7/7/26: AI CEOs Panic Over Job Losses, WH Press Sec Attacks GenZ As Lazy, McConnell Still Missing After Heart Attack

25:02suit when he's swimming in a pool. What the fuck are you doing? All right, but let me put that to the side. So Jesse Waters sitting down just shooting the shit. We're here with Caroline Levitt, and in that Caroline drops this nugget on Gen Z, her fellow Gen Z, how they're lazy with silver spoons in their mouth. Let's take a listen. Some of these kids, and I call them kids because they're in their 20s, and they've never had real jobs, and they're complaining things are expensive. Yes, things are expensive when you don't have a real job. Right. Do you think that's getting traction, complaining? Unfortunately, I do, because this generation, my generation, I hate to say it, Gen Z and those younger than me have been raised with just silver spoons in their mouths, just getting everything handed to them.

25:45That's not the values this country was built on. It was built on meritocracy and hard work, pulling up your sleeves, pulling yourself up from your bootstraps and achieving the American dream. And we need to protect it with all we got. Is it laziness? A little bit. Is it because the professor said country's corrupt, it's evil, and we just need to shake them down and hand money out? It's laziness and it's the liberal indoctrination. You bring up a great point about our education system. However, I will say a silver lining. So many parents that I talk to across the country are homeschooling, are turning to private education, are turning towards Christian schools across the country because they don't want their children being taught these communist and liberal ideas slammed down their throat.

26:25It's why President Trump in the White House has advocated so strongly for school choice across the country. We want kids to be taught to love our country. They should. It is the greatest country in the history of the world. All right. I say, you know, if they misbehave, just make all these young kids join the army. Right? Shape them up. I almost had to. Or send them to Cuba. Send them to Iran. Send them to Cuba. They'll want to come back real quick. That's a good point. Okay. So if you're a Gen Z, you're mad about house prices, you're mad about gas prices, you're mad about McDonald's prices, drink prices, whatever.

26:54Whatever. Weed prices. probably, that you people are mad about. That's one I'm not going to fight for you on. But you're mad. You're mad. It's because you're lazy and you've got a silver spoon in your mouth. Now, let's put her clarification up here. She says, I am seeing a lot of bad faith actors. Take my comments from this interview out of context. So here's the full interview. Let me expound. The interview was about the rise of communism on the left. I was asked by Jesse Waters why so many young people are buying the false premise of free stuff being sold by communist politicians. My answer, a combination of laziness, yes, and the liberal indoctrination that has been taking place in our education system for far too long.

27:33These far-left educators are pumping students out of the garbage, convincing them that hard work and sacrifice won't pay off down the road because they want them totally reliant on the government instead. I went on to say President Trump is a huge advocate for school choice, blah, blah, blah. I care enough about our country to tell uncomfortable truths. It's an undeniable fact a growing number of young people in our country are falling for the lies of socialism and communism, sold to them by anti-American politicians who never built anything, offer no real solutions, are intent on tearing everything down that makes this country great.

27:59At the same time, it is true that many Gen Z Americans are hardworking, entrepreneurial, deeply patriotic, and it's vital we protect the American dream for them. That's why I'm honored to work for President Trump and on behalf of an administration that is implementing the right policies to lower taxes, less regulation, stopping Wall Street from purchasing single-family homes, Trump accounts, and the deportation of illegal aliens who are taking our housing and jobs. There is more work to do, which is why Trump and our entire administration won't stop fighting to make life better and more affordable for young people.

28:28So here's why I think that's going to fall very, very deaf. She explicitly said that they're lazy with silver spoons because they're bitching about affordability. And that's – look, really I actually think it all comes down to housing. and the more I meditate on it, the more I talk to people about it, the more radical I get actually whenever it comes to housing and like housing solutions. And this is where they just, it's funny because they talked about it endlessly on the campaign. Inflation, inflation, inflation, inflation, right? And inflation because that was, it was the bedrock of the affordability conversation, which eventually, you know, leads to people like Zoran Mamdani, which is very effectively, remember his early ads about the halal carts making it$8 again.

29:12That is exactly what people care about the most. And it's genuinely what just sucks all the money out of any of your disposable income. Because people keep pointing to, well, people make more money. It's like, well, things cost a lot more. And then the wage to income ratio, the wage to price ratio of housing, compare it to 2000, 1980, 1970. I mean, it's exponential compared to where things were before. So for people who have either student debt or let's say you didn't go to college and you're looking at your upward mobility, you do not see the same path that your parents had. That's why so many people live at home with their parents now.

29:51That's not the American dream. It might be financially prudent. It's not the dream. No, I don't think anybody wants to wake up at age 29 saying, yeah, I live at home. You know, with mom or dad, I have no ability, upward mobility. I have no ability to even foresee being able to buy a home to achieve any sort of independence. And then they complain about people saying, falling for rent or free stuff or whatever. It's like, well, in some cases, part of the reason why you may go in that more radical direction is because the middle path, which was always told that was going to be achievable for you, you know for a fact is not financially attainable in this moment in time, especially if you live in a medium to high cost of living area.

30:29It's incredible to think that Jesse Waters is the lead primetime host of the biggest kind of right-wing news outlet. and Levitt is the spokesperson for the president, the president of the United States. So these are effectively the two leading spokespeople for what was sold to the American public as a populist movement. And not just sold. I mean, it actually worked like people under $100 ,000 voted for Trump. Right. Absolutely. That has never happened before with a Republican ever. Right. So they successfully sold that to people. And if you listen to them now, it is the most bankrupt, reactionary, like.

31:12Yeah, just like Mitt Romney on steroids. Just yelling at people for being lazy. Like, what even is this? And also just so like watching those two intellectual heavyweights go back and forth, like batting around these high ideas is just kind of embarrassing. Well, did you notice that if they complain that we're going to send them to Cuba and Iran? Yeah, send them to Cuba and Iran. Come on now. That's like czarist Russia. You know, you take the peasants and send them to the front line. Or actually, even the communists did it. Stalin did it, too. It's like, oh, you complain, we're going to send you to the worst.

31:46I mean, also a little late on Iran. We already lost that war. Yeah, right. So how are you going to send them? I do think that this is important. Because, you know, this actually triggered a big right-wing meltdown. At least, like, with a lot of the influencer. Because they're not stupid. Who I noticed they ripped Levitt personally. Yes. Because they're like, you married some super rich guy. Okay, great advice. Everyone go out and marry some super rich guy 30 years older than you. Like, congratulations. And nobody was, before that. I mean, obviously she's very talented and hard worker and like blah, blah, blah.

32:16But come on. Nobody is judged, nobody previously to that had been making a whole thing about her personal life. But you can't be standing on the shoulders of married wealth whenever, and talk to people and say, you're late. And talk down to people, yeah. That's, you know, come on. Let's all be honest here. Like, you can Google the press secretary's salary. I'm pretty sure it's like$175 ,000, which here in Washington is just not that a lot of money anymore. And I think that's actually what gets to it is that even the people who work very, very hard, they – and make a lot of money. Like, objectively make a lot of money in terms of the American economy.

32:49Even they are struggling, and it's all because of housing. And yet, Trump, I miss this. I tried to be completely offline, and yet so many people sent me this that it was one of the few things I actually saw while I was off. Here it is. Trump says he wants to drive housing prices up, not down. Let's take a listen. There's so much talk about, oh, we're going to drive housing prices down. I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up. Yeah, great. Let's just bail the boomers out even more. They don't have enough money. We've got to pile it more on top of them. Let's just cut their property taxes.

33:19Let's make it even more unattainable. Yeah, he's like, people will be sad if their housing prices go down. I saw a chart going up. Housing prices going down is indicative of a healthy condition because, and again, I get it. If you bought your house, it sucks, okay? But sorry, we have a literal national crisis. You'll be okay. You have a house. Yeah, you have a house. Whereas if you look at Austin, if you look at any of the other metro areas where they permit a significant amount of housing, they were able to drop overall rents by a lot, like 13%, 14%. I'll give you a perfect. One of my friends, she lives in New York City.

33:51She was posting an apartment listing for her old apartment in 2021, which is now three times the price today for rent for the same place. Nothing else has been done. She's like, I paid X, and this is what it's now listing for. That's insanity. And this is the one which is actually beyond nuts and relates to AI. Let's put D4 up here on the screen. in san francisco this was alluding to even 180 grand tax salaries are no longer enough if you go and you this this blew me away the median home price in san francisco what do you think it is right oh god the media media just how's it san francisco's median home price according to red 1.5 million 1.7 million is the median home 1.7 half of houses sold a million is the median home price.

34:46The national median is$450 ,000. And if you go and you take a look, what they see is that the average apartment rent is now surpassed New York City, reaching$3 ,800 a month. And that's not a nice apartment. So we're talking about the average apartment rent is$3 ,800 a month with the median price at$1.7 million. They specifically point to the AI boom, they're like look uber made a lot of people wealthy but this thing is going to make people like orders of magnitude more wealthy there will be 10 000 new millionaires multi-millionaires 10 deca millionaires not to mention you know not just trillionaires like hundreds of billionaires like dario and sam altman and all these other people all the you know even as even a junior level executive off of these ipos is going to net 15 20 million so you're talking about insane amounts of wealth in this one tiny little city, which is nimby to hell.

35:44This is what happens. Now, San Francisco is a very extreme example, but it is also the rest of the nation. If you take a look at the places which build the least housing, of course, you see massive increases in home values. And at the same time, you have the boomers who live in those homes. Their only lobbying is to make sure that they have to pay less in property tax. They don't care. In fact, most of them lobby against building any new housing. And I am not one of these yimby, insane people who's like, oh, we should just build ugly glass apartments everywhere. Like, I don't think that's family-friendly or any of that.

36:22It's great if you're 22 years old, but if you're 32, like, what are we doing here? But, you know, where's the 1 ,500-square-foot single-family rancher home? They don't even exist. Nobody builds them. There's no federal government program. There's no state program. If you try to build it in a dense neighborhood, God help you. The boomers, they will do everything to try and to torpedo. You know, you be able to, oh, what about the schools or any of that? It's like, shut up. Like, you don't even care about schools. I just read a great story in the Wall Street Journal yesterday. Boomers who are bragging about living in schools that they grew up in.

36:55So they're taking schools which have been decommissioned because the fertility rate has gone down. And now converting the school into luxury apartments. And this woman who's like 65 years old said, I grew up here. It's so nice to live here. I'm like, yeah, it must be nice for you. It's nice for you. Like literally went to school there? She literally went to school there. And now it's a luxury apartment for boomers because the fertility rate's gone down and because no families can afford to live there anymore. That's sick. It's sickness. And guess what? I bet you should be lobbying to drop property tax.

37:22Not just that one particular one enraged me. Your property tax would go down if your home value goes down. Yeah, exactly. There you go. Think about that, boomers. You can think about that. I don't know. I mean, it genuinely enrages me because we meet a lot of people who do this, who watch the show and all this. And this is the number one thing we always hear about. Everybody's locked out. Everybody is locked out. They're like, man, how's it? And when people pull in, they profile people in this story who are making like$400 ,000 in San Francisco. And they're like, can't afford it. Literally can't afford it.

37:52They're like, they applied for a$5 ,000 a month apartment. And there were 38 people who applied at the same time. $5 ,000,$60 ,000 a year in rent. Can't afford it. I mean, they're like, oh, maybe I need to move or we got to do long distance. I mean, it ruins your life. And especially with now you've got in-person work mandates, which are ratcheting up in tech especially, who are all lucky to have a job in the middle of AI. So they have no negotiating or bargaining power whenever it comes to a worker. So, yeah, I have become extremely radical on the housing issue. and watching things like that when people are either drowning in student loan debt, credit card debt with no upward mobility whenever it comes to wages and a median home price of 450K.

38:37And if you look at the median home price ratio to income compared again to 20 years ago, like you got no business telling anybody that they're lazy with the silver spoon. Well, this is a huge crisis. So this is actually a good transition to our next segment. Let's see how the political system is responding to this existential crisis that so many people are facing. And let's see what the former Senate Majority Leader is doing. Hi, it's Alec Baldwin. This season on my podcast, here's the thing I'm speaking with more artists, policymakers, and performers like composer Mark Shaman. Once you've established that you have the talent, it's about the hang.

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42:11We haven't heard much about Senator Mitch McConnell lately. Let's throw this up here. According to the Associated Press, he's continuing his recovery, but details are scarce after a lengthy hospital stay. Sagar, I think the word recovery there is doing an awful lot of work because as you and I and probably our viewers understand the word recovery, it suggests that there's some physical therapy going on. and you're working toward recovering your health or some version of it. That does not seem to remotely be the case. Let's put up A2 here. So what happened is that Mitch McConnell suffered a heart attack at home on June 14th.

43:01When paramedics finally got there, they immediately began performing CPR. CPR was, you know, they continued to perform CPR on his way in. If you have a heart attack and you're at home at McConnell's age, and by the time EMS gets there and they find you unresponsive and begin CPR, your brain by that point has been without oxygen for so long that the likelihood of you kind of recovering consciousness is just vanishingly low. He's 84 years old. 84 years old. There's no evidence that he has regained consciousness at any point since then. Here's what his spokesperson says. Senator McConnell is still working closely with staff on Senate business and Kentucky matters as he continues his recovery.

43:58However, he will not be voting this week that was his spokesperson david pop and that was actually given on july 1st so that was six days ago as of what he said now the more recent one is that he is continuing his recovery they offered no explanation working with his condition really well look i mean part in the old days maybe you could take that to the bank in a post diet diane feinstein world come on all right we all saw it we watched it who was it who leaned over and was like, just vote yes. I couldn't believe that. And she looked at the way that she looked. And she died a week later. It was disgraceful that they did that to her, that her staff sat around and dealt with.

44:38I mean, all of it. It was outrageous. And the circumstances of this are nuts, because this is a United States senator, an extremely powerful person, who, you know, if he's incapacitated, then his people should say so. Maybe even his wife. And yet, let's put this next one up here on the screen. Xi is in China meeting with senior members of the CCP after his hospitalization. Three days after he received CPR, Elaine Chao is now currently in Beijing and met with the Chinese vice president days after hospitalization. Chinese media shows Chao sitting across from Zhang on June 17th, discussing efforts to strengthen China-U.S.

45:24relations. Remember, you'll recall, if you've been watching this show for a long time, Elaine Chao is the daughter of some Taiwanese shipping billionaire who is extremely close to the Chinese Communist Party. The entire thing has always been objectively bonkers whenever it comes to his wealth, or his power and her extraordinary wealth and ties to a foreign government. But, I mean, who does that? Like, your husband's in the hospital, and you're in China? What's going on there? No explanation. no but like the point about this you know we're just talking about the housing thing they just feel it's our business you have you have no right to question it did you see remember we we talked about that congressman who was missing for like three months and nobody said where he was his staff and all that he said i had depression yeah you can't take three months of work bro just tell us that just say i'm deeply depressed i couldn't work i mean to be honest with you like that's outrageous.

46:22I mean, how many blue collar guys do you think are depressed and they don't want to go? They don't get three months off. I couldn't take three months off. No, we wouldn't know that. I had a baby. I took one month off. That's a much more, uh, that's, that's unreasonable. And, you know, I get, I know we own the company. I guess I could do whatever I want. I wouldn't do that, but it's like, we would just shame you every day. He's depressed. He's too depressed to work. I mean, that's okay if it's true. Uh, but you know, I don't know. I mean, is that, really be tolerable? Maybe you should resign. Should the people of your district just have three months of no representation?

46:57And that's a crazy case. But in this particular case, it's like, so the wife offers no update. The senator offers no update. The staff apparently just thinks that we can all live in limbo for 21 days and just say, yeah, he's recovering. And we have no idea whether any of that is true. There's no proof of any path to recovery. And so look, there's all kinds of rumors that are circulating out there. Thomas Massey, Let's put his tweet up here on the screen. He says, is America ready for my term limit legislation titled three strokes and you're out? I'm with you, Thomas. I am totally with you. Three strokes.

47:35You know, a modest proposal. Just three strokes. You know, just not one, not two, but three. You have three strikes and you're out. It's crazy. The entitlement. He's an 84-year-old man. Literally went on camera. Can't speak. What are his children doing? You know, you don't say anything. Your wife, your family, nobody says, like, hey, you got to hang it up. I remember saying this with Biden. I go, does anybody love this man? If you really love somebody, how could you let them do that, you know, out in public? It's just, again, the gerontocracy, their clinging to power, their narcissism, how the office serves them.

48:07It's never about serving you. It's all on display. and the same thing. Now, if McConnell is incapacitated or does die, then under Kentucky law, there would have to be a special election. They changed their rules back in, I think, 2024 to strip the governor because they had a Democratic governor. Yes. So they said, if there's a vacancy, there has to be a special election. No gubernatorial appointments. And this was when McConnell's health was failing then, too. This was understood to be about McConnell. So if if he is incapacitated, there'd have to be a special election. And that's where Thomas Massey comes back in, because he would be able to mount a short term kind of independent campaign.

48:52You know, it's, you know, everybody running in the same field. And that could draw votes away from the Republican and elect a Democrat. You could even plausibly see a world in which Massey won. Now, he'd only be in office for a couple of months. McConnell is not running for reelection. Right. His term is up at the end of 2026. to early 2027. But if McConnell is kind of on some sort of life support and being kept alive to keep Massey out of office or out from running, that is exactly what Mitch McConnell would want. Oh, absolutely. So that is, those are his dying wishes to make some petty partisan move with his ailing body.

49:33His dying wishes are to, I don't know, like fund Ukraine for until the end of time. and - To block Massey from - Look, again, I don't want to besmirch an 84-year-old man who is in bad health, but that's why you should have left a long time ago, right? You made it our business, man. You are the person who made all of this our business. You could have left with dignity. You ran for re-election at 78. You ran for re-election. You were 78 years old. That is disgraceful, especially whenever you were already having lingering health problems, and you had multiple health incidents on camera and still stayed in office.

50:09It's crazy. So don't you want to do anything else with your life? I kept thinking about that in Maine with Susan Collins. Because how old is she now? She's like 70-something. Yeah. She had previously pledged. What did she do? Pledged only two terms. I'm telling you guys. She's 73. She's 73. You want six more years? One of the most gorgeous places in the world, in my opinion. Just my opinion. And I'm like, she's a multimillionaire, I have to assume. Because they all are. Yeah. Retire. She gets great out here. Enjoy yourself. She's some lobster. You know, some oysters. What else do you need? It's like you got sunshine.

50:44It's like you're in the middle of the woods. Go on a hike every single day. Go see the world, not on a CODEL. Yeah, go see the world. You can even fly first class. You don't even fly economy. She can fly private. She's so rich, she can fly private. She can see the world and vacation every summer in Maine. She just needs to be a lockstep vote for Trump instead. Yeah, right. And be very concerned about all his behavior. What is the psychology of these people? But that's it. They're raging narcissists. Tom Harkin, who I actually would have on the show soon. Who's Iowa, right? Yeah, Iowa Senator. He was the leader now.

51:16American hero. Well, he ran for president. Was he ever leader? I don't know. I don't know. He was very powerful. I remember that. Lion of the Senate. And in 2014, he's like, you know what? I want to retire, and my wife and I are going to sail around the world. And it cost Democrats to seat. But, you know, good for Tom Harkin. In retrospect, heroic, honestly. Joni Ernst is only a senator because of that decision. Oh. Or was a senator. That's right. That's right, because it was in the Tea Party time. Yeah. Okay. Interesting. All right. Good bro show, Ryan. The People will have another bro show tomorrow.

51:46So we will see you all then. We're about to go do our AMA. So there we go.

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