Yannis Pappas Hour - Watching the 🇺🇸 Pie Bake

Episode Date: March 7, 2025

Yanni wonders whether the American worker will rise to the occasion and outperform factory and farm workers from less consumer-conditioned countries. How long will the economic squeeze be blamed on Biden? How long is Trump’s grace period for that? Is the goal to crash the economy in the short term to bring back factories and pay down the debt? Will Trump supporters go along with it? And finally, a critical look into Steve Bannon & Elon Musk. We don’t know what’s gonna happen, it’s got to play out, we are all just watching the American Pie bake. Support our sponsors https://www.hims.com/yannis  Bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/yannispappashour

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Yannis Papas from the the Yanis Papas Hour here, sitting here with T-Boz from TLC, Jesse Scatoro wearing overalls, bringing them back, Left Eye Lopez. It's a perfect occasion. It's an outfit switch for a vibe shift that's happening in the country. He's now from Iowa and he's a corn husker. I think they're in Nebraska or whatever, but we are all feeling the wrath of the rust belt. This is their time. They're coming back, but they're feeling the wrath that the grocery store trader Joe's doing real well right now, but unfortunately they're not in Nebraska.

I don't think because the trader Joe's does good prices because they make all their stuff, right? Grocery store things are very expensive, but don't worry, that can be Biden's fault for I think 1.5 years. I'm gonna say he's gonna get a grace period of 1.5. He will continue to blame it for all four. And I think his hardcore fans will go with him.

But I think the moderates like I've described that determined everything will go you got 1.5 years to get my fucking eggs down because I needed an omelet and groceries are very high the tariffs are in effect it's we're gonna feel we're gonna feel a little bit we're gonna feel it the 25% tariffs with Canada and Mexico are arch enemies are in effect. There is a caveat for the auto industry.

They get one more month, one more month. So if you need your Lexus, do it now. Like I have just, a week ago, I stocked up on maple syrup and Alanis Morissette CDs. Get your, what cars do they make in Canada? Get your Canadian fucking A. Get your A-mobile right now while you can. You just got to stock up. But the the trade wars are going into effect. We're gonna feel it a little bit.

And the long-term plan is this going to bring back factories to America and more jobs to America. We'll make more in America. Farmers get ready. We need your produce. No more strawberries from Argentina. But the problem is the illegals are gone. So are Americans going to do the jobs that illegals did? We have an example. I think it was Alabama that tried it. It didn't work out. What's the over under? You can go and you can gamble it. Is it on, what is it? What's that site called where you can gamble everything that sponsors us once in a while? I can't remember right now. Tosh, what is

it? Go to Cal-She and you can frame it. What's the over-under on the American worker switching real quick from a lazy consumer-based economy to a production economy? What do you think? I think we're gonna find out. We're definitely... are these Americans gonna get back on the line? Are they getting back on the line? Are they getting back in the fields? Are they willing to do the farm work that we need? What do you think, Jess?

Do we need our strawberries from? Well, Argentina, I think we're gonna have a free trade agreement with. So Argentina is a bad example. Yeah, we like him. Yeah, whoever's holding a chainsaw, we're gonna have a free trade agreement with. If you don't have a chainsaw in your hand, be prepared for a tariff Jackins to come your way. But we don't need our meat from Brazil.

We don't need, you know, it's not happening anymore. We don't need any produce from China, whatever. And Mayor Z, I just like to call him Mayor Z because I want to honor Trump calling Trudeau Governor Trudeau. So let's, let's insult Mayor Z. Mayor Z, state legislative representative Mayor Z, coldly and quietly said, and scarily said, depending on how you interpret it. He said, we're ready for whatever war comes with the United States.

Is that was his exact quote, right? If war is what the US wants to, no, that wasn't his quote though. He says, we're ready for any type of war, right? Yeah, this is from the Chinese spokesperson. Oh, the spokesperson. From the Chinese embassy. Yeah, the spokesperson. From the Chinese embassy. Yeah, which just, that's how a mob boss does it too.

They send a capo out to make a statement. And Trump just goes straight from the hip and he's firing off tariffs. And the idea behind it is maybe to crash the American economy in order to pay back some of this debt. That's what some people theorize, right? People are gonna feel the squeeze a little bit to pay off the debt because if the debt gets to a certain point, we're all going to crash

anyway, even though our debt is kind of backed up by the American gun, Mr. Smith and Wesson, come get your money if you want it. But I guess that's the idea. Also, we want to go to Mars, right? Trump gave a big speech. He said, we're going to Mars. That was a big win for the transhumanists for Elon Musk. That could have came out of Elon Musk's mouth. Steve Bannon not going to be so happy about that. He doesn't like the tech bubble and their monopoly. He said they got a monopoly, even though I don't know, is it a monopoly? You got rumble, you got truth social, you got TikTok. I mean, it's Chinese, but you got X, you got threads, threads is competition X. There seems to be competition. It's just one of those things where the competition is not as

popular. So it's interesting to me because they're kind of democratic talking points, right? Steve Bannon is a big fan of con and he. He's a conservative. He wants to break up all the Amazon, he wants to break up Amazon, he wants to break up all these people because he says they have a monopoly and that's no good. That is a democratic position. That's hardcore FCC, get in there, break them up. So I'm very confused. Sometimes it's a very confusing world now in who is a Democrat and who's a Republican, right? Sanctuary cities, okay.

Boston is one of the major big sanctuary cities that is also one of the major safe cities in the country. It's always in the top 15. The ones ahead of it, okay, Irvine. I mean, really, is that a city? It's a white rich suburb. But Boston's crime rate has been going down. It's pretty safe. And Mayor Wu, or let's go with the Trumped edition, School Principal Wu, and three other mayors were called to

Congress to testify about what they've been doing with the sanctuary city stuff and are they breaking federal law? She claims we're not. They're all claiming we don't, we abide by the federal law, but they say they don't ask the immigration status of people, whatever. So they are kind of breaking federal law, but also the city law, when does that take, what does city and state law take precedent? And it seems like the Republicans are going,

we're invoking the supremacy clause, the supremacy clause of the constitution. What is the supremacy clause of the constitution? What is it? It's an Alexander Hamilton loved clause saying federal over state, federal law takes precedent over city and state law, which again, I have to admit is a little bit more or it used to be a democratic position, right? Because when it comes to abortion, they say that the federal has no no supremacy over state and city law and they enacted that. They codified

that through the Supreme Court, which was a major, major, major win for the religious, right? So, but they're quoting that now, the Supremacy Clause. So they like it. They like the Supremacy Clause for sanctuary cities, but they don't like it for abortion. They don't like it, even though it is, they're allowing that for abortion. But they didn't like the federal law that said that it's federal law that you can get an abortion up to a couple trimesters. What was the first trimester? What was the federal law? Who knows? I don't know a lot about it. I'm just pointing out the

tenets, the underneath, what they call the anatomy. So I'm confused. Steve Bannon, he's a good talker. But yeah, it's interesting when he says that, you know, he says some good things, right? Like Obama, I think really was aware of social media and used social media very well. But I don't think it was social media is what made Barack Obama president.

I think eight years of a pretty horrible Bush administration, a guy who can talk helped that. So I don't know. I think Donald Trump was probably the most social media president that was elected 2016 and 2024, which would fly in the face of the tech lords having a monopoly, having a left-wing monopoly on information because Trump won twice and he won. He wasn't getting favorable coverage on the mainstream press. So he won basically on social media and then he definitely won on social media in 2024, not just on X. He had interviews on YouTube, Spotify, those, you know.

So I don't know, is Amazon a monopoly? I don't know, right? It's an outlet, it's a digital outlet. There's a lot of small businesses that sell their stuff on Amazon that would never have a national reach, right? Am I wrong? You gotta fact check me, Jesse, my opinions. Does Amazon have a lot of small businesses on there

that would not have the national reach if they weren't on Amazon? Of course, there's plenty of competition for Amazon. Say hello to Target, say hello to Walmart. Say hello to Target, say hello to Walmart. They're just not doing as good of a job. So there's that too. They're not doing as good of a job in the digital space.

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but they definitely care about electability. But Trump only has four years. So Z's going, let's do this for four years and see how your population likes it. Am I wrong? That's probably something he said in his mind, right? Like, we'll sweat a little bit. People are under my thumb, we'll sweat a little bit

and we'll blame it on you. What makes you think Trump only has four years? Well, according to the constitution, he's only got four years, but I think he's already petitioned for a third term, right? So we're gonna see how all this plays out. We're gonna see how all this plays out. I'm really sick of people, a small amount of people calling me one thing or the other. I am an observer. I'm a comedian. That's it and that's all I'll ever be. That's it. I separate my private from my public.

I'm just looking for things and trying to make comedic points and trying to find things that might be what you call a boo boo. That's all I'm trying to do here. I don't know. Again, I reiterate, we gotta see how this all plays out, right?

Like the Panama Canal, we're seeing it play out. We are seeing it play out. We are seeing it play out and we're seeing it play out with a familiar player in the game named Black Rock, who I really don't know what they don't own. I think when it comes to Black Rock, you want to go, what don't they own? You know, when people list, when you Google something and you say, what does Disney own, right? Because they own a lot. I think with BlackRock, the question is, what don't they own? BlackRock is buying those two ports from that Hong Kong

businessman or company, whatever. They have agreed. And supposedly, it's supposed to take action in the beginning of April. But they're not giving a date because they know they got a lot of regulation hoops to jump through or whatever. But supposedly the American asset company BlackRock has purchased those points. It happened very fast and everyone's claiming it has nothing to do with the government, the American government's interest in Americanizing the control of the Panama

canal. And the head of Panama said, do you see the happening? Do you see the happening? Trump is lying. And then the Trump White House says, I just don't, they said, we don't think he knows what's going on. They said, I think he's just out of the loop because it was a $22.8 billion deal to buy the ports of Balboa and Christa Bal on either side of the canal from CK Hutchinson, a Hong Kong company. The deal is said to be done in principle. The agreement is done in principle. They're also buying CK Hutchinson's controlling interest in 43 other

ports, comprising 199 births in 23 companies, but none of the ports it operates in China or Hong Kong. So the American dollar is flexing. And through the private sector, through what some might call a growing concern, a concerning growing monopoly. A lot of people are not into BlackRock because of their real estate. They buy a lot of shit and they're forcing everyone to rent because right, they're part of that dream

of you'll own nothing and be happy. Is that BlackRock? Heard some of that. Yeah. So what do they got? BlackRock. Let's take a peek. They own in stocks, bonds and other assets through exchange traded funds, ETFs and mutual funds. Some of its big holdings include Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Tesla, Metta, Nvidia, JP Morgan Chase. Real estate through BlackRock, real asset, it

owns tons of residential commercial properties. Of course, it's private equity and private companies and startups. They own stake in energy, transportation, utilities, companies and government bonds in our country and other countries. They are big. They are big. They are the biggest asset manager in the world. They manage over $10 trillion in assets. So they invest in nearly every major public company. They run the world's biggest exchange traded fund, ETF. Their clients include governments, pension funds, and corporations that trust Black Rod to manage their money. They're also a technology powerhouse. It's a laden risk management system is used by

banks and hedge funds worldwide. Why is this important? Because it's what's the real reason why things happen. Right? It's the real reason why things happen. This intersection between the private sector and the government is in all countries. It's in all countries. In America, it's less authoritarian and it changes every four years and blahs I blah, but our politicians still become multimillionaires somehow.

Right? Because they draft up favorable legislation for people who are gonna pay them eventually. So that's how that goes. Also, I would like to point out I would just like to solve, I'd like to solve, I'd like to solve the reason why Ukraine is at war right now. It's very simple. Here's a nice fact you'd like to hear. Ukraine is home to the continent's largest reserve of lithium, titanium, and uranium and possesses 5% of the entire world's mineral resources including 23 of the 50 materials deemed critical by the United States government. So it makes it an interesting place.

Crimea has tons of oil reserves off the coast. It's also a massive naval strategic location for Russia. And yeah, you got some, the majority of the population there speaks Russian. So from the former USSR, you got that a lot all over the place because the place used to be all the USSR. So it became the official language and people moved around and you got them in Georgia you got them all over the place.

But Ukraine before the USSR annexed it was its own little area with a different language. It is what it is. But it's a it's a fertile. It's a fertile fuck. The only non fertile land that people fight over is Israel, Palestine. Other than that, you can rest assure wherever there's a dispute over a place that somebody wants to conquer, it's because it's fertile. It's fertile.

You know, and all the, the male lions, you know, try to get into that female lion, it's cause she's fertile. It's fertile. You know when all the male lions try to get into that female lion? It's because she's fertile. Ukraine is fucking fertile, dog. It ain't just a desert. It's fertile. I think they got a lot of bread there too, right? A lot of yeast or whatever. Whatever makes bread.

Wheat, barley. They got food. But they got the minerals. They got the minerals. And Donald Trump, he doesn't play words. He doesn't hide things. He just says, we want the minerals. Give us the minerals.

Give us a deal on the minerals, which to be honest with you, I can't believe there wasn't a deal there to begin with for the minerals. It's like, hey, we're giving you all this money, but you know who else is in Ukraine right now, which is going gonna make it hard for Donald Trump to drop all the foreign aid? Black, black rock, who we were just talking about, right? They're there too.

Oh, they're there big. Yep. They're there big. They're everywhere. They're working with the government, they're working with the bank to Act as a liaison take a little off the top for all these Western private investors to come in and rebuild Ukraine the money's in the so there's American interest in that place being leveled

You know, we're getting our influence in there and Putin wants it for obvious reasons He could say whatever he wants about the history and all that but ultimately the kid wants the minerals. He wants the minerals, he wants that gas reserves even though they got tons of oil and gas, he wants more and yeah okay he wants to see so he can have a naval base you know on the Black Sea right right? To counter NATO? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I think Putin knows NATO is never going to invade Russia. That's not how war works. Ultimately, Ukraine is a breadbasket. It's got the goods, baby. It's got big tits and a sweet Putin tag. So that's why it's in the news. And that's why I wants it.

It was taken from him. And it's a it's rich. There's spoils there. And he wants it. He wants the spoils. And we want the spoils. But we also don't want to push Russia into China's hands because Russia has what China needs.

Right. Energy. Food. Some foods. And so we, you know, you don't wanna, you gotta play a little nice with Putin somehow there. It's a complicated world out there. It ain't as easy as the tweets make it sound.

Those self-aggrandizing conspiracy tweets. It's not as easy or simple as the tweets make it sound, you know, or as your social group makes it sound. But underneath it all is always resources that turn into money. Everything we see around us is based on natural resources, including drugs that are made. They're made from what the earth provides. So wherever those things are, there's going to be some propaganda around why it should be this person's or that person's. And it's just, but underneath it, it's about the spoils. The Romans, what did they want? They wanted the wheat. They wanted the salt, they wanted the certain things.

What did the British crown want? They wanted the gold, they wanted the whatever from the New World, then they wanted tobacco, they want the tea, you know, and they do it through these private corporation proxies, you know, that go out there with the backing of the government's gun. But it's to get the resources because people like to have a good time.

And if you're not using those resources, if you don't want those bananas the way we want those bananas, we'll go in and get the bananas. It's a complicated world. It's a complicated world. We are gonna find out whether the American worker can can hold up to the China worker, Chinese worker,

the Vietnamese worker, the Indian worker, the Sri Lankan worker. We're gonna find out because I remember Tim Cook specifically once said it's just not possible for us to not have our factories in China. And that's what he was implying. He was like, look, they crack the whip and they make the iPhones and they make it for a certain price that makes you be able to afford it for a certain price. Yeah, we keep making you buy a new one and everything, but you're going to want to take care of that iPhone a little bit right now.

You know what's gonna come back? Repair shops. Repair shops are gonna be big because they don't want you repairing stuff. Apple does not want you to be able to repair stuff. They try to shut those shops down, but now those shops are probably gonna be propped up because you're gonna want to put a new battery in there and just keep that phone because the new one may be more expensive, because it's a complicated world. Sometimes you gotta get your labor from countries

where they don't really respect unions and workers' rights to be able to afford your Christmas tree shop tchotchkes. It's just how it goes. Am I wrong? Am I saying anything that's technically wrong? Are you in agreement? I'm in agreement, yeah. You need those little fingers,

those little children fingers. You need them and they come for $1.59 when a slave makes them. Yeah. Well, here's the thing. It's just gonna be a little short gap until we get those robots in the field. We'll get the robots

and maybe this is just a little bleed till the robots take over. The robots could definitely stand up to the Chinese worker. It's just then what the hell do you do with the rust belt with high school educations? What do you do with the guys who do this on the computer? What do you do with those guys? You just wait for them to die off?

What do you do with the Chinese? What do you do with the Mexicans? What do you do with everybody? It's a good point. It's a good point. Podcast, podcast, podcast. You know what they say? Economy, economy, economy. It's podcast, podcast, podcast.

Those who can do, go perform live. Those who can't, start a podcast. It's what it is. It's what it is. You know? There's a lower standard for for the ratio of laughs on a podcast. They're just as people just like to have a friend. They want to talk to a friend here. I mean what I've probably only got like two laughs so far. It's just like in my personality or they're hating it. But there's a lot less you know you got it when you're live you really have to produce even if you're not a comedian if you're giving doing a talking engagement you really got to be engaging live. You know when you're

passively listening people just like having a friend. Plus this is free. Yeah, and it's free. And you're just having a friend. You just listen to a friend. So I recommend instead of it's the economy stupid, I say the modern version of that is it's a podcast. Stupid start one small Patreon. You can be supported by a thousand people and those who can't do podcasts. If you can't build a robot, podcast about it. Criticize the ones who are building podcasts. Just get into the game. Get in to the commentary game

where everyone's commentating on each other. You gotta get in it. What's going on? You got the political commentators? I mean, have there ever been more political commentators? Holy mackerel, it's a boob. You got comedians commentating on fucking events like I'm doing right now?

You got everything. Just commentate. You got your entertainment, you got Perez Hilton's. That's what I'm talking about. Push the money around for eyeballs so the companies can sell us more shit and You just your house. It's just gonna be stock full of shit and every year you throw it out and fucking ends up in a land land Fuck it a landfall and some in Angola

Some some asshole of them of the world that nobody cares about or they've deemed an asshole. Sorry to my Angolian fans. But I'm pretty sure that's where all the landfill goes. Where does all the electronic shit go? India? Staten Island. Not anymore. They built hills on top of that.

But it's really not, the flaw of capitalism is it's also kind of not sustainable because it's all about, you gotta be a little corrupt to keep it going, right? Even if you're a tire shop, you gotta throw some tax out. And if you're a technology firm, your phones have to be made to self-destruct. Capitalism always has to grow.

That's the flaw in capitalism, where you get to a point where it's not good for the globe. It's not good for the globe, it's not good for the environment, it's not good for Angola! Where do all the clothes from Zara and fucking, and all the old electronics, where do they end up? I'm sure they're not all being recycled.

I'm sure only a small portion of the plastic and all this shit is recycled. I'm sure it's like Angola or Moldova or whatever. Maybe it ends up in Mozambique somewhere. Some Indian country or something like that. It ain't built to last. This Samsung, it's still going 15 years, but it's not used a lot. So maybe they're listening to me now going, now we're turn it off. Turn it off because we gotta buy a new one.

And then where does this go? No company considers end of life when they make a product anymore. You're not paying for quality. You're paying for something that is has a set death date. We murder things we're murdering electronic children. We don't let them grow up anymore. And then all that shit's got to go somewhere. There's actually a term for it's called planned obsolescence.

Planned obsolescence is what we're all doing. We're in that era. Even with our content. It's like just throw it up, dude. Don't take a lot of time on it. Just throw it up, disposable, let it happen. So we're really moving at a fast rate. It's not really a sustainable rate, you know, not even just for the environment. You're just going like, we're going to just spiral out of control in every way. It's just too much. We just got too much. But balance is always the challenge. Even with everything, balance is the challenge. We cannot find that sweet spot. Maybe this will be good. So tariffs go up, goods are more expensive, people won't buy useless shit

anymore. Could be good. Maybe it'll be a positive. But you're putting a lot of faith in people, in what people have gotten used to and what you're taking away. But maybe they will, right? Everyone got used to, remember at first when Netflix was doing the CD thing and they tried to stop it and there was a big rebellion, everyone canceled because they were upset. But then eventually, now people can't even imagine the inconvenience of getting a CD in the mail.

So maybe you're right. Maybe this is the paradigm shift that we needed. The bucket of cold water on our face to slow things down. But if we slow things down, are other countries gonna slow down? Are they gonna get ahead of us? Or be whatever. We gotta keep making Apache helicopters, right?

Or do we still, that's not gonna slow down. They gotta make a lot of drones. They're not gonna feel the recession. No, no, no. They're not feeling the tariffs. They're not gonna feel it. The defense industry don't feel nothing. They're gonna going to feel the recession. They're not feeling the tariffs. They're not going to feel it. The defense industry don't feel nothing. They're going to keep going.

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So it's interesting. This is radical shit that's gonna play out. It's gonna play out. When I mean radical, I mean there is a representative in Congress who has recommended that the four mayors in question from Denver, Chicago, Boston, and New York, she's recommended that they be prosecuted by the Department of Justice for breaking immigration laws by aiding and abetting aliens. Technically she has a

point I guess. Are they in direct violation of US code 1324? It sounds made up. But it is. 8 US Code 1234. 1324. Sorry, I got my codes. I usually have them memorized. She's referring them to the Department of Justice to our good friend, Pam Bondi, who's going after everybody. Pretty hot for a 60 year old.

Not bad. So she's recommending, she says, I don't think you guys are bad people, I think you're being misled by bad policies that don't make the American safer across, it makes all of us not safer because what happens in Boston, now technically they are illegal aliens, they have broken the law, right? Technically.

Are they committing the amount of crime or violent crime that right wing media wants you to think they are? Probably not but but there is the point that crime if I'm the family of the person that crime wouldn't have happened if we enforced our laws We also seem to be probably the only country on the planet that is so lax with our immigration laws and part of the problem with that is, is because the sheer amount of people just trying to get in, you know? So that's why if the economy totally tanks, people are going to leave on their own. They'll go, I'm going back to Mexico. But is it about the Fentanyl? Is the tariffs about the Fentanyl?

I don't know, because we're also putting 25% tariffs on Canada. So that was me going like, so is this about the Fentanyl? Or is this more about just making the American product more valuable than the more cost effective than the other than the foreign product? Which it won't be, but in the short term, I guess it's going to inspire America to be more productive on its own and more self-sufficient and, and this globalist shit that people have, you know, philosophically disagreed with. So there's a lot of weird things going on, right?

Because the far left probably likes a lot of this stuff because they're anti-globalist, right? But then they love their girlfriends are trans, so they're upset about that because they want their girlfriends to be able to play soccer, right? So it's a real political, I don't know who anyone else, I don't think they know anymore. I think if you went to some granola kid in Portland and said, didn't you protest at the, what was that big summit meeting in America where they all protested, all the countries come together?

What are you talking about? You know, the globalist conferences. Oh, back in the day, WHO? Yeah, no, not WHO. Not the, that's the who. That's the who, yeah. The WTO. WTO.

Didn't you protest the WTO? And they go, yeah. Well, I go, it seems like Trump's doing away with that. He's going America only. So isn't, and they go, yeah, but also my trans girl plays fucking soccer, you know, on a woman's team. So everything, everyone's a little confused, right?

Right, Steve, Anita Kahn, she's a Libby. She's as Libby as it gets. Right? But Steve Bannon, who's a free market guy, wants to get in there and break up monopolies. Is that a personal vendetta because they banned him on certain sites? Or is it a religious thing? He doesn't like the transhumanist stuff? He's of machines what is it he's scared of the powerful the internet he doesn't like these tech barons being unfettered I think he just got deep platform he's angry about that yeah I'm just trying to understand what it is I know he's got tons of money because he was a Hollywood producer for a little while right I think he has Seinfeld points yeah he's got Seinfeld points

that's right because the kid kid was in he's had he's points. Yeah, he's got Seinfeld points, that's right. Because the kid was in the, he's worn a few hats, he's jumped around, he's jumped around. He's jumped around a little bit. He's got his feet in a lot of different stuff in his background, but he's got big time money. And I think Trump brought him on, because they were like, hey, this guy knows the internet. I don't know. He's got a financial stake in television shows, including Seinfeld.

He still receives cash residuals when Seinfeld airs. So it's a very confusing landscape. And he and Elon Musk hate each other. He hates Elon Musk. And he's concerned about Elon Musk's talking points probably going in there. I don't think he wants to go to Mars. Does he want to go to Mars? No, I don't know.

Yeah, he's concerned with America. He wants America. He's concerned concerned with America. He wants America. He's concerned with white America. He's thinking red. I don't know if he says that full blown, right? He's thinking white and he's thinking blue. He's thinking white and he's thinking blue. He doesn't like the red, he doesn't like the brown.

He's colorblind on certain colors. Now, what are the things that he said that could be viewed as kinda his affiliation? He was also the, I think the editor of Breitbart for a little while. Right. So he's been all over the map. He's kind of all, and now he's just a pundit, right?

Who can talk. He really, when you listen to him talk, you're like, this guy can talk. Think he's got a podcast. Think he's got one, which is what I'm recommending. He's a political commentator. There's gotta be a lot of talk. It's gotta be a lot of noise. It's gotta be a lot of noise.

Our economy is based on it right now for the time being and still we start making cars again. So here's a list of investments, recent investments in the USA from major corporations. Ooh, so here we got Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, we talked about that. 100 billion dollars. Yeah, so that may just mean Taiwan is gonna be taken

by China and we've given up. We're gonna just bring your shit here. Right. Bring your stuff. And we'll get all the lithium we need from Africa and fucking Ukraine. Yes. So fuck your little island. We don't want it anymore. And that'd be funny because they'll take it, but it'll be worthless when they get it. Because that's what they want to the Chinese want. Yeah. Then Hyundai Motors and LG Energy Solutions South Korea, 4.3 billion. It's going to Georgia. They're going to Georgia. LG Energy Solutions is from South Korea is coming to Michigan. Samsung and General Motors, some of their shit to build a new EV battery is coming to New Carlisle, Indiana. These places are gonna benefit.

Yeah, so this is good, right? If you're America, pattern energy, Canada, five billion. They're coming to New Mexico, Star Plus Energy from the Netherlands. Guess where they're coming? They're coming to Indiana, Kokomo. Then you got Scout Motors from Germany. They're coming to Blythwood, South Carolina.

Not a lot of New York and California on this list. Should we move? Maybe. What the fuck, dude? Start looking at houses. I'm a little scared. We didn't let Amazon come. I'm a little scared.

Yep. I think little AOC doesn't know how the grownup world works. She doesn't have any kids. Then India, Vikram Solar is coming to Brighton, Colorado. Singapore, competitive power venture is coming to Grundy County, Illinois. So there's some stuff coming. Semiconductor and that's what Biden was trying to do this too. And he initiated a lot of this as well. I think some of this was done under his watch. Well, he brought back the semiconductor company. I know that.

With the tariffs, it might be more attractive for companies to build here. So, right. So they don't have to deal with the tariff. Yeah. Yeah. Right. It's just going to take a little while. Yep. So you're going to feel the burn. It's an investment in infrastructure. It's an investment in, um, you know, these places to build up their economies. Who knows? Yeah, you see, when you're on the left, you can't just go, I don't understand what they're trying to do. You have to go, oh, I see from their perspective, that would make the political discourse a lot easier. If you just go, alright, so what's their goal? Okay, now I understand their goal. Is that bad? Is that good? Well, it could be good. Could be bad. But they think it's good.

So you at least have to understand what they're thinking. Trump's not actively trying to destroy America in his eyes. He may end up doing that in the short term or even the long term. Depends on how that American worker's gonna work. You know? Or are they just gonna worker's gonna work, you know? Or are they just gonna import a bunch of, you know, Vietnamese people? Is the Taiwanese company gonna give them a bunch of visas and they're just making it here and they don't have to deal with

the tariff and then they just win that way but the American workers go, now my fucking town in Kokomo is full of fucking Chinese, right? And they go, well, we put King Tong on the line with Brad and Brad could not reach over his stomach to get to move the piece along. He can't get close enough to the line. He can't get close enough to the belt, the conveyor belt. So we had to bring Ting Tong, right? Because that's probably what they're going to end up doing. It all comes down to the American worker and how willing they are to get back to work

in ways that are very arduous. And I believe, I hope, we'll see. Would I be surprised if it doesn't work? No. Would I be surprised if there's a Republican administration that makes an ax all this and then, and then creates some huge loophole for Mexican immigrants to get in there and do it? I wouldn't be surprised at that either. Cause at the end of the day it's got to work and everyone throws out their ideals that they pitch to the public when they need it to work. But if they're here and they're paying taxes,

that's good for us. That's good for us, but the illegals were paying taxes too, but it also cost a lot for the border we've talked about. I think the border is gonna cost a lot anyway, but the illegals were giving taxpayers a lot of money. That's over. That part's over. So that's gonna be a sting too.

It's a very complicated issue. Can we pull up Alabama where they tried to get rid of the illegals? This is just an interesting story people should know about. Alabama tries to get rid of illegal labor. This was one of those stories that was quite interesting that everyone should know about. It was 2011, Alabama enacted enacted the Beeson Hammond Alabama Taxpayer and Citizen Protection, one of the strictest anti-immigration laws in the US,

prohibiting the hiring of undocumented workers and require employees to verify their status. The immediate consequences of HB 56 were significant. You had labor shortages, key industries such as agriculture, construction, and manufacturing experienced labor shortages as undocumented workers left the state or went into hiding. The reduction in available labor led to decreased productivity and economic output, particularly in the sectors

heavily reliant on that labor. So over time, the provisions of HB 56 were softened to legal challenges and concerns about economic repercussions. And I saw interviewers with, uh, with farmers just straight up saying it, right? I think 60 minutes did a piece on it or whomever, whichever media, I'll let you hate. And they were interviewing farmers and they were just like, you know, they wanted smoke breaks. They wanted, they wanted, you know, Chick-fil-A like they just did. And then you see the Mexicans and they just work like machines. They wanted a living wage. Yeah, they just wanted it.

Yeah, they wanted a living wage and they're going like. They wanted to get paid for their work. It just was a different thing. So they had to kind of overturn a lot of it, right? But culturally they just said, we're just easing it, we're still in it. But you know, the workers just came right back

and the farmers can't make a living doing this. These guys won't work. So that is what it comes down to. That's probably the name of the episode is like, how much do you think the American worker is gonna just get into tip top shape? Are we gathering the bad news bears right now? You know?

Is it major league too? What is that with Charlie Sheehan? Will they turn around and start winning? You know, because we're definitely, there's definitely a type of worker who gets things done quick for cheap. And a lot of times they don't got papers. See, that's another thing. Now the Dems are for exploitative labor. It's weird. Exactly. That's another point. They're for exploitive labor. They're also pro-war. They're pro-war. They're pro-war. And they're pro big pharma. And they're pro big pharma. Right.

And they were also pro bank against Trump in the New York city case. So I am confused as to who is who, right? They were, they were siding with the poor bank, with the poor bank that got frauded by Trump Saying his penthouse was bigger than it was and worth more than it was the poor banks The poor banks who reaped a profit on the deal By loading Trump the money and reap the profit they they were like, this is fraud the poor little bank the poor little bank, the poor little big bank that got, that got hoodwinked because

they didn't get an accurate assessment of the square footage of the penthouse and just didn't know that Trump was exaggerating the worth of it as if such a thing can be calculated to the dollar. The poor bank that didn't know that dance that got themselves into a deal which worked out in their favor, but but could have not worked out in their favor because the big bad mean businessman defrauded the weak little tiny bank that doesn't make any money the Democrats

siding with big banks what happened to Occupy Wall Street wasn't that they weren't they trying to fucking smash bank windows and now that's done yeah now the banks are the friend if Trump is getting a loan from him we side with the bank when it comes to war with Ukraine they don't want it to end. Keep it going. More fucking people in the meat grot. I mean, it's very weird. Very weird.

Exploitative labor. We're for it. Because I just don't think, you know, I don't think that people think about these things a lot. I don't think they think about the gray zone nuance of all these issues. I think that's become a fundamental problem on both sides. They just think the other side hates America, right? But in their mind, they love America. It's their version of America. So that's where you gotta, you gotta try to compromise, right?

You gotta compromise. The Democrats just can't keep pumping their fist and saying, you know, abortion is good. They gotta go, hey, look, it's bad, all right? Nobody wants to do it. But it's a realistic position. We gotta come with them. Okay, if you don't wanna do it in your state, fine, but they gotta figure out a way to go,

look, these people love Jesus the same way you guys love atheism or whatever. You can't force people. You got to find a compromise. They got to compromise with gay people can marry. They got the Republicans to just go, okay, right. But then they just, they made too much of a stink. We wouldn't be in this position if they didn't make too much of a stink.

And I know people are going like, oh, you're blaming the victim. No, I'm not. The majority of people don't want a trans woman in women's sports. Okay? They would have probably been fine with them other places if it wasn't that. It was like you started pushing into spaces where there was an obvious argument against. And that's just one example, you know? The whole mask mandate's like, stay inside

unless you're setting a city on fire, then that's fine. And then they go, oh, that's not happening. You're gaslighting, you're gaslighting. Joe Biden, you know, it's time for applesauce. And they keep saying he's fine. Now they've admitted that they gaslit us. Right? So it's like you're calling people stupid and you're calling people stupid with the fucking trans women are women in sports. Everyone knows sports should be separated by sex and not gender identity for

cert for the reason that I have said, and I don't want to repeat it. It's very simple. Everyone's for gender, I did a gender gender identity and trans technology in male sports because that would be fucking phenomenal. So that's why there's no controversy. And that there's no controversy on that side proves there's an unfair advantage on the other side. Right? It's just a very simple thing. That would be fucking phenomenal to watch a trans man cover, tackle Christian McCaffrey. I mean that would be fucking phenomenal. Or to play in the NBA, that would be fucking phenomenal.

It would be phenomenal. The jerseys would fly off the shelf. Fly off the shelf. You know? It would fly off the shelf, fly off the shelf. You know, it would fly off the shelf. If what's her name, the chick who was in Russia could play in the NBA, or even division one basketball, or even division three in a lot of ways, right? Maybe division three.

What's her name? Brittany Greer, Brittany Greiner. If Brittany Greiner could play in the NBA, fucking, the jerseys are flying off the shelf. She's a hero, she's a hero. But much like Jake Paul fights, the only way she'd be able to do that if she was playing in a 60 and over league,

a retired league, right? Jake Paul, in a lot of ways, is trans-agist. It's kind of trans-agist. He's a trans woman competing in women's sports. He just goes in with an unfair advantage. He's like, you know what? I'm going to fight MMA fighters who are retired. I'm going to fight smaller guys. I'm going to fight guys who clearly have CTE. I'm going to fight a 58 year old, uh, Mike Tyson, who may or may not have Parkinson's. I don't know. I'm going to,

who am I going to fight next? Hmm. Maybe Floyd Mayweather, maybe a squeak. Maybe a squeak who's 48. I'll fight him. He was supposed to fight Canelo, but it fell through. Well, because, uh, Canelo got a massive offer from Saudi Arabia and he still might. He ain't beaten Canelo. He ain't beaten Canelo. He ain't beaten Canelo. He'll have more, he's bigger than Canelo, so it's technically not fair,

but it's like, what the fuck are we doing? At this point, you've made your statement about how much money you can make. I'm not, after the Tyson fight, I'm not interested anymore. I will tune in if he's fighting a fighter who's his size and who boxes. You know, boxing and MMA, they're just two totally different sports, you know?

Like, boxers can't be successful in MMA. So those guys, they're strikers, but they have to worry about all types of things and they don't train to not be taken down. You can always be taken down, you can always be kicked. So you can't have the same fucking stance. And also it helps not to be like 50 when you fight, but he is sort of like the trans woman in women's sports of boxing.

He's got a little bit of an unfair advantage and I get it. He's only been boxing four or five years, but at this point, dude, everyone's giving you your props. You got a strong, you got a strong fucking right hand, and you're a good boxer. You're training with the best. Your money has enabled you to train. You're an amazing, they're both amazing athletes.

He's tough. It's like, if you want a box, box. But I also understand why he wouldn't. Because he's so rich. It's like, why am I gonna actually fight these poor guys and risk getting beat up? But it's like, I gotta admit, the fight these poor guys and risk getting beat up? But it's like, I gotta admit the other thing I think has run its course. After you fight Tyson at 58, he's even going like, am I gonna fight my brother?

There was no interest in that. There's just no interest anymore. If he fights Canelo, there will be interest. But it does nothing for Canelo to fight him. Canelo's at a disadvantage size wise. But Canelo will win unless they fight when he's 50, you know? But Canelo's not young anymore either, but he's just so much smaller. I mean, Jake's a big guy. He should be fighting at heavyweight. He's 6'1". He probably walks around at 220. So anyway,

that's enough of the sports commentary. But it's a confusing world. It's a confusing world. One thing that's not confusing is New York's diddler, Andrew Cuomo, will be the next mayor of New York. So Eric Adams just has to hold on. He's got senioritis. You just got to hold on, not be prosecuted, chum up to Trump, Hold on, not be prosecuted, chum up to Trump, and you'll be outta here because Cuomo is slaying everyone by a large margin. And the new polls got him with a sizable lead over everyone and he's gonna win. So that's it.

Andrew Cuomo will be the next mayor. He'll be the nominee for sure, but then who's gonna beat him on the Republican side? Not going to happen in New York. So it was a short fling, the short fling with Eric Adams. And I'm sure he's going to leave with gold bars and Turkish travel points. But the old will become the new in New York. The governor will be the new mayor. And everyone's forgot about all the old people he killed with his policies.

Even his book didn't mention that when he decided to put them all back in the home and they all just dropped like flies from COVID. Um, and that's it. And that's what it will be. So that's the world. Um, there could be, could be referendums for new mayors in sanctuary cities, besides Adams, because they could all be going to jail. We don't know. Things are up in the

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when they were hungry to make a living in the new world and ready to be abused and not realize it because they come, it came from abject poverty or they were fleeing fascism or religious conflict. Who do you got your money on? I got my money on fucking Colorado. I got my money. This is actually going to be good for the American worker, not just the company that's bypassing the tariffs.

This is a workers gain. It'll either be and the Republicans will stay in power or it'll be a clusterfuck of a different type of immigrant import that's taking jobs in a different way under the guise of bringing factories back to America, and then they'll be kicked out, unless of course Trump fucking turns it into a dictator chip till he's 96, that could happen too. We gotta let it all play out. I don't know, but those are the facts. Those are the factors. Are they facts?

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