The Stupidity of Karoline Leavitt

32:59But the fact is that the Medicare and the social security that you're now extracting, plus the wars that you're now supporting. And I try to keep this in mind here, right? Think about this for a second.

33:16The overwhelmingly, by far, I mean, Rob, if you look at this on a pie chart, which I know you have before, if you were to take the entitlement programs and the military budget, this is an enormous part of the budget, right? Like these are the biggest, at this point, it's the entitlements, the military, and the interest on the debt are like, I think like 90 % of the budget or something like that. If you look at it on a pie chart, it's like those things and then a sliver for everything else. Boomers are receiving Medicare. Boomers are receiving Social Security. And boomers are the only demographic that support the wars, Rob.

33:50Right? Like, you're almost like you're on the hook for kind of in some way for all of this. It's all you. And we cannot even come close to afford this. It's the federal budget. Rob, this year, we're on track. The projections are that we're going to spend$7.5 trillion. The boomers have been the ones that now they're the ones who support these programs. They're the ones who support the entitlement programs. They're the ones who receive the entitlement programs. They're the ones who support the war and support ever-growing military budgets. Okay. You're, we do not bring in nearly enough money to cover this and have not written nearly enough money to cover this for decades.

34:32Right? So the boomers are not paying nearly enough in taxes for this, but they want it. And so they saddled us with$40 trillion in debt for this government that we can't afford. And then the$40 trillion wasn't nearly, nearly, nearly enough. And so we've just, like what we're living in now, and of course, this is why, Rob, it's so goddamn infuriating when you hear J.D. Vance talk about how we're Hamiltonians, not Friedmanites. like but it's like do these people even know that Milton Friedman endorsed every aspect of the state that Hamilton did but to sit here at the end Rob what are we at here the end of of let's go from 2008 how long has it been since 2008 this is uh 18 years right so since 2008 Rob we have 18 years We have had what is one of the things that characterizes the last two decades?

35:30Oh, more money has been printed than at any other time in human history. If you're aware of monetary policy, like what's gone on over the last 18 years? OK, we had quantitative one, two, three, four, infinity. And then you had the 2020 spending, which dwarfed all of that. Now, if you remember, Rob, at the time of like QE, whatever it was, when they just extended. Remember QE infinity when they just like extended it at the time of there, that was already the biggest money printing, uh, uh, binge of all time. And then 2020 dwarfed that, like, you know, have you seen those charts, Rob? I mean, it's, there's different ways to look at, but like, you look at like the M two charts or whatever.

36:07If you, if you stop it at like 2019, it's like these huge spikes for QA. But if you take it to like 2023, the spike from, from 20 to 2023 makes the, you don't even see big spikes in the other ones anymore. Cause it dwarfs it by so much. It depends on how you measure these things, whether you look at the Fed balance sheet and you'd say, okay, it was like 800 and something billion in 2007, and it's$9 trillion now. Or if you look at the M2 supply or whatever it is, if you look at, God, I might be getting this wrong. But if you look at M1 or M2 or anything, the numbers just jump like trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars.

36:50They increased the money supply, I remember, by one of the metrics. I think it's M2. Between 2020 and 2022 by 40%. I think that's the money in circulation went up by 20%. I mean, 40%, excuse me. And so you finish the two decades of printing the most money of all time. And then at the end of that, we decide it's Ron Paul's fault that things are so expensive. At the end of it, we decide, I bet, I guess it's those free market, like they're the reason why everything's so, but anyway, so this is what the boomers handed us. It's like, you guys supported these government programs that you couldn't afford.

37:34You didn't want to foot the bill. And so you, you, you borrowed$40 trillion and printed trillions more, and then left these young people in a position where They can't afford anything and they got to foot the bill. And there's no need to do that. Like we, as I've said so many times before on the show, if you imagine, like if you are a young person, let's say, I don't know, if you if you make 50 grand a year and you you just have a job and you're in your maybe late 20s or something like that, you absolutely should be able to go buy a house. You shouldn't be able to go buy a mansion, but you should be able to go buy a little house.

38:17And like the fact that you can't, that was stolen from you. That was, we didn't need to have giant entitlement programs and we didn't need to spend$20 trillion on war since the collapse of the Soviet union. But, you know, there was just absolutely no need to do any of that except the boomers, you know, they supported it. So, and, and on that note, I think you rigged the game enough and you get more of a kind of a natural opt-out, which is kind of the spirituality of capitalism, which is if it rewards hard work and it's easy to save and you're motivated, hey, if I save, my money's going to be worth down the line.

38:52You do more of that and you make better decisions. But if you saved money and you didn't put it in the stock market because you didn't like risk, and now just your money's worth a whole lot less and you're looking at saving towards a bigger expense like a house and you're like, that doesn't even look possible. Yeah, of course you're making stupid decisions with your money. They're like, I might as well enjoy it while this is here. Oh, absolutely. No, look, there's no question about that, right? That's a very, very important point that like there is. Things can become so is there a term for this in economics that I should know, but like things can become so insurmountable that it kind of kills the incentive to even do the right thing anymore.

39:35You know, like it's like. I don't know if you're. if there's a big wave coming at you on a beach, you might run. But like, if it's a tidal wave and you're right there, it might be like, dude, there's not even a point. And, you know, like at a certain point, it's like, if you're like overwhelmingly in debt and you're like, and you got an extra hundred bucks, it's like, you really should put that toward your$500 ,000 in debt. And you're like, dude, I'm going to spend it. Cause I need one goddamn moment of, you know what I mean? And it's not like, whereas if you have$3 ,000 in debt and someone's like, put that hundred bucks toward the three that come on man like you could pay this thing off in a little bit like that's it's just much easier to like motivate people to do that so yeah i absolutely think that's true but anyway you know again the major point here or i guess one of the major points is just that this chick is the face of the administration and in this moment where the administration is as weakened as it's ever been and democratic socialism is on the rise this is the message they've got this will not work like you know i want to play this mom donnie uh uh clip in a second because this is um i i will say in some ways i uh i underestimated this mom donnie a little bit he i think he's better at this than i realized he was and he's certainly ascendant right now um in the in the democratic party uh obviously look rob he wasn't born here right so he's not gonna run for president, unless that gets changed.

41:05But there is something where he's a force, he's ascendant, and I think there's something very dangerous about what he represents. But my God, man, the way people are dealing with him, Rob, it's like, essentially, I'm going to say he's a Durka Durka Durka terrorist and socialism, and that's it. And oh, you're just being lazy. Like the and I say this, man, like I'm pleading with anybody who's not a socialist here who wishes to resist the rise in socialism. OK, let me just try to explain this. There is there is no way that just calling him a communist or calling him a terrorist sympathizer or calling him an anti-Semite.

41:49That will not work. I can promise you that it won't work because it's stupid and it doesn't appeal to anybody. First off, communist doesn't mean anything to anybody who's his audience is young people. And there are people who obviously aren't afraid by that. He calls himself a democratic socialist. So like how scary is the label to he's never really in any way indicated that he's a jihadist. You just made that all up. Like, I don't know. It's just it's like they're like, well, he's a Muslim. guy. And there's a picture of him in a mosque with the Muslim guy who's like a real radical Muslim. And you're like, yeah, well, that's where you find them at mosques.

42:27So I don't know this. You have nothing here. And then, by the way, the fact that he doesn't support your fucking genocidal campaigns is a is a bonus in his. That's a win in his column for the record. That's not helping you. What you have to do, the only way to do this right now, right in this populist moment, Rob, where the establishment is so corrupt, and they, by the way, call themselves capitalism, and he's calling himself socialism, you can't sit here and say, he's a revolutionary who wants to overthrow this status quo. I'm for the status quo. Because fuck the status quo. Everyone's against that.

43:08That is why Trump won. That's why he's in there. That's why this Caroline Levitt chick is in the position to say what she's saying, because no one wants to defend the status quo. Why should we? But the point is that the status quo is the biggest government in human history. The status quo is the biggest money printing scheme in history. The status quo is central planning and central banking. And that's the only way to win this argument is to explain to them that we're doing socialism right now. Because anything else is just not going to tackle the energy that they have. You have to explain to them that we currently have a system that's rigged toward the rich and rigged toward the boomers and that that's what they, you know what I'm saying?

43:52Like otherwise, if you're just hitting him with this, like you're a jihadist thing, I don't know. It's just got no chance of landing. All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is Quince. It is summertime. One of the things you need during summer is good, comfortable, go anywhere clothing, stuff that's good for the summer. That's why I love Quince. In fact, I just got a bunch of stuff from them. Quince's 100 % European linen pants and shirts are breathable, easy to throw on, and the summer upgrade your rotation needs. They're starting at just$34. Their tees are soft enough to live in all day, and the lightweight cotton sweaters are exactly what you want when summer nights cool down.

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45:15All right, let's get back on the show. Well, let's roll the clip. Here, let's go to Mom Donnie. Now, this is Mom Donnie on the 4th of July. Nearly a decade ago, I too felt what you feel, the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American too. You each hold a special power, the power to determine what America means. The powerful have always known their answer. America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy, where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal. America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin.

45:59The rest of us, they insist should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit. How small they are, how weak, how unoriginal. At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. Division is the oldest trick in politics and the cheapest. But time and again, including 250 years ago, those forces of division have been vanquished by the forces of progress as thomas paine once wrote this new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty hither have they fled and yet today too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision do you know what my favorite thomas paine quote was rob uh he said um government is at its best a necessary evil you know there's something um there's something funny about uh the the democratic socialists now dressing up in like american language like there's something about like literally like top you're quoting thomas pain like thomas pain literally said literally that's his quote that government at best is a necessary evil meaning like i might be an anarchist like at its absolute best you can convince me that this is all this is evil but man we just have to have this thing not that like it should start getting in the game the business of groceries or something like that um you know this is what everyone does is they try and pretend like they're a libertarian and that they're pro-freedom this is kind of the lane in politics is everyone dresses themselves up as us um to lie to you for their uh basically government power and control.

47:50I know if we're so wrong, why do you all have to pretend to be us? But in this instance, you know, he's using all of like these American ideas for inclusion and extending it to people that are not in the country. And I think what's, you know, potentially great about Momdani is that to the extent that he tries to institute his socialist policies and sticks around long enough unless he can control the media, which is what you need to pretend like all of your policies He's having created rationing or other disasters. We will all get a front row ticket to the disaster of what he actually successfully implements.

48:25And in this case, where he's trying to basically say everyone in the entire universe should have a right to be an American. How's that going to play out? Go institute that policy. You want to have all the socialism that we have in this country and all the free stuff that we have and just invite everyone for that? And you think that the general public is going to work out? and that be that the general public's going to like that. So, you know, you just got to listen to his message a little bit here. He's not talking about, hey, you know, the powers against all of us Americans and they're the bad guys, but us working together, we don't need to be divided.

49:00He's talking about that in reference to also illegal immigrants coming into the country, which is batshit crazy. Now he's doing it like in a pretty slick way where he's kind of painting a picture like he's talking about me and my, you know, my Mexican neighbors that live in my shitty apartment building. But that's not really what he's talking about. Well, let's just say, to be clear here, this is, it's very, it's Obama-esque what he's doing. Like, it's all sloganeering and it's very empty on any actual substance. And he's not talking about a policy. And for the record, I hate that. I just I wish if we lived in a grown up serious world politicians even in these moments it's like I like what did I just tune into Oprah or am I listening to the mayor you know what I'm saying like I don't need to hear this thing about a story about who we are as a people like what are you planning on doing about this pothole and what are you planning on doing like I think politicians should speak about policy but you're right he's now look what's one of the things that's interesting in this is that he's now, this is a national speech, right?

50:08Like this is going super viral. This is him. It's not just him. And you see that in the way they're dressing up in the American flag and in the American story, because they're presenting this in a way that, look, Rob, there's a different way you got to present this message. If you want to appeal in Park Slope, maybe that's not the best. If you want to appeal to Williamsburg or something like that, then if you want to appeal to, you know, Kansas City. I don't know. You just got to present it a little bit different. And so there's like, they're presenting it in this way. He's not really saying anything of substance.

50:39But yes, Rob, there's signaling in there. There's signaling that like, the problem is always exclusion. And the problem is always that those who think that if you look different or sound different, that therefore you can't be American. And hey, look, there's a claim that he's making here implicit in the speech that, hey, even though I just became an American five minutes ago, I still get to say we should change this whole thing because I'm as American as everybody else. And anybody who's trying to exclude me from that as being the bad guy, you do wonder to some degree with these democratic socialists, well, like where, I mean, because the whole thing is so incoherent, but you go like, well, wait a minute.

51:20If you're really saying that exclusion is wrong, what's the limiting principle on that? Can nobody be excluded? Does the whole world have a right to come here? And if we're now saying that the whole world has a right to come here, that this is not a national socialist project a la Bernie Sanders, that this is a global socialist project, well, why then would this only apply to your policy in terms of the movement of people. So in other words, why don't we just take this redistribution thing that you believe in international? And in fact, this is a real argument that the democratic socialists never really have a response to.

52:02It was one of the ones in Keith Knight's great video that he put out the other day. But like, I don't know why, why shouldn't we look? China is a huge economy, Rob. China has, you know, like I think it's the biggest, the biggest economy in the world in terms of like pure and then I think maybe we're still ahead of them in terms of like per capita. But China is a rich country. Haiti is a poor country. Rob, you explained to me why we shouldn't be taxing China and sending their stuff to Haiti. Why shouldn't we go be confiscating a bunch of Chinese stuff and sending it over to Haiti? Why should like what?

52:43How far are you willing to extend this experiment that this all just applies to the world? Because Rob, again, like you're saying here, you're saying you want socialism and open borders. Just think about that combination for a second. So you are entitled, it is your right, as they would say, you are entitled to like healthcare and housing and education and this, and also everyone's allowed to come. How long do you think that model lasts for? The borders are open to the world. And also, as soon as you get here, you get put on the dole. It's almost like they don't think these things through. Here, let's keep playing.

53:23Vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum. As we mark 250 years, what do we see? We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions. We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world. One where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more. We see monopolies dominate every industry.

53:54That is not a contradiction. You know, feel however you feel about it. Objectively speaking, it's not a contradiction. It's not a contradiction to say some people have so little and some people have so much. I don't know what that, you know, like, I don't know what he means to be saying by maybe he means to be saying two things that shouldn't both exist, but that's different than a contradiction. Like just for example, like a contradiction would be where we're a nation of, uh, of so many, uh, billionaires and we're a nation, uh, where no billionaires exist. That's a contradiction. Contradict the last thing you said.

54:33This is not a contradiction. I don't know. I just hate this stuff, but it's, I also do, I got to say, by the way, this is, I should say this just because I've mentioned it a second ago. And so why not be controversial and get myself in trouble? But I, um, I do think there's something that's like bad form about such a new citizen now lecturing how the nation is a nation of contradict, you know what I mean? Like, and then, and then like not even knowing what a contradiction is, there is something that really rubs me the wrong way about all of that. But like, It is not the idea that, look, one of the reasons why this is infuriating, I guess maybe there's two things.

55:13Number one, well, it's not a contradiction that there would be some people with a lot and other people with less. Also, it does not in any way imply that somebody having a lot has made the person who has less worse off. That's a fixed pie fallacy. It's a logical fallacy. And then I guess in addition to that, it's just like, Rob, like imagine this is one of the things we're like, we're socialists because they don't understand economics. So they never think about it like this. And they'll ask questions like, why do we have poverty? Which is a really silly question when you think about it. And a much more interesting question is, why do we have wealth?

56:00Because why do we have poverty is easy. It's like because that's what we're born into. That's the state of nature. The state of nature is poverty. Starting from scratch is when you have poverty. And then you have to build wealth little by little by little, like literally everything had to be built. it had to be made all every building you see was built everything you see was made machinery and like all this stuff has to be created and so when you start creating some people are going to have more and so it essentially as soon as you start with economic creation you create a situation where some people have but you haven't pulled everyone out of poverty yet now have you rob and so i can look at that and go look at the contradiction some people have and other people don't.

56:44And you're like, yeah, it's called working. It's called we're working. Now, obviously, there's a million ways. If Natalie, if you could just bring this back like a couple seconds, there's a million ways that people wealth is being extracted from groups and people are being screwed over. But like, get to that. Just demonstrating that one guy's successful while somebody else is not proves nothing. Yeah. I hate the demonization of wealth. I'm very into the demonization of grift if you want to get up there and explain to me that uh elon musk is actually a defense contractor and here's the grip how he earned his wealth i'm all ears but i can't stand the demonization of wealth in that like let's just you know there's this uh there was this matt damon movie which wasn't particularly good where there's like this secondary planet that has these health machines and people could just get into the health machines and be magically healthy but let's just go with that let's say tomorrow someone invented the ai health machine that you can get into it it can scan your whole body tell you what's wrong with it and fix it on the spot and that guy became a trillionaire you're going to tell me that that's bad the guy who figured out how we can all be healthier and provide something of value and i'm taking an extreme example but the idea yeah yes no you're absolutely right dude and i'm sorry i'm sorry i didn't mean to cut you off but it's such a good point the idea that like so look uh keith knight used is the example in his uh in one of his points on that great video he made the other day um that he said, just using the example of Jeff Bezos, by the way, someone I'm not a big fan of, he goes, Jeff Bezos has gotten the books in the hands of more kids than, you know what I mean?

58:18Like, if a public government program had done that, they would never stop bragging about it. Walmart has slashed the price on food and clothing for the poorest communities in this country by 40%, 30%. huge number never get any credit for it at all so like i'm not saying obviously we live we live in a very rigged system uh the entire system is is rigged on behalf of the powerful that being said the idea that like anyone that right that wealth creation is inherently bad is so ass backward it's like it's like on the level of um let's say like during like covid when we were real upset that we thought they were giving the covid vax to a whole bunch of people who shouldn't have gotten it.

59:04And then we were to go, that's why you don't do medicine. Wait, wait, hold on, dude. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You cannot throw this entire thing out because medicine saves so many people's lives who really need it. So like, no, you can't throw all of that out. And that's all that is throwing out the wealth. It's throwing out all business, all wealth creation, all everything. It's utter nonsense. All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is Shopify. Have you been sitting on a business idea, but you're not quite sure how to start will look no further than Shopify.

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1:00:08With Shopify, nothing stands between your idea and a real business. So go make it one. Start your free trial at shopify.com slash problem. That's shopify.com slash problem. All right, let's get back into the show. Here, let's continue playing. This trillionaire hungers for more. We see monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs who buy elections. Okay. Again, I'm sorry. We see monopolies that dominate all industries. Can I get some examples on that, bro? And isn't it funny, Rob to ever, isn't it so funny? I mean, again, just the ultimate contradiction that a democratic socialist talking about monopolies as they advocate for the government to do everything like the government isn't only the biggest monopoly it's the only true monopoly um and and to the extent that any company is anywhere close to being a monopoly i guarantee you they're in bed with the government and but again like you go oh we have this problem where there's monopolies everywhere and that's why we'll have the government take it over.

1:01:27It's so funny even thinking about, Rob, just like in theory, so you're saying a monopoly is bad. And why would a monopoly be bad? A monopoly would be bad because, well, they're the sole provider of a good or a service. And as the theory goes, well, if they're the sole provider of a good or a service, then they got a lot of leverage over you, right? If you want that good or service, they could ask for whatever they want or whatever. And like, there's some truth to that in that. Yeah. Competition will lower prices. And if one person is, has a huge percentage of the share, or let's just say you invent a new product.

1:02:02So now in a sense, you have a monopoly on it, at least for a little bit. Right. Okay. Maybe that's bad. Maybe I have a product you want and I'm asking for way more than you're willing to pay. Now you can't actually find me any examples in history of people really creating long lasting monopolies in history, like literally none. You can't find any, all the robber barons of the 20th century, all the, you know, anyone you want to look at, they all lowered prices. None of them raised prices, which is, you can't find examples of this happening. But if you're going to say that that's really bad, like, okay, I would ask for a lot of money because I'm the only one who has a certain product.

1:02:40What about, I would put a gun to your head and force you to pay me money for a product you don't even want. How is that not worse? How is that not a worse monopoly, a monopoly on the initiation of violence? Like this is the worst type of monopoly there is. So, you know, probably me a river about monopolies, but it's just, look, there are, again, I do think the economy is incredibly rigged. Rob to say, do you remember when we were at that, uh, Jean Epstein debate? I think you were there. You read the Jean Epstein debate. And there was the one woman who was talking about conditions of factory workers in America.

1:03:14And she started throwing out numbers that were like, she was like 60 % of Americans work in substandard manufacturing. And Jean was like, 60 % of Americans don't even work in manufacturing. And then she threw out some number and she said, 20 % of Amazon workers have to wear diapers because they're not allowed bathroom breaks because the working conditions are so bad. And none of that's true. just none of it's true. It's just like totally made up. It's like the socialists really do this thing where like, even sometimes when there are real problems and you could say like, Hey, maybe the Amazon workers aren't paid well enough or something like this, but you can like, look, this just isn't happening in America.

1:03:53What are you talking about? The same thing, like the idea that every industry is a monopoly is like, Rob, we have so many consumer choices. Like that's just not true dude i can't believe the uh socialists are speaking out against a company that's normalizing a culture of shitting your pants at work all right yeah let's play let's play a little bit more then we'll wrap up using our streets eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vance we see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused, dirt-streaked hands, those who toil on factory floors and chisel into stone.

1:04:34And we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held instead in the soft hands of a precious few. Yes, we see America in a health insurance industry that exploits the sick, but that is not all we see when we look for America. We see it too in the nurse who works a double shift and then stops on our way home to check on an ailing neighbor. Yes, we see America and corporate landlords for whom negligence is a business model. We see it too in the father who tucks his children into bed. All right, let me just pause it right here. You know, there's something, it almost reminds me in a way of the way feminists, like radical feminists would talk about men.

1:05:15And it's almost like they define men by all the worst men that are out there ever. But then they seem to have a blind spot for the fact that they're like, yeah, but like, I don't know there's a whole bunch of men out there who are just like decent enough dudes you know what I mean like they just like go to work and raise their kids and you know are decent to their wife and like or whatever they're just good to their friends and they're nice you know like and there there is this when you sit here and you say hey look man you know like who built this wealth who built this wealth is the people with the calloused fingertips you know that's who that's who built this wealth it's the the nurses and it's the and And it's like, yeah, look, I'm not taking anything away from that.

1:05:58Workers are a huge, important part of an economy. And obviously, it's a huge, important part of wealth creation as people working. Entrepreneurs play a huge role in that, too. Humongous role. And why do we have to demonize that? You know, it's like, and maybe I'm being unfair, putting words in his mouth, but it's pretty clearly left out of the equation here, Rob, right? it's the workers and then that evil billionaire up there. And this is where they get you. This is where all socialists do this. And dude, you can read about what was considered a kulak in the Soviet Union. You know, it starts with billionaires.

1:06:38But then you notice where it's like, we got to raise taxes on everyone who makes over$250 ,000 a year or something like that. You're like, hey, that's not exactly just billionaires anymore. But like in this whole thing, like, okay, you have this evil billionaire class And then you have the noble guy who works his fingers to the callus. What about the guy who like had a good idea and started a business and created 10 jobs? What about the guy who started a business and had an idea and created 300 jobs? Okay, like all those workers now have a job because that person created a company with all of these jobs to have.

1:07:12And who is that? Where is that? Like, this is the one that they leave out as if this isn't like, if anything, like the most fundamental driver of wealth creation. Like, I'm sorry, rich people quite often, millionaires and billionaires, pay off the government to try to manipulate policy in their favor so that they can extract wealth from the people. This is done all over the place. It's a huge problem in this country right now. But the idea that there is no role, let alone a central, vitally important role for capital investment and entrepreneurship, it just demonstrates an infantile understanding of economics.

1:07:58Absolutely infantile. The idea that all you got to do is show up and work. That's it. It's the workers who make everything. Where are they working? With what are they working? What job are they doing? Oh, yeah. All of that has to be figured out. That's important, too. It's like disgusting to pretend it doesn't exist anyway any thoughts rob he just goes on to say a bunch more nothingness and empty slogans we can wrap it there yeah well the fact that how old was he when he even moved to the country or became a citizen i don't know but i think it's all very recent like i think he became a citizen in like 2018 or something like that yeah i don't know it feels like more of a slap of a face having someone who's not really an american lecturing about why this country is so horrible and so in other words you're here and you're tapping into the power structure for yourself and to try and capitalize on this wealth that other people have generated you know i don't know it's just uh it uh whatever i'm trying to i'm trying to i'm only thinking of bold words and i'm trying to use soft words but fuck you well i get your point too because there's also something about how he's going like um look there's something about how he's sitting there and he's going, look, man, these people who worked their fingers to the bone, they earned this.

1:09:15OK, they earned this. Those billionaires, they didn't earn nothing. And it's like, motherfucker, you just got here. You just got to the country, the most successful country in the history of the world that was built by other people. And you just got here. And I do have to say, look, I am. I don't think it is true that America was always a radically open country. America was built by lots of different types of people who came here from all over the world. Now, that doesn't mean that we have to have open immigration forever because of that. It just doesn't follow. But that is true, much more so than other countries that are built around a distinct lineage, a distinct language and culture and people in time.

1:09:57It's different than France or Ireland or something like that in America. That being said, we're still a nation kind of we're still a people kind of and if you're the new it does seem to me a little bit like if i just showed up to japan and they took me in and they gave me citizenship and then i go now let's change everything like it there is something about that that just seems a little bit to be let's say um bad manners i don't know something about that all right that's our episode for today. Catch you tomorrow. Peace.