Speaker 1: Welcome back to a Numbers Game podcast. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for being here this Thursday, July third. I want
Speaker 1: to start off by saying happy Independence Date everybody. Fourth
Speaker 1: of July is probably my favorite holiday because it's a
Speaker 1: relatively low maidenance day. People are just in a good mood.
Speaker 1: You don't have to buy presence. I've never personally been
Speaker 1: to a bad Fourth of July party. Then again, my
Speaker 1: friends don't really shoot rockets off their heads and ended
Speaker 1: an ambulance. So I encourage everybody, if you're celebrating with
Speaker 1: some fireworks and you're celebrating your nation's birthday by blowing
Speaker 1: part of it up, to act responsibly. Gallup had a
Speaker 1: new pull out regarding how many Americans how Americans feel
Speaker 1: about their country. Only fifty eight percent so that they
Speaker 1: were either very or extremely proud to be American. It
Speaker 1: is the lowest number since Galup started asking the question
Speaker 1: back in two thousand and one. There was a stark
Speaker 1: difference based on political ideology. However, ninety two percent of
Speaker 1: Republicans reported to be very or extremely proud of their country.
Speaker 1: This is a greater percentage than in two thousand and one.
Speaker 1: Following the nine to eleven attacks. The number of Independents, however,
Speaker 1: fell to an all time low of fifty three percent,
Speaker 1: down from fifty eight percent the year prior. Democrats, however,
Speaker 1: are not so in love with America right now. Only
Speaker 1: thirty six percent of Democrats that they were either very
Speaker 1: or extremely proud to be an American. That's down from
Speaker 1: sixty percent the year prior. Now, obviously that's all to
Speaker 1: do with politics, right, I mean, we all know what
Speaker 1: happened last year. Donald Trump was like to president and
Speaker 1: forty two percent of the people and there was a
Speaker 1: big drop down right from Biden's presidency to Trump's presidency.
Speaker 1: We all kind of see the writing on the wall.
Speaker 1: It's all political. Republicans' feelings towards the country is less wavering,
Speaker 1: though depending on who's president than Democrats. The first year
Speaker 1: of Obama's presidency, ninety two percent of Republicans said they
Speaker 1: were extremely proud to be an American. In the last
Speaker 1: year of his presidency was eighty nine nine percent, and
Speaker 1: in the first year of Biden's presidency was eighty seven percent.
Speaker 1: There was a stark decline because of COVID, and then
Speaker 1: you know, it bounced back up. Republicans This is crazy,
Speaker 1: this number that I pulled out from here. Republicans were
Speaker 1: more proud of their country during every year of Obama
Speaker 1: and Biden's presidencies than Democrats. And there is a general
Speaker 1: trajectory for Democrats right it is continually declining. And that's
Speaker 1: partially because of an age difference. Right as Silent Generation
Speaker 1: and Baby Boomers are getting older and starting to die
Speaker 1: off and Gen Z is coming of age, this age
Speaker 1: difference is even more illuminating. Only forty one percent of
Speaker 1: Gen Z reports that they are proud to be an American,
Speaker 1: and the same issue for only fifty eight percent of millennials,
Speaker 1: compared to seventy one percent of Gen xers and seventy
Speaker 1: five percent of Baby Boomers. For the Silent Generation, it's
Speaker 1: eighty three percent. That's the Joe Biden age demographic. Once again, though,
Speaker 1: there's a stark difference between people based on their politics.
Speaker 1: Eighty seven percent of millennials who are Republicans say they
Speaker 1: are proud to be proud to be an American, proud
Speaker 1: of this country. Only forty four percent of millennial Democrats
Speaker 1: say the same. Sixty five percent of Gen Z Republicans
Speaker 1: say they're proud to be, you know, an American compared
Speaker 1: to twenty four percent of Gen Z Democrats. These people,
Speaker 1: and I try really hard in this podcast not to
Speaker 1: be super narrative and to just give a lot of
Speaker 1: fact based ideas, but I have to give a narrative
Speaker 1: on this thing, on this topic, specifically, as we're getting
Speaker 1: close to the fourth of July. These people, these democrats,
Speaker 1: especially in Gen Z and Millennials, my generation, they are
Speaker 1: so steeped in self hatred to a level that it
Speaker 1: shows their own ignorance. Do you not realize how you
Speaker 1: are to be in this country at this time, a
Speaker 1: time of relative peace and immense prosperity. Your sons aren't
Speaker 1: being drafted, You're not being drafted. You can become a
Speaker 1: millionaire by having a social media page. And you know, yes,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of turbulence on the horizon, but no
Speaker 1: different and actually quite a bit less than most other
Speaker 1: times in the history of our world. This episode's gonna
Speaker 1: be a hodgepodge of different topics today because there's a
Speaker 1: lot to really cover and there's no singular theme like
Speaker 1: I try to do it. It's there's a lot of
Speaker 1: data I want to nerd out about. For a second.
Speaker 1: But I would be remiss to sit there and not
Speaker 1: spend a second and say why I'm proud to be
Speaker 1: an American. Through the course of human events, never has
Speaker 1: there been a place which foundational principles are based on order, liberty,
Speaker 1: and prosperity through human freedom. I know critics of this
Speaker 1: country love to point out that we're not perfect, as
Speaker 1: if we invented all the evils of the world. But
Speaker 1: if you take a step back from the focoing in
Speaker 1: view of post structuralism, you would realize that no civilization
Speaker 1: in history has freed the lives of more people. Not
Speaker 1: only through the chains of slavery we be able to
Speaker 1: have to talk about every forty five seconds, but from
Speaker 1: the iron curtain of communism, from disease, from famine, from
Speaker 1: civil war, from fascism. Even at times when it wasn't
Speaker 1: completely altruistic, we did it. Americans were the ones who
Speaker 1: did it in the last twenty years alone. George W. Bush,
Speaker 1: who I am no fan of right, I don't like
Speaker 1: most of his presidency, but his policies alone on prefar
Speaker 1: save twenty five million people from dying of AIDS in Africa.
Speaker 1: Twenty five million people from one country from one president
Speaker 1: who did one thing, and that is a footnote on America.
Speaker 1: That's just that's literally a footnote on all the things
Speaker 1: we have done. It's our scientists who discovered cures for
Speaker 1: polio and advanced treatments for cancer, and groundbreaking research on
Speaker 1: everything from Parkinson's to Alzheimer's. Ailing people across the globe
Speaker 1: have a spark of hope because an American is working
Speaker 1: to save their lives, even though they'll never know them.
Speaker 1: In the last century, it was American men who died
Speaker 1: on beaches and in jungles and in deserts of foreign
Speaker 1: land with the hopes of giving freedom from either fascism
Speaker 1: or communism or Islamic tyranny to people who were too ungrateful,
Speaker 1: too often to even understand their sacrifice. It's our institutions
Speaker 1: that I have only created groundbreaking art and music, but
Speaker 1: our beautiful institutions that have preserved shreds of human achievement
Speaker 1: in all those fields for each generation to enjoy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not perfect, but who said it has to be. People,
Speaker 1: especially progressives, think that peace and prosperity is the starting
Speaker 1: point of the human experience, That if it's the baseline,
Speaker 1: that if we got rid of all the things that
Speaker 1: made us American, we would still be peaceful and prosperous.
Speaker 1: But we are the exception to the rule. Human history
Speaker 1: is built on failing governments and unimaginable levels of poverty
Speaker 1: and instability. The horrors of history is the baseline, and
Speaker 1: we are the exception. America, to me is the pinnacle
Speaker 1: of Western civilization. All the roads that started in Athens
Speaker 1: and Greece, and Rome and Jerusalem, they took us through
Speaker 1: the ages of the enlightenment and reason, have led us
Speaker 1: to this place. And it is only because of the
Speaker 1: tireless work of American men to build these institutions, to
Speaker 1: defend this place, to build this country from a wild continent,
Speaker 1: that we have a shred of what we enjoy that
Speaker 1: oftentimes we don't deserve. This country wasn't built on slavery,
Speaker 1: or by immigrants, or by or for an elite few.
Speaker 1: It was built on the backs of Western men. And
Speaker 1: is about time that we acted grateful for what they
Speaker 1: did and did our part to preserve it. And it's
Speaker 1: about time we had an ounce of self respect for
Speaker 1: what we have achieved as a people. We have done
Speaker 1: more for the world than any other people in history.
Speaker 1: So many people like to point out how different we
Speaker 1: are and how you know, diverse we are, and we
Speaker 1: have no shared ancestry, and we're just an idea, which
Speaker 1: is like the thing that drives me crazy. We're just
Speaker 1: as melting potful of ideas. And that's true to a point,
Speaker 1: but it's an important point. As of twenty ten, according
Speaker 1: to ancestry dot com, sixty percent of the American population
Speaker 1: could trace their ancestry back to COLONIALUS in the Revolution
Speaker 1: one of their ancestors, not all of them, but one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty three million Americans alive today or as
Speaker 1: of twenty ten, had at least one ancestor living in
Speaker 1: this place two hundred and forty nine years ago when
Speaker 1: this country was born. We have more in common than
Speaker 1: people like to believe. And it's not just on the
Speaker 1: ideas of our shared American experiences. And even for those
Speaker 1: of us with no link to the past, people who
Speaker 1: fully chose to be part of this country, to have
Speaker 1: part of our share experience to become an American. We
Speaker 1: are united by our greatness as a people. We are
Speaker 1: all the descendants of Washington and Lincoln and Roosevelt and
Speaker 1: Bell and Edwards and Jobs and Sulk and Latimer and
Speaker 1: Oppenheimer of Boone and Lindenberg and Armstrong and Presley and
Speaker 1: Jackson and Dylan, and the great artists and engineers and
Speaker 1: scientists and leaders and generals who built the foundation the
Speaker 1: world lives on today. We are Americans, and we have
Speaker 1: to start acting like it. We are destined for greatness
Speaker 1: because we are a great country, and the only thing
Speaker 1: that can stop us is our own gluttony and greed
Speaker 1: and envy. But every one of you should be proud
Speaker 1: to be an American, proud of this country. And I
Speaker 1: hope to live a life deserving of the sacrifices of
Speaker 1: all the men and women who came before me. I
Speaker 1: know that's a rand. I don't like to go on rants,
Speaker 1: but I needed to say it. We'll be back with
Speaker 1: numbers for the numbers game that is not a narrative
Speaker 1: right after this message. Stay tuned. So these two things
Speaker 1: I want to talk about for the rest of the
Speaker 1: show their immigration slash demographic related. So first, after Zoron
Speaker 1: Mandani won the Democratic primary, a number of conservative commentators
Speaker 1: noted that it was time to put a moratorium on immigration.
Speaker 1: After all the capitalist hating anti Semitic nominee for the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party is an immigrant from Uganda, and he received
Speaker 1: the support of many immigrants in New York City, especially
Speaker 1: in the Asian and Muslim community. Well, Charlie Kirk said
Speaker 1: something to the effect of, you know, we need to stop.
Speaker 1: We need a moratorium and immigration. And then Franklins, the
Speaker 1: Republican polster, who hasn't been right on anything since New
Speaker 1: York was a prairie, came out with a tweet spouting
Speaker 1: that forty six percent of Fortune five hundred company founders
Speaker 1: were either immigrants or the kids of immigrants, So that
Speaker 1: would like include Donald Trump. His company's not a Fortune
Speaker 1: five hundred, but that would include him because his mother,
Speaker 1: Mary was born in Scotland. And just as long as
Speaker 1: we're all keeping track, well, I looked it up because
Speaker 1: that seems startling to me, and then I thought, I
Speaker 1: wonder what countries they come from, right, because there's this
Speaker 1: trope about from people who are critical, sorry, people who
Speaker 1: are supportive of mass immigration. They lobby it against people
Speaker 1: who are critical of just endless supplies of people, and
Speaker 1: they use the term immigrant like it's like a bag
Speaker 1: of oranges, right, if you want one you got to
Speaker 1: get them all. You can't select which ones you want.
Speaker 1: You can only you can't choose the one ripe one,
Speaker 1: even if you need it for a recipe. You got
Speaker 1: to get forty of them. You can't get the one
Speaker 1: you need for the recipe. So the study that Frank
Speaker 1: cited comes from the American Immigration Council, which is basically
Speaker 1: an organication that promotes open borders. Conveniently, not only do
Speaker 1: they not list the nations of origin from these immigrants,
Speaker 1: they don't even give you the list of immigrant and
Speaker 1: the children immigrants who are the founders. They haven't done
Speaker 1: that since two thousand and eleven, so I had to
Speaker 1: go back to the two thousand and eleven list. It
Speaker 1: includes people like Jeff Bezos, who has two American born parents,
Speaker 1: but he has a Cuban stepfather, So I mean they
Speaker 1: he's counted as a son of an immigrant because his
Speaker 1: mom remarried a Cuban man. That seems like a stretch
Speaker 1: to me from people trying to make a point, trying to,
Speaker 1: you know, create a narrative. Other people listed in this
Speaker 1: list of immigrants and children immigrants include Alexander Graham Bell,
Speaker 1: who immigrated to the States in eighteen seventy one. Well,
Speaker 1: that doesn't seem remotely like it's related to anything to
Speaker 1: do with our current immigration system, does it? In fact,
Speaker 1: in the twenty eleven list, I looked at the top
Speaker 1: twenty two fortune five hundred company founders. Sixteen of them
Speaker 1: were born before the year nineteen hundred, some of them
Speaker 1: born in countries that don't even exist anymore. Why would
Speaker 1: you list that? Like, what does that have to do
Speaker 1: at all with our current immigration system? Like? What on
Speaker 1: earth does it matter that Walt Disney had a father
Speaker 1: born in Canada who immigrated in eighteen seventy six to
Speaker 1: look for gold in California. It matters. It's completely irrelevant
Speaker 1: to the conversation immigration. It's just to write a headline,
Speaker 1: to make a narrative to attack anybody who supports any
Speaker 1: restrictions on immigration at all. What about living founders? Right,
Speaker 1: because obviously the list that Frank cited, which he believed
Speaker 1: without even doing any research whatsoever, what at living founders?
Speaker 1: In twenty eighteen, Forbes wrote an article that fifty five
Speaker 1: percent a billion dollars start had one immigrant co founder,
Speaker 1: and they actually listed them. It was from a study
Speaker 1: from the National Foundation of American policy. Well, the billion
Speaker 1: dollar co founders of these companies came from twenty five countries.
Speaker 1: Can you guess what countries? Well, here it goes in
Speaker 1: order of how many billionaire founders they produced. These are
Speaker 1: the list of countries. Canada and Israel they both have
Speaker 1: nine co founders as of twenty eighteen. Then India, the
Speaker 1: United Kingdom, China, Germany, France, Ireland, Russia, Australia, Ukraine, Armenia, Azabaijan, Bulgaria, Denmark, Iraq, Italy, Lebanon,
Speaker 1: the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa. You can guess
Speaker 1: who that one was. It was Beekistan and Vietnam. Well,
Speaker 1: how did those countries reflect in America's overall immigration numbers?
Speaker 1: I plugged it into rock and examining the average number
Speaker 1: of immigrants that came to this US to the US
Speaker 1: overlast four years from those countries, they represent just thirty
Speaker 1: percent of immigrants national origin. Right, So those thirty So
Speaker 1: the thirty percent, all those billionaires would represent the immigrant
Speaker 1: population from thirty percent of all immigrants. And that's actually
Speaker 1: if you take out China and India, which I mean
Speaker 1: you wouldn't, but China and India represent twenty of that
Speaker 1: thirty percent, which would make sense. They're the two largest
Speaker 1: countries in the world by population. So our immigration system
Speaker 1: that brings over billionaire entrepreneurs and tech giants and you know,
Speaker 1: future founders of Google, doesn't represent are doesn't represent you know,
Speaker 1: our immigrations from at all. Our immigrations some overall, brings
Speaker 1: in people that will never not only never co found
Speaker 1: a billion dollar business, but no one from their nation
Speaker 1: of origin will co found a billion dollar business, right
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't mean I don't dislike any people
Speaker 1: from any specific country just because they're from that country.
Speaker 1: Everyone has good and bad people, YadA, YadA, YadA. But
Speaker 1: as far as the idea of creating billion dollar companies,
Speaker 1: you have a better chance of getting struck by lightning
Speaker 1: several times in a row and then winning lottery than
Speaker 1: you do of some people from that country creating a
Speaker 1: billion dollar business. It is just a fact. So with
Speaker 1: the exception of Uzbekistan, Iraq, and Lebanon, which all had
Speaker 1: one billionaire co founder, all these immigrants come from Europe,
Speaker 1: East Asia, and India, and that is not surprising. There
Speaker 1: is a book called The Hive Mind by economist professor
Speaker 1: Garrett Jones, who I invite on this podcast and he
Speaker 1: turned me down. It's okay, I'm not better. He is
Speaker 1: brilliant and he doesn't have to like me for me
Speaker 1: to respect him anyway. He wrote in the book Hive
Speaker 1: Mind that nations have SAT scores. Basically, if a country
Speaker 1: has a state history that is a formal state history,
Speaker 1: like they formed a government, that's the S. An agricultural
Speaker 1: history that's the A, and a technological history that's the
Speaker 1: that matches where the most advanced societies were in the
Speaker 1: years zero, one thousand and fifteen hundred. Those countries will
Speaker 1: overwhelmingly produce high performing immigrants. They will have they will
Speaker 1: invent more, they will save more. They're high producing, high functioning,
Speaker 1: high IQ societies. You know, basically, what our ancestors did
Speaker 1: a thousand years ago or several hundred years ago details
Speaker 1: kind of how we're going to perform today, you know.
Speaker 1: And he also says in the book, you are better
Speaker 1: being a dumb person in a smart country than a
Speaker 1: smart person in a dumb country. And when enough people
Speaker 1: from high IQ countries high SAT score countries move to
Speaker 1: other regions, they tend to improve their overall economies and
Speaker 1: many times become economic dominant minorities. Getting back to Lunce,
Speaker 1: he repeated a lie about open from an open borders
Speaker 1: group because he wanted to believe it was true. He
Speaker 1: wanted the lie perpetuated by neoliberals to be true, so
Speaker 1: when it was not, and did not do a shred
Speaker 1: of thinking about it and say this seems odd? Is
Speaker 1: this true? When were these immigrants coming here? Where did
Speaker 1: they come from? And furthermore, people say immigrants do all
Speaker 1: these fabulous things. I think it's worth saying where did
Speaker 1: they come from? Because the idea that is perpetuated by
Speaker 1: the diversity delusion that every person, whether they come from
Speaker 1: Haiti or hal Effects, is equally likely to generate the
Speaker 1: same level of economic output isn't true. It's just it's
Speaker 1: not a fact, and we are going to get thrown
Speaker 1: that out there. And I think that if you are
Speaker 1: somebody who's more on the immigration restriction aside like I am,
Speaker 1: it's worth having that answer pointed out and ready when
Speaker 1: it goes just sit there and say what country do
Speaker 1: that immigrant come from? Where do all these immigrants come from?
Speaker 1: If they're all coming from three specific regions of the world,
Speaker 1: why aren't almost all of our immigrants coming from three
Speaker 1: specific regions of the world. Okay, next point, and I
Speaker 1: want to make this quickly. The census data came out,
Speaker 1: came out and found that during the last year of
Speaker 1: Trump's presidency and the four years of Biden's presidency, the
Speaker 1: Native white population shranked by three million people, including about
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty thousand people last year. Now, a
Speaker 1: lot of that can be contributed to COVID deaths. Back
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty and twenty twenty one, you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of people did pass away, a lot of older people.
Speaker 1: There was also a spike in the number of people
Speaker 1: reclassifying themselves as being Native American during the Floyd Riots.
Speaker 1: You know, it was not it's not politically, economically, or
Speaker 1: culturally wonderful to be a white person during that time.
Speaker 1: And there's something called fleeing from whiteness where people discover
Speaker 1: their one eighth Native American and now they're Cherokee, and
Speaker 1: they can re change all of their documentation to make
Speaker 1: sure their kid gets a scholarship from a college, or
Speaker 1: gets into a college, or gets a job, or gets
Speaker 1: a government grant. All of the major institutions at the time,
Speaker 1: although some of them are starting to change because of
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court case absolutely put their thumb on the
Speaker 1: scale against specifically white men. But there was also a
Speaker 1: general decline because of low birth rates, which has been
Speaker 1: below replacement levels for decades. Remember, you need two point
Speaker 1: one children on average per woman to sustain a population
Speaker 1: from one generation to the next. Now, even though the
Speaker 1: white population dec overall shrank, it did grow in seventeen states,
Speaker 1: three that voted for Kamala Harris, New Hampshire, Maine, and Delaware,
Speaker 1: and fourteen that voted for Trump Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming,
Speaker 1: South Dakota, Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Arkansas, Missouri, and the Carolinas,
Speaker 1: both north and south. On my substack, I broke down
Speaker 1: county by county where you could see the white population
Speaker 1: whether it increased, and how it voted in the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four election. And what you see when you look
Speaker 1: at the entire map of all the counties is they
Speaker 1: mostly moved to red counties or they had a higher
Speaker 1: birth rate in red counties, but they fled, especially from
Speaker 1: urban areas where crime was extremely high during the Floyd Riots.
Speaker 1: The only states that saw the white population decline in
Speaker 1: every county was Illinois and Rhode Island. But the biggest takeaway,
Speaker 1: the several biggest takeaways, the biggest takeaways is one Rural America,
Speaker 1: especially in the Rust Belt, Appalachia and the Prairie states,
Speaker 1: are dying. They're just there. The economies are collapsed and
Speaker 1: the populations are declining with them substantially. People, white Americans
Speaker 1: especially are fleeing from big blue states like Illinois, California,
Speaker 1: and New York in droves. But rather than just picking
Speaker 1: up and going to red cities or says cities in
Speaker 1: red states, and it's happening in a few places like Nashville, Miami,
Speaker 1: they are choosing to live in smaller cities and excerpts
Speaker 1: of major metropolitan areas. The white population of the city
Speaker 1: of Atlanta grew a little bit, but in the suburbs
Speaker 1: it shrunk as well. The egxerbs is where it exploded.
Speaker 1: They chose to live in exxerb communities that are more
Speaker 1: politically like them, probably more racially like them, have more
Speaker 1: values like they do. There is a realignment going on
Speaker 1: where people are choosing to move. It will eventually have,
Speaker 1: you know, changes within the congressional lines over time. I
Speaker 1: guess maybe, well, maybe not, because immigrants do replace they
Speaker 1: are having immigrants replace Americans in those cities for those populations,
Speaker 1: but it will it will have a point specifically with voting,
Speaker 1: for sure at some point. There have also been pockets
Speaker 1: of rural Americas that did see some level population growth
Speaker 1: for white Americans because of a high concentration of highly
Speaker 1: religious people. These include Orthodox Jews in Rockland County, Latin
Speaker 1: Mass Catholics in Patawami and Newca Counties. Kansas. Seriously, Kansas,
Speaker 1: you could make that easier for me. I spoke at
Speaker 1: your damn convention, and Amish people in Holmes County, Ohio,
Speaker 1: and Lagrange and Adams Counties in Indiana. I say this
Speaker 1: just to say that there's a lot of online conversation
Speaker 1: about something called the Great Replacement theory, the idea that
Speaker 1: Western governments are purposely replacing their native white populations with immigrants.
Speaker 1: Now there is, you know, an insane level of adoration
Speaker 1: for mass immigration on the part of Western nations that
Speaker 1: you don't see in other parts of the world, like
Speaker 1: in the Far East, where birth rates are declining, in
Speaker 1: populations are declining, there's still a demand to keep their
Speaker 1: culture intact, which is not the same in Western nations.
Speaker 1: In most parts of Western nations, but what's really causing
Speaker 1: the mass decline of native white populations is that you
Speaker 1: don't have enough children. If anyone choosing to be replaced,
Speaker 1: it's the decision by white Americans to not have kids.
Speaker 1: Granted there's a big difference between progressive whites and conservative whites.
Speaker 1: Progressive whites have an extremely low birth rate. But to
Speaker 1: anyone complaining, which is mostly right wingers, about a great replacement,
Speaker 1: my first question to you, because I hate complainers, my
Speaker 1: first question to you is how many kids do you have?
Speaker 1: Because if the answer is three or less, I don't
Speaker 1: really want to hear you talk about or sorry, if
Speaker 1: it's less than three, If it's maybe two, I was
Speaker 1: even think two. If it's under two, I don't want
Speaker 1: to hear you talk about being replaced. I just don't
Speaker 1: want to have a conversation. If you're like my grandma
Speaker 1: and you had eleven kids and you want to talk
Speaker 1: about it, I'll hear your complaint. But if you have
Speaker 1: no kids and you just live online to complain, maybe
Speaker 1: go on a date, maybe talk to a girl, maybe
Speaker 1: have a little experiment of having a life outside being
Speaker 1: online that might do something. I know. It's a strange
Speaker 1: set of topics today. It's kind of a michmash. We're
Speaker 1: in summer, it's not an election this week, so I
Speaker 1: thought I bring you some interesting numbers that are out there.
Speaker 1: You're listening to It's a numbers game with Ryan Gradsky.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back now for the Ask Me Anything
Speaker 1: segment of the show. I have to to tell you.
Speaker 1: I used to get so few questions that I would
Speaker 1: text friends and like family members and my employees and
Speaker 1: be like, I don't have any questions, Send me a question.
Speaker 1: Now I have so many questions in the backlog, which
Speaker 1: I appreciate beyond belief that Monday's episode is going to
Speaker 1: be a full ask Me Anything segment because I gotta
Speaker 1: get through some of these questions. I promise my listeners
Speaker 1: I will answer all their questions, and we are going
Speaker 1: to be waiting until Christmas to get me through September
Speaker 1: if I don't start doing a full episode based on it.
Speaker 1: So I'm very excited if you have questions that you
Speaker 1: would like me to answer and they Ask Me Anything
Speaker 1: segment of the show. Email me Ryan at Numbers Gamepodcast
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Speaker 1: And I will answer your questions either through one on
Speaker 1: one email or I will answer them on the show.
Speaker 1: Today's question comes from Kyle Carson. He writes, Ryan, I
Speaker 1: appreciated your podcast our Jay Homan. I think he raises
Speaker 1: some excellent points. However, in light of the OBB that's
Speaker 1: the big beautiful bill passing in the Senate inclusion for
Speaker 1: greater ICE funding, I am skeptical that we simply can
Speaker 1: throw money at the issue to actually fulfill mass deportations.
Speaker 1: I support increasing ICE and it will certainly allow for
Speaker 1: more deportations. However, I do not think we can achieve
Speaker 1: mass deportation unless the White House use its full power
Speaker 1: and Red states get involved. It should have supported chip
Speaker 1: Roy's amendment to significantly drag on deportations in the courts.
Speaker 1: Left wing interest groups are forcing the White House to
Speaker 1: do deportations one by one because illegal aliens are suing
Speaker 1: under Article three. Trump should invoke section eight of the
Speaker 1: US Code eleven eleven three, Section A ten. This would
Speaker 1: allow for street level immigration enforcement by state and local police. Basically,
Speaker 1: every local police department with the consent of the chief,
Speaker 1: and the city would now be an ICE officer and
Speaker 1: can do effective immigration arrests on their own. DISANTUS four
Speaker 1: for this provision in Florida and wants to force every
Speaker 1: Florida police department to follow it. Question or what are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on Trump's plan to do to facto amnesty
Speaker 1: to Farm's Best Kyle, Okay, Kyle, thank you so much,
Speaker 1: great question. All right, first point, yes, I agree that
Speaker 1: it's not possible for ICE just simply do fifteen to
Speaker 1: twenty million deportations of illegal aliens, especially with the way
Speaker 1: the courts are right now, it takes months and sometimes years.
Speaker 1: There are, however, over a million illegal aliens in our
Speaker 1: country today who have already had their full legal proceedings
Speaker 1: done and were issued war issued notices that they had
Speaker 1: to leave the country, and then they stayed. Those people
Speaker 1: can go immediately if they are upon being arrested. They
Speaker 1: don't have to have more court cases. They've had a
Speaker 1: million court cases. But how we entice illegal aliens leave
Speaker 1: our country is you do self deportation. I mean it's
Speaker 1: cheaper and it's faster. The Bureau for Labor Statistics stated
Speaker 1: that a million non citizens. About a million have already
Speaker 1: dropped out of the workforce. There's no telling whether or
Speaker 1: not they went to their home country, but they're no
Speaker 1: longer showing up for work. A migration policy paper found
Speaker 1: that and estimated five thousand migrants self deported in the
Speaker 1: first three months of the Trump presidency, and immigration judges
Speaker 1: have granted voluntary deportation for almost nine hundred illegal immigrants
Speaker 1: in the month of May alone. Now there's a lot
Speaker 1: of stories in places like the New York Times and
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Times about people self deporting, but it's
Speaker 1: hard to get real numbers about how effective it is
Speaker 1: because they're not It's just, you know, stories about this
Speaker 1: crying mother and how her life is so hard to
Speaker 1: just go back to I don't know, Dominican Republic or whatever,
Speaker 1: or Mexico. But as far as real numbers goes, it's very,
Speaker 1: very difficult to actually get hard numbers. Given that no
Speaker 1: one is coming through our southern border and that illegal
Speaker 1: immigration is at a record low, we are definitely seeing
Speaker 1: overall net illegal immigration population in this country declining every month.
Speaker 1: It seems obvious as far as the farm raiders go,
Speaker 1: this was originally a plan brought on by Agricultural Secretary
Speaker 1: Brook Rollins. I covered it on my podcast with Marco
Speaker 1: Corean a couple of weeks ago. The plan was proposed,
Speaker 1: but according to the New York Times, it was almost
Speaker 1: immediately reversed and rates on farms have continued. So that's
Speaker 1: all the information I have on that. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: anywhere that Trump has actually gone back again and changed
Speaker 1: his mind. Great questions. I agree though, that we need
Speaker 1: to do more to fix this system and get rid
Speaker 1: of our illegal alien population and restructure our illegal immigration system.
Speaker 1: I think those two ideas that you put out there
Speaker 1: are very very smart. So we'll see what happens and
Speaker 1: maybe I'll get some hard numbers to report for you. Anyway,
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