"Whoop" Bill Maher? Abdul El-Sayed Just Started a War He Can't Win

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What Obama knows very well
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is that most of those companies are
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overwhelmingly left leaning.
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It is the oldest
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trick
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in the book.
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Hey,
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I wanna give people the image
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of watching him get his ass whooped on his own show by a guy who prays like I do.
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Really?
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This guy should probably keep his mouth shut.
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That a boy.
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That's why Trump said in his speech
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that they're from the same globalist networks responsible for the climate hoax.
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This whole thing
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is orchestrated by two billionaires because Trump is a badass.
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The era of progressive hands-off policing was
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over.
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Your outrage is selective.
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Your advocacy is behind the paywall.
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All right team,
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welcome to your midweek briefing where we're gonna break down
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all the top stories in the headlines.
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If you're digging the show,
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Let's jump in.
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Keeping it
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real.
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Keeping it real
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with Jillian Michaels.
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Fletcher.
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Tell everybody what we're discussing first while I take a sip of my coffee.
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So we have a lot of clips to go through for this Wednesday briefing.
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Uh,
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but to start off,
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I want to cover one of the biggest stories of this past week,
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and that is that President Trump posted President Xi Jinping
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for a White House state dinner.
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He gathered up the top tech leaders,
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including Elon Musk,
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Jensen Huen,
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and Tim Cook to focus on artificial intelligence,
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trade stability,
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and critical supply chains.
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Unfortunately,
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coverage was relentlessly consumed by a media circus.
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Attacks on whether China should even be welcomed
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with open arms.
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They were mocking commentary over Trump taking Xi
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Jinping on an unscripted tour of the unfinished ballroom
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and a bitter clash over whether the press was banned or staging a boycott.
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So sadly,
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with all the distractions,
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the strategic necessity of the summit was completely buried.
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You know,
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no one discussed why Trump would add
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Xi Jinping to the White House.
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So we wanted to bring you guys a clip of Secretary of State Marco Rubio explaining why
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that holding this dinner was so important.
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Guys,
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let me just say it to you this way because I think this is important,
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and I used to have that job too in the Senate,
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so I understand it and I respect the role that it plays in our system.
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Um,
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the United States and China are the two largest economies in the world.
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The United States and China are probably the
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two most powerful militaries in the world.
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The relationship between the United States and China
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will define the 21st century.
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What happens in that relationship?
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The idea that we would not
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interact with them at the highest levels
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is irresponsible.
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It's outrageous.
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We have to.
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That doesn't mean we don't have strong disagreements,
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of course we do.
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But even at the height of the Cold War,
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even in the midst of the threat of nuclear annihilation and life ending on the earth,
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the United States had communications and meetings often with Russian officials
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and thank Soviet officials and thank God we did because it prevented
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the,
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the,
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you know,
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a real war.
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So we,
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we,
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we have,
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and I think it's an obligation.
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To be able to interact and speak to at the highest levels now,
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and I think that's what this visit reflects
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is the president's belief that
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no matter what our disagreements and differences
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may be with the Chinese government,
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this is not some small country.
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This is the 2nd largest economy in the world
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and a pretty substantial military that's undergoing the
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most rapid military buildup probably in history.
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And um and uh and,
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and by the way,
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a country that we also have very strong points of
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friction with when it comes to trade and supply
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chains and critical minerals and things of this nature.
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So I think it's just responsible statecraft for our
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leaders to speak and meet with one another,
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um,
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and,
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and that's the way we view it,
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that's the way we view this visit.
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Um,
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we had a visit to China,
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they hosted us earlier this year.
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Part of the agreement is that we would visit there,
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they would visit here,
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and this is the,
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the,
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the back end of,
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of that agreement and,
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uh,
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and there'll be an opportunity for them to interact.
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Again,
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potentially later this year,
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both at APEC
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in China and at the G20 in Florida.
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So we've already heard Secretary Rubio explain
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why this kind of soft diplomacy matters.
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So I'm not going to repeat it,
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but it is worth noting what he was responding to
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because the pushback on welcoming Xi with open arms started on Capitol Hill,
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and it came from both parties.
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So Roger Wicker,
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this is the Republican who chairs the Senate Armed Services,
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he went to the Senate floor.
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And he said that he would have told the president not to invite Xi at all,
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let alone give him a state dinner,
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given everything that we have going on
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with the Chinese Communist Party.
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And then Mitch McConnell
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and three other Republican senators sent Rubio a letter
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about the $14 billion Taiwan arms package
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that got paused after Trump's Beijing trip
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in May.
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And then the press picked up that framing and they ran with it.
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How dare he roll out the red carpet for a dictator?
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So,
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Rubio's answer was that US China relationship
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is going to define this century.
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I mean,
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refusing to deal with this
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at the highest level.
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I think,
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you know,
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he says irresponsible.
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I think the answer is catastrophic,
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right?
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And
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here's what got left out.
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Obama hosted Xi
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more than once,
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guys.
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An Oval Office visit in February of 2012 when Xi was still vice president,
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Sunnylands in 2013,
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a full state visit in September of 2015,
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and I think that one had a 21 gun salute on the South Lawn at a black tie state dinner.
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So the same outlets that are clutching their pearls now,
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why didn't they treat it as a scandal
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then?
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And then you had the media circus over Trump.
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Blocking certain outlets from covering the event.
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So quick background in case you missed it,
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which I'm sure you didn't because it was everywhere,
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the week before the visit,
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the White House pulled the badges of CNN,
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MS Now,
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and Politico,
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and a federal judge ordered that their access be restored.
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So they got back in around noon on Thursday,
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the day of the event,
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and a couple of their reporters were turned away
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from covering Xi's arrival at the dinner that night,
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and it became a live court fight.
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The press question,
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right?
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That is a separate debate and you're entitled
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to have whatever opinion you want about it,
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but before you form that opinion,
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Let's have one more small history lesson.
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In 2009,
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Obama's White House tried to freeze out Fox,
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and Obama's communications director called Fox a wing of the Republican Party.
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And it's only because the other networks refused to go along
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with that whole plan
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that's the only reason that failed.
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And this year,
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Gavin Newsom signed Bill AB 2624,
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which critics have dubbed the Stop Nick Shirley Act,
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and it essentially handcuffs citizen journalists.
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From exposing fraud in California.
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So the
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press issue does worry me because it spirals and it gets one up fast.
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It can and it should be litigated,
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but not as a partisan football because
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we have seen this cut deep both ways.
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Now,
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having said all of that,
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you can absolutely see why the president would want
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to keep certain outlets out of the building.
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He's not going to their offices and knocking
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down their doors and shutting down their organizations,
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but he is saying
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that they're pushing lies and they're pushing propaganda and for
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those reasons they don't deserve direct access to him.
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And if you look at the situation,
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what did they do with the direct access that they had?
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Well,
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they proved his point.
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They melted down because
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he gave his dinner guests
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a tour of the ballroom under construction.
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Who cares?
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Why is that bad?
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It's a privately funded ballroom
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that the poor guy's probably never going to get to use.
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It's something that
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he's gonna leave for the next president and the one after that and the one after that.
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And last,
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the complaint that nothing of substance came out of this dinner on Taiwan or AI.
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Reporters and pundits know how these events work.
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A state dinner
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is for soft diplomacy.
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It's about optics,
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it's about personal rapport
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between the two people at the head of the table.
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So,
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you build goodwill at the dinner,
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so hard negotiations later on have something to stand on.
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Real geopolitical work happens in private,
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right?
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Working level sessions and expert groups
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where complicated details get hashed out.
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A dinner like this
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is what makes those sessions possible.
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It builds the trust and the momentum you need.
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To push the difficult conversations forward,
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and these guys know that.
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So thank God that Secretary Rubio is
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highlighting the actual importance of this dinner,
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so the American people get an idea
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of what the heck
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is actually going on and what actually matters.
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You know,
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Jillian,
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speaking of AI leaders and given
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our recent expose
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that we did last week on who's actually behind the sudden cry for AI regulation,
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we wanted to show you
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all two clips.
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The first one is from Silicon Valley investor.
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Chamath polypeia
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warning that
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you did your best on that one.
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I'm doing it for you.
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You know how many times I've messed that up and Dave Rubin has had to correct me.
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Chalmath polypetia.
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Yeah,
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it's a tough one.
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It's a mouthful.
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It's OK.
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It's OK.
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You,
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you're still a great EP Fletcher.
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It's OK,
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buddy.
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It's OK.
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Dave
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is like
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Paula Patia.
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I'm like,
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go ahead.
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honey.
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Yeah.
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So he warned that sudden pushes about
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ensuring control stays firmly in liberal hands.
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Um,
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we also have a clip from Prometheus in Action,
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who we've had on the show last week,
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cautioning that this will compromise American productivity.
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So first,
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we're gonna
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throw up Trem.
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So guys,
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can we throw in Sat too?
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It is a very
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Important moment for a very simple reason,
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which is we,
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as in the world
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are about to endow.
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3456 companies
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with about $10 trillion of wealth.
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what Obama knows very well
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is that most of those companies are overwhelmingly left leaning,
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and what he also knows is that
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there is a huge portion of that money that will then get put into
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philanthropic and charitable causes that then he will and the people around him
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will be beneficiaries of.
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That is the truth.
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We already know this because we know that
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some of these frontier corporations actually ask you.
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To stand up dafts and have a portion of your stock that you're willing to pledge,
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so this money is going to go to things other than consumption or savings,
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and so it's going to go into PACs,
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it's going to go into political movements,
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and they stand to disproportionately benefit.
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So this has nothing to do with prosperity.
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This is a very simple political calculus.
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If you freeze frame the economy the way it is today.
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A handful of organizations that will disproportionately be
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able to affect the Democrats will win.
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They will capture the lion's share of the economic gains,
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and then they will help the Democrats
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win power.
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That's all this is.
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So before we jump in,
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let's throw in Promethean action as well.
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At the very same people who said we'll all
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be dead in 12 years because of global warming,
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a name
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since reborn to climate change because the planet was cooling,
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not warming,
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and nobody was dead.
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These are the same people that are now saying that AI is going to kill us all,
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that robots are going to attack us,
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and that everything is going to be a total disaster.
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Same group of people.
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This is the group that came up.
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With
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Russia,
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Russia,
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Russia,
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hope,
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climate change,
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open borders,
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in the final part of his speech,
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the president returned to AI or simpler intelligence as he is now calling it.
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He rejected all the current manufactured hysteria,
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invoking the exceptional American
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spirit.
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Most of the current hysteria has been created through a backward.
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Utilitarian cult
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created at Oxford University.
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It's called effective altruism.
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They are very influential in the anthropic company
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which set off the current hysteria.
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That's why Trump said in his speech
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that they're from the same
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globalist networks responsible for the climate hoax properly applied to
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the real world of industry and manufacturing and agriculture.
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AI will raise human productivity.
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Massively.
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So Lonsdale,
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one of the people who operates in this real world,
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says that the 2030s will be the era of
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disinflation.
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Due to the productivity gains this technology,
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Lonsdale says AI will root out fraud in the government,
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allow for massive breakthroughs in healthcare and cures,
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and allow the entire manufacturing and industrial base
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to come back to the United States
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on an ultra modern platform.
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As we're at a breakthrough moment with human use of real
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physical robots and tools.
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Let's listen further.
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Help our most daunting fear of the $40 trillion
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and the out of control deficits we're running now.
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This will come under control.
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I mean,
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you look at that,
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look at the economic optimistic that if you get productivity up to 34,
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5%,
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which you 100%
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should be able to do with these things,
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if not significantly higher,
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that solves the deficit problem.
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This is an amazing thing for us.
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Civilization,
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like this is the answer
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is to get growth higher and this is how
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everyone gets wealthier is doing more with less.
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It's gonna do it.
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Let's go back 1870,
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1900,
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2nd industrial revolution,
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the last time productivity shot up a lot,
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the average American,
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the average working class American
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was twice as wealthy in real terms within one generation,
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and that's what happens when productivity goes up.
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Everyone gets wealthier.
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So as Fletcher already mentioned,
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guys,
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we did a whole show on who is behind this AI scare,
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this whole thing.
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is orchestrated by two billionaires,
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a guy named Dustin Moskovitz
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and another guy named Jan Talon.
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And these two
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are heavily invested in OpenAI,
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which you know as Chad GPT,
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and Anthropic,
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which you know as Claude.
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So,
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these are the guys that funded the PAuse AI letter,
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the think tanks,
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the doomsday talking points.
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We did that show last week.
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In fact,
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I'm gonna link to it in the show notes.
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It is a must watch,
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but if you have not seen it,
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here's the bottom line,
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or rather,
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here is their business logic.
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Building the biggest AI models costs billions,
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billions for the chips,
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the data centers,
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the electricity,
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the data,
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that was all supposed to be the moat,
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right?
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Nobody was supposed to be able to catch them,
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except
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when a bunch of small players caught them anyway.
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So Meta gave its model away for free.
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And then,
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a Chinese lab called Deepeek built one in January 2025
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that was just as good
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for a fraction of the cost,
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and you know what happened?
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Tech stocks lost a trillion bucks in a day.
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So,
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what do you do when your moat dries up?
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You go to Washington
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and you ask for one.
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You ask for laws that say,
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once AI gets powerful enough,
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you need a government license to build it.
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It's kind of like a liquor license.
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You ask for a mandatory government
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inspection.
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You ask for so much paperwork that only 3 or $4 trillion dollar companies
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can afford the lawyers to deal with this regulation.
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It is the oldest
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trick in the book.
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It's called a regulatory mode,
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or rather
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a
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government.
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Mandated monopoly.
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So these guys climb the ladder and they pull it up behind them.
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It's not responsible governance.
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And Shamath is explaining.
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Why so many politicians are jumping on board
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even though they know what I'm telling you,
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they know this,
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but the incentive is enormous.
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So in this case it's the Democrat Party that has already jumped on board.
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Think about what this means
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if 3 or 4 companies control the AI that every other
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business in America is going to need to run on.
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And you've got a permanent donor base worth trillions.
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Campaign money,
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super PACs,
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the revolving door where the regulator becomes the board
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member and the board member becomes the regulator.
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You don't get that from spread out industries like trucking.
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Nobody needs to say this out loud because they all know the deal.
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And then the third piece that the ladies of Promethean Action point out,
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right,
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what this does to American manufacturing.
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And the globalist agenda is
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equally nefarious,
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because for decades,
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the globalist model has run on gutting American factories
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and shipping the work over to cheap foreign labor,
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right?
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Because
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making things in America is expensive.
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So,
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they pay pennies an hour overseas and then they ship the product
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back to us across the ocean and sell it at a premium.
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The gap between what it costs them and what we pay
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is really kind of their whole business,
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but the model only works
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if the world stays wired together exactly the way it is
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now.
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So,
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America has to keep buying,
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China has to keep building,
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and the container ships gotta keep moving.
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Interdependence,
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that's their product.
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And the last thing the people running that game want
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is for America to stop
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needing them.
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AI can help flip that script overnight.
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Robots on the assembly line,
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software that predicts when a machine is about to break,
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automated warehouses,
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automated automated shipping.
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You see,
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these tools
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cancel out that labor cost problem
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because the reason you couldn't build a factory in
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Ohio is not because we don't have steel,
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or we don't have land,
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or we don't have workers,
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it's that American workers
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cost 20 times what a worker in Guangdong costs.
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So
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If a robot does the grunt work,
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the math disappears.
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Suddenly,
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you can make steel and machine parts and microchips and consumer goods here at home
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without depending on a supply chain
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that runs through
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China,
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OK?
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And here's the part that gets lost.
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You know,
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this whole AI is gonna take your job panic.
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In this scenario,
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AI is how the jobs come back.
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A factory that exists in America because of robots employs
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Americans.
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Somebody's gotta run the machines,
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somebody's gotta fix them,
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program them,
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supervise the floor,
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drive the trucks,
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pour the concrete,
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build the power plants
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to keep the lights on.
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Those are good jobs.
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They're the kind of jobs
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that built the middle class in the first place.
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And we shipped them over to Asia 30 years ago.
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Now the human doesn't have to compete on price because the robot
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does the cheap part and the American does the skilled part.
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That's a raise.
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It's a lot of raises actually
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in America
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that makes its own stuff,
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blows up the whole globalist fantasy that every
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country has to depend on another country,
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and that's exactly where the people
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who profit from that fantasy
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want to see AI regulated into the ground.
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Before it gets to the factory floor.
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So,
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what happens if you choke AI with regulation,
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you make a machine shop in Ohio get a license
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before it can run the software that lets it compete.
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You bury the small manufacturer on red tape
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while the giants get a pass.
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You make American innovation
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more expensive on purpose,
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and you keep American industry chained to the overseas factories.
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The scare here is not
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AI
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it's the unholy alliance.
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That big tech locks in a monopoly,
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politicians lock in their funding,
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and globalists
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keep American production
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handcuffed in order to protect
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their status quo.
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Rogue robots
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have nothing
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to do with what you're watching out
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right now in the media.
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Comfort is one of those things you don't fully appreciate until
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you find pieces that you actually wanna wear every day,
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and that's why Skims has become a go to for me,
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because the cotton collection
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is soft,
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it's lightweight,
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it's comfortable,
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it doesn't sacrifice fit,
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it's easy to reach for,
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whether you're at home or you're heading out for the day.
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One standout is the cotton rib tank because it's the kind of basic
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that works with anything.
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And as I said,
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the fit holds up throughout the entire day.
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The fabric is soft with the right amount of stretch.
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It stays comfortable,
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never loses its shape,
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and it's perfect for anyone
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who wants to elevate their everyday essentials.
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Shop Skims Cotton and all of my favorite pieces at skims.com.
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be sure to let them know that I
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sent you.
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Simply select podcast in the survey
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and then select my show in the dropdown menu
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that follows.
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Beautifully said,
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Jillian.
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There's a lot of great points,
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um,
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but for our next clip,
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we're gonna switch gears a little.
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So
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I just had to bring this to you because given the incessant left-wing
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media's Trump derangement syndrome,
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Bill Maher surprised his audience on real time by
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giving Donald Trump credit for the falling crime rates.
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Bill Maher,
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right,
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again,
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guys,
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can we throw in stop 4?
628
00:20:52.630 --> 00:20:54.770
And it's not just drug crime that's way down,
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it's all crime.
630
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And again,
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probably much of it is not political.
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It's because you can't move two inches in America without being tracked,
633
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photographed,
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and followed by a flock camera.
635
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But it's also because when Democrats expand the safety net,
636
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there are less desperate people
637
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and because Trump is a badass.
638
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No,
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I don't agree with many of his methods,
640
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like how they sometimes just deport people
641
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to countries where they have absolutely no connection
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like Meghan and Harry.
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Oh no.
644
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Is doing it this way the right thing?
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No,
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but it's just childish to pretend that when you
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elect a fuck around and find out president.
648
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A no more Mr.
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Nice guy,
650
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booting your ass,
651
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V for vendetta,
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kick ass and take names.
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Say hello to my little friend president.
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That's not gonna have some effect on crime.
655
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He has the UFC fights on the lawn.
656
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I think the bad guys got the message.
657
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Look,
658
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you don't have to agree with everything Bill
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Maher says to appreciate what he did here.
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He gave credit
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where credit is due.
662
00:22:03.190 --> 00:22:05.820
And in today's media landscape that alone feels
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revolutionary,
664
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right?
665
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How did Trump move the needle on crime?
666
00:22:10.030 --> 00:22:10.100
Well,
667
00:22:10.160 --> 00:22:11.160
let's talk about it.
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He restored deterrence.
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He backed local law enforcement.
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He directed federal resources to task forces targeting repeat
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violent offenders.
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He tightened border enforcement,
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and he made it crystal clear
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that the era of progressive hands-off policing was
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over.
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Criminals respond to incentives.
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And when the administration signals there are
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real immediate consequences for breaking the law,
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you know what's crazy?
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Behavior changes.
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Bill doesn't always get it right,
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I'll be honest.
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I still cringe thinking about Erin Bronkovich sitting on real time and she's there
684
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pushing outdated panic that AI data centers are sucking our water tables dry.
685
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We need our natural resources.
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We need our water.
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We need our land.
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We need our air.
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We need our food.
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We worry about our health.
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And with these big super AI data centers,
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it's risking and taking.
693
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All of that.
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Completely ignoring that modern facilities run on closed loop
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liquid cooling and use virtually zero municipal water,
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yeah,
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sure,
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I do wish his team fact checked some of
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00:23:24.470 --> 00:23:27.390
those scare tactics a little bit more aggressively,
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but,
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Bill Maher
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is a badass,
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guys,
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because he calls balls and strikes.
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When something works,
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he admits it.
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When Trump does something right,
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Bill doesn't swallow his tongue or spew reflexive partisan BS
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just to keep his liberal credentials intact.
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And frankly,
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that is going to be the only way that we pull
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00:23:49.760 --> 00:23:53.060
ourselves out of this partisan mess.
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If you can't acknowledge a win
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00:23:56.040 --> 00:23:58.160
just because you hate the guy that scored it,
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00:23:58.520 --> 00:23:59.980
you're not an honest actor,
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00:24:00.320 --> 00:24:01.670
you're not an independent thinker,
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you are a cult member.
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00:24:03.840 --> 00:24:08.590
We don't have a country if nobody can agree on basic objective facts.
719
00:24:08.800 --> 00:24:10.390
You don't have to like the player,
720
00:24:10.560 --> 00:24:13.580
but you do have to read the scoreboard honestly
721
00:24:14.080 --> 00:24:15.900
or the entire game
722
00:24:16.080 --> 00:24:17.510
ends up rigged.
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00:24:17.680 --> 00:24:17.970
Period.
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00:24:18.280 --> 00:24:19.030
End of story.
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00:24:20.300 --> 00:24:21.130
Completely agree,
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Jillian,
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00:24:21.860 --> 00:24:23.650
and while we're discussing Bill Maher.
728
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Got another story.
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00:24:25.720 --> 00:24:30.350
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Doctor Abdul El Sayed went viral for claims
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that Maher said terrible things about people who share his Muslim faith.
731
00:24:35.030 --> 00:24:37.940
He declared that he'd gladly go in real time to give viewers the
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00:24:37.940 --> 00:24:41.540
image of watching Mark get his ass whooped on his own show.
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So here's the clip.
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00:24:42.930 --> 00:24:43.510
Bill Maher,
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00:24:43.530 --> 00:24:44.080
same story.
736
00:24:44.210 --> 00:24:46.590
You know how many terrible things Bill Maher has said about people like me?
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00:24:46.980 --> 00:24:47.380
Terrible,
738
00:24:47.730 --> 00:24:48.550
awful things.
739
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Of course there's a,
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he's still got a show on Comedy Central and everybody seems to be perfectly
741
00:24:52.840 --> 00:24:55.670
OK going on that show despite the fact that he said deeply terrible things.
742
00:24:55.890 --> 00:24:57.000
But you know who else I go on that show?
743
00:24:57.170 --> 00:24:57.730
I go on the show.
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You know why?
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00:24:58.530 --> 00:24:58.680
A,
746
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I wanna give people the image
747
00:25:00.610 --> 00:25:04.470
of watching him get his ass whooped on his own show by a guy who prays like I do
748
00:25:04.890 --> 00:25:05.240
and.
749
00:25:05.860 --> 00:25:09.010
I'd also go on a show because I want to convince the people who watch his show,
750
00:25:09.610 --> 00:25:09.690
right,
751
00:25:09.820 --> 00:25:11.240
that a lot of the things that he says
752
00:25:11.580 --> 00:25:12.570
just not viable.
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00:25:12.820 --> 00:25:13.970
And before we jump into it,
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Jillian,
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Bill Maher was quick to respond.
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00:25:16.780 --> 00:25:17.010
Guys,
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00:25:17.100 --> 00:25:17.880
can we toss up
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00:25:18.060 --> 00:25:18.570
Scott says.
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I saw on the news today that El Sayed in Michigan says he
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would do my show even though he doesn't like the way I talk about
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people like him.
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00:25:26.190 --> 00:25:27.410
It's not people like you.
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I would love to have you on,
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uh,
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sir,
766
00:25:30.460 --> 00:25:31.040
by the way,
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and I hope we can make that happen.
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I talk about Islam.
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00:25:34.660 --> 00:25:34.900
It's,
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00:25:34.980 --> 00:25:37.090
it's never personal and it's never about race.
771
00:25:37.260 --> 00:25:38.360
It's about ideas.
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Religion is an opinion.
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That's all religion is
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a group of thoughts that form an opinion of something.
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I have different views on what,
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00:25:48.590 --> 00:25:48.820
you know,
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00:25:48.870 --> 00:25:52.240
how women should be treated and things like that that we will discuss.
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00:25:52.350 --> 00:25:52.620
I hope,
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00:25:52.670 --> 00:25:54.300
I hope you'll accept our invitation.
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00:25:54.440 --> 00:25:55.300
Oh gosh,
781
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that was uncomfortable.
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00:25:57.400 --> 00:25:58.660
But then I mean,
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it was a little uncomfortable.
784
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But the,
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the bottom line is that,
786
00:26:02.370 --> 00:26:02.430
well,
787
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hold on.
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First,
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let me,
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let me give,
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uh,
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00:26:04.920 --> 00:26:06.590
Abdullah El Sayed a little bit of credit here.
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00:26:06.720 --> 00:26:10.790
People were jumping onto X claiming that he wanted to physically beat up Bill Maher.
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That,
795
00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:11.110
that,
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00:26:11.200 --> 00:26:12.470
that's clearly not what he was doing.
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00:26:12.560 --> 00:26:14.620
He was saying he wanted to whoop his ass in a debate.
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Let,
799
00:26:15.120 --> 00:26:16.510
let's be honest.
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00:26:16.890 --> 00:26:17.030
Now,
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00:26:17.280 --> 00:26:18.380
having said that,
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00:26:19.800 --> 00:26:20.420
Bill is,
803
00:26:20.680 --> 00:26:21.470
Bill's right.
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00:26:21.680 --> 00:26:25.350
Abdullah Sayed says that anybody who fears political Islam is a bigot.
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Really?
806
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I,
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I mean,
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00:26:28.580 --> 00:26:30.930
this month in Turkey alone.
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The Islamist government launched an operation that it literally named
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My Family is Safe.
811
00:26:37.340 --> 00:26:38.340
Doesn't that sound cute?
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And prosecutors went after 162 people
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from 9 LGBTQ
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organizations and 13 businesses,
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so police there
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raided homes
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and bars in the middle of the night.
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Dragged gays into buses
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and locked people up under the banner of protecting children in the family.
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00:26:59.220 --> 00:27:00.000
Nice.
821
00:27:00.330 --> 00:27:01.070
This same month,
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00:27:01.220 --> 00:27:02.620
but Queers for Palestine,
823
00:27:02.850 --> 00:27:03.920
this same month
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across the globe,
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dozens
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of Islamist terror attacks from Nigeria
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to Pakistan unfolded,
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including a suicide bombing and a siege at
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a police compound in Kohat that slaughtered dozens.
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00:27:16.610 --> 00:27:19.490
There was one that just got thwarted this past weekend in the UK.
831
00:27:20.530 --> 00:27:25.080
And who makes up the majority of victims in these terrorist attacks?
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Other
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Muslims.
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Peaceful Muslims who were killed for refusing to bow to a medieval theocratic boot,
835
00:27:33.790 --> 00:27:33.800
right,
836
00:27:33.950 --> 00:27:34.180
I mean,
837
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opposing that is sanity,
838
00:27:35.630 --> 00:27:35.790
but I,
839
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I never hear you talk about it,
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00:27:37.150 --> 00:27:38.330
Abdul Al Sayed.
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00:27:38.630 --> 00:27:39.970
You never point that out,
842
00:27:40.270 --> 00:27:41.210
and I think it's a pretty
843
00:27:41.350 --> 00:27:44.660
rational rejection of an authoritarian ideology that
844
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criminalizes gay people,
845
00:27:46.830 --> 00:27:51.580
that strips women of basic rights and crushes dissent with state violence.
846
00:27:52.260 --> 00:27:52.650
But I,
847
00:27:52.860 --> 00:27:53.210
but I wanna,
848
00:27:53.260 --> 00:27:54.120
I wanna look at
849
00:27:54.250 --> 00:27:55.210
Abdullah El Sayed.
850
00:27:55.260 --> 00:27:56.490
I wanna look at you
851
00:27:56.780 --> 00:27:57.290
in particular,
852
00:27:57.420 --> 00:27:57.540
right?
853
00:27:57.620 --> 00:27:57.910
Because
854
00:27:58.210 --> 00:27:59.440
which form of
855
00:28:00.060 --> 00:28:01.720
Islam do you practice?
856
00:28:01.790 --> 00:28:03.240
You defend Sharia.
857
00:28:03.460 --> 00:28:06.850
You gave a speech comparing a state ban on Sharia,
858
00:28:07.110 --> 00:28:07.250
right?
859
00:28:07.300 --> 00:28:09.240
You compared it to the Trail of Tears
860
00:28:09.380 --> 00:28:11.200
and the Oklahoma City bombing.
861
00:28:11.590 --> 00:28:12.040
So,
862
00:28:12.340 --> 00:28:12.690
OK.
863
00:28:13.030 --> 00:28:16.420
Let's be honest about what strict Sharia codes dictate around the world right now.
864
00:28:16.630 --> 00:28:19.700
A woman's testimony in court is worth half of a man's.
865
00:28:20.030 --> 00:28:22.010
Her inheritance is cut in half.
866
00:28:22.230 --> 00:28:25.100
A male guardian controls where she can go.
867
00:28:25.430 --> 00:28:28.020
Polygamy is written into the law.
868
00:28:28.930 --> 00:28:31.560
How does a self-described progressive look a woman in the eye
869
00:28:31.560 --> 00:28:34.830
and defend a legal system that makes her a second-class citizen?
870
00:28:35.650 --> 00:28:36.050
I mean,
871
00:28:36.410 --> 00:28:38.250
let's look at the circle around you.
872
00:28:38.650 --> 00:28:43.410
Your half sister posted an anniversary blessing for October 7th,
873
00:28:43.730 --> 00:28:44.790
celebrating the
874
00:28:45.050 --> 00:28:46.320
murder of Israelis.
875
00:28:46.570 --> 00:28:47.700
Your father-in-law
876
00:28:47.850 --> 00:28:49.650
is a top donor to your PAC,
877
00:28:49.950 --> 00:28:50.080
right?
878
00:28:50.130 --> 00:28:52.990
And this guy served in leadership roles at CARE Michigan.
879
00:28:53.450 --> 00:28:56.510
This organization has been tied repeatedly
880
00:28:56.640 --> 00:28:59.490
to the Holy Land Foundation terror financing case,
881
00:28:59.730 --> 00:29:02.200
which is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.
882
00:29:02.770 --> 00:29:04.080
That's an organization
883
00:29:04.330 --> 00:29:05.360
that Saudi Arabia,
884
00:29:05.490 --> 00:29:06.080
the UAE,
885
00:29:06.210 --> 00:29:06.520
Egypt,
886
00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:08.590
Bahrain have all outlawed
887
00:29:08.690 --> 00:29:10.470
as a terrorist group.
888
00:29:10.770 --> 00:29:11.750
Muslim countries.
889
00:29:11.970 --> 00:29:12.770
Your mother
890
00:29:13.030 --> 00:29:15.190
worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency,
891
00:29:15.410 --> 00:29:17.480
which is an outfit the US Treasury later shut
892
00:29:17.480 --> 00:29:20.620
down and designated as a terror organization for funneling
893
00:29:20.800 --> 00:29:23.590
money to international terrorists.
894
00:29:24.070 --> 00:29:24.730
Every
895
00:29:24.930 --> 00:29:25.970
word of this
896
00:29:26.210 --> 00:29:27.190
is on the record,
897
00:29:27.450 --> 00:29:27.780
so.
898
00:29:28.830 --> 00:29:29.190
Abdul,
899
00:29:29.320 --> 00:29:30.170
if I've gotten
900
00:29:30.410 --> 00:29:31.940
one detail of this wrong,
901
00:29:32.870 --> 00:29:33.530
I'm gonna,
902
00:29:34.030 --> 00:29:35.740
here's an invitation to come on my show.
903
00:29:35.950 --> 00:29:37.720
Come sit down with me face to face.
904
00:29:37.830 --> 00:29:39.570
Let's have an honest conversation
905
00:29:39.750 --> 00:29:41.170
about the difference between
906
00:29:41.330 --> 00:29:42.280
religious freedom
907
00:29:42.430 --> 00:29:43.940
and political Islam.
908
00:29:44.070 --> 00:29:45.070
And by the way,
909
00:29:45.270 --> 00:29:47.700
I did not forget that your good homie.
910
00:29:48.330 --> 00:29:49.450
Hassan Piker
911
00:29:49.680 --> 00:29:51.270
said America deserved 9/11,
912
00:29:51.450 --> 00:29:51.920
so
913
00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:53.090
where are we getting it wrong,
914
00:29:53.170 --> 00:29:53.680
bro?
915
00:29:53.930 --> 00:29:55.440
Come and sit down and tell me,
916
00:29:55.560 --> 00:29:56.910
come whoop my ass.
917
00:29:56.970 --> 00:29:59.010
I would love to get my ass whooped by you
918
00:29:59.370 --> 00:29:59.710
because
919
00:30:00.130 --> 00:30:01.130
if I'm getting this wrong,
920
00:30:01.250 --> 00:30:03.130
it would sure make me sleep better at night.
921
00:30:03.410 --> 00:30:04.310
So I'm gonna say
922
00:30:04.450 --> 00:30:06.160
I would love to be getting this wrong.
923
00:30:07.300 --> 00:30:08.170
We track our steps,
924
00:30:08.240 --> 00:30:09.760
we crush our protein goals,
925
00:30:10.020 --> 00:30:13.610
and we prioritize sleep because we want the absolute best for our bodies,
926
00:30:13.710 --> 00:30:13.860
right?
927
00:30:13.940 --> 00:30:15.760
But what about the cleaning products
928
00:30:15.980 --> 00:30:18.370
that we spray around our homes every single day?
929
00:30:18.660 --> 00:30:18.970
Well,
930
00:30:19.180 --> 00:30:20.380
unlike food,
931
00:30:20.900 --> 00:30:23.250
companies that make cleaning products aren't required
932
00:30:23.250 --> 00:30:25.500
to list every ingredient on their labels.
933
00:30:25.780 --> 00:30:26.130
So,
934
00:30:26.540 --> 00:30:28.200
enter branch basics.
935
00:30:28.420 --> 00:30:30.810
They are completely changing the game
936
00:30:30.810 --> 00:30:33.780
here with plant and mineral-based cleaning solutions
937
00:30:34.060 --> 00:30:36.170
that are 100% human safe.
938
00:30:36.410 --> 00:30:37.880
There's no synthetic fillers,
939
00:30:38.130 --> 00:30:39.680
no artificial fragrances,
940
00:30:39.930 --> 00:30:41.480
no hormone disruptors,
941
00:30:41.690 --> 00:30:45.410
which makes them the perfect products for homes with kids,
942
00:30:45.610 --> 00:30:46.160
babies,
943
00:30:46.410 --> 00:30:46.890
pets,
944
00:30:47.050 --> 00:30:47.560
and hey,
945
00:30:47.760 --> 00:30:48.240
guess what?
946
00:30:48.370 --> 00:30:50.070
Your health matters too.
947
00:30:50.370 --> 00:30:50.830
So guys,
948
00:30:50.980 --> 00:30:53.160
Branch Basics is available at Target,
949
00:30:53.390 --> 00:30:54.270
Target.com,
950
00:30:54.660 --> 00:30:55.270
Amazon,
951
00:30:55.410 --> 00:30:56.610
and Branch Basics.
952
00:30:56.870 --> 00:30:57.540
Dot com.
953
00:30:57.830 --> 00:30:59.390
And for the home essentials kit,
954
00:30:59.430 --> 00:31:01.330
you're gonna get 15% off
955
00:31:01.470 --> 00:31:04.370
at branchbasics.com/keepingitreal
956
00:31:04.480 --> 00:31:06.010
with code keeping it real.
957
00:31:06.150 --> 00:31:08.250
That's code keeping it real for 15%
958
00:31:08.270 --> 00:31:12.230
off the home essentials kit at branchbasics.com/keepingitreal.
959
00:31:12.430 --> 00:31:13.430
And after you purchase,
960
00:31:13.510 --> 00:31:14.900
when they ask where you heard about them,
961
00:31:15.140 --> 00:31:17.180
please make sure to mention our show.
962
00:31:17.670 --> 00:31:17.860
You know,
963
00:31:17.910 --> 00:31:19.120
it'd be great to have him on the show.
964
00:31:19.210 --> 00:31:20.320
I don't think he will,
965
00:31:20.470 --> 00:31:22.140
but you know who was on our show?
966
00:31:22.510 --> 00:31:23.050
Jake
967
00:31:23.270 --> 00:31:24.780
from the moderate case.
968
00:31:24.910 --> 00:31:26.240
And in our next clip,
969
00:31:26.550 --> 00:31:27.090
Jake,
970
00:31:27.470 --> 00:31:31.230
he takes on James Fishback's claims that AIPAC controls Washington.
971
00:31:31.630 --> 00:31:32.250
So ironically,
972
00:31:32.270 --> 00:31:34.900
it echoes a lot of what we hear from Abdullah El Sayed,
973
00:31:35.190 --> 00:31:37.450
but Jake exposes a glaring hypocrisy
974
00:31:37.710 --> 00:31:40.870
in whose foreign money people choose to ignore.
975
00:31:41.070 --> 00:31:41.690
Take a look.
976
00:31:42.410 --> 00:31:43.000
For a candidate,
977
00:31:43.060 --> 00:31:44.590
I don't care if they're a Democrat
978
00:31:44.810 --> 00:31:46.040
or even a Republican,
979
00:31:46.250 --> 00:31:47.800
if they take money from AIPAC,
980
00:31:47.990 --> 00:31:51.030
they are traitors to this country if they take money from AIPAC.
981
00:31:51.250 --> 00:31:52.530
Their allegiance is to Israel.
982
00:31:53.030 --> 00:31:53.960
United States of America.
983
00:31:54.130 --> 00:31:56.400
Taking money from AIPAC doesn't make you a traitor.
984
00:31:56.570 --> 00:31:56.680
OK,
985
00:31:56.770 --> 00:31:58.270
I don't like lobbying in general,
986
00:31:58.290 --> 00:32:00.330
and I don't like a lot of the decisions that AIPAC makes,
987
00:32:00.410 --> 00:32:02.200
but I also understand that lobbying groups and
988
00:32:02.200 --> 00:32:04.880
PACs make decisions regarding their own interests.
989
00:32:04.970 --> 00:32:05.880
That's constitutional,
990
00:32:05.970 --> 00:32:06.840
whether you like it or not.
991
00:32:06.890 --> 00:32:10.420
But James Fishback can't explain how taking money from AIPAC makes you a traitor.
992
00:32:10.530 --> 00:32:10.740
He
993
00:32:10.890 --> 00:32:12.430
literally cannot verbalize that,
994
00:32:12.450 --> 00:32:13.390
he can't communicate it,
995
00:32:13.410 --> 00:32:14.240
he can't make an argument,
996
00:32:14.370 --> 00:32:15.430
so this is all he does.
997
00:32:15.530 --> 00:32:18.090
But if we use James Fishback's logic and we decide.
998
00:32:18.150 --> 00:32:22.400
How to judge somebody as a political figure based on who they are taking money from,
999
00:32:22.530 --> 00:32:25.040
then it's only fair that we look at James Fishbach's donors,
1000
00:32:25.170 --> 00:32:25.340
right?
1001
00:32:25.490 --> 00:32:25.560
Well,
1002
00:32:25.650 --> 00:32:27.280
those would include Mohammad Mubarak,
1003
00:32:27.410 --> 00:32:31.000
who is CAIRE's Florida director and the former director of CAIR Hassan Shibli.
1004
00:32:31.130 --> 00:32:33.280
Mohammad Mubarak also funded Rashida Talib,
1005
00:32:33.300 --> 00:32:33.910
Ilhan Omar,
1006
00:32:33.930 --> 00:32:34.760
and Abdullah Al Sayed.
1007
00:32:34.930 --> 00:32:37.200
Shibli regularly donated to Ilhan Omar and
1008
00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:39.000
said that opposing American funding for Israel's
1009
00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:43.120
military campaign in Gaza was the main reason that he supported James Fishback.
1010
00:32:43.360 --> 00:32:45.710
So it has nothing to do with him being an American first
1011
00:32:45.710 --> 00:32:48.700
conservative and everything to do with these people not liking Israel.
1012
00:32:48.790 --> 00:32:51.340
So the current and former leader for the Council of American
1013
00:32:51.340 --> 00:32:55.490
Islamic Relations in Florida is giving money to a conservative James
1014
00:32:55.490 --> 00:32:58.900
Fishbach simply because they don't like Israel while they give money
1015
00:32:58.900 --> 00:33:02.820
to people who are antithetically opposed to conservatism like Rashida Talib,
1016
00:33:02.870 --> 00:33:03.460
Ilhan Omar,
1017
00:33:03.480 --> 00:33:04.550
and Abdul El Sayed.
1018
00:33:04.590 --> 00:33:07.540
Fishbach's donors also include Yassin Saad Ramzi
1019
00:33:07.540 --> 00:33:10.060
Dallah Salah Nafal and Yamad El Ebeid.
1020
00:33:10.110 --> 00:33:12.620
They have all also donated to Rashida Talib.
1021
00:33:12.840 --> 00:33:14.460
We also have Nabil Hamoy,
1022
00:33:14.590 --> 00:33:17.140
who gave James Fish back $3000 after he
1023
00:33:17.140 --> 00:33:19.980
maxed out his contributions to Abdullah El Sayed.
1024
00:33:20.090 --> 00:33:20.250
You know,
1025
00:33:20.270 --> 00:33:23.260
the guy who's best friends with the communist Sussan Piker,
1026
00:33:23.310 --> 00:33:24.410
who hates the United States,
1027
00:33:24.550 --> 00:33:25.980
who said that America deserved 9/11,
1028
00:33:26.010 --> 00:33:27.500
the capitalists should be killed in our streets.
1029
00:33:27.590 --> 00:33:27.660
Yeah,
1030
00:33:27.830 --> 00:33:28.340
we have more.
1031
00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:29.180
Ahmad Khan,
1032
00:33:29.230 --> 00:33:31.420
he is a longtime Clinton family associate
1033
00:33:31.420 --> 00:33:33.900
whose previous donations included Barack Obama,
1034
00:33:34.070 --> 00:33:34.620
Joe Biden,
1035
00:33:34.790 --> 00:33:36.620
and the Democratic National Committee.
1036
00:33:36.710 --> 00:33:36.780
Now,
1037
00:33:36.810 --> 00:33:39.100
aside from individual donors who you have a plethora of,
1038
00:33:39.150 --> 00:33:40.710
you also have the Florida First PAC,
1039
00:33:40.750 --> 00:33:42.190
which received $35,000.
1040
00:33:42.350 --> 00:33:44.100
Dollars from Farah and Farah.
1041
00:33:44.240 --> 00:33:46.650
Now that's a firm whose founding partner is Eddie Farah,
1042
00:33:46.710 --> 00:33:49.980
who also separately contributed to Rasheeda Talib and Cornel West.
1043
00:33:50.070 --> 00:33:52.730
There's also a man named Bassem Ali who also
1044
00:33:52.750 --> 00:33:56.300
gave that PAC $5000 and also funded Rasheeda Talib,
1045
00:33:56.430 --> 00:33:56.580
who,
1046
00:33:56.680 --> 00:33:56.980
by the way,
1047
00:33:57.070 --> 00:33:58.180
if I haven't mentioned it yet,
1048
00:33:58.310 --> 00:34:01.620
James Fishbach literally called her a Muslim terrorist.
1049
00:34:01.750 --> 00:34:03.700
So what you have here is a clear overlap between
1050
00:34:03.700 --> 00:34:05.820
James Fishbach's fundraising and donors
1051
00:34:05.820 --> 00:34:08.260
and supporters of progressive politicians.
1052
00:34:08.389 --> 00:34:09.420
So what's my point here?
1053
00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:11.750
My point is that supporting Israel in and of itself.
1054
00:34:11.800 --> 00:34:13.900
Does not establish disloyalty to America.
1055
00:34:13.989 --> 00:34:15.380
That is a ridiculous claim to make,
1056
00:34:15.469 --> 00:34:17.090
and he can't explain how that's the case.
1057
00:34:17.190 --> 00:34:18.020
That's why he doesn't.
1058
00:34:18.110 --> 00:34:20.100
And if we're gonna use James Fishback's own logic,
1059
00:34:20.170 --> 00:34:22.330
then we're gonna have to be of the belief that you are to be
1060
00:34:22.350 --> 00:34:25.230
judged by the people who fund you and who you are connected to.
1061
00:34:25.310 --> 00:34:26.850
And when you look at those who are funding
1062
00:34:26.850 --> 00:34:30.080
James Fishback and the politicians whom those people fund,
1063
00:34:30.389 --> 00:34:30.610
support,
1064
00:34:30.650 --> 00:34:32.130
and back in their policies,
1065
00:34:32.270 --> 00:34:34.500
this guy should probably keep his mouth shut.
1066
00:34:34.840 --> 00:34:35.760
I had a belief.
1067
00:34:36.110 --> 00:34:36.300
Guys,
1068
00:34:36.350 --> 00:34:38.290
if you are not following Jake,
1069
00:34:38.550 --> 00:34:40.100
his accounts are at the moderate case,
1070
00:34:40.190 --> 00:34:41.179
you need to be.
1071
00:34:41.670 --> 00:34:42.000
So,
1072
00:34:42.110 --> 00:34:45.190
let me be clear first about where I stand before I say anything else.
1073
00:34:45.230 --> 00:34:46.739
I hate lobbying.
1074
00:34:47.300 --> 00:34:49.300
I actually think it's one of the main reasons
1075
00:34:49.300 --> 00:34:52.170
our government is so screwed up across the board,
1076
00:34:52.429 --> 00:34:52.610
right?
1077
00:34:52.840 --> 00:34:55.020
The military industrial complex buys wars,
1078
00:34:55.270 --> 00:34:56.659
the drug companies buy the FDA,
1079
00:34:56.750 --> 00:34:57.940
the insurance companies,
1080
00:34:58.110 --> 00:34:58.940
the food giants,
1081
00:34:58.990 --> 00:34:59.940
the ad conglomerates,
1082
00:34:59.990 --> 00:35:01.250
they all own
1083
00:35:01.510 --> 00:35:02.740
a piece of Washington.
1084
00:35:02.830 --> 00:35:04.980
I've spent my entire career saying so,
1085
00:35:05.310 --> 00:35:07.910
so you can't accuse me of going soft on lobbying,
1086
00:35:08.030 --> 00:35:08.500
but
1087
00:35:08.790 --> 00:35:12.090
if we're gonna talk about who's actually buying our politicians,
1088
00:35:12.550 --> 00:35:13.750
APEC is a pretty.
1089
00:35:13.790 --> 00:35:15.130
Puny player.
1090
00:35:15.460 --> 00:35:15.790
So
1091
00:35:15.940 --> 00:35:16.850
as Jake said,
1092
00:35:17.100 --> 00:35:21.170
APEC gets treated like it's some unique force in American politics,
1093
00:35:21.380 --> 00:35:23.370
but it's obviously not unusual.
1094
00:35:23.660 --> 00:35:24.320
Irish Americans,
1095
00:35:24.420 --> 00:35:24.930
Cuban Americans,
1096
00:35:24.980 --> 00:35:25.650
Armenian Americans,
1097
00:35:25.900 --> 00:35:26.570
Indian Americans,
1098
00:35:26.670 --> 00:35:27.250
Greek Americans,
1099
00:35:27.420 --> 00:35:27.990
dozens,
1100
00:35:28.440 --> 00:35:29.370
this is so ridiculous,
1101
00:35:29.620 --> 00:35:30.370
dozens
1102
00:35:30.700 --> 00:35:32.320
of immigrant communities
1103
00:35:32.500 --> 00:35:35.840
have built their own lobbies to shape how America treats
1104
00:35:35.980 --> 00:35:36.960
the old country,
1105
00:35:37.210 --> 00:35:38.180
their home country.
1106
00:35:38.300 --> 00:35:40.370
This has been going on for 100 years.
1107
00:35:40.840 --> 00:35:42.870
So where does AIPAC actually rank?
1108
00:35:42.990 --> 00:35:43.280
Well,
1109
00:35:43.680 --> 00:35:45.480
on official federal lobbying,
1110
00:35:45.680 --> 00:35:48.870
the lobbyists sitting down with lawmakers over bills and aid packages.
1111
00:35:49.220 --> 00:35:49.970
APAC
1112
00:35:50.470 --> 00:35:52.380
spends about 3 million bucks a year.
1113
00:35:53.260 --> 00:35:55.280
Which puts it around
1114
00:35:55.500 --> 00:35:59.170
190 on the list of Washington lobbying spenders.
1115
00:35:59.700 --> 00:36:00.880
Number 190,
1116
00:36:01.220 --> 00:36:03.830
the realtors association spends over 80 million.
1117
00:36:03.910 --> 00:36:06.400
The Chamber of Commerce spends over 50 million.
1118
00:36:06.500 --> 00:36:08.770
The drug lobby spends close to 30 million.
1119
00:36:08.980 --> 00:36:14.270
The people who sell you your house outspend the Israel lobby 25 to 1.
1120
00:36:14.850 --> 00:36:16.950
And before somebody in the comments brings it up,
1121
00:36:17.090 --> 00:36:17.440
yes,
1122
00:36:17.770 --> 00:36:19.400
APEC does have a super PAC
1123
00:36:19.610 --> 00:36:23.120
that did spend about 100 million bucks in the 2024 primaries,
1124
00:36:23.140 --> 00:36:25.450
and it sounds like a freaking lot of money
1125
00:36:26.050 --> 00:36:28.120
until you compare it to everybody
1126
00:36:28.320 --> 00:36:29.080
else.
1127
00:36:29.450 --> 00:36:32.800
The crypto industry super PAC spent more than that in the same cycle.
1128
00:36:32.930 --> 00:36:35.400
Elon Musk's PAC spent more than double that.
1129
00:36:35.610 --> 00:36:36.440
The food industry,
1130
00:36:36.530 --> 00:36:37.930
the agriculture industry,
1131
00:36:38.170 --> 00:36:38.530
Tyson,
1132
00:36:38.610 --> 00:36:39.040
PepsiCo,
1133
00:36:39.130 --> 00:36:39.520
Big Sugar,
1134
00:36:39.610 --> 00:36:40.590
the whole group.
1135
00:36:41.120 --> 00:36:41.630
Put in
1136
00:36:41.910 --> 00:36:44.280
far more than that in 2024.
1137
00:36:44.700 --> 00:36:45.020
OK,
1138
00:36:45.310 --> 00:36:46.470
the drug industry
1139
00:36:46.670 --> 00:36:50.940
spent almost $300 million on lobbying in 2024 alone,
1140
00:36:51.310 --> 00:36:54.530
on top of roughly $42 million in campaign checks
1141
00:36:54.660 --> 00:36:56.220
to sitting members of Congress.
1142
00:36:56.920 --> 00:36:58.350
Is APAC's election money real?
1143
00:36:58.400 --> 00:36:58.670
Yeah,
1144
00:36:58.880 --> 00:37:00.100
it's also ordinary.
1145
00:37:00.280 --> 00:37:02.940
And here's the part that never makes their segments,
1146
00:37:03.160 --> 00:37:05.610
the part that James Fishback and the people like him
1147
00:37:05.920 --> 00:37:07.200
never mention.
1148
00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:09.500
Compare what Israel spends on influence in this
1149
00:37:09.520 --> 00:37:11.830
country to what the Gulf states spend.
1150
00:37:12.100 --> 00:37:12.670
Qatar,
1151
00:37:13.020 --> 00:37:13.830
Saudi Arabia,
1152
00:37:13.960 --> 00:37:15.980
and UAE together
1153
00:37:16.490 --> 00:37:20.190
spend 4 times what Israel does lobbying our politicians,
1154
00:37:20.440 --> 00:37:23.790
and in the universities where the real long game gets played.
1155
00:37:24.620 --> 00:37:25.600
The Gulf states
1156
00:37:25.780 --> 00:37:29.390
have poured in close to $10
1157
00:37:29.660 --> 00:37:30.570
billion.
1158
00:37:31.100 --> 00:37:31.730
Israel,
1159
00:37:32.380 --> 00:37:33.590
a couple $100 million.
1160
00:37:34.020 --> 00:37:34.330
That's,
1161
00:37:34.460 --> 00:37:34.810
I don't know,
1162
00:37:34.980 --> 00:37:35.760
somewhere between
1163
00:37:35.990 --> 00:37:39.010
$25.50 to 1.
1164
00:37:39.760 --> 00:37:40.390
So yes,
1165
00:37:40.640 --> 00:37:42.420
I want the money out of politics,
1166
00:37:42.760 --> 00:37:43.380
all of it,
1167
00:37:43.560 --> 00:37:47.650
but if you're losing sleep over foreign influence in America
1168
00:37:47.880 --> 00:37:50.830
and the only name that you can say out loud is APAC,
1169
00:37:51.080 --> 00:37:53.140
you're not actually looking at the money,
1170
00:37:53.280 --> 00:37:54.670
you're looking for a target.
1171
00:37:54.900 --> 00:37:55.410
Period.
1172
00:37:55.630 --> 00:37:56.600
End of story.
1173
00:37:56.980 --> 00:38:00.610
If you want an action movie that actually gives you something to care about,
1174
00:38:00.980 --> 00:38:03.410
put Runner from Angel on your radar.
1175
00:38:03.460 --> 00:38:04.140
This film
1176
00:38:04.540 --> 00:38:07.140
delivers the perfect blend of thrills and emotional depth.
1177
00:38:07.190 --> 00:38:09.770
It stars Alan Richson and Owen Wilson.
1178
00:38:10.110 --> 00:38:11.850
And it's a race against time
1179
00:38:12.030 --> 00:38:15.820
to deliver a life saving liver to a young girl in the hospital.
1180
00:38:15.950 --> 00:38:18.040
The problem is that a dangerous cartel
1181
00:38:18.390 --> 00:38:19.420
wants that same liver,
1182
00:38:19.440 --> 00:38:21.300
and they're gonna do whatever it takes to get it.
1183
00:38:21.550 --> 00:38:22.340
So you've got action,
1184
00:38:22.470 --> 00:38:22.900
suspense,
1185
00:38:23.030 --> 00:38:23.670
adrenaline,
1186
00:38:23.760 --> 00:38:24.890
and a story
1187
00:38:25.030 --> 00:38:26.270
with a whole lot of heart.
1188
00:38:26.630 --> 00:38:29.070
Runner hit theaters September 11th,
1189
00:38:29.270 --> 00:38:31.820
and right now Angel has a special deal going on,
1190
00:38:31.870 --> 00:38:32.060
so you.
1191
00:38:32.180 --> 00:38:33.550
You can join the Angel Guild
1192
00:38:33.730 --> 00:38:36.760
and get free tickets to see it in theaters or
1193
00:38:36.760 --> 00:38:39.470
access to Angel's streaming library filled with incredible movies,
1194
00:38:39.650 --> 00:38:40.350
documentaries,
1195
00:38:40.450 --> 00:38:41.350
and series
1196
00:38:41.770 --> 00:38:42.620
all at home.
1197
00:38:42.820 --> 00:38:43.840
Take advantage of the deal,
1198
00:38:43.970 --> 00:38:44.600
join the guild,
1199
00:38:44.620 --> 00:38:45.640
and go see Runner,
1200
00:38:45.690 --> 00:38:47.880
where a high stakes action movie belongs
1201
00:38:48.130 --> 00:38:49.300
on the big screen or,
1202
00:38:49.320 --> 00:38:49.760
as I said,
1203
00:38:49.810 --> 00:38:51.200
in the comfort of your own home.
1204
00:38:51.370 --> 00:38:54.240
Head to angel.com/Jillian to join.
1205
00:38:54.730 --> 00:38:56.570
Following that theme of double standards,
1206
00:38:56.730 --> 00:38:57.480
here's a raw,
1207
00:38:57.610 --> 00:39:00.400
desperate plea out of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
1208
00:39:00.650 --> 00:39:02.220
A woman calls out the global
1209
00:39:02.370 --> 00:39:03.740
activist crowd by name,
1210
00:39:03.940 --> 00:39:08.390
asking why the massive protests mobilized for Palestine completely vanish
1211
00:39:08.490 --> 00:39:11.800
when the Congolese women and children are facing mass slaughter.
1212
00:39:12.090 --> 00:39:12.360
Guys,
1213
00:39:12.410 --> 00:39:13.330
can we throw in
1214
00:39:13.700 --> 00:39:14.500
SOP 8?
1215
00:39:15.260 --> 00:39:16.810
Where is the outrage?
1216
00:39:16.980 --> 00:39:18.090
Where are the protests,
1217
00:39:18.180 --> 00:39:18.810
the rallies,
1218
00:39:18.900 --> 00:39:19.330
the march,
1219
00:39:19.420 --> 00:39:19.900
the chants,
1220
00:39:19.980 --> 00:39:20.490
the songs,
1221
00:39:20.580 --> 00:39:24.650
the fundraisers for the lives that are being taken every day in Congo?
1222
00:39:24.820 --> 00:39:26.330
Over 1 million displaced,
1223
00:39:26.420 --> 00:39:27.690
24 million starved,
1224
00:39:27.740 --> 00:39:30.370
6 million battling severe malnutrition.
1225
00:39:30.570 --> 00:39:32.210
Over 7 million dead.
1226
00:39:32.380 --> 00:39:35.770
Where is the attention for the millions of lives affected in Congo?
1227
00:39:35.940 --> 00:39:39.490
Where is the support for the children dying every day from malnutrition?
1228
00:39:39.660 --> 00:39:40.280
Where is the
1229
00:39:40.610 --> 00:39:44.720
for the women and girls getting sexually assaulted every single day.
1230
00:39:44.890 --> 00:39:47.950
Where are the songs and chants for the little boys whose
1231
00:39:47.970 --> 00:39:51.030
childhoods are stolen so they could serve as child soldiers?
1232
00:39:51.170 --> 00:39:52.520
Where is the outrage?
1233
00:39:52.690 --> 00:39:53.740
Where are the protests,
1234
00:39:53.850 --> 00:39:54.480
the rallies,
1235
00:39:54.570 --> 00:39:55.000
the march,
1236
00:39:55.090 --> 00:39:55.520
the chants,
1237
00:39:55.570 --> 00:39:56.040
the songs,
1238
00:39:56.090 --> 00:39:57.270
the fundraisers?
1239
00:39:57.410 --> 00:39:58.960
Your silence is deafening.
1240
00:39:59.090 --> 00:40:00.520
Your silence is loud.
1241
00:40:00.610 --> 00:40:02.080
Your outrage is selective.
1242
00:40:02.130 --> 00:40:04.320
Your advocacy is behind the paywall.
1243
00:40:04.610 --> 00:40:09.070
Did you know the one in 10 kids in Congo will pass away before their 5th birthday.
1244
00:40:09.200 --> 00:40:12.550
Are you aware that women are being force fed human flesh?
1245
00:40:12.720 --> 00:40:16.430
Are you aware that little girls become mothers before their sweets gets thin?
1246
00:40:16.600 --> 00:40:19.900
Are you aware that Congo is nicknamed the capital of the world?
1247
00:40:20.040 --> 00:40:21.390
Where is your outrage?
1248
00:40:21.600 --> 00:40:22.870
Where is your anger?
1249
00:40:23.120 --> 00:40:26.430
What did the children of Congo do to deserve the cold shoulder?
1250
00:40:26.640 --> 00:40:30.750
What crime against humanity did they commit to deserve this silent treatment?
1251
00:40:30.960 --> 00:40:31.200
What?
1252
00:40:31.240 --> 00:40:32.710
Crime have they committed
1253
00:40:32.820 --> 00:40:34.820
to deserve this silent treatment?
1254
00:40:35.030 --> 00:40:37.700
Where are the posters for Stand with Congo,
1255
00:40:37.830 --> 00:40:39.340
the moment of silence,
1256
00:40:39.630 --> 00:40:40.650
or the blackout?
1257
00:40:40.950 --> 00:40:42.580
Haven't we suffered enough?
1258
00:40:42.750 --> 00:40:45.270
How many more before you concede us humans?
1259
00:40:45.390 --> 00:40:47.500
How many more before you stand with us?
1260
00:40:47.750 --> 00:40:49.160
Where is the outrage?
1261
00:40:49.390 --> 00:40:51.100
Your outrage is selective.
1262
00:40:51.230 --> 00:40:54.090
Your advocacy is behind the paywall.
1263
00:40:54.360 --> 00:40:56.380
Where is the outrage for Congo?
1264
00:40:58.860 --> 00:40:59.150
You know,
1265
00:40:59.180 --> 00:41:04.480
watching this woman in the Congo ask where the activists are for her people.
1266
00:41:04.860 --> 00:41:05.440
I was like,
1267
00:41:06.210 --> 00:41:06.650
It's,
1268
00:41:06.690 --> 00:41:07.110
it's
1269
00:41:08.170 --> 00:41:08.840
Heartbreaking
1270
00:41:09.630 --> 00:41:10.650
Because we all know the answer,
1271
00:41:10.870 --> 00:41:11.060
right?
1272
00:41:11.310 --> 00:41:11.650
Like
1273
00:41:11.950 --> 00:41:12.580
they're not coming.
1274
00:41:13.310 --> 00:41:15.180
And she deserves to know why,
1275
00:41:15.590 --> 00:41:17.700
because the Free Palestine crowd has convinced
1276
00:41:17.700 --> 00:41:20.160
a lot of well-meaning people that Gaza
1277
00:41:20.350 --> 00:41:22.820
is the only atrocity on earth.
1278
00:41:23.270 --> 00:41:23.670
So
1279
00:41:23.790 --> 00:41:27.100
let me give you guys a list of what's been going on for years,
1280
00:41:27.310 --> 00:41:29.090
with almost nobody marching for it.
1281
00:41:29.830 --> 00:41:31.170
Christians in Nigeria,
1282
00:41:31.300 --> 00:41:33.850
thousands killed every year by Islamist militias.
1283
00:41:33.990 --> 00:41:34.690
Villages burned,
1284
00:41:34.900 --> 00:41:37.520
churches attacked on Christmas morning for over a decade.
1285
00:41:37.940 --> 00:41:38.600
The Hazara,
1286
00:41:38.660 --> 00:41:40.330
Shia Muslims in Afghanistan,
1287
00:41:40.520 --> 00:41:41.810
ISIS bombs their mosques,
1288
00:41:41.900 --> 00:41:42.330
their schools,
1289
00:41:42.380 --> 00:41:43.690
their maternity wards.
1290
00:41:43.900 --> 00:41:46.730
The Taliban treats them as less than human.
1291
00:41:47.060 --> 00:41:48.220
The Druzes in Syria,
1292
00:41:48.460 --> 00:41:49.100
hundreds,
1293
00:41:49.300 --> 00:41:51.970
hundreds last year were massacred in a matter of days.
1294
00:41:52.100 --> 00:41:53.330
That didn't make the news.
1295
00:41:53.700 --> 00:41:55.320
The Rohingya in Myanmar,
1296
00:41:55.540 --> 00:41:55.700
uh,
1297
00:41:55.980 --> 00:41:57.490
in 2017,
1298
00:41:57.700 --> 00:41:59.000
the military drove more than.
1299
00:41:59.200 --> 00:42:02.650
700,000 of them out of the country with rape and mass killing.
1300
00:42:02.830 --> 00:42:04.140
The Uyghurs in China,
1301
00:42:04.430 --> 00:42:08.250
more than a million people in labor camps.
1302
00:42:08.730 --> 00:42:10.820
Their organs are being sold.
1303
00:42:11.350 --> 00:42:13.520
They're being sterilized.
1304
00:42:14.030 --> 00:42:15.420
Hideous atrocities.
1305
00:42:15.630 --> 00:42:16.680
And then there's Congo,
1306
00:42:16.870 --> 00:42:18.180
where this woman lives.
1307
00:42:18.460 --> 00:42:19.070
Millions
1308
00:42:19.630 --> 00:42:21.340
dead over decades of war.
1309
00:42:21.550 --> 00:42:22.380
7 million people,
1310
00:42:22.470 --> 00:42:23.260
as you just mentioned,
1311
00:42:23.430 --> 00:42:24.660
driven from their homes.
1312
00:42:25.680 --> 00:42:26.860
I don't expect
1313
00:42:27.120 --> 00:42:28.140
anybody to know this,
1314
00:42:28.280 --> 00:42:28.440
right?
1315
00:42:28.520 --> 00:42:30.070
Or to have the bandwidth to fight it.
1316
00:42:30.250 --> 00:42:30.910
People are working,
1317
00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:31.670
they're raising kids,
1318
00:42:31.720 --> 00:42:33.020
they're trying to make rent.
1319
00:42:33.320 --> 00:42:34.470
These places are far away.
1320
00:42:34.560 --> 00:42:36.350
There's no footage of this on your feed.
1321
00:42:36.480 --> 00:42:37.870
We've got problems at home.
1322
00:42:38.120 --> 00:42:40.460
There's not much you can personally do about it,
1323
00:42:40.800 --> 00:42:41.300
and
1324
00:42:41.480 --> 00:42:43.530
that is a normal human
1325
00:42:43.660 --> 00:42:44.070
limit.
1326
00:42:44.120 --> 00:42:45.950
I'm not shaming anybody
1327
00:42:46.190 --> 00:42:46.950
for not knowing this,
1328
00:42:47.040 --> 00:42:48.460
for not taking it on,
1329
00:42:48.870 --> 00:42:49.140
you know,
1330
00:42:49.200 --> 00:42:49.700
I'm
1331
00:42:50.080 --> 00:42:52.630
aware of it because I have the luxury of being aware of it,
1332
00:42:52.650 --> 00:42:54.780
and what I mean is that I have the money.
1333
00:42:55.370 --> 00:42:57.550
To address it and I have the time
1334
00:42:57.770 --> 00:42:58.830
to understand it,
1335
00:42:59.010 --> 00:42:59.200
and,
1336
00:42:59.250 --> 00:43:00.560
and I'm being literal.
1337
00:43:00.730 --> 00:43:01.480
In 2019,
1338
00:43:01.610 --> 00:43:02.300
right before COVID,
1339
00:43:02.330 --> 00:43:04.490
I actually tried to raise awareness
1340
00:43:04.850 --> 00:43:09.000
for this exact situation in Congo as well as the civil war in South Sudan,
1341
00:43:09.090 --> 00:43:11.080
where 400,000 people had just died.
1342
00:43:11.130 --> 00:43:12.030
I went over there,
1343
00:43:12.250 --> 00:43:13.850
I stayed in a refugee camp.
1344
00:43:14.070 --> 00:43:16.320
I started a fundraising campaign,
1345
00:43:16.370 --> 00:43:17.150
and guess what?
1346
00:43:17.730 --> 00:43:19.410
I couldn't get one
1347
00:43:20.010 --> 00:43:23.630
media outlet to pick up the story or one celebrity
1348
00:43:23.890 --> 00:43:24.710
to join me.
1349
00:43:25.390 --> 00:43:27.220
To march in solidarity,
1350
00:43:27.350 --> 00:43:28.460
to make a donation,
1351
00:43:28.550 --> 00:43:29.220
in fact,
1352
00:43:29.430 --> 00:43:32.010
the only people who cared were you guys,
1353
00:43:32.390 --> 00:43:35.250
who showed up and walked with me in a sponsored walkathon
1354
00:43:35.710 --> 00:43:36.930
to raise money for people
1355
00:43:37.050 --> 00:43:38.020
you never met.
1356
00:43:38.810 --> 00:43:41.030
And I've actually never forgotten that.
1357
00:43:41.530 --> 00:43:41.950
So,
1358
00:43:42.570 --> 00:43:44.360
explain to me how this one conflict,
1359
00:43:44.490 --> 00:43:44.920
Gaza,
1360
00:43:45.010 --> 00:43:46.080
takes over our media,
1361
00:43:46.210 --> 00:43:46.930
our campuses,
1362
00:43:47.050 --> 00:43:48.030
our politics,
1363
00:43:48.530 --> 00:43:52.560
when nothing else that I just mentioned can get a single news segment.
1364
00:43:53.440 --> 00:43:54.340
Here's what it tells you
1365
00:43:55.420 --> 00:43:57.770
If the agenda were about protecting people,
1366
00:43:57.900 --> 00:44:00.640
these activists would care about all people.
1367
00:44:00.780 --> 00:44:01.370
They don't.
1368
00:44:02.230 --> 00:44:03.660
So the agenda is something else,
1369
00:44:03.750 --> 00:44:05.470
and I just walked you through what it is.
1370
00:44:05.630 --> 00:44:08.050
The Gulf states spend billions on our universities
1371
00:44:08.050 --> 00:44:09.860
and hundreds of millions on our politicians,
1372
00:44:09.910 --> 00:44:11.230
and when you buy the campus
1373
00:44:11.390 --> 00:44:12.730
and you buy the politician,
1374
00:44:12.990 --> 00:44:14.100
you buy the attention.
1375
00:44:14.150 --> 00:44:18.230
And this is why a college kid will take to the streets over Gaza
1376
00:44:18.510 --> 00:44:20.090
but has no idea
1377
00:44:20.260 --> 00:44:21.600
what's happening in China,
1378
00:44:21.830 --> 00:44:23.010
what's happening in Syria,
1379
00:44:23.150 --> 00:44:24.300
what's happening in Congo,
1380
00:44:24.430 --> 00:44:25.940
what's happening in South Sudan.
1381
00:44:26.720 --> 00:44:28.430
So to the young woman in the Congo,
1382
00:44:28.480 --> 00:44:30.630
I am so sorry because you are right,
1383
00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:32.660
these activists are not coming
1384
00:44:32.920 --> 00:44:34.950
and it's because nobody paid them to.
1385
00:44:35.790 --> 00:44:37.050
But I want you to know
1386
00:44:37.230 --> 00:44:38.420
that some of us see you,
1387
00:44:38.510 --> 00:44:40.200
you're not invisible to everyone.
1388
00:44:40.630 --> 00:44:41.630
And I promise you this,
1389
00:44:41.710 --> 00:44:43.400
as long as I have a microphone,
1390
00:44:43.950 --> 00:44:45.370
I'm gonna keep talking about it.
1391
00:44:45.750 --> 00:44:47.010
I'm gonna keep visiting,
1392
00:44:47.270 --> 00:44:48.730
I'm gonna keep donating,
1393
00:44:49.060 --> 00:44:50.730
and we are all gonna keep saying
1394
00:44:50.910 --> 00:44:51.570
your name.
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