1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:04,880 Speaker 1: Michael, It's not only just wrong for them to tax 2 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: my additional bedrooms that I have available. Frankly, how would 3 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:12,480 Speaker 1: they even know that I have a spare bedroom unless 4 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: they come into my house and count the nembroom bedrooms 5 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 1: and count the number of people that live there. That 6 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 1: is an invasion of privacy. And they need a warrant 7 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:22,280 Speaker 1: to enter into my house to count the number of bedrooms. 8 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:24,640 Speaker 1: So if somebody came up to me and said that, 9 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 1: I'd be like, Nope, get a warrant. 10 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 2: Thanks. Boy, she's feisty, isn't she. Did you hear a 11 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:34,159 Speaker 2: cat in the background. No? I don't think so. 12 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 3: I think I think I heard a cat way back 13 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 3: in the background. Yeah, I owe her a phone call, 14 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 3: or not a phone call, I owe her, replied to 15 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 3: an email. I just realized I have not done that. Man. 16 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 3: Emails just my inboxes are just absurd. If you've been 17 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 3: to greg have you ever been to Porto Ricle? 18 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:53,559 Speaker 2: But the recal no, I have not. 19 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 4: You have not. 20 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 3: It's a pretty it's a fairly interesting place, a lot 21 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 3: of history to it. It's been about ten years since 22 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:06,800 Speaker 3: I've been there. But I have a friend who has 23 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:14,120 Speaker 3: a very successful business down there, and it's it's a 24 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 3: unique place that quite frankly, we to just get rid of. 25 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 3: Before Trump took office for the second term, Puerto Rico 26 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 3: bought much of its LNG it's liquified natural gas from abroad. 27 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:31,760 Speaker 3: It bought it primarily from Trinidad and Tobago and a 28 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 3: bunch of African suppliers. Not because the United States didn't 29 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 3: have the gas. We have become the world's dominant liquid 30 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 3: natural gas exporter. 31 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:43,399 Speaker 2: The reason was. 32 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 3: Policy democrats on the Puerto Rico Financial Oversight and Management Board, which, 33 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 3: by the way, I probably shouldn't gloss over that Puerto 34 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 3: Rico is governed by a financial Oversight and Management board 35 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 3: because the governments just so corrupt. Is it's like a 36 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 3: bankrupt company that goes into a Chapter eleven and you 37 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 3: assigned a trustee to oversee the reorganization of the business. 38 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:14,679 Speaker 3: That's kind of what's going on in Puerto Rico. The 39 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 3: Democrats on that financial oversight board refused to approve large 40 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 3: scale purchases of US liquefied natural gas. So Trump started 41 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 3: pushing for a shift toward US energy, and that same 42 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 3: board blocked it. So in August he got rid of 43 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 3: all but one member of that board. By December, the 44 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:40,920 Speaker 3: board approved a deal so they would start sourcing almost 45 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:44,960 Speaker 3: all of Puerto Rico's LNG from New Fortress Energy in 46 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 3: a US company. 47 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 2: So the good news is Puerto Rico's finally buying American gas. 48 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 3: The bad news is that the Jones Act makes the 49 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 3: deal far more expensive than it needs to be because 50 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 3: there are no Jones Act compliant LNG tankers, so the 51 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 3: US guests must be shipped to Mexico, liquefied there, and 52 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 3: then sent on to Puerto Rico. That detour adds about 53 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 3: five hundred million dollars per year to electricity cost, and 54 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:22,080 Speaker 3: that cost lands on the families and the businesses in 55 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 3: Puerto Rico. They can at least afford it, but forget 56 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 3: the Jones Act, forget the board, everything else. Just that example, 57 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 3: I think is an example of a deeper problem, because 58 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 3: the economic pain in Puerto Rico is not inevitable. It 59 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 3: is a man made cost premium layered on top of 60 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 3: an already fragile economy. The Jones Act regime simply requires 61 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 3: the goods moved by water between US ports travel on 62 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 3: vessels that are US flagged. Largely for the most part, 63 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 3: US built, US owned and staffed or crewed by US citizens. 64 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 3: Now Puerto Rico was treated as part of that domestic system. 65 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 3: On the mainland, farms can route around shipping bottlenecks with 66 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:19,160 Speaker 3: trucks and rail. Puerto Rico can't do that because, in 67 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:22,719 Speaker 3: case you didn't notice, it's an island. So it's a 68 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 3: shipping restriction that becomes an economy wide markup for LNG. Now, 69 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 3: the evidence for that is not exotic. A New York 70 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 3: SAD report notes that shipping to Puerto Rico is more 71 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 3: costly than to nearby islands USVII, or to the British 72 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 3: Virgin Islands, or to Carrosaw or anywhere else. It's more 73 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:52,479 Speaker 3: costly to those nearby islands, and that highlights reduced competition 74 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:58,359 Speaker 3: with mainland to Puerto Rico routes handled by small number 75 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 3: of carriers till the same analysis compares container costs from 76 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 3: the East coast to Puerto Rico with costs to say, 77 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 3: the Dominican Republic or Jamaica, and finds the Puerto Rico 78 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:14,279 Speaker 3: lane is more expensive even though it's actually shorter. This 79 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 3: is the Jones Act operating as a hidden tax, and 80 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 3: hidden taxes are usually the most regressive because when shipping 81 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,360 Speaker 3: costs rise, the price of the essentials that are being 82 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 3: carried by those ships increases. Food, fuel, medicine, construction materials, 83 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 3: all of most of which has to be imported to 84 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 3: Puerto Rico. That dominates household budgets. What do you spend 85 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:40,839 Speaker 3: most of your money on in your house? In your household, food, fuel, medicine. 86 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 3: A policy that inflates those prices functions like a stealth 87 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 3: tax on ordinary families, and one credible estimate models the 88 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 3: burden is equivalent to about a thirty one percent tariff 89 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:00,600 Speaker 3: on certain final products that are shipped from the mainland 90 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:05,160 Speaker 3: US from the mainland US to Puerto Rico, and energy 91 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 3: is the cleanest test of that theory. A Congressional Research 92 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 3: Service analyst states that there are no jones at qualified 93 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 3: LNG tankers and that the US is not built one 94 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 3: in decades. That single fact explains why non contiguous markets 95 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:25,479 Speaker 3: can't fully benefit from mainland liquid natural guests under these 96 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 3: domestic shipping rules. This is not a few cents on 97 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 3: a can of suit. It shapes the entire energy stack. 98 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:39,359 Speaker 3: Power prices influence industrial competitiveness, It influences housing costs in 99 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 3: fact we know, as we've discussed thousands of times, energy 100 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 3: costs is reflected in the cost of everything that we 101 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 3: consume in Puerto Rico. The penalties, I said is about 102 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,320 Speaker 3: five hundred million dollars per year. Now you get rid 103 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 3: of that penalty and put Puerto Rico, the island would 104 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 3: start winning by default. So the right pitch for Puerto 105 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 3: Rico is not a bunch of subsidies. It's not speeches 106 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:08,599 Speaker 3: about this or that. It is arbitrage plus certainty. The 107 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:12,720 Speaker 3: island sits astride both the Atlantic and the Caribbean shipping lanes. 108 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 3: It uses the US dollar, It fits US commercial practices, 109 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:21,160 Speaker 3: It has a bilingual workforce. It has an existing pharma 110 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 3: and manufacturing base. So when you remove a built in 111 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 3: shipping markup and replace red tape with predictable rules, you 112 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 3: don't have to invest people, you don't have to coax 113 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 3: people to invest. It arise because the returns become obvious. 114 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 3: So a thriving Puerto Rico would also be a near 115 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 3: shore supply chain asset strengthening logistics, strengthening light manufacturing, strengthening 116 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 3: our pharmaceutical supply chain closer to the mainland and farther 117 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:55,080 Speaker 3: from the risk that China is, so why should we 118 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 3: make this an economic project? 119 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 4: Since the early sixties when zoning and regional buildings started 120 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 4: coming across the whole country, they do know how many 121 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 4: bedrooms you have, because you had they had to get 122 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 4: permits and go through the zoning, you know, the code enforcement, 123 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 4: all this other type of stuff. So that's one thing 124 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:20,280 Speaker 4: we learned after World War Two from the Germans. 125 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, they probably didn't mean you know, they at least 126 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 3: know the se well. I guess you could get the 127 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 3: building permit and you could determine from that how many rooms. 128 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 5: And I mean, Bilo knows how many bedrooms I have, 129 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 5: Zillo knows how many bedrooms? 130 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 2: That? Yeah, Zilo reelder or they all know. 131 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 4: Good. 132 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 3: Back to Porto Rico for a second. Let's talk about 133 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 3: the politics. Puerto Rico residents pay about five billion dollars 134 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 3: in federal taxes every year. They did about forty billion 135 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:57,199 Speaker 3: dollars in federal eight so that imbalance. Many people argue 136 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 3: calls for statehood. I don't want to give porterrical statehood 137 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:04,079 Speaker 3: because that would probably well, it would mean two Democrat 138 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 3: senators and probably mean anywhere from four to five Democrat 139 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:10,199 Speaker 3: House members, which would equate to anywhere from six to eight, 140 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:14,000 Speaker 3: six or seven electoral votes. Instead, I want to give 141 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,960 Speaker 3: a conservative free market answer, because the conservative free market 142 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 3: answer is not stagnation, It is autonomy plus growth. Because 143 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 3: if Puerto Rico thrives under a freedom and investment model, 144 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:30,720 Speaker 3: the emotional and the fiscal case for statehood starts to 145 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 3: just disappear. Instead, prosperity becomes the disincentive to statehood, and 146 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:41,040 Speaker 3: I think Trump has shown how to do that by 147 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 3: exactly what he did with the Jones Act and getting 148 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:48,240 Speaker 3: them to start purchasing liquid fied natural gas from this country. 149 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 2: So why Trump and why now? 150 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:53,680 Speaker 3: Because Trump has already know a lot of people thought 151 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:57,520 Speaker 3: was impossible. He forced the system to move Puerto Rico 152 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 3: onto USLNG that broke decades of political and regulatory resistance 153 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 3: and prove that entrenched arrangements can be overturned. That success 154 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:12,360 Speaker 3: clarifies the moment for what to do next. The first 155 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 3: step was energy normalization. The next step would be to 156 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:19,840 Speaker 3: get that new board, the new board members to do 157 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:25,199 Speaker 3: structural reform and Trump's position to challenge legacy protectionist arrangements 158 00:10:25,559 --> 00:10:29,600 Speaker 3: and align that effort with his America First agenda. That 159 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:36,319 Speaker 3: lowers distortions, normalizes trade and energy sources, pulls supply chains 160 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 3: into the US orbit. So temporary waivers for the Jones Act, 161 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:43,560 Speaker 3: for example, that would have been narrow and situational. The 162 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:47,679 Speaker 3: durable fix is a legislative. Trump should set the priority, 163 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:52,080 Speaker 3: frame it as a national economic fairness issue, then demand 164 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:57,080 Speaker 3: to vote, because Puerto Rico doesn't really need pity, it 165 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 3: needs equal treatment, it needs pro growth rooms. 166 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:03,000 Speaker 2: I understand that all the local governments are corrupt. 167 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:06,400 Speaker 3: My friend that runs a business down there, happens to 168 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:10,920 Speaker 3: deal in security, happens to deal with the casinos, happens 169 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 3: to deal with all of the gambling and everything that 170 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 3: goes on, And what he tells me is it's an 171 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:21,839 Speaker 3: extraordinarily corrupt system. Thus, you've got the management board, and 172 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:24,840 Speaker 3: Trump's starting to replace that board and start starting to 173 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 3: clean things up. So if you give Puerto Rico equal 174 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:35,719 Speaker 3: treatment and pro growth rules as enforced through the board, 175 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 3: that's going to give them the economic incentive to stop 176 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:44,080 Speaker 3: hollering about statehood and start thriving as one of our territories. 177 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 3: Exempt the island from the Jones at cargo restrictions, build 178 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 3: prosperity zones with fast permitting, trusted commercial courts, a true 179 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:58,840 Speaker 3: freeport framework, and that result with the lower living costs 180 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:04,720 Speaker 3: and stable energy supplies, stronger investments. So you could think 181 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 3: do things like fix the grid so you wouldn't have 182 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 3: you know, splat it all over television, uh, people hanging 183 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:13,240 Speaker 3: from telephone. 184 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:14,160 Speaker 2: Poles or electrical poles. 185 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:18,320 Speaker 3: There would be less room for rent sinking seeking, and 186 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 3: you would now have a Puerto Rico that becomes a 187 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:26,199 Speaker 3: strategic US asset rather than a problem that we're having 188 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 3: to manage all the time. 189 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 2: And it would be. 190 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:32,520 Speaker 3: Simply you know, it could be it could be like Singapore, 191 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:36,800 Speaker 3: not in every way, but it could be our Singapore. 192 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 3: This our chance to win that thousand bucks is coming 193 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 3: up in the next five minutes thanks to Mercedes Beins 194 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 3: of Littleton Mercedes of Littleton dot com. 195 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:49,079 Speaker 5: Hey, Michael the listener. So I'm not going to call 196 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 5: them the puper, especially if it's a word I think 197 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:55,319 Speaker 5: they're calling you one that's calling you a C word. 198 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 5: They calling you a conservative. 199 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:04,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it, follow me a conservative. Just do a 200 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:06,520 Speaker 3: round robin of news stories that I wanted to get to. 201 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:09,199 Speaker 3: It I haven't gotten to in the past day or so. 202 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 3: Remember our discussion about the Endangerment Rule, the decision what 203 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 3: twenty years ago now or longer that CO two was 204 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 3: a greenhouse gas and therefore to be regulated, and that 205 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:26,560 Speaker 3: Trump was upending that the EPA was going to up 206 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:32,959 Speaker 3: end that. Well, those fourteen so called climate reporters they 207 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:36,920 Speaker 3: got fired by the Washington Post last week are probably 208 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:44,080 Speaker 3: sobbing in their gluten free organic hand cultivated by Tibetan monks, 209 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:49,319 Speaker 3: oatmeal or coffee, their mushroom coffee or whatever this morning 210 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:54,200 Speaker 3: when they saw this headline from their former employer, an 211 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 3: opinion from the editorial board, not just some person that 212 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 3: yanked off the street, but the editorial board. The headline 213 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:10,679 Speaker 3: is EPA is right to reverse Obama overreach. It's the subhead. 214 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:13,960 Speaker 3: If the federal government wants to more heavily regulate greenhouse 215 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 3: gas emissions, Congress needs to pass a new law. Wow, 216 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 3: I admit I didn't see that one coming. If you 217 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 3: had the Washington Post editorial Board endorsing the recision of 218 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 3: the EPA engagement finding on your Bengo card for any time, 219 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 3: let alone in February, you have to get going to 220 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 3: the nearest lotto outlet and buy your Mega million's ticket 221 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 3: right now. 222 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 2: Or maybe this up ed is. 223 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:52,720 Speaker 3: Completely consistent with Bezos' goal of transforming the Post editorial 224 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:57,240 Speaker 3: page to actually be an advocate for free markets. Maybe 225 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:01,120 Speaker 3: Jeff Bezos and Amazon want to apply that principled stamps 226 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 3: to energy markets. Maybe maybe Bezol's evil plan is working 227 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:11,560 Speaker 3: at least a little bit inside the Washington Post newsroom 228 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 3: and the boardroom. 229 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 2: But regardless of what motivated the board to do this, 230 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 2: it reads. 231 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 3: An awful lot like, well, something I just said yesterday. 232 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 3: The Clean Air Act isn't for global issues. Regulating global 233 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 3: emissions of plant food would require a new law from Congress, 234 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 3: especially when you start getting rather a Chevron doctrine. You've 235 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 3: got to do what Congress says you can do. You 236 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:40,800 Speaker 3: just can't make up stuff. And the Clean Air Act 237 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 3: in nineteen sixty three was intended to regulate local pollution, 238 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 3: real pollution, making that two thousand and nine treatment of 239 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 3: greenhouse gases, which is obviously global, that's obviously an overreach. 240 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:57,440 Speaker 3: And then the Obama Air Endangerment Finding that allowed the 241 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:02,320 Speaker 3: EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions with out explicit congressional authorization. 242 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:04,520 Speaker 3: They didn't follow the procedures and they didn't have that 243 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:07,600 Speaker 3: authorization to do it in the first place. And Liezel 244 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:11,720 Speaker 3: and the EPA administrator reversing that finding is a necessary correction, 245 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 3: and it is probably, as I said yesterday, that is 246 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 3: probably the largest deregulatory action in American history. And future 247 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:26,120 Speaker 3: heavy regulation in greenhouse gases will have to come by 248 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:31,440 Speaker 3: a new law passed by Congress, not by an independent agency, 249 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:35,040 Speaker 3: a regulatory independent agency, and their own interpretation of an 250 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 3: existing statue. They're going to have to get express reproof 251 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:41,960 Speaker 3: approval from Congress to do it. Just a few things 252 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 3: from the Washington Post editorial. They write that declaration called 253 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:52,160 Speaker 3: the endangerment finding has been used by bureaucrats ever since 254 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:57,920 Speaker 3: to dramatically expand the federal government's power over cars, and 255 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 3: now the EPA will rescind. Now, they do say, listen closely. 256 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:07,639 Speaker 3: Climate change is a real problem facing humanity, and reasonable 257 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 3: people could support government regulation to push down greenhouse gas emissions. 258 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 3: There may come a time when the people elected to 259 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:19,680 Speaker 3: enact laws decide the modest benefits of regulating greenhouse gases 260 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:26,440 Speaker 3: outweighs the considerable economic costs. For now, free market driven 261 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:32,440 Speaker 3: innovation has done more to combat climate change than regulatory 262 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:37,000 Speaker 3: power grabs like the Engagement Finding ever did. But there's 263 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:40,320 Speaker 3: a lot to unpacking that one paragraph. They want to 264 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:44,080 Speaker 3: sound like their free market and they admit that there 265 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:47,920 Speaker 3: have been some modest changes here, But is it really 266 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:54,240 Speaker 3: worth the cost? No, it's not, she says, She says. 267 00:17:54,359 --> 00:17:57,480 Speaker 3: The Washington Post says, I guess said, is it? 268 00:17:57,600 --> 00:17:57,679 Speaker 5: She? 269 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:01,919 Speaker 3: That EPA's in danger Urement Finding had little effect on 270 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:04,080 Speaker 3: US contribution to climate change? 271 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:07,840 Speaker 2: And then they got a neat little graph the percentage of. 272 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 3: Global greenhouse gas emissions from the United States from nineteen 273 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 3: forty five to twenty twenty three, So you go all 274 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 3: the way back to prior to nineteen fifty, nineteen forty five, 275 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:23,080 Speaker 3: and from nineteen forty five to nineteen fifty, the percentage 276 00:18:23,119 --> 00:18:27,080 Speaker 3: of global greenhouse gas emissions from US declined from a 277 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:30,240 Speaker 3: high of about twenty five percent to about fifteen percent. 278 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:33,600 Speaker 3: Then it increased in the nineteen sixties up to all well, 279 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 3: I know, about twenty percent, and from nineteen sixty nineteen 280 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:44,679 Speaker 3: seventy on, regardless of the rule, it's been declining. So, 281 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:49,879 Speaker 3: as I've pointed out numerous times, for the last sixteen years, 282 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 3: the Enngagement Finding has no basis in science or law, 283 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 3: and it was a complete overreach by the Bomba administration. 284 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 2: And what were they doing. 285 00:18:57,320 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 3: They were just trying to do everything they could to 286 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:01,879 Speaker 3: flood the zone with new regulations on the energy sector. 287 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:07,240 Speaker 3: We had a great text message from someone earlier that 288 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 3: works for an oil and gas drilling company and pointed 289 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:15,200 Speaker 3: out that yesterday twenty five people in that country lost 290 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:20,720 Speaker 3: their jobs. And he is absolutely right in something he 291 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 3: said about why they lost their jobs, because, as I said, 292 00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:32,800 Speaker 3: the friction in Colorado. What do I mean by that? Well, 293 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:36,359 Speaker 3: if you're looking at a place to drill and you 294 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 3: look at the basins in Colorado and you say, oh, yeah, 295 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 3: there's a lot of natural gas, there's a lot of oil. 296 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 3: We could really do well there, but the regulatory scheme 297 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:47,399 Speaker 3: imposed by the Democrats at the Poloit Bureau caused it 298 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 3: to be so much more expensive. That's the friction. Then 299 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,600 Speaker 3: you're going to go elsewhere. You'll just go across the 300 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:56,119 Speaker 3: state line to Kansas or to Wyoming, where you go 301 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:58,960 Speaker 3: down to New Mexico. Although New Mexico is getting pretty bad, 302 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:03,199 Speaker 3: You'll just go else where. So the friction, and of 303 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 3: course he pointed out that the people that got laid 304 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:09,400 Speaker 3: off are blaming Trump. How do you blame Trump when 305 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:12,639 Speaker 3: he's trying to expand energy production. Now, I know that 306 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:16,560 Speaker 3: the more we expand energy production that the price of 307 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 3: energy will come down. And so as the price of 308 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:23,280 Speaker 3: energy comes down, there might be some layoffs here and there. 309 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:27,920 Speaker 3: But you can't blame the layoffs in Colorado on Trump. 310 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 3: The proximate cause of the layoffs in Colorado is the 311 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:37,879 Speaker 3: friction imposed by the Democrats because we're on a everything in. 312 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:41,520 Speaker 3: Let's drill for oil and gas, let's mind coal, let's 313 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 3: build nukes, let's do everything. And if you want some 314 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:47,920 Speaker 3: solar and wind, that's fine too, But we want stable, reliable, 315 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 3: and abundant energy. So for the people complaining and bitching 316 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 3: about Trump caused it, No, what you really ought to 317 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:57,600 Speaker 3: do is look at the corner of Colfax Broadway and 318 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:00,720 Speaker 3: see what they've done in terms of the datory scheme, 319 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:03,879 Speaker 3: because that's where the real problem is. So I'm just 320 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:05,840 Speaker 3: fascinated by the fact that the editorial board of the 321 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:10,000 Speaker 3: Washington Post decided that, oh guess what, maybe getting rid 322 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:14,000 Speaker 3: of that rule was a good thing. Remember Alejandro Mayorcus, 323 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 3: the former Secretary of Homeland Security. You know, one problem 324 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:23,600 Speaker 3: with not prosecuting someone like Alejandro Mayorcus for you know, 325 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:26,720 Speaker 3: dereliction to duty or treason or whatever you want to 326 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:30,840 Speaker 3: throw in there, is that it leads those yahoo's free 327 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:36,800 Speaker 3: to pursue their malicious objectives. Natalie Winners writes that former 328 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:41,120 Speaker 3: DH secretary Alejandro Mayorcus has quietly taken her role as 329 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:45,159 Speaker 3: a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 330 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:52,400 Speaker 3: an institution long entangled with Chinese influenced networks, foreign government funding, 331 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:59,000 Speaker 3: and open borders activism. Now here's why you might want 332 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:05,600 Speaker 3: to find that alarm. One Carnegiese's documented ties to the 333 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:12,960 Speaker 3: Chinese Communist Party. Two track two dialogue with institutions institutions 334 00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:17,080 Speaker 3: now formally run by the Chinese Communist Party. Topics of 335 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:23,399 Speaker 3: collaboration are highly sensitive, including ncular command and control and cybersecurity. Third, 336 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 3: Soros money and open borders ideology fund the institution that 337 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:32,960 Speaker 3: hired him. So if Soros money funds it, the purpose 338 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 3: is probably to destroy the United States. All you have 339 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:38,440 Speaker 3: to do is refer to some of the Sorols installed 340 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:44,160 Speaker 3: district attorneys for confirmation. For example, from writing immigration policy 341 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:48,040 Speaker 3: to taking foreign funded rewards. Since twenty nineteen, Carnegie has 342 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 3: received at least ten million, five hundred and sixty five 343 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:56,199 Speaker 3: eleven dollars from foreign governments. Majorcas is now embedded in 344 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:59,679 Speaker 3: an institution financed by foreign governments, including ones with their 345 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:06,080 Speaker 3: own beating immigration policies and geopolitical agendas, and is his 346 00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:09,680 Speaker 3: new position actually kind of begs your question. Why would 347 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:13,800 Speaker 3: a former Secretary of Homeland Security, with an immigration portfolio 348 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 3: at the core of national sovereignty choose a fellowship funded 349 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:22,879 Speaker 3: by foreign governments and open borders donors unless his policies 350 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 3: his personal politics align perfectly with their priorities. So Majorcis 351 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:33,800 Speaker 3: can bask in the foreign cash until Democrats return to power, 352 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:35,919 Speaker 3: which point he might go back to working directly to 353 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:39,160 Speaker 3: eradicate America as we know of via mass, unlawful immigration. 354 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:42,120 Speaker 2: From the Third World. Good grief. 355 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:46,919 Speaker 3: Democrats in another story are now demanding polling places be 356 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:51,000 Speaker 3: off limits to immigration enforcement. We wouldn't have to do 357 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:54,880 Speaker 3: immigration enforcement at polling places if people who are here 358 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:58,159 Speaker 3: subject to a deportation order or who have committed serious 359 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:01,199 Speaker 3: crimes are trying to vote in an election. So to 360 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:04,960 Speaker 3: secure power, they're counting on election fraud and much of 361 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,520 Speaker 3: it's going to involve voting by illegal aliens Joe Biden's 362 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 3: handlers treesly imported by the millions. As if their unjustifiable 363 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:18,080 Speaker 3: opposition to voting id did not already make this obvious, 364 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:22,080 Speaker 3: Democrats now arrogantly demand that polling places be designated as 365 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:29,120 Speaker 3: sanctuary locations for foreigners or in the country illegally. Breitbart's 366 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:33,640 Speaker 3: reporting that in resistance to ICE, which is funded by DHS, 367 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 3: Democrat leaders have been threatening to push a shut down 368 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,959 Speaker 3: on Friday if Republicans do not capitulate to their reforms. 369 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 3: So the Democrats want to go nuke to prevent the 370 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,680 Speaker 3: enforcement of immigration law, No doubt they're going to count 371 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:49,320 Speaker 3: on the cabal to blame the damage on Republicans. Last Friday, 372 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:52,840 Speaker 3: House Minority Leader King Jefferies, again, according to bright Bart, 373 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:56,480 Speaker 3: said if Republicans do not give in, there will be 374 00:24:56,520 --> 00:25:02,920 Speaker 3: a shutdown of other aspects of DHS, like Coastguard, THEMA, 375 00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 3: like TSA, which would be very unfortunate. 376 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:09,320 Speaker 2: Now set aside for a moment. 377 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:12,920 Speaker 3: When I think about TSA, many of you like the 378 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:16,440 Speaker 3: kabuki theater. Many of you think that somehow TSA keeps 379 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:22,280 Speaker 3: you safe. Ask yourself this question. Now, my answer is yes, 380 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,120 Speaker 3: would I be willing to get on an airplane if 381 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:29,919 Speaker 3: there were no security? Well, I would primarily because I 382 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:33,840 Speaker 3: would arm myself, and primarily because well several reasons. One, 383 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:36,359 Speaker 3: I would arm myself if there were no security too. 384 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:38,280 Speaker 3: I obviously wouldn't use that in less than you know, 385 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:40,879 Speaker 3: in close quarters, because I don't want to blow a 386 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:45,360 Speaker 3: hole in the side of the plane. Two, I think 387 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:48,240 Speaker 3: we all know what the endgame is. So somebody gets 388 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:51,120 Speaker 3: out of control on a flight. People are going to 389 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:55,040 Speaker 3: come together and they're going to subdue that perp, and 390 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:57,280 Speaker 3: we're gonna put some plastic ties on him and put 391 00:25:57,400 --> 00:25:59,440 Speaker 3: him in the lavatory and lock the door, and we'll 392 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 3: just go on the land somewhere. 393 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,679 Speaker 2: But would you. 394 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:06,680 Speaker 3: Would you get on a plane without TSA? And think 395 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 3: about that with due to the economy. So Senator Barrosso 396 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 3: from Wyoming asked the question why in the world would 397 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 3: they be there if they're not trying to vote, which 398 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:23,800 Speaker 3: didn't leads to another question, why would Democrats unlawfully import 399 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:27,360 Speaker 3: them if they did not intend for them to vote? 400 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:32,560 Speaker 3: So the Democrats are now openly hostile not only to 401 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:37,920 Speaker 3: our territorial integrity and our core population. But to free 402 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,960 Speaker 3: and fair elections, they don't need to hide their malevolence. 403 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:42,879 Speaker 3: They just kind of seize enough how to render for 404 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:45,639 Speaker 3: other elections, you know, moot as they tend to be 405 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,560 Speaker 3: in countries that illegal aliens were imported from. 406 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:51,600 Speaker 2: Oh it's insane. 407 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:58,440 Speaker 3: In other news, kind of talking about spare bedrooms in 408 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:03,399 Speaker 3: a way Hyattsville, Maryland, which is just kind of inside 409 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:07,120 Speaker 3: the belway they've been granted to preview of what progresses 410 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:11,159 Speaker 3: are progressing to war. Washington Free Beacon reports this The 411 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,960 Speaker 3: sign outside of the Maryland or Condominiums are two hundred 412 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 3: unit complex in Prince George's County, Maryland describes it as 413 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:21,400 Speaker 3: a private community but for members of a homeless encampment 414 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:25,320 Speaker 3: in the condos backyard. Did you check before you rented 415 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 3: or before you bought? The complex also serves as a 416 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,760 Speaker 3: crack house, a bathroom, and the entrance to an open 417 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 3: air drug market, which has become a magnet for organized 418 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:39,800 Speaker 3: crime and caused millions of property damage. Transients break into buildings, 419 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:44,640 Speaker 3: smoke cracking the stairwells. Tenants traversing the property must navigate needles, feces, 420 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,879 Speaker 3: and sleeping bodies that as addicts nap half naked in 421 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:51,720 Speaker 3: the hallways and sprawl themselves like welcome matt welcome mats 422 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:56,320 Speaker 3: outside residents doors. Oh, it's a private community, though half 423 00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,840 Speaker 3: of the complex has gone without heat since Thanksgiving after 424 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:03,720 Speaker 3: vagrants allegedly vandalize the boiler room, causing pipes to burst 425 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:07,480 Speaker 3: in several buildings. Some units have lost electricity to due 426 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:12,800 Speaker 3: to the overuse of space eaters. Somebody crying about that's 427 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:14,800 Speaker 3: really a small price to pay on behalf of the 428 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:21,239 Speaker 3: politically sacred unhoused. Please note the euphemism homeless is no 429 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:23,800 Speaker 3: longer acceptable, and it wasn't in that article now that 430 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:27,160 Speaker 3: everyone understands it to mean probably psychotic and drug addicted, 431 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,399 Speaker 3: you know, bums. And it's all to part of the 432 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:30,159 Speaker 3: homeless industry. 433 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:30,560 Speaker 2: Anyway. 434 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,760 Speaker 3: I was suggest that Hitsville, Maryland, come visit Denver, Colorado, 435 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:39,200 Speaker 3: which is Colorado in general, because after Hagen Looper's road 436 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 3: Home program, which has been in place for what you know, 437 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:46,160 Speaker 3: started some twenty or thirty years ago, we've solved the 438 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:50,240 Speaker 3: homeless problem in Colorado. So Maryland, come and check us out. 439 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:53,680 Speaker 3: Now there's some benefit from the situation in Hyattsville, though 440 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:59,640 Speaker 3: outside the freezing halls, drug dealers drive high end vehicles 441 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:04,280 Speaker 3: through a dilapidated parking lot, and it also has become 442 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 3: a haven four prostitutes. So as we pay even more 443 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:14,640 Speaker 3: exorbitant taxes so the government can just maintain order. Last month, 444 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 3: public officials held a town hall to address the situation 445 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:22,280 Speaker 3: in Hyattsville, billed as a listening session, which of course 446 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:24,560 Speaker 3: is more than the Douglas County Commissioners do, because they 447 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:28,160 Speaker 3: don't have listening sessions anymore. Douglas County Commissioners have decided that, hey, 448 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 3: we don't want you to come and speak, so we've 449 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:34,160 Speaker 3: taken public comment off the agenda, and we've put up 450 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 3: a really nice rope to shield you stinky peons from 451 00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:43,240 Speaker 3: the high end mighty commissioners. So back in Hyattsville, they 452 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:47,040 Speaker 3: had a listening session for the condo owners to air 453 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:52,720 Speaker 3: the grievances. The airing of grievances, the town hall featured 454 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:55,959 Speaker 3: a lengthy presentation. In Holly County was handling its so 455 00:29:56,080 --> 00:30:00,520 Speaker 3: called unhoused residents. The county's Deputy Chief Administrative Office Republic 456 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:03,800 Speaker 3: Safety and Homeland Security, Melvin Powell, said, of the encampment, 457 00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:09,959 Speaker 3: we have to be compassionate. We're not criminalizing the unhoused, 458 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:14,240 Speaker 3: said the police chief. In other words, if you're a taxpayer, 459 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:16,320 Speaker 3: just get used to it, because we're not going to 460 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:17,360 Speaker 3: change anything. 461 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 2: Now. 462 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,280 Speaker 3: I don't whether you are aware or not, but Prince 463 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:27,160 Speaker 3: George's County, Maryland eighty eight percent Democrat, the highest percentage 464 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:31,520 Speaker 3: in the entire country. I might suggest that you kind 465 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:34,640 Speaker 3: of get what you vote for. So instead of restoring order, 466 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:39,080 Speaker 3: the county one threatened to sue the condo, which was 467 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:42,040 Speaker 3: already time on cash, for its failure to fix the 468 00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:45,400 Speaker 3: nearly five million dollars in property damage that has been 469 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:49,760 Speaker 3: caused by the drug then on its doorstep. So legal 470 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,120 Speaker 3: action by the county is likely to result in some 471 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 3: of the residents being rendered homeless themselves. At least then 472 00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:59,959 Speaker 3: they will qualify for the free food the county passes 473 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:04,320 Speaker 3: out to the people in that encampment. Imagine that, so 474 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:08,720 Speaker 3: you bought or you're running a condo, you have to 475 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:13,400 Speaker 3: buy groceries. Meanwhile, all of the homeless, part of the 476 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:17,840 Speaker 3: homeless industry are sitting outside in that very same place, 477 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:22,240 Speaker 3: building an encampment, dealing with drugs, prostitution, everything else, and 478 00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:27,640 Speaker 3: the county is feeding them too. I wonder why the 479 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:32,120 Speaker 3: encampment continues to grow because everything that the homeless need 480 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:35,840 Speaker 3: is right there. They've got drugs, they've got sex, they've 481 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 3: got food, they've got shelter, They're moving into the hallways, 482 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:43,680 Speaker 3: sleeping in the hallways. It is a personification of exactly 483 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:49,800 Speaker 3: how the homeless industry is never going to solve these problems. Wow, 484 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:54,600 Speaker 3: Prince George's County, Maryland eighty eight percent Democrat. 485 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:58,320 Speaker 2: I wonder why they have policies like that. I'll try 486 00:31:58,360 --> 00:31:59,080 Speaker 2: to figure it out.