1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: Hey, guys, ready or not, twenty twenty four is here, 2 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:06,400 Speaker 1: and we here at Breaking Points, are already thinking of 3 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:08,640 Speaker 1: ways we can up our game for this critical election. 4 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:11,760 Speaker 1: We rely on our premium subs to expand coverage, upgrade 5 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:15,160 Speaker 1: the studio ad staff, give you, guys, the best independent 6 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: coverage that is possible. If you like what we're all about, 7 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 1: it means the absolute world to have your support. What 8 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 1: are you waiting for? Become a premium subscriber today at 9 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 1: Breakingpoints dot Com. Good morning, everybody, Happy Thursday. We have 10 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 1: an amazing show for everybody today. What do we have, Crystal? 11 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 1: Indeed we do. We got some breaking news this morning. 12 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 1: More Biden classified documents, a lot of questions here, very 13 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:53,519 Speaker 1: uncomfortable for him. Trump of course celebrating the latest developments, 14 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 1: so we'll bring that to you. We also have the 15 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 1: latest in terms of that massive airline FAA failure yesterday 16 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 1: grounded flights for a while. What exactly happened, who exactly 17 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 1: is to blame? Talk about that. Also questions on our 18 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:11,479 Speaker 1: support for Ukraine coming from a surprising place. Military leaders 19 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 1: starting to raise questions about how much we are shipping 20 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:17,479 Speaker 1: them and what it might mean for our own national security. 21 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:20,520 Speaker 1: They also have some updates on my favorite member of Congress, 22 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:24,399 Speaker 1: mister George Santos. Some new lies being revealed, some sort 23 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 1: of like amusing ones. This guy is. He just never stops. Also, 24 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 1: some of his fellow New York Republicans calling on him 25 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 1: to resign, but he is holding fast. He is not 26 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 1: interested in leaving, so we will bring you all of 27 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:38,840 Speaker 1: those updates. We also have oral arguments in a big 28 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 1: case in front of the Supreme Court this week that 29 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 1: could crush workers right to strike, and some interesting commentary 30 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:48,520 Speaker 1: from our friends over at the View on Katie Porter's 31 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 1: announcement for Senate Richard Wolf. Professor Richard Wolf will be 32 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 1: back on the show previewing the economy for the year. 33 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: Sager is looking at childhood obesity, and I am looking 34 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 1: at which professions make people the happiest and which make 35 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 1: them the most miserable. Before we get to any of 36 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 1: that soccer Live show, put it up there on the screen, 37 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:08,640 Speaker 1: February third, You guys know the drill at this point. 38 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 1: Paramount Theater, Austin, Texas. We have a great show planned 39 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:13,240 Speaker 1: for all of you, and the tickets are selling very 40 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:15,799 Speaker 1: very well. Last chance probably to see us for at 41 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 1: least for a little while before we go in and 42 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 1: pause the tour and go back eventually. So this is 43 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:23,519 Speaker 1: the last chance, guys. There's tickets who are widely available. 44 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:25,519 Speaker 1: Reminder to the lifetime members, if you go ahead and 45 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:27,680 Speaker 1: buy a ticket, we will fully reimburse the costs and 46 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: you'll be able to participate in the meet and greet. 47 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: But with that, let's get to the breaking news that 48 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 1: happened just last night. Let's put it up there on 49 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:37,919 Speaker 1: the screen, guys. President Biden. Turns out even more classified 50 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 1: documents were found in a second location for hoarding classified 51 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 1: documents in President Biden's office. This was at a quote 52 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 1: second location associated with mister Biden. We haven't exactly been 53 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 1: told what that second location is. The previous one were 54 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:56,799 Speaker 1: some documents that were actually found by President Biden's lawyers 55 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 1: before the mid terms at the pen Biden's enter, which 56 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:02,240 Speaker 1: is kind of like a think tank which he had 57 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 1: put his name on and eventually been paid nearly a 58 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:08,640 Speaker 1: million dollars a year to preside over. Basically put his 59 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 1: name on the front of the building. So what are 60 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 1: these documents, Well, we don't really know a whole lot. 61 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 1: As some people are saying We actually don't even know 62 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:17,639 Speaker 1: the entire number. I was actually listened to Joe Rogan 63 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:20,080 Speaker 1: yesterday and he said, nearly ten. Come on, He's like, 64 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 1: you know, you can't say nearly ten. It's either ten 65 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 1: or eleven or twelve, like you know the exact number. 66 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 1: Just say the number. In terms of what was in 67 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:31,080 Speaker 1: the documents, by the way, is a little bit of 68 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: a difficulty. It's because it's almost exactly mirror to the 69 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 1: same accusations against President Trump. They are sensitive intelligence memos 70 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 1: and breathing materials concerning Ukraine, Iran and the UK. So 71 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 1: Ukraine in particular raises a lot of flags, not only 72 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 1: over what's happening there. We should all remember President Biden 73 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 1: was actually the basically point person by the Obama administration 74 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 1: in the anti corruption moves on Ukraine. This is why 75 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 1: the entire Hunter Biden Barisma payments really mattered, because Biden 76 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 1: himself was probably the foremost authority and under over Ukraine 77 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: while he was in the Obama by administration Iran in 78 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 1: the UK. I mean, I guess uk it particularly matter, 79 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 1: but Iran is the same one where I believe in 80 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 1: the Trump documents. Aside from the North Korea documents one 81 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:18,479 Speaker 1: of the nuclear powers that they had said. You know, 82 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:21,279 Speaker 1: we'll remember they said, oh it contains nuclear material. It 83 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 1: was actually intelligence regarding Iran. So lots of questions also 84 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 1: about what exactly was in the document. It raises the 85 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:30,839 Speaker 1: even more so, I guess, pervasive problem of how many 86 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 1: classified documents are these people all holding on to. How 87 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:36,280 Speaker 1: hard is it to just not do this? Why why 88 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 1: are you entitled to your briefing and intelligence memos from 89 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,159 Speaker 1: when you were the vice president to be held you know. 90 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 1: Another key point is that the president Biden doesn't even 91 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:47,480 Speaker 1: have the smoke screen that Trump has, which is Trump 92 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 1: at least was the commander in chief. And you know, 93 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 1: technically if he had gone through the process, could have 94 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 1: declassified the documents if you want. The vice president has 95 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:57,839 Speaker 1: no d classious authority, so just straight up grabbed classified again. 96 00:04:58,160 --> 00:04:59,600 Speaker 1: Was it him, was his staff? I don't know, but 97 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 1: it clearly there was a sloppy process that was all 98 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:04,040 Speaker 1: going on there. But this is tremendously embarrassing for the 99 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:06,720 Speaker 1: Biden administration. Absolutelyri so, and you pointed out aptly. The 100 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:08,839 Speaker 1: more you read about the timeline, it is very clear 101 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 1: these people knew about this before the midterm elections ends 102 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 1: January twelfth, and we'll only learning about it now. Why 103 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: I think, well, you know all the answer, yeah, yeah, yeah, 104 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:20,719 Speaker 1: it would have looked really bad and a big distraction 105 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:22,680 Speaker 1: before the midterms, and so they managed to keep it 106 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 1: quiet until now when they think they can sort of 107 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 1: like weather the storm and get through it. I mean, 108 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 1: there's a lot to say about this. Number One, I 109 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:33,160 Speaker 1: do have to say, I was listening to CNN on 110 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:36,599 Speaker 1: my way in last night to the city, and I 111 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 1: wanted to hear the way that they were handling all 112 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 1: of this, and it really was kind of hilarious because listen, 113 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 1: it is true. Trump seems to have gone to greater 114 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 1: lengths to cover up his documents, and that may ultimately 115 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 1: be what gets him in the most trouble. Like it's 116 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 1: not the crime, it's the cover up that sort of thing, 117 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 1: but the pains that they went to to preface literally 118 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 1: every sentence they said with this is way different for 119 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:02,480 Speaker 1: Trump and it's nothing like what Trump did. And it's like, 120 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 1: you know, also, how do you have so much confidence 121 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 1: in that? Because I still don't know a lot of details. 122 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:12,480 Speaker 1: You know, we are still learning, especially with the second 123 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 1: batch of documents, we are still learning. We don't even 124 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:18,160 Speaker 1: know where they were found. We don't know why they 125 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 1: were brought there, We don't know the details of what 126 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:24,719 Speaker 1: level of classification. We don't frankly know whether there was 127 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:26,359 Speaker 1: some sort of cover I mean, there appears to have 128 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 1: been a temporary cover up to keep the American people 129 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 1: from knowing before the midterm elections. So anyway, it was 130 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:34,599 Speaker 1: amusing to watch them go to such great lengths to 131 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:37,080 Speaker 1: insist this is totally different. Trump has nothing to do 132 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 1: with Trump. The other piece of this is what does 133 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 1: it mean for Trump? Because listen, the way the justice 134 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 1: system should work is it shouldn't really matter that there's 135 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 1: this other thing going on with another dude, with another president. 136 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:51,719 Speaker 1: It shouldn't really make a difference for Trump's case. But 137 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:55,039 Speaker 1: the DOJ they these are, especially the people at the top, 138 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:58,040 Speaker 1: These are fundamentally political actors, and the biggest question has 139 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:01,360 Speaker 1: always been whether they would be to take the political 140 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: risk in order to indict Donald Trump. And this makes 141 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 1: things more challenging for them. And Trump knows that, I mean, 142 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 1: he's out there actively celebrate. I mean, they are delighted 143 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 1: in this turn of events. So you know where I 144 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 1: was previously extremely confident that Trump would be indicted by 145 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:22,560 Speaker 1: the Justice Department, probably for this exact reason, because the 146 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 1: obstruction in charge seems so sort of clear and they 147 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 1: haven't sort of dead to rights. This makes their case 148 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:29,120 Speaker 1: a little bit more challenge. Of course, it makes it 149 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 1: more challenging. As you said, Look, any case involving presidents 150 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 1: or for current or former presidents of the United States 151 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 1: is going to be inherently political. And for the other 152 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:39,320 Speaker 1: problem is, as you said, the facts of the Biden 153 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 1: administration's conduct here is actually not clear at all. According 154 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 1: to what we've seen, these documents were actually held amongst 155 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:52,720 Speaker 1: his personal information, including apparently the funeral arrangements for Bo 156 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 1: Biden that departed side. Wow, but like why are Ukraine 157 00:07:56,160 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 1: documents co mingled with funeral documents regarding the president or 158 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:03,560 Speaker 1: the Vice president's then departed son. So look, it's a 159 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: little weird. And also you know there is going to 160 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:08,680 Speaker 1: be an investigation the Justice Department has put in charge 161 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:12,480 Speaker 1: of Trump appointed US Attorney to act or Trump appoint 162 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 1: to special council to actually investigate all this, and I 163 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 1: think it does push the timeline on any potential action 164 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 1: going forward. And it just just reminds me kind of 165 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 1: like Hillary Clinton case and so much more, which is, 166 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 1: you know, the links to which media went to try 167 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:29,400 Speaker 1: and basically whitewash what the Clinton people did while in 168 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:33,160 Speaker 1: the State Department was absurd. Especially Yeah, go ahead, I 169 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:36,440 Speaker 1: just love the yo. Yo. Yeah. It's where it's like, 170 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:40,560 Speaker 1: depends on who is accused of having these classified documents. 171 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 1: People determine how they feel about like this. Now it's 172 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:45,240 Speaker 1: like as no big deal, you know, whereas previously with 173 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:47,439 Speaker 1: Trump this was a great threat to national security, et cetera, 174 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 1: et cetera. So listen, Personally, I think it does matter. 175 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:52,560 Speaker 1: I think it's important. I thought Hillary Clinton, like, I 176 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:54,800 Speaker 1: thought they let her off the hook. I think anyone 177 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:59,560 Speaker 1: who you know is willy nilly with serious classified documents 178 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 1: and especially engaged in a cover up, I think that 179 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 1: is incredibly serious. So people need to kind of pick 180 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 1: how they feel about this and apply it consistently. Not 181 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:09,760 Speaker 1: that I expect that. I just think we need to 182 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 1: end kingly practice where these guys used to hang on 183 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 1: apparently to whatever they want. It's like, you're not a king, 184 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:16,320 Speaker 1: you serve as president, and now you're out. Like that 185 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 1: doesn't mean that you're entitled to everything. That ever happened. Yes, 186 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 1: of the nuts if when you think about it, very true. Okay, 187 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 1: so that's everything that we know right now. Let's go 188 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 1: ahead and move on and let's talk about Pete Bouta 189 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 1: Jeedge my favorite subject, air travel. So as Counterpoints did 190 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 1: a phenomenal job doing. Yesterday we had a complete shutdown 191 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:35,440 Speaker 1: of air travel in the United States for several hours 192 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:37,880 Speaker 1: up until nine am Eastern time. I don't have to 193 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 1: tell you that causes massive cascading delays, both international and 194 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:43,680 Speaker 1: within the country. There were even some stories of planes 195 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:46,560 Speaker 1: that were literally halfway through in the air and had 196 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:48,560 Speaker 1: to turn around and go back. So I missed that. 197 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:51,320 Speaker 1: What a nightmare wow for people who had to participate. 198 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 1: I believe it was Marquise Brownlee who talked about that, 199 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 1: the tech YouTuber. Anyway, so all eyes on our Secretary 200 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:58,559 Speaker 1: of Transportation, Pete Boota Jedge. This is now the third 201 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:01,920 Speaker 1: massive meltdown of US air travel that has happened under him, 202 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 1: the second in just a matter of weeks. What's going on? 203 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 1: So we turned to our great secretary in the middle 204 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:10,240 Speaker 1: of this crisis, and he says, I have no idea 205 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:12,760 Speaker 1: what's going on. Here's what he said, after air travel 206 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 1: was actually resumed. Let's take a listen. Well, now that 207 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 1: the system is up and running, our primary focus is 208 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:21,720 Speaker 1: to determine that root cause, and I've directed FAA to 209 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 1: figure out exactly how this happened. The timeline piece by piece, 210 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 1: about what was known overnight, going into last night and 211 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:34,120 Speaker 1: then coming out of it. And most importantly, as you 212 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:37,080 Speaker 1: might imagine, a critical system like this has a lot 213 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 1: of redundancy built into it with backups, so we need 214 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 1: to understand why with all of that redundancy, it still 215 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:46,680 Speaker 1: rose to the level that there had to be a 216 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 1: ground stop lasting about an hour and a half, and 217 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:51,760 Speaker 1: the kind of delays that we saw. This is an 218 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 1: incredibly complex system, so glitchers or complications happen all the time. 219 00:10:57,280 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 1: Glitchers are complications happen all the time. I have no 220 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,360 Speaker 1: idea what happened? What do we pay you for? You know, Look, 221 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:03,840 Speaker 1: let's go and put the next one up there on 222 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:07,319 Speaker 1: the screen. There were ten thousand flights that were delayed 223 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 1: or canceled just yesterday, and passengers of course just having 224 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 1: a complete nightmare. Also, anybody who flies a lot knows this, 225 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:16,200 Speaker 1: which is that if the morning flight gets delayed those 226 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 1: flights five five legs after that. If the six am 227 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 1: gets delayed, that means the nine am is delayed, which 228 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:22,120 Speaker 1: means the noon and the four pm, and the six 229 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:24,160 Speaker 1: pm and the seven pm, so you can go all 230 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 1: the way down the line. It was a nightmare traveling yesterday, 231 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:28,560 Speaker 1: and it's just one of the Look, we are have 232 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:30,880 Speaker 1: one of the nation's most robust air you know, we 233 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 1: have so much air travel that occurs in this country 234 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 1: due to our geography. Used to be, we were kind 235 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 1: of the shining light of aviation across the world. We've 236 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 1: had complete meltdowns in our system all under this man. 237 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:45,200 Speaker 1: People are like, what is he supposed to do? You know, 238 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:49,640 Speaker 1: oversee the computer programmers. I'm like, yeah, actually, because actually 239 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 1: the Inflation Reduction Act, Infrastructure Bill and others actually gave 240 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:57,760 Speaker 1: a billion dollars to the US Department of Transportation specifically 241 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 1: to update a FAA compute uter systems. Now, in terms 242 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 1: of what actually went wrong, news came out this morning 243 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 1: and says that a computer programmer effectively uploaded like a 244 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:10,160 Speaker 1: damaged file and that's what data corrupted data, and that's 245 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:12,560 Speaker 1: what brought down the whole system for several hours. Okay, 246 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:14,040 Speaker 1: but you know, my question is like, why is it 247 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 1: even possible to be that vulnerable for one of the 248 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:18,600 Speaker 1: most critical systems in the entire United States where you 249 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 1: ground every flight. You know that stuff hasn't happened since 250 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:24,319 Speaker 1: like nine to eleven in terms of no flights that 251 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 1: are allowed up in the sky. This is a total 252 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:31,600 Speaker 1: breakdown in the FAA system. Also, we should remember Bootage 253 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:35,000 Speaker 1: Edge was bragging about the FAA and its ability to 254 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 1: handle some of the critical infrastructure in this moment when 255 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:41,560 Speaker 1: the airlines were actually blaming the FAA for many of 256 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 1: the delays several months ago, and he specifically pointed to 257 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: things that he was doing within the FAA to make 258 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:50,600 Speaker 1: it operate better. I mean, I just think this highlights 259 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:53,679 Speaker 1: like a basic lack of competence because you know, fooled 260 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 1: me on so a one problem, okay, you know, we 261 00:12:55,559 --> 00:12:57,840 Speaker 1: can talk a little bit. Although the one problem actually 262 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:00,800 Speaker 1: lasted several months. This is the third your meltdown. This 263 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:03,120 Speaker 1: is the worst year in like a twelve month or 264 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:07,439 Speaker 1: so period in modern history of air travel since nine 265 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:11,079 Speaker 1: to eleven. That is now all happening under Pete Bootage. Yes, 266 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 1: and billions of dollars in commerce are being lost. But 267 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 1: put that aside, think about the people who this stuff affects. 268 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 1: It's not a joke. People are flying to funerals, sometimes 269 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 1: to weddings, you know, I mean it ruins people's lives 270 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:25,880 Speaker 1: whenever you have stuff like this happen. The stress and 271 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 1: the extra money that some people have to undergo, it's 272 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 1: just outrageous. You know. It's not just for the rich 273 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 1: that a lot of a lot of working in middle 274 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:34,040 Speaker 1: class people are very effected by this. Yeah, I mean, 275 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:36,559 Speaker 1: and Pete is supposed to be mister McKenzie, so he's 276 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 1: supposed to be, you know, experted making these systems run 277 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 1: super efficiently, et cetera, et cetera. So there's that, And 278 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 1: I agree with you. If it was just this one incident, yeah, 279 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:47,839 Speaker 1: you could say, you know what, not really his fall 280 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:50,720 Speaker 1: like this so sold system, who could know, et cetera. 281 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 1: When you look at the pattern of one crisis after 282 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 1: another crisis after another crisis, it becomes very clear this 283 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:02,439 Speaker 1: man is wildly unqual And by the way, I'm interested 284 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:08,559 Speaker 1: in actually doing this job. Podagic is basically good at 285 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 1: two things, and they're related things. One of those things 286 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:14,200 Speaker 1: is getting rich people to donate money to his campaign. 287 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 1: That's number one, wine cave. Remember all that Number two 288 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 1: is saying a lot of words that basically mean nothing. 289 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:23,560 Speaker 1: Those are the two things he's good at. And last 290 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 1: time there was a big airline crisis was Southwest and 291 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:30,560 Speaker 1: whatever I saw Claire mccaskell on Twitter, she reposted one 292 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:32,920 Speaker 1: of his cable news appearances and she's like, oh my god, 293 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:36,360 Speaker 1: he's just so good. And it's like, Jesus Christ, you 294 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:40,320 Speaker 1: all are the hollowest people on earth. The man is 295 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:44,120 Speaker 1: failing at his job in every way you could possibly measure. 296 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 1: He's got to be the worst cabinet secretary in the 297 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:50,720 Speaker 1: entire administration, and yet he goes on cable news and 298 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 1: he's able to like bullshit and spin for a few minutes. 299 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 1: And now you're like, oh my god, he's so amazing. 300 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 1: It is so shallow and so ridiculous. We all know 301 00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 1: the reason in this job. It's because he did what 302 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 1: Joe Biden wanted him to do in the primary when 303 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:05,920 Speaker 1: he was told to do it. He didn't want to 304 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:08,880 Speaker 1: be o MB secretary because he wanted the glamour of 305 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:11,960 Speaker 1: being Cabinet secretary and being a part of the infrastructure 306 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:14,320 Speaker 1: package and traveling around to his rib and cuttings. This 307 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:16,720 Speaker 1: has been a disaster for him politically, it's been a 308 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 1: bigger disaster for the country at a time when you know, 309 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:22,720 Speaker 1: I don't know that the Transportation Secretary has ever been 310 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 1: more important. This is probably since nineteen seventy five, the 311 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 1: deregulation of airlines, and arguably during nine eleven isstes because 312 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:31,640 Speaker 1: you had the supply chain crises. You've had these airline 313 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 1: crises and again railroads. To make it really clear on this, 314 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,200 Speaker 1: this man has a lot of power to hold these 315 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 1: airlines to account. There are all sorts of issues here 316 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 1: where basically they book out a flight schedule they know 317 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 1: they can't possibly achieve, but they're able to goose their 318 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: revenue and their earnings by booking people on flights. That 319 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:53,840 Speaker 1: everything has to go absolutely perfect in order for it 320 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 1: to happen. And they took all this money from us, 321 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:59,360 Speaker 1: they got bailed down, and then they pushed their staff 322 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 1: out wildly understaffed again at their own like this was 323 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 1: their own failure. Multiple politicians ro Conna, Bernie Sanders, others, 324 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 1: David dan In an American Prospect, they've been pointing out 325 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:13,280 Speaker 1: ways that he could use his power in order to 326 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:16,360 Speaker 1: make sure these airlines are held to account and actually 327 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:19,200 Speaker 1: have real measurable fees and that passengers are being made whole. 328 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: When this happens to him, hasn't done it. He'll go 329 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:23,720 Speaker 1: on and he'll bluster her on TV and they have 330 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 1: not charged a single major airline, and then you're right. 331 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 1: He was also part of perhaps the biggest Biden administration 332 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:37,120 Speaker 1: betrayal of working people, which was crushing the rail workers 333 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:39,480 Speaker 1: and sending them back to work and siding with the 334 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 1: bosses there. So it has been one catastrophe after another, 335 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 1: catastrophe after another catastrophe. And I don't know if this 336 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 1: is related or not. You know, Debbie Stabnaugh, who's the 337 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:51,880 Speaker 1: Center for Michigan, She's announced she's retiring, so that opens 338 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 1: up an open seat there. Always it's going to be 339 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:56,680 Speaker 1: highly competitive, both in the general election also in the primary. 340 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 1: Pete had just moved to Michigan, which is I guess 341 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 1: we're chass as process. And so I don't know if 342 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:04,879 Speaker 1: this is why, but he's already announced he's not going 343 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:07,600 Speaker 1: to go for that seat. I mean, I do. I 344 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 1: My biggest hope out of all of this is that 345 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 1: this has actually really damaged his political career, and that 346 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:15,199 Speaker 1: people actually care about the substance of the fact that 347 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 1: this man was totally unable and unequipped to do what 348 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 1: was a really important job at a really important p 349 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:23,800 Speaker 1: tsremendously important job. And look, we're not just talking. Put 350 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:25,800 Speaker 1: the data up there, please. I went ahead and pulled 351 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:29,119 Speaker 1: this from earlier this year. Take a look at twenty 352 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:32,600 Speaker 1: two versus twenty nineteen. In January of twenty twenty two 353 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:37,080 Speaker 1: for US airline cancelations two point eight percent twenty nineteen, 354 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:40,680 Speaker 1: more than double five point six percent in twenty twenty two, 355 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:45,160 Speaker 1: and it remained elevated from January to September, with only 356 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,720 Speaker 1: three months in twenty nineteen through September where things resumed, 357 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:51,640 Speaker 1: but the delay number was also a catastrophe. It remained 358 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:55,479 Speaker 1: above twenty percent all the way from January to August. 359 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:58,240 Speaker 1: That's almost one fifth of all flights in the United 360 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:01,159 Speaker 1: States that were delayed on under Pete Budhage edge, with 361 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:04,720 Speaker 1: a normal delay rate of somewhere between fourteen and fifteen 362 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:08,760 Speaker 1: percent on average in the pre like before times, again, 363 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:13,720 Speaker 1: he has actual unilateral authority to levy fines. Furthermore, in 364 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 1: terms of the actual behavior of the airlines itself, like, look, 365 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:20,159 Speaker 1: the airlines are greedy and they have been doing everything 366 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:22,960 Speaker 1: they possibly can to juice their stock price. And in fact, 367 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 1: one of the problems is all of the airlines are 368 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:29,440 Speaker 1: required to try and contribute to an FAA infrastructure upgrade 369 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:31,479 Speaker 1: given the fact that they benefit from it, and as 370 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:33,359 Speaker 1: our friend Matt Solar pointed out, put this up there 371 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:36,159 Speaker 1: on the screen, they have been trying to avoid contributing 372 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:39,520 Speaker 1: to fa infrastructure upgrades, specifically so that they can do 373 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 1: stock buybacks. This was a key part of the Southwest 374 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:46,840 Speaker 1: Airline story. Southwest airlines is meltdown happened just three weeks 375 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:50,400 Speaker 1: after they issued or announced a new dividend to stockholders. 376 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:52,760 Speaker 1: Because they said that profits were good and that they're 377 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 1: well prepared for holiday travel. Those profits easily and should 378 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:59,439 Speaker 1: have been reinvested in their staffing system, which would not 379 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:02,600 Speaker 1: have required at one point to cancel fifty percent of 380 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 1: all flights worldwide in the middle of one of the 381 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:10,240 Speaker 1: busiest holiday travel seasons. He has authority to look at 382 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:13,600 Speaker 1: all of this, and I am watching this. It's insane. 383 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:15,480 Speaker 1: As you said this, if we have never needed a 384 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:20,320 Speaker 1: good transperation Secretary, more is he individually responsible for each 385 00:19:20,359 --> 00:19:23,400 Speaker 1: one of these things. No, but he has oversight authority 386 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:25,960 Speaker 1: and needs to tackle this with the crisis. Every single 387 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:27,720 Speaker 1: one of us knows that he cares more about going 388 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 1: on CNN to talk about the game marriage bill. That's 389 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,200 Speaker 1: what he can. That's all he's actually good for going 390 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:34,119 Speaker 1: on Fox. And you're like, no, Brett Bear, let me 391 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:35,880 Speaker 1: tell you why I'm actually doing. Oh, by the bide 392 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 1: administration is the best thing. Look, man, all of us 393 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:41,080 Speaker 1: want to do is catch a flight and you have 394 00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 1: a reasonable expectation that it's going to be on time 395 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:46,040 Speaker 1: and that if it does get canceled, that you won't 396 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:49,679 Speaker 1: get builked, you know, for the money that you already 397 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:52,600 Speaker 1: spent on a very inflated ticket. Definition of an empty 398 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:55,679 Speaker 1: suit and bigger picture, think of what it says about 399 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:58,520 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party that they're like, you know, big up 400 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:00,960 Speaker 1: and comers. The bench that they are so excited to 401 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:04,400 Speaker 1: build the bridge to the future with is Kamala Harris 402 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 1: and Pete Buddhage. I mean, two of the least equipped, 403 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:13,240 Speaker 1: like least talent in terms of actually doing the job. Now. 404 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:17,080 Speaker 1: Kamala is also even terrible on TV. Pete is just 405 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:20,760 Speaker 1: a complete empty suit. He is a BS artist. He's 406 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,160 Speaker 1: good at that. He's good at like his low cable 407 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 1: news appearances. He is very good at that. Does that 408 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 1: help you get your flights? Does that help the reil 409 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:31,480 Speaker 1: workers who needed an administration have their back? Did that 410 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:34,199 Speaker 1: help our supply chain issues to get solved? No, not 411 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:37,960 Speaker 1: whatsoever when it actually mattered, when you actually needed content 412 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:40,399 Speaker 1: and someone who was capable and someone who's willing to 413 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:44,120 Speaker 1: stand up to the airlines who are powerful, moneyed interest 414 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:46,800 Speaker 1: nowhere to be found. And the last thing I'll note 415 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:49,159 Speaker 1: here is even the mainstream press has taken note. I 416 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:51,720 Speaker 1: saw a piece this morning at Axios. Now they frame 417 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:53,640 Speaker 1: it as like, oh, some of this is unfair, et cetera, 418 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:56,600 Speaker 1: et cetera. But it is starting to be noted in 419 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:59,480 Speaker 1: the outlets that Pete cares about very much, that this 420 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:03,119 Speaker 1: has gone extremely poorly for him. Good. Maybe it'll encourage 421 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:05,480 Speaker 1: him to do his job better. But I'm not going 422 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:07,320 Speaker 1: to hold my breath next. I don't know that he 423 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:09,359 Speaker 1: I don't know he's capable of it even if he 424 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:11,240 Speaker 1: wanted to. I don't know that he's I saw somebody say, 425 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:13,480 Speaker 1: Crystal Sager, you guys should just drive to Austin. It's 426 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:17,240 Speaker 1: probably easier at that point. Okay, Kyle would like to 427 00:21:17,240 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 1: do he hates hates. That's a whole other. All right, 428 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 1: let's go ahead and talk about Ukraine. Major kerfuffle here 429 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 1: in Washington. The Secretary of the Navy made some true 430 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:31,280 Speaker 1: comments which he then had to walk back after a 431 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:36,760 Speaker 1: massive outcry from the pro Ukraine community both on Twitter 432 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 1: and within the government. So let's go ahead and put 433 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:41,639 Speaker 1: this up there on the screen. The original comments from 434 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:46,280 Speaker 1: the US Naval Secretary were quote, we may need within 435 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:49,159 Speaker 1: the next six months, the US Navy may need to 436 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:54,200 Speaker 1: choose between arming itself or arming Ukraine. These were comments 437 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:56,960 Speaker 1: that were made to defense reporters now afterwards. And this 438 00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:59,679 Speaker 1: is also a press story because that reporter ended up 439 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,119 Speaker 1: delete eating that tweet at the request of the Naval 440 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 1: Secretary Wow, because he said he needed to fully explain 441 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:07,679 Speaker 1: his comments and contexts. So all right, I'll give you 442 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 1: guys the context, which is basically reiterating exactly what he said. 443 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:14,520 Speaker 1: What he said was that he was chastising defense companies 444 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 1: for using the pandemic as an excuse for not delivering 445 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:19,639 Speaker 1: weapons on time, and that the weapons and the missile 446 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:21,600 Speaker 1: interceptors and many other things that were coming to the 447 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:24,359 Speaker 1: US and ordered by the US Navy were not arriving 448 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:26,560 Speaker 1: in a timely manner, and that if that were to 449 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 1: continue to be the case, which all indications seemed that 450 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 1: it be, that we would then have to possibly choose 451 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:34,680 Speaker 1: to deliveries of weapons to Ukraine and then also deliveries 452 00:22:34,720 --> 00:22:36,880 Speaker 1: of weapons to US. He says, quote, we are monitoring 453 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 1: that very very closely. This comment was enough. Actually, clearly 454 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:42,800 Speaker 1: he got wrapped on the knuckles by the Biden administration 455 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:45,760 Speaker 1: because the Naval Secretary himself put out a tweet trying 456 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:48,919 Speaker 1: to further explain his comments. Now, if you're this reporter, 457 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:53,359 Speaker 1: how do you delete a tweet of accurate quotes by 458 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:57,720 Speaker 1: the Naval Secretary at his request? How does that work? 459 00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:00,080 Speaker 1: By the way, if he needs more context than the 460 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,679 Speaker 1: Navy Secretary can give the context, it's not your job 461 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:07,159 Speaker 1: to do pr for the US Navy secretary. Clearly, the 462 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:10,560 Speaker 1: Navy Secretary was telling us the truth, which is that 463 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 1: there is a supply crunch and that it is possible 464 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,920 Speaker 1: we may have to choose between arming ourselves or arming Ukraine. 465 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:19,320 Speaker 1: And by the way, that is a long standing problem 466 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:22,040 Speaker 1: that people in the US munitions industry and others have 467 00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:24,440 Speaker 1: been talking about four months now. It is not a 468 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:27,160 Speaker 1: We've been talking about it, yeah here on our show. 469 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't take a genius. Just go look 470 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:32,679 Speaker 1: at what their actual public publicly testified comments before Congress are. 471 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:34,920 Speaker 1: I believe we've covered that several times here on the show. 472 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:38,840 Speaker 1: It also underscores to me why some of the chief 473 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:41,880 Speaker 1: diplomacy pushers in the Biden administration, and this is shocking. 474 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:45,320 Speaker 1: It's not the White House, it's not the National Security Council, 475 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:49,879 Speaker 1: it's the military Chairman Mark Millie has basically been the one, 476 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 1: along with many of the secretaries of the Armed services, 477 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,720 Speaker 1: to push peace in Ukraine. You know why because they 478 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,400 Speaker 1: can see the one hundred billion dollars of their weapons 479 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 1: that are depleting US stocks from all sort of ammunition 480 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:05,560 Speaker 1: surplus and including the supply problem the javelin missiles, which 481 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:09,120 Speaker 1: we talked about here previously, reducing stocks or not even 482 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:11,480 Speaker 1: saying reducing stocks. But you know, Ukraine is not the 483 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:13,840 Speaker 1: only part of the world. Last time I checked, some 484 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:17,600 Speaker 1: stuff could pop off anytime, Taiwan, elsewhere where you would 485 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,479 Speaker 1: want to ship weapons to allies. Well, we may have 486 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 1: to actually choose between the two, and that's a terrible 487 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:26,040 Speaker 1: situation to be and that's literally what the job of 488 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:28,880 Speaker 1: a military planner is. So I think these are tremendously 489 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:30,679 Speaker 1: important comments, and I think that the cover up of 490 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,560 Speaker 1: the comments Crystal are even more revealing, if it more 491 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:36,240 Speaker 1: so than the comments themselves, because it shows you that 492 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,800 Speaker 1: if you tell even a sliver of the truth about 493 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:41,680 Speaker 1: what this situation looks like, but you can still support Ukraine, 494 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:42,760 Speaker 1: where you just have to be like, look, if you 495 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 1: care about your own country first, then clearly you're going 496 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:46,480 Speaker 1: to have to ask some questions. They don't even want 497 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:49,719 Speaker 1: this information out there. It's just about acknowledging something basic, 498 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,080 Speaker 1: which is that some of the choices we're making with 499 00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:55,760 Speaker 1: regards to Ukraine require trade offs. Yes, and that's effectively 500 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:58,399 Speaker 1: what we've been with. The press has been unable to 501 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:02,320 Speaker 1: admit the entire time around that, you know, our limitless 502 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:04,520 Speaker 1: aid to them, the type of weapons that were shooting, 503 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 1: that were sending, rather the provocations with regard to Russian escalation, 504 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,480 Speaker 1: the economic sanctions, like all of these things are not 505 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:17,479 Speaker 1: just clear cut good. They have trade offs, and that 506 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:21,320 Speaker 1: part of the conversation has never been allowed into the press. 507 00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 1: It reminds me of when there was that report CBS 508 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:26,760 Speaker 1: was Were they the ones that did the report on 509 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 1: how a lot of the early weapons that were being 510 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:32,960 Speaker 1: shipped in, how nobody really knew where they went and 511 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,720 Speaker 1: there was no accountability for whose hands they were ending 512 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,040 Speaker 1: up in and there were concerns that were being raised 513 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:42,000 Speaker 1: by Europeans about these weapons being resold on the black market. 514 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:45,359 Speaker 1: And it was effectively the only reporting we have gotten 515 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:49,200 Speaker 1: on that problem from the mainstream press. And they published 516 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:51,439 Speaker 1: the report, they put it out, we covered it, and 517 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,040 Speaker 1: just as soon as they published it, same thing, they 518 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 1: deleted it. Massive pushback came, and they ended up deleting it, 519 00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:03,360 Speaker 1: massively edited it, effectively apologizing saying like, oh, this may 520 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 1: not reflect the way things that are happening now. It's like, no, 521 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 1: you did an actual piece of journalism, and you are 522 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:16,480 Speaker 1: cucking yourself yeah to the defense establishment and to the 523 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:20,720 Speaker 1: administration rather than exposing what is a very real concern 524 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 1: and potential trade off. Same exact vibes here. Yeah, as 525 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:28,280 Speaker 1: Bridge Colby says, doth protest a bit too much whenever 526 00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:31,320 Speaker 1: it comes to the comments and what they reveal about 527 00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:33,960 Speaker 1: the defense supply chain, and look, it actually comes on 528 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,160 Speaker 1: the heels of a very complicated situation in Ukraine. It's 529 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,880 Speaker 1: not like things are actually going well for Russia. In fact, 530 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:42,000 Speaker 1: let's put this up there on the screen. They just 531 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:46,719 Speaker 1: replaced their own military commander again after just three months. 532 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:50,440 Speaker 1: The previous general commander had been somebody who was well 533 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 1: known for his work in Syria for the deployment of 534 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:56,400 Speaker 1: air power in order to bolster the ASAD regime. Well, 535 00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:59,080 Speaker 1: the new military commander that they have gone ahead and 536 00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:01,840 Speaker 1: put into place, there's look, there's a lot of criminology 537 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,359 Speaker 1: that's happening right here as to what exactly all of 538 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:06,480 Speaker 1: it means. But in general, you know, when you're replacing 539 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,919 Speaker 1: military commanders every three months or so, just not a 540 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:13,200 Speaker 1: particularly good look. That's not really how competent military should 541 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,000 Speaker 1: be run. And it's an implicit failure acknowledgment really on 542 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 1: their part as to what exactly all of that means. 543 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:21,480 Speaker 1: I mean, really, I think what you can point to 544 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 1: is that having the demotion for the previous joint commander 545 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,920 Speaker 1: sort of I can never say the name Sir Revoken 546 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:32,040 Speaker 1: was actually being framed as an increasing in the status 547 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:37,240 Speaker 1: of the operation by appointing possibly more higher ranking commander. 548 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,040 Speaker 1: It could set the stage for a couple of things 549 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,080 Speaker 1: that there will likely be, And this I'm reading from 550 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,480 Speaker 1: some defense allus here in Washington. It is likely that 551 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,040 Speaker 1: this could show you that there will be a spring 552 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:52,120 Speaker 1: offensive rather than just more of a defensive air campaign 553 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:54,760 Speaker 1: waged across Kiev, which we've seen, you know, going on 554 00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:58,120 Speaker 1: Caevan critical energy infrastructure. This would be somebody who would 555 00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:01,560 Speaker 1: be able to marshal forces some hundred fifty thousand mobile 556 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,439 Speaker 1: forces and others. Then possibly there could be a second 557 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:08,040 Speaker 1: draft in Russia, although domestically, you know, who knows how 558 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 1: that will all come to come to bear. Overall, what 559 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,280 Speaker 1: people are genuinely trying to read the tea leaves and 560 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,119 Speaker 1: look at is that this is a signal that the 561 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,480 Speaker 1: Russians are not giving up, that they're actually probably going 562 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,439 Speaker 1: to move in an even more offensive direction, come in 563 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 1: the spring offensive, whenever the weather gets better. There was 564 00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:29,800 Speaker 1: a Financial Times article that put it this way. They 565 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 1: talk to an expert who said they're just shuffling the 566 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:33,560 Speaker 1: deck because they're in a dead end and have no 567 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:35,560 Speaker 1: idea what to do. These guys are all old men 568 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:37,639 Speaker 1: pushing seventy They don't know how to fight in a 569 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,200 Speaker 1: modern war. The person like in the reshuffle to a 570 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 1: classic Russian parable about a group of forest animals who 571 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:47,960 Speaker 1: form an incompetent instrumental quartet and ask a nightingale for advice, 572 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:51,400 Speaker 1: only to be told, quote, arrange yourselves any way you like. 573 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:54,640 Speaker 1: It will make no difference. You will never become musicians. Yeah. Fine, 574 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:56,360 Speaker 1: So that's the other way to look at it is, 575 00:28:56,760 --> 00:29:00,600 Speaker 1: you know, they're trying to reconfigure, and there's just no 576 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 1: doubt that this has not gone the way that Russia 577 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:05,120 Speaker 1: thought it would go, much of the world ultimately thought 578 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:07,200 Speaker 1: it would go. There were failures from the beginning. Those 579 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,520 Speaker 1: haven't really the ship hasn't really been righted. And also 580 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,320 Speaker 1: the previous dude who was in charge, there was a 581 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:18,200 Speaker 1: lot of criticism of him, also from the hard right 582 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:23,400 Speaker 1: nationalist hawkish faction, which seems to be incredibly influential with 583 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:26,120 Speaker 1: Putin and the Krumlin. I mean, they're the ones whose 584 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,640 Speaker 1: critiques they consistently seem to respond to exactly. And let's 585 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:31,520 Speaker 1: also get to this next part. This one. Look, you 586 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:33,280 Speaker 1: got to take this with a massive grain of salt. 587 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:37,840 Speaker 1: It's CNN. It's also reported by the US intelligence community, 588 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 1: it's possibly true. So let's put it up there on 589 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:43,480 Speaker 1: the screen about how Russian artillery fire appears to be 590 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:46,280 Speaker 1: down nearly seventy five percent. There's two ways from some 591 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:48,560 Speaker 1: of the defense analysts that I looked at as to 592 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,440 Speaker 1: what that means. Number one is that they are running very, 593 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,040 Speaker 1: very low in the number of the amount of artillery 594 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,680 Speaker 1: that they have. Number two is that they're saving their 595 00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:00,760 Speaker 1: artillery right now for the possible Spring offensive later in 596 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,360 Speaker 1: a few months now. Either way, it's not a good 597 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:05,760 Speaker 1: situation where we just talked about with the US. Whenever 598 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:07,920 Speaker 1: you have to husband arms and try and strategically deploy 599 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,719 Speaker 1: them and you don't have a surplus, that's a problem 600 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,000 Speaker 1: because of course there are trade offs. So there are 601 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 1: two ways to go about this. It could be that 602 00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:18,200 Speaker 1: the ceasefire that was ordered by Putin on Russian Orthodox 603 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:21,200 Speaker 1: Christmas and during the holidays was one way to try 604 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:24,400 Speaker 1: and conserve ammunition amid some of the pushes, the small 605 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,200 Speaker 1: pushes that they're making right now and push things all 606 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:30,440 Speaker 1: towards the Spring offensive. Or it could show you that 607 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,200 Speaker 1: they just have and this is probably undeniable at this point, 608 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:37,040 Speaker 1: a systemic problem in terms of resupplying their military and 609 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:39,680 Speaker 1: they still don't have the supply chains to make all 610 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:43,720 Speaker 1: that up, even with arms purchases from Iran and from 611 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:46,240 Speaker 1: North Korea. Let's go to the next one here, please, 612 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,680 Speaker 1: because this is also important. You know, there is still 613 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:52,160 Speaker 1: fighting that is happening in Ukraine. There's a salt town 614 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:55,120 Speaker 1: by the name of Soldar. I'm probably saying that incorrectly, 615 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,840 Speaker 1: so I apologize to everybody which is in the region. 616 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:00,000 Speaker 1: The reason why this matters is because there are compete 617 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,720 Speaker 1: complaints as to what exactly has gone on in this town. 618 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,280 Speaker 1: Ukrainian government in the Ukrainian Defense Ministry says that they 619 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,959 Speaker 1: continue to contest the town. The Russians say that they 620 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,160 Speaker 1: have basically taken it. The reason why it even matters 621 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,479 Speaker 1: in the first place is because it's strategically important. It 622 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:19,280 Speaker 1: is a town in eastern Ukraine and is right on 623 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:22,760 Speaker 1: the front line, and in terms of battle setbacks and more. 624 00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:26,560 Speaker 1: Who wins some of these smaller skirmishes, especially after Ukrainian 625 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,160 Speaker 1: victory not only in their offensive but also you know 626 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 1: in more recent ones like bach Moot and elsewhere, that 627 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:34,080 Speaker 1: the Russians should be able to try and contest some 628 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:36,480 Speaker 1: of these towns because they would serve as key supply 629 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:41,280 Speaker 1: areas for any sort of spring offensive TLDR. It's very complicated. Yeah, 630 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:43,959 Speaker 1: there's really no way to say, no, who's winning, who's losing. 631 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:46,720 Speaker 1: Definitely momentum is on the Ukrainian side. But you know 632 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,280 Speaker 1: Peter's iihon whof we had on the show. He made 633 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 1: an excellent point on the Joe Rogan podcast. Something is 634 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:54,080 Speaker 1: always stuck in my mind, which is, if you look 635 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:56,280 Speaker 1: at all the history of all Russian wars, the first 636 00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,200 Speaker 1: year is always a total shit show. And then they 637 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:02,360 Speaker 1: just draft their entire population and they throw as many 638 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,480 Speaker 1: bodies into the meat grinder as possible, and they just 639 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,120 Speaker 1: frankly have a very different view of loss of human 640 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,600 Speaker 1: life in terms of its value within their military, and 641 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:14,520 Speaker 1: they're willing to eat casualties that no Western democracy ever would, 642 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 1: and that by doing that, they end up usually winning 643 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:20,400 Speaker 1: the war. That said, it's not an actual total war 644 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,200 Speaker 1: in terms of Moscow. It's not like a population necessarily 645 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:25,080 Speaker 1: has brought into it the way they did with Hitler's 646 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:26,959 Speaker 1: invasion and all of that. So there's still a lot 647 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,040 Speaker 1: of caveats for that analysis, but I think it's an 648 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:32,240 Speaker 1: important one to consider in the likelihood of some spring 649 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:35,360 Speaker 1: offensive in twenty thirteen. Yeah, and it's obviously very difficult 650 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,960 Speaker 1: for us to assess from here how the domestic population 651 00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,920 Speaker 1: in Russia really feels about what's going on, and what 652 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:45,240 Speaker 1: their capacity for suffering and sending their sons and husbands 653 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:48,560 Speaker 1: and brothers into war, as you Chris for the mill, 654 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:51,640 Speaker 1: what that capacity and willingness ultimately is, and whether there 655 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,600 Speaker 1: would be some sort of domestic real pushback more so 656 00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:56,640 Speaker 1: than what we've seen thus far. Is just very hard 657 00:32:56,640 --> 00:33:00,240 Speaker 1: for us to see from here and really accurately assess that. 658 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:02,520 Speaker 1: But you know, the other piece, with this battle for 659 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:07,080 Speaker 1: this solidar, this salt mining town, it also would be 660 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:10,520 Speaker 1: a really important sort of moral victory for Russia, which 661 00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:14,560 Speaker 1: hasn't had anything they could really grow about to their 662 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:19,400 Speaker 1: population domestically with regards to this war. And it also 663 00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:22,800 Speaker 1: does show you that if they are able to succeed here, 664 00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,080 Speaker 1: which by the way, they are claiming that they already have, 665 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,040 Speaker 1: if they are ultimately able to succeed here, I mean, 666 00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,560 Speaker 1: it shows you that this is a long way from finished, 667 00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:35,080 Speaker 1: that the result is far from inevitable. And so it's 668 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:38,040 Speaker 1: it's an important, I think warning sign there as well. Yeah, 669 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:42,880 Speaker 1: that's right. All right, guys, let's talk about my favorite 670 00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:46,560 Speaker 1: member of Congress, Congressman George Santos of New York's third 671 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:50,280 Speaker 1: Congressional district. Mister Santos has, of course been caught and 672 00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:53,400 Speaker 1: admitted at this point in any number of lives, you 673 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,600 Speaker 1: literally can't even keep track of all of them. The 674 00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,040 Speaker 1: latest one, which I love, is he apparently lied to 675 00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:02,320 Speaker 1: like a local Republican official in New York. The guy 676 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,600 Speaker 1: was like, oh, I'm into sports, and Santos was like, 677 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,880 Speaker 1: I was a championship volleyball player. I was at Baroke College. 678 00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,600 Speaker 1: Number one. He didn't go to Breoke College to start 679 00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:14,240 Speaker 1: with the number two. There's no science he's ever played volleyball. 680 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,080 Speaker 1: So anyway, that's my latest amusing George Santos. Why that 681 00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:20,719 Speaker 1: has just been revealed. He is facing increasing calls for 682 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:26,960 Speaker 1: his resignation, specifically from other New York elected Republican officials 683 00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:30,280 Speaker 1: who you know, feel burned by this guy, I'm sure, 684 00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:34,120 Speaker 1: and also feel like if you're not in Congress, if 685 00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:36,880 Speaker 1: you're like the local executive and you've got to deal 686 00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,680 Speaker 1: with this dude for anything, I'm sure you're really not 687 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:43,520 Speaker 1: super happy about this situation. So anyway, Santos in Congress 688 00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,520 Speaker 1: yesterday getting cornered by reporters, having to have his like 689 00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:49,160 Speaker 1: little bodyguard try to fend him off. Let's take a 690 00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:52,680 Speaker 1: look at that. You're accused of fabricating almost every single 691 00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,719 Speaker 1: part of your life. Why did you why did the representation? 692 00:34:56,760 --> 00:35:03,839 Speaker 1: Did you illegally campaign? Finance concerns? Question you answer? Space? 693 00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:07,759 Speaker 1: Personal space? Please a little personal space, Congressman. You seem 694 00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:11,680 Speaker 1: to be god. You question about your finances, about your background? Congressman, 695 00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:16,000 Speaker 1: what about those new accusations? Also, who's still willing to 696 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,680 Speaker 1: work for this Yeah, that's a great question. I don't 697 00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:19,920 Speaker 1: know who that guy is. There's some question, but he 698 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:23,239 Speaker 1: might have been working for Madison Cawthorne's office previously. That's 699 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:27,400 Speaker 1: quite a resume. I mean, look, money's money. You know, 700 00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:29,799 Speaker 1: some people need a job. Look, some people just like 701 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:32,000 Speaker 1: being in the middle of the action, no matter what. 702 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,600 Speaker 1: That action is certainly a center of attention right now. 703 00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:36,319 Speaker 1: You're in Washington. You can work for a liar, for 704 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,120 Speaker 1: a cheat, and not only do you get rehired, to 705 00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:40,760 Speaker 1: get promoted. So, you know, if anything, I admire the hutzpa. 706 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:44,000 Speaker 1: But as you said, Crystal, he's facing calls from his 707 00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:48,000 Speaker 1: own local Republican Party officials for him to resign, and 708 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,600 Speaker 1: that's probably the most scathing and also the direction which 709 00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:53,640 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy and House leadership are all looking towards. McCarthy 710 00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:56,120 Speaker 1: said yesterday, Santos will not serve on any of the 711 00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:58,680 Speaker 1: flagship committees while he's Yeah, but he's still getting a 712 00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:03,640 Speaker 1: committee assignments. It's just not giving him the choicest committee assignments. 713 00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:06,919 Speaker 1: So he's standing by his man ultimately, and Santa's voted 714 00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:08,799 Speaker 1: for him in all fifteen rounds and they have a 715 00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:11,960 Speaker 1: four vote majority. So there's a lot of political calculation 716 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:15,360 Speaker 1: going on here with Speaker McCarthy. But we did pull 717 00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:20,920 Speaker 1: some of the criticism from local New York elected Republicans, 718 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,200 Speaker 1: which I mean, they really did kind of go in 719 00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,640 Speaker 1: on him yesterday. So let's take a listen to a 720 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:28,439 Speaker 1: little bit of that press conference. George Santos's campaign last 721 00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:34,600 Speaker 1: year was a campaign of lies, fabrication. He deceived the 722 00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,680 Speaker 1: voters of the third Congressional District. He deceived the members 723 00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:43,680 Speaker 1: of the Nassau County Republican Committee, elected officials, his colleagues, candidates, 724 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:47,600 Speaker 1: his opponents, and even some of the media. His lies 725 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:51,040 Speaker 1: were not mere fibbs. He disgraced the House of Representatives, 726 00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:54,560 Speaker 1: and in particular, his fabrications went too far. Many groups 727 00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:57,879 Speaker 1: were hurt. Specifically, I look at those families that were 728 00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:01,040 Speaker 1: touched by the horrors of the Holocaust. For them, he 729 00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:03,960 Speaker 1: has no place in the Nassau County Republican Committee, nor 730 00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:07,080 Speaker 1: should he serve in public service. Who as an elected official, 731 00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:10,400 Speaker 1: and I believe that gentleman who is speaking there is 732 00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:15,120 Speaker 1: the sort of the executive for NASA County. And he's 733 00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:17,719 Speaker 1: also said, listen, I'm I'm just not going to work 734 00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:20,319 Speaker 1: with this guy. And he's come up with an alternative 735 00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:23,120 Speaker 1: plan because obviously the local county executives they have to 736 00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:26,360 Speaker 1: interface a lot with their federal counterparts, especially with regards 737 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:29,759 Speaker 1: to constituent services and getting their issues resolved. He's like, 738 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:31,880 Speaker 1: I've already worked down a plan with the other members 739 00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:34,319 Speaker 1: of Congress that represent this county. He's you know, he's 740 00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,440 Speaker 1: a Republican, but he says, I have a good relationship 741 00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:38,360 Speaker 1: with Chuck Schumer. We've already got a plan so that 742 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,319 Speaker 1: constituents aren't going to have to deal with this man. 743 00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:41,919 Speaker 1: And I'm not going to deal with this man. Because 744 00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:44,960 Speaker 1: how can you work with someone who has literally lied 745 00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:50,359 Speaker 1: about every relevant fact in terms of his biography. And 746 00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:52,640 Speaker 1: you know, the political calculus for these folks is a 747 00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:55,360 Speaker 1: lot different than the political calculus for a Kevin McCarthy, 748 00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,279 Speaker 1: which we just lay down. He's very interested in having 749 00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:59,239 Speaker 1: a majority and having as big of a margin as 750 00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:01,920 Speaker 1: he possibly can, having only those four votes to be 751 00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:05,360 Speaker 1: able to work with a deal with here. For these guys, 752 00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:08,160 Speaker 1: you know, this is a swing area. Voters are clearly 753 00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:12,359 Speaker 1: not impressed with this man. They are, I'm sure on 754 00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:15,560 Speaker 1: a personal level, like what the hell this guy lied 755 00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:18,120 Speaker 1: to us, to our faith? And so they have a 756 00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:21,520 Speaker 1: very different political calculus at play here, both on a 757 00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:24,360 Speaker 1: sort of like personal animus level, but also in terms 758 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:26,320 Speaker 1: of them being able to hold onto their own elected 759 00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:29,239 Speaker 1: positions and not be tarred with, you know, the all 760 00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:32,080 Speaker 1: the lies and all the ridiculousness of Georgan. Sure, people 761 00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:35,120 Speaker 1: are furious and Santos, I mean, the guy, he just 762 00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:37,319 Speaker 1: will not let up. He tweeted this after the call. 763 00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:39,600 Speaker 1: I was elected to serve the people of New York's 764 00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:41,759 Speaker 1: third District, not the party and the politicians. I remain 765 00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:43,759 Speaker 1: committed to doing that and regret to hear that local 766 00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,480 Speaker 1: officials refuse to work with my office to deliver results 767 00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:48,880 Speaker 1: to keep our community safe and lower the cost of living. 768 00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:52,200 Speaker 1: I will not resign. I mean he probably needs to 769 00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:55,200 Speaker 1: cash from this position. Yeah, the reality verry Pal, I 770 00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:59,000 Speaker 1: don't really you know, with the with arched narcissists like this, 771 00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:02,200 Speaker 1: it's just very difficult to see, like how much they're 772 00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:05,040 Speaker 1: willing to understand what they're willing to compute. I've talked 773 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,759 Speaker 1: about the fire festival guy Mark. You know, people like that, 774 00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:11,920 Speaker 1: just people they seem to have an almost pathological need 775 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,680 Speaker 1: to obfuscate the truth or to always have like a 776 00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,239 Speaker 1: last ditch gambit where they can get themselves out of 777 00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,560 Speaker 1: it just this time. Yeah, and that's what really comes 778 00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:26,200 Speaker 1: through with Santos. He's these type of fraudsters are so remarkable, 779 00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:29,239 Speaker 1: Like when you look at SBF actually being another one 780 00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:31,600 Speaker 1: where you know, even today SBF we literally while you 781 00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:33,239 Speaker 1: were talking, wrote a whole blog post. He's like, I 782 00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:35,040 Speaker 1: didn't steal any money. I still don't know what happened 783 00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:38,040 Speaker 1: with it. It's like they have to cling to. Uh. 784 00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:41,040 Speaker 1: There's a lot of similarities, you know, between all of them, 785 00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:42,880 Speaker 1: and one of them is that they all appear to 786 00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:46,400 Speaker 1: reach like high status. Yeah, it's just even crazier. Yeah, 787 00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:48,480 Speaker 1: I mean, there are some benefits to being able to 788 00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:50,759 Speaker 1: be like pathological in that way and to sort of 789 00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:53,080 Speaker 1: with such confidence. And you can see I mean in 790 00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:56,000 Speaker 1: this case, listen, there are plenty of pologists, including the 791 00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:58,400 Speaker 1: current President of the United States and former president of 792 00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:02,319 Speaker 1: the United States, who have stretched the truth, made up anecdotes. 793 00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:04,319 Speaker 1: And I was thinking too about Kamala Harris and her 794 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:08,200 Speaker 1: whole like sweedom story that she invented out of whole class. 795 00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:11,160 Speaker 1: So like politicians making up anecdotes and embellishing their resume 796 00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:14,400 Speaker 1: or whatever, none of that is new, okay, But the 797 00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:18,960 Speaker 1: like the fact that seemingly every detail of his biography 798 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:22,560 Speaker 1: was just completely fabricated, and the shamelessness with which he 799 00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:25,000 Speaker 1: was just willing to tell whoever was in front of 800 00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:27,799 Speaker 1: him whatever they wanted to hear. Like, that's what makes 801 00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:31,200 Speaker 1: me laugh so much about the volleyball thing, Like some 802 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:33,840 Speaker 1: random dude expresses some sort of like vague interest in 803 00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:36,480 Speaker 1: volleyball and he's ready to go with Oh, I was 804 00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:39,440 Speaker 1: a volleyball champion at my college that I didn't go to, 805 00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:41,479 Speaker 1: and we won the league championship. I mean and men's 806 00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:43,920 Speaker 1: all these like super specific details about what Ranky was 807 00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:46,480 Speaker 1: in his class and all of this stuff. It really 808 00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:50,839 Speaker 1: really is remarkable to me. I just am fascinated by 809 00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:53,640 Speaker 1: the mind and sort of like horrified by the whole 810 00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:58,319 Speaker 1: situation in terms of his future. You know, right now 811 00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:01,239 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy is standing by I am not pressuring him 812 00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:04,960 Speaker 1: to resign, giving him committee assignments. At the same time, 813 00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:08,440 Speaker 1: there he has some serious legal questions that he's going 814 00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:11,600 Speaker 1: to be facing. You know, it's not illegal to lied 815 00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:14,759 Speaker 1: to voters about your resume, but it is illegal to 816 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:17,080 Speaker 1: lie to the Federal Election Commission about the source of 817 00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:20,800 Speaker 1: your campaign cash. And obviously there are some big questions 818 00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:25,640 Speaker 1: about how exactly he ended up being able to contribute 819 00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:27,960 Speaker 1: seven hundred thousand dollars I think is the number of 820 00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:32,080 Speaker 1: supposedly his own money into this campaign when very recently 821 00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:36,440 Speaker 1: his income was relatively low. He was getting you kicked 822 00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:39,920 Speaker 1: out of apartments. It looks like the campaign may have 823 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:43,240 Speaker 1: financed his own living situation during the campaign, also illegal 824 00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,759 Speaker 1: and also something he lied about. There's a lot that's 825 00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:48,440 Speaker 1: really fishy in terms of his campaign finance report, Like 826 00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:52,160 Speaker 1: there's this rule that you have to have receipts for 827 00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:55,560 Speaker 1: any campaign expenditure two hundred dollars are over, so they 828 00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:58,640 Speaker 1: have all of these expenditures that are like one hundred 829 00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:01,719 Speaker 1: and ninety nine dollars ninety nine cents, I mean, just 830 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:06,839 Speaker 1: the sketchiest possible stuff. And there are already inquiries into that. 831 00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:10,360 Speaker 1: It looks like the Congressional Ethics Office they received formal, 832 00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:13,120 Speaker 1: you know, request to investigate him as well, so they 833 00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:15,680 Speaker 1: may be looking into it. But he could be in 834 00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:20,319 Speaker 1: some actual legal trouble here. Even if you know, there's 835 00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:23,200 Speaker 1: no mechanism to force him out of his seat. The 836 00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:26,000 Speaker 1: most they can do is basically what these New York 837 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:29,000 Speaker 1: Republicans did yesterday and try to completely ice him out. 838 00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:31,320 Speaker 1: But if he refuses to leave until the next election, 839 00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:32,680 Speaker 1: they're not a whole lot you can do. We've had 840 00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:34,480 Speaker 1: this happened before, you know, we should all remember it. 841 00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:36,680 Speaker 1: We've had people who have been literally indicted and have 842 00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:38,680 Speaker 1: gotten not only gotten away with it, who got reelected. 843 00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:41,400 Speaker 1: So look, I personally put my trust in the people 844 00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:44,480 Speaker 1: of New York's third District. I think they're probably rightfully 845 00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:47,440 Speaker 1: outraged at this, and it's just not going to happen. Absolutely, 846 00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:50,120 Speaker 1: and this is a swing area. I guess the last 847 00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:51,840 Speaker 1: thing that I was thinking about with regards to this 848 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:55,120 Speaker 1: is we've talked about the failure of the media to 849 00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:56,600 Speaker 1: pick up on any of this. We've talked about the 850 00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:59,520 Speaker 1: failure of the Democratic Party to do any basic opposition 851 00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:02,680 Speaker 1: research instead focusing on like whatever he said about January sixth, 852 00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:05,839 Speaker 1: versus the fact that he made up every significant part 853 00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:09,280 Speaker 1: of his life. But there's also like the Republican Party 854 00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:12,080 Speaker 1: agreed didn't do a single bit of vetting on this dude. 855 00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:14,920 Speaker 1: And the thing that's confusing to me as well is 856 00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:17,239 Speaker 1: this is an area which, as you can see, there 857 00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:22,399 Speaker 1: are other significant, well known Republican elected officials, So it's 858 00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:25,279 Speaker 1: not like there's nobody home in terms of Republican parties, 859 00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:28,040 Speaker 1: quite well organized, funded, et cetera. And this was a 860 00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:31,920 Speaker 1: seat that was well in play. It was a slightly 861 00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:34,759 Speaker 1: bidened district, but that's exactly the kind that Republicans were 862 00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:38,080 Speaker 1: expecting and hoping to pick up this year. So you 863 00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:41,800 Speaker 1: didn't feeld anyone in the primary other than this dude, 864 00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:43,919 Speaker 1: and you didn't check this dude out at all. So 865 00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:48,719 Speaker 1: sort of party failures institutional failures all around with this 866 00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:51,520 Speaker 1: one as well. Yeah. Absolutely. At the same time, we 867 00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:55,000 Speaker 1: wanted to update you on a really significant case that 868 00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:57,920 Speaker 1: Supreme Court heard this week. There were oral arguments on 869 00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:02,600 Speaker 1: Tuesday with regards to a case between a company and 870 00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:06,759 Speaker 1: a Teamsters local union where the company basically says that 871 00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:10,760 Speaker 1: the teamsters there they went on strike and they created 872 00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:13,440 Speaker 1: cause damage and the loss of some concrete and some 873 00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:16,320 Speaker 1: damage to these trucks, and they want to be able 874 00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:20,359 Speaker 1: to sue the Teamsters local union for those damages. Now, 875 00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:23,320 Speaker 1: the union side of the story is that the workers 876 00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:25,759 Speaker 1: actually took a lot of mitigating steps to try to 877 00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,840 Speaker 1: make sure that there was not this type of damage 878 00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:31,919 Speaker 1: and there was not this type of spoilage of the concrete. 879 00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:34,240 Speaker 1: So let's go and put this up on the screen 880 00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:38,239 Speaker 1: from Scotus blog. Here they say cement truck drivers went 881 00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:41,880 Speaker 1: on strike. A lawsuit by their company may pave the 882 00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:46,319 Speaker 1: way for restricting workers' rights and basically soccer. There's two 883 00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:51,200 Speaker 1: questions at stake here. Number One, does this is the 884 00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:54,040 Speaker 1: Supreme Court? Do they really even have jurisdiction over this, 885 00:44:54,160 --> 00:45:00,160 Speaker 1: because there's already settled law about how you decide whether 886 00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:03,480 Speaker 1: there was like intentional damage, which just like any sort 887 00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:06,200 Speaker 1: of property damage you know you are liable for no 888 00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:09,080 Speaker 1: one is doubting that. But these claims are supposed to 889 00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:11,720 Speaker 1: be settled by the board that oversees this, the National 890 00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:14,440 Speaker 1: Labor Relations Sport. So question number one is should this 891 00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:16,440 Speaker 1: even be in front of the Supreme Court? And then 892 00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:19,520 Speaker 1: question number two is, like, on the merits of the case, 893 00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:23,680 Speaker 1: whether or not this constitutes intentional damage, And a lot 894 00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:26,120 Speaker 1: of analysts are saying if they side in favor of 895 00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:28,560 Speaker 1: the company here, this is going to be a real 896 00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:32,759 Speaker 1: chilling signal for any workers who and unions who are 897 00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:37,759 Speaker 1: contemplating going out on strike, because ultimately, part of the 898 00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:41,239 Speaker 1: pressure and the point of a strike is to withhold 899 00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:44,920 Speaker 1: your labor to inflict some economic damage on the company. 900 00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:48,240 Speaker 1: That's your whole source of leverage. That's why a strike 901 00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:51,359 Speaker 1: is such a powerful tool. So if you are curtailing 902 00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:55,480 Speaker 1: the ability to leverage that power that you ultimately have here, 903 00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:57,319 Speaker 1: no one's saying that you can like go out and 904 00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:01,920 Speaker 1: actively sabotage or actively damaged property, then you could really 905 00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:05,120 Speaker 1: put you could really put a hold on this crossroots 906 00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:07,640 Speaker 1: labor movement and a lot of the more militant activity 907 00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:09,440 Speaker 1: that we've been seeing recently. Yeah, I think it's actually 908 00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:11,520 Speaker 1: and this is something that we've always tried to emphasize here. 909 00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:14,160 Speaker 1: You know, the Skota's cases, everybody hears about like gay 910 00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:17,040 Speaker 1: marriage and abortion, like definitely the matter. I'm not saying 911 00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:19,520 Speaker 1: they don't, but you know, there's a lot of worker stuff, 912 00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:22,920 Speaker 1: banking regulations, administrative stuff that gets lied at gated at 913 00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:25,040 Speaker 1: scotus on the day to day level, which has a 914 00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:28,160 Speaker 1: huge impact on all of you. And nobody does ever 915 00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:30,799 Speaker 1: any scrutiny with the judges on how they're going to 916 00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:33,000 Speaker 1: rule on this. Well, there is no there really is 917 00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:36,080 Speaker 1: not a solid prediction as to which way this is 918 00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:39,280 Speaker 1: all going to break. The cement workers who are saying, 919 00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:43,880 Speaker 1: or the cement driver, the cement company. Their essential allegation, 920 00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:47,600 Speaker 1: as I understand it is because damage occurred when the 921 00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:50,360 Speaker 1: workers went on strike, even though the damage was not 922 00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:53,720 Speaker 1: their fault, that they are somehow liable for it because 923 00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:56,440 Speaker 1: it was part of their job responsibilities. And yet this 924 00:46:56,480 --> 00:47:00,520 Speaker 1: would challenge almost a backdoor legality of striking itself, because 925 00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:04,400 Speaker 1: how can you possibly have a strike without inflicting economic 926 00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:08,719 Speaker 1: damage on the company. It basically is a backdoor outline 927 00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:11,480 Speaker 1: or at the very least like imposing a lot of 928 00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:14,640 Speaker 1: economic damage and fines on any of these companies, and 929 00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:17,600 Speaker 1: this could set a different legal standard through which strikes 930 00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:22,240 Speaker 1: actually even happened, rendering actually the NLRB even more useless, 931 00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:24,600 Speaker 1: because how can they litigate anything if you have a 932 00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:28,080 Speaker 1: civil judgment that can always be leveled against unions and 933 00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:31,080 Speaker 1: against workers themselves. I mean, this would be very chilling 934 00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:33,239 Speaker 1: in terms of the impact that it would have at 935 00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:36,320 Speaker 1: a broader level. That's exactly right. And what the company 936 00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:39,359 Speaker 1: is saying, and this is why this could be so pernicious, 937 00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:44,239 Speaker 1: is that they deserve to be able to sue for 938 00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:47,440 Speaker 1: these damages because of the timing of when the workers 939 00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:51,359 Speaker 1: went out on strike. They're saying that timing is what 940 00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:55,040 Speaker 1: created the economic harm and damage to their company, even 941 00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:59,759 Speaker 1: though again the workers took some measures upon themselves to 942 00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:04,960 Speaker 1: try to mitigate the spoilage of the cement here, and 943 00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:07,719 Speaker 1: so they're saying like, oh no, but you can't even 944 00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:10,600 Speaker 1: go out during that time at all. So you can 945 00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:14,520 Speaker 1: see how that could be applied. I know, if the 946 00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:17,880 Speaker 1: court sides with the company, how that could really be 947 00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:21,480 Speaker 1: an issue for people who are considering striking across the country. 948 00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:23,880 Speaker 1: One are the comments that was made from one of 949 00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:27,600 Speaker 1: the justices, I think it was Justice Roberts, was that, Okay, 950 00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:30,400 Speaker 1: we're trying to figure out the difference between the milk 951 00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:35,480 Speaker 1: spoiling and killing the cow. Yes, and okay, well that's 952 00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:37,759 Speaker 1: an easy explanation to see. Okay, they're not at work 953 00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:39,919 Speaker 1: to milk the cow in this example, so the milk 954 00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:42,160 Speaker 1: spoils or to deal with the milk, put it in 955 00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:45,240 Speaker 1: the fridge or whatever. Okay, very different from you actually 956 00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:47,960 Speaker 1: murder the cows. Everyone would say you can't murder the cows, right, 957 00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:51,560 Speaker 1: But what you see here is, you know, the cement 958 00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:54,920 Speaker 1: is sort of the milk in this situation. The cement 959 00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:58,560 Speaker 1: was ultimately spoiled because the workers weren't there to do 960 00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:00,879 Speaker 1: the job because they're out on strike, protesting for better 961 00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:03,719 Speaker 1: conditions or whatever they were ultimately fighting for. So it 962 00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:06,280 Speaker 1: is much more analogous to that sort of a situation. 963 00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:09,279 Speaker 1: So if they rule even that out of bounds, well 964 00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:11,880 Speaker 1: then you've opened up Pandora's box for companies to go 965 00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:14,640 Speaker 1: after unions and to go after workers and to really 966 00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:18,279 Speaker 1: make it very difficult for workers to strike in any 967 00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:21,640 Speaker 1: case whatsoever. Which is a core fundamental right and core 968 00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:24,879 Speaker 1: fundamental This is the tool that workers have in order 969 00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:27,640 Speaker 1: to be able to force companies to the bargaining table. Ultimately, yeah, 970 00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:29,839 Speaker 1: we're going to try and track it as well as 971 00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:32,560 Speaker 1: possible oral argument. So decision is not going to happen 972 00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:35,160 Speaker 1: for quite some time, but could be a landmark case. Yeah, 973 00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:37,920 Speaker 1: one to definitely keep your eye on, and one that 974 00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:41,320 Speaker 1: you know has profound implications that the media will barely 975 00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:44,920 Speaker 1: cover our touch on. All Right, one more important story. 976 00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:48,040 Speaker 1: So there's a big fight that is already underway for 977 00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:52,800 Speaker 1: Diane Feinstein's Senate seat in California. There is a lot 978 00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:56,680 Speaker 1: at work here because, first of all, Diane Feinstein, as 979 00:49:56,719 --> 00:49:59,240 Speaker 1: we've tracked, and we'll get into some of these details earlier, 980 00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:02,839 Speaker 1: I mean, her mental state has significantly deteriorated. There's all 981 00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:04,920 Speaker 1: sorts of reporting that has come out about how she 982 00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:08,600 Speaker 1: barely knows where she is, what she's doing, what vote 983 00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:11,279 Speaker 1: she's supposed to take. There was one story that was 984 00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:14,759 Speaker 1: particularly troubling about how you know, she wasn't up to 985 00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:17,480 Speaker 1: being chair of the Judiciary Committee anymore, which is incredibly 986 00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:20,400 Speaker 1: powerful and incredibly important. And Chuck Schumer, who has a 987 00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:23,520 Speaker 1: close relationship with her, he was like dreading this conversation. 988 00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:24,759 Speaker 1: He was going to have to have with her to 989 00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:27,600 Speaker 1: tell her break this news to her whatever, so he 990 00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:30,200 Speaker 1: does it. He has this difficult conversation, tells her she 991 00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:32,960 Speaker 1: can't be chair of the committee, and then comes to 992 00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:37,480 Speaker 1: realize later on she doesn't remember having the conversation, so 993 00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:40,799 Speaker 1: he has to go back and have this whole conversation 994 00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:44,640 Speaker 1: all over again. So she has not yet said that 995 00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:47,600 Speaker 1: she's stepping down for the seat, but people are already 996 00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:50,000 Speaker 1: with the writings on the wall here. They're like, we 997 00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:53,040 Speaker 1: can't have this person who doesn't even know where she is, 998 00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:56,480 Speaker 1: holding this important Senate seat in California. And you have 999 00:50:56,680 --> 00:51:01,520 Speaker 1: a lot of potential primary contenders, including Adams Shift, including 1000 00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:07,680 Speaker 1: potentially Rocanna, including Barbara Leek, who just yesterday it broke 1001 00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:10,440 Speaker 1: told the Congressional Blackcock as she is planning on running, 1002 00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:15,480 Speaker 1: and also Katie Porter, who has officially announced. And it 1003 00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:20,400 Speaker 1: has been very amusing to watch the media's Decora meltdown 1004 00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:26,040 Speaker 1: over the timing of Congressman Katie Porter's announcement for Senate. Here, 1005 00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:29,000 Speaker 1: the ladies at the View took this one on in 1006 00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:31,359 Speaker 1: spectacular fashion. Let's take a listen to what they had 1007 00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:33,720 Speaker 1: to say. Now the scene, She's running for is currently 1008 00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:37,520 Speaker 1: occupied by Dianne Feinstein, the oldest sitting senator at eighty nine, 1009 00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:40,080 Speaker 1: and it's widely speculated that fine Stein will not be 1010 00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:42,839 Speaker 1: seeking another term, But since she hasn't actually made that 1011 00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:46,040 Speaker 1: official yet, some people are saying that Porter is making 1012 00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:49,839 Speaker 1: a disrespectful move by not waiting. What do you think? Yeah, 1013 00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:52,960 Speaker 1: I was thought about that. I was surprised though, because 1014 00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:55,400 Speaker 1: I think what we saw when we saw the Democrats 1015 00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:58,000 Speaker 1: during that house chaotic moment when they were trying to 1016 00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:01,000 Speaker 1: pick speakers was this unity. And I think that unity 1017 00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:03,680 Speaker 1: came from the fact that Haking Jeffries waited his turn 1018 00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:05,960 Speaker 1: and waited for Nancy Pelosi to sort of bless him 1019 00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:08,160 Speaker 1: and say, yes, I'm going to step down, you may 1020 00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:12,280 Speaker 1: step up this. Oh my god, these people hate democracy. 1021 00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:14,600 Speaker 1: There's just no other way to put There is so 1022 00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:18,440 Speaker 1: much going on there. I cannot imagine looking at the 1023 00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:22,200 Speaker 1: world and being like it was great and beautiful that 1024 00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:24,960 Speaker 1: they all that there was no descent and that he 1025 00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:28,759 Speaker 1: just waited his turn and to be blessed by the 1026 00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:33,799 Speaker 1: Queen Nancy Pelosi, and god forbid, Katie Porter step up 1027 00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:37,640 Speaker 1: and disrespect Diane Feinstein. What about the disrespect of the 1028 00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:40,880 Speaker 1: people of California, thank you that you're allowing this person 1029 00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:44,520 Speaker 1: whose brain doesn't function to represent them in an important 1030 00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:46,600 Speaker 1: and critical way. What about the disrespect of the people 1031 00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:48,680 Speaker 1: of the entire country, Because this is a woman who 1032 00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:52,080 Speaker 1: has had a lot of power within the Senate. But no, no, no, 1033 00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:55,080 Speaker 1: you've got to wait your turn, wait to be blessed 1034 00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:58,840 Speaker 1: by the powers that be. Just insanity. She's literally senile. 1035 00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:01,600 Speaker 1: She has no idea what's going on. There are thirty 1036 00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:05,120 Speaker 1: nine million people who live in the state of California. 1037 00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:08,640 Speaker 1: They deserve, like I don't know, somebody who's actually working 1038 00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:11,720 Speaker 1: on their interest. She's also an arch narcissist because look, 1039 00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:13,640 Speaker 1: I got you know, I feel sympathy for her and 1040 00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:16,279 Speaker 1: her family in terms of that, but it becomes a 1041 00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:18,600 Speaker 1: whole other thing if you're going to inflict your narcissism 1042 00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:21,880 Speaker 1: on forty million people on the entire country. She refuses 1043 00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:24,880 Speaker 1: to resign, she refuses to acknowledge the own problems that 1044 00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:27,560 Speaker 1: she clearly has in doing her day to day function. 1045 00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:31,160 Speaker 1: She's actually filed the paperwork to run for reelection. And 1046 00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:33,600 Speaker 1: there's also a story here about the Democratic Party being 1047 00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:36,719 Speaker 1: just basically rigging the process keeping her in power. Look, 1048 00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:39,160 Speaker 1: it is absurd that she has stayed in office for 1049 00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:41,279 Speaker 1: the last ten years. She should have been gone when 1050 00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:44,839 Speaker 1: she's eighty. Her husband very recently died. Apparently she took 1051 00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:47,000 Speaker 1: that very hard. And look, I mean, the stories that 1052 00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:49,640 Speaker 1: you're gonna hear out of Capitol Hill are insane. This 1053 00:53:49,719 --> 00:53:53,120 Speaker 1: woman has no clue. I bet you she can't even 1054 00:53:53,160 --> 00:53:54,960 Speaker 1: fly by herself. She would get you know, she wouldn't 1055 00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:56,840 Speaker 1: even get on the right flight. But she has to 1056 00:53:56,840 --> 00:54:00,920 Speaker 1: be completely held like this. She has tremendous power in 1057 00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:04,160 Speaker 1: terms of her rank in the Senate, in terms of 1058 00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:07,120 Speaker 1: the least past committee assignments, but god, there's a lot 1059 00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:09,360 Speaker 1: of day to day constituent stuff, like the people of 1060 00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:12,360 Speaker 1: the state of California both deserve a senator who actually 1061 00:54:12,360 --> 00:54:15,160 Speaker 1: knows what they're doing, that can call officials and stuff 1062 00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:17,160 Speaker 1: on their behalf. And there's no way that she can 1063 00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:19,200 Speaker 1: do this. So look, what do you even care about 1064 00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:22,719 Speaker 1: Katie Porter or not? Like, clearly find Stein needs to go, 1065 00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:26,160 Speaker 1: and if she refuses to leave, she's got to be challenged. Yes, 1066 00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:28,200 Speaker 1: there's no way around it. I'm sorry, I mean the 1067 00:54:28,239 --> 00:54:31,759 Speaker 1: decorum humping from the media, who are I mean, the 1068 00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:35,759 Speaker 1: underlying story is probably they like Adam Shift because of 1069 00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:38,319 Speaker 1: all of his like January sixth and impeachment and all 1070 00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:42,839 Speaker 1: that stuff, and so they're trying to tamp down any 1071 00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:45,759 Speaker 1: momentum from Katie Porter. Again, however, we feel about them 1072 00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:49,759 Speaker 1: because they probably prefer Adam Shift. But just to give 1073 00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:52,840 Speaker 1: you a little bit more detail about how clear cut 1074 00:54:53,239 --> 00:54:55,360 Speaker 1: the mental decline is here, let's go and put this 1075 00:54:55,520 --> 00:54:57,359 Speaker 1: up on the screen. I mean, you have so many 1076 00:54:57,440 --> 00:54:59,440 Speaker 1: reports now like this one. This is from the San 1077 00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:03,600 Speaker 1: Francisco Chronicle. So local newspaper Colley's worry Diane Feinstein is 1078 00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:07,520 Speaker 1: now mentally unfit to serve citing recent interactions. Here's the 1079 00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:09,960 Speaker 1: lead of this story. They say, when a California Democrat 1080 00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:13,840 Speaker 1: in Congress recently engaged in an extended conversation with Center Feinstein, 1081 00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:16,839 Speaker 1: they prepared for a rigorous policy discussion like those they'd 1082 00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:20,440 Speaker 1: had with her many times over the last fifteen years. Instead, 1083 00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:25,600 Speaker 1: the lawmaker said they had to reintroduce themselves to Feinstein 1084 00:55:26,200 --> 00:55:31,359 Speaker 1: multiple times during an interaction that lasted several hours. Rather 1085 00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:35,520 Speaker 1: than delve into policy, Feinstein repeated the same small talk questions, 1086 00:55:35,560 --> 00:55:38,280 Speaker 1: like asking a lawmaker what mattered to voters in their district, 1087 00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:41,520 Speaker 1: the member of Congress said, with no apparent recognition. The 1088 00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:45,920 Speaker 1: two had already had a similar conversation. Again, this is 1089 00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:50,120 Speaker 1: apparently someone who has known Diane Feinstein for at least 1090 00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:54,960 Speaker 1: fifteen years, and in the course of one conversation, had 1091 00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:58,680 Speaker 1: to reintroduce themselves to her multiple times. I believe this 1092 00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:01,680 Speaker 1: is also the story where they tell about how Sarah 1093 00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:05,000 Speaker 1: Feinstein was speaking at a funeral of someone who, again 1094 00:56:05,080 --> 00:56:08,960 Speaker 1: she was extremely close to, had known for years and 1095 00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:12,080 Speaker 1: years and years, sort of this leading figure in terms 1096 00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:16,120 Speaker 1: of the local California political scene. She gets up, gives 1097 00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:21,160 Speaker 1: this kind of small talkie incoherent speech at the funeral 1098 00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:25,880 Speaker 1: and sits down without even acknowledging this person's passing. And 1099 00:56:25,880 --> 00:56:30,279 Speaker 1: the whole point of her speaking at this funeral was 1100 00:56:30,400 --> 00:56:34,200 Speaker 1: to acknowledge this individual and their contributions. And it was 1101 00:56:34,239 --> 00:56:37,200 Speaker 1: so bad that her staff actually made her get back 1102 00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:40,719 Speaker 1: up and say something about this person who had passed. Again, 1103 00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:42,360 Speaker 1: we're out of the realm of sad. She's not a 1104 00:56:42,360 --> 00:56:45,319 Speaker 1: private citizen, she's a public elected official. Her health is 1105 00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:48,000 Speaker 1: a completely justified thing that people. By the way, the 1106 00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:50,080 Speaker 1: other cowardly thing in that article is not a single 1107 00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:52,239 Speaker 1: one of these people actually says their name. They don't 1108 00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:54,080 Speaker 1: go on the record because they don't want to screw 1109 00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:56,160 Speaker 1: with her. Nancy Pelosi, by the way, somebody who has 1110 00:56:56,200 --> 00:56:59,040 Speaker 1: publicly said that Feinstein is fine and that her mental 1111 00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:01,400 Speaker 1: faculties and all that other stuff are there. This is 1112 00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:04,040 Speaker 1: a total cover up and it's honestly bs. It really 1113 00:57:04,120 --> 00:57:06,480 Speaker 1: really pisses me off because these people are not kings. 1114 00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:09,040 Speaker 1: They're not entitled to their positions. This whole weight your 1115 00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:14,600 Speaker 1: turn fetishism that the view has is just is corrosive 1116 00:57:14,920 --> 00:57:19,080 Speaker 1: to any actual democratic representation. It's really disgusting. And the 1117 00:57:19,120 --> 00:57:20,840 Speaker 1: last piece of this story gout and put this up 1118 00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:22,919 Speaker 1: on the screen from Alex Salmon, who wrote a good 1119 00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:24,920 Speaker 1: write up that I encourage you to read about if 1120 00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:27,600 Speaker 1: you're interested in like the different candidates who may step 1121 00:57:27,680 --> 00:57:29,360 Speaker 1: up here and what those dynamics are going to be. 1122 00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:32,360 Speaker 1: The tweet here says new Diane Feinstein has not given 1123 00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:34,520 Speaker 1: any indication she is stepping down. She has in fact 1124 00:57:34,520 --> 00:57:36,720 Speaker 1: filed the paperwork to run again. But there's blood in 1125 00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:38,960 Speaker 1: the water and California Dames are going for it. Barbara 1126 00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:41,400 Speaker 1: Lee just told the Black Caucus she's running. Katie Porter 1127 00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:43,480 Speaker 1: is in and Like I said, the two other people 1128 00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:48,560 Speaker 1: that their speculation about is Congressman Rocanna and Adam Schiff 1129 00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:52,760 Speaker 1: is almost definitely looking to run here. But part of 1130 00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:55,400 Speaker 1: the important history that Alex gets into in this piece 1131 00:57:56,360 --> 00:58:01,160 Speaker 1: is that back in twenty eighteen, the problems were already 1132 00:58:01,160 --> 00:58:06,160 Speaker 1: a parent and not only did Feinstein have a challenger 1133 00:58:06,240 --> 00:58:08,680 Speaker 1: in the primary, Kevin de Leon, who apparently now is 1134 00:58:08,680 --> 00:58:10,320 Speaker 1: in broil on that whole La City Council thing. I 1135 00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:14,280 Speaker 1: don't really know the details, but I am put that aside. 1136 00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:17,479 Speaker 1: He stepped up and challenged her in the primary, and 1137 00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:24,040 Speaker 1: the California Democratic Party actually endorsed him, probably because number one, 1138 00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:27,040 Speaker 1: Diane Feinstein like her politics kind of suck, and number 1139 00:58:27,040 --> 00:58:31,000 Speaker 1: two because these problems were already a parent and the 1140 00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:34,720 Speaker 1: National Democrats are the ones who stepped in and saved her. 1141 00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:38,200 Speaker 1: Reading here, Barack Obama, in his very first endorsement in 1142 00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:41,600 Speaker 1: the twenty eighteen cycle, backed Feinstein, later came to support 1143 00:58:41,640 --> 00:58:46,000 Speaker 1: of Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and others including Adam Schiff. Actually, 1144 00:58:46,120 --> 00:58:49,000 Speaker 1: Feinstein ends up out raising de Leon by almost twenty 1145 00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:54,240 Speaker 1: times and ends up winning the race. So this is 1146 00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:58,080 Speaker 1: a total problem of the National Democratic Party's own making 1147 00:58:58,440 --> 00:59:00,840 Speaker 1: and for the media to take the hope Diane, Fine, 1148 00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:02,840 Speaker 1: you got to pay your dues and you got to wait, 1149 00:59:02,920 --> 00:59:04,640 Speaker 1: and you got a way to be padded on the head. 1150 00:59:05,360 --> 00:59:08,840 Speaker 1: They just literally hate democracy. There is no other takeaway 1151 00:59:08,840 --> 00:59:10,440 Speaker 1: you can. Media does this with a lot of people too. 1152 00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:12,800 Speaker 1: You know, they covered up for strom Thurman, they covered 1153 00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:15,560 Speaker 1: up for Thad Cochrane. Both of those guys were totally 1154 00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:18,640 Speaker 1: completely senile, and there was like basically nobody talking about 1155 00:59:18,640 --> 00:59:21,440 Speaker 1: it on Capitol Hill. So it's just by totally by partner. 1156 00:59:22,680 --> 00:59:25,040 Speaker 1: That's a whole other conversation. I don't know what it is. 1157 00:59:25,080 --> 00:59:27,400 Speaker 1: I can't imagine interacting with the senile person being my 1158 00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:30,160 Speaker 1: job to report on public officials. They're not totally seen out. 1159 00:59:30,160 --> 00:59:35,600 Speaker 1: They're like, this is fine, completely fine, whatever, Bristol, what 1160 00:59:35,640 --> 00:59:36,840 Speaker 1: are you taking a look at all? Right, guys? So 1161 00:59:36,920 --> 00:59:39,800 Speaker 1: this is an amazing story. A software engineer was recently 1162 00:59:39,920 --> 00:59:43,240 Speaker 1: arrested for replicating the scheme from the nineteen ninety nine 1163 00:59:43,240 --> 00:59:46,360 Speaker 1: movie Office Space in order to steal hundreds of thousands 1164 00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:50,120 Speaker 1: of dollars from his employer, Zulily. So here's the report. 1165 00:59:50,400 --> 00:59:53,160 Speaker 1: A software engineer sife more than three hundred thousand dollars 1166 00:59:53,160 --> 00:59:56,040 Speaker 1: from his employer by introducing what prosecutors called a quote, 1167 00:59:56,080 --> 00:59:59,400 Speaker 1: a series of malicious software edits that wired money into 1168 00:59:59,560 --> 01:00:02,160 Speaker 1: his person no account. Now, if the scheme sounds like 1169 01:00:02,200 --> 01:00:04,959 Speaker 1: the plot of Office Space, that's because the authority said 1170 01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:07,880 Speaker 1: it was partly inspired by the movie. When asked about 1171 01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:10,280 Speaker 1: the money, the twenty eight year old engineer told authorities 1172 01:00:10,320 --> 01:00:13,720 Speaker 1: it was all gone because he had invested it in GameStop. 1173 01:00:14,560 --> 01:00:17,360 Speaker 1: Too perfect. Now, Office Space struck a nerve with an 1174 01:00:17,520 --> 01:00:20,919 Speaker 1: entire generation of miserable white collar workers, zombiing through their days, 1175 01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:23,480 Speaker 1: waging petty battles with the copy machine, their coworkers, and 1176 01:00:23,520 --> 01:00:26,360 Speaker 1: their hated bosses, wondering if there was anything more to 1177 01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:29,520 Speaker 1: life than a tedious groundhog's day of mind numbing and 1178 01:00:29,560 --> 01:00:32,360 Speaker 1: soul crushing work. You're living in the American dream, but 1179 01:00:32,480 --> 01:00:34,840 Speaker 1: you hate your life. In the movie, these office workers 1180 01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:37,200 Speaker 1: at some anonymous tech company, they decide they're going to 1181 01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:39,000 Speaker 1: make a break for it, and they siphon off enough 1182 01:00:39,040 --> 01:00:41,000 Speaker 1: money from the company for them to break out of 1183 01:00:41,040 --> 01:00:43,800 Speaker 1: the dull monotony of their lives. Now, a version of 1184 01:00:43,800 --> 01:00:46,520 Speaker 1: the fantasy that many a white collar worker has, I'm 1185 01:00:46,560 --> 01:00:50,200 Speaker 1: sure indulged on their grinding commute, contemplating their self constructed 1186 01:00:50,240 --> 01:00:54,280 Speaker 1: prison of mortgage payments, lifestyle expectations, and private school tuition payments. 1187 01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:58,000 Speaker 1: While art imitates life and life apparently imitates art, a 1188 01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:00,840 Speaker 1: brand new study shows it's not just your that white 1189 01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:04,240 Speaker 1: collar workers like lawyers, bankers, and other corporate office workers 1190 01:01:04,320 --> 01:01:07,920 Speaker 1: are deeply unhappy. They really actually are, by their own reporting, 1191 01:01:08,120 --> 01:01:11,080 Speaker 1: some of the most unhappy, unfulfilled, stressed town people in 1192 01:01:11,120 --> 01:01:13,720 Speaker 1: the entire country. Washington Post had this write up of 1193 01:01:13,760 --> 01:01:16,280 Speaker 1: information that was gathered by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1194 01:01:16,360 --> 01:01:19,440 Speaker 1: quote the happiest, least stressful, most meaningful jobs in America. 1195 01:01:19,520 --> 01:01:21,720 Speaker 1: I'll get to those professions that actually report the highest 1196 01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:24,200 Speaker 1: levels of happiness in a minute, but let's start here 1197 01:01:24,360 --> 01:01:27,400 Speaker 1: with the misery index. There are two industries at or 1198 01:01:27,440 --> 01:01:31,200 Speaker 1: near the bottom across the categories of happiness, meaning and 1199 01:01:31,480 --> 01:01:36,200 Speaker 1: levels of stress. First is labeled professional, scientific and technical services, 1200 01:01:36,200 --> 01:01:38,120 Speaker 1: a sort of white collar catch all that would include 1201 01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:40,640 Speaker 1: your lawyer's accounts and tech pros. And the second is 1202 01:01:40,720 --> 01:01:44,280 Speaker 1: finance and insurance, which is pretty self explanatory. These white 1203 01:01:44,280 --> 01:01:47,120 Speaker 1: collar workers got the degrees, they got their credentials, they 1204 01:01:47,160 --> 01:01:49,560 Speaker 1: got the upper middle class incomes, and now they find 1205 01:01:49,560 --> 01:01:51,880 Speaker 1: themselves doing work that is boring and tedious at best, 1206 01:01:52,080 --> 01:01:56,160 Speaker 1: actively soul crushing and immoral at worst. They're basically in 1207 01:01:56,360 --> 01:01:59,120 Speaker 1: essential workers, many layers of which could be removed with 1208 01:01:59,200 --> 01:02:01,560 Speaker 1: no one really noticing at all. This is not to 1209 01:02:01,600 --> 01:02:04,160 Speaker 1: pity them, after all, they are usually earning good money 1210 01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:06,240 Speaker 1: and benefiting from a society that has been designed to 1211 01:02:06,240 --> 01:02:09,240 Speaker 1: cater to their cultural and consumer tastes. They're oftentimes even 1212 01:02:09,280 --> 01:02:12,040 Speaker 1: treated as actual human beings in their workplaces, with needs 1213 01:02:12,040 --> 01:02:14,400 Speaker 1: and wants, rather than the interchangeable cogs that blue collar 1214 01:02:14,440 --> 01:02:17,800 Speaker 1: and service workers usually find themselves treated as. The data, though, 1215 01:02:17,880 --> 01:02:22,240 Speaker 1: does reveal something interesting about human nature, specifically what feeds 1216 01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:24,960 Speaker 1: our soul and what crushes it. Now, it's so surprised 1217 01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:26,640 Speaker 1: that this is also one of the groups that did 1218 01:02:26,680 --> 01:02:29,600 Speaker 1: a big rethink during COVID. Working remotely from home with 1219 01:02:29,680 --> 01:02:32,320 Speaker 1: none of the office many dramas or coffee breaks, many 1220 01:02:32,320 --> 01:02:35,120 Speaker 1: had a big realization about just how small their actually 1221 01:02:35,280 --> 01:02:37,480 Speaker 1: actual work was, and how strange it was that they 1222 01:02:37,480 --> 01:02:41,240 Speaker 1: had oriented their whole lives around those work tasks, sacrificing 1223 01:02:41,320 --> 01:02:45,200 Speaker 1: family hobbies, community time, and so much more. These are 1224 01:02:45,200 --> 01:02:47,840 Speaker 1: the people who are no longer racing for extra work 1225 01:02:47,840 --> 01:02:50,880 Speaker 1: and weekend hours, but are instead moving to lower cost places, 1226 01:02:51,160 --> 01:02:54,880 Speaker 1: leaning into an identity that exists outside of the workplace, 1227 01:02:55,200 --> 01:02:58,040 Speaker 1: actively changing their priorities and their goals after having been 1228 01:02:58,080 --> 01:03:00,120 Speaker 1: forced to take a break from the rat race in 1229 01:03:00,160 --> 01:03:03,680 Speaker 1: the pandemic. So, if lawyers and bankers are the most miserable, 1230 01:03:03,920 --> 01:03:06,120 Speaker 1: who are the happiest workers? On the other end of 1231 01:03:06,120 --> 01:03:08,000 Speaker 1: the spectrum, kind of as an outlier in terms of 1232 01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:13,920 Speaker 1: happiness meaning and low stress is agriculture, logging, and forestry. Apparently, 1233 01:03:14,080 --> 01:03:17,960 Speaker 1: deeper research crowned lumberjacks the happiest of all workers. But 1234 01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:20,160 Speaker 1: basically anyone who worked on a farm or in a 1235 01:03:20,200 --> 01:03:23,600 Speaker 1: forest in nature was pretty content. If office work is 1236 01:03:23,640 --> 01:03:27,760 Speaker 1: abstract and disconnected, farming and logging are tangible. They're concrete. 1237 01:03:27,960 --> 01:03:30,440 Speaker 1: One entail sitting indoors, staring at a screen. The other 1238 01:03:30,480 --> 01:03:34,200 Speaker 1: requires outdoor physical activity, working directly with the land. I 1239 01:03:34,240 --> 01:03:37,160 Speaker 1: want to glorified here. Logging is dangerous farmers settled with 1240 01:03:37,200 --> 01:03:39,320 Speaker 1: data and committing suicide at high rates, and are being 1241 01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:42,280 Speaker 1: forced off their land by giant agribusiness. But it again 1242 01:03:42,360 --> 01:03:45,360 Speaker 1: says something essential about human nature that we find great 1243 01:03:45,400 --> 01:03:49,200 Speaker 1: satisfaction in being outside doing work that is physical and 1244 01:03:49,280 --> 01:03:52,960 Speaker 1: is also measurable. Similar values are reflected in an analysis 1245 01:03:52,960 --> 01:03:56,160 Speaker 1: of which activities people found made them happiness, happiest, and 1246 01:03:56,200 --> 01:03:58,479 Speaker 1: gave them the most meaning. The top of the list 1247 01:03:58,560 --> 01:04:02,200 Speaker 1: was religious and spiritual acts activities. Close behind was physical 1248 01:04:02,240 --> 01:04:05,000 Speaker 1: activity and caring for others, whether it was their own 1249 01:04:05,040 --> 01:04:08,520 Speaker 1: family or non family members. Additional data showed that we 1250 01:04:08,560 --> 01:04:11,480 Speaker 1: found ourselves happiest when we were at a place of worship, 1251 01:04:11,800 --> 01:04:16,520 Speaker 1: at the home of someone else, or outdoors. These activities 1252 01:04:16,560 --> 01:04:19,520 Speaker 1: are at the core of what makes us human, contemplating 1253 01:04:19,560 --> 01:04:22,720 Speaker 1: the existential beyond our day to day survival, using our 1254 01:04:22,760 --> 01:04:25,040 Speaker 1: bodies and labor, shape the world and provide for ourselves, 1255 01:04:25,080 --> 01:04:27,920 Speaker 1: provide for our families, caring for our tribe. As deeply 1256 01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:32,440 Speaker 1: social and interconnected people. But because these activities are often 1257 01:04:32,440 --> 01:04:36,240 Speaker 1: not economic, don't result in much of anyone profiting from us. 1258 01:04:36,320 --> 01:04:38,680 Speaker 1: We've been trained by society to push these activities to 1259 01:04:38,720 --> 01:04:42,000 Speaker 1: the sidelines and to devalue the very things that make 1260 01:04:42,080 --> 01:04:45,600 Speaker 1: us the happiest and most embody our humanity. This set 1261 01:04:45,640 --> 01:04:49,200 Speaker 1: of values is also the antithesis of the obnoxious grindset ecosystem, 1262 01:04:49,240 --> 01:04:51,280 Speaker 1: which implores you to double down and putting money and 1263 01:04:51,360 --> 01:04:56,160 Speaker 1: things over family, spirituality, and mutual care. Bottom line, maybe 1264 01:04:56,240 --> 01:04:58,920 Speaker 1: don't write malicious code to steal from your employer a 1265 01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:02,360 Speaker 1: llah office space. But whether you're a white collar worker, 1266 01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:05,320 Speaker 1: blue collar or service worker, do make this the year 1267 01:05:05,480 --> 01:05:08,360 Speaker 1: that you revolve in the program and find small ways 1268 01:05:08,400 --> 01:05:11,360 Speaker 1: to feed your own soul. That would be a real 1269 01:05:11,400 --> 01:05:13,560 Speaker 1: way to break free from the so called matrix, and 1270 01:05:13,600 --> 01:05:16,360 Speaker 1: it would be good for the whole world. I was 1271 01:05:16,480 --> 01:05:19,520 Speaker 1: endlessly fascinated by this list of like Who's happy is? 1272 01:05:19,680 --> 01:05:22,520 Speaker 1: And if you want to hear my reaction to Crystal's monologue, 1273 01:05:22,520 --> 01:05:28,520 Speaker 1: become a premium subscriber today at Breakingpoints dot com. All right, 1274 01:05:28,560 --> 01:05:30,920 Speaker 1: sagoy looking at well, as I've probably said ad nauseam 1275 01:05:30,960 --> 01:05:32,880 Speaker 1: at this point, if there is only one good thing 1276 01:05:32,960 --> 01:05:35,560 Speaker 1: to come from COVID, it is millions of people getting 1277 01:05:35,600 --> 01:05:37,720 Speaker 1: in touch with their own health. You understand the power 1278 01:05:37,720 --> 01:05:40,720 Speaker 1: of regular exercise, good diet, regular sleep, all the very 1279 01:05:40,720 --> 01:05:43,640 Speaker 1: basic care routines which can yield insane dividends as you 1280 01:05:43,680 --> 01:05:46,240 Speaker 1: begin to age. It and certainly was the case with myself, 1281 01:05:46,240 --> 01:05:48,280 Speaker 1: and I've heard now from so many of you. But 1282 01:05:48,320 --> 01:05:50,800 Speaker 1: there's a flip side to people like us. People actually 1283 01:05:50,800 --> 01:05:53,400 Speaker 1: took away from COVID that the medical system can triumph 1284 01:05:53,440 --> 01:05:56,200 Speaker 1: over nature, that those who believe most fervently in mass 1285 01:05:56,280 --> 01:05:59,960 Speaker 1: in multiple booster shots and lockdowns. It's almost a transhumanistic 1286 01:06:00,120 --> 01:06:03,520 Speaker 1: idea that man has advanced so far from natural pathogens 1287 01:06:03,600 --> 01:06:06,640 Speaker 1: that by extension, all human conditions can be beaten by 1288 01:06:06,720 --> 01:06:10,720 Speaker 1: human ingenuity. Our entire medical system is effectively designed around 1289 01:06:10,720 --> 01:06:14,000 Speaker 1: this idea. Why because it does two things. Number One, 1290 01:06:14,120 --> 01:06:17,080 Speaker 1: it takes medicine into the realm of hidden knowledge drugs 1291 01:06:17,160 --> 01:06:20,640 Speaker 1: pharmacology outside the realm of common sense, and also into 1292 01:06:20,680 --> 01:06:22,800 Speaker 1: the realm where they can give you something to fix 1293 01:06:22,840 --> 01:06:25,320 Speaker 1: whatever is wrong with you. Two. Of course, when you 1294 01:06:25,400 --> 01:06:27,920 Speaker 1: happen to tell you what's wrong with you, what specific 1295 01:06:28,040 --> 01:06:30,840 Speaker 1: drug or expensive tool or surgery that you need, they 1296 01:06:30,880 --> 01:06:33,240 Speaker 1: also happen to charge you for it. That in a 1297 01:06:33,280 --> 01:06:35,280 Speaker 1: concise way as possible is how it can try to 1298 01:06:35,320 --> 01:06:39,840 Speaker 1: capture Western medicine. One where medicine often trump's common sense 1299 01:06:39,840 --> 01:06:42,600 Speaker 1: and age old biology and is now often impacted by 1300 01:06:42,600 --> 01:06:45,880 Speaker 1: ideology to protect the feelings of patience over their actual 1301 01:06:45,920 --> 01:06:49,400 Speaker 1: long term wellbeing. For adults, this is of course vitally important, 1302 01:06:49,560 --> 01:06:52,320 Speaker 1: but where it is arguably the most important is children 1303 01:06:52,520 --> 01:06:55,280 Speaker 1: for whom it is our solemn duty to protect, especially 1304 01:06:55,360 --> 01:06:58,240 Speaker 1: from our own pathologies impacting them. That's where I want 1305 01:06:58,240 --> 01:07:00,800 Speaker 1: to spend time today the new regulations that were released 1306 01:07:00,800 --> 01:07:04,240 Speaker 1: by the American Pediatric Association regarding the troubling spike in 1307 01:07:04,320 --> 01:07:08,080 Speaker 1: childhood obesity. Childhood obesity is a genuine crisis that actually 1308 01:07:08,120 --> 01:07:11,360 Speaker 1: exploded during the pandemic. Especially over the last twenty years, 1309 01:07:11,520 --> 01:07:14,360 Speaker 1: BMI indexes for children have gotten so out of control 1310 01:07:14,400 --> 01:07:16,920 Speaker 1: they literally had to remake the chart last month to 1311 01:07:16,960 --> 01:07:19,640 Speaker 1: include how fat some kids are today because they did 1312 01:07:19,720 --> 01:07:22,240 Speaker 1: not even exist at that weight level in the year 1313 01:07:22,240 --> 01:07:25,680 Speaker 1: two thousand. According to the latest data from the CDC, 1314 01:07:26,040 --> 01:07:29,000 Speaker 1: some twenty percent of all children in the United States 1315 01:07:29,040 --> 01:07:32,640 Speaker 1: are obese, not overweight obese. It's actually worse though kids 1316 01:07:32,680 --> 01:07:36,400 Speaker 1: are younger and being more obese over time twelve percent 1317 01:07:36,480 --> 01:07:39,720 Speaker 1: between two and five, twenty percent between six and eleven, 1318 01:07:39,960 --> 01:07:43,840 Speaker 1: twenty two between twelve and nineteen. Obesity itself, especially that 1319 01:07:43,880 --> 01:07:46,320 Speaker 1: of young people, is one way for a ticket to 1320 01:07:46,520 --> 01:07:49,560 Speaker 1: all kinds of horrible health conditions throughout your life. High 1321 01:07:49,600 --> 01:07:52,960 Speaker 1: blood pressure, type two diabetes, joined problems, heart problems, overall 1322 01:07:52,960 --> 01:07:55,880 Speaker 1: oscorn mart all cause mortality goes way up. It is 1323 01:07:55,920 --> 01:07:59,560 Speaker 1: probably the single biggest crisis afflicting kids today. Naturally, we 1324 01:07:59,600 --> 01:08:02,600 Speaker 1: expect American Academy of Pediatrics to want to do something 1325 01:08:02,640 --> 01:08:05,880 Speaker 1: about it, and they have in the most western medicine 1326 01:08:05,880 --> 01:08:08,640 Speaker 1: way of all time. The new guidance says, basically, we 1327 01:08:08,680 --> 01:08:13,320 Speaker 1: should use drugs and surgery much earlier when treating childhood obesity. 1328 01:08:13,520 --> 01:08:17,200 Speaker 1: That drug includes a possibly revolutionary new weight loss drug 1329 01:08:17,320 --> 01:08:20,000 Speaker 1: known as semic glue tide, and surgery options which can 1330 01:08:20,080 --> 01:08:22,200 Speaker 1: run the gamut. Now, obviously, we should all have a 1331 01:08:22,240 --> 01:08:24,200 Speaker 1: lot of questions. The drug seems to work well in 1332 01:08:24,240 --> 01:08:27,120 Speaker 1: adults temporarily, how well does it work in children? Are 1333 01:08:27,160 --> 01:08:29,400 Speaker 1: we sure that screwing with insulin and gut function and 1334 01:08:29,439 --> 01:08:32,360 Speaker 1: GLP and children will not impact their overall development over 1335 01:08:32,400 --> 01:08:34,880 Speaker 1: time as far as surgery goes, So the solution to 1336 01:08:34,920 --> 01:08:37,759 Speaker 1: childhood obesity is to just slash and burn somebody's stomach 1337 01:08:37,960 --> 01:08:39,559 Speaker 1: and then hope that it's okay for the rest of 1338 01:08:39,560 --> 01:08:42,120 Speaker 1: their life. Is it reversible? How will it impact them 1339 01:08:42,120 --> 01:08:45,280 Speaker 1: throughout puberty? These are all great questions. Yet, as doctor 1340 01:08:45,360 --> 01:08:48,840 Speaker 1: Vernet Pissod points out, the new American Academy of Pediatrics 1341 01:08:48,880 --> 01:08:52,360 Speaker 1: guidance with respect to semic glue. Tide is based on 1342 01:08:52,439 --> 01:08:55,680 Speaker 1: quote two small studies of weekly injection amongst children as 1343 01:08:55,720 --> 01:08:58,120 Speaker 1: young as eight, and even within those small studies, they 1344 01:08:58,160 --> 01:09:02,240 Speaker 1: showed quote significant add verse effects. Those two small studies 1345 01:09:02,280 --> 01:09:04,680 Speaker 1: were all that they needed to then recommend this for 1346 01:09:04,840 --> 01:09:08,200 Speaker 1: all children afflicted by obesity in the United States? Do 1347 01:09:08,280 --> 01:09:11,000 Speaker 1: people realize how crazy this is? What's worse is that 1348 01:09:11,040 --> 01:09:13,400 Speaker 1: when you read deeper, you understand this is part of 1349 01:09:13,439 --> 01:09:17,479 Speaker 1: a broader ideological product to a project to emphasize medicine 1350 01:09:17,520 --> 01:09:20,400 Speaker 1: over lifestyle. In fact, one of the experts who helped 1351 01:09:20,439 --> 01:09:22,800 Speaker 1: justify the new guidance, the co director of the Center 1352 01:09:22,840 --> 01:09:26,439 Speaker 1: for Pediatric Obesity Medicine at the University of Minnesota, said, quote, 1353 01:09:26,479 --> 01:09:29,920 Speaker 1: obesity is not a lifestyle problem. It is not a 1354 01:09:29,960 --> 01:09:32,760 Speaker 1: lifestyle disease. Let me ask you a question. Have you 1355 01:09:32,800 --> 01:09:35,519 Speaker 1: ever been to a food Scores region on the planet 1356 01:09:35,560 --> 01:09:37,840 Speaker 1: that has an obesity problem? If the answer is no, 1357 01:09:38,080 --> 01:09:41,639 Speaker 1: then obviously it's a freaking lifestyle disease. For parents who 1358 01:09:41,680 --> 01:09:44,479 Speaker 1: find it difficult to feed their kids healthy, nutritious meals, 1359 01:09:44,600 --> 01:09:47,160 Speaker 1: you will always have my eternal sympathy in this country 1360 01:09:47,720 --> 01:09:50,200 Speaker 1: when they bring their kids into the doctor's office for help. 1361 01:09:50,400 --> 01:09:52,960 Speaker 1: We should have redirected some of the billions of dollars 1362 01:09:53,000 --> 01:09:55,040 Speaker 1: I'm sure is going to be spent on these drugs 1363 01:09:55,080 --> 01:09:58,280 Speaker 1: and on surgeries to basic stuff, making sure kids have 1364 01:09:58,280 --> 01:10:01,280 Speaker 1: access to healthy food access. They're going to burn more 1365 01:10:01,280 --> 01:10:03,720 Speaker 1: calories in places like gym class and they did previously 1366 01:10:04,040 --> 01:10:08,559 Speaker 1: solving childhood OBC. It will require an entire reorientation of 1367 01:10:08,600 --> 01:10:11,679 Speaker 1: the way that we approach health, where lifestyle is first, 1368 01:10:12,040 --> 01:10:15,280 Speaker 1: not secondary. Drugs and surgery are the last of the 1369 01:10:15,360 --> 01:10:18,040 Speaker 1: last resorts. For too long, they have just been too 1370 01:10:18,080 --> 01:10:20,559 Speaker 1: willing to let us get sick and then sell you 1371 01:10:20,920 --> 01:10:24,719 Speaker 1: a type of cure. For adults, it's immoral. For children, 1372 01:10:24,840 --> 01:10:28,160 Speaker 1: it is a crime. We have to stop it. And unfortunately, 1373 01:10:28,200 --> 01:10:31,759 Speaker 1: the drug makers, the doctors, the medical guilds, they're always 1374 01:10:31,840 --> 01:10:34,040 Speaker 1: not going to be on your side. The best thing 1375 01:10:34,080 --> 01:10:35,919 Speaker 1: that you can do is to try and keep yourself 1376 01:10:36,040 --> 01:10:38,640 Speaker 1: and your kids healthy. It's very hard, but it's not 1377 01:10:38,720 --> 01:10:40,680 Speaker 1: as hard as being reliant on a drug for the 1378 01:10:40,680 --> 01:10:42,559 Speaker 1: rest of your life. So when you read the guidance, 1379 01:10:42,680 --> 01:10:44,160 Speaker 1: it's totally nuts. And you know, this is the other 1380 01:10:44,160 --> 01:10:46,080 Speaker 1: thing with COVID. They really talk and if you want 1381 01:10:46,120 --> 01:10:49,160 Speaker 1: to hear my reaction to Cyber's monologue become a premium 1382 01:10:49,240 --> 01:10:54,800 Speaker 1: subscriber today at Breakingpoints dot Com. A lot of big 1383 01:10:54,880 --> 01:10:57,760 Speaker 1: questions about where exactly the economy is right now, Are 1384 01:10:57,760 --> 01:11:00,479 Speaker 1: we headed to a recession? What is the Fed going 1385 01:11:00,520 --> 01:11:02,640 Speaker 1: to do in twenty twenty three, and how is it 1386 01:11:02,720 --> 01:11:05,840 Speaker 1: going to affect you. To answer hopefully some of these 1387 01:11:05,920 --> 01:11:08,160 Speaker 1: questions and gain some insights, we have one of our 1388 01:11:08,200 --> 01:11:11,040 Speaker 1: favorite gas professor Richard Wolf. He is a professor of 1389 01:11:11,080 --> 01:11:14,320 Speaker 1: economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He's also 1390 01:11:14,400 --> 01:11:17,400 Speaker 1: founder of Democracy at Work and host of their show 1391 01:11:17,479 --> 01:11:20,400 Speaker 1: Economic Update. His latest book is The Sickness is the 1392 01:11:20,479 --> 01:11:24,200 Speaker 1: System When capitalism fails to save us from pandemics or itself. 1393 01:11:24,240 --> 01:11:26,960 Speaker 1: It's always great to see Eezar good Cazar, thank you, 1394 01:11:27,040 --> 01:11:30,400 Speaker 1: glad to be here so hot off the presses. We 1395 01:11:30,479 --> 01:11:33,360 Speaker 1: have a new inflation report that I wanted to get 1396 01:11:33,439 --> 01:11:35,200 Speaker 1: you to react to, and I know you haven't had 1397 01:11:35,200 --> 01:11:36,960 Speaker 1: a chance because it just came out to dig into 1398 01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:39,120 Speaker 1: all of the details. But here are the headlines. Is 1399 01:11:39,120 --> 01:11:41,519 Speaker 1: from the New York Times. They say the consumer price 1400 01:11:41,520 --> 01:11:43,960 Speaker 1: index climb by six point five percent in the year 1401 01:11:43,960 --> 01:11:47,000 Speaker 1: through last month. That's down from seven point one percent 1402 01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:50,840 Speaker 1: in the November reading, as prices declined slightly on a 1403 01:11:50,880 --> 01:11:53,680 Speaker 1: monthly basis, that annual inflation rate was the slowest since 1404 01:11:53,760 --> 01:11:57,040 Speaker 1: October twenty twenty one, and they attribute that to a 1405 01:11:57,160 --> 01:12:01,360 Speaker 1: drop in gas prices and also AIRFAI. They go on 1406 01:12:01,520 --> 01:12:04,080 Speaker 1: to say that the economists and FED officials are more 1407 01:12:04,280 --> 01:12:07,400 Speaker 1: specifically focused on a so called core inflation measure, which 1408 01:12:07,400 --> 01:12:09,479 Speaker 1: removes food and fuel prices to get a sense of 1409 01:12:09,600 --> 01:12:12,320 Speaker 1: underlying price trends. Less good news there. They say that 1410 01:12:12,400 --> 01:12:14,960 Speaker 1: measure climb by five point seven percent in December from 1411 01:12:14,960 --> 01:12:17,599 Speaker 1: a year earlier, compared with six percent previously, and in 1412 01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:21,400 Speaker 1: line with what forecasters had expected. So can you just 1413 01:12:21,560 --> 01:12:24,599 Speaker 1: explain that for our viewers a little bit in non 1414 01:12:24,640 --> 01:12:27,920 Speaker 1: economists speak and what you make of that latest report? 1415 01:12:29,160 --> 01:12:32,639 Speaker 1: Glad to do so in non economists speak, and that's 1416 01:12:32,640 --> 01:12:35,760 Speaker 1: certainly the better way to go, even for the economists, 1417 01:12:35,760 --> 01:12:39,280 Speaker 1: if I'm going to be honest. What these numbers tell 1418 01:12:39,360 --> 01:12:44,160 Speaker 1: us is that the inflation our economy is suffering slightly 1419 01:12:44,320 --> 01:12:48,800 Speaker 1: diminished over the last month. Prices are still going up, 1420 01:12:48,880 --> 01:12:52,280 Speaker 1: which means we have an inflation, and they're going up 1421 01:12:52,560 --> 01:12:56,000 Speaker 1: in historic terms much higher than they did for the 1422 01:12:56,040 --> 01:12:59,920 Speaker 1: last thirty years, but not as high as they were 1423 01:13:00,360 --> 01:13:03,880 Speaker 1: rising in the previous months. So it isn't that we're 1424 01:13:03,880 --> 01:13:07,559 Speaker 1: in a deflation. Prices are not coming down, it's that 1425 01:13:07,600 --> 01:13:11,680 Speaker 1: they're not going up quite as quickly as they did before. 1426 01:13:12,040 --> 01:13:16,280 Speaker 1: But the sad news wrapped up with that is that wages, 1427 01:13:17,160 --> 01:13:20,439 Speaker 1: which we're going up, not as fast as prices, not 1428 01:13:20,560 --> 01:13:24,760 Speaker 1: even close, but those are in even worse shape. That is, 1429 01:13:24,800 --> 01:13:28,280 Speaker 1: they are not catching up. In fact, they are shrinking 1430 01:13:28,800 --> 01:13:32,559 Speaker 1: even relative to the diminished rise in prices. So if 1431 01:13:32,560 --> 01:13:36,240 Speaker 1: you're thinking about what this means for the average American 1432 01:13:36,320 --> 01:13:40,720 Speaker 1: consumer going to the supermarket or the department store, the 1433 01:13:40,840 --> 01:13:44,639 Speaker 1: situation is no better than it has been in recent months. 1434 01:13:44,800 --> 01:13:48,679 Speaker 1: In other words, your ability to buy is not rising 1435 01:13:49,000 --> 01:13:52,360 Speaker 1: as fast as the prices, and therefore what you can 1436 01:13:52,439 --> 01:13:57,360 Speaker 1: afford to actually consume keeps shrinking. Got it? And Professor, 1437 01:13:57,400 --> 01:13:58,960 Speaker 1: you know, in the context of everything we wanted to 1438 01:13:59,000 --> 01:14:01,200 Speaker 1: discuss today, just out of check in with the economy, 1439 01:14:01,200 --> 01:14:03,439 Speaker 1: how do you look at it broadly in terms of 1440 01:14:03,520 --> 01:14:06,840 Speaker 1: the outlook for the next year or so. Well, I'm 1441 01:14:06,880 --> 01:14:09,200 Speaker 1: afraid the problem is, and it comes right out of 1442 01:14:09,240 --> 01:14:14,960 Speaker 1: these numbers, that what we're seeing is a slow painful 1443 01:14:15,320 --> 01:14:19,839 Speaker 1: reduction in the inflation, far less than what people need 1444 01:14:20,200 --> 01:14:23,280 Speaker 1: if their standard of living is to improve, and we're 1445 01:14:23,320 --> 01:14:28,120 Speaker 1: paying the price for that modest improvement by laying off 1446 01:14:28,200 --> 01:14:32,519 Speaker 1: workers in large numbers, by a recession that we're either 1447 01:14:32,720 --> 01:14:37,040 Speaker 1: in or coming close to. There's virtual unanimity in the 1448 01:14:37,080 --> 01:14:41,679 Speaker 1: financial press, left, right and center about a recession this year. 1449 01:14:42,000 --> 01:14:45,320 Speaker 1: The only real debate is how soon will we get, 1450 01:14:45,720 --> 01:14:48,960 Speaker 1: how bad will it be, and how long will it last? 1451 01:14:49,400 --> 01:14:52,800 Speaker 1: So we're paying a heavy price. It's a little bit 1452 01:14:52,880 --> 01:14:58,040 Speaker 1: like noticing in those numbers that airline prices have slightly 1453 01:14:58,120 --> 01:15:03,160 Speaker 1: diminished their increase. They've been zooming up. And the beauty 1454 01:15:03,200 --> 01:15:06,280 Speaker 1: of the story is the service we're getting from the 1455 01:15:06,360 --> 01:15:11,960 Speaker 1: airlines is laughable. I'm trying to be polite literally over 1456 01:15:12,000 --> 01:15:14,880 Speaker 1: the last few days. So, yeah, the price isn't going up, 1457 01:15:15,080 --> 01:15:18,960 Speaker 1: but what you're getting for what you're paying is shrinking 1458 01:15:19,280 --> 01:15:23,000 Speaker 1: really seriously, and I think that's a general prediction for 1459 01:15:23,080 --> 01:15:27,280 Speaker 1: where we're going. We have not solved the underlying problems 1460 01:15:27,280 --> 01:15:31,400 Speaker 1: of this economy. Our levels of debt government, corporate and 1461 01:15:31,520 --> 01:15:36,280 Speaker 1: individual are higher than ever and rising very fast. The 1462 01:15:36,360 --> 01:15:40,240 Speaker 1: inflation means people's income isn't enough, so They're going out 1463 01:15:40,280 --> 01:15:43,639 Speaker 1: on a limb again using their credit cards and every 1464 01:15:43,640 --> 01:15:48,000 Speaker 1: other way of getting credit. That's a very dangerous story. 1465 01:15:48,240 --> 01:15:51,280 Speaker 1: Has been the cause of trouble twice in this new 1466 01:15:51,360 --> 01:15:55,360 Speaker 1: century and is building up again now. There ought to 1467 01:15:55,439 --> 01:15:59,080 Speaker 1: be a lot more concern, and I suspect there would be, 1468 01:15:59,600 --> 01:16:03,000 Speaker 1: except the folks in charge always have a hard time 1469 01:16:03,400 --> 01:16:07,519 Speaker 1: admitting to economic problems and so paint a very rosy picture. 1470 01:16:07,840 --> 01:16:10,120 Speaker 1: I'm not among them, and I tell you most of 1471 01:16:10,160 --> 01:16:14,040 Speaker 1: my colleagues, even though that's unusual, agree with me on 1472 01:16:14,040 --> 01:16:18,799 Speaker 1: this subject. Yeah. One of the big heavyweights in terms 1473 01:16:18,800 --> 01:16:23,200 Speaker 1: of neoliberal economists, Larry Summers, who was former Treasury Secretary 1474 01:16:23,240 --> 01:16:25,320 Speaker 1: and served in other high level positions in terms of 1475 01:16:25,680 --> 01:16:29,120 Speaker 1: advising presidents on the economy, took some time out from 1476 01:16:29,200 --> 01:16:34,720 Speaker 1: his luxury tropical vacation to call explicitly for higher unemployment. 1477 01:16:35,240 --> 01:16:36,479 Speaker 1: Let's take a listen to that, and I want to 1478 01:16:36,479 --> 01:16:39,160 Speaker 1: get your reaction. On the other side, I've been speaking 1479 01:16:39,200 --> 01:16:42,400 Speaker 1: in a different way about the FED in the last 1480 01:16:42,560 --> 01:16:47,840 Speaker 1: couple of months that I had been before, and that's because, 1481 01:16:48,479 --> 01:16:52,400 Speaker 1: for whatever reason, they have come around to views quite 1482 01:16:52,439 --> 01:16:56,360 Speaker 1: close to mine. They think inflation is the primary concern. 1483 01:16:56,920 --> 01:17:00,600 Speaker 1: They explicitly recognize that there's going to need to be 1484 01:17:00,720 --> 01:17:05,960 Speaker 1: increases in unemployment to contain inflation. What do you make 1485 01:17:05,960 --> 01:17:10,600 Speaker 1: a remark like that, professor, Well, to be honest with you, 1486 01:17:11,520 --> 01:17:17,160 Speaker 1: I'm outraged. I find this a level of relaxed calm 1487 01:17:17,479 --> 01:17:22,080 Speaker 1: about wrecking people's lives. Millions of people to be unemployed, 1488 01:17:22,160 --> 01:17:24,800 Speaker 1: because that's what we're talking about, given the size of 1489 01:17:24,800 --> 01:17:29,519 Speaker 1: our country, millions of people losing their jobs or losing 1490 01:17:29,640 --> 01:17:32,080 Speaker 1: hours if they have the kind of jobs that vary 1491 01:17:32,160 --> 01:17:35,320 Speaker 1: that way. That's an enormous burden to put on them, 1492 01:17:35,800 --> 01:17:39,280 Speaker 1: on their families, on the communities they live in that 1493 01:17:39,400 --> 01:17:42,680 Speaker 1: depend on their ability to spend all of that in 1494 01:17:42,720 --> 01:17:47,559 Speaker 1: a breezy conversation made worse by the fact, and this 1495 01:17:47,680 --> 01:17:52,040 Speaker 1: is crucial, that it isn't true raising interest rates and 1496 01:17:52,080 --> 01:17:56,519 Speaker 1: squashing down an economy by doing that isn't the only 1497 01:17:56,680 --> 01:17:59,760 Speaker 1: way to deal with an inflation. And I won't even 1498 01:17:59,800 --> 01:18:03,880 Speaker 1: bother you with reminding everyone that the reason we created 1499 01:18:04,120 --> 01:18:07,599 Speaker 1: the Federal Reserve over one hundred years ago was to 1500 01:18:07,680 --> 01:18:11,639 Speaker 1: prevent inflation, not to come in after it's done its 1501 01:18:11,640 --> 01:18:15,639 Speaker 1: horrible work and fix it, but to prevent it because 1502 01:18:15,680 --> 01:18:18,439 Speaker 1: it's such a burden they failed at doing that, and 1503 01:18:18,479 --> 01:18:20,439 Speaker 1: there ought to be a bit more of a of 1504 01:18:20,479 --> 01:18:23,840 Speaker 1: an acknowledgment and admission of the failure. Having said it, 1505 01:18:24,120 --> 01:18:28,000 Speaker 1: let me remind everyone there are other ways of dealing 1506 01:18:28,040 --> 01:18:31,040 Speaker 1: with an inflation. I'm going to give you two quick examples. 1507 01:18:31,160 --> 01:18:36,320 Speaker 1: Number one, nineteen seventy one, Richard Nixon, hardly a progressive 1508 01:18:36,640 --> 01:18:40,920 Speaker 1: in the office of president, goes on radio television August fifteenth, 1509 01:18:41,080 --> 01:18:43,840 Speaker 1: and he says, we have a terrible inflation, which they 1510 01:18:43,840 --> 01:18:46,559 Speaker 1: did at that time, and I'm going to do something 1511 01:18:46,600 --> 01:18:50,599 Speaker 1: about it right away, which he did. He's declared the following, 1512 01:18:50,920 --> 01:18:54,639 Speaker 1: as of tomorrow morning, any business that raises the price 1513 01:18:54,960 --> 01:18:58,759 Speaker 1: of anything, you're going to get a visit from government 1514 01:18:58,800 --> 01:19:02,280 Speaker 1: officials and that're going to arrest you and throw you 1515 01:19:02,400 --> 01:19:04,920 Speaker 1: in jail. That's how we're going to stop the rise 1516 01:19:04,960 --> 01:19:08,639 Speaker 1: in prices. And to be fair, he said, the same 1517 01:19:08,680 --> 01:19:12,680 Speaker 1: applies to unions or workers who push for higher wages. 1518 01:19:12,840 --> 01:19:16,439 Speaker 1: We will do the same. This policy is called, and 1519 01:19:16,520 --> 01:19:20,519 Speaker 1: it was called this then a wage price freeze, because 1520 01:19:20,560 --> 01:19:24,080 Speaker 1: literally that's what it does. It was passed signed by 1521 01:19:24,080 --> 01:19:27,960 Speaker 1: the president. Ninety days was the first length of it. 1522 01:19:27,960 --> 01:19:30,840 Speaker 1: It was extended, and you know why it stopped the 1523 01:19:30,880 --> 01:19:35,280 Speaker 1: inflation on a dime. Does that kind of policy have problems? Sure, 1524 01:19:35,439 --> 01:19:38,320 Speaker 1: but every policy to deal with the failure of an 1525 01:19:38,320 --> 01:19:42,760 Speaker 1: inflation has its costs, its risks, and its problems. But 1526 01:19:42,880 --> 01:19:45,400 Speaker 1: to deal with this as if there were nothing other 1527 01:19:45,439 --> 01:19:48,400 Speaker 1: for us to do than to schedule a recession for 1528 01:19:48,520 --> 01:19:52,800 Speaker 1: millions of people is not only unfair and unjust, it's 1529 01:19:52,800 --> 01:19:57,759 Speaker 1: not altogether honest. And mister Summers, who's a colleague of mind, 1530 01:19:57,920 --> 01:20:01,720 Speaker 1: he knows this very well. Wow, I think that is 1531 01:20:01,760 --> 01:20:04,519 Speaker 1: all very well said. So great to have your expertise 1532 01:20:04,520 --> 01:20:06,439 Speaker 1: on these matters, professor. Thank you so much for taking 1533 01:20:06,439 --> 01:20:08,920 Speaker 1: some time with us. Thank you, sir, my pleasure, and 1534 01:20:08,960 --> 01:20:11,120 Speaker 1: thanks for covering it in an open way. It's really 1535 01:20:11,200 --> 01:20:15,120 Speaker 1: a big help to the national conversation as sure. All right, guys, 1536 01:20:15,120 --> 01:20:16,880 Speaker 1: thank you so much for watching. Really appreciate it. We 1537 01:20:16,920 --> 01:20:19,559 Speaker 1: had a great counterpoint show yesterday. They had the breaking 1538 01:20:19,560 --> 01:20:21,840 Speaker 1: news segment. They did a really good job based very 1539 01:20:21,840 --> 01:20:25,679 Speaker 1: touching tributes, you know, to suicide victims and elsewhere. So anyway, 1540 01:20:25,800 --> 01:20:27,839 Speaker 1: I love the show. I'm glad that they're on Wednesday 1541 01:20:28,120 --> 01:20:30,400 Speaker 1: and you guys get four straight days of content, which 1542 01:20:30,400 --> 01:20:32,679 Speaker 1: premium members, you guys seem to be loving. 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