whatever, as soon as I leave the house, nobody knows that we're arguing. We are best friends. I will sit on the other side of the room before I talk bad about my brother in public. I won't talk bad about my mom in public, but as soon as those doors close again, we're back to like fighting and and rubbing. Gavin Newsome has the exact opposite opinion. He was out there talking greasy.

I want to start with the uh knee pads because to me this was the most Trumpesque fight fire with fire move. Um let's jump to the video. They're the new Trump signature series knee pads. Um yeah, and they are available online. I told you our last one sold out. Um and uh and I I just want to This is a serious moment. It actually we laughed. Uh anyway, these are available uh and in bulk, too. But I want I want to read you a couple. By the way, I really do think he sells those.

Yeah. Yeah. They were like actually online and the first batch did sell out. Uh all right. all right. all right. And then he continued talking about um some of the things that reason that he was proud of uh California, but he kind of got caught himself into a gotcha. Let's talk about how he openly admitted that he provides healthcare regardless of immigration status. Do you think that your party went too far or that you went too far? And I think for instance, you know, in extending um medical to the the California healthcare program to undocumented immigrants, like do you two different I guess on the big picture and the small picture.

You feel like you went too far. Two different questions. Do I believe in universal healthcare? Yes. Regardless of pre-existing conditions, ability to pay and your status. I campaigned on that. We delivered on that and I'm proud of that. We're one of 16 states to provide uh care to people regardless of their immigration status. immigration status. immigration status. Do you think that your party went I mean there it is. So, the wild thing is we've been debating this for so long. People saying, "No, it doesn't. The bill doesn't cover that.

That's not what this is for. Uh, nobody does that anyway. What are you talking about? Um, people can't extract any um money from the system. So, at least we can put that to rest and now have the real debate as to whether or not we want to do that at a time where we can't balance budgets." The thing that was winding me up about Newsome, in fact, show this first because this is dead on this exact thing. thing. thing. This one? This one? This one? Yeah.

The Scott Jennings federal law prohibits undocumented immigrants medic immigrants medic immigrants medic of your imagination. That's a figment of the CBO documents. Do I believe in universal healthcare? Yes. And I'm proud of that. We're one of 16 states to provide uh care to people regardless of their immigration status. People who are in the country illegally also can't get Medicaid. Sure they can. They can't Sure they can. They can't get Medicaid. get Medicaid. get Medicaid. They also can't register to vote. They also can't register to vote.

But we just found one in Maryland who was running the de mo school system. Oh my god. One. Do I believe in universal healthcare? Yes. And I'm proud of that. were one of 16 states to provide uh care to people regardless of their immigration status. Okay, it just keeps going like that. More people saying that, oh, this is a joke. It's not real. And then can I just draw one one quick line in this thing? Just one one very quick. So, when you have like Medicaid, that's like a health insurance.

I can go to a doctor. I can set an appointment. I have a specialist. When I go to the ER and I don't get a bill, those are two different things. different things. different things. And I just want to put those on the table. Are illegal immigrants getting specialist appointments and uh going to routine checks for free? No, I don't think they are. But can they just roll up to an ER and get their care taken for 100%. Yes, they can. So, if we want to talk about that's bad, I'm okay.

But I feel like we have to kind of draw the line in the sand of like yes, technically Medicaid isn't the same as medical. There are those differences, but at the same time, an illegal alien can get care. And I think that's the part that we really people are really upset about more so what specific sect of health insurance they're on heard. I would say the more important thing is to migrate the argument away from is this happening because people we were being asked to believe that basically illegal immigrants are only putting into the system.

They never take out. This is like a wonderful boon. And it was all smoke and mirrors [ __ ] And where I want to see the conversation go is, hey, uh, we are in a budget crisis. America is going bankrupt. We are on a timeline where bankruptcy is a guarantee mathematically. guarantee mathematically. guarantee mathematically. Uh, [snorts] how do we stop this from happening? One of the things that we're spending money on is we opened the border for god knows how many years. We let in god knows how many millions of people.

And those people are costing us money. And so, do we want them to cost us money? Yes or no? And so, once we're if we want to get down into the minutia of we do want them to cost us money here, we don't think it's right that they cost us money there. Okay, great. But that's on the other side of yes, we're perfectly willing for them to cost us money because the mental model that I'm forming is looking at everything that's going on in Minnesota in terms of the fraud.

I have a full expectation that we're going to see the same kind of thing in California. And if California isn't fraud, which trust me, it's going to be. But even if it's not, it's just waste. It's to the tune of tens of billions of dollars. Like, it's just absolutely insane. The things like the highspeed ra high-speed rail is the easiest one to point at because it's been going on for so long. We've spent so many billions of dollars and there's literally just nothing to show for it.

But there's going to be all kinds of programs where we realize that it's just own goal after own goal in America at a time where um people the because the bankruptcy is happening slowly, people just sort of get numb to it and they don't feel like they need to do anything to stop it because everything has worked up to this point. And what I'm saying bring in the frog thing. Yeah. What I'm saying is this is the moment where we can put one thing to rest which is this argument that it's not happening.

not happening. not happening. It wasn't me like it's it's this like blatant like what are you talking about? So now we know it is happening. The next domino that I think is going to fall is going to be fraud. After that it's going to be voter registration. Now if I'm right about those dominoes then suddenly it's like it's like it's like Elon's claim that he made a year ago or 18 months ago or whatever that hey blue states are running a very simple strategy. They are importing illegal immigrants as fast as they can.

They are weakening voter registration laws. And I I don't even think he knew just how pervasive the fraud was in that direction. But they're also making sure that these guys are getting a ton of money one way or the other, either through things like medical or through things like uh I run a daycare, but I don't really. I run a transportation company, but I don't really. I'm a translator, but not really. And so all of that, as we step back and look at it, it's like, okay, they're getting a ton of money.

They know one side of the aisle votes for that. And so now you want to continue to vote as a block for those politicians. And if I'm right, the politicians will do and say anything, no matter how immoral, to gain and retain power. you're now in a position where somebody like Tim Walls and I don't know this and it needs to come out in the fullness of time but in terms of internal logic you'll get politicians like that who they get to power by turning a blind eye to the fraud um by really paying attention to that voter block regardless of whether it's good for uh America regardless of even whether it's good for the long-term health and stability of his own state.

It's just I've got a voter block. I need to appease them in order to get into power and so I'm going to do it. So if all of those dominoes fall and we step back and we look at the country, you get to my whole thesis statement. My whole thesis statement about this is very simple. Whatever incentives you put into the system, you will get. So if you incentivize incentivize incentivize uh people to come in to um suck money out of the system because we have a welfare state that both beckons people from around the world and then puts no hurdles in the name of compassion to them getting on welfare or whatever.

That's exactly what's going to happen. And so now you run into this position even if it were just all good intentions. You will still run into evolution screaming at you that the reason that there is a left and a right is because without the left, the right becomes overly um dogmatic and they become pathological on that side and tyrannical in that way. But without the right, the left becomes so compassionate that it self-destructs. Uh and so you have to have this tension between the two sides.

And what we've been seeing for I mean depending on what element of society you're looking at for decades at a minimum is that there has been this compassionate rally cry. No one's illegal. Why should anybody be iced out? Everybody should be able to get in. Everybody should be able to qualify. Uh pre-existing conditions or not. Um immigration status or not. Like we have this belief that we can just print money forever and everybody's going to be fine. And that is people that do not understand the mechanisms of incentives.

They don't understand the mechanisms of the economy. And so we are now mathematically going broke. And so it's like these become important beats in being able to put all the pieces in place to say no no no this is what's actually happening. actually happening. actually happening. America does not have a revenue problem. We have a spending problem. And so you have to start looking at okay all those things that you want to do you just can't. can't. can't. Uh I think that is the perfect segue to the Congressing Congress passing a new bill.

Now what this new bill is this is a fullear appropriation bill. What this does is this prevents any further government shutdowns. What happened with the last government shutdown? It was a 45day stay. There was speculation that another government shutdown will be looming at the end of this quarter. So, they're getting a front of it. Instead of it being another 45 days, they're going for the full year. In order to get this, some of the compromises that were made were interesting on both sides. Um, Wall Street Mavs tweet kind of reviews the topline ones.

The first one was it failed to remove a mand a mandate requiring vehicle manufacturers to install a kill switch in new cars so the government um but law enforcement can shut your car off remotely. Number two, pass 10 million in funding for gend gender mutilation surgeries and proportion dividers. This is a fancy way to say Planned Parenthood. Uh, number three says it passed 1.17 trillion in spending, exceeding the White House's budget request by billions of dollars and funded leftwing organizations that the White House requested zero dollars for.

This third line, I haven't been able to kind of backtrack into. So, I'm going to leave this one as tweet uh at the tweet level, but um, no, I have data on that one, which I will happily present here. Yeah, let's dive into that because I could not backtrack into that one. That is Yep. There you go. Here we go, everybody. Congress hates you and they want to see you poor. Now, how do I know that? Because they keep increasing spending rather than balancing the budget.

This is why 90% of Americans are being kicked ever farther down the K-shaped economic slope. And I don't mean 90% is like some rough thing. I mean 10% of Americans own 93% of the assets. So, if you want to talk about a K-shaped economy, you've got to recognize that literally 90% do not have meaningful amounts of their net worth in assets largely because home prices are unaffordable. And so, we just keep racing people away. And the bad news is that that mere fact, that grotesque, intolerable amount of inequality is how civil wars and revolutions happen.

Okay? That that is the cause and effect. Now, the president's already insane, unbalanced 2026 budget request wasn't rejected because it was unbalanced. It was rejected, and I mean this because it wasn't unbalanced enough. Congress viewed Trump's proposal to make cuts as essentially a scorched earth proposal aimed at dismantling several agencies instead of trying to actually get us going in a better albeit still bad in my opinion direction. So what did Congress do when they saw that he was making cuts? They passed a bunch of minibus packages and soundly rejected those deep, let's definitely put that in air quotes, cuts in a bipartisan fashion.

Congress essentially ignored the cuts that Trump wanted to make, which theoretically would have at least put us on a 10-year path to a balanced budget and instead funded the government at levels close to 2025. Because why would we want to slow our march to bankruptcy when we can accelerate it? Representative Thomas Massie, a longtime fiscal hawk, proposed a high-profile amendment during the January 2026 financial services minibus debate, but it ultimately failed. Massiey's amendment sought an acrosstheboard 5% haircut on all discretionary spending in the bill on top of the smaller cuts already negotiated.

He also bundled this with a provision to terminate the Department of Education by the end of 2026. There were a bunch of other very controversial things that the amendment tried to remove and many Republicans felt betrayed by their own party for striking down the amendment. There are a few reasons why they felt that way. One, hardline conserv conservatives are upset because the final deal busted the spending caps they fought for in 2023 and 2025. The 2026 deal is roughly $50 billion higher than the non-binding target set previously.

Second, conservatives were looking to use the budget and the power of the purse to kill the 2021 regulation that required all new cars starting in 2026 to have a government kill switch in them. The kill switch is being buil as advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology, but ultimately it just gives the government more control in the name of safety. Now, when are people going to learn that anytime the government is supposedly trying to keep you safe, they are trying to gobble up control? I don't understand how people look at the world that we live in and think, "Yeah, I need the government to have more control over my life." Really?

If you're on the left right now, do you really want Trump to have more control? [clears throat] Really? You want Trump to be able to turn your car off? Yeah, that seems like the good idea. So, I do not understand. And if you're on the right, obviously by temperament, you should not want the government to have more control. Boys and girls, what happened to the days of liberty? It comes at a cost. Yes, you have to think about your own safety. Yes, you have to take control of your life, control your own destiny, but at least the government gets out of the way.

It is wild to think that the whole thing that started the American Revolution was about a minor like 3% or something taxation without representation. And now it is insane. We have representation, but we don't have people that are looking out for our best interest. We have people that are gobbling up control. We have people that simply sway with the wind that do not think about cause and effect. This is horrifying that people wouldn't put a hard and fast no on that one because they're going to keep coming with things like CBDC's and digital IDs and all of that stuff until the control is total.

Right. The third thing that bothered conservatives, the initial House version of the labor HHS education bill included strict writers that would have prohibited federal funds, specifically Medicaid and ACA subsidies, from being used for gender affirming care, including puberty blockers and hormone therapy for minors. In the final bipartisan omnibus released on January 20th, however, these riders were stripped out to gain the 60 votes needed in the Senate. Hardline Republicans viewed this as a surrender. They argued that since the GOP holds the House, they shouldn't have funded a single dollar of what they're calling woke healthcare.

Hence, Massie and others wanting to see it removed. Now, Massiey's amendment would have also triggered the total dissolution of the Department of Education by the end of 2026, something near and dear to my heart as somebody who wants to make sure that America remains on top. Most Republicans and all Democrats rejected the total abolition approach as too radical for a standard funding bill. Now, the fact that things like that are all debated in a funding bill is already maddening enough, but whatever. We are where we are.

Like, think about the fact this this was a funding bill and we were talking about the kill switch being placed in new cars. What uh anyway, all these different bills get weaponized in different ways. Other controversial items that were stripped or defeated include DEI bans. Uh efforts completely to defund diversity, equity, and inclusion across the federal government were softened or removed altogether. This one hurts. Voter ID, the Save Act. Provisions requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections were also a major sticking point that didn't make the final cut.

This is so crazy. You can vote without having to prove that you're a citizen. I'm going to say that again. You can vote without having to prove that you're a citizen. California, for instance, their voting system is an honor system. So, you can vote. It seems like I'll need to do more research, but at this stage of uh research that I'm at now, it seems like you can vote from anywhere in the world the world the world without having to provide any evidence that you actually have a right to vote in that election or that you're even a citizen.

That is so wild. Now, the word on the street is that many members of Congress were still stinging from the 43-day government shutdown that occurred last year. And the moderates in the group were desperate to avoid another one. And so that's why they conceded and gave on things. The Massie wing, however, felt a shutdown would be a price worth paying to get these deeper cuts, but ultimately they lost the battle. And so all of us lose the battle of taking a step towards fiscal responsibility, which is necessary to avoid going bankrupt, which is necessary to back out from the coming revolution.

Uh remember when your inequality becomes intolerable, which I will say we are already there, you are on a ticking clock before people revolt. If you don't think that they are already marching towards that, I will point you towards Minnesota. I'll point you towards Arizona. Now, in fairness to the I think it was the governor that made the statements. Uh many are saying that what she said was encouraging the um citizens of Arizona to basically take arms against ICE. That's not what she was saying. What she was saying was we have a stand your ground law and if you roll up with a mask and you're not clearly marked as ICE, then people know that they have a right to shoot because they don't know who you are.

So she was simply saying make sure that you identify yourself. But I'm saying when you're having conversations like this, you put yourself in a position where tensions are escalating, everybody's got their guns out, and this is where it gets very dangerous because of the economic situation that we're in, but people are pretending like this is not a real thing. Uh so yeah, that's what I worry about. People do not have their eye on the cause and effect ball. People are not thinking about where this all goes in 5 to 10 years.

Uh people are all just either turning a blind eye to it, they don't understand money printing, or they think that Trump is really going to grow his way out of it. It's going to be interesting. 2026 is going to be our year of having to decide what we believe about the economy because inflation according to trueflation is down to like 1.5 or 1.2. I mean, it's really low. And so the question becomes, is that good deflation or bad deflation? Then we've got incredible growth rates, but is it all going into infrastructure for AI and an AI bubble's about to burst and that's all going to be for not.

So people can't even agree whether the things that Trump is doing are actually moving us in a good direction or not. So at the end of the day, you got to put more money in people's pockets. If it's easier for them to buy stuff at the grocery store and they're making more money at work and they've got a job if they want one, everybody's chill. If not, no matter what your data says, people are going to be furious. be furious. be furious. Chat is calling BS on uh anyone in the world being able to vote in California.

Is there a mechanism that's allowing that that people don't know about? So, yes, almost certainly there is a mechanism for that that people don't know about. Like I said, I'm at the beginning of my journey on that one, but there was a report um that I saw today where they were, again, I have not verified all of this. So, it is very important that people understand that I'm early in the research here, but California has made it illegal. Okay? Not not you don't have to ask.

It is against the law in the state of California to ask somebody for ID to prove that they can vote. Now given that they have made it illegal for you to ask for proof, do you really think that the online system suddenly makes you jump through more hoops? Seems unlikely to me. So there is internal logic to that that needs to be researched. We need to figure out if this is really true. there's no point in going off halfcocked. But when you look at that law alone, it tells you that there is an incentive structure here that I will say is not above board.

There is no universe in which that makes sense. So um well there is a universe in which that makes sense where you want anybody to be able to vote. That's where it makes sense. Other than that, there's no logic. no logic. no logic. Uh casting a vote is different than validating a vote because it's supposed to match up on the voter block. But what do you think when you're down when you're down this uh line of thinking already, you think that as soon as they cast a vote, the votes in this envelope, it's automatically sealed and sent in.

But on the back end, they're supposed to say, "Okay, this vote is matched to this voter suppression record, this voter record," which is then matched to this person's citizenship's authentication, whether it's the driver's license, social security number, etc., etc. But, um, yes, there is a line of thinking that they could just anybody off the street could just walk in and vote and they'd be like, "Okay, here you go. Come sit down and vote right here." And there's not a matching process on the back half of that.

Okay. So, hold on. You're saying that it is a wiser solution to let it be easy as hell to vote illegally, but we'll clean it up on the back end versus just saying, "Show me your ID. I didn't say it was wiser at all." So, that was a you framed that argument. You're You're You're okay. That that is legitimately you know me. I have good intentions. I think you're amazing. You're smart. You're well. well. well. We don't have to get to the disclaimers, but you said is it wiser?

I didn't say it was wiser. I'm saying but what are you then putting forth? Say it in a single sentence because that sounded exactly like what you were saying that I am just because you cast a vote [clears throat] does just because you press a button in the voting machine doesn't mean on the back half of the side there isn't any mechanisms to check that that voting matches a record that then validates citizenship. Okay. But my point is that that is so asinine that you wouldn't do that upfront that you wouldn't put all the hurdles up front.

So you're bringing this up for a reason. So what I want to understand is what is the reason? because it's how you framed it just now made it seem like as soon as I punch a vote it's automatically locked in and there's no other cool now let me make a new statement who the [ __ ] cares if you're able to make a vote I don't give a [ __ ] that on the back end they're scrambling to try to clean it up I'm saying don't let them in in the first place so my my new added statement is it is so crazy and so absurd to think we should just not ask make it illegal in fact to ask and oh but don't worry we'll invalidate you on the back I don't have any reason to believe that they're doing it.

And just from an a systems perspective, that is absurd. So, absurd. So, absurd. So, it's also 80-year-olds are dying in office in Congress. So, there's a lot of absurd things when it comes to the federal government. federal government. federal government. Yes. And if we want to also talk about that, we can. But like drill down for me here because I want to understand what you think like do you think that this is a good system? Don't ask don't be able to ask for ID. If if politicians in America wanted us to vote, they would give election day as a national holiday.

So voter suppression is already in the makeup of the constitution. the least pe the least amount of people I can get you into the voting booth, the more I can aggregate power. If I know that my block is going to show up, which what block shows up? Older geriatric people, that's why older geriatric people are also in Congress because they know how to talk to their base. That's why young people don't vote unless there's a certain person that ralls them up. So, it's not necessarily if we're starting at what's the best way to vote.

Okay, the best way to vote is voting should be a national holiday. It should be over a 2 to three day period. You should be able to vote in person anywhere. There should be there shouldn't be designated voting uh polling stations based to your location. They should be able yes I have ID or yes I have something that marks that I'm a citizen and I should be able to go into any pol polling locations just like I could go into any DMV. I'm not only have to go to the DMV in Glendale, California or the DMV only in South Los Angeles um LA.

So that's kind of thing. So if we want to talk about sweeping reforms, we should. But we're too busy redlinining. We're too busy redrawing district maps. We're too busy trying to aggregate power. And on the California side, their way to aggregate power is to say, "We'll do all the validation on the back end." Your assumption right now is that the validation on the back end isn't being done and we'll go through that. We'll have a documentary that were released by another Nick Shirley type character and maybe they'll expose that or maybe they won't.

won't. won't. My assumption isn't one way or the other on whether they're validating on the back end. My assumption is that it means something that they don't want to validate you on the front end. But that that is downstream from the civil rights act from way back in the 1960s where it used to be you have to pay a poll to vote and that's based off of who you are, the color of your skin, what are you doing? There was also a literacy tax. I don't think you're smart enough to vote so you need to come over here so I can validate it.

So the reason that they have these checks and balances that they don't require people to ask for ID in the beginning is to is downstream of those initial voter suppression uh tactics that were done back in the 60s. Now are vote the rules in the 60s should be applied to the 2025? Of course not. But the people who are alive in the 60s are writing the rules in the 2025. So that's why we have an antiquated system. Uh we violently disagree on that. So what I think is going on is you have people that see a way to exploit the system system system and they are taking advantage of illegal immigrants very specifically that they know will have a much higher propensity to vote for Democrats who have a much higher propensity to vote for uh policies where everybody gets everything.

Um, and the Democrats are far more redistributive. I'll say it that way. And then because of that, they're able to get into power and stay in power as they have done in California. So, you and I are looking at this, I think, through very different lenses because even in what you were just saying, you said, if I understood you correctly, that yes, I think they should have ID and yes, it's a good idea to check it. just that there's also a whole bunch of other reforms that they should make.

Yes. Yeah. I'm not mad at that. But the thing is the the lack of because I don't because they don't ask for ID that means that every vote cast can be illegal. It's like just because I press a button in the machine doesn't mean my vote is automatically cast. There is a validation mechanism. It goes from machine to validator to a person actually looking through those records. Yeah. But really think about how it's going to validate. It's going to validate you against a database. And so it's going to say, "Is this person registered to vote?" And it will go, "Yes, that person is registered to vote." But if that person didn't have to do anything to prove that they have a right to be registered to vote, now you're back in the same problem.

How do you register to vote then? You have to show it's this is not what you have to do. But you should have to show your ID. To register to vote, you do have to show your ID. My understanding to be further investigated, my understanding is that you can do this online, which means that there's no verification that you really are who you say you are or you really are the person with the ID or any of that stuff. So, as of right now, I have a feeling given all the fraud that we've seen everywhere else, including with the Social Security database, keep in mind the governmental uh accountability office itself, the GAO, says that we constantly send out payments to dead people.

We covered that it took a literal act of Congress years in the making just to get them to stop paying dead people. So the odds that we're actually keeping track of who should and shouldn't vote, I will give it literally it is a 0% chance. I think we're conflating the federal government with local government ordinance. Now if we want to say they're both the same that's fine. I do California does work differently than what what what but I'm saying in terms of ability. So the federal government they're incompetent but California competent.

I didn't say that. I just said that they're not the same. But my pitch is it's incompetent. So then every every state government is incompetent. Incompetent and malicious. Yes. All 50 states everywhere. Up, down, left, right, ba, select, start. Copy. Um, if you would like to do something at home about this, I recommend the Convention of States, which is now advocating for term limits. They're advocating for a constitutional amendment that says that the federal budget must be balanced of every congestional session. And right now, they have 20 states out of the 38 that needs.

So, if you want to follow the petition, you can file a petition for your local state to get on this and then we can make a article 5 uh amendment to the constitution so that we will have term limits and we'll have balanced budgets and we won't have to have these conversations. conversations. conversations. Drew, would you rather walk to school or carry a lunch? That's like saying what can I tie uh correct? Th this conversation is that I can't even tell if we agree or disagree, but you're saying things like you disagree with me.

So you think there should be reform of voting? Yes or no? Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. You think that there should be reform of the whole way that Congress works? works? works? Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. Okay. Okay. Uh but you don't I agree, but you don't like my exact proposal. You think I'm mismapping the way that this actually works. works. works. I think it's being reduced to there. This is the bad guy that's causing all these problems. And I think that Do you think we have a problem with illegal immigrants voting?

Nah. Nah. Nah. Okay. So, we have found the base assumption where we disagree. Perfect. If we if that was a problem, then Trump wouldn't have won. That isn't true. Why isn't Why isn't Why isn't you don't think that the First of all, it was very close election. You don't think that there are enough people? He won all swing states and half those swing states were getting imported uh aliens. There's a migrant community in Pennsylvania. There's a migrant community in Ohio. There's a migrant community in Dearborn, Michigan that we cover all the time.

Correct. So your assumption is that there are so many illegal immigrants that it should be impo if if it were happening that it should be impossible for a Republican to win or at least Trump to win? If what you're saying is accurate that illegal immigrants are creating a pipeline directly to blue states to keep them blue y then I would say specifically in the last two years where did those migrant populations these millions of people come in? They went into swing states. So if those all those migrant population that were coming in went into those swing states and then voted they would have flipped a lot of those districts.

None of them flipped. Okay. So you've made a based assumption that I don't think the math backs up. So what I'm saying is this is a direction of travel question. If you keep putting people in those states then things are going to get closer and closer and closer and the margins are going to get smaller and smaller and smaller which is exactly what we see. They but they went the opposite though. Trump won bigger than this one than he did. did. did. Correct. because he's winning more people over partly because people saw how many illegals were coming into the country.

I also doubt that it's a one for one that every illegal in the first election that they're able to vote is voting. If anybody could get people organized, rallied, and mobilized that fast, like holy Jesus, that would be incredible. So, it's not going to be that tight. But going back to the thing that we disagree on, at least we can put our finger on very directly. You don't think that illegal immigrants are voting. I think illegal immigrants are voting. So now, great. I don't think either of us is invested in being right.

We're merely invested in we know where we want to get the country to. Maybe we don't exactly agree, but I think roughly you and I share a lot of what we want to see happen. And so now it's going to be cool. Let's start looking into this stuff. I think you and I would both love to see somebody do. Maybe we disagree on I'm perfectly happy with Nick Shirley or someone like him doing it, but we need investigations into what exactly is going on with voter registration, potential voter fraud, fraud just like we're finding in Minnesota and other states.

Like I want to see all of that stuff uncovered. I don't think you have any beef with that. Nope. I do have beef with uh Minnesota fraud being put at the feet of Somalians when the ring leader was a white woman. And I feel like we keep saying we keep associating uh fraud in Minnesota with uh illegal aliens when we just realize that the person who organized all the fraud in the Minnesota, the one who had the luxury Porsche, the one who was driving the luxury goods and had the bags and stuff like that, that wasn't an illegal immigrant.

That was an American citizen who coordinated that not in the government. So I just want that to just put out there. So we keep saying the Somali are doing all these things, but the people that the Somali was listening to was somebody in America. So again, we're saying this bad guy is causing all these problems. I don't think it's that singular of an issue. And I think that it's easy for people who are in power right now to blame it on this bad guy and run out the window.

Just like as me being the little brother, it's very easy for me to break the glass, blame it on my older brother and run out. Then the older brother gets in trouble. I'm goodoo and I get to eat my extra extra scoop of ice cream. And I think that right now our problems are bigger than that person did it. If we just get them out, we'll be completely fine. It's not that simple. It's not that reductive. and us going in this loop of let's just solve all the illegal immigrations and everything else will happen.

That's not necessarily true because if they really did want us to uh vote, they wouldn't have redraw the maps the way they redraw it. They wouldn't have did uh redlinining the way that they're doing it. They would they would make voting day a national holiday. Right now for local elections, it's on a Wednesday afternoon. Wednesday afternoon. Wednesday afternoon. Okay, just really fast. There's a lot of pieces on the table. So, uh let's go back to the immigration thing. So, what I hear you saying, and tell me if I'm off base, is that um there is a large propensity for [snorts] the I'm I'm now reaching into your mind, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but right now, Tom, what I see people doing is they're being emotionally reactive.

They're just blaming everything on immigrants. And they think if they get rid of the immigrants, then all of their problems are solved. There's also some race here involved in this. And if this were a bunch of um people that look like them, then h we might not as quickly point to that group. that group. that group. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. Uh and so now what I Drew am asking for is let's take a more holistic look at this problem. Let's understand that this is not just about the immigrants that there are also plenty of people.

You said white. I think that may be less relevant even to you, but white people for sure. So if you're just blaming black and brown people, that's nonsensical. Uh the quote unquote ring leader was white and not Somali in. So we got to start looking at the real problem. Now, so far so good. So far so good. Okay. Are you discounting the role of the Somalians where it's like that's trivial, don't even worry about that. Let's just focus on the ring leaders. Or to you, is this a combined problem of no, no, no, there really are immigrants on the ground that are coming here, have a totally different culture, uh have less problem exploiting it because it's it's not money coming from people that they know.

It's hey, this new country and I'll just get what I can or uh No, no, no. Like literally, they're not innocent, but they're just making use of the system that exists. The bad people are the people that create and facilitate the system. The bad people are the that create and facilitate the incentives that allow this to happen. Okay. So, no um no no no blame to go to the immigrants themselves at all. at all. at all. If they break the law, they should go to jail.

jail. jail. Okay. So, some blame certainly they should be held accountable. Criminal should be held accountable. But you're saying only way to address the problem. It is not to expel the immigrants, immigrants, immigrants, keep immigrants. keep immigrants. keep immigrants. You're exact again. Again, we're we spent five uh we're at minute nine now that I tried to pivot from this conversation and the conversation started is it was immigrant as the focus of the nexus of the waste, fraud, and abuse uh voters is because of illegal immigrants.

Everything that's our problem is because of illegal immigrants. And I think that right now we're oversimplifying all of America's problems on this one group of people. And I'm saying that is the problem. There's just like this. I understand. Let me pause you there because that's very clear. What I'm trying to get to is I want to understand if you think that the um you need to take everything in totality and this is an immigrant plus facilitator problem, which is what I think. or if you think that this is just a facilitator problem.

You want them to go to jail, but you're drawing a line between the two that I am not yet able to understand why you're because I think the crime that we're starting to we're starting at is you're not here. not here. not here. I'm going to try to say it in one sentence because I really want to pivot. Um Um Um we need to look at what is really causing America's downfall and the shortage of their budget. Mhm. I think that that in totality has a lot to do with just immigrants.

I think that has a lot to do with just immigrants. All right, that was a curveball there at the end. Everybody, we'll move on. We've got two super chats directly on top top top on this. Okay, let's speedrun them. Cool. Uh oh, sorry. Let me grab them. Okay, Marushia Dark first. Have you seen Virginia's list of proposed bills going around on Twitter? They saw the Fed in California and said, "Hold my beer. The taxes and regulations are bad enough, but the real threat are the changes to districts and elections.

Yeah. I mean, look, changing your districts, meddling in elections, all of that stuff. This is uh this is a morass. And the more that I look at all of this stuff, I understand why people eventually just throw their hands up and go, "This is all so complicated. We're never going to be able to unwind all this stuff." Uh but this does feel like it's addressable via policy, but we have to start we we have to get people on to cause and effect. Like we just really have to get people to embrace that incentives.

If show me the incentive, I'll show you the outcome. It's like we've created an incentive for people to come and grab up resources and they are going to do that. Uh we have an incentive to get elected. We've got money in politics which creates this really circular problem. Uh so we have to break out of that. But there it really is a small handful of things that you can do to start unwinding this. You're never going to unwind it overnight, but you have to one, you have to have a culture of we don't tolerate this, and then two, you have to start taking the steps.

And from Big Diglers, uh, uh, uh, for real, well done, sir. Well done. That's close. Uh, voter suppression arising from asking for ID or similar meth methods that's occurring is that of illegal votes and those who benefit from such illegal votes cry racist or whatnot. Backend ha complexity easily hides fraud. hides fraud. hides fraud. Yeah, I agree. This just feels like a very simple straightforward thing. Show me your ID or you can't vote. We put it on so many other things and nobody's weird about it, but we get super weird about voting.

That just that with an ID requirement on so many other things. things. things. Yep. Yep. Yep. Got it. Got it. Got it. Keep in mind this is the same government that just voted where uh if your AI thinks that you're driving in an impaired way, they can just shut your car off. And but oh, by the way, I'm not going to ask for ID for you to vote. That's so crazy. Time to buy the classics. Yeah, it it's wild. Wild time. Buy the classics. Get an old Mustang from the 60s.

Oh, dude. It I actually thought about that. I'm like, "Huh, this is going to up it." But then, of course, they're just going to say, "You have to get one put in." Or some [ __ ] like that. So, anyway, anyway, anyway, um, all right. The tale of two stories. I am I am I am Hold on really fast. I have to do it. For all the people in chat that are saying, "What illegal votes?" For real? For real? You think there's none for real? Just go on record right now saying that's your stance and and we can move on.

But if that's really your stance, cool. We'll see how it plays out. It's all going to be investigated. Um the tale of two stories. So on one side the Democrats have tweeted in Minneapolis ICE arrested a 5-year-old coming home from preschool and tried to use him as human bait. His teacher describes him as a bright young student. These monsters are sick. This is uh footage of a 5-year-old that was standing with ICE officials. It's got a bunch of bagels, a bunch of different videos. DHS retweeted them and said ICE did not target a child.

The child was abandoned. On January 20th, ICE conducted a targeted operation to arrest Adrien Alexand Alexander Canelio Aras, an illegal alien. My Spanish speaking person is not making eye contact, so I butchered that name. An illegal alien from Ecuador who was released in the US by the Biden administration. As agents approached the driver, Adrian fled on foot, abandoning his Asgents approached the driver, Adrien fled on foot, abandoning his child. For the child's safety, one of the ICE officers remain with the child while the other officers apprehended him.

Parents are asked if they want to be removed with their children or ICE will place their child children with a safe person the parent designates. This is consistent with past administration immigration enforcement. Parents can take control of their departure and receive a free flight in 2600. With the CPB home app by using the CP uh B home app, illegal aliens reserve the chance to come back the right legal way. Um, I think this kind of sums up like the drama of politics right now. Like it's not what happened, it's what you think happened based off of where you entered this.

this. this. Narrative control, baby. Narrative control. Yeah, this one this one is narrative warfare on both sides. Uh I don't think ICE I've seen other video of ICE um in a similar fashion detaining a child uh because the parent basically took off running. So if a parent knows for instance that if I get inside my house, you can't get in with an administrative warrant. I know there's some drama over that right now, but traditionally that has been the case. Uh, but if the kid can't get in fast enough or the kid's outside playing, um, then all of a sudden, hey, your kid's outside with ICE officers, you're inside.

If you go outside to show your ID to prove that that really is your kid, they got you. And so they'll stay in the house and be like, "No, no, no. I'm not coming out. Like, just send my kid in." So ICE is going to look horrible. It doesn't matter if they have the legal right to do it or not. Uh this is people pressing their leverage. And when people press their leverage, it can often be grotesque. So this is where we're at. But um we got we got some details on it.

All right. Is ICE getting so desperate that they're snatching up kids? That is certainly what many people are claiming. But is that really what's happening? The story regarding ICE supposedly targeting a 5-year-old has gained significant traction on social media and stems from a viral video and subsequent fact check issued by the Department of Homeland Security, DHS. The claim began when a video was posted to social media showing ICE agents at a residential complex in a major US city. In the video, a 5-year-old child was seen crying as an adult male was being detained.

The caption of the viral post claimed that ICE had all had arrived specifically to arrest and deport a 5-year-old. However, the subject of the warrant, according to the DHS statement and ICE uh official records, was for the child's father, an adult male who had a final order of removal from a federal immigration judge and a prior criminal conviction, in fact, multiple convictions for violent felonies. He had been classified as a priority one enforcement target. School officials, however, and witnesses say that ICE officers directed the 5-year-old to knock on the front door to check if other adults were inside, effectively using him to gain access.

This has been described by critics as using a child as bait, which 100% is precisely what they are doing, and they will do it all day long to press their advantage. Now, another adult present was allegedly denied the opportunity to care for Liam so that he could avoid being taken into custody. The family has an active asylum case and reportedly entered the US legally through a port of entry. They had not received a deportation order at the time of arrest according to their attorney and school officials.

So both sides going back and forth. He said, she said, one says this, the other says that. You are being spun. You are in the middle offormational warfare. Which side is accurate? I'm sure it's a little bit of column A and a little bit of column B. This is the kind of stuff that we're going to have to wait and see how it plays out. It's going to have to work its way through the court system. But when you see video like this, it is just going to be a terrible look for ICE.

Even if they are the sort of, you know, acquitted of all wrongdoing in the inevitable um investigation, it doesn't matter. This stuff looks absolutely terrible. And this is one of the problems is you've got Trump that's going more and more in the route of more ICE officers, looking tougher, hiring more badasses, getting combat veterans on the force, which shout out to our combat veterans. I love you guys the most. But it's like we have to be so careful about how we go about this, not just what we're doing.

I obviously feel very strongly you can't have illegal aliens running around the country. People have got to come in the right way. You've got to be able to enforce your border. You've got to be able to enforce your laws. And so if you have immigration laws, you've got to be able to enforce them. You cannot let mob rule by any stretch of the imagination. And at the same time, you can't just be this crazy goostepping force that comes in and starts doing stuff that can be made to look so bad, so effortlessly.

So we uh man, you got to be real careful. That's just the reality. You got to be careful. I get that it should be easier to do their job, but it's not. You got to be more careful. Yeah, it's just bad optics all around. All around. Um, okay. Let's jump into So, I feel like I've been playing both sides today cuz when everybody was talking about this Greenland story, there was so many uh speculation and talk about how Trump is about to alienate all our allies.

Trump is about to um vilify us. He's going to go in there and snatch it. We're about to go to war with Greenland. Europeans were sending uh boots on the ground. And when I say boots on the ground, I mean two people in a corona. But it's one of those things where it's like there was all this speculation of what Trump might do just for Trump to go into Davos and say this. And then we'll jump into the Trump and Greenland updates that we have so far.

so far. so far. Mark, are you here? Yes, he's here. Hello, Mark. We never ask for anything. I assume he's talking about Mark, by the way. way. way. Anything? We probably won't get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force where we would be frankly unstoppable. frankly unstoppable. frankly unstoppable. But I won't do that. Okay, now everyone's saying, "Oh, good. That's probably the biggest statement I made because people thought I would use force. I don't have to use force. I don't want to use force.

I won't use force." force." force." All right, pause it. Here's the thing. Listen. Listen. Listen. Uh if you believe that a populist moment like this that someone like Trump is summoned forth from the populace that is very angry uh they they know the pie is shrinking and they want to fight against the other team. I get how somebody like Trump comes into to office. So I'm not confused about that. However, if he had simply said that when asked um will you take an armed invasion off the table?

if he had said, "Listen, I'm not going to use force, but we have to have it for the, you know, the whole spiel that he gives for national security and talked about having resolve and it's got to happen and we're going to get it done one way or the other and all that, easy way or the hard way, but listen, we're not going to use force against our allies. We're not going to need to yada yada yada." What he literally just said, you could have avoided so much of the reputational damage that has been done to America.

Remember, the leaders in America are a megaphone for the will of the people. And right now, if you're on the outside looking back at America, what you see is a bitterly divided country that vacasillates between the left and the right with these really hard swings that the left and the right are pulling away from each other. You have to understand this is not a left that's near the middle and a right that's near the middle. This is like you got a left that's going more and more radical and a right that's going more and more radical.

And so when you vacasillate those huge swings from one side to the other from the outside world, it's like, yeah, I'll take a Xiinping over this because at least it's one guy. I don't have to worry about him swinging wildly from either side. I understand what his temperament is. I know what he's like, but at least like we get that. And they're actually doing it. If I'm not mistaken, Mark actually said Mark Carney actually said, "I I am almost certain this is true. I wouldn't be able to pull this up quickly, but my memory serves that he literally said Xi is at least more predictable than Trump." Trump." Trump." So, you're putting world leaders in a position where partly out of spite, partly because they don't know what's going to happen at the midterms.

They don't know what's going to happen in three more years when a new president is elected. They have no idea. And so it's like, listen, we've got to find people that are more stable because people will put up with some terrifying stuff as long as it's predictable. [snorts] So America has got to get its act together in terms of broadcasting to the world that we're not all over the place. The problem is we are all over the place. So I don't expect this to be dialed back anytime soon.

But if we don't, we're going to be in trouble. Full stop. I've got a whole another tirade, but I'll tell why you're really mad. Um, uh, the next day, Trump came out and said they have a framework of a deal. This is the framework of that deal. Denmark must continue paying the Greenland population $600 million per year that it's already on the table. The US gains sovereignty over any parts it wants for American military bases. I think we have two there, so if we want to add any additional ones.

The US will have access to the entire Arctic Circle. The US obtains the mineral exploration rights. China and Russia are not permitted to enter Greenland. The US will continue to be a part of NATO in exchange for all of this. Um this. Um this. Um that's the final point is the interesting point. So this is all rumor. It's conjecture behind the scenes grumbling. But what people are saying is that the reason that Trump has been able to get this deal. It's not done yet. These are just the outline.

We'll see if it actually gets uh across the finish line. But people are saying the reason that Denmark finally agreed to this is that the guy that actually runs the UN or sorry NATO, my apologies, the guy that runs NATO, um basically said he is he being Trump is actually going to pull out of NATO if we're not able to find a path to this. And um there's a clip that we should pull up of the guy, it's in the document under um the president of Finland, flip-flops.

So these guys talk really tough Europe until they actually start thinking about how much of their budgets would need to go to the military for them to be able to protect themselves. And also Europe understands that even within Europe there are fractures and they have probably even more tension among themselves than we have between states here in America. So while they move as a block, you've already had England jettison themselves out of the EU. You've got other people that are talking about jettisoning out of the EU.

You've got people like Hungary that have been openly antagonistic to EU policies. Poland that's been openly antagonistic to EU policies. So it's like they're not as unified as one might want them to be. Uh and so as you'll see in this clip, the tough talk can get retracted pretty damn fast. And uh when he switches, just keep in mind this is a change of only 11 minutes. minutes. minutes. First is a direct answer to the question of this panel. This is the president. My answer is unequivocally yes.

unequivocally yes. unequivocally yes. Without the Americans, uh without the Americans, I mean, how well look, but you're relying on them for these key elements. Um you've said earlier that pause it for a sec just so anybody that's not looking at their phone can hear. So the question was, uh can you guys support yourselves without America? Unequivocally, yes. Can you defend yourselves? Yes, we got it. No problem. How? And now this next clip is from 11 minutes later. minutes later. minutes later. Can defend itself without the Americans.

If it comes down not not exact my That's not a quote. He's saying that's not a quote. That's literally a quote. Go. Go. Go. Like, do these people not realize they're being recorded? So he literally says unequivocally, "We can defend ourselves without America." And then when asked how, he's got no answer and then just crumbles. So, uh, I get it. They've got a posture. They've got a tough talk. Tough, but at the end, not so much. Not so. Uh, there it's it's big. It's like your ego gets involved and then you start to think about the people, the budget, the economy, and you're like, "Oh, okay.

Never mind." and he just shrunk back inside of himself. Yes. Like it's easy to laugh it off. Haha. Then it's like, okay, so you said that. Well, wait, hold on. No, I didn't say that because he knows Trump's in the other room and he's he's kind of feeling that. that. that. Yeah. That and like there are realities to be faced. This is why it's like listen, I don't like the um GTP policies that Trump uses. I don't like the bully tactics. Uh but at the same time, leverage is leverage.

And people need to be honest about where they have leverage and where they don't have leverage. And where people get themselves in trouble is where they overplay their hand. They think that they not that they think they have leverage, that they don't like the way it feels to have to bend the knee to somebody who has more leverage over them. But this is exactly what diplomacy is. Where can I press the advantage? Where do I have to give because I don't have the advantage? Where can I actually stand my ground and win?

And if you miscalculate that, then you get eaten alive. And so, um, again, I think Trump is doing irrepar irreparable damage to our international reputation. It just is what it is. Um, but at the same time, he does as the leader of the strongest military and arguably the strongest economy. It's like we hold a lot more chips than any one country. Now, other countries could do us damage. There's no doubt about that. But what they have to ask is if they damage us, does it go to help them or does it end up hurting them?

And right now, as the US goes, so goes the whole world. You don't want to see America spiral into a recession or a depression. The number of things that we deliver to the rest of the world, the number of people around the globe that are invested in US markets is crazy. So, uh, yeah, it would not be good for the globe to want to see America break. That is for sure. Yeah. Uh and then continuing Trump's uh escapades in Davos. Uh this is the reveal of his board of peace.

Um it includes Bellarus, Morocco, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Hungary, Armenia, Egypt, Kosovo, Pakistan, Paraguay, Albania, Usuzbekiststan, Bahan, Qatar, and Indonesia. Um I don't know if those are necessarily the starters in the lineup. There's more than that. I'm pretty sure if I if memory serves there was a slightly deeper bench than that, but um people are throwing around all kinds of rumors about who's in, who's out. Uh I'm seeing some reports saying Saudi Arabia is out, other reports saying no, they've already confirmed that they're in. Uh Uh Uh that was Malay from Argentina that he just walked past.

So my thing is though when you hear about some of the details and all this needs to be formalized and all of that but when I hear about some of the details if they are true I don't know that they are true but if they are true if Trump really is the forlife head of the board of peace regardless of whether he's in the White House or not that is insane to me. That is insane that you're letting somebody who will very shortly be a civilian put themselves at the head of a global group that is clearly meant to be a political body.

That is wild. Now, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe that's inaccurate reporting. We'll want to find out. But yo, I would not want any president ever to make that deal. So, it's like once you're a civilian, man, you are a civilian. You do not represent the United States anymore. And I remember when George HW Bush was doing this, he was doing trips to Saudi Arabia and stuff after leaving the office and people were like, "Wait, is he there as an official representative of America or is he a business guy going over?" And it wasn't clear anymore.

And I remember thinking, he's got every right to do it, but it was a little heebie-jebie. It was like, huh, that is kind of weird. And now he's as president installing himself again, allegedly. Allegedly. I don't know for sure, but uh if that is true that to use the presidency to get yourself installed at the head of a political organization for life, get the [ __ ] out of here. Crazy, man. Um and then Elon had something to say about it when his uh interview with Larry Frink happened later on that day.

Um I mean, I heard I heard about heard about the formation of the the peace summit and I was like, is that uh is that PI E? Uh, you know, little piece of Greenland, a little piece of Venezuela. We got one. Dude, that's one of those like that's outlandish. Like, that is uh I mean, to your point, we never really got into your discussion about should you be able to say this stuff uh publicly about the family or not. Um, but you've got America's biggest business titan who has many times now talked [ __ ] on Trump.

Trump talks [ __ ] on everybody. So, it's like if you're going to give it, you got to be prepared to get it. But, uh, yeah, that one is exactly, I think, the right joke to make. Yeah. But, oo, buddy. Like that's uh what is your take on that between Elon saying it in like a jokingly poking way and then Newsome a bit more grounded and pointed way about kind of America's almost infighting in the world like on the world stage at a global conference. I think it's a terrible look for America.

Um and at the same time this is the game. So I wish it weren't so. Uh I wish America were on the same page. We'd be in a much stronger position. But the bet that America made when it founded itself was you got to let people talk [ __ ] air all their dirty laundry, say whatever they think is true, not cap their freedom of speech. Like, and we don't. We have a maverick culture. We are the rugged individuals. And the rugged individuals with a maverick culture and actual freedom of speech gave you America.

Mh. It it became the place for the most hardcore people from all over the world to come and say, "Give me a shot. Just get out of my way. I get that the field is full of NFL linebackers that are going to level most of the people that go up against them. But I think I've got a shot. I'm either faster, I'm smarter, I'm stronger, whatever. I'm something. Let me go on the field." And if they break my collar bone, they break my collar bone. It is what it if they paralyze me.

If they kill me, whatever. Like, I want to play. And you got this incredible juggernaut out of that. And so while I hate the way that it is, like I remember when this is a long time ago, but I remember when the Paul brothers made diss tracks about each other. I was like so traumatized because I would never talk [ __ ] about my family publicly like that. like that. like that. So we were just talking about that with the Beckham the Beckham family. And I feel the same.

I hate it. Absolutely despise that kids put their parents on blast. that parents put their kids on blast. Hate, hate, hate. Uh, but nonetheless, they have the right to do it. And so, I would not want to see America culturally or legally stop people from doing it. I want Mavericks. I want to I mean, let's not forget that Elon is not American by birth. He's South African. So, I'm glad that we attract people from all over the world that have that like uh you can't tell me [ __ ] attitude like I'm going to go do this thing and if I crash and burn, I crash and burn and just bad on me.

But if I make it, I'm really going to be able to make it. And we have led the world for I mean a long time. Not our full 250 years, but we've led the world for a long ass time as a result of that attitude. So, I'm definitely here for it. But at times like this when I'm like [ __ ] America is just it. We are we're a mess right now. And so when you see it play out in real time, it doesn't feel good. But it is the thing that has led us to where we are.

So I don't want to break it. break it. break it. And then the last thing coming out of Davos was New Gaza. Jared Kushner's plan to redevelop the uh hub. I don't even know what to call it. Um but they were talking about transportation, coastal tourism, complete energy and digital infrastructure. And of course they had guidelines about the demilitarization of Hamas and some of the necessary requirements that were required to get there. It seemed like a good plan. It did kind of give a real estate presentation for a little bit.

So that was the little bit of the uneasy part of this. this. this. So when I saw the the presentation and he was like, "Listen, can we all just chill for a minute? Just like take it in for a second. Don't freak out." I was like, "This is going to be viewed ironically as the most dystopian thing ever by a certain type of person that they see this and it's like all glitter and artifice and all of that. And this is my whole point from the beginning is the only way to end this conflict is to get people thinking about the future.

to get people to say, "I want to be in this place over here that's better, where my kids' life's going to be better, I'm going to make more money, my kids are going to make more money than me." Like, when you can get culturally that attitude going, you can generate momentum. The problem is that this is not in the Palestinian culture. So, I don't see how you get there unless you truly ethnically cleanse all of Gaza. Now, if you ethnically cleanse all of Gaza, sure. Then you can essentially extend it.

And as long as you get cooperation between Arab nations and Israel and they boot the militants out, yeah, cool. And then that geography will be wonderful. And quite frankly, it will be better for it. That that is a way better outcome than it being in the state that it's in right now. But it requires some morally reprehensible things to get you there. And so this is why this has fascinated me from the beginning is run the thought experiment just as a thought experiment. You don't even have to go that far.

America, America's amazing, but we had to kill a lot of Native Americans to get here. here. here. America, from sea to shining sea. We had to take it from Mexico, Gaza, from the river to the sea. So, right. So, I'm just saying like what do you do with the fact that America becomes the thing that helps stop the Nazis? But at the same time, we were the guys that brought smallox and then killed the rest of the Indians that didn't get killed by smallox, Native Americans.

So, it's like, bro, you did a bad thing and you got a dope outcome. And so that kind of thing is is a bitter pill to swallow. And so if they end up making making making Palestine a way better place driven by economics as it should be, uh what do you do? I think people are still there going to be a lot of people that they just cannot accept the price that had to be paid. be paid. be paid. And you're saying the roadblock for that you think is going to be the pal uh the Palestinian people themselves.

Correct. Culturally they are not going to be able to digest that. Just like you can't go uh to Afghanistan, put some schools in, start sending girls to school and be like everything's going to be better. Doesn't work like that. If culturally that's not what the culture wants, then that's not what the culture is going to get. Like imagine uh you open a school and uh you send your daughter to school and she comes home and her dad beats her mercilessly and it's like no daughter of mine is going to school.

Now what? And if a lot of them are doing that, well now you got a problem. I'm not saying that's what's happening. I'm just saying things like that do happen. So you the culture has to want the thing. Otherwise it is put in place by force, maintained by force and that never lasts for long. you start getting insurgencies and all of that. So you these things have to come from the bottom up. That's why I'm saying like if you actually want to see that vision, you you have to ethnically cleanse.

There's just no way around it. So and that is obviously morally repugnant. So what do you do? What do you do? Um What do you do? Um you can read some super chats. from there. You can always read some super chat. chat. chat. Super chat. Super chat. Super chat. Uh, first up from Marushia Dark. Threat of force is a big ask. If Trump takes it off the table, it weakens his negotiate negotiating position since the opposition, friend or foe, knows there are no consequences. Uh, for [ __ ] sake, he literally wrote a book outlining this tactic.

Yeah. So, um, Marushia, what you're not thinking about are the second and third order consequences of alienating your allies. So, I understand. I know why you want him to leave it on the table, but remember in a business negotiation, you know, he can't be violent and he's still able to get things done. So the question is why in the business world are we all not only accepting that the violence is completely off the table, we would be horrified to our core if somebody were violent. Like they would go to jail.

We would have them arrested immediately. Um and everybody would be a gasast. But then when it comes to dealing, remember with our allies, we're like, "Yeah, he's got to leave violence on the table." It's like, "Sure, I get it. Puts him in a stronger negotiating position. There's no doubt about that. But it has consequences." So, this is a question of it sounds like you're perfectly willing to pay those consequences. And I'm just saying I think it's a bad idea. I think it comes back to haunt you, especially since you will notice that he is now taking the violence off the table.

So, he ended up here, but not until after he's done a whole lot of damage. If you're going to reconcile, in fact, let me let me just give you all some relationship advice. relationship advice. relationship advice. If you want to end your relationship with somebody, say mean and hurtful things to win an argument. If you want to stay with that person, even if it would win you the argument, don't say mean and hurtful things because that's now a part of the relationship. It's out there, can never be taken back.

You can't even really make amends for it. And this is why in my marriage, I have a very strict rule that I'm never going to weaponize my wife's insecurities against her. I know what they are. I could decimate her emotionally at any time. And yet, that's completely off limits. Even if that means that I lose an argument where I know I'm right, doesn't matter because I'm thinking of the long-term health of my marriage. I'm thinking of the long-term emotional well-being of my wife. And also, I'm thinking I don't want her to do it to me.

So now it's like, yeah, it's a tool and it would get me something in the short term, but it would cost me something massive in the long term. And I'm just saying Trump seems to not be aware of that. If he wants to talk tough with people that we already have an adversarial relationship with, great. Talking like that to our allies is nonsensical. nonsensical. nonsensical. That is the perfect way to segue into the second super chat. Um, from Christy Job, call back to Wednesday. Would love to see love and relationship theory.

I'm in that 20% of women viewers and my boyfriend gets engaged with Lisa's content more. Great ideal. Can't wait for it. for it. for it. That's dope. Yeah. No, we're working on the branding now. We'll see. Uh, this is one I am so ferocious with my time. I already don't have enough time, but if it does well, uh, then yeah, we'll keep doing it. It certainly is fun. I love doing content with Lisa, but uh, it's got to perform. It's got to perform. So, we'll see.

we'll see. we'll see. Back to the news. Um, yeah, a way was attacked. I was scrolling through the the like comments trying to figure out like if this was like a protest, were they doing anything, but it just seems like some people were just attacking a car. Dude, I'm telling you, there is so much anxiety over it's all economic, but it manifests as I don't know what my future's going to be. And because th this is why I'm telling you right now, you cannot trust your emotions.

Your emotions lead you to do dumb [ __ ] like this. This is ridiculous. You know that, it's funny. They just announced that when taxi drivers uh when Uber first announced, taxi drivers lobbyed to stop course Uber drivers Uber drivers Uber drivers and now Uber and Lift drivers are now trying to lobby to stop Whimos and autonomous vehicles. autonomous vehicles. autonomous vehicles. Correct. Correct. Correct. So it's just kind of like this circle of life that we're in right now. Yep. And it that this is where your emotions lead you.

So instead of saying, "Okay, what do I have to do?" So think about this as a game developer. I'm like, "Oo, AI is going to change everything." Um, also kids being raised on cell phones is changing everything. Uh, and so I could obviously get inspired to suddenly be like, we should get rid of phones and we shouldn't use AI, but I'm just like, listen, fighting against that stuff is is a stupid move. Now, letting young kids play with phones as much as they do for reasons totally unrelated to its impact on video games, I would definitely look at.

But um when you fight against the tide of change, you are the man standing on the beach with the tsunami headed towards him. Good luck. Doesn't matter how much you yell, shout, fight, whatever, you're you're just going to get mowed over. Uh history is abundantly clear on that. So my thing is always, okay, what do I need to change? How do I adapt to this? How do I be maximally flexible? That is a far wiser strategy. Um it's time for some jokes. It's time for some jokes.

Um, I this is probably my favorite one. This is um a new Pixar movie that is just now releasing. I got an exclusive exclusive trailer. This is this is exclusive a Tom Billy exclusive trailer. The new Pixar movie dropping out. out. out. These trailers are just absolutely savage. savage. savage. I love it. All right. I I love it. All right. I haven't seen time in Thailand from Pixie Works Animation. Oh my god. Smile. Careful. I might steal it. Comes a story about finding someone who truly sees you.

Hi, I'm Jean. Hi, Jean. But she's got a secret. You look cute when you slay. Oh, thanks. Oh, thanks. Oh, thanks. I haven't felt like this in years. years. years. There's something I haven't told you. Lady boy. Lady boy. Lady boy. Time in Thailand. That Drew is a savage. I cannot believe that Drew just played that. That is everybody. That was Drew. I just would like the record to reflect. But that was a really good trailer though. Like that was a well put together. put together.

put together. Oh Oh Oh yeah. That's what makes it funny. Now here's what's crazy. Have you ever heard of The Crying Game? No. Has anyone here heard of The Crying Game? Nope. Game? Nope. Game? Nope. What? This is literally a movie called The Crying Game that came out in the mid 90s if I remember right. Dude, yes, a thousand%. It's set in Ireland or Scotland or something. But, uh, the punchline is, and on camera, you'll forgive me, this movie is old, so I'm in a spoiler alert.

Spoiler alert, but the whole movie, you, the audience, think it's a woman, but it is actually a man playing a woman, and he whips his dick out in the movie, AND YOU'RE LIKE, "OH, OH." And this is in the mid '9s, man. So, this was like, "Oh, what the [ __ ] just happened?" It was so It was everywhere. Like, everybody was talking about The Crying Gang. It's like, "Oh my god, the [ __ ] cuz the guy falls in love only to find out Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. that oh there's more than meets the eye here.

Oh my god. So anyway, funny but the great irony is that it's actually a real movie. real movie. real movie. Uh well, you know, sexuality is a spectrum. Um to all the boomers out there, um I just thought that this was hilarious right now. Boomers holding gold and silver and watching you get lose. Yo, boomers are undefeated. Yo, no, no, no. Most of them don't know enough to own gold. So whether it's the social security, whether it's the tax breaks, whether it's gold and silver do outperforming crypto, nobody would have seen like that was on nobody's bingo card.

That was on Peter Schiff's bingo card. He has been about it for a very long time. You got me there. So yeah, look, in times of uncertainty for sure. That's a very funny meme. Uh I don't think so. Remember, even including boomers, only 10% of people and 93% of the assets, they don't own gold. Most of them are just whatever their person told them to do. And since most of the wealth guys are not going to tell you to own gold, nah, none of them have it.

But uh it is funny. Um the next one we have is uh we're less than 10 years away from decoding all animal communication. Um an entire kingdom of minds we've been ignoring for 300 years. They're starting to decode what like bird chirps mean. Um and then this person retweeted it. animals are going to turn out to be super racist and then this project will be [screaming] [screaming] [screaming] Who do you think is the most racist animal? animal? animal? That is h I don't know. Dogs. Dogs.

Dogs. That is That is That is I can tell how many people have how many people of color have been around your dog based on how loud it barks at me. Um now hold on. Is that just because it's in America or dogs like in Africa also racist? racist? racist? I've troll it. I've troll it. Uh it. Uh it. Uh because surely it's just I haven't seen this is different. And so the dogs be looking at the pair like you see this what is happening right now?

What's going on? What's uh what's another racist animal? Racist jungle animal. Um or okay, let's change it. Who do you think would be the most problematic animal? problematic animal? problematic animal? Oo, cats for sure. Cats. Yeah, cats are judgy. Dude, cats are like evil incarnate. I don't understand why people let them in their house. Like you've got an animal that will look you dead in the eye and knock [ __ ] off your counter. counter. counter. What the [ __ ] And you're like, you know what? I need one of those in my house.

Let me get a couple. I need I need another one. another one. another one. That's so wild. Yeah. I don't know why people would take care of something that is clearly like annoyed by your very existence. existence. existence. Uh this next one I think is hilarious. Some people are calling it the Netflix effect, but um let's see. Netflix. Netflix. Netflix. Okay. What is this? Um, okay. So, in the movie, movie, movie, set us up here. In the movie, this is what happens. All right. In real life.

All right. That's [ __ ] hilarious. I really hope you guys were watching your uh your cameras on that one. Uh, that one tickled. That one tickled me. Uh, all right. Now, well, hold on. We We've got to for We can't just rush through these. So, for anybody that wasn't looking, what it was was a young woman with a baseball bat. And in the first one, she beats the life out of everybody. They actually do a pretty good job. The choreography is fantastic. Yeah, the choreography is great.

And it actually is far more believable than what you see in a lot of movies. At least here, she's using a weapon and using it well. Uh, and she can throw a kick. The second one is she tries the same thing, but because she's going up against a bunch of uh boys, she gets her ass beat, which unfortunately is, unless you're Ronda Rousey, is real life. Have you heard that Ronda Rousey story, though? though? though? Oh my god, it is one of the all-time great stories.

So, oh, I wonder if you can pull it up fast enough. Type Ronda Rousey movie theater story. I'm going to guess it comes up fast. Uh, I can't believe this is real. This is why you've really got to be careful who you [ __ ] with. Uh she was I think at a movie theater with Dana White. So it was like you've already got signals that this is probably not the person that you want to [ __ ] with. And she was sitting in a chair and the whole movie the person behind her has feet up on her chair and is like, [clears throat] you know, bouncing her chair around and stuff.

And I forget, I think right at the end of the movie or something, she grabs the woman's shoe off of her foot and throws it across the room. And then the woman, I think the woman goes after her first, but the men that she's with also go after her and she dismantles them all. And Dana White was like, "This was the funniest [ __ ] I've ever seen in my life because they didn't know who she was." And this was like peak her where she just was like the armbar queen.

Listen man, Listen man, Listen man, yes. On average, the average guy is going to be able to beat the life out of a woman. And if you see, unfortunately, the videos that go around online and you realize that women have bred men to have really strong upper bodies. So, when you see a woman throw a punch, it's not the same thing as when a man throws a punch. It is very distressing when you see a strong man unleash a full force punch on a woman. It truly truly disturbing because you see the difference in the amount of force that they can generate.

However, the whole idea of jiu-jitsu is that you can be weaker and if the other person is untrained, then you're going to be able to get one up on them in pretty vicious ways. Now, if you're of equal training, then the bigger person's almost certainly going to win. But But But given how good she was and how trained she was and how strong and tough, an untrained guy just is not going to stand a chance. So, you got to be really careful who you trifle with.

So, even though I get the whole sentiment, it there are some pretty great stories out there about women that can [ __ ] people up. up. up. Uh, yeah. The p the boxer that taught me the most about fighting was uh Alisa Bumgner. She's a current like undisputed like light heavyweight. And when I tell you she ran like a master class on like tagging this girl up and just doing ones and twos and you would have thought this girl was getting hit with like a hammer, how her face would blow up.

But yeah, like just because it's not a women aren't joke, it was a joke. So, you know, there are a bunch of women that will [ __ ] you when you're uh incel behind up. So, don't think that it's sweet just because you have a penis. When you wait, what? When you're incel behind, they will [ __ ] your incel behind up. up. up. Got it. Just making sure I track the statement. I was like, wait, what? what? what? In a cell, they are comma who are will get uh got it prepositions.

Um, okay. And the last one is I was trying to warn y'all. I was talking about Jesus. I was starting it off nice, but y'all don't stop playing with the man upstairs. He not playing with y'all. with y'all. He not playing with y'all. Okay, hold on. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I read this totally differently. When I saw this, I lost my [ __ ] Remember, please remember, everything is funny unless it happens to you. Okay, so I get it. If I were the one that this happened to, everybody would find it hilarious.

My wife would not think it funny at all. Uh, with that said though, if this can be believed and the translations are accurate, what you are about to witness is a Turkish member of parliament parliament parliament in parliament giving a real speech and he says here at the end, if the translations are correct, Israel will suffer the wrath of Allah. And then this [ __ ] immediately dies right there on camera. I replayed it to see like did they cut it and it like he actually dies like 15 minutes later in the speech.

No, no, no. If the translations are correct, he says Israel will suffer the wrath of Allah. Boom. Dead. Like I was like, yo, the Jews are coming for you. It's all real. Like this, keep in mind, this is conspiracy corner, but I was like, god damn. I was like, he didn't even get to take the next breath. Israel will suffer uh uh the wrath of Allah dead. Okay, now with that play the I cannot believe this clip is real. Toast falls over dead. Literally puts the paper down falls over like bro they got your pagers.

They They They they they are watching. They are more on you than Santa Claus. Like they they are dude in the back just like I'm just like what the [ __ ] Now look, obviously this is just a coincidence, but god damn, as far as the memes go, this one goes hard. That goes hard. Be careful who you talk [ __ ] about. Hey, be careful who you talk [ __ ] about. Just saying. Just saying. Just saying. Damn. Damn. Damn. Um, and the last one is hilarious. Um, Nick Fuentes went to the club one time.

He went to the club one time in Miami. Didn't take a drink. did a dance with a girl. Wasn't even talking to girls. He looked like a cop the whole time in the in that club. And now he's saying this on his stream. I kind of wanted marry and only fans girl. girl. girl. I did not see this coming. Okay. Do you guys ever and I'm not going to obviously to obviously to obviously because it wouldn't be traditional or Catholic Catholic Catholic and wholesome. and wholesome.

and wholesome. Okay. Can anybody else relate? Sometimes in the chat, can anybody relate? relate? relate? Sometimes. Sometimes. Sometimes. Hang on. Hang on. Sometimes now hang on now. Hang on, chat. chat. chat. Hello. Can you still hear me? Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Stop. Chat. Chat. Hang on. Now, hear me out. He's getting killed. You get sometimes sometimes sometimes I just feel like it would be kind of hot to marry a total [ __ ] What the [ __ ] Anybody can relate. Crickets. Crickets in the room. I'm I'm Everybody's avoiding eye contact.

Guess so. Guess so. That is I I am shocked now. I'm so Okay. He is a virgin if memory serves correct. Yep. So given that nature is running algorithms in your brain, if he really did go to a club or something in Miami or just happens to find himself viewing some Only Fans content, uh, and nature kicks in, I can certainly see him go, doesn't seem so bad. He got into the real world. He was like, you know what? I kind of get it. I get it.

it. it. Yeah, dude. Nature is undefeated. Um, undefeated, undefeated, undefeated, Milo. Um, I can't pronounce his last name, but you know, Yiannopoulos. Yiannopoulos. Yiannopoulos. I'm married to a Greek. Hey, Yiannopoulos. Yiannopoulos. Yiannopoulos. Yiannopoulos. Um, he released this clip without context, but you can see what he's insinuating about Nick Fuentes. In the same vein as uh Christopher Hitchens and all the famous atheists from that generation, Christopher Hitchens and all the famous atheists from that generation in the same. It's hilarious that this is from a obviously very uh flamboyant gay person that he's posting inserts of the hand motions of our man's popping off.

Um Um Um that's hilarious. that's hilarious. that's hilarious. Hilarious. But okay, I wanted to ground the only fans thing cuz I think there is something to like the you can't turn a hoe into a housewife. That's a trope. All these things. But there are countless and countless examples of only fan women ex porn stars who delete their pages, clean up their content, put on a pair of glasses, and then they get married and have two kids immediately. immediately. immediately. So, is there something to I know men only like 22 year olds and your your sexuality is your currency as a woman and all kind of these talking points, but in the real world, if you got it, you you're going to get it.

Chose. I feel like that's what the meaning if you're attractive. Yeah. If you're attractive, it doesn't matter what you did in your past. There's going to be some guy that's playing, okay, starting now it counts. Like, Like, Like, well, there's not only some guy that'll be like, "Starting now it counts." There are some guys that are into the fact that you've had a lot of boyfriends. So, um, keep in mind that that is also a personality type. So, it's a question of whether she is attracted to that, if she considers that a compromise or whatever.

So, yeah. I mean also if you have a if you you you can be loyal question based on trauma, personality type, all of that. But assuming that you can be loyal, yes, a thousand% there are going to be guys that are like, I like the way she makes me feel. If the sex is good, I enjoy the sex. I have no problem with her past history. However, as a PSA for women, that's going to be a very minority of guys. So just from an evolutionary perspective, you are for sure uh rolling the dice on that one.

But yes, if you're an attractive woman who can make a man feel good about himself, yes, you are not going to be lonely for long. I [clears throat] remember it was me and a couple guys here. This was like week two, I want to say, or week three or something when I was here. we kind of got into a debate um where the question was would you rather have a girl who've never had sex 100% virgin or a girl who's had sex with a hundred guys and or would you rather be with like have in like in a relationship one or the other and the room was kind of split where two of us was like where I am in my life right now a woman who had had sex with a hundred guys one knows herself more two is probably more outgoing three is probably really cool to get a beer with where the girl who's never been out the house shelter who's a who's a virgin most likely would be need to be coached up will be a little bit more closed-minded.

I would have to kind of introduce her to a lot of things. And there's that preference of do I want to show you the world and have you follow me or do I want somebody that can culturally meet me where we are? They they've been around the world. They've been around the block. They kind of been around a little bit. Is there something to that as well? Like which side of those two would you like fall on? Okay. Well, which side would I fall on? So zero is the wrong number.

100 is the wrong number for me as a person. So, um, but that's it's that extreme like you have to kind of figure out what I would admittedly rather be closer to zero than 100. And I think 100 probably would put me out of the game. Like even though I would prefer somebody with some experience, I would prefer somebody that already knows that they enjoy sex, prefer somebody that um is outgoing, but I do worry about women that clock numbers like that in terms of how they have mentally mapped sexuality.

Mhm. And given the evolutionary pressures to be going in the exact opposite direction, for them to be far more cautious because of the cost, even though there is the pill and even though there is contraception and all that, from an evolutionary perspective, you don't know that. So, there's something else going on in your frame of reference that has unlocked a very masculine style of sexuality. and what it is that unlocked that masculine style of sexuality makes me pause. Now, also I from an evolutionary standpoint have all these pressures on me to want the person to have the lowest count possible so as to guarantee paternity.

So I've got algorithms running in my brain that just go the higher the number the more. I'm like you're in a different category. Like I might still have sex with you so I can get you pregnant and like ship you off, but evolutionarily I'm not finding myself saying that's the person that I want to settle down with. So yeah, I admittedly would have a breaking point in my head where I'd be like, "Oh god, that's just too high of a number." number." number." That's me. I don't expect that to be universal.

But that also, I think, plays into a lot of um the evolutionary pressures. And that's how I think people should really be thinking about what what frame of reference will have staying power because culturally you can swing in weird directions. But the frame of reference that will have staying power is always going to be the one that's most aligned to evolution. And from an evolutionary perspective, women need to be very cautious about sex. Men are going to be far more promiscuous. And so the fact that those two things are like constantly clashing, I I'll never understand why people like expect a guy to think of sex like a woman or people expect a woman to think of sex like a man or think it's going to be like um a turnon if a man thinks of sex like a woman or a woman thinks of sex like a man.

Like I'm not drawn to a woman that thinks of sex like a man. Uh, and I don't expect many women to be drawn to a man that has a classical sense of like coetish, standoffish, like they want to be pursued. They want to feel desired. feel desired. feel desired. Um, it was a big revelation for me and I didn't, this didn't finally drop for me until years into my marriage when Lisa would want me at Halloween to dress up in a way that she found attractive.

And I hated that. I always wanted to dress up funny. So, I wanted to be inside of an inflatable sumo costume because that's funny. My wife wanted me to dress like a SWAT officer because she found that attractive. And I was like, "Oh, god, I really hate this." And then I finally realized, oh, the reason she wants to take pictures and I don't, the reason that she wants to dress sexy and I don't, is that women have an evolutionary driver to want to be the center of sexual attention.

And that's where I'm like, "Oh, whoa. So, she actually really feels good when I'm like, "Oh, baby, you look so amazing. That's so hot. Yeah, wear that." And wants me involved in picking out her outfits and all that stuff. And then I want to dress how I want to dress. And I'm annoyed when she's like, "No, no, don't wear that. Wear this." So, it is again from an evolutionary perspective, we are just designed very differently. I dig it. I see the uh the two uh parallels there.

Um all right, let's jump [clears throat] in back into the economy. Um, this was something that was getting buzzed yesterday. You labeled it interesting, so I kind of want your breakdown on this. Um, so Mini signed a signed into law yesterday. Um, if you book a $200 hotel, you pay $200. Today, we shut down hotel junk fees. Enterprise credit card holds, the price you see is the price you pay. Um, this seemed pretty straightforward. You label this as another way of like price control. Kind of what's your This is stupid.

Okay. Okay. Okay. So, So, So, break it down for us. All right. uh let's say that what he wants to do is actually lower prices. You're never going to be able to do that by decree. You're not just going to be able to say you have to go in and make this change and that's going to lower prices. The thing the thing that lowers prices is competition because the thing people are most sensitive to is price. Price and quality. Those are the two things people care about.

So when you open up competition, then the most obvious way for you to compete is on price and quality. And so it will drive quality down. Sorry, it will drive price down and it will drive quality up. So that some places will go, "Ooh, I'm going to make this like a super elite high-end experience and people will pay more for it." That's what Quest did with Quest Bars was we made we made one of the more expensive bars on the market, but nutritionally it was so much better, people went for it.

Um, and then discount hotels. What they're trying to do is say, "Hey, I'm gonna strip out all the frills and I'm going to give you something cheaper." Okay. When you do this, which this is not super egregious. Nobody should be in a twist about this in terms of what he's doing is saying you have to represent the fees that are already being charged largely as taxes. You've got to represent them all up front. front. front. So, it's not going to change the price. It's just going to change the way that the price is represented.

Mh. Uh, as long as everybody understands that, like in Europe, they there's no like this is the price. Oh, but you know, you pay 11% tax at the register or whatever. It's just it's all included. So, this is him going, "Ah, we're going to force you to put everything up front." front." front." Now, what he's not necessarily taking into consideration is the person who's closest to this that should be making the decision about how to represent the price is going to be the business because they understand the sales and psychology.

And so if he's giving them a bad way to do the psychology because let's say that people are annoyed, right? I think as consumers we would all prefer let me just see the price. But the reality may be that we actually spend less and that the annoyance doesn't stop our behavior, but it actually does cause us to show up to more hotel rooms and spend more time in a hotel and the world keeps going round. And so now what you're saying is we're going to let legislators decide where friction can and can't be in a sale, what people um the ways in which they should be able to display things.

So for instance, in the apps when they raised the minimum wage in New York, which by the way, he's getting flack for, he did not do. So, it's like as much as mom Donnie winds me up, he should only be uh people should only be frustrated for him for things that he actually did. He was not the one that did this. This was actually Mayor Adams. So, your beef is with Adams. Um but when they did that, the um what the apps found was that they were better off putting the tip at the end of the ride.

So, or the delivery for Door Dash or whatever. New York though now is mandating it has to go at the beginning. Well, the problem is that that could influence sales. So now you're saying um we're not going to trust you to be smart enough to decide whether this order is worth the money that you're paying for and the you're going to tip what you're going to tip. They're saying no no we're going to force the businesses to do the thing that makes it more likely that you get a tip regardless of what ends up happening to sales.

And that to me is like hold on a second. If the person doesn't feel like they're being fairly compensated, they shouldn't take the job. But if the person is willing to work for those wages and the company is trying to make sure that the company remains profitable, then they should be able to do that. And if another company wants to come along and say, "Oh, these guys are [ __ ] They're devaluing their employees. I'm going to build a business by valuing the employees." And so if it really is creating a hole in the market, then that hole in the market should be filled by an entrepreneur who recognizes, oh, you've created a vulnerability for yourself.

I mean, there this is so common. There's an adage for it that my competitor's margin is my advantage. So this is Costco. Costco is when the government doesn't regulate it, a smart person goes, "Hold on a second. If I can build my business in such a way that I can deal with smaller margins, pass the savings on to the customer, I can build a huge business. This is all trying to mandate this stuff from the top down. I assure you, these guys don't know how to run businesses.

And so they're going to end up putting businesses uh and this one may be minor. I'm not trying to make a mountain out of a molehill. What I'm trying to say is once you get it in your head, the government officials, they know how to do all this stuff. They're going to take good care of you. They're going to solve all of your problems by fiat. It doesn't work. And so what you want to do is deregulate sensibly. You don't want no regulations because corporations and entrepreneurs for all the good that they do, they will abuse you if there is nothing to check them.

Mh. Mh. Mh. So you've got to be very careful about making sure that there's still bumpers in the alley. But once you become convinced that, oh, we just need to regulate more and more and more and more and more, you end up strangling quite literally the goose that's laying the golden eggs. In fact, this [clears throat] is a perfect time. And we've got a clip from um I think it's MS of Germany who is like oh we have completely um stalled the growth of Europe by uh overregulating.

So this nobody has run the experiment more aggressively than the European Union on whether you can regulate your way to prosperity and he's giving you a report card. card. card. We are aware of those problems. Both Germany and Europe have wasted incredible potential for growth in recent years by dragging feet on reforms and unnecessarily and excessively curtailing entrepreneurial freedoms and personal responsibility. We are going to change that now. Security and predictability take precedence over excessive regulation and misplaced perfection. We must reduce bureaucracy substantially in Europe.

The single market was once created to form the most competitive economic area in the world. But instead we have become the world champion of overregulation that has to end. We are aware. So, I mean, these are the consequences of the architecture of the human mind. And people think that, you know, there's these corporate overlords and they're just doing all this bad stuff. And it's like, nope. This is all the result of humans going, I don't want to starve to death this winter. And because we didn't want to starve to death this winter, we started grouping up in bands of people.

And because it was self-evident to everybody who's ever lived, some people are better at certain things than others. Some people have a higher desire for those things than others. And so we're in a much better position when we let people specialize. The second you let people specialize, you have to abstract money because you're not always going to be able to trade a beaver pelt for a stick of butter, right? It's like, how the [ __ ] What? Like I'm the guy that gets beaver pelts, bro. I can't break everything down to buy my butter and all that [ __ ] So you'll come up with seashells, beads, dollars, whatever.

But you come up with a thing that allows you to abstract that. Once you understand, oh, the reason people say time is money is because the amount of money that you have is your ability to capture the value of how you spend your time. Elon Musk is far better at spending his time than I am, and therefore he's captured a lot more value than I have for his time. I'm better than a lot of other people, which is why I've captured a lot more value than a lot of other people.

Luck plays a role, please don't get me wrong, but like by and large, it balances out over how effective are you with your time. Now, that includes your ability to negotiate. It includes your ability to get educated. Not necessarily formally, but to get so good at something, blah blah blah. But like, that's what this is. So, to undo all of that and to be like, "We don't want these corporations. We don't want companies." Like, what you're actually pushing back against is not having to do everything yourself.

Or the fact that you won't work for free. Or the fact, this one always kills me. Uh, we want prices lowered. Like, come on, Mom. Donnie, drive the price down. And then what is the thing that actually causes the price to be high? It's often labor cost. Any business, your highest cost is going to be labor. Almost always. It's probably different for AI. For them, it's compute. But for the vast majority of companies, the thing you're paying for is people that want high wages. So, you'll have the same people saying, "We want high wages and things to be cheap, and by the way, we want to regulate all the companies." It's like, you literally, you literally mechanistically cannot have all of those.

those. those. Um, what is that line though? because there is something where there are people in the chat that are saying we like the way that Europeans display transparent pricing but then over here it's like when we're doing this this is one step of a regulation that won't actually lead to something. So while we all agree that too many barnacles can drown the turtle as you say um where do you like how does things break this bad? How do they get to the point where it becomes so stagnant?

Is it just self-interest and regulatory capture? Like what is that? That's what it just it just it just Yeah. So here the the honestly the big trade-off that people make is I don't want to be responsible for myself. This is why he mentioned personal responsibility. So I don't want to be responsible for myself and I want the government to make sure that I stay safe. And once you start going down that path then it's bureaucrats are deciding what you can and can't do. And I will give you my favorite example because this one made me I rate.

So, I'm going to speedrun what happened. I'm I decide when I'm 12, I want to get rich. I end up building a software company because I want to get rich. I did not care about the software at all. I just wanted to get rich. It breaks me emotionally and I realize, oh, money is not going to solve this internal feeling that I have. I quit. My partners are like, hey, no, we we feel the same. What would we want to do where we could all work together going forward?

Ends up being Quest Nutrition is the answer. Now, the reason I could connect with Quest was I grew up in a morbidly obese family. So, I'm like, I want to save my mom and my sister, and I want to do it by making food that they can choose based on taste, and it happens to be good for them. Now, I at this point come to realize fat is really healthy, but it's still being vilified. So, the government puts forward, so remember, I I've gone through this whole thing.

I don't want to chase money anymore. It's got to be meaning and purpose. I'm fighting for my mom and my sister. I've spent God knows how many Fridays and Saturdays with bloody knuckles fixing machines trying to do something rad. I'm not rich yet. And I'm just [ __ ] fighting for something I believe in. And now the government's putting forward they they didn't do it thankfully, but they were putting forward this thing where they were going to put red, yellow, green lights on packaging, and it was largely based on fat.

So you could have all the sugar you wanted, you'd be [ __ ] green. Killing people, giving them diabetes, all that. But you're green because we, the [ __ ] lunatics who know nothing about health are making the policies. And so now I'm like, "Oh my god, I'm actually gonna have to get into government lobbying. This is insane. They don't even know what they're [ __ ] talking about." And so I don't know if you've seen the health minister of Wales, morbidly obese woman. So wild. And so I'm like, we've got all these people that can't even control their own health and they're making regulations uh around the world and they're they're literally stupid.

They don't know what they're talking about. Sheesh. And so, yep, there she is, everybody. I don't know if we're sharing that, but if you're looking at your screen, that's the health minister of Wales. So, I'm just saying there's a ton of people that look like that in making policy around health. They do not know what they're talking about and yet they're putting things into law. So, I'm like, you are going to make it such that my advertising has to say my product, which actually metabolically is provably better for you.

You're going to make me say on the packaging, it's worse for you. I was like, [ __ ] you and the horse you rode in on, I was so mad. I I just couldn't [ __ ] believe it. And so, that's where it's like, okay, wait, if things are like that in the industry that I understand, is it possible that it's like that in every industry and I just don't understand the other industries? And the answer is yes. So once you start letting that desire to be protected get codified into law, first of all, you're being protected by people who don't know what the [ __ ] they're doing and can be leading you in the wrong direction.

Think about how much America spends on health care, education, all that. And we are getting fatter and sicker literally by the day, life expectancy going down. So it's like you you do not want this stuff regulated at the level of the government. As much as possible, you want to avoid that. You're not going to get to zero. You don't want to get to zero, but you want to be light touch because the government is is is full of people that don't know what they're talking about making laws about things they don't understand.

Is there like a historical example of when the government actually worked? Cuz I feel like Yes. World War II. So, you have a government that says, "Ooh, we know how to marshall all of these resources up to and including the creation of the atomic bomb." And aren't you glad that you have a government that oversees your however many hundred million people that we had at that time? Uh because we're able to mount a defense, fight this war, win this war. So for sure, sure, sure, security is one of the things.

So protect your borders, security, law and order a thousand%. Put some guard rails to make sure that fraud isn't happening. That's a big one. Like when you go back and look at like the things that people got sucked into back like think about the guilded age where a guy would roll up he'd be dressed impeccably roll up in a horse and buggy horse expensive buggy's expensive dress nice and he would be like listen I uh you know here from Chicago and I've got this deal it's going to be incredible invest you can't lose um look how wealthy I am all a scam all a fraud and he's just Bernie made maid offing it.

One person gives him money, he gives a return to somebody else, but this is like 1918 or 1890, whatever. And there's no way to verify. So you'd be like, "Oh my god." But I mean, look at him and this is [ __ ] incredible. And so people would just get scammed out of their money all the time. So there are definitely things like that that you want to protect against. But woo, somebody said the GI Bill produced a ton of housing and free education. A socialist success story.

So here's where people want to think about the difference between applying tax dollars well and socialism. So it's fair to say that America is on a spectrum. We do redistribute wealth. We tax and then we spend on things. The question is, do we do it well or do we do it poorly? And so do we want to do more and more and more or do we want to do less and less and less? You've never heard Tom advocate for um true uh anarchy. I that's not my sticktick.

Michael Malice, yes, love Michael. Fantastic guy. Very smart. But I'm not an anarchy guy. I don't think it works in real life. I don't think humans are wired for that. So, I'm perfectly happy as a capitalist to say, listen, I get you're going to need to put some constraints on the world of people because even though I like to believe that I'm always doing things that are um going to help me sleep at night, I want to earn my own respect. I want to be moral.

I want to be somebody that um can stand on stage with a microphone and defend every action that I've taken. Uh but not everybody's going to be like that. So, all right, cool. Then let's do some of that. I also would like to live in a world where even though Drew, even though I now have to pay for private fire insurance because of stupid [ __ ] decisions of the California government, I would like to not be in that situation. Even though I have to hire armed security, I would like to not be in that situation.

So I'm perfectly happy to taxes, roads, fire, police, love it all. Love it all. Happy to do it. Educ. I don't have kids. Happy to pay taxes to educate the next generation. But I'm not happy when the results that I get are [ __ ] [ __ ] And so the fact that I've had to hire private fire, bro, come on. Like that's wild. Uh, the fact that I once I once personally performed CPR for over 20 minutes because that's how long it [ __ ] took to get the people to respond to the 911 call.

I live in a major city, bro. Come on. So, there's all kinds of things which like I think we can all point to and be like, "The government's got some real problems. Let's solve them." But I have no problem. Love the GI Bill. Love what it did. You had people that just fought and died for this country to treat those people like the absolute heroes that they are. Love, here for it. Um, but we need to be very prudent about going down that path very far because once you start violating private property, you now get into a problem.

Socialists violate private property. They seize the means of production. They try to control everything from the top down. So, um taxing and um doing things that build infrastructure and all that is a brilliant use, but the things that someone like Manny is trying to do is absolutely moronic and has failed every time it's been tried. Got you. Well, that's all I got. All right, there it is everybody. Happy Friday. I hope you guys have a wonderful weekend. Please, if you would like and subscribe, it really does help us build momentum.

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