บทถอดความฉบับเต็มของ Taking a stand

--> 00:02:23.240 He's not going to intimidate me in the United States 34 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:26.539 of America like he tries to intimidate political prisoners. 35 00:02:26.680 --> 00:02:29.509 And I'll ask everybody to go back to their delegations. 36 00:02:29.530 --> 00:02:32.069 And I'm the representative of the United States of America. 37 00:02:32.169 --> 00:02:32.590 Back up! 38 00:02:34.219 --> 00:02:35.539 Back up, Ambassador. 39 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:39.789 Back away. This isn't Havana. I'm suspending the meeting. You're 40 00:02:39.810 --> 00:02:40.550 not going to intimidate me. 41 00:02:40.590 --> 00:02:41.469 I'm suspending this meeting. 42 00:02:41.490 --> 00:02:43.129 Do you understand who you're dealing with? 43 00:02:43.590 --> 00:02:44.770 This is America. 44 00:02:45.050 --> 00:02:50.360 Back up. The rule is clear. Unbelievable. Now here's Waltz 45 00:02:50.439 --> 00:02:52.460 on Hannity last night explaining what happened. 46 00:02:53.099 --> 00:02:56.979 Just before I came on tonight, Secretary Rubio signed the 47 00:02:57.039 --> 00:03:01.620 paperwork to eject the diplomat that thought he could, the 48 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:06.250 Cuban diplomat, the first secretary of their delegation, who shoved 49 00:03:06.849 --> 00:03:10.909 and tried to assault one of our American diplomats. 50 00:03:11.629 --> 00:03:12.210 He's gone. 51 00:03:12.770 --> 00:03:15.270 He is going to be on a plane to Havana 52 00:03:15.789 --> 00:03:18.909 within the next 24 hours. You lay a hand on 53 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:23.500 an American here in the United States, President Trump, Secretary Rubio, 54 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:26.580 and myself, we're not going to stand for it. 55 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:27.599 There will be consequences. 56 00:03:27.639 --> 00:03:28.939 I've known you for a long time. 57 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:31.840 You're not somebody to mess with. So here's the question. 58 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:36.030 Why would a communist regime feel this bold on American soil? 59 00:03:36.949 --> 00:03:37.090 Well. 60 00:03:37.860 --> 00:03:41.689 Seems it has comrades here. The Democrat Senate nominee in Florida, 61 00:03:41.750 --> 00:03:45.009 Angie Nixon, she's a member of the Democratic Socials of America. 62 00:03:45.250 --> 00:03:47.409 We showed you this last night. This is her on 63 00:03:47.430 --> 00:03:51.710 CBS News. Do you consider that Cuba is a dictatorship? 64 00:03:52.090 --> 00:03:54.210 You know, that is what people have told me. 65 00:03:54.669 --> 00:03:56.349 I have never been to Cuba, and so I will 66 00:03:56.370 --> 00:03:58.680 have to take their word for it. And I know 67 00:03:58.719 --> 00:04:01.639 you're going to go into this, how do I feel. 68 00:04:01.419 --> 00:04:03.620 Things need to be handled with Cuban relations? 69 00:04:04.240 --> 00:04:10.259 Right now, this decades-long failed embargo has yet to change. 70 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:10.710 Over the regime. 71 00:04:11.500 --> 00:04:15.090 Now, apparently she's walking it back, and I'd be embarrassed, too. 72 00:04:15.870 --> 00:04:18.310 But she said it. And in August, the DSA called 73 00:04:18.350 --> 00:04:23.769 Fidel Castro a stalwart symbol of anti-imperialist struggle. Look who's 74 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:27.800 toasting Lula. Cuba's Miguel Diaz-Canal called him THE PRESIDENT OF 75 00:04:27.860 --> 00:04:29.639 THE UNITED STATES. THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. THE 76 00:04:29.810 --> 00:04:32.959 PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 77 00:04:32.990 --> 00:04:36.170 THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. THE PRESIDENT OF THE 78 00:04:36.189 --> 00:04:40.990 UNITED STATES. THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. THE PRESIDENT 79 00:04:41.110 --> 00:05:00.519 OF THE UNITED STATES. ARE CLEAR AND TAKING SHAPE. JOINING 80 00:05:00.540 --> 00:05:03.779 ME NOW, HE'S A SENIOR FELLOW FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE SECURITY 81 00:05:03.800 --> 00:05:07.680 AND MARITIME AFFAIRS AT THE AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE. PETER BROWN, 82 00:05:07.779 --> 00:05:10.889 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE. THIS IS A, 83 00:05:11.939 --> 00:05:13.879 IT'S HARD FOR PEOPLE TO REALIZE HOW MUCH OF A 84 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:16.959 THREAT COMMUNISM, THE TYPE THAT SPREAD IN CUBA, THE TYPE 85 00:05:16.980 --> 00:05:19.660 THAT SPREAD IN PLACES LIKE RUSSIA, THE TYPE THAT SPREAD 86 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:21.750 EVEN IN CHINA, How big of a threat it is 87 00:05:21.769 --> 00:05:23.889 to the United States. We fought it back for decades. 88 00:05:24.269 --> 00:05:27.259 And now it's at our doorstep yet again. And it 89 00:05:27.319 --> 00:05:30.060 seems they feel like they have allies within the United States. Now, 90 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:31.560 this is cause for concern, right? 91 00:05:32.779 --> 00:05:35.100 It absolutely is, David. And thank you for having me 92 00:05:35.139 --> 00:05:35.699 on the show. 93 00:05:36.139 --> 00:05:39.079 The setup was outstanding because I had the opportunity to 94 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:43.139 serve in my 36-year career in the Coast Guard from 95 00:05:43.259 --> 00:05:46.600 President Ronald Reagan through President Donald Trump's first term. 96 00:05:47.459 --> 00:05:50.209 And both of them staunch anti-communist. 97 00:05:50.829 --> 00:05:54.470 And you made a number of excellent points that I 98 00:05:54.529 --> 00:05:56.230 hope that we'll have time to get to them all. 99 00:05:56.730 --> 00:05:57.970 But I want to point. 100 00:05:57.810 --> 00:06:04.269 Out two personnel superpowers of this Trump administration and two 101 00:06:04.370 --> 00:06:06.449 policy superpowers. 102 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:07.500 Of this Trump administration. 103 00:06:07.579 --> 00:06:12.850 On the personnel side, you saw Mike Walz display just 104 00:06:13.029 --> 00:06:17.930 plain straightforward and forceful speaking when that was required of 105 00:06:17.990 --> 00:06:23.269 the situation. And for too long, we've had cabinet secretaries, diplomats, 106

00:06:23.329 --> 00:06:26.490 and leaders who have been unwilling to speak plainly to 107 00:06:26.529 --> 00:06:29.949 the American people and to our friends and adversaries around 108 00:06:29.990 --> 00:06:34.060 the world. And the second personnel superpower, and this is, again, 109 00:06:34.209 --> 00:06:38.810 one that Walt's displayed, is he's not beholden to the 110 00:06:38.889 --> 00:06:41.750 bureaucracy that he needs to change. In his case, the 111 00:06:41.829 --> 00:06:47.360 United Nations. But other senior leaders within the administration did 112 00:06:47.389 --> 00:06:52.100 not come up through the ranks of the bureaucracy that 113 00:06:52.120 --> 00:06:55.139 they need to change. For example, Secretary Rubio at Department 114 00:06:55.180 --> 00:06:58.920 of State. He's not a career foreign service officer. So 115 00:06:59.550 --> 00:07:03.490 those are two superpowers on the personnel side that Mike 116 00:07:03.529 --> 00:07:07.589 Walsh displayed. And then on the policy side, the Western 117 00:07:07.629 --> 00:07:11.230 Hemisphere and the fact that the national security strategy places 118 00:07:11.310 --> 00:07:15.790 the Western Hemisphere as the primary regional priority for the 119 00:07:15.850 --> 00:07:19.209 United States. For too long, the United States has ignored 120 00:07:19.230 --> 00:07:22.610 the Western Hemisphere. And for every nation in the hemisphere, 121 00:07:23.550 --> 00:07:27.329 their relationship with the United States, good or bad, is 122 00:07:27.410 --> 00:07:31.769 their most important relationship. So, for example, for Cuba, it's 123 00:07:31.810 --> 00:07:34.899 not the most important relationship to the United States. But 124 00:07:34.990 --> 00:07:38.970 their antagonism toward the United States is their most important 125 00:07:39.009 --> 00:07:43.730 foreign policy priority. And their mission at the United Nations 126 00:07:44.310 --> 00:07:48.680 is almost Havana. It's a hotbed of Cuban espionage. It's 127 00:07:48.810 --> 00:07:50.660 larger than it ought to be for a country of 128 00:07:50.740 --> 00:07:53.620 its size. And a State Department report from a couple 129 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:57.120 of months ago points out that level of communism that's 130 00:07:57.180 --> 00:07:59.540 in there. And then I'll very briefly touch on the 131 00:07:59.579 --> 00:08:03.949 other policy superpower of the national security strategy, which is 132 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:06.920 that it raises the commercial and economic interests of the 133 00:08:06.980 --> 00:08:11.509 American people to the same level as diplomacy and traditional 134 00:08:11.610 --> 00:08:16.009 military security. No one of them can be complete without 135 00:08:16.050 --> 00:08:19.600 the others in place. They are mutually supportive and all 136 00:08:19.660 --> 00:08:20.459 three are necessary. 137 00:08:21.839 --> 00:08:23.699 You did a great job of getting every one of 138 00:08:23.740 --> 00:08:28.180 those points delivered, and you're so right on so many 139 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:30.959 of all of those points. The thing that compelled me 140 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:33.070 the most, the thing that I found most fascinating about 141 00:08:33.090 --> 00:08:37.509 this video was that Cuba seems to be almost dipping 142 00:08:37.570 --> 00:08:41.509 their toe in this sort of antagonistic behavior towards the 143 00:08:41.549 --> 00:08:44.370 United States while in the United States. And I really 144 00:08:44.429 --> 00:08:48.320 do feel like the communists are testing how far they 145 00:08:48.340 --> 00:08:50.700 can push it in the United States based on these 146 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:54.600 relationships with these perceived allies. Again, Lula... There's still a 147 00:08:54.620 --> 00:08:57.620 lot of questions about that election. Literally the same night, 148 00:08:57.639 --> 00:09:02.750 you have Waltz, you have Newsom, you have Zoramandani, you 149 00:09:02.769 --> 00:09:06.090 have all these Americans congratulating Lula, despite the fact that 150 00:09:06.110 --> 00:09:09.370 the election was questionable at best. And then before the 151 00:09:09.429 --> 00:09:11.919 ink was even dry on the election, you had them 152 00:09:11.960 --> 00:09:15.000 revoking Flavio Bolsonaro's passports, causing him to flee. And yet 153 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:18.570 you have American elected officials not saying, this concerns me. 154 00:09:19.039 --> 00:09:20.789 BUT I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO SEE THIS. I 155 00:09:20.809 --> 00:09:22.870 THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO SEE THIS. I THINK IT'S 156 00:09:22.909 --> 00:09:29.340 REALLY what we're allowed to say in our own country. 157 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:32.500 That is what concerns me, is how emboldened they feel 158 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:34.500 based on what they're seeing on their TV, based on 159 00:09:34.519 --> 00:09:36.700 the language from our own politicians. And if we don't 160 00:09:36.740 --> 00:09:39.139 nip this in the bud, if we don't push back 161 00:09:39.220 --> 00:09:42.399 on communism, I fear what we're seeing in a place 162 00:09:42.450 --> 00:09:44.730 like Brazil can certainly happen here. And we have a 163 00:09:44.769 --> 00:09:47.350 lot of elections ahead of us, hopefully, to root this 164 00:09:47.370 --> 00:09:49.529 thing out. I got about 30 seconds left, but I 165 00:09:49.570 --> 00:09:50.629 want to give you the final word on this. 166 00:09:51.409 --> 00:09:55.110 There's an absolute through line from the campus havoc of 167 00:09:55.129 --> 00:09:58.610 the 1960s through the Black Liberation Movement of the 1970s 168 00:09:59.049 --> 00:10:04.379 Puerto Rican independence groups robbing armored cars. 169 00:10:04.019 --> 00:10:05.090 And killing people in the 1980s. 170 00:10:06.399 --> 00:10:11.039 Through Black Lives Matter and Antifa and the pro-Palestinian movement. 171 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:14.870 It's all documented in that State Department report. And just 172

00:10:15.019 --> 00:10:17.850 one other piece. This isn't new for Cuba. They gave 173 00:10:17.909 --> 00:10:23.049 sanctuary to Ashata Sarkar, a convicted cop killer, Black liberation movement, 174 00:10:23.429 --> 00:10:27.070 a fugitive from United States justice. Her poster hangs in 175 00:10:27.190 --> 00:10:32.580 Angie Dixon's cafe. And so the idea that this is 176 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:37.539 something new, that Cuba and worldwide communists support the most 177 00:10:37.659 --> 00:10:39.159 radical elements. 178 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:41.259 Within the United States is not new. 179 00:10:41.419 --> 00:10:46.240 And you're right on the de Silva regime immediately threatening 180 00:10:47.179 --> 00:10:50.899 Flavio Bolsonaro, whose father remains in jail, whose brother has 181 00:10:50.940 --> 00:10:56.200 had to flee. It's absolutely crazy the way these repressive 182 00:10:56.220 --> 00:11:02.399 regimes absolutely must crushed dissent by both silencing and or 183 00:11:02.419 --> 00:11:03.460 imprisoning their critics. 184 00:11:03.860 --> 00:11:05.580 Yeah, it's something we got to pay attention to and 185 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:07.340 it's something we have to speak out against. Now that 186 00:11:07.379 --> 00:11:11.340 Flavio is safely here in the United States, I'm hopeful 187 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:13.120 that the president will take a stronger stance on what 188 00:11:13.139 --> 00:11:15.019 we just saw happen in Brazil on Sunday. 189 00:11:15.460 --> 00:11:15.639 Mr. 190 00:11:15.659 --> 00:11:17.230 Brown, thank you so much for being here. You better 191 00:11:17.250 --> 00:11:18.759 come back because I think we have a lot more 192 00:11:18.799 --> 00:11:19.659 to talk about, my friend. 193 00:11:20.110 --> 00:11:21.389 I'm looking forward to it. 194 00:11:21.429 --> 00:11:21.750 Thank you. 195 00:11:22.690 --> 00:11:23.070 Take care. 196 00:11:23.289 --> 00:11:28.460 You too. Still ahead tonight, Barack Obama promised you could 197 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:33.269 keep your plan, and that typical family's premium would drop $ 2, 500 198 00:11:33.169 --> 00:11:37.529 a year. Well, Obamacare didn't deliver. This Sunday, open enrollment starts, 199 00:11:37.570 --> 00:11:42.549 and Obamacare insurers are asking for a median hike of 15%. Dr. 200 00:11:43.070 --> 00:11:46.279 Robert Malone joins me with that. Then Proposition 40 would 201 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:50.940 tax California billionaires about 5% on all their wealth. But 202 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:55.629 Meta's board builds Mark Zuckerberg a way out. 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If you like your health care plan, 223 00:13:16.889 --> 00:13:18.549 you'll be able to keep your health care plan. 224 00:13:19.690 --> 00:13:20.029 Period. 225 00:13:24.809 --> 00:13:29.120 No one will take it away, no matter what. Period. 226 00:13:29.669 --> 00:13:33.759 No matter what. Even PolitiFact named it the lie of 227 00:13:33.820 --> 00:13:37.279 the year, and he promised to cut the typical family's 228 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:46.059 premium $ 2, 500 a year. Ah, the promise of Obamacare. This Sunday, 229 00:13:46.159 --> 00:13:49.899 open enrollment starts for next year. And Obamacare insurers are 230 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:54.340 asking for a median premium hike of 15%. Look at 231 00:13:55.179 --> 00:14:00.350 the record. It's unaffordable without subsidies, and the subsidies keep 232 00:14:00.409 --> 00:14:10.519 getting bigger. THE AVERAGE MONTHLY PREMIUM PAYMENT JUMPED 58%. THE 233 00:14:10.539 --> 00:14:15.879 CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE SAYS MAKING THEM PERMANENT COSTS $ 350 BILLION. 234 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:19.379 WHO IS PAYING FOR THAT? OBVIOUSLY YOU ARE. ONCE YOU 235 00:14:19.399 --> 00:14:28.830 HAVE PAID THE PREMIUM, GOOD LUCK USING IT. The average 236 00:14:28.909 --> 00:14:33.700 bronze plan, over 7,000. So doctors are walking away. Practices 237 00:14:34.029 --> 00:14:38.220 where patients pay the doctor a membership fee grew 83% 238 00:14:38.220 --> 00:14:41.279 in five years. And only about two in three doctors 239 00:14:41.299 --> 00:14:45.299 will even take a new Medicaid patient now. That is 240 00:14:45.450 --> 00:14:49.690 the unaffordable Care Act in action. And it was set 241 00:14:49.850 --> 00:14:52.889 on a path to fail so they could replace it 242 00:14:53.580 --> 00:14:57.080 WITH HEALTH CARE FOR ALL. YOU'RE HEARING IT ALL OVER 243 00:14:57.200 --> 00:14:59.220 THE TALKING

POINTS FROM THE RADICAL LEFT RIGHT NOW. HEALTH 244 00:14:59.259 --> 00:15:05.009 CARE FOR EVERYBODY. THE MEDICARE FOR ALL BILL HAS 114 245 00:15:05.009 --> 00:15:08.250 CO-SPONSORS IN THE HOUSE. ROCANA CALLS IT ARGUABLY THE MOST 246 00:15:08.330 --> 00:15:12.409 IMPORTANT PRIORITY. WE KNOW WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE IN PARTS 247 00:15:12.470 --> 00:15:15.870 OF CANADA. YOU CAN WAIT UP FOR A YEAR TO 248 00:15:15.889 --> 00:15:18.580 GET AN MRI. A YEAR. HURT YOUR LEG? CAN'T GO 249 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:24.759 TO YOUR DOCTOR? WAIT A YEAR. Over these subsidies, 43 days, 250 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:29.419 longest full shutdown in history, and nothing's changed. Republicans have 251 00:15:29.480 --> 00:15:32.240 since put solutions on the table. Then the House passed 252 00:15:32.419 --> 00:15:36.429 one to lower premiums earlier this year. The Senate, of course, 253 00:15:36.470 --> 00:15:39.009 hasn't been able to act, thanks to people like Chuck Schumer, 254 00:15:39.230 --> 00:15:43.009 who says Republicans riddled their plan with poison pills. Democrats 255 00:15:43.350 --> 00:15:49.240 haven't budged on health care reform. They want it to fail. 256 00:15:50.299 --> 00:15:52.860 They want you to suffer until you demand the government 257 00:15:52.899 --> 00:15:55.259 take away your private insurance and replace it with a 258 00:15:55.299 --> 00:16:00.360 public option. It's another path towards socialism, and they're full 259 00:16:00.379 --> 00:16:03.690 steam ahead. President Trump already cut drug prices with Trump Rx. 260 00:16:03.909 --> 00:16:07.389 The Osempic went from $ 1, 028 a month to an average 261 00:16:07.409 --> 00:16:12.149 of 350 insulin, as low as $ 25 a month. But 262 00:16:12.190 --> 00:16:16.820 here's the bottom line. Healthcare needs reform now more than 263 00:16:16.879 --> 00:16:22.029 ever before. Election Day is next Tuesday. Republicans have to 264 00:16:22.070 --> 00:16:26.340 get this done while we still have the majority. How 265 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:29.840 much more can your family pay before the coverage isn't 266 00:16:29.879 --> 00:16:34.870 even worth the premium? Joining me now is Dr. Robert Malone, physician, vaccinologist, 267 00:16:34.950 --> 00:16:38.669 early pioneer of mRNA vaccine technologies and former vice chair 268 00:16:39.090 --> 00:16:41.149 of the CDC's Vaccine Advisory Committee. 269 00:16:41.549 --> 00:16:41.769 Dr. 270 00:16:41.789 --> 00:16:45.210 Malone, welcome back to David Pollack Prime Time. We haven't 271 00:16:45.250 --> 00:16:48.549 talked about health care reform enough. It is unaffordable. It's 272 00:16:48.590 --> 00:16:51.580 not unaffordable because of President Trump. It's unaffordable because of 273 00:16:51.620 --> 00:16:55.019 Barack Obama's Unaffordable Care Act. And it's on a path 274 00:16:55.039 --> 00:16:57.580 to fail, and Democrats couldn't be happier about it. How 275 00:16:57.639 --> 00:17:00.100 important is it that Republicans pick up this issue now 276 00:17:00.340 --> 00:17:02.279 and run with it before we have to potentially lose 277 00:17:02.299 --> 00:17:03.539 the House and turn over this Congress? 278 00:17:04.619 --> 00:17:06.380 So the polling indicates that this is one of the 279 00:17:06.420 --> 00:17:09.869 most critical issues with today's voters, is the cost of 280 00:17:10.049 --> 00:17:15.390 medical care. And that really has been, let's say, under-addressed 281 00:17:15.450 --> 00:17:19.130 or poorly addressed during this election cycle, particularly by the 282 00:17:19.170 --> 00:17:22.009 party that has the biggest investment in trying to do 283 00:17:22.069 --> 00:17:26.450 something about it, and has a logical base for approaching this, 284 00:17:26.549 --> 00:17:29.589 which is, of course, the Republican Party, the right and 285 00:17:29.609 --> 00:17:33.039 the center-right. And we have a lot of talk also, 286 00:17:33.140 --> 00:17:37.420 not just about MAGA, but about Maha and its emphasis 287 00:17:37.779 --> 00:17:43.099 on improving Americans' health. And the record is now quite clear. 288 00:17:43.700 --> 00:17:47.910 The Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, has been an abysmal failure. 289 00:17:48.509 --> 00:17:54.210 It's resulted in catastrophic loss and bankruptcy of an enormous 290 00:17:54.549 --> 00:17:58.829 fraction of the American population, particularly the elderly. And there's 291 00:17:58.910 --> 00:18:02.589 no end in sight. This idea of substituting more and 292 00:18:02.650 --> 00:18:08.049 more government regulation and more and more financial control, subsidies, 293 00:18:08.130 --> 00:18:12.420 et cetera, centralized planning, is an abject failure, no surprise 294 00:18:12.460 --> 00:18:15.980 to any of us that have followed Ron Paul for 295 00:18:16.500 --> 00:18:20.529 forever and are familiar with his logic. But it's not 296 00:18:20.609 --> 00:18:24.589 just what's happened to the patients. Medicine is being destroyed. 297 00:18:25.150 --> 00:18:31.710 Physicians are increasingly leaving. You mentioned the concierge medicine strategy 298 00:18:31.809 --> 00:18:36.430 that some are resorting to out of desperation. But we 299 00:18:36.609 --> 00:18:41.039 have a situation in which Obamacare or the ACA has 300 00:18:41.119 --> 00:18:46.359 accelerated corporatization of medicine. And that has resulted in the 301 00:18:46.440 --> 00:18:50.299 destruction of what used to be a staple small business 302 00:18:50.339 --> 00:18:53.769 of most towns, which was the independent physician and his 303 00:18:53.829 --> 00:18:57.349 practice or her practice. And so now we have a 304 00:18:57.390 --> 00:19:00.710 situation in which docs that are coming out are burdened 305 00:19:00.769 --> 00:19:05.700 by enormous medical school costs. They're forced to comply with, 306 00:19:05.720 --> 00:19:15.410 you know, widespread incentives to buy in to these policies 307 00:19:15.750 --> 00:19:23.450 of DEI, diversity, equity, inclusion, that's baked into medical curriculum 308

00:19:23.490 --> 00:19:27.099 as well as the selection process. And they're routed to 309 00:19:27.160 --> 00:19:30.140 work for the big corporations. They're not taught anything about 310 00:19:30.200 --> 00:19:34.349 how to run a small business. And there are... Essentially 311 00:19:34.490 --> 00:19:40.380 no federal programs that are written to support physicians as 312 00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:43.519 small business persons. It's all written to support the big 313 00:19:43.700 --> 00:19:47.890 corporations and the insurance companies. And the consequence is predictable. 314 00:19:48.509 --> 00:19:48.710 Yeah. 315 00:19:48.950 --> 00:19:52.079 And look. breaking it down to just the bottom line 316 00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:56.359 for a family, and this is Obamacare. Before Obamacare, you 317 00:19:56.380 --> 00:19:58.960 can pretty much get insurance at an affordable rate with 318 00:19:59.279 --> 00:20:01.960 pretty reasonable deductibles. I remember, because I didn't have insurance 319 00:20:01.980 --> 00:20:04.599 when I graduated college, and I remember shopping for my 320 00:20:04.680 --> 00:20:07.420 own insurance, and I remember finding it pretty affordable. And 321 00:20:07.460 --> 00:20:09.259 then I had a job with a company and they 322 00:20:09.279 --> 00:20:12.490 had health care coverage. And then recently I started shopping 323 00:20:12.529 --> 00:20:17.170 for insurance again as an independent business person. And I 324 00:20:17.210 --> 00:20:22.200 was shocked to see what the premiums turned into. And 325 00:20:22.220 --> 00:20:25.579 it is not affordable for people to buy insurance anymore. 326 00:20:25.740 --> 00:20:28.559 And the way it was sold when Obamacare was passed 327 00:20:28.579 --> 00:20:31.059 is that this would make health care more affordable. It 328 00:20:31.140 --> 00:20:34.509 hasn't done that. Healthcare has gotten so unaffordable just even 329 00:20:34.549 --> 00:20:37.690 by the plans. And then you have the deductibles, which 330 00:20:37.750 --> 00:20:39.849 makes it almost useless to even use it. You can 331 00:20:39.890 --> 00:20:42.789 go and get a cash price and then forget the 332 00:20:42.890 --> 00:20:46.779 prescription drugs because you're better off not using your prescription 333 00:20:46.799 --> 00:20:49.539 drug coverage and just paying cash and getting those silly 334 00:20:49.579 --> 00:20:52.720 little coupons. So basically health insurance has turned into something 335 00:20:52.759 --> 00:20:55.660 that if you have a decent income, YOU CAN'T EVEN 336 00:20:55.759 --> 00:20:58.279 USE HEALTH INSURANCE ANYMORE. YOU MIGHT AS WELL JUST PAY CASH. 337 00:20:58.500 --> 00:21:01.059 AND THEN IF YOU HAVE NO INCOME, EVERYBODY WHO CAN'T 338 00:21:01.079 --> 00:21:04.269 AFFORD HEALTH INSURANCE IS SUBSIDIZING THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE INSURANCE. 339 00:21:04.309 --> 00:21:06.390 THIS WAS ALL PART OF THE PLAN. THIS IS THAT 340 00:21:06.450 --> 00:21:08.869 DEATH SPIRAL. SO THEN THAT WAY THE PEOPLE WHO CAN

341 00:21:08.910 --> 00:21:11.970 ACTUALLY AFFORD INSURANCE GO, WELL, FORGET IT. LET'S JUST GET 342 00:21:11.990 --> 00:21:14.690 THIS GOVERNMENT. THIS IS ALL PART OF THE DESIGN AND 343 00:21:14.730 --> 00:21:19.359 IT'S HAPPENING IN REAL TIME. People will have no choice 344 00:21:19.400 --> 00:21:21.700 but to either be beholden to a company that can 345 00:21:21.740 --> 00:21:24.940 pay for their benefits or beholden to the government to 346 00:21:25.000 --> 00:21:27.339 give you your benefits. This is the failure of health 347 00:21:27.359 --> 00:21:29.019 care or health insurance, I should say. 348 00:21:30.359 --> 00:21:33.619 Well, you mentioned the Canadian system, and there is an 349 00:21:33.839 --> 00:21:38.630 even darker side behind that, which is the policy having 350 00:21:38.670 --> 00:21:42.250 to do with the acronym is MADE, Medical Assistance in Dying. 351 00:21:42.950 --> 00:21:44.690 And it appears that the Canadian. 352 00:21:44.329 --> 00:21:48.569 Government has promoted a system in which individuals who are 353 00:21:48.630 --> 00:21:53.170 no longer contributing in a significant financial way to the 354 00:21:53.940 --> 00:22:00.140 overall economics of Canadian economy are being routed in many 355 00:22:00.200 --> 00:22:06.230 ways into this MAID program that, from an objective outside 356 00:22:06.309 --> 00:22:10.410 point of view, looks like it's designed to reduce costs 357 00:22:11.150 --> 00:22:15.680 for the Canadian government. by reducing those individuals that are 358 00:22:15.720 --> 00:22:19.940 more dependent on the, quote, healthcare system, the socialized system 359 00:22:19.980 --> 00:22:23.480 that exists. So if we do this, if we follow 360 00:22:23.500 --> 00:22:27.900 this track that the Democrats have been promoting of increasing 361 00:22:28.269 --> 00:22:32.130 socialism in healthcare, what we end up with is a 362 00:22:32.170 --> 00:22:36.089 situation in which we're entirely at risk for the whims 363 00:22:36.349 --> 00:22:42.369 of the state, large insurance companies, And this consolidated industry 364 00:22:42.509 --> 00:22:46.269 in which what's happened is you've had private equity come in, 365 00:22:46.789 --> 00:22:52.109 scoop up physician practices, scoop up hospitals. The real estate 366 00:22:52.190 --> 00:22:56.509 trusts now control most of the hospitals. And it's all 367 00:22:56.569 --> 00:23:02.190 being driven by how can you extract value, capital out 368 00:23:02.230 --> 00:23:07.640 of this system? How can you extract profit? from people suffering. 369 00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:11.759 That is really what's going on. And the state is 370 00:23:11.900 --> 00:23:16.599 completely compliant with this. They seem to be endorsing it 371 00:23:17.240 --> 00:23:22.720 and backing it. And frankly, for a skeptical Austrian school 372 00:23:22.779 --> 00:23:26.160 of economics kind of person, such as myself, what you 373 00:23:26.259 --> 00:23:29.880 see is the state giving one of the clearest

examples 374 00:23:29.980 --> 00:23:35.900 of how it tends to promote monopolies or oligopolies. And 375 00:23:36.140 --> 00:23:39.460 it tends to promote the interests of the very large 376 00:23:39.960 --> 00:23:44.529 businesses that have the resources both to comply with regulations 377 00:23:45.289 --> 00:23:50.049 and to lobby Congress to get policies that favor their 378 00:23:50.170 --> 00:23:54.069 financial interests implemented, as opposed to the policies of the 379 00:23:54.150 --> 00:23:57.029 small business person who has no seat at the table. 380 00:23:57.230 --> 00:23:58.069 That's what we're facing. 381 00:23:58.750 --> 00:24:01.329 Yeah. And, you know, the last thing we need is 382 00:24:01.369 --> 00:24:06.730 government rationing healthcare and then deciding whose life is worth saving. 383 00:24:06.769 --> 00:24:07.970 How else does this end? 384 00:24:08.250 --> 00:24:08.410 Right. 385 00:24:08.430 --> 00:24:10.130 Well, that's exactly what it is. 386 00:24:10.170 --> 00:24:11.130 How else does this end? 387 00:24:11.390 --> 00:24:12.509 Yeah. 388 00:24:12.789 --> 00:24:15.549 And you can say all the pretty words you want. 389 00:24:15.630 --> 00:24:17.609 You can put all the propaganda around. 390 00:24:17.430 --> 00:24:18.009 It you want. 391 00:24:18.470 --> 00:24:21.750 You can listen to smooth salesmen such as Barack Obama. 392 00:24:22.470 --> 00:24:26.549 and feel compelled by those emotional ties that they're so 393 00:24:26.589 --> 00:24:30.490 good in promoting. But if you take a step back 394 00:24:30.569 --> 00:24:32.950 and look at the overall arc of this, which, by 395 00:24:32.970 --> 00:24:36.440 the way, starts with HillaryCare, and that was a thing 396 00:24:36.619 --> 00:24:40.440 as a young medical student that I foresaw that was 397 00:24:40.500 --> 00:24:44.019 going to completely destroy the economics of what I had 398 00:24:44.079 --> 00:24:47.579 intended to do, which was go into a pediatric practice 399 00:24:47.640 --> 00:24:51.109 in a small town in the U.S.A. It is when 400 00:24:51.269 --> 00:24:55.150 when Hillary care got rolled out and all that discussion 401 00:24:55.210 --> 00:24:58.609 started happening, it was clear to me what the arc 402 00:24:58.690 --> 00:25:02.180 was here and that my whole idea about being a 403 00:25:02.220 --> 00:25:06.839 small business person and running a private practice was completely 404 00:25:06.960 --> 00:25:12.099 obsolete and had no future in the American health care 405 00:25:12.160 --> 00:25:14.589 system that was being promoted by the Democrat Party. 406 00:25:15.339 --> 00:25:17.500 Well, look, and it's important for people to hear it. 407 00:25:17.759 --> 00:25:19.740 They have to know what's going on. I think we 408 00:25:19.759 --> 00:25:22.819 have to put this talking point out in front of everybody. 409 00:25:22.839 --> 00:25:24.980 They have to understand what's at stake in this next 410 00:25:25.059 --> 00:25:27.660 election and in the next couple of years, because if 411 00:25:27.700 --> 00:25:30.740 we let them socialize our medicine, I don't think people 412 00:25:30.759 --> 00:25:33.089 understand how bad it can be. Dr. Malone, thank you 413 00:25:33.289 --> 00:25:36.309 so much for being here. Please come back often. Please 414 00:25:36.349 --> 00:25:39.250 continue to spread the word. We have to save health 415 00:25:39.269 --> 00:25:41.990 care in America before the socialists take it over. Sir, 416 00:25:42.009 --> 00:25:44.079 thank you so much. Thanks, David. 417 00:25:44.099 --> 00:25:44.880 Thanks for having me on. 418 00:25:44.920 --> 00:25:50.299 Thank you. Coming up, Bernie Sanders says the billionaires are 419 00:25:50.339 --> 00:25:55.690 the enemy and Proposition 40 in California would hit every 420 00:25:55.890 --> 00:25:59.630 single resident here. worth a billion dollars or more with 421 00:25:59.730 --> 00:26:04.029 a one-time 5% tax. Just give it up to the government. 422 00:26:04.430 --> 00:26:08.349 But guess what? The oligarchs aren't having to pony up 423 00:26:08.410 --> 00:26:12.710 the cash. Meta's board cut Mark Zuckerberg a deal to 424 00:26:12.779 --> 00:26:15.819 pay it without affecting his majority voting control, and the 425 00:26:15.859 --> 00:26:19.240 campaign pushing the tax cheered. I got Dennis Neal joining 426 00:26:19.259 --> 00:26:19.700 me after this. 427 00:26:25.549 --> 00:26:27.349 For all of our viewers out there asking where to 428 00:26:27.410 --> 00:26:30.089 watch One America News, we'd like to introduce you to 429 00:26:30.250 --> 00:26:32.950 OAN Live. 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Bernie Sanders came to California this month to 439 00:27:09.799 --> 00:27:10.380 say to himself. 440 00:27:10.420 --> 00:27:15.099 Look, never before in American history have we seen a 441 00:27:15.240 --> 00:27:19.339 billionaire class with so much political power. 442 00:27:20.730 --> 00:27:22.190 And never before. 443 00:27:21.710 --> 00:27:28.799 Have we seen such an unprecedented level of greed, arrogance, 444 00:27:29.240 --> 00:27:32.720 and irresponsibility on the part of the ruling class of 445 00:27:32.740 --> 00:27:36.240 this country. 446 00:27:36.259 --> 00:27:36.420 Yay! 447 00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:42.480 We hate the people that give us

jobs! Woo! You 448 00:27:42.519 --> 00:27:47.140 want to talk about arrogance and greed? Do you know 449 00:27:47.160 --> 00:27:50.880 what Proposition 40 is on California's ballot Tuesday? It's a 450 00:27:51.259 --> 00:27:57.049 one-time 5% tax on the net worth of every Californian 451 00:27:57.089 --> 00:28:01.069 worth a billion dollars or more. Think about this. They 452 00:28:01.089 --> 00:28:04.529 want to vote to seize 5% of the wealth of 453 00:28:04.569 --> 00:28:08.890 the wealthiest people in California. How can you vote to 454 00:28:08.950 --> 00:28:13.349 steal somebody's money? A health care union put it on 455 00:28:13.369 --> 00:28:16.569 the ballot, and Bernie Sanders calls it a fight against 456 00:28:16.609 --> 00:28:20.009 the greed of the oligarchs What about the greed of 457 00:28:20.049 --> 00:28:24.839 the state? And then as, you know, oligarchs do, they 458 00:28:24.890 --> 00:28:28.799 tend to exempt themselves from having to pay these taxes. 459 00:28:28.819 --> 00:28:33.200 Let's talk about what Meta did. Meta's board built Mark 460 00:28:33.259 --> 00:28:37.329 Zuckerberg his own way out of the billionaire squeeze. Every shareholder... 461 00:28:37.170 --> 00:28:40.089 gets a new non-voting share, and the board cut Zuckerberg 462 00:28:40.430 --> 00:28:43.539 a deal on his. The company's own filing says he 463 00:28:43.559 --> 00:28:46.180 can sell up to 20% of his new shares for 464 00:28:46.259 --> 00:28:49.640 any reason, including so that he may pay his potential 465 00:28:49.700 --> 00:28:55.009 tax liability under California's Proposition 40. without affecting his majority 466 00:28:55.049 --> 00:28:58.920 voting control. Nobody is building you a workaround. They're not 467 00:28:58.940 --> 00:29:02.220 building you a workaround. In California, a single filer hits 468 00:29:02.240 --> 00:29:09.079 a 9.3% income tax bracket at $ 72, 724. Every paycheck loses 469 00:29:09.140 --> 00:29:12.640 another 1.3% to the state disability tax with no cap. 470 00:29:12.880 --> 00:29:17.130 You pay 63.4 cents a gallon in a gas tax. 471 00:29:17.170 --> 00:29:19.730 Even the Iron Workers Union fighting Prop 40 warns it 472 00:29:19.750 --> 00:29:23.299 can turn into a trap door for working families. THE BUSINESSES, 473 00:29:23.319 --> 00:29:25.200 THE BUSINESSES, THE BUSINESSES, THE BUSINESSES. THE RICH, THE POWERFUL 474 00:29:25.220 --> 00:29:27.769 GET REWARDED AND THE GUY WORKING HIS WAY UP GETS 475 00:29:27.829 --> 00:29:30.029 THE BILL WHEN THE PEOPLE WITH THE MONEY EITHER DON'T 476 00:29:30.049 --> 00:29:32.549 PAY THEIR TAXES OR LEAVE. THEY SAY THEY'RE AGAINST THE 477 00:29:32.569 --> 00:29:35.250 BILLIONAIRES BUT IF YOU REALLY LOOK AT HOW THIS WORKS, 478 00:29:35.690 --> 00:29:38.849 they're really against the middle class climbing up behind them. 479 00:29:39.730 --> 00:29:42.009 Joining me now is Dennis Neal, former anchor at CNBC 480 00:29:42.029 --> 00:29:45.170 and Fox Business, former managing editor, Forbes, author of The 481 00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:48.099 Leadership Genius of Elon Musk, and host of What's Bugging 482 00:29:48.119 --> 00:29:51.319 Me podcast. Dennis Neal, welcome. Now, can you break down 483 00:29:51.720 --> 00:29:54.900 what in the world kind of a deal Zuckerberg made 484 00:29:54.940 --> 00:29:57.759 with California so they don't touch his billions? I'm confused. 485 00:29:58.539 --> 00:30:02.400 Yeah, it's interesting that the board of Meta, the owner 486 00:30:02.420 --> 00:30:06.680 of Facebook, was so intent on keeping him officially in 487 00:30:06.759 --> 00:30:10.890 California that they're willing to put up billions of dollars 488 00:30:11.430 --> 00:30:16.390 in shareholder money. And this means that the California proposal 489 00:30:16.829 --> 00:30:19.930 now ostensibly is taken, was supposed to be a soap 490 00:30:19.950 --> 00:30:24.730 the billionaires tax and spread it to rank and file shareholders. 491 00:30:24.289 --> 00:30:27.470 Of Facebook, including... teacher. 492 00:30:27.130 --> 00:30:31.589 Pension funds and nurse retirement funds and firefighter funds. That's 493 00:30:31.609 --> 00:30:36.079 what they've done here. And it's rather belated because let's 494 00:30:36.160 --> 00:30:42.299 also remember that $ 1 trillion of the total $ 2 trillion 495 00:30:42.839 --> 00:30:46.779 held by billionaires in California, $ 1 trillion has already left 496 00:30:46.940 --> 00:30:51.089 the state in anticipation of this passing. And that includes 497 00:30:51.130 --> 00:30:55.069 the billions held by Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. And 498 00:30:55.130 --> 00:30:58.549 Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the co-founders of Google. 499 00:30:58.930 --> 00:31:00.900 So the losses already are counting. 500 00:31:01.359 --> 00:31:05.940 We underestimate how even the very richest among us will 501 00:31:05.980 --> 00:31:11.700 do almost whatever it takes legally to avoid and reduce taxes. 502 00:31:12.039 --> 00:31:15.930 Taxes are the most inefficient drain on your wealth. Not risk, 503 00:31:16.230 --> 00:31:17.589 not things going out of business. 504 00:31:18.009 --> 00:31:23.430 It's taxes. So if I understand, here's what's happening. California 505 00:31:23.470 --> 00:31:27.990 wants to steal 5% of billionaires' money, and the billionaires. 506 00:31:27.569 --> 00:31:28.539 Say— Only one time, though. 507 00:31:28.910 --> 00:31:31.640 Only one time, we promise. How many times can you 508 00:31:31.660 --> 00:31:34.539 steal 5%? I guess you can only do it, what, 509 00:31:34.539 --> 00:31:37.640 10 times or 20 times before there's no billions left. 510 00:31:38.200 --> 00:31:42.950 But the idea is— When you have people that can 511 00:31:42.990 --> 00:31:45.890 just take their money and leave the state, well, now 512 00:31:45.950 --> 00:31:49.730 you're not only not getting that 5%, you're not getting anything. 513 00:31:50.329 --> 00:31:51.769 And that's what's happening. Exactly. 514 00:31:52.190 --> 00:31:57.099 In fact,

California's own projections show, I believe, that they 515 00:31:57.140 --> 00:32:00.440 could end up, is it $ 30 or $ 36 billion in 516 00:32:00.519 --> 00:32:04.700 lower revenue in tax collections? as a result in response 517 00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:06.880 to this kind of move. And let's remember, it's never 518 00:32:06.900 --> 00:32:09.500 going to be one time only. And the problem isn't that, 519 00:32:09.880 --> 00:32:12.599 I guess, Jeff Bezos worth $ 150 billion, let's say. So 520 00:32:12.619 --> 00:32:15.799 you take 5% of that. So that's $ 5 billion. Oh, 521 00:32:15.839 --> 00:32:18.619 it's just $ 5 billion. But he has to sell stuff 522 00:32:19.059 --> 00:32:21.099 to raise that $ 5 billion in cash. 523 00:32:21.500 --> 00:32:23.720 And then so he sells, say, $ 7. 524 00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:26.269 Billion because he's got to pay 20% capital gains on 525 00:32:26.309 --> 00:32:29.410 whatever he sells. And so then just ripples and ripples. 526 00:32:29.799 --> 00:32:33.720 And it's just terrible tax policy. You should be cutting taxes, 527 00:32:34.099 --> 00:32:37.900 not raising them. Government needs to get by with less 528 00:32:38.380 --> 00:32:41.809 because that then forces government to cut. Look at the 529 00:32:41.930 --> 00:32:46.269 federal cut span. Almost, what is it, 400,000 fewer government workers. 530 00:32:46.769 --> 00:32:50.210 Do we sense any change at all in the services 531 00:32:50.369 --> 00:32:51.269 we receive? 532 00:32:51.849 --> 00:32:52.210 None. 533 00:32:52.829 --> 00:32:53.190 Nothing. 534 00:32:54.140 --> 00:32:55.960 Yeah, well, it's all waste. And the crazy part about 535 00:32:55.980 --> 00:32:58.210 it is California, I think they have the seventh largest 536 00:32:58.250 --> 00:33:00.869 economy or something in the world. And yet you drive 537 00:33:00.910 --> 00:33:02.990 around the roads here, it's like driving on the surface 538 00:33:03.029 --> 00:33:06.460 of the moon, potholes and craters and nonsense. You have 539 00:33:06.740 --> 00:33:09.779 all these supposed social service plans, and then you just 540 00:33:09.799 --> 00:33:12.420 have homeless people still sleeping right outside of the public 541 00:33:12.599 --> 00:33:16.220 funded homeless centers. It's like everywhere they spend the money, 542 00:33:16.299 --> 00:33:18.420 it seems it just goes to waste. But the interesting 543 00:33:18.460 --> 00:33:20.680 part here, Dennis, is the fact that you have all 544 00:33:20.720 --> 00:33:23.589 these liberal billionaires and billionaires, especially the billionaires, they're all 545 00:33:23.630 --> 00:33:25.650 so liberal, but yet they don't want to pay their 546 00:33:25.690 --> 00:33:27.990 taxes and they want to leave California so they can 547 00:33:28.029 --> 00:33:30.549 avoid paying the taxes after they vote for the people 548 00:33:30.569 --> 00:33:32.829 that want to seize their wealth. This is just the 549 00:33:32.869 --> 00:33:36.109 craziest thing ever. And of course, Bernie talks about oligarchs 550 00:33:36.150 --> 00:33:38.910 and oligarchs that are putting this tax burden right back 551 00:33:39.230 --> 00:33:41.630 on the middle class. And it's just a lie that 552 00:33:41.670 --> 00:33:44.069 we see every Every time these people try to steal, 553 00:33:44.089 --> 00:33:47.480 steal money, they just steal it from us, isn't it? 554 00:33:47.509 --> 00:33:50.910 Well, the real trickle down economics is taxes because it 555 00:33:50.930 --> 00:33:52.910 starts on the rich and ends up down. Look at 556 00:33:52.950 --> 00:33:55.059 cell phone tax. It was originally just a service of 557 00:33:55.119 --> 00:33:55.480 the rich. 558 00:33:55.859 --> 00:33:56.819 Very high taxes. 559 00:33:56.859 --> 00:33:58.059 One of the highest. 560 00:33:57.759 --> 00:34:02.279 Taxes of necessary service today that most poor people have. 561 00:34:02.660 --> 00:34:03.880 And yet the tax rate is huge. 562 00:34:04.470 --> 00:34:08.639 Yeah, it's such a shame. Well, you know, good luck, billionaires. 563 00:34:10.099 --> 00:34:11.599 If you elect Democrats, there's not going to be a 564 00:34:11.639 --> 00:34:13.539 state in the country you can hide from. There'll be 565 00:34:13.559 --> 00:34:16.380 a federal 5% billionaire's tax. Dennis Neal, thank you so 566 00:34:16.420 --> 00:34:18.489 much for being here. As always, look forward to talking 567 00:34:18.510 --> 00:34:19.190 again real soon, my friend. 568 00:34:19.809 --> 00:34:20.210 Thanks, David. 569 00:34:21.289 --> 00:34:25.349 Still ahead, Texas just got even bigger. The land office 570 00:34:25.409 --> 00:34:29.789 confirmed nine more islands in the Rio Grande. About 66 571 00:34:29.789 --> 00:34:33.110 acres belong to the state of Texas. And it sent 572 00:34:33.130 --> 00:34:38.449 the coordinates to DPS and the Texas military department to patrol, inspect, 573 00:34:38.929 --> 00:34:43.320 and clear them. And later, in BioWare's last big game, 574 00:34:43.340 --> 00:34:50.610 a character misgenders a companion. and drops for push-ups as pennants. 575 00:34:51.110 --> 00:34:54.099 Gamers answered with their wallets. And last week, EA shut 576 00:34:54.119 --> 00:34:57.880 down BioWare's Edmonton studio. All that's coming up. Don't go anywhere. 577 00:35:03.730 --> 00:35:05.550 For all of our viewers out there asking where to 578 00:35:05.590 --> 00:35:08.269 watch One America News, we'd like to introduce you to 579 00:35:08.429 --> 00:35:11.130 OAN Live. OAN Live is the best way to stay 580 00:35:11.230 --> 00:35:13.389 up to date on the hardest hitting news and our 581 00:35:13.409 --> 00:35:16.010 talk shows. And the best part is OAN Live is 582 00:35:16.050 --> 00:35:20.860 only $ 4. 99 per month. Credible, honest, and unbiased reporting at 583 00:35:20.900 --> 00:35:23.320 a fraction of the cost of cable. 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the news and conservative talk 586 00:35:29.840 --> 00:35:31.099 you can't get anywhere else. 587 00:35:40.199 --> 00:35:43.219 You've heard it your whole life, everything's bigger in Texas. 588 00:35:43.280 --> 00:35:46.300 And if you recall back in 2023, Texas looked at 589 00:35:46.340 --> 00:35:49.500 a 170-acre island in the middle of the Rio Grande, 590 00:35:49.940 --> 00:35:53.170 front an island in Starr County, and declared it state land. 591 00:35:53.650 --> 00:35:56.829 Texas DPS called that stretch the most violent region on 592 00:35:56.869 --> 00:36:01.429 the Texas-Mexico border, with armed gunmen coming across. DPS and 593 00:36:01.469 --> 00:36:05.710 the Texas Military Department cleared the brush, and the land 594 00:36:05.849 --> 00:36:09.110 office says crime at that hotspot was halted dramatically. But 595 00:36:09.150 --> 00:36:12.349 this week... Well, Texas got a little bit bigger. The 596 00:36:12.389 --> 00:36:15.789 Texas General Land Office identified nine more islands in the 597 00:36:15.829 --> 00:36:19.280 Rio Grande, about 66 acres in all, from the Laredo 598 00:36:19.380 --> 00:36:23.420 area south towards McAllen, and confirmed they belong to the 599 00:36:23.440 --> 00:36:27.260 state of Texas. In the commissioner's words, for years, the 600 00:36:27.340 --> 00:36:30.619 ownership of these islands has been uncertain. Customs and Border 601 00:36:30.659 --> 00:36:34.050 Protection had questions about 28 islands whose ownership has hadn't 602 00:36:34.070 --> 00:36:37.909 been established. So Texas went back to the historical records 603 00:36:38.010 --> 00:36:40.949 and surveys, did the paperwork, and sent the coordinates to 604 00:36:40.989 --> 00:36:45.610 DPS and the Texas military department so they can patrol, inspect, 605 00:36:45.710 --> 00:36:48.809 and clear them of any illegal activity they may encounter 606 00:36:49.070 --> 00:36:52.010 in Mexico. Well, of course, they pushed back, but the 607 00:36:52.030 --> 00:36:55.250 reality is Texas didn't grab everything in the river and 608 00:36:55.289 --> 00:36:58.860 of the 20 islands surveyed. She says the other 11 609 00:36:58.860 --> 00:37:02.199 are likely Mexico's. Texas took what the records say belongs 610 00:37:02.239 --> 00:37:05.639 to Texas. Let me explain why those islands matter to 611 00:37:05.699 --> 00:37:08.820 Texas so much. Because they remember what the Biden years 612 00:37:08.880 --> 00:37:11.070 looked like. In the fiscal year 2023, Border Patrol apprehended 338,000 613 00:37:11.070 --> 00:37:17.409 people in the Rio Grande Valley sector alone. This fiscal 614 00:37:17.449 --> 00:37:21.429 year through August, it's under 20,000, down 93% from the 615 00:37:21.469 --> 00:37:24.179 same months under Biden. And while Texas was trying to 616 00:37:24.239 --> 00:37:26.679 hold the line, the Biden administration fought it every step 617 00:37:26.719 --> 00:37:29.659 of the way. Biden's Justice Department sued Texas over its 618 00:37:29.719 --> 00:37:33.500 buoys in the river. Biden's Homeland Security Department demanded Texas 619 00:37:33.619 --> 00:37:36.360 open Shelby Park and Eagle Pass to back up federal agents. 620 00:37:36.579 --> 00:37:38.719 And the Biden administration went all the way to the 621 00:37:38.760 --> 00:37:41.969 Supreme Court and won five to four in order, letting 622 00:37:42.030 --> 00:37:46.570 federal agents keep cutting Texas's razor wire. President Trump, the 623 00:37:46.610 --> 00:37:49.699 Bowie lawsuit was dropped. And thanks to Trump, there's no 624 00:37:49.739 --> 00:37:53.840 criminal activity on these islands anymore. That's the point. This time, 625 00:37:53.920 --> 00:37:56.380 Texas isn't waiting for cartels to move in. It's making 626 00:37:56.460 --> 00:38:00.380 sure Democrat border chaos never comes back, no matter who 627 00:38:00.420 --> 00:38:03.019 sits in the White House. Joining me now is Dr. 628 00:38:03.059 --> 00:38:06.780 Dawn Buckingham, surgeon, former Texas state senator, and first woman 629 00:38:06.820 --> 00:38:09.949 ever elected to Texas land commissioner. Commissioner, welcome back to 630 00:38:09.969 --> 00:38:11.710 David Pollak Prime Time. Love having you on, and I 631 00:38:11.809 --> 00:38:15.070 love what you're doing in Texas. I mean, everybody loves 632 00:38:15.130 --> 00:38:17.829 big things in Texas. Texas isn't big enough. Let's get 633 00:38:17.869 --> 00:38:21.050 a couple of islands to make Texas safer, right? Talk 634 00:38:21.090 --> 00:38:23.690 about what the move is there to secure Texas's border. 635 00:38:28.699 --> 00:38:31.420 Well, we are really excited about this because we want 636 00:38:31.440 --> 00:38:33.760 to be sure that we are sleuthing out and eliminating 637 00:38:33.980 --> 00:38:37.679 every potential cartel safe haven. So the Border Patrol wanted 638 00:38:37.719 --> 00:38:40.780 us to look at 28 islands. We found that nine 639 00:38:40.800 --> 00:38:44.250 were actually Texas. We've got them declared as Texas. Texas 640 00:38:44.329 --> 00:38:46.869 is getting bigger and safer. Just like you said, this 641 00:38:46.909 --> 00:38:49.690 will give law enforcement access to those islands to be 642 00:38:49.750 --> 00:38:52.630 sure that we're not having any illegal activity on them now. 643 00:38:53.210 --> 00:38:54.969 And nor can we ever in the future. And we're 644 00:38:54.989 --> 00:38:57.480 just excited to be a part of making Texas bigger 645 00:38:57.780 --> 00:38:59.829 for the second time in a few hundred years. And 646 00:38:59.909 --> 00:39:01.469 we've done it twice in about two years. 647 00:39:02.260 --> 00:39:05.920 So now, obviously, Mexico is probably not happy to just 648 00:39:06.019 --> 00:39:08.719 give up islands that it thinks it's entitled to, from 649 00:39:08.739 --> 00:39:11.699 what I understand. You know, there's the Texas, there's the 650 00:39:11.760 --> 00:39:13.659 Mexico ones, and then there's the Texas ones. And you 651 00:39:13.699

--> 00:39:18.010 guys basically just took control over the Texas islands. And 652 00:39:18.030 --> 00:39:20.610 that's because they need to be secure. So cartel activity 653 00:39:20.630 --> 00:39:23.690 can't cross over to them. How does this play out? 654 00:39:23.730 --> 00:39:26.909 Because Mexico is its own country. You're a state. It 655 00:39:26.949 --> 00:39:29.070 gets in like a foreign affairs issue. This has to 656 00:39:29.090 --> 00:39:29.809 get messy, right? 657 00:39:31.940 --> 00:39:33.340 I don't think it's going to be very messy. But 658 00:39:33.440 --> 00:39:36.739 our treaty with Mexico from 1836, anything north of the 659 00:39:36.780 --> 00:39:39.719 center of the Rio Grande is Texas. It's the United States. 660 00:39:39.760 --> 00:39:42.570 And we were founded in 1836 as the mapping entity 661 00:39:42.610 --> 00:39:45.130 for the state. It's our job to determine just that. 662 00:39:45.190 --> 00:39:47.789 So we think this is plain and simple, easy to 663 00:39:47.829 --> 00:39:50.750 go back to that 1836 agreement. We don't expect any 664 00:39:50.769 --> 00:39:54.019 big issues from Mexico, but we'll stay on our ground, 665 00:39:54.059 --> 00:39:54.519 so to speak. 666 00:39:55.269 --> 00:39:58.150 Well, look, and I think, again, this is just such 667 00:39:58.190 --> 00:40:00.889 a smart move, and this is why Texans are so 668 00:40:00.929 --> 00:40:03.780 proud of their Republican government there in Texas. This is 669 00:40:03.800 --> 00:40:06.079 why they should show up next Tuesday, because you have 670 00:40:06.099 --> 00:40:08.179 to remember what it was like when Biden was president 671 00:40:08.539 --> 00:40:10.599 and what Texas had to do to just defend itself 672 00:40:10.920 --> 00:40:15.340 from Biden's open borders. I know you've got to run. 673 00:40:15.559 --> 00:40:18.440 How much better is it now with Trump's border policy 674 00:40:18.460 --> 00:40:19.679 for Texans than it was before? 675 00:40:21.380 --> 00:40:25.440 It is literally and statistically 99.9% better. We saw an 676 00:40:25.480 --> 00:40:28.460 immediate change when Trump took office. It's the perfect example 677 00:40:28.480 --> 00:40:30.739 of how we were saying it's the federal policies that 678 00:40:30.780 --> 00:40:34.739 actually drive illegal immigration. So Trump has really set that down. 679 00:40:35.099 --> 00:40:36.909 But we've got to be sure that we're ready if 680 00:40:36.949 --> 00:40:39.110 the pendulum swings back. If at some point in the 681 00:40:39.159 --> 00:40:44.289 future we have another administration that refuses to uphold its 682 00:40:44.329 --> 00:40:47.230 constitutional duty to defend our borders, we're going to be 683 00:40:47.269 --> 00:40:50.550 sure we secure everything up now. We're good going into 684 00:40:50.570 --> 00:40:53.110 the future. And again, we just love making Texas bigger 685 00:40:53.130 --> 00:40:53.510 and safer. 686 00:40:54.010 --> 00:40:57.360 Well, keep up the great work. Great, great job. And 687 00:40:57.400 --> 00:40:59.699 good luck on Tuesday, Commissioner. Thank you so much for joining. 688 00:41:01.119 --> 00:41:02.440 Thanks for having me on. Have a great day. 689 00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:10.510 85% of American teenagers play video games, and BioWare's last 690 00:41:10.670 --> 00:41:15.110 big game came, well, with a woke lecture. One companion 691 00:41:15.130 --> 00:41:18.369 gets a whole coming out storyline, and the main story 692 00:41:18.429 --> 00:41:21.190 makes you recruit them and then have to watch them 693 00:41:21.210 --> 00:41:26.369 get misgendered. Gamers answered with their wallets. Go woke, go broke. 694 00:41:26.650 --> 00:41:31.030 Hits again. My producer's coming on. Thomas joins me after 695 00:41:31.070 --> 00:41:31.360 the break. 696 00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:39.800 For all of our viewers out there asking where to 697 00:41:39.840 --> 00:41:42.519 watch One America News, we'd like to introduce you to 698 00:41:42.699 --> 00:41:45.380 OAN Live. OAN Live is the best way to stay 699 00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:47.639 up to date on the hardest hitting news and our 700 00:41:47.659 --> 00:41:50.260 talk shows. And the best part is OAN Live is 701 00:41:50.300 --> 00:41:55.119 only $ 4. 99 per month. Credible, honest, and unbiased reporting at 702 00:41:55.159 --> 00:41:57.579 a fraction of the cost of cable. So just click 703 00:41:57.619 --> 00:42:01.059 on the link at the top of our homepage, OANN.com, 704 00:42:01.079 --> 00:42:03.929 to easily sign up for the news and conservative talk 705 00:42:04.110 --> 00:42:05.360 you can't get anywhere else. 706 00:42:14.429 --> 00:42:21.130 Woke ideology has infiltrated everything. Hollywood, the music industry, the 707 00:42:21.230 --> 00:42:24.829 shows your kids stream every night. You sit down for 708 00:42:24.849 --> 00:42:27.250 a story and somewhere in there you get a lecture. 709 00:42:28.269 --> 00:42:30.590 But the place a lot of parents aren't watching may 710 00:42:30.630 --> 00:42:33.820 be the worst of all. The video games Pew Research 711 00:42:33.880 --> 00:42:38.139 found 85% of American teenagers play video games and 41% 712 00:42:38.139 --> 00:42:42.380 play every single day. One of the biggest names in 713 00:42:42.440 --> 00:42:45.480 that world was a company called BioWare, the studio behind 714 00:42:45.800 --> 00:42:49.320 games like Mass Effect and Dragon Age. They make role-playing 715 00:42:49.340 --> 00:42:52.500 games where you play a hero, make choices in the story, 716 00:42:52.559 --> 00:42:55.469 and travel with a crew of companion characters. Their last 717 00:42:55.510 --> 00:42:59.230 big one was called Dragon Age The Veil Guard, and 718 00:42:59.289 --> 00:43:04.530 one of those companions, Tash, Kits a whole storyline about 719 00:43:04.670 --> 00:43:12.059 realizing they're non-binary. Video game characters realizing they're non-binary and 720 00:43:12.119 --> 00:43:13.539 coming out to their friends, look. 721

00:43:14.400 --> 00:43:16.159 So, I'm non-binary. 722 00:43:19.619 --> 00:43:20.280 What does that mean? 723 00:43:21.659 --> 00:43:23.119 It means I don't feel like a man or a woman. 724 00:43:25.010 --> 00:43:28.369 If you are neither a man nor a woman, then 725 00:43:28.429 --> 00:43:29.030 what are you? 726 00:43:29.889 --> 00:43:30.250 Non-binary. 727 00:43:30.269 --> 00:43:30.590 Non-binary. 728 00:43:31.679 --> 00:43:34.000 I just said, and I'm going to use they instead 729 00:43:34.039 --> 00:43:34.860 of she from now on. 730 00:43:35.480 --> 00:43:38.480 If this is because I have criticized your dress or 731 00:43:38.500 --> 00:43:42.599 your manners. It isn't. You couldn't avoid it. The main 732 00:43:42.699 --> 00:43:48.170 story makes you recruit Tash. And then in another scene, 733 00:43:48.210 --> 00:43:53.010 a character calls Tash she. And there's this awkward pause 734 00:43:53.530 --> 00:43:57.070 before someone corrects them on the proper pronouns in the game. 735 00:43:57.449 --> 00:43:57.690 Look. 736 00:43:58.389 --> 00:44:00.730 And this time, no dragon escaped. 737 00:44:01.469 --> 00:44:02.349 Thanks to Tosh. 738 00:44:03.130 --> 00:44:04.369 That's why we recruited her. 739 00:44:05.869 --> 00:44:06.030 Um. 740 00:44:07.989 --> 00:44:10.659 Actually, Tosh uses them for themselves now. 741 00:44:11.300 --> 00:44:13.800 They asked us to let folks know, so now you do. 742 00:44:14.380 --> 00:44:14.599 Yeah. 743 00:44:15.679 --> 00:44:16.460 I appreciate it. 744 00:44:16.920 --> 00:44:17.679 Thank you for telling me. 745 00:44:18.860 --> 00:44:20.139 That's why we recruited them. 746 00:44:21.519 --> 00:44:25.119 The character creator even gives your hero an option. I 747 00:44:26.989 --> 00:44:32.570 can't even believe this. For top surgery scars. Mark Kern, 748 00:44:33.369 --> 00:44:36.750 a former World of Warcraft team lead, said the game 749 00:44:36.929 --> 00:44:41.869 lectures you on the right way to apologize for misgendering someone. 750 00:44:43.050 --> 00:44:46.550 Watch what happens when yet another character misgenders Tash. 751 00:44:47.059 --> 00:44:50.800 She's still holding the ruby in her other hand. Maker's panties, 752 00:44:50.860 --> 00:44:52.300 I was so proud. 753 00:44:53.219 --> 00:44:56.769 Oh, um, ah, sh * *. 754 00:44:57.199 --> 00:44:59.840 They, they're still holding it, sorry. 755 00:45:01.199 --> 00:45:01.780 What are you doing? 756 00:45:02.519 --> 00:45:03.219 Pulling a barve. 757 00:45:03.980 --> 00:45:04.079 Oh. 758 00:45:05.079 --> 00:45:06.559 Okay. A barve? 759 00:45:07.199 --> 00:45:09.420 Tradition in the Lords of Fortune, from one of our 760 00:45:09.480 --> 00:45:12.119 old members, Barve. Good guy, but like most of us, 761 00:45:12.159 --> 00:45:15.710 his plans went sideways a lot. Bad blood among your crews, 762 00:45:15.769 --> 00:45:18.329 not good for morale, but there's not always time for big, 763 00:45:18.409 --> 00:45:21.849 drawn-out apologies. So when one of us screws

up and 764 00:45:21.869 --> 00:45:23.670 we know we've screwed up, we do a quick ten 765 00:45:23.710 --> 00:45:24.349 to put it right. 766 00:45:24.670 --> 00:45:28.320 Pulling a barve. Now, gamers answered with their wallets. EA 767 00:45:28.380 --> 00:45:32.019 says Veilguard drew about 1.5 million players, about half of 768 00:45:32.079 --> 00:45:37.199 what it expected. This summer, EA's $ 55 billion sale closed, 769 00:45:37.599 --> 00:45:40.059 and the company went private. And last week, after the sale, 770 00:45:40.199 --> 00:45:46.199 EA shut down BioWare's Edmonton studio, part of about 400 771 00:45:46.199 --> 00:45:51.300 job cuts. I guess go woke, go broke. Games, where 772 00:45:51.340 --> 00:45:54.789 millions of American kids spend their evenings, And what's on 773 00:45:54.829 --> 00:45:58.809 that screen shapes them. I see BioWare closing as a 774 00:45:58.909 --> 00:46:01.449 positive step for kids' minds now that the rest of 775 00:46:01.469 --> 00:46:04.929 the industry, they need to get their message. Our kids 776 00:46:04.989 --> 00:46:07.389 want a good story. They want to play a video game. 777 00:46:07.429 --> 00:46:12.769 They don't want your nonsense woke lectures. Now, in order, 778 00:46:12.809 --> 00:46:15.230 I don't play video games, so in order to break 779 00:46:15.269 --> 00:46:18.110 this down in a way I can understand this, joining 780 00:46:18.150 --> 00:46:21.940 me now is actually somebody who's usually behind your camera, 781 00:46:22.300 --> 00:46:24.519 and now he's in front of it, my producer here 782 00:46:24.699 --> 00:46:28.469 at David Pollak Prime Time on OAN. Thomas, Thomas, welcome. 783 00:46:29.570 --> 00:46:31.309 On this side of the camera. Now, you brought me 784 00:46:31.349 --> 00:46:34.869 this story because you're like, David, look at this video game. 785 00:46:35.050 --> 00:46:38.320 You showed me that scene where Tash is coming out 786 00:46:38.699 --> 00:46:41.239 and you can't even skip the scene. You're forced to 787 00:46:41.320 --> 00:46:44.280 watch this whole stupid thing play out. And I said, oh, 788 00:46:44.300 --> 00:46:47.539 my God, I did not realize how they were targeting 789 00:46:47.739 --> 00:46:49.800 our kids in these role playing games. Talk about this, 790 00:46:49.820 --> 00:46:50.940 because this is all new to me. 791 00:46:51.739 --> 00:46:53.760 Well, I think one of the biggest things here is 792 00:46:54.360 --> 00:46:58.860 even less so about just the forced woke ideology and 793 00:46:58.960 --> 00:47:00.929 all these things, as important as it is that that 794 00:47:00.989 --> 00:47:04.150 is happening, because like you said, you cannot skip this scene. 795 00:47:04.230 --> 00:47:07.730 And as we saw, people are, there's characters doing pushups 796 00:47:07.969 --> 00:47:11.849 as a recompense for saying she instead of they, and 797 00:47:12.710 --> 00:47:16.210 probably the most awkward coming out scene in any media 798 00:47:16.230 --> 00:47:18.769 that I have ever seen, and they've been happening more 799 00:47:18.809 --> 00:47:21.530 and more often, But in addition to that, it's also 800 00:47:21.550 --> 00:47:25.510 the reaction to this because this was the latest game 801 00:47:25.590 --> 00:47:27.909 of one of the biggest studios. The Mass Effect games 802 00:47:27.949 --> 00:47:30.989 were huge. I played the last one, Mass Effect Andromeda. 803 00:47:31.010 --> 00:47:36.159 It was an amazing game despite its unfinished state. The 804 00:47:36.199 --> 00:47:39.840 last Dragon Age game, Dragon Age Origins, is widely considered 805 00:47:39.880 --> 00:47:43.699 one of the best RPGs of all time. And now 806 00:47:43.739 --> 00:47:46.119 they come out with The Veil Guard, and instead of 807 00:47:46.219 --> 00:47:51.989 making a... storyline that really captures audiences and really brings 808 00:47:52.050 --> 00:47:54.610 people in on what they want to do, which is, 809 00:47:54.710 --> 00:47:58.730 as you said, create a hero, fight enemies, save people. 810 00:47:58.809 --> 00:48:00.349 That's what these RPGs are about. 811 00:48:00.929 --> 00:48:04.699 Instead, it became this, well, now we're going to talk 812 00:48:04.739 --> 00:48:08.239 about this character's non-binary and you have to take them 813 00:48:08.260 --> 00:48:11.789 with you and you have to watch this happen. And Gamers, 814 00:48:12.610 --> 00:48:15.349 for better or worse, didn't react well to that. That's 815 00:48:15.389 --> 00:48:17.199 not what they wanted out of their game. And so 816 00:48:17.920 --> 00:48:21.780 now that EA has been purchased and they shut down BioWare, 817 00:48:23.159 --> 00:48:26.340 that's all that happens. That's where everything ended for BioWare. 818 00:48:26.400 --> 00:48:30.190 And it's a shame that such a legendary studio had 819 00:48:30.210 --> 00:48:33.570 to be shut down because they couldn't make games people wanted. 820 00:48:33.630 --> 00:48:35.389 Instead, they make games that they wanted. 821 00:48:36.469 --> 00:48:38.829 And we talk about at the beginning of the show, 822 00:48:38.889 --> 00:48:43.699 we talk about sort of this battle between socialism and 823 00:48:43.719 --> 00:48:47.320 the West. And I don't want to make everything about that. 824 00:48:47.960 --> 00:48:51.059 But you have to understand this effort to divide people 825 00:48:51.199 --> 00:48:53.739 on every single issue, where you can't even escape it. 826 00:48:53.949 --> 00:48:55.710 You can't go to a sporting event now and escape 827 00:48:56.010 --> 00:48:58.210 the division. You can't play a video game and escape 828 00:48:58.230 --> 00:49:00.269 the division. You can't go to a concert anymore and 829 00:49:00.289 --> 00:49:02.320 escape the division. You can't go and watch a movie 830 00:49:02.340 --> 00:49:04.719 and escape the division. And it's on every single thing, 831 00:49:04.760 --> 00:49:08.360 whether it's Palestine, whether it's a war in Iran, whether 832 00:49:08.400 --> 00:49:13.070 it's

gender fluidity. A video game character, this one in particular, 833 00:49:13.090 --> 00:49:15.889 it's like some beast thing with horns. 834 00:49:15.980 --> 00:49:16.059 And. 835 00:49:16.079 --> 00:49:17.760 It's like a dragon. They're like part dragon. 836 00:49:18.820 --> 00:49:21.059 It doesn't even have an anatomy as far as I'm concerned. 837 00:49:21.079 --> 00:49:22.739 We all remember when we were young and we had 838 00:49:22.780 --> 00:49:25.500 our action figures. None of them ever had clothes on. 839 00:49:25.699 --> 00:49:27.670 And you know what? They didn't have any private parts. 840 00:49:27.730 --> 00:49:30.570 It was just either plastic underwear or nothing. It was 841 00:49:30.590 --> 00:49:32.809 just with their legs attached. None of us, when we 842 00:49:32.849 --> 00:49:36.210 were young and played with things, ever thought of... characters 843 00:49:36.230 --> 00:49:38.869 that are like non-human alien looking things of having any 844 00:49:38.949 --> 00:49:42.289 gender at all. It's just, it's not relevant to playing. 845 00:49:42.769 --> 00:49:46.190 And here they've gone out of their way, freaking top 846 00:49:46.210 --> 00:49:50.739 surgery scars to make characters have these. I mean, what 847 00:49:50.760 --> 00:49:52.409 would be really funny if they want to have fun 848 00:49:52.429 --> 00:49:54.300 with it, what they could say is he can look 849 00:49:54.360 --> 00:49:57.539 down and go, I have no gender. I guess I'm non-binary. 850 00:49:57.719 --> 00:49:59.380 Now that would be funny because we would all laugh 851 00:49:59.420 --> 00:50:01.579 because that's like a toy story joke from the way 852 00:50:01.599 --> 00:50:05.949 these things are made. Nobody wants this stuff force fed 853 00:50:05.989 --> 00:50:09.099 to them constantly. People go to video games to escape life, 854 00:50:09.159 --> 00:50:11.179 especially now more than ever, because it is just so 855 00:50:11.260 --> 00:50:14.280 overwhelming to be bombarded by all these politics. And now 856 00:50:14.320 --> 00:50:16.889 they've even ruined that. So where do people go? Now, 857 00:50:16.929 --> 00:50:19.070 what are people playing now if they're running away from 858 00:50:19.090 --> 00:50:21.170 these types of games? What games are successful? 859 00:50:21.920 --> 00:50:25.219 I think actually there's been a huge rise lately in 860 00:50:25.500 --> 00:50:29.519 indie video games, which is games made by smaller teams. 861 00:50:29.900 --> 00:50:32.280 Usually some of these big ones are made just by 862 00:50:32.639 --> 00:50:35.769 one person sitting in their garage on a computer and 863 00:50:35.869 --> 00:50:39.489 programming a game they want to make. And it's been 864 00:50:39.570 --> 00:50:42.539 crazy to watch in the last couple years how these 865 00:50:42.639 --> 00:50:45.280 big AAA studios, which is what we call the big 866 00:50:45.340 --> 00:50:50.170 companies like EA, and you've got BioWare up there, Obsidian, 867 00:50:50.190 -->

00:50:53.309 some of these really big companies that have made great 868 00:50:53.349 --> 00:50:56.469 games in the past, But lately they've been falling short. 869 00:50:56.769 --> 00:50:59.070 And so people have been turning more to indie studios 870 00:50:59.159 --> 00:51:03.800 and independent game makers. And just watching that rise as 871 00:51:03.880 --> 00:51:06.320 people have been able to play what they want to 872 00:51:06.360 --> 00:51:08.980 play and make what they want to make has been 873 00:51:09.420 --> 00:51:11.880 the big thing. It's amazing what happens when you have 874 00:51:12.059 --> 00:51:15.519 a small group of people that don't have to answer 875 00:51:15.539 --> 00:51:19.619 to somebody pushing Like, oh, we need more representation in 876 00:51:19.639 --> 00:51:22.250 this game. And I honestly think that's what happened with 877 00:51:22.670 --> 00:51:25.710 the last Dragon Age game. They just said, they looked 878 00:51:25.730 --> 00:51:27.869 at the game and went, oh no, we don't have 879 00:51:27.909 --> 00:51:31.610 any representation. And non-binary was the big thing when that 880 00:51:31.650 --> 00:51:32.829 game came out a couple of years ago. 881 00:51:33.050 --> 00:51:35.260 And so they said, well, here's our non-binary character. We're 882 00:51:35.280 --> 00:51:35.760 throwing it in. 883 00:51:37.539 --> 00:51:39.639 I think it's, everybody's just so sick and tired of that. 884 00:51:40.119 --> 00:51:42.980 I remember when I watched the Eternals and when Marvel 885 00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:44.579 really just fell off a cliff. I used to love 886 00:51:44.599 --> 00:51:47.400 all the Marvel movies. I watched Eternals. And they have, like, 887 00:51:47.420 --> 00:51:51.090 these are aliens from another planet that came to Earth and, like, 888 00:51:51.139 --> 00:51:54.070 blended in to shape human history. And each one of 889 00:51:54.110 --> 00:51:56.090 them checked some kind of woke box that had, like, 890 00:51:56.389 --> 00:52:02.210 a deaf one, a non-binary, minor-looking one that was attracted 891 00:52:02.250 --> 00:52:04.380 to an older adult. I mean, they literally went as 892 00:52:04.469 --> 00:52:06.559 far as they could. And I'm like, this has nothing 893 00:52:06.579 --> 00:52:08.900 to do with the story. Video games went the same way. 894 00:52:09.159 --> 00:52:10.579 You know, if people want a fun game, they can 895 00:52:10.599 --> 00:52:13.239 go to whitehouse.gov. They have real simple video games. I 896 00:52:13.260 --> 00:52:15.039 was playing that day. You just press the button, little 897 00:52:15.079 --> 00:52:15.840 bird flaps. 898 00:52:16.320 --> 00:52:16.420 Yep. 899 00:52:16.440 --> 00:52:19.940 Anybody who played Flappy Bird on the iPod back in 900 00:52:20.539 --> 00:52:23.320 the early 2010s, they have a version of it on there. 901 00:52:23.340 --> 00:52:23.590 Yeah. 902 00:52:23.619 --> 00:52:25.449 So we could just get rid of all the woke 903 00:52:25.469 --> 00:52:28.829 stuff and just play the whitehouse.gov games. And that's pretty simple, right? 904 00:52:29.230 --> 00:52:29.510 Oh, yeah. 905 00:52:29.530 --> 00:52:32.769 That's a really simple way to do it. And I mean, again, 906 00:52:32.849 --> 00:52:37.300 like nowadays... it's so easy to make a game. It's it, 907 00:52:37.380 --> 00:52:40.019 they've made it so simple with some of these ways 908 00:52:40.840 --> 00:52:43.280 that now like steam is the big way people play 909 00:52:43.300 --> 00:52:46.780 games on their computer. There's games on there that people 910 00:52:46.820 --> 00:52:50.619 are selling for $ 2 and some of them look better 911 00:52:50.739 --> 00:52:52.659 than some of the big AAA games that have come out. 912 00:52:52.679 --> 00:52:54.420 And that's the strategy is give back to the people 913 00:52:54.440 --> 00:52:57.780 that have built what they want. Thomas, my producer from 914 00:52:57.840 --> 00:53:00.760 behind the camera to in front of the camera. Thank 915 00:53:00.780 --> 00:53:02.849 you for being here. And, uh, You know, I think 916 00:53:02.869 --> 00:53:05.059 you have to run back now and make sure we 917 00:53:05.099 --> 00:53:06.199 have the rest of the show, right? 918 00:53:06.280 --> 00:53:06.539 Oh, yeah. 919 00:53:06.739 --> 00:53:08.280 Got to make sure that everything ends on time. 920 00:53:08.480 --> 00:53:12.389 That's right. Thanks for being here, Thomas. That is our 921 00:53:12.510 --> 00:53:15.710 show for tonight. Make sure you tune in tomorrow. 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